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by David Crane [email protected] DPMS Panther Arms is currently making a civilian-legal replica of the semi-auto-only 5.56mm (5.56x45mm) U.S. Army Squad Designated Marksman Rifle (SDM-R), which is designed to allow squads to engage enemy targets at ranges of 600 meters (600m). According to the 2005 U.S. Army Field Manual, "The primary mission of the SDM [Squad Designated Marksman] is to …Read More »
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Laser Gunship Fires Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) Against Ground Targets
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - A gustnado may look like a tornado, but it forms differently.
A tornado forms in the updraft of a supercell thunderstorm and is attached to the base of the cloud.
Plus the vortex that creates a tornado drops down from the cloud.
This vortex is first called a funnel cloud and then a tornado when it makes contact with the ground.
A gustnado is formed from the gusty outflow of a powerful thunderstorm.
The outflow can kick up air ahead of the storm and some of that air can then start rotating to form a small vortex.
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A gustnado is independent of the storm cloud and forms from the surface of the Earth, stretching upward, which is similar to dust devil formation.
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UC Student Fall Likely Accidental Death
Autopsy results from the Alameda County Coroner's Office show that UC Berkeley anthropology student Alan Kaname Hamai, who fell from the third-story roof of his apartment building a day after he graduated, died as a result of unforced trauma from a fall, authorities said Tuesday.
Berkeley Police Department (BPD) spokesperson Andrew Frankel said the results did not indicate any foul play.
"Which means it was either a tragic accident or suicide, but there's nothing to indicate it was a suicide," Frankel said.
Police are still waiting for the toxicology texts to determine whether alcohol was involved. Frankel said it might be two months to 18 weeks before the tests were released.
Hamai, 22, was found at 6:22 a.m. Saturday outside his apartment building by a passer-by. Police said he had been with his friends until 2 a.m. after which nobody had been in contact with him.
"It's not uncommon for the residents to hang out on the roof of the building," Frankel said. "It appears to be a very tragic accident."
A statement released by university officials Sunday said Berkeley police were taking the help of the UC Police Department to investigate the incident.
The statement confirms that Hamai was a graduating senior majoring in anthropology. His parents attended his graduation ceremony at the campus Friday, and were on their way back home to Southern California when they heard about their son's death.
University officials expressed their condolences at the loss to Hamai's family and friends in a statement.
Hamai, who was from Redondo Beach, is the second UC Berkeley student who died this month. UC Berkeley engineering senior Chris Wootton was stabbed to death outside his fraternity on May 3.
Berkeley police arrested Berkeley City College student Andrew Hoeft-Edenfield for killing Wootton within 12 hours of the incident. The District Attorney's office has charged Hoeft-Edenfield with murder.
On May 6, 33-year-old Maceo Smith was shot in broad daylight at the Douglas parking lot on Durant Ave. Police arrested 19-year-old Nathaniel Freeman in connection with the murder.
Although neither Smith nor Freeman was affiliated with the University of California, the incident occurred a block from its campus in full view of some students, a few of whom had celebrated their senior year graduation ceremony earlier that day.
UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau expressed grief at the recent events affecting the campus community.
"In all my years in higher education, this has been among the saddest and most tragic times for a university community that I have known," he said in a statement. "Alan Hamai's death and the terrible loss of others in the Cal family this year has been deeply felt by a great many of us. As we mourn for our latest loss, I urge each of you to look after yourself and to reach out to support and care for your friends, classmates, and coworkers."
Counselors from University Health Services met with Hamai's apartment mates to provide assistance.
"There are no words that can adequately express the sorrow all of us feel about the death of Alan Hamai, one of our own,"
Anthropology Department Chair Rosemary Joyce said in a statement, "This loss, which would be tragic no matter what the timing, is doubly difficult when he was facing the beginning of the next phase of his life."
Hamai's friends expressed shock at the incident. UC Berkeley junior Nick Ashbury described Alan as "an extremely intelligent guy, a great friend and a loving soul."
UC Berkeley Molecular and Cell Biology student Timothy Liu had known Hamai since a junior at La Canada High School and the two had become good friends over the last four years at the university.
"He is a special friend, one that I really can't expect to make again, considering how long we have known each other," Liu said. "The kind of friend who will go that extra mile to help you out. The kind of friend that I would have been comfortable asking to be the best man at my wedding in the future. The kind of person who is really insightful and intelligent, but whom you could totally kick back and have a pint of beer with. His loss has affected everyone that knew him in ways that I cannot even begin to explain."
Liu said he had talked to Hamai Friday and made plans to meet him later that weekend.
"Then I got an email from a friend explaining what had happened," he said. "I am completely in the dark about what might have happened, whether it was a murder or suicide or just an accident. I heard somewhere alcohol might be involved, but I am not sure."
Liu said he will be attending Hamai's memorial in Los Angeles Saturday.
In his note "In Memory of Alan Hamai" sent to his friends, Liu reminisced about the way Hamai challenged him to think about medical anthropology and medical ethics.
"As I graduate from UC Berkeley Thursday (today) and pursue my career in the medical profession, I promise you that when I am a doctor, I will not only treat people's diseases, but will also attentively address their illness experiences as well," his note said. "By implementing the concepts that you helped me understand (when we were cramming for our Anthropology 115 final, remember that?) into my medical practice, I want you to know that I will try my very best to have your legacy and memory live on forever."


