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THIS WEEK, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar announced that the proposed directly-elected mayors for Cork, Limerick and Waterford will be paid €130,000.
The public will be asked to vote on whether they approve of the idea of directly-elected mayors in a plebiscite, due to happen on the same day as the local and European elections on 24 May.
Tánaiste Simon Coveney has defended the €130,000 salary, insisting that amount of money is required to attract the right candidates.
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The Waka Waka personal solar power station is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter. The Waka Waka Power is a personal solar power station which can power your iPhone and iPad using just the power of the sun. The Waka Waka Power has been created on the back of a previously successful Kickstarter campaign for the original Waka Waka which was a solar powered LED light. This new product encompasses both an LED light and a charging station in one.
The WakaWaka Power is a pocket size mini power station with super-efficient solar cells and a power management system which ensures efficiencies which are up to 200% better than any other product in the market. Apart from charging your smart phone, WakaWaka Power is also a light source which can provide you with more than 40 hours of excellent reading light (on a single day solar charge!).
Place WakaWaka Power in direct sunlight for a whole day and you will notice that the battery will be completely full, even if you live in New York or Seattle (where the intensity of the sun is far less than in Texas). The capacity of the battery is large enough to fully power most mobile phone from completely depleted, to practically full. On top of this, you will have 10 or more hours of excellent reading light as well. If you don't charge your phone or tablet, as said before, you can have more than 40 hours of light.
If you like the look of the Waka Waka Power, you can grab a piece of the action with an early pledge. The early bird $49 offer has already sold out but you can still pick one up if it is successfully launched for a $59 pledge. The Kickstarter project has already smashed through its funding goal of $50k and currently sits at over $70K. It looks like the Waka Waka may have a very successful future. What do you think about the Waka Waka Power?
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Coach Tim Osborn's Funeral To Be Held Thursday
A funeral will be held Thursday for Jackson Liberty football coach Tim Osborn who died suddenly on Saturday at the age of 53.
The Silverton Memorial Funeral Home located at 2482 Church Road in Toms River will host Visitation on Wednesday 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
The coach's funeral will be Thursday at 10:30am at St. Luke's Roman Catholic Church located at 1674 Old Freehold Road in Toms River. Attendees are asked to arrive at the funeral home 9:30am. Burial will follow at St. Joseph's Cemetery, Toms River.
In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Jackson Liberty Football Booster Club, 15 Rhode Island Drive, Jackson, NJ 08527.
Osborn was the only coach of the Jackson Liberty team since the school opened in 2006 after serving as an assistant coach for Toms River North and Brick. He died suddenly on Saturday while working out at a club in Brick.


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Playing with class and sportsmanship is the most important aspect of college sports.
That statement is especially true for the Lipscomb men's soccer program. This past Sunday the team was honored by the NCAA with a "special recognition" of sportsmanship.
"It is a prestigious award," said head coach Charles Morrow. "It means a lot to be recognized nationally for what you do."
A plaque was presented to the team before their game against USC Upstate on Sunday afternoon. Local media from around the area were present to watch the Bisons take pictures around the plaque.
John Blanchard, senior associate athletics director at the University of North Carolina, presented the award as a representative of the NCAA.
"What you did in your show of compassion towards the Bradley soccer team transcended the sport and addressed their humanity," said Blanchard as he presented the award. "You have touched their lives and made a lasting impression on all who have of heard of what you did including those of us on the NCAA Committee on Sportsmanship and Ethical Conduct.
"I know that you did not necessarily want publicity for this action, but there is a 'need to know' here. All of us involved in intercollegiate athletics, our fans, and even our detractors, need to know of your extraordinary act of sensitivity and compassion.
"And we need to know that there are young men who are superior athletes and intense competitors who are also kind and caring and who demonstrate their faith and values in their daily lives as student athletes."
Last season the Bisons soccer team opened up the year by playing Bradley University. Just weeks before the game Bradley had suffered a horrible loss when one of their players, Danny Dahlquist, was tragically killed in a fire.
The game took place on Aug. 31, 2007. Before the announcement of the starting lineups, the Lipscomb players presented Bradley's team with a Lipscomb soccer jersey that had the name Dahlquist on the back along with his number "29". The jersey was autographed by each Lipscomb player.
Bradley went on to win the game 2-1, but that was not what people came away remembering that day. The incredible class and sympathy shown toward a hurting team by the Lipscomb coaches and players made an impact on everyone who was at the game.
The Bisons were not looking to receive any sort of special recognition for what they did. They just felt that it was a respectful gesture. However, the NCAA saw fit to recognize Lipscomb for their honorable actions.
The award reflects not only this one event, but also the overall good sportsmanship that the team has shown over the last year.
This is Lipscomb's first NCAA sportsmanship award in any sport.
"We talk about class and sportsmanship on a daily basis," said Morrow. "I'm very proud of our guys and the way they conduct themselves."
Among all of the awards and championship trophies a University can receive, the NCAA Sportsmanship award is among the highest of honors.
This story was written by Benjamin Seamon, a student assistant in the athletics media relations department.


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Matt Damon taking part in TV cook-off
Actor MATT DAMON is set to show off his culinary skills on Tuesday (18Sep12) when he takes part in a live TV cook-off for charity.
The Bourne Identity star will swap the film set for the kitchen for the Food Network's Cooking Live!, on which he will serve as Chef Ming Tsai's sous chef to help prepare a six course meal.
The event will take place at The Ritz-Carlton hotel in downtown New York to raise funds for the Family Reach Foundation, which aids poverty-stricken families with their medical expenses.


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I wanted to start a new tradition this year and read up on a few people remember as kids (the internet is full of them), I heard one on the radio a few years back about elves that doorbell-ditch and leave Christmas jammies, which has become one of our favorite traditions... lots of squealing and running (my kids).
This year I was reading about nostalgic adults that had versions of the same tradition where an elf sat on shelf and reported the kids behavior to Santa, what a cute idea. A few weeks later in the bookstore I found a mass produced version of this holiday tradition. I didn't really care for the book, the dollar store looking cheaply made elf, or the price tag... so I decided to come up with my own story and elf.
I considered making my own elf, until I saw these at Marshall's, They are elves made by Annalee Dolls. They are adorable and completely bendable. I think I picked up a 9' elf for $14. The faces are fabric and painted on, I think they look impish and like Whoville people from the Grinch.
Anyway, next I came up with a poem to read to my kids and begin our new tradition. I would love to share it with you as well - if you want to start this fun tradition too, please feel free to us it.


