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Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio celebrated nearly a decade working together as they presented the director's latest film, "Shutter Island," at the Berlin film festival Saturday.
Based on a novel by "Mystic River" author Dennis Lehane, the 1950s psychological thriller is the fourth film pairing Scorsese with DiCaprio, after "Gangs of New York" (2002), "The Aviator" (2004) and the Oscar-winning "The Departed" (2006).
"Each experience has been unique. It's been a progression, now it's been 10 years," DiCaprio, 35, said at a news conference with the director as their new film premiered out of competition in Berlin.
The two heaped praise on one another, with DiCaprio saying "the biggest gift that he's given meis an appreciation for cinema and cinema's history, and an entirely new perspective on my view of this art form."
"I grew up on his work, really," he said. "As a younger actor, you'd be a fool not to jump at the opportunity to work with somebody who I consider and many consider the definitive director of our time."
The 67-year-old director, for his part, said working with DiCaprio has lead to a special relationship.
"Trust is really the key" and was built up over time, Scorsese said, adding that they "really reached a kind of comradeship in 'The Departed.'"
"I see him as a young man developing as a wonderful actor," he said. "I'm very happy to be around when this is happening with somebody with such extraordinary talent, to be able to focus that and perfect it."
"Shutter Island" also stars Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson, Mark Ruffalo and Michelle Williams. It is set in 1954, a time of Cold War paranoia, when Scorsese himself was growing up.
It follows the investigation into the disappearance of a murderess from a mental institution on an island. DiCaprio plays a U.S. Marshal in Boston looking for the woman, and his involvement in the case starts to make him question his own sanity.
"This was a complex jigsaw puzzle of emotional back stories and dream sequences and truth and fiction," DiCaprio said. "It was challenging and fulfilling."
Scorsese said he was attracted to the material in part "because it's set in the 50s and because of the tone of fear and paranoia and secrecy and trauma."
"I grew up during the 50s, I grew up during the Cold War, I grew up expecting air raids every day," he said. "That's what we were told."
Scorsese and DiCaprio may not be done collaborating yet.
"We're always talking about different projects," DiCaprio said. "If I'm lucky enough to work with him, I would consider it a gift."
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iv. Mr. Gary Zuckett, West Virginia Citizen Action Group Presentation on federal transportation and infrastructure cuts
v. Mr. Marvin Murphy, Engineer, West Virginia Division of Highways Presentation on law and regulation of road and highway signage for tourist-oriented businesses in West Virginia.
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Fascinated by the history of our world, paleontologist Jonathan Bloch studies the fossils of animals that existed during the paleocene era after the dinosaurs went extinct.
In the pantheon of predators, it's one of the greatest discoveries since the T-Rex: a snake 48 feet long, weighing in at 2,500 pounds. Uncovered from a treasure trove of fossils in a Colombian coal mine, this serpent is revealing a lost world of giant creatures. Travel back to the period following the extinction of dinosaurs and encounter this monster predator.
Carlos Jaramillo is a staff scientist with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. As a paleobotanist, he studies ancient vegetation and fossilized plants, and most of his research focuses on changes in tropical biodiversity over time. He is also interested in biostratigraphy, or using fossil evidence in different layers of rock to track geological time, and is developing new high-resolution methods for the study of Cretaceous-Cenozoic biostratigraphy of low latitudes.
A native of Colombia, Carlos has worked and studied in Colombia, Missouri, and Florida, and now lives in Panama with his wife, biologist Maria Ines Barreto and his son Camilo.
Alex Hastings is a graduate student at the University of Florida who studies vertebrate paleontology with Dr. Carlos Jaramillo and Dr. Jonathon Bloch. The main focus of his work is crocodilians (i.e. crocodiles and alligators,) and he was the lead researcher who discovered the fossilized remains of a 20-foot-long crocodile in the Cerrejon coal mine where the bones of Titanoboa were also found. He played a major role in the fieldwork, and he was, in fact, one of the first to realize that some of the fossilized bones appeared to belong to a giant snake.
Alex is now completing his Ph.D. dissertation on the new crocodilian species that he discovered in Colombia.
Jonathan Bloch specializes in the evolution of vertebrates following the extinction of the dinosaurs. He has conducted paleontological fieldwork in Egypt, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Colombia, Panama, and throughout North America. Together with Carlos Jaramillo, Jonathan led collecting expeditions to the Cerrejon coal mine, where multiple new species were discovered, including the world's largest snake, Titanoboa.
Since 2004, Jonathan has been an Associate Professor at the University of Florida as well as an Associate Curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History. He also serves as a Program Chair for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and is Co-Editor of the journal Paleobiology.
Jason Head is a vertebrate paleontologist and herpetologist specializing in the evolution of reptiles and its relationship to climate change. In addition to researching the world's largest snake, the 60 million year old Titanoboa cerrejonensis, Jason described Sanajeh indicus, a fossil snake that preserves evidence of predation on baby dinosaurs, and developed a method to estimate environmental changes from the reptile fossil record.
Jason has conducted fieldwork in Colombia, Uruguay, Pakistan, India, Jordan, Tanzania, Mali, and North America. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he resides with a python named Socrates and his fiance, anthropologist Naomi Leite.
Fabiany Herrera is a graduate student at the University of Florida and has worked at both the Smithsonian's Tropical Research Center in Panama and the National Museum of Natural History. He studies paleobotany, and is interested in the evolutionary origins of the South American rainforest. He uses plant microfossils to try to pinpoint the evolutionary origin of these environments, looking for the mechanisms that produced the high species diversity of the tropics.
In the Cerrejon mine, where the fossils of Titanoboa were discovered, Fabiany found some of the first fossil evidence of 58-million-year-old tropical plants, and he is now using it to test his hypotheses.
Edwin Cadena is a graduate student at North Carolina State University and has worked at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. He studies vertebrates, and is interested in the evolution of turtles. He uses fossils, proteins, and bone histology to understand molecular evolutionary rates, trends in proteins degradation and modification, and the biogeography and evolution of turtles.
In the Cerrejon mine, Edwin has spent several years collecting, finding large fresh-water turtles, among the biggest ever recorded in geological history.
P. David Polly is a vertebrate paleontologist at Indiana University-Bloomington and a Research Associate at the Field Museum in Chicago. His research is on trait-based community dynamics in vertebrates, especially the role of changing Cenozoic climates and environments to the composition of communities and the evolution of traits. He is interested in phylogenetics, phylogeography, and genetics of vertebrates. David is committed to keeping scientific publication under academic control. He is currently an editor for Palaeontology and Palaeontologia Electronica, and has also worked actively to develop scientific internet publishing for the University of California Museum of Paleontology, the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, and the Natural History Museum.
