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Phillies Loose Another Wild One
Last night's Phillies – Reds game looked like it might wind up being an exciting win for the Phils. Instead, it was a loss, although it was still an interesting contest.
The Phillies took the lead in the game and then lost or tied it again 3 times. Ryan Howard drove in a run in the 1st and that was all the scoring through the first 6 innings. Cliff Lee was pitching well, but a slim 1 run lead seemed, as it has all season long, unlikely to hold up.
Sure enough, Lee got into trouble in the 7th and gave up 3 runs, although 1 was unearned due to a Howard error. The defense behind Lee ranged from spectacular to awful, with the Howard error being of the "awful" variety.
But before that, Lee worked out of a 6th inning jam thanks to some amazing defense. Kevin Fransden dove for a ball at third, flipped around on the ground and threw home from his knees to get a force out and save a run. You have to see it to believe it. It was an incredible effort.
Later in the game, Fransden shined again with another toss from his knees that bounced 3 times and still landed securely in Howard's glove at 1st. He also had 3 hits in the game with an RBI-triple in the 8th to once again tie the game for the Phillies. If they had not lost, Fransden would have been the hero in this one for sure.
But Jonathan Papelbon tossed exactly 1 pitch in the 9th and gave up a solo homer and broke the tie in favor of the Reds. The 5-4 score was the final.
So poor Cliff Lee gets yet another no-decision in what was a winnable game. Lee was visibly upset and seen slamming his glove onto the bench in the dugout. For a guy who normally shows little emotion, this was very telling. Lee has had enough of this crazy season, as have we all.
And yet, time marches on…and so does this season whether we like it or not. Game time tonight is 7:05pm.
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Where Has This Phillies Team Been All Year?
The Phillies put a brutal 12-5 beating on the Cincinnati Reds last night. So where has this ball-pounding Phillies team been all year long? Oh that's right; they have been on the disabled list. Sad.
In fact, let us take a look at the 2012 Phillies path to destruction:
That is a lot of injuries. But with Placido Polanco returning yesterday, the Phillies now have most of their starters back, although some of them from the beginning of the season went to other teams in trades. And guys like Domonic Brown and Juan Pierre are making this look like a real line-up once again.
Unfortunately, it is probably too little, too late.
Still, any victory is a happy one. And the Phillies stomping all over the Reds last night was certainly fun to watch. And everyone in the line-up contributed. John Mayberry Jr. is suddenly on fire; he had 3 hits, including a 2-run homer. Pierre also had 3 hits and 2 stolen bases. Everyone in the starting line-up had at least one hit, which has been rare this year.
Roy Halladay did not get a hit, and he did not pitch very well either. But it did not matter. The 5 runs he allowed were easily swept under the proverbial rug since the offense kept on scoring. They scored in every inning except the 2nd, so each run Halladay gave up did not seem like a big issue.
The Phillies will go at the Reds again tonight and they will have a new, interesting player on the staff for this one. Remember that awful Cliff Lee trade a few years back…well, one of the fruits of that goof-up is now on the roster. Phillippe Aumont will take Jeremy Horst's place on the roster as Horst is now on paternity leave for 3 days.
Aumont has had issues. His control is not great and he is an emotional guy, easily rattled at times. He has posted a 4.26 ERA in Triple-A this year. I guess this is the Phillies way of throwing him into the fire to see if he burns. Best of luck to him! Game time is 7:05pm.
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Phillies Put it All Together in Win Over Brewers
A rare event this year for the Phillies has been having all aspects of their game working together at the same time. In an 8-0 win over the Brewers, the pitching, offense and defense all performed very well.
On the mound, Kyle Kendrick took one more positive step towards earning a spot in next year's rotation. He went 8 innings, allowing only 3 hits, 1 walk and no runs. It was his second shut-out start in row. As I have said before, we all knew Kendrick could pitch. It was just a matter of seeing some consistency from him; and now, Kendrick appears to finally be on a roll.
The offense did not disappoint either, although it came from a few odd sources. Michael Martinez, who is hitting only .153, came up with a huge 2-run homer in the 2nd inning to get the Phillies an early lead. Both Domonic Brown and Kevin Fransden each had 3-hit nights, with Brown collecting 4 RBI. It was a monster night for Brown who is trying to prove he belongs in the Bigs.
Fransden is opening many eyes with both his offense and his play at 3rd base. Fransden is really a middle-infielder, but he has adapted very well to the hot corner and has the arm to handle it. If he continues to improve, the Phillies may have themselves either a very cheap 3rd base option for 2013 or a solid utility guy.
And finally, in the win last night, the Phillies actually got through a whole game without committing an error! Hooray! Michael Schwimer pitching in the 9th was as close to an error as they got. Schwimer loaded the bases before finally recording all 3 outs and keeping the shut-out intact.
The Phillies return home to begin a series with the Reds tonight at 7:05pm. Roy Halladay will pitch and try to notch 3 wins in a row for the Phils!
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More Off-Season Moves for the Phillies
Over the past several weeks, the Phillies have made a number of off-season moves. Some of them make sense, some of them make a bit less sense. The following is a breakdown of the various Phillies events, the reasoning behind it and my opinion as to the real reason for the move.
Event: The Phillies send Wilson Valdez to the Reds in exchange for a minor league pitcher.
Reason: One can only assume that the Phillies wanted to add pitching depth.
The Real Reason: Having a great back-up for Jimmy Rollins is unnecessary since J-Roll is superman and cannot possibly get injured again, right? Also, Ryan Madson needed the company of an old teammate for his transition to the Reds.
Event: Brad Lidge, left unsigned by the Phillies, goes to the Nationals on a one-year, $1 million deal.
Reason: Lidge was told he was not in the Phillies' future plans and that was the extent of the explanation he received.
The Real Reason: Lidge has lost the speed on his fastball and is almost guaranteed to get hurt multiple times based on his past track record. Also, after the awful 2011 season Jayson Werth had with the Nationals, Lidge can now provide him with moral support. The Phillies like to take care of their former players ;o)
Event: Hunter Pence received a $10.4 million, one-year deal for 2012.
Reason: To avoid arbitration. Pence is the final arbitration-eligible player therefore, no hearings for the Phils this year.
The Real Reason: Had the Phillies allowed this to go to arbitration, they would have gotten spanked by Pence and probably would have been forced to pay him more. But the real reason for the contract is simple; a happy Pence means more "Let's Go Eat!" T-Shirt money for the Phils.
Event: The Phillies have torn out the grass on the field and are putting down brand new sod.
Reason: The Winter Classic torn up the field pretty bad.
The Real Reason: While the stated reason is valid, there is another underlying reason as well. Having raised ticket prices yet again, the Phillies now have more money than God and they need to justify that by spending a boat load of cash. Last year it was a new Phantavision screen; this year is a new field. Maybe next year they can hire more employees so the concession lines will be less than an hour wait time? Nah…dream on people.
Event: The Phillies sign former Padre, Chad Qualls to a one-year, $1.15 million contract. Qualls is a 33-year old right-handed reliever who posted a 6-8 record with a 3.51 ERA in 2011.
Reason: Ruben Amaro Jr.'s favorite saying – Low-risk, high reward. In other words, if he sucks, they did not pay much for him.
The Real Reason: Because we really miss Chad Durbin and this was the best right-handed Chad they could find.
Event: Pat Burrell has decided to retire. Amaro is "considering" a 1-day contract so he can retire as a Phillie.
