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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Wolf Spider
The Wolf Spider pictured in the above three images was only about the size of a nickle (legs included). Since it is only early May, I would expect to find them a bit larger in the Fall.
Identification – There are several different looking Wolf Spiders, so I mentioned some of the more common patterns seen in Michigan. The best way to identify a Wolf Spider is by the eye pattern. Wolf Spiders have a row of four smaller eyes with a set of two large eyes higher up. Above the larger eyes is yet another set of two medium sized eyes to make it eight eyes in all.
Abdomen – Different species of the Wolf Spider have different patterns. Some appear not to have any markings. Some have a striped pattern that matches the look of their abdomen.
Cephalothorax – Often with a striped pattern running from front to back it is also common to see them with stripes that radiate out from the center.
Female Size - NA
Male Size - NA
Bite Info – There are no real dangerous Wolf Spiders indigenous to North America. Their bites can sometimes cause some swelling, itching and some pain, but no long term or life threatening effects.
There is a belief that the Wolf Spider can carry the MRSA Infection. I have not found absolute proof saying they can or cannot.
I do know that it is very common for doctors to misdiagnose infections as spider bites. My personal belief is that cases of a Wolf Spider biting someone and giving them the MRSA Infection is due to either a misdiagnose or the person in question already having the infection on their skin and when they are bitten, it then gets inside and becomes dangerous.
Other Notes – A common species of the Wolf Spider is very similar to the common Grass Spider in looks. They often do not have quite the same striping but the most assured way to tell them apart is by the eye pattern as mentioned above.
Wolf Spiders usually do not spin webs like most spiders do. Though they have the ability to, they often only do so to attach their eggs to their abdomen and carry them around. Once the babies hatch, they will continue to ride around on the mother's back until they are large enough to fend for themselves.
Genus - Acantholycosa
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I believe this is the type of spider I shared my shower with this morning... you can find a photo of it here if interested. Scary things, in my opinion.ReplyDelete
We used to have a lot of these running around an old house we lived in growing up. Some got up to the size of a half dollar (legs included). They can run fast. :)ReplyDelete
Be careful stepping on them unless you have spray handy. I stepped on one once and all those babies riding on the mother's back started running around on the floor. They are far too small to step up and there are hundreds of them, so you'll need spray to kill them if this occurs. Of course, this has only happened one time while stepping on a wolf spider and I've stepping on many of them.
- AnonymousMarch 13, 2012 at 9:28 AM
I myself last year was bitten by a spider and was infected with MRSA because of it.ReplyDelete
But ask yourself. Was it the spider that gave you MRSA, or was the MRSA already on your skin and the spider bite just gave it the chance to get going?ReplyDelete
I may be wrong, but I am a believer that spiders do not carry it and give it to us. We just sometimes contract the virus (or whatever it is) and it infects whatever wound we get and that sometimes happens to be a spider bite. Other times it is just a scratch.
You say you were bit by a spider, but can I ask if you actually saw the spider that bit you? Often MRSA is misdiagnosed as a spider bite. Even by doctors. I am not doubting your word. I am just curious about the facts.
okay so I'm pretty sure these are the spiders in my house and they get HUGH!!! Should I just step on them to get rid of them and where are they coming from? They creep me out I don't want to wake up with one on my face tomorrow morning. And your sure they aren't seriously dangerous cause i have a small dog, and I worry about him.ReplyDelete
The Wolf Spider is known to be much scarier to look at than to be dangerous. Their venom is not considered dangerous to humans. Cats will make them into a play toy or snack if they get a chance. Not sure what a dog would do. But the dog is in no danger.ReplyDelete
Yet,I would suggest getting an exterminator over stepping on them and if you don't want to spend the money, do yourself a favor and look at it before stepping on it. When the babies hatch, they will usually stay gathered on the mother's back for a while and if something happens to disturb them, they will scatter. If you step on a mother wolf spider that is still carrying the infants? They are likely too small to all be squished by your shoe and you might have plenty more spiders around in the near future.
If it is not carrying infants, do what you will if they are in your territory. I am not on a big "Save the Spider" or "Don't kill it" mission. In their turf, they deserve to be left alone. Come into my home and they are at the mercy of my mood. lol .... If it is carrying, you might be better off spraying it in hopes of killing the infants as well. That's just my idea though. I don't claim to be an expert.
- AnonymousApril 2, 2012 at 12:17 AM
Dear Kenneth,ReplyDelete
I was bitten by a wolf spider on my thumb while pulling weeds. I felt a sting and looked down as I drew back and saw it run over the split wood landscaping timber. I caught it. I am going on day 8 and since the bite everything that can and will go wrong has. I went to the doctor and he to a cellular swab. He told me directly that wolf spiders have been captured and checked by the conservation and health dept. The spiders and not just wolf but wolf spiders carry a large amount of the bacteria themselves. Upon injection the mersa enters the sight and bam you have one heck of a nasty infection. I just had a complete cbc and physical a few weeks prior to the bite and everything I could possibly be tested for came back normal. Well except my cholesterol and my A1C. I became ill with swollen lymphnodes in my neck. I was sore and ached everywhere. This was day two after the initial bite. The pain in my thumb was extremely intense. This is one nasty little spider that packs a hell of a punch. Now I'm having skin scrapes on huge doses of antibiotic and NSAIDS. So yes the wolf spider carries the mersa that is in question. The spider was identified as a young wolf spider by AAA exterminaters. I had tones in my back yard. Got a couple of chickens from my sister and the population has been greatly reduced. Lol. The chickens just pluck them right up and them suckers are gone.
Anonymous - I do thank-you for the information. I will definitely give this message credit, but at the same time, you have to understand that anyone can say anything and I need to back information up in some way before I teach it to the public. If it is in any way possible for you to email me and give me the name and location of your doctor so I can try and get more concrete evidence, it would be very helpful. I will also try and send an email to the conservation and health dept as well.ReplyDelete
It is my absolute goal to give the public the most accurate info I can.
Do wolf spiders make noises when mating? My daughter says she found over a dozen wolf spiders under our deck this afternoon, when she heard a strange buzzing sound in the leaves. She says it was like a buzzing or vibrating sound and it was quite loud since there were so many spiders! We live in the northern lower peninsula.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousOctober 6, 2013 at 12:37 PM
No, they were probably cicadas. They could be mistaken for a spider if you have never seen them before. They are about the same size as a wolf spider. Very common in parks with woods and rivers. Even more so, any town above waters, fife lake.. So on and so on.Delete
Long story short. Harmless. Just annoying.
- AnonymousJanuary 22, 2014 at 12:42 PM
That sounds more like it could have been a Massasauga Rattlesnake. http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10370_12145_12201-32995--,00.htmlDelete
I want to know if the spiders we are finding in our apartment in SE Michigan is a wolf spider or not some other type.... I am deathly afraid of all insects, so this is as close as I got to it. I couldn't see markings or the eyes to identify it... The pictures are on my Facebook page under mobile photosReplyDelete
I also want to make absolutely sure they are not dangerous.. I have small children in my apartment and they sometimes bring me bugs and things....
