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Obama will win the day and you clowns will still be deep in the forest. Doncha get it....the repubs are dwindling to nothing but a bunch of redneck racists. You'll go the same way as the right wing fundies. Marginalized my friend, marginalized.
Obama will win the day and you clowns will still be deep in the forest. Doncha get it....the repubs are dwindling to nothing but a bunch of redneck racists. You'll go the same way as the right wing fundies. Marginalized my friend, marginalized.
Lol...it wouldn't be a thread if you didn't call Republicans racist.
And just for the record Republicans have offered solutions but in they never make it out committees controlled by the angry left. You probably like that though.
WTF are you talking about...... there isn't even a "set" bill out there. See, this is what I am talking about, folks who are making the noise care far more about the politics than actual people like Reni and I. They make all that loud noise and they have their frickin insurance. While I won't "shoot" anything up, I can promise you I would get in peoples faces if they are "just" disrupting. And while on a wrestling board I am not that tough, most wrestlers do really well in those confrontations against angry old white guys.
Oh, and you don't have to worry about me for long I suspect..... with a blood pressure rate of around 230, and an incredibly upsidedown collesteral level, and being 49 years old, with no health insurance, and astonishing amounts of stress (there is NOTHING worse than really bad things happening to a child - most parents NEVER recover when one dies or becomes permenantly disabled),I am a walking heart attack or stroke.... it's just a matter of how soon. And that is NOT hyperbole..... that is reality. But it is obvious for many people the politics - or I got mine so screw you - counts more than people.
FWIW, and this isn't hyperbole either...... I hope it is a stroke, and I hope my medical bills run into the millions, because if this is the system you support, then I suppose I should put a little effort in sticking you with this bill, because nobody can get anything out of me..... I don't have anything.
I am 49, bald, ugly, and don't own a single cool thing. Kids like me though.
I was hoping you would respond today. I have been thinking about my post earlier and I hope you don't think I am attacking you or your family. I have been through a lot medically with myself and my family and would never wish that on anyone. I have no clue to what you are going through as I do not have a child but unfortunately I have been through a lot with very close family members with and without insurance.
There are parts of the bill available online which you can read for instance I believe it is on page 72 that says the congress will maintain their current healthcare and not take part in the nationalized plan.
What do you think this healthcare plan will do (either positive or negatively) for you and your family?
I like when concerned citizens, like myself, voice our opinions to this plan to our representatives and we're labeled as mobs, nut jobs, racists, tea-baggers, etc. If any of you think that debate was civilized during the founding of this nation, then you need to take a few history lessons. What you're seeing is an uprising, some of which is sponsored by the Reps and dems, but you have to give some of this validity as the people of this country has simply had it. Not just with Dems, but with the Reps as well.
Our healthcare system is very inefficient. But to say that Obama's plan is any better is laughable. Sgallan, if we were under Obama's plan right now, you may be considered too high a risk for the government to spend the kind of money necessitated to cure you or ease your discomfort. Or, if they would start a treatment plan, it would cost us tax payers gobs of money anyway. So, in the end, it's a lose lose proposition for the tax payer.
If you want to make a significant cost savings in the medical industry, you need to shore up the boarders and stop the illegals from receiving unpaid medical treatments. Look at the processes for medical records and surgeries to minimalize medical malpractise. Put a cap on profits associated with hospitals and what they charge for items, labor, admin fees, etc.
ANyone who has been in the military, knows what a government run health care system is like....and I'm here to tell you all that it is God Awful! Times that by 10 or 20 because of overpopulation in some areas in relation to the controlled popoulation of a military base. You people who are FOR this plan, have no idea what is about to hit you. None.
Neither do you.
You might want to check into how Bush cut funding for military health care. Then again, if Bush didn't start a war against Hussein maybe the system wouldn't be so overloaded. Check it out.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Ask many of the veterans from WWII or Vietnam Korea even the first Iraq war if they feel that their care was adequate. What about their mental health?
It does not matter what parties president they suffered under the point is that Government is incapable of running health care.
There are parts of the bill available online which you can read for instance I believe it is on page 72 that says the congress will maintain their current healthcare and not take part in the nationalized plan.
There are at least six versions of this bill out there. Only one version has been voted out of one committee in the house. So for you "know" what is in the bill is just falling for the propoganda.
What do you think this healthcare plan will do (either positive or negatively) for you and your family?
