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Florida lawmakers are considering a variety of options — ranging from a safety survey of each school to adding more guidance counselors — to improve school security following the elementary school shooting tragedy in Connecticut last December.
The Senate wants to boost a school safety fund by $12.6 million in the coming budget year, returning spending to the level it was before the Great Recession forced lawmakers to cut the program by some 15 percent since 2008.
The money would be in addition to the $64.5 million Florida currently spends on school safety.
Sen. Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton, chairman of the Senate budget subcommittee on education, also is crafting budget language to require each school to perform a safety assessment using $1 million in new state money.
The other $11.6 million, from federal funding, would be used to "harden" school buildings and improve communications systems.
"I think that would be a great tool for schools to tighten up," Galvano, who has three children in public education, said about the assessment.
Rep. Erik Fresen, R-Miami, chairman of the House budget subcommittee on education, said the House has not finalized its school safety budget but he expects a plan similar to the Senate's.
Gov. Rick Scott had recommended a $10 million increase in school safety funding.
Neither the House nor Senate will come even close to the $100 million estimate that the school districts projected for placing school resource officers in each facility.
But Galvano and Fresen said it will be up to the school districts — which will receive their share of school safety money based on a formula — to decide how to spend it.
"Schools will have to make those types of decisions at the district level," Galvano said.
Role for counselors
About two-thirds of school safety money is spent on security officers, according to Department of Education statistics.
Funding for security officers varies throughout the 67 school districts, with many sharing the cost with local sheriffs and police departments.
Sen. Bill Montford, D-Tallahassee, a former Leon County school superintendent who heads the Florida Association of District School Superintendents, said he is pleased with the funding increase as well as the decision to give flexibility to the districts on how to use the money.
"We have also recognized that the best approach is to let the local communities make those decisions that are best for them," Montford said. "What's best for Miami-Dade County with 370,000 students may be different than Franklin County, which has one school."
Montford said he also supports the school safety assessment proposal.
"Let's see where we need to improve," he said.
Not all the safety measures will involve the budget directly.
Sen. Nancy Detert, R-Venice, a former Sarasota County School Board member, wants to make sure every Florida school has a guidance counselor.
"I keep saying if we had more guidance counselors we would need fewer grief counselors," Detert said.
Her bill (SB 154) calls for a ratio of counselors based on the student population. But because of the potential cost, Detert said she is willing to scale back the bill to simply require each school have one counselor. She also said she would like to see a portion of the school safety earmarked for the counselors.
A similar bill (HB 801) is moving in the House, although it does have any mandates in terms of the number of counselors.
Detert says the legislation has another major provision in that it requires the counselors to spend their time helping students rather than being shifted to other school duties.
"Counselors are needed now more than ever before because of the social problems that exist," Detert said. "We shouldn't have them doing lunchroom duty and bus stop duty. I want them to spend more time with kids and less time in doing lunchroom duty."
Other school safety measures include:
nSenate Bill 284 by Sen. Joe Negron, R-Stuart, that would require public school districts to notify private schools in the case of certain emergencies.
nSenate Bill 790 by Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, that would require schools to conduct as many emergency lockdown drills as they do emergency evacuation drills each year and develop a reporting system to identify potential safety concerns.
nSenate Bill 514 by Sen. Eleanor Sobel, D-Hollywood, that would allow local voters to approve a property tax increase to pay for school safety improvements.
Gun training
Rep. Greg Steube, R-Sarasota — the son of Manatee County Sheriff Brad Steube — and Sen. Alan Hays, R-Umatilla, are taking a different approach to protecting students in the classrooms.
They have filed legislation (HB 1097 and SB 1418) that would allow designated school personnel — who would have to undergo training — to carry a gun on school campuses.
Montford said the state's school superintendents do not like the bills, which have yet to be heard by a committee.
"It sounds good on the surface but in the long run," he said, school personnel "simply are not trained for that. There's far more to being a law enforcement officer than just carrying a gun.
"Law enforcement officers are trained for that and teachers are not."
Legislators tackle school security
Florida lawmakers are considering a variety of options — ranging from a safety survey of each school to adding more guidance counselors — to improve school security following the elementary school shooting tragedy in Connecticut last December.


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Sam Humphries, Hope Larson, Jim Higgins, and moderator Mike Roe appear at Meltdown Comics on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 from 8:00 – 9:30 pm.
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L.A.'s reputation for attracting "self-makers" isn't always complimentary. However, in the comics and graphic novels world positives definitely apply. And taking a look at the current Angelenos behind Meltdown University, Uncanny X-Force, and A Wrinkle in Time illustrates who's coming to L.A. and what they're making here.
On Tuesday, April 2nd, join The Crawford Family Forum at Hollywood's NerdMelt Showroom for "Comics, DIY, and the L.A. Effect." KPCC's Mike Roe and guest panelists will discuss what place DIY has taken in the comics industry and their own careers, how living in a city with such social, cultural, and even geographical quirks has affected their work; and where they see the L.A. comics/graphic novels scene going in the future.
Sam Humphries is a comic book writer living in Los Angeles. His work includes Uncanny X-Force and The Ultimates (Marvel Comics), and the self-published Sacrifice and Our Love Is Real.
Hope Larson is a cartoonist and comics writer who got her start making mini-comics and selling them at conventions, and posting comics online. Her first graphic novels include Salamander Dream, A Wrinkle in Time, and Who Is AC? (forthcoming).
Jim Higgins is Meltdown University's founding director/principal instructor, a CalArts and Otis College of Art and Design instructor, and editor/publisher of New Thing (an international short comic stories anthology). He was a DC Comics editor, and worked on the graphic novels A History of Violence, Road to Perdition, and Stuck Rubber Baby.