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S.C. man pleads guilty to murdering 7 people
Todd Kohlhepp, who is accused of killing seven people in the Upstate, pleaded guilty Friday morning to 14 charges, including seven murder charges, as part of a plea deal.
The deal included seven consecutive life sentences with no possibility for parole.
Kohlhepp, 45, confessed that he killed Beverly Guy, Scott Ponder, Brian Lucas and Chris Sherbert in November 2003 at the Superbike Motorsports, investigators said.
The families of the victims were in the courtroom for the plea deal hearing.
Melissa Ponder, Scott's wife, spoke in court. "I have lived the last 13 years in complete darkness," Ponder said. "I have lost so much."
Ponder was pregnant with their son when Scott was killed. Their son, Scott Ponder Jr. also spoke in court. "I've always wondered what it would be like if my dad was here."
Investigators said Kohlhepp confessed after investigators found Kala Brown, a woman who had been reported missing, on Nov. 4 chained inside a storage container on Kohlhepp's property in rural Woodruff.
In the days that followed, authorities also found the bodies of Brown's boyfriend, Charlie Carver, and Meagan and Johnny Coxie, buried on Kohlhelpp's property.
Arrest warrants revealed that Carver was killed between late August and early September, around the time he and Brown were reported missing.
Warrants also show that Meagan and Johnny Coxie were killed shortly after they were reported missing last December.


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George Fuller (1822-1884) never forgot his rural roots. On his occasional summer visits home to the family farm in Deerfield, Massachusetts, from New York City, New York, he took in the details of farm life. Here, he depicts the necessary act of haying, which was the gathering of grass for storage as hay. Hay is stored in barns and feeds farm animals during the winter. In this painting, Fuller is depicting the final step in gathering hay from the fields. Several days before, using scythes, workers had cut the grass and allowed it to lay in the field to dry out. Once it was dry - and it was important that it be dry, else it would mold and turn rancid in storage - it was raked with bull rakes into piles (called "cocks"), as the men are doing on the right of this painting. The piles were then stacked atop a wagon using a pitchfork, as shown to the left. The first grass cut in the season was coarser and used to feed horses, while the second, finer, crop was used to feed cows.
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The UK government's Department of Transport has now joined with the U.S. in requiring that passengers on some international flights coming in and out of the country must show that their electronic devices can be powered up, in an effort to improve security.
The new notice from the department stated:
In line with the US advice, passengers on some routes into and out of the UK may now also be required to show that electronic devices in their hand luggage are powered up or face not being allowed to bring the device onto the aircraft. Passengers flying into or out of the UK are therefore advised to make sure electronic devices being carried in their hand luggage are charged before they travel.
The department won't be revealing publicly just which airline routes will be affected by this new rule. It added that it will be working with airlines to "to minimise disruption as far as possible." This addition comes after some concerns have been raised about a possible threat to blow up an airliner by terrorist groups.
What do you think of this new trend in airline security and will it make you charge up your cell phone or tablet before you board an international flight?
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A year on from the release of The Sex Pistols first single "Anarchy in the U.K." and their infamous appearance on the Today show, Steve Jones and Paul Cook gave their first interview to Australian television.
Lest we forget, it was Jones, more than Johnny Rotten or Sid Vicious, who launched the Pistols into the headlines with his stream of abuse at TV presenter Bill Grundy, and certainly without Cook's disciplined drums and Jones' era-defining guitar (together with Glen Matlock's bass) and their song-writing talents Never Mind the Bollocks would have been a much lesser album.
In this interview from 1977, Jones and Cook talk about the Pistols' back history, records, and their appearance on the Today show:
Jones: If someone wants an argument, you give them an argument back, don't ya? He started it. He said, "Go on, you got another 5 seconds."
Cook: What did you say, Steve?
Jones: I fucking gave him a load of abuse. He asked for, didn't he? It was pretty funny. It's like, you know, they put all that on the front-fucking-page for all that. Just for swearing on television. Stupid.
Cook: We forgot about the whole thing, a couple of hours after, we didn't expect nothing to happen from it.
After The Pistols split, Jones and Cook formed The Professionals, and released the rather neglected album I Didn't See It Coming.
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thor2k needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 21 designs submitted by 3 freelance designers.
We are re-branding our "private label" fleet card program. The name has been chosen to reflect the "local" or "community" nature of the service/clientele and the logo is to convey an established (from the 1950's (?) company that provides state-of-the-art processing, billing and marketing services to the area convenience store chain (our typical client operates 10-50 individual convenience store/gas station locations.
We want a logo that conveys (1) long-established company/service (from the 50's?), (2) gas station/convenience store industry focus, (3) focus on local trade area or "community", and (4) integrated processing, billing, marketing services that we provide to our oil industry clients.
If I can figure out how to send a rough design (PDF) that we prepared internally, will do so. If not, please provide E-mail address and I will send.
That design features a vintage gas pump, whose round globe top creates the "O" in C"o"mmunity, while Fleet Advantage appear below and to the side of the gas pump. The font is an old-style one called "King Richard". The pump design is a 3-dimensional file available from "THE3DSTUDIO.COM" as "Polly". We like the pump design, and expect to use it, or one you design or find, as a bookmark design for a later project. This is offered not to constrain your creavity, just to demonstrate were our thinking extends.
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Geocaching.com Caption Contest 34 – Win a Barely Coveted Prize
Ever had a geocaching day like this? Enter your most creative caption for this picture to win a 'barely coveted prize' in the 34th Geocaching.com Caption Contest. This picture was originally posted on the official Geocaching.com Facebook page. Special thanks to geocacher Arjan Voskamp for use of the picture.
What caption would you write for the picture at the top of this post? Submit your caption by clicking on "Comments" below. Please include your Geocaching.com username in all entries. Then, explore the captions other geocachers have posted.
You're encouraged to try to 'influence' the voting process (*nudge*nudge*). "Like" the caption that you think should win. If you think your caption should win, convince your fellow geocachers, your friends, and family to "like" your caption. Lackeys vote from the top finalists to decide the winner of the contest.
The winner receives this month's vintage 'barely coveted prize." It's all the collectable pieces of the 2011 Geocaching Block Party Challenges course. Join us this year for the 2012 Geocaching Block Party in Seattle, Washington.
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We are a new global public health consulting firm specializing in program and policy evaluation, as well as social science research. While we're aiming to obtain prestigious international clients with our intellectual side and PhDs in social epidemiology, we are also young, flexible, easy going and even (though perhaps only slightly) hip and fun to work with.
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For a while there it looked like the holidays would come and go without the tumbleweed snowmen and snowwomen taking their place in Elysian Park. But this morning, the decorative figures fashioned from tumbleweeds, buckets and the tips of playing field cones made their annual appearance after being installed along Stadium Way and Academy Road by a crew of Recreation and Parks workers, said Christine Peters, who snapped photos and helped out with the installation. The rainy weather had delayed the creation of the decorations (it's not a good idea to spray paint a wet tumbleweed) but they will now be on display for several weeks.