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[00:00:00] Interviewees introduce themselves and describe what they ate for breakfast. Discussion of words used to describe EMOTIONS. Mention Cantonese words used to mean unwell. Discussion about using dirty words, reticence to say them in front of women, remark that bad words are learnt first when learning a foreign language. Story of interviewer encouraged by friends to use extremely offensive word when first learning German. Discussion about Cantonese word for annoyed and its meaning. Story of using Cantonese words around Vietnamese friend, forgetting that she wont understand, she has picked up some words over five years of friendship. Anecdote about Punjabi girl using only Punjabi word for clothes. Mention Chinese and Vietnamese words for hot, remark on other meanings of hot.[00:11:03] Discussion of words used to describe ACTIONS. Remark that word used to mean throw depends on item being thrown. Discussion of traditional Chinese expression meaning to play truant, its meaning and who would use it. Comment that fight is used to mean hit hard, possibly influenced by the practice of martial arts in speakers culture.[00:17:20] Discussion of words used to describe PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES. Comment that different words are used to mean ugly depending on how well you know the person youre addressing. Discussion of Cantonese words used to mean unattractive. Reticence to use bad Chinese words in front of the Chinese women present. Discussion of definition of yuppie and what defines a rich person. Anecdote about interviewees mother swearing profusely inside the house but never outside. Comment that speakers hear other young people use slang and swear a lot but they dont so much. Reticence to use Chinese swear words as a woman. Discussion of use and meaning of Chinese words for attractive. Anecdote about saying temper temper to tease children out of a bad mood.[00:30:36] Discussion of words used to describe WEATHER AND SURROUNDINGS. Comment that sitting room is used because people use that room for sitting in. Anecdote about running away down an alleyway as a boy, friends called it a jitty, couldnt find word in dictionary but knew what they meant. Using thingy when speaking to mother who demanded to know what it meant, learnt this word from other boys. Comment that sofa, an old Chinese word, is still used in Chinese to mean real Chinese settee.[00:35:11] Discussion of words used to describe PEOPLE AND THINGS. Comment that one modern Chinese word for mother is a combination of English and Chinese. Discussion of different Chinese words used for maternal and paternal grandparents. Comment that Chinese word for baby is usually used because it sounds almost identical to the English word. Discussion of different words used for friends and groups of friends in English and Chinese/Cantonese, depending on closeness and gender. Mention Chinese martial arts terms are used to refer to groups of friends. Discussion of what speakers call each other. Reasons for Chinese convention of referring to paternal cousins as brothers or sisters. Discussion of Chinese surname and kinship term conventions and their historical reasons. Story about using thingy having forgotten the word shoes and mother being baffled. Discussion of definition of chav.[00:47:55] Discussion of words used to describe CLOTHING. Comment that Cantonese expression used to mean clothes actually means are you dressed yet?, the idea of getting dressed is used to express the object clothes. Comment that Chinese word for trousers would be used in an English sentence when asking sisters opinion of trousers. Discussion of proportion of Cantonese and English used by speakers: depends on where they are, who they are with, what they are doing and their experiences of speaking and learning English as a child. Comment that they often mix the two languages. Foreigner used by younger speakers to describe non-Chinese speakers but by older speaker to describe himself. Use Cantonese at home with parents but English with siblings, use both with friends when out shopping. Discussion of momentarily forgetting English and Cantonese words and having to substitute with word from the other language. Comment on differences between English and Chinese: some Chinese words express whole sentences. Comment that older speaker picked up swear words when he came to England even though he had stopped swearing in Hong Kong, now so familiar with English he automatically swears in the language.
All five interviewees are Cantonese and Vietnamese Londoners. BBC warning: this interview contains strong or offensive language. Recording made for BBC Voices project of a conversation guided by a BBC interviewer. The conversation follows a loose structure based on eliciting opinions about accents, dialects, the words we use and people's attitude to language.
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Oh dear, does anyone really believe them? Looks like the Yids are onto a good thing.
Now AP is running the story. 60% of the 45,000 computers infected worldwide happen to be in Iran. How quaint that nearly all countries infected begin with the letter 'I.'
Adolf first saw this story two days ago on Pajamas Media where there was speculation Seimens Corporation might have been the source of the virus.
More interesting was the suggestion that in fact Mossad has delivered a mortal blow via the internet to Iran's nuclear capability by literally frying every computer which controls a centrifuge in their uranium enrichment plants. Sure as hell beats trying to bomb the bastards.
Even more interesting still was the notion that the Yids and the Krauts kept this one well and truly secret from the Americans as the Yanks could not have been trusted not to forewarn the barking mad Iranian regime.
One thing you can always rely on is Israel's ability to innovate and to use the element of surprise. History tells you that and this time it appears they have struck with a vengeance - and not one casualty. If true, this will be one of the stand out stories of clandestine warfare ever.
I must admit to having wondered many times at the reliance placed by modern military officers on electronics and GPS. In 1944 the critical factor was control of the air. Today it is control of satellites and cyberspace.
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Last week was an absolute blast! Woven Home participated in the Fall Finders Keeper's Sale. I have finally caught up from being gone almost a week. So today I wanted to share with you some of the fun fall items we made and sold last week.
A friend of ours bought this amazing table Janet and Wendy painted. But before she did Kandi and I had a fun time creating this tablescape.
Placemats, vintage apothocary bottles and wood beverage signs were a few of my favorite things at the sale.
For those of you that know me, you know I am from Wisconsin. So when Kandi said we should make "Happy Fall Y'all" pillows I giggle myself silly.
Hope you enjoyed the pictures! Hope to see you at our next show.


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Clifton Park, N.Y. - The Skyline Conference released the fourth men's soccer report for the 2010 season this afternoon, including Player of the Week, Rookie of the Week, Honor Roll and Conference statistics.
Sophomore midfielder Brian Anderson (Massapequa, N.Y./Massapequa) was named to the Skyline Conference Player of the Week Honor Roll. Anderson's penalty kick with 8:14 remaining in the second overtime period lifted the Rams to a 2-1 win over NYU-Poly.
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Inspired by true events, The Rite follows skeptical seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O'Donoghue), who reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While in Rome, he meets an unorthodox priest, Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins), who introduces him to the darker side of his faith.
Directed by Mikael Hafström (1408), The Rite is a supernatural thriller that uncovers the devil's reach to even one of the holiest places on Earth. Contrafilms' Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) are producing the film. The screenplay was penned by Michael Petroni (upcoming The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader), inspired by the book by Matt Baglio.


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We are planning a trip around Gaspe Peninsula with a couple of friendly couples (3 rigs, one of them class A, 40'+ with toads). We want to try and see some of the sights on the way from one campground to the next. Does anyone know if all of the rest areas shown on the paper maps are RV friendly? We will be looking for places to stop for coffee breaks, lunch, etc. Or, does anyone know "which" RV friendly?
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The visitation, funeral and burial will take place this week for Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, who was strangled and whose baby was cut from her womb late last month.
Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has at least two new gigs after wrapping up his second term in office. He joins the broadcast network as a contributor and The Atlantic as a contributing editor.
The suburban school district's Board of Education voted Monday to spend $54,000 to reprint the books after more than a dozen photos were found of students displaying an upside-down "OK" hand gesture.
Artificial intelligence outperformed radiologists in identifying lung cancer as part of first-time screenings, according to a new study. The technology also produced fewer false positives and negatives.
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Dozens of environmental activists from across the Midwest rallied Tuesday outside Chase Tower in the Loop to protest the financing of fossil fuel projects by the country's largest bank.
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On her first full day in office, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced a number of leaders who will serve in her administration, as well as several senior staff members.
The agency that licenses and inspects health care facilities in Illinois has started an investigation of a suburban Chicago hospital where doctors treated a baby brought in by a woman claiming to be his mother, a spokeswoman for the agency said.
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1 cup fat free milk
6 wedges of Laughing Cow Light Cheese
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2 Tbsp reduced fat parmesan cheese
1 Tbsp butter
A little salt & pepper to taste
In a medium-sized saucepan, combine all the ingredients until everything is melted and the sauce is velvety smooth, about 20 minutes. Serve immediately.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
Reasons I'm Leaving Emergency Medicine (number 7)
It's not M*A*S*H
It's not even close.
I first noticed this in medical school. Don't get me wrong... there were plenty of "Hawkeyes" and "Trappers", but the medical school administration at my rather prestigious school was in the avant of the new guard, and was politically correct from their perfectly trimmed toenails to their Ivy League pedigrees, from their smaller than advertised brains, to their tiny testicles and ovaries, and from their miniscule cache of common sense to their love of 'process' and 'protocol'.
My friends and I did have a few run-ins with these automatons. We had some mandatory touchy feely stuff designed to make us behave contrary to our XX or XY nature and it was widely panned by most folks in my class.
Then we had the proposal put forth by the 'student council' that encouraged us to turn in fellow classmates that we were concerned might have a substance abuse problem. Guess what... about 80 percent of our class had, as is commonly defined, a HUGE alcohol problem. Miraculously, and with some exceptions I'm sure, that 80 percent is now, hell, 8 percent... but the idea that we could rat on each other based on a suspicion ALMOST succeeded in becoming policy.
This was the writing on the wall. Now it's 1984 all over again only the jack-booted thugs carry clipboards. They are the Dr. Frank Burns crowd. Doctors by training... mousy, scared back-stabbers by default. They have won the battle of medicine with attrition by paperwork and incessant inane drivel that is picked up by the MSM and used to scare the population shitless.
Don't eat at McDonalds... don't use your cellphone... don't drive big cars because the planet has a fever... wear your seatbelts... wear your bike helmets... don't smoke... don't tolerate people who smoke... embrace all manner of dangerous sexual practices but check that cigarette at the door mister! Gay? SUPER! Sixteen years old and want an abortion? GREAT! No, we won't tell your parents. Think you may have been raped? You probably were... let's work on your recovered memories.
Trapper is not speaking up to tell folks that, despite their best efforts, there is precious little anyone can do to ward off the scary killers of medicine. The melanomas, the ruptured intracranial bleeds, the genetically determined heart attack, the rectal carcinoma, the leukemia, the lymphoma, the auto-pedestrian facial crunch, the acute traumatic fibromyalgia etc...
