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Hi Everyone!
This is a reminder that the Swedish American Museum in Chicago, IL will be having their program titled "Google For Genealogists" with Thomas MacEntee this Saturday, August 25, 2012 at 10:30 AM. What follows after the separator line is the text of my original blog post, published on June 25, 2012, making note of this upcoming event. Guess what? That "upcoming" event is now almost here!
Read my original post and the embedded links to obtain information about the program and the museum.
Here is a chance to learn about Google and its applications to genealogy as well as to visit the Swedish American Museum in Chicago, especially if you have Swedish ancestry.
Check it out!
Tony Kierna
Genealogy Coordinator
Schaumburg Township District Library
Hi Everyone!
I just received notice from the Swedish American Museum located in Chicago, IL that the Nordic Family Genealogy Center will be offering a Genealogy Program on Saturday, August 25, 2012 titled "Google for Genealogists". The speaker for the program will be Thomas, MacEntee.
Registration for the program will occur at 10:15 AM on the day of the program. The program itself will start at 10:30 AM and will last until 12:00 Noon.
Interested participants are being asked to contact the Swedish American Museum at 773-728-8111 to make a reservation to attend the program.
The program cost is free to Museum and Nordic Family Genealogy members. Non-members can also attend for a $10 fee.
Please look at the following PDF flyer for more details of the program.
August 25, 2012 "Google For Genealogists" Program Offered By The Nordic Family Genealogy Center
You can also visit the web site for Nordic Family Genealogy Center as part of the Swedish American Museum at:
Nordic Family Genealogy Center/Swedish American Museum
Mark your calendars for this upcoming event at the Swedish American Museum in Chicago.
Tony Kierna
Genealogy Coordinator
Schaumburg Township District Library


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Disney to target kids mobile services in Europe
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Disney, which has already announced two separate MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) deals in the US (one using the Disney brand and one using its ESPN sports network brand), is widely anticipated to repeat the move in Europe, with announcements due in the next few weeks.
Leaks to the UK Times and the French Les Echos point to Disney launching a phone service for children using prepaid cards, in at least the UK and France.
Word sneaked out when Disney began recruiting people in France and it is understood to be aiming to become a leading mobile operator in Europe. Disney is known to have already been selling ringtones and other material from two mobile websites in both France and the UK at Disneymobile.fr and Disneymobile.co.uk.
In the US Disney has piggy-backed on Sprint's network with a Disney service announced in the Summer, with a sports version yet to come. Disney has made no statements about these proposed European services at present.
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Gellings Implement of Eden cannot quite match the over 110-year history of its primary equipment supplier—New Holland—but its owners are rightfully proud of the 52 years of family ownership of the business.
It is that combination of experience in the equipment industry which helps both Gellings and New Holland excel. Gellings Implement can rely on the time-tested quality of New Holland equipment, and New Holland can rely on the goodwill Gellings Implement has built up over all these years with its customers.
"We are who we are because of longevity," said Ruth Bode, granddaughter of Art Gellings Sr. and daughter of Art Jr. Those two men started the New Holland dealership as Gellings Farm Supply on Mink Road near Eden.
Ruth and her siblings Paul and Dave Gellings continue to guide the business as the third generation of family members there. Their experience with equipment and the customers they have served is a key factor behind the steady growth they have seen over the last three or four years, not to mention the decades in business before that.
Fourth generation in business
But Ruth is also quick to point out that the fourth generation of the Gellings family is now working in the business as well. Matt Gellings (Ken's son) and Jeremy Bode (Ruth's son) became stockholders in 2006 and are helping to bring new ideas and an understanding of the younger farmers throughout the area to Gellings Implement.
"As soon as they could walk they were here," Ruth said of the young men.
It is clear the fourth generation has embraced the focus on customer service started all those years ago. "The operators have gotten bigger, but we still service any size," Matt said. Ruth added that she attributes the longevity of Gellings Implement to "a lot of good customer service."
There are many ways Gellings Implement demonstrates that high level of customer service. In addition to the eight service technicians, three parts people and four sales people in their store, Gellings Implement will send technicians out into the field at all hours if a piece of equipment needs service. With a primary service area which includes all or portions of Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Washington, Ozaukee and Winnebago counties, the staff at Gellings Implement has been known to put some miles on their vehicles.
From Iowa to Door
That primary service area does not limit where equipment sold by Gellings Implement might end up. Ruth said equipment they have sold has been used from Iowa to Door County and many points in between. Gellings Implement has its own semi and trucks its products to its customers.
That equipment certainly has changed over the years. Like everything else, technology has played a role, as has the increase in the size of many farm operations.
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Tractors these days can have everything from air ride seats to satellite guidance systems to help in planting, harvesting and manure application.
Thirty years ago Gellings Implement probably carried 20 small balers; today it stocks just a couple. As farm operations have grown farmers need larger, more efficient and dependable equipment, and New Holland and the other manufacturers carried by Gellings Implement have delivered. "I think that helps them get more done with less people," Matt said.
Whether it be contractors, landscapers, farmers or homeowners, Gellings Implement sells and services equipment for all those purposes and more. What all users have in common is that nobody wants a piece of equipment to go down, because time is money. Gellings Implement helps to keep that from happening by offering winter and pre-season service programs and owners' clinics.
Top Service program offered
Machinery is made to work hard and breakdowns will still occur. To help mitigate this problem, New Holland offers its Top Service™ program for equipment under warranty. The program guarantees having a piece of equipment up and running within 24 hours or making a replacement piece available to the user.
Another program the business offers is its parts drop box system. Gellings Implement has strategically placed 15 parts drop boxes throughout the region with deliveries made Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. With drop boxes in New Holstein, St. Nazianz, Malone and many other locations, Gellings Implement has placed them at feed mills or other places farmers frequent, saving its customers time and gas and getting parts in their hands faster.
All of those programs focusing on customer service helped Gellings Implement win the 2010 President's Club Award from New Holland. Gellings was one of only two recipients of the award in the state.
The growth of Gellings Implement in the last few years has the owners looking at doing an expansion of their shop facility. It will not be the first expansion for Gellings, as in 1978 Art Jr. and his family moved the business from Mink Road to its current location on STH 45 just southeast of the village of Eden.
In addition to being one of the largest full line New Holland dealerships in Wisconsin, Gellings Implement carries other short lines including H&S Equipment, Versatile tractors and Krause tillage equipment.
Specializing in self-propelled forage equipment, Gellings also services and sells all sizes of tractors, hay and forage equipment, combines, skid steer loaders and telehandlers. Gellings Implement added the Versatile tractor line in 2005.
"It's fun to see everything change," Ruth said as she watched the fourth generation of family members head back to work, knowing that one thing which will not change is the focus on customer service.


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#1 Texting gone wrong09-26-2013, 06:53 PM
A middle-aged couple had finally learned how to send and receive texts on their cell phones.
The wife, being a romantic at heart, decided one day that she'd send her husband a text while she was out of the house having coffee with a friend. She texted:
If you are sleeping, send me your dreams.
If you are laughing, send me your smile.
If you are eating, send me a bite.
If you are drinking, send me a sip.
If you are crying, send me your tears.
I love you.
The husband, being a no-nonsense sort of guy, texted back:
I'm on the toilet.
Please advise.It's not how old you are, it's how you got here.
It's been a long road and not all of it was paved.
A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. Gandhi
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In its first few years the festival was small, but it has steadily grown in popularity, says Delite Primus, YGP's executive director.
"It was quite a bit smaller in participation, and we had fewer activities and vendors," she said. "Basically everything has gotten bigger over the years."
Last year, about 1,800 people attended the festival, which is one of the YGP's biggest fundraisers each year, bringing in approximately $12,000 for the nonprofit.
This year will be the festival's first year in its new location at the Grand County High School soccer fields, 608 South 400 East, but the festival won't be much different from previous years, Primus said.
"We'll have all of the same much-loved aspects of the festival," she said. "We'll still have wiener dog races, pony rides and tractor rides."
Primus said many people have expressed concern about the effect the new location will have on the focus of the festival: the pumpkin chucking. Festival organizers have worked to ensure that element of the event will still be just as fun, she said.
"The chucking is still going to happen, and it's still going to be safe," Primus said.
Several teams have signed up to compete in the pumpkin chucking, and Primus has been talking to a few others.
Although the gourds flying through the air are the main focus of the event, additional activities, vendors and live performances on the center stage make it a true community festival.
"Every year we try to include more organizations," Primus said. "We have lots of nonprofits with activity booths to help raise awareness about their organizations."


