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Introduction by Karen Lightman, managing director, MEMS Industry Group
Many of you have heard me say that MEMS-enabling Quality of Life (QoL) products are "improving mankind" in ways that we never thought possible (see my blog for Medical Electronics Design). As seen in the recent announcement for the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE (yes that Tricorder, the one from Star Trek!) – the future of medical diagnosis, treatment and rehab is MEMS. I KNOW the winner of the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE will have lots of MEMS inside. To see where MEMS can be found inside today's QoL products, I am pleased to present Katie Matlack's blog iOS Medical Peripherals: Convenient and Connected. Clearly, MEMS is and will continue to improve QoL.
By Katie Matlack, Medical Market Analyst, Software Advice
The iPhone and iPad are changing the world of medical devices as we know it.
Thanks to their familiar interface, Web connectivity, and powerful processing capabilities, with the right app and plug-in these iOS devices can work as super smart medical devices that make sharing as easy as the push of a touchscreen button. Consumers can now access increasingly high-quality medical devices, making it easy to be more actively engaged in their own health. And home and rural care givers can benefit from the portability and versatility of iPad and iPhone based devices.
Below I'll discuss five examples of powerful iOS medical devices I've found that already exist.
1) The Withings Blood Pressure Monitor
French company Withings developed this blood pressure monitor that features an app and a cuff that fits most average-sized people. Accurate data on your blood pressure can help you monitor hypertension, which can lead to serious consequences for your heart, brain and kidney. The Withings monitor can even work with an iPod Touch, and runs at $129. You can use the device to share your data with your doctor.
2) ECEM Pulse Oximeter
This device isn't yet available to the masses, but given its utility I imagine it will be soon. It features a small clip that attaches to your fingertip. The clip beams a light through your fingertip to a receiver on the opposite side; the amount of light received is used to determine how much oxygen is saturated in your blood. Developed by the Electrical and Computer Engineering in Medicine research group together with the Pediatric Anesthesia Research Team at the University of British Columbia, it was originally created to help make anesthesia care safer in the developing world, but can also be useful to patients with heart of lung problems such as emphysema.
3) iBGStar Glucose Meter
From Sanofi-Aventis comes this glucose meter app and plug-in. The glucose meter is a well-known device to anyone with diabetes. Today, diabetics test blood sugar with needles and a clunky kit; the iBGStar offers a small add-on to the iPhone that's said to give better, more accurate results. Plus, getting your data on your iPhone means you can share it easily, and you can get reminders on your iPhone when it's time for another check.
4) iPhoneECG Electrocardiogram
This device has a simple setup: just snap a plastic case onto the back of your iPhone and you're ready to go. The case has two electrodes in the back that, when you press the phone against bare skin of your thumbs or–for a better reading–your chest, can measure and track your pulse. It was built by Alivecor and Oregon Scientific. It's not perfect, since it admittedly gathers a limited amount of data on your heartbeat, meaning it can't quite compete against a real ECG. But for e-patients looking to get a good look at their heartbeat or caregivers looking for a quick diagnostic, it might just do the trick.
5) MobiUS SP1 Ultrasound Imaging Device
OK, with a price tag of around $7,500, it's still not quite a device for the masses. But this ultrasound peripheral and program still runs lots cheaper than traditional machines, and does serve as a step in the road to democratizing access to patient information. Though the device, from Mobisante, doesn't run on iOS yet, I predict it will soon, since one major obstacle–the lack of a USB port in an iPad or an iPhone–will be eliminated in the latest upgrade to the iPad coming out soon. Wi-Fi and cell connectivity mean images can be shared quickly from the device, meaning caregivers might be able to more easily, frequently, or quickly share data with patients about their joey in the pouch.
Katie Matlack is the Medical Software Analyst at Software Advice, a free online resource that provides home health software reviews and evaluates other software products.


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(CNN) -- More than half of all U.S. counties have been designated disaster zones, the Department of Agriculture reported, blaming excessive heat and a devastating drought that's spread across the Corn Belt and contributed to rising food prices.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack declared disaster zone designations for an additional 218 counties in 12 states Wednesday because of damage and losses caused by drought and excessive heat.
The states are Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee and Wyoming.
Nearly three-quarters of the nation's cattle acreage is now inside a drought-stricken area, as is about two-thirds of the country's hay acreage, the agency reported.
USDA researchers added that an average of 37% of the nation's soybeans were last week ranked from very poor to poor, the lowest quality recorded since a massive drought in 1988.
Nearly half of America's corn crop was also rated very poor to poor, while 57% of its pastures and range land were similarly graded.
This year's harsh conditions suggest that food prices next year could surge by as much as 4.5%, the agency reported.
"It's the most severe and expensive drought in 25 years," USDA economist Timothy Park said.
As the hot and dry weather persists, farmers face potential losses in spite of federal crop insurance meant to soften the blow to U.S. agriculture.
"The pocketbook is really taking a hit," said Robert Dickey, a 58-year-old farmer in Georgia who says his losses are just below the threshold needed for his insurance to kick in.
"We'll probably have to take out some loans to get us through to next year."
The price of milk, cheese and other dairy products is also expected to surge, while ranchers face steepening feed costs.
"When I was a kid in the '50s ... it got real dry, but nothing like this," said Marvin Helms, a 70-year-old farmer and rancher in central Arkansas who was compelled to sell his beef cattle after being short on feed.
His thousand acres of farmland near Arkadelphia include corn and soybeans, which Helms says is normally sufficient to sustain his family and provide for his cattle.
"We've got some insurance on the crops, but it's not enough," he said. "It will help, but it won't pay the bills."
Still, economists say the extent of federal insurance coverage -- which includes about 85% of the nation's crop acreage -- will help protect farmers against catastrophic income losses.