Maybe some healthcare but probably nothing now. I am basically bankrupt, ruined, and doomed. So cynical now that I am wondering if I should even bother to do volunteer stuff.... or even care about much of anything anymore. Basically my life plan is to live long enough to get this child into college, and after that it is; extreme BASE jumping, extreme skydiving, extreme rock climbing, and anything else that looks like fun - no matter what the risk. The odds of doing that sort of thing will catch up to me fairly quickly (especially at my age). This sort of thing runs in the family and I'll just ramp it up a couple of notches. Sort of a suicide via adrenilin rush.
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In the United States, we can still get good, solid mileage of the tattered old cliché, "It's a free country. Isn't it?" We can and do use it to justify a lot of words and actions that people of some other countries would never dare attempt. On the Fourth of July we celebrate our freedoms - freedom of speech, the pursuit of happiness, freedom from oppression and foreign powers, and much more.
But here is a shocker. In the United States of America, right now, today, there is as much absolute slavery and loss of freedom as there ever has been at any time, any place on earth! There is a slavery that many don't even know exists. Now, I am not talking about social injustice or ethnic oppression. I am talking about a cruel, heartless slavery perpetrated by a force totally devoid of love and compassion and dedicated to the destruction of mankind. It is a slavery so subtle and deceptive that people are often unaware of the power and hold it has on them. It is the slavery of sin.
The county in which we live may be free, but what about you? Are you free from the weight and consequences of sin? Be honest! You know that God is not going to say, "You're basically a pretty good person, so I don't hold your sins against you." Are you free from the nagging doubts that come along with the "I can get into heaven on my own." approach to salvation?
Are you free to live a life of real joy because you know and whole heartedly believe that Jesus died - and rose again - to provide the forgiveness that unchains you from your sins? Are you also free from the soul-crushing slavery of a life in which the accumulation of "things" that squeezes out the pursuit of God's eternal treasure and blessings? Are you free from the ambition for personal gain that puts God in second or third place and hinders having any kind of close relationship with him?
It is only in God's Word that we are really made free and there can be no real freedom apart from it. If you are one who really has a firm grip on this freedom, freedom only God can provide, REJOICE!....and continually thank him for it because "If the Son sets you free, you are free indeed!" (John 8:36)
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LINCOLN ŌĆö Town Council member John Flynn, who represents Lonsdale, forecast a rather tame Financial Town Meeting as he sat in the Lincoln High School auditorium on Monday night.
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Taxpayers unanimously passed the Fiscal Year 2011-12 combined operating budget of approximately $70.1 million to allow for the continuation of programs and services already provided. As for the breakdown supplied by the Budget Board, about $17.4 million will be allotted to the municipal side, and $47.8 million to education.
PAWTUCKET ŌĆö Since the proposed budget for the coming year was announced on Friday afternoon, municipal department heads and employees are digesting what it means in terms of impact and the news that it involves the elimination of 54 city jobs.
WeŌĆÖve been publishing the Military Page since Jan. 31. I didnŌĆÖt know how it would play with our readers, figuring maybe we could get some early interest before things waned. After three months, the pictures of veterans keep coming in. Family members are dropping off treasured photos each week, often including a note telling us how much pride they take in the service of their siblings, most of whom are deceased but still very alive in the memories of the family they left behind.
EAST PROVIDENCE ŌĆö It was last October when Robin Robinson, wife of five-time X Games' BMX gold medalist and Riverside native Kevin Robinson, received a phone call from Carousel Park Commission representative Tracy Johnson.
When Johnson explained she wanted to donate all proceeds from a two-hour block of carousel rides to the K-ROB Foundation, a non-profit organization which raises money to help East Providence youngsters remain active in sports, the Robinson family was floored ŌĆö and thrilled.
PROVIDENCE ŌĆō A bill that would require polling places across the state to close at 8 p.m., one hour earlier than the current 9 p.m. shut-off, won passage in the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday.
The bill, introduced by Republican Sen. David Bates also calls for polls in Lincoln, North Smithfield and Woonsocket to open at 7 a.m. instead of the current 8 a.m. It passed out of the committee with only two negative votes.
An identical bill authored by Pawtucket Rep. J. Patrick OŌĆÖNeill has been heard by the House Judiciary Committee and is being studied.
PAWTUCKET ŌĆö Declaring it necessary in ŌĆ£saving Pawtucket from bankruptcy,ŌĆØ Mayor Donald R. Grebien has proposed a budget for the new fiscal year that won't involve an increase in property taxes but will instead derive needed revenue from motor vehicle taxes.
At a press conference held on Friday at City Hall, Grebien outlined the highlights of his budget proposal for fiscal year 2012 that he has submitted to the City Council for consideration. The $198 million budget is $7.1 million higher than the FY11 budget of $191 million, representing an increase of 3.74 percent.
