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What is Hematocrit? What are Ketones?
The video below provides information about the LifeSmart™ diabetes range, plus information about Hematocrit and Ketones for diabetes patients.
Setup Instructions – LifeSmart™ Blood Glucose Meter
The video below provides instructions for the initial setup of the LifeSmart™ Blood Glucose Meter.
The LifeSmart Blood Glucose and Ketone Monitoring System is used to test for:
- Hematocrit
- Blood Glucose
- and Ketone.
The LifeSmart range consists of everything you need, to accurately test for each of these. Including:
- A Blood Glucose meter, in Bluetooth or non-Bluetooth,
- Blood Glucose test strips, on the NDSS,
- Ketone strips,
- individual lancets,
- a lancing device
- and safety lancets for single use.
Why test for Hematocrit?
Hematocrit is the volume ratio of red blood cells in a sample of blood.
Hematocrit percentage can interfere with the accuracy of the test strips diabetes patients use to self-monitor blood glucose.
Self-monitoring patients with hematocrit percentage outside of the normal range, may result in bias or inaccurate readings from their blood glucose meter.
Low hematocrit values can result in an abnormally high blood glucose reading and high hematocrit values can result in an abnormally low blood glucose reading.
Hematocrit percentage can vary greatly between patients, this is why the LifeSmart Blood Glucose strip uses advanced technology to separate the blood sample, first calculating the hematocrit percentage in order to achieve an accurate blood glucose reading.
Every blood glucose reading taken with the LifeSmart monitor, will calculate and display both the hematocrit percentage and a blood glucose number.
What are Ketones?
Ketones are produced by the body when it does not have enough insulin to turn glucose into energy.
It is normal for people to have a small amount of ketones in the blood from time to time if they increase their energy output by exercising or are eating less calories.
Ketone levels are generally higher in people with type 1 diabetes when there are insufficient levels of insulin in their body.
If the body produces high levels of ketones, this can cause the blood to become acidic which can lead to illness and potential harm to critical organs if not treated in time. This is known as diabetic ketoacidosis.
Ketones are easily and accurately measured with the LifeSmart Ketone test strip and LifeSmart Blood Glucose and Ketone Monitoring System.


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Nick joined Redington in September 2015 as a Director in the Manager Research team. Now Head of Manager Research, he leads a talented team who help institutional and wealth management clients around the world allocate to the funds that get them closer to their strategic goals. Nick is also a voting member of Redington's Investment Strategy Committee and works directly with several of the firm's clients in the UK and Europe. Nick began his investment career in 2000 at Schroders, where he worked on the Asia and Emerging Market equity teams, before moving into manager research roles at investment consultancy Stamford Associates, South African multi-manager Momentum Global Investment Management and US multi-manager SEI Investments. Nick's background of extensive experience of researching and selecting global equity managers based around the world provides a valuable resource to draw upon
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What Research About Houses Can Teach You
Importance of Selling a House to Real Estate Cash Buyer
Owing a home can be of assistance to people who are facing financial challenges as they can decide to sell them off. When homeowners want to relocate to a different country, they need to sell their houses to real estate cash buyers and not the realtors since the cash buyer will offer them the cash they need. Homeowners will not spend a lot of time waiting for the right buyers to present themselves. When selecting the real estate cash buyers, homeowners should decide on whether to engage the ones who are available in physical areas or the ones who offer their services through the websites.
When the realtors sell the houses on behalf of homeowners, they must be paid certain commissions. Real estate cash buyers do not ask for the commission from homeowners. This will enable homeowners to save a lot of money and channel them in different areas. The commissions that the realtors ask may be expensive for the homeowners who are in financial crisis. Selling a house to real estate cash buyers will enable homeowners to get quick cash. This is made possible because the real estate cash buyers a have the cash ready and are waiting for home sellers.
Selling a house to real estate cash buyer does not involve any repair work as the houses are sold in their present condition. Hiring contractors from different companies may strain homeowners since they are expensive. Once the real estate cash buyers assess the condition of the house, they will make the deduction and give the balance to homeowners. Real estate cash buyers will repair the house in the design that they want. Some buyers may inconvenience homeowners by backing out of the deal when they do not secure finances, unlike the real estate cash buyers who are consistent. People may fail to qualify for the loans which they have applied . When the cash buyers offer the cash to homeowners, they will not borrow extra money from financial institutions.
Homeowners will not have to pay the hidden charges if they sell their house to the cash buyers. When one sell their house through the realtors, they will have to pay for all expenses that involve the selling process such as appraisal fee. This is not the case if one engages the real estate cash buyers since they handle all the selling process. The houses can be bought at any time and does not wait for foreclosure. Homeowners will not be stressed thinking on how to pay the mortgage companies that they owe. Despite selling the house to the cash buyer, homeowners can continue staying in the house while looking for a suitable place to relocate to.
Case Study: My Experience With Homes


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Being connected to the blogging community, there are a lot of different Facebook groups that I have joined in order to promote and support other blogs in addition to my own (bloggers support bloggers, right?). Through these communities, I have met many bloggers in different niches and created great friendships. So when the opportunity arose to take over the Instagram of The Blog Love Project, I jumped at the chance.
I have never participated in an Instagram takeover, and it was a great experience that I will definitely do again! The takeover just happened to be on the day I was heading into the city to see a baseball game!! It was such a sunny, hot and overall amazing day which was great for posting pictures!
In today's post, I am going to review my takeover of The Blog Project and tell you the story of what a day it was!!
August 16, 2015 – What a Morning!
Bright and early on Sunday morning, I woke up to the bright sun and clear skies – perfect for a baseball game! Before I took over The Blog Love Project, I thought about how I wanted to go about posting. Did I want to post every hour? Every two hours? Well…there are some guidelines when taking over an account. You don't want to completely spam the account – viewers will get bored of you, or they will get tired of seeing your posts!
Spread out the photos. This will create more activity because the viewers that are looking will look forward to seeing the next few posts instead of thinking that you post too much!!
The game was absolutley fantastic, and even though my friends and I were up in the "nose-bleed seats", we still had a grand ole' time!! The advantage of having seats up above is you can see all of the action from a distance, and at the same time, you can enjoy the sun (wearing sunscreen, of course!). Being the style blogger that I am, I love the baseball look. I got to rep my hometown's team, while looking pretty cute (if I do say so myself!). Throughout the day, I made sure to tell a story in the takeover.
Leave your viewers wanting more. That is one tip that is great! When you have a picture limit (which for me was 6-8 photos), you want to make sure that those photos engage the viewers! I tried to promote the next activity I was going to do, so that when a viewer reads the caption…they remember to look back for more! You are telling a story, essentially!
