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Leyton Orient's play-off hopes were ended after a 3-0 home defeat to Tranmere on Saturday afternoon.
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Leyton Orient's play-off hopes were ended after a 3-0 home defeat to Tranmere on Saturday afternoon.
The O's were rocked by a stunning goal by Aaron Cresswell after seven minutes when the left-back beat goalkeeper Jamie Jones with a 35-yard shot, and the nervous home side conceded a second goal on the stroke of half-time.
Midfielder Matt Spring lost the ball in a challenge with Robbie Weir, who played the ball into the path of Adam McGurk and he steered the ball past Jones from the edge of the box.
Any hopes of a second-half revival were left in tatters when Tranmere extended their advantage four minutes after the break.
Cresswell drove a free-kick across the goal and McGurk chested the ball home from close range.
Orient failed to find any inspiration as the visitors enjoyed a comfortable afternoon and they might have added another goal when substitute Zoumana Bakayogo crashed a shot against the post from 20 yards.


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Big Rapids, Mich. - The Ferris State University men's and women's outdoor track and field teams opened a busy weekend of action in two different meets with more action to come on Saturday (April 20).
Senior runner Ryan Chute of the men's squad opened the weekend action by competing in the 1,500 meters at the prestigious Mt. Sac Relays on Thursday (April 18) evening in Walnut, Calif. The meet, which is tabbed as "where the world's best athletes compete", is held at historic Hilmer Lodge Stadium on the campus of Mt. San Antonio College.
Chute came in 14th overall in section three of the 1,500 meters with a time of 3:51.83 overall. His time was 58th among more than 130 runners taking part in the event.
In addition to Chute, FSU's Alyssa Osika represented the women's squad on Friday at the Mt. Sac Relays and took fourth place in section five of the 800 meters with a clocking of 2:12.45. Her time finished 42nd overall in a deep and competitive field.
While Chute and Osika competed at the Mt. Sac Relays, the rest of the Bulldog team opened action at the Al Owens Classic hosted by Grand Valley State in Allendale on Friday. However, events were suspended due to inclement weather with high winds and snow halting field event action after the prelims. No results are yet available.
The Al Owens Classic will get underway again on Saturday (April 20) morning at 8 a.m. (ET) with the field events followed by the rest of the day's events at 11 a.m. (ET). More than 775 student-athletes from 17 schools are competing in the event.
In addition to the athletes competing at GVSU on Saturday, both Chute and Osika along with Shea Van Klompenberg will all take part in the Beach Invitational in California. Chute will run the 1,500 meters again with Osika and Van Klompenberg taking part in the 800 meters. The Beach Invitational is hosted by Long Beach State University on the campus of Cerritos College in Norwalk, Calif.
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Big Rapids, Mich. - The Ferris State University men's and women's outdoor track and field teams opened a busy weekend of action in two different meets with more action to come on Saturday (April 20).


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Starting today, the Elk County sheriff's department will be shut down until possibly the end of the calendar year as ordered by the county's board of commissioners.The shutdown was ordered after county officials discovered that the department in question would face a projected budget deficit of approximately $9,000. In response, Elk County Sheriff Jeffrey C. Krieg filed a civil complaint on behalf of the sheriff's department against the board of commissioners. As plaintiff in the case, Krieg indicated Friday evening that he was advised by legal counsel not to make any comments to media outlets since he is the plaintiff in the case. He had taken a medical leave of absence reportedly officially effective Oct. 2, but returned to active duty later that month.A hearing has been scheduled for Friday, Dec. 14 at 1:30 p.m. in the main courtroom of the Elk County Courthouse. Two hours has been allotted for the hearing. A judge from outside Elk County has been requested to preside, however, the judge's identity has not been disclosed.


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NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-Three members of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's indoor track and field team have been honored by the Little East Conference.
Sophomore Chris Perry (Providence, RI/Dighton-Rehoboth HS/Bristol CC) was named LEC Men's Field Athlete of the Week. Freshman Katie Sheehan (Scituate, MA/Scituate HS) was named LEC Women's Rookie Track Athlete of the Week, while freshman Aaron Amado (Randolph, MA/Thayer Academy) was chosen LEC Men's Rookie Track Athlete of the Week.
At Saturday's New England Division III Championships, Perry finished fourth in the triple jump at 46 feet, two inches, and was sixth in the long jump at 21-6 ¾. Sheehan (Scituate, MA/Scituate HS) was fourth at 800 meters in a school record time of 2:18.10, while Amado tied for sixth in the high jump at 6-2 ¼,
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How do we put it all together at this time every year?
Christmas. That is what I am thinking about.
We are used to it of course. It almost seems natural. But it is not. We have just done it this way forever. We are on autopilot — usually not stopping to think about whether the things we do are "natural" or not.
How would we respond if someone stopped us and asked us this question? "How is it that you treat this season so inconsistently that is seems almost schizophrenic?"
We wouldn't deny it, would we? We would have to admit that we march on two different paths during this season.
One path is a frenzy of a shopping and giving and socializing. As the end of the year approaches, the dark night surrounds us, and we burst out with an explosion of activity.
We make time for parties and festivities — and somehow do the work that must be done before the end of the year. We celebrate the "harvest" of a year's efforts. We send out signals of appreciation and give, give, give to our friends.
We eat drink and be merry.
Switching on every light that we can find, we beat back the darkness, turn it around, and shout out our success.
Some of us can remember when it was more difficult — not like today when most of us can afford to spend much more on gifts and parties than our parents could. Maybe that remembrance of former limits fuels our efforts to out do one another.
For weeks my house was full of wrapping paper and packages, thanks to my wife's early efforts to organize and make the season happy.
And in the corner of the living room, a friend placed our first present — a beautiful Christmas tree. It was selected, mounted, and set up. My wife says it is the best present we have ever had. She didn't have to go to the lot, try to pick out the right size and shape, haul it back home, and try a thousand times to put it up straight. The whole task has been done for us.
Somewhere in the background there was a little whisper from the past. "You have taken this too far. Next year, like you did growing up, go out in the country and select a tree from some willing farmer's land. Cut it down. Bring it home. Put it up."
Not for us. Not this year.
All this is part of our first path of Christmas, and all the while we are trying to walk the second path — at the same time.
In the midst of all this celebration, we try to remember the birth of Jesus and the beginning of era of deep religious significance. We try to do it with reverence. We try to make the season holy, silent, and dignified.