PAWTUCKET ŌĆö Your friendly neighborhood letter carrier is hoping to find some canned goods left by the mailbox to deliver back to a national food drive that takes place on Saturday, May 14.
Pawtucket Mayor Donald Grebien and James E. Langlois, president of Branch No. 55 of the National Association of Letter Carriers, kicked off the 19th annual NALC Stamp Out Hunger National Food Drive on Thursday morning at a press conference at City Hall.
PROVIDENCE ŌĆö Medical marijuana patients say they did all the right things.
They went to the General Assembly to get medical marijuana made legal, they testified at hearings. First they got a law allowing the use of marijuana for chronically ill patients, then they went through the legislative process all over again, testifying at even more hearings, to get a law creating compassion centers where they could get their medicine legally, safely and regularly without having to grow it themselves or have someone do it for them.
PAWTUCKET ŌĆö Mayor Donald R. Grebien said the city will appeal a one-notch downgrade of the Fire Department's fire suppression rating including by supplying additional information he said should have been submitted to an independent insurance agency when it was evaluating the Fire Department back in 2009.
NORTH SMITHFIELD ŌĆö As he watched five of the world's best in-line skaters, skateboarders and BMXers show off X Games-like tricks on a half-pipe placed in a parking lot near the Dr. Paul F. Joyce Athletic Complex, North Smithfield High sophomore Paris Correia marveled at what he was witnessing.
EAST PROVIDENCE ŌĆö When Jo-Ann Durfee's phone rang at about 3:30 p.m., Monday, she had a gut feeling the news wasn't good.
That's when she said ŌĆ£an anonymous callerŌĆØ informed her that Department of Environmental Management Director Janet Coit had approved TLA-Pond View's application, one that requested a tripling of its processing amount from 500 tons of construction and demolition debris per day to 1,500 tons.
PROVIDENCE ŌĆö U.S. Sen. Jack Reed called the killing of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden by U.S. commandos in Pakistan ŌĆ£good news, and testimony to the courage and skill of our military forces.
ŌĆ£I hope it is also a moment for the families of 9/11 to have a brief bit of solace after 10 years,ŌĆØ the stateŌĆÖs senior senator said Monday.
WASHINGTON ŌĆö Osama bin Laden, the glowering mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thousands of Americans, was killed in an operation led by the United States, President Barack Obama said Sunday.
A small team of Americans carried out the attack and took custody of bin Laden's remains, the president said in a dramatic late-night statement at the White House.
A jubilant crowd gathered outside the White House as word spread of bin Laden's death after a global manhunt that lasted nearly a decade.
"Justice has been done," the president said.
LINCOLN ŌĆö It's both amusing and inspiring, how Lincoln High junior Josh Soucy came up with the notion of creating a ŌĆ£Teen Advocacy Group,ŌĆØ an organization that would give him and his peers more input and knowledge about happenings in town government.
PAWTUCKET ŌĆö Congressman David Cicilline (D-RI) announced the winners of the 2011 Congressional Art Competition for high school students at an award ceremony held this week in his District Office. The art competition is part of a national initiative that provides high school art students the opportunity to have their creative work acknowledged and the honor of having their work displayed in the United States Capitol.
PAWTUCKET ŌĆō John Costa is 89 years old now and still lives in the house on Crane Street that he grew up in during the 1920s and 1930s.
ŌĆ£We had nine people in this house ŌĆ" my mother and father, five boys and two girls,ŌĆØ the World War II veteran was saying a few days ago. ŌĆ£My twin sister Rose and I are the only ones still living. Rose lives out in Rehoboth.ŌĆØ
Costa joined the National Guard in 1940, at the age of 18, admittedly ŌĆ£looking for a little excitement.ŌĆØ
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During a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday morning for the new Pawtucket Credit Union, at 88 Beechwood Ave. (Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island), PCU President/CEO Karl Kozak, center, cuts the ribbon being held by, from left, Pawtucket Mayor Donald Grebien, PCU Chairman of the Board Ron Leclair, PCU Executive Vice President/COO Bob Andrade and Memorial Hospital President/CEO Francis Dietz. PCU, a full-service branch, is open to the public and offers ample parking in front. Branch hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, and 10 a.m. to
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PAWTUCKET ŌĆö Attorney General Peter Kilmartin announced Friday that a Providence County Superior Court jury found 27-year-old Blake Covington guilty on all counts stemming from a Sept. 30, 2010 shooting at Prospect Heights in Pawtucket that left a man partially paralyzed.
