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Does God Get Pissed-Off?
Posted on July 12, 2008 by thegodguy
The Bible, especially the Old Testament, sure has many references that seem to portray Jehovah God as angry, even to the point of wanting to destroy humans outright. But how does this square with a God of infinite love and … Continue reading →
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Alumna Launches the Pac-12 Network
By Robert Schroeder
From the NLU Alumni Magazine
National Louis University's athletics programs ended in the early 1990s. But at exactly 6pm Pacific time on August 15, 2012, the collegiate sports spotlight was back on one NLU alumna.
That evening, Lydia Murphy-Stephans watched from a control room in San Francisco as the television behemoth she had built, the Pac -12 Network, flickered to life. Murphy-Stephans, a 1982 graduate of NLU with a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education, is the executive vice president and general manager of a media company comprising one national and six regional networks designed to provide round-the-clock coverage of athletics programs in the Division I Pacific-12 Conference.
"It brings everything together: my interest in education, my interest in sports both as a fan and an athlete, and my interest and love of television," Murphy-Stephans said. "I knew this would redefine collegiate sports, and the titans in the media industry would be watching us very closely."
Her brainchild follows in the footsteps of the Big Ten Network and the Longhorn Network, which covers University of Texas athletics. The Pac-12 Network features regional affiliates in Arizona, Los Angeles, the Bay Area, Colorado and Utah, Washington state, and Oregon, along with the national network. The organization represents a powerful tool to penetrate the second-largest media market in the nation, Los Angeles, and provides a launching pad of branding, student recruitment and community-building for the member schools of the Pac-12.
Though trained as an educator, Murphy-Stephans never formally taught past her student-teaching. Immediately after college, the Northbrook, IL, native began training for a new pursuit: speed skating. She qualified for the 1984 U.S. Olympic team and placed 13th in the 1000-meter race at the Sarajevo Games. Her Olympic experience led to a job with ABC Sports' Olympics coverage unit, and she rose to become the first female vice president at ABC Sports in 1993. In 1999, she led the launch of the Oxygen sports channel before becoming an executive vice president with the MSG Network in 2006.
"I enjoy the creative side of the business; I love to write and appreciate storytelling," Murphy-Stephans said. "It's the variety of being able to apply my creative interests, my curiosity and business acumen into one type of career."
Nineteen Emmy awards later, Murphy-Stephans moved on to launch her own media strategy company. When the opportunity arose to join the Pac-12 Network in December 2011, the educator inside her leapt at the opportunity.
"I naturally am a very curious person, and I believe that learning philosophically is nonstop," Murphy- Stephans said. "I enjoy the environment where people can exchange ideas and an environment that fosters education. This allows me to work in an environment that is highly innovative and ties me back to education."
Practically every facet of the network features Murphy-Stephans' fingerprints. She planned the network's facility in San Francisco, selected equipment, built a staff model, designed the day-to-day workflow, hired on-air talent, and designed the programming and production schedule. That schedule is both ambitious and innovative. The network will broadcast 850 live sporting events annually, with hundreds of studio shows and post-produced shows filling out the schedule. While the network will showcase popular collegiate sports such as football and men's basketball, Murphy Stephans is leading programming to provide equal exposure for women's athletics, as well as increased screen time for nonrevenue sports that typically receive little promotion.
Revenue, however, is the bottom line for the network itself: the member schools of the PAC-12 know the success of the network means financial success for each university. That reality brings power, prestige and more than a little pressure. Murphy-Stephans told the Pac -12 Network blog she "wanted to vomit" when the network's first program delayed hitting the airwaves for a tantalizing few seconds.
"By the end of the [first] night I was invigorated and downright relieved," she said. "The day of the launch was big because it was a milestone, but for my staff, that was only the beginning. [They are] inheriting a workload that puts us in a position of being one of the largest production companies in the country."
There will not be any national championships coming to NLU anytime soon, but the story told of the next national title for a Pac-12 school will have an NLU imprint.
Access the full Fall 2012 NLU Alumni Magazine.


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Jaquith points in the right mirror
Janis Jaquith is right that it's the consumer, not the energy companies, to blame for the problems caused by energy consumption. [August 9 essay: "Post-derecho: I realize I'm the eco-catastrophe"]
But while no one should feel guilty about taking advantage of today's technology that allows us to live more comfortably, people should feel guilty about keeping a house "frosty" during the warm months and downright hot in the cold months.
When you condition the air in an entire house (especially one that is much bigger than you really need it to be) just so you can be comfortable in one room, you are wasting a non-renewable resource as well as contributing to environmental harm.
Although some people don't want to believe that mankind is responsible for the global climate change that is taking place, no one can deny that we have caused the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. CO2 produced from burning fossil fuels and forests (human activities that have been done on an unprecedented scale since the industrial revolution) has a different isotopic composition than atmospheric CO2 and thus is identifiable to source.
("Isotope" means "same type." Carbon isotopes are carbon atoms that behave the same chemically but which have different masses.)
So instead of keeping your house at 70 degrees in summer, you could keep it between 76 and 78 (depending upon humidity) and employ a small fan to cool you in each room. Instead of heating the house to 78 degrees and wearing a T-shirt inside in winter, set the thermostat for 68 and dress appropriately for the season (i.e., put on heavier clothes).
Live reasonably instead of extravagantly (i.e., wastefully). Most people don't require "an array of electronic toys, as well as banks of overhead lights embedded in [their] ceilings." In fact, if people were more conscientious about turning off lights when they aren't needed, we wouldn't be having "those ugly bulbs with mercury inside" forced upon us. The best way to limit energy consumption will always be to simply have the switch set to off!
As long as people make choices that are self-indulgent, lavishing their money unsparingly upon themselves, the Earth and its inhabitants will suffer the consequences.
Folks need to heed Proverbs 21:20: "Precious treasure remains in a wise man's dwelling, but a foolish man devours it."
Marlene A. Condon
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"As long as people make choices that are self-indulgent, lavishing their money unsparingly upon themselves, the Earth and its inhabitants will suffer the consequences."
Right on Marlene. Of course in the industrialized nations we'll always look self-indulgent in comparison to tribal lifestyles. But no one needs 5000 sq feet in Glenmore and two climate-controlled empty vacation homes. And our county is full of this type of princess.
My fav, the soccer mom sitting in her running car with AC going during the kids practice. Yeah, usually an SUV.
Enjoy it while you can ,,,, once the two billion chinese and one billion in india come onto the grid it is all over anyhow.
We are shipping trainloads of dirty coal over there so they can use it to power themsleves into the 21 century.
Once they harness their own reserves of coal and natural gas all is lost.
So the cows in canada will have more to eat and those along the equator will fry.
Good thin we have planes trains and automobiles to get them to canada....
Single people who have had no children, can live in what ever size house they want and keep the temperature at what ever they want. They have done more for the earth by not having children than the suburban environmentalist with children who write about the size of houses or turning the temperature up or down.
Thanks "Minus Population Growth" for having the guts to say what most hypocritical childbearing environmentalists are afraid to hear.
They've got you right where they want you...


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My name is Teri Harroun, and I am one of the priests and the pastoral associate at Light of Christ Ecumenical Catholic Community here in Longmont.
I led seven teenagers and four adults the week of June 1-7 to Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota for a cultural-immersion trip with the Lakota people. The organization that I collaborated with on the reservation is called Re-Member. Re-Member coordinated all of our food, housing, travel on the reservation, work sites, tours, education and speakers. You can learn more about this organization by visiting their website, re-member.org
Our group spent six months preparing for the trip, educating ourselves on the Lakota people and the current situation at Pine Ridge. The Lakota people of Pine Ridge struggle with poverty, alcoholism, high teenage suicide rates, high infant mortality rates, lack of plumbing and electricity, and racism. The issues that Pine Ridge deals with are systemic and have taken many generations to develop to this difficult state. Resources we used to prepare included the recent National Geographic article on Pine Ridge, the Diane Sawyer 20/20 documentary, and local non-profit From Mission to Mission materials in preparing for a cultural-immersion experience. You can find more about that organization at www.missionto
Each participant contributes $100 commitment money to go on the trip. Of course, scholarships are available. The rest of the money is raised through fundraising. This year we had a single fundraiser, our Cinco de Mayo spaghetti dinner. It was an event that raised just over $2,300.
