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Aventura | Florida | 33180
(305) 937-4400
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Rank: 83 out of 1390
Rank: 72 out of 1390
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5% of this provider's 699 patients filled at least one prescription for a narcotic painkiller, compared to an average of 18%.
Antipsychotics to Seniors
Risky Drugs to Seniors
1% of this provider's 7,820 prescriptions for patients 65 and older were for "potentially dangerous" drugs, compared to an average of 2%.
Brand Name Drugs
31% of this provider's prescriptions were for brand-name drugs, compared to an average of 27%.
Prescription Price
$90 was the average price of a prescription from this provider, compared to $89 among peers.
Prescriptions per Patient
12 is the average number of prescriptions (including refills) per patient, compared to an average of 9.
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An antipsychotic drug. More » Antipsychotics are frequently given to dementia patients, though it increases their risk of death.
A risky drug for seniors. More » The American Geriatrics Society has said this drug is "potentially dangerous" for seniors and might be inappropriate.
A narcotic drug. More » Misuse and abuse of narcotics led to some 16,000 overdose deaths in 2010.
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Drug Name |
Total Prescriptions Filled Including Refills |
Prescriptions to 65+ |
Category | For this Prescriber |
For All Prescribers in This Specialty in Florida |
Treats inflammation (swelli... + Treats inflammation (swelling), severe allergies, complications of chronic illnesses, and other medical problems. Also used to decrease some symptoms of cancer. This medicine is a steroid. More info » |
562 | 521 | 1 | 22 | |
Prevents symptoms of asthma... + Prevents symptoms of asthma or COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. This medicine is a combination of a steroid and a bronchodilator. More info » |
309 | 285 | 2 | 43 | |
Prevents the symptoms of br... + Prevents the symptoms of bronchospasm caused by emphysema, chronic bronchitis, or COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). This medicine is a bronchodilator. More info » |
300 | 286 | 3 | 88 | |
Treats infections caused by... + Treats infections caused by certain bacteria. This medicine is a macrolide antibiotic. More info » |
294 | 269 | 4 | 68 | |
Helps prevent and control a... + Helps prevent and control asthma attacks, including attacks caused by exercise. Also treats seasonal (short-term) and perennial (long-term) allergies. More info » |
248 | 211 | 5 | 60 | |
Treats fluid retention (ede... + Treats fluid retention (edema) and high blood pressure (hypertension). More info » |
221 | 208 | 6 | 8 | |
Ipratropium oral inhalation... + Ipratropium oral inhalation is used to prevent wheezing, shortness of breath, coughing, and chest tightness in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD; a group of diseases that affect the lungs and airways) such as chronic bronchitis (swelling of the air passages that lead to the lungs) and emphysema (damage to the air sacs in the lungs). Ipratropium is in a class of medications called bronchodilators. It works by relaxing and opening the air passages to the lungs to make breathing easier. More info » |
207 | 145 | 7 | 174 | |
Treats heartburn, stomach u... + Treats heartburn, stomach ulcers, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and conditions that cause your stomach to make too much acid, such as Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, endocrine tumors, and systemic mastocytosis. Also helps heal a damaged esophagus, and helps prevent stomach bleeding in patients who have a serious illness. This medicine may be used in combination with antibiotics to treat ulcers. This medicine is a proton pump inhibitor (PPI). More info » |
197 | 180 | 8 | 2 | |
Treats high cholesterol and... + Treats high cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood. Lowers risk of heart attack, stroke, and certain blood vessel problems in people with certain risk factors. This medicine is an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor, also called a statin. More info » |
191 | 191 | 9 | 1 | |
Treats or prevents bronchos... + Treats or prevents bronchospasm in patients with asthma, emphysema, bronchitis, and other lung diseases. Also prevents wheezing caused by exercise (exercise-induced bronchospasm). This medicine is a bronchodilator. More info » |
179 | 172 | 10 | 93 | |
Metoprolol is used alone or... + Metoprolol is used alone or in combination with other medications to treat high blood pressure. It also is used to prevent angina (chest pain) and to improve survival after a heart attack. Extended-release (long-acting) metoprolol also is used in combination with other medications to treat heart failure. Metoprolol is in a class of medications called beta blockers. It works by relaxing blood vessels and slowing heart rate to improve blood flow and decrease blood pressure More info » |
178 | 158 | 11 | 9 | |
Albuterol is used to preven... + Albuterol is used to prevent and treat wheezing, shortness of breath, coughing, and chest tightness caused by lung diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD; a group of diseases that affect the lungs and airways). Albuterol inhalation aerosol is also used to prevent breathing difficulties during exercise. Albuterol is in a class of medications called bronchodilators. It works by relaxing and opening air passages to the lungs to make breathing easier. More info » |
170 | 125 | 12 | 295 | |
Warfarin is used to prevent... + Warfarin is used to prevent blood clots from forming or growing larger in your blood and blood vessels. It is prescribed for people with certain types of irregular heartbeat, people with prosthetic (replacement or mechanical) heart valves, and people who have suffered a heart attack. Warfarin is also used to treat or prevent venous thrombosis (swelling and blood clot in a vein) and pulmonary embolism (a blood clot in the lung). Warfarin is in a class of medications called anticoagulants ('blood thinners'). It works by decreasing the clotting ability of the blood. More info » |
167 | 139 | 13 | 18 | |
This is a combination of bu... + This is a combination of budesonide and formoterol used to help control the symptoms of asthma and improve lung function. More info » |
140 | 132 | 14 | 125 | |
Levothyroxine, a thyroid ho... + Levothyroxine, a thyroid hormone, is used to treat hypothyroidism, a condition where the thyroid gland does not produce enough thyroid hormone. Without this hormone, the body cannot function properly, resulting in: poor growth; slow speech; lack of energy; weight gain; hair loss; dry, thick skin; and increased sensitivity to cold. When taken correctly, levothyroxine reverses these symptoms. Levothyroxine is also used to treat congenital hypothyroidism (cretinism) and goiter (enlarged thyroid gland). More info » |
136 | 122 | 15 | 6 | |
Used alone or together with... + Used alone or together with aspirin to help prevent stroke, heart attack, and other heart problems. This medicine is a blood thinner. More info » |
113 | 106 | 16 | 7 | |
