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Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War came to hospitals to cheer up troops, and became nurses. This allowed soldiers to go back to the front faster, and concentrate on healing. On top of caring for soldiers nurses also helped entertain, assist in surgery, administer medicine, write letters home for those who could not, and search for supplies.
Before female nurses were allowed in hospitals, young women who lived near the hospitals would visit to help care for and entertain the wounded. They would bring food, alcohol, and flowers. They would also play the piano, sing, and read poetry. This was frequently done on Sunday. After the war had been going on for a while female nurses were more accepted, and recruited so male nurses could return to fight in the war. The nursing service had women from all parts of society.
Dorothea Dix was working as a copy clerk for the U.S. government in Washington D.C. in1862, when she noticed how bad the military hospitals were. She took it upon herself to walk into the office of Acting Surgeon General R. C. Wood and tell him that the War Department did not have adequate resources to treat its soldiers. There were only a few surgeons, not enough nurses -- which meant that soldiers were filling the nursing role -- and no permanent hospitals. She asked to put together a female nursing corps of volunteers under the War Department. She sought the help of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell to do this. She hoped to keep romance out of the army, so her requirements for nurses were very strict. Her requirements, which were published as an article in the Sandusky Register, included: only plain looking women over the age of thirty could apply, married ladies preferred; dresses must be brown or black; women's clothing could not have any jewelry, and their hair could not have bows or curls; women could not wear hoop skirts. This was because hoops were cumbersome, and made movement in narrow wards difficult. The ban on hoop skirts was even published in the Sandusky Register as an order from the government.
Nursing was not yet a profession and most who took the role learned as they worked. Convalescent soldiers usually filled the role, before women were allowed to work as nurses. Ill soldiers were expected to take care of each other. Only wounded had special treatment from medical staff at the beginning of the war. Many women followed their male family members into service, and then by accident became nurses. Nuns were also nurses. Some doctors liked them the best because they did not question the doctor's authority. Women nurses were also sought out when it was discovered that a soldier was a woman and she needed treatment.
Female nurses were new in the military. The position was open to any women no matter their class, although upper class women were looked down on if they became nurses. Nursing duties included administering medicine, distributing special diets ordered by the doctor, writing letters, and attending to visitors. In cases where a soldier was dying and he was alone, they would sometimes pretend to be the dying soldier's relative to make him feel better. Another thing nurses did to make things easier was to fill out a card with the patient's information and attached it to the head of the patient's bed for staff to read.
Opponents to female nurses said that they were too weak to help. The strongest of these critics were male doctors. Nurses had to care for wounded not just in hospitals, but in tents, caves, under trees, in fields and in barns. Nurses would go out while the battle was still occurring to take care of the men. After battles the wounded would lie close together for miles. Clara Barton said, "The wounded laid so close it was impossible to move about in the dark. The slightest misstep brought a torrent of groans from some poor mangled fellow in your path." This was her experience, and men thought that at the sight of such things women would faint. They were wrong.
Female nurses received twelve dollars a month while their male counterparts received twenty. Female nurses were well aware of the difference. Pay was not just an issue for nurses. Doctors had problems receiving their pay also. It would sometimes take months. In June of 1861, Dr. McMeens wrote a letter to the Register. In the letter, he stated that he had been in the Army for two months and had not been paid yet. He then went on to ask his patients who owed him money to pay his wife. They could pay the entire bill or only part of it.
Nurses, because they were so close to patients, could often discover things about the patient that the doctor had missed. This occurred to one local soldier who had received a scalp wound in battle. He said, "She (the nurse) had been engaged in washing the blood from my head and face when she discovered that what had seemed on a superficial view to be the most desperate wound of the head, including the skull was but a mere scalp wound which bled profusely and doubtless made a most unpromising case for surgery at first view." Cases like this were common. Sometimes because of the circumstances of the war and the way medicine was practiced at the time, things were overlooked and people were not treated properly.
Nurses also served an important function in letter writing. They would write for soldiers who could not. They would also write letters trying to find information about soldiers. One such letter appeared in the Sandusky Register in June of 1863. Sarah L. Porter wrote a letter about a soldier named Joseph Cramer who was in her care at a hospital in Washington D.C. She could not get much information from him before he died, except that he was from Sandusky. After his death, she wrote a letter to the Postmaster of Sandusky, and it was published in the paper. She asked that his friends and family contact her. Medical professionals did this so that personal belongings of soldiers could be sent home, and so people could get closure.
The author Louisa May Alcott was a nurse during the Civil War. Not only did she recount her experiences in a book, she also wrote for newspapers. One article that appeared in the Boston Commonwealth was reprinted in the Sandusky paper. It recounted the story of a soldier who was sick and dying. He had her write a letter to his mother for him, and the article also talked about how his comrades who were in the hospital could not stand to see him die. This article also gave an impression about how female nurses were treated.