We are careful not to use the word "mission" to describe our trip. The Lakota people have been missionized in their history, and in general it was not a positive experience for them. We do no evangelizing on our trip. Instead, we do projects that can have an impact on individual lives, and strive to meet individuals and have conversations with them and develop relationships. We call our trip a "cross-cultural immersion" trip.
Some of the projects we do include roofing, building stairs and decks, skirting mobile home trailers, gardening, building bunk beds and building outhouses. We also do two days of touring the reservation, seeing both the wounds that exist as well as the assets of the reservation. Each evening, we listen to local speakers tell their stories, the stories of their families, and the history of the Lakota people of Pine Ridge as told by the local people.
The prayer shawl ministry of Light of Christ and Bethlehem Lutheran supplied us with knitted dolls called Peace Pals, which we gave to children who we met on the reservation. This project is inspired by the national organization Women for Women, Knitting for Peace. You can find information about that project at knitting4peace.org.
It is a trip that is full of laughter and tears, challenges and triumphs. We come back changed. We will continue to meet over the next few months and will prepare materials to share with our community, probably a homily at a Mass in August, photos, a small collection of poetry and a video slide show.
This is the second year that our faith community has sent youths to Pine Ridge. Last year, there were four youths and myself. This year's participants included Kanoa San Miguel, Kaleia San Miguel, Keoni San Miguel, Maya Demmers, David Demmers, Keira Hook, Haleakala Harroun, Scharleen Citron, Lori Beth San Miguel, Steve de Haas and me.


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Rawhide 是 Fedora 开发版本的代号。这个版本包含了一个叫做 "rawhide" 的 软件源 并且包含所有每天最新构建的 Fedora 软件包。每一天它都会尝试构建一整套的套件(包括安装镜像等等),若构建成功就会被包含在 Rawhide 目录树中。 Rawhide 有时已被称之为 "development" 或者是 "master" 。
- 1 目标
- 2 Rawhide 适用人群
- 3 每日实时构建版
- 4 安装 Rawhide
- 5 测试 Rawhide
- 允许软件包维护者整合最新的可用版本进入 Fedora。
- 允许高级用户用滚动更新的方式体验到最新的可用软件包。
- 允许软件包进行一些对于 Fedora 稳定版本来说太小或太大的改变。
- 在软件包进入 Fedora 稳定版本前发现并修复错误。
- 提供一个地方来存放 low-level 软件包,包括但不限于 glibc 和 gcc,并进行预发布版本软件的测试。
Rawhide 适用人群
Rawhide 主要面向高级用户,测试者和软件包维护者。
Rawhide 用户基本要求:
- 愿意每日更新。Rawhide 每天都有上百更新,经常更新会更容易解决问题。
- 愿意动手解决问题。Rawhide 的内容不少都存在问题,您需要有良好的解决问题素质和娴熟的报告问题能力。比如学会用 yum 来降级软件包和解决启动失败就是这之中的一部分。
- 有时间和需求来学习新的功能和变化。因为 Rawhide 的软件包与上游联系密切,菜单、命令及选项都可能随时变化。
- 经常重启来测试新的内核并确认启动功能是否正常。如果您不能做到,请换用其它更稳定的发行版。
- 愿意而且可以在发现 bugs 时及时报告至 bugzilla 并帮助维护者修复它们。
您应该从 每日实时构建版下载页面 尝试 Rawhide 或者 Branched (取决于 发行周期) 而无需安装。如果您不想这么做,也可以找剩余空间来安装,或做双系统安装,以及虚拟机体验等等。
After the release of the previous final release, but before the Branch event, nightly builds will be composed of Rawhide packages. These are built automatically without manual tweaking or testing, so they will sometimes be beyond the size of a single CD, and sometimes may not work at all. If there is a bug in the generation toolchain, the images may not be built on a given night; in this case, the most recent image will remain available. Using these nightly builds is an ideal way to test Rawhide if you have no spare machine or partition available, or simply do not have the time to maintain a Rawhide installation. It's a very safe way to test, since it will make no changes to your installed system. You can also install Rawhide to your hard drive from the Live desktop if the Live image is working well for you. During the rest of the release cycle, daily builds will contain Branched content, and you must use a repository to install Rawhide - though you can build a custom spin using livecd-tools if you need to test a Live distribution.
访问 FedoraLiveCD 以了解更多。
安装 Rawhide
Rawhide 不可被直接安装。不过有这么几种方式可以让您体验:
使用包含 Rawhide 的镜像源
Rawhide 在 "development/rawhide" 目录下。您可以在 这里找到您附近包含 "development" 目录的镜像。 继续阅读以了解如何安装。
有几种测试 Rawhide 的方式:
- 有关写入至 USB 驱动器,请见 How to create and use Live USB。
- 如果您使用启用永久储存的 LiveUSB,您可以使用下文描述的 "yum update" 方法来获取最新的 Rawhide RPM (除了内核)。注意您也可能需要安装 'fedora-release-rawhide' 包并启用 rawhide 源。不过,下载每日实时构建版是最好的选择。
- 使用虚拟机。请见 Testing/qemu。
- 安装到独立的分区中。
通过 Anaconda 安装 Rawhide
Anaconda 是 Fedora 的安装器。它可被直接启动,无需运行 Live 环境。
通过 BFO (boot.fedoraproject.org)
您可以使用从 BFO 获取的安装文件,通过 yum distro-sync 完成预安装。BFO 镜像文件是一个让您进入安装环境的非常小的文件。
- 下载 BFO 启动介质: http://boot.fedoraproject.org/download
- 启动,选择 Installation 或 Pre-Release。选择您想使用的最新的安装器。
- 运行最小化安装。
- 预安装,通过 yum distro-sync:
# yum install fedora-release-rawhide # yum --releasever=rawhide distro-sync
您可以使用每个正式发布版本的 Anaconda 安装器进行安装,目前最新版本是 Fedora 32。通过这种方式,您将会使用一个稍微旧一些但是不会有安装问题的安装程序完成您的 Rawhide 安装。
- 选项 1 - 使用已下载好的一份拷贝
- 如果您手头已经有一个可自启动的 CD、DVD、USB,或者是包含 *-DVD.iso 或 *-disc1.iso 的磁盘驱动器,那么就可以使用它来完成您的 Rawhide 安装。不过如果您没有上述的任何一项,那么不推荐您通过该方式安装。因为您想安装 Rawhide 而不是正式版。请看 这里 了解如何下载拷贝。请不要使用 Live 镜像,因为它无法完成安装。
- 选项 2 - 下载最小化安装程序
- 如果您需要制作一个可自启动的 CD、DVD、USB,或者是硬驱动器,最好的方法就是下在最小化的 boot.iso 安装程序并通过网络获取安装需要的 RPM。这跟 *-netinst.iso(例如 Fedora-Fedora 32-i386-netinst.iso)一样。
- 获取方法:
- * 前往 http://download.fedoraproject.org/ - 您会被自动跳转到离您最近的镜像。
- * 进入 releases/32/Fedora 目录。
- * Choose the directory for your architecture (i386, x86_64, or ppc - help available), then find os/images/boot.iso and download it.
- * Create a bootable CD, DVD, USB media, or hard drive partition following the instructions here using your newly downloaded boot.iso file. You can use the livecd-iso-to-disk method described there even though boot.iso is not a Live image, and it should also work on hard drive partitions, not just USB media.
- 选项 3 - 没有启动介质的纯网络安装
- 完整安装指南见此
- 执行上述3个选项后需要做的事情
- 启动安装程序,然后按照屏幕提示继续。软件包组选择。反选所有 Fedora 32 的软件源,手动添加 rawhide 源。从 这里 获取可用的 rawhide 源。
- 选项 4 - 安装时无网络环境
- 如果是这样,您需要从 Rawhide 镜像源 下载 Rawhide (development) 目录,并使用 安装指南中指出的硬驱动器方式安装。如果您认为麻烦可以选择本页列出的其它方式。
通过 Live 安装器安装
- Download a daily Live image (.iso) from http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/
- Follow the steps at How to create and use Live USB or How to create and use a Live CD to prepare and boot from the image you select.
- Log in and double click the Install to Hard Drive icon on the desktop.
- Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
从稳定版或者预发布版本通过 yum 升级
除了上面的几种方法,您还可以从一个现有的系统通过 ymu 升级至 Rawhide。When a pre-release is available, Rawhide corresponds to the following release: when Fedora 32 Alpha is available, the Rawhide repositories contains what will become Fedora 33. As with any method of installing Rawhide, success is not guaranteed. If you cannot get a direct installation to work, the yum method may work; on the other hand, if you cannot get a yum upgrade to work, try the direct installation method (above) instead.