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Missy had to tune up her bike before competing in her first triathlon last weekend. Scott from Two Sixteen put together an amazing bar tape tutorial. Dave from Portlandize gave handsome Bertrand a bath, and Biking Toronto talked about restoring a vintage bike.
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Morty at Slow Bike Madison dug into The Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne, while Carolyn picked up The Art of Urban Cycling by Richard Hurst. Watch for our suggested bicycle reading list, coming soon.
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Seeing the different things everyone carries by bike is so much fun. Smallest load: Margaret's Frozen Yogurt (hey, a load is relative, I suppose!). Biggest potential? Scott's modified trailer, which was ready to haul fence posts. Dave and Patrina at Portlandize went to the farmer's market, and Carice even carried flowers. (Miss Sarah has your water!) And one of you showed us how much you carry on your normal commute. We're still waiting for the cargo bike brigade to weigh in—show us what you've got! :)
- Test ride a different type of bike than you normally ride
This one brought us our first reader video submission: check out Sumehra and her sister test-riding a Pashley! Verdict: "This is the best bike ever."
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"Why not be blatant about it?"
It is my understanding the Reuters itself or the shareholders who make up Reuters also own a large stake in AP.
Funny how everyone differentiates between the two.
It is kind of like picking between the now defunct Firebird or a Camaro which were both owned by the same company. It is the kind of choice I imagine that exists in the "news" industry nowadays.
Microsoft has pushed their way into the gaming industry in ways that have truly disgusted me. From trying to control PC gaming to their attempt to enter the console industry Microsoft has done little but imitate competition and bully their way into the gaming world.
They have NO business in the gaming world IMHO. Small independent game developers have consistently delivered better products before they first dipped their toes into gaming. This scares Microsoft so much that they will invariable use intellectual property to ensure their foothold.
When a system is abused this badly there really is only one choice, elimination. It is the only logic way to proceed at this juncture. We did it for welfare, so I think we can do it for wealthfare...lol
Reform is just an excuse to keep abusing an already broken system.
It is clear that once again corporate lobbying has done what it is supposed to. Eliminate diversity and push everyone into their ever growing pocket book.
How is it fair to put the interests of a single organization so far above the interests of the masses?
I would like to feel outrage, but after watching this same old corporate story my whole life I am getting pretty numb. One thing I have decided is that the corporatization and consolidation of American Business was pushed through on a highway of lies.
I remember the rhetoric when I was a kid and there were still a huge amount of family businesses around. Corporations billed themselves as providing better quality, superior services, and great employment. Twenty years I see now that is was just a lip-service so they could grab as much cash as possible and destroy forever choice as we knew it.
Tell me how we are better off nowadays with a McDonald's and Walmart on every corner? We have less choice than ever before, crap-ass pay, and products that can only be described as inferior. The money no longer stays in our communities and is instead shipped to banks in other states.
American Business is now a sad precession of people's time and energy into the abyss of big business backed by government regulation and corporate law. IP law is just another tool in the box of corporate tricks to force the little guy to roll over. The describes clearly what is now the Web Casters fate.
"PS: Guess how the book companies competed with xeroxing! By releasing low cost locally written textbooks :)"
Innovation, it is what happens when governments don't protect business models.
The title of you posts strikes me though. We have very ethnocentric thinking in the US of A. I would cation this assumption that India of China eventually has to join us with our bizarre obsession with IP.
They will likely relent somewhat when it comes to adopting IP laws, but I doubt they will ever embrace it the way we have.
"But those companies want to be compensated for all the research and testing."
From the peer-reviewed studies I have read 99% of these companies have recouped these costs in the first 1-3 years.
Mike has suggested that companies get exclusive rights to sell a product for a period of time as opposed to using IP law. I find that solution workable.
As far as crowd-sourcing it would likely be a pot that private and public entities invested in. The money could be paid out per solution to individuals/entities much like is already happening in the open source programming world. In this way the lightweight and quick innovators would get the rewards and they could be shared openly with anyone.
No idea if this would work, but it is interesting to consider.
"While I think the argument over whether or not IP law fosters or inhibits innovation is a worthy one, I don't think it matters in the long run."
Yes, things have a funny way of working out like this and I agree with your reasoning. I just hate to see companies with business models in their death-throws attacking and clawing at everyone as they go down.
"Boy those Toyota patents sure stifled innovation. Wait...what???"
No, it just makes so only the largest mega-corporation could ever produce such a good without getting the crap sued out of them. In your patent friendly world only people with a team of lawyers could ever hope to innovate and produce successfully.
In this way Patents lock in business models of those who can protect/fight for their concepts in extended legal battles. What does this have to do with innovation again?
Keep in mind the most innovative car business started in people's back yards. I guess that it just plain off limits in the new patented world.
Have you examined Ford Patents on Hybrid versus Toyota? Are they really that different and innovative compared to each other or did they just take an idea that has been running on every diesel train in the nation and applied it to a car?
"The proper use is to allow some exclusivity on a product or design for a certain period of time"
This would be an excellent solution to solve the patent conundrum.
On the other hand if the government just got out of the business of protecting business models who knows what would happen. Maybe cooperative development with competitors so R&D costs are reduced, better ideas are produced, and no-one can rip-off because they are all invested in the research as well.
This is what I see the future becoming. Not giant corporations spending billions of dollars on research that another giant corporation is already conducting.