As stated before, a lot of soldiers in the hospital were sick, not wounded. Alcott noted in her book Hospital Sketches, "I spent my shining hours washing faces, serving rations, giving medicine and sitting in a very hard chair with pneumonia on one side, diphtheria on the other, two typhoid's opposite." Typhoid was one of the more prominent illnesses. Treatment for it was quinine, whiskey, and turpentine. Sometimes all nurses could do was comfort the patient.
By the end of the war, women had helped heal the sick and inspired soldiers to fight. They applied for pensions, and some received medals. Many published their memoirs. Some even went on to start the campaign for women's rights and the right to vote. The Civil War was a starting point for women to move towards equality.
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Medicine in the Civil War: Part Two - Nurses
2 comments:
Thank you for a fascinating article. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Well done.
- Wednesday, August 22, 2012 at 1:17:00 PM EDT
A fantastic book on this topic is I am Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira. Excellent Read.
- Wednesday, August 22, 2012 at 4:44:00 PM EDT
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Colin Johnson (10/16/2006 9:00 AM EDT) URL: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193200273 Portland, Ore. -- Remember how digital converters for audio started out at 8 bits, then went to 16 and 24 bits before resetting to 1 bit with oversampling? Engineers at Rice University will propose this week that we reset our megapixel cameras to 1 pixel and our video cameras to 1 voxel, both with oversampling. They will make their case at the Optical Society of America's 90th annual meeting--Frontiers in Optics 2006--in Rochester, N.Y. The 1-pixel camera takes tens of thousands of rapid-fire shots to capture the equivalent of 1 million pixels in an image. So instead of expensive megapixel sensors with separate detectors for red, green and blue, the Rice EEs' approach needs only a 1-pixel multispectral sensor, simplifying hardware resources while enabling images to be formed from spectra never before imaged. "There are all sorts of detectors used in the physics lab--now most of them can be used to make images too," said electrical and computer engineering professor Kevin Kelly. "Physics labs, for instance, can now make images from neutron detectors using our approach, and astronomers can make images from radio waves." He performed the work with Richard Baraniuk, the Victor E. Cameron professor of electrical and computer engineering. The enabling chip for the 1-pixel camera is not the detector used to sense an application-specific spectrum--that could use any technology. Instead, Texas Instruments Inc.'s digital micromirror array is used to project light from the lens onto the sensor. The micromirror array is the same chip that's used in Digital Light Processor televisions. Here, the lens focuses light onto the 1,024 x 768-pixel digital micromirror chip, which in turn projects all of its light into a single photodiode. "What we are essentially doing is running a Digital Light Processor backwards and replacing the light source with a photodiode," said Baraniuk. You probably thought a 1-pixel camera would work like a flatbed scanner, moving the single sensor over the area ordinarily occupied by the film. In fact, the only moving part--the micromirror array--is not taking the place of a scanner for two reasons. First, it would be too slow to measure the light from each pixel location separately, requiring 1 million cycles per megapixel. And second, you would need an ultrasensitive photodiode to detect the light from just one micromirror at a time. In contrast, the Rice algorithm relies on tens or hundreds of thousands of measurements, not millions. In each clock cycle, it also focuses all the light from the micromirror array onto the photodiode, so it doesn't have to be ultrasensitive. Each mirror in the array either focuses on the photodiode and thus is "on" or away from it and thus "off." The secret is that the micromirror array takes on random configurations each clock cycle. The Rice algorithm then measures the sum of the light from that set of coefficients in a mathematical decomposition of the original image--essentially deducing its most obvious features from a set of random measurements. "The math is pretty dense, but the critical point is that instead of making millions of measurements at millions of pixel locations, we just take tens of thousands of measurements using a single sensor," said Baraniuk. "We are using some very new image reconstruction techniques to form an image from a series of random projections from the micromirror array." Just as the hardware setup is the same as a projector--only backwards--so, too, the algorithm that deduces what the original image must have been is backwards, making its calculations from the random configurations of the micromirror. A normal megapixel camera uses a sensor at every pixel location, taking millions of highly accurate measurements simultaneously. Later, the raw data is compressed into a series of coefficients for a hypothetical filter bank that could reconstruct the original image from white noise as an input. The Rice algorithm runs that backwards by starting with random noise as its input, then directly measuring a series of coefficients that enable reconstruction of the original image. "Instead of sampling millions of pixels in the light field and then compressing all that information . . . we can go directly from the light field to the compressed data," said Baraniuk. Cameras everywhere Today it's possible to make images only with sensors that can be built in arrays, but many wavelengths are impractical or too expensive. For instance, terahertz sensors could enable cameras that see through clothing at airport checkpoints, but terahertz sensors are impractical to build today. Likewise, sensors for low light need detectors that could use avalanche photodiodes, but again those are too expensive to build in arrays. "With our approach, you could use the most expensive processes there are," said Kelly. "For instance, you could use an avalanche diode for a low-light camera that would be ultrasensitive, but impractical to build in big arrays. Today, the best photodetectors are built with indium gallium arsenide that you can't make in large arrays, but with our camera you can use the most exotic sensor you can find. For instance, for unrivaled color discrimination on a visible-light camera you could afford to get Foveon [Inc. in Santa Clara, Calif.] to make you a multispectral sensor with eight, 16 or even 24 layers of color sensitivity instead of just red, green and blue." Next, EEs will try their method with sensors at different wavelengths, including infrared, terahertz and multispectral sensors such as those from Foveon. Professor Dave Brady at Duke University is also working on a camera that uses the same 1-pixel approach but that is completely planar, because it requires no optical lens. Other new designs, the researchers said, are constructing images from medical sensors such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance. The theory behind the 1-pixel camera has been knocking around for about two decades, but crystallized in the past couple of years with the breakthrough work of cooperating scientists led by mathematician Emmanuel Candès, a professor at the California Institute of Technology, who received the National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Award this year. All material on this site Copyright 2006 CMP Media LLC. 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Nathan Fillion, Tim Daly and Michael Rosenbaum Join an All-Star Cast for Justice League: Doom
Sep 26, 2011 11:41 AM EDT
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Cody Winchester of the Argus Leader just posted the FBI's file on Hunter S. Thompson on his Tumblr, and it looks like the agency was keeping close tabs on Thompson during his failed bid to run for sheriff of Pitkin County, Col. in 1970. Looking through the pages, it seems that the FBI first took interest after Thompson's time living with the Hells Angels while writing his book about the motorcycle club. Most of the records are dull, but on the last page, there's an adorable anonymous letter from some wet blanket in Louisville, Ky. dated Oct. 19, 1970.