It is generally best to start from the most recent release available, even if this is a pre-release: only use a stable release if no pre-release of the following version is yet available, or you cannot get the pre-release to install.
如果一个测试版或者预发布版本("pre-release",Alpha 或 Beta)已经可用,您可以从 这里 下载。或者您也可以从 这里 获取。
You may run into dependency problems which could take time and manual effort to resolve: if the upgrade refuses to proceed, look carefully at the errors yum reports and consider appropriate action (often, you need to remove a few problematic packages to let the rest of the system update). Remember that Rawhide installations in general may need to be wiped and re-installed from scratch at any time.
You can upgrade to the rawhide repository one of two ways. The most reliable is to use the command line method from a console; this avoids the case where an update causes the X server to crash or restart, killing the yum process in mid-upgrade as a consequence. The results of this case are usually sub-optimal.
You may use DNF_system_upgrade to upgrade from the most recent stable release. You will need to have such an install in place and should likely update to the newest updates before starting.
This method may fail if there are upgrade path issues (newer packages in stable or than $RELEASE), or broken dependencies.
测试 Rawhide
所有 Rawhide 的测试者需要做几件事。首先请阅读 test 邮件列表,所有 Rawhide 讨论都在这里。You'll find discussion of significant changes and warnings of severe breakage here. Reading test-list daily is key to staying on top of Rawhide. Secondly, report all the bugs you find in Rawhide to Bugzilla. Remember to file bugs according to these best practices. Please remember that bugs should always be filed in Bugzilla. Reporting bugs on the mailing list or IRC is not sufficient, as these reports rapidly become lost in history. Only on Bugzilla will they always be accessible to other testers and to the developers.
Beyond that, here is some general advice which may be of use in using Rawhide:
- Approach the test release as a valuable chance to learn more about your system. There is a good chance you will run into some bugs in subsystems or components that you are unfamiliar with as part of the testing process. Use this an opportunity to learn more about that particular subsystem and become familiar with its documentation. Even documentation has bugs, by following up and trying to learn from the documentation you might be able to help clean up badly worded or out of date documentation as well. The more you learn, the more effective you will be in the future if you participate in the development process again. Be as proactive as you can about reading about how things work and you will have a much more valuable experience overall.
- When using yum, take the time to review the list of package actions before you proceed. Don't disable the review step.
- Become familiar with the /var/log/rpmpkgs and /var/log/yum.log log files.
- Get a notebook and make notes about system configuration changes you make. Many problems can be traced to simple configuration errors, but can appear as package update bugs. When working with other testers to confirm the problem, make notes as to the other changes you have made since the last update/reboot can be invaluable in tracing the problem down accurately.
- Keep at least one older kernel that you are confident works as expected.
- Reboot daily, to test to see if any of your updates have affected startup. Its much more difficult to track down a boot up problem that was caused by an old update if you are updating daily but have not rebooted.
- Become familiar with useful grub features for troubleshooting boot up failures.
- Don't force or nodeps any package to work around dependency problems. Instead, report them as bugs or to test-list. If no-one reports these problems, they will never get fixed, and will persist into stable releases.
- Because the development tree is not guaranteed to be internally consistent every day, you will frequently see yum update fail with errors. Don't Panic, most dependency problems will be fixed by the developers in one or two days - sometimes simply by requesting more package rebuilds. If you see a dependency problem with yum update on your system for several days in a row, and see no discussion of it on test-list, see below to decide how you should report it or if a report is necessary.
- If there is one error (such as a package depending on an old library) holding you back from a full Rawhide update, you can use yum update --skip-broken to update all other packages. However, make sure the error has been reported to the maintainer of the offending package.
- You might need to disable GPG checking in /etc/yum.conf or the fedora-devel repository in /etc/yum.repos.d if packages are incorrectly signed.
- Take advantage of downloading packages from koji and using 'yum downgrade' to help isolate package updates that caused issues and work around them until they are fixed.
A daily build report of the development tree sent to the test and the devel every morning as part of the automated push of packages out to the publicly accessible trees. The daily report contains information about new, removed and updated packages. It also contains a summary of known dependency problems for each arch for which the development tree is built. If you experience any problems updating against the development tree the first thing you should review is the last two or three build reports. If you are seeing a dependency problem summarized in the latest build report, you can be sure the developers are aware of the problem. Package maintainers receive daily emails when their packages are on this list.
Note that the broken dependency list, which is part of the daily rawhide reports, only provides the first layer of dependencies and not the entire list, this saves build time. Unlisted packages might also be affected, but fixed when one or more of the listed packages are rebuilt.
If, however, the problem lingers longer than a few days on your system, and the problem package is not listed in the daily report, that could be an indication that you have run into a situational bug that not everyone is seeing. This is when you can spring into action as a tester and make a difference. But, before you file a new bug report there is a short recipe you can follow to avoid filing unnecessarily. Please remember that test releases exist primarily to help the developers identify problems so they can be fixed in time for release. Unfortunately, reactionary bug filing of duplicate or well known issues can take developer time away from actually fixing issues.
- Read test and devel: Go back into your archives or the web archives for fedora-test-list and read over the threads for the last 48 hours and see if there has been any discussion about the specific update errors you have been seeing. Generally, these sorts of errors are seen by most everyone with similar hardware, so there's a very good chance that other testers are already discussing it. Please don't post a new post to test until after you have reviewed the last 48 hours worth of posts. Having multiple discussions about the same issue is a drain on other testers and developers.
- Search Bugzilla: Search to see if there are any reports about the update issue you have seen.
- Drop a note into fedora-test-list: Please start a new thread only after you have attempted to find a previous discussion of this problem in the test-list or in bugzilla. Other testers can help you confirm the problem. If they can't confirm it they can help you determine if its a configuration problem or user error on your part. The test-list is a great way to obtain assistance from other more experienced testers, but please do what you can to use the archives responsibly to avoid duplication of information and discussion.
- File a new bug report: If the exact nature of the dependency problem during updating is lingering for several days, or if the problem seems specialized to your situation and it doesn't appear that the developer is aware of this problem, file a new bug. If you are unsure how to file, experienced testers in fedora-test-list can make suggestions. Please don't assume its a yum bug. Most dependency issues are packaging bugs in one of the packages detailed in the error messages.
什么是 "降临 Rawhide"?
Rawhide 每天自动从最新的软件包中生成。头一天构建的软件通常第二天会出现在 rawhide 源中。原理上构建过程会完成于美国东部时间午夜 0400/0500 UTC。
什么叫做 Rawhide "push"?
一个 Rawhide push 简单来讲就是一个每天会自动生成的 Rawhide 定制版。如果偶然这个 push 坏了,系统会生成更多的 push。
如何报告发现的 Rawhide 问题?
通过 test 邮件列表或 #fedora-qa[?] IRC 频道。如果是 bug,请报告至 Bugzilla,注意对应版本为 rawhide。
如何获知 Rawhide 的变动?
每天所有变动都会通过邮件发送至 test 和 devel 邮件列表,主题叫做 'rawhide report: <date> changes'。 这些报告会包含被添加/被移除/被更新(附带更新日志)的软件包,还会伴随一个问题损坏依赖关系列表。


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Wiz Khalifa just wanted to keep on rollin'.
The 27-year-old rapper said police at Los Angeles International Airport handcuffed him on Saturday after he refused to ditch his hoverboard, a wheeled toy ridden standing up that is marketed under several brand names.
On Saturday, he posted a video on his Instagram page that shows what appeared to be three uniformed officers restraining him on the ground, with his arms pinned behind his back.
"Stop resisting," one of them said in the video.
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"I'm not resisting, sir," the rapper replied calmly.
"3 cops yell stop resisting," Wiz wrote. "Only thing to do is let em know. I'm not resisting, I'm doin what I want."
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"All because I didn't want to ditch the technology everyone will be using in the next six months," he added, alongside another video showing him talking to authorities.
"Haven't been slammed and cuffed in a while," Wiz tweeted. "That was fun."
Wiz's real name, Cameron Thomaz, does not appear in arrest records.
Police at LAX had no immediate comment.
Wiz had also taken to social media after another incident involving police in 2014. He was arrested in Texas on suspicion of possessing half a gram of marijuana, a misdemeanor in that state. Wiz lives in California, where people can possess and use certain amounts of pot for medicinal purposes.