Dr. Burns is in charge of most hospitals now. He no longer really practices. He has the political heirarchy wired though, and they are all his clones. Hot-lips is in charge on the nursing side, and, in the military now, God love 'em, they rotate the CO position at all their hospitals between Doctors like Dr. Burns, Nurses like Hot-lips... scratch that... more like Nurse Ratched, and Medical Service Corps types (admin). This makes for a SUPER looking bit of fairness on paper but really, why is anyone BUT a physician in charge of a hospital?
It was true in the medical corps that the good clinicians paid their time back and busted out for the civilian world (there are noteable exceptions to this). The higher you go in the military medical corps the less you practice medicine. I thought this bit of silliness would be absent in civilian land. I was wrong.
The "Pros from Dover" have been tied to a stake, bound, and gagged. Dr. Burns needs to see you in his office now... one of your charts was incorrectly corrected.
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- Anonymous9:21 AM, July 20, 2008
The "rat on your classmates" thing was official policy at my med school. If you "suspected" a substance abuse problem, you were supposed to let the administration know. Presumably, the problem student would be shipped to a reeducation gulag or something.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:00 AM, July 20, 2008
Dear Doc! You keep talking about quiting.. But you can't make the same kind of living doing much else bro. :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:01 AM, July 20, 2008
I have to admit I could not see where you were going with your count down and recollection of events that happened 15 years ago and boo hoo the lady was mean to me and I can't get over it story.
Now I get it and this is highly depresssing. I'd quit too.
As for all the lies that the Drs. Burns tell the public, well, if we are sheep enough to believe them and have lost all common sense, we probably get what we deserve.
Are you fantasizing about what you are going to say to Dr. Burns when you leave? Still, this has to be bittersweet for you. Don't you feel like K in The Castle (Kafka)?
dear anon,ReplyDelete
i can make more being a medical administrator or a hooker.
dear amy-65c,ReplyDelete
i know you and i get the kafka reference but i don't think anyone else does. for the sake of our readers, pretend i have no clue about K in the castle and tell me to what you refer... okay, i have no clue. who is K in the castle? is her hair very long and draped down the parapet? is there a dragon?
- Anonymous12:22 PM, July 20, 2008
No, no.ReplyDelete
K dies after jumping into the ocean, dissolving into foam. They have a statue of her seated on a rock, off the coast of Puerto Rico.
So what are you gonna do after quiting medicine?ReplyDelete
well that's what she gets for sitting on a rock off the coast of puerto rico.
i'm going to stay in medicine but get out of the ER. it's time for the young bucks to put their head in the furnace... too hot for me.
Foreign dictators always seem to need personal physicians...ReplyDelete
Now that is thinking outside the box Dev! I applaud you.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:24 AM, July 21, 2008
wow. I had completely forgotten about the narc policy... ahh, memories.ReplyDelete
There are plenty of professions that make as much as and often times more than most docs. I make more than most docs and haven't finished law school yet. Business is not a minimum wage career.
- Anonymous2:21 PM, July 21, 2008
The major Burns's of the world are crappy clinicians, have poor interpersonal skills, have loew self esteem and gravitate toward positions of power where they can say "no" or impose stupid rules to make themselves feel more important. In the military, the good docs got out after their 3-4 years. Those who couldnt make it in the civilian world stay and move up in rank. (generalities of course)ReplyDelete
In the civilian world the same thing happens and thes sniveling little ass wipes go into some sort of administration.
It is absolutely true. It is making me depressed that it only makes number 7 on your list because these type of people are never going to go away in medicine, and particularly, hospital medicine.
- Anonymous8:21 PM, July 21, 2008
Thank God, 6 more to go and the dipshit is gone.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:28 PM, July 21, 2008
Dear 911Doc,ReplyDelete
Hooker? Didn't you see "Midnight Cowboy?" Remember what happened to the cowboy?
And another thing, "hooker" is out (politically incorrect). "Commercial sex worker" is the official Centers for Disease Control term.
Hey, anonymous 8:21, he won't be gone from blogging. He's just changing jobs. Perhaps his new job will allow him even more time to irritate readers like you. ;)ReplyDelete
dear anonymous,ReplyDelete
i am calling the police as we speak. i have your IP address and i am sending help. i hope we get to you in time because it seems like someone has kidnapped you and forced you to read this blog. otherwise, you would be a first class asshole-douchebag, and dumb as shit to boot, for choosing to read something that is abhorrent to you. courage! help is on the way.
your humble servant,
911: You rock.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7:32 AM, July 22, 2008
I hate it when the turds float to the topReplyDelete
Then get out of the pool.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12:56 PM, July 22, 2008
Hey 911, ignore the critics, I love your series. Its not quite my upcoming "Top 10 MILFs of the 60's" but its good.ReplyDelete
There seems to be little appreciation, from anonymous, of the use of irony - that you would be following the policy of turning him in "for his own good."
Now, if you were in the castle, wouldn't you be letting down your long mustache?
if your list does not include angie dickinson, farah fawcett, the other angels, and cheryl tiegs than you don't have a hair on your ass.
Love #7. I always managed to stay 1 step ahead of the narcs by standing in front of etotheipi.
You know what I've ever understood...and this is after 10 years of being an ED nurse......the utter hypocrisy of kissing ass, catering, and enabling every addict patient....no matter how abusive they are. And believe me there were nights I couldn't sit down when I got home from all the "lubeless" ass fucking I got from from my patients....no seriously I did get a lovely orbital fracture from a meth head about 2 years ago....he pulled me in the bathroom and preceded to beat the shit of me (I wasn't even the dickhead's nurse) I was then asked not to press charges but to let him go to rehab. (Didn't happen by the way)ReplyDelete
for nurses and doctors there is a "zero" tolerance for substance abuse with instant firing, license revoking, and public humilitation/disgrace
Gotta love this crazy liberal Burns run world
dear jennifer,ReplyDelete
i do not think the general public has any freaking clue what kind of shit we are forced to swallow here. behavior that would get you kicked out anywhere else in the world is hushed up and swept under the carpet for fear of bad publicity.
i was encouraged NOT to press charges on one of these kind of patients but i did in fact press charges and the dipshit was such a pain in the ass in jail that her three month stay was extended to nine months.
she got sent to jail for spitting in my eyes, telling me then that she had aids, and bringing one of my best male nurses to the ground by grabbing his nuts and twiting.
this nurse had been army special forces, a real snake eater, and could easily have hurt her or killed her but he restrained himself.
i went against advice and pressed charges because the one thing we can not have down here is a public perception that it's open season once you get to the ER.
sorry you got hit. i hope the guy went away for a long time... but then again, he has a disease and you should just let him do whatever the fuck he wants... but i digress...
I agree with you. The ER will suck out your soul. That is why I did not stay there. I can only handle the moderate abuse of being a nurse. Not the extremem abuse of working ER.ReplyDelete
So what now is the big question? I once dated a guy whose brother was the Doctor for the Bruins. That would not be a bad deal. Also they need Doctors on Crusie ships and they want western doctors. One of my Doctors at work only does the assists for the C-sections and the occasional delivery. He has a good position.
And don't they need chiefs of medicine all over the place. I know at my hospital the chief of med did very little med and lots of visiting and smiling. But he was a good SH!t.
Hey, you are reasonably entertaining. You could do seminars. I think the seminar folks make a decent coin. I know my hospital pays big bucks for Lisa Miller to come and chat with are whole staff about how not to get sued.
So what are your plans?
- Anonymous11:21 AM, July 23, 2008
Cruise Ship Doc aint what its cracked up to be, back when Doc Bricker was banging Charro on "Love Boat". Free Medical Care is part of the Cruise Package along with the overcooked Buffets and Shuffleboard. And Standards have declined so much, if it wasn't for the Journey cover band you'd have a hard time tellin it from a Greyhound Bus Station.ReplyDelete
Good Lord Frank, which cruise line did you go on?ReplyDelete
However, the girl who did the facials told me she had to work 6 out of 7 days and had to work 12 hour shifts so that wasn't a great deal for her.
here is my 3 second triage...ReplyDelete
when the "patient" became the "customer" all hell broke loose.