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Kenny Koplove, a pitcher and shortstop at William Penn Charter School, was named Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year in Pennsylvania in recognition of his outstanding athletic achievements as well as his academic record and exemplary character on and off the field.
The 6-foot-1, 160-pound right-handed pitcher led the Quakers (25-7) to the Pennsylvania Independent Schools League semifinals this season, with a 9-2 record, a 2.22 ERA and 88 strikeouts in 56.6 innings on the mound. He started for Penn Charter eight times this year, pitched five complete games and logged three shutouts. A three-time First Team All-State selection, Koplove also batted .340 with 20 RBIs, 23 runs scored, 14 walks and 12 stolen bases.
Koplove, of South Philadelphia, has maintained a B-plus average in the classroom. He has volunteered locally on behalf of a project to build a community walkway along his school's athletic facilities and as a youth baseball coach. He has signed a National Letter of Intent to play baseball on an athletic scholarship at Duke University this fall.
"Kenny Koplove is a true competitor," said Penn Charter's varsity coach Jon Cross. "His work ethic and his overall knowledge of the game really make him stand out. He gives us a chance to win every time he takes the field."
Koplove joins an elite alumni association of past state baseball award winners, including Derek Jeter (1991-92, Kalamazoo HS, Mich.), Roy Halladay (1994-95, Arvada West HS, Colo.), David Price (2003-04, Blackman HS, Tenn.), Chipper Jones (1989-90, Bolles School, Fla.), Derek Lee (1992-93, El Camino HS, Calif.) and John Lester (2001-02, Bellarmine Prep, Wash.).
The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes one winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 states that sanction high school football, girls volleyball,
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Koplove joins recent Gatorade Pennsylvania Baseball Players of the Year Derek Fisher (2010-11, Cedar Crest High School), Sean Coyle (2009-10, Germantown Academy), Mike Lubanski (2008-09; Malvern Preparatory School), Zak Sinclair (2007-08, West Allegheny), and Devin Mesoraco (2006-07, Punxsutawney), among the state's list of former award winners.
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From LOLCat Bible Translation Project
The LOLCat Bible Book Has Been Released!
You can has the LOLCat Bible Book by either going to Amazon.com
The LOLCat Bible book takes the best known and most popular stories from the Bible and retells them from the cat perspective in hilarious lolspeak. The book also features funny new pictures picked exclusively for the book: 35 brand new ones!
All the great Bible stores are here: The Creation, Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, the Tower of Babel, the Plagues of Egypt, Parting the Red Sea, the Birth of Jesus, the Raising of Dead Lazarus, the Rising of Jesus, and many more!
Here's a taste of what's inside.
Teh Last Cheezburger Feest
Mark 14
12 On teh furst day ov teh Feest ov teh Flat Cheezburgers, dey wer gunna maek teh moo-cow fer teh dinnur. Teh disiplez ov Happy Cat ask, "Wher do yu want to has cheezburger?"13 So Happy Cat send two disiplez an he tells dem, "Go to teh citee, yu see a man wif a big bukkit ov wawter.14 Yu sez to him, 'Teh Smarty Kitteh wan to kno: Whar be mah room so dat I can has cheezburger wif man disiplez'15 He den gunna sho yu tis totawly kewl room wif tabul an stuffz so we can has cheezburgers."
16 Teh disiplez go an everyfing happuns jus liek Happy Cat sez, cuz he get reddi fer to big cheezburger feest.
17 Wen it get no liet outsied Happy Cat go to teh kewl room wif his disiplez.18 Dey wer chillin an restin der pawz an den Happy Cat sez, "I no lie. Wun ov yu gunna tern into bad kitteh an stab me in teh bak. Srsly."
19 Teh disiples awl run owt of happeh, an dey say, "It no me, riet?"
20 "It wun of yu," he sez, "teh wun hoo dip his cheezburger in teh ranch sauwse wif me.21 Iz gunna be ded jus liek wat writtun in teh buk of Ceiling Cat! Teh kitteh hoo stab me in teh bak totawly gunna wish he no be born!"
22 Wen dey wer nommin Happy Cat taek teh cheezburger an brek it, an he sez, "Taek dis cheezburger an eet it, cuz dis liek mah bodi. But gun reely nom me. Jus nom teh cheezburger an pretend it mah bodi. K?"
23 Den he grab teh big cup of booze an gaev tanks to Ceiling Cat, an let dem awl drink frum it (dun worri, noen of dem has cootiez!). Den Happy Cat sez,24 "Dis mah blud. Teh blud of teh Promis of Ceiling Cat. Yu drink it wif meh.25 Dis teh las tiem I has booze wif yu guyz, but dun worri, wen I gets to teh Ceiling iz totawly gunna haf booze der."
26 Den dey sang songz an go to teh Mownt Olive to hang owt an luk for mowsies to play wif.