Reason: Burrell retired due to a nagging foot injury. Amaro is "considering" the 1-day contract because Burrell deserves a proper send-off.
The Real Reason: The foot injury may have played a role, but really, no one was going to sign Burrell. He has passed his expiration date. And the only reason Amaro hesitates to make a decision here is because he is afraid that Burrell's dog Elvis will pee on his brand new field.
Wilson! A Strange Phillies Trade…
In an odd move this week, the Phillies traded my favorite utility man, Wilson Valdez, to the Reds for a minor-league pitcher. 26-year old Jeremy Horst spent most of last season with triple-A Louisville, where he posted a 1-4 record and had a 2.81 ERA in 36 games. He did make 12 relief appearances for the Reds and posted a 2.93 ERA. Horst will get an invite to Spring Training.
But back to Valdez…I am not really sure what the Phillies are thinking, aside from the fact that they picked up maybe a few too many bench pieces this offseason. But among all of those bench guys, Valdez seems like the most valuable. Certainly in the last two years, he has proven his worth, filling in anywhere and everywhere he was needed.
Most notabley, Valdez picked up the majority of the slack when Jimmy Rollins was injured. And in a 19-inning affair this past May with the Reds (oddly enough, his new team), Valdez even pitched an inning, picking up a win.
Perhaps Bob Vetrone of "Boopstats" on Philly.com explained it best with this chart. Having started 1/2 of the regular season games for the Phillies, here is how the team did both with and without Valdez:
Not too shabby. And here are a few more important stats, this time with my own special chart:
As you can see, Wilson Valdez has pissed me off far less than all other Phillies combined. If you divide by the other 24 players on the roster, the average percentage of time each other individual Phillie pissed me off would be 4.12% compared to Wilson's total of only 0.72%.
Not only that, but Wilson played with heart and truly appreciated his place on this team. He will be sorely missed. So, so sad….
Best of luck Wilson! We will miss you!
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Phillies Breeze Through Four Game Sweep of Reds
With two days off before this series began due to Hurricane Irene, the Phillies did not skip a beat in their total dominance over the Reds this week. This win made it only the third time in franchise history that the Phillies have been 41 games over .500. They did it twice in 1976.
Rookie pitcher Vance Worley is also knocking on the record books. With a 10-1 record, the Phillies have won each of his last 13 starts. That is the best streak since Steve Carlton pitched the Phillies to 15 consecutive wins in 1972.
In this game against the Reds, Worley was great through six innings, allowing just one run. He ran into trouble in the seventh when he allowed a 3-run homer. At that point, Worley was done. But he walked away with the lead and even an RBI on a single in the 2nd inning.
The offense had already spotted Worley six runs by the time the bullpen took over. Ryan Howard hit a solo homer for his 104th RBI of the year. Filling in for Placido Polanco, Michael Martinez blasted a 2-run shot to right, which was his 3rd homer of the year. Shane Victorino and Wilson Valdez had two hits in the game as well.
So September started with a bang for the Phillies. They currently hold an 8-game lead in the division and will play 3 games in Miami next. Game 1 against the Marlins is Friday night at 7:10pm with Roy Oswalt pitching.
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Another UnbeLEEvable Month for Cliff Lee
In the month of August, Cliff Lee has been amazingLEE, wonderfuLEE and happiLEE spectacular on the mound. Lee nearly duplicated his equally stunning month of June, where he went 5-0 with a 0.21 ERA. He ended August tonight with the same record of 5-0 and a 0.45 ERA.
Against the Reds on Wednesday night, Lee was dominant, as usual. Over 8.2 innings, Lee allowed only six hits plus one walk and a hit batter in the 9th. In short, he was magical.
The Phillies offense was a bit sluggish against an old foe in Dontrelle Willis, who pitched for the Marlins during his better days. Since then, Willis has struggled to find a solid place in the majors. But the Reds gave him another shot and he appears to be trying to take advantage of that. He allowed some runs, but was pretty good overall.
After Willis walked the first two batters he faced, the Phillies scored one run on a Ryan Howard force out in the 1st. Later in the sixth, Hunter Pence took Willis deep for a 2-0 Phillies lead. Shane Victorino scored in the seventh on another ground ball out, this time from Chase Utley.
So while the offense scored only three runs, that appeared to be all Lee needed. The defense backed Lee as well, although some of the outs they recorded were rather unorthodox.
For example, in the 5th, Wilson Valdez started to turn what looked like a great double play. He fed the ball to Utley, but Utley fired to first way over the head of Howard. As the ball ricocheted off the wall beyond 1st, Carlos Ruiz snagged the ball and fired back to Utley, who tagged out the runner going to second on the overthrow. Ruiz saved Utley from the error and turned a very odd double play.
In the 9th inning, Lee finally ran into trouble after a hit, a walk and then a hit batter. The hit batter was questionable as Miguel Cairo clearly leaned into the pitch. And unfortunately, that prevented Lee from recording his sixth shut-out of the year as he was pulled in favor of Ryan Madson. But Madson took care of the Reds with only three pitches to end the game.
With the 3-0 win, Cliff Lee has now recorded two months without a loss and at least five wins with an ERA under 1.00. That feat has only been accomplished two times before.
The win also guarantees another series win for the Phillies who have taken the first three games in this four game series. Vance Worley will pitch in the finale tomorrow; game time is 12:35pm.
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Halladay & Howard Hammer the Reds
After having multiple starts either cut short or moved back due to the horrible east coast weather this month, Roy Halladay had to be anxious to finally get in a solid start. He did that and more in a 9-0 win over the Reds on Tuesday night.
Through seven innings, Halladay allowed only two hits and two walks without a run crossing the plate. But that is not all. Halladay did damage at the plate as well. In the sixth inning with the sacks packed, Halladay smashed a bases-clearing double and ended the game in a tie for a team-leading 3-RBI.
That's right, move over Brad Pitt; we have Roy Halladay and he can do it all. Halladay would not just have rescued that woman, he would have rescued a litter of puppies, pitched a no-hitter in the woman's honor, donated bone marrow to save her ailing child and then named his next kid after her.
Ryan Howard elected to play hero in this game as well. He hit a 2-run homer in the fourth to begin the Phillies offensive outburst. Those two RBI put Howard at 101 for the season, setting a Phillies record for 6 straight seasons with at least 100 RBI. And in the ninth, just for good measure, he hit another homer for RBI #102.
And the home runs kept coming, as if they were contagious. Hunter Pence had a solo shot in the sixth and then Raul Ibanez went yard for 2-RBI in the seventh.
The Phillies walked away with an impressive 9-0 win over the Reds behind the red-hot Halladay and Howard. Game 3 will be played Wednesday night at 7:10pm; Cliff Lee will pitch.
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Hamels Sharp in 1st Game Off the DL
The Phillies began a stretch of 33 games in 31 days today in Cincinnati against the Reds. With the schedule shuffling due to Hurricane Irene, the Phils lost their final off-day of the regular season and also have two doubleheaders in September.
Today was an especially important day for pitcher Cole Hamels. It was his first start since coming off the DL with some shoulder soreness. Hamels did not skip a beat as he began quickly mowing down Reds hitters.
Hamels was perfect through three innings when an outfield blunder ended the streak in the fourth. Hunter Pence overran a routine fly ball, then slipped and fell trying to go back to make the catch. The hit was recorded as a triple, which gave the Reds a 1-0 lead soon after.
Probably mortified my the mistake, Pence looked for redemption early with a single to start the fifth. Carlos Ruiz then singled and Wilson Valdez drove Pence home with a very timely double.