Amlodipine is used alone or... + Amlodipine is used alone or in combination with other medications to treat high blood pressure and chest pain (angina). Amlodipine is in a class of medications called calcium channel blockers. It lowers blood pressure by relaxing the blood vessels so the heart does not have to pump as hard. It controls chest pain by increasing the supply of blood to the heart. If taken regularly, amlodipine controls chest pain, but it does not stop chest pain once it starts. Your doctor may prescribe a different medication to take when you have chest pain. More info » |
109 | 109 | 17 | 4 | |
Treats high blood pressure ... + Treats high blood pressure and heart failure. A lower blood pressure will reduce the risk of stroke and heart attack. Also used in the first few days after a heart attack to help reduce the risk of death. This medicine is an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor. More info » |
100 | 91 | 18 | 3 | |
Potassium is needed to main... + Potassium is needed to maintain good health. More info » |
91 | 91 | 19 | 42 | |
Treats or prevents bronchos... + Treats or prevents bronchospasm in patients with asthma, emphysema, bronchitis, and other lung diseases. Also prevents wheezing caused by exercise (exercise-induced bronchospasm). This medicine is a bronchodilator. More info » |
88 | 84 | 20 | 127 | |
Treats certain heart rhythm... + Treats certain heart rhythm problems (atrial fibrillation). Also used to treat heart failure, usually in combination with a diuretic (water pill) and an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor. This medicine is also called digitalis. More info » |
83 | 83 | 21 | 41 | |
Used alone or together with... + Used alone or together with other medicines to treat high blood pressure and fluid retention (edema). This medicine is a diuretic (water pill). More info » |
82 | 70 | 22 | 20 | |
Treats ulcers, gastroesopha... + Treats ulcers, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and conditions that cause the stomach to produce too much stomach acid. Also treats heartburn caused by acid indigestion. More info » |
80 | 80 | 23 | 135 | |
Treats high blood pressure ... + Treats high blood pressure and heart failure. A lower blood pressure can reduce the risk of stroke and heart attack. May also prolong life after a heart attack. This medicine is an angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB). More info » |
79 | 79 | 24 | 48 | |
Treats chronic obstructive ... + Treats chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). More info » |
75 | 67 | 25 | 208 | |
Lowers high cholesterol and... + Lowers high cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood. Lowers the risk of chest pain, stroke, heart attack, or certain heart and blood vessel problems in people who have certain risk factors. This medicine is an HMG-CoA inhibitor, also called a statin. More info » |
74 | 74 | 26 | 23 | |
Ciprofloxacin is used to tr... + Ciprofloxacin is used to treat or prevent certain infections caused by bacteria. Ciprofloxacin is also used to treat or prevent anthrax (a serious infection that may be spread on purpose as part of a bioterror attack) in people who may have been exposed to anthrax germs in the air. Ciprofloxacin extended-release (long-acting) tablets are used only to treat certain types of urinary tract infections. Ciprofloxacin is in a class of antibiotics called fluoroquinolones. It works by killing bacteria that cause infections. Antibiotics will not work for colds, flu, or other viral infections. More info » |
67 | 66 | 27 | 44 | |
This combination medication... + This combination medication is used to treat a variety of inflamed fungal skin infections such as ringworm, athlete's foot, and jock itch. More info » |
60 | 59 | 28 | 148 | |
Citalopram is used to treat... + Citalopram is used to treat depression. Citalopram is in a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). It is thought to work by increasing the amount of serotonin, a natural substance in the brain that helps maintain mental balance. More info » |
59 | 59 | 29 | 32 | |
Pantoprazole is used to tre... + Pantoprazole is used to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), a condition in which backward flow of acid from the stomach causes heartburn and possible injury of the esophagus (the tube between the throat and stomach). Pantoprazole is used to treat the symptoms of GERD, allow the esophagus to heal, and prevent further damage to the esophagus. It is also used to treat conditions where the stomach produces too much acid, such as Zollinger-Ellison syndrome. Pantoprazole is in a class of medications called proton-pump inhibitors. It works by decreasing the amount of acid made in the stomach. More info » |
58 | 46 | 30 | 85 | |
Tramadol is used to relieve... + Tramadol is used to relieve moderate to moderately severe pain. Tramadol extended-release tablets are only used by people who are expected to need medication to relieve pain around-the-clock for a long time. Tramadol is in a class of medications called opiate agonists. It works by changing the way the body senses pain. More info » |
Treats depression, anxiety,... + Treats depression, anxiety, diabetic peripheral neuropathy (nerve pain caused by diabetes), fibromyalgia (muscle pain and stiffness), or chronic (long-lasting) pain related to muscles and bones. This medicine is a selective serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SSNRI). More info » |
53 | 37 | 32 | 76 |
About This Data
ProPublica obtained prescribing data from Medicare's prescription drug benefit, known as Part D, under the Freedom of Information Act. The data for 2011 includes nearly 1.2 billion prescriptions written by 1.6 million doctors, nurses and other providers. This database lists about 364,000 of those providers who wrote 50 or more prescriptions for at least one drug that year. About three-fourths went to patients 65 and older; the rest were for disabled patients. Methodology »
- No comparisons are shown if 10 or fewer prescribers in the state share this specialty.
- The list of top drugs includes only those for which this provider wrote 50 or more prescriptions, but all prescriptions are counted in the summary totals at the top.
- The calculation of "Risky Drugs to Seniors" does not include drugs for which a provider wrote 11 or fewer prescriptions because Medicare redacted the information to protect patient privacy.
- Comparisons do not take into account the medical conditions of patients. Medications for certain conditions do not have generic alternatives, so patients would receive more expensive brand name drugs.
- This provider's address and specialty information was last updated on June 28, 2010.
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February 12th, 2014
Finally, my hope for an ADN messaging client has been realized. ThreadOne, created by developer Aaron Vegh, has hit the App Store and it is exactly what I have wanted in an ADN chat client. While Kiwi was functional1, it struggled with presenting private messaging because of its relatively slow refresh times and mechanics more suited to a stream-based message list. I basically wanted a version of Whisper on my Mac and ThreadOne has so far delivered on that wish.