From the pic, I would definitely guess it is a Wolf Spider. As for how dangerous the Wolf Spider is, this is where I am with the whole discussion at this time......ReplyDelete
I have called Howard Russell, an Entomolist for MSU's Diagnostic Department for nearly thirty years, and left him a long message on his voice mail explaining who I was, and asking him about the Wolf Spider and the possibility of it carrying the MRSA infection. It was around a week later when he called me back and I was not near my phone at the time. He left a voice mail. His words.....
"I am returning your call from last week about the Wolf Spider. I have never heard of that before, so I really doubt it."
If someone who has been in the field as a true expert has never heard of it carrying the MRSA infection, I have to believe it doesn't truly carry it. I am constantly hearing stories of doctors diagnosing spider bites (here in Michigan) as Recluse bites, when they are not here in Michigan. I myself once had a foot swell up like a balloon and a doctor said it was an infection from a scratch on the other side of the foot. When it continued to get worse, I went to another doctor who said it was a spider bite and gave me a prescription for it. It healed in a couple of days from that. Doctors usually know their stuff, but they are often misdiagnosing things because they don't always know what they are talking about. So any stories I hear of a doctor saying the Wolf spider carries MRSA and that some group as studied it and proven it does, or that recluse spiders are biting people here in Michigan... I have to put down as just another person (doctor or not) talking about something they don't know a lot about. Until someone can actually show me some real evidence of any of these things, I must continue to believe they are stories and nothing more.
So for now, I have no choice but to say Wolf Spiders are not dangerous. They can bite. There can, on a rare occasion, be allergic reactions. But the venom is not considered dangerous and there is no evidence of the Wolf spider or any other spider carrying MRSA. In fact, I have to believe the truth is that people contract MRSA and it is misdiagnosed as a spider bite, because it looks so much like it at first.
If someone can ever show me hard evidence contrary to this stand, I would very much appreciate it.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2012 at 5:36 AM
i might serve spider bite but sipider not going to survive my biteReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 24, 2012 at 9:54 AM
I too had bite on the back of my knee that got infected. The doctor diagnosed the injury as a brown recluse bite. It was very painful. The antibiotics did not work fast enough so I was sent to the ER for an IV. I have captured many wolf spiders in the area that I think I was bitten, but never a brown recluse. I think it came from under my desk at work. MY son once got MRSA on the front of his knee. My infection was not diagnosed as MRSA. The culture came back with not assignable issues. The wolf spider could have given me MRSA though. I never caught the spider that I was bitten by but the holes in my skin looked like an insect bite. Thanks JasonReplyDelete
I would definitely say it was another misdiagnosis to say it was a Recluse bite.ReplyDelete
Since your infection was never diagnosed as MRSA, you cannot know the Wolf spider or any other spider bite gave you MRSA. You are not even sure it was MRSA.
Quite often, dangerous skin infections do look just like spider and insect bites, That is the reason they are misdiagnosed so often. Usually though, it is just an infection we contracted.
Hey Ken good job on this sight! I was just up in Gralling in buddies cabin and there was a wolf spider in the sink she was there for some time her belly was small so I caught her and fed her what I caught, very aggresive. I tried at the end of the weekend to let her go but she cimbed back in the box, so I kept it and brought her back to Flint. I put her in a aquarium with a nice cubby hole and she seems to be fine so far(fed her crickets).It was very dry up north and I saw alott of webings and ticks up there. Iwas wondering if that has somthing to do with her size? Her legs out spand a beer can's top, when I can take a pic Ill put it on here. Once again thank you for this sight. signed PaulReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 5, 2012 at 11:29 PM
MRSA is a COMMUNITY based, antibiotic resistant strain of staph contracted in hospitals, clinics, locker rooms, gyms, astro-turf etc. It is MOST often contracted in a medical setting. You can carry MRSA and not know it until you get something minor, like an ingrown hair or scraping your knee, that gets more painful and swollen than normal and heals poorly without antibiotics. As far as I know, no insect can "give you" MRSA. They can give you a skin puncture and their venom if they have it, the puncture can then become infected. But spiders don't have a MRSA venom. However, MRSA itself can be very serious. I was hospitalized for 5 days when a cut did not respond to ordinary antibiotics. IV antibiotics were required.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2012 at 8:05 PM
i just have to say yes the wolf spider bite is very painfull i have been fighting with these things for 2 years and have been bitten by them over 5 times the bite starts out as what you would think was a zit but once it has been broken open you must immediatly wash the area with anti bac soap and put triple antibiotic ointment on it i must add though i have been bitten by them well over 5 times throught the years and i (knock on wood) have only been diagnosed with a spider bit and all the results have came back with no MRSA so i dont think this spider carries it but man does that little dam spider bite hurt like a mofoReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 16, 2012 at 8:54 PM
I saw this pretty big spider in front of a store on top of a small pole a couple years ago. It seemed pretty agressive. Its front legs where up, ready to strike. It actually did try to strike a person in front of me. I am pretty sure it resembled a wolf spider, since I have seen a couple down in South Carolina.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 6, 2012 at 8:57 AM
It seems my house has been invaded by these. It started out seeing one maybe once or twice a week. Now, it is easily 1/day if not more. I am terrified of spiders and have small children. I do not want to make them fear them but on the same token, need to find a way to keep them outdoors where I feel they belong. Any suggestions on what to do? My husband thinks I am crazy but he doesn't understand the depth of my fear.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 11, 2012 at 12:53 AM
we've had a wolf spider living on our kitchen window ledge all summer. She's been a great bug catcher and seems to hang out in her web most of the time. We haven't had any fruit flies, ants or mosquitoes in our kitchen since she moved in. Now that fall is here, we're wondering about the life span of the wolf spider, and what they do in the winter for food?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 2, 2012 at 10:54 AM
I was bitten last night by what I thought was a spider, did not see because it was in a pile of laundry I was folding. Looked everywhere and couldn't find spider. I live in Adrian, which is SE Michigan. I was bitten on my wrist and now my arm up to my elbow and my hand are swollen. Took Benadryl and Ibuprofen. You can barely see where the puncture wounds are, one is more visisble then the other. I have no insurance so I'm kinda waiting it out, but my arm sure is very tender and my finger feels a little tingly. Anyone know if this is a normal reaction or should I pay the big bucks and goto ER.ReplyDelete
Thanks for all the good information. Really helpful.ReplyDelete
- JessicaMay 18, 2013 at 11:13 PM
My 3 old son was recently bitten on the ankle. Wasn't sure at first what could've done it, but soon after a visit at the ER we found the culprit. His bite soon turned into a crater like hole, about the size of a pea (which prompted the ER visit). He didn't complain of any pain but there was evidence of itching and swelling. Say what you will, but I have seen firsthand what these little buggers are capable of!ReplyDelete
We have quite a few wolf spiders. They have not yet been seen to bite any of my family. Today, however, my 10 year old came up and has shown me a bite on his leg. It is a clear spider bite. I do not know of it was a wolf. It is swollen as much or even a little less than a mosquito bite, and it itches. We have other kinds of spider wandering about. House spiders and whatnot. We live in central Michigan. So, keeping an eye on it. I like wolf spiders, by the way. I think they are beautiful. As long as they do not become too populous in the house that is ;-)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 19, 2013 at 5:17 PM