Dear Mr. Ricks:
I think but do not know that Hunter Thompson has a police record in Louisville. He was The bad boy of our neighborhood when he was high school and college age... It would probably have been around 1954-, 1955- 6 or 7. At that time, he lived on Ransdell Ave.
I would sign my name but I am afraid I might be sued. I am interested in good government.
via Cody Winchester


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Open22 Mike necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 132 diseños de 29 diseñadores freelance.
New look for a Computer servicing company including possible changes to existing logo and creating new theme (look and feel) for the company to use in print ads website, stationary, company shirts, business cards .. etc
Open22 Computer Specialists
We are a growing computer company that services business and residential computers. We fix them, we network them, we build them, we remove those darn viruses, whatever reason it isn't working we make it work. We do residential, but really want to have a bigger push for business and so would like to be more appealing to business, specifically small businesses with 5-50 computers. We have a web developement department, that is great at developing what great designers design.
So here we are with great services and not a very professional look. So we are looking for a professional and high-tech (comfortably high-tech not too high-tech that we intimidate) look.
We want a basic look and probably a new logo, we have a logo, but it has some visibility issues with the current colors. So if the current logo could be updated, that is great, if you think we need brand new logo, that's alright with us. The basic look/theme we would then use to put on our business cards, stationery, signs, website, and all our advertising, even down to our company shirts. Maybe something to do with blocks that can tie in the logo.
You can find the logo at http://www.open22.com just don't look at the design of the website for ideas. :)
We need a
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- A space for a tagline that we are still working on. We will give a bonus for a great tagline too!
- Too busy
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The U.S. Department of
Agriculture is now accepting nominations from
eligible industry members to serve on the
Softwood Lumber Board for a 3-year
term of office beginning January 1, 2015. This
Board administers a national research and promotion
program for softwood lumber with oversight by USDA.
The Board meets throughout the year to review
marketing and research activities and makes
recommendation to USDA regarding its programs. The
national program is funded by assessments on U.S.
manufacturers and importers that ship softwood
lumber to the United States. The purpose of the
program is to increase the demand for softwood
lumber within the United States.
Are you interested in serving or do you
know someone who may be qualified to serve?
The Board is composed of 19 members appointed by the
Secretary of Agriculture. Eighteen members
represent three U.S. geographical regions and two
Canadian regions. One member represents other
importing countries besides Canada. The Board will
be holding elections to fill seven seats whose terms
expire on December 21, 2014. U.S. manufacturers
will fill four seats representing large companies –
two in the South region and two in the West region.
Three seats will be filled by importers – two
representing the Canada West region (one large and
one small company) and one small company
representing the Canada East region. Board members
will serve a 3-year term ending December 3, 2017.
To be eligible, nominees operating within the
regions must manufacture and ship within the United
States, or import, at least 15 million board feet of
softwood lumber annually. Interested candidates may
nominate themselves, or nominate someone else –
either is acceptable. Ballots will be mailed to
eligible companies and votes will be tabulated for
each region. The top two candidates for each
position will be submitted to the Secretary. The
Secretary will then appoint members from the pool of
applicants receiving the most votes.
Nomination applications are due to the Board by
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*Members of the Board are reimbursed by the Board
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If you can answer yes to any of the
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You are actively working within the
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- Imports at least 15 million board feet of softwood
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- You are not registered as a lobbyist with the
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www.softwoodlumberboard.org for a copy of the
application, or contact the Board's CEO, Steve
Lovett, at (312) 321-5131 or e-mail
firstname.lastname@example.com. You may also
contact Maureen Pello, USDA Marketing Specialist, by
phone (503) 632-8848 or e-mail
firstname.lastname@example.com, for more
Executive Order No. 13490, 18 June 2010,
prohibits an individual who is registered with the
federal government or with a state government as a
lobbyist from serving on a federal advisory
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complaint of discrimination, write: USDA, Office
of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights,
Office of Adjudication, 1400 Independence Ave.,
SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (866)
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To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR), we are counting down the top 40 ways that the ASBMR helps you in your career! Stay tuned to e-News and on social media throughout the year to see the complete top 40 list!