The verdict was handed down after just three hours of jury deliberations that concluded a two-day trial before Superior Court Justice Robert D. Krause.
PAWTUCKET ŌĆö Pent-up anger over the state of the economy and Gov. Lincoln Chafee's budget proposals aimed at fixing it bubbled to the surface among business owners at Thursday's breakfast meeting with local state legislators sponsored by the Northern Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce.


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HOOVER, Ala. -- Your calendar says the 2006 college football season starts Aug. 31. Mine says it officially began here Wednesday at 12:47 p.m., when grown women clutching footballs and Sharpies climbed over tables, chairs -- even sports-talk radio personnel -- in a crazed attempt to nearly gang tackle Alabama coach Mike Shula as he tried to make his way to the second floor of the Wynfrey Hotel.
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Denny Hamlin won the Coors Light Pole award for today's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at the Auto Club Speedway. Denny will lead the field to green to start the Auto Club 400.
Ford Racing drivers Greg Biffle and Brad Keselowski had engine failures in practice Friday. They replaced their engines and were able to continue practice and qualify. The engines for both drivers are from Roush Fenway Racing. Greg said, "We feel like the issues could be common between the 2 car and my car."
Greg Biffle qualified in the second position and Brad Keselowski third but they will have to go to the rear of the field at the start of the race because of the engine change.
Greg Biffle is confident that he can get his 3M Ford Fusion back to the front. Greg said, "Definitely it will take probably 100 laps at a minimum or maybe 50-75 laps to get our way up through the field. Hopefully we can. Maybe some pit strategy too. We will see what we can come up with."
When Brad Keselowski was told about what Greg said, the fierce competitor said, "I feel like I can do it in 99." Either way they showed they both have fast cars and it will be fun watching them drive up through the field.
Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin's teammate qualified fourth. Kyle also won the Nationwide Series race on Saturday driving the No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing entry. Will he be able to win today and get the weekend sweep? Will he be able to get Joe Gibbs Racing's first Sprint Cup Series win here? He is in a great position to do that since Greg and Brad will be dropping to the back, Kyle will be starting outside pole.
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About "sense of direction" by Ash Sammy
sense of direction
Design by Ash Sammy
boo hoo
Never Eat Slimy Worms!
Admitedly it took me a moment to decipher, i agree with ditching the "a" for "my"!
I like the concept a lot, but in my opinion the design is blocky and inelegant and I am just not attracted to it.
I like this shirt - I'm always getting lost. But a different color, maybe navy. Khaki always looks like baby throwup.
Hey everyone, it's a T-shirt. Calm down just a little bit.
I think it's a very clever idea. A bit bland, but anything too flowery would detract from the design and make most people skip over the fact that the directions are mixed up.
It took me a minute to figure out the correct order, if I were you I'd switch the east and west around so it reads clockwise. Either that, or add a 'my' in front of sense, so it's easier to peice together. Prefferably both, however.
5$, even if it does't get changed at all.


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Study: Scientists name pesticides in Sierra frogs
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Scientists have known for years that pesticides drift from California's agricultural heartland and accumulate in frogs at the highest elevations of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Now they have a better understanding of exactly which ones collect in tissue, potentially a first step toward stopping the sharp decline of threatened amphibians across the environmentally sensitive mountain range.
"The ultimate goal here is to identify whatever it is that is contributing to the decline of amphibians. If it turns out to be one or several pesticides then people would have to figure out whether there are alternative compounds with less of an impact," said Gary Fellers, a research biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey.
Both the Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog and the Yosemite toad, which once thrived in the range, are proposed for federal Endangered Species Act protection. Populations of many other amphibians have declined in recent years.
Back in the 1990s, Fellers was part of a team of researchers who discovered that pesticides used in California's Central Valley could be detected in mountain amphibians, underscoring the danger posed by toxic compounds that wind and rain can carry hundreds of miles.
The new study conducted in national parks and monuments tested for nearly 100 of California's most commonly used pesticides, herbicides and fungicides. It found heaviest concentrations of the mold-preventing fungicides tebucanoazole and pyraclostrobin and the herbicide simazine in the tissue of Pacific chorus frogs, chosen because it is still abundant.
The fungicides are commonly used to stop blight in grapes, tomatoes, corn and rice - crops grown in abundance across the Central Valley.
"Documenting the presence of environmental contaminants in amphibians found in our protected federal lands is an important first step in finding out whether the frogs are experiencing health consequences from such exposure," says Patrick Kleeman, a USGS amphibian ecologist who collected the frog samples.
