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Mercy Medical Group
3000 Q St Sacramento , CA 95816
Get to Know Dr. Andrew Linn, MD
Accepting Patients
16 Years
Care Philosophy
I strive to provide each patient compassionate care using the latest advances in interventional pain management therapies to reduce pain and minimize medication reliance.
- Anesthesia Residency, Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Med Center 2007
- Chief Resident, Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Med Center 2008
- General Surgery Internship, UCSD School of Medicine 2004
- Pain Fellowship, Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Med Center 2009
- UCSD School of Medicine 2003
Dr. Andrew Linn, MD's Experience
Pain Medicine
Board Certifications
- Anesthesiology American Board of Medical Specialties
- Pain Medicine American Board of Medical Specialties
Procedures Performed
- Cancer Pain Management
- Cervical Epidural Steroid Injection
- Cervical Facet Joint Injection
- Cervical Medial Branch Neurotomy
- Epidural Block, Facet Blocks
- Epidural Steroid Injections
- Facet Joint Injection
- Lumbar Discography
- Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injection
- Lumbar Facet Joint Injection
- Lumbar Medial Branch Block
- Lumbar Selective Nerve Root Block
- Percutaneous Aspiration for Spinal Cord Cyst or Syrinx
- Radiofrequency Denervation
- Sacroiliac Joint Injection
- Spinal Cord Stimulation
- Spinal Injections
- Spinal Pump Implant
- Spine Fracture Treatment
- Thoracic Facet Joint Injection
Conditions Treated
- Acute Postoperative Pain
- All Headaches (incl. Migraine)
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Autonomic Disorders
- Back Pain
- Benign Chronic Pain Syndrome
- Bone Disorders
- Brain Disorders
- Cancer Pain
- Chronic Neck Pain
- Chronic Pain
- Chronic Pelvic Pain
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
- Degenerative Disc Disease
- Diabetic Polyneuropathy
- Enthesopathy of Hip (incl. Trochanteric Bursitis)
- Fibromyalgia
- Fracture
- Head and Neck Conditions
- Headache
- Herniated Disc
- Intervertebral Disc Disease
- Knee Disorders
- Leg Pain
- Low Back Pain
- Migraine
- Myelopathy
- Neck Injuries
- Neck Pain
- Osteoarthritis of Hip
- Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome or Knee Pain
- Pathological Spine Fracture
- Pelvic Pain
- Peripheral Autonomic Neuropathy
- Polyneuropathy
- Post-Laminectomy Syndrome
- Radiculopathy (Not Due to Disc Displacement)
- Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
- Sciatica (Not Due to Disc Displacement)
- Scoliosis
- Shingles
- Shoulder Pain
- Spinal Compression Fracture
- Spinal Stenosis
- Spine Deformities
- Spine Disorders
- Spine Fractures, Traumatic
- Spondolthesis
- Spondylitis
- Spondylolisthesis
- Spondylosis
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Upper Back Pain
Awards and Recognitions
- Recognized Doctor
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Mercy Medical Group
3000 Q St, Sacramento, CA 95816
(916) 733-5844 Fax: (916) 733-5702
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Methodist Hospital of Sacramento
7500 Hospital Dr, Sacramento, CA 95823
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In March 2016, I successfully raised over $7,300 through a community-funding campaign to pay for the creation of my first professionally produced record. It was beautiful, challenging, and I learned a whole bunch in the process. Several friends have questions about the process, so I wanted to tell some stories to be of support!
1. IT STARTS NOW - On the second to last day of my campaign, I re-connected with an old boss of mine who I hadn't spoken to in three years. On my early morning walks I had heard the nudge to reach out to her, and she was thrilled to hear about my plans. To my great surprise, she gave me $500 and said what was a hugely powerful gift: "Melanie, this is also in thanks for all the work you did for me four years ago. I want you to remember, who you are in the world is just as important as this music, this project." Hearing this, I had an overwhelming sense that receiving donations for my project didn't start in March 2016, but at the start of my relationship with these people, in all my interactions with them. So as people tell me that they're thinking about starting a crowd-funding campaign, I love saying what that really means for me - the process isn't limited to the timeframe of the campaign. It actually starts today.