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Photography from the Community Photo Project The World in Fargo-Moorhead will be on display at the "Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation" exhibition at the Hjemkomst Center. In the Western imagination, India conjures up everything from saris and spices to turbans and temples—and the pulsating energy of Bollywood movies. But in America, India's contributions […]Find out more »


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The tie provides instant personality and adds that extra detail to your outfit. A tie may seem as a small piece to add to your outfit, but it is that small piece that allows the magic to happen.
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The history of the tie goes way back. It originates from the 17th century, and King Louis XIII, and has undergone several changes since then. In the 50's we saw an emergence of skinny ties to complement the form fitting of the time, as in the 60's and 70's some of the widest ties of time were created and got the nickname "kipper tie". Moving from this to the millennium and today, ties are now narrow and new fabrics and patterns, such as knit and floral, is introduced.
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After a few meetings of oPASS this year the numbers I use are 2 slices of pizza and 2 drinks per person, plus about 10%. I order the large pizzas and get a mix of crusts and topping - remember to get vegetarian! In our case we also have one member who is allergic to onions so we make sure we have at least one pizza that fits in that category. For soda it's usually something with caffeine, something without, and bottled water. It's definitely good to have extra drinks available, they can always be used next time.
Our meetings start at 6 pm and we like to try to serve the food at 6:30 so our speaker can start at 6:45 or so. That means we have to place the pizza order before we know how many will be attending. We always ask members to RSVP but in practice I take that number and multiply by 2 and that seems to work out to be close. Ideally we'd move the food to a little later in the evening so that we could order right at 6 pm and we may do that - or may not!
For planning purposes I figure its $5/person for food/soda/cups/ice/napkins/etc. I typically ask sponsors for a little more than that so we can bank a little for the less frequent but still recurring expenses all groups have.


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In 2006-07, Gilbert Arenas was a top 5 fantasy pick. In 2008-09, he was an injured mess hanging out on your waiver wire, hitting on your sister and asking to borrow your truck for a few days. In 2009-10, he was overrated and being picked in rounds 3-5 in drafts. In 2010-11, Hibachi will be underrated and I'll fall into the loving arms of Candice Swanepoel (as long as we're predicting stuff). Or maybe that fallin' feelin' stems from where ol' Gil is being taken in mock drafts this season, namely, as deep as the 12th round.
I understand the fears everyone has about owning Arenas. He's crushed fantasy teams for a solid four years now. Crushed 'em like the Fat Boys. That said, the Arenas of old still has a few more years before the old of Arenas shows up. He's averaged 7.4 assists in the 34 games he's played in the last two seasons after never averaging more than 6.3 in his first seven. His 31.9 Usg% last season was the highest of his career. The Wiz leaned heavily on Arenas last season and, physically, he held up.
The finger guns thing? C'mon what are the odds something like that happens again this year? Three-to-one. Yeah, okay. Fair play.
The knee, the guns – those problems won't follow him onto the court (or into the locker room) this season. Arenas is falling into the seventh and eighth rounds because he's playing alongside John Wall. He's falling into the 10th-12th rounds because people are confusing past problems with future ones. His PER has slipped from 22 to 18.6 in the last four seasons, yes. He attempted the most shots from the floor of his career last season (19) and only managed to average 22 points out of it, sure. His .411 FG% last season was an improvement from the previous seasons, but was as detrimental to fantasy teams in the beginning of the season as Dwight Howard's FT%. On top of it all, he'll slide over to a new position that asks that he pass less, shoot more and, perhaps average fewer than 31.5 minutes per game for the first time since he was a rookie. But … wait. What was I talking about?
Oh yeah, I was trying to make a case for Gilbert Arenas being the seventh or eighth person you put onto your fantasy roster. Look at it this way, he averaged 23 pts / 4 rbds / 7 asts with a combined 3.1 steals+treys last season. Even if all those numbers dip because of Wall, he's still an 18/4/4 guy who will likely add more treys, fewer turnovers and can't get much worse from the floor. That's Tyreke Evans with treys, my man. You think Evans will still be around 80 picks into your draft? Expect the following from Gil this season:
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USA Swimming National Team members Tom Luchsinger (Mt. Sinai, N.Y.) and Laura Sogar (Exeter, R.I.) will be guest speakers at the 2013 National Select Camp on Saturday in Colorado Springs, Colo. Their appearance will last from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. MT at the Olympic Training Center where they will do in-water sessions and host a Q&A with the campers.
"Being a part of the National Select Camp staff this year is my chance to give back to the next generation of USA swimmers," said Luchsinger. "I remember sitting at this camp years ago, watching, learning and being inspired by National Team members. Hopefully these campers can learn from my experiences and use them as motivation to work harder and get faster."
Each fall, USA Swimming brings in 60 of the top USA Swimming member athletes in the nation for the National Select Camp. During the camp, swimmers will learn about post-race recovery, anti-doping and supplement rules, psychological training skills, nutrition, race strategy and more.
"I'm so happy to have been asked to work this camp," said Sogar. "Camps like this expose rising stars to information that can help them take the next steps in their training, and I hope to be able to help them with anything I can."
Luchsinger and Sogar's appearance at the 2013 National Select Camp is part of USA Swimming's Athlete Partnership Program. The program is a platform for National Team swimmer to encourage kids and adults to take up the sport as a healthy and positive activity. These appearances directly promote the sport and the healthy lifestyle it represents. To find more information about how to get started in the sport, visit www.swimtoday.org.
About USA Swimming
As the National Governing Body for the sport of swimming in the United States, USA Swimming is a 400,000-member service organization that promotes the culture of swimming by creating opportunities for swimmers and coaches of all backgrounds to participate and advance in the sport through clubs, events and education. Our membership is comprised of swimmers from the age group level to the Olympic Team, as well as coaches and volunteers. USA Swimming is responsible for selecting and training teams for international competition including the Olympic Games, and strives to serve the sport through its core objectives: Build the base, Promote the sport, Achieve competitive success. For more information, visit www.usaswimming.org.
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Steven Tyler Drops $4.8 Million on Hawaiian Retreat
Steven Tyler has purchased a two-bedroom, three-and-a-half bathroom home on Hawaii's Maui island for $4.8 million — and believe it or not, he got quite a deal on it. The 3,000-square-foot pad was listed for $6.5 million.
Located in a nature preserve area near Waileahe, the pentagonal oceanfront retreat features several outdoor decks overlooking the ocean, a floor-to-ceiling aquarium and an infinity-edge saltwater pool. The Aerosmith singer purchased the property from Fred Constant, owner of Constant-Diamond Mountain Vineyard in California's Napa Valley, who himself bought it in 2002. Check out photos of the gorgeous spread here.
Tyler has been no stranger to Maui in recent months, having performed there with Alice Cooper on New Years Eve at the Mala Wailea oceanfront restaurant in Wailea, Hawaii. A few weeks earlier, over the Christmas holiday, Tyler became engaged to his longtime girlfriend, Erin Brady, while on the island.
Tyler and Brady also reportedly took part in some sort of bizarre ceremony involving what looks like bubbles, a conch shell and other random items with a local spiritual guru of some sort to bless what we can only assume is their new property, although it's hard to tell for sure from the pictures. How's that for vague?
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"Well, in the case of The World According to Garp, I thought I was taking sexual hatred, sexual intolerance, sexual discrimination to truthful extremes... What disheartened me in re-reading the novel 40 years later is how I couldn't find the exaggeration. It seemed to me to be closer to reading a newspaper than I normally like. It seemed to me that what I thought was extreme has not only not gone away, it has become commonplace." —John Irving
John Irving appeared at the Toronto Reference Library to discuss the 40th anniversary of his seminal The World According to Garp with Sam Tanenhaus.


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Philadelphia just gave the go-ahead for a large mixed-use multi-family housing project that is urban friendly and energy frugal. Conceived by design/build group Onion Flats "The Ridge' will be the largest Passive House project in the region...Vegetated roofs and greenscape will frame the plentiful public spaces within, encouraging community interaction. — Inhabitat
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We all heard lot of spritual stories from our parents and grand parents in our young age. Now it is our time to tell our kids.
Does any one has any collection of good stories / spritual stories to share.
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He was a speaker at many international events, such as Velocity, OSCON, Breaking Development, GOTO Europe, InsideMobile, Google DevFest, Nokia Developer Days, Adobe en Vivo, Nokia Talk and Campus Party Europe. He has received different recognitions, such as Forum Nokia Champion yearly since 2006, as one of the top mobile developers worldwide; Adobe Community Champion in 2011, and a recognition from Google at DevFest for being one of the most innovative developers.