Hamels was able to shake off the earlier mistake and with a 1-1 tie game, he continued pitching very well. Through six innings, Hamels allowed just the one run on two hits and struck out seven.
The pitchers battle continued as the Reds' Homer Bailey kept confusing Phillies hitters. Valdez seemed to be the only one able to hit Bailey and he started the eighth off with a single.
Michael Martinez was then sent up to bunt, which was a minor disaster. I sincerely hope this is the last time Martinez will be counted on to lay down a bunt, because he looked like he had no clue what he was doing. He bunted two balls straight up into the air; the first was foul and the second was caught for a very ugly out.
Lucky for Martinez, Shane Victorino stepped up to the plate and finally saw a pitch he liked. One hanging curve ball later and Victorino had himself a 2-run homer. The Phillies then had a 3-1 lead.
That lead dwindled a little in the bottom half of the inning as the struggles of Michael Stutes continued. He gave up one run on three hits, cutting the lead to 3-2.
In that inning, Placido Polanco missed a hard hit ball and made a throwing error. Polanco also struck out three times at the plate, which is very out of character for him. Normally a contact hitter, Polanco did not look like himself today both at the plate and in the field. This leave one wondering just how badly he is being bothered by the sore hip and back.
After that odd inning, the Phillies were unable to score again. That meant the game was in the hands of Ryan Madson with a miniscule 1-run lead. Coming into this game, Madson was 23 for 25 in save opportunities.
Unlike Polanco tonight, Madson was on top of his game. After allowing a lead-off single, he buckled down and recorded the final three outs of the game.
Tuesday night, Roy Halladay will finally take the mound after getting pushed back with all the crazy weather and game cancellations earlier this week. Game time is 7:10pm.
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Hurricane Irene Weekend Photos
The following are some photos I took while bored at the ballpark on Saturday and also some shots from my neighborhood showing some hurricane damage.
To start with, I finally saw the new Harry Kalas statue. It was nice being able to take photos without a huge crowd:
And here are some nice rainy shots of the tarp, wet fans, a bunch of bird taking over the wet field and the flag poles, minus most flags as a wind precaution:
Next, I went to see the new John Kruk Wall of Fame plaque and also stared at empty seats for a while for lack of anything else to do:
Once the game was finally called, I drove south into Delaware to get home through Hurricane Irene flood warnings, tornado warnings and some pretty impressive downpours. Here are some sights from my neighbor in the aftermath, including a small lake in my front yard, very large trees tipping sideways, a sink hole in the yard and some fallen tree branches:
Aside from some water in the basement though, all went pretty well down here. So, how about you? Tell me in the comment section where you live and what the damage was from the hurricane.
The tomorrow, with any luck, Phillies baseball will resume again. Game time in Cincinnati is 7:10pm with Cole Hamels pitching.
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Write a few sentences to describe what's going on in the picture. The pictures shows Willy and his dog Searchlight harvesting potatoes from Grandpa's field.
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|16 Dec 2012
what card should i get
i know nothing about graphics cards so im wondering what card i should get. i usually play simulators with my computer so i know i need a good card. im going to be buying a new computer and these are my choices.
AMD Radeon HD 7570 1GB GDDR5 for Win 8
AMD Radeon HD 7770
NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 1GB GDDR5 for Win 8
Nvidia GTX 660
1.5GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660
i appreciate any help i can get.
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Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
I would get either of the nVidia's. I have an ATI in my wife's puter though ok I think nVidia has better driver support.
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|16 Dec 2012
amd radeon hd 7770 or the nvidia geforce 660
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|16 Dec 2012
how do the 7770 and the 660 compare against each other. there is $100 difference between the two.
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|16 Dec 2012
nvidia gets hotter, but it is a overall better card
the amd radeon hd 7770 is the best bang for the buck though
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|16 Dec 2012
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 X64 (Windows 10, 8.1, Linux Mint, Windows XP and others in VM)
Maybe this will help you decide, Passmark High End Video Card rankings. But, I would consider the 660TI.
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|16 Dec 2012
8 Pro x64
660ti - worth the extra.
The 600 ti beats the 7770, hands down.
What resolution will you be playing at and how large/what brand is your Power Supply?
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Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium x64
AMD Radeon HD 7570 1GB GDDR5 for Win 8
AMD Radeon HD 7770
NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 1GB GDDR5 for Win 8
Nvidia GTX 660
1.5GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660
as a stupidly stupid gpu nerd i am i have coloured (spelt correctly ) them accordingly:
Red = not good for anything other than 2D gaming or video editing.
the 7570 is an entry level card
Yellow = this is a step up from entry level known as "budget gaming cards" basically you should be able to play most modern games at medium to high levels at 1080p
The 7770 is a great little card (not little xD) I use it myself for Battlefield 3 (ultra setttings at 1080p) and it can throw out 40+ fps!!! even with my poor cpu!
the 640 in terms of performance is round about on par with the 7770 and the 7750 (slightly slower than the 7770 and is single slot)
green = the best "budget gaming cards" before you get to the mid range-high end level.
the 650 TI, and 660 TI both outperform the 7770 and in my country the 650 cost less!
The 660 TI performs excellent in the 1440p range but is actually more expensive than the 650. according tho the prices though you might want to get a 670 for near the price but has more performance.
bear in mind all cards except the 7570 will take up 2 slots on your motherboard.
conclusion? if your budget stretches to the 660ti you are certainly future proofing yourself until the next generation. if you wont find yourself playing other games other than simulation... (call of duty, crysis 3, etc etc. the 7770 sits in the middle with the 640. i would recommend the 7770 over the 640 (not bias) as it has more bang for the same buck! hope i helped
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New Privacy Rules Give Marketers Wide Access to Patient Information
ACP-ASIM Identifies Major Flaws In Marketing Provisions
(Washington, DC): The marketing provisions contained in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's (HIPAA) final privacy rule condones and even encourages widespread use of protected health information for marketing purposes, according to testimony presented by William J. Hall, MD, president of the American College of Physicians - American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM) before the Department of Health and Human Services' National Committee on Vital Health Statistics.
"The final rule has more exceptions than it does protections. The wide range of exceptions for health plan operations include face-to-face communications that would extend to third party telemarketers or door-to-door salesman," stated Dr Hall. "Even worse, the products do not have to be health care related."
ACP-ASIM recommends that the use of protected health information for marketing purposes be prohibited. At the very least, for any marketing contact to occur, patients should be given the opportunity to agree to, prohibit, or restrict the disclosures in advance of the communication.
"Patients do not expect their private medical information to be used for marketing purposes," stated Dr. Hall. "The federal regulations that were intended to protect a patient's private health information inadvertently create marketing loopholes that may lead to even greater invasions of patient privacy than we see currently."
The final rule also exempts communications that relate to items or services of "nominal value." This portion of the rule is one of the most vague and ambiguous. This exception also applies to any product or service whether it is a health care-related item or not. Another exemption requires an ill-defined "opt out" procedure be made available to consumers only after their information has been shared with third parties and they receive solicitations.
"Patients must have the right to restrict sensitive information about their medical conditions before the event occurs, not after," stated Dr. Hall.
Other requirements attach to the communication if a covered entity or third party uses or discloses protected health information to target communications based on health status or condition. One prerequisite is that a communication "might be" beneficial to the patient targeted. A second prerequisite is that the communication explains why the patient has been targeted and how the product or service would benefit the patient.