One path of frenzied celebration.
Another path of religious dignity.
They are so totally opposed. We struggle to hold them together.
The Christmas story of Jesus' birth and Santa Claus.
The absence of material things and their overabundance.
The humble stable and our lavish decorations.
From choir practice to the office party.
How do we bring them all together in this season?
Somehow we do it.
Maybe we get by this season because we practice this inconsistent exercise all year long. Maybe we are always trying to balance the inconsistent pathways of the material and the spiritual—never quite able to separate them or find some way to harmonize them.
Maybe we make it through Christmas season the same way we do all year long.
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Air Freight Market Struggling To Grow: IATA
The international air freight market grew by a mere 0.1 percent in May compared to April, and was up 0.8 percent from May 2012, as slowing business confidence and weaker Asian trade undermined cargo demand, IATA said on Tuesday.
Planes also flew with more spare cargo capacity in May than a year previously, which will erode airline profits. But a recent easing of the decline in demand in the euro zone could help improve the global market overall, IATA said.
"For the moment, however, levels of business confidence are barely above stagnation and world trade growth remains subdued in advanced economies, both of which will continue to place downward pressure on air freight demand," IATA said.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major stock markets fell for a second day and the euro slid to a six-week low against the U.S. dollar on Thursday after data showed weak economic growth in both Europe and the United States.
Oil prices also slumped, with Brent crude falling to a three-week low, after a survey of euro zone business conditions dealt a blow to hopes the region might soon emerge from recession.
In contrast, the dollar rose to a 5-1/2-month high against a basket of currencies, a day after minutes from the Federal Reserve's last meeting bolstered expectations the central bank may pull back from its bond-buying program sooner rather than later.
U.S. Treasuries prices also rose as renewed worries about Europe's economic recovery and sluggish domestic jobs and business conditions led investors to buy less risky government debt.
In the United States, a raft of economic data, from claims for jobless aid to factory activity and consumer price inflation, pointed to slow economic growth and supported the argument for the Federal Reserve to maintain its monetary stimulus.
In Europe, business activity indexes dealt a blow to hopes the euro zone might emerge from recession soon, showing the downturn across the region's businesses unexpectedly grew worse this month.
"The PMI numbers out of Europe were really a blow to the market," said Jack De Gan, chief investment officer at Harbor Advisory in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. "The market was expecting signs that recovery is still there, but the numbers just highlighted that the euro-zone problem is still persistent."
By market close in New York, the MSCI world equity index .MIWD00000PUS was down 1.3 percent, its biggest daily loss so far this year.
U.S. stocks fell for a second straight day and the S&P 500 posted its worst two-day loss since November after reports cast doubt over the health of the U.S. and euro-zone economies.
But a late-day rally helped stocks erase some of their losses, with most of the pullback concentrated in the technology-heavy Nasdaq. The move suggested investors were still willing to buy on dips even after the sharp losses in the last session.
After the regular trading session on Wall Street, shares of Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ.N) jumped more than 7 percent from their close at $16.70. The world's No. 1 PC maker reported quarterly results that beat Wall Street expectations and also gave an outlook that came in higher than Wall Street expected.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI closed down 46.92 points, or 0.34 percent, at 13,880.62. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX fell 9.53 points, or 0.63 percent, at 1,502.42. The Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC was down 32.92 points, or 1.04 percent, at 3,131.49.
The Fed is currently buying $85 billion in bonds per month and has said it would keep up the purchases until the labor market outlook improves substantially, although officials are increasingly divided over the wisdom of that course.
"The economy is in a holding pattern. It's not going to strengthen sufficiently to justify an end of the current program," said Millan Mulraine, senior economist at TD Securities in New York.
On Wednesday, minutes from the Federal Reserve's most recent meeting had suggested the central bank may slow or stop buying bonds sooner than expected, resulting in U.S. stocks suffering their biggest one-day decline since November 14.
In Europe, shares closed sharply lower after weak economic data and ahead of this weekend's Italian elections, which may call into question the country's economic reform program.
Europe's Eurofirst 300 index .FTEU3 shed 1.5 percent to close at 1,151.61. The blue chip Euro STOXX 50 index .STOXX50E index fell 2.3 percent to 2,580,20, a new low for 2013.
The euro fell to a six-week low against the dollar and a three-week trough against the yen, pressured by disappointing euro zone economic data and by uncertainty ahead of Italy's election.
The downturn in the euro zone worsened unexpectedly this month, especially in France, surveys showed on Thursday, keeping alive chances of an interest rate cut by the European Central Bank in coming months.
Concerns that a fragmented parliament after Italy's national election could trigger a sell-off in the peripheral euro zone bond market also weighed on the euro.
Nichi Vendola, leader of the Left Ecology Freedom party (SEL) and front runner in polls for Italy's election, said the country should seek revisions of European Union budget rules.
That raised fears that Vendola will push a center-left government too far to the left and prevent a coalition agreement with outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti, which is seen as the most market-friendly election outcome.
The euro fell to $1.3160 on Reuters data, its lowest since January 10, and well below a 15-month peak of $1.3711 reached on February 1. The euro last traded at $1.3182, down 0.7 percent.
Against the yen, the euro fell to 122.23 yen, its weakest since late January. It was last at 122.78, down 1.2 percent.
The dollar index .DXY, which measures the greenback versus a basket of currencies, rose to a session peak of 81.508, the highest since early September, before easing slightly to trade at 81.397, up 0.4 percent on the day.
"There will be less dilution of the value of the U.S. dollar, especially relative to the yen and maybe sterling," said Tatjana Michel, director of currency analysis at Charles Schwab in San Francisco.
Prices on 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds rose more than one point as renewed economic worries intensified selling in stocks and risky assets and purchases of safe-haven bonds.
Benchmark 10-year Treasury notes were 8/32 higher in price to yield 1.983 percent, down 2.7 basis points from Wednesday but still well within the 1.93 percent to 2.06 percent range that has held sway for over three weeks.
Brent April crude fell $2.07, or 1.79 percent, to settle at $113.53 a barrel, having traded from $113.32 to $115.31.
U.S. April crude fell $2.25 to $92.96 a barrel.
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S&P 500 Breaks Record
After weeks of false starts, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index finally broke a six-year-old closing high to mark a new record.