Mike Roe, KPCC's pop culture blogger for "Without A Net," is our resident comics (and comedy) aficionado. He also hosts the Geek Pilgrims podcast and spends most of his free time either performing improv or tweeting.
7:30pm – Doors Open
8:00pm – Program
Admission is FREE, but RSVPs are required.
Meltdown Comics
7522 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90046

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The SATDUP11 standalone hard drive duplicator eraser enables you to copy 1-to-1, or erase up to 2 SATA hard drives simultaneously without a host computer.
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|Warranty Information
|2 Years
|Compatible Drive Types
|Drive Size
|2.5in & 3.5in
|Number of Drives
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|Erase Modes
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|Max Drive Capacity
|Currently tested with up to 4TB 7200 RPM 3.5" hard drives per bay and 1TB 7200 RPM 2.5" hard drives per bay
|Maximum Data Transfer Rate
|14 GB per minute
|Drive Connectors
|2 - SATA Data & Power Combo (7+15 pin) Receptacle
|OS Compatibility
|OS independent; No software or drivers required
|Special Notes / Requirements
For duplication, the destination drive must be of equal or greater size than the source drive.
Speed of up 14 GB per minute was achieved in a bench mark testing environment, actual speed will depend on hard drive model, algorithm and other factors. Results will vary.
|LED Indicators
|1 - Source Drive Power Indicator
|1 - Source Drive Activity Indicator
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|1 - LCD Display
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|Input Current
|Input Voltage
|Output Current
|Output Voltage
|Power Consumption (In Watts)
|Power Source
|AC Adapter Included
|20% ~ 80%
|Operating Temperature
|5°C to 45°C (41°F to 113°F)
|Storage Temperature
|-20°C to 85°C (-4°F to 185°F)
|Physical Characteristics
|Product Height
|3 cm [1.2 in]
|Product Length
|80 mm [3.1 in]
|Product Width
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|Weight of Product
|358 g [12.6 oz]
|Packaging Information
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|12.3 cm [4.8 in]
|Package Length
|26.5 cm [10.4 in]
|Package Width
|18.7 cm [7.4 in]
|Shipping (Package) Weight
|1.6 kg [3.5 lb]
|What's in the Box
|Included in Package
|1 - Hard Drive Duplicator and Eraser
|2 - SATA Cables
|1 - Universal Power Adapter
|3 - Regional Power Cords (NA/UK/EU)
|2 - HDD Pad
|1 - Quick Install Guide
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Before You Buy
Some old hard drives (often low capacity as well) may not work because they use an old IDE standard not supported by the duplicator. Use a newer drive to determine if the duplicator works or if the drive is not compatible.
StarTech.com hard drive and flash drive duplicators perform a sector by sector copy, which means that the target drive must be the exact same size (down to the sector) or larger than the hard drive or flash drive that is being copied. During a sector by sector copy, each individual sector is copied over to the target drive, regardless of whether or not any data is present. A 500 GB hard drive with 50 GB of data on it will take the same amount of time to copy as a 500 GB hard drive with 450 GB of data on it.
If you have two hard drives or flash drives that are listed as the same size but are different makes or models, you need to check how large both drives are down to the sector to ensure that the target drive is the exact same size or larger.
Solid-state drives (SSDs) use SATA connectors to access power and transfer data. Any duplicator that can copy to or from SATA hard drives will work with a StarTech.com duplicator.
Note: If you use a dock to duplicate SSDs, keep in mind that the StarTech.com disk duplicators execute a sector by sector read and write. SSDs are rated by a number of reads and writes. Repeated duplication and sector by sector reads and writes of SSDs can reduce the life cycle of the drive.
Software-level encryption on the drive poses no issue to StarTech.com duplicators, as the duplicators copy encrypted data sector by sector over to the new drive.
Hardware-level encryption or BIOS level hard drive locks cause the duplication to halt and fail, as the drive is unable to read or write the sectors that are encrypted.
Duplication of Hidden Protected Area (HPA) Partitions or Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) cause the duplicator to halt and fail, as the drive cannot read and write the protected partitions on the drive.
Note: Our UNIDUPDOCK, SATDOCK22RE and SATDOCK4U3RE do include the ability to copy HPA partitions, but the duplication is still dependent on how the HPA partition is written to the hard drive, whether or not it is encrypted and how it is encrypted.
StarTech.com duplicators were not designed to recover failing or damaged drives. If the duplicator encounters a corrupt or unreadable sector, the duplication halts and fails. If the source drive has bad sectors, use the Read Error Skip feature if your model of duplicator has it; however, if there are too many errors, it may still halt and fail even with this feature. If this happens, you will need third-party recovery software or custom-built recovery hardware to copy from a failing or damaged drive.
Quick and secure erase functions
Quick erase and secure erase are functions the duplicators call on the hard drives themselves. How they work depends on the manufacturer of the hard drive.
Department of Defense erase function
A Department of Defense (DoD) erase is a function performed by the duplicator where it does three passes. The first pass writes all 0s. The second pass writes all 1s. The third pass writes 0s and 1s randomly.
Note: Not all duplicators will feature all of these erase modes. It is important to review the product manual to confirm the available erase modes.
To determine if your hard drive will work in this device, on the product page, click the Technical Specifications tab, and do the following:
- Make sure that the device supports the storage size of your hard drive. If the storage size of your hard drive is larger than what the device was tested with, the hard drive will likely still work with the enclosure.
- Confirm that your hard drive uses the same interface type as the device. For example, IDE, SATA, or M.2.