"The rule's provisions require that marketers violate a patient's right to limit knowledge about where they've received treatment and what their medical condition is," stated Dr. Hall. "This is the fundamental protection the rule was designed to provide."
ACP-ASIM is the nation's largest medical specialty organization and the second largest physician group. Membership encompasses more than 115,000 internal medicine physicians and medical students.
Dr.Hall's testimony can now be viewed online.
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By David Wald and Juan Reardon, MD, MPH
This article originally appeared in the November 6, 1995 edition of Microtimes
It's hardly unusual when computer technology and medical technology are joined. In Cuba, computerized information technology is coming to the rescue of physicians and medical workers. Project InfoMed is the embodiment of this development.
Cuba's long-term involvement with health care was bolstered in the early `70s when President Fidel Castro proclaimed his objective that "Cuba will become a world medical power." To a considerable degree this has come to pass (with fifty-seven thousand physicians, Cuba has one doctor for each 192 inhabitants.) Based on a high level of general and specialized education Cuba has invested heavily in medical technology--biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and medical instrumentation, as examples.
Maintaining the effectiveness of a sophisticated medical system requires the efficient dissemination of medical data, including the ability to search and locate specific information, as requested by physicians, researchers, and medical students. With the advantage of a highly educated population, and with the cooperation of key medical personnel, the Ministry of Public Health succeeded in creating a well-functioning National Center For Medical Sciences information (CNICM). That was established some thirty years ago.
Information specialists at CNICM were charged with the task of continually updating the medical system with respect to modern medical technology worldwide. To a large degree, they've been involved with subscribing to, cataloging and distributing medical journals, many from the United States. The weakening of the Cuban economy has had the effect of lowering the budget for medical journals and books; From a high of $1 million CNICM is currently down to $35,000. But Cuban medicine has also contributed to the store of world medical knowledge. CNICM handles the publication of twenty-five medical journals through the National Center's publishing facility, ECIMED (Editorial Ciencias Medicas.)
Almost two years ago CNICM initiated Project InfoMed, aimed at the creation of a wide area network to link outlying areas of the country to regional and provincial servers which, in turn, connected with a central database in Havana. Here was one way to circumvent the problem of insufficient copies of medical journals, with the added bonuses of computerized search capabilities and rapid data transmission.
The short-term goal? To allow any medical worker with access to a terminal to request medical information--journal articles, pharmaceutical data, medical alerts--at the tap of the keyboard, from the central computer; information that is vital to optimum diagnosis and treatment of their patients. The family doctor, say, in an outlying mountainous region may not know what herbs and conventional medications would be most appropriate to prescribe for a particular patient. They can ask the proper questions through the computer system and a central database repository will probably provide the answer within seconds.
InfoMed also makes it possible for medical scientists. academics, researchers, medical students, and professionals to communicate with one another. Through the system, Cuban professionals can easily obtain and submit important medical articles, bulletins, and even excerpts from books.
Contra Costa County epidemiologist Dr. Juan Reardon met with Dr. Jose Francisco Rodriguez Perez, a young physician who was assigned to the project less than a year ago. Dr. Rodriguez provides medical expertise for Lic. Pedro Urra, a computer professional originally trained in foreign services. Urra is responsible for the overall design of the InfoMed network and directs the development of software for the system. A major consideration, Dr. Rodriguez explained is the creation of user-friendly software for medical personnel who are not about to become hackers. The approach was to initiate a system structure that would be flexible enough to permit additional sophistication as soon at it was available--but able to get medical workers online as quickly as possible. It is apparent, from the present level of traffic, that they have done that.
The director and subdirector of the National Center, Dr. Jeremias Hernandez Ojito and Jehova Oramas Diaz, respectively, provided background information about the National Center and explained that a major portion of Project InfoMed was initially funded by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) with follow-on money from United Nations Special Projects.
At this stage of the project, the InfoMed network is a national grid. After only eighteen months of implementation following the six month planning period, the InfoMed network was already in place, with four servers currently functioning in the provinces (City of Havana, Villa Clara, Camaguey, and Santiago de Cuba) and with a list of subscribers in excess of two hundred, and growing fast. Those four will take on the additional role of regional servers as soon as the other ten provinces have their servers installed. Those ten are being prepared at CNICM and will be in place by November 1995. All servers are Intel-based 486 PCs (The city of Havana will house the core of the system.) The sites for the servers will generally be major technical hospitals and medical schools in each province. Staff physicians, medical students, and researchers will have access to terminals located in and around their respective institutions, general and special hospitals, medical schools and medical research institutes. At the present there are about one hundred terminals scattered across the country.
Two of Cuba's best known research centers are the Carlos Finlay Institute, where the first WHO-approved meningitis B vaccine was developed (currently being used by Argentina and Brazil and under evaluation in Chile and several other Latin American countries) and the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, both in western Havana. Such institutes will have high priority for multiple terminals. At the other end of the medical hierarchy the goal is to locate more terminals in remote areas where family doctors may have access to the InfoMed Network.
Urra and Rodriguez explained that the UN grant covers the cost of only the servers and related expenses. The task of obtaining sufficient terminals is left up to the Cubans themselves (about eight hundred in all are needed. They pointed out that PC-XT and PC-AT computers, counterparts to the early Model A and Model T Fords are quite adequate as terminals. Fitted with 20MB or 40MB hard disk drives and 2400 baud modems, these older machines are allowing the users to tie into the national system. All of the terminals currently in place have been gathered from various sources, including eighteen from the Bay Area which arrived in July on a Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan. The Bay Area support group for Project InfoMed is collecting and servicing PCs with the goal of sending two hundred units in January 1996. (N.B., These computers are part of the shipment that was violently seized by U.S. Customs on Jan. 31, 1996.)
Apart from the obvious hardware requirements of InfoMed, there is the matter of access to international medical databases--The US National Library of Medicine has compiled some very impressive databases. The most extensive and well-known being MEDLINE, used by thousands of medical personnel in our country. MEDLINE is available on-line as well as on CD-ROMs (which are updated quarterly). Rodriguez and Urra expressed great familiarity with MEDLINE, as well as with a few other databases such as Cancernet (which is already available to them via an Internet dial-up connection). The software to fully access the on-line version is available at nominal cost; the problem at this time is Cuba's lack of hard currency to pay for a high-level connection with the Internet (SLIP/PPP connection). But the CNICM is planning on such a connection some time in the not-so-distant future. Then InfoMed will be able to fully access medical data bases beyond their own national system.
At a medical school in Havana the Instituto de Ciencias Basicas, Victoria Playa Giron (ICBVPG), we interviewed Dr. Felix Fernandez, biochemistry professor and director of information. In a study hall/library, surrounded by forty or fifty medical students cramming for exams, Dr. Fernandez described the plan to locate terminals right there where those students would have access to the medical databases. With computer technology popular among the youth in Havana, medical students are taking to networking with easy familiarity. (There are numerous computer clubs and formal classes in beginning, intermediate, and advanced computer technology, some located in the old Sears building in Central Havana, a building which also houses the popular email network, Tinored.)