The push to record territory came in midmorning trading, as the S&P 500 broke past its previous record close of 1565.15 on Oct. 9, 2007.
The S&P 500 gained 6.34 points, or 0.4%, to 1569. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 52.38 points, or 0.4%, to 14578.54, also finishing the quarter at a new closing record. The Nasdaq Composite index tacked on 11.00 points, or 0.3%, to 3267.52.
The S&P 500 had flirted with its closing record for two weeks before finally vaulting over that level Thursday. It had come within five points of the closing high in seven of the past 10 sessions.
"The market has been trying and trying, and we finally crossed the line," said Quincy Krosby, a market strategist at Prudential Financial , which manages roughly $1 trillion in assets. "Having the Dow reaching new highs was good, but the S&P 500 is broader, it's bigger… it's an important message for investors."
The S&P 500 still remains just off its all-time intraday high of 1576.09 on Oct. 11, 2007. After hitting that peak more than five years ago, the benchmark shed more than half its value during the financial crisis, sinking to a close of 676.53 on March 9, 2009. Its market capitalization was $5.9 trillion at the 2009 low.
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Since then, it has climbed steadily higher on the back of rising corporate earnings by U.S. companies. Its market capitalization has recovered to reach nearly $14 trillion. The three best performers in that time have been Wyndham Worldwide , CBS Corp. and Tenet Healthcare .
The final leg higher for the S&P 500, a 10% rise in the first three months of this year, came despite a renewed flare-up of the euro-zone debt crisis. But as troubled euro-zone member Cyprus reopened its banks Thursday, there was little sense of panic, which calmed investor nerves and set the stage for the index's push into record territory.
Gordon Charlop, managing director at Rosenblatt Securities on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, said of the record, "There seemed to be an air of inevitability to this. We're here on the back of stimulus, we're here on the back of no real alternatives for investors."
"Until there is a significant paradigm shift that will cause a reversal, the bulls have the swagger," he said.
The latest benchmark record caps a strong first quarter for stocks. The blue chips, which hit a new high on March 5, notched their best first quarter since 1998, adding more than 11%. The S&P 500 was up 10% for the quarter. While the S&P 500's quarterly gains were outpaced by last year's 12% first-quarter gain, the index marked its first five-month win streak since 2009.
Investors had been worried that the reopening of banks in Cyprus, after being closed for nearly two weeks amid negotiations on a bailout package, could lead to a widespread run on deposits. But while crowds did gather outside of banks before they reopened, investors were relieved to see there was little sign of panic.
"Banks in Cyprus are seeing more of a jog than any kind of run," said Jeffrey Kleintop, chief market strategist for LPL Financial.
But a reading on manufacturing in the Chicago area weighed on stocks, sparking a brief turn lower after a report on activity in March came in below expectations. A disappointing weekly reading on the labor market also offset the optimism.
European markets traded mostly higher, with the Stoxx Europe 600 gaining 0.5%, as the relative calm in Cyprus overshadowed mixed data out of Germany.
The number of jobless Germans rose 13,000 in March versus expectations of an unchanged reading, but February retail sales increased 0.4% on the month compared with expectations of a 0.6% decline. Germany's DAX 30 index tacked on 0.1%.
Meanwhile, Asian markets slumped, highlighted by a 2.8% tumble in China's Shanghai Composite after the country's banking regulator unveiled new controls on popular wealth-management products. Japan's Nikkei Stock Average shed 1.3% and Australia's S&P ASX 200 gave up 0.6%.
May crude-oil futures added 0.7% to $97.23 a barrel, while gold futures fell 0.7% to $1,594.80 a troy ounce. The dollar slipped against both the euro and the yen. Demand for Treasurys fell, with the yield on the benchmark 10-year note rising to 1.851%.
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Joe Papp is known by many for having been a key witness in the Floyd Landis USADA arbitration hearing. Papp was called on during that hearing because of his experience with taking testosterone as a cyclist. While that portion of Papp's career is of great interest to some, I think it's been well documented already (see here and here). As such, I felt that there were other things that I'd rather ask him about. Plus, as I've stated before, the subject of doping is not of great interest to me, particularly when more important topics like De Vlaeminck's hair plugs can be discussed. As a matter of fact, I can tell you that my mental list of things I'd rather not do reads like this:
1. I don't want to discuss doping, it's more boring than listening to Sean Kelly do race commentary
2. I don't want to split my scrotum in half while trying to hop over a parking meter, I suspect it would be more painful than listening to Sean Kelly do race commentary
3. I don't want to sniff Sean Kelly's freshly used chamois, because I fear that it will actually be more pleasant and exciting than listening to him do race commentary
Even if we put my list aside for a second, I feel that the mere mention of doping seems to bring out the uninformed, as well as the (seemingly over-informed) conspiracy theorists. You see, my interest in Papp's career is based on his ample experience racing in Latin America, which I find to be highly unusual for an American cyclist. After all, how many American cyclists can say they've been to Cuba, let alone raced the Vuelta A Cuba five times? Although I'm Colombian, I know little about the inner workings of races in South America, and I imagine that few people in the English speaking world do. Joe is certainly unusual in that respect, and I thought others would enjoy his insights and observations. Some of you may think that interviewing Joe and not asking him lots of questions about doping would be like:
Interviewing Michael Jordan and not asking him about basketball, or
Interviewing the singer from the Crash Test Dummies and not asking him about their groundbreaking and inspirational hit "Mmm, Mmm, Mmm" , or
Interviewing Miguel Indurain and not asking him about his Muppet-like unibrow
If that's your opinion, you're entitled to it...but you're also wrong. Because I said so.
Also of interest to me, I must admit, are Joe's efforts to be reunited with his Cuban wife (who is also a cyclist). It's a complicated subject, since politics, travel restrictions and general international craziness are a huge factor in any dealing with Cuba and Cuban citizens. Having lived in southern Florida around plenty of Cubans, I can tell you that prior to September 11, Cubans were perhaps the only people in the world who had a harder time traveling than us Colombians. For us, getting a visa in order to take a vacation in the US (or pretty much any other country) could take up to a year, and that's if you got approved. Few ever did. Cubans had it worse, and they never even stood a chance, and still don't.
So, in my attempt to continuously shed some light on the subject of Latin American cycling, I contacted Joe to ask him a few questions. I'd like to thank him for agreeing to do the interview.