2. VULNERABILITY - Two days before the campaign started, I asked a group of 45 close friends and family members to contribute on the first day of my project, so I could start out with a bang. Other than that group email, almost 75% of contributions I got came as a result of my making a direct personal ask. Here's what worked: I made a list of people I thought might support me, and made phone calls paired with a follow-up email to each person on the list. My mentor Marguerite had taught me a beautiful phrase to use: "If you're able to give, wonderful, and if you're not, no worries. It was just important for me to ask." What was fascinating to me was that this vulnerable, direct ask was essential: Most people don't give unless asked directly. I saw this most clearly when we had an out-of-town visitor eating with us in the kitchen one night. We had talked about music and art, and she even asked to watch my fundraising video. After talking for a while more, I asked, "Would you like to be a part of my project and make a donation?" She looked surprised for a moment, as though the thought hadn't occurred to her, and then said, "Sure! I'd be glad to." She gave me $25!
I also learned again not to get lost in my own stories of doubt and fear while following up with people. It's not a "no" until I actually hear a "no." I remember nervously reaching out to a friend for the fourth or fifth time, to which he responded, "I'm so glad you shared this again! I've been so unbelievably busy, and can do it today." And he did. So, people are busy. In sales they say average person hears about a product or service seven times before they join in. It was important for me to not take that personally! And, interestingly enough, nearly every person I was reaaaallly nervous about asking gave joyfully. "Wow, I'm so glad you thought of me, and are inviting me to be a part of this!" Holy cow.
3. GRATITUDE ALONGSIDE MY ASKING - It was so powerful for me to continue touching back on gratitude during this process - when I would run out of people to call or new fangled ideas, when the number on my campaign page hadn't budged all day at all despite all my actions, or my eyes just plain glazed over from staring at my spreadsheet of potential donors for too long. In those moments, I stepped back to appreciate all the people who had already given to me, calling them each one by one to say so, or later reading down the list and thanking them in my heart. I came to really love this toggling back and forth between inviting people to give, and calling to thank them for giving. I often had a beautiful disorientation in those thank-you conversations, losing track of who was giving what. On the phone people were acknowledging me back for the way I had contributed to them, as a friend and a creator of beauty. It was amazing. I cried. Alot.
I just loved another thing I read in the process, from The Sustainable Economies Law Center and Roadmap Consulting [1]: The most important words in fundraising are "Join Me" and "Thank You."
4. THIS IS ABOUT SUPPORT - Fundamentally, I think doing a community funding campaign is about asking for support for what is mine to do in the world. I also had a beautiful constellation of support while doing it - people to remind me of who I really am, to tell me their experience and ideas, to encourage me to turn over every rock and leave nothing on the table. Visiting vast spaces in nature was also a huge support to me. My final three days pretty much consisted of me calling and writing from when I woke up to when I went to bed, and at times, there was nothing else for me to do other than to "step way from the vehicle" - take myself to the hills, and reconnect with what nourishes my faith and my spirit.
And because Facebook visibility remains a beguiling mystery to me, I asked for support in sharing my story. Who is upstream from me who could have a greater impact at sharing this? Who can do this better than I can? Who do I know that has 4,000 Twitter followers, or people who actually respond to their Facebook posts?
5. THE UNKNOWN ARC - One week out from the end of my campaign, I still had $4,000 to raise, a little over half of my total goal. I went from being totally confident to kinda antsy, and it was a huge support to me to sit with friends and listen to their incredible stories of how they reached their fundraising goal, and even surpassed it. There were miracles like town-wide hamburgesadas in Mexico, the equivalent of American pancake breakfasts. There were surprise tweets from Yanni. And still, three days out, having 40% to go for my own project, I had a major freak-out. I made peace with the idea of scaling back my project significantly, despite all the stories I heard. It was like the last leg of a marathon, and I was going to sit down on the road.
But, then after talking with one friend, I realized, No! I made a commitment to this. I'm going to do everything I know how to do to realized my full vision. I listened for wisdom and followed everything I heard. I sat with each name and donation on my spreadsheet, thanking them for $25, $100, $5. I wrote to my donors and asked them to give again. They did. Seeing the deadline of the final day, people came out of the woodwork and gave. In the end, I raised over $2600 in final three days.
80% of campaigns that raise 20% of their funding reach their final goal [2]. It's not over 'til it's over.