A trade group for the pesticide industry said it will continue to monitor the study.
"Much remains to be learned about how pesticides impact amphibians and other animals. It is equally factual that wildlife is often exposed to a myriad of contaminants in the environment that makes it extremely difficult to isolate contaminates responsible for a specific set of problems," said Richard Cornett, spokesman for the Western Plant Health Association. "Industry is very aware of its responsibilities in this regard..."
The California Farm Bureau Federation was cautious in its response, reiterating that a clear link between exposure and population declines hasn't been established.
"...Exposure does not necessarily equate to harm," spokesman Dave Kranz said. "Farmers will continue to monitor the latest science about crop protection and work to produce food in the safest, most efficient way possible."
This study found that frogs across the range have far greater concentrations of the three pesticides in their tissue than exist in their ponds and meadows, an indication that levels of the toxins bio-accumulate. It also suggests that frogs might be a better way to measure toxin levels than water or sediment.
"I don't want to say it's a warning, but the point is to be able to let the public and scientists know what we're finding in frogs so that we can understand what the effects are," said Kelly Smalling, a research hydrologist with the USGS, who also worked on the study. "The science needs to come first then we can report to regulatory agencies and let them make the decisions."


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Would You Rather Work for a Man or a Woman? [POLL]
Who's a better boss – men or women?
Who's a better boss – men or women?
I was reading a magazine last week that said women spend, on average, 252 hours a year "getting ready" to go places! In comparison, men spend about 30. Thirty hours! Total! We really must be crazy!
Then, I come to work today and read an article about how much money women spend on their hair! According to a survey in the study, the average woman spends about $44,000 on her hair over the course of her lifetime! And, blondes spend around $51,000! That, of course, includes trips to the salon, products, etc
A new study has found that in "certain situations" a third of women decide to remove their wedding or engagement rings.
The top 3 reasons women took off their rings: 35% was for work reasons, 29% were for job interviews, and 22% were out socializing
Let me just say, I'm not recommending this method for just anything, however, for a life or death situation such as this... it just may be brilliant!
All of the women in a small town in Colombia have launched a SEX STRIKE
Laura Fernee a 33 year old English woman says, she is just too pretty to work. it would seem that people in the workplace are just too shallow and can not seem to except her for her merits and intelligence and all they see is how beautiful she is. According to an article on Mail Online, she said, "I'm not lazy and I'm no bimbo. The truth is my good looks have caused massive problems for me when it comes to employment, so I've made the decision that employment just isn't for me at the moment. It's not my fault … I can't help the way I look."
This comes to us from the "What were they thinking?!" category.
Last Friday was "International Women's Day" and March is "Women's History Month" a time to celebrate the contributions of women throughout world history. To celebrate the ever rising status of women in our societies. To truly appreciate the women who have shaped our world with their minds , hearts and dedication.
Here is Today's Daily Dilemma:
I work in a pharmacy with a bunch of women whose personalities don't seem to blend well. The work environment is usually so negative I dread going in to work because all they do is talk about each other behind their backs, and I am wondering what they say about me when I'm not there. They also are r
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Today was a hard show for me. I was tired all morning but I can't complain because staying up to see the U.S. Women's Gymnastics Team win the gold was well worth it.