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Private rooms are designed with patients in mind.
The new, $100 million addition to Chambersburg Hospital will be open to the public for tours from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Dec. 1.
The addition was designed to "provide a comfortable and soothing atmosphere to help patients rest easier and heal faster."
The 180,000-square-foot addition features 171 private rooms with personal bathrooms; flat screen televisions; temperature controls in each room; comfortable guest furniture; unique, calming glass sculptures and uplifting photographs by local artists; Wi-Fi access; and soothing colors and decor.
"We know that spending time with loved ones is important for healing," said Norman Epstein, president and CEO of Summit Health. "So the new rooms are designed to be spacious enough for our patients to spend time with their visitors."
Heart care
Chambersburg Hospital's award-winning heart care program has also undergone an expansion to the cardiac catheterization lab. The space has expanded from 3,100 square feet to 20,000 square feet and will include:
— Three catheterization labs
— 12 patient bays
— GE imaging technology
— More privacy for patients
— Larger, more comfortable waiting room for visitors
For more information about Chambersburg Hospital, call 267-3000 or visit:
Frequently Asked Questions
John Massimilla, vice president and chief operating officer of Chambersburg Hospital, answers frequently asked questions about the King Street addition.
Q: When did construction begin?
A: We broke ground for the King Street addition to Chambersburg Hospital in July 2010.
Q: How much did this addition cost?
A: The total cost to build the King Street addition, including equipment, furniture and landscaping, was about $100 million.
Q: How large is the addition?
A: The total additional square footage is about 180,000-square-feet — that's equal to three NFL football fields.
The amount of dirt removed from the property would fit into about 585 dump trucks.
The amount of rebar used in the construction would weigh about the same as 185 African elephants.
The concrete used in the project would fill about 388 concrete trucks.
The cubic yards of the concrete structure are equal to nearly 3,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
The new building has 49 miles of plumbing, which almost equals the distance from Chambersburg to Harrisburg.
If you laid all the drywall from the new building flat on the ground, it would cover almost nine acres.
Q: How many rooms are in the addition?
A: There are 171 private patient rooms in the King Street addition.
Q: Why are private rooms important?
A: Private patient rooms help patients rest easier and heal faster.
Noise reduction — Research has shown that improved sleep while in the hospital can lead to a quicker recovery.
Comfort — We know that spending time with loved ones is a key ingredient for healing, so the new rooms are spacious enough for patients to spend time with their guests.
Safety — Evidence has also shown that private rooms reduce the risk of transmission of "germs" among patients. Also, with the larger size of the rooms, patients, guests, and staff can comfortably be in the room together with reduced risk of tripping over medical equipment or cords than in double-patient rooms.
Q: What are the special features of this new addition?
A: Flat screens and Wi-Fi — Each room will have a wall-mounted flat screen television that offers cable service as well as the hospital's own education channel. The televisions also offer access to the Internet. Wi-fi is available to patients and guests because we know it's important to stay connected to family and friends during your stay.
Updated waiting areas and unique, calming art work — It's important to us that all of our guests are comfortable. Our architects designed relaxing, open-air waiting areas with televisions and natural light on each floor. The waiting areas are near the guest rest rooms and vending areas.
Local artists also contributed their time and talents to help create a soothing, calming atmosphere for our patients and guests.
Glass sculpture and artwork — By Michael Fisher, born in Chambersburg Hospital and a Chambersburg Area Senior High School alumnus, and owner of Fisher Glass Design and co-owner of DeVerre Elements, LLC
Photos of nature in patient rooms — Dr. T. Toe Thane, retired radiologist at Chambersburg Hospital and Waynesboro Hospital
Stonescape — Robb Fox Landscaping of Chambersburg
Landscape — GQ Creations Inc. of Chambersburg
Selection of artwork — Karrie and Maryann Fisher, Decorating Den Interiors, Chambersburg
Q: Can my family spend the night in my room?
A: Yes. We know that spending time with loved ones is a key ingredient in healing, so our visiting policy is flexible to meet the needs of our patients and their designated family members. Sleeping accommodations are available.
Q: Will I have to pay more now because I will be in a private room?
A: No. Hospital room costs will not be impacted by this improvement.
Q: How many patients can you admit now?
A: Our licensed bed count will remain at 240 beds.
Q: What are you doing with the "old" section of the hospital?
A: Plans are still in process. Several of the units will be held for future use. Some of the vacated space is near areas that may require future expansion.
Q: Why didn't you just renovate the existing rooms?
A: We considered renovating the existing rooms into private rooms, but it would have required a combination of new and renovated construction, which would have been very noisy and disruptive to our patients. We completed this project with no service interruptions.
Q: Why did you decide to build now when the economy is distressed?
A: We knew that a modern facility like this was essential to Franklin County, especially given the advances in technology. And, the diligent and careful planning of our team allowed us the opportunity to fund this project.
Q: Where is the main entrance?
A: The main entrance to Chambersburg Hospital will still be located next to our parking terrace. You can walk through both sections of the hospital without leaving the building. The coffee shop, gift shop and outpatient registration areas will remain in their current locations in the main lobby.
Q: How will I know which entrance to use to visit my friend?
A: You can walk through both sections of the hospital without leaving the building. New directional signs have been placed to help you find your way.
Also, our information desks in the main lobby and in the new addition will be staffed during traditional visiting hours.
After 8 p.m., all guests are asked to enter the hospital through the Emergency Department.
Q: Are you sure you won't put someone in my room if you get really busy?
A: The new private rooms were designed for only one patient.


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NEW YORK – Head coach Rich Mueller has announced the Class of 2018 which features a pair of talented newcomers in Curtis Chan and Joshua Suh, who will join the Columbia men's golf team in the fall of 2014.
Chan will arrive in Morningside Heights via Richmond, British Columbia with four years of experience as a high school golfer at Steveston-London Secondary School. The four-year team captain led SLSS to an eighth-place showing at the British Columbia High School AAA Championship in 2011, while placing fifth as an individual.
In junior tournament competition, Chan recorded a slew of top finishes. In 2009, he claimed top medalist honors at the U.S. Kids Golf World Championships and the British Columbia Bantam Boys Championships, while also tying for third at the Callaway Junior World Golf Championships. The following year, Chan won the British Columbia Juvenile Boys Championship and earned fifth-place finishes at the Canadian Juvenile and CN Future Links Pacific Championships. The Western Canada Summer Games of 2011 featured an individual bronze medal for Chan, while Team BC earned the gold medal. In 2012, Chan won the individual gold at the BC Summer Games and finished fourth at the Junior Americas Cup as Team BC's captain. This past year saw Chan finish second in the Juvenile division and eighth in Junior category of the Canadian Junior Boys Championship.
In the classroom, Chan received SLSS's Academic Award all four years. He was honored with the Inspirational and Math Awards for the 2009-10 year. At the University of Waterloo Canadian Mathematics Competitions, Chan received the Certificate of Distinction Awards from 2010-12. In 2013, he was honored by his hometown with the UROC (Richmond Outstanding Community) Youth Award.
Although hailing from the Golden State, the ties to Canada continue as Columbia's second recruit, Joshua calls La Canada, Calif. home. The four-year member and three-year letterwinner of the men's golf team at La Canada High School, Suh served as team captain during his senior season. He is a three-time Rio Hondo League first team selection during his high school career.
Suh competed in the Toyota Tour Cup International at Westin Mission Hills, claiming fourth place with a score of 7-68-73—211. At the L.A. City Junior Golf Championships five-over with a three-round score of 68-66-73—207.