It is a focused effort for a first release but Vegh has plans for further development to add features down the road. 2 I've been using it and have noticed a few things that ThreadOne does better than any of the ADN messaging alternatives I've used on the Mac so far:
So far, ThreadOne does exactly what I needed it for. More features would be nice (font size and choices would be my highest priority) but it is doing the job I bought it to do and shows what a good developer can do with the well-designed, fast and capable API ADN has put together.
And made great strides in the recent release. ↩
As Aaron Vegh comments in his article about the "Story of ThreadOne" on his blog. ↩
February 3rd, 2014
There have been a lot of critical things said about the latest version of Dark Sky since its last release. Some of it may be warranted (and I'll get to that at the end of the piece) but some have been focused so much on some elements of the app's design that they put the actual daily usefulness of the app aside to make their points.
From the Dark Sky website:
Dark Sky uses state-of-the-art technology to predict when it will rain or snow — down to the minute — at your exact location, and presents it to you alongside the most beautiful weather visualizations you've ever seen.
I have long sung the praises of Dark Sky's ability to predict bad weather with uncanny accuracy. It's not always correct, but I understand that weather is an unexact science. Sometimes it predicts rain, like right now, when I'm actually getting snow so heavy I can't see across the street. The inflection point of a temperature change along a front is understandably a hard thing to predict with 100% accuracy. I think we all understand that as reasonable people.
So that being said, as reasonable people, we would know that looking at a chart, no matter how many labeled axes and tickmarks, no matter how many data points which show a temperature trend inching upwards or downwards twelve hours from now, it is really just an approximation of what the actual weather might be. We understand, as reasonable people, that the weather might be something quite different when that time arrives 12 hours from now. It turns out that it wasn't 14F, but 18F or even -4F (no thank you).
Yet I have read many words over the last week criticising the lack of exactingly-labeled graph axes. The line on the charts have tickmarks labeled with a time and a temperature when there is an inflection point. It's that simple. Sometimes it doesn't change at that exact datapoint because the line is a smooth curve, not a jagged chart. Given that, the savvy designer will know that the line can't change quickly when there are two temperature inflection points close to one another but yet that is the criticism I'm hearing.
The other knocks are that there are two stacked representations of data on the "Next 24 Hours" screen. One is labeled "The Sky" and shows what his happening in the sky over the next 24 hours and has an x-axis for the next 24 hours starting from now. That makes intuitive sense.
The chart below is labeled "Temperature" and has an approximation of temperature across the same 24 hour period. Looking up at the chart you can interpolate temperature to time but you can intuit that 12 hours from now is halfway.
"How can I see what the temperature is fourteen and a half hours from now, smart guy?", they bellow.
To them I say, "You are missing the point. This is a weather app and even if there was an exact 24 hour chart with a 100x zoom to the minute, the temperature will still be approximate 14 hours from now. That is the point of these charts and that is fairly well conveyed to me when I look at them."
I'd go so far as to say that if it does bother you, this probably isn't the weather app for you.
There are also some pretty smart people criticising the lack of labels on each page to denote what they represent. I'm with Dr. Drang on this one when he dissects Jared Sinclair's complaints about the app.
I can only assume he thinks "casual users" are idiots. It's true that having a heading on only one of the screens is inconsistent, but I don't see how anyone could mistake what these three screens are for.
That's right.
If you could make a color on a chart representing rain, what color would it be? A watery blue, right? That makes sense. How about snow? Maybe an icier blue? Check. Clouds should be gray and fog should probably be a darker gray. Check and check. Those all make sense intuitively and those are the exact colors used on charts when those weather events are taking place.
The complaints about colors (or lack thereof) appear to me to be uncompromisingly harsh given what the app is describing. You could have criticised the last version for being too dark.
There is nothing but a pulsing circle when you open the app.1 The pulsing continues until it gets enough information to display and then the screen updates with up-to-the-minute information.
Many designers have said that it is bad design to display just a pulsing circle. I am not exactly sure what they feel should be displayed while data is being fetched. If it was cached data, as some suggest, it clearly wouldn't be up-to-the-minute data. The app needs to connect to a server to get its information. That's just the way it is and if it takes a while, that's a function of a lot of things that aren't entirely in the app's control.
I fail to see where a spinning globe or a dancing pickle would alleviate your pain. Just wait a second and you'll get your information. If not, check back in a few minutes. Also, it's the actual weather so maybe poke your head outside and take a look.
After spending some time with the new app, there are some things that could use some help. The radar view always is zoomed out to view the entire eastern seaboard for me. I am not quite sure why but they should fix that. It should be about a 35 mile radius around my current location.
The feed from alerts.weather.gov depicting winter warning news is showing an ugly non-mobile-formatted webpage right now. It's a minor thing but it would be nice if it was easier to read. Knowing that I'm about to be hosed by awful weather is easier to take when I don't have to zoom in on a webpage that looks like something best viewed in Netscape Navigator.
I get that people hate change. Having a healthy critique of a beloved app that underwent a pretty major makeover is healthy however much of the comments I have been reading over the last few days has seemed like design buffs trying to one-up their peers on which pixel ended up in the wrong place. It's the "gotcha" school of collective design.
Sorry if this seems a bit critical. I was ignoring this whole echospheric event until I caught up on the ADN comments this morning and felt like I needed to clear the air a bit. I'm also cranky and miserable that the clouds above (as seen as a pretty rainbow of reds and oranges in Dark Sky) are dumping another 8-10" on snow on my car outside right now.
That has been a big criticism I've seen as well. I like that its a circle but again I'm in the minority. Those of you who hate the circle and don't know why it is a circle, well, I don't know what to tell you. Would a square be better? A smiling raindrop? A cute puppy? ↩
February 1st, 2014
Over a year ago, I started a journey to eliminate the seemingly-endless filing of paper. Bills, bank statements, car service documents, insurance documentation, licenses – the list goes on and on. The implementation of my paperless system was thought through for months and when I finally pulled the trigger on the methodology and the gear, I was confident in it working pretty well.