To end the takeover, I gave a last look at the field (after a great win!), a snap of the CN tower and then a quick shot of my comfy shoes for the ride home! I wanted to tie the whole takeover together by showing me going home and ending the day on a good note! All in all, it was a lovely day, and it only seemed right to end the takeover with the end of my day!
Keeping it under ten photos. Ten photos in a day is plenty for a takeover…or even your personal account! I kept the number at eight (mainly because of the guidelines that I was given). That is a great number though! Keeps you away from the "spam" category and also allows you to tell a story throughout the day!
Taking over The Blog Project's Instagram was entertaining and such a great way to connect with other viewers! I highly recommend you check out their blogger group on Facebook and try for an opportunity to do it yourself. At the very least, you will meet some amazing people and form relationships (perfect for new bloggers!).


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Wolves of all differing sorts
As we all undoubtedly know, there are all sorts of different wolves out there. These pages are here to hopefully give some knowledge on them, and to give all wolf lovers out there a nice place to look. If you have any ideas, noted discrepancies or comments on this page, would you please email me. All information and knowledge is readily accepted. Contact Information is also at the bottom of the page.
Wolf n, pl wolves 1. a predatory doglike wild animal which hunts in packs.
There really is very little information on wolves for the browser to read in books. As in the above extract from the dictionary, there is no depth, and no real interest in the subject. There is a fear that is attached to wolves that had evolved over the years.
As children we were brought up with fictitious stories our parents used to tell us, such as Little Red Riding Hood, and the Three Little Pigs. These stories were meant to teach us all about obeying our elders, and being good citizens. In fact, the stories really are quite gruesome, and it is no wonder that children might grow with bad habits if they are taught about violence being a good thing (the woodcutter killing the wolf). I always felt sorry for the wolf in that story, as it obviously had no pack and had no other food source to rely on. Perhaps the woodcutter should have stunned and tied the wolf up and called a wolf protection society instead!
It seems then that these, and other stories grew from lack of knowledge. I feel that if people were better educated in fact instead of fiction, and then the world would be a more tolerant place in which to live.
In these pages I hope to shed some light to you folks out there who have little knowledge of wolves, and tell you what are their real habits. I will also put some reviews of better fictitious stories at the end of the site (still under construction) for those of you who like that sort of thing.
Werewolves will also be mentioned, and possibly a page dedicated. If there is anyone who has material either fact or fiction that they might want to submit, feel free. This is not just my site, it is for wolf lovers everywhere.
The most many of us know about wolves is from what we hear from the aforementioned bedtime stories, and that they are like wild dogs. They are supposed to be things that terror is made of, cold-blooded killers.In fact there has never been any confirmed attack and killing of a human by a healthy wolf.
The domestic dog has a lot in common with the wolf as it evolved and has been bred into being from the wolf over 20,000 years. It took this length of time to get all the different species we know today from the St Bernard to the toy poodle. Not only does the domestic dog share its ancient ancestors with the wolves, but also still have the characteristics of the wolf in their behavioral patterns.
Understanding the behavior patterns of the wolf will help you to understand how your dog thinks. We can misunderstand and misinterpret what our dog is trying to tell us as the dog does not speak the way we do. This can lead to us putting human characteristics and actions on a dog so better to understand what it is saying, but this is often wrong. There is a great book on this that I have found by a man named Stanley Coren, How to Speak Dog: Mastering the Art of Dog-Human Communication. (ISBN 0-684-86534-3). I recommend this book highly.
There are two species of Wolf, the Red and the Gray.
The Red wolf (Canis Rufus) is the smallest of all the wolves. They usually weigh 50-70 pounds and stand to about 51-81 cm (20-32 inches) tall to the shoulder. They usually have a reddish-brown coat, and are smaller than the gray wolf, have smaller packs than the gray, which are usually consist of an adult couple and their offspring. They mate every year and have an average of 2-5 pups. Both the male and the female look after the offspring. The pups stay with this pack and its mother until it is about 18 months old when they can fend for themselves. They will then travel away to set up a pack of their own.
The Red Wolf can be found as far north as Pennsylvania and as far west as Texas. They like temperate deciduous forest areas, and need between 10 and 100 square miles of habitat to live and hunt in. They like to eat white tailed deer and raccoons, but can eat any small animals if pushed. In recent times there has been a loss of the Red Wolfs habitat, due to the expansion of agriculture, logging and human settlement. With the combination of the hunting of wolves that takes place (they preyed on cattle), coupled with the fact that the red wolf has been mating with coyotes, and coyotes expanding into their territory, the red wolf numbers have dwindled. Also there happened diseases such as heartworm, which preyed on the wolves.
In 1967 the Red Wolf was made an endangered species. In 1980 the Red Wolf was declared extinct in the wild. Currently there are only 300 Red Wolves in the world, and only 75-80 of them surviving in the wild.
There are fourteen recognised sub-species of the Grey Wolf. The gray wolf (Canis Lupus) is the largest and most common type of wolf, 2-2.5 ft tall and 4-5 ft long. The males are about 100-175 lbs and the females are slightly lighter. Unlike common perception, they are not as large as they seem because of their thick fur; in fact they are about the size of a good-sized Alsatian.
Although they are known as the Grey Wolf, their color can vary from pure black to pure white, and through gray and brown, or a combination. Like most wolves, they usually mate for life, and breed in late winter and conceive about two months later. The pups are born blind and are reared in a den and weaned in about the 5th week. When they are 3-5 months old, they are old enough to run with the pack. They will be adult size by winter. Grey wolves are sexually mature at the age of about 22-24 months.
They were formally found throughout the northern hemisphere in Alaska, Canada, the region around the Great Lakes. They were hunted to extinction in all other areas of the country. The wolf population was lowest in Eurasia in 1930s and 60s, and lowest in North America in the 1950s. In 1995 there was a reintroduction of the Gray Wolf into the wilderness areas like the Rocky Mountains. There were also 30 Gray Wolves reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, Minnesota, and are thriving. There are also some in the Isle Royal National Park, Michigan. There are now 2,500 Gray wolves in the lower 48 states of America, and 10,000 in Alaska to date.
The Grey Wolf is very important to the food chain, as, as it is at top it controls the populations of the caribou, deer and moose. The wolves take the sick and weak animals such as the older ones (they wouldnt bother with a healthy moose that stands its ground), making sure that the strongest of the herds survive, and so making the herd stronger through this type of selective breeding. A good example of when this was not the case, was when in Yellowstone National Park. There were no wolves there, and the populations of these herds multiplied extensively, ended up over grazing the land, creating a food shortage, and many of these animals died from this. The wolves have been reintroduced here and the balance is even again.
There are also as many as 30 sub-species (only 14 of them are recognized) of the Gray Wolf, such as the Mexican wolf, which is indigenous to the Southwestern Deserts of America.