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PHILADELPHIA — For now, Tyreke Evans is in Sacramento. Next year, for any number of reasons, he might not be. While his future locale is unknown, Evans always relishes a chance to visit his real home.
Evans, the fourth-year guard, and the rest of the Kings landed here midweek. Thursday, he stopped by his Chester home to visit family. Friday, he invited them all to Wells Fargo Center, where he was playing against the 76ers.
"Ticket requests? Too many," Evans said. "It's maybe like 25."
Between an injury and his contract status, there's plenty to worry Evans, if he'd allow it.
It was only six weeks ago that a left knee tweak sidelined Evans for 11 games. And Sacramento has yet to pick up Evans for next season, though the team could make a one-year, $6.9 million qualifying offer this offseason that would make Evans a restricted free agent this summer.
Then there's the rigmarole of the Kings relocating to Seattle.
"I don't worry about that stuff, man. Can't," Evans said at Temple University, following the Kings' morning shootaround. "I leave all of that stuff up to the owners."
The Kings like Evans. They like that the soft-spoken kid taken fourth overall in the 2009 draft is slowly becoming their vocal leader. They like that the three-time All-Delco from American Christian breaks up scoring droughts by drawing contact in the lane.
Maybe most of all, they like that degree of toughness, the kind usually associated with Chester natives.
"You hear about the things he does — clothing drives, things like that — and to understand that he went through some tough times, I think that's why he's so humble," Sacramento coach Keith Smart said.
"He'll be on the bench and I want to get him back in, and he goes, 'Coach, they're playing well. Let them play.' That's unusual for a guy in a contract year, and that's why I think he'll be a big part of our team moving forward."
Part of moving forward, from a personal standpoint, has involved Evans overcoming tough situations.
Evans was never formally charged in a November 2007 murder in the Toby Farms section of Chester, where his cousin Jamar Evans shot and killed a man from a car that Tyreke was driving. Jamar Evans is serving nine-to-20 years for the killing.
"It's tough. Not a lot of good things go on out there," Tyreke Evans said of Chester. "You can get in trouble easy. I had my brothers take good care of me and to make it out is a big thing to be successful.
"My brothers are older than me so they kept me away from the negative and the drama. My friends were always getting involved in other stuff, but they made sure I was focused on basketball and getting better."
Despite that dark chapter in his life, Evans is proud of his roots and his hometown.
He made time Thursday to meet up with Temple senior Rahlir Hollis-Jefferson, a Chester High All-Delco, after the Kings concluded their practice at the Owls' facility. The same day, Evans reached out to Hollis-Jefferson's brother, Chester senior Rondae Jefferson, who became the third Delaware County player — and the second Chester native — to be named to the McDonald's All-American Game.
The first — Evans.
"That's big. A big opportunity. I'm happy for him," Evans said of Jefferson. "It's a challenge to come from where he comes from and to get a chance to make that game — he's the second from Chester to do it — so I'm proud of him."
There's plenty to distract Evans these days. But his Chester pride is enough of a distraction.
The Sixers were all accounted for. Almost.
Damien Wilkins, who missed most of the week due to personal reasons, was back. Jason Richardson was not. Even with Wilkins' return, Sixers coach Doug Collins said Dorell Wright would "get the first call" off the bench.
Richardson was still in Vail, Colo., where he got a second opinion on his left knee. Weather issues precluded him from returning to Philly.