Now that more than a year has gone by, I thought it would be a good idea to do a reassessment and determine if I had hit the mark with my system or not.
The Scansnap has worked well.
The only problem I had with it was the scanning software. About three months ago or so, the makers released a software update that changed how the scanning software worked which made it considerably more annoying to use. In the older release of the software, you could Scan to Folder and the files would be whisked away to their destination (in my case the Action folder) without any intervention. For a system like mine, this was perfect.
The change made it so that, post-scan, a dialog would pop up asking for a file name to replace the default. The cursor was "conveniently" placed on the default file name expecting you to change it. This sounds good in thoery. In practice, when you scan files that's really all it is convenient to do because, post-scanning, the software pops up a window demanding your attention. If you happen to be typing anything else on your keyboard you erase the file name highlighted in the textbox leaving you no choice but to type a new one. Maybe it was the software maker's attempt to make me less focused on multitasking or maybe it was their funny plan to create lot of unidentifiable files named "fuck.pdf" and "fuck1.pdf" in my Action folder. In reality, it just made me annoyed whenever I used their software. An option would have been nice.
I'm happy to say that I've found a way to use it to my advantage but more on that later.
I will shamefully admit that sometimes I get too busy to scan on a regular basis. Papers pile up next to the dormant scanner and, when I start scanning, I can sometimes end up with dozens of documents in my Action folder awaiting filing. When my OCR-based Hazel rules fail me, it makes for a lot of work on my end to figure out what each file is and how to consistently rename it. This involved "touching" each file several times.
All of a sudden that annoying pop-up form didn't seem so annoying anymore. I needed a better solution.
For months after creating the system, each document I scanned would generate OCR text that could be used to determine the file's contents. I had Hazel dig through that content for keywords and then use that data to generate new file names and move them to their target locations. In practice, this often didn't work perfectly and I'd be left with a lot of files requiring inspection, renaming and moving by hand.
When trying to name files by hand, however, I had the same problem I often have when tagging – I forget my exact taxonomy and end up creating slight differentiations in the tags making the system breakdown. In order to make things a bit more consistent, I reduced the number of keywords I was using and also reduced the number of Hazel file renaming rules (to zero).
Currently I am using a method that requires touching each file only once. It employs TextExpander, some modified Hazel rules and takes advantage of that damn pop-up screen.
The Scan
First, I hit the glowing blue button on the Scansnap. When the file is done scanning, the software runs OCR 1 and then the previously-annoying pop-up is displayed.
File Renaming
I type my text trigger for TextExpander2 and fill in the TextExpander fill-in form. The expansion looks like this. 3
20%fill:year%-%fill:month% - %fill:whosefile% %fill:subject%%|%key:enter%
The keywords are simple things like "bank", "house", "car", "lifeinsurance" and "carinsurance". They are simple, repeatable and easy to remember. Combined with a name like "honda", "jeff", etc. it is pretty easy to create a Hazel rule to act on each file properly.
File Moving
Hazel takes over at this point by executing rules based on file name keywords. It is less sexy than scanning OCR'ed text but it is reliable and consistent.
The downside of this method is that I need to be concentrating solely on the task of scanning and it can be a test of patience when waiting for a large file to be processed by the scanning software. That said, since I am skipping far more time-consuming steps (of previewing, memorizing, renaming and moving) down the road, the job of processing my papers much takes less time overall.
Hiccups aside, implementing the paperless system was one of the best time and money investments I've made in the last few years. I have used the ability to seach my documents from anywhere in the world dozens of times over the last sixteen months. When we were getting our documentation together to buy a house recently, what would have taken hours of searching seventeen months ago took almost no time at all. Several times during the process I received a panicked phone call from the loan company requesting a specific document they had forgot to mention. Rather than drive home from wherever I happened to be to find the document, I logged into my home machine from my iPad and send them the file within minutes.
This type of system takes some time and effort to get working but the dividends are pretty incredible when you get it set up.
The OCR'ed text is still useful for Spotlight searches. ↩
The trigger is ";pf" which stands for "Paperless Fill-in". ↩
I had to put a few tweaks like the "%key:enter%" in there to speed things up. I also use Shift-Tab > Space to quickly select the "Save" button on the scanning software dialog pop-up. ↩
January 31st, 2014
The other day, Gabe over at Macdrifter started a series of articles that will get to the root of how he manages his tasks. There are few topics I have thought more about than task management since I started this website. It is integral to how I do my job and, once GTD demonstrated its ability to solve my difficult work problems, I naturally started applying what I learned to every aspect of my life.
While Gabe's take may seem, upon first read, to be overly ambitious taking a from-the-rivets-up approach like his is really the only way to approach it. I have undertaken a few attempts to replace OmniFocus in the last couple of years, partially sharing Gabe's frustrations but also just to peer deeper at what makes my process tick. What I've found during those forays into madness is that it turns over every stone you have based your organizational life on. It sounds extreme but the whole point of a GTD system is that it become ingrained, automatic and habitual – it has to be those things if it is to work. Changing the thing that is the foundational layer of your system is disruptive and time-consuming.
I've tried other systems but they have never felt as satisfying as OmniFocus. It was the first task management system that I felt "got" me. It did things the way I would expect them to happen, so it made it very easy for me to groove good habits. The success fed on itself, making the tool more and more effective as months wore on. The other tools that were in the running never quite had the features I felt I needed when trying to find an OmniFocus replacement.
I think my problem was that I was trying to replace OmniFocus rather than replacing what I do to manage my projects and tasks. That's why the cellular-level exploration happening over at Macdrifter is so compelling. That said, the end result might be something that works great for Gabe and, despite being plain text and A-OK by me, still won't be able to do what I need it to do on a daily basis to manage my life.
As Gabe himself says:
There will be no satisfying conclusion for anyone other than me. A task management system is not as generic as the self-help app market would like us to believe.
I could not agree more. Despite his caveats, I will be watching Gabe's valiant attempts to reengineer his process very closely. At the very least, I am going to let it challenge every assumption I currently make regarding my current task management solutions and, if pieces of it look like they might work better than what I have, I look forward to integrating them into a personalized system that makes me a better, more organized person.