- Make sure that the device supports the physical size of your hard drive, such as 2.5 inches or 3.5 inches.
- Verify that the power consumption of your hard drive doesn't exceed the power output of the device. If you're using multiple hard drives, make sure that the combined power consumption of all of the hard drives doesn't exceed the power output of the docking station.
- The drive may be damaged. Test with a known-working drive, or test the drive directly to a PC.
- The operating system on the computer may not support reading and writing to the file system on the docked hard drive or SSD. Remember, Windows cannot read Mac or Linux file systems. Also, macOS can read but not write to NTFS drives.
- If the drives came from a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks), they would not be accessible in our docking stations.
- If the drive uses 4Kn sectors, check the technical specifications of the docking station, and ensure it can read 4Kn drives.
When you troubleshoot issues with a hard drive dock or duplicator, there are some quick tests that you can complete to rule out potential problems. You can test to make sure that the following components are working correctly and are not the source of the issue:
- IDE, SATA, and eSATA cables
- Hard drives
- Hard drive dock or duplicator
To test your setup components, try the following:
- Use the cables, hard drives, and hard drive dock or duplicator in another setup to see if the problem is with the components or the setup.
- Use a different cable, hard drive, and hard drive dock or duplicator in your setup to see if the problem persists. Ideally, you should test a component that you know works in another setup.
When you test the hard drive and hard drive dock or duplicator, it is recommended that you do the following:
Note: For a hard drive duplicator you may need to switch the device to PC mode (if available).
- To check Disk Management, press the Windows key + R, type diskmgmt.msc, and press Enter. Check to see if your hard drive is listed.
- Do one of the following:
- If the hard drive is listed with unallocated space, the hard drive needs to be reformatted. Right-click unallocated and click New Simple Volume. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the reformatting.
Note: Formatting a hard drive erases all of the data on it. Make sure that you back up all of your data before you reformat the hard drive.
- If the hard drive is listed as healthy but does not have a drive letter, for example, C:, right-click healthy and click Change Drive Letter and Paths. Click Add, assign a drive letter, and click OK.
Note: A formatted hard drive will not show up in Computer or My Computer until it has a drive letter assigned to it.
You do not need to format your target hard drive before you begin to duplicate it, because the target hard drive is automatically overwritten during the duplication process.
The hard drive duplicator copies the exact partition from the source drive to the target drive. Since it is required that you use a target drive that is equal or larger in size than the source drive a portion of the target drive appears as free space. You can append free space to the live partition on the target drive so that the full size of the drive can be utilized.
Note: A partition cannot be extended on an operating system drive that is in use. You must extend the partition when it not being used by the operating system, and ideally when it is still connected to the duplicator.
Extend a partition on a computer running Windows
Note: Do not extend a System Reserved partition. Only extend the primary partition, which is typically the largest in size and formatted with NTFS or FAT32.
After you have successfully duplicated a drive and the target drive is still connected to your computer system (for example, through the duplicator), complete the following:
- Press the Windows key + R.
- Type compmgmt.msc and click Ok.
- In Computer Management, on the left side of the screen, click Disk Management.
- Find the target drive. It will most likely be at the bottom of the list, have a partition that is the same size as the source drive, and have an unallocated area on the drive.
- On the target drive, right-click the last partition on the right side of the screen and click Extend Volume.
- In the Extend Volume wizard, click Next. By default, the remaining drive area is the amount of space used.
- Click Next > Finish.
The primary partition on the drive now uses the entire drive area.
StarTech.com hard drive duplicators only read from the source drive and only write to the target drives while in standalone duplication mode . A duplication that fails or halts will not cause a problem with the source drive.
You can use this device to duplicate an internal hard drive with the stand alone duplicator function if you remove the hard drive from the computer and connect it directly to this device.
Hard Drives
Windows 10
Before you can access a new or formatted drive in your operating system, you need to initialize it first and then create a partition on the drive. A partition defines an area of the drive to use for storing data. The partition uses a file system (for example, ex-FAT, NTFS, and so on).
Initialize a drive
Note: You typically only need to initialize a drive if the drive is new. If you cannot find an uninitialized drive in Disk Management, skip the following steps and try to partition your device.
Press the Windows key + R, type compmgmt.msc, and click Run to open Computer Management.
Navigate to Disk Management.
When prompted to, initialize your disk(s). If you are running Windows® 7 or later and are using a drive larger than 2TB, initialize the disk(s) with GPT. If you are running an earlier version of Windows, initialize the disk(s) with MBR. For more information, visit the following FAQ: https://www.startech.com/support/faqs/technical-support?topic=hard-drives#mbr-vs-gpt.
Click OK.
Create a partition in a drive
Note: The following steps create an NTFS partition that uses the entire drive space. To use a different file system, select a different option in step 6.
Right-click Unallocated or RAW volume, and select New Simple Volume.
In the New Partition Wizard, click Next.
Select Primary partition.
Leave the partition size set to default, and click Next.
Assign a drive letter or leave it set to the default, and click Next.
Enter the following settings to format the partition:
- In the File System field, enter NTFS.
- Set the Allocation unit size to Default.
- In the Volume label field, enter <your name/reference>.
- Select the Perform a quick format check box.
- Clear the Enable file and folder compression check box.
- Click Next > Finish.
The new drive should appear in Windows Explorer.
Mac OS
Before you can access a new or formatted drive in your operating system, you need to initialize it first and then create a partition on the drive. A partition defines an area of the drive to use for storing data. The partition uses a file system (for example, HFS+, ex-FAT, NTFS, and so on).