(Please note: the captions on the pictures were written by Joe)
During your cycling career, you raced an unusually high number of races in Latin American countries. How did you begin doing races in the Caribbean and Latin America?
In 1993 I graduated high school and that fall began studies at the University of Pittsburgh on an academic scholarship. I was bike crazy, however, and despite a strong showing in my first semester, I had no desire to be in school, and could only think about cycling. Through sheer force of will I convinced my mom, then the university, to let me take a leave-of-absence for an indeterminate period of time so that I could race. So, in 1994 I raced professionally with the Pittsburgh Power, and late in the season received an invite to compete with the US National Team in the Vuelta A Venezuela. I only received notice a few days before the start of the race, so I flew from Pittsburgh to New York, met my teammates at JFK and headed south. I'd already been to Europe twice that year to race, but this was my first Latin American competition, and despite the circumstances, I was hooked. I say "despite" because I contracted salmonella and giardia in the opening days and rode the entire tour sick to my stomach. I barely made it through the mountains, but several top-5 finishes on the flat stages convinced me I had a future as a sprinter. I still can't say why Latin America enchanted me so much – maybe it was because I studied Spanish for several years in high school and thus enjoyed some rudimentary communication skills, but you'd think that after getting sick and spending the next six months trying to regain my strength I would have sworn-off the region. But the next year I raced in Panama, then in '96 I did the UCI Continental Championship in Venezuela again, and so on. So it was initially just a random occurrence that took me to Latin America, but something clicked and I, from a sporting and cultural perspective I realized that I derived a huge amount of satisfaction from racing in Latin America and the Caribbean.
You raced in the Vuelta A Cuba, and other races in Cuba many times. Most Americans think of Cuba as a place more far-fetched than Saturn, perhaps due to its political isolation, and political taboos in the United States. Did you feel comfortable there as an American?
That's funny that you would compare Cuba to Saturn, because my close friends and I referred to Cuba as "Planeta Cuba" – it was such a surreal place. But surreal in a good way, an enchanting way…one that drew me back to that island over twenty times. From the first day, I felt comfortable in Cuba as an American and realized that whatever "official" tension there was between the two countries, it existed at a governmental level, and didn't translate to a sentiment shared by the general population. Only once was I ever uncomfortable in Cuba, and that was during a minor stage race that finished in Guantanamo, at a time when Fidel Castro was whipping up a froth of negative feelings towards the US presence via the naval station. I'm staunchly anti-communist and lay 100% of the responsibility for the suffering of the Cuban people at the feet of the regime there, but I was also realistic enough to focus my energies on the sporting aspects of my trips to Cuba, and not make them overtly political. I think I accomplished far more by being a friend of the Cuban people and a ferocious competitor, than if I'd pissed on a statue of Castro (which happened once, by accident).
What were the logistics like when traveling to Cuba as an American? Even now that travel is less restricted there are no direct flights there that I know of.
Because I had the permission of the US government to be in Cuba for all of my trips there, I was able to take direct flights from Miami to Havana and back. While the frequency of these flights has decreased since the Bush administration tightened restrictions on sanctioned travel to Cuba, I never had to resort to any skullduggery or other devious means to get to Cuba. Once inside the country, travel was always possible by car, bus or airplane, though not always in the most comfortable or luxurious vehicles. In Cuba I traveled in everything from an old Hungarian bus, to Soviet-era planes made by Ilyushin and Tupolev and flown by Cubana, to Mercedes and Audi and Lada and Moscovich autos. I even survived a trip on the Cuban cameo, when it was still in service (once was truly enough, and it was an experience that I would never again knowingly subject myself to). And just for the record, most US citizens who travel to Cuba on the sly do so by flying first to a "third-party" country like Canada or Mexico, and then catching a flight to Cuba from there.
Are there any remnants of Soviet-style sports development in Cuba? Soviets certainly took sports extremely seriously (and even saw it as a political affair). Based on how amazingly good Cubans are at track and field, I suspect some of that sentiment may still linger.
The shell of the Soviet-style sports system still exists in Cuba, and is managed by INDER: The Cuban Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation. I have enormous respect for Cuban athletes, who live, train and compete under conditions that border on inhumane, but it still pains me to see sport used for political purposes by the state. A great quote comes from this 1999 article,"A Cuban mix of muscle and ideology":
"Sport, a mainstay of Cuba's socialist Government, seeks to affirm 'patriotic values and national identity'…Higher, stronger, faster . . . and more revolutionary. Outside the sports arena, a Cuban athlete may be treated as a prince or a villain, depending on an imaginary borderline traced by his own loyalty to the state. The boxer Teofilo Stevenson, Olympic champion in 1972, 1976 and 1980, was admitted to the "revolutionary hall of fame" because he rejected lucrative professional contracts abroad. A different fate has awaited other eminent sportsmen and women, mostly baseball players, who, having opted for the temptations of professional status and for exile, have had their names struck off the official roster. Desertions are a thorn in the revolution's side."
If there are, in fact, some big patriotic (and perhaps almost strategically political) sentiments behind events like the Vuelta A Cuba, did you feel a bit like a marked man in the peloton due to being an American, racing for an American team, and wearing a kit with the American flag? This is not to say that it was like Rocky IV, but I imagine it made for some unusual race dynamics. If not, were nationality and politics set aside?
I personally never felt like a marked man, and actually enjoyed a very harmonious relationship with the Cuban peloton. It certainly helped that I spoke Spanish, went out of my way to understand the natives' culture, didn't disrespect them individually, collectively, or poke fun at their circumstances (like some of the foreigners would). There really isn't any animosity towards Americans in particular at a person-to-person level in Cuba, but if there was, I could always flash my Irish passport and claim European-status! That's not to say that solidarity didn't exist between the Cuban riders, and that it wasn't enforced by the coaches at strategic times. In fact, on several occasions when a foreign rider was threatening the Cubans' position on GC, the national team and the provincial Cuban teams – under pressure from their directors and the Cuban Cycling Federation personnel – would band together to ride against the foreigner(s) and for Cuba!
I think that winning two stages in 2003 and my teammate's winning the overall that year – only our second attempt at the Vuelta – and our being very gracious about it gave my teammates and I a bit of latitude with the Cubans, such that they were willing to consider us as equals, status that we worked hard to validate. That said, I would be lying if I didn't say that I really enjoyed those moments in my last two Vuelta's when, for example, there was a strong crosswind blowing and the field was splitting into echelons, and the Cubans always, always let me slide into position in the first group. But then I repaid that courtesy, for example, by not trying to poach every intermediate sprint or 9th place stage finish when it was far more significant to a local rider.