#1 - Be a part of a global research community that allows you to connect with and learn from a wide variety of professionals with different research focuses and practicing in various research disciplines to continue advancing the science in bone and mineral research
#2 - Stay updated on the latest news and get more timely access to research through ASBMR social media channels - Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
#3 - Benefit from ASBMR's advocacy efforts to protect and advance the bone and mineral field with multiple government organizations.
#4 - Get involved in ASBMR and make an impact by volunteering on ASBMR committees, task forces, and review groups.
#5 - Did you hear about ASBMR's Capitol Hill Day? Advocacy efforts such as the Hill Day help dedicated ASBMR members meet with elected officials to protect and strengthen the field.
#6 - Access the latest JBMR research online before it's published in print!
#7 - Gain free access to the Education Resource Center to find a wealth of Annual Meeting abstracts, webinars and more.
#8 - Join the ASBMR and 36 other organizations in the Call to Action to address the crisis in the treatment of osteoporosis.
#9 - The ASBMR Rising Star Awards provide support to promising young scientists and physician-scientists to become independent investigators.
#10 - The ASBMR Harold M. Frost Young Investigator Award supports young investigator participation in the ORS Musculoskeletal Biology Workshop at Sun Valley by providing the opportunity for presentation of their research.
#11 - Submit your research to JBMR Plus, ASBMR's new online-only open access journal.
#12 - The ASBMR Young Investigator Awards for the European Calcified Tissue Society (ECTS) Ph.D. Training Course support registration and travel to attend the ECTS Ph.D. Training Course.
#13 - Free access to the ASBMR Primer on the Metabolic Bone Diseases and Disorders of Mineral Metabolism.
#14 - Create exposure for your research by submitting an abstract to present at the ASBMR Annual Meeting.
#15 - Ability to apply for or nominate colleagues for ASBMR awards and travel grants.
#16 - Receive a free monthly subscription to the Journal for Bone and Mineral Research (JBMR) with your ASBMR membership.
#17 - Recognition of your scientific achievements through ASBMR awards & travel grants.
#18 - Deep discounts on registration fees for the ASBMR Annual Meeting!
#19 - Free access to the latest updates and news in the bone and mineral research field through the ASBMR e-News Weekly.
#20 - Representation with partnering organizations including: International Federation of Musculoskeletal Research Societies (IFMRS), National Bone Health Alliance (NBHA), Federation of American Societies in Experimental Biology (FASEB), US Bone and Joint Initiative (USBJI), and Research!America.
#21 - In-depth educational opportunities at the annual ASBMR Pre-Meeting Symposium focusing on specific topics relating to bone health.
#22 - Access to a global network of bone and mineral researchers to collaborate with across continents.
#23 - Find career opportunities through the ASBMR Career Center and job board at the ASBMR Annual Meeting.
#24 - Honor your mentors and colleagues by contributing to the ASBMR Fund for Research and Education.
#25 - Gain access to publications and reports from ASBMR Task Forces.
#26 - Exposure for women in STEM through the efforts of the ASBMR Women in Bone and Mineral Research Committee.
#27 - The Phoebe Leboy Award provides a woman early career investigator from a developing country travel funding and registration to attend and present her research at the ASBMR Annual Meeting.
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#33 - Meet with dozens of vendors in the field all in one location at the ASBMR Annual Meeting.
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For god knows what reason, Trinity Baptists let people just ask questions. I dont know whether they didnt talk to their colleagues about filtering questions, or they just KNEW Jesus was going to be on their side, but the Q&A was good old fashioned FUN!
Which I wish he had admitted before my question. See, the major theme of Dembskis talk was 'evilution cant do this' 'evilution hasnt shown that', 'you know, if someone would just SHOW me the evidence, ID be an evilutionist!' The other theme was "POOOOOOOOOOOR MEEEEEEEE! POOR CREATIONISTS! EVERYONE IS OUT TO GET US!! I SUFFER SO MUCH BECAUSE OF MY MESSAGE OF TRUTH! POOOOR MEEEEEEEE!!!"
One of my major research projects is impossible, if Dembski is right. ERVs have nothing to do with common descent. According to Behe, my other research project is impossible. I might as well pack up the lab and go home. But if I could only SHOW them evidence of HIV evolution, THEN they would be an evilutionist, right?
So when Dembski wouldnt take Dr. Philip Klebba's offer to actually hear the evidence for the evolution of the bacterial flagella, I decided to ask a different question than the one I originally intended:
"I do HIV research. A while ago I wrote a critique of Behes 'Edge of Evolution'. You all didnt respond with 'science.' I was invited to UD to discuss HIV evolution, and after 3 posts I was banned. I was then sexually harassed and threatened, and slandered on your blog. ID Creationists talk so much about how theyre martyrs and theyre persecuted-- if youve got so much science on your side, why do you have to go after a grad student like that?"