Initialize a drive
Mac OSX detects a drive that needs to be initialized and automatically prompts you to initialize the drive. If you are prompted to initialize the drive, click Initialize. If you are not prompted to initialize the drive and you cannot find the drive in Finder, you will need to create a partition on the drive.
Create a partition on a drive
Note: The following steps create an HFS+ (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)) partition that uses the entire drive space.
To create a partition on a new drive, complete the following:
Open Finder.
Navigate to Applications and click Utilities.
Open Disk Utility.
Select the new drive and click the Partition tab.
Click Options and verify that it is set to GUID Partition Table.
Enter a name for the partition.
Click Partition.
The drive should now be accessible in Finder.
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- If Class 1 Laser Product. Laser radiation is present when the system is open.
- Wiring terminations should not be made with the product and/or electric lines under power.
- Product installation and/or mounting should be completed by a certified professional as per the local safety and building code guidelines.
- Cables (including power and charging cables) should be placed and routed to avoid creating electric, tripping or safety hazards.
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December blizzard cost city $1 million
The City of Des Moines revealed fresh numbers from last month's blizzard.
City officials said 13,000 man hours were used to clear snow from city streets, and 82,000 gallons of salt and brine were used.
The snow cost more than one $1 million to clean up.
The city also issued 2,000 warnings to people for parking on streets after new laws limiting where people can park during a storm went into effect.
City Councilman Skip Moore said many people don't understand the new enforcement.
"Do I think all cars in the city that needed warnings got them? No, but I think they're doing the best they could," said Moore.
The city spent $28,000 telling people about new parking rules, but plans to do much more before the next big snow falls.
City officials will hold press conferences and give interviews in order to better educate the public better about where they can and cannot park during a storm.


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Attention is drawn to clause 6(a) of the General Conditions referring to accuracy of descriptions. THAINSTONE SPECIALIST AUCTIONS - GENERAL CONDITIONS OF SALE A Member of ANM Group Ltd Thainstone Centre, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, AB51 5XZ 1. These conditions together with those set out in the Notice to Purchasers either displayed at the sale or appearing in the Sale Catalogue are the terms and conditions on which Thainstone Specialist Auctions ("The Auctioneer") will as agents for the Seller sell goods to a purchaser ("The Buyer"). The terms and conditions are binding and buyers and sellers should read them carefully. 2 (a) The parties to the contract are the Vendor and the Buyer, the Auctioneer acting only as agents for the Vendor. (b) The parties will be responsible for, indemnify and hold harmless the Auctioneer, its officers and employees for any loss or damage of any kind and including personal injury fatal injury or disease occasioned to or suffered by any person arising out of or in connection with the performance of the contract between the Vendor and the Buyer. 3. (a) Prior to commencement of the sale intending buyers should register their interest with and obtain a bidding number from the Auctioneer; (b) Immediately following the fall of the hammer the Buyer will if required to do so by the Auctioneer, pay to the Auctioneer in cash or otherwise as the Auctioneer may agree the price of each lot which the Buyer has purchased or such deposit as the Auctioneer may require and will supply the Auctioneer with whatever information the latter may require concerning the identity and address of the Buyer; (c) Any balance of the price due by the Buyer will be paid to the Auctioneer within 2 working days of the date of sale or on or before the date specified in any applicable Notice to Purchasers whichever is the earlier; (d) It is an essential condition that all lots are removed by the Buyer from the premises at which they are sold (subject to the conditions set out in Para 15) within 4 days of the date of the sale or not later than the time and date specified in any applicable Notice to Purchasers whichever is the earlier; (e) If the Buyer fails to comply with any condition in Para 3, the Auctioneer will use his best endeavours to resell the lot or lots and the Buyer will be liable to the Vendor for any loss incurred by the Vendor (including costs and charges necessarily and reasonably incurred by the Vendor's agents) in connection with such resale and the Buyer's breach of contract Any deposit or other sum paid by the Buyer may be retained and applied towards that loss. (f) Without prejudice to any claims that the Auctioneer and/or the Vendor may have against the Buyer for breach of contract or otherwise, the Buyer will be liable from the expiry of the time referred to in Para 4(d) hereof for all expenses incurred in storing and re-selling and/or otherwise disposing of the said lot or lots. 4 At the discretion of the Auctioneer, the Auctioneer may at the request of a buyer bid on behalf of that buyer. Such a bid shall be referred to as a "Commission Bid". Any buyer wishing a commission bid must complete a Purchaser's Buying Order which must be deposited with the Auctioneer no later than one hour before the sale starts. Where a commission bid is accepted by the Auctioneer the Auctioneer shall have no responsibility whatsoever to the Buyer in respect of any failure on the part of the Auctioneer to (1) bid on the Buyer's behalf, unless said failure to bid is unreasonable; or (2) to secure the goods in question. 5. (a) Although the Auctioneer has used its best endeavours to ensure that the description of each lot appearing in any Sale Catalogue is accurate, the Buyer is advised to inspect any lot for which he intends to bid to satisfy himself as to the accuracy of any such description. Unless stat ed otherwise in the Sale Catalogue any description is for guidance only. The Auctioneer, as agent for the Vendor, will only be liable to the Buyer where the Auctioneer has wilfully or negligently mis-described a lot in any material or fundamental way. (b) The Auctioneer as agent for the Vendor and on behalf of the Vendor excludes liability for any loss, damage or injury sustained by the Buyer as a result of or in connection with any defect in any lot purchased or any failure in the lot to fulfil any intended use. The Auctioneer will not be liable for any damage or loss sustained to any lot whilst in the Auctioneer's premises unless said damage or loss arises solely as a result of fault or negligence on the part of Auctioneer. (c) The Auctioneer does not warrant the Vendor's title to any lot and all lots are sold with only such title as the Vendor may have. 6. Subject to Para 6(a) and (b) the Buyer will by bidding for any lot be deemed (a) to be satisfied as to its authenticity and condition and (b) to purchase with note of all (if any) defects with no right to reject the goods after purchase because of any defect or failure in description or condition. 7. 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Unless a sale is notified as Value Added Tax inclusive the price at which the Buyer purchases each lot will be exclusive of Value Added Tax which will, when due, be added to the price at the appropriate rate. 13. The Vendor or any agent acting on its behalf may bid for any lot or lots offered for sale at the Auction, in which case the premium referred to in condition 11 hereof will be applied. 14. (a) The Buyer will not be permitted to remove any lot from the sale premises until all purchase monies have been paid; (b) Subject to 14 (a) hereof the Buyer will only be permitted to remove lots from the sale premises with proof of purchase. 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Complaints about medical professionals gather dust;
By Steve Miller; Florida Center for Investigative Reporting
He's also a psychiatrist, licensed to this day to practice in South Florida.