The amount of waste that IP law produces in my mind is staggering and that doesn't even consider the court costs.
Technology can either free us or enslave us. It can give us more time to spend with friends and family or it can make it possible to spend even more time at work.
The question is where do we want technology to lead us? A Utopian future of unlimited resources proposed by Gene Roddenberry or something along the lines of 1984.
By ignoring the implications of technology and spending progressively more time on issues like Roe Vs Wade we are missing much more critical changes to our future. Privacy as we know it is quickly coming to an end thanks to many implementations of technology.
Cloning is real and genetically altering people is more than likely already happening. These uses of technology will have huge impacts on our society but no-one is considering them in open debate.
We need to think generations ahead into the future, this us what good planners do. The time for "here and now" politics has passed, we need real leadership not a lip-service. We owe it to future generations to start tackling the hard questions of our future now rather than passing the buck until it is too late.
IP is obviously butting heads with technology and has been doing so since its very inception. Intellectual property goes against the very notion of human cooperation and cultural development.
It is impossible to enforce and impractical for numerous reasons besides. As I have said before, IP is simply DOA for the 21st century.
Nothing could make me happier than seeing IP law becoming obsolete in the near future. The only problem with this is there are not enough influential organizations against the notion of IP.
It really is a human rights issue at the core which does not bring many people to the table due to IP being very abstract by nature.
A better way to frame the debate is to show the possibilities for diversity and advancement once IP law has been eliminated. A few case studies on the technology development in China, which openly ignores IP, would probably be the smoking gun to show how quickly things can progress without lawyers deciding how advancement should happen.
This is good for developing countries but will likely result in a dramatic deflation of the value of IP in the modern world over time, hence why we are trying to ram IP down the throat of the world at large.
I for one don't care because I don't spend time investing time or money in an imaginary system designed to restrict technology, meter development, and oppress human culture.
"United States is not really a collectivist society."
Go Home Doctor Strange opinions and get a clue, we would not exist without cooperation. Collectivist Society? Next thing you will be accusing me of communism lol
"As if corporations were some golem wholly independent of the people that constitute them."
Corporation have taken a life of their own on. It is NOT a matter of free association rather over a hundred years of corporate law that has brought them to this point. I don't think you have even considered this.
"I cannot parse this sentence."
No surprise there, you would have actually read the previous post I was responding to.
"Have you ever worked and interacted with academics?"
I graduated with high honors from UW. I have debated how academia controls information and how that can hinder development of concepts and theories. You have never even thought along these lines. Information control to you is a conspiracy, you have no background in communications or social policy.
I see by the end of your post you did call me a communist? Wow, you have fallen into one of the most inbred rhetoric of all, congrats. No surprise here :)
"I'm sorry if, by selling the products of my own independent work rather than giving them all away, I'm stealing your culture."
You are obviously an intelligent person but you do not understand the context of my debate around IP.
The problem with reform is the concept of IP is flawed to begin with. IP law and theory goes against the way we have been communicating and expressing ideas/works for our entire human history.
You say there is no such thing as cultural Nazism, but their are clearly many example of IP being used as a tool to suppress freedom of expression. Clearly many examples of Patent abuse. Obvious misuse of the copyright system to bully companies into consolidation or sell-out.
The most important part of this is that there are no studies to prove the effectiveness of IP law. There is no meat to the idea that IP does anything beneficial for society at large. What is really needed here is some serious research level studies on this topic.
You argument is very quaint, but it is on a micro level where IP theory and law has little impact unless you consider how information is controlled at a University level. The "Ivory Towers" of information control and how that hinders advancement is yet another debate about IP theory and law.
The concept that we need to protect people's ideas and works is really ridiculous in my mind. The idea that you need to protect your works is also ridiculous. You create, you get paid, end of story. Why do we need to extend special protections? Without solid reasoning there is none.
Your ascertain that you are stealing my culture is FALSE. Your pro-IP position in effect is enslaving our culture so that corporations can make a buck. This connects into corporations and the fact that they have legal personhood and how it effects the balance of power in our society.
In the end I fear you think you have created your books, papers, etc. all by yourself. In reality know that every part of your existence is because of countless people before you. Your thoughts are OWED to the human race just as your ancestors offered their thoughts up to you.
IP theory and its implementations seek to control these thoughts, to created walls between information, to thrust the individual above the context that has allowed him/her to exist. It is an extensive of selfishness and a new modern form of slavery.
"I can't, not because I'm "full of it," but because you have defined originality so narrowly as to make the set of original works zero. In doing so, you have advanced no helpful argument."
There are no original works made by individuals in a vacuum is my point. This does go against the way you define "original" because it does not really exist in my mind.
Your a teacher eh? Well then you are on the front lines of this insanity that has become the equivalent of cultural Nazism. When we continue to push students to "create" everything originally it becomes very plain with technology that very few things that are written have not been written many thousands of times before.
With a population of 6 billion + people on this planet how long can we truly fool ourselves into believing we really came up with something that someone else hasn't thought of or created already?
It is obvious to me at least that we need to re-think the argument around IP. It is flawed, so very flawed....
Anon, I think you are very confused about the whole process of creation in general. Riding on the shirttails is why were are here today. The fact that you can't recognize this shows your buying into a rhetoric invented by IP right holders and that you are ignoring thousands of years of human culture.
There is nothing "orgininal" about Harry Potter anyways. Did JK invent a single concept that is contained in her books? No, everything existed in prior works.