Now if you want to talk about actual ex-Soviets like the Kazakhs, that's a different story entirely! I was booted from the 2004 Vuelta a Chile after coming to blows with a kid who would later ride for Astana .
Was the general lack of funds and poverty faced by cyclists from other countries visible and obvious to you even in the midst of racing?
Yes. It was especially obvious when a 7-speed friction shifted rear derailleur would explode off of some local's bike and pepper my carbon-fiber, 10spd-equipped wonder-bike with shrapnel.
Competitive cycling at an amateur level in the United States is (generally speaking) mostly comprised of well-off white males who can afford to buy Cervelo frames, as well as owning a home and multiple cars. Though this is perhaps not true of ALL cyclists here, the difference between American cyclists and those in other countries must have been obvious to you. Did you notice a difference in commitment and passion in other countries, or was it just a matter of how it was expressed?
Absolutely. Not to make broad generalities, but most of the cyclists competing in these UCI races in Latin America were racing full-time en lieu of working as low-wage, unskilled labor. Whilst Latin American cyclists were as passionate or more so that their brethren in the USA, it was less an avocation than it was a vocation for many of them. And I think one thing that makes it easier for a foreign rider to integrate into the Hispanic peloton is to understand and acknowledge the genuine professionalism of the domestic riders, and respect them for the fact that their trying to earn a living racing their bikes, even if the machine they're riding is two seasons old or their team clothing was made in Venezuela instead of Italy.
What do you think are the greatest misconceptions that Americans have about places like Cuba and countries in South America?
I think the greatest misconceptions are those that you've alluded to previously – namely that there is no potable water in those countries, or the natives are running around in grass skirts, or you're only one-generation removed from shamanism and the age of Simon Bolivar. Granted, we look at a place like Haiti after the terrible disaster that has destroyed so much of that country, and it's clear the material difference with the United States, but I challenge any of your readers to go to Buenos Aires and come home not thinking of it as the Rome of Latin America.
How different was racing in places like Chile and Uruguay when compared to the American racing scene? Where there significant differences in how racers approached cycling, decorum in the peloton or other basic aspects of racing?
By and large, the racing in those countries was harder and the riders were more skilled than most of the non-professionals in the US. That's a generality, of course, and there are always exceptions, but I think that owing to the nature of the sport in countries like Chile and Uruguay, where many of the riders who are competing in the national tours are doing so as a wage-earning endeavor, they manifested a more serious attitude and greater professionalism – even though they were almost always in a materially-inferior position to US cyclists. Do I need to mention that the roads are much better in the US? LOL. One other thing I always noticed was that in Latin American countries, there was almost always a support crew attached to each team that would rival those of almost any amateur squad in the US…massage therapist, mechanic, director, second-director, someone's mom doing the cooking. Oh and the podium girls in Latin America, holy smokes. And we're talking nearly every race.
Having grown up in Colombia, and knowing the circumstances in which most Latin American cyclists grow up, I have often commented that the drive for a Latin American cyclist to dope may be greater than that of an American one. I say this because of the level of poverty that many Latin American cyclists come from, and their drive to continue to have an income that they will likely never again reach in their lifetime. Based on your experience racing in Latin America (and with Latin American cyclists) would you find this to be true? Is their willingness to dope perhaps greater or different as a result?
I can't speak to the willingness to dope of any particular athlete vs. a cyclist in the US, but what I will say is that I saw a greater awareness and knowledge of doping practices in Latin America, and a profoundly more liberal attitude to the self-administration of pharmaceuticals. Combine this with the fact that in most countries in South America you can walk into any pharmacy and buy testosterone, injectable vitamins, corticosteroids, etc. and the fact that if not racing the typical Chilean rider would be earning a living…how?, and is it a surprise that doping there was not a practice of the masters-age weekend warriors but rather the top riders in the country? Just look at a guy like Juan Francisco Cabrera Torres, top sprinter for the #1 team in Chile (Lider), and he eventually tested positive EPO. Do you think he was the only rider on that team who doped? He was just the only one who got caught. Well, actually, he wasn't – his teammate the Russian Andrei Sartassov also tested positive.
In your opinion, is the amount of doping going on in Latin American cycling similar to that of other countries?
I think that – at least during the period 2003-2006, there was more doping in general in Latin America than in the USA, but less than in Western Europe – and it was also less-sophisticated. This also is just a generality. I guess what one could do is analyze all of the positive results reported on the UCI's website and segment the sanctions by region – but in the end that would only reveal who got caught, when and where. It wouldn't take into account the endemic corruption in anti-doping and how, in certain countries (especially those in Latin America), it's much easier to avoid a positive control by subverting the testing process, or – as we saw in the brazen attack this week on a DHL courier ferrying B-samples of riders for testing in Guatemala – simply halt it all together.
In the book Kings Of the Mountains, Matt Rendell writes about the issues that dark skinned cyclists like Victor Hugo Peña had in the European peloton. Peña would go as far as wearing both leg and arm warmers during summer days due to comments that had been made by European riders. Having raced all over the world, did you see any issues regarding race or ethnicity within the peloton? Is cycling an inherently Euro-centric sport as it appears to be to an outsider? [Correction: Having just had the chance to speak with Matt Rendell in person today here in London, it was Alvaro Mejia, not Peña who had this issue.]
Though I don't have any reason to doubt his words, Rendell's reporting of Peña's account reads like an urban myth. I mean, it sounds incredible. Based on my personal experience, I never saw overt racism or ethnic bias. Granted, I competed on very "international" teams, which always mixed Latin Americans with US or Western European cyclists, but in Cuba, for example, the peloton was made-up of riders from black to white, and the riders judged each other not on skin color, but rather – on speed and fitness. Of course there is always an exception, and it's fully conceivable to imagine Spanish fans, for example, heckling a dark-skinned Colombian, or Colombians mocking pasty-white gringos, but cycling seemed to me to be such an internationalized, global sport, that racism within the peloton was unimaginable. The media's coverage of cycling certainly could make it seem euro-centric, but that's only based on a reading of the popular press. Go to a website like this, and you realize that Latin American cycling enjoys significant media coverage within the region.