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I'm trying to use a JEditorPane, in a JScrollPane, in a JSplitPane. It kind of works, but it doesn't scroll in the way I'd like it to; I'd like it to behave like Notepad, without "Word Wrap" on (although eventually I'd like to make this configurable - is that possible?).
I'm having several problems with this:
- The JEditorPane permenantly expands when I expand the JSplitPane that contains it. This means that if I expand the split pane and then shrink it again, the JEditorPane is suddenly too big to be displayed, and a horizontal scrollbar becomes active at the bottom. Ideally I'd like it to always shrink to fit the size of the split pane that contains it.
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As you've seen in our regular Miiverse Moments feature, Nintendo's online community is a place where people don't just chat, but doodle. Like their lives depended on it.
I've seen some good sketches over the weeks turning up on various game pages, but nothing like this epic Zelda image, which spans four panels and has shading so good it looks like it was scanned straight off a piece of paper.
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Authorities say five people in southwest Georgia have been killed in a head-on collision.
Georgia State Patrol spokesman Gordy Wright says a two-vehicle crash happened around 6:45 p.m. Friday near LaGrange, about 45 miles north of Columbus.
Two people also were injured. Wright says one person was airlifted to Atlanta Medical Center and the other was taken to a hospital in Columbus. The extent of their injuries was unclear Friday night.
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Over the years, the office has widened its scope of duties beyond basic treasury functions. The State Treasurer now advocates for citizens' rights through several programs mandated by state code and other valuable initiatives.
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State Treasurer John Perdue manages roughly $16 billion in state revenue and proudly boasts Standard and Poor's AAAm rating for the Board of Treasury Investments two money market pools. The Cash Management Division manages the state's operating fund and processes all state receipts and disbursements. The office also provides online bill-paying services for the state and a variety of government subdivisions.
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The 25-year-old only joined the Irons last summer from Wigan, but has been at the centre of rumours suggesting he was ready to walk away from Upton Park should a club match the £3.5million release clause in his contract.
But speaking to the club's official website, www.whufc.com, Diame said: "I know there are people out there saying things about me, but I have spoken with the manager and told him that I want to stay here. I know the club want to keep me too, so I will continue to give my best for them."
He went on: "I knew when I signed that West Ham were going to make their mark on the Premier League.
"Since I came here I am enjoying every game I play on the pitch. I think I made a good choice because I am very happy at this club."
West Ham insist no formal bid has been lodged for Diame, and they would not welcome one.
Speaking after Wednesday night's loss to Arsenal, Irons boss Sam Allardyce said: "For me, it's just about agents being disruptive. Mo Diame has not been to me and said he is unhappy in any way.
"We have had no bids from any of the clubs that have been rumoured in the papers. He is our player and hopefully come 1 February he will still be our player.
"Players become unhappy by rumours that are spread. In the build-up to the transfer window, I spoke about the one thing that can upset your players is speculation that people want them. They think it could be the club talking about them in the press but it isn't.
"All I can say is that there have been no bids from clubs that I've seen in the press like Arsenal or Tottenham for Mo Diame."
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There are limits on the number of credits you can earn or attempt and still receive financial aid. We are required to count all college level (100 or above) classes when determining this limit. Generally, you can earn/attempt 125% of the credits needed to complete your degree or certificate program. We closely monitor your enrollment and your progress towards completing your degree or certificate. You may be required to submit a Graduation Plan if:
- You have or will earn during the upcoming school year 100% of the credits needed to complete your degree or certificate,
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Sunday, September 23, 2007
Medical Crisis??
What is the "real" crisis in American Medicine?
I think it's that no one will want to be a doctor and there won't just be a shortage of specialty "A", but an absolute shortage of doctors..Medicine has changed so much in my 30 yrs..I really couldn't honestly advise someone to go down this pathway. And it's not just us (EM) it's every specialty..I can't think of a single doc who enjoys what they are doing.
The American public has brought this upon themselves with their attitudes and jurisprudence intervention..When I was interviewing residents/medical students some years ago, I thought they were going into medicine for the "right" reasons..But now, I have since seen those same doctors in practice and they are doing their best to plan a way out of practicing medicine..They'd do anything to get out of this "profession"..
What say you??
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- Anonymous10:20 PM, September 23, 2007
Funny you should mention that...ReplyDelete
After watching and listening to what my dad (an MD) has dealt with, I was skeptical about going into medicine but still very interested.
Then my PCP (young, female MD) asked me before my freshman year of college what I was going to major in or if I knew what I wanted do after college. I gave an off the cuff "not sure, thinking about medicine, but maybe political science or pre-law -- law and lobbying are pretty interesting"
She was already running late that day (judging by the time I spent in the waiting room) and she stopped, put my chart on the counter and had a serious chat with me urging me to think long and hard before deciding to go into medicine -- she pointed out a lot of things, some I was aware of and some I was not aware of.
Told her I'd look into it -- wasn't too surprised by anything she said. She finished my physical and signed the paperwork for my university, wished me luck and told me to let her know if I needed anything.
When she was halfway out the door she kind of paused and turned back into the room and said "you know, if I could do it all over again, knowing what I know now, I wouldn't go into medicine. As much as I love what I do, it's really just not worth it"
And that, my friends, is why this girl, who always wanted to be a doctor like her daddy, is a year away from completing her JD instead of working on her MD.
(however, I hope to eventually use the JD to somehow effect some positive change in the field of medicine -- goodness knows we need more doctors and already have a surplus of worthless lawyers)
I enjoy what I do.ReplyDelete
Sure, sometimes I bitch and moan about administrative hassles, patients who abuse the system and so forth. And I'd like to make more money, not work as hard, and have more time off. But it's sort of like golf...you can have a full day of frustration, bad bounces, thrown clubs and lost balls, but then you hit that one shot that makes it worthwhile and keeps you coming back for more. And you can still enjoy the weather and the company even when the game is not going as well as you'd like.
Shortage of doctors? No, in the future there'd be no shortage of docs. There will be a shortage of US trained docs, but not total numbers.ReplyDelete
Overseas trained docs will fill the void when the shortage gets acute and legislatures act to relay training and licensure requirements "temporarily". Don't you worry about any doctor shortage.
You'll be glad to know all this has been thought out.
I typed a long response, but apparently I couldn't read the jibberish on the bottom of the screen well enough so it was rejected. I'll try again:ReplyDelete
It's a good question and one that I've given a lot of thought. Seems to me that the American people don't know what an "Emergency" is anymore. As I have said numerous times: "Emergency isn't defined by the fact that you are here and waited to be seen". Some of the wimps we see today could have never survived 150 years ago!
I see 3 MAIN issues that effect us in the ED.
1. Government. From EMTALA to governmental controled insurance (Medicare and Medicaid) and my friends at JCAHO (remember the useless pain scale? Seems almost all of the patients are a 10 or 12. It's 7 that really gets my attention. This is usually the kidney stone or the AMI in the reasonable and educated patient. Or my personal favorite: the "Time Out". We have to document that the RN stopped us and asked us on which side of the body we're sewing the laceration, draining the abscess, or reducint the dislocation. My usual response is "the one with the laceration/abscess/dislocation"). Though I wish it'd just go away completely, at a minimum, we need EMTALA clarified and specified. I should be able to bill for my time, not based on the paperwork that I complete (did you know that you get paid more for 'chronic kidney disease' than you do for 'chronic renal failure'...even though it's the same thing?). Those 4 inch billing books from Medicare, Medicaid, Blue Cross, etc need to go away. I want to spend less time on paperwork and more time on patient care. We should also be allowed to deduct our charity care from our taxable income. Allowing docs to deduct charity care would make "no pay" patients a little more attractive to our consultants as well.
(An aside, I've been reading some of the old posts on this site and I saw some idiotic post several months ago chiding us for EMTALA complaints since the law was passed in the mid 1980's and revised a couple of years later. The argument was that we knew about EMTALA when we chose EM and therefore had no right to complain about it. As anyone who has been involved in EM knows, we all knew about the law and its intent...to prevent patient dumping. The thing didn't become a monster until the last few years as lawyers have used it's vague language to turn it into something it was never intended to be), and have used it to turn the ED into "the free clinic".