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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Nurses and Female Doctors
That is, nurses and female doctors who work together? Can they be good friends? Outside of the hospital setting?
I think the answer may be no. I wish it were yes. But I'm pretty sure it's no.
Where I work, most of the doctors are older. The nurses are younger, closer to my age, a lot are in the same stage of life in terms of having kids, etc. And there are many that I really like and I sense that they like me. We chat in a friendly way and have a sociable relationship. But I feel like there's this WALL between us that will keep us from ever being real friends. My tip-off is that they all call me Dr. Fizzy, despite the fact that I have asked several to call me by my first name. The only ones who call me by my first name are.... the MALE nurses.
Of course, for male doctors, I think it's a different ball game. Because they can flirt. I don't know how many male doctors have become friends with the nurses they worked with, but I bet there are plenty that have started dating.
Or am I wrong?
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I was once really good friends with a nurse. I'll never forget her telling me one day "You really love writing those words "Pitocin as ordered" don't you? You know that my life for the next umpteen hours is going to be hell and I'm going to be working my a-- off". I was so shocked. To me, it was about getting the baby delivered, and we were a team in making that happen. To her it was about me bossing her around.ReplyDelete
I still think docs can be friends with nurses. I call several nurse practitioners my friends. My sisters are nurses after all. But that one day made me realize how steep the wall is one needs to climb to make that happen.
But we do have to pay attention to language. In a team is 'ordered' the best word to use? OK, doctors order tests from other doctors but do do nurses ever 'order' doctors? Would they ever write that a doctor was ordered to examine a patient in notes, for example? Would a nurse 'order' another nurse to do a task? We can become so familiar with the language we use that we don't realise the meaning it has for others. Working in teams has to involve developing these kinds of understanding.ReplyDelete
With regards to the original post I can't see any reason why doctors and nurses can be friends. I am friends with the nurses who I work with in primary care.
Margaret: I think it's different with NPs, because they basically act like physicians. It's a different relationship.ReplyDelete
Anne Marie: You say you're friends with the nurses.... do you go to movies together and socialize one on one outside of work?
- Dr.NanaApril 12, 2011 at 9:51 AM
Friendly, yes; respectful, yes; friends, no. Especially if the physician is in any supervisory position of the nurse. Goes into the "asking for trouble" category.ReplyDelete
@Fizzy I socialise with the nurses just as much, or as little, as with the doctors. It might be worth pointing out that I am salaried as are all team members.ReplyDelete
@Fizzy I guess I didn't understand from your post what the nature of the 'wall' was. Why can it be overcome by male-female friendships? It sounds as if gender is a very powerful force in this as you describe it.ReplyDelete
Anne Marie: Saying you socialize as much with the doctors as you do with the nurses doesn't mean much if you don't socialize with the doctors. Do you socialize outside of work one on one with nurses?ReplyDelete
I'm not sure if male doctors and female nurses can have a real friendship either, but they can have a different kind of relationship. It may be controversial to say this, but I think it's partially b/c women don't mind as much getting "orders" from men as they do from women.
As a former nurse and current m1, I totally agree with fizzy.ReplyDelete
And yes, I agree that it may be gender related.
Also, any nurse who gets offended by the phrase "as ordered" has a huge chip on his/her shoulders.
- AnonymousApril 12, 2011 at 12:11 PM
As a nurse, I think it gets uncomfortable to be friends with a doc, just like it would be uncomfortable to be social friends with one's boss in any field. Because a very real degree, docs are the "bosses" of the nurses. Any employee would be careful of what they say around their bosses, because you can never unsay something that makes your boss mistrust you at work. It's hard to be a real friend to someone when you have to watch what you say.ReplyDelete
@Fizzy Basically, I'm trying to say that I have worked with these people for 9 years and I consider them friends. I don't go to the movies with anyone that I work with, but we have participated in sports events together (with admin staff as well), and socialised around these. We call each other by first names. I show them family photos. I tell them about problems I might be having.ReplyDelete
I've pointed out that primary care might be different, especially as I'm not the employer of these nurses.
I think this is a worthwhile topic to discuss, especially for a blog of female doctors.
I'm going to have to agree with Fizzy on this one, although I'm not sure about male vs. female.ReplyDelete
I tried to be friends with my nurses when I was in my first job. It worked well for a while (i.e. social events outside of work) until one nurse had some performance issues and it became awkward trying to figure out if she needed to be written up for it, etc.
I think it's a totally different ball game with NPs and PAs since they are also providers, but it is a little awkward if you are their supervising physician.
I'm not sure if the relationship is more difficult with women doctors and women nurses versus man doctors and women nurses. The man physicians I've worked with in the past and present are not friends with their woman nurses at all.
I think it's easier to keep things separate from a professional standpoint. Currently I am friendly with the nurses and staff - we talk about our lives, families, we have office-related social events, but we don't do anything outside of work together, we aren't friends on facebook, and I like it better this way, because it allows me to be more objective at work when I need to.
I had a quick search and indeed this topic is researched! "Gender and power: Nurses and doctors in Canada"ReplyDelete
I hope you find it interesting.
- AnonymousApril 12, 2011 at 2:48 PM
I think whether female docs and nurses can be real friends depends a lot on the practice environment. I spent 4 years in the military as a physician and was the same rank as many of the nurses. That dissipated some of the usual nurse/doctor hierarchy issues and I made a very good nurse friend, who remains a friend today. We live in different states now but if the opportunity was there, would go to the movies together, get our kids together, etc.ReplyDelete
The hierarchy is much more rigid at my current civilian hospital so it would be MUCH harder to overcome it, though one of my former partners did- she had a true bosom friend among the nurses.
I think women have a harder time forming friendships when there's a large power differential, whether real or perceived.
- smalltowndocApril 12, 2011 at 3:15 PM
I have good friends that are nurses but we don't work together. So, I don't think it is realistic to be friends with nurses at my hospital/office. It may be that the type of work environment makes a difference. I am in a small town rural hospital and like Kelly above, I initially was friends with a few of them and it became very akward when there were performance issues. Actually, not just akward but big blow up kind of stuff - blah!ReplyDelete
So, I learned the hard way that it is definitely not possible for me here to be close friends with nurses. I can be friendly yes, but not close. I look at my close friends here (few and far between for reasons discussed many times on this blog!!) and they are all professionals in the area - one is my PA, a pharmacist, lawyer and a principal. These are women whom I can trust and who understand the nuances of being a mom and a professional.
RNmom: I understand that, as I've had attendings who wanted to be friends and there was always kind of an awkwardness we couldn't overcome because they were essentially my boss, even if they weren't my direct attending.ReplyDelete
Kelly: I don't know any male physicians who are friends with female nurses they work with. But I know a lot who have dated them!
smalltowndoc: I do think it's possible to be friends with a nurse you don't work with. But people do naturally make friends with the people they work with (sometimes) so it's sad that it can't happen between doctors and nurses.
I think the real question is: why do you want to be their friend? You work with these people. Sure, sometimes friendships come from work, but more often they don't. There's nothing wrong with having a friendly but professional relationship. Perhaps, under the right circumstances, these relationships could potentially grow into a real friendship. But if you're wondering why is just isn't happening between you and the nurses, perhaps you're just expecting too much.ReplyDelete
I don't really think this is a woman thing either. A flirtation is not the same thing as a real friendship. The male drs aren't really "friends" with the female nurses either.
OMDG: Well, in college, my friends were my classmates; in med school, my best friends were other students; in residency, etc etc. So I guess I expect to make friends in the same place I work. Plus I've moved around so much in the last several years that I have to keep starting from scratch, so I'm looking for the path of least resistance. But you're right that it's probably not a good idea anymore. And I'm not *wondering* so much as just kind of irked by it.ReplyDelete
Well Fizzy, now that you have your first real job, welcome to the reality that your coworkers won't necessarily be your friends. Working (unfortunately) is nothing like being a student. One of the sucky things about being an adult is that it's harder to make friends than it was in school -- or at least friendships of the same intensity. Sometimes you get lucky and it happens, but lots of times it just doesn't. One of the nice things about medicine as opposed to other fields is there seems to be more camaraderie between people who work together, but you should realize that's not the norm for a lot of / most workplaces.ReplyDelete
When I was a surgery resident in the 1980s I was friendly with the nurses, but there was always a slight discomfort in the relationship. The RNs generally were comfortable being friendly with doctors and with women-- but in different ways, and it was hard to combine it. But generally we figured out a friendly relationship that worked.ReplyDelete
I am friendly with the RNs I work with, although few of them are truly my friends. But I count many RNs among my closest friends. Some of these friendships began as working relationships and were sustained when we stopped working together. Most are through my professional society, which includes MDs, RNs, PhDs, PTs, DPMs and many others.
In general I agree with the concept of maintaining a friendly professional relationship with co-workers, especially if I have the power to give them orders.
- mom of 2.5 and docApril 12, 2011 at 8:09 PM
One of my closest friends in the world is a nurse who I met (and worked with) for three years while a resident. So yes, I think its possible. we don't work together anymore, but I've counted her among my clsest friends since internship.ReplyDelete
I agree with the above poster who said its harder to make real friends at work after fellowship/residency/med student days. I've been in the same division for 10 years now, and while I really like and enjoy many of my physician colleagues, we have a different relationship I did with my co-residents/fellows and I wouldn't call us "friends" in the same way. I've made very good friends though with people in other divisions where we socilalize outside of work. I don't work directly with nurses very much anymore - I think if you were their direct supervisor it wouldn't be advisable to be "friends". I'm not "friends" with my boss(es) either - but i really like them and have a good working relationship.
I am a former nurse, now doctor. I think down here (Australia) the heirarchy in hospitals, while very much still there, is changing a lot. I absolutely have close friends who are nurses. We socialise, our kids socialise, they are some of the most important relationships in my life.ReplyDelete
We respect each others professional roles,I find nurses invaluable resources on things like wound dressings and hospital logistics. My child health nurse friend shares her techniques for low trauma vaccinations which I very much appreciate. My nurse friends respect my role and will often ask my advice. Where possible I talk through why I;ve decided to do something a certain way (if the nurse is initially unhappy).
When I was going through Nursing school I worked as a patient care assistant. While I was going through medical school I worked as a nurse. Each and every person in the working environment has a key role to play.
My first job as a doctor I became very close to the receptionists who welcomed me socially to the town and invited me to join their sports teams etc.
This is not an unusual phenomena in Australia and I imagine a similar blog post would get very different responses. I wonder if it is due to different workplaces? Different culture in the wider society? Not sure.
This is very off topic, but I am new to this website and I'm wondering how to make a post. Can anyone help me out? thanks!ReplyDelete
I wonder if it is a little bit different in pathology? One of our senior level pathologists used to be a med tech and she has some very close friendships with the med techs that she started a flow cytometry lab with years ago.ReplyDelete
I have also developed a good friendship with a PA in the gross room - she is about my age and yes, we go to movies together. Reading all of the above makes me wonder if this was, in retrospect, a bad idea, but I think overall we do a good job of keeping our friendship off of the political aspects of work - purely social and mostly our outside of work interests. Here's to hoping I can be Australian and continue my close friendship without troubles.
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@kc - thank you. Can people respond to your post? I really need some advice/support.ReplyDelete
smalltowndoc - I was in a very rural setting in my 1st job, and am in a semi-rural setting my 2nd job.ReplyDelete
Old MD Girl - I absolutely agree about the difference in making friends as a student/resident vs. in private practice. Most of my closest friends were my peers, but in my first job the other doctors were older men, and a close friendship just didn't happen. In this job there is one other older doctor who's a man, and I don't even see him because he's in clinic when I'm not, so obviously that's not happening either. I miss having a large group of similar aged and similarly minded women professionals to befriend, but that's just the nature of my job. I'm sure it's different for those who work in larger groups with more women.
I also do not think male doctors dating female nurses counts as friendship. I think it's even more difficult for these demographics to become friends, and there aren't many male nurses to have male doctor-nurse friendships. So just from the standpoint of demographics it becomes a female doctor-nurse friendship issue.
I'm friends with the paralegals I supervise- actually have a good number of friends among them, and it's a similar dynamic. I suspect it has more to do with the individual workplace than with the dynamic. Some workplaces are more hierarchical than others.ReplyDelete
I also know that my OB is BFF's with a specialist nurse she works with from time to time- not constant supervision but they do interact professionally.
I'm friends with nurses in the ER: Facebook, parties, occasional clubbing, the full meal deal, but I think ER people are less impressed by hierarchy and so are younger people.ReplyDelete
However, I've recently realized that envy/jealousy is an unspoken problem in some of my other friendships (getting a lot of "You have it all" kind of comments and some passive aggressive crap) and I'd love to see MiM address this. Thanks!
Quite late, but I wanted to say thanks for this post! I'm an M2, and this is actually a topic that's brought up quite a bit as we ask upperclassmen for advice about starting our clinical years. The consensus does seem to be that female med students (and residents) have a more difficult relationship with nurses than the males do.ReplyDelete
I do sometimes wonder whether some part of this has to do with constant patient assumptions that the females on the care team are nurses -- constantly hearing "no, I'm a med student/doctor" would bother me if I were a nurse. This is such a tricky topic and I do hope conversations about it continue!!
- AnonymousApril 27, 2011 at 11:15 AM
I think it's interesting that you note that because the nurses call you Dr. X rather than your first name, that you can't be friends. I've heard almost opposite concerns from female physicians at my institution (where i'm an M2)- that the nurses will call the male doctors Dr X but then be more casual, first name basis with the female doctors. That particular doctor noted that while she liked being friendly with the nurses, they were less likely to think of her as a boss. (the example she gave her was that for the male doctors it would be "here's the chart, dr. x" where as for her it would be "hey firstname, chart's over there"ReplyDelete
I guess this really doesn't address whether or not they can be friends, but perhaps illustrates more how trying to be friends when you're the "boss" can be a tricky situation.
Interesting discussion!
I don't see why they can't be friends. They can be friends in ER and Nurse Jackie so obviously it happens in real life. All kidding aside I really think friendship is possible. I am a girl AND friends with three nurses who work in the hospital I practice. I always use the same language I would with any other doctors and embrace whatever opinion they may have. I've noticed that nurses help me catch any stupid mistake I make like ordering 200 mgs of whatever when it should have been 20. Hierarchy is not an issue if you work together instead of above them. There's no advantage to acting like you're better or because rules say so. I listen to the med student because he can make a smart observation I hadn't thought about even if it turns out it's stupid so why is a nurse (who has more experience) to be ignored? In fact, they are usually more prompt with any orders I script and overall mood is better. Be friendly!ReplyDelete
I'm currently a nurse applying to med school and I work in a big teaching hospital with many interns and residents. I'm a couple of years younger than most of the interns and I actually find it easier to have friendly relationships with the female doctors than the males. Perhaps I'm hypersensitive to the idea of flirtatious nurses, but I'm hesitant to be too friendly or casual with the male residents lest it seem like flirtation.ReplyDelete
All of this, of course, is under the umbrella of friendly work relationships. I don't see myself developing meaningful friendships with any of the interns/residents while I am a nurse. I agree with Fizzy - it feels like there is a huge invisible wall. I'm ambivalent about it, though. I see why it's important to maintain a healthy distance, and at the same time suspect that had we med outside the context of the workplace (like in undergrad) we could have been great friends.
Some women doctors have the same qualifications and experience that some male doctors and have gone to the well-known medical schools and has worked with top rated hospitals. And also, there are some patients who feel more comfortable going to a doctor with male doctor.ReplyDelete
I am an ER doctor. During my residency, residents, attendings, nurses, security guards, etc hung out outside of the workplace all of the time. We were friends...played softball together, had drinks together, confided in each other, etc. Even now as an attending out of state, I am good friends with the nurses I work with. They've been to my home and vice versa. We have parties and everything together. Of course, I think people who work in the ER tend to be more free-spirited than your "typical" doctor, at least where I've worked. But, I do have an OB friend who hangs out with her nurses alot, too. So, it really just depends on the people. But, I do think they can be friends. Heck, my husband is a nurse, if that means anything.ReplyDelete


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CRAP! That throws a spanner in the works!After assuming we wouldn't see a 5D III until Q1 2012 I was planning on buying a 5D II TOMORROW. I actually bought plane tickets to Bangkok to buy it! (no camera shops where i live)
Sounds like someone urgently needs to consider upgrading their computer system, or at least parts of it.I on the other hand want the highest mp count they can possibly cram into the beast, 65mp? Bring it on!