In Florida, medical professionals hang onto their licenses and continue practicing as the state grapples with a lengthy disciplinary process that can take years, according to the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting (FCIR).
On occasions when doctors do get suspended, as was Zimmer in February. 2012, it can be difficult to locate the disciplinary citation in public records.
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Elsewhere, states complete similar investigations in significantly less time. In Texas, it took an average of 282 days to resolve a complaint in the third quarter of this year. In California, the rate was 264 days for its 2012 fiscal year.
The Florida Department of Health, which licenses medical professionals in the state, declined to make anyone available for this report.
The drawn-out process in Florida is due in part to decreased funding for the state's health department, which still reels from a $55.6 million budget cut in 2011. The cut, some contend, resulted in overwhelming caseloads for lawyers investigating complaints.
Others say low pay at the health department has led to too much turnover. Pay for board of medicine attorneys ranges from $52,000 to the low six-figure range, according to state records.
"It's a revolving door of lawyers there because they are paid so poorly," said David Spicer, a Palm Beach County attorney who represents medical professionals in licensing and disciplinary disputes. "The public is at risk by this underfunding. It allows doctors to practice while their case is being looked into, when perhaps they shouldn't be."
Florida disciplinary actions between 2010 and 2012 include 55 suspensions, 30 revocations and 88 cases where a license was voluntarily surrendered, a review by the FCIR found.
Among the disciplined doctors was Zimmer, who was arrested in October 2010 for allegedly soliciting a prostitute. In November 2010, Zimmer pleaded no contest to the Miami charge and was sentenced to 60 days in jail. He had already served time, having been jailed by a judge who was irked when he observed the doctor to be impaired in court. The state health department, which licenses doctors and had received "various allegations" of drug use against Zimmer, ordered him to appear on June 30, 2011, for a mental and physical exam. He skipped the appointment. It was rescheduled three weeks later, but he skipped that, too.
Zimmer did appear for a third appointment, at which time he submitted a hair sample, which tested positive for cocaine and marijuana. Six month later, on Feb. 17, 2012, his license was suspended until such time as he "demonstrates the ability to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety." It has since been restored on a probationary basis.
It is the second time his license was pulled. The previous incident, in the 1980s, involved prescribing drugs to patients without proper documentation and, in some cases, without the proper examination.
The state has the ability to move quickly when a doctor poses a public hazard. But in nonemergency cases, the majority of complaints to the medical board, often drag on. Media reports in 2011 revealed Florida's spotty record of policing poorly performing physicians. In response, the state established an Emergency Action Unit to review complaints.
Still, the unit has been unable to keep up with new complaints, and some of those emergency actions took over a year to complete. In its first year, the unit issued 287 emergency actions, primarily suspensions and several license removals. Last year, that number jumped to 500, according to the health department.
At the same time, the special interests of the medical profession are at play. The accused in Florida are sometimes accompanied to their medical board hearing by someone from the Professionals Resource Network, which in 2010 received a $5.4 million contract with the state Department of Health to assist medical professionals who have emotional health issues, including addiction or mental disorders. The contract was renewed this year for $7.2 million.
Professionals Resource Network uses the same address on its tax filing as the Florida Medical Association, a trade group representing 20,000 physicians. The network also "contracts with them for accounting services and management of employee benefits," PRN's medical director, Penelope Ziegler, said in an email. She declined to be interviewed.
Nationwide, delays in investigations of medical professionals have led to those accused of wrongdoing to hop from state to state. Because of the lengthy hearing process, doctors can move across state lines as charges in one state are neglected or undetected in another.
There is no national clearinghouse for sanctioned medical professionals available for the public to check on their own provider. In Florida, patients can research a doctor at the state's Department of Health website. But a clear record doesn't mean a clear past. Physicians who lose their license can apply for reinstatement, and doctors who are reinstated receive a new license number, as did Zimmer when he lost his license in the 1980s, then regained. If a physician gets in trouble again, the Health Department records system makes it difficult to connect the two incidents.
The Federation of State Medical Boards, an association representing the 70 U.S. medical boards, used to make available data on the disciplinary actions. But the federation stopped posting the information this year.
When the data was available, consumer advocate group Public Citizen compiled it into an annual report to rate serious actions in each state. Florida ranked in the bottom ten of the list four times between 2001 and 2012, making it among the least active U.S. boards. "It's likely the state medical boards didn't like how we were using the information," said Dr. Michael Carome, director of the health research arm of Public Citizen.