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It all happened in Room 14, bed 2. The two of them came in a few hours apart and were like carbon copies of one another. Both middle-aged men in their late forties, somewhat overweight, blue-collar machinists. Both fully insured but had not seen a doctor in ages because "I just hate doctors." Both with large, dedicated, anxious families at their bedsides, certain that if Dad went in to see the doctor -- in the ER no less -- it had to be serious!
Both felt foolish for being there and apologized for "wasting my time."
I could have just photocopied the first medical record and used it for both of them.
Chest Pain
- feels like gas bubbles in the chest, non-radiating
- comes and goes for a week, worse today
- not worse with exertion nor relieved by rest
- not associated with nausea or shortness of breath
Past History
Told he had high blood pressure but was never treated.
Thinks the last time it was checked, his cholesterol was "a little high"
Father had early-onset heart problems
Both were symptom-free in the ER and had normal ECGs and a normal troponin.
I had identical, almost verbatim, conversations with both of them. "The good news is that the tests here look good and I can say that you are not having a heart attack." A quick look of relief flickered across both faces at this point as both wives exhaled deeply and said "Oh thank God." A pregnant pause follows. "The bad news is that the pain you describe is in some ways like heart pain, and you have risk factors for heart disease. I can't tell for sure whether there might be an impending heart attack, and we need to interpret these symptoms as a warning sign that further testing is needed. I want to admit you to the hospital for observation."
At this point, relieved and embarrassed, both wanted to just go home. Both tried to bargain -- promised to take meds and follow up with a doctor. Both wives demonstrated irritation and told their husbands not to be stupid. Both husbands irritably told their wives that "I knew it was nothing."
"Here's the thing, Mr _____," I respond, "I think the chance that this is your heart is low -- probably 5% or less. You like those odds, don't you?" Two nods with a subtle see, I told you so glance to to the wife. "But that's one in twenty," I continue, "and I am going to see twenty patients today. Do you want to be the one? Are you feelin' lucky, punk?" (The last bit delivered in my best Dirty Harry voice.) Both slumped back in defeat and their wives thanked me with immense satisfaction.
You never know. Both described symptoms much more suggestive of acid reflux than heart disease. I probably admit ten or twenty patients for observation for chest pain for each one that rules in. It's hard to do, because people hate to be admitted, the hospitalists don't want to do the admit, and it's a lot of work to admit someone. But you do it, because you don't want to fall into the "fallacy of knowing" and thinking you can predict in advance who will and who will not turn out to have "real disease." It is not very rewarding, and you feel like an idiot calling up the admitting doc twice in a row with a "low risk rule out that sounds more like GI disease than angina."
Patient number one was discharged from the hospital after eighteen hours of observation and a negative stress test. Patient number two had a triple bypass today, after ruling in and have three-vessel coronary artery disease showing up on angiogram.
30 January 2007
Tale of Two Patients
Posted by shadowfax at 10:12 AM
11 comments:
- scalpel1/31/2007 2:31 PM
That's why married men live longer than single men.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1/31/2007 3:08 PM
Go Shadowfax. :0)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1/31/2007 3:09 PM
Go Shadowfax. :0)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1/31/2007 6:47 PM
Weird. I had two full-arrests in the same room yesterday, with the same dismal, predictable result for both.ReplyDelete
Repetitive Room Syndrome?
- Anonymous2/02/2007 9:24 AM
Oh my God, my husband has been complaining of the same symptoms and fits your profile and I have just been ignoring him!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous2/02/2007 8:52 PM
Heh. We had a string of codes in ICU bed 3. I told the nurses, "For the love of god, don't put anyone in there!"ReplyDelete
My husband was having what he thought was heartburn, every time we took our daily walk. If a friend hadn't visited and suggested he should see the doctor (and then I had to drag him, practically) who knows what would have happened. Our doctor sent him to the heart specialist, who put him immediately into the hospital. He had a 4-way bypass... 4 days after our initial visit to our family doctor. And he was STILL in denial! Men.ReplyDelete
wait a tic... st elevation in II, III, AVF... inferior MI no ?ReplyDelete
Good eye, Rory. But it's just a stock ECG image I pulled off Google. Both patients did indeed have normal ECGs.ReplyDelete
Though the guy that ruled in did so in the most amazing fashion, with an initial troponin of 0.02 (normal < 0.08), a four hour troponin of 0.55, and an 18-hour troponin of >100! That's what, a 4-log increase? Even more amazing was that on cath, though he had 3-vessel disease, there was no acute occlusion. The cardiologist said that they see that a lot with the transient-occlusive disease -- the vessel re-opens and there's a washout phenomenon in which the troponin skyrockets. The magnitude of the troponin increase does not necessarily correlate to the amount of necrosed myocardium. Seems counter-intuitive to me, but there you have it.
- Anonymous2/07/2007 12:45 PM
I have the verbatim same conversation 2-3 times a day.. I get so tired of it. I should just video tape it, document that they watched it explaining the facts and uncertainties of limited ER evaluations. When they decide to go home and die I can play the videotape to the jury that does explain that they might die and they chose the odds.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10/08/2010 7:51 AM
Can I just say thank you for practicing that way? We see too many cases where the ER doc only runs one set of enzymes and one EKG... Gives the patient the news that he is not having a heart attack and sends him home only to return the the ER in full code and eventually brain injury or death. I wish all ER docs practiced that way. Of course if they did, we would be out of business... Great Job Doc!!!ReplyDelete