"Today's safety net is going to protect a lot more of those producers than in the past," said USDA Deputy Chief Economist Robert Johansson. "Though it's hard to say the what effect will be on an individual producer, because a lot of times, these crop producers are also producing livestock."
In an effort to bolster assistance, the USDA expanded emergency disaster assistance Wednesday to allow for haying and grazing on 3.8 million acres of protected conservation areas, once considered off-limits.
The agency also reported that crop insurance companies have agreed to allow for a "short grace period for farmers on insurance premiums in 2012," giving farmers an extra 30 days to make payments without interest penalties on their unpaid premiums.
But while a variety of crops are strained across the U.S. Midwest, a top concern for policy-makers is corn.
"The unusually hot and dry conditions coincide with the period of pollination and kernel formation, which sharply reduces estimated yields," the USDA reported. "As of July 17, approximately 88 percent of the corn crop was in regions impacted by drought."
About 75% of all food found in the supermarket contains corn, officials say.
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Date: March 29, 2007
Description: Fraudulent Bank Guarantees Purportedly Drawn on the Central Bank of Ecuador
Fraudulent Bank Guarantees Purportedly Drawn on the Central Bank of Ecuador
To: Chief Executive Officers of All National Banks; All State Banking Authorities; Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Conference of State Bank Supervisors; Deputy Comptrollers (districts); Assistant Deputy Comptrollers; District Counsel and Examining Personnel
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has been informed by the Embassy of Ecuador to the United States of America that a series of fraudulent bank guarantees are circulating in the international financial markets. These guarantees carry the name of the Central Bank of Ecuador and claim to support private foundations.
Article 84, sections (c), (d), (f) and (g) of Ecuador's Organic law on the Monetary Regime and the National Bank prohibits the Central Bank of Ecuador from guaranteeing any class of bond to third parties.
The documents in circulation do not follow the format used by the Central Bank of Ecuador. They are issued in different increments and carry unauthorized signatures of officials who lack the authority to legally represent the institution.
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What says New York like bagels and black and white cookies? Even Anthony Bourdain said that New York makes the best bagels…
So, taking on the challenge to create perfect bagels and black and white cookies was, well, challenging.
Let's start with bagels. Once I tell someone that I have made bagels, they ask, "did you boil and then bake them?" and I think my face contorts into a funky mess as I reply, humbly, "Yes, of course!" It always comes to a surprise to me that people even have to ask. How else are bagels made? How else do you get that chewy texture? Have they heard of people just simply baking bagels like they would anything else? I guess so. I just can't even imagine it.
So, yes, I boiled and then baked the bagels. I think they came out great, especially with the addition of poppy seeds.
Now, on to the other New York classic, the black and white cookie. Now, just to clarify, these are sugar-type cookies (though more cake-y than cookie-y…) that are frosted in half chocolate frosting and half vanilla frosting—hence the black and white. Not to be confused with the other black and white cookies, made with white chocolate chips and bittersweet chocolate chips! These are almost their own breed of cookie. You just have to try them, okay? 🙂
I made these because, believe it or not, I met someone who had never even heard of them until I brought them up. Also, because I love the memory I have of my sister and I sharing them. She got the vanilla half and I got the chocolate half. Perfect.


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The Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers play Sunday at O.co Coliseum. They probably think it will be a tough game.
Maybe it will be. But it won't be as tough as the Raiders-Steelers games of 40 years ago.
I'm thinking here about the 1974 AFC championship game, won by Pittsburgh.
After one play, Steelers defensive lineman Mean Joe Greene blatantly kicked Oakland center Jim Otto in the groin — just moments after Pittsburgh defender Ernie Holmes spit in the face of Raiders offensive lineman Gene Upshaw at the bottom of the pile.
No penalty flags were thrown on either play. If they had been, Greene or Otto probably would have picked up the yellow hankies and chewed them into tiny bits of fabric, then forced the referees to swallow the pieces. Those old Raiders and Steelers didn't want anyone to get in the way of their mutual animosity.
I bring this up today for several reasons.
One, before Sunday's game, current Raiders and Steelers players would do well to study up on the rivalry's rich history during the 1970s — and do their best to resurrect it. At the moment, both teams are scuffling along with 2-4 records, searching for their identities.
Two, my hunch is that zero members of the two teams' active rosters could identify a picture of Rocky Bleier or Phil Villapiano. Someone should tell those current players that if only in terms of inspiration, they can learn much more from old game films than new video games.
And three, it is laughable to hear the commentators of 2013 talk about the "fierce" rivalries between the Patriots and Jets, or the 49ers and Seahawks, or whichever overhyped matchup is this week's game of the century.
Who are they kidding? Nothing exists today that equals those legendary Raiders-Steelers matchups, with Hall of Famers on both sides of the ball. Beginning in 1972, the teams met in playoff games for five consecutive seasons. The Steelers won three of the five. The most famous was the "Immaculate Reception" game of 1972. But each one had its unforgettable stories.
The rivalry's best moments enrich several chapters in a new book by Bay Area author Gary Pomerantz, "Their Life's Work." It documents the 1970s Steelers dynasty with new interviews of the team's principal personalities and numerous opponents. The other night at a book-release party in San Francisco, former offensive linemen John Vella of the Raiders and Gordon Gravelle of the Steelers showed up to spin some stories about those days.
"If it weren't for the Steelers," Vella said, "we would have had five Super Bowl rings in the '70s instead of one."
Not that he remains bitter about it or anything.
Vella said there was nothing quite like waking up on the morning of a Raiders-Steelers game.
"I knew I was going to get in a fight that day," Vella said with a chuckle, as Gravelle nodded.
As Pomerantz unearthed during his research, the Raiders in many ways drove the Steelers to excellence. At any point during a given season, Pittsburgh coaches would challenge and fire up their receivers by looping up film of them being manhandled or embarrassed by Raiders defensive backs.