2. Lawsuits. The 'lawsuit lottery' is alive and well. I get threatened every few shifts if I refuse to order a silly xray or MRI, or give a pain shot. Makes me wonder why I invested any brain power into learning the Ottowa Ankle or Knee rules since the patient isn't happy (and I obviously don't care and am incompetant) if I don't order an xray. Recently, I have noted the bottom-feeding trial lawyers sending patients to the ED with requests for MRI scans since some body part has hurt since an accident weeks or months ago. The higher the medical cost, the higher the payout for pain and suffering of which the lawyer is taking 30 to 40%. The "lawyer screen question" is part of my history in these cases. Tort reform in Texas has been a HUGE success at reducing our insurance rates, bringing more docs to the state, and dropping the number of frivilous cases. The patient still gets reimbursed for any ACTUAL damages from true malpractice, but the pain and suffering is capped making the cases less attractive to the lawyers. Also, before the reform was passed in 2003, there were only 2 companies that would insure EPs (one of them would only insure 'non-sued' docs). Now there are at least 12 companies in the market and our rates have dropped 20% as a result of the competition.
3. Patient expectations. Patients watch too much TV. Everything on TV happens right away. The DNA test takes 20 seconds, the MRI of the head takes one commercial break. Dr. House can sort out complex medical cases in less than an hour, and don't even get me started on that ridiculous ER show. Since you can order a book, CD, or DVD from Amazon today and get it tomorrow, and you can get a complete meal at any fast food restaurant in 10 minutes, people expect medicine to work that way and it doesn't. I don't know a solution for this one. I DO know that Universal Health Care isn't the answer! Your outpatient MRI might take a few days, but it won't take a few MONTHS!
Also, I believe a Tazer for any PCP or his nurse or secretary that says "go to the ER" because thir office is too "busy" or because it's 4pm should be manditory!
- Anonymous8:29 AM, September 24, 2007
The AAMC has mandated that US MD schools increas their enrollment 30% over then next few years. Because only ~40% of all applicants are successful, schools are in a seller's market. Doc production *will* increase. There are just too many people want to be a doc to hear detractors.ReplyDelete
Items I'm concerned about as a med student:
The number of residency spots has not grown to match the 30% enrollment increase. How will this effect residency placement?
There is talk about cutting GME funding (because training residents =/= patient care).
- Anonymous9:43 AM, September 24, 2007
First, to the future JD: I have about 10 friends from college who are practicing lawyers - 9 are severely depressed and miserable; the other one is suicidal. Law is a soul-sucking, parasitic, vile profession. Hope you enjoy it.ReplyDelete
Next: there will not be an MD shortage - just a QUALITY MD shortage. It doesn't take Adam Smith to figure this one out: worse pay, poor treatment, administrative bullshit, astronomical school debt = less top-notch people attracted to the career.
The irony is that I actually love my job (pathology) - but I'm also a fake doctor (like derm, rads, optho, gas ...) - zero patient contact does wonders for one's psyche.
you should be forced to take care of at least one live patient per month, both to keep your skills up and to see why direct patient contact (in this day and age, not the old doctor patient relationship) make you depressed. you would love your job even more.
I've been in medicine for 409 days now. I've spent $122,000 and what do I have to show for it? 20 more gray hairs, a bunch of cool looking books, and no social life.ReplyDelete
What do I have to look forward to?
-Sitting in the library for the next year studying Robbins
-Shelling out about a grand for an exam.
-Paying for 2 years of abuse from everyone in the hospital from the janitors on up.
-Shelling out about 3 grand for 2 exams.
-Shelling out about 10 grand for interview flights/hotels/food/ERAS.
-3 years of sustaining a hospital 2-3 nights a week while getting paid less than the janitors, at a location that will be determined by a computer program. More abuse from everyone but the janitors who now just feel bad for me.
Then it'll all be smooth sailing with my six-figures of loan repayment, six-figures of insurance coverage, and whatever legislative "fix" the next administration comes up with to lower the cost of health care (cutting my salary, I'm sure).
I could have had a nice, quiet, debt-free life as a chemist in big pharma or a brew master...but noooooo, someone had to put the bright idea to go into medicine into my head.
Bottom line is that someone has to do it, might as well be some brilliantly mediocre sucker like me instead of the best and brightest of my generation.
agree there might not be a ''numbers of doctors'' crisis. but there certainly will be a quality crisis. it's already happening. i think there will be pockets of physical paucity of qualified physicians, especially in smaller towns, and this will be most critical with the sub-specialties. ETOTHEIPI reasons it well.ReplyDelete
As long as we're calculating number of days in medicine, I'm just starting my 3rd year out of residency. I'm double paying my loans, renting a cheap apartment, don't have cable, investing every miserable cent I can squeeze out of my paycheck (which is more than many of my friends bring home in the first place, so no complaints there). I started my own company, unrealted ot medicine that will bring in about 10% of my c urrent income if it's successful and I am paper trading stock options to the tune of a 100% profit in only 3 months. Time too start the real trading so I can quit my doctor job.ReplyDelete
I plan to still practice medicine, but on a volunteer basis...overseas, homeless, etc.
- Anonymous6:32 PM, September 24, 2007
You docs aren't paid enough money, too much regulatory influence, and too many commercial insurance companies with uber paid execs. I've worked in hospital finance for 30 years, and shake my head every day at some of the things we see. (And I love you guys, and have great relationships with the docs at my hospital).ReplyDelete
Thank you all for your comments..I didn't even think about the obvious answer Allen and some otheres so intelligently answered..FMG's will be the answer!ReplyDelete
Great thoughts...for a big problem. No question. We will have a quality shortage. Prior to the appearence of medical blogs only those in medicine knew how difficult a career in medicine was. Now potential docs need only look online and they are exposed to the "truth." While I enjoy what I do---about 75% of the time---I would never let my children follow in my footsteps. Sad.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4:21 AM, October 02, 2007
I've given a LOT of thought about how seriously FUCKED American health care is.ReplyDelete
I work as a paramedic in a major metropolitan city. Lots of calls, lots of patients, lots of bizarre things and situations. When I say a lot of calls, we're doing 300-400 calls per day.
I think back on the number of truly critical calls. By that I mean calls which absolutely necessitated emergent treatment or transport. In the last 500 calls I've run, I'd put that number at about 20-30. I'm even going to be generious in this number and count all the obviously dead asystolic patients that were dead when I got there and dead when I stopped working the code 20 minutes later. They weren't emergent as they were a triage of type black -- dead and unsalvagable.
The rest span the spectrum of acuity. But the bulk of my patients are bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit.
Before you continue, anonymous reader, please save the lecture about "it's not your emergency it's the patient's emergency." No, when summoned, it becomes an issue I have to deal with and no matter how you want to slice it, "Hungry" isn't a medical emergency and neither is, "chest pain" when you just got booked into jail on the 24 city warrants, and this chest pain mysteriously resolves without problem immediately upon your release from jail. Neither are bunions, or a spider bite from last week that seems to be healing quite fine on its own.
You see, it is bullshit. Most of the service's bills go unpaid. The industry average in EMS is to collect 40-45% of your bills. That's including the pathetic reimbursement from medicare and medicaid.
People don't understand what emergency medicine is for. They don't understand that I, as a paramedic, am woefully unequipped to handle anything outside of acute, life threatening conditions. I don't "clear" people so they can be taken to jail. I don't "check it out" when you have an obviously broken wrist. Oh god help me if I have to hear, "He just wants to be 'checked out' more than twice in a shift." Check it out? Looks like it hurts. Better go to the hospital and get that 'checked out.'
Maybe it's broken. You can move your fingers? Okay. You heard that it wasn't broken if you can move your fingers? So what you can move your fingers. It's just a guess that it's broken. I don't do x-rays or have x-ray vision. I don't know how to do more in-depth ruleouts or know the differential diagnosis flow for chronic conditions. It's not in my scope of practice, I was never taught how, and I'm not permitted to offer that dirty D-word -- diagnosis.
I know this: Are you going to crap out on me in the next 30 minutes or not? And if you are, I can handle that. If you are not, then I can do what yellow cab or the bus can do: give you a ride to the hospital.
People use EMS and EDs like they're a fast food restaurant. That's an analogy I heard a while back. Fast food is the most inefficient, unhealthy, expensive way to get a meal. But it works to put something in your stomach.
You cannot live on fast food. It's just too unhealthy. Emergency medicine is just like that. The quick fix. Treat em and street em. It's expensive, and not particularly suited to the expectations placed upon it.
Theres no way we can continue to provide $800 taxi rides for people too lazy to get a ride, too cheap to take a bus or cab, and too dishonest to man up and say, "Hey, that chest pain thing was total bullshit. I just wanted out of jail. Don't waste the time transporting me."
