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The Day My Brain Exploded: A True Storyby Ashok Rajamani
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After a full-throttle brain bleed at the age of twenty-five, Ashok Rajamani, a first-generation Indian American, had to relearn everything: how to eat, how to walk and to speak, even things as basic as his sexual orientation. With humor and insight, he describes the events of that day (his brain exploded just before his brothers wedding!), as well as the long, difficult recovery period. In the process, he introduces readers to his family—his principal support group, as well as a constant source of frustration and amazement. Irreverent, coruscating, angry, at times shocking, but always revelatory, his memoir takes the reader into unfamiliar territory, much like the experience Alice had when she fell down the rabbit hole. That he lived to tell the story is miraculous; that he tells it with such aplomb is simply remarkable.
More than a decade later he has finally reestablished a productive artistic life for himself, still dealing with the effects of his injury—life-long half-blindness and epilepsy— but forging ahead as a survivor dedicated to helping others who have suffered a similar catastrophe.
"First-time author Rajamani delivers a fascinating look at his life and his recovery as a brain-injury patient that is both heartbreaking and uplifting. In 2000, Rajamani was a 25-year-old first-generation Indian-American living the dream as well as living on the edge: a rising star in the competitive world of New York City public relations as well as a full-blown alcoholic who arrives 'volcanically trashed' for a major job interview and is still 'hired on the spot.' Only a week after he is hired, his life changes entirely after he suffers a massive brain hemorrhage caused by AVM, or arteriovenous malformation — a congenital birth defect in which 'a tangle of veins and arteries hidden within the brain' suddenly bursts, causing the brain to bleed and flooding the head with septic fluid. Rajamani expertly details his injury ('My brain had become, simply, a liquid mess') and its treatment, describing procedures such as a ventriculostomy, 'an operation in which they drilled holes in the skull and insert tiny plastic tubes, also called ventrics, to drain the fluid.' Rajamani describes how he recovers with the help of his family and an extended support group of brain-injury survivors, and discovers that 'even though I face epilepsy and multiple functional defects in my sight, hearing and memory, I've become more at peace, finding a new kind of harmony with the world.'" Publishers Weekly Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Due to that thing the rest of us, other than Crystal, call reality we have been sadly remiss in our duties to educate and laugh at Crystal Cox. Though it seems she and some of her weird new friends in the Batshit Crazy cave have been doing our job for us.
You see Crystal has tried to make some sort of meaning out of Righthaven, Steve Gibson (CEO of Righthaven), Stephens Media, Todd Kincannon, and Marc Randazza, by linking them all together in some sort of weird conspiracy involving Porn, the Las Vegas Review-Journal (A newspaper), Magical Hocus Pocus, knpr (a radio station), and the Illuminati. Or was that Lizard aliens? (who can understand Monica Foster's weirdness)
All this weirdness can be found on Crystal's own blogs which we wont link to anymore from here since all that is doing is giving her more revenue for her link farms thereby enabling her to keep up with her vilifying and extorting ways.
For anyone who has never heard of Righthaven (you lucky people) these links referring to court cases that the EFF and Randazza Group were a part of against Righthaven should help you understand why the following video is by everyone on the planet to Crystal Cox and her army of nucking futters.
Crystal we suggest that you click on this link for the full 10hour experience of what the world is doing whenever they read your delusions.
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It seems that Law Professor Eric E Johnson of BlogLawBlog (say that three times backwards) wrote an interesting piece back in October 3rd, 2011 where he opined in regards to Obsidian Finance Group v. Cox, that
One way of thinking about this is that Cox's unconventional style underminded her own credibility to an extent that the court was loathe to treat her allegations seriously enough to make them the basis of a libel case. I'm sorry if that's harsh. (I know Ms. Cox will probably read this.) But that's how I interpret the judge's ruling.
Don't be sorry Eric, it seems that her Style Of Capitalizing Every WORD for Emphasis and Boldness could be a form of OCD or just a great way to stop getting sued for defamation or charged with extortion by every single person who she classes as either a Whistleblower, Hitman, Enemy of the people, or whatever other description her tinfoil-addled brain can come up with.