Dembski replied that he knew I was trying to embarrass him (no, I was pointing out to everyone that youre a liar and youre a bully) but he didnt follow the exchange, other people ran his blog.
To which I replied "Maybe you werent following this discussion because you were busy composing fake letters from the president of Baylor."
Ladies and gentlemen, the look on Dembskis face. The look on Dembskis face was priceless. Jaw on the floor, eyes as big as saucers-- the audience roaring with laughter. After bumbling for a minute, he said that was another topic. He then suggested that I link to the discussion on my blog and people can see how bad we are and how bad you are (my cue to smile and bat my eyes at the audience).
"Oh I already did. My blog is endogenousretrovirus.blogspot
Dembski "Yeah your ERV." WAIT A MINUTE! TIME OUT TAMPA BAY! I thought Dembski didnt follow this chain of events on his blog? ROFL! Magically knew my handle! AAAAAHAHAHA!
Me "Yes, Im ERV. I also study endogenous retroviruses and how they relate to cancer" (another cute smile to the audience). At which point I head back to my seat. But Dembski wont shut up! "Well I was gonna close UD in 2005 cause I didnt have time for it but I kept it open and know I have some hard line people at my blog and you run your blog how you want!"
Well the pwn train just keeps rolling. Student after student after student-- It turned into a party. The audience heckled Demsbki when he wouldnt answer questions. We were laughing before, during, and after his answers.
Finally, the Creationists had had enough. Somebody had to stand up for Jesus.
"Im just so disappointed in OU students and how closed minded they are!!!"
Dembski made it perfectly clear at that point that the attacks against me were no accidental oversight. Dembski used this Creationist as an opportunity to attack the students that were exposing him as a fool: "Well dont be so hard on them. Theyre just sucking up to their professors."
This comment turned into another awesome joke against Dembski, because another student came up to ask why ID Creationist found it necessary to promote their ideas in school boards and high schools, NOT in the scientific arena. Suddenly, the man who moments earlier had suggested college and graduate students were too dumb to understand Evolution vs Creationism and were just 'trying to impress their professors', was appalled at the idea that high school kids were 'too dumb to understand evolution.' The student kicked ass-- "Its not that theyre dumb. Im not qualified to talk about the Big Bang, but that doesnt make me dumb." Nothing meaningful in Dembskis responses.
But the evening didnt end there. There was a small, unexpected epilogue.
** Edit 9:15 pm, 9/18/07-- I forgot to add, when I mentioned I did HIV research, Dembski jabbed "Youll have a job for a long time." Thats when I went from amused at Dembskis tap-dancing to angry. "I can assure you I would be the happiest unemployed person on the planet."
God hes an asshole.


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Poll: Gender top draw for Clinton bid
The biggest reason for a Hillary Clinton presidency for Americans is that she would be the first female president, according to a new poll.
Asked what the best thing about the former secretary of state being elected president would be, 18 percent of those surveyed in a Gallup poll released Friday said her breaking the gender barrier. That total was double the next answer, which was her experience and foreign policy chops.
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In third place, with 8 percent, was that she would be a change from the Obama administration.
( PHOTOS: Who's talking about Hillary Clinton 2016?)
In terms of the negative side of a potential second Clinton administration, the answers were more varied. The most frequently mentioned answers, with 6 percent, were that she was not qualified or would not succeed and that she would be a continuation of the presidency of Barack Obama.
A combined 5 percent were concerned about her history, with 3 percent saying the worst thing would be Bill Clinton returning to the White House and 2 percent mentioning her personal baggage.
For both questions, about half of those surveyed did not have a specific response to the question.
Gallup surveyed 1,024 adults from March 15 to 16 for the poll, which has an error margin of plus or minus 4 percentage points.


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I normally don't get into award shows, but I had a lot of fun watching the Golden Globes last night. My favorite show, Mad Men, did not win for Best Drama. Very sad. But, the ladies of Mad Men looked lovely...
Monday, January 17, 2011
Golden Globes 2011
I normally don't get into award shows, but I had a lot of fun watching the Golden Globes last night. My favorite show, Mad Men, did not win for Best Drama. Very sad. But, the ladies of Mad Men looked lovely...
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- Belly said...
Actually, Pantone also predict the fashion colors of the year so there might be a correlation. I loved Elizabeth Moss's dress! The color is amazing on her!
- January 17, 2011 at 9:35 AM
- RLG said...
I thought Emma Stone looked lovely, too, although I much prefer her as a redhead. January Jones gets my "thumbs down" -- it would have been equally effective to go topless. :)
- January 17, 2011 at 9:43 AM
- Shannon @ What's Up Whimsy said...
Wasn't January Jones' upper half defying gravity?? "They" looked incredible! Ha ha
- January 17, 2011 at 10:16 AM
- paula said...
what! mad men didnt win! emma does look stunning and anne hathaway looks drop dead gorgeous, wow.