this is very interesting about MRSA, I have never had this before I moved to westland,mi. there I shared a house with a lot of wolf spiders. I would see them all the time. I had numerous ( boils) that came up in the 6 years I lived there. Since I moved I have had no infection.The boils or (bites) would swell up and then drain leaving sometimes a hole the size of a quarter. But always healed 100%. Now I wounder if this was ie wolf spider bites.ReplyDeleteReplies
I am from Flint Michigan. I believe untreated bc of not knowing you have the bite and or not knowing how to clean will cause it to get infected and or could cause a boil which is said to be staff and or mersa infection. Just saying.Delete
I am from Flint Michigan. I believe untreated bc of not knowing you have the bite and or not knowing how to clean will cause it to get infected and or could cause a boil which is said to be staff and or mersa infection. Just saying.Delete
Probably person already is colonized with Mrsa and the spider bite breaks the skin allowing for an opportunistic infection. I'm sure I am colonized with Mrsa along with my daughter since in a hospital employee.ReplyDelete
Thank you for posting this. I live in Panama City, Florida and perhaps have a different subspecies of wolfies here. I adore them! In FL we have the so-called "palmetto bug" (= polite name for aggressive giant flying roach) and my first experience with a wolfie was seeing a big one run across the feed room floor to tackle a huge roach that was headed for my bare foot. My next interaction was when a mother wolfie carried her babies into my house, dropped them off under a bookshelf in my office, climbed up onto my desk and waved her front legs at me as if to say, "take care of my babies!" then crawled away. A couple of days later I found her dead but some of her babies survived and stayed around. That was about 6 years ago and they've been coming into my house ever since, dropping off their babies, most of whom go back outside when they get bigger. I believe some of those same babies come back as adults but obviously I can't verify that. My house is completely free of roaches, silverfish, earwigs, and other bugs without any pesticides, which is unusual here in FL even in the cleanest homes. My wolfies seem to be extremely docile and I have never been bitten by them. We recently had an infestation of bedbugs brought by tenants into our rental trailer and I posted on FB that I was glad I had wolfies in my house just in case any bugs might escape our strict protocol (strip at the door, brush off and immediately shower after working in the trailer). Well, one of my reasonably well-educated friends replied that wolf spiders "carry flesh eating virus." I have worked in medicine for 22 years and there is no such thing as "flesh eating virus." "Flesh eating bacteria," yes - MRSA - but it comes from hospitals and human contact, NOT from spiders! I agree with Ljg680 in that MRSA can be carried on the skin and any break could lead to infection, but there is no reason that a wolf spider bite would be more likely to cause this than any random puncture, cut or scrape. If anything I'd be more worried about a bedbug bite (as they feed on human blood and therefore could carry disease). Also, laypeople tend to vastly overestimate doctors' ability to correctly diagnose the cause of diseases. A typical skin lesion can be attributed to a spider bite without any laboratory evidence, and finding a wolfie in your house does not equal proof that the spider was responsible. Apparently at one time it was believed that wolfie bites caused necrosis but this has since been debunked. Can wolfies bite people? I'm sure they "can" but in my experience they've never shown any interest in doing so even when I handled the babies in front of their mother. I have been bitten numerous times by various little wild spiders outdoors, mostly on the face when walking into their webs at night or on the hands while weeding the garden, but so far never by my house wolfies. And they have kept my house pest-free for 6 years. I love them.ReplyDeleteReplies
I love it! Nice story and I would whole heartily agree with you. I have a female Wolf currently and she is NOT aggressive. I handle most spiders and have for many years. Was only bit once and that was when I was eight years old; excited to catch an Golden Garden (Argiope)I squeezed her in my hand and of course she bit...anyone would bite in self defense and self-preservation! I'm am know on YT as "bob the spider hunter."Delete
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- AnonymousAugust 25, 2016 at 12:26 AM
If you see wolf spiders in your home and do not want them there I recommend smashing them. I saw 3 about a week ago and I never really seen them in my home before. Now i see them almost everyday in almost any room. They're extremely fast compared to most other spiders and their bite is a bitch. Just don't give them a chance to breed in your house.ReplyDelete
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Investing in the downtown core
Amy Bowser and Dan Dooley discuss DC's traditional CBD and the expanding core market. Where the traditional CBD originally emerged as the most desirable location due to the metro system being heavily anchored there, the core market has slowly expanded north, connecting residential and office.
This expansion of the core market will continue with the Midtown Center project lead by Carr Properties, bringing 50,000 s.f. of retail along with residential, transportation accessibility and other amenities under one roof. This project is likely to be the only one of its scale in the DC market in this lifetime.
Amy Bowser is Regional Director of Agency Leasing at JLL and Dan Dooley is Chief Operating Officer at Carr Properties.
This video clip is part of JLL's Capital Insight Event held in October 2015, a 90-minute forecasting experience held to help key constituents make decisions in the Metro Washington DC market.

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Sonaikha Nazirs parents died in the church blasts in Peshawar. She is a 14 year old Christian girl who has four other sisters and two brothers. They were orphaned in the attacks and like her many other Christian children were orphaned.
The Cecil and Iris Foundation has set up a skills development center in Peshawar for all such children. This has enabled them to learn sewing and become self sufficient. Widowed mothers are also part of the Women Empowerment Program launched by the CICF to help the victims of the 2013 attack on All Saints Church Peshawar.
READ: Honoring Our Hero – Cecil Chaudry Remembered
On 22nd May 2015, a graduation ceremony was held to honor 19 women who completed the sewing training course and received their diploma. Each woman also got a sewing machine with a one year warranty so that they can start using their skills and earn a living.
May's course was the second since the program began. A third started on 27 May and will end in July. The foundation expects to train 80 women by next November.
CICF president Michelle Chaudhry is proud of the work done. "Only a year ago, they were weeping uncontrollably, hopeless, frightened and insecure. At present, we see them smile again.
"We are two sisters and my mother was injured in the explosion," said Melwish Arif, who lost her father and brother in the 2013 suicide attack.


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[Mz. Kilo]
Yeah... I've never seen nothing like this before in my life..
But you know... your ho could be the next ho..
With my ho..
Once upon a time, you know I had a mack daddy
Just me and him in the eight-trey Caddy
The hookers would stare and the niggas would grin
Just let the wheels spin, let the wheels spin
You know we had to get the proper roll on
But pop went the tire, and we had to get the stroll on
Came up on some wenches that I knew
From when back when, in 1982
They tried to push up on my honey
All smiling in his face, but that shit wasn't funny
They thought they would try to take my man, unh
Shake my man, uh-huh break my man
Yeah, break like a brick but I'd rather be broke
They flaunt their figure in front of my nigga
And they play me for a joke
Nope, cause this time it's not happening
I'll snatch them bamboos off and start scrapping
See, I don't start trouble
But I gots to bust the bubble of a bitch
Who want to play me like a two-dollar trick
Rip the shit up, grab his keys and cut
Get stepped to by a bitch with a chip on her shoulder
But I told her, that I would have to scold her
And I would have to fold her
Like a love letter from the second grade
Look over at my nigga and he's grinning
Confused in my head and my mind is spinning, but it's..