Trying to protect her "content" is like saying that you need protection after you created a culinary masterpiece by adding Dijon mustard to your McDonald' hamburger.
Furthermore your argument about dilution is absurd and reeks of someone who doesn't believe that there is any freedom in the market place. By your judgment whenever anyone copies anything it takes away from the original. I guess no-one should be reading J.R. Tolkien then?
"Over philosophized pronouncements that ignore ambiguity and ignore the practical realities that most cultural members can intuit"
Most people 300 years ago could "intuit" that slavery was the best way to increase production.
Trying to push what Mike is saying into some philosophical existentialism is like trying to say that abolitionists were just high minded jerks who couldn't see the truth that slaves made money.
When you get ready to pull your head out of your ass and take a look around at "reality" we will be waiting to resume this conversation....
Amen!? I think you guys missed the whole point here.
There are NO ORIGINAL WORKS PERIOD. One only has to do a quick survey of writing, songs, and art to see the same patterns repeating again and again.
If someone can think of your same idea/concept/art/invention without seeing your work directly then that is a good bet there is nothing original about it. This is true for just about everything that is created nowadays and I challenge you to prove it otherwise.
Everything that is created is not made in a vacuum. Try seeing what a boy raised by wolves creates.... A masterpiece of art? A great song? A new invention?
It is our culture that creates and corporations that claim ownership of that creation. They are stealing what is not theirs and attempting to control the very fabric of our culture.
This may not necessarily be a bad thing if corporations didn't put the almighty dollar above everything, even the above the worth of the people that make it possible for them to exist.
There is only one way to describe an entity that puts more value on money than human being's health and happiness.
The truth is that the money grubbers of this world are using IP law to their own benefit at the detrement of our whole society.
I challenge you to show me truly original works, works created in a vacuum without society to build upon... You can't cause your full of it!
Great examples of how creative works of our culture have always been based upon prior works.
If you look at the oral tradition, a tradition that kept our culture going for thousands of years, you see the very foundations of our social interactions and social awareness. Nobody owns the works of our culture.
Take even a modern high budget movie. So Sony says they "own" it, but without the context of our culture and all the people that worked together to make it happen and then all the people that watched it and appreciated it it would be meaningless.
I wish people would appreciate how creativity happens and embrace the reality that copyrights and IP law in general are about opression. It is not nor has it ever been about protecting the people that actually create.
I for one do not want to give up the creative freedom that made us who we are.
"And I'm sure that these firms will be asked to fork over 80k per song, correct?"
Yeah, that is what we need. A settlement for a couple hundred million (or more) against a corporation. Then we could have a fair court fight.
I seriously doubt the RIAA would go after a major corporation though, as they would prefer to sit around and pick on people who can't fight back.
Do the third world countries a favor and eliminate IP law now before this stupidity continues.
IP law is not supported by any evidence period. There may be many correlations that support it, but they are just that.
The simple reason is that IP law does not help people create. It is not now, nor has it ever been desgned to help you create.
In fact, it is designed to do just the opposite. To tell you what you can not do, or to limit your ability to create.
There is a whole faulty logic built around the need for IP in the modern marketplace, but it doesn't change the simple fact that it is anti-creation and therefore anti-freedom.
I think your confusing correlation with causation. IP law has nothing to do with creation. Plus the huge advances in technology were well before modern courts, modern copyright law and (shudder) copyright attorneys. One only has to look at the number of increasing IP litigations yearly to see the real trend
Our fast paced advancement has also teetered off. We are no longer striving for great things. Instead companies, more concerned with profits, have used IP law as a way to stifle competition keeping a meter on advancement.
Why don't I have a portable device that can also RECORD!? Waaaiit I though IP law wasn't holding things back? A quick look into portable devices coming from Korea show amazing advancement like the old Cowon A2.
Devices like the Cowon A2 couldn't even be produced in the US even though there would be demand for the features due to IP related laws.
Choice is truly an illusion in our modern world. Choices that are decided for you are not really choices at all.
I do not agree with your money argument. People have many thousands times more money tied up in the drug trade than they have in Intellectual Property. Does this somehow legitimize selling crack? Just because it makes money and people are heavily invested in it doesn't mean it suddenly is validated in my eyes.
IP laws are inherently anti-freedom. Your speak of reform, but it looks like a new form of technological and cultural slavery to me. You want to reform slavery? Too late, the money lenders alerady did :)


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Quote: However, I HATE the sport MMA scene. There's nothing JKD about it IMO. It's too much dog and pony show - a tough guy masturbation fest.
Quote:However, I HATE the sport MMA scene. There's nothing JKD about it IMO. It's too much dog and pony show - a tough guy masturbation fest.
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Quote:maybe because lots of people dont really spend time to develop a strong base? GSP trained in different MAs before jumping into MMA, Same with Lyoto Machida, BJ Penn, etc etc.they spend time training "basics" before combining them into MMA training. MMA training that you find is just way too generic imo. People seem to specialize AFTER they go MMA rather than before
Quote: In fact, it could be argued that one doesn't even need mixed martial arts for self-defense. If one has a good clinch game, that's all he or she needs.
Quote:I can see that, except for one situation - when your opponent is much bigger than you. It's really hard to get to a clinch on someone who is taller and broader than you (especially if you're short and skinny like me), unless they've initiated the clinch.