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The American automotive industry is reporting strong sales this summer – something that could be viewed as a sign of increased consumer confidence and a recovering economy. Chuck Vander Waal, owner of Ulrich Ford, Lincoln, Mercury in Pella says his business has seen a steady increase in sales since mid-March, adding that Ford vehicles nationwide have increased their sales from last year.
Pella Motors owner Craig Ford adds that sales this summer have been even stronger than last year during "Cash for Clunkers", saying that the current demand for new vehicles has been high, which has made it challenging to find inventory.
Aaron Axtell, General Manager of Motor Inn in Knoxville says while they are just getting started back up as a dealership after being approved as a General Motors dealership a few weeks ago, he is real happy with how sales have been going so far this year. Axtell says he thinks auto sales in general are better than they have been in recent years and months but they are not yet where they should be and he hopes the market will continue to improve. One thing that Axtell says has helped them is being able to again have vehicles available for quick delivery so that customers have access to the cars and trucks they want. Trucks seem to be very popular lately as Axtell says they have sold a lot of ½ and ¼ ton pickups and diesel trucks as well. He says the community has been rallying behind them and he thinks things will only get better as time moves on.


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Opening Statement:
"I thought we just got after some things we need to get after relative to being aggressive on the boards. I love 24 offensive rebounds and if that were 30 I would be really happy, 25 free throw attempts, getting to the line and also the assists approaching 20. We are working on things; I really thought there was great leadership out there. I thought Tricia [Liston] really set the tone. She was consistent in here rebounding; she rebounded for the entire game, start to finish, and I love when players do that. I think any player can rebound for a half, but to keep up that endurance and go get the ball for 40 minutes, or close to 40 minutes is great. I thought Elizabeth [Williams] was tremendous in the time she had, 17 minutes. Eight rebounds in 17 minutes, I think she is hungry to play and just getting right back to form. It was a good team win, but we are excited to hit the road. It has been nice to be home, but it is nice to take a trip."
On Offensive Rebounding:
"At halftime, we only had six offensive rebounds, it is important to note that, so we picked up 18 in the second half. You can imagine what we would be like if we could pull 18 and 18 in games. We have emphasized and we have talked about, you got to do the dirty work. It is kind of substance over style. Style is great. We get a lot of style points, because we have a lot of great players, but that is not going to take you to the promised land. Substance is, and having that many offensive rebounds in the second half indicates what we can do."
On Ka'lia Johnson:
"Ka'lia did some nice things. She was attacking, I love that she got to the free throw line. I don't like the two rebounds though. In her position, for what she does, she really has to rebound for us, but I loved the fact that she got the steals she did, and the hustle she plays with, so Ka'lia is working on her game, and bringing something every time."
On Rebounding:
"Anybody who rebounds can have an enormous role…so there is this real emphasis on everyone pulling their weight with rebounding. Then just letting the rest of the game come to you. It is amazing, anybody that rebounds plays great basketball. I have never seen anyone with 12 rebounds who didn't play a great game. It just goes that way, and I think sometimes we get that backwards, like points are the end-all. Right now, it is being able to do the dirty work, out fight people, out scrap people as these games are tough, and we are going into some tough games coming up, very physical, so if we can dictate that, we are in good shape."
On Overcoming 2nd Half Shooting Percentage:
"Look at our shooting percentage, 59% in the first half, and then you see a drop to 40% [in the second half]. We missed some layups, as you noted in the second half, we missed some stuff, but that is what you have to understand. We might miss some stuff that is why the defense and rebounding are so important. It is funny, we dominated in the second half defending and rebounding and you didn't really feel our 41% shooting. Nobody would notice that and that is important to understand, yeah we are 48% for the game, but you have to be ready for anything. You can't be a prima donna team who has to shoot 50% or the game is over, you have to be able to do it all."
Duke Junior Tricia Liston
On the team's rebounding in the second half:
"Coach P at halftime got on us a little bit for the rebounding because our goal was to have 25 o-boards and we were nowhere close as she said earlier so that kind of sparked a fire under us a little bit. Haley [Peters] came out right away and got two or three [rebounds] on one possession and Elizabeth came in and got two or three in one possession and I think that got everyone going. I don't know how many we had in the second half but it was definitely more than we had in the first half and we were just trying to stay aggressive and crash the o-boards, get the defensive boards and try to get it going from there."
On Duke's energy and movement on defense:
"Right now we feel pretty good. We still have so much to do on defense more than what we've shown so far. We are trying to constantly move and keep our hands up, that's a big thing, just so we look like we're long and we're bigger and there's not as many openings. We still can do some things better and being constantly moving is something that will help us shut down other teams. I think that all comes from our energy though and talking and 'I got next pass, I got here' and that allows everyone to just shift, the whole defense is moving and it creates a hard time for the offense."
Duke Sophomore Elizabeth Williams
On how she's feeling getting back from injury:
"I feel really good. It's nice to get back playing. I'm gradually increasing [minutes], so I got 17 today. I'll just keep going up. When I'm playing, I feel good. I'm not worried about my legs or anything, which is good so I can focus on rebounding."
On getting into early foul trouble while on minute restrictions:
"I cut my minutes short a little early in the first half but it happens and having that time to sit down, I was able to come out in the second half with more injury."
On coming off the bench:
"It's different. Just this whole off season and pre-season, having a different perspective, knowing that nothing's really guaranteed, I try to just play my hardest each time I'm on the court."
Valparaiso Head Coach Tracey Dorow
Opening Statement:
"Obviously we ran into a very good Duke team. I thought they played extremely well. I thought they executed well, put a lot of pressure on us, got a lot of tips on balls, got a lot of turnovers. You look at their points off turnovers, they had 36 points off of turnovers. That is a big difference in the ball game right there. I really thought our kids did a great job of scrapping, hustling and never giving up. I am proud of our team for doing that without our starting point guard, a senior point guard who averages 38 minutes a game and is really the glue to telling the rest of the girls what to do and when to do it. I thought we bounced back pretty well, but it's a big struggle and we are growing in that area."
On being overmatched rebounding:
"I don't think it hurt us. I think it gave us some confidence that we could go in there and rebound, but at the same time if you look we were oversized in the size category in every spot. There is a reason that you are ranked No. 4 in the country and were No. 3. You have very good recruits, very good players and Coach P. has done a great job of getting those kids to play together and I thought our kids battled hard, but we were definitely overmatched and had hard time scoring over the bigs. So, we were settling for a lot outside shots and you are right they didn't fall. I don't think that caused us to play differently, but we weren't able to get those boards like we were in previous games."
On the strategy:
"I felt like we got some very good looks, but a couple of times we rushed because they did try to fly at us and a couple of times they blocked long shots when we took too long to take the shot. For the most part, I was proud of the shot selection we got. We are definitely looking to drive and kick instead of drive and get blocked, which that happened a few times as well. At the same time, we have to do a better job of communicating on the perimeter. Down the stretch, I thought we did that. A couple of our freshmen were calling for the ball when they were open on the weak side and got the shots in rhythm. A couple of them went down, a couple of them didn't. I am proud of the way they played together, just didn't shoot the ball very well."
On expectations coming in:
"We wanted to come in and compete well. I thought we competed hard, I don't know if we competed well. We lost by 45 points. At the same time, it does hurt, we are still trying to find our way with a new coaching staff and without our starting point guard. I have to tell you Laura Richards is incredible. Her stat line may not be impressive, but as a leader she is incredible. She really does give the rest of the team confidence, so when she gives us confidence that changes the way we run our offense. There were times out there that we would run our zone offense and I couldn't even tell what we were running. Definitely, Duke's defense took us out of what we wanted to do. Fortunately we moved the ball pretty well, but we did turn it over a lot. There were times we got frazzled and that hurts not to have a senior point guard out there to get us refocused, calmed down. She would have handled the ball, she doesn't really turn the ball over at all."
On Laura Richards' Status:
"She is out with a concussion and it is her second concussion in two years, so it's at least 10 days. She got it in the IUPUI game when we were up by five and ended up losing by six. That just goes to show you she is all over the place. She was on the all-defensive team in the Horizon League last year. It hurts. We hope to have her back by the first of December, but if not we are obviously learning with a younger lineup right now and just playing around with some lineups and I am proud of the way our kids have adjusted."