The Arctic wolf (Canis Lupus Arctos) is the purest of all the wolf breeds, as it is in such an isolated area in the Arctic Circle. They can be easily recognized, as they are the only Grey wolf sub-species with a thick, near-white coat. Their coat protects them from predators through its camouflage, and the warmth that they need to survive in the Arctic temperatures. They are about 3-5 ft long, and about 25-31 inches high to their shoulders. The males can weigh up to 175 lbs, but the females are lighter than the males. This extra body mass is for the warmth. Their ears are smaller and rounder than the other sub-species of Gray wolf, and their muzzle and legs are slightly shorter. These differences are the adaptation to the cold, as they decrease exposure to the cold, as they have to endure temperatures that reach 57C (-70F).
Arctic wolves reach sexual maturity at 3 years in the males, and 2 years for the females. The gestation period is about 53-61 days, and they usually have about 1-6 pups. The pups are born slightly later than the wolves further south, usually around the end of May. Like the other types of wolf, the Arctic Wolf has very tight family bonds, and other younger members of the pack will often look after the pups while the mother is away hunting. The Arctic wolves have been known to have up to 30 members a pack, but usually only have about 7 to 10. They have a vast territory, as their prey is small and less frequent in the finding.
They live throughout the Arctic landmass, except for the on the permanent ice sheets on the sea, and can have more than 1000 square miles (2600 sq km.) of territory. Their main food sources are arctic hares, musk ox, caribou, lemmings and some birds. As the food is so scarce in the Arctic, there is rarely anything left of the carcass, such as with the arctic hare, as they will eat the skin, fur and bones. The Arctic Wolf has a life span of about 7 years on average. Unlike the other types of wolves that have been persecuted by humans the Arctic wolf is thought to still have 95% of its territory in the Arctic. They only have to worry about fur trappers, oil drilling and hikers in the Arctic. Due to the bad weather conditions in the Arctic, we can only know what happens to the Arctic wolf in the summer, as it is both too dark and too cold to see anything in the winter.
Wolves can live in a variety of areas from the Arctic Tundra to forests and prairie as long as there is adequate prey for them to live on. The greater the amount of prey, the greater the numbers will be in the area. The only place they cannot live is in tropical forests, desert floors and the highest mountains.
Wolves, although very similar in look to an Alsatian, have a broader skull and longer ears. They also have a bushier tail, a long nose and legs. They look lean and rugged like a coyote, but they tend to carry their tails higher. Wolves have territories of varying size, from about 30-more than 500 square miles. They use scent markings and vocal calls, such as howling to define their territory from other wolves. There can be a range of numbers in a pack, up to about 30 depending on the hunting in the area.
Wolves are very social animals. They travel in packs. This can range from the lone wolf up to twenty individuals in any one pack. The Wolf packs are very family orientated. We can see this especially when it comes to rearing young. All the members of the pack show great care when it comes to the pups. They are extremely tolerant, and other members of the pack will adopt the young if the parents are unable to care for them. Other wolves in the pack will often act as babysitters to the cubs, if the parents are busy, and are friendly and amiable towards the pups.
There is a very strict hierarchy in place in the packs. There is an alpha male and an alpha female who rule the pack. They are the only ones within the pack who are allowed to mate, and although they usually mate with each other, being alpha also means that they can choose their mate from anyone within the pack. It was thought for a long time that it was the alpha male that ruled the packs, but it has now been proven that the alpha female can control the pack, while the alpha male could just be the highest ranking male there. I know of at least one pack that is ruled by the alpha female. Below the alpha male and female, the pack all knows its place in the hierarchical structure of the pack.
Wolves do not fight unnecessarily; in fact they go to great lengths to avoid it. Most disagreements rarely end in serious fights. If, however, either the alpha male or female dies, or gets killed, there can be in-fighting within the pack to gain the position.
Wolves have a very varied and complex communication system. To us, who are used to a more vocal language, it is hard to understand the extent of this. Wolves communicate through postures, looks, glances, a growl, howling, whimpers, whines, and barking. Most of the time a subtle movement of the body, or a glance is all that is needed to get across what is needed, especially when asserting dominance over another. They dont often have to demonstrate their strength and dominance, but it is usually understood that they could if it came to that. Showing direct eye contact, which is seen to be aggressive, could show this.
You can usually tell which members of the pack are the highest ranking in the hierarchy by how erect the tail is in the air. The higher the tail is, the higher the rank. This is why you see the alpha male or female with tails high in the air, and the others wolves tails lower.
The howl, for which the wolves are most famous, is one of the most important communication systems, and is used for many reasons. The howl, unlike common myth is not to the moon, but to the others in the pack. The howl is used to call and locate members of the pack. It is also a social expression and a greeting. It is used to define their territory, but also because they like doing it. There is also evidence to suggest that only some members of the pack are allowed to join in the howl sometimes, as the others attacked a lower ranking member of this certain pack when it tried to join in. This disfavored member could have brought this on if it had caused the leaders aggravation earlier on in the day.
Sometimes, a member of the pack who is out of favor with the pack can be the sister of the alpha female or some other low ranking individual. The alpha female only tolerates her through the groveling the sister does to keep in favor, but sometimes this alone is not enough, and the individual can be driven from the pack. This wolf then becomes a lone wolf, who has no pack. This is very dangerous for that wolf, as it is more difficult to get food without the pack. It is also in danger from other packs that will attack it if it strays into their territory.
Lone wolves only become a member of a pack if they are fortunate enough to find a pack that will accept them, or alternatively find a mate of its own who is in the same predicament, and start a pack of their own. Those lone wolves that do this are better off, as if they start a pack of their own then they are the alpha themselves.
The pack relies heavily on group hunting, as they are usually quite a bit smaller than their prey. They need co-operation and coordination in order to feed the pack sufficiently. They rely on their sense of smell heavily; which is said to be 100 times greater than our own, to hunt. They can travel great distances while hunting. They have great stamina and strength, and can travel far for extended periods. Some wolves have been clocked at traveling 24-28 miles per hour. Although they cannot maintain great speed for any length of time, they seem to be able to trot indefinitely at about 5mph.
In winter wolves use frozen rivers and lakes as travel routes. They also can travel between 15-25km in a single night. Usually wolves eat all that they kill, gorging themselves, as they did not know when their next meal would be. Wolves will often go for days without food, and then can eat up to 100lbs of meat at a time. Crows and ravens have been known to help wolves find food. The wolves make the kill, and gorge themselves, and the ravens get the leftovers. It is an unlikely partnership, but one that works.
Wolves have been hunted for centuries. Their habitat has been destroyed through clearance of the land for settlement, and fuel. They have been seen mostly as a threat to humans as they were at the top of the food chain. They were also seen as a threat, as they preyed upon domestic animals because of their vulnerability. They have been hunted by poison, trapping, and shooting. Over the years, the wolf became a sought after prize. Wolf fur became a prestige object signifying bravery and valor. There were hunting parties set up to find and kill them, for no other reason than for sport, even when they posed no threat.