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A blueprint for high-volume, high-quality lung cancer screening that is detecting cancer earlier—and helping to save lives
Chronic pain is the black hole of medicine, wrenching energy from healing and drawing patients and physicians into a vortex of recrimination and paralyzing self-doubt. Ignorance, prejudice, grievance, fear, failure — troubles swirl around the chronic pain patient.
So most patients go undertreated for pain. They certainly aren't helped by their health plans. Most plans don't even identify their chronic pain patients, at least not until the dollars reach a critical mass, and then plans have little idea what to do.
"Managed care organizations have not focused on chronic pain, not the way they have on other high cost, easily identifiable chronic diseases," says Stephen Lande, PhD, former chairman of the managed care committee of the American Pain Society (APS). "They should make a commitment to understanding the medical and financial impact of chronic pain and its treatment on their members."
A survey of 118 health plan medical directors was conducted recently by researchers associated with Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia to determine the extent to which managed care organizations are managing chronic pain. The results were not heartening, and may, in fact, be worse than reported, according to some experts.
Fewer than half (42 percent) of the medical directors were willing to even hazard a guess as to how many of their patients suffered from chronic pain. Of those who said they did know or were willing to speculate, the majority said they believed fewer than 15 percent suffered from chronic pain. Most (40 percent) believed it was less than 5 percent.
Not surprising, then, only a third of the surveyed MCOs had some kind of formalized mechanism for identifying members with chronic pain and only 18 percent systematically used clinical practice guidelines for pain management. For the most part, health plans view pain management as pain medication management. (See "Plans Manage Pain Primarily Through Formularies," on page 22.)
Further, in a 2000 study of pain treatment and third-party reimbursement in Connecticut, researchers identified inadequate insurance coverage as a barrier to adequate pain treatment, a perception shared by physicians and patients who participated in the study.
"Our interviews with representatives of Connecticut health care institutions, including nursing homes, hospice, home health, and pain centers, indicate that many institutions find reimbursement difficulties to be an obstacle to adequate pain management within their respective settings," says Diane Hoffmann, director of the University of Maryland Law School's Law and Health Program.
About half of the Connecticut physicians surveyed thought MCOs create obstacles when physicians try to refer patients for treatment of moderate or severe pain, and many physicians said they have been denied payment of, or approval for, pain management interventions, the study shows.
"These physicians identified MCOs as the third-party payer most likely to deny approval or reimbursement for pain treatments," Hoffmann says. The most common reasons given for denying approvals or payment were that the treatment was not covered by the patient's policy, the patient had exhausted his or her benefits, the treatment was unnecessary, or the treatment was not as efficient as other treatment methods, she says.
Untreated or undertreated chronic pain costs health plans and their purchasers a lot of money. It afflicts 40 million or more Americans, with a price tag of nearly $100 billion a year in direct medical costs and indirect costs, such as lost productivity and workers' compensation, according to the APS. Most primary care physicians are not adequately treating pain, primarily because they are not trained to do so and because they are afraid of litigation and regulatory restrictions.
"Fear is a big problem for physicians, fear of having licenses revoked, being pulled into something they can't handle," says Richard Payne, MD, chief of the pain and palliative care service in the department of neurology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and an expert on pain management in palliative care. (See "Physicians Have Cause To Be Afraid," on page 24.)
"The problem for health plans seems to be lack of awareness of how bad the problem is of untreated pain," says Payne. "Physicians are not well trained; they need to be educated about how to treat pain, what remedies are available. That can be a role for health plans."
Managing pain and preventing chronically ill and dying persons from suffering needlessly is cost-effective, though relatively few health system medical directors appear to think so, says Sharon E. Melberg, assistant director of general nursing services at the University of California Davis Medical Center. She has studied and written about pain management in hospital settings.
For example, persons suffering unremitting pain commonly move about less, eat less, and breathe more shallowly than pain-free people, all of which contribute to the development of pneumonia. The cost of narcotics and provider supervision of their use is far less than that of an extended hospital stay, yet provisions for the routine dispensing of pain medication generally are not in place in health plans. "Untreated pain leads to increased lengths of stay, as well as an increased need for staff time," says Melberg. "The cheapest thing you can do is manage pain."
Managed care plans should treat chronic pain as a chronic disease, because that's what it is, say Lande and others. That means applying disease management principles.
"It used to be thought that everyone felt pain the same way," explains Bill McCarberg, MD, physician director of the Chronic Pain Management Program at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego, one of the first multidisciplinary pain clinics. "That it was purely a chemical electro-physiologic perception within the brain. But there is an emotional aspect to pain as well, and they cannot be separated."
Questions abound
If treatment of chronic pain followed disease management protocols — treating the patient in an integrated, progressive fashion rather than symptomatically — it would reduce overall health care costs and reduce suffering, say experts. So why isn't it happening? Why aren't doctors treating chronic pain aggressively? Why aren't the health plans that pay the bills helping them, and how does a good program work?
The first problem faced by plans is identifying patients. That's hard because no definitive biological markers of chronic pain exist, and the most accurate evidence of pain comes from patients' descriptions. The lack of objective measurement instills suspicion in providers, and MCOs need referrals from physicians to make their pain programs work.
"The root cause of difficulty of appropriately managing chronic pain stems from the complexity of the disease itself," says Lande, who is also executive vice president of Interactive Forums, a health care consulting company. "The underlying pathophysiology is difficult to measure objectively. For example, a patient with severe low back pain may or may not have disk herniation, and there may or may not be any clear-cut radiographic findings. Physical, psychological, legal, social, economic, all these factors are implicated in the treatment of chronic pain."