The patients I transport have sucked up more ED resources than I can even fathom. Nurses cringe when I walk in with a patient saying, "This is Roger. He comes to you from home. For the last three weeks, he's been having a numbness in his leg and pain in his back. Roger sought treatment at another hospital earlier this week and was discharged with a possible pinched nerve. He said he can't sleep and wants to be evaluated."
I don't get to pick and choose. If it were up to me, I'd say, "Roger, there's not a damn thing this hospital can do for you that the last one didn't. Go to PT and do your exercises. I know they hurt. PT is the most barbaric things in the world, but that's what this hospital is going to tell you too. So quit being such a pussy about it and make an appointment on Monday with your PCP if you don't like it."
But the reality is that I really do like my job. I get paid almost as much as a nurse, and have a lot more autonomy than most in health care ever dreamed of. Yeah, I have my protocols that I need to follow, but so does everyone. And most of those protocols are things you really should be doing anyway. It would be nice to do a little more on standing order, but I can always call and ask mother may I. I know there's a lot of stupid paramedics in the world who really should have to ask because they're inept and dangerous. So I can understand the need.
I can't speak with any authority on what it's like to work as a physician, since I'm pretty much at the bottom of the rung in medicine to outsiders. But I'll tell you this: I would love to have the autonomy to do what I thought was necessary without being encumbered by rigid protocols. The benchmark I use to evaluate my care and my impression is the advice of the ED physician.
So you have a lot of people looking to you for answers. Hearing, "I don't know" is just as reassuring and hearing, "Well, you did pretty much what I would have done."
I enjoy spending a lot of time with patients. I read a study on the amount of time spent with patients. I, as a paramedic, spend more 1:1 time with a patient than the physician. I'd miss that if I worked as a physician. That makes no sense to me. I'm with a patient for maybe 30-40 minutes on a long call.
How are people okay with that? How are physicians okay with that? People don't call an ambulance to see a paramedic. They call an ambulance with the eventual goal of seeing a physician.
a little over a year ago I was talking to one of the nurses in my ER about how I wanted to go to medical school. This conversation was over heard by a bunch of docs at the desk. It was unanimous,"Are you sure?", "Its not worth it," "PA school is better!" It wasn't just ER docs, but a bunch of consulting physicians too.ReplyDelete
Made me stop and think a little. But here I am in an SMP (thought I wanted to be a chemist for a while and the extra math killed my GPA) studying (or procrastinating as I write this) for my MMCB exam.
good luck and God bless.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12:02 PM, October 12, 2007
Quality is the issue. I'm reminded of when I was both GME& CME at a teaching hosp. We had an intern who was lazy, careless, stupid, and would not follow protocols. This intern was kicked out. The intern appealed and won the case from the RRC,because the Residency Director and Chief Resident didn't complete the right forms of documentation. This person had NO business in medicine, got through because the person met a quota requirement. When reinstated, the comment from the Director was, Well at least (this person) is going into PM&R, so (this person) can't do too much damage.ReplyDelete
As someone who works in healthcare and is a consumer of healthcare, this scared and still scares the shit out of me.
I would have to agree with some of the posts above me; there will not be a shortage of doctors, just US doctors. I have nothing against Indians, but a good third of the doctors I see are of Indian descent.ReplyDelete
On another note, I would have to say that one of the main problems of medicine these days is the corruption in the drug industry.
dear PofR,ReplyDelete
it is certainly held as gospel that the drug companies are 'corrupt' or even evil, but this has always puzzled me. It's to the point in academic medicine that the drug reps are treated worse than criminals and have been banished. also, if I accept a drug co. pen or flashlight then i am 'in their pocket'... i hope you will expand on your statement a bit because the American drug companies are the best in the world and responsible for most of the advancements in treatment and cure of a host of diseases. i believe they are reviled because they are based on the profit motive... the most efficient business model that exists. thoughts?


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A longsword that converts the user's belief in his/her cause into raw holy power. Once an ordinary weapon used by the Order of Light - the ruling power of the land of Nyuusen - this weapon was given to a brave, idealistic warrior who recognized the corruption in the Order of Light and sought to purge the malign influence from its ranks. His faith in his own deity supercharged this longsword into a potent tool for eliminating corruption and restoring chivalry and justice.
Pure Cross Edit
This Medium holy axiomatic longsword's enchantment bonus is equal to its holder's total bonus on will saving throws; thus, it tends to be strongest in the hands of a paladin, cleric, or similar character. In addition to being used for melee attacks, the Pure Cross can be swung at empty air to launch a crescent wave of holy power; treat this as a ranged ray attack with a range of 25 feet (unlike most rays, the Pure Cross's ray is not a touch attack, so it does not ignore armor and natural armor modifiers; however, it is still capable of hitting incorporeal creatures, like any other magical ray). In any event, a hit from this weapon does an extra 2d8 damage to evil or chaotic creatures (which replaces the damage bonus of the holy and lawful properties) and an extra 4d8 damage to undead creatures; the bonus damage against evil and chaotic creatures stack with each other and the bonus against undead (a chaotic evil creature would take 4d8 extra damage, a chaotic or evil undead would take 6d8 extra damage, and a chaotic evil undead would take 8d8 extra damage). Evil or chaotic outsiders take 10d8 extra damage; chaotic evil outsiders take 12d8 extra damage. In addition to this, the Pure Cross functions like a rod of absorption, and can absorb up to 30 levels of spells or spell-like abilities per day to be used to cast cure spells, banishment, or any spell from the Good or Law domains (either through a touch attack or embedded in the ray attack; however, even with a spell embedded, the Pure Cross's ray is never considered a touch attack). Spell levels can also be expended to add +2 to the bonus for a single attack or damage roll (including any special attack rolls, such as disarming, sundering, or tripping) for each spell level expended, or to automatically threaten and confirm a critical hit by expending 5 spell levels. Absorbed spell levels can be retained from day to day, but the Pure Cross can never have more than 30 unused absorbed spell levels at a time; any extra levels are simply wasted. Finally, the Pure Cross gains a +6 bonus to disarm and sunder attack rolls made against evil or chaotic weapons, armor, or items (this bonus increases to +12 against an item that is both chaotic and evil). For example, the Pure Cross gets a +6 bonus to sunder or disarm an unholy or anarchic item, or a +12 bonus against an item with both of those properties.
This weapon's fearsome power does have a cost, though; wielding the Pure Cross eats away at its holder's resolve. For every 5 rounds that one wields this weapon, the user must succeed on a Will save (DC = 20 + 4 for each previous success) or suffer 1d2 points of Wisdom burn. A round spent not wielding the Pure Cross is not only not counted against this limit, but actually reverts the counter by 1 round; for example, if you'd have to make a Will save against Wisdom burn on your next round, stowing away or dropping the Pure Cross and keeping it out of your hands for 1 full round would mean that you'd have 2 rounds until your next save if you began wielding it again. Once the Pure Cross inflicts Wisdom burn or is stowed away for 5 consecutive rounds, the DC drops back down to 20. Failing the save against Wisdom burn also forces the wielder to make an additional DC 18 Will save or be shaken for 3 rounds. In addition, any creature without a lawful good alignment that attempts to hold this weapon immediately gains five negative levels (or only three if it's neutral good or chaotic good). These negative levels never result in actual level loss, but they remain as long as the Pure Cross is held, and cannot be removed in any way, not even restoration spells, except for by discarding or stowing away the Pure Cross (which removes them immediately).
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Darrelle Revis was back with his New York Jets teammates - as rumors continue to swirl that he could be headed elsewhere soon.
The star cornerback reported Monday for the first day of the team's voluntary offseason conditioning program, a few hours after having an MRI exam with Dr. Russell Warren, the Giants' team orthopedist, at a hospital in Manhattan.
The MRI exam results, according to several published reports, were positive. ESPN New York also reported that Revis was cleared by Warren to begin running without restrictions.
Revis, who has been rehabilitating his surgically repaired left knee in Arizona, did not speak with reporters who were waiting outside the entrance to the Jets' training complex, driving past without acknowledging them.
Quarterbacks Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow were also among the players who reported Monday.
Revis is entering the last season of a four-year contract. A clause in that deal prevents the Jets from using the franchise or transition tag on him next year, so if he remains unsigned, he would become a free agent in 2014. That's why Revis has been the subject of rampant trade rumors, with Tampa Bay appearing to be the most likely suitor.