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I am now accepting orders for the Hearts and Trees Summer Kit!
This kit includes a wonderful garden nature study lapbook. Included in the lapbook is a 12 page cardstock nature journal bound with comb binding, 3 sunflower seeds, a sunflower observations section to record what you see as your seeds grow, a place to put a pressed flower, a nature poem, a 3x5inch Monet art print and a section about the parts of a flower and plant.
A worksheet to accompany the Monet print as well as an art element worksheet focusing on overlapping and depth is also included.The materials are provided to make an amazing watercolor collage for the front of your lapbook.
This kit includes a sewing project: a drawstring treasure pouch. The fabric, ribbon needle, thread, pins, and instructions are included. (Please note the fabric for the drawstring pouch will not be the butterfly fabric shown above, but will be either a blue bee or a blue bandanna print.)
All of the materials and instructions are provided to make a cardboard flower press and then a bookmark using your pressed flowers.
A laminated 3x5inch nature study card focusing on things found in the garden is also included in the Hearts and Trees summer kit.
Complete Contents List:
- Colored file folder for the lapbook
- Garden nature study lapbook pages
- 12 page cardstock nature journal with comb binding
- 3x5inch art print: Claude Monet The Artist's Garden at Vetheuil
- Watercolor paper for watercolor collage on front of lapbook
- Sunflower seeds for sunflower observations
- Cardboard and rubber bands for flower press
- Cardstock and contact paper for pressed flower bookmark
- Fabric and ribbon for drawstring treasure bag
- Notions for sewing the treasure bag (needle, thread, pins and safety pin)
- Instructions for the drawstring treasure bag
- Instructions the flower press and pressed flower bookmark
These kits were gathered with children ages 6-12 in mind. Parents may need to help their students, especially younger children, with some aspects of this kit.
To purchase a kit you will just need to make a PayPal payment to my account. You can do that using the "Pay Now" buttons in my sidebar. Just be sure to use the button for the right number of kits you would like to purchase.
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Bioheart is committed to maintaining its leading position within the cardiovascular sector of the cell technology industry delivering cell therapies and biologics that help address congestive heart failure, lower limb ischemia, chronic heart ischemia, acute myocardial infarctions and other issues. Bioheart's goals are to cause damaged tissue to be regenerated, when possible, and to improve a patient's quality of life and reduce health care costs and hospitalizations.
Specific to biotechnology, Bioheart is focused on the discovery, development and, subject to regulatory approval, commercialization of autologous cell therapies for the treatment of chronic and acute heart damage and peripheral vascular disease. Its leading product, MyoCell, is a clinical muscle-derived cell therapy designed to populate regions of scar tissue within a patient's heart with new living cells for the purpose of improving cardiac function in chronic heart failure patients. For more information on Bioheart, visit www.bioheartinc.com, or visit us on Facebook: Bioheart and Twitter @BioheartInc.
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Synagogue Lamp Stand
This lamp stand held a light at the top.
There were two lamps in the synagogue
at the Jews' Hospital and Orphan Asylum
in West Norwood.
The synagogue is an important place
of worship for Jewish people.
Can you see how the lamp stand
has been beautifully decorated?
Kitty Pearson
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Kitty Pearson
Kitty Pearson lived
at the Jewish orphanage in West Norwood
from 1914:
"The synagogue
means the house of prayer
and had a balcony around three sides
where the girls of the orphanage sat.
The boys were downstairs
in the main part of the synagogue.
The Ark stood against a wall which,
as in every synagogue,
faces towards Jerusalem.
Inside the Ark
are the scrolls of the law
which are the first five books
of the Bible.
They stand upright
with velvet covers to preserve them
and have ornamentation.
In front of the doors of the Ark
was an embroidered curtain
and above this curtain,
shining down,
hung the Nertomid,
which is the Hebrew
for the eternal light.
This shines night and day
and symbolises the divine presence -
also a respect for study and learning.
In fact the Ark dates back
from biblical times
when the children of Israel
carried the Ark through the desert
guided by the light.
I can remember
as a little child
peeping into the synagogue.
It was in darkness,
and there would be the Ark,
which looked very beautiful
with this lovely velvet curtain.
It was wonderful to see
and I always remember it
to this day."
Jews' Hospital and Orphan Asylum
The Jews' Hospital opened in 1795
in East London.
In 1876 the hospital joined
the Jews' Orphan Asylum
and they moved to West Norwood.
It was the only Jewish orphanage
in the British Isles.
In 1911 it was home
to over 200 children.
The organisation later changed
its name to the Norwood Orphanage.
To Find Out More
This lamp base is on loan
From the Museum of London.
To find out more visit the
Research Room to view
their website
The Research Room is on
the Lower Ground Floor
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Jase Robertson from 'Duck Dynasty' is Coming to East Texas This Month
Duck Dynasty's Jase Robertson and his wife, Missy, will be at the Full Armor Christian Academy "Live Loud Outdoors Family Expo" in Henderson on Saturday, April 27, at the Rusk County Youth Expo Center.
Full Armor Christian Academy is a non-denominational school located in Henderson, with grades kindergarten through 8th.
This first-time, community wide event will provide activities for the entire family throughout the day. Outdoor activities, family, food, and fun will be the focus for the day.
Local bands will be performing throughout the day, activities for the kids will be provided, outdoor exhibits and demonstrations will be on hand, door prizes will be awarded, and many vendors will have booths to sport their wares.
It's a great time to spend with your family, so make plans now to be apart of the Living Loud Outdoors Family Expo.
Event times are 11:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. at the Rusk Country Youth Expo Center, in Henderson.
Ticket Prices: Adults - $20, Children 13 & Under - $10, Children 5 & Under - free
Tickets are available online at full-armor.org.
You can also get tickets at the Full Armor Christian Academy Campus Office, Berryhill's Store & More, and S&N Cleaners in Henderson.


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Nokia has announced on its Malaysian Facebook account that the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 will be available for pre-order in the country from its main stores for RM1,999 (approx. $655) and RM1,599 (approx. $525) respectively. From tomorrow onwards, consumers will be able to contact / visit Nokia stores throughout the country and order their Lumia Windows Phone 8 handset.
It's reported that both Celcom and DiGi will be announcing plans soon for the new hardware. If you haven't done so already, be sure to check out our Lumia 920 review and Lumia 820 review for our thoughts on both devices. Here's hoping the manufacturer has enough stock to meet demands.
Source: Facebook (Nokia Malaysia), via: Lowyat; thanks, Captain Food, for the tip!