During your time as a pro, were you ever forced to wear anything as amazingly ugly as the new Footon-Servetto kit? Do you think Ivan Dominguez left the team because he knew that new kit was around the corner?
Yes. When I raced the 1999 Univest GP and finished third behind Tom Boonen and winner Alex Lavalle, I had to wear a composite team jersey for a squad sponsored by Alderfer Meats, which in color can best be described as yucky-grasshopper-guts-green. It was only one race, however, so I can't compare it to the suffering thrust upon the Footon-Servetto riders. Ivan Dominguez always struck me as a style-conscious rider, so it's fully-conceivable to me that he quit the team in favor of riding with Rock Racing. Though not necessarily the most financially-stable team on the circuit (and certainly not one that is always on the up-and-up – trust me, I know, having managed the squad at Redlands 2007), it is the only one sponsored by a fashion industry firm…(is there even a Rock Racing for 2010?)
What were the best and worst bikes that you were issued by teams you raced for?
Best: Whistle Creek
Worst: KHS True Temper steel bike with a curved seat tube.
Posing with the Whistle prior to the final stage of the 2006 Tour of Turkey – the ride that would be my downfall…
A slide scan showing me in the hills above Monaco, with the offending bike propped up against a wall – notice the sickly-curved seat tube
What is your opinion (if any) regarding Floyd Landis' comeback and the level of success he accomplished (or failed to accomplish)?
Wow. I think another "Joe" (Joe Lindsey) presents the best commentary on the Landis comeback, here, aptly describes it as a "strange ride":
You raced for Pittsburgh Power, a team owned by famed Steelers running back Franco Harris. What was that experience like? Did you have much contact with Harris?
Racing for the Power was a wonderful experience. I remember being chased around Pittsburgh by Chris Horner during one race in 1994, good times. Since I was never a football fan, I didn't have an oversized-vision of Franco, which made it possible to interact with him both professionally and personally without his accomplishments as an athlete and lasting fame getting in the way. I would often stop-by his office in the North Hills of Pittsburgh and leave with muffins and donuts from his "Super Bakery" enterprise – which was the polar opposite of the kind of dealings I had with team staff in Italy. His mother was with us when we competed in the NCL* world title race in Monaco in 1994, and I'll never forget her sharing a plate of risotto with me. It was the first time I'd ever had the dish – we were sitting next to each other, she'd ordered a plate of risotto and when it arrived I asked what it was…she insisted I try it and actually handed-off her serving to me and ordered a second helping! She reminded me of the World's-Best-Grandmother! It was easy to then see how Franco himself could be so down-to-earth, friendly and approachable. His son ran for mayor of Pittsburgh this fall. I bumped into Franco at an event in Pittsburgh in '08, after not having seen him for some years, and have to say that I still have a debt of gratitude to him for the opportunities he created for my teammates and me during the days of the NCL. Thanks Franco!
(*Lucho says: The NCL was an NFL-like cycling league in the early 90s, with teams in multiple cities including Atlanta Ruffians, Las Vegas Falcons, Miami Wave, Houston Outlaws, Boston Banshees, New York Ghosts, LA Wings, Portland Thunder. I could find very little information about the league. If anyone knows more, please post it in the comments.)
Do you still ride from time to time?
Yes! I started riding regularly this summer after watching nearly every stage of the Giro online. With the onset of winter I basically stopped riding outside, though it will be the first thing I do once the weather improves! I've found that riding for an hour – even just spinning the legs on the bike path – is a better tonic than any drug or "therapy" for improving one's mood and well-being. Most of my riding is now with my friend Joe Lydic, who spent several years playing minor league baseball and is now trying his hand at cycling. Though he's a few years too late to hope for a professional career in Europe, he's one of the most-talented natural athletes I've ever met and could very easily become a national-caliber rider if he can develop his skills and tactical sense as quickly as his fitness.
In full Fred mode, sporting a World Champion kit provided by Vermarc USA – I never would have done something as crass as wearing another trade team's kit when I was racing full-time, let alone the World Champion's!
Anyone you'd like to thank or acknowledge?
The usual suspects, especially my mom and brother, but also a few other names: Mike Fraysse, even though we're estranged, for giving me my first opportunity to compete in Cuba; Tim O'Toole, for supporting and encouraging my riding when I was still a Junior; Mark Albert of Westwood Cycle for supporting and encouraging my riding when I was a Senior (lol). Also the Bruns Family for their encouragement and support outside the world of cycling, especially after I came home in disgrace in 2006.
I'd also like to thank all of the Latin American and Caribbean cyclists who I raced with and against, as teammates and competitors - and for welcoming me to their countries and into their homes. I appreciate how you all refrained from judging me based on my high school Spanish and pale skin, but rather, let me prove myself a worthy competitor and, in some cases, a friend. Not being dismissed outright as just another gringo or European prick meant a lot because you all gave me the chance not just to race my bike, but also to develop an awareness and appreciation of an entire people and their cultures. The relationships that I formed with you, while strained by the complications of doping and later accepting personal responsibility for having cheated, are ones that I will think of always.
With teammates Alvaro Tardaguila (center) and Gerardo Castro (right) at the 2004 Vuelta a Cuba.
With Tim O'Toole in Cuba in 2003
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Article by Joe explaining how cyclists defeat doping controls
If you're into the subject, an interview detailing his use of EPO on Velo News. More here.
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Article by Joe explaining how cyclists defeat doping controls
If you're into the subject, an interview detailing his use of EPO on Velo News. More here.
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I previously wrote (and wrote and wrote...) about what I was thinking when designing an intro to film class that I'll be teaching next term, and particularly when choosing the fourteen films to show during the 150-minute screening time outside of class. That post wasn't complete, though, because an important other factor in the shape of the course is the textbook.
When I got the assignment to teach intro to film, I'd never looked at a film textbook. I'd be tempted to say, "When I was in school, we didn't need none of them overpriced, overstuffed, overacademic behemoths!" And though it is true that the profileration of such textbooks is a relatively recent event, a handful of them are over thirty years old. I just tended to get teachers who didn't want us to read much in film classes.
I'm a fan of reading, though. And I'm especially a fan of reading in an intro class, where a textbook gives interested students more information than they'll get from the inevitably incomplete survey an intro class provides. With a good textbook, or even a mediocre textbook, a student who becomes particularly curious about a topic will have a tool that shows the way toward deeper exploration.