There are also fun anecdotes like this one: In a 1973 playoff game at the Coliseum, the Steelers insisted the Raiders kept sending in half-deflated balls onto the field whenever Pittsburgh tried a field goal — with the words "Go Raiders!" scrawled on the ball.
Especially delicious, however, is a chapter about the 1977 trial when the rivalry spilled over into the courtroom. Steelers coach Chuck Noll was sued for slander by Raiders defensive back George Atkinson. The previous year after a regular-season game, Noll had accused Atkinson of a dirty hit and said: "You have a criminal element in every society, and apparently we have it here in the NFL, too."
Atkinson's attorney was Willie Brown, the future San Francisco mayor who in his opening statement accused the Steelers of being "the leading cheap-shot artists in pro football."
Testimony was given by players on both teams. Films of NFL violence were shown in the courtroom. The jury found Noll not guilty.
Can you imagine such a trial today — say, if Richard Sherman sued Jim Harbaugh for slander — or the wall-to-wall media attention it would generate?
Gravelle was asked to compare the Steelers-Raiders dynamic to the current 49ers-Seahawks enmity, especially between coaches Harbaugh and Pete Carroll. Gravelle said the analogy doesn't really hold.
"Chuck Noll didn't hate John Madden at all," Gordon said. "Noll just thought Al Davis was an … " Davis would probably be proud to hear it.
Vella acknowledged that recent 49ers-Seattle games have indeed been quite passionate and hard-hitting, with terrific rivalry potential.
"But that's been just two years," Vella said. "Give me five or 10 years of that, and then we'll talk about it."
Likewise for the Raiders and Steelers. Last year, they played a fairly intense game at O.co that ended in a 34-31 Raiders victory. Let's see if they can duplicate that Sunday — and then do it in the playoffs for five straight years. Then we'll talk about it.
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Five members of the NCAA-bound Hope volleyball team have
been presented all-conference honors by the Michigan Intercollegiate
Athletic Association (MIAA).
Coach Becky Schmidt's Flying Dutch were co-champions with rival Calvin
in the MIAA this season and have advanced to the NCAA Division III
championships by winning the conference tournament title this weekend.
The Flying Dutch have a 26-4 season record and will enter regional
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team honoree.
Voted to the All-MIAA second team were senior outside hitter Cassidy
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Be More Competitive Without Being Combative
Do you wish you were more competitive? Does it sometimes seem that the other guy gets ahead all the time? Would you like to really champion your own ideas and be more forceful and driven to succeed and actualize your dreams? Do you want to strive to win?
The purpose of this session is to motivate your mind to drive more towards the goals you want to achieve. Maybe you had picked up along the way ideas such as 'nice people' don't drive themselves forward ahead of others. The fact is that you can be hugely ambitious and driven with a strong competitive force within you and be a decent human being and want what is good for everybody.
Healthy competition is a powerful motivator
Competitiveness is like a motor which powers you on. You want to be better than others and do better than others because you have self respect and take satisfaction in doing absolutely the best job you can do. Being competitive doesn't have to mean treading all over others or putting other people down - it just means you working hard to get ahead of the field. What the rest of the 'field' does is down to them.
Social conditioning and competitiveness
Some people feel it's bad to be competitive. 'Don't be too pushy!' They have learnt from others that it is somehow unkind or inconsiderate to forge ahead of others. They feel that we should all be mutually supportive, that it's wrong to 'thrust yourself forward' and want to be the best and that competition leads to inequality.
But these very same people will happily reap the rewards of years of fierce competition when they: take medicines, drive their car, watch a movie, eat at a particular restaurant and enjoy sports. None of these necessities and pleasures is possible without the instinctive drive to perform at your best and be the best. Medicinal knowledge and life saving surgical innovation came about because of prolonged and intense competition (1)
Being competitive and helping others
In other words we don't have to be competitive at the expense of others but as way of bringing improving the life of everybody around us because when you improve things you improve them for everyone. The world is more 'connected' than ever before. The 'digital revolution' and the lowering of trade and political barriers means that a business man in New York can work with people in India and supply to other people in Western Europe without meeting any of these people face to face. Researchers in medicine can work and share information with other researchers all around the world because of the new technology. Make no mistake these researchers and business leasers have maximum competitive drive but the fruits of their competitive drive will help everyone.
Your competitiveness
Of course knowing how to be competitive doesn't mean you always have to be competitive. Having to beat a three year old in a running race because you 'have a competitive nature' just shows lack of generosity. This session focuses on you becoming more competitive where it will really count in your life-where it is needed.
Download Be Competitive now and get yourself into full throttle toward your destination.
(1) See the excellent 'The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine James Le Fanu' for an excellent description of how lone effort and competitiveness by the few benefited the many.
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Interview with Norman Shealy MD
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Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D.,
is the founder of the Shealy Institute, the original holistic clinic for the management of pain and stress illnesses, and the Holos Institutes of Health, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to holistic clinical services and research.
Dr. Shealy was also the founding president of the American Holistic Medical Association, which has become the nationwide organization for physicians whose approach to healing cannot be contained within the standardized constraints of the AMA.
Trained as a neurosurgeon, he pioneered the technique called dorsal column stimulation, which was radical when he introduced it, but was soon embraced by mainstream medicine. But before long, Shealy moved on to other pursuits, searching for methods of controlling pain without invading or destroying the nervous system. His programs now include biofeedback, nutritional training, exercise, massage and other holistic methods.
Dr. Shealy has strong opinions on the politics of medicine and insurance, which he discusses in this interview with Dr. Daniel Redwood. His book
Third Party Rape
s specifically devoted to this topic. At a time when health care costs (Dr. Shealy pointedly notes that these are really "disease care" costs) are at the center of a national debate, Shealy offers a unique, thought-provoking perspective. One need fully endorse all his positions to benefit from hearing him out.