Unfortunately the architecture world isn't much different. The lords of the food chain don't even know how to design anymore, and the client will almost assuredly want a coustom home (that they know how to design best) for the price of a dishwasher. Turning a profit and avoiding lawsuits are paramount.ReplyDelete


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The PyroManiacs devote space at the beginning of each week to highlights from The Spurgeon Archive. The following excerpt is from "The Greatest Fight in the World," the inaugural address he delivered at the Pastor's College Conference in April 1891less than a year before his death.
hat marvel if, under some men's shifty talk, people grow into love of both truth and falsehood! People will say, "We like this form of doctrine, and we like the other also." The fact is, they would like anything if only a clever deceiver would put it plausibly before them. They admire Moses and Aaron, but they would not say a word against Jannes and Jambres. We shall not join in the confederacy which seems to aim at such a comprehension.
We must preach the gospel so distinctly that our people know what we are preaching. "If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle?" Don't puzzle your people with doubtful speeches.
"Well", said one, "I had a new idea the other day. I did not enlarge upon it; but I just threw it out."
That is a very good thing to do with most of your new ideas. Throw them out, by all means; but mind where you are when you do it; for if you throw them out from the pulpit they may strike somebody, and inflict a wound upon faith. Throw out your fancies, but first go alone in a boat a mile out to sea. When you have once thrown out your unconsidered trifles, leave them to the fishes.
We have nowadays around us a class of men who preach Christ, and even preach the gospel; but then they preach a great deal else which is not true, and thus they destroy the good of all that they deliver, and lure men to error. They would be styled "evangelical" and yet be of the school which is really anti-evangelical.


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A feather in your cap is a success that will help your future.
English Teacher
You can check the definition of this English idiom here.
A feather in your cap is a success that will help your future.
A feather in your cap is some occurrence or accomplishment which distinguishes you. Imagine 100 people all wearing the exact same hat ( or cap) and one person in the group has a brightly colored feather protruding from his hat. Your attention is more likely to be drawn to him/her. So, a perfect score on a test, a job well done, receipt of some high honor etc is therefore your "feather".
There is an idiom in Turksh as the same meaning ''partridge in the bag''':it is easy for you,the conditions are in favor of you.
I think that American Indians use a white feather tied to a warior's head band as a sign of challenge for their enemies, am I right or off topic?
A feather in your cap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
What would be a good sentence for this idiom to be used?
Passing the professional exams will be a feather in your cap.


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Julio Ramos Oliver died over a spilled drink.
It was just after midnight January 20, and Old San Juan shook with the fiesta de San Sebastián. Under the golden glow of street lamps, more than 100,000 Puerto Ricans packed onto the narrow cobblestone calles for the year's biggest party.
Dressed in a baggy yellow shirt and black hat, Ramos had met family members and friends hours earlier underneath a 40-foot totem pole overlooking the churning Caribbean Sea. Reggaeton refracted off the colonial architecture, and drunken revelers and empty beer cans littered the plaza.
At 12:52 a.m., Ramos, a 32-year-old fisherman, headed down a packed side street. As he raised a beer can to his lips, he clattered into the back of the man in front of him. The man spun around, his white jersey dripping with beer. Ramos apologized, but it was too late. The man raised his shirt to reveal a pistol. "We're prepared," he said. Ramos reportedly removed a knife from his pocket and answered, "So am I."
As the two men stared each other down, a third figure emerged from the crowd behind Ramos. A gun muzzle flashed. The fisherman fell to the ground, blood spurting from his throat onto the cobblestones. The gunmen fled, but not before blasting two more rounds into the dying man.
Ramos's killing was just one in a relentless wave of murders in Puerto Rico over the past three years. In 2011, the tiny island's record 1,136 killings put it on par with civil-war zones such as the Congo and Sudan in terms of murders per capita. Last year was little better. And in the past four months, a series of particularly horrific slayings has terrorized the tropical paradise. First, boricua boxer Hector "Macho" Camacho was mysteriously gunned down in November. Two weeks later, a well-known publicist was kidnapped, set on fire and beaten to death. And just last month, a gangster ran his car over an entire family, killing six.
Ramos's death in the heart of the city during the crowded SanSe fiesta was the most brazen and symbolic slaying yet. It signaled to the world what Puerto Ricans have known for several years: The "Isle of Enchantment" has become bewitched by violence. A crackdown on drugs coming across the Mexican border has only pushed contraband through the Caribbean, transforming the American commonwealth into the newest nexus for narcotraffickers.
"If this were anywhere else in the States, it would have created a national security crisis by now," Puerto Rico's police chief, Hector Pesquera, says of the sky-high murder rate, roughly seven times the national average. "But we are out of sight and out of mind."
When Luis "Jerry" Roque, a cook at Houston's Tex-Chick Puerto Rican restaurant, hears these stories, he simply nods, tossing his eyes to the side and affirming that, sí, it's that bad. He notes that these murders — these street deaths, as he calls them — are something everyone on Puerto Rico, whose population is just over half the size of greater Houston, knows about.
Camacho's shooting stunned the island. Ramos's death brought things to a point. Packed pistols on basketball courts, stray-fly bullets missing their targets and hitting those unintended. These "streets deaths" have pushed the wealthy into gated communities and forced many of the rest behind windows barred in reinforced iron.
"It's getting worse," Roque says, with his boss, Angel Lajara, aiding in translation. "The drugs are there — everything's there." Lajara jumps in: "If you want to find problems there, you can. Get some alcohol in you, and you can find whatever trouble you want."
Roque, who arrived as one of Texas's 30,000-strong Puerto Ricans only four months ago, who began working as a cook at Houston's 33-year-old Tex-Chick just two months after he arrived, chooses his words. He's normally amiable, normally boisterous, but his voice drops when these murders come up.
He says he hasn't seen anything firsthand. He says there's been nothing on his doorstep, nothing in his cocina in his home in Caguas, 30 minutes south of San Juan. But his friends — he won't talk about what his friends do, and have done. "There are maybe nine, ten gangs in my home," Roque said, trailing off, hesitant to say more.
He says that his life in Texas is "far more calm, more tranquil" than what he knew in Puerto Rico. Caguas is a midsize town, and Roque had a steady job at a local cafeteria. But he couldn't stay. "I didn't want to be in the wrong place at the wrong time."
To be sure, an economic component has played a large role in the swelling Puerto Rican ranks in Texas — which has suddenly become the third-largest destination in the country for educated puertorriqueños, following Florida and New York. "After last November's election, the new government eliminated 30,000 jobs in the government industry — engineers, doctors, nurses," says Rosa De Jesus, the secretary of the Sociedad de Puertorriqueños en Houston. "A lot of people lost their houses because of this. A lot of people have had both husband and wife lose their jobs."
And so the cycle loops back upon itself. Economic hardship begets drug-running, which begets violence, which begets a murder rate normally reserved for postcolonial power struggles.
Yet Americans who ignore the island do so at their own peril. As Puerto Rican politicians make an unprecedented push to become the 51st state, the commonwealth has become more central than ever to the United States's drug and crime problems. Pesquera estimates that 80 percent of the narcotics entering Puerto Rico end up in East Coast cities, particularly Miami and New York. Guns and money move in the opposite direction, and fugitives flow freely back and forth, frustrating officials. Meanwhile, Puerto Ricans are pouring into Florida, New York and Texas to escape the gunfire gripping their homeland.
Pesquera's police force is outgunned and overmatched. To make matters worse, rampant corruption and civil-rights violations dog the department, which, at 17,000 employees, is the second-largest in the nation. Whether because of these doubts or the spiraling national debt, the feds have been reluctant to help. Something has to give.
"This is the United States of America, whether people like it or not," Pesquera says. "We are the country's third border. If we don't protect it, you guys are fucked."
By 10 a.m., the blood had already disappeared from Calle Saint Just. It wasn't cleaned up, like the scores of AK-47 cartridges that were scattered across the intersection like rice after a wedding. Instead, the blood was simply gone — returned to the Puerto Rican earth.
"The trucks roll by and spread it all over the place," says Officer Angel Martinez, a gruff, blue-eyed homicide detective.
Like most murders here, the blood belongs to gangsters who have gunned each other down, Martinez says. Around 9 p.m., drug dealers in a black SUV ambushed their rivals on this industrial stretch of east San Juan. Three men fled into a funeral home parking lot — a fitting place to die. The ambushers cornered them and mowed them down with assault rifles. One man survived; the others bled out on the dirty pavement. In the hours after those deaths, five other people were killed around San Juan.