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I need to check each string in a large list (anywhere from 5000 to 100000 items) for a particular term. The term is guaranteed never to be embedded within the string. In other words, if the string contains the term, it will be at the end of the string. The string is also guaranteed to be longer than the suffix. Cultural information is not important.
These are how different methods performed against 100000 strings (half of them have the suffix):
1. Substring Comparison - 13.60ms
2. String.Contains - 22.33ms
3. CompareInfo.IsSuffix - 24.60ms
4. String.EndsWith - 29.08ms
5. String.LastIndexOf - 30.68ms
These are average times. [Edit] Forgot to mention that the strings also get put into separate lists, but this is not important. It does add to the running time though.
On my system substring comparison (extracting the end of the string using the String.Substring method and comparing it to the suffix term) is consistently the fastest when tested against 100000 strings. The problem with using substring comparison though is that Garbage Collection can slow it down considerably (more than the other methods) because String.Substring creates new strings. The effect is not as bad in .NET 4.0 as it was in 3.5 and below, but it is still noticeable. In my tests, String.Substring performed consistently slower on sets of 12000-13000 strings. This will obviously differ between systems and implementations.
[EDIT] Benchmark code: http://pastebin.com/smEtYNYN
[EDIT] FlyingStreudel's code runs fast, but Jon Skeet's recommendation of using EndsWith in conjunction with StringComparison.Ordinal appears to be the best option.


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The shooting happened just before 9 p.m. on Lodi Street, according to Lt. Butch Townsend, Pearl Police Public Relations and Information Director.
Townsend said, "Last night's shooting by Andrew Russell Groseclose, 62, of 128 Lodi Street that resulted in the death of his step-son, Richard Russell Groseclose, 40, of the same address, appears to be a self-defense shooting."
Townsend added, "The investigation is on-going, but seems to indicate that an argument between the victim and the shooter resulted with Richard pulling a weapon on his stepfather who, in turn, pulled one of his own and fired once striking the victim in the chest resulting in his death."
Townsend said witness statements confirm the scenario, but the investigation continues and the case will likely be turned over to the next session of the Rankin County Grand Jury for its evaluation.
Lt. Townsend added currently no charges have been filed and non are expected.
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So Eliot Spitzer Walks Into a Massage Parlor…
The former governor and current Slate columnist walked into a media party at Happy Ending with his head held high.
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Eight months since its explosive premiere, our favorite show, the Spitzer Prostitution Scandal, is coming back.
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I beginning to think its like watching the sand box set fighting over who makes the worst insults
No wonder We the people do not trust Congress
I think he needs to join the Hair Club. This guy is a real wingnut.
Another leftist democrat moron ranting in the congress. He is a first termer who hopefully will not be re-elected by the Floridians in his district. His statistics are also flawed. His comments are disgusting and untrue.
While what he said is aggressive and full of hyperbole, He might have a point.
All Ive seen from republicans is a capitulation to the insurance and pharma lobby and a policy of opposing anything that is brought up by any democrat.
Snowe has put forward some ideas on how to proceed, but the party cant appear to agree with democrats– or their entire platform starts to crumble.
Its not a bad strategy when the democrats have a near super majority, but when the country faces many real, serious problems It may backfire and let the democrats characterize the republicans as "the party of NO" and extremists. The core problem is that if they allow more compromise they risk being steamrolled by the democratic majority.
Im not sure of the answer here, but blind opposition is a dangerous game to play.
Crazy, maybe, but no more crazy than your average Congressman. He looks like the cosmic balance to Joe Wilson.
Republicans are impotent poodles. That is all.
Debating whether or not CongressCritters are being sufficiently 'civil' while people are dying needlessly is just the sort of misdirection and deceit that allows events like Abu Ghraib to go unadressed. It's not as if anything he said was fabricated out of whole cloth……
If you don't support Gov't run healthcare, you are not only a rascist and a murderer. You are also a cross dressing, drug addicted, child molester.
Way to go Mr. Grayson! It's about time the democrats stood up against the fear-mongering, corporate protecting republicans. Thank you for speaking the truth and standing up for the American people. More democrats should follow in your footsteps and make a stand for what's right! Forward thinking, educated, humanitarians of Northern California support you 100%.
This man is my hero! Keep it up and never back down. Take this fight all the way and show the rest of the government how to fight the good fight. This man actually represents his people.
This man disgusts me. Not only is he just plain wrong, his reckless use of the word "holocaust" Is especially disturbing.
I have only one question: Where is the Constitutionality of govt run or govt sponsored healthcare? All of these elected officials take on oath to support the Constitution, yet they blatantly disregard it.
Tyler: If my knowledge is correct, there's nothing about the gov't being able to run or sponsor healthcare. However, much like chartering a bank, the gov't can do this via the Necessary and Proper Clause (Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution) and the Supremacy Clause (Article VI of the Constitution). Running Healthcare is an implied power.
That's your Constitutionality.
You can prove anything with statistics, probably including that the uninsured don't eat or exercise as well as everyone else. Only God knows why people die, and Rep. Grayson did not consult with him.
I have insurance, but I also have cancer and will have an operation to remove my kidney in 2 weeks. Whos fault is that? Clearly the Demoncrats, who should have invested more in cancer research when they were in power!!!
This Man is my Hero and he is 100% correct and should not apologize to this dumm Republicans who have no plan for the poor and the Middle class. The only interest they have is for the Insurance Company and the few Rich people in this world. Thank God, someone can stand up to this Devils called the Republican party that wants the poor people to die. Come the Next Election, most of the Republicans will be voted out.
I am from Florida and we the people will vote for him. We love him and are very happy to hear him call out the Republicans….shame on you Republicans, the Party of NO. NO to Healthcare….No to Education…No to Tax to the top 1% of the Rich…No to helping the economy….No to anything progressive and good for the Middle class and the Poor.
Kudos to Congressman Grayson for his blunt – and truthful – summary of the Republican plan. Those on the Right demanding his head on a platter are only displaying their rank hypocrisy for the umpteenth time. I would suggest that Doug Heye check the facts, before labeling Dems with a word best reserved these days for the GOP.