With the expansion of the human race, the wolf numbers have dwindled, until they became extinct in many places across the world. There is now reintroduction programs being implemented across the world, to save the wolf from complete extinction, but poaching is still a very real problem and hazard.
I have listed a few of the larger wolf organizations here, for those of you that want to help the plight of these hunted animals. I feel there is no reason for the hunting to persist, and it is up to people to put a stop to it, and lend their support for this worthy cause.
Defenders of Wildlife
International Wolf Center
Maine Wolf CoalitionMission: Wolf
Official Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Site
Ralf Maughans Wildlife Reports
Red Wolves of Alligator River
The Searching Wolf
The Wolf Pack;Oklahoma
Wolf Mountain Sanctury
Wild Canid Survival and Research Center
Please send any comments or queries about these pages, and I shall get back to you regarding them. If you also would like to submit any pictures, short stories, or web links, these are also welcome. Please feel free to be as harsh as you like making mistakes is the way we learn!
As always, this site is under construction. I have been having slight problems with the computer, so if I have accidentally missed anything, or anyone out, please use the address provided, as I have probably just forgotten in the mayhem! I have made the utmost effort to get permission for all the images that I have used on these pages. If, however I have accidentally used anything that that is yours, and you wish to have it removed, please also contact the above address with the information.
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AMANDA DOLOR, THE emotionally taut comic heroine of Nicky Silver's play "The Food Chain," which opens Off Broadway on Thursday, is three weeks married and two weeks on her own. Her writer-husband, Ford, left their New York apartment shortly after their honeymoon to work on one of his screenplays and never returned. As the play begins, it is the middle of the night and an embarrassed and distraught Amanda dials a crisis hot line. She spends most of the first scene in harried exegesis of her fragile state to a not terribly sympathetic counselor.
Hope Davis, the 31-year-old willowy blonde actress who plays Amanda, will be familiar to fans of Mr. Silver. Two seasons ago at the Vineyard Theater in "Pterodactyls," Mr. Silver's bleak, abrasive comedy about the disintegration of a family, Ms. Davis played another overwrought young woman. The character, Emma Duncan -- hypochondriacal, impossibly nervous and forgetful to the point of near amnesia -- was probably closer to the brink of insanity than even Amanda. As Emma, Ms. Davis won praise ("a star-making performance," Ben Brantley wrote in The New York Times) and found a niche.
"I get to play a lot of hysterics," Ms. Davis said in an interview in her dressing room at the Westside Theater. "It's strange, because I feel like a very grounded person. But after 'Pterodactyls,' for a while every character I played committed suicide."
"The Food Chain," consisting of three scenes performed without an intermission, was produced a year ago by the Woolly Mammoth Theater Company in Washington. It is a five-character farce about, among other things, food, sex and self-esteem. Its plot involves interlocking relationships whose overlap is unknown to the participants. The cast also includes Phyllis Newman as the hot-line counselor; Tom McGowan as the desperately overweight and insecure Otto Woodnick; Patrick Fabian as Serge, a vain model and the object of Otto's desire, and Rudolf Martin as Ford, Amanda's impossibly laconic husband.
Otto may be the most farcical character in the play, but Amanda, with her long loops of agitated monologue delivered in a pinched bleat -- "I've strayed," she says calmly after each digression -- is its most complicated. A onetime fat girl turned thin, a rich kid neglected by her parents, a self-involved poet with a rapacious libido, Amanda is caught between privilege and desperation. On a college break she lost 45 pounds, changed her name and returned to school, telling everyone she was her own cousin.
"There's so much here to play," Ms. Davis said. "Amanda is so strong and yet she's broken, she's needy and sexual and passionate and hungry. She wants to be Greta Garbo and she's still fat Betty Pemberton. Obviously, all these facets are a part of me or I wouldn't know them."
Amanda was a role that Mr. Silver wrote for Ms. Davis, whose real-life husband of six years is, in fact, a playwright named Ford. (His last name is Evanson.) "My Ford is nothing like this Ford," Ms. Davis said. "My Ford never shuts up."
In person, Ms. Davis is more substantial and, to use her expression, grounded than she appears on the stage, where the words "ethereal" and "fey" have been used to describe her. Nonetheless, she says, Amanda and Emma are not complete strangers to her: "You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line. I'm not really high-strung now, but I was a very high-strung child," she said. "Horribly neurotic."
"Once, as I walked to school in the morning, I looked down my block and there was a car that had just pulled up in front of my house and I saw a person get out. By the time I got to school I was in hysterics; I was sure that some man had gone into my house and killed my mother and sister. I went down to the principal's, who must have thought that some man had attacked me on the way to school, and she called my mother, and it turned out to be the piano tuner. So that's definitely a part of my personality."
This was in Tenafly, N.J., where Ms. Davis was the second of three daughters in a family that often visited New York City to go to the ballet or Broadway. She was known even then for her sensitivity.
"We called her 'The Worrier,' " said her mother, Joan Davis, a children's librarian. "The other girls loved good stories as well, and the theater, but Hopie was always the one who sat on the edge of her seat, riveted to the stage, and she took it home with her."
Ms. Davis went to Vassar, where she acted in plays but majored in the multidisciplinary field of cognitive science and thought seriously about a career in brain research. It was a student-written play in her senior year, she said, in which she had the role of an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor that pushed her toward the theater for good.
"It was a comedy, and it was heartbreaking," she said. "I just love to make a whole roomful of people laugh."
From Vassar, she and her future husband and several friends, "a group of theatrical wannabes," moved to Chicago and started a theater company, the name of which she declines to reveal "because it was the worst name ever and I've been sworn to secrecy." In the year or so of its existence, the group performed work by Beckett and Pinter in a cellar in suburban Evanston.
Her first real break came in 1989 when she landed the central role in David Mamet's Hollywood sendup, "Speed-the-Plow," in a production directed by Joel Schumacher, the film director. Robert Falls, the artistic director of the Goodman Theater in Chicago, saw the play and cast Ms. Davis in "The Iceman Cometh."
"She was wonderful playing one of the tarts," said Mr. Falls, who also happens to be the director of "The Food Chain." "She's reminiscent of the Jean Arthur type of comic screwball actress; beautiful, ditzy but intelligent. Most comic actresses, you're aware they're pushing the comedy. But with Hope, there's this sexy, comic person who can turn touching on a dime."
At about the same time, Mr. Schumacher cast Ms. Davis in his film "Flatliners," which was shot in Chicago. But more influential on her career, she landed a part as a French airline attendant in another Chicago movie, "Home Alone," the megahit with Macaulay Culkin.