In honor of the hard working Administrative Professionals out there - or shall we say Secretaries? Can I say that? Warren Buffett calls his Administrative Professional a secretary, and she doesn't mind. Is this insulting? I'm just wondering how you feel, and I'm going to now wonder in song form for you


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Telemedicine in the Caribbean The JAMAICA PROJECT by: Dr. Winston George Mendes- Davidson CD; JP ATALACC: Regional Secretary (Caribbean) Head, Jamaica National Telemedicine Project & Honorary Research Fellow Telemedicine (University of the West Indies School for Grad. Studies & Research) What is Telemedicine? • Telemedicine is an Information Technology network of medical and allied expertise linked together for the purpose of delivering medical services at a distance Functional Definition: by W. Mendes-Davidson 2004 Why telemedicine? Advance in the use of communication and information technology in medicine have become ubiquitous as technology becomes cheaper, more user friendly and creating greater diagnostic accuracy and efficiency in health management The problems of multimedia real time transmission are rapidly diminishing Better solutions at cheaper costs now becoming available than conventional solutions to health care World Trade Organization (GATT) begins in force in January 2005 and competition in all services will be online in the global domain All patients in the world will now belong to any Dr in any part of the world who has the capacity to communicate real time on the multimedia cellular telephones to the average citizen and to manage health info more efficiently. Medical practice in the Caribbean will be marginalized in the medium term as competition now involves e-health solutions overseas i.e. international health conglomerates, including online pharmacies, therapies, systems and health institutions. Mission Statement Source: Dr. W. Davidson (copyright) Telemedicine "The Jamaica Project" • To establish a national health service information technology network, dedicated to deliver health service made available and affordable to Jamaicans at home and abroad; later expanding to the wider Caribbean and West African territories. • To provide an affordable national telemedicine and tele-health information technology platform including digital health TV content, for the delivery and export of health services from Jamaica reaching clients including tourists where ever they are, at home or abroad. • To facilitate the development of a Caribbean Health Tourism market as part of the process of diversification and expansion of Caribbean Tourism. • To enable the full participation of health professionals from Jamaica, the Caribbean and Africa, in accessing the global IT marketplace, so that these professionals may export their services in the global domain to facilitate national and regional health development Source: Dr. W. Davidson How Telemedicine? "The Mendes-Davidson Model" (copyright) • Medicine at a distance, facilitated by provision of a seven step integrated voice/video/data health services over a secure broadband network – Share communications infrastructure between offices and any other health facility at home or abroad – Access to health services / information management , anytime, anywhere – Hi-ethical health standardized business practice, process and allied services including health tourism within Jamaica and the Caribbean – Export health services via health free-zone throughout global domain Telemedicine "made simple" • Is there a place for Telemedicine in Jamaica and the Caribbean? How can we tell? Let us all do a SWOT analysis • S=Strengths: What advantages do we have? What do you do well? What resources do we have? What are our strengths perceived to be? What resources do we have access to? • W=Weakness: What do we do badly? What should we avoid? What could we improve? • O=Opportunity: Where do good opportunities face us? What interesting trends are we aware of? Are there opportunities from changes in technology trends? or Government policy? Or Social patterns? Or lifestyle changes? • T=Threats: What obstacles do we face? What is our competition doing? Are required specifications for our jobs changing? Is technology threatening your position? Is it a matter of financing, or debt? Are we prepared to make changes, even fundamental ones? What are our strengths ? Rising Life Expectancy Trends in life expectancy, 1950-2000 Source: WHO More Developed Less Developed World Jamaica 90 80 70 60 Age in years. 50 40 30 20 10 0 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 Country Health Expenditure Per Capita Per Year & Male / Female Longevity; W.H.O Estimates-2000 United States $4187 73.7M/79.7F Germany $2713 73.8M/80.1F Switzerland $2644 75.6M/83F Luxemburg $2580 74.5M/81.4F Denmark $2574 72.9M/78.1F Japan $2373 77.6M/84.3F France $2369 74.9M/83.6F Jamaica $149 75.2M/77.4F With the Best Primary Care System in the Western Hemisphere Global Competitiveness Is Sustainable Source: W. Davidson. 