Eric's last paragraph is fantastic
So, I guess the lesson is that if you are going to defame someone, (1) put your foot on the gas, (2) put your pinky on the shift key, and (3) DON'T HOLD BACK! [emphasis not added]
For those wondering to what Eric is referring, here is an excerpt from the actual opinion by U.S. District Judge Marco A. Hernandez [pdf]:
Defendant's use of question marks and her references to proof that will allegedly occur in the future negate any tendency for her statements to be understood as provable assertions of fact. Her statements contain so little actual content that they do not assert, or imply, verifiable assertions of fact. They are, instead, statements of exaggerated subjective belief such that they cannot be proven true or false.
In other words, the Judge politely and with eloquence meant (in our opinion) that "due to her being batshit crazy no reasonable person would believe anything that vomited from her mouth, let alone web pages"
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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
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The Colorado Avalanche received some good news prior to their regular season finale Sunday night on the road against the Anaheim Ducks. They would come into the final day tied with the St. Louis Blues atop the Central Division in need of a Blues loss to clinch the Central. They would get their wish as the Detroit Red Wings would drop the Blues in a 3-0 shutout win to push the Avs to their first division title since the 2002-03′ season.
Colorado would go into Sunday night's game against the Ducks with nothing to play for, the same would go for the Ducks. Colorado would strike at the 12:11 mark in the first period off of a goal from Brad Malone who collected his third of the season, assisted by Nick Holden and Ryan Wilson. Jumping ahead to the final two minutes of the second period, Stefan Elliott who was just called up in wake of the Tyson Barrie injury, collected his first goal of the season on the assists from Maxime Talbot and Patrick Bordeleau.
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If you didn't watch the game, the Ducks would cheer for forward Teemu Selanne every time he stepped foot on the ice as it is his final season in an NHL uniform. The 43-year-old who was the tenth overall pick back in the 1988 NHL Draft will call it quits after this season after 20 years in the league. He would share a touching moment after the game with Colorado's goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere as they were former teammates and won a Stanley Cup together.
Looking ahead to the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Colorado Avalanche will take on the division rival Minnesota Wild. Colorado would have a lot of success against Minnesota this season, winning the season series 4-1. Here is a look ahead at the scheduling for the first-round.
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An opioid overdose is an acute condition due to excessive use of narcotics. It should not be confused with opioid dependency. Prescription opioid overdose was responsible for more deaths in the United States from 1999-2008 than heroin and cocaine overdose combined.[1]
Signs and symptoms[edit]
Opiate overdose symptoms and signs include: decreased level of consciousness and pinpoint pupils.[2] Heart rate and breathing slow down, sometimes to a stop. Blue lips and nails are caused by insufficient oxygen in the blood. Other symptoms include seizures and muscle spasms. A person experiencing an opiate overdose usually will not wake up even if their name is called or if they are shaken vigorously.
Although opioid overdose accounts for the leading cause of accidental death, it can be prevented and often in primary care settings.[3][4] Clear protocols for staff at emergency departments and urgent care centers can reduce opioid prescriptions for individuals presenting in these settings who engage in "drug seeking" behaviors such as complaining of dental pain or who have a history of substance abuse.[5] Providers should routinely screen patients using tools such as the CADE-AID and the Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST-10) to screen adults and the CRAFFT to screen adolescents aged 14–18 years.[3] Other "drug seeking" behaviors as well as physical indications of drug use should be used as clues to perform formal screenings.[3] Individuals diagnosed with opioid dependence should be prescribed naloxone to prevent overdose and/or should be directed to one of the many intervention/treatment options available, such as needle exchange programs and treatment centers.[3][4] Brief motivational interviewing can also be performed by the clinician during patient visits and has been shown to improve patient motivation to change their behavior.[3][6] Despite these opportunities, the dissemination of prevention interventions in the US has been hampered by the lack of coordination and sluggish federal government response.[4]
Naloxone is very effective at reversing the cause, rather than just the symptoms, of an opioid overdose.[7] A longer-acting variant is naltrexone. Naltrexone is primarily meant to treat opioid and alcohol dependence. Diprenorphine (Revivon) is similar in action to naloxone, only it is significantly stronger and is reserved for acting as an antagonist to the strongest, non-human opioids, such as carfentanyl (in fact, carfentanyl, and other opioids for usage on large animals such as elephants, often come packaged with Revivon to be used after carfentanyl is no longer needed in the animal).