Shealy lectures on health throughout the world, and gives numerous workshops and lectures in this country. He has written many books, including
The Pain Game, Occult Medicine Can Save Your Life, and 90 Days to Self-Health. The Creation of Health,
which he co-authored with psychic diagnostician Carolyn Myss, is a unique and groundbreaking collaboration, in which Dr. Shealy discusses the medical understanding of each disease while Ms. Myss approaches it from the intuitive standpoint.
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: I'd like to start by asking how you overcame your medical training?
Norman Shealy
: [Laughter]. I have so many places where I wasn't part of the flock. In medical school I was a bit of a maverick. In my residency I was more of a maverick. I would say, "Why are you operating on this person? They don't have nerve root signs." I never understood why we were operating on people who didn't have clearcut, unequivocal nerve root troubles with disc disease. I also questioned from the very beginning destroying any part of the nervous system for pain control. I thought it was unwise, at best.
So when I finished my neurosurgical residency, I was on the faculty at Western Reserve, and I started looking for some way of controlling pain without destroying the nervous system, and without using drugs. My first thought was to stimulate the dorsal column of the spinal cord. That was called wild.
When I presented that paper at the American College of Neurosurgeons in 1966, there was almost a physical fight on the stage. People were coming up and grabbing the microphone and screaming. It was literally out of control.
: For our readers who may not understand why people would get so worked up and start screaming about this,what was the issue?
: The issue was that I had done research on cats and monkeys, in which I had measured electrophysiological changes in the spinal cord and brainstem. I said that these were reactions to pain, and that we could suppress them by stimulating the dorsal columns of the cord. They said I was making an [unwarranted] assumption that it was pain we were studying. It reminds me of the old story - when something looks like a jackass and sounds like a jackass, you assume it's a jackass.
: So from the early days you never did the expected, predictable thing.
: That's for sure. In 1970, my wife and I had a farm and were raising Apaloosa horses. I went out to Colorado to look at some horses, and when the wife of the owner of the ranch opened the door, I knew her. And she knew me. At a soul level. We started talking about parapsychology . . .
Then in January of 1971, Janet Travell, who had been President Kennedy's physician, gave an interview to the
Wall Street Journal,
just after James Reston's trip to China [in which the famed
New York Times
journalist had an operation with acupuncture anesthesia]. Now I had been doing acupuncture since 1966. And Janet Travell basically said in the interview, "What's all the excitement about? There's a young neurosurgeon out in Wisconsin who's practicing a Western form of acupuncture."
As a result of the publicity from that
Wall Street Journal
article, Paul Dudley White, who had been [President] Eisenhower's physician, wrote and asked me to come and talk with him about my Western form of acupuncture, which I did.
: What led you to acupuncture in the first place?
: It made sense. Intuition. In 1965, when I theorized that we would be able to control pain by stimulating the dorsal column of the spine, I started sticking needles into people where they hurt, and stimulating them. Soon, I realized that sticking needles into people frequently got rid of their pain. So I got into studying acupuncture out of books.
The next year, I went down some steps with a bag of concrete, leaned over to put it in a hole, and couldn't stand up afterwards. I felt as if my sacroiliac joint had locked, and for two weeks I walked around bent over. I went to an orthopedist, and I told him, "My sacroiliac joint is locked. Would you manipulate it?" He said, "That's witchcraft, I don't do that!"
So I called a chiropractor in my area, and I said, "I'm a neurosurgeon. I don't want x-rays. I know what's wrong. Just put it right." And he did it, in one adjustment. The chiropractor, Dr. Fred Barge, later corrected my daughter's scoliosis, after she was told [by an orthopedist] she would have to be in a brace.
: You must have been one of the few MDs in your area to consort with chiropractors in those days.
: There's more. I was the leader of the medical society's campaign to have the water fluoridated in our town. Fred Barge and the other chiropractors in town attacked me, in the papers and all. And they started sending me all this information. The fluoridation campaign lost. And by the next year, when the medical society tried to get me to run it again, I refused, because by that time I was against fluoridation.
: How did you develop contacts with other physicians who had interests similar to yours? Back then, I assume they were relatively few and far between, more so than now.
: Paul Dudley White asked me to take his place at a symposium at Stanford, to talk about acupuncture. While I was there, I met Olga Worrell, the great healer; Bill Tiller, the physicist from Stanford; Felix Mann, the English acupuncturist and physician; and Bill McGarey [the physician who co-founded the A.R.E. Clinic in Arizona].
Not long after that, I attended a "week of attunement" at the A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment) in Virginia Beach. I had my first past life therapy session. I met Joel Andrews, the harpist, and went into a trance while he was playing music, had out of body experiences. It was quite a week.
: And you were on your way.
Yes. Then Genevieve Haller [a Virginia Beach chiropractor who then headed the chiropractic section of the Edgar Cayce Foundation] referred me to Henry Rucker. I had wanted to meet a psychic, because I was interested in [psychic] medical diagnosis. He was very good, an excellent diagnostician. Then I got a grant from a Fortune 500 company, which shall remain anonymous, to study psychic diagnosis.
: What did you find?
: I investigated 75 people who were psychics. We devised a test where they would get the patient's name, photograph and birthdate. Then they could check [from a set of choices] what was wrong. By chance, you would have one chance in 20 of getting the right answer. I investigated 75 people.
The average psychic was 50 percent accurate, which is ten times chance. But five or six of the people were 70-75 percent accurate, which is just phenomenally good. Henry was about 75 percent accurate. We had both physical diagnosis and psychological diagnosis. Then I met one person, Bob Leichtman, a physician [and psychic], who was 80 percent accurate on physical diagnosis and 96 percent accurate on psychological diagnosis. That, of course, also changed my thinking rather significantly.