A second problem is that physicians are afraid of being prosecuted if they treat chronic pain aggressively with opioids, which are controlled by the Drug Enforcement Administration. Therefore, providing accurate information on the proper use of pain medications is an important part of any managed care pain program. Misinformation about opioids flies in the face of recent research that's shows opioids can be a highly cost-effective means of controlling pain, with a minimal risk of addiction in the large majority of chronic pain sufferers.
"They have reason to be afraid," says Mary Baluss, a lawyer and director of the Pain Law Initiative. "State boards like to make examples of physicians, and prove to prosecutors they are able to control the problem."
She says a lot of physicians don't know what they are allowed to do in treating pain. Plans could enhance the quality of care by creating hot lines that inform doctors about appropriate treatments and dosages. "That would be a cost-effective way to make sure people were receiving the help they need from their own doctors and staying out of emergency rooms for their pain," she says. "It would make physicians feel supported, because they are scared to go it alone."
A third problem is that treatment can be expensive — many medical directors believe treatment is too expensive to be cost-effective. A multidisciplinary pain program that lasts from two to ten weeks can cost more than $15,000, according to McCarberg. Compared with the expense of other chronic conditions, the annual costs associated with chronic pain exceed even those related to heart disease, hypertension, and respiratory disease, he says.
But untreated chronic pain is more expensive, say McCarberg and others, because it leads to a significantly increased level of utilization. Those with chronic pain are five times as likely to utilize health care services, and 58 percent of them experience symptoms of depression or anxiety, comorbidities that increase the utilization of health care resources.
"Average" sufferer
The average patient with chronic pain has had symptoms for seven years, has undergone three major medical procedures, and has generated medical bills between $50,000 and $100,000, McCarberg and others have found.
Managed chronic pain would not eliminate all those costs, of course, but an effective pain management program is, by definition, cost-effective, says Marilee Donovan, PhD, manager of the Kaiser Permanente Northwest Regional Pain Management Clinic. "We totally integrate our program with primary care physicians," she says. The program has three components:
The program has been very effective in physician education, says Donovan. When she started the program in 1996, all her patients said that they had been referred to the program "because their doctor told them the pain was in their head; their doctor just didn't believe them. Today, we hardly ever hear that."
Programs like Donovan's are successful because they begin with patient identification. "That must be the first step for MCOs to address this issue in any kind of serious way," says Russell Portenoy, MD, chairman of the department of pain medicine and palliative care at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York.
Lande agrees. He sees managed care implementation of pain management as a five-step process:
A recent analysis demonstrated that the Kaiser NW program saves the plan about $1,000 per patient. "Managing pain effectively reduces utilization," says Donovan. "It's that simple."
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28th annual Graduate Exhibition shines a spotlight on student research
28th annual Graduate Exhibition shines a spotlight on student research
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The 28th annual Graduate Exhibition was held March 22 to 24 as Penn State celebrated 150 years of graduate education. The three-day event featured a blend of musical and theater performances, a visual arts display, and a research exhibition — while exploring the diverse academic pursuits of more than 300 of the University's graduate students.
A record number of students participated in this year's exhibition, representing nearly every area of graduate study offered by the University. On the last day of the program, exhibitors gathered in the HUB to reveal research findings to more than 150 judges, presenting theories on a range of topics — from astronomy and information technology to nutrition and linguistics.
Despite the varied interests and disciplines featured throughout the exhibition, the participants shared a common goal—putting their knowledge to use in both the classroom and real world to help people, improve communities and inspire change.
Current spoke with several students about their research, while perusing the exhibition last Sunday (March 24). The following is a snapshot of what we learned:
Prakash Arumugasamy: Astronomy
What happens to stars when they die? They turn into neutron stars, or pulsars, and astronomy student Prakash Arumugasamy is trying to learn more about their behavior.
In his studies, Arumugasamy used space telescopes orbiting the earth to observe the x-rays of two pulsars: a very old one of 166 million years and a younger one of 9,000 years. As he observed this phenomena, he noted that although the total energy available to a pulsar decreases with its age, the efficiency with which they convert this energy to x-rays increases. Arumugasamy said there is no explanation for this behavior.
He explains a major goal of his research is to get a better understanding of the physical characteristics of pulsars and what kind of evolutionary path they're going to take.
"These are very exotic systems. The energetics are very distinct and extreme, with high gravity and magnetic fields. They form the perfect test beds," he said. "That's what the bigger scientific community is probably going to gain from this."
Dunja Antunovic: Mass Communications
For hundreds of years, the Metropolitan Opera has used media technology to delight and inspire audiences. In 2006, the Met launched a new initiative to broadcast live opera performances in high definition (HD) in movie theaters around the world.
Will the Met's 15 yearly "Live in HD" transmissions help rejuvenate public interest in the art and help attract a new, younger audience to the genre?
It's worth further investigation, according to Dunja Antunovic, a graduate student in the College of Communications. Antunovic's study on audience perceptions of the Live in HD performances revealed that local audience members responded positively to the new digital experience. In fact, the HD opera transmissions offered unique benefits to the audience by enabling them to watch interviews with performers, explore backstage and experience the intimacy of opera remotely. For a relatively low ticket price, the technology also enables performances to reach audiences in areas that are geographically isolated from larger opera houses.