The National Institute Oncology and Radiobiology (INOR) is a leading cancer hospital where Maria Sol Lopez is director of the National Center for Oncology Information. She will be in charge of the node soon to be located within that institution and expressed great enthusiasm for the arrival of the equipment. Dr. Gilberto Fleites, chief of thoracic and abdominal surgery, is an energetic individual whose knowledge and interests include not only medicine but economics and computer technology. He spoke from the standpoint of an end-user of InfoMed and clearly saw how his work will become more effective with the advent of the node, particularly when he will have live access to Cancernet at the National Library of Medicine. Fleites explained his problem with obtaining and analyzing CAT scan images of patients from outlying districts who are awaiting surgery. The shortage of imaging film is being overcome by submitting those images on the net without the intermediate step of recording them on the scarce media.
Cuban medicine has, for many years, maintained extensive central registries of medical statistics, the cancer registry being among the most important. With the use of InfoMed, explained Fleites, the task of keeping accurate records is greatly simplified.
The nations largest hospital, the Hermanos Ameijeiras, is a twenty-three-story building near the Malecon, Havana's aging boulevard on the Caribbean Sea. Located on the twenty-second floor of the hospital, the managers and users of the Ameijeiras node enjoy a fine panorama of Havana. The Ameijeiras started out to be a bank building until the new Cuban government (post-1959) decided to convert it to a hospital. It contains some of the most advanced medical equipment in Cuba. There Ella Esposito, the soft-spoken computer engineer in charge or the new InfoMed node, patiently described how the advent of InfoMed had substantially changed their working lives for the better. As a de facto "National Hospital" the Ameijeiras often plays the role of hospital of last resort and is called upon to handle medical cases that are beyond the capabilities of general hospitals. In that role, the specialists at the Ameijeiras are obliged to maintain close communications with many other hospitals in Cuba, The InfoMed network is making that task far more manageable.
One of the tasks of the Ameijeiras is to generate and disseminate medical educational material for the general population throughout Cuba. A separate department is dedicated to the production of leaflets, videos, and audio tapes on good health practice: preventing obesity, hazards of smoking, proper nutrition, alcoholism, etc. Now the use of InfoMed has simplified the task of transmitting this material to outlying medical institutions. Even such mundane tasks of announcing medical seminars, conferences and lectures by visiting professors can be carried out with the use of InfoMed. The attendance of medical personnel at these functions is far higher than ever before (A recently visiting Canadian eye specialist was puzzled by the unexpectedly large attendance at his lecture at an institute in Havana until he learned that notice of his talk was disseminated via InfoMed.)
Project InfoMed demonstrates the unique functions that a computer network can perform in the scientific community, particularly medicine. The Cuban experience, born out of dire necessity rather than mere option, is demonstrating to the world community the great potential of computer networks to enhance the well-being of people, even beyond its value to the business community.
Copyright (c) 1995 by David Wald. All rights reserved.
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We the undersigned, representatives of various Cuban institutions, Health Care workers and Christians state that:
Access to information is an essential necessity for health care workers. The difficult economic situation facing Cuba after the fall of the Socialist Bloc, particularly the Soviet Union, added to the brutal tightening of the US government blockade has had an extremely negative impact on the country's ability to provide the necessary information to support the efforts being made to maintain and improve the public health standards of the Cuban people.
The right information in the right hands at the right time SAVES LIFE'S, even more effectively than any medicine or new techniques.
The National Center for Medical Sciences Information is coordinating a national network which encompasses libraries and other kinds of information centers serving of the health system. The economic difficulties the country is experiencing have obliged us to seek out alternative information sources to make it possible to provide the level of information necessary to support the work of doctors and other health professionals.
InfoMed has been one of these alternative methods. The medical science electronic information network is the most developed alternative. It's development is due to the support given by the Ministry of Public Health, aided by international organizations such as the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the United Nations Development program, and the Caribbean and Latin American Medical Science Information Center.
The Network has been extending it's coverage over the last few years and today is in every province of Cuba. It has 24 hour service seven days a week and offers a growing number of information services which make up for the lack of information received through traditional channels.
These computers which represent a humanitarian gesture of solidarity are today held up at the US border. They were coming to support our efforts to allow specialist who provide primary care, workers in intensive care wards where children's lives are saved and specialists in general medicine to begin to take advantage of the new possibilities opened up by information and communication. In a world where all recognize the importance of information as a resource essential for improving the living standards of our peoples, especially their health standards, any attempt to hamper efforts to achieve this objective infringes the rights of states and of humankind. From the basis of our Christian faith moreover, we have continuously and commitedly opted for life and for each and every way which helps to improve and extend the quality of life. The way shown by Jesus Christ in his relations with disease and the sick lights our way and gives us courage in this undertaking.
Cuban Council of Churches Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center Cuban Worker-Student Baptist Congress Christian Student Movement Brotherhood of Cuban Baptist Churches Oscar Arnulfo Romero Reflection and Solidarity Group Kairos Christian Center for Arts and Liturgy The "El Fuerte" Reflection and Discussion Center The Latin American Union of Ecumenical Youth The christian Medical Commission Dr. Noemi Gorrin- Pediatrician and President of the Christian Medical Commission Dr. Flina Ceballos- Neuro-Pediatrician Angel Lorenzo Gonzalez- Intensive Care Nurse Dr. Marianela de la Paz- Family Doctor Dr. Loida Sardinas- Family Doctor Yamila Laura Lee - Nurse Dr. Roberto Ohoa- Family Doctor Dr. Amaryllis Castro- Family Doctor
February 1, 1996
Havana, February 6(RHC)-- Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina met on Monday with the 39 members of the 6th Pastors for Peace caravan currently visiting Cuba. The group is in Havana for one week and will visit hospitals, schools and other places of interest. Among the stops for the group yesterday was InfoMed, a project of the Cuban Health Ministry, which was to have received donated computers, seized last week by U.S. authorities. The Pastors for Peace caravan was stopped in San Diego, California, as the group attempted to cross the border into Mexico and, ultimately, bring the computers to InfoMed here in Cuba.
While some of their number are in Havana, others from the 6th Pastors for Peace caravan remain behind on the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego to continue the struggle for the release of the confiscated computers. A nation-wide campaign has been launched to raise even more computers to replace those seized by U.S. authorities. And, more importantly, a campaign is underway to raise consciousness about the illegal U.S. blockade against Cuba. One way in which education is being carried out is by referring to the links between U.S. domestic and foreign policies. Radio Havana Cuba spoke with Richard Becker, a representative of the International Peace for Cuba Appeal and Pastors for Peace.
"It is very ironic that at this time when both the Congress, the `Contract on America' authored by the Republicans, but also the Democrats and Clinton, are all determined to reduce services of all kinds and particularly medical services to all sectors of the population. When in the United States, 50 million people have no health care, it's ironic that the government should use a huge amount of its resources to stop the caravan. This is a multi- million dollar operation that's been launched against the caravan, to deny the sending of computers to Cuba, to strengthen this health care system in Cuba.
"Here in Cuba, there is universal health care -- in a much poorer country than the United States. Every single person is guaranteed the right to health here in Cuba. And the purpose of these computers was to strengthen this already excellent health care system. So we have the spectacle of the United States government, on the one hand cutting back medical services -- already inadequate medical services for its own citizens -- and then using its resources to try to deny better health care for the people of Cuba. This is outrageous! And we need to bring this to the attention of everyone in the United States and fight against both the domestic and international policies of the U.S. government at this time."
/* Written 4:36 PM Mar 9, 1995 by jreardon in igc:reg.cuba */
/* ---------- "More on InfoMed: Cuba" ---------- */
InfoMed is the computer net of the National System of Health Information of the Ministry of Health in Cuba. It has been operational since 1992.