- January 17, 2011 at 10:42 AM
- Kelly Galvin Robson said...
Belly- I must check out the fashion Pantone color! Didn't know they did that. :)
Renee- I know, January Jones is a loose cannon when it comes to red carpet dresses. But, I didn't hate this one. Didn't love it, but didn't hate it (kinda liked the fringe).
Shannon- I totally agree, her boobs defied gravity. :)
Paula- Major bummer. But, haven't seen Boardwalk Empire to compare? I am DYING for Mad Men to return this summer. I just LOVE that show.
Thanks for the comments, gals!
- January 17, 2011 at 10:48 AM
- AB HOME Interiors said...
I think Anne Hathaway was gorgeous!
- January 17, 2011 at 7:50 PM
- Heather @ Satisfying Spaces said...
I have just found your blog and am really enjoying it. I received the Stylish Blogger Award and would like to pass it to you. Check out my blog at http://satisfyingspacesblog.com/.
- January 18, 2011 at 10:21 AM


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Tyrell Jackson necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 166 diseños de 50 diseñadores freelance.
First off the dictionary definition that best describes Zenith in context to GameZenith.com is:
1.a highest point or state; culmination.
GameZenith.com is a new videogame website that focuses on the Role Playing Game (RPG) and 1st Person Shooter (FPS) genres. GameZenith.com also focuses on videogame industry news and topics as well as videogame culture new, topics, and trends. GameZenith.com will seperate itself from all other videogame websites because GameZenith.com will cover topics from an unbiased perspective and will be known for being BOLD.
Like the definition of Zenith, GameZenith.com will look to push the gaming industry to new levels through reporting the industry from a hardcore/no fear perspective.
GameZenith.com will not just attract readers from a particular demographic, but anyone and everyone interested in the coverage of the FPS/RPG genres as well as Game Industry/Culture topics. GameZenith readers will be of any race, gender, age, religious preference, educational background, income status, lifestyle, or geographical location.
GameZenith.com will also attract those readers who want true, unbiased coverage of the industry and not opnions from a website who is being "payed off" by corporate sponsers. GameZenith.com will tell it like it is and thats what the GameZenith targer audience would enjoy the most
This is where the FUN BEGINS! You are free to have all the creative control/view you want in this logo. The only specific things I ask to be represented in the design is these three colors:
Neon Royal Blue
Neon Lime Green
Neon Hot Pink
*Has to be used over a Black background as the website will feature a black background*
**May also use secondary colors such as White, Grey/Silver to balance things out if needed**
***You may Use GameZenith or GameZenith.com as the logo***
Again, aside from the Primary 3 Colors (Over a Black Background), use whatever creative technique you want, there is really no limitations
Also the tagline for the site is "Not just a website, its a movement!" so any logo design that features that text would be a huge bonus! ;)
Have Fun and Enjoy!
NOTE: I have attached some files that gives some examples of the 3 primary colors that I want used in the logo. This should serve as a basis or guideline to follow while creating your design. Doesn't have to be a 100% match to the colors attached in the files, but as long as they are in the same area/ballpark.
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Living MatH
"Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort." -George Polya
~ Insisting a child must be taught traditional, scope-and-sequence arithmetic to learn mathematics is like saying one must learn classical notes and scales before one can learn music. You might get there, but you miss out on the inspiration of beautiful music created by the masters along the way. We need not master all the "basics" before being able to experience the appreciation that carries us through the hard work of learning. Think of applying living math principles as developing a "mathematical ear" while working toward the mastery of basic theory. ~
This site is dedicated to sharing resources for math learning,
exploring and enjoying math in a dynamic and holistic manner, for all ages.
I want to build a bridge. I'd like to close the gap between math and history, science, literature and humanity created by the isolated way we traditionally approach math education.
In teaching my own children, tutoring and furthering my own self education, I've seen the results of early exposure to realmathematics in natural settings, without requiring mastery of arithmetic on a set timetable - this has been a key to the ease with which my kids attain mastery when the time is right for them. I've also found that math literature and history humanizes math, makes it come alive, and provides a context to enjoy and retain learning. Patricia Kenschaft of Math Power refers to a goal of preserving the "rage for learning" that every child has inside of them. I believe that the way we isolate mathematics learning with the contrived, unrealistically applied arithmetic our children are traditionally taught, without real context and the human drama that created it, has caused much of the math phobias and illiteracy ("innumeracy" to use John Paulos' term) our generation of educators, whether in home or classroom, experienced and pass on, as they know nothing else.
On Topic E-List - The Living Math Forum:
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Australian Army Brigadier Simon "Don" Roach is Director General Army Operations in Army HQ, Canberra. He has served as Deputy Chief of Staff Security Sector Reform in Headquarters Regional Command South, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he worked to support the development and integration of the Afghan National Security Forces. He also has experience from two tours in East Timor and as a United Nations Military Observer in the Middle East. He is a graduate of the Royal Military College Duntroon and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Brigadier Roach holds a B Sc (Hons), a Masters of Defence Studies from the University of New South Wales, and an M.A. in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College Class of 2009.