"I get recognized by kids all the time," Ms. Davis said with a bit of a shudder. It was an important credit to have, she admitted, and it was the impetus for her move to New York, "But I don't want to go to my grave as Hope ('Home Alone') Davis."
She won't, if Nicky Silver has anything to say about it. In New York, Ms. Davis has appeared in a variety of television parts, films (she was the dancer used by Nicolas Cage as a barbell in "Kiss of Death") and stage productions, including "Two Shakespearean Actors" on Broadway. But nothing has had the impact of "Pterodactyls." Mr. Silver began writing "The Food Chain" during that production.
"I didn't read it until about a year ago," Ms. Davis said. "And I didn't know whether I should be flattered. I mean, Amanda's just a neurotic mess."
But Mr. Silver meant it as flattery.
"There's something that Hope has that's really hard to find," he said. "I write pretty ruthless people, so I'm always looking for it. A lot of actors, when they start being as ruthless as the character has to be, they become disturbing, but Hope never is."


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Shelton, A., & Reimer, N. (July, 2018). Telehealth Wound Applications: Barriers, Solutions, and Future Use by Nurse Practitioners. Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), 22(2), Available at http://www.himss.org/ojni
Telehealth applications are an emerging technology in a new era of health care system technologies. Although telehealth technologies, including a number of different applications, are used by various members of the health care team, nurse practitioners (NPs) utilize them for a variety of patient issues across healthcare settings. The Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Computer Science Department has recently developed a wound scanning application, WoundView for nurse practitioners to utilize in different healthcare settings. Such telehealth mobile applications are used in clinics, home health, rural, and remote settings where a physician may not be readily available. However, there are obstacles with the current practice of using telehealth technologies such as a dire need for evidence-based research that supports attainable solutions for these barriers. Extensive, ongoing research will allow NPs to anticipate an immense mainstream implementation of telehealth applications in the very near future.
Telehealth applications are an emerging technology in a new era of health care system technologies. Many advancements have been made in recent years in telemedicine technologies including mobile stroke units, wireless wearable sensors, leadless pacemakers, and wound scanning devices. The World Health Organization (WHO) defined telemedicine as "delivering health care services from a distance by interactive, visual, and data communications for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease and injuries" (2010, p.10).
Although telehealth technologies, including applications, are utilized by various members of the health care team, Nurse Practitioners (NPs) utilize telehealth technology for a variety of issues and in various settings such as clinics, home health, rural, and remote settings. Wound applications have been introduced to accurately assess a wound in remote locations. The use of these various applications and technologies bring common barriers including issues with current practice, financial considerations, compliance factors, and user willingness to implement and utilize these technologies. Evidence-based research suggests potential solutions for these barriers. Such solutions include telemedicine initiatives like state legislators leading to an increase in reimbursement rates from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), encouraging telemedicine applications to become 'mainstream' in the health care system, and efficient technical support and telehealth champions that supports improved compliance among staff and patients throughout the process of incorporating telemedicine. Additionally, research allows NPs to prepare for the implementation of telehealth applications within hospitals and other settings that will lead to increased efficiency, decreased health care costs, and enhanced patient outcomes. With new and innovative ways to deliver efficient patient care, cost analysis and patient outcomes are observed and measured in telehealth technology studies (Foster & Sethares, 2014). This paper presents an examination of research in the literature to ascertain how telemedicine should be incorporated into mainstream healthcare delivery systems to benefit patient care.
It is estimated that there are approximately 6.5 million patients in the United States that currently receive wound treatment. Approximately $25 billion is spent annually on acute and chronic wound care management (Shah, Wollack, & Shah, 2015). Many of these patients require post-discharge wound care either at home by a registered nurse or in a wound clinic by a NP. Wound care management is defined as a clinician assessing a wound, classifying the wound type, determining wound stage, and formulating the appropriate action plan to promote wound healing in a timely manner. An acceptable wound healing timeframe is approximately forty percent wound improvement within the first three weeks of wound management (King, 2014).
Wound Assessment. Nurses are typically the clinicians who provide routine follow up wound care for patients discharged from the hospital. Nurses assess the wound's dimensions, color, odor, exudate, drainage, amount, consistency, staging, and evidence of potential infection such as increased temperature, etc. Other important factors nurses assess include wound classification, etiology, position, degree of pain, and characteristics of surrounding skin. Assessment findings are communicated by the nurse with the appropriate physician or NP for further recommendation and treatment. Wound assessment documentation is also important when managing the healing process and the effectiveness of wound healing (Santamaria & Kapp, 2013).
Common Wound Measurement Procedures. The most commonly used method of measuring a wound is the 'ruler and Q-tip method.' This method involves nurses simply using a paper or plastic ruler to measure the length and width of the wound and then using a cotton-tip applicator to estimate the depth of the wound. Other forms of wound measurement include acetate tracing by which the nurse or NP places a thin, translucent graph paper over the wound to map its 2D measurements (Shah et al, 2015). Although common practices of wound care management have enhanced wound healing, current innovations using telehealth applications are designed to provide state-of-the-art care that will further enhance wound care across the healthcare spectrum.
Current Telemedicine Advancements in Wounds Care. Evidence-based, efficient wound care telemedicine systems, particularly in the home health care setting, have continued to expand over the last 15 years or so. In general, telemedicine can be subdivided into three categories: teleassistance (remote wound assessment), teleconsultation (wound care in the patient's presence), or teleexpertise (multiple wound care clinicians assessing a particular case without the patient's presence) based upon authorization (Teot, 2014). There are two primary types of wound care telemedicine systems: store-and-forward (SAF) systems and video-conference programs. There are also hybrid systems that have both capabilities. Current research suggests that wound care telemedicine has significantly shown benefits for both patients and clinicians; however, there continues to be a lack of integration of these programs within current health care systems and electronic health records (EHRs) (Santamaria & Kapp, 2013).
The primary goal of wound care telemedicine is to provide clinically efficient and effective wound care post-surgery or post-hospital discharge by preventing infections, unnecessary emergency room visits, and hospital readmissions. A study by the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Project (ACS NSQIP) discovered that 42% of surgical site infections (SSI) developed post-discharge from the hospital. Patients who developed SSIs post-discharge, were found to have an increased likelihood of needing reoperation and their mortality rates increased significantly (Tevis, 2014). Telemedicine applications have successfully shown effective management of wound and SSI complications post-discharge by offering more precise daily assessment surveillance and intervention for NPs (Semple, Sharpe, Murnaghan, Theodoropoulos, and Metcalfe, 2015).