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Let my people stay
How to deal with the immigration "problem"? Give people a real choice on migration.
It may surprise red-white-and-blue Americans fixated on preventing the Hispanic reconquista of the Anglo Norte, but many of the folks they howl most about agree with them. They don't want to come to America any more than these Americans want to let them in.
In the occasionally hysterical debate swirling around immigration, U.S. citizens often demand the right to protect their borders and prevent people from moving in. Often not discussed is another right that ought to be afforded to the world's potential migrants: the right to stay put.
The people who walk, hitch, hop trains, or smother in the trunks of overheating cars or unventilated trailers just to reach the U.S.-Mexico border—so they can make a treacherous night crossing through a desert—aren't exactly coming because they enjoy "roughing it" while bon-voyaging. They come because human rights conditions in their home states have become deplorable and their lives are in danger. They come because free trade policies have wiped out their subsistence farm economies. They come because there is no work, no health care, no educational opportunity. They come because their children are hungry. They come because there is no future if they remain. They come because they are desperate.
The "choice" they make to migrate is the choice between getting hit in the head with a hammer or a hatchet. This is a choice in our hi-tech, affluent, globalized age that no one should have to make anymore.
Studies of Latino undocumented migrants in the United States are often satisfied with capturing gross figures and perhaps countries of origin. Those numbers don't tell us much about the culture, language, or history of the people who have found their way into North America or the lifestyle and community they left behind.
There are about 7.5 million undocumented migrants from Mexico and Central America currently living in the United States. Surely a large percentage of these migrants have departed from indigenous communities that have endured 500 years of European intervention only to succumb to the latest onslaught of free-market forces.
At a July gathering of indigenous people in Oaxaca, Mexico, participants didn't demonstrate for higher U.S. immigration quotas or against proposals to turn our shared border abstraction into an actual cross-hemispheric fence. They demanded a new human right: el derecho de no migrar, the right to not migrate. Just as sojourning for survival ought to be respected as a human right on the individual level, el derecho de no migrar needs to be established as a right aimed at cultural and communal survival.
The United States could do much more to help make this right of not migrating a reality. While Congress debates spending billions on a fence, the U.S. Agency for International Development in 2008 directed a paltry $29 million in aid toward our closest neighbors on earth.
El Norte has been a great safety valve for the governments of Mexico and Central America for decades. We have the right to demand more of them on behalf of their own people; they have the right to expect us, entwined as we are in economics and history and fate, to do more to help them become the kind of nations that people want to remain in.
Who knows? Maybe the "no migrar" indigenous can join hands and political action committees across the border with the U.S.'s anti-immigrant agitators, demanding just trade policies, practical and responsible immigration reform, and judicious cross-border economic investments.
This hands-across-America movement could force our NAFTA co-signers to establish and enforce minimum health, labor, and educational standards and demand government transparency and respect for human rights in both Americas. It could be the beginning of an anti-movement movement: a bilateral campaign that could propel the kind of reforms that would liberate people who need to be on the move to be on the move and allow the people who want to stay to stay where they want.
This article appeared in the September 2008 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 73, No. 9, page 46).


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Up until early this week, it was my jurisdictions policy that all contact with the media was to flow through our public information officer. Two stories appeared in the newspaper the past ten days involving our division. We had funneled our responses to media inquiries through the PIO in accordance with policy. Unfortunately, the PIO incorrectly relayed the message to the paper making us look like a bunch of Bubbas (sorry, Bubbas). Therefore, as of yesterday, our division no longer reports our media contact to the PIO.
What is your employers policy regarding media contact?


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U.S. benchmark stock indexes extended records, while silver and gold rose, as Federal Reserve chairman nominee Janet Yellen said she wants to maintain stimulus until the economy improves. The yen and euro weakened as reports showed slowing economic growth.
The Standard & Poor's 500 Index climbed 0.5% to 1,790.26 at 3:32 p.m. in New York, setting an all-time high for a second day. The MSCI All-Country World Index climbed 0.8% and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index jumped 1.4% to end a 10-day slump, its longest in seven years. Silver and gold for December delivery climbed 1.4% to lead commodities higher. Treasury 30-year yields slipped 2.7 basis points to 3.79% as bonds pared gains following a $16 billion auction. The yen slid versus all 16 major peers and the euro fell versus 13.
The U.S. economy and job market are performing "far short of their potential" and a strong recovery will ultimately enable the Fed to reduce its stimulus, Yellen said in testimony at her nomination hearing today. Economic growth slowed in Japan and the euro area last quarter, reports showed, while American jobless claims topped economists' estimates.
Yellen "sounded awfully dovish and did not give any indication that she's ready to pull back on the amount of bond buying that the Fed's doing," Chris Gaffney, St. Louis-based senior market strategist at EverBank Wealth Management, said in a phone interview. "Equities are looking at more stimulus as a positive."
'Surest Path'
The Federal Open Market Committee will probably wait to taper its bond buying to $70 billion at its March 18-19 meeting from current pace of $85 billion a month, according to the median of 32 economist estimates in a Bloomberg survey Nov. 8.
"Supporting the recovery today is the surest path to returning to a more normal approach to monetary policy," Yellen said in her testimony to the Senate Banking Committee. A "strong recovery will ultimately enable the Fed to reduce its monetary accommodation and reliance on unconventional policy tools such as asset purchases."
Among U.S. stocks moving today, Home Depot Inc., Walt Disney Co. and Boeing Co. rose more than 1.4% to lead gains that sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a record for a second straight day.
Cisco Systems Inc. plunged 12% for its biggest drop in more than two years. The world's largest maker of computer- networking equipment forecast its first quarterly sales decline in four years. Office Depot Inc. gained 3.4% after Bank of America Corp. recommended investors buy the stock.
Of the 460 S&P 500 members that have reported earnings this season, 75% posted profit that beat estimates, while 54% topped sales projections, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Clearwire Corp, the wireless service provider which is majority owned by Sprint Nextel, posted a narrower operating loss even as its quarterly revenue declined.
Clearwire's loss narrowed to $303.69 million from $421.89 million. Revenue fell to $318 million from $322 million. Clearwire agreed to be bought by Sprint for $2.97 per share.
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This is it.
If the Orioles lose Thursday night, the season – a crazy, unexpected thrill ride of a season – is over.
The Orioles know that. They also know they've survived plenty all year.
"It's pretty much win or go home tomorrow, isn't it? There's pretty much no turning back," said center fielder Adam Jones. "We're going to have the same attitude, the same mentality we've had since the first day of spring training. We're going to have fun, let it fly and live with the results."
They were in this position last Friday, when they had to beat the Rangers in Texas to advance to the Division Series. And they did – with lefty Joe Saunders winning that one. He gets the call again Thursday ahead of Chris Tillman, undoubtedly because manager Buck Showalter believes there's no substitute for experience in that situation.
"Joe obviously is coming off a real good start in a pressure situation, a game that we had to win, and he'll find himself back in that spot again," Showalter said. "Joe is a guy that gives you a chance to win. And he'll compete. And he knows we feel good with him out there."
There are major concerns here, obviously. The Yankees have the momentum. They have the experience. They have the home-field advantage and need to win just one of the next two games.
But closer Jim Johnson, who has now contributed to two losses in his last three postseason outings after having a great regular season, says the Orioles have the ability and mentality to come back and win.
"We've been doing it all year. It's unfortunate, obviously, the way things ended up," Johnson said. "You have to just come back tomorrow. And you trust the guy in the locker next you and the guys that put the uniform on. We all have each other's back."