Goals: To facilitate the exchange of electronic information in the field of medicine, biomedicine and health in general. Intends to facilitate linkages between professionals, academicians, researchers, functionaries and Public Health workers in general in Cuba and abroad.
Linkages: InfoMed is linked to the key nodules of the Cuban E-Mail Net and with the X.25 Net of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. For international e- mail it is connected to PeaceNet, allowing e-mail exchange with the world nets, including INTERNET and Satellife. With the exception of these international e-mail services, we lack direct connection with INTERNET.
Users: Currently InfoMed provides services to users throughout the country with great possibilities of growth, only limited by the lack of equipment in the health institutions, given that the interest in the service health care workers is enormous.
Up to now there are approximately 500 open accounts, 80% of which are of collective use in health institutions of Cuba. This makes the estimates of users harder to make. The amount of information traveling through the net is continuously increasing and currently the daily average is 14 MB.
Electronic Mail: InfoMed allows users to send e-mail nationally and internationally.
Discussion Groups: Lists of discussion groups are available, both with and without moderators.
File Retrievals: Files available at the Net servers in public and private directories may be accessed and downloaded.
Database Searches: Through e-mail bibliographical and reference searches can be requested from the National System of Health Information. Additionally, on-line consultation is available.
Information : Users may subscribe to specific information services generated by the National Center of Medical Sciences Information (CNICM), such as health news, table of contents, electronic bulletins, and others.
Other Services:
. Consultation on development of computer net projects
. Consultation on the installation of local and wide nets (Novell, Unix, etc.)
. Consultation on the acquisition of computer hardware, modems, and other communication hardware and software.
. Consultation on the development and use of information services for electronic nets.
. Consultation on the analysis and development of new information systems
Goals for the near future:
. Gopher
. Distribution of new bulletins
. Widen the discussion groups
. Teaching courses through e-mail
Examples of resources available through InfoMed:
. MMWR (CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
. CANCER (Articles from ONCODISK CD)
. BIPK (Epidemiological Bulletin from the Institute of Tropical Medicine)
. DIARIA (Information Service on news relevant to medical/health field)
. ANUARIO (ASCII files on Cuban Health Stats- 1993)
. ACIMED (Publication on the National System of Medical Sciences Information)
. CATCOL (Current Databases on the Catalog of Publications by CNICM)
. FITOMED (Database on medicinal plants evaluated by the ministry of health)
. NEURITIS (List for the dissemination of information on Neuritis)
. LF (Books and brochures at the National Medical Library: 5,500 entries)
. LILACS (Cuban medical literature database published in local journals/books; 6,000 entries. 50 new entries each month)
. TE (Thesis of medical students and residents; 16,000 entries)
UN Project: United Nations Development Program
InfoMed is implementing a strengthening project with the support of the United Nations Development Program. The goals are to make the services of InfoMed more available to institutions and health professionals with the establishment of nodules in 13 medical schools in the country. With this effort the country wide net will be strengthen with 13 UNIX servers for e-mail and other services.
This groups of dedicated servers will constitute the backbone of InfoMed are will permit the decentralization and expanded availability of the service. Any health institution with a terminal, a phone line and a modem will be able to communicate with the closest nodule and participate of the benefits of the national net.
This project must be completed by the end of 1995 and it involves the equipment and the training of the staff. Currently there is only one InfoMed nodule, which is for the whole country, is located in La Habana and serves mostly users in this city and periphery. Once the project is completed we intend to extend to the provinces the experience accumulated in more than two years of services.
Once the project is finished there will be a great capability at the national level to offer e-mail services and other services which will be under-utilized if the number of users is not increased. Terminals and modems are needed for institutions and clinics.
For more information: contact-C N I C M:Centro Nacional de Informacion de Ciencias Medicas 27 # 110 e/ M y N. Vedado. CP 10400. Ciudad de La Habana., Cuba Telf:(537) 321991 Fax:(537) 333063 E-Mail: email@example.com
Cuba Solidarity Homepage
USA-Cuba InfoMed Project


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September 5, 2013
Last month we urged everyone to get out and support the Medicare Respiratory Therapist Access Act by meeting with their members of Congress during their August break.
Congress is going back in session on Tuesday, Sept. 10, but they'll be back home in their districts again Sept. 23–27 and Oct. 14–18, so if you missed making a visit in August, now is a great time to start thinking about how you can get it done this month or the next.
Rep. Steve Daines (left) and Brian Cayko.
What does it take to carry something like this out? Brian Cayko, MBA, RRT, has some great tips from a meeting he had with Rep. Steve Daines (R-MT) in Helena on Monday, Aug. 29.
"I had been aware that Congressman Daines was going to be visiting one of his state offices in my hometown of Great Falls the following Thursday, however I had a prior scheduling commitment that would conflict with this opportunity to meet," he says. "I found out about his Helena visit earlier that day on Monday and made a few quick arrangements and drove the 200 mile round trip to meet with him."
Cayko says he went into his meeting with the Congressman equipped with a pre-written script to follow to ensure he covered all the bases in the short amount of time he would have.
"In preparation for my meet and greet I visited the AARC Government Affairs page and brushed up on the major points of HR 2619. This was very easy, and trust me, I didn't cram ten pages of material into my memory in hopes of reciting it to the Congressman," he says. "I merely had a two sentence synopsis in my mind of how I could make sure to tell him the bill number and name, as well as a quick statistic about lung disease in Montana."
He also played on the fact that both he and Rep. Daines are Montana State alums (and the Congressman's two kids are enrolled there now)—something that helped the two connect and made it easier to segue into the real reason he was there.
"We chatted about MSU for about 30 seconds and we both felt like two Montana boys at a tailgate," says Cayko, "Then I quickly changed the subject back to respiratory care."
Cayko also spent some time with Rep. Daines' staffers, making sure to leave a packet of information about HR 2619 with them for future reference.
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Headquarters: 1947 S. Main St. Santa Ana
Phone: 714-847-9097
Website: ocrollergirls.com
Next match: Jan. 11 in
Huntington Beach
Deborah Monterrosa, aka "Dirty Deborah Harry," is the house mechanic who runs the skate shop at the OC Roller Girls headquarters on Main Street. She recently gave us the following breakdown – and recommendations – on equipment for skaters:
• Helmet – To prevent injuries, skaters should wear helmets that are safety tested and rated, like the S-One Lifer helmet.
• Mouth guard – Sisu's Pro-Tech Dent mouth guard allows skaters to drink, talk and breathe comfortably while protecting their grill.
• Knee pads – "Drop-in" style knee pads used by skateboarders are perfect for derby skaters. They provide extra protection and comfort when falling. Companies like TSG and 187 have the perfect knee pads for derby.
• Wrist guards and elbow pads – Again drawing from the skateboarding community, derby girls flock to companies like TSG and 187 to find protection against both impact and abrasion.
• Roller skates – Quad roller skates are a must-have to play the game – no inline skates are used. Riedell (skates), out of Red Wing, Minn., provides players with skates made in the U.S.A. The first-timers might want to check out the SureGrip Rebels for their price-friendly comfortable starter skates.
Maddison Danielson pushes herself against another girl trying to break past her. Their legs weave between each other as both try to gain the upper hand on their four-wheel roller skates. Even on a practice run, the 12-year-old Danielson, who goes by the moniker "Ratty Patty," is aggressive.
Danielson and other skaters – predominantly females – take to the track inside the OC Roller Girls headquarters at 1947 S. Main St. almost daily to play and practice roller derby.