Compared to the hyperbole, vitriol, and outright sedition that's been spewed by Republican representatives on the floor of the House for the last eight months, Grayson's pointed remarks are a long-overdue sign of Democratic backbone.
Apology?! Not on your life.
Many on the Right and Left are also taking him to task for his use of the word "holocaust" (small "h") to describe the needless deaths of 45,000 fellow Americans each year. When I last checked, the dictionary still defines this word first as "destruction or slaughter on a mass scale." I find it hard to take the Congressman to task on this point – even as a Jew – given the undeniably accurate way in which the word (again, small "h") was used.
We should all pray for the day that our government halls are filled with Graysons. Maybe then, at least SOMETHING would get done in the corridors of power.
I'm a Republican, and I don't believe Rep. Grayson should not be made to apologize for his remarks … just as I believed Rep. Joe Wilson shouldn't be made to apologize for his. I believe Mr. Wilson's comment spokeas much truth as Democrats see truth in Mr. Grayson's. That's the beauty of free speech, and the United States is blessed to have it.
We love Grayson the only sane and smart person in Congress. WE love you Alan keep speaking for the people of American. The media will try to spin it into something negative, but millions support you!!!!!
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This man disgusts me. Not only is he just plain wrong, his reckless use of the word "holocaust" Is especially disturbing.
He is not wrong. Please go and read the definition of the word holocaus in the dictionary. So he disturbs you, does he? That's because he is holding up a mirror to your face and, even though you do not recognize the truth of what he says, your inner sould and conscience does and so feels uncomfortable.
i find this an interesting bit of useless brabble. It's constitutional, it's not constitutional. What is it really. I mean how many of you have experienced Gov't run healthcare? After living in France & England, there is nothing that is free.Tthe issue arises much as is the case in Mass. where forced health insurance, public or private makes theirs the most expensive in the country. Gov't run systems are inherently inefficient, period. Rationing is a given as it has been experienced first hand. If there is no health care then how do illegals have children in the country? 70% of babies born in Parkland hospital in Dallas are to illegals.
So we will have to pay upwards of 15% in extra taxes to pay for health care. Anyone making less than 37K will get a benefit, and more than will pay into the system. This is about a choice. It's terrible if you have to make the choice to get healthcare, it's OK if the Gov't takes your money and does it for you? Does your mommy work for the Gov't? Apparently you think so. Go and get old in England and you can appreciate how good this system really is. If you're under 21 or over 65 you're covered. Either through CHIPS or Medicare. Have any older relatives that have had replacement surgery? You can't get it in England period. No lines, just plain no, but you can have all of the pain killers you can stand.
Be careful what you ask for. Once you get it you'll wish the Republicans fear mongering as you call it had worked.
The constitution never intended this. It never intended taxation without representation, but we have that too. This is not a Gov't of itself by itself and for itself, but that is what is happening and there is far greater revolt brewing than even the guys that pitched tea could have imagined.
Well, T.R. I live in a country that has Government run healthcare, in fact you are living in the only Western country in the world that does not have universal, affordable health care.
We don't have rationing of health care, nor do we have death panels, nor does anyone die here because they can't afford health care.
Perhaps you should do some research on the healthcare provided by other countries before you post your claims.
his comments were great especially the ones that he was "apologizing for. affordable healthcare for all Americans is a must!! This is coming from a small business owner and registered republican who can not afford it now.
I am a German and I have been watching all about the Health Care debate in the US, and I could not
understand how a great Nation like US without universal coverage for his Citizen. I earn less than 2.000 Euros and I pay less than 200 Euros for Haelth Insurance which cover my whole Family. Health Care is the most Important human needs in Earth, nobody want to die, everybody needs life if you are sick you need
recoverage and I don´t mind if I pay tax to save people´s life.
Americans need somebody like Mr.Grayson to lead them, for me is this Man a great Politician, and if this man suppose to be a German Politician I wil not wait to vote for him to be my President.
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Code-switching drives my poetry and brings me to read a variety of text, listen to a great deal of recordings, and attend as many readings as possible to keep that interest moving forward. It would be great if "moving forward" led to some grand destination, a poetry nirvana, where all my questions regarding meter, line length, white space, tone and style were magically answered. (Actually, that sounds like a step-by-step textbook guide to poetry, a resource that is definitely not my idea of poetry nirvana.) The place where all this code-switching leads me is not a final destination but a transit terminal where myriad tunnels intersect and lead to more terminals; in effect, a place more full of questions then answers—a true poetry nirvana.
When speaking of code-switching conversations tend to gravitate toward negotiating between two spoken languages, in my case that would be Spanish, the mother tongue I was born into, and English, the adopted tongue I've grown up speaking. If it was as simple as that, I'd just grab a Spanish-English dictionary and call it a day, but it's not since I've never spoken a pure Spanish and never spoken a true English. To paraphrase William Carlos Williams: I don't speak English; I speak American.
And by American I'm talking about North, South and the Space Between America, as my personal idiom is a combination of Ecuadorian Castilian, Puerto Rican Spanish (sped up with some Dominican influences), and the mishmash that is New York City English. All these mixed dialects have served me well in my personal quest to achieve poetic nirvana. It's let me understand that the true language in American Poetry is code-switching. From Walt Whitman setting it off by shattering iambic pentameter and freeing future American Poets to write as they speak, to William Carlos Williams' Spanish American roots, to Ezra Pound's fascination with Chinese characters, to Langston Hughes claiming the rhythms and cadences of the Black Experience, to the Beats' appropriation of Jazz and Buddhism, to the Nuyorican Poets' exploration of immigrant slang, to the Slam Movement's attempt to democratize poetry; American Poetry continues to be informed by code-switching between languages, music, and cultures.
Examples of this new lingua franca, one that embraces diversity over absolutes, can be found in the work of Patricia Smith, who has taken the lessons from countless live performances in various venues and combined that with the rigor of a Creative Writing MFA to produce Blood Dazzler, a poetry collection that is as intense in its examination of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath as it is lyrically jubilant in celebrating the resilient spirit of the people of New Orleans. Smith's code-switching is not just her use of African-American vernacular but also about her keen ear for what works in live readings and in prosodic analysis.