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IRVING, Texas (AP) - The Dallas area has had another minor earthquake.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the 3.0 magnitude quake happened at 10:16 p.m. Tuesday. The quake was centered about five miles north-northwest of Irving.
Officials say no damage or injuries were immediately reported.
A Dec. 12 earthquake about 13 miles south of Fort Worth had a 2.6 magnitude.
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Bettis' restaurant to open in May.......Cool
Bettis' restaurant to open in May.......Cool
"Give me a 6 pack, half hour of rest and lets go play them again....We can beat them."
--Jack Lambert
"They say that when you're the champs, everybody will try to beat you. Well, I'm glad we're the champs, so bring 'em on, bring 'em all on. If we die, we ain't gonna die running. It's gonna be a fight."
--Joe Greene
Good luck to Jerome in the restaurant business, but with his name on it he will do fine !
Isn't it a bit curious though that the restaurant wasn't announced until after his buddy got the casino deal ???
BITE ME ICS!...Woodsonsgirl
I'll definitely check his place out next time we go to Pittsburgh; maybe we'll get lucky and it will open early so we can check it out on draft weekend.
Pittsburgh is really robusting with commerical, residential, and casino development. This city is going to become a must see place to travel in the years to come. I wish I was living in Pittsburgh to witness the revival of one of the greatest city in America. Pittsburgh beats Cleveland by a million miles as far as advancement and economy.
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A Research on the Cultivation System of Innovative Talents at Colleges
As an important part in the national innovation system, colleges are the cradle for innovative spirits and talents as well as the main base for the innovation, transmission and application of knowledge. Therefore, they are expected to be adapted to the demands of social and economic development, to update their education ideas, to actively promote innovative education and to explore basic patterns and fundamental channels of innovative talent cultivation.
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CHICAGO – Corey Crawford sat in his dressing room stall Sunday afternoon, talking in low tones that came no where close to the volume his play over the previous 60 minutes had produced.
Around him, his Blackhawks teammates referred to him as the ultimate penalty-killer and a leader who rarely allows previous struggles to rattle a confidence that is required of Stanley Cup-winning goalies.
But after making 35 saves in Sunday's series-clinching, 5-1 win over St. Louis at the United Center, Crawford sounded nothing like the hero everyone else in the room made him out to be.
Instead for Crawford, the effort was a matter of just doing what he knows is expected of him.
"I think I was pretty sharp all game," Crawford said. "I mean, there was a little bit of penalty trouble in the second (period) and our (penalty-killing unit) was great again. There were some big blocks by our forwards and our (defensemen)."
But in a game that remained even throughout two periods when the Blues owned a 28-11 shot advantage and had five power-play opportunities, no one was bigger than Crawford. Time after time, he deflected shots and kept the Hawks in the game until the third period when they exploded for four goals.
Among the biggest moments came midway through the second period when Crawford knocked down a point-blank shot and then dove to keep the puck from reaching the back of the net as it slid dangerously along the goal line.
What could have been a huge momentum shift was – to Crawford – just a instant out of what was almost three dozen chances to do his job.
"It was a play," Crawford said snickering, dismissing it in the grand scheme of the game's entirety. "It was a fortunate play for us and we got a good bounce."
Crawford, who assumed the blame for the Hawks losses in the series' first two games, said he maintained a shot-to-shot mentality throughout the series. He never allowed himself to allow his confidence to waver – a trait, his teammates said – that makes him one of the team's most valuable assets.
Even after the series-clinching victory in which he played such a key role, Crawford wasn't overly eager to take too much of the credit for helping the Hawks advance. But Sunday's performance – as much as Crawford didn't want to admit it – was a major difference-maker.
Even if Crawford brushed praise aside – an attitude that came as no surprise to his teammates.
"That's what a leader does – he's not afraid to take the blame and take the criticism and that negative attention and he pulls through it," Hawks captain Jonathan Toews said. "Your teammates and your team respond to play and behavior like that. So it was a pretty amazing job by him."
After Sunday's win, Hawks coach Joel Quenneville characterized Crawford's play with a series of words. Tremendous. Outstanding. Quick. Sharp. Square. Efficient. He then said Crawford – along with the Hawks penalty kill – was the reason why the Hawks won Game 6 and the series.
For Crawford, however, it just represented another day on the job, a chance to rest up before getting another opportunity to keep the Hawks moving closer to their second straight Stanley Cup.
"It's always nice to get a little bit of rest in the playoffs," Crawford said. "I'm sure we're going to be eager to get the next one."


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Eight days after playing its worst half of the season and suffering a 31-point blowout loss at Mepham, a complete team effort lifted Long Beach to a 41-36 upset victory in the rematch last Friday that kept it in contention for the Nassau Conference AA-III girls' basketball title.
Eighth-grader Aislinn Flynn had 12 points and 12 rebounds, and junior Perri Steiner added 10 points and 10 rebounds for the Lady Marines, who improved to 7-2 in conference play and 8-4 overall while handing the Lady Pirates (8-1, 10-2) their first conference defeat in more than a year. Mepham got a game-high 13 points from senior Samantha Hishmeh and a dozen from sophomore Megan Anderson, who missed the second half with a bruised knee.
"It's one of the biggest wins we've had in a while," Long Beach coach Kristin Ciccone said. "I'm so proud of the girls. This is going to do so much for their confidence. The first time we played Mepham, it was never a game. But we made defensive adjustments, and the girls carried out the plan to perfection."
Mepham, which scored the first 16 points of the Jan. 17 matchup and cruised to an easy 57-26 victory on the strength of a dozen three-pointers, had a chance to force overtime \th a few seconds remaining but freshman Allyson Murphy's trey attempt clanged off the rim. Senior Molly Martin (eight points) corralled the rebound for Long Beach and sealed the win with a pair of free throws with 1.2 seconds left.
"Going on the road, I knew this game would be a lot closer than the first one," Mepham coach Jim Mulvey said. "We had our worst shooting night of the season, and we didn't rebound. I thought their bigs, Steiner and Flynn, did a tremendous job."
The Lady Pirates took a 30-28 lead into the fourth quarter after senior Christina Riebl converted a pass from Murphy for a basket late in the third. The margin was three when Long Beach senior Mary McDonagh tied it with a basket and free throw with 7:20 left. Flynn put the hosts back in front with a short hook shot, and her rebound off a missed foul shot led to a key basket by junior Lena Moriarty that made it 35-31.
"Our defense and rebounding made the difference," Ciccone said. "We knew we had to go zone against them."
A Hishmeh three-pointer brought Mepham within one, but the Lady Marines took over after she fouled out with 2:29 to play. They scored six of the game's final eight points, including two free throws by junior Shauna Spruell and a basket by McDonagh following Steiner's rebound of a missed free throw.
The outcome dropped Mepham into a first-place tie with Herricks with five games remaining, including a head-to-head battle Feb. 5. Long Beach sits only a game behind the frontrunners and closes the regular season at home versus Herricks on Feb. 11.