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SSI books and monographs by Brigadier Simon "Don" Roach
A Comprehensive Approach to Improving U.S. Security Force Assistance Efforts
September 25, 2009
Authored by Lieutenant Colonel Theresa Baginski, Colonel Brian J. Clark, Lieutenant Colonel Francis Donovan, Ms. Karma Job, Lieutenant Colonel John S. Kolasheski, Colonel Richard A. Lacquement, Jr., Brigadier Simon "Don" Roach, Colonel Sean P. Swindell, Colonel Curt A. Van De Walle, Colonel Michael J. McMahon.
Security Force Assistance may be a new term but the activities are familiar and are related to how the Department of Defense trains, advises, and assists foreign partners' security establishments to accomplish common objectives. Recommendations to improve U.S. performance are provided.


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'True Detective' References Boost 'The King in Yellow' Book
How did an obscure collection of supernatural short stories from 1895 become an Amazon bestseller seemingly overnight? Well, Matthew McConaughey doesn't hurt.
HBO's "True Detective," which stars Mr. McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as detectives investigating a ritualistic murder, has a distinctive literary bent. The show's writer, novelist Nic Pizzolatto, has sewn steady references to "The King in Yellow," a collection of short stories by Robert Chambers, into the show's early episodes. From verbatim quotes to a motif of black stars, the links have already been obsessively chronicled by fans.
Yesterday on Amazon, "The King in Yellow," shot up 71% over 24 hours to number seven on Amazon's bestselling books list. The paperback version was published by Amazon's CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform in September, 2013, and the company has seen the book on the Kindle bestseller list.
"We've seen the most significant spike in sales after this last episode, episode five, aired," said Seira Wilson, a books editor at Amazon, "If you look at sales history, it has really gained momentum over the last two episodes." Episode five, which aired Sunday, contained a plot twist that explicitly referenced the "Yellow King."
Chambers's book of short stories is often categorized as weird fiction, a subgenre salad popular around the turn of the 20th century that blends science-fiction, fantasy, and supernatural elements. The stories in "The King in Yellow" are linked together by their references to a fictional play, also called "The King in Yellow," which plunges its readers into despair or drives them out of their minds (and not with pleasure). The book was an influential work for the horror writer H.P. Lovecraft.
In an earlier interview with Speakeasy, Mr. Pizzolatto named Thomas Ligotti and Karl Edward Wagner as more recent writers who have worked in the same tradition. "What could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or [Romanian philosopher E.M] Cioran?" Mr. Pizzolatto said, "They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes."


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Many big U.S. charities are leaving significant money on the table because of their ineptitude in online fundraising, a new study has found.
Dunham+Co., a consulting outfit, and Next After, a fundraising think tank, analyzed the online practices of 151 charities, of which 100 appeared on The Chronicle of Philanthropy's Philanthropy 400 largest organizations.
They wanted to find out how well nonprofit groups were keeping pace with changes in the current fundraising environment.
Online giving by charitably inclined Americans has been the most successful fundraising channel over the past 10 years, growing by double-digit rates and now exceeding $20 billion annually, Steve MacLaughlin, director of Blackbaud's Idea Lab, wrote in a sidebar comment on the study.
Researchers went online to the 151 nonprofits to experience, document and assess 46 different metrics across four online fundraising processes.
Their findings include some bits of good news, startling deficiencies and areas that need improving.
The study first looked at the email registration process, positing that how an organization grows its email database is critically important. It noted that many other studies had shown that the more email addresses an organization has on file, the more money it can raise online.
Researchers found the following:
- 76% of charities made it easy to find their email sign-up form
- However, 66% of email sign-up offers provided little-to-no interest to a potential donor
- And 84% of charities presented a non-exclusive email sign-up offer
The study's second area of focus was email communication, split into two components: the Email Message Envelope (To Line, From Line, Subject Line) and Email Message Body.
The frequency and manner in which charities communicate with donors are big factors in deciding the success of online fundraising, the researchers said.
The news was not good:
- 37% of organizations did not send a single email to new subscribers within the first 30 days of signing up
- 79% of emails did not personalize the "To Line" with a first and last name
- 56% of organizations did not make a single ask in the first 90 days
MacLaughlin commented: "Email addresses are like fish — they don't age well."
The online donation experience, the third study area, had more positive results.
Giving a gift online is very different from ordering a product online, the researchers said. Organizations that understand this subtle difference move closer to an optimized online giving experience.
They found the following:
- 80% of nonprofits presented a clear call to action
- 85% had a landing page design that matched the email
- However, 84% were not optimized for mobile viewing
Finally, saying "thank you" would seem a no-brainer for organizations that are primarily supported through the charitable contributions of individuals. Researchers wanted to make sure.
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"These findings suggest there is a significant gap between best practice and the standard practices currently being used by nonprofit organizations," MacLaughlin wrote.