A representative from federation, Drew Carlson, declined an interview, but said in an email that the data was removed amid "concerns expressed by boards about the FSMB report included that its almost exclusive focus on medical boards' disciplinary actions was not representative of the broad range of activities medical boards engage in to protect the public. "
Two of every five medical professionals in Florida are licensed in another state or states, according to the Federation of State Medical Boards. The system is a mish-mash of reportage, wherein state health boards and hospital systems report disciplinary actions to large national database, called the National Practitioner's Data Bank. The names of the sanctioned individuals though, are not available through the data base to the public, allowing suspended doctors to get a license in another state. The system is accessible to hospitals and other qualified health care operations.
The lengthy delay in the hearing process, combined with a seriously flawed national system for reporting medical malfeasance, allows physicians like cardiologist Rick Szumlas to continue to hold a license in Florida — in good standing — while being suspended in Texas after complaining to police that "aliens were invading his head."
His defense claimed his mental troubles were a thing of the past. A witness said it was a brief episode. The Texas board issued an order in June 2011, agreeing to allow Szumlas to treat patients in a "group or institutional setting" while receiving psychiatric treatment.
His license in Florida notes that Szumlas is "not practicing in Florida," although his record here has no public complaints and his license status is "clear/active." Meanwhile, his license in Illinois reflects the action in Texas.
"Outside of the state, it goes on a case by case basis," said Jay Wolfson, director of the Florida Health Information Center at the University of South Florida. "If I am a physician in Wyoming and I lose my license to practice there, that board has to post that action. And if I am practicing in Florida, I am supposed to tell them. And I have to appear before the board."
For states to catch up with actions in another state, "it all starts with that original state," said Jarrett Schneider, a spokesman for the Texas Medical Board. He said state health officials review news accounts as much as anything else in looking for possible license troubles. "We don't just rely on the National Practitioner's Data Bank."
He added that a license revocation in one state may take a while to get into the hands of another, especially when states rely on the sanctioned party to divulge. "There is a timing element here, in which an individual might be caught in a situation in one state and word hasn't gotten back to the other," Schneider said.
Or sometimes a sanction in one state simply isn't caught by another, as in the case of Leesburg physician James Lee Allen, who was forced to surrender his license in Florida in 2010, more than four years after voluntarily surrendering his Wyoming license after pleading guilty to felony child pornography charges. Allen held licenses in three other states, as well. Nevada revoked his license in 2007. Louisiana records show Allen's license there was expired before his arrest. The reason for the revocation in Florida was a failure to inform the board of the Wyoming action four years before. Nine months after Florida removed his license, Allen unsuccessfully petitioned to get his medical license back in Wyoming.
While "nearly all physicians are OK, they are human," noted Wolfson, the health information center director. Complaints against doctors often come from disgruntled family members or former patients looking for some solace. Still, there are misdeeds and failing among the ranks that need to be policed. Florida's lengthy disciplinary delay and state-funded defense of the accused is the result of a strong political presence of the medical profession.
"While there are some lobbying interests for the public, they aren't as well funded or as targeted as those for physicians. The [American Medical Association] has a laser like ability to focus on legislators and can kill things quickly."
Zimmer, the Miami Beach psychiatrist busted for prostitution and suspended for drug use, declined to discuss his troubles. But he did compliment the state's Medical Board that had suspended his license.
"If you attend a couple of Medical Board meetings, you will find a sincere and devoted group of professionals from various domains, who agonize over the parameters of each and every case, prior to reaching a broad range of deeply considered conclusions, consequences and judgments," Zimmer wrote. "To paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill, this system may be terrible, but it's the best we've developed, so far."
Zimmer ended his email by noting that "it is not how many skeletons we have in our closets, it is how we make them dance for us that counts."
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If so why would you take it? Most likely because you know that pill is extremely helpful. It would make your muscles stronger, including your heart muscle thus decreasing risk of death from heart disease. It would lower your bad cholesterol, triglycerides, blood pressure and blood sugar, and increase the good cholesterol. It would improve your memory. It would slow osteoporosis. It would make you less likely to have falls. It would improve your mood and lessen symptoms of depression.
Exercise is Medicine!
Exercise does all this and more, however it is extremely difficult to get people to follow exercise advice or adhere to an exercise program? Why? Because taking a pill is so much easier, and maybe because the cost of medicine is covered by insurance. So many take such care to take medications, vitamins, eat healthier, but still find it difficult to adhere to medical advice to exercise. It could be do to the information out there seems conflicting, or too complicated.
Exercise the Diabetes Drug
You take your diabetes medications every day correct? Most people also have concerns about the side effects and the cost of their medication. Yet exercise is one of the best medications out their with minimal side effects. Just like most diabetes drugs it has to be taken regularly to get the benefits, and there is a specific dosage.
Frequency of use: 6-7 days per week.
- This regulates the body, you need a certain amount of energy to do this from your body and its energy sources (food and insulin). The more regular you exercise the less wild blood sugar swings.
- To a level that feels fairly light to somewhat hard, but not hard. Bring your heart rate up above your resting heart rate, break a light sweat, breath a little harder – yet be able to carry on a conversation
Time or Duration:
- 30 minutes or more per day. It can be broken up or done all at once.
- Aerobic – meaning continuous movement that requires oxygen – walking, biking, hiking, spinning, swimming, rowing, elliptical, recumbent equipment, steppers, tia chi, yoga, karate, pilates, belly dancing, dance classes, circuit training, cross country skiing, snow shoeing, kayaking, rollerblading, ice skating….you get the idea.