All over a ho
Because two bit niggas are always on the go
I remain in my zone, G
But I'd rather stack dollars, let my mind feel free
Cause too many niggas, too many niggas
Wanna keep a bitch down, unh, oh wait a minute
Too many niggas, too many niggas
Wanna keep a bitch down, a-hold up, a-hold up
So now you see me coming back, watch me flaunt the fly shit
I gotta get it straight when the shit gets scandalous
Cause I don't run around town fuckin' around, second-guessing
But something inside told me to trust my bitch's intuition
Now should I listen, shh, quiet step
Don't want nobody knowing where I stepped
Saying to myself "How the fuck can I deal with him?"
I'll the bitch named Sally that I scrapped with, then I'll squash it
And give her a G to see what the bitch can find out for me
"So you want a little action?" (Sally: "Well, alright...")
Cause I'll be damned if I get played like LaToya Jackson
And if I'm played, I take it like a woman:
I'mma kick to the curb and hit 'em shorter than Gary Coleman
So the bitch was down for the shit
Cause bitches can set up a nigga faster than a Mafia hit clique
Or should I get him smoked... nope
Here's what happened to the nigga that played me close:
Told the ho to meet him at the Let'Em
And make sure, Sally, that you fuck him and fuck him
Here's a mini-microphone to put in your purse
And I'm sure that your stank ass don't have to rehearse
It's like sure enough, my nigga rolled up G
It was dark as a motherfucker, but I could still see
So she finished the job without lagging
Got the nigga on tape like Jimmy Swaggart
And it's... (just as we had planned)
Now I really know that nigga's promises ain't true
Cause he said many times "I'd die without you..."
Unh, I shoulda seen through ya
I guess the only thing you was good for was the punani-eater
Now I bet you've got more water upstairs
Than you've got sugar on the candy cane
You think you're going out to fuck another bitch
Come home, and fuck me? Boy, you must be insane
Well, the next day the nigga came over
He pulled up in one of our rides, a Range Rover
He walked in the house thinking everything is right
I said to the nigga "Have fun last night?"
He said "Whoa, whoa, whoa, wh-wh-what do you mean?"
I said "Go take a shower, cause your dick ain't clean
Or was Sally less filling? Or did she taste great?
You can't say shit, I got it all on tape
Yeah motherfucker, here's your last kiss
Cause I ain't putting up with that bullshit"
Too many niggas, too many niggas wanna keep a bitch down, but not me
Too many niggas wanna keep a bitch down, so I gotta clown


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I would start by saying that "El Presidente's" messages are one of the reasons I browse ASBMB Today. I not only find myself generally in agreement with the opinions expressed in his messages on various subjects, but I also enjoy his refreshing outspokenness on controversial issues (such as on the financial crisis and big pharma, ASBMB Today, May 2009) and his tendency to tell the truth to power (i.e., his critiques of the former U.S. administration). I was, therefore, surprised to see coyness and a nod about the actualité politique from the United Kingdom— namely the dismissal of the chief of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ASBMB Today, Dec. 2009). This particular case, in my view, is an issue of academic freedom. It ought to be an important freedom, particularly for scientists who advise politicians, and, in my view, distinguishes them from being perceived as politicians.
The purpose of my letter is not to defend David Nutt, who, I am sure, is more than capable of his own defense. I also do not wish to speculate on why the home secretary of the United Kingdom government decided Nutt was surplus to requirement. I am writing because I disagree with the implication of the president's message that somehow there are clear dividing lines between scientific assessment and policy advice, particularly when the public perception of risk and risk assessment are under consideration.
The reasons given for sacking Nutt are inthe public domain: publication of an academic lecture given to the Center for Crime and Justice Studies at Kings College, London, in July 2009. Nutt gave the lecture in his capacity as an expert in the area of drug misuse and harm— ironically one of the main reasons he was chosen to head the ACMD. According to the now ex-chief of the ACMD, he got approval of both the lecture slides and text from the relevant government department. The lecture was in the public domain in July 2009, and the sacking did not occur until it was published as a briefing pamphlet by the organizers at the CCJS in October 2009 (which, I guess, if it had not been at the center of the sacking, would have been read by fewer readers than those of ASBMB Today).
The transcript, which is not bedtime reading, is evidently meant for connoisseurs and the highly referenced. It appears that the assessment that Nutt had delved into policy and politics rather than sticking to science (a judgment both the home secretary and Petsko seem to arrive at) is the result of the last paragraph of the lecture:
"Another key question we have to address as a society is whether our attitude to drugs is driven because of their harms or are we engaging in a moral debate? One thing this government has done extremely well in the last ten years is to cut away much of the moral argument about drug treatments. They have moved in the direction of improving access to harm-reduction treatments, an approach that, I think, is wholly endorsed by the scientific community and by the medical profession. For reasons that are not clear, the same evidence-based change has not happened in relation to the classification of drugs of misuse. I think it should happen, because, while I'm not a moral philosopher, it seems to me difficult to defend a moral argument in relation to drugs if you don't apply it to other equally harmful activities."
In the context of a lecture that purports to identify and compare various risks and harm (including devising a drugs harm ranking), and the audience to which it was delivered, I leave it to the readers of ASBMB Today to decide if the offending paragraph is reason enough to justify having an "agenda," as Petsko suggests. The debate about risks afflicting modern existence is fraught with irrationality and politics. It could do without sane, rational men advocating for more of its politicization. I would finish by quoting from the condemned man's lecture: "I think we need to improve the general understanding of relative harms. I think we need to educate people about drug harms in relation to the harms of other activities in life, so that it is possible for them to make sensible decisions about relative harms."
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Jerry Sandusky Scandal
NCAA seeks info on John Does
The NCAA wants to know the names of the two men who claim they were abused by Jerry Sandusky in the 1970s and is assuring a judge that it's important.
The NCAA is defending itself in a suit brought by the family of late longtime Penn State football coach Joe Paterno. The estate claims the college sports oversight group defamed the man who helmed the program from 1966 until his firing in 2011 after the Sandusky story broke.
A key point is the NCAA's acceptance of the findings of the Freeh report, the university-commissioned investigation of the Sandusky scandal, which placed blame on four Penn State leaders, including Paterno, who died six months before it was released. The NCAA then levied historic sanctions on the university, including stripping 110 wins from the Nittany Lions, dropping Paterno from first place in the leaderboard for most wins by a Division 1 coach.
But in new documents, the NCAA says it needs the information about the two claimants to refute the estate's defamation claims.
"The NCAA enjoys an absolute defense if those statements are true," wrote attorney Thomas Scott.
The men in question were among the 32 claimaints who settled with Penn State to a total tune of $93 million.