Consider the work of Bob Holman and his current project: On the Griot Trail. Holman is not only trying to document the poetries of endangered languages but is also bringing a spotlight to the poetics of preliterate societies that utilize orature, unwritten poetics, to disseminate traditions. In these cultures, there is no debate over what constitutes an authoritative speaker versus an unreliable narrator, only the code-switching between everyday speech and the decalamatory voice.
Today, I find myself code-switching in the poetry world all the time as I negotiate the middle ground between orature and literature, track how Hip-hop has traveled from the Boogie Down to the pages of American Letters, weigh the pros and cons between self-publishing and the contest route, figure out when a poem shifts from the confessional to the political, and measure when the overtly political doesn't speak for the political subconscious. And if there is any one language that ties this all together, I would say it's the language of poetry.
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Really stimulating and interesting. I'll check out some of the links and authors you mention, being a fan of code-switching myself. By the way, I don't think there is a "pure English" anywhere today, although the BBC might disagree. There are only regionally appropriate dialects... mine happens to be Eastern Canadian, itself a mishmash of British and American influences with a little French thrown in.
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Postictal psychosis (PIP) is a common and clinically significant sequela of inpatient epilepsy monitoring. A series of 622 patients with complex partial epilepsy undergoing video-EEG evaluations as candidates for epilepsy surgery were evaluated, by structured psychiatric interview, for individual and family psychiatric histories, depression, anxiety, and features of personality disorders. No patient had psychotic symptoms at baseline. Twenty-nine developed a PIP episode during monitoring. The a priori hypotheses were that patients with PIP would have higher baseline schizotypal and paranoid personality ratings and a greater prevalence of histories of psychiatric treatment and family history of psychotic illness. However, only a higher prevalence of mood disorder among first- and second-degree relatives distinguished the patients who developed PIP on logistic regression analyses (odds ratio=3.49, P=0.001). Possible mechanisms linking vulnerability toward mood disorders and the development of psychotic symptoms in epilepsy are discussed
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Sources tell TMZ Janet Jackson was so "blown away" by the positive reaction to her appearance on the "American Idol" finale that she's "seriously entertaining" a concert tour ... that could begin before the end of the year.
Janet was amazing on Wednesday's "Idol" -- performing "Again," "Nothing," and "Nasty." We're told as of today a concert tour is now on the front burner.
F@CK EACH AND EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU JERK OFF'S WHO GOT SOMETHING NEGATIVE TO SAY ABOUT JANET!! WHAT DA F@CK'S WRONG WITH YOU?? TMZ attracts all the loosers in the world. All they wanna do is spread negativity. Seek help...
For those of you dumb a$$es who are talking about Janet's dancing(LOL)...SHE WAS WEARING 7" HEELS!!! Who can possibly do HALF of what Janet did in heels that high??? ONLY the QUEEN can pull that off. Trust me...you can talk alot of **** sitting on you a$$ WATCHING Janet, but you CAN NOT beat her in a dance-off. And she sang LIVE the whole performance. People are so jealous of the fact that Janet has a unique skill where she is able to dance and sing live at the same time. She does it all the time. Michael has the same skill. No one else can do that so they say Janet can't either. But JANET ALWAYS SINGS LIVE!!! Just face it and get over your own insecurities.
Her and Jermaine have the same hair style. Melted Chic. Takes a lot of product to melt hair like that.
In the words of Matt or poster #2....Hell Yeah!!!! Love me some Janet and I have not missed a show since she started with the Rhythm Nation tour...and i always manage to get front row so I'm kinda use to paying the high price to see Miss Jackson and on another note if she does go on tour would be great if Tina Landon and Shawnette heard as choreographers!! I'm just sayin.......
The amount of nasty comments on this board is amazing. Instead of sitting on your ass criticizing a performer that looks and sounds amazing at 44 as she did in her 20s, why don't you try to put yourself out there have other losers sit on their ass and say nasty things about you.
So many of these "artists" come and go and only a VERY small number of them have the staying power of artists like Janet Jackson. This woman have been performing since the age of 7! while some of you were just learning how to spell she was performing in Vegas with her brothers. Give RESPECT where it is do.
Like many male artists that say MJ was their ICON, she is the ICON to many of the younger performers out there. From Britney, Christina, Lady Gaga, Beyonce... all of them would not be doing what they are doing if it wasn't for these 2 amazing talented people.
She is not skinny, but is comfortable with the way she looks. Which is what makes her sexy. I rather have her wear that skin tight thing, then all these "no originality" women artists that forgot to put some pants on....
The message boards were lit up...that was NOT Janet singing that first song.....Listen closely and tell me who you hear!! Listen to the song...who's song does that really sound like?
Much as I like Janet, I won't be going to see her "live". She just doesn't seem to have it anymore. She wasn't singing live on her last 3 "live" performances and she doesn't seem to dance anymore either, just relies on her backing dancers as she walks around the stage. She should go study "This Is It" & see how it should be done. Sorry Janet...please try harder.
I would pay to see Janet perform IF she still performed like she used to! I love her music, but she looked so out of place and she just can't move like she used to and she definitely looked like she was struggling with her "moves", not to mention she has way more jiggly parts than she used to.
Why are people being so PC about her performance. She lip-synched the song and only turned on her microphone when she starting yelling. The difference in the sound was so obvious. Go see Britney Spears if you like Karoake. Why does Idol even allow people the option to lip synch on a singing show?
are you people crazy, why do you want to pay money to watch someone lip synch the entire time? its bs that many of the so called top female artist lip synch their whole shows! thats not talent and its not at all entertaining.
Her whole outfit was laughable. That jumpsuit made her look like an old broad pretending to be young and it was totally unflattering for her shape.
You couldn't pay ME to see her in concert.
She was boring and looked lazy, kept waiting for he to move not just shake her head.
At best sounded like a WEAK MJ no power in her voice at all.