: Has your own intuition sometimes given you diagnostic information to which you would not have had access via normal physical methods?
: First of all, I think that probably every time you see a patient, it's your intuition that tells you what tests to do. It really isn't just facts. You can choose between ten thousand different options.
: The science and the art.
: Exactly. But back in medical school when I was a sophomore, in physical diagnosis, I saw a patient, wrote up my findings and my history, and gave a diagnosis. The professor who was teaching the course was furious, and accused me of cheating, because he didn't think I, as a medical student, could have made the correct diagnosis, which I had. He wrote a long report accusing me of cheating. Interestingly, three years later he begged me to intern there, and apologized for his error. He said "I don't understand what that was, but I know you're honest."
One of my more striking cases was a woman who came in, and the first question I asked her was, "Why are you afraid of having a brain tumor?" I had never asked that of another patient. She broke into tears, and told me her best friend had died of a brain tumor six months earlier.
: What kind of cases give you the most difficulty?
: There are two. First of all, psychotics. I can't deal with psychotics. Their energy is disruptive to me. I find myself feeling attacked, and I want to run away. I see energy around them. They have what looks like a storm taking place around them, chaotic energy, usually over the right shoulder near the head.
: Have you seen people who used to have that storm around their head, and something was done, and they no longer have it?
: Yes, I have seen that. I can work with a psychotic between attacks, when they are back in their body, so to speak.
: But not during the storm.
: I don't know how to protect myself from that energy.
: What was the other group you have difficulty with?
: People who are just openly hostile. They're angry with the world, not with me. These are people who feel victimized by someone, and don't really want to get well, and have been often forced to see me by an insurance company.
: What encourages you most about the current health care debate in the political arena . . .
: Nothing!
: ... and what disturbs you most about it?
: There's nothing encouraging about the current political debate.
: They're all just barking up the wrong tree?
: I've written a book called
Third Party Rape.
Basically, my thesis is this: the current problem was created by Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) around 1920. They set out to put people into hospitals. Hospitals, which at that time were low on census, loved it. Medical insurance was set up to put people into the hospital.
The original policy was that for six dollars you could have twenty days in the hospital. This was in the 1920s. In the 1960s, I did a survey of the physicians at a hospital which I consider one of the finest medical facilities in this country. The physiciansthere are the finest group I have ever worked with in my life, anywhere. I asked, on two different days, "How many of your patients are here not because they need to be here for medical reasons, but because it's to get their insurance to pay." It was over 60 percent. Now this was at one of the finest hospitals in the country.
: The insurance would only cover the treatment of their particular ailment if they were hospitalized?
: Exactly ... so the hospitals and BCBS were in collusion. Until 1965 the vast majority of medical insurance in this country was BCBS. In 1965 Johnson put through Medicare. Then all the other insurance companies decided to go to the trough, because it was suddenly profitable to have medical insurance. But the system was the same stupid system of putting people in the hospital.
By 1970, the headlines across this country were screaming "crisis in health care costs." I would say we have never had a crisis in health care costs. We have never had any health care costs. We have had disease care costs. We do not have a health care system. We have a disease care system.
: With regard to hospitals, we now have a situation where apparently for financial reasons, there is increasingly, at least in the managed care area, a disincentive to putting people in hospitals.
: That started just ten years ago, when Medicare decided they just couldn't stand the bill anymore. Here's what we've got. What we had between 1965 and 1980 was collusion between BCBS and its clones, and the hospitals (which loved it, because they have always been the first to get paid.)
Then we had the federal government joining in the collusion. And finally at that point, the legal system saw the trough, and that's when the lawsuits began to accelerate. In the last ten years, you know what the number one inflationary item in this country is?
: Tell me.
: Legal services, at all levels.
: More so than medical?
: Oh yes. Way above medical.
: But we always hear about medical costs.
: I know that. The number one inflation, the number one increase. I've got the statistics. Believe me, I've got 89 pages of statistics in my book. Do you know what the number two inflationary items in this country is?
: Go.
: The federal government. Do you know what's number three? Insurance. All levels of insurance, not just medical insurance. Do you know what the number four inflationary item in this country is? Medical insurance. Number five? Hospital costs . . .
If we eliminated physicians' costs completely, but all the other costs were kept the same, we'd cut the cost of disease care only 19 percent
Now, are the physicians guilty? Of course they are. They are guilty of the sin of hiding their heads in the sand, and going along with the system for too long, and not standing up and saying what is wrong with it . . .
The surgeons might have helped. Back in the early days of BCBS, the main thing that was done in hospitals was operations. Surgeons always, for the last 60 years, have been paid bundles more than other physicians. Bundles more. There are inordinate discrepancies between pediatricians and surgeons. And now, in the last year, physician income, exclusive of inflation, is down 3 percent.
: Is hospital income down?
: Hospital income is up.
: And insurance income?
: Insurance income is up. If you look at the last ten years, the only item in this field to go down, adjusted for inflation, is physician income. We are scapegoats in this fiasco. Are we lily white? Of course not. We've done a lot of things that are wrong. I believe, for example, that we have far too much specialization. A minimum of 75 percent of physicians should be family physicians. A minimum.
: So if you were in charge of medical education, that's one of the key changes you would make?
: One of them. There are others. We have what I call the disease-wise society, and I do not believe it is right or fair for people who are health-wise, who represent only about 25% of the population, to have to pay for the disease habits of others.
Here's the other side of the coin. If you live in a house that has wooden shingles, you pay higher insurance rate, don't you, than if you have asbestos shingles? Why, if you smoke, don't you pay twice as much? Because through a lifetime, smokers have twice as many illnesses as non-smokers. And they even cause illness in everybody around them as well.
According to the Surgeon General, if we were to abolish smoking, alcohol and drug abuse, obesity, excess dietary fat, salt and sugar, and inadequate physical exercise, we would eliminate within ten years, 75 percent of illness.