"The Met's 'Live in HD' cinematic experience challenges opera's reputation as a high culture art form, yet opens up a space where a wider range of audiences can engage with the genre," said Antunovic. "Enabled by technology, this popularization could ultimately lead to a shift in opera's place in society."
To read about more student research projects, read the full feature on Penn State Information Technology Services' Current magazine.


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Here are three simple truths about software development:
1. You can't gather all the requirements up front.
2. The requirements you do gather will change.
3. There is always more to do than time and money will allow.
Those are the facts of life. But you can deal with those facts (and more) by becoming a fierce software-delivery professional, capable of dispatching the most dire of software projects and the toughest delivery schedules with ease and grace.


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|Eiji-kun (talk)
|Date Created:
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|Small Outsider (Extraplanar)
|Hit Dice:
|10d8+110 (190 hp)
|10 ft. (2 squares)
|Armor Class:
|27 (+26 natural armor, +1 size), touch 11, flat-footed 26
|Base Attack/Grapple:
|Dagger +15 melee (1d3+4 plus Deadly Knife, 19-20/x2)
|Full Attack:
|Dagger +15 melee (1d3+4 plus Deadly Knife, 19-20/x2)
|5 ft./5 ft.
|Special Attacks:
|Deadly Knife (10d6), Everyone's Grudge, Spell-Like Abilities
|Special Qualities:
|Counter, Darkvision 60 ft., Damage Reduction 20/magic, Durable, Improved Uncanny Dodge, Low-Light Vision, Mettle
|Fort +15, Ref +7, Will +13
|Str 19, Dex 10, Con 27, Int 14, Wis 22, Cha 6
|Concentration +21, Hide +17, Knowledge (any one subject) +14, Knowledge History +14, Knowledge The Planes +14, Listen +19, Move Silently +17, Search +14, Spellcraft +14, Spot +19
|Improved ToughnessCW, Endurance, Diehard, Skill Focus (Move Silently)
|Challenge Rating:
|Standard, plus Masterwork Dagger and Tonberri Lamp
|Often Neutral
|11-20 HD (Small), 21-30 HD (Medium), 31-40 HD (Large), 41-50 HD (Huge)
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They're sneaky bastards, you have to watch the dark corners especially. You never know when it will pop out and strike. For something that moves so slow and looks so innocent they're uncaring devils, the lot of them.
The tonberri (also know as the tonberry, dinglberry, or pug) is a short green creature no taller than 3 feet at most, body hunched dressed up in drab brown robes, and a rounded snout with large yellow eyes with no pupils or whites. Sometimes a fish-like tail is visible from under their robes, and they move with a slow shuffling gait. They are dangerous creatures who shuffle around dungeons with their iconic dagger and lantern, seeming to search for something. While not inherently evil, tonberries are known to hold grudges that defy time and reason. A slight from a human 300 years ago may still burn bright in the tonberri's heart, and as a result most tonberries are hostile to many creatures, having had bad experience with them in times past.
It is rumored that the tonberri was once another race who through some slight, was cursed by the gods to wander the darkness searching for comfort but never finding it. Embittered, they sulk through shadows as dangerous dungeon beasts. They are native to the Plane of Shadow, but are often found in the Astral Plane and any place with deep shadow, such as underground. Some tonberri are known to grow to great sizes, and in the shadowy sort of civilization they possess they are known as Master Tonberries or Tonberri Kings.
Tonberri speak Undercommon, and often learn two local languages. They are long lived, and if you can get a tonberri to talk, they are knowledgeable about many things.
Combat Edit
Slow and steady is the tonberri, the tonberri is rarely in a rush to do anything. It takes advantage of its normally non-threatening appearance to delay ambivalent targets for as long as possible, and rely on their fantastic durability to keep them alive as they approach. When in combat, a tonberri will throw around a few Everyone's Grudge attempts at the enemy until it gets into range to attack with its knife. If the enemies prove evasive and are wise to the danger of its blade, it will employ what battlefield control it can, or flee the scene if its health grows too low. It can always come back later when the enemy least expects it, slipping out of the shadow in their time of rest.
Counter (Ex): Except for free and swift actions, anything you do provokes an attack of opportunity from the tonberri, even things that normally would not. Unlike normal attacks of opportunity, the counter occurs after the provoking action, and the tonberri may make an unlimited number of counters. Fortunately this is mostly limited to melee range, all the more reason not to stand next to a tonberri.
Deadly Knife (Ex): In the hands of a tonberri a simple knife is most dangerous. In addition to the standard damage a tonberri deals it also deals an additional 1d6 points of damage per HD. This is a property of the tonberri and not the knife itself, which is often simply masterwork.
Durable (Ex): The tonberri is a tank, able to shrug off even the most severe blows. It is never subject to death by massive damage, its AC is +4 higher for the purpose of confirming critical hits, it always has maximum hp per HD, and it gains an extra 2 hp per HD. In addition whenever it rests for 8 hours it recovers all its hp and removes any status effects that would be removed by a heal spell, a technique the tonberri often uses to return the next day strong and hearty as ever.
Everyone's Grudge (Su): It is said that the lantern that the tonberri carries holds the grudges of all the dead souls who perished and wished revenge. As a standard action every 1d4 rounds the tonberri can create a ghostly flame erupt around living creatures, no two of which can be more than 40 ft. apart. It has a range of Long (400 ft. + 100 ft. per HD) and deals 1d6+1 points of force damage based on the opponent's HD, with a DC 21 Will save for half. The saving throw is Wisdom based.