Martinez has no choice but to shrug off such horrors. Grisly scenes are as regular as morning cafecito for Puerto Rican cops, who have the unenviable task of bringing order to San Juan's streets. As murders have doubled since the late '90s, the cops have found themselves overwhelmed by drug traffickers, marooned by an indifferent federal government and undercut by corruption.
At the head of that effort is Pesquera, a 66-year-old with a white beard, glasses and a sailor's mouth. "Every morning, I look at the stats and ask myself: 'What could we have done to prevent this?'" he says during an interview in his corner office. In these particular cases, not much, he concludes. "But guess who is blamed?"
Before Pesquera can save the island from chaos, he must first fix an antiquated police force infamous for graft and brutality.
"There have been scandals about police corruption and cops killing civilians in the streets for years in Puerto Rico," says Bruce Bagley, an expert on organized crime in Latin America and professor at the University of Miami.
This isn't the first time waves of violence have broken over Puerto Rico. Perched at the strategic entrance to the Caribbean, the Connecticut-size island has a long and bloody history. Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León slaughtered Taíno natives beginning in 1508. Over the centuries, slave uprisings and independence movements were put down with deadly force. By 1898, the colony had won a degree of autonomy, only for the Spanish-American War to transfer control to the United States.
When Puerto Rican politicians voted for independence in 1914, the United States responded by granting boricuas (anyone living on the island) U.S. citizenship — just in time to be drafted for World War I. Another 30 years passed before Puerto Ricans were allowed to elect their own governor.
Under U.S. rule, the island became a popular vacation spot. But by the 1980s, with Colombian cocaine flowing through Puerto Rico to south Florida, violence became endemic. Murders decreased in the 1990s as drug routes shifted to Central America and Mexico, but in 2006, newly elected Mexican President Felipe Calderón declared an assault on cartels. Two years later, the United States launched its own $1.6 billion Merida Initiative to combat gangs.
"That is why in the past three years, Puerto Rico has become increasingly visible in regard to drug scandals," Bagley says. "This is an unintended consequence of the pressure being brought in Mexico and Central America."
Today drugs from Haiti, Colombia, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic stream in on Jet Skis and go-fast boats. "Because Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, illegal contraband that makes it to the island is unlikely to be subjected to further U.S. Customs inspections," U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, head of the House Committee on Homeland Security, said during a hearing last year.
In an e-mail to the Houston Press, McCaul reaffirmed his stance. "In order for our nation to be secure, a comprehensive security strategy that takes into account all of our borders — including the Puerto Rican border — must be implemented," he wrote. "[I]t is clear that more needs to be done."
Pesquera, who'd been appointed chief a few months before that hearing, listened quietly in the audience as then-Governor Luis Fortuño accused the feds of having "no strategy." Puerto Rican by birth, Pesquera spent 27 years working for the FBI, running the agency's Miami office from 1998 until his retirement in 2003 and overseeing infamous cases including the "Cuban Five" spy ring and 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta. Last March, at Fortuño's request, he took a leave of absence from his job as head of security at the Port of Miami to try to save his homeland.
Today he looks exhausted. Pesquera lives close to his office but is — by law — watched over night and day by heavily armed guards. ("I do go out sometimes without them knowing," he says with a smirk.) He is ferried to work in a brand-new, gleaming black SUV with lead in the doors. The windows in his corner office are bulletproof.
Amid the violence and paranoia, Pesquera has instituted practical reforms: updating aging equipment, improving training, and winning public support by sacking bad cops. And there have been small improvements. In 2012, murders fell to just fewer than 1,000 from their peak the year before, thanks to an odd arrangement with federal prosecutors. (The first two months of 2013 saw 148 new corpses on the island — a shocking total but slightly below the number during the same period last year.)
Unlike laws anywhere else in America, Puerto Rican law allows anyone — even accused murderers — to bond out of jail. Drug dealers often spring out, skip court, disappear and keep on killing. "We've had guys wearing [electronic] ankle bracelets murdering people," Pesquera says. In the past year, however, the Department of Justice has increasingly used federal gun charges, which prohibit bond, to keep criminals off the street. "We're sending two flights a week to the U.S. because we can't hold them all."
Still, the bloody tide has barely receded. "In reality, all of San Juan is hot," Angel Martinez confesses as he cruises away from the funeral-home shooting toward the next crime scene: a triple homicide in the town of Canovanas, ten minutes east of the capital.
Gunmen fired more than a hundred AK-47 rounds here last night, and a handful still lie scattered around the crime scene. Water in a nearby drainage ditch is cloudy with blood.
Julio Ramos Oliver's January killing made grisly headlines as far away as Canada. Puerto Rico was already reeling from a string of sensational slayings and battered by 14 percent unemployment; the last thing the commonwealth needed was to scare off tourists. Suddenly, the island's slogan, "Puerto Rico does it better," seemed less an invitation than an assassin's snarl.
"People here are fearful," Pesquera says. "It's because there is indiscriminate shooting in public areas between [drug gangs], and innocent bystanders get hit."
A deeper look at the past year's most brutal crimes — and the stories of those affected by the bloodshed — illustrates even better than eye-popping stats why educated Puerto Ricans are fleeing to Miami, New York and Texas like never before. Nearly 5 million Puerto Ricans now live in the mainland United States, compared with just 3.6 million on the island. As the commonwealth shrinks by 15,000 people a year, Florida's Puerto Rican population grows by 7,300 annually. Texas, a state with little prior history of immigration from the island, now welcomes nearly 3,000 Puerto Ricans a year. They're driven by a lack of jobs but also by the carnage.
"Last year there were 180 fewer murders than in 2011, but they were probably even more brutal and shocking," says Luis Romero, the founder of antiviolence group Basta Ya! Romero should know: His son was stabbed to death in 2011 while walking with his girlfriend. But recent murders have been so "ghastly," Romero says, that Puerto Rico is suffering from island-wide post-traumatic stress disorder.
The string of shocking killings began two months before the SanSe festival, with the death of Hector Camacho, the boxer who had garnered worldwide fame by winning 79 fights (and losing just six) with a flamboyant style. Camacho and a friend were fatally shot as they sat in a car outside a bar in his hometown, Bayamón. Police found ten packets of cocaine in the car, one of them open. The boxer had been shot in the face.
On November 29, a well-known publicist named José Enrique Gómez Saladín went missing. Soon video footage emerged showing Gómez being forced to take out $500 from an ATM. Four days later, he was found burned and beaten to death with lead pipes.
The day that police announced they had arrested four suspects for kidnapping Gómez in a seedy neighborhood, a popular TV show called SuperXclusivo aired a segment about the killing. The show's main character, a puppet named La Comay (slang for "The Godmother"), stunned viewers by suggesting Gómez got what he deserved. "I ask myself if this killing was not involved in sex, drugs, homosexuality and prostitution," La Comay said. "Did he get what he was looking for?"
A boycott forced the program off the air weeks later, but the damage had been done. The La Comay scandal seemed to expose a newfound heartlessness, as if boricuas had become numb to the violence.
Then came the SanSe murder. Sujeylee Ramos, Julio's older sister, was there that night beneath the totem pole but left shortly before her brother was shot. Her teenage niece tried to revive Julio when cops failed to do anything.
The bloody tide continued. On January 23, 24-year-old Steven Cruzado López was shot in the back on a basketball court in San Germán after another player took offense at a foul. Less than a week later, a man and his wife were killed hours after abandoning the island's witness protection program.
None of that compared to the carnage of February 1. Seven relatives were crossing the street near their housing project in San Juan when a stolen car careened into them. The collision killed six, including a grandmother, her granddaughter and four great-grandchildren.
That crime illustrates another regular challenge for police: The driver, 21-year-old Jonathan Soto Bonilla — nicknamed "787" for the Puerto Rican area code tattooed on his neck and already a suspect in a drug-related double murder — fled the scene on foot before catching a flight hours later to New York City.
Soto is far from the first fugitive to flee to the mainland. The reverse is also common. In the summer of 2009, nine people were killed in drug skirmishes in Buffalo, New York. When authorities cracked down on gangs, many members fled to Puerto Rico. Last year, a New Jersey marijuana trafficker named Felipe Cantres-Sanjurjo, wanted for two murders, was caught in Puerto Rico. And this January, officials in Camden, New Jersey, charged 36 members of a heroin ring linked to the Ñetas, a powerful gang operating inside Puerto Rico's prisons.