The Indiana University-Purdue University Computer Science Department has just introduced a mobile application and scanning device for the advancement of remote wound care. WoundView has the capability to scan, photograph, and calculate the exact dimensions of a wound. It then transmits the data to a dashboard for the NP to assess, diagnose, and implement appropriate interventions. Technologies such as WoundView create an improved standardized process for wound measurement, healing trends, and provide accurate documentation for healing prediction (Shah et al, 2013). WoundView and similar technologies show far greater predictive accuracy than traditional methods such as 2D planimetry, acetate grid tracing, and the ruler method as denoted in Table 1.
According to the literature, one benefit of telemedicine technology is enhancement of patient quality of life and access to wound care (Teot, 2014). Other benefits include time efficiency, reduction in patient expenses, more communication and feedback from providers, as well as increased patient satisfaction (Foster & Sethares, 2014). Of major importance is patient quality of life and access to wound care that has immensely improved with telemedicine technologies (Teot, 2014).
It is well documented that telehealth applications and telemedicine technologies have many beneficial patient outcomes; however, there are some limitations and issues that should be considered. It should be noted that patients should ideally first meet face-to-face with a wound management expert prior to the use of any telehealth wound applications. Nevertheless, establishing meetings is not always a feasible option for patients due to remote locations, disabilities, or transportation issues. A controversial issue of whether telehealth applications are truly affordable and cost-efficient must also be taken into consideration.
As well, smartphone applications may be difficult for technology-naïve patients, patients may not own a smartphone, and elderly patients may have difficulty navigating the smart phone or application interface. Elderly patients may also become anxious or annoyed while attempting to adjust their lifestyle to include the use of telehealth technology (Foster & Sethares, 2014).
Telemedicine, including telehealth applications, have multiple limitations that restrict the widespread adoption of these technology programs. Some issues that were identified in one study suggested that the following factors influenced successful implementation of telemedicine: Sufficient clinician education and training, efficient technical support for troubleshooting, and level of involvement of a local champion during the initial planning phase (Angel et al, 2015).
Cost-benefit analyses may also vary dependent upon the facility, stakeholder interest, patient population, and geographic location for telemedicine use. Reimbursement for telemedicine is also variable and provides its own limitations in the utilization of telemedicine technologies. Historically, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) generally only reimbursed telemedicine services if the patient is located outside of a metropolitan area, if patients live in rural locations, or in an area with a health care provider shortage. Reimbursement stipulations also vary from state to state (HCPro, 2015). The misconception of how and why telehealth should be used based upon geographic location hinders its adoption into the mainstream health system. Telemedicine, including mobile applications, should be viewed as a virtual modality instead of a separate service requiring its own unique billing codes (Dinesen et al., 2016).
One of the first steps in determining feasible solutions to some of the obstacles that telemedicine faces is encouraging state regulators to define telemedicine and determine how to renegotiate payment and reimbursement conditions from a state level. Telemedicine technologies offer a new frontier level of care; so, it is expected to receive some resistance until clarifications of its definition, purpose, and outcome are detailed by state regulators (HCPro, 2015). Interestingly, a 2015 study found that the average hospital inpatient stay cost $820 per day, long term care facility stay cost $100 per day, and home health visits averaged $74 per day. In contrast, telemedicine (specifically "virtual visits") only coste $30 per day (Baig, Gholam Hosseini, and Connolly, 2015).
It is feasible that telemedicine is not something that should simply be added to the mainstream health care delivery system, but incorporated as an innovation at the system level. The incorporation of telemedicine involves assessing the patient subpopulation flow, altering the general approach to care, assimilating telemedicine technologies, and altering existing care delivery approaches (Dinesen et al, 2016). Current and future telehealth initiatives are needed to facilitate the integration of telemedicine into contemporary EHR systems.
Telemedicine and mobile apps are gaining more attention with new applications and devices that have been recently introduced to the market. As Dinesen et al (2016) outlined, there are eight key elements that will soon be driving the future of telemedicine:
The clear majority of today's telehealth technologies only focus on one issue or disease process. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2016) estimated that 25% of Americans have multiple chronic diseases with statistics rising to 75% in the geriatric population over age 65. Because of the commonality for patients to have multiple diagnoses, future telehealth applications will need to be versatile in addressing multiple acute and chronic patient problems. In other words, there needs to be increased patient personalization that is tailored to their specific comorbidities.
There have been many great advancements in telehealth wound applications and other telemedicine technologies. However, there have been barriers such as conflicts in cost efficacy, reimbursement, standardization, integration into current practice, and skepticism by stakeholders. The primary solution to the increased utilization of telemedicine wound applications will be supported by strong research-based evidence that telehealth applications are both sustainable and scalable. Nevertheless, it is clear that the future of telehealth technology is on the rise and will eventually be embraced by the current health care system in order to ensure advancement of enhanced patient outcomes, cost, and quality of life (Dinesen et al, 2016).
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Author Biographies
Alyssa Shelton, RN, BSN is a graduating Adult-Gerontological Nurse Practitioner student from Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW). In 2017, she served as the Medical Advisory role in IPFW's Computer Science Department's telemedicine project. She also presented at the 2017 Xi Nu Research Symposium about Telemedicine and its future implications for nurses.
Nila Reimer, RN, PhD, CNE is a member of the graduate nursing faculty at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW). Her major interests include transformative leadership, qualitative research, and nursing education. Dr. Reimer actively participates in nursing education research and presented at the 2017 Xi Nu Research Symposium about stimulating students' deep learning with case studies.


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CAUTION!By: Darrelyn L. Tutt
"Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses and trust in chariots because they are many; and in horsemen because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord."Isaiah 31:1-----Throughout Israel's history she struggled with interdependent relationships, and looked to surrounding countries to provide the protection she needed in time of trouble. Substituting the visible for the invisible she lost her footing and fell out of step with her true deliverer, God Almighty.-----Throughout God's word caution is put forth to exercise trust in only one source:GOD.Every "Egypt" we look to will turn up faulty and unsatisfying in the end and, every time God is looked too, satisfaction and eternal gain will be ours in the end.The secret to life is to seek after that which is invisible and to that which does not perish, spoil, or fade away. The secret to life is to resist fleshly and temporal urgings and replace them with lasting and securing provisions.Who we place our trust in, and what we place our trust in, determines the life we live and the love that we either forfeit or experience here on earth.May we secure our lives with the substance of God's word.May we partake in that which is pure and according to God's promise.May we abide in that which is eternal in order to experience the peace that passes all understanding.May options and alternatives, apart from God, be quickly voided and staunchly refused.May we resist the urge to look to anything or anyone but God.Exercise caution in your decision making and trust in the Lord.------Immortal Father and Appointer of grace and divine wisdom,Grant to each soul reading this, a placement and securing of trust in You.Where heart has wandered, mind has strayed, thoughts have suggested an earthly recourse; let such thoughts now be brought to nothing, and Satan's relentless attacks thwarted by Your sure and pure word.Let Your promises afford bountiful provision, and let security in Your word be met by an abundance of Your grace.Amen.