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photog needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 13 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
Photographer & Model
GlamourApprentice.com and the Shooting Beauty Model Photography Podcast are dedicated to teaching photographers how to find, recruit and shoot beautiful models.
We have to change the name of the podcast and have decided to change the site as well to make everything match. It is now going to be called Photographer and Model.
We target dedicated amateur photographers who would like to photograph models in fashion, glamour, fine art and related genres. These tend to be older males - often newly retired or nearing retirement - looking to expand their photography hobby into shooting models.
The podcast interviews photographers and models discussing art, relationship and communication. It avoids gear talk and discussion of the business of photography.
I need the main page at http://www.glamourapprentice.com/ redone with the new name and new masthead, which can include a new logo, or can be purely text.
I like the shapes, use of gradients, and use of photography in the current design. For the new design I'd like a new color scheme based around blue. I am open to secondary color choices other than yellow.
I would like to be able to use the masthead on the blog pages as well, like the glamour apprentice logo is currently used, but I wasn't planning a redesign of that WP Theme (Thesis). But if you want include that in your entry that's fine.
The page must include the same navigation exits, (Free mini-course, Podcast, Blog, Contact). It must also include a email list/mini-course sign up that catches the eye. I would also like to include more information about the podcast on the front page. The Blog Post of Interest is optional, but I think useful.
The main goal of this page is to accomplish at least one of the following in order of preference. Join the Email List. Subscribe to the Podcast, Read the blog.
You can use any of my images in the design. They are on the blog, or on Flicker (http://www.flickr.com/photos/reactuate/).
Final Deliverables: HTML and CSS for the page, as well as layered, editable, PSD files for any graphics created.


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TRajSingh necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 126 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
D&L Partners
We are a strategy consulting firm, founded in 2007. We're small but very well connected. We specialize in innovation and work with countries and companies around the world.
Our focus is to provide hard analytics (facts and figures backed up by hard data, and sprinkled with creative ideas of how our clients can reach and even surpass their goals).
Our team is small but very international, covering north America, Europe and Asia. Our backgrounds are diverse, academia, business and multilateral organizations like the UN and the World Bank.
Our philosophy is simple, the best possible work, with respect for all and at the highest level of integrity.
Our clients are countries - ministries of IT, communication and education looking to benchmark their performance and find ways of improving themselves through Innovation, especially in the Information Technology and Communications space.
Likewise large multinationals who want to be more innovative and encourage their staff to be more creative, entrepreneurial and risk-seeking.
We need a logo we can use on our letterhead, brochures and business cards. It should be simple, clear and base around the "D&L" part of our name ("Partners" can be in there too). It has to be elegant, timeless and discreet, nothing that shouts too loudly. In terms of colors we have been using some deep greens for the typeface for the company name, but we're open to any suggestion that falls within the requirements as above. We'd probably prefer something with one or two colors rather than a lot of colors.
Anything that speaks to innovation would be welcome too, and something that has multiple layers to it would be fun (eg the FedEx logo that has a little arrow inside the letters).
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Amy DeStefano was a single mother juggling family life and a full-time job three winters ago when she caught what at first was just a persistent February cold. Then it spiraled into pneumonia and spread to her heart.
By last January, DeStefano, at 39, was on the waiting list for a heart transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Her wait ended late last month when the social worker from Portsmouth, N.H., became the first patient in New England to receive an experimental "beating heart'' transplant.
Cardiac transplant surgeons have high hopes for the technology, which is approved in Europe, believing it could improve survival rates for recipients because the donor hearts will be in better condition.
Typically, after surgeons remove the heart from a donor, they replace the blood with a salt-water solution and place the organ on ice in a chest resembling a picnic cooler. Racing the clock, surgeons have only about four hours to transport the heart and stitch it into the recipient before it becomes too damaged to transplant.
DeStefano is part of a clinical trial testing a machine that circulates blood in the donor's heart, and keeps it beating in a transparent plastic case after removal. A computerized control system monitors the heart's metabolism, blood pressure, and electrical state. More than 40 patients in the United States have participated in the trial so far.
Eventually, doctors speculate, the device, made by an Andover company, will keep hearts in good condition longer than four hours, meaning that they could be transported farther and that more donor hearts could be used. Now, about half of hearts from potential donors go unused, either because the donor is too far from a matching recipient or because of abnormalities in the heart.
"The moment we take that heart out of the donor's body it is deteriorating,'' said Dr. Bruce Rosengard, who is surgical director of cardiac transplantation at the hospital and who performed DeStefano's transplant. "We hope to dramatically increase the number of transplants.''
Yesterday, DeStefano, now 40, sat in a chair in her room at Mass. General, sipping water while nurses took vital signs and blood samples. She walks the floor and does leg-lifts for exercise and said she feels more energetic every day. A recent echocardiogram "shows excellent function,'' similar to what one would see in an athlete, said Rosengard.
DeStefano said she did not have any reservations about participating in the trial and found the technology fascinating. "It made so much sense,'' she said.
Patients who receive beating heart transplants face no known special risks, other than the danger of infection, rejection, and other problems that all transplant patients are subject to, Rosengard said. He said he has no financial relationship with the maker of the technology, TransMedics Inc.
About 2,000 patients receive heart transplants in the United States each year, but about 400 people die while waiting for a transplant.
The clinical trial, the largest randomized heart transplant trial ever in the United States, is designed to enroll 128 patients, and company executives expect the study will be completed by the end of the year.
They then plan to apply for approval from the US Food and Drug Administration to market the device, which looks like a rolling cart and can fit on an airplane.
In the trial, doctors are measuring whether patients who receive beating heart transplants have better 30-day survival rates than those who receive traditional transplants and whether the former group has fewer rejection episodes and serious complications, as well as shorter stays in the intensive care unit.
Typically, 92 to 95 percent of heart transplant patients are alive and their new heart is working after 30 days, Rosengard said. The survival rate after five years is about 70 percent, he said.
Dr. Tamer Khayal, vice president of clinical development at TransMedics, said results from clinical trials in Europe, which concluded four years ago, showed 30-day survival rates for patients who received beating heart transplants were almost 98 percent.
European surgeons have successfully transplanted hearts that have been sustained on the device for more than eight hours, he said. Mass. General doctors could travel to Los Angeles and get a heart to transplant into a patient back in Boston, Khayal said. "That's inconceivable today.''
Besides keeping hearts undamaged longer, the beating-heart machine might be able to improve the condition of organs otherwise too damaged to transplant, surgeons say.
Still, prior efforts to build beating-heart technology have ended in failure. And if the technology progresses to attempts to revive damaged organs, that will raise a whole set of new questions about how far doctors can safely push the use of subpar hearts.
When the virus infected DeStefano's heart, she became dizzy and exhausted and had difficulty breathing. The symptoms grew so bad that she left her job in summer 2009.
By the time she was admitted to Mass. General late last year, she was unable to drive her 11-year-old son and her 9-year-old daughter to school or to shop for groceries.
At first, she was apprehensive about the operation, but eventually accepted that "I needed this.''
"My quality of life was not what it should be,'' she said.
Rosengard hopes she will be able to return home next week.
DeStefano said she looks forward to complaining about long days at work again and to family barbecues and beach days swimming with her children.
When the anesthesia first wore off, DeStefano said she was disconcerted by the noticeable thumping in her chest, but she is gladly growing accustomed to it.
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It's that time of year again for ubiquitous red and pink and jewelry ads and chocolate and roses and other obligatory displays of romantic love. In that spirit, we present CNBC.com's third- annual Homes of Celebrity Couples collection.
This time, we have houses from one power couple who made a previous list with their Florida home. Now, it's an over-the-top mansion they used as a vacation rental. At least two of the following homes belonged to other famous people before these couples moved in, and at least three have also played couples on screen. Click ahead to see the houses, which range from a young couple's $2.5 million "starter" to a $43.5 million mega mansion.
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QProfile toolkit - a class to profile your code
Desktop-as-a-Service Designed for Any Cloud ? Nutanix Frame
Main features of QProfile toolkit:
1. Application runs at the same speed as usual
2. You can get per-thread information
3. Profiling is independent from development enviroment
4. Report can be directed/appended to file or/and consol or/and VC++ debug window
5. Results can be sorted by total time, pure time, hit number or time per hit
How to use QProfile class
2. Include QProfile.cpp file to your project
3. Add line "include "QProfile.h"" to the common header or to specific C++ file
4. Add QProfile macro to the target functions
5. Compile and run
6. Look at "QProfile.txt" or/and consol or/and VC++ debug window for results.
QProfile macros
All you have to do is to add a line to a function you want to profile.
YourClass::YourFunction(){ QPROFILE_FUN("YourClass::YourFunction"); ... if (...) return false; ... return true; }If you want to get results for this function per thread:
YourClass::YourFunction(){ QPROFILE_MT_FUN1("YourFunction,thread:%lx", GetCurrentThread()); ... if (...) return false; ... return true; }
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In this case we have Holly Madison, Playboy Playmate using a Blackberry World Edition 8830. Props to Verizon for snagging a hot chick (one who gets nude) who uses the, "World's Largest Network".