Revis would have preferred to return to Arizona to continue his rehab, but will remain in New Jersey because his contract includes a clause for three $1 million bonuses that are tied together, including a workout bonus.
Revis tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee last September against Miami, and underwent surgery the next month. He has been rehabbing since, and has indicated in interviews that he fully expects to be ready for the start of the regular season.
"We would love to have him as a teammate," defensive end Muhammad Wilkerson said on a conference call when asked about the uncertainty surrounding Revis' status with the Jets. "If he comes back, that's a plus for us."
About a possible Revis trade, Wilkerson said, "That's something I can't control."
Sanchez had a similar reaction when asked about Revis' situation.
"How would I feel if they trade Revis?" Sanchez said on a conference call. "It's not my call. I think he's a great player. I love him as a teammate. I love him as a friend. I don't make those decisions."
Tebow, who spent an unproductive season with the Jets last year after being acquired from Denver in a trade, showed up over an hour before the 8 a.m. reporting time.
Tebow is part of a crowded quarterback depth chart that includes Sanchez, David Garrard, Greg McElroy and Matt Simms, and it's believed the Jets still are trying to trade him. If that doesn't happen, Tebow likely will be released.
Tebow, who arrived at the Jets facility before head coach Rex Ryan, didn't speak to reporters. He called his current offseason "my best yet," when speaking Friday at his charity golf tournament in Jacksonville.
NOTES: RT Austin Howard, a restricted free agent, signed his one-year, $2 million tender. ... WR Santonio Holmes was a no-show, but that was expected. He has chosen to continue rehabbing his foot injury on his own, according to reports.


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Cowboys' Ogletree ready to take next step
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IRVING — Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones refused at the scouting combine three months ago to say whether Kevin Ogletree could "take the next step" as a receiver.
"I can't answer... because I don't know how hard he's going to work," Jones said. "If he comes in and works as hard as Miles Austin worked, then he's got a real upside."
With two weeks left in the Cowboys' offseason workout schedule, it's apparent Ogletree is indeed willing to do what's needed to try to follow Austin's path from undrafted rookie to Pro Bowl receiver.
"He's made a really big step forward as far as being a pro football player," coach Wade Phillips said of Ogletree, a former Virginia standout. "He was a rookie and a young guy last year. Some of them get it, and some of them don't. He is getting it."
Asked for an example of Ogletree's maturity, Phillips pointed to reports from strength coach Joe Juraszek.
"Joe pushes them to the limit, and we say all of them are working hard," Phillips said. "But certain guys start going above and beyond. That is where (Ogletree) has gotten to.
"When Joe brags on a guy, he is doing some good things."
Ogletree's growth came to the forefront Monday as Dallas began its second week of voluntary practices. With Patrick Crayton absent again after asking for a trade, Ogletree got extra repetitions.
Ogletree has mixed feelings about Crayton's boycott.
"Patrick is a good friend," Ogletree said. "He actually called me this week. I'd like to see him here soon. But it does mean a few extra reps for me."
Crayton decided to skip the workouts after the Cowboys made Dez Bryant their first-round draft pick. While Crayton apparently believes his role will be reduced, Ogletree welcomes the competition.
"I'm pretty confident in my skills," Ogletree said. "I realize there is going to be a draft every year, and we are going to try to get the best players we can, and sometimes they are going to be at your position."
If the Cowboys wind up trading Crayton and keeping five receivers, Ogletree has a shot at moving up to No. 4 on the depth chart behind Austin, Roy Williams and Bryant. Ogletree's competition includes veteran Sam Hurd, who has been limited after offseason thumb surgery; Manuel Johnson and Jesse Holley; a pair of 2009 practice squad guys; and Titus Ryan, a speedy CFL alum.
Ogletree showed promise last season, catching seven passes for 96 yards and no touchdowns. Dallas enjoyed success using him on screens that often produced key third-down conversions.
"Kevin is a good, young player," tight end Jason Witten said. "Every time he got the ball, he made something happen. You do that, you are going to get more balls come your way."
Ogletree also has a strong backer in Jones. That was evident when Jones spent 20 minutes on the Superdome field talking to Ogletree before the Cowboys' upset of New Orleans last season.
Ogletree logged a season-high nine snaps that night, finishing with two catches for 23 yards.
"He told me to not let the opportunity in front of me slip away," Ogletree said.
He's also drawn inspiration from Austin, who signed with Dallas as an undrafted free agent in 2006 and enjoyed a breakout 81-catch, 1,320-yard, 11-TD season in 2009.
"Miles is a great tutorial on how to make it as a free agent," Ogletree said. "He got his chance last year and shined. That shows you hard work does pay off."


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Williams will get a 2011 budget number in late October and then another projection in November, followed by one as the team goes to the Winter Meetings and then again at the first of the year.
Ultimately, the White Sox might make the best offer to Konerko and Pierzynski within their budgetary parameters, and the players could decide to go elsewhere. Williams already had gone on record to MLB.com concerning his desire to have Konerko retire as a member of the White Sox, and he reiterated that idea on Sunday.
"Let me be clear on something: I think Jerry Reinsdorf and myself and Ozzie Guillen, we'd like to have him back. Let's be completely clear on that," Williams said. "Now, whether we can do that or that happens or not with all the variables, I have no clue right now. We are clear with our desires as we sit here today."
… "Well, as I just told him today, I said, under my tenure at least, he is the classiest player that has put on a uniform," White Sox general manager Ken Williams said of Konerko, who he spoke to for five minutes in the clubhouse on Sunday. "And I'm not just talking on the field and in this clubhouse. I'm talking outside of the game as well. You'll never hear me say a disparaging word against Paul Konerko.
"We don't know how it's going to play out. There are variables at play we have to go through, to see where we are, project our revenues and how the team fits as a whole. He has some things he has to work through in his mind as well.
"If at the end of the day, even if we are the ones who choose him and he doesn't choose us, you will never hear out of anyone in the White Sox halls a disrespectful word about Paul Konerko. He is that good of a player, but also that classy of a man."
Maybe by the Winter Meetings?
"This is tough because most agents want to take their players to the Winter Meetings (Oct. December 6-9 at Orlando) and through the Winter Meetings," Williams said. "You have a lot of playing to do. There is that tier underneath the top level guys who don't necessarily have to go to the Winter Meetings. They will get an offer or a deal and they will sign. If you are waiting for that Grade A type guy to be available at the Meetings, you might miss out on other guys who can help you and end up with nothing.
"So, it's a game of roulette to a certain extent. We've experienced it first-hand and it didn't work out too well the last time we went down that road where we didn't up with the top guy and a couple of other guys on our list, we lost out on. So, you've got to really play those cards well.
"The great thing about it is we have a tremendous relationship with Paul, and I know he's going to be honest with us and not want to put us in that kind of situation."


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Martina McBride's Fans Step Up for Breast Cancer Research, Raise Over $40,000
Martina McBride is a huge advocate for big causes, and her passion was recently demonstrated through her nationwide volunteer group, Team Martina, which raised over $40,000 for breast cancer research.
The singer's hit 'I'm Gonna Love You Through It' resonated with many who have been affected by the often-deadly disease, and now she's helping to spotlight it again -- this time, through the amazing volunteers of Team Martina. The team, which grew from McBride's fan club, is a nationwide and global community service group of country music fans who are dedicated to making the world a better place through volunteerism.
They certainly are helping improve our world, as they gave the Martina McBride Breast Cancer Research Grant in the amount of $40,550.00 to Nashville's Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center. These impressive funds will be used to assist triple negative breast cancer research at Vanderbilt. The grant was given through T.J. Martell Foundation, the music industry's largest charity that funds leukemia, cancer and AIDS research.
One Team Martina member, Taira Baughman, lost her battle just this year to this same type of breast cancer, and the grant is in honor of her. Baughman also touchingly appeared in the music video for 'I'm Gonna Love You Through It.'
"I am so proud of this amazing team of volunteers," said McBride. "They are truly making the world a better place with their fundraising efforts and I'm honored they are doing it in my name. We give this grant in honor of our friend and teammate Taira Baughman who was an inspiration to so many. She dedicated her life to her family and to helping others and this grant will undoubtedly touch the lives of countless women."
Since 2011, the group has raised more than $100,000 for various causes, and last year alone raised over $25,000 for cancer research. Along with her hit song, McBride also stays active in promoting cancer awareness through celebrating cancer survivors at the Grand Ole Opry and performing on Opry Goes Pink.