I began by borrowing books from colleagues, then contacting publisher's representatives to see what they could send me. I soon had over a dozen books to choose from.
After skimming the books in my pile, I was able to eliminate half of them as in one way or another obviously inappropriate. For instance, I loved Routledge's Introduction to Film Studies, and particularly appreciated that it was thirty dollars less expensive than most of the other textbooks. But that book's idea of introduction and mine are very different -- for students in their first or second year of college, it would be dauntingly complex, its vocabulary and concepts challenging even for intrepid students. As a textbook for graduate students or for undergraduates in a serious and comprehensive Film Studies program, it would be an excellent resource.
Once I had skimmed and whittled, I encountered this post by Chris Cagle about film textbooks and found it helpful and reassuring. Most of the books Cagle writes about have been updated or are out of print, but the post confirmed a number of ideas that had been floating around in my mind. With one exception (and that likely because of a difference in editions), the descriptions of the books seem accurate and fair to me.
It only took me a few days to get down to three finalists: Bordwell & Thompson's Film Art, Barsam & Monahan's Looking at Movies, and Corrigan & White's The Film Experience.
Each is a wonderful textbook and would serve the class well. Looking at Movies is the most straightforward and clearly written of the three, absolutely perfect for a basic intro class. It also has the only useful accompanying DVD that I've seen with a textbook. Film Art is a pure joy to read and look at; it has, hands down, the best use of images from films in any textbook I looked at. Appropriately, given its title, it feels like an art book. David Bordwell and Kristen Thompson are among the best writers in the English language on film -- this is a book I sat with and read as much for pleasure as for work. The Film Experience is the book I thought must have improved between the first edition, which Chris Cagle wrote about, and the second, which I have. The layout and design is not bad at all, with full color throughout, though the book doesn't even come close to Film Art in its use of the imagery -- too many of the stills seem to be in the book to provide a break from the text rather than to illustrate a concept, whereas Film Art brilliantly demonstrates how to make stills an essential part of the book's argument and information. Cagle also notes that The Film Experience is advanced and likely difficult, but I didn't find this to be particularly true for the second edition, though certain advanced terms are included (syntagma is still there, as it should be!).
The first book I eliminated was Looking at Movies, though I wished there were some way I could have the students have access to the DVD, since a number of film ideas are explained far more efficiently and clearly via a DVD than a book. Alas, it seems the only way to assign the DVD is to assign the book, and in the end Looking at Movies was just too simple and too formalist in its approach for my needs.
Film Art is also mostly formalist, but it's also by Bordwell & Thompson, and if you're going to get formalist, you might as well get Bordwell & Thompson. As they said of James Bond, nobody does it better. I'm not sure why textbook writers and publishers even try to compete. Film Art is the most frequently adopted film textbook, and so publishers and writers feel compelled to try to nip at its market, but though a genius might be able to improve on Bordwell & Thompson, most textbook writers are not geniuses. The key to competing with Bordwell & Thompson is to offer a textbook for the teachers who want something other than what Film Art, for all its wonders, offers.
The only book I've found that does that is The Film Experience. Its chapters on the formal elements of film are adequate, though the materials trying to convince you to adopt the book say it has "the best coverage of film's formal elements," which is a lie. Film Art has the best coverage of film's formal elements, and White and Corrigan recognize the need for a book that has a perfectly good but not "the best" section on film form and style while also offering something else. The example films in The Film Experience are broader and more diverse than the examples in Film Art, there's coverage of theoretical and political approaches to analyzing film, and throughout the book there's an emphasis on the social construction of our responses to and expectations of the movies we see.
The Film Experience arrived after all of the other textbooks, and before I saw it, I was certain I would use Film Art and that it was pointless to look at any other textbook. I had never read a textbook of any sort with the pleasure I had read Film Art. It's that good.
But when I started trying to fit the lists I had made of films I wanted to screen to the content of Film Art, I saw there was a bit of a problem. I would need to supplement the book with something to cover the territory Film Art ignored or skimmed over. I had planned a whole unit on how engaged filmmakers have used the medium to explore ideas of representation (thus, Do the Right Thing, The Living End, and Orlando, plus the various clips I planned for the six classes in that unit). Film Art would not help me much during that unit (though it has a great 4-page analysis of Do the Right Thing).
When The Film Experience arrived, I paged through it and, without looking at the captions, recognized still after still after still. One film after another on my lists was included. There was a chapter on global and local cinemas, with two paragraphs on Ousmene Sembene (one of those paragraphs devoted to Black Girl), which may not seem like a lot, given Sembene's importance, but is astounding for an intro textbook. In a section on "The Lost and Found of American Film History", significant discussion is given to the pioneering women of early cinema and the awful facts of Hollywood sexism -- a subsection titled "Women Who Made the Movies" begins, "The movie industry remains male dominated, with women directing only 7 percent of the 250 top-grossing films in the United States, according to a 2006 study." It goes on to discuss women in independent film (still not even remotely equal) and the overlooked, significant contributions of women to the history of the medium. It does the same with African-American film and with gay and lesbian film, and it discusses in a pretty accessible way the power of ideology to shape expectations and actions. These sections aren't tokenist, either -- the text of the entire book supports them, making these sections feel like elaborations on ideas that have been prepared earlier.
I hated to let Film Art go, but it was obvious once I saw The Film Experience that this would be the textbook for my class. I wish I could assign them both, because they make fine companions, but I try not to go beyond a retail price of $100 for all of the books I assign to a course. (This has gotten harder to do over the last decade, so I sometimes have to raise the limit to $125, but never beyond that.)
Just before book orders were due at the bookstore, I decided to add one more text. I'd been toying with the idea of adding Amy Villarejo's Film Studies: The Basics, at least as a recommended text, because it's a good one-stop reference guide and priced like a trade book, not a textbook. It didn't offer sufficiently different content from The Film Experience, though, to justify the order.
What I did decide to add, though, was The Village Voice Film Guide, which is a great collection of short reviews of many wonderful movies, including some we'll be watching in class. One of the virtues of the book is that it often gives multiple reviews of films, so, for example, there's the original Andrew Sarris review of Psycho along with a later review from a re-release. These reviews can sometimes be entirely at odds with each other, and that serves my purposes well. The Voice has employed a good range of reviewers, so the book shows a variety of writing styles, from the informal to the almost-academic. It's important for the students to have good examples of a range of short writings on film, because most of the writing they will be doing will be short responses. Ultimately, the book will, I hope, help guide students toward films we don't watch in class and further stoke their curiosity about all that remains to be seen.