Have fun!
Melanie Ida Chopko is a songwriter, musician and artist living in Oakland, CA. You can read more about her story, hear her music and see her art at melanieidachopko.com.
[1] Marjorie Fine and Grassroots Fundraising
[2] Crowd 101: Setting Realistic Crowdfunding Goals

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During the installation of Linux you can specify the partition sizes of several key Linux system directories.
You can also do this with the Linux fdisk or parted commands and then edit the / etc / fstab file to set this up – after the installation of Linux.
The sizes you specify for these Linux system directories restrict the maximum amount of space that can be used in these system directories.
Restricting Directory Sizes with By Specifying Partition Sizes
Each partition that is created on a disk has a fixed size.
Other than the Linux swap partition, system partitions can be assigned to a directory.
Once a Linux system directory has been assigned to a partition, files can only be created in, and "use up" space in that directory – up to the size of the partition. This restricts the amount of space that is available in a directory.
To restrict the amount of disk space that a particular Linux system directory can take up, a partition is created for the directory and then the directory is assigned to the partition.
For example, on a Linux Web server, the system directory named / var is used to contain variable length "log" files.
These log files keep track of the activity on the server, such as access requests that people have made of the server. These log files increase in size as time passes and more requests are made. The more the server is accessed, the greater the size of the log files.
If log files are left unchecked, they can become hundreds of megabytes and even use up all of the space on a disk. These files are sometimes referred to as "runaway" log files. The system should be set up to automatically stop log files from becoming too large, but this does not always happen.
To restrict the space that can be taken up by "runaway" log files, you can create a partition that is large enough to hold the log files and assign the / var directory to it.
For example, if you know that the maximum amount of space that you need for log files (and other files) in the / var directory is 200 MB, you can create a 200 MB partition and assign the / var directory to it. This will stop "runaway" log files from taking up more than 200 MB of disk space.
As another example, you can restrict the size of the "home" directory, in the directory path of / home, that is used by Linux users as the parent directory for their home directories and user data files, by creating a partition specifically for this directory and assigning the / home directory path to this partition.
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The cost is $110 per golfer with each receiving 18 holes of golf, dinner, 1 glow ball and a gift. If you wish to attend just the dinner and raffle the cost is $30.00
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Getting your business listed on Google Places is an easy process. It can be easily done in three simple steps. The first step is to create an account in the Google Places. You will need to provide relevant information like phone number, address, e-mail id, the method of payment, hours of business operation, images related to business, modes of service, videos related to your business, etc. The second part is the verification of all the listings through email or phone. Once you verify it, Google will provide you a PIN. Using this PIN, you can claim your listings. The third step is the acceptance of your listings by Google. Once the acceptance is over, you can view all your information online in search results of your locality. Here, the greatest advantage that you have is that Google Places is free and hence all business owners can make maximum use of it to grow their business.


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A small group of troubadours performed a few excerpts from a play called Scathe at the Williamson County Public Library today. The play is written by Dr. Deanne Collins (Ed.D). It is a historical drama based on a love-triangle in small town Spring Hill, Tennessee, in May 1863. It's based on a true incident of Dr. Peters shooting and killing Gen Earl Van Dorn.
The drama troupe are all amateur actors. Collins is looking for corporate sponsors and support from residents in middle Tennessee. Her hope is to perform this drama (musical) annually, on the anniversary of the incident, starting in 2013. The play is presented in hopes of supporting the Tennessee Children's Home in Spring Hill, TN.
For more info go to www.ScathethePlay.com or contact Collins at deannemcollins[at]bellsouth.net
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April 29, 2018
Fifth Sunday of Eastertide
Luke 24:44-53
Recently I was driving around town when I noticed that I had a voicemail from my landlord. But instead of wait til I got home to calmly listen to the voicemail, I suddenly pulled over on the side of the road. My heart was pounding, my palms began to sweat and my mind began racing, because I was certain that I was somehow in trouble. Perhaps my landlord had finally caught on that we have a cat that we never told him about. Or maybe he had finally gotten fed up with all the deliveries for House for All Sinners and Saints that I admittedly sometimes let pile up in the lobby. And when I got the courage to push play on the voicemail, it just made things worse because all he said was, "Hey Reagan, can you call me asap? I need to talk to you about something in your apartment." Whatever shred of hope I had that he might not actually be mad at me, left me at that point because for me one of the most terrifying sentences in the English language is, "I need to talk to you." Whenever anyone says they need to talk to me, it doesn't matter if that person is my best friend or someone I've never had any kind of trouble with, I just blanketly assume that I'm in trouble.