"These guys will go from Puerto Rico to New York because something happens in Puerto Rico and they have got to run," says a recently retired NYC gang investigator, who asked that his name not be used. "Other guys come here because of the drug trade or because they are no longer in good graces with their gang [on the island]...It's definitely a strong network."
Few of Puerto Rico's recent grisly murders have been solved. In some, such as Camacho's killing, cops don't even have suspects. And even if they make arrests, witnesses are often too afraid to testify.
Wanda Figueroa left work just in time to see her two sons get shot.
It was a muggy afternoon in Manatí, a city of strip malls surrounded by jagged green hills to the west of San Juan. Figueroa had walked out of the Taco Maker, where she worked, and into the parking lot to meet her 22-year-old daughter and her younger son, Saul, but she found him in a shouting match with a stranger holding a club.
She watched in horror as the man struck her 19-year-old over the head, sending him crashing to the pavement. Her older son, Adrian, stormed out of the restaurant and grabbed the man's weapon. Then the man pulled out a gun. He sprayed Adrian four times in the chest, shoulder and foot and then turned, sinking two fatal shots into Saul's stomach. Finally he pointed the gun at Figueroa and pulled the trigger. Click. It was out of ammunition.
It wasn't a robber or a drug dealer tearing apart Figueroa's family on April 27, though. The barrel she was staring down was government-issued. Her son's killer was a cop.
That double shooting is one of hundreds of cases of alleged brutality by the Puerto Rico Police Department, which was slammed in a 2011 DOJ report that cites "the staggering level of crime and corruption involving PRPD officers," including drug dealing, gun running and murder. A 2012 ACLU probe, meanwhile, determined that PRPD is "a dysfunctional and recalcitrant police department that has run amok for years. Use of excessive or lethal force is routine, and civil and human rights violations are rampant."
Pesquera disputes those findings — "I don't care about all that special-agenda crap," he says — but to critics, Figueroa's story shows why many Puerto Ricans fear cops more than they do thugs.
"Police here are like an enormous octopus with its tentacles in everything," Figueroa says. "They do whatever they want."
A tiny woman with bleached-blond hair, Figueroa has worked at the Taco Maker for 23 years, rising to manager and raising her three kids by herself, taking them to work with her.
The day of the shooting, Figueroa and Adrian, then 20, had been working at the restaurant. Her daughter, Zuleyka Perez, and son Saul had been visiting Saul's sick five-month-old in the hospital. They arrived in separate cars, bearing the same good news: The infant was recovering from a bacterial infection.
The trouble began, everyone agrees, when Zuleyka parked her car in the Taco Maker lot and found Officer Alfredo Delgado Molina behind her on his motorcycle. "You ran the light," he told her. Saul quickly walked over, and Figueroa came outside.
That's when the facts get murky. Figueroa and her daughter say Delgado snapped at Figueroa: "If you're not a judge or a lawyer, you need to get the fuck back inside!" When Saul demanded that Delgado stop yelling at his mother, the cop struck Saul and then — as Adrian ran out to help — pulled his gun and began shooting.
"We aren't bad people," Figueroa says with a sob, standing in the spot outside Taco Maker where she watched Saul die. "We all work in the same place, stay out of trouble. I raised all three kids by myself as best as I could. They aren't criminals. And then they take them away like this? It's difficult."
The police disputed that story. Delgado, who couldn't be reached for comment, said in a statement that the brothers had hit the officer in the face and knocked out a tooth. ("It was either his life or theirs," his supervisor added.) Cops also claimed to have found a metal pipe at the scene used to beat Delgado.
Pesquera adamantly defends his officer, who was cleared by the force's Special Investigations Department. "These two guys came out and hit the officer," the chief says. "He defended himself."
In fact, Pesquera says he wants his cops to act just like Delgado. "If you challenge a police officer and you bring a weapon, expect to be shot at."
Figueroa's struggle didn't end with Saul's death or Adrian's long recovery, though. Incredibly, both mother and son were slapped with five criminal counts ranging from assault to obstruction of justice. Under a law signed by Fortuño, they both face 99 years in jail because the alleged crimes resulted in a death — namely, Saul's.
"They are blaming us for my own son's death," Figueroa says in disbelief, raising her pant leg to reveal an electronic monitoring bracelet.
Whomever's story you believe, there's no question that cases such as the Figueroas's exacerbate Pesquera's challenge. Consider the DOJ's 2011 findings, including that trigger-happy cops often unload rounds without reason, "unnecessarily injur[ing] hundreds of people and kill[ing] numerous others," usually in poor areas.
As if that accusation weren't bad enough, many Puerto Rican cops are straight-up criminals. Between 2005 and 2010, more than 1,700 PRPD officers were arrested on charges ranging from theft and assault to drug trafficking and murder. The FBI arrested 61 islander cops in one swoop in 2010, accusing them of protecting drug traffickers. Officers killed 21 people in 2010 and 2011, including the recent fatal shooting of an unarmed 14-year-old. "The PRPD is using excessive force as a substitute for community policing," the ACLU report concluded.
Pesquera counters that he's already fired more cops in ten months than his predecessors did in four years. When he discovered there were 4,000 pending internal investigations, plus another 7,000 awaiting adjudication from the legal department, he made them a priority. "We are down to 700 that still need to be investigated," he says.
But Pesquera's own record isn't spotless. In 2003, Miami New Times reported on a DOJ investigation into his close friendship with convicted Cuban felon Camilo Padreda, a pre-Castro policeman who specialized in bribing city officials. Pesquera let him hang around the FBI offices so much that employees eventually reported their concerns to outside agencies. One cop recounted seeing Pesquera accept a gold watch from the crook.
Pesquera brushes aside the decade-old accusation. And when it comes to reforming Puerto Rico's shambolic police force, he is blunt. Some degree of corruption is inevitable in a place where drug money is rampant and cops' salaries are minuscule (the median was $31,000 a year in 2011). But he denies that brutality and crime are deeply rooted.
"Like any institution, there are going to be guys who beat people," he says with a shrug. "It's not the institution's fault unless you don't do anything about it."
Four hundred feet from the spot where Ramos died over a spilled drink, a steep cliff drops precipitously into the sea. Wedged between the cliff and the Caribbean lies La Perla, a slum infamous as a redoubt for drug traffickers and a tourist mecca for marijuana, cocaine and heroin.
"They have sophisticated radio equipment so they can listen in on us and signal blockers keeping us from spying on them," says Juan Nieves, a veteran cop with salt-and-pepper hair, as he peers down into the dark, densely built barrio from his cruiser on the higher ground of Old San Juan.
La Perla — where police are powerless and the drug trade paramount — is a microcosm of Puerto Rico, which is sure to see ever more drugs and violence as the States and Mexico clamp down harder on their shared border. And though 80 percent of the island's murders are drug-related, Pesquera's requests for federal aid have fallen on deaf ears. In fact, the sequestration cuts hitting the Coast Guard and Customs mean he's likely to receive less help than ever this year.
"We are not going to arrest our way out of our murder problem," Pesquera says. "We need help fighting the flow of drugs. That's what's killing us."
Sitting in an unmarked Chevy Caprice in the shadows overlooking La Perla, Nieves and his partner, Osvaldo Merced, point out a drug deal under way.
"Check out these two guys. They are looking to score," says Merced, a young cop with a buzz cut and superhero-size shoulders. Two teenagers in black rock-and-roll T-shirts approach a stone staircase plunging toward the ocean. An old man perched next to the stairs says something lost in the surf. "That's the lookout," Merced says.
The teens disappear down the staircase and then emerge a few minutes later. The one in a Rolling Stones shirt drops something into the old man's hand. The two then head toward one of San Juan's most popular nightclubs.
Tonight Merced and Nieves aren't making arrests, just showing a journalist how the city works. But in 2011, Puerto Rican police did conduct a rare raid of La Perla, arresting nearly 70 members of a drug ring, including its leader, Jorge "Truck Face" Gómez-González.
"You can tell where the bichotes (big shots) live because they have the fanciest homes," says Merced, pointing to several three-story houses. "They have three, four Mercedeses and girlfriends with bodies sculpted by the best plastic surgeons in the world."
"They are better than us," adds Nieves, who is two days from completing 25 years on the force. "We arrested Truck Face, but someone else just took his place."
For now, Pesquera is pleading for help, including at a recent meeting with Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, who pledged support. "I don't think she was blowing smoke up my ass," he says. Yet when the Coast Guard unveiled a fleet of 12 new cutters, they went to Miami and Key West — where drugs rarely arrive via the ocean these days — instead of Puerto Rico.