1999. (copyright) Rising Costs: COMMUNITY COMMUNITY State of Health The Clinic The Hospital Maintain Prevention Treatment Rehab Healthy Primary Secondary Tertiary Lifestyle Health Health Health Care Care (Wellness) Care PRE-PRIMARY PRIMARY SECONDARY TERTIARY PREVENTION PREVENTION PREVENTION PREVENTION What are our weaknesses? Overarching health priorities determined by epidemiological evidence Human resources Adequate numbers, skills mix, quality Leadership for Public health Health Systems development-reform Reform, policies & plans Quality of Care Standards clinical effectiveness, audit Health technology and infrastructure Information systems MIS, research Sustainable financing Source: Dr. B. Wint: CMO Nov. 2004 Program priorities in Public health system to address the weaknesses Accidents & violence Control of Com. disease HIV/AIDS/STI, Tb, Foodborne Control of Chronic disease CVD, Hypertension, Diabetes, Cancer Reproductive health Child and adolescent health Mental health & substance abuse Emergency care Environmental health Source: Dr. B. Wint: CMO Nov. 2004 Paradigm shift: Bottom line for all Drs. What are Our Opportunities? The National Telemedicine Project • Private / GOJ Part Funded Project • Nat. Sc. & Tech. Fund OPM owns 10 % share capital • Investment to Date: > US $10.0 mil • Eight Years Research & Development • Phase 1: R&D phase implemented, with systems and protocol verification. • Phase 2: Pre-implementation & pilot testing presently as precursor to full implementation phase in a few months • Technical agreement with ZTE for National Infrastructure upgrade Project achievements / benchmarks: National Telemedicine Project Comprehensive Telemedicine: "The Mendes-Davidson Model" Provider: Bundled user friendly equipment Universal Electronic Health (Medical) Record System Human Capacity Development (Training) Research for Sustainable Development Affordable Fault-Tolerant Bandwidth Supply Secure Multi-Service IP National Network for Health Providers Equity / Venture Capital / Strategic Partnerships Telemedicine "The Mendes-Davidson Model" Seven Step Integrated Telemedicine Infrastructure Copyright: Author: Dr. Winston Davidson. Use of part or all of this diagram must be with the permission of the author. 7 6 Full Tele- medicine 5 Home & Service Health Provider Network 4 Consulting TOURISM, National / Partner with Regional Computer/multi Health 3 -media capture Export Cable TV 2 Web access Services. Sites Health 1 ISP Tel-med-serv Insurance Doctor DOC Tele-health-global on Call Silver Gold Platinum EHR (Electronic Health Record) Data Infrastructure "Doctor On Call" (DOC) Telephone Medicine Immediate 24 hour telephone access of patients to Drs. On call. Services include: Emergency medical advice. Emergency medical telephone screening. Emergency medical dispatch. Non-emergency medical information. Non-emergency medical counseling. Non-emergency general medical advice. Why Does Every-one Need "Doctor on Call"? They need easy access to Medical Service - from home, school, workplace, recreational area or any other location, at any time. Access to a telephone is the only requirement. Service satisfies immediate needs of the patient from where ever they are. Doctor gives prompt expert medical advice or counseling. Doctor gives quick dispatch of emergency cases. Early intervention leads to prevention of illness and death at minimal costs to all concerned. Prevention is always better than cure. Cost Analysis Dr on call will $2,500 cost less than a half the cost of $2,000 consulting a Dr. in DOCD his office. $1,500 Costs.Ja $ MEDI Home visit, ($167/ $1,000 min) $2,500.00 / 1/4 Home visit hr. Office visit ($67-$100 $500 / min) $1000.00-$1500 Office visit / 1/4 hr. Ja $. $0 976-MEDI ($35 /min) (info):$525 / 1/4 hr. Cost/min Cost/ 976-DOCD ($40/ min 15min (emerg.):$600 / 1/4hr. ($1.00 US = $62.00Ja) How Do You Pay for "Dr. On Call"? Pay as part of your normal cellular telephone bill Pre-paid Dr. on Call calling card Cellular calls overseas anywhere anytime Co-branding of Dr. On Call Cards Re-imbursement through health insurance coverage. 21st Century Health Care. Patient Needs Early medical Convenient access intervention Minimal costs Decrease length of Prompt response illness. Immediate Saves lives professional help Decrease worker 24 hr Dr. coverage absenteeism to all health Increase institutions. production. Drs. advice and Decrease total opinions available. health costs Anytime To the patient, Anywhere The provider, To everyone The insurance At affordable cost. company Without condition The country. National (Intranet) Network Consultations ( Tel-med-serve) 1. Data, Voice & Video, Integration over a secure national telemedicine broadband IP network backbone 2. Consultations / referrals between and among health and allied institutions and personnel in the public & private health sectors. 3. Capture & storage of data voice and video conferencing clips 4. Online video conferencing, peer to peer & multicast 5. MOH Telephone and IP-Telephony Service 6. Ethical Web based health records / information management system Massachusetts Tech. Collaborative; (October 16th 2003 Report) • Report Highlights Application of 7 EMR health care technologies: • Improved quality • Decrease overall claims costs • Reduce errors • improve patient satisfaction and overall care • Expanding coverage • Potentially saved $2.48 billion us Electronic Medical Records From Client Based Systems Rejected Cost for 1 physician 3 Product office staff Amazing Charts $250-500 MDinteractive $600 SOAP ware $300-$1,200 Kairosmd (Caribbean) $2000 Clinical Practice Facilitator $695 Web Based EHR for All Drs, Health Institutions / Health & Allied Personnel Developed For Global use Version 1 1. Office Schedule Module 2. Hospital / Institutional module 3. Institutional/Field database integration 4. Interface c 3rd party Scheduling 5. Billing Module 6. 