This week, I've been thinking a lot about this. I've been thinking about that part of me that lives defensively. That part of me that works so hard to protect the Reagan that I want people to see. And I've been thinking about how fragile this defensive part of me is, when all it takes is a simple voicemail or email or request to talk for it to feel like it's all going to come crashing down. And I think this part of me is so fragile because it knows deep down that the Reagan it tries to protect isn't really Reagan after all. That the image of me I try and project into the world does not really exist outside my imagination, because it is my False Self. And my true self, the part of me that is created and held and protected by God, that true self has nothing to do with the part of me that lives defensively, anxiously and afraid.
And it's our True Self that our Gospel for today speaks of. Our True Self is the part of all of us that will always remain interwoven in the DNA of Christ. It's the Divine root of our being that remains firmly planted, even when everything else gets pruned away. Our true self is the part of us that God is always carefully protecting, by pruning and clearing away the dead wood of our false selves so that the Divine lifeblood can flow freely into the parts of us that will never pass away.
But I've not always heard the allegory of the Vine and Branches in this way. I used to see it through the lens of my defensive self. Just like when I got that voicemail from my landlord, the message I got from the Vine and Branches was that I was probably in big trouble. Because the part I focused on was where Jesus says, "Unless someone remain in me he is like the branch that has been cast outside and has withered, and they gather them up and cast them in the fire, and they are burned." Is Jesus talking about me? What kind of branch am I? Am I one of the short ones, the super skinny spindly branches, or am I that one that's just barely hanging on and will get snapped off the next time the wind blows? But what I missed in hearing the Gospel this way is the part about Jesus being the very vine itself. Because it doesn't say that Jesus is the trunk of the vine, or the center stalk of the vine and that we are the individually and separately the branches. No, it says that Jesus is the whole thing, the whole vine- branches, roots, trunk and shoots. Which means that Jesus is mixed up with all of us and that we are all part of one big Divine organism, the body of Christ. And THAT means that this organism we are a part of isn't divided up into different parts where there is more of Jesus in this part and less of Jesus in that part. The whole thing is united by Christ who flows through all of it.
Ok. So, Jesus is in all of it, but that defensive part of me still worries if I am in trouble. It still wants to know if I am one of the branches that gets thrown into the fire. But this is also the part of me that insists upon there even being a ME to begin with that is totally separate from and different from everyone else. This is the part of me that isn't really cool with the idea that my existence is part of your existence, and that your struggle is therefore also my struggle. Because my defensive self isn't really concerned with anyone else. All it cares about are whether I have enough to eat, whether my bank account is in the black and whether or not my job is secure. And yet, what I hear throughout the Gospel is that we are all one in the Body of Christ, and because we are all one, there can be no Reagan that is totally separate from Meghan or Peter or Lou. And so, if there is no Reagan separate from Lou, then there can be no branch in the vine that is totally Reagan and that can therefore be lobbed off eliminating Reagan forever. Which got me to wondering if each one of us are somehow present in all the branches, just like Jesus is present in the whole vine. And what if those twigs and withered up branches that get thrown into the fire, what if those are just our false selves, our defensiveness, self-centeredness and pride. And that over time our false selves are what get pruned and burned away until all that is left is the Divine image of Christ, which frees us and the whole world to be our true selves.
That is a message I can get behind because I know it is a message I need to hear and it appears to be one that the world needs to hear. Because every time that I read or hear a man respond to women's testimonies of sexual assault with "not all men" or every time a white person responds to the oppression of people of color by saying "not all white people" we are responding out of our defensive selves, out of the parts of us that are most concerned with preserving an image of ourselves. And it's the part of us that wants to maintain the lie that we are separate. But the message of the Gospel is that we are not separate, and therefore, every time we have the privilege of hearing the experience of another person, we are hearing another piece of our own story. And it is an opportunity to see our true self more clearly, which is the Body of Christ, where all of our lives intersect and are interwoven.