In addition to the textbooks, I'll constantly be pointing them toward various film blogs and websites, because today much of the conversation about cinema has moved to the web. Indeed, I can slightly alleviate my sadness at having to let Film Art go by sending students to David Bordwell's website, one of the best film sites out there.
Update 1 (2011) here.
Update 2 (2013) here.


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What started as a little project that let me listen to the music on my desktop computer from a remote location while showing off my programming skills in order to get a job eventually grew into an Internet radio station with thousands of listeners and fans across the globe who shared a love for Michigan-based music.
In the process, we discovered a lot of great bands, made a ton of new friends, and became reconnected to the local music scene. It was a wonderful experience and it literally changed our lives for the better.
With great sadness, we've decided to end our participation in the Internet radio community and officially retired Radio OPIE on October 15, 2015. However, we fully plan on continuing to do what we can to support the local music scene.
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Our final broadcast was hosted by founder John Vernier at 9pm ET on Thursday, October 15, 2015. John shared memories of the station and counted down the 25 most requested bands in the station's history. In case you missed it, here's a final countdown recap.
Thank you to all the listeners, fans, friends, and bands who took the time to vote in our countdown every week. You helped a lot of bands get exposure and airplay, and also turned us on to great new music every week. A special thank you to the bands who helped get the word out about our request/voting process and helped fuel our station's growth over the years.
We have so many people to thank for making our little Internet radio station what it was, and since we only have so much space, so we're just gonna say thank you to all the local bands and musicians who supported us, and who spread the word about us, and to all those folks who make the Detroit and Michigan music scenes the amazing thing that it is.
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The Chief Complaint read "Defibrillator shocks."
The patient, an eighty-something year old man, had an ICD, an implanted cardioverter/defibrillator, due to a history of cardiomyopathy (enlarged heart) which presumably had predisposed him to abnormal and dangerous irregularities in the heart rhythm and even sudden death. A small computer packet implanted in his chest wall monitored his heart rhythm and could regulate or even shock the heart if it detected certain abnormalities. He reported that he'd had half a dozen shocks from the thing in the previous eight hours.
ICD discharges are really uncomfortable. They feel, I have been told, like the proverbial "kick in the chest."
Usually, an ICD discharge is not a big deal -- it's the device working as designed. You watch the cardiac monitor, or interrogate the device's memory, and verify that the shocks were appropriate. If the thing is malfunctioning, it can be reset. Mostly, you have to ensure there's no underlying reason that the patient is having arrhythmias -- a new heart attack, or heart failure, dehydration, infection, etc. -- and treat the cause, if possible.
For this guy, the cause was actually pretty obvious. He admitted that he'd been feeling poorly, and in the ER he had a fever of 102° and was clearly septic from a UTI. His blood pressure was low, and while examining him, I saw two short episodes of ventricular tachycardia (VT) on the monitor, one of which resulted in yet another shock.
So the device was working appropriately, and we instituted standard treatment for sepsis -- antibiotics and all that good stuff -- and posted him for an ICU bed, even though he wished to be DNR. But predictably, he did not do well, and while in the ER he began to show signs that he was unlikely to survive this illness. Family assembled at the bedside and we had "the talk." They were tearful but accepting, and slowly but peacefully, the patient departed the land of the living.
Except nobody remembered to tell his ICD. The damn thing just wouldn't give up! Long after the patient had basically expired, long after his heart had lost the ability to beat in any sort of functional pattern, the silly thing kept pacing away and periodically issued a shock, which caused the patient's body to twitch in a manner most distressing to the family.
A frantic search ensued for a magnet. Placing a donut-shaped magnet over the device deactivates it, and we keep one in the ER for just such an occasion, but it was missing -- stolen, it was darkly intimated, by the ICU. They couldn't find it either. Eventually I got a cardiologist from the building next door to send one over, and we shut it off for good.
As this was transpiring, I was at the bedside talking with the family. The patient's wife pulled out his wallet and showed me the manufacturer's card for the ICD -- It was a "St Jude" model. While I know nothing about the company, St Jude Medical, I endured sixteen years of Catholic education and I know my catechisms: traditionally, St Jude is the patron saint of lost causes.
No wonder the damn thing wouldn't give up.
30 March 2008
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The Chief Complaint read "Defibrillator shocks."
Posted by shadowfax at 9:33 PM
13 comments:
- House Whisperer3/30/2008 11:01 PM
Great post. This is really one of your best--I can picture the search for the magnet.ReplyDelete
Very good post!ReplyDelete
This is so far beyond "keys?! keys?! Who's got the keys?!"ReplyDelete
Nicely done, Dr. SF
Simply excellent!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3/31/2008 5:36 PM
I'll admit it. I LOLed.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3/31/2008 6:06 PM
Funny and creepy. A hard combo to pull off.... but bravo.ReplyDelete
Was there discussion of the ICD being deactivated at the time of DNR? I find that many patients and families have a tough time with these as two separate issues.ReplyDelete
It should be said that most people do not die with a ventricular tachycardia, it is often more of a bradycardia followed by asystole, so in many with ICD's who die with the ICD still active, it is unlikely to shock. But still it could happen so...
A Fast Fact for defibrillators in end of life care can be found here for anyone who wants to know more about this.
Thanks for the St. Jude ref, I'll have to use that in a talk about ICD's sometime.
It's stories like these that make me so glad we have our magnet stuck on the doorframe of the nurse's station and another one on the side of the code cart.ReplyDelete
oh man, I'm sitting here in a coffee shop just about ready to cry; great post. Nothing to add except a choking chuckleReplyDelete
Very interesting. If something like this ever happens at Shoreline perhaps I can impress my coleagues.ReplyDelete
- Dr. Val4/12/2008 4:34 PM
I had to tell my Catholic husband about this... wow, what a story!ReplyDelete
I used to work in cardiology and help run the ICD/pacemaker clinics and on my first day, when told that St. Jude was one of the three companies that supplied the devices, I couldn't help but snicker and explain the joke to the non-Catholics.ReplyDelete
Your story just kind of adds an extra "ba-da-bum-bum"!
- Anonymous8/27/2008 10:37 PM
I honestly feel bad for laughing about this.ReplyDelete