7. Interface c 3rd party Billing Lab / HL7 interface NEW UNIMEDICS 8. Soap notes EHR: At What Cost ? LOW 9. Medical/Surgical procedures 10. Online consultations 11. Prescriptions 12. Drug interactions 13. Connect Multiple Locations 14. Wireless access to the service 15. Voice recognition 16. PDA compatible 17. Cell phone compatible 18. Capture and Store images (Using Lead Tool Components) 19. Multimedia patient file storage (Using Lead Tool Components) 20. Digital imaging (Using Lead Tool Components) 21. Reminders 22. Bilingual / Multilingual 23. Unlimited # of Active Users 24. Web Site interface 25. E-mail contact Unimedics EHR Software Unimedics: Learning Management Software Telemedicine Management software Web content management Learning Management Silver, Gold, Platinum Online Modular Courses Peer to Peer / Multicast Caribbean Health TV Channel OFF-SHORING (Export Niche) • The export of Health Services to Third Countries • Off-shoring market already developed between USA India & Thailand • Pilot Projects presently testing protocols • Pilot Projects to develop health export business models being tested • Pilot Projects to establish Centers Of Excellence (COE) in Jamaica & the Caribbean Full Telemedicine Coverage Healthy-----------At Risk- Early Sickness-- Late Sickness---------Recovery Wellness At Risk– Early Sickness Late Illness Recovery / Convalescence Recovery / Wellness Medical (Off-shoring) Geriatric Health Tourism Health Tourism Convalescence Health Tourism Spas / Wellness Centres Diagnostic/ Ambulatory /Off- Recovery / Convalescence Centres Ecotourism Centres / shoring/ Medical & Hospital Lifestyle change Alternative Health/ Alternative Health / Ethno Services Ethno medicines / Specialized Elderly medicines/ Integrated Medical Health Tourism Institutions Off-shoring & Hotel Hotel Services Services Wellness Health Tourism Copyright: Dr. Winston Mendes Davidson Convalescent Health Tourism 2004-09-29 Caribbean Health Tourism / Telemedicine Infrastructure For Sustainable Services • Cost competitive advantage (much lower costs) with very little structural change for Health & Tourism integration to achieve sustainability • Internationally recognized Health Institutions • Excellent Professional training (repute) of Drs. & Nurses in Caribbean • Low cost geriatric health tourism opportunities • "The Mendes-Davidson Model" Integrates diverse tech. platforms to derive Health info-management and economic synergies • Available broadband IT platform Caribbean Health Tourism "The Hotel is a Hospital (therapeutic centre) for well people, while the Hospital (therapeutic centre) is a Hotel for ill people" (W. Mendes-Davidson, 1997). • Caribbean Therapy Hotels Must Be Professionally Branded • Develop the highest therapeutic Standards • Should begin as classy cottage type low maintenance facilities • High level trained health service teams • Telemedicine Services for prompt intervention • Home type sun & sea type care facility with entertainment Is Training Available? Human Capacity development (Training) The telemedicine certificate training project Training for export of Services Core Concept The fusion of health, education and tourism and the preparation of human capital for its implementation Target Population 1. Doctors / Dental Surgeons 2. Nurses 3. Pharmacists 4. Allied Health Workers 5. Educators; Human Resource Capacity Development (HRCD) Personnel 6. Tourism / Hotel / HRD Personnel 7. General population (Wellness / Life style / Alternative Health Therapists) UWI School of Graduate Studies Developed by the In Association with Infoserv Institute Training program for Drs. Telemedicine Research of Technology Nurses, Pharmacists, & Unit Allied Health Workers Module Resource Name Presentation Material Label Telemedicine Caribbean Telemedicine/Telehealth 1 Model (IP Telephony) Powerpt./CD Technology (Intro.) Telemedicine Caribbean 2 Powerpt./CD Model (Perspectives) Concept, vision and 3 Powerpt./CD mission Scope of Telemedicine 4 Powerpt./CD Today/ Medico-Legal issues Telemed IP Telephony 5 Dr. On Call Powerpt/CD (Fundamentals) Medical Emergency Telephony Cert. Medical Emergency 6 (Optional) Didac./ CD/ Demo Telephony (Optional) Non- Emergency Medical 7 Demo/Interactive Telephony Practice / Application 8 Hands / On/Self (Telephony Skills) Basic Info/Com/Tech (ICT) 9 Powerpt / CD Skills Telemedicine Practice UWI School of Graduate Certification (Basic) Studies / Infoserv Powerpt / CD/ Internet Skills / Fundamentals 10 Tel-Med-Serv Self (CIW International) Powerpt / CD/ Basic (Network) 11 Self Info/Com/Tech Skills Powerpt / CD/ 12 Self Website Management Skills Demo/CD/Sel Electr. Record System/ 13 f/powerpt Practice Management Multimedia Interactive Demo/Interac Multimedia Capture, Store