- Resistance training – it doesn't have to be heavy body building weight training, but working with your body as resistance, dumbbells, resistive bands, weight machines, free weights all help to maintain and build muscle. Try doing some sort of resistive training 2-3 days per week.
Side effects:
While there are many benefits to exercise for people with diabetes, it should be noted that there are several potential risks as well, including a worsening of eye complications in people with conditions such as proliferative retinopathy when doing specific exercises (such as weight lifting- with heavy weights that create a large amount of strain), hypoglycemia (low blood glucose), and hyperglycemia (high blood glucose).
Building the Routine
Most people take there medications at a certain time every day, brush their teeth at a certain time, go to appointments because they are scheduled at a certain time. Exercise needs to be scheduled and worked into the daily routine. What works for you? First thing in the morning? Most studies show people who exercise first thing in the morning are more likely to stick with the routine for the long haul. Can you develop a routine – a walk after dinner, hitting the gym on the drive home from work, fifteen minutes at lunch and fifteen after work? Keeping a log helps, and be accountable to someone with the log, make sure you bring it to your doctors appointments and discuss.
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In medicine we talk about the stages of change
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Joined: 02 Aug 2007
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Location: USA
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:03 pm
Post subject: Tilapia with Citrus Cream Sauce
zest of each ~ 1 grapefruit, 1 lemon, 1 lime and 1 tangerine (mixed together)
juice of each ~ 1 grapefruit, 1 lemon, 1 lime and 1 tangerine (mixed together)
4 TBSP unsalted butter
2 TBSP olive oil
3 shallots diced
2 cloves garlic minced
1 tsp each of Thyme and Taragon
1 pint heavy cream
1 1/2 cups chicken broth
1 tsp corn starch
10 tilapia filets (fresh or thawed)
salt and pepper
Oil and butter for frying fish (I just cover the bottom of the pan with oil and then add a few TBSP butter)
Angel Hair or Thin Spaghetti
1 dozen fresh Brussel sprouts, trimmed and shredded.
2 TBSP butter and 3 TBSP olive oil
Melt the butter with the olive oil over low/med heat. Add shallots and garlic and saute until tender. Gently add a cup or so of chicken broth and cook just a moment, add herbs and cook a minute or so more. Remove from heat and let cool a bit. Pour this mixture into a blender and pulse. Turn blender to low speed and slowly add heavy cream. Return to skillet and cook stirring constantly until mixture is well heated. Remove from heat. Set aside.
Put your water on to boil for your pasta.
Salt and pepper your fish and dredge in flour. Pan fry fish until golden brown,turning only once and placing just enough fillets in the pan as to not crowd them. Place fish to drain on a rack over a cookie sheet (the kind with sides so the oil doesnt run off into your oven. Set your oven to 425 while you are finishing frying the fish. When all the fish is done, place in the oven while you saute the spouts and cook the pasta. Listen for it to begin to sizzle - dont want to burn it! After 5-7 minutes or when you hear it sizzle turn the oven off. Leave it in the oven to stay warm while you finish.
Place the skillet of cream sauce on a low burner and warm it back to nearly boiling. Add the balance of the chicken broth mixed with 1 tsp corn starch and zest of your citrus fruits. Stir occasionally to keep it from sticking or getting brown. It should thicken nicely. In the mean time, cook your pasta and saute shredded sprouts in a skillet with the butter and olive oil - browning very slightly. Salt and pepper to taste. Pasta - should take 4-5 mintues for the Angel Hair or 5-7 for the Thin Spaghetti. When pasta is done, drain and plate, adding warmed sauce and to taste, top with a spoonful of sauted sprouts and place fish on the side and drizzle reserved citrus juices. YUMMY.
This is a "Susan Recipe" so if you have any questions, ask…I wrote it down as I went, trying to make it as clear as possible. It is definitely going in the recipe binder. I served this with a toasted bagguette.
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Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 1:23 am
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In the Hawaiian Islands this fish is almost always either used for bait or just tossed back into the water. I do not understand the craze about this tasteless fish, as it is farm raised and pumped up with antibiotics just to keep it afloat… So much for sustainable marine life.
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Tasted pretty good to me. We actually use squid for bait here. And I think some people eat that....bait to me!
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I think you must get really fresh fish and in varieties that we mainlanders can only imagine, Deni, and I can see how that would determine your palate and preferences. But, given what's available here, I think tilapia is very nice too.
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Location: Oakland, CA
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:11 pm
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I made a sauce for salmon this week with creme fraiche, a dab of meyer lemon juice and some horseradish - + salt & Pepper.
I marinated the salmon for about an hour in salt and lemon zest (which I wiped off before cooking). Then baked it. Turned out yummy! A keeper according to Sam...
I have only had tilapia a couple of times, so I can't weigh in on the controversy. It tasted fine to me. I always try to make sure that the fish I buy is wild caught - maybe that makes a difference...
I still have some of my sauce in the fridge, so maybe I'll try it with tilapia this week!
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Today I am going to brag a bit. Actually, I am going to brag a lot. Deal with it. However before the bragging, I need to share a bit of my personal history and thought processes.
There are a lot of things that I dislike doing; lots of activities that make up part of life in the modern world that are necessary, but not articularly enjoyable. Not for me anyway. One of those activities is shopping for new clothes. If I am being totally honest I would say that my feelings about shopping for clothes is more of a hatred than a mere dislike. The experience has never been enjoyable, and often has been downright miserable.
However, because my recent success in losing weight (73 pounds, 6 oz. as of this morning) it had become very necessary to get some new clothes. As much as I hate shopping for clothes, I hate having my pants fall down around my ankles as I walk across a parking lot even more. Something had to be done.