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Tuesday, July 5, 2011
My Journey to Self-Acceptance as a Gay Man
As I think back, the biggest issues I had with accepting myself fall roughly under two headings:
1). What would people think of me when they knew I was gay?
2). What would I think of myself as someone who was gay?
What would people think of me when they knew I was gay?
Make no mistake, for as long as I remember, people knew I was gay just by looking at me (although, of course, I didn't believe it to be true or I denied it). If my appearance alone didn't tell them, then, surely, my voice inflections or my mannerisms did. I didn't go out of my way to be effeminate, I just was, partly because I was born that way and partly because I was raised with an absent or aloof father (not enough positive masculine influence) and an domineering mother (too much feminine influence).
There's a difference between suspecting someone is gay and having it confirmed. As long as people speculated I was but I didn't address it or kept denying it, there was always the chance I wasn't. And, despite all the indications to the contrary, people would give me the benefit of a doubt. On the other hand, when I confirmed it, then there'd be no doubt left in their minds, and, as a result, I'd have no choice but to accept whatever consequences came my way--mostly bad, I expected, based on people's opinions and feelings regarding gay men in general.
When I use the generic term "people," naturally, I refer to those nearest and dearest to me. I had only a few friends at school (mostly girls who were unattractive, overweight, or odd in some way that made them outcasts, too). So I could hardly afford to lose anyone within my immediate family who was the least bit close to me. Which, as I write this, seems strange now because I wasn't particularly close to any of my family members either (except, perhaps, my mother). But what I had was still something I needed to hold on to, since, without it, I'd have nothing at all.
A piece of this process for me was finally admitting to myself I really was gay. By the time I got to my early twenties, I knew I could no longer hold on to the hope I'd one day be interested in girls in the same way most other young men were. I just didn't look at girls, or young women, that way. While I could admire an attractive female for her beauty--and had for most of my life--I wasn't the least bit sexually turned-on by them. So, step one for me was, I knew once and for all I was gay and could no longer deny it. But that doesn't mean I accepted myself as a young, gay man--not yet anyway.
I'm getting a little ahead of myself in the story now--which I'll address in the second section of this post--but I got to the point, some time after acknowledging I was definitely gay, where I could no longer reconcile all the negative opinions and views and ideas people, or society, or our culture, held about gay people, now including me, with who I knew I was inside as a human being. I remember the exact time I woke up, not from sleep but from accepting all the crap I'd been led to believe about gay people. I remember saying out loud, I'm not like that. I'm not like that, and I don't deserve to be thought of or treated like that.
This awakening was a revelation to me, and it would change my life forever. Don't ask me, after years and years of being treated like crap and thinking of myself in the same way, where I found the internal strength to turn that around, but I did. Of course, the transformation didn't happen overnight. I still had some work to do to compare the widespread negative views held about homosexual men with the person I was, and to realize, little by little, I was better than all that. But, in my heart, I knew I was a kind and decent and good person, and, for the first time in my life, I began to stand up a little straighter (no pun intended) and to lift my head a little higher.
What would I think of myself as someone who was gay?
Perhaps the biggest obstacle I had to face, on the journey to self-acceptance, was overcoming my perceptions of gay men in general, based on what I'd gathered and experienced firsthand.
What did I know about gay men to that point? In addition to what I'd learned being gay supposedly was from my school classmates--all of which was negative and cringe-worthy--as well as the media, neighborhood gossip, and the like, my own experience with gay men was no better. Many had leered at me on the street, like dirty, old men lurking in the bushes; one freaky-looking one had told me point-blank he had a great, big hard-on for me; and another forty-something one from Vancouver had tried, when I was just thirteen-years-old, to pick me up so he could "show me a few things." Understandably, if this is what being gay was--that is, if there was even the chance I might turn out like any of these men--I wanted no part of it.
For many years, until well into my twenties, this was the perception I had of all gay men, whether it was true or not. I can't think of a single positive experience I'd had with anyone who was gay until I attended my first gay dance, which also happened to be a 1986 New Year's Eve party. There, I saw a variety of gay people, men and women, many familiar to me from the community, some who I imagined were probably similar to the ones I'd had experiences with previously, but many more who were just like me--good, kind, and decent people. In that regard, the dance was a pleasant, eye-opening experience.
In particular, I met a young man from Vancouver, who took a liking to me. Yes, I could have taken him home following the dance, we'd gotten along that well, but I didn't. Instead, what I took home was a lot of great memories of the time I'd spent with him, talking, dancing, enjoying each other's company. In many respects, that young man played an instrumental role in helping to change my opinion of gay men in general. No longer did I think they were all old and dirty with only one thing on their minds. Rather, I knew there were all kinds of gay men, many of them just like me.
That was one liberating experience. I came away from the dance not only feeling better about being gay--not nearly as riddled with shame as I had been before--but also knowing I could be whatever kind of gay person I wanted to be. I could define what being gay meant to me and not allow myself to be defined by what my misperceptions of it were, or what others's misperceptions of it were.
As I walked out of the basement of the old church on the corner of Ethel and Bernard early on January 1, 1986, where the New Year's dance had been held, I felt as though the weight I'd carried for over two decades had been lifted. I had yet to come out, which would unexpectedly happen in just a few hours, and which I knew would be one of the most difficult things I'd ever done, despite feeling so much better about myself, but I'd taken an enormous step toward self-acceptance. And I knew, whether or not my family accepted me as a gay man, I would somehow make it through. Somehow.
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i remember when i came out to my brother last year, i was being lectured for hours and he gave me tonnes of religious talk about being gay is a sin and all.. he insists on sending me to a psychiatrist because he said i have a mental problem. when i came out to my best friend, she was in denial and said that i just haven't met the right girl yet. i am 23 and it took along time for me to accept the fact that i am attracted to boys. i have lots of girl friends and i thought most of them are smart and beautiful, but girls and me can only be friends. i was in denial too. my self hating and self punishing lasted for quite some time. living in a narrow-minded and conservative environment (like my country, malaysia) makes it harder. in malaysia, being gay is big no-no and is a crime punishable by law up to 20 years in jail. the society are encouraged to discriminate, and shun the homosexuals in the meanest way possible. knowing that you are able to happily and openly living with the person you love, i am so happy for you, because i know it'll be almost impossible for me. it's literally me against the world.ReplyDelete
Lilphant, I've read your comment many times now, as I gave some thought to how I wanted to respond. And, every time I read it, my heart breaks for you. I cannot imagine what it must be like to live in such a conservative, intolerant country.ReplyDelete
I have a tendency of wanting to fix the situations people find themselves in, particularly when their circumstances are as difficult as yours. So here are a few suggestions. But, remember, you must do what's right for you. Do not allow me or anyone to steer you in the wrong direction.
You are now old enough to make the decision to move somewhere else. If your country will not allow you to be what you are, to love someone of the same gender, perhaps moving away is an option (although I understand how difficult that would be, leaving family and friends behind).
When I think about how difficult it must be for you to live in Malaysia, I'm reminded of what it was like to live in Canada not so long ago, and gay people were not accepted either (of course, being gay hasn't been illegal in Canada for many decades, but it was still very difficult).
Believe me, there are ways to be with other young, gay men, and to find someone to love. You don't have to parade yourself in public and let everyone know what your sexual orientation is, but you can go "underground," so to speak. You can still connect with those who are like you.
Even when circumstances were tough for homosexuals in Canada, there were places where they could meet (bars, clubs, etc.). Proportionately, there are as many gay people in your country as anywhere, so keep your eyes open. Be discreet. Don't get yourself into trouble.
And there is nothing preventing you from bringing another young man home, providing you live by yourself. If you meet someone and you want to be together, be careful, don't draw attention to yourself, act like friends going to each other's place. You should be able to do at least that.
Like I said, only you can decide what's right for you, what you're prepared to do. But, as I see it, you must find some way to be what you are. You must find some way to not be alone and lonely. You must find some way to connect with another young man on an emotional and physical level.
And, remember, if you ever want to talk to someone who understands what you're going through, I'm here for you. I'm only an email away. Sometimes, that's all we need–to share our thoughts and difficulties. You do not need to be alone.
Thank you so much for your wonderful comment. I believe you will find a way out of your situation, you will experience the freedom to be yourself, and you will find that love of your life. Be open to the possibility. If you feel as you do, so does someone else in your country and elsewhere.
All the very best. My thoughts and prayers are with you.


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A hint of spice, heavy on the roast, with notes of toffee and burnt toast. To mark good times with lots of cheer, fill your glass with these holiday beers:
Christmas Ale (Upslope Brewing Co.): Head brewer Alex Violette created a "Belgianized" version of this holiday favorite -- it's based on a home brew Upslope founder Matt Cutter used to bring to holiday parties -- by fermenting the beer with Abbey Ale Yeast. The result is a spiced Belgian-style Dubbel with a deep, ruby red hue and rich caramel and dark fruit flavors throughout.
The malty sweetness serves as a welcome foil for the holiday spices.
Warming and well-balanced, this bigger beer drinks like a Barleywine, with added depth of flavor emerging as it warms.
It's available in 16-ounce can four packs and on draft in the Upslope taproom.
Christmas Ale (Breckenridge Brewery): Breckenridge has brewed this winter warmer since 1993, and the staff still gets together each year to hand-label special commemorative bottles. It's also available in six packs and, new this year, in 5-liter mini-kegs that are perfect for parties.
This flavorful ale balances notes of caramel, toast and spiced chocolate against an assertive malt base, with a subtle spiciness surfacing from the judicious use of Chinook and Mount Hood hops.
Northstar Imperial Porter (Twisted Pine Brewing Co.): It wouldn't be winter without the annual release of Twisted Pine's multiple-award-winning Northstar Imperial Porter.
This big and robust Baltic-style porter melds dark fruits, molasses, roasted malt, dark chocolate and toffee in a complex and satisfying brew that only gets better with age. It's worth picking up a few bottles -- to enjoy now and next year.
Black Saddle Stout (Crystal Springs Brewing Co.): Brewery founder Tom Horst has greatly expanded his beer lineup since founding Crystal Springs in 2010, but this flagship stout remains a favorite.
Brewed in the Russian Imperial Stout style, it's a big, yet smooth-drinking beer loaded with dark fruit and chocolate flavors against a rich and roasty base. Horst has also experimented with a few barrel-aged versions of Black Saddle Stout that are worth seeking out.
Fade to Black Vol. 4 (Left Hand Brewing Co.): This is offered in a different style each year, but it's always timed to release at the end of daylight saving time.
This year's version features an interplay of dark and light with a rich and roasty base punctuated by a bright, citrus-y hop bitterness that shines through like a ray of sunshine breaking through the clouds. The Black IPA style is all about balance, and Left Hand executes it quite well in this beer.
Euphoria Pale Ale (Ska Brewing Co.): This beer marches to the beat of its own drummer boy, much like the brewery itself.
Rather than a spiced, malt-driven ale, as one might expect, this pale ale delivers a lighter take on a winter seasonal and is characterized by piney, resinous hops with swirls of spruce tips, grapefruit and orange peel. Brewed in collaboration with Venture Snowboards, it's a refreshing choice for après ski.
A Honey of a Saison (Boulder Beer Co.): This sweet new seasonal from Boulder Beer is a French-style Saison brewed with nearly 500 pounds of locally sourced honey. It weighs in at 11 percent alcohol by volume (ABV) and is available in 22-ounce bombers and on draft.
Imperial Coffee Chocolate Stout (New Belgium Brewing Co.): The nose on this robust beer smells like a freshly brewed cup of java, thanks to the local, sustainably produced coffee used in the brew. Rather than overwhelm the flavor, the coffee balances nicely with dark chocolate and rich, roasted malts in a rich and robust package. Part of the Lips of Faith series, this beer is available in 22-ounce bombers.


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