Now, there is nothing in my opinion that can be done other than having the people who have those habits paying for it . . . therefore, what I am recommending is that the health-wise take a $5000 deductible insurance policy. By doing that, you save $4000 a year on medical insurance. If the 25 percent of the people who are truly healthy did that, it would collapse the system within one year, because the other people, with the unhealthy habits, would suddenly have to pay for it themselves.
If 25 percent of the people dropped out of the system, it would force the system to change. If you want to smoke, fine. You pay twice as much. If you want to drink, fine. We're not going to pay for your drug rehabilitation.
There is no solution with medicine. There is only a solution with educating people that they've got to be responsible for their health habits.
Am I uncompassionate? I'm sure I'll be accused of it ... there just has to be a limit to what we are capable of financing. There is a part of me that says it is immoral to transplant livers and lungs. You couldn't pay me to have that done. And I don't think other people should have to support it. There's a place for dying in peace rather than in agony. There's a place for the limits of technology.
: How does a society decide where those limits are?
: I don't know. Maybe by a vote. You know, polls have been taken since the 1940s on the whole question of insurance. People have always voted that they want it, and they have also voted that they won't pay for it.
: Which brings us right up to the present.
: We will have changes. They will take place in this decade. I believe that when it's all over, we will come closer to having a system like what I am talking about than what we have today, because it's all we can afford . . .
I think the public is way ahead of the medical profession. Now, dentists and nurses, and half of chiropractors (the mixers) are way ahead of the allopathic physician . . . Most physicians today don't know what's happening. They don't realize that they have, in the last ten years, totally lost control of the situation. The situation is now 95% in the control of bureaucracy. The good news is, I think it will go bankrupt of its own weight, of its own policies.
: What takes its place if that happens?
: Who knows? It depends on what happens to the federal government. One of two things will happen in this country. We will either have hyperinflation in this decade, which means, if we do, that we have the risk of a totalitarian dictatorship taking over. Or we'll have a total deflation. It's going to happen this decade. I believe it will be no later than 1995. Probably by 1994, perhaps as late as 1998. It will happen this decade. I hope it's a deflation, because otherwise we're in the economic position where Germany was before Hitler took over.
: One is a situation where people feel they don't have enough money. The other is a situation where they feel money has no meaning.
: Exactly.
: Money having no meaning is much scarier.
: One or the other is going to happen. I've known it was going to happen since the 1960s. It was obvious to me then that sooner or later, the piper had to be paid.
Daniel Redwood is a chiropractor, writer and musician who lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He is the author of A Time to Heal: How to Reap the Benefits of Holistic Health (A.R.E. Press), and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. He can be reached by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Family history blog focusing on genealogy and artifacts for several surnames, including: Ackerman, Brooks, Cabot, Haskell, Holbrook, MacKenzie, Merrill and others. My interest was sparked by my grandmother's research and collection of artifacts that were stashed away in an old slant top desk that is now at my Dad's house.
Sunday, July 15, 2012
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It feels like haying weather today, so I thought I would post this photo labeled "haying at Naulahka" from my grandmother's collection of Holbrook family photographs. Naulahka is the home where Rudyard Kipling wrote several books and was owned for a time by my great grandparents. Also written on the back are the names : Richard Merryman, Frederick and Grace Cabot Holbrook, Nina Devens, Mr. Daudelein. Frederick and Grace Cabot are my great grandparents and they are the furthest to the right (standing on the ground). I believe my grandmother is on the load of hay and her brother Frederick "Cabot" Holbrook is standing next to his father. My guess is that this photo was taken circa 1910 or so.
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MONTREAL -- Ben Weider, who helped make bodybuilding an international sport and was chiefly responsible for launching the career of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the United States, died Friday in a Montreal hospital. He was 85.
Weider and his brother, Joe, co-founded the International Brotherhood of Body Builders in 1946, an organization which sanctions thousands of amateur and professional bodybuilding competitions around the world. The Weiders' billion-dollar business includes gyms, nutritional supplements and magazines such as Muscle and Fitness. Joe Weider received the first Lifetime Achievement Award from Club Industry's Fitness Business Pro in 2003.
In 1968, the Weiders brought Schwarzenegger, who was then an unknown Austrian bodybuilder, to California.
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If you live in the Southwest or California, you may have heard whispers about a new kind of grocery store starting to pop up next door to your old one. One where farm-fresh, organic produce can be found any day of the week and where farm-raised beef is actually an affordable option. This is Sprouts Farmers Market. Their mission: "Helping America eat healthier, live longer, and spend less."
I hadn't heard of Sprouts until moving to California a few months ago and our soon-to-be landlord mentioned this "great nearby store with all sorts of fresh produce" as a selling point on the apartment. Better and more affordable than Whole Foods, he said. I was immediately intrigued.
My initial impression, based on the company website and my first steps inside the store, was that Sprouts is aiming for something between Trader Joe's and Whole Foods. You get the close-knit community feeling and the prices of Trader Joe's with the quality standards of Whole Foods. Their website is full of animated pictures of idyllic farm life: hopping chickens, baskets of produce, even a red barn with a grain silo. The store is laid out in such a way that you can meander through the aisles, perusing the meats and sniffing containers of berries.
But this is where things started to break down for me.
I hit the produce section first, and was both puzzled and amazed to see out-of-season raspberries and imported coconuts alongside the first strawberries and late-season kale. Looking closer, I noticed that about half the produce seems to be imported from Mexico. The remainder are simply labelled "from the US" without indication of a farm or at least a state of origin. I expected that at least the locally-sourced produce would be clearly marked. (This is California, after all. It's not that hard to find local produce.)