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'American Idol' Recap: The Top 7 Deliver Rock Week
Tonight's episode of 'American Idol' (April 3) marked the beginning of Rock Week, and the remaining 7 contestants put their rock 'n' roll skills to the test.
The singers seemed to be a bit more comfortable with this week's theme than they were with last week's Motown theme. Their group performances were also much more cohesive and impressive. First, Angie Miller and Lazaro Arbos sang Queen's Crazy Little Thing Called Love.' Then, Burnell Taylor and Candice Glover jammed to 'The Letter' by the Box Tops. Finally, Amber Holcomb, Janelle Arthur and Kree Harrison teamed up to perform a striking version of Billy Joel's 'It's Still Rock and Roll to Me.'
Here's the breakdown of the night's individual acts:
Burnell Taylor: Read about his performance here.
Kree Harrison: Read about her performance here.
Janelle Arthur: She impressed the judges with an ear-pleasing rendition of Billy Joel's 'You May Be Right.' Judge Keith Urban praised her for improving with each new week, showing colors she's never shown before. Randy Jackson remarked that she exemplifies "authenticity at its best" and went on to say, "you're real, you're honest, you're true to who you are." He also wanted to steal Arthur's fringe vest (and Nicki Minaj called dibs on her boots).
Lazaro Arbos: His passionate delivery of Queen's 'We Are the Champions' captured the judges' attention. All the panelists agreed that it was a great song choice, and Minaj even mentioned that she wanted to join him onstage for some salsa dancing.
Candice Glover: Despite having a broken toe, she delivered a flawless version of the Rolling Stones' '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction).' Minaj mentioned that the song choice put her to sleep, but she was still blown away by her amazing performance. "Rock is really an attitude, right?" asked Jackson. "You brought that rock, that attitude, in a Tina Turner kind of way."
Amber Holcomb: Read about her performance here.
Angie Miller: She sang a passionate, haunting version of 'Bring Me to Life' by Evanescence. The judges agreed that it wasn't her best performance, but it was a perfect song choice given the circumstances. "Your voice really did sound amazing," said Minaj. "I hope next week, we get a chance to hear you like when you did Colton Dixon and when you did your original music, because that's where you shine and that's when I melt, but this one? Kudos. Congrats!"
Be sure to tune in to 'American Idol' tomorrow night (April 4) for the results show!
Watch Janelle Arthur Perform 'You May Be Right' on 'American Idol'
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Historically called bay salt or solar salt, sea salt is unrefined salt that comes from the sea or ocean. Sea salt is formed from the natural evaporation of ocean water, harvested in man-made pools near a protected shoreline. Sea salt is collected by guiding salty water into big clay forms. Once the water has been collected in the clay forms, it is kept until it has evaporated naturally. After the water has evaporated, what remains is scraped out as natural sea salt.
Sea Salt is used in cooking and commercially in products. It is considered to be much more flavorful and not quite as "salty" than table salt. It is 98% sodium chloride, compared to table salt's 99.9% purity. Many chefs will use sea salt or kosher salt as a crust for baked potatoes or in French cuisine and preserving. Sea salt is also considered Kosher, as it has been approved by rabbis for use in the Jewish community.
Sea salt is also used in the cosmetics industry as a natural exfoliate or scrub. Natural sea salt crystals may form the base for deodorants or antiperspirants. Many bath salt mixtures contain generous amounts of natural sea salt.
Sea salt contains minerals that table salt does not contain naturally, including iron, iodine, sulfur and magnesium calcium and potassium. Sea salt also does not contain some of the unnatural ingredients that table salt contains. The finest artisan salts are natural or organic and are not treated or washed. Even lesser-grade sea salts are typically not refined as much as other kinds of salt.
Because different bodies of water have different mineral contents, salts will look and taste different. Some have flowery nuances, some are strong, some delicate, some have sulfuric notes, some can taste sweet. For chefs and consumers, sea salt is produced in coarse, fine and extra fine grains. There are different qualities of sea salt, from a cooking salt to a finishing salt or garnish. A little goes a long way too.
Salt has long been mined wherever it was available; The oldest recorded history of sea salt use is in China and dates to the Iron Age. It was considered a very valuable commodity and used in trade. In Venice, whose economic strength was not just as a seaport but as a major salt-producer, the immense salt evaporation pans were referred to colloquially as "the Seven Seas." The phrase "sailing the Seven Seas" derived from the challenge of navigating one's craft among the bars that enclosed these evaporation ponds. However, there are many places where mineral salt is not present, and the only source is to mine coastally. Sea salt was mined and used in many of ways that it is still being used. The ancient methods for mining sea salt do not differ greatly from the methods currently utilized. Often done by hand, modern sea salt production is almost entirely found in Mediterranean. But other mining areas include the North Sea, the Atlantic Ocean (France and Brittany coasts), the Cayman Islands, Ireland, Greece, Sicily and Colombia. There are places in the United States that produce sea salt, including Hawaii, Maine, Utah, Massachusetts and San Francisco Bay.
The health benefits are numerous. The human body absorbs salt minerals through pores in the skin. Many people enjoy soaking in mineral baths filled with sea salt. This can be done in spa-like settings or at home. When sea salt is rubbed into the skin, it can work to exfoliate dead skin cells, improve circulation and replenish certain body minerals. Adding a good quality unrefined sea salt to the diet may actually help reduce blood pressure, due to the presence of magnesium and other minerals.