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Posted By John Rath On August 7, 2012 @ 9:18 am In Storage | No Comments
Fusion-io (FIO) announced [1] its new ION Data Accelerator software that boosts the performance of applications that need access to shared data while enhancing existing enterprise storage infrastructure. From a 1U server, Fusion ION software delivers over a million I/Os per second with up to 6 GB/s throughput and under 0.06 millisecond latency.
ION delivers improved performance over Fibre Channel, InfiniBand and iSCSI using standard protocols. The Fusion ioMemory architecture enables ION performance to scale even further over time as server and networking solutions speed up through new technology developments. Fusion-io said ION can enhance storage area networks (SANs) by addressing "hot spots" and bottlenecks created by demanding applications, which can slow down shared storage systems. By moving these hot spots to ION, the storage array can provide faster, more predictable performance, allowing the storage array to focus on managing large capacities of enterprise data.
"When I first started working with Fusion-io, I was impressed how our engineers were so focused on using software to advance modern computer systems," said Fusion-io Chief Scientist Steve Wozniak. "Powerful software can be the foundation for incredible innovation, especially when it's also an open system that shares resources. I am excited that our new ION software shares ioMemory acceleration across the datacenter to help customers keep meeting the data demands they face on the application side of the Internet."
As a way to combine Fusion ioMemory products the ION software and and high performance servers create an open platform appliance for shared data acceleration. ION includes features such as the creation of RAID sets, LUN creation and management, SNMP, performance monitoring, and more. It provides 1,000,592 4K random IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) with up to 6 GB per second throughput and 56 microsecond latency in a 1U server. The Fusion ION Power Cut Safety feature ensures data is not at risk in case of an unexpected power outage or server failure.
"Software defined solutions are rapidly replacing specialized hardware throughout the data center, and Fusion-io has been at the forefront of this transition since our founding," said David Flynn, Fusion-io CEO and Chairman. "ION software combines customers' preferred server platforms and ioMemory to deliver greater performance than even dedicated flash appliances, while also improving the efficiency of high performance storage arrays. With ION, Fusion-io is offering a comprehensive portfolio of software defined data acceleration solutions, including server acceleration, caching acceleration, and now shared storage acceleration, giving customers maximum choice over how they architect ioMemory into their software defined datacenter."
One of the first resellers to offer integrated ION solutions is Hyve Solutions, a division of SYNNEX. Hyve has worked with [2] Facebook on its custom servers, and became the first company to achieve Open Compute Project (OCP) Solutions Provider status.
"Fusion-io offers unmatched performance within the server," said Steve Ichinaga, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Hyve Solutions. "In some cases, an appliance solution may be desired to provide high performance shared storage. We are excited about combining our expertise in custom server design and integration with Fusion-io technologies to bring this new high performance storage solution to the market."
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OHIO -- Right now there is a huge issue in the Geek Squad. I was actually warned to stay away from Best Buy because of their lack of concern in doing the job right. I should have listened.
What happened to me personally is beyond anything I could have believed unless I went through it. Here it is...
I took my computer to best buy to get a wireless pic LAN card installed. The geek squad guy said it would be 50.00 and then when I got there he said it was $80.00. So when I told him the difference he changed the price to $50.00. The next day I picked up the computer and the wireless card did not work nor did the router they told me to purchase,$39.00. I then tried everything to get this to work and nothing. So I had to call best buy and they refused to tell me anything and told me that the reason it would not function is because the wireless pic LAN card had to be configured to operate correctly they told me that this was only possible if they came out and charged me an in home service fee.
I was angry about this because it was never mentioned to me that this was a requirement of having a pic wireless LAN card installed. So I ended up having to bring my computer back into the best buy geek squad which was not a good thing but I did not know what else to do. So I had talked to the manager of the Geek squad and he said to bring it in to test it. I was told it would take about an hour. The manager told me he would place the info in my file and other techs world see it and know what to do.
So I drop off my computer and 3 days later no one has called me back.
I contact the Geek squad and asked them why no one has called me and they told be they were running a diagnostic, which shows nothing in error that they did, of course. So I told them what the manager said to me and none of that info was in the notes of my file and the manager had went on vacation a day after he told me to bring in my computer.
So now I am so upset I take my computer home and call the company that made the pic wireless LAN card to ask them what to do. One of their tech support walks me through the process of testing their card and it is found that the drivers were not installed with the pic wireless LAN card. It was not receiving a signal because the Geek squad put the hardware in and nothing else. The computer did not recognize the added hardware. I contact the corporate portion of the Geek squad which had "agents" speak to me about this issue. All they did was work to cover themselves while leaving me looking like the one who was at fault. I was on the phone with best buy and the Geek squad for several days,... more than 4 hours total.
The Store Best Buy and their Geek Squad are only looking to cover their people in wrong doing at the full cost of the customer. I actually had to take the computer to another best buy in order to get information that proved that the first Geek squad was in error. They told me that there was no way that the Geek squad in the other location did the right thing and in saying that I thought I could trust them.
I left my computer there and then when I picked cit up they said that there was a hard drive problem and that was why their pic wireless LAN card did not work. So I contacted the corporate office again (4th time) and they refused to give me a refund for the LAN card or the router because it was a problem with my computer, not their service or their agents. I forgot to mention that when I talked to their Geek squad agent in their corporate office they spoke extra loud and tried to drown out my statements when they did not agree with what I said about something being very wrong in their Geek squad. Every word out of the mouth of this agent was in a means to say that I as a customer was wrong and their Geek squad was right. I believe the reason they did this was to make sure in the midst of failing companies they would cover their company at the expense of the customer, and to cover their jobs.
I have since cancelled my credit card and account with Best Buy. I will never purchase from this company again because they were willing to steal from me to cover themselves while knowing that their employees are doing wrong.
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Posted by Soaring Consumer on 2009-04-02:
Geek Squad clearly did not do what you paid them to do. The nerve of them to blame you and claim that there is a problem with your computer.
Installation includes not just installing the hardware, but installing the driver software and making sure it works.
You should be able to install the driver software from the CD that was included with the hardware.
Get written documentation from the other store proving that store you went to did not do what you paid for. Then contact Best Buy's corporate offices and request a refund.
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