Programs for drug users and their caregivers in the United States where they take-home doses of naloxone and training on its use are estimated to have prevented 10,000 opioid overdose deaths.[8][9] Healthcare institution-based naloxone prescription programs have also helped reduce rates of opioid overdose in the US state of North Carolina, and have been replicated in the US military.[10][11] Nevertheless, scale-up of healthcare-based opioid overdose interventions is limited by providers' insufficient knowledge and negative attitudes towards prescribing take-home naloxone to prevent opioid overdose.[12] Programs training police and fire personnel in opioid overdose response using naloxone have also shown promise in the US.[13][14]
Opioid overdoses associated with a conjunction of benzodiazepines or alcohol use leads to a contraindicated condition wherein higher instances of general negative overdose traits native to the overdose profile of opioid use alone but to a much greater extent.[15][16] Other CNS depressants, or "downers", muscle relaxers, pain relievers, anti-convulsants, anxiolytics (anti-anxiety drugs), treatment drugs of a psychoactive or epileptic variety or any other such drug with its active function meant to calm or mitigate neuronal signaling (barbiturates, etc.) can additionally cause a worsened condition with less likelihood of recovery cumulative to each added drug of a diverse or disparate hampering effect to the central or peripheral nervous system of the user. This includes drugs less immediately classed to a slowing of the metabolism such as with GABAergics like GHB or glutamatergic antagonists like PCP or Ketamine.
- ^ Debono, DJ; Hoeksema, LJ; Hobbs, RD (August 2013). "Caring for Patients with Chronic Pain: Pearls and Pitfalls". Journal of the American Osteopathic Association 113 (8): 620–627. doi:10.7556/jaoa.2013.023. PMID 23918913.
- ^ Chandler, Stephanie. "Symptoms of an opiate overdose". Live Strong. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
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Services:- WiFi internet , Fridge + freezer compartment, ceramic Electric hob & oven with grill, microwave. Flat screen digital TV, DVD player and CD-radio player. I-pod/I-phone docking station. Hair dryer. Oil central heating- no extra charges for electricity or fuel. Towels and bed linen provided. A travel cot is available on request. Washing facilities are on site, please ask. A welcome pack is set for your arrival & an initial supply of coal. Off the lounge is a York stone patio with garden furniture, B.B.Q. and the use of a large grassy garden. Private drive with parking for two cars ensures your stay is complete.
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Posted: 01/18/2010 - The State Board of Education has put off a tentative vote on new standards for teaching social studies until March.
Posted: 01/18/2010 - The State Board of Education has put off a tentative vote on new standards for teaching social studies until March.
Updated: 01/18/2010 - *Update*Authorities ID 4 out of the 5 people found slain in a home in Belville.
Updated: 01/17/2010 - A leading economist says Texas will be "last in, first out" among states battling the recession, although a recovery that has already started will require patience.
Posted: 01/17/2010 - The body of a 49-year-old Dallas woman who died after receiving internal injuries in the collapse of a Haitian eye clinic during a massive earthquake has arrived in Texas.
Posted: 01/16/2010 - Houston police say an officer shot and killed a man who fired on police while they were executing a search warrant at his home.
Posted: 01/15/2010 - New standards for teaching social studies and other lessons in Texas that could affect students nationwide are scheduled for a vote.
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The Fifth Element
Can anyone steer me to a YouTube video excerpt where Ruby Rhod has an encounter with a stewardess just before the shuttle ship takes off?
That Luc Besson is one crazy filmmaker. :p "The Professional" was excellent.
I looked couldn't find it. What are you doing with it?
I want to save it as a bookmarked video clip. It was hilarious. They switched back and forth between launch preparations and this episode and one or two other continuing events.
Agreed. Fifth Element is one of my favorite Scifi flicks.
Take your pick. There are several with varying qualities.