Truth is, there's little willpower in DC to spend heavily on an island of 3.6 million people whose ballots don't count. Perhaps that's why Puerto Ricans are debating louder than ever their identity as a U.S. commonwealth. When boricuas went to the polls last November, 54 percent rejected the status quo. But the vote was split among those who favored independence, statehood or remaining a commonwealth. Fortuño — the governor who appointed Pesquera — was dumped out of office.
Pesquera isn't sure whether he will remain police chief beyond the end of March, when he is scheduled to return to Miami. His department remains in flux: 17,000 cops with frayed uniforms, aging equipment, no computers and — if the fatal shooting of Saul Medina Figueroa is any indication — more than a few bad apples.
Figueroa recently received two years' probation as punishment for witnessing a cop kill her son. Her other son, Adrian — who still has a bullet buried in his collarbone — accepted a deal of three years in prison to avoid a life behind bars.
On February 27, David Bonilla Fernández, wearing a white polo, spiky hair and an expression free of emotion, walked into San Juan's central courthouse. Cops were waiting for him. Five days earlier, they had distributed photos of Bonilla and three others surrounding Ramos moments before his murder at the SanSe festival. Prosecutors had charged Bonilla in absentia, and the scrawny 24-year-old had arrived to turn himself in.
But there was no relief for Ramos's family. Bonilla hasn't confessed, and the video evidence against him is thin. Unless terrified witnesses can be persuaded to testify, a jury will likely let him off.
In fact, Bonilla could be strolling around free even earlier. Last November 4, Puerto Rican voters rejected an amendment that would have revoked the automatic right of accused criminals to bond out. So if Bonilla can come up with $120,000, he will walk.
Jerry Roque is singing. He's standing in Tex-Chick's charcoal kitchen, scratching out something by Shakira, with his hat askew and his earbuds draping like loose pearls near his lobes. He grins as he spins to the counter behind him — nimble for a man of his heft — crunching and crushing a trio of yellowed plantains into the most authentic Puerto Rican mofongo Houston knows.
"Oye mami, vuelvete loca!" He laughs, cupping the plantain mash, flipping it into its traditional circular cast. It's a clear Saturday afternoon, and an autographed photo of Sonia Sotomayor stands above, and Roque, still smiling, parries the Spanish orders at Tex-Chick with another round of Shakira's muerdeme-la-boca!
He seems at home here, twirling in the cocina and tossing another round of alcapurrias for those waiting. He seems perfectly fine with the pork and the pollo and the knowledge that he's working at the finest Puerto Rican restaurant in the city.
But when you sit with Roque — before the morning shift, before the line curls to the benches outside — and you begin asking about the home he left four months ago in Puerto Rico, his eyes jump and his lilt goes soft. The man who'd been pattering through a Spanish-English chimera, speech speeding like a cigarette boat, turns short.
"The opportunities here in Houston are just much, much better than you know in Puerto Rico," he says, Lajara translating. "And I miss the beaches — the beaches there are all year-round. But back home, there are problems. It's ugly."
Despite his scattered tattoos and facial scruff, he says again that the murders and the drugs and the muerte weren't for him. His friends, maybe, but him — he couldn't. Because he has a pair of daughters back home. Twins: Jerriares and Jerrieles. Sixteen months old. They're in Caguas, learning their first words, taking their first steps, with Roque's mother and father and ex-wife nearby.
They're still there, with San Juan only 20 miles away. Drive a half hour from Roque's home and you can find Ramos's blood-washed pavement. Drive a few city blocks and you can see the cops waiting for a drug deal — for a swap to bust, or not, as they see fit. Step down the street, but leave the daughters in the house, because these drug runners and gang men — their bullets don't discriminate between boricuas.
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Roque talks about how he needs to bring his daughters here — for the money, for the safety. Tex-Chick may be a boricua restaurant, and there may be thousands of puertorriqueños swelling this city, but this isn't Puerto Rico. To Roque, Houston is a haven.
But he knows he needs more funds to move from the apartment in north Houston and find a better place for his family, allowing them to join the Puerto Rican doctors and engineers and cocineros who have recently left their island home. He knows he has to improve his lot here before his daughters can find someplace safer. Because, as he says, the ones dying aren't simply those on the wrong end of a spilled beer or a stolen pistol.
He's here, and his daughters are there, alongside Pesquera, alongside the corruption, alongside the zero-sum world of the gangs and hits and the War on Drugs. Back in Puerto Rico. "And I will bring my daughters here. I...am worried. I am worried, because they kill innocents."
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Hi All,
I would like to add few lessons learned from my PMI - PBA prep which might be helpful for candidates who are preparing now!
Total Time taken : 4 Weeks.
Materials referred:
Izenbridge video's and Practice Questions, Guide to Business Analysis, IZenbridge Quampus forum, Webinars, Water Mar Learning study material (I had quick glance for few relevant chapters from PMBOK.
Preparation method:
Week 1: Started going through all the video classes given in Izenbridge to get overview of concepts
Week 2: Gone through Business Analysis Guide all chapters to get a clear idea
Week 3: Revised Video's from Izenbridge (took running notes) to gain in depth knowledge, after each chapter video, revised study material and practiced chapter end practice questions.
Week4: Practiced Exam simulators from both Izenbridge and Watermark learning.
Rather checking why a particular question is wrong I have given more focus to understand why the other options are incorrect. This analysis helped me to gain strong knowledge in concepts.
- Saket Bansal's lessons are very helpful. He is simply a " Knowledge Bank".
- Seema Sonkiya PMI-PBA, PMP,CSM & ITIL V3 was very helpful through out my project to clarify questions if any.Her PMI -PBA practice sessions are helpful.
- Explanations to each question in Izenbridge practice tests are very detailed. This gave me an option to get understanding about each definition.
-I felt Watermark questions simulator and answer explanation is very simple. It would have been great if there is detailed explanation. (That will be helpful for those candidate who are not having core BA experience).
- I tried to reach 80% of score . But I rarely got it!! So my point is : if you don't get 80% in these simulators it doesn't mean we can not clear exam. The key point is to understand the concepts. This is the big learning!
- I tired to spare 8 hours of time per day. It's nice to do late night studies! No disturbance
Good Luck !
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An Introduction To Lispy Pattern Matching
2013-04-19 07:20 +0000
It is evident that Lispers like to keep their data in lists. In fact, they like lists so much that they even keep their code in lists! And sometimes they use lists when they shouldn't, e.g. when they really should be using maps or sets. But lists are just so much more convenient to program with in Lisp, and unsurprisingly so given that the name originally stands for list processing. So who could blame them?
Now, by established tradition Lispers pick apart lists by means of the venerable car and cdr functions, interspersed with the occasional cadr or cadadr. For example, imagine we have a list of number sequences like that:
(define number-seqs
'((0 3 4 8)
(4 9 0 3)
(3 7 3 1)
(6 7 9 9)
(7 6 6 2)))
And it is our task to find the first number sequence in that list which starts with an odd number because, well, it's very important: The customer has been emailing hourly since earlier this morning, claiming they are losing money every minute they're waiting for this critical information. Of course, all mails are labelled URGENT and contain the letters ASAP in various places. In this stressful situation we forget what the library function to accomplish this task is called so we just roll our own using good old car and cdr, peppered with some recursion:
(define (find-odd-car lst)
(and (pair? lst)
(if (and (pair? (car lst)) (odd? (caar lst)))
(car lst)
(find-odd-car (cdr lst)))))
Phew, let's hope it works:
(find-odd-car number-seqs) => (3 7 3 1)
Looks alright. Once again 1950s technology saves the day!
After finally getting our well deserved morning coffee we remember that we could have used find from SRFI 1 which—albeit not from the 1950s—is a good tool for the job:
(find (compose odd? car) number-seqs) => (3 7 3 1)
Still, it's quite common for Lispers to write functions like find-odd-car and it's a good and fun way to go about such problems. However, as you might remember from my previous article on lazy sequences, one might argue that this approach conflates how we walk the list with what we are intending to do. It would be nice to untangle those so that we as programmers can focus on the what while leaving more of the how to the system. In other words: We want our code to be more declarative.