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Diggy Simmons - What You Say To Me Lyrics
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Diggy Simmons takes shots at J. Cole in his latest diss, a song titled "What You Say To Me".
Diggy proves once again that family comes first to him, and lashes out at Cole who picked on two members of the Simmons family through 2 of his songs. Check out the lyrics to see what the teen star had to say.
Diggy Simmons – What You Say To Me Lyrics (J.Cole Diss)
[Verse 1]
Let me pop my collar
Pick it up, pick it up
Like I dropped my wallet
Litterer, everything you dropped's been garbage
Got me all wound ya'll done got done got me started
Wish a nigga would try I ain't with the drama
Take me for a good guy, Michael Jordan's number
I ain't with the (?) All I do is holla
I can bring the wolves out
Let em' satisfy they hunger
The number one question: What's up with your fam?
Seen pictures of your sister doin' yoga in the sand
How is you and Jojo? Is he mad I'm just sayin'
And we ain't seen Vanessa since the show thats premiered (Damn)
I'm tired of hearing it
I just wanna rap my way to the top of the pyramid
Be the best lyricist alive dead period
I'm made for the crown yo peep the way I'm wearin' it
Whoever claim King nah I ain't dissin ya
Hey you might be king but your title's only ?
Everybody listen up: Blows I hick em up
Tear down shows, every stage I rip em up
Taking ya'll to school give up with your curricular
If you ain't talking money keep it movin', vehicular
I got thick skin with a coat and I zipped it up
So when you talk out your lip
I say nigga what
What you say to me?
What you say to me?
What you say to me?
[Verse 2]
The other day I was listening to Purple Rain
Couldn't believe all the things I heard em' say
"Who Dat? Who Dat?" You know who it is
Heard you lying on my sis telling people that you hit
When your album drops I'mma hit you with your bricks
So I'm gonna bomb first on you since you wanna rift
Who you gonna call? You ain't got no friends
This fight is fixed (hah)
You ain't got no wins
Lil nigga think he Cold, think he live like me
Jetsetter, trendsetter nah you not like me
Can't find a girl you know that do not like me
I can't find a girl I know that know you, you local
Wasn't even poppin' in the school you used to go to
Got aight lyrics but can't deliver your vocals
I'm about to read you your rights, Miranda
Only thing you hittin in the morning is your hand(uh)
Stand up, matter of fact sit down
Don't try to call Hovi Hov for a sit down
College boy, actin' like a criminal
Knowing you brokeback, Jake Gyllenhaal (Uh)
You imaginary player
Even TMZ didn't notice you was there
Jeez you are such a dweeb and your shirts don't fit:
Long arms, short sleeves
What you say to me?
What you say to me?
What you say to me?
[Diggy Simmons – What You Say To Me Lyrics]
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Brian Joseph Peppers, best known as Brian Peppers, was an Ohio native who became popular for being on the list of registered sex offenders in Lucas County. He became an internet personality after being used in one of the internet memes – a trending type of entertainment, in the form of funny images or videos. His picture surfaced on the internet on March 26, 2015, on a 4chan-like site ytmnd.com, which is short for "You're The Man Now, Dog". The picture which seemed too gruesome to be real depicts a man named Brian Peppers, whose name was on the registry due to a conviction for Gross Sexual Imposition in Lucas County, Ohio, in 1998. Although his fan on the media mistook his unusual facial appearance as a photoshopped picture, reality dawned on everyone when the security department particularly the office of the Ohio Attorney General Office confirmed it as being real. Let's find out what actually happened to Peppers.
Who Was Brian Peppers?
Brian Peppers was born on November 1, 1968, in Toledo, Ohio USA. Concrete information about who Peppers really is and where his family are, cannot be found, however, a man named Allen Peppers, who claimed to be his brother, gave further clarification about his alleged brother. According to him, Peppers worked as a Library assistant before he was accused as a sex offender.
Several other accounts were also given about how Brian Peppers came into existence. One of such accounts had it that he was a product of incest as his mother was impregnated by her own brother. Brian Peppers was born deformed. He had Apert Syndrome, a certain genetic disorder characterized by a premature fusion of skull bones which affects the shape of the head and face as well as prevents the skull from growing normally. Peppers' deformities reportedly led to his parents abandoning him at a young woman's doorstep. The woman had bad eyesight and thus couldn't say for sure how the little baby looked like but she took proper care of him by her own self.
Peppers was eventually enrolled in a school but his mental issues made comprehension quite difficult. His classmates were not helpful also. While some hated and bullied him, others were scared of him. As he continued to grow, he became more unintelligent and weaker. Worst of it all was that he never had friends, ladies ran away from him and to console himself, he picked up bad habits like masturbating in the public and molesting barnyard animals just to put his sexual desires to rest.
Things worsened when his adopted mother left him and he dropped out of school. Above all, his ill health was gradually deteriorating causing him to neither lose hold of himself no could he perform anything for himself. He was left in the care of a nurse who took care of his basic needs. There, he became savagely violent as the nurse reported of how he molested her and even had her clothes forcefully torn. In response to that, Peppers claimed he was doing that just to gain her attention and care. In 1998, Peppers was sentenced to thirty days in prison with 5 years probation. His crime according to the presiding judge was that he had sexual contact with one who is not his spouse.
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Is He Dead? When and How Did He Die?
Brian Peppers is dead. He died on the 7th of February, 2012. Pepper's death was reportedly caused by his bad health condition. Before his court sentencing, Peppers was known for his strong alcohol intake which led to blood clots and finally to Congestive heart failure. He, however, stopped alcohol drinking when he was in jail but this could not make his health any better. Instead, his condition worsened thereby leading to his sudden demise in 2012. Peppers died at the age of forty-three and his body was laid to rest in Ottawa Hills Memorial Park in Lucas County, Ohio. To this time, when the word Meme is mentioned Brian Peppers comes to the mind. His close pals described him as an easy-going and a good looking guy who wanted the society to understand and accept him the way he was.


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Commentary: Citations and Protestations
Editors, Daily Planet:
Once again I dutifully paid a traffic violation fine prior to the due date written on the citation. About a month later I received the court courtesy notice requesting payment. I called the court to determine if payment had been received. I was told the due date or appearance date on the citation should be disregarded. My citation had not been processed into the court data system. It was unclear if my payment would be processed later or returned. But now, I was being asked to clear the citation and supply proof of correction again.
My memory was jarred, I recalled this same scenario years before. So I asked why does this seem to happen regularly. Seems I hit a nerve.