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CUE(4) NetBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual CUE(4) NAME cue -- CATC USB-EL1201A USB Ethernet driver SYNOPSIS cue* at uhub? HARDWARE The cue driver supports the following adapters: Belkin F5U111 CATC Netmate CATC Netmate II DESCRIPTION The cue driver provides support for USB Ethernet adapters based on the Computer Access Technology Corporation's USB-EL1202A chipset. The USB-EL1202A supports a 512-bit multicast hash filter, single perfect filter entry for the station address and promiscuous mode. Packets are received and transmitted over separate USB bulk transfer endpoints. The CATC adapter supports only 10Mbps half-duplex mode, hence there are no ifmedia(4) modes to select. For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8). DIAGNOSTICS cue%d: watchdog timeout A packet was queued for transmission and a transmit command was issued, however the device failed to acknowledge the transmission before a timeout expired. cue%d: no memory for rx list The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring. SEE ALSO arp(4), netintro(4), usb(4), ifconfig(8) HISTORY The cue device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0, and in NetBSD 1.5. AUTHORS The cue driver was written by Bill Paul <email@example.com>. NetBSD 8.1 January 13, 2000 NetBSD 8.1
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Sony: A Surprising New Competitor in Health Care
Sony isn't a company most investors normally associate with the health care industry. The Japanese conglomerate is certainly well-known for consumer electronics, but it also has a surprising strategy to expand into health care. Let's take a look at some surprising strategies that could eventually make Sony a major player in medical devices and personalized medicine.
A growing player in the medical device market
Sony quietly entered the health care market in 2010 through several key acquisitions and partnerships.
In February 2010, Sony acquired iCyt Mission Technology, a producer of flow cytometers, which are used to sort cells, detect biomarkers, and engineer proteins. Sony's Digital Audio Disc Corporation (DADC) then collaborated with at least three life science companies -- RainDance, Quanterix, and Caliper -- to invest in microfluidics, a liquid-handling technology used in DNA chips and lab-on-a-chips. In 2011, it acquired Micronics, a developer of point-of-care diagnostic technologies, which holds a large number of microfluidics patents.
None of those acquisitions made much sense until September 2012, when Sony took an 11% stake in Olympus for its medical imaging technologies. At the time of the investment, Olympus held a 70% global market share in endoscopes, which are used to peer inside the human body during medical procedures. The joint venture, known as Sony Olympus Medical Solutions, formally started in April 2013.
The battle between Sony and Samsung shifts to medical imaging devices
Sony Olympus Medical Solutions is developing medical imaging devices using Sony's 4K technology to capture moving images four times sharper than traditional HD video from within the body. Sony set a firm goal for its medical business: annual sales of 200 billion yen, or about $1.9 billion, by the end of fiscal 2020.
The fledgling medical business will grow within Sony's Imaging Solutions and Products business -- which generated 730.4 billion yen (approximately $7.1 billion) in fiscal 2013 -- and eventually evolve into a new core business segment. Sony's Imaging business, which consists of its cameras and image sensors, accounted for 10.7% of its top line in 2013.
Sony's sudden interest in medical devices runs parallel to tech giant Samsung's recent investments in the industry. Between 2010 and 2013, Samsung acquired Medison (ultrasonic medical devices), Nexus (cardiovascular test kits), and NeuroLogica (medical imaging). It combined all of those technologies and launched GEO, its own line of digital radiology and in-vitro diagnostic equipment, last March. Samsung is more ambitious than Sony -- it claims it will be one of the world's largest medical equipment companies by 2020, generating $10 billion in annual revenue from its medical device business alone.
To put Sony and Samsung's 2020 medical sales targets in perspective, GE's health care segment, one of the largest medical device companies in the world, generated $18.2 billion in revenue in fiscal 2013.
Why did Sony need all of that microfluidics tech?
However, imaging devices are only part of Sony's plan for expanding its medical business. In January, Sony signed a partnership with life sciences giant Illumina and Japanese medical portal M3 to launch a genome information platform in Japan.
The platform, known as P5, will be a genome analysis service for medical and research institutions across Japan, with a long-term goal of creating personalized medicine and health care services. All of the microfluidics technologies Sony has been acquiring over the past few years, which can be used for a wide variety of diagnostic purposes, now come into play. On April 1, Sony DADC announced another microfluidics deal with Trinean to produce microfluidic disposables, which are used to store and analyze droplet-sized biological samples.
Illumina recently broke the "human genome sound barrier" by launching a system that could sequence the entire human genome for $1,000 -- a steep drop from the cost of $250,000 a decade earlier. Sony and M3 will establish the company, and Illumina will act as a minority investor.
When we put all these pieces together -- the high-end imaging devices, the genome tests, the medical portal system, and Illumina's involvement -- we get a much more ambitious health care project than Samsung's GEO.
The Foolish takeaway
In conclusion, Sony's new ventures into health care are exciting, but they aren't big enough yet to offset the importance of its game, mobile, and home entertainment businesses -- which together accounted for 54% of its top line last quarter. However, Sony is clearly serious about evolving into a major contender in the medical devices and diagnostics market, and these new products and services should be closely watched.
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