The meat section held a similar story. There were plenty of packages emblazoned with "free-range" or "organic," but no information about where, precisely, that meat came from. Some of the meats from outside packagers had source information on their labels, but it wasn't clear whether the address was the farm itself, the distributer, or the processing plant.
I know I'm being a bit picky. And I'm not normally a stickler for needing to know the exact plot number and soil composition of every strawberry I eat. But for a grocery store that is marketing itself on "farm fresh produce" and staking its reputation on quality products, I would like something more. To me, produce from Mexico is no longer "farm fresh" and I'm not going to take it on faith that this chicken is free-range until I'm given a little more context.
Sprouts does get a few things right. Their bulk bin section is diverse and extensive. I'm very happy to have a reliable source for chia seeds and short-grain brown rice. Their dairy section also has an excellent selection of local milk and other dairy. The store also carries an impressive array of vitamins and supplements.
Their section for basic grocery items like salt, canned tomatoes, and juice was small but well-edited. You could get all of your grocery shopping done here. I was particularly excited to find a nice selection of Indian ingredients and grains - maybe I can finally make homemade dosa!
Sprouts also comes through on the prices. A half gallon of local milk was a very reasonable $2.50, organic oranges were $.88, and grass-fed chuck roast was $3.99 per pound. For the most part, the prices felt somewhat above what you'd pay for the conventional item in a regular grocery store, but much more affordable than a gourmet grocery store.
Overall I feel like Sprouts has potential, but it's not quite there yet. Right now, I feel like I'm being asked to believe in an image of a green, health-conscious store but without the substance to back it up. Giving the source information and making a more concerted effort to stock actual local produce would go a long way to convincing me to shop there more regularly.
I'll definitely keep an eye on them as they continue to put up new stores and grow as a company. My fingers are crossed that they work out the kinks.
Have you shopped at Sprouts? What do you think of the store?
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The only thing that threw it off a little was at Red Rocks when they had to do a final roadblock. We all thought the pics under the tunnel and of the cabs were to the finish line.
If this hapened first (and I hope it did) thenthis E&J cluebox shot should have a mark as indicated.It doesn't
Whatever the final task is, I bet they go through that tunnel (see satellite image) to the parking lot on the other side and complete the task there. That shot of Ray & Yolanda may be them on the trail that shows up in the satellite image. It goes to the bottom of the amphitheater.For sure we see the teams enter the amphitheater and have to run all the way up the stairs to Phil at the top (south end)I think E&J get to the final task first (due to the lack of any marks in the snow at the cluebox from BJ&T's taxi) but the difference is not enough to let them win. The final task will involve using their brains and for that BJ&T will wiz right by them.I can't wait!
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While some couples may be chronic over-sharers on Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), the social media giant says it can determine when users are about to change their relationship status from "Single" to "In a Relationship."
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Facebook Data Science, a research service, conducted research from 2010 through 2013 that reviewed messages, posts and visits to profiles among couples who declared an anniversary date and remained "single" 100 days prior and "in a relationship" 100 days after the anniversary.
The social networking giant said during the 100 days prior to a relationship starting, it observed a slow but steady increase in the number of timeline posts shared between the future couple. In a blog post, researcher said, "When the relationship starts ("day 0"), posts begin to decrease. We observe a peak of 1.67 posts per day 12 days before the relationship begins, and a lowest point of 1.53 posts per day 85 days into the relationship. Presumably, couples decide to spend more time together, courtship is off, and online interactions give way to more interactions in the physical world."
Josh Constantine, social media reporter for Mashable, says that while many gripe about the lack of privacy online, few users will actually stop using a product or service over data mining.
"People talk a lot about who they care about privacy, but we ultimately won't give up services over it," Constantine says. "They may think its creepy how much Facebook knows about us, but the more data Facebook has, the more accurate those ads will be." Constantine is referring to the targeted ads on the social media site, which rely on data mining to reach the right audiences. In 2012, Constantine says Target (NYSE:TGT) was using customer buying behavior to monitor pregnancy among its web shoppers.
"In some cases, they could determine if a woman was pregnant before their family even knew—if they were buying nutritional supplements or purses big enough to double as diaper bags," he says. "And they would send them coupons in the mail, and found it was extremely good for revenue. The data companies collect on us is nothing new."
And many companies, like Facebook, like to show off how interesting their data are, and try to recruit workers by showing they have a "fun data set to play with," Constantine says.
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Microblading is a semi-permanent treatment for the brows where ink is injected using the microblading pen. This tool with super fine needles is used and each stroke is gently etched into the skin to give a natural look. The needles will not penetrate the skin but just softly scratch the surface of the skin.
The microblading process last around 2 hours to complete and includes drawing the shape of the brows with the temporary pen - this is the most important step and it's well worth spending time on - followed by applying a numbing cream to reduce the pain and discomfort.
Different pigments are carefully chosen to create a most natural brow and skin tone is also taken into consideration.
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Microblading can dramatically correct lost eyebrows and is amazing for those wanting to enhance their brows or thinning brows from over tweezing, age or illness.
Your therapist will discuss shape and colour and will no doubt give you some advice if you are a little stuck on which will best suit your face shape and skin tone. Perhaps you'd like a more trendy shape or go completely natural?
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The needling process begins. Remember these will be very light and gentle strokes to the surface of the skin with the microblading pen. The pigment will seep into the skin and start settling.
After the completion of microblading there is some recovery time for about 2 weeks. You'll have to follow the after care instructions given to you.
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Your hair might appear lighter or faded days after the procedure. But do not fret, your ideal colour and shape will show after about 30 days.
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Female-to-female transmission of HIV appears to be a rare occurrence. However, case reports of female-to-female transmission of HIV and the well documented risk of female-to-male transmission of HIV indicate that vaginal secretions and menstrual blood are potentially infectious and that mucous membrane (e.g., oral, vaginal) exposure to these secretions have the potential to lead to HIV infection.