And to get close to our true self is to surrender our false self, the part of us that never really existed in the first place. Thomas Merton, one of the fathers of modern contemplative practice, wrote: "Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self. This is the [person] that I want myself to be but who cannot exist, because God does not know anything about them." I love this idea that our false selves are actually the parts of us that are unknown to God. And thus, as God, the great gardener, continues to prune Her beloved vine, she's just removing the stuff that never meant anything to her in the first place… So that our True selves will bear fruit and we will see that God has come close to us, not to throw us into the fire, but to free us to truly live. And in so doing, slowly but surely we might back away from our defensive living and fall into the mercy of our one shared life.
Because we gain nothing by expending energy on the fears and anxieties and defenses, all things that are passing away. God has created us for much more than this.
Oh, by the way, when I eventually called my landlord, all he wanted was to know where the cable box was located in my apartment.
Thanks be to God.
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Confirmation today that for the first time in its 171-year history, no ships in the Cunard fleet will be registered in the UK. Instead of having the name of their home port, Southampton, emblazoned across the stern and on their lifeboats, Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth will carry the name of Hamilton, capital of Bermuda.
The islands are a British Overseas Territory, so the ships will continue to fly the Red Ensign – which Bermuda has also adopted as its national flag.
None of this, however, was stated in the official announcement of the change, which follows a leak to the Financial Times almost four weeks ago.
A three paragraph statement from Cunard simply referred to the fact that the ships would, for the first time, be able to offer weddings at sea.
President and Managing Director Peter Shanks said: "Most of our competitors have been developing increasingly popular and lucrative Weddings at Sea programmes, and these are now very big business in the cruise industry."
British law does not allow ship-board weddings because in order to be legally-recognised, ceremonies must be held in a "publicly-accessible place."
There is no doubt that Queen Mary 2 in particular will be a prestige venue – not quite Westminster Abbey, perhaps, but certainly up there with some of the grandest castles and stately homes. And a marriage ceremony in mid-Atlantic, performed by a uniformed and gold-braided captain on one of the ship's regular crossings between Southampton and New York, will certainly make for a night to remember.
There remains a suspicion, however, that the weddings are a cover for deeper economic reasons for a change of flag, allowing Cunard to save on wage bills and registration fees. Sailing under a "flag of convenience" – as most ships do – allows the company to employ crew at cheaper wages and to avoid UK and European employment law.
The change of registration will take place after the ships' world cruises in the first three months of 2012. A Cunard Weddings at Sea brochure will be issued in November, and couples will be able to book their cruises and their nuptials from December.


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I've been wanting to do something like this for a while now. Show everyone a kind of behind the scene look at a 'typical' day for me while I'm shooting features. The idea was to be a teaser of the upcoming features and interview but it became a little longer than expected ^__^. Therefore, enjoy an extra long teaser of the upcoming line up on Tokyo Tuner!
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VEDTAK 04/2019: NPCR 010 Building Boards er godkjent.
VEDTAK 05/2019: NPCR 014 Windows and doors er godkjent.
VEDTAK 06/2019: NPCR 014 Windows and doors er godkjent.
VEDTAK 07/2019: NPCR 015 Wood and wood based products er godkjent.
Decision 08/2018
It is a requirement that 0 shall only be used for results that are calculated to be zero. Rounding to two decimal places shall not be used if this leads to no significant digits being reported, as this can be misinterpreted as a calculated zero value.
0.00 shall only be used for values that are calculated to be zero. For small values scientific notation should be used.
Decision 07/2018
A previous decision has made it possible to create EPDs with EN 15804 as the only PCR, as long as the EPD did not extend beyond modules A1-A5. The purpose was to allow for the creation of EPDs (declared unit) where there was no existing PCR. After the introduction of the new PCR structur with a PCR Part A and PCR Part B, this decision needed updating.
When developing EPD for a construction product, PCR part A shall allways be used. If there is no PCR part B available from EPD Norway an EPD can be made based on PCR part A only. When there is a PCR part B available for the product, this shall be applied.
Further specifications:
- This replaces decision 08/2015
- PCR from programme operators that have a mutual recognition agreement with EPD Norway may be used.