One way to achieve a more declarative style for this kind of task is to use a technique called pattern matching. Some languages such as Haskell provide those out of the box. R⁵RS Scheme comes with a standard pattern matching facility called syntax-rules but this can only be used for syntactic extension. But thankfully, being a Lisp it can easily be extended with a general purpose pattern matching form by means of—well, syntactic extension! In the following we will look at one of those extensions by Alex Shinn which is an implementation of Andrew Wright's pattern matching system. It can be found in Chicken's egg repository under the name matchable and Guile ships it as the (ice-9 match) module.
Let The Match Begin
Predictably the main matching form is called match. It accepts one argument which is the expression to be matched, followed by one or more clauses which consist of a pattern and a body to be evaluated when its pattern matches. In the simplest form it works very much like the standard case form:
(match 2
(1 'one)
(2 'two)
(3 'three))
=> two
match tries to match the given expression against the patterns in the order they are specified. If a pattern matches, the matching process stops and the body of the matching pattern's clause (i.e. its right-hand side) is evaluated, returning its last expression's value. If no pattern matches an error is signalled.
Patterns are much more versatile than matching against simple constant values, though. They can also describe compound data structures such as lists or vectors:
(match '(1 2 3)
((1 2 3) 'yes)
(else 'no))
=> yes
No surprises there except maybe for the symbol else we use as the second clause's pattern. This is no special syntactic symbol in match but acts just like any other unquoted symbol in a pattern: It will match any value and bind it to a variable in the scope of the clause's body. In the example above else is only used for aesthetic reasons and its binding is never used. Here's an example of actually using a pattern variable:
(match '(1 2 3)
((1 x 3) (+ x x)))
=> 4
This pattern requires the expression to be a three element list with a first element of 1 and third element of 3. The second element can be any value and is bound to the local variable x. If we wanted to match the literal list (1 x 3) we'd have to quote x in the pattern like that:
(match '(1 x 3) ((1 'x 3) "it's a match!")) => "it's a match!"
Returning to our original problem we could now express find-odd-car like this:
(define (find-odd-car lst)
(match lst
(() #f)
((head . tail)
(if (odd? (car head))
(find-odd-car tail)))))
Granted, it's a few lines longer and we're still using car but it's already a bit clearer what we are up to as we just describe the structure we want to examine rather than writing down how to pick it apart in detail. Note that we are matching on the sole argument of find-odd-car. Since this is such a common thing, the library provides a match-lambda form which creates a function to do just that. Using it we can write the find based solution to the find-odd-car problem like this:
(find (match-lambda
((head . tail) (odd? head)))
Often lists we want to match on don't have a fixed but a variable amount of values. For this purpose there is the ellipsis operator '...' which matches zero or more values fitting the preceding pattern. Let's extend our pattern (1 x 3) from above so that there may be an arbitrary amount of 1s before the x:
(match '(1 1 1 1 1 2 3)
((1 ... x 3) (+ x x)))
=> 4
We can also match variables like this which will collect all matches in a list:
(match '(1 2 2 2 2 2 3)
((1 x ... 3) (apply + x)))
=> 10
This works with compund structures, too:
(match '((1 2) (3 4) (5 6)) (((a b) ...) (list a b))) => ((1 3 5) (2 4 6))
Or And Not
match provides a set of boolean pattern operators which allow us to match the inverse of a pattern (not), specify alternatives (or), or match the same expression against multiple patterns (and). The most straight forward one of those is or:
(match 2
((or 1 3 5) 'odd)
((or 0 2 4) 'even))
=> even
This should immediately make sense.¹ The astute reader might notice that this pattern is ambiguous given the rule about unquoted symbols I stated above. This is because match uses unquoted symbols for its own pattern operators, thus effectively reserving them.² See the reference for a complete list of those reserved symbols.
The basic use of the and operator should be quite obvious, too:
(match '(1 2) ((and (a 2) (1 b)) (list a b))) => (1 2)
A non-obvious but very practical use for and is to do a complex match on a compound structure (as we did earlier) but also bind the whole structure to a variable at the same time:
(match '((1 1 1) (2 2)) ((and ((1 ...) (2 ...)) the-list) the-list)) => ((1 1 1) (2 2))
This works because the symbol the-list always matches, of course.
Finally, the not operator can be used to invert patterns which can be convenient at times although I would generally recommend to express patterns in positive terms, i.e. which structure they describe rather than which they don't. Nevertheless it's a good tool to have when you need a shortcut:
(match 2
((not 1) 'yep)
(else 'nope))
=> yep
Note that not doesn't bind variables which appear in its argument patterns. This is not too surprising: Binding to something that isn't there doesn't make much sense after all.
Hooking Into The Matching Process
Whenever you reach the limits of what can be expressed with the builtin match operators there are (at least) two ways to hook into the matching process. One of them is the predicate match operator ? which allows embedding an arbitrary predicate function in a pattern. The pattern then only matches when that predicate returns #t:
(match 0
((? positive?) 'pos)
((? zero?) 'zero)
((? even?) 'even))
=> zero
Conveniently, the ? operator is an implicit and operator, so instead of:
(and (? foo?) x)
we can instead write:
(? foo? x)
This provides sufficient flexibility for most cases. For those rare cases where even predicate patterns don't cut it, there's another hook: You can jump back into the matching process from inside a match clause's body. This can be done by means of the (=> identifier) form which goes between a clause's pattern and its body. It binds identifier (which is a symbol of your choice) to a a function of zero arguments which you can call for continuing the matching at the next clause:
(match '(1 2)
((a b)
(=> continue)
(if (< a 2)
((a b)
=> second
This use of match is starting to become obscure: Even though the two clauses' patterns are exactly the same, the first one doesn't match. Readers of this code will have to carefully examine the whole clause in order to understand this.³
Putting It All Together
Using a few of the tricks we've learned we can now rewrite find-odd-car like this:
(define find-odd-car
(((and ((? odd?) _ ...) head) tail ...)
((head tail ...)
(find-odd-car tail))))
The special pattern variable _ can be used for matches we are not interested in, and it will not get bound in the clause's body. While this version of find-odd-car uses the capabilities of match to their fullest extent I think it is not exactly the clearest. As with many things, purity does not necessarily lead to the best solutions!
I hope this article serves well as an introduction to match. It is one of my favorite Scheme forms and it is very popular in general, too: According to the current Salmonella reverse dependency ranking, the matchable egg is the most depended on egg in all of Chicken!
Finally, I can only recommend you to check out Andrew Wright's paper to learn about what is possible with match beyond what I presented here.
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- Note how this match use is now fully equivalent to case, at least semantically. case can be optimized much easier by a Scheme system though because it only allows dispatching on constant values while match allows arbitrary patterns as alternatives. A match implementation however could be implemented so that it expands into an equivalent case form if possible.
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- The same is true for '...', of course, which is just a regular symbol, as well.
- 3
- This example could be expressed using a predicate pattern, too, which would make it much clearer.


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Gene Collins, President of the Texas Coalition of Black Democrats, joins the nation in mourning the loss of Black life at the hands of law enforcement and the Dallas law enforcement officers killed last night. The tragic deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile further shows that our law enforcement and criminal justice systems are in immediate need of reform and the relationship between law enforcement and the Black community is in desperate need of repair. According to a study being released today by the Center for Policing Equity, the use of police force is disproportionately high for African Americans – more than three times greater than for whites. Further, Black men between the ages of 15 and 34 are five times more likely to be killed by police officers than any other demographic.
"Over the past eight years we have witnessed a political and national dialogue that celebrates blatant racism and sensationalizes the disrespect of culture, life and liberty – which Americans have begun to accept as cultural norm. This culture breeds hatred and fosters violence.
Today, we are beyond frustrated and angered by the cycle of police aggression and violence in black communities. There is a barbaric culture within law enforcement that perpetuates the disproportionate use of force with African American citizens, and that must come to an immediate end.
We challenge all Democrats, Republicans, and Independents alike to create a new level of dialogue, civility and respect around this topic of police brutality and the African American community.
The Texas Coalition of Black Democrats will be working with our chapters throughout the state to engage in a demand to end this cycle of police aggression and begin repairing relationships with law enforcement. We will use President Barack Obama's report on 21st Century Policing and legislation aimed at remedying racial profiling as guides for policy and social change. Once finalized, the Coalition will organize locally to advance these demands with police departments throughout the state and at the Texas Legislature next session.
Finally, we are deeply saddened by the ambush attacks that left five police officers dead and seven others injured. We send our prayers and thoughts to all of the families affected in this week's killings."
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