What do surveillance tools tell us about transmission between women?
Through December 1998, 109,311 women were reported with AIDS. Of these, 2,220 were reported to have had sex with women; however, the vast majority had other risks (such as injection drug use, sex with high-risk men, or receipt of blood or blood products). Of the 347 (out of 2,220) women who were reported to have had sex only with women, 98% also had another risk -- injection drug use in most cases.
Note: information on whether a woman had sex with women is missing in half of the 109,311 case reports, possibly because the physician did not elicit the information or the woman did not volunteer it.
What do investigations of female-to-female transmission show?
Women with AIDS whose only reported risk initially is sex with women are given high priority for follow-up investigation. As of December 1998, none of these investigations had confirmed female-to-female HIV transmission, either because other risks were subsequently identified or because, in a few cases, women declined to be interviewed. A separate study of more than 1 million female blood donors found no HIV-infected women whose only risk was sex with women. These findings suggest that female-to-female transmission of HIV is uncommon. However, they do not negate the possibility because it could be masked by other behaviors.
What are the behaviors that place WSW at risk of HIV infection?
Surveys of risk behaviors have been conducted in groups of WSW. These surveys have generally been surveys of convenient samples of WSW that differ in sampling, location, and definition of WSW. As a result, their findings are not generalizable to all populations of WSW. These surveys suggest that some groups of WSW have relatively high rates of high-risk behaviors, such as injection drug use and unprotected vaginal sex with gay/bisexual men and injection drug users.
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Although female-to-female transmission of HIV apparently is rare, female sexual contact should be considered a possible means of transmission among WSW. These women need to know:
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Well, Meredith and Derek first met at Joe's Bar , when they would bolth start work tommrow. Derek is Merediths bosses boss. They bolth work at Settle Grace Hospital ( SGH ).Merediths mother Ellis Grey is a famous surgan. Meredith when she found out that Derek worked at SGH she was shocked as was I. Derek through episode 1-5 trys to make Meredith go out with him. Meredith dicho to Derek ' ITS THE THRILL OF THE CHASE '. when Derek is really sweet and says to Meredith ' ITS NOT THE THRILL OF THE CHASE, I LIKE U BECAUSE YOUR TINY FIST,YOUR BOSSEY AND YOUR HAIR SMELLS LIKE A FLOWER'. Meredith then...
Here are a few reasons that I think are the reasons why we amor Derek and Meredith:
We know that that they belong together and we know that they are an EPIC couple
We amor it when they're together and hate it when they're not together
We wanted Derek to pick Meredith after she said, "Pick me, choose me, amor me!"
We loved how Meredith realized she wasn't over him when she started calling him McDreamy
We realized that Meredith's therapy was helping her realize that she belonged with Derek
Ok, this may look like I´m obsessed! I´m not...really. I don´t even know why I wrote this! But I´m sure I´m not the first to do something like that and hopefully not the last. I simply like MerDer very much and they became my favourite TV screen couple very fast. English is not my first languague so I apologize for all mistakes and stupid sentences construction :D.
This wasn´t supposed to be like...scenes-related but then I couldn´t help it. I think that those moments between them are exactly what we like on MerDer.
A Hard Day's Night
-Derek: "This is..."
Meredith: "... Humiliating. On so many levels. tu have to go."
Derek: "Why don't tu just come back down here and we'll pick up where we left off?"
-Meredith: "You know, we don't have to do the thing."
Derek: "Oh, we can do anything tu want."
Meredith: "No, the thing... exchange the details, pretend we care..."
-Meredith: "Look, I'm going to go upstairs and take a shower. Okay? And when I get back down here, tu won't be here. So goodbye, um..."
Okay well this is the first time I did a soapbox, so yeah... and cuz i wrote too much English essays at school, u might find this very 'essay-ish' and formal, but i'll try to prevent doing that.
Okay now, Merder is my favourite couple on Grey's Anatomy, they're cute and sweet together, but how come they can't be together and have a stable relationship???
I think there're many reasons to explain this. Like for example, at the start of the series when they just met and Derek was chasing Mer, they seems soo in amor and happy- until Addie showed up as Der's wife- which i...
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The Football Association are in talks over a move to revive the home international tournament.
Car giant Vauxhall, due to be unveiled as new England sponsors with a record-breaking deal on Tuesday, are understood to have been the key movers behind a planned revival of the home internationals and want it in place as soon as next season.
The return of the tournament would see England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland compete against each other for the first time since 1984. The FA have held talks about a new home international tournament but want to wait until after Euro 2012 is out of the way.
Vauxhall are also poised to complete further sponsorships with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland within the next week as part of a campaign to become the driving force of football across Britain.
England will play top African side Ghana - quarter-finalists in last year's World Cup - in a friendly on March 29 but a planned friendly against Thailand in June has been scrapped.
The announcement that the Thailand match, timed to commemorate the 65th anniversary of King Bhumibol's accession to the Thai throne, has been scrapped comes as no surprise.
The match was tied in to England's 2018 bid but no deal had been signed and following the bid's failure it always looked likely that the FA would look again at the fixture.
Explaining the decision, the FA said: "Although an informal agreement had been reached for a friendly match following the qualifier with Switzerland, no formal details in terms of match date or venue had ever been established and, following discussions by the FA board, it was decided not to go ahead with the fixture."
The meeting with Ghana should prove a tough test for Fabio Capello's side as the Black Stars were the only African side to qualify for the knockout stages and would have reached the semi-finals had Asamoah Gyan not missed a last-minute penalty against Uruguay.
Ghana are well represented in the Premier League, with Gyan and defender John Mensah both playing for Sunderland while Chelsea's Michael Essien and John Pantsil of Fulham are other notable names. The teams have met before at youth level, with Ghana claiming a crushing 4-0 win over England at the FIFA Under-20 World Cup two years ago.