The university tried to recoup money for those settlements from liability insurer Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association, but PMA challenged that in court. The two men's cases were revealed in an order by Philadelphia Judge Gary Glazer that referenced their cases, years earlier than the 10 Sandusky was convicted of in 2012. One said he told Paterno.
"To be clear, the NCAA has no desire to embarrass or harass the victims of this horrific tragedy — quite the opposite," Scott wrote. "The NCAA simply seeks admissible testimony from the two victims, in any form, which can be obtained under any number of possible protections — including the robust protective order already in place."
The NCAA had asked the university to turn over the deposition transcript from John Doe 150, whose claim traces to 1976. Both Doe 150 and John Doe 71, have asked the court for protection.
Scott brought up Glazer's recent ruling on a request from media organizations to unseal the information as another justification to ask Potter County Senior Judge John Leete to agree. Glazer sided with the media organizations, including the Centre Daily Times, but while the release was ordered, he still gave a 31-day waiting period on the unsealing.
The case has re-ignited interest in the case, even while Sandusky, who still maintains his innocence, is pursuing a new trial.
A vocal supporter is openly critical of the two men's accounts.
"Any remotely reasonable analysis of the circumstances and attorneys involved with the 1971 and 1976 allegations against Jerry Sandusky and Joe Paterno would immediately cause anyone to realize that the entire case is a huge fraud," said radio host and documentarian John Ziegler. "What happened here was that fake accusers who were too old for a Penn State settlement and had no connection to the Second Mile had to lie about Joe Paterno to be eligible for free Penn State money."
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When life gives you lemons, go exploring
xkcd is celebrating Randall Munroes new book with a browser game. It doesn't take long to guess that there's a lot more than the small coin-gathering area the player starts out in.
After escaping the small coin maze and vaulting a barrier wall on the left. . .
Eventually the first foray of our brave protagonist came to an end when I got stuck in a statue of George Washington.


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In 1970 a group of Washington lawyers sponsored by Ralph Nader took on General Motors and inaugurated the consumer movement for corporate social responsibility.
Campaign GM has fought two rounds and been KO'd twice. Harvard both times has refused to support the group's proposals on the proxy statement.
Two years ago Campaign GM introduced two resolutions. The first provided for the creation of an independent shareholders' committee to investigate GM's policies concerning auto safety, pollution, mass transit and minority hiring. The second would have expanded the GM Board to include three consumer representatives. Harvard voted against them both.
Campaign GM last spring issued a new set of resolutions. The first would have empowered shareholders to nominate on the ballot candidates for the Board of Directors. The second would have expanded the Board to include three directors nominated by constituent groups of dealers, employees and consumers. The third would have required General Motors to publish information on its policies concerning auto safety, pollution control and minority hiring.
Harvard voted against the first two and abstained on the third. In a proxy battle, abstention is tantamount to a vote for management.
What will Campaign GM's resolutions be this year? How will Harvard vote? Tune in and see. Harvard possesses 288,160 GM shares and an enormous reputation. The questions are more than academic.
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February 22, 2012
This week I donated my spare Orks to Marquee Models in Harlow. As my local gaming store, I've been dropping in for years, talking nonsense and often leaving without buying much more than a paintbrush or perhaps a pot of paint.
So while having a clear out on Sunday and lugging a huge bin bag full of DVDs down to CEX, I thought I'd take along the Orks too and see if Keith wanted to give them a good home.
Next thing I knew, they were out of the box and straight into the glorified and spot lit Miniatures Cabinet.
On a side note, I got £40 for just over 40 DVDs at CEX, which was much better than trying to sell all my second hand goods on eBay. Once you take eBay fees, Paypal fees and postage costs into account, as well as the hassle of packing and posting everything off, driving to my local CEX seems like a great alternative.
I was happy to donate the Orks for the same reason. It just seemed so much better to simply give them to a good home.
I know they'll be abused by small children learning Warhammer 40K, but what the heck.


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CGR at 100: A Remarkable Story | PDF
Founded in 1915, CGR has been delivering expert support to the public, nonprofit and private sectors for a century. Originally, we were incorporated as the Rochester (NY) Bureau of Municipal Research, and were established by founder George Eastman with a mandate to "get things done for the community" we call home. Although our passion for delivering promising solutions has never changed, both the geographic area and clients we serve have broadened dramatically. Today we have a national reach and can be found working with a diverse range of agencies, organizations and communities.
In an arena served almost exclusively by for-profit consultancies, CGR stands apart. Since our founding, we have operated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, a status that insulates us from political bias and holds us accountable to our clients' true shareholders – the communities they serve – positioning them as more desirable places to live and work.
Just like our clients, we're in the business of making a difference.
Susan Barnes is responsible for CGR's key finance and administration activities and is Assistant Treasurer for the Board of Trustees. Her focus is internal measurement and metrics, and her primary duties involve budgeting, risk management, human resources and benefits, and grants and facilities management. She reviews all proposals developed by staff and all proposed contracts with clients.
Ms. Barnes occasionally consults on client projects, usually when questions arise related to benefit analysis, not-for-profit governance, or financial statement preparation and review. In 2013 she was named a finalist for the Financial Executive of the Year, an award presented by the Rochester (NY) Business Journal and the Rochester chapter of Financial Executives International.
Prior to joining CGR in 2004, Ms. Barnes served for four years as Chief Financial Officer of the Genesee Country Museum in Mumford, New York, which has assets of more than $15 million. Previously she held increasingly responsible financial management positions in both the public and private sectors with businesses and nonprofit organizations located in Norfolk, Massachusetts, and Brooklyn, Syracuse and Rochester, New York.
Ms. Barnes' career experience also includes more than 10 years working with numerous New York State government offices and programs, including the Office of Mental Health (OMH), Office of Alcoholism & Substance Abuse Services (OASAS), and Consolidated Fiscal Reporting (CFR). In addition, she has experience budgeting and reporting for foundation grants, including the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences. She is a certified diversity trainer.
Ms. Barnes' volunteer work includes serving as treasurer of the Ad Council of Rochester, where she was the 2010 recipient of its Lantern Award for public service. She is a past treasurer of Mercy Residential Services (Melita House) of Rochester, and served on the board of directors for a career development center. An avid golfer, Ms. Barnes recently served as president of her golf league, and in August 2014 received her golf's club top sportsmanship award, the Vicki Savard Memorial Award.
She earned her B.A. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, and has completed post-graduate work in finance and accounting at St. Francis and St. John Fisher Colleges. In addition, she earned audit certificates in data processing and risk management from the American Management Association.
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The Second World War caused a traumatic meltdown in the European conscience and general loss of direction for the dynamics of the avant-garde. Paris had been under Nazi occupation for four years, and was now the centre for radical questioning of the aesthetic principles of Western culture. Its being replaced by New York as global art capital was a sign of the new world order that would hold sway for the rest of the Twentieth Century. It was in this context that artists, writers, philosophers and filmmakers began to explore, in the possibility of rejecting transcendence and in the reclamation of alienation, unrest, materiality and the physicality of the body, a whole new field of operations for art.