Fhloston Paradise... Classic! I love this movie. BTW, if you want just the encounter part, let me know and I can crop just that and upload it. I'm figuring you want the whole clip though.
Thanks, that's just what I wanted. Women fainting! :p
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Carmel Valley Library appreciates support
I would like to thank the City of San Diego's library department, Councilmember Sherri Lightner and her team, and the Del Mar Highlands Town Center for providing the financial support to repair the exterior of our Carmel Valley Library. On any given day, members of our community of all ages enjoy activities such as story time, Family Music night, studying, tutoring, and exploring the stacks in search of a great read.
I'm so grateful that our community gem will shine like new and all in time for our 20th anniversary celebration, which will be Saturday, July 27, from noon-2 p.m. in the library's community room. I hope you will all help us celebrate. The Friends of the Library are also fundraising to help spruce up the inside of our library (new upholstering for the chairs, repairing the wooden floor, etc.). Please consider joining the Friends of the Carmel Valley Library at any level (lifetime memberships are on sale through September 2013 for $250). You may pick up a Friends envelope at the library. Thank you as well to our community for their generosity in donating books to the library and shopping at our book sales that benefit the library.
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E-learning has become almost ubiquitous over the last decade, while virtual social learning is now spreading rapidly. Yet NASA's Knowledge Services team isn't paying much attention to either training fad.
Ed Hoffman, NASA's chief knowledge officer, said training is merely one aspect of what is otherwise an eclectic pursuit of a knowledgeable workforce.
"We de-emphasize training a little bit because I see organizations -- NASA's been there -- where the notion is that training is the only thing," Hoffman said during a May 15 panel discussion at FOSE.
Instead, developing a better workforce is also about mastering team building, organizational politics, negotiation techniques and what Chris Jandes of the Project Management Initiative calls soft skills. "You just can't have IT skills without having some of the management and soft skills," he stressed.
Hoffman said that during his three-decade tenure at NASA, he has seen first-hand what a void in management skills can do. He has witnessed the best and the brightest crash and burn because they can't get along with each other, while less-talented people have gotten the job done.
"From a competency capability standpoint, they were the most talented people, but they blew themselves up because they didn't like each other, they didn't communicate," Hoffman said. "We have very talented people, incredibly talented people but we've got to do things to create an environment where they can be successful."
The social skills and political savvy come from negotiation programs, mentorship and experience. Hoffman said training is indeed important, but it can't be the only means to create a knowledgeable workforce. "If that's the only thing being done in this current environment, I don't think it's going to be able to be successful at creating knowledgeable people," he said.
But there is a definitely a place for training at NASA – if you define training the way Deputy Chief Knowledge Officer Jon Boyle defines training.
"Training is developing people in order to be able to do things more effectively and efficiently," Boyle said. "If I find the information and I can give them what they need to be able to search for and find, I'm making them more effective and efficient and all I have to do is teach them the interface."
Training is less about navigating through a training program on a computer or going to a seminar than about constant access to relevant content, Boyle said. The key is making that content findable for employees and spotlighting information that can be digested on mobile devices.
Once that content is available, managers can use "return on engagement" metrics to gauge knowledge transfer. For example, rather than measuring the amount of clicks on a piece of content, an ROE would look at the duration of a visit or what was downloaded.
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Coffices, Letter Racers, Chasing Ghosts
A Room of Everyone's Own
The Millions has this editorial about the futility of writing in coffeehouses. Strangely, it does not mention that pulling a single shot of espresso can sound like a sputtering demon being born, which can be distracting. Instead, Lombardi talks about how weird it is to create something in public - - writing as performance.
"Writing in public feels like a performance, but, when we're dealing with literature, the performance is not what endures. To put it another way: the final outcome is the performance. I can't help but assume when I see the coffice-bound writer as one who privileges persona over results.
I'm not sure that someone typing at a computer is really a persona. Maybe if the cofficeur is smoking a pipe and wearing a vest and pacing around the café table, while a white page and the words "MY NOVEL" is in a 242 point font on his screen. But what I do on Sunday mornings is my own goddamn business.
And yet I agree with Lombardi's conclusion that, "literature is a relationship both with solitude and with the rest of the world, and I suppose what bothers me about the laptop hive of the 'coffice' is that it offers neither."