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Friday, October 26, 2007
Don't you want a title that's not boring?
Well, today my friend Ellie (8) is visiting. She has her own blog (lala090909.wordpress.com) and has been bugging me to start mine. Clearly, she was right, so I had her create me an account at blogspot (she recommended wordpress.com, because everyone at Club Penguin uses it, but all the people I know use blogspot, so she acquiesced: "Fine, if you want to be boring.")
("Wow, that's a lot of writing," she just said.)
After typing in my name, she asked for the title. "Clifford's Posts," she suggested? "Ruminations," I replied. "Oh no, more boring," she moaned. When I insisted, she said, "Fine, how do you spell that?" Halfway through the letters, she said, "All capitals?" "No, just the first letter." "How about one capital, one lowercase, and so on." "Hmm...," I said. "You don't want it all boring, do you?"
Clearly, we have different audiences. The current point of contention is that she doesn't know what "ruminatons" means. I've delayed telling her for some time and she finally said, "Ruminations isn't that bad, I guess."
So here's the rub. I'm involved in starting a new business, using functional programming (Haskell) to make a website that will both teach math skills and be fun. Seems like I've got the boring part of the math down pat. I'm going to have to work on the fun part.
Addendum: After all that fuss, blogspot capitalized the title anyway.
Ellie just read this and said, "You're not boring, it's just that adults tend not to use colors and other things that make it exotic."
3 comments:
- Jeremy Shaw said...
If you look at the title of the page as shown in the browser tab or title bar of the web browser, the capitalization is preserved. Also, on the reply page it is shown with the correct capitalization.
In fact, if you load the page source, the capitalization is preserved in the h1 tag -- so I think it is just a style-sheet setting, which you can override.
- October 26, 2007 at 12:56 PM
- George said...
Great start Ellie!!
With perseverance you should have Cliff
a) if not colors at least using colorful language, and
b) if not exotic typography at least discussing exotic music.
Keep up the good work!
- October 26, 2007 at 6:58 PM
- Adam Jones said...
The fun part is always the hard part. Depending on the type of math and student age "story problems" can be a big win or a huge drag.
For me (undegrad math major) any story problems simpler than multivariable calculus feel contrived. There just isn't enough power in the math to explain what is going on without "discounting friction" or some other nonsense that renders the problem worthless in any real-world applications.
Good luck on it, you've picked a nice hard problem to solve. I'm excited to see what comes out of it.
- November 1, 2007 at 7:21 PM


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The Scores Do Matter
David Brooks (whose columns I usually dislike intensely) writes in today's New York Times that high school seniors should be less stressed about getting into college. He describes, pretty accurately, the personality-crushing "achievement machine" that high school has become for college bound kids, who struggle to balance intense extracurricular activities with the need for high grades in all classes. But, he adds, one's SAT scores and grades matter less and less, and these things really have no bearing on adulthood.
I wish this were true. Among my high achieving college juniors and seniors, there's still a lot of anxiety about these things, because potential employers set such store by them. One junior who applied for a summer internship on Wall Street told me he was required to provide his high school transcript, his SAT scores, and his recommenders were supposed to account for any grades he had received that were below a 90. Another anxious junior explained to me that in order to retain a summer internship he had to keep a 3.75, and if he got a B+ in my class he couldn't do that. Both of these students were good kids, were doing B+/A- work, weren't sleeping, and spent hours in my office over the course of the semester begging for my assistance in doing even better so they would remain competitive.
This is truly sad. My students' adult lives are being reduced to a set of numbers and letters, which any teacher is going to tell you are usually not the best indicators for telling how well a person will do in the world. It also makes one wonder what came first, the chicken or the egg: grade inflation, or the soul-crushing reliance on numbers that makes everyone vie for an A and that makes a B+ a punitive grade.


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