Improved Uncanny Dodge (Ex): A tonberri cannot longer be flanked. This defense denies a rogue the ability to sneak attack the tonberri by flanking it, unless the attacker has at least four more rogue levels than the target has HD.
Mettle (Ex): Touch as nails by sword or spells. If the tonberri is subject to a spell with Will or Fortitude save Partial, and it makes the save, it is unaffected by the spell.
Spell-Like Abilities: At will- darkness, 2/day- shadow walk, 1/day- dispel magic, silence.
Tonberri Lamp: The lamp the tonberri carries sheds light as normal for a lamp, but requires no oil and generates no heat, much like a continual flame. The tonberri can control the brightness of the light as a free action on its turn, and snuffs it out completely when attempting to hide. Others who find it merely discover it is a continual flame lamp which has the curious ability to function normally when on the Plane of Shadow. It's value is 200gp and it is unsure by what means the tonberri create them. It is a necessary focus for the ability Everyone's Grudge.
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hopkinspat necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 81 diseños de 28 diseñadores freelance.
GreenRoom Interactive
I am starting up a company to handle Web Development and Interactive Marketing for small to medium sized business.
We are a young company (30s) helping small to medium sized business to take advantage of technology and the web to improve their businesses.
Not looking for a Bank of America, Microsoft logo but also don't want anything too elaborate. Smart, eye catching, a bit edgy but fairly simple.
We are targeting new and established small/medium businesses that are not fully embracing technology and the web to market their products and services.
I need a logo for web and print presence.
"GreenRoom" should be emphasized over "Interactive"
I'd also like to see an option with lowercase "g" & "r" "greenroom" the "I" in interactive could be capitalized??
Just throwing ideas out there. I will provide feedback early and often & I'm sure you will come up with great examples.
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Date: 12/11/2019
Start Time: 10:00 AM
End Time: 10:45 AM
Storytime is a program designed for preschool aged children and their parents or carers. Each 45 minute session consists of singing, rhyming, reading and age relevant creative play. Parents/carers join in with the children to encourage language and listening skills, promote attention and curiosity, and develop your child's manual ability and creativity.Library: Noosaville Library
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Free. No bookings required.Contact Number: 53296555
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i start learning C++ and i wanna create my first C++ chat bot, a very simple one so i would like give me some ideas how the code will be. My idea is something like that...
Chat bot code:
Something like that, i'm not sure how will the code be but i wanna with ifstream make the code check another file which will have something like...Code:#inlcude <iostream> #inluce <ifstream> using namespace std; int main() { cout<<Bot will wlcome you here cin>>You will answer here }
something like that you get me?//The {} is for the bot and () for human
...then if...
(hi) post {how are you?}
if hi (HI, how are you?)
bot will answer {fine}


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Death defying summer
Letting kids drive? Taking a cliff dive? The fun and danger never ends this summer if you follow some of these ideas. But if you're the more cautious type, we've got plenty for you, too, from berry picking to skinny dipping (if you dare) to staking out a hot spot to watch the sunset. And if you're the really cautious type, we'll help you obsess over summer's most terrifying menaces. Then see how much you enjoy swimming in that warm, stagnant water...
Pantops just got a little cooler with the arrival of a new self-serve frozen yogurt shop. And while Sweet Frogs has already leaped into the hearts of children with their candy toppings and multiple flavors, the owners of the brand new Bloop claim their sweet treats are the healthiest in the land.
Dictating laughs
Sacha Baron Cohen is back in character, this time as the titular dictator of an imaginary Middle Eastern country. Roger Ebert confirms that, as usual with Cohen's films, there's something to offend everyone. But could it be the Dictator is a little kinder and gentler than Cohen's previous roles?
Minor's mansion
Add another property to the list of beleaguered internet millionaire Halsey Minor's assets that are up for sale. His hometown estate, Fox Ridge, is quietly listed for $12 million according to real estate sources. At $8 million over assessment, however, this could be a tough sell.


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A little while back, I received some interesting photos from a world-traveling photographer friend of mine, Sabine Ludwig, who decided to stay local for one of her more recent trips. I'm glad she did.
The Bergen Belsen death camp is located in northwestern Germany and between 1943 and 1945, countless numbers of people died there from shooting, hunger, and disease. Bergen Belsen also holds the distinction of being the first camp entered, liberated, and documented by the Western allied forces.
Probably the most famous inmate (although she certainly never anticipated this celebrity) was Anne Frank who hid with her family in a secret annex of rooms in her father's office building in Amsterdam. The entrance to their living quarters was guarded by a bookcase.
Betrayed by an unidentified informer to the local police, Anne and her family were arrested, split into male/female contingents and sent to separate concentration camps. Anne and her sister Margot were first at Auschwitz and eventually, transferred to Bergen Belsen.
A few weeks before the camp was liberated in 1945, a typhus epidemic swept the camp.
Anne did not survive.
Her father, Otto Frank, did survive and attempted with mixed success, to publish Anne's diary. It was only in the mid to late 1950s, after a Broadway play and a movie, did the book finally take off.


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Young Berg Live in Minneapolis at Karma. This performance was about 2 weeks ago. Shout out to Wig Ent.
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