The traffic division clerk explained that this disconnect has been an issue for more than 20 years. Numerous efforts to resolve this have gone nowhere, despite the obvious solution. Meanwhile the court receives about 250 calls per day from confused, duty bound citizens. Many take off work, fly in from out of town and in general waste a lot of their valuable time trying to comply with the arbitrary date written in by BPD. There is a general sense that the city is attempting to increase revenues through traffic fines, perhaps now is a good time to clean up this customer service issue. I for one feel jerked around.
Laura Menard
Editors, Daily Planet:
Enough already with the City of Berkeley's ridiculous enforcement of traffic and parking citations—just to ring up money for the city budget. Lately I've read stories about people being ticketed for beeping their horn while passing a protest (Oh, come on! Really! Does that deserve a ticket?), to parking tickets for facing the "wrong direction" on a street—something some people are forced to do because of the crazy "traffic control" barriers, no-turn and one-way streets in Berkeley. I even read about a guy who got a ticket (in the mail) for driving in the carpool lane on the Bay Bridge on a day he wasn't even in San Francisco.
I'm writing this letter to let Daily Planet readers know that we should start protesting—and in my case suing—the city over inappropriate traffic citations. Why does this irritate me? This has been sticking in my craw since I was given a ticket on University Avenue one night about a year ago. I was filling my car up with gas at a station on University, and another car pulled in facing my headlights. I turned off my headlights as a courtesy to the other driver—but left my parking lights on. When I pulled out, I didn't realize my headlights were still off. My dashboard was lit up because I did have my parking lights on, but not my headlights. After driving a few blocks up University—a very well lit street—I saw a police car start to follow me. Suddenly, I realized that my headlights were still off because I hit a dark part of the street—too late. I was pulled over and given a ticket for—get this—$185! Even the cashier at the city office couldn't believe the amount of that ticket. When I told the cop that I just pulled out of a gas station, and didn't realize that my headlights were off (I even showed him the receipt) he said "Tell it to the traffic court judge..." Nice guy, thanks.
So, if that wasn't bad enough, this latest ticket is the last straw. I was mailed a ticket (mailed, mind you, this was not placed on my car windshield) for parking in front of a fire hydrant near King Middle School. The only problem is that the date and time on the ticket (Oct. 6, 2004 at 8:09 a.m.) were for a day my son had a field trip; and I was still at home eating breakfast at the time they claim I was parked in front of the hydrant.
To make this even more amazing, I have a witness who saw me pull up in front of King (on Rose Street, not Edith Street, where they claim I was parked) and let my son off at 8:30 a.m. for his field trip. Now, I have tried to protest this ticket, and as far as the city is concerned I am guilty until proven innocent. Hey! Wait a damn minute... is Berkeley part of the U.S.A.? Or have we been moved to some banana republic while I was sleeping at night?
So, to make a long story short, despite mailing them a letter from my friend corroborating my story (a doctor by the way, and a very responsible person); and also including a letter from the teacher at King telling us to arrive at 8:30 a.m., on Oct. 6, and meet the field trip school bus in front of King (on Rose Street)—as far as the City of Berkeley is concerned sorry, no dice, pay up. Huh??? I'm sorry but why? Why? Should anyone have to pay a ticket that is obviously erroneous? The answer I got from Susie Monary-Wilson of the City of Berkeley, is because it's the meter maid's word against mine—and so the ticket stands. I guess having an eyewitness doesn't amount to jack in this town. Even more insulting is that doesn't say much for what my "word" with worth around Berkeley. Of course the fact that my son and my family can also testify we were not there that morning doesn't count for much either. I guess none of us can be trusted to tell the truth.
There you go... innocent until proven guilty? Sorry, not in Berkeley, guilty until proven innocent, and then still pronounced guilty by a city clerk. Is it official city policy to just let those tickets fly, and start counting the money? Must be. I'm afraid you are "guilty" despite what you can say, do, or show to prove otherwise—so you'll just have to pay up folks.
I am now planning on suing the City of Berkeley in small claims court over this latest nonsense. I recommend anyone out there who's been ripped off in a similar fashion do the same. Oh yeah, and honk if you support this protest!
Phil Pickering
Editors, Daily Planet:
I live in an overwhelmed state of mind. My life is dictated by the challenges of getting across San Pablo Avenue, finding a parking space, having change for a parking meter, and having the parking meter work—not to mention the endurance test of getting through whatever task I have before me without losing my grip, as my harried and hurried existence is inundated with the paperwork for documenting my innocence, often the result of the errors made by inept people.
On April 8 I was involved in one of my many obligations that require perseverance, and hopefully, patience. It was pouring rain and I had the good fortune of finding a parking space only a couple of blocks from Berkeley High School, where I was trying to retrieve transcripts that never got from the traditional high school to Independent Study where my son goes to school this year. Since it has become nearly impossible to reach anyone on the telephone, I spend a percentage of my life driving, finding parking, parking, waiting on line, finding the person I need to talk to, or at least the person who is allegedly able to refer me to the person who can refer me to the person I need to talk to.
My parking space was too good to be true, because the parking meter ate my quarter while I stood in the pouring rain and blowing wind. I put a note on the parking meter and ran the two blocks to Berkeley High, but not before I tried to dig my quarter out of the jammed meter and had the satisfaction of kicking the pole that supported the meter.
I was shuffled from a waiting line (where I was able to hear the announcements being made live over the loudspeaker regarding the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered meeting schedule—the prelude of the announcement was from Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti) to the office of the registrar. My experience in the registrar's office was painless—I was actually given the paperwork I needed quickly. The registrar at Berkeley High totally has her act together.
When I returned to my car the note had blown away and my car had a ticket on its windshield in a little plastic bag. But just ahead on the block was the "meter gestapo." I drove up to her vehicle and explained that the meter was broken. The driver barked, "1947 Center" at me and drove away.
On April 15 I went to the dreaded 1947 Center St. and waited in line, having found a parking space several blocks away with a working meter! When it was my turn, the woman at the counter barked at me and gestured to the forms that enable the citizens of Berkeley an opportunity to contest a parking ticket. When I came back to the line with my completed form, having waited through the second cue, I had the unfortunate luck of ending up at the same barking woman's computer terminal. She separated the layers of no-carbon-required copies and handed me a pink one. Then I was told to call in three weeks if I had not heard from the City of Berkeley. I started to write down the instructions for my next task and made the mistake of asking what the date three weeks from now would be. The woman refused to discuss the three week date with me and made it very clear in a very unpleasant way that she was not there to help me. I noticed a little tiny calendar next to her computer monitor and I asked her if she would mind turning the page so that I could see the dates in May. She told me that, "it was my responsibility to find a calendar".
My property taxes pay that bitch's salary. And if she is a civil servant, then she is a servant to the people of this city. I would never have a job if spoke to people the way that woman spoke to me. I would never speak to anyone like that. I didn't even speak to her like that after she spoke to me like that. I just left the building wondering, once again, what happened to the human race.
Pat Hilliard


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