Now, as it happens, the day I returned from my very enjoyable vacation I had received the newest KingSize Direct catalog in the mail. I have ordered all my clothes from their for the last several years. The timing of the catalogs arrival was particularly good because I had received my commission check the same day. After paying some bills that had been delayed by vacation I even had a few bucks left over. So, I sat down and paged through the catalog. After about twenty minutes I reached for my phone and called them to make the order: twenty minutes later 7 pairs underwear, 7 pairs of socks, two pairs of slacks, and four shirts were on the way to me.
The order arrived yesterday. All the items fit. Now for the bragging part, all of the items, with the exception of the socks, were two sizes SMALLER than my previous order. Yeah, I'm kind of proud of that.
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By Jennifer Bihm
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"When I see Wendy, I see a strong person," said Lorraine Bradley, retired school teacher and daughter of the late Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley.
Lorraine Bradley recently announced her endorsement of Controller Wendy Greuel as the city's next mayor, pointing to her "great leadership qualities" as one of the reasons.
"She learned from the best how to be a leader and what that entails," she said.
"The best," being her late father, who led the city for 20 years (from 1973 to 1993) and whose (as some have put it ) "accomplishments transcended his flaws." One biographer wrote: "A man of quiet determination, Bradley spent a lifetime bridging racial barriers and used his skills to forge extraordinary coalitions, most notably between Blacks and Jews and between labor and business. He presided over a period of enormous growth in Los Angeles… Bradley also was key to the racial peace that the rapidly diversifying city enjoyed during most of his five-term hold on the mayor's office. He opened doors for minorities and women to serve on city commissions, to rise in the ranks of City Hall employees and to share in city contracts…"
As a young woman, Greuel had been a beneficiary to Tom Bradley's brand of humanitarianism and basically grew up, said Lorraine, in her dad's office.
"When he took office and became mayor, he involved a lot of people, mostly young people and trained them to become what they are now," she recalled.
"That's what he liked to do. He liked to take young people and let them be trained in the correct way so they could see how things functioned, then put them in so they could do it. They would learn. And then, they had the opportunity to choose what they wanted to be…"
Greuel served in Tom Bradley's office for 10 years, mainly as his spokesperson to the City Council, various departments and Los Angeles residents. She left in 1993, the end of his term, to work for then President Bill Clinton as field operations officer for Southern California's Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program. During that time, Greuel had been involved in job creation and homeownership projects, social services and economic development.
She served on Los Angeles' City Council from 2003 to 2009, taking the job of controller in July that same year.
"All those years, [she was] a fighter, a go-getter, someone who was always in there pushing and trying to do the right thing," Lorraine Bradley said.
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Researchers uncover one force behind the MYC oncogene in many cancers
DLX5, a gene crucial for embryonic development, promotes cancer by activating the expression of the known oncogene, MYC, according to researchers from Fox Chase Cancer Center. Since the DLX5 gene is inactive in normal adults, it may be an ideal target for future anti-cancer drugs, they reason. Their findings are published in the July 31 edition of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, available online now.
Previously the researchers found that a chromosomal inversion - a genetic misalignment, where part of the chromosome containing the DLX5 gene gets flipped around during cell division - cooperates with another known oncogene, AKT2, to drive cancer in mice. In the current paper, the researchers discover that DLX5 binds to and actively promotes the activity of a gene known as MYC, which evidence has demonstrated is a potent factor in numerous cancers, including lymphoma, lung and pancreatic cancer. Their studies were performed in mouse cancer models and in human cell cultures.
"While MYC has a definite role in cancer, MYC also has an important place in the normal functioning of cells, so it may be difficult to target without killing healthy cells," says Joseph Testa, PhD, a Fox Chase professor and co-author of the study. "DLX5, however, is not generally active in healthy adult cells, so it represents a much more 'druggable' target for cancer inhibition."
According to Testa, DLX5 is a member of the homeobox family of genes, which direct the timing of events in the physical development of a growing fetus, such as when to sprout a limb, for example. In adults, such genes are almost entirely inactive.
After their previous studies demonstrated that expression of the protein encoded by the DLX5 gene correlated with that of the MYC gene, Testa and Jinfei Xu, PhD, a research associate in the laboratory, used a luciferase assay - developed from the luciferase enzyme fireflies use to make light - to see exactly where DLX5 protein binds to the promoter region of the MYC gene. They found that there were two sites where DLX5 could bind to the MYC promoter, which is a section of DNA where certain proteins known as transcription factors attach in order to recruit the cellular machinery used to transcribe genes into messenger RNA and then proteins. Studies in both cells and a mouse model for cancer showed that they could promote the expression of MYC by transfecting cells with DNA strands containing DLX5.
Too much DLX5, they found, led to too much MYC. When they knocked out expression of DLX5 in lung cancer cells, it resulted in decreased expression of MYC and reduced cell proliferation. By adding an overabundance of MYC, they found they could turn those cells cancerous again.
From this, Testa and Xu were able to gain a broader understanding of how cancers involving AKT2, DLX5 and MYC might develop. A mutation in AKT2 may act as a "first hit" that makes the inversion on mouse chromosome 6, which contains the DLX5 gene, more likely. When the inversion happens, the cell begins producing the DLX5 protein, a multipurpose transcription factor that normally has a very limited role in adult cells. One of the targets of DLX5 is the MYC gene itself, causing the cells to produce many copies of the MYC oncoprotein.
Normally MYC regulates many functions within the cell, including cell division. With an overabundance of MYC, the cell may reproduce out of control, accumulating in each generation the further genetic damage that is the hallmark of cancer cells.
Source: Fox Chase Cancer Center (news : web)