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Obama orders 'full review' of Russian hacking in presidential race
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President Barack Obama has requested a review of all cyberattacks that took place during the 2016 election cycle, the White House said Friday, amid allegations of Russian interference.
"The president has directed the intelligence community to conduct a full review of what happened during the 2016 election process," said Lisa Monaco, Obama's homeland security advisor.
Monaco said at a breakfast hosted by The Christian Science Monitor that it was vital to "understand what this means, what has happened and to impart some lessons learned."
She added that Obama expects a report before he leaves office on January 20 and Republican Donald Trump assumes the presidency.
The move comes after Democrats in Congress pressed the White House to reveal details, to Congress or to the public, of Russian hacking and disinformation in the election.
Confidential emails from the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, a top advisor to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, were steadily leaked out via WikiLeaks in the months before the election, damaging Clinton's campaign for the White House.
The US Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in a statement on October 7, one month before the election, stated that "the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of emails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations."
"These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US election process," they said.
But in an interview published Wednesday with Time magazine for its "Person of the Year" award, Trump dismissed the findings of the country's leading intelligence services.
Asked whether the intelligence was politicized, Trump answered: "I think so."
"I don't believe they interfered. That became a laughing point, not a talking point, a laughing point. Any time I do something, they say, 'Oh, Russia interfered.'"
"It could be Russia. And it could be China. And it could be some guy in his home in New Jersey."


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Dad 'brutally' spanks man for having sex with underage daughter
Posted Jun 20, 2012 by
Yukio Strachan
"That's what you get for 'puttin it' to an underage girl," says the publisher of this YouTube video showing the guy's step-dad brutally spanking his sister's adult boyfriend for having sex with her.
Screengrab of a father giving his underage daughters adult boyfriend a brutal spanking for having sex with her.
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The video, allegedly
on Jun 15, 2012 by the spanker's step-son, with the YouTube user name rassule, has already racked up 23,910 views and counting.
"The guy getting spanked is 28,"
rassule, "and my little sister was 16."
reports when the man, who rassule later identifies as his step-dad, arrives at the home of his underage daughter's adult boyfriend, learned that the two had slept together, he offers him two choices: A "severe ass kicking" coupled with jail time for statutory rape, or a "brutal spanking" to be administered immediately with no further repercussions.
He opted for the spanking.
"Age of consent here is 18," rassule
. "I guarantee he was hurt... Badly."


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C-REX Working Paper Series
C-REX Working Paper aim to present research findings and cover scholarly work on the exteme right in a quick and easily accessible way to the public, stakeholders and research community.
Simi, P and Windish, S. (2017) Why Radicalisation Fails: Barriers to Mass Casualty Terrorism (pdf)
Carlsson, Y. (2017) Violent extremism: Prevention of a wicked problem; the role of local authorities (pdf)
Bjørgo, T. and Gjelsvik, I. (2017) Right-Wing Extremists and Anti-Islam Activists in Norway: Constraints against Violence (pdf)
Mudde, C (2016) The Study of Populist Radical Right Parties (pdf)
The working papers are reviewed by the Editorial Board consisting of:
- Director of C-REX and Professor Tore Bjørgo
- Professor Katrine Fangen
- Professor Torkel Brekke
- Associate Professor Inger Skjelsbæk
- Deputy Director Anders Ravik Jupskås
The C-REX Working Paper Serie is not a journal and has no ISSN number.


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Returning client with an additional business enterprise needed a purchased template to reflect his business model. It went from a ski wear site to a emergency preparedness site.
The template is below:
Returning client with an additional business enterprise needed a purchased template to reflect his business model. It went from a ski wear site to a emergency preparedness site.
The template is below:
Been working on setting up this new portal for Sin City Delights, working hard on finding the best avenue to sell their amazing product line. The last version was a step forward, but this one is the icing on the cake and can only get better.
There might be some tweaks here and there, but I think we finally hit our groove. We launched the original version back in December/11 and it started doing more business than the old version did all year.
Unfortunately a problematic Paypal, with it's often impossible to reason customer service, put up a barrier for business on the site. We moved on to Amazon Payments with an adjusted version of the site that brought on yet another surge of business (above).
This has been a living experiment and while the goal has been to sell product on this site, it has also been a test to find the most hospitable environment and strongest platform for product sales. This new POS system will use Authorize.Net. We peeled away from Amazon only because it was requiring buyers to have an Amazon account.
The new version of the site will launch next week and will hopefully really bring a lot of momentum to sales.
I have wrapped up my last biggest project and am monitoring Sin City Delights right now as I am working with this client on a new ad campaign through Facebook to see if it generates more traffic and sales. So looking on different resources for a new project to dive into.
Being entrepreneurial is a challenge as I may not be as adept to it as I thought. I run things smart and maybe have made too many concessions, but I will do my best to make a client's projects shine.
All too many times I have laymen who want to hire me and then direct the whole thing. In one case a client's question regarding a basically static site was… "How much bandwidth do I get?" When I asked him why he was concerned about that he could not tell me, it was something a friend told him about.
Then later, "What if I want to put video on the site?" WordPress will let you load video right on the site as easy as inserting an image, but with tools like YouTube and Vimeo around (especially for your small business) why would that be a worry?
In the end the strange questions using industry related buzzwords kept piling things on top of each other without any research or knowledge as to why it would be there. I want flash: why? I want pictures popping up when you mouse over: why?
What is the story you want to tell?
This is what I ask every client. Keep the story consistent, don't confuse your mission, put information you want people to see so they opt into what you are selling or offering.
One client wanted to post a picture of a motorcycle he was selling on his restaurant site… my advice was to just use craigslist.
Clients are writing the checks and will get what they want, but I will do everything I can to keep them from throwing away that money. You hired me for a reason. Trust me. By working together we will end of creating something uh-maze-zing!
Less than a year ago I contracted with this freelance client to build their first step into online internet retail sales.
This is the latest version. I had to build a new shopping cart system quickly. The Paypal cart that was was installed fell out; Paypal has been unreliable. However, this elected to go with Amazon Payments which turned out to be much better.
Not to waste your time on the interim design. The original design is something to see and I welcome any thoughts.
I also manage this client's social media; mostly Facebook and Twitter. There is a Yelp and a few other channels I post in for them.
Over Christmas 2011 into late January 2012 I was working with a couple of guys on a pretty major project. They needed to be able to demonstrate how their concept would work in their industry.
With a little HTML, CSS and javascripting we got a pseudo web site they could demonstrate some of their basic functions.
The client was very focused on using an industry site as the model for their product. We used some new images, particularly the pop of color with the Golden Gate Bridge. Below is the site they asked me to use as a model.
I carried the same branding for StudioSK since school and with my new business cards in San Francisco it was time to catch up. When I bounced into my own… MY OWN freaking web site I realized I had not looked at it in almost 6 months.
The only updates that I have been actively posting have been in twitter. My twitter feed is @scott4design …officially anyway. I have been working on a couple freelance projects and have been on the hunt for whatever things I could do.