For some, it raises their self-esteem. For others, it's a sport that challenges their competitive drive. For still others, it's a way to escape everyday life and take on alter egos that are cheered on by crowds.
Though the OC Roller Girls have a new home and the most members ever since the league started in 2006, parts of the group's future are constantly threatened.
The Santa Ana headquarters, which they moved into in April 2012, has a 100-person capacity that prevents them from having large audiences. Renovations to the building have eaten up a big chunk of the league's money and it struggles to make rent every month, said OC Roller Girls founder Heather Shelton, aka "Disco."
But, Shelton, 39, said she forges ahead because the roller derby experience is one of a kind for skaters and their audience.
"You're probably settled into this routine (of daily life), but now you can come up with a skater name, now you can come up with a new identity, plus you're having fun. You got these new friends, your husband's cheering for you," Shelton said. "Where else can you be where people are screaming your name?"
OC Roller Girls is one of the few leagues that play on both a flat and banked track.
The courses are the same size, but flat track is played on level surfaces. A banked track is on an elevated stage with the surface sloping downward toward the center.
The banked track is housed inside the South Main Street location; the league rents flat track courses across the county.
The banked track is slightly smaller than a basketball court; it's so large that it needs to be stored indoors. The 10,000-square-foot building on South Main Street serves that purpose. The building had been a grocery store and, more recently, a furniture liquidation outlet. Previous owners never installed columns or poles from the high-domed ceiling to the ground, so the floor space is completely open.
In April 2011 – one week after skaters and volunteers from the OC Roller Girls finished constructing the banked track at their old home in The Rinks in Huntington Beach – they were told to move because their skating area would be converted into a hockey practice facility. The track was moved to another location for three months, then put into storage in August 2011.
It went unused for six months, which cut into the team's playing time, until it was relocated to Santa Ana.
The Santa Ana building needed work, but at $10,000 a month, the rent was the most reasonable, and the landlord was willing to let them use the building for roller derby, Shelton said.
The league has paid for $25,000 in renovations to the building, Shelton said. Some of that work included the addition of a second handicap-accessible bathroom, which led to the hiring of an architect, structural engineer, landscaper and plumber.
The group's Santa Ana headquarters is another stop on the long road to get local roller derby in a stable position to promote its further growth.
While OC Roller Girls play on both banked and flat tracks, many of the skaters have focused heavily this year on banked because of the available indoor space, Shelton said.
The new location has expanded practices for skaters. Practices are usually two-hour blocks that start at 4:30 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. on weekends. Captains of each team have a key to the facility, and someone is at the building everyday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
The league's women's teams include Pulp Friction, Back Bay Bombshells and Blockwork Orange, which travels to compete against other leagues. Slice Girls consists of skaters 17 and younger, and Chorizo and Eggs is the league's mixed-gender team.
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As a person with diabetes, you have probably thought a lot about your lifestyle and how it might affect your health. You are likely aware that a balanced diet, regular exercise, and daily stress management can help you manage your blood glucose levels and avoid many of the complications of diabetes. But if these healthy habits are not already established parts of your lifestyle, it may take more than knowledge and good intentions to adopt and maintain them.
If you are having difficulty making and sustaining changes in your lifestyle, there are a number of resources and tools you might turn to for help. Diabetes educators are often skilled at a variety of coaching techniques and can help people overcome some challenges. Books and Internet resources offering guidance and support abound, as do therapists of various types who counsel individuals through personal obstacles toward making lasting changes. You might check out a number of different resources to find what helps you the most. Here are a few ideas and tips to think about as you get started.
Celebrate past successes
Many people doubt their ability to adopt new habits, especially if they have had difficulty making and sustaining changes in the past. If your confidence is low, it may help you to remember any milestone or goal you have accomplished and the steps you took to achieve success. You may have, for example, made big changes to raise your grandchildren, give up smoking, or go back to school. Alternatively, you may have changed your habits just enough to walk a mile every night after dinner. Remind yourself of the big changes you have made as well as the small, then give yourself proper credit and a big pat on the back. Ask yourself a few questions about the changes you have made. Why did you decide to do things differently? What motivated you to change and to stick with a new lifestyle? Who did you turn to for support? The answers to these questions may help you adopt new habits today.
According to Dan Heath and Chip Heath, authors of the book Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, many people remember failures in life more vividly than achievements. But if you focus only on past failures, or on what is not working in your life today, you may doubt your ability to make and sustain changes, and that doubt may seriously dampen your enthusiasm to try anything new. Therefore, when facing new challenges and considering how you might approach them, it's important to acknowledge the challenges you have already overcome. Remember that what you did is less important than the steps you took along the way.
Involving heart and mind
How many times have you heard people say they "know" they should do something to improve their health or their lives, then not do it? Why do you suppose this is? It could be that knowledge isn't enough: Emotion, or some involvement of the heart, is often needed to get people to actually do something about the change they know they need to make.
As you reflect on the lifestyle changes you have already made, notice how knowledge and emotion influenced your actions. Did the motivation to alter your habits or plans generally arise from your head (your logical side) or your heart (your emotional side)? It is likely that one side or the other initiated the desire to change, but in the end, you probably needed both your head and your heart to make the change occur and stick.
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''Fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again.'' George W. Bush offered those words, but they could have uneasily tripped off the tongue of another Texan: cowboy toy David Smith of The Next Joe Millionaire: An International Affair. The first ''Joe Millionaire'' roped in 40 million voyeurs to witness hunk-o'-cheese Evan Marriott confess to his beloved, Zora Andrich, that he'd exaggerated his income by several zeros. Yet after the payoff turned out to be an anticlimactic rip-off, America felt like an even bigger sucker than Zora, and audiences have stayed away in droves from the sequel.
Honestly, they're not missing much. If a reality show is only as tasty as its freshest twist, ''Joe'' is a stale pretzel. It's the exact same show as last season, only the gold diggers are ''14 Unsuspecting European Beauties'' (to quote the opening promos) and the gold diggee is a hayseed. The ensuing ten-gallon-hat-versus-haute-couture clash has proven entirely predictable, with rampant malapropisms providing the scant entertainment value. ''I don't know if she's crackin' on me, or if she's just got a real sarcasm sense of humor,'' David drawled about Anique (a Dutch double for Anna Kournikova). At least the Eurotramps have a good excuse for butchering the English language. Upon her exit, Johanna (a German law student) rationalized that the prospect of living on a ranch was ''super-boring, super-not-me, and super-I-don't-know.'' Which, come to think of it, perfectly describes ''The Next Joe Millionaire.''


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8 Quick and Easy DIY Halloween Decorations
Waited until the last minute? Give your home-sweet-home a decidedly devilish air with these easy do-it-yourself Halloween decorating ideas.
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Jack-O'-Lanterns in a Jiffy
Turn orange tissue-paper balls into proper Halloween pumpkins that can line your front porch. Simply cut facial features and stems from construction paper and apply to the balls with glue dots.
Ghouls' Night Out
To call forth this gathering, use glue dots to stick construction-paper eyes and mouths onto white tissue-paper bells, then drape them with cheesecloth.
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These decorating tricks are so easy, it's frightening. Take a page out of Miss Havisham's book and use sheet-draped chairs to give your room the look of ruin. Then, string a cheesecloth "cobweb" across a mirror and secure curly willow branches in candlesticks with museum wax (Quakehold, $4.99 for two ounces; amazon.com).
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Black Paper Flowers
Take typical harbingers of good cheer to the dark side. This shadowy floral arrangement is made from inexpensive crepe-paper streamers.