Sure. Although one can feel very isolated while standing in line, waiting to order their cortado. Very isolated indeed…
The Letter Racers
"The letter racers were in his conception totally functional, like models to
demonstrate how the letters would work if they were ever to be mechanized and able to fly into battle."
Speaking of writing, once upon a time there was a graffiti artist who felt that paint was not enough for something as important as the alphabet, and that letters should be able to defend themselves. His name was Rammellzee, and although that wasn't his real name, it suited him.
I saw the Letter Racers at the Suzanne Geiss gallery about two weeks ago, and I'm still thinking about them. Each racer is a letter of the alphabet, rendered in what you could call a graffiti-lettering-by-Voltron aesthetic. It wasn't immediately apparent to me which letter is which, and maybe you may can see why - - the photo I've included in this post is the letter Z.
What's surprising about the Letter Racers is how solid and consistent they are - - each one has parts in common. Sometimes a cheapo umbrella handle is used, sometimes it's toy spaceship parts, but they all share a common language of adornment and embellishment.
What they all have in common is that that they're mounted on skateboards, and they all have a plastic toggle on the back - - the clicking belt component of a backpack or shoulder bag - - which must have connected to a corresponding clip in Rammellzee's studio, the Battle Station. Each racer is big, you'd need two hands to pick up each one, and you really get the sense that they are meant to be raced, or played with, or possibly animated. That's what I keep thinking about - - it seems like they shouldn't be just on display in a gallery.
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Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade
A coin-operated mess of video game history and personalities with no real focus. If this documentary (currently on Netflix) was a game, it would be Centipede, with the filmmaker shooting at a large, connected mass, succeeding only in splitting up the various sections that make up the movie, and probably losing a few quarters in the process.
And yet it has made me think a lot about the idea of the social nature of games; about what kind of games appeal to people; about what people saw when they looked at these early games, which you have to admit, don't really look like much.
What makes Ottumwa, Iowa the home of the Video Game Hall of Fame? What turns a video game champion into a religious evangelist, or someone who describes themselves as being (professionally) just shy of a pimp? What makes someone gravitate to Missile Command over Pac-Man?
Is it that that Ottumwa is so cold that it makes for a stronger arcade? Is it really, as Mr. Awesome (not exactly his real name but kind of) says, that Missile Command is more masculine than Pac-Man? How weird is it that someone would even describe a video game as masculine?
Chasing Ghosts has a bit of unfriendly sensibility to it, sometimes mocking its subjects with computer graphics or editing japery (the mullet montage comes to mind). But it also brings a much-needed sense of messiness and confusion about video games. We act like it's completely normal that people are playing Angry Birds right next to us on the subway. We watch TED talks about the benevolent nature of video games. Forget all that. Let's talk about using an electric knife or a pencil to cheat at Track and Field - - that game is hard.
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Former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt urged a European approach to recapitalizing banks and the creation of a common bond market for the euro region.
Former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt urged a European approach to recapitalizing banks in order to restore confidence in Europe's banking industry.
While debt sharing in the euro area to stem the financial crisis has never been closer, German Chancellor Angela Merkel may keep it out of reach.
Europe should drop its unanimous decision-making principle and shift to a system similar to the International Monetary Fund's weighted votes, with an 80 percent majority required, Guy Verhofstadt, a former prime minister of Belgium, said according to La Tribune.
The European Union lacks a sufficient sense of urgency in tackling the underlying failings of economic and monetary union, as opposed to the immediate issue of Greece, according to Guy Verhofstadt, a member of the European Parliament and former Belgian prime minister, Les Echos reported.
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Guy Verhofstadt, member of the European Parliament and former prime minister of Belgium, discusses European Union budget negotiations. He speaks from Brussels with Maryam Nemazee on Bloomberg Television's "The Pulse." (Source: Bloomberg)
Voters across the European Union give their verdict today on policy makers' handling of the euro- area debt crisis in elections to the European Parliament that may shape the future of the 28-nation bloc.
"The first good news of the night is that we have finally broken the downward trend of falling participation in European elections."
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