I manage several Facebook pages right now and twitter accounts as well. You might have seen gotNurv (logo see your right in the middle column) . Yes, my projects are not all paid but I do a lot of community based stuff too.
I have been working freelance gigs for a while. My projects and art pieces kind of flowed in between them with some of my other interests as well.
My latest art piece is screaming for attention, but I am preoccupied with having to find some steady work right now. My career in the last couple of years took a back seat while I explored some of my more artistic endeavors. Working freelance allowed for that.
The worst part of the lifestyle I took was that my mom worries about me a lot.
Why put this kind of personal stuff on this blog? As a reminder… as a warning… that the grass is not always greener and sometimes some good advice, that was forgotten, comes back to haunt you. Work hard, keep the nose to the grind stone, and make yourself and your family a good living.
Creatively speaking I think I have thrived and will make more posts here with that work; freelance, art and other things!
Yes, I know there have not been a lot of posts here lately. I hate leaving this bitch-fest about WordPress as the last entry because it it not the positive idea that I think I really am.
My work lately has been mostly with gotNurv.com and clients I have over there. It's all social networking stuff.
I got a call from a recruiter this week that got me thinking about my resume. It has not been very successful and people seem to not pay attention to the skills in it; or is it they are projecting what they need? Either way, it is good to hear from recruiters, but it is time to update and re-post it out there.
I tell people I have more than a decade in design, which is true, but professionally only in the last 4/5 years. My first web hosting company was Software Tool & Dye. The domain was something like world.std.com … yes "std". It always bothered me to have to go to that web site, but since the 90's there has been a lot of water through that bridge.
My original AOL account??? How long ago was that??? What was my first web site? I learned html originally through a WYSIWYG called "Hotdog Professional" and it was simple! I mean the software was simple.
If you follow the blogs on this site, you can see what I imported from Blogger when I was actively using that for "AchtungMediaDesign" and "ActionHeroNetwork" which were previous versions of StudioSK.
My personal blogs go back further than these of course!
Anyway, I just wanted to share a little personal information. Needed to post something on this site to keep it pumping and alive… and who knows maybe someone will appreciate it?


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Close Australia 735 for 6 dec lead Zimbabwe 239 and 272 for 9 (Vermeulen 63, Ervine 53, Streak 42*; Bichel 3-55) by 224 runs
Zimbabwe lived to take the fight into a fifth day in the first Test against Australia at Perth, albeit assisted by two rain breaks, the second of which resulted in stumps being drawn with Australia needing only one wicket for victory.
Australia had suffered from the absence through injury of Stuart MacGill and Jason Gillespie, and the rain just compounded that. In an effort to keep his players on the field in the final session, Steve Waugh took Brett Lee and Andy Bichel off, and used his slow bowlers in the quest for the last wicket. But Heath Streak and Raymond Price stood firm while adding 25 runs for the last wicket.
Showers had been forecast, and during the middle session the cloud cover became dark enough for Peter Willey and Srinivas Venkataraghavan, the umpires, to ask for the ground lights to be turned on. At one point, the Australians were so keen to finish off the innings before the rain came that Brett Lee was running back to the start of his bowling mark.
Zimbabwe had extended Australia's agony by fighting back from the loss of five wickets for 16 runs during the morning session. Sean Ervine, who had already made an impact in his third Test by taking four Australian wickets in their first innings, showed he was a dab hand with the bat during an 83-run eighth wicket stand with Streak. Ervine made the most of the lighter weight of the Australian attack, which featured irregular bowlers like Darren Lehmann, Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting, before the second new ball was introduced. When it came, Bichel broke through with a beautifully-pitched inswinger that bowled him for 53.
Andy Blignaut, who survived a pair, continued the attack and when tea was taken, he and Streak had added 38 runs with Blignaut hitting 22 off 26 balls. But three balls after the resumption, he missed a delivery from Lehmann, and was stumped by Adam Gilchrist.
No sooner had Price arrived at the wicket than the rain that had been drizzly became heavier and the umpires, after a consultation, offered the batsmen the chance to leave the field. Seventy-four minutes were lost, before the players re-emerged for 41 more minutes of action. Then, the rain returned to provide a full stop to the day's play.
It had always been improbable that the Zimbabweans could survive for two days, even against the depleted attack, but the loss of a batsman as well set as Mark Vermeulen had been, caused a domino effect. He was entitled to feel some grief over his dismissal, as television replays showed that the ball from Brett Lee had not taken his bat but clipped his shirt instead on its way to Gilchrist. However the later batting damage was more due to poor shot selection than anything special from the bowlers. Stuart Carlisle, who had helped Vermeulen to add 99 for the third wicket, was unable to maintain his concentration. In the act of attempting a sweep shot to Darren Lehmann's part-time left-arm spin, he top-edged the ball to first slip where Matthew Hayden took the catch.
Bichel was then brought back by Steve Waugh to instant effect, his third ball trapping Craig Wishart leg before wicket when he had scored only eight. He soon added Tatenda Taibu, getting him to prod forward diffidently and edge one through to Gilchrist. With the score still on 126, Craig Evans played all around a straight ball from Lehmann to be bowled.
At that stage, and then again after tea, the champagne corks were ready to be popped. But frustratingly for Australia, the rain proved to be Zimbabwe's staunchest ally. All eyes will be on the weather forecasts tonight. Were Zimbabwe to escape from Perth with an undeserved draw tomorrow, Hayden's world-record celebrations would be muted indeed.


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7 things I do as a parent because I am also a teacher:
I guess only time will tell!
I'm sending this to Jess
I guess only time will tell!
I LOVE this! It should be printed in a parenting manual and handed out with all the birthing licenses ;) A+ (Née Say)ReplyDelete
Thanks Renee. How fantastic would a parenting manual be! I'll have to put my A+ up on the fridge.Delete
I like your perspective on bullying. One of our little ladies is somewhat emotionally fragile and quick to burst into tears at the slightest insult so we've been working really hard on helping her build the resilience she needs to just let it go when one of her peers says something flippant and unkind. I'm going to pin this for future reference :)
Thanks Emma. Resilience is a tough one - it is definitely required but quite difficult to teach. I hope you little lady is able to find hers!Delete
What a really valuable post this is - I'm going to share on my FB page - a lesson in here for so many of us non-teacher parents! Great post :)ReplyDelete
That's very kind of you Emily, thanks for sharing it.Delete
Love this and as a former teacher before becoming a stay at home mom I 100% agree!ReplyDelete
Teachers unite! Thanks for taking the time to comment, it is appreciated.Delete
I am often heard telling my kids number 3, but need to consciously remind myself on number 6. Love your report card :)ReplyDelete
Number 6 is definitely one of the hardest - it is usually so much quicker and easier to do it yourself. Maybe by putting it out there I'll have to do it more often, you know the whole 'practice what you preach'!Delete
Oh I feel you on all of these, number 6 particularly. It's just simply so hard to believe so vehemently in one thing, as I do, but then to enact it.ReplyDelete
I tend to find that the strength of my value system and my willingness to follow through is in direct correlation to my level of patience and fatigue!Delete
I agree with everything you wrote here (I'm a teacher too by trade). I always try to remind myself that there are two sides to every story when my son is recounting to me something that happened at school and I'm often reminding him that some of the things he calls bullying aren't actually bullying. Not that I don't listen to what he tells me, but I don't want him to develop a persecution complex either! Great post.ReplyDelete
It's a hard one. When MJ came home last year talking about the 'mean boys' I realised how easy it is to jump to conclusions and get overly worried. I definitely had to take a step back and it turns out it wasn't so bad and wasn't so one sided!Delete
I think I am in love with you! I was nodding along with all of this. So nice to know there are others who think the same and have similar values.ReplyDelete
Thanks Jess! It must be why I enjoy your posts so much, we must be on the same wavelength!Delete
Sometimes tough! but they are fair. Loved the bullying one particularly.ReplyDelete
Yeah, I'm not often accused of being soft and overly sentimental! The bullying stuff seems to have resonated with a few people.Delete
Great advice and I will definitely be taking this on board.ReplyDelete
Thanks Bec, I hope you find it useful!Delete
Hand this out to all parents when they enrol their kids to school each year.