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Food Centerpiece
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Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.Benjamin Disraeli
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I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in successIngrid Bergman
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.John Wooden
You may have a vast scholarship, fame or fortune. But, the bee can give you a lesson on how to be free from tormentSri Sathya Sai Baba
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.Alfred North Whitehead
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!Walter Savage Landor
Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildestOliver Goldsmith
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.William James
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.Robert Burns
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.Martial
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.Erma Bombeck
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.Henry David Thoreau
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.Alexander Pope
When this world favors somebody, it lends him the attributes, and surpassing merits of others and when it turns its face away from him it snatches away even his own excellences and fame.Ali bin Abu-Talib
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Hi everyone. I haven't found a thread for this topic yet, so I decided to start one. Who else submitted their application on Feb 1st for the various new grad positions at Duke?... Read More
- 0Apr 4, '13 by hofambWrench, what unit did you interview for? They called me this afternoon, but I have a friend that also interviewed (a week before I did) that hasn't heard anything yet. I really think they only have one recruiter that has been super swamped. And she said she'll be gone again this coming Thursday/Friday (not today) for a recruitment event)
- 0Apr 9, '13 by Wrench PartyMedicine Track. Still...haven't heard anything. The search continues!
- 0Apr 9, '13 by cassie77775I got an email to set up an interview for the Med track, email came this morning. However, I don't think I will be able to go bc the dates are all in the next 2 weeks and I have clinicals, tests, and class
- 0Apr 9, '13 by Katie71275, ASN, RNI also just got an email to interview for the Medicine track...Working on making it fit with my schedule.
- 0Apr 9, '13 by winnifred12Anyone attending the Pediatric Open House?
- 1Apr 10, '13 by Bear07_RNI got invited but I can't make it that day. I'm going out there on the 29th of this month to interview!! Any help with what to expect would be appreciated!!
- 0Apr 15, '13 by mmc51264they usually post new grad (clincal nurse I) positions the last week of the month. they have different types of programs. GEMS, SNIPS. Just read the descriptions. I am in a SNIP program which is a 6 month internship (specialty); others aren't are different-don't know the particulars. I think they are posting the 24th this month.
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According to an Adweek story, which shared information from Tynt—a company that tracks copy and paste content from roughly 600,000 publishers' sites and reviews 30 billion data points each month—users are still very fond of using the old-fashioned Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V keyboard shortcuts when sharing content.


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By Gerde Applethwaite
Shorter: The Moto gear manufacturers are starting to release their fall stuff and here is a look at some of the kit from Icon.
Icon is always very good with the naming thing. It's unrelentingly evocative of… something. They have an entire new line called "Overlord Resistance" (see what I mean.) The jacket has the look of tactical armor to reify the product name. The line runs from helmets to jackets to pants to gloves to boots. You can be Overlord resistant from head to toe. Sometimes the creative enthusiasm of the folks in the ad department runs away with Icon but I have to giggle along with them under my breath. When you are deciding whether or not to buy this Icon gear you will have to interpret the practical meaning of terms from their marketing wizards like; "Attack Fit", "Fighter Mesh" and "Tactical Front." I want to work for them. I want to be a part of the team that sits around the Cheetoh-laden table and comes up with this stuff. It must be two and a half hoots. I could be "Gerde the Indomitable, Ruler of the CE-EN471 Dominion and Grand Panjandrum of the Viscoelastic Knights." Yeah, that's me – Indomitable wot's it." Where do I sign?
Once again, as I mention every 10 minutes, I am really only interested in full hi-viz gear for my personal riding kit but I am attempting to overcome my personal bias while I look toward the new offerings from the major gear makers.
Having said that let's take a look at the Icon Overlord Resistance jacket with EN471 hi-viz accents. This jacket is complete with D3O armor all around. Yup (!) all around — the back armor too! Hallelujah. I wish they all had it. Thank you Icon! This D3O is only level 1 but the form factor should allow you to swap in the Level 2 D3O if you are interested in the high end molecular armor (for more about the differences in viscoelastic armor see my earlier post "Traversing the Molecular Maze.")
This Overlord Resistance jacket is a sport-bike rider, waist-cut, design. The jacket has pre-curved arms so that you are not fighting with your jacket in order to get comfortable on the bike. The neck is your standard sport bike style crew neck. The hi-viz inserts are not enough for me but I am suppressing my urge to lecture about hi-viz. In this case I am just thankful they have a hi-viz offering at all. According to the Icon video for this jacket you will want to: "approach, engage and vanish" from The Overlord with this look. There are 4 other options including; a white with black accents, a solid black, a red with black accents and a wild looking thing that is blue with pink accents. Yes, you can resist The Overlord in the pink and blue jacket. I am the Indomitable Wot's It and I say so. For more details about the construction and fit look to our Icon jackets pages.
Icon Citadel Mesh Jacket: They come in; full black, black with hi-viz, black with red and grey with grey. There is, like the Overlord jacket, a removable thermal vest for those days when the weather starts to get a bit chilly. This is a mesh jacket so you get plenty of venting here – they call it "large hole Iron Weave Mesh" and the only thing that keeps me from the temptation to hyphenate every word is that the first two are not capitalized
Icon Overlord Pants: The Icon Overlord jacket zips to the Overlord Resistance pants and for some reason I am now conjuring up an image of Eddie Izzard on stage in Overlord Resistance pants. This too will pass. The pants are are equipped with D3O armor in the knees and its also level 1 D3O. Unusual for standard street fare is the inclusion of pucks in the knees. The armor is a molded puck but has something called Battlehide Leather and Fighter Mesh. Come on, tell me you don't want to work for them too? The pants are black and have the standard back zipper to mate them with the jacket. These are not overpants.
Icon Insulated Denim Pant: Don't want to wear leather or textile riding pants to your mother in law's BBQ later in the month? Icon has a pair of Insulated Denim Pants that have a removable insulated liner, D30 armor and an Aramid fabric inner patch over the knee. They look like your standard blue jeans but there is armor inside.
Icon Citadel Mesh Pant: These pants are the mate to the Citadel jacket. They hook and loop to the jacket. They are not overpants.
Icon Helmets: The helmet for the Overlord ensemble is an Icon Airframe Helmet in a matt black with a yellow visor. It is called the "Airframe Ghost Carbon.' Yup, its a medium oval, carbon fibre version of the Airframe helmet and it weighs 1450 grams. The helmet has all of the standard cert's. Not the least of which is the ECE 22.05.
The Icon Airmada Helmet line has not been ignored. You will find no less than 14 new graphic schemes to complicate your choice.
Icon Gloves: There are new gloves that are a part of both the Overlord Resistance and the Citadel Mesh packages. The Overlord Resistance Gloves are wrist length and the Citadel Waterproof Gloves are gauntlet style. The color schemes of the gloves are in tandem with those of the Icon jackets. I am more a fan of gauntlet gloves these days so let's look at those.
The Icon Citadel Waterproof Glove has a Hipora liner to keep the water out. It has their Battlehide leather on the finger tips and to help prevent knuckle damage in a get off they use TPR that is bonded to the glove in this new welding process that we see on all of the fall gear. They are just under $100.00.
Icon Boots: The New boots are called "Field Armor 2 Boots." They come in a grey and a black and are equipped with a steel shank, 2 buckle closure system and a Goodyear welt. Oh yeah, they are just above the ankle style boots.
Next up – What's new from Alpinestars.
Gerde Applethwaite