As a teacher of the trade I strongly agree with all you have said. I especially believe "Dealing with the consequences of their actions is an important part of learning".
Well done.
Thank you. It's great to hear other teachers agree.Delete
Really, really well said. I never got to the classroom myself as my pregnancies came first, but I agree. I just hope that my behaviour are reflecting these values. I worry about 4. I remind myself to see both sides of the story when it comes to my children, but have difficulty seeing the side of the teacher. Especially as my children are polar opposites in and out of the classroom.ReplyDelete
I love this post...oh so true. I have four at school this year (well little one at kindy) and at times I struggle to remember everything, lunches, school, reading folders, homework, shoes etc and felt like I was failing if all of this didn't go to plan...then I decided to cut myself some slack and while I needed to be organised it was OK to let the kids take some responsibility for getting ready each morning. Lets just say it continues to be a work in progress....ReplyDelete


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Eli Lilly Awards 2009-10
Bryan Crowley (Eli Lilly and Class of 2008), Rob Scallan (Eli Lilly), Dr Jorge Oliveira (Head of Department), Charlie Dolan (Eli Lilly), John Kiely (Eli Lilly), Hugh Kelly (Eli Lilly)
Eli Lilly Awards 2009-2010
Eli Lilly Award for Excellence in Process & Chemical Engineering
Recipients 2009-2010
The awards were held in the Food Science Building, Room A1, UCC on Thursday 4th February 2010.
Charles Dolan of Eli Lilly made the presentations and John Kiely, Head of Process Engineering at Lilly, Dunderrow performed the keynote address on the night. Rob Scallan spoke about life as a Chemical Engineering at Lilly, and Hugh W. Kelly spoke about pioneering developments in the area of biopharmaceuticals. Bryan Crowley (Class of 2008) also attended.
Outstanding contribution*
| Kevin Gibson
Class of 2010
|Brian Schäfer
Class of 2011
|Laura Sheehan
Class of 2012
|Jahziel Pasco
Class of 2013
|Alan Crowley
*In 2007-8 a new award was created which will be presented only when it is felt that a given student has excelled such as to merit its conferring, and therefore this award may not be necessarily awarded every year:-
This award is presented to a student who has excelled in developing or fostering the development of a special aspect of the department/discipline:-
"Outstanding Contribution to the Development of Process & Chemical Engineering"
In 2009-10 it was decided to make this award. This award was presented to Kevin Gibson for his exceptional contribution to promoting the special bond that exists between the staff and students through his work as Peer Support Leader of the uLink Peer Support Scheme. This scheme aims to ease the transition between school and college by appointing mentors to new students in their first year. Kevin also implemented a year-on-year system in the Department, with students in more senior years acting as mentors to those in years below.


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Diane went to physical therapy under duress.
She didn't want to go.
Her insurance company made her go.
Her insurance company wouldn't pay for a Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) for neck and back pain unless the patient had one month of physical therapy.
Can MBA's working for insurance companies practice medicine better than Medical Doctors and can MBA's practice rehabilitation better than Physical Therapists?
I don't know - they didn't call me to check before they hired the MBA's.
Anyway, Diane came to my clinic and went through the eval process.
I examined her head and neck posture, her trunk posture, her shoulder motion, her neck motion, her shoulder, neck and trunk strength.
I examined her nerve function...
What the..?
Diane had normal nerve root signs (strength and sensation) but evidence of spastic and pathologic reflexes.
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|Hoffman's Test
|0.97 - 2.23
|Knee reflex
|hyper-reflexic (3+)
|Ankle reflex
|hyper-reflexic (3+)
|Babinski's sign
|7.75 - 8.0
|Spurling Sign
"What are you doing down there?"
Why, you ask, would a physical therapist bother checking a knee reflex in a patient with neck pain?
Well, I say, it's my job - that's what I do.
So what's the big deal?
The point is that I called the doctor (the doctor's nurse actually) and told her the patient wasn't fit for PT.
The doctor's nurse was happy:
"We never thought the patient was fit for PT. We wanted an MRI the first time she saw the doctor. You've just given us ammunition we can use against the insurance company to get an MRI!I said you're welcome.
Thank you!"
The patient was happy - she 'felt' that something was wrong, that physical therapy was inappropriate at this time.
The insurance company - were they happy? If they truly have the best interests of their benficiaries in mind then they should be happy - they are now paying for Diane's MRI because she has serious neck pathology - not just sore, weak muscles.
Cook et al state the following:
"Magnetic resonance imaging is considered the best imaging method becauseThe Source of Value
it expresses the amount of compression placed on the spinal cord and demonstrates relatively high levels of sensitivity (79%–95%) and specificity (82%–88%) (positive likelihood ratio (4.39–7.92) negative likelihood ratio (0.06–0.27) in identifying selected abnormalities such as space-occupying tumors, disk herniation and ligamentous ossification."
Value is a hot topic in health care today. Policy wonks around America want to find the source of value that will save health care:
Value = Quality / CostDid I create value?
I created value for Diane and for the doctor - I'm not sure that I created value for the insurance company because they have a different interpretation of quality.
The Question of Quality
Quality for Diane, the doctor and for me means the best outcome for the patient.
Quality for the insurance company means fewer PT visits, fewer episodes of care and fewer MRI's.
Quality also means determining which of your physical therapy patients DOES NOT need physical therapy.
Diane did not show Medical Necessity for Physical Therapy
When 40% of all Medicare denials are based on inadequate medical necessity it seems almost inappropriate to speak about those patients who DON'T need PT - when so many do.
What skill set is necessary to prove to Medicare auditors that what you do is necessary?
What do you need to write to show that your patient needs you?
This reference from the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual Transmittal 88 (page 26) is redundant, poetic, harmonic and true:
"Patients who need therapy generally respond to therapy, so changes in objective and sometimes to subjective measures of improvement also help establish the need for services."So, get on the stick, take measures, show progress and, above all, prove your value by demonstrating that no one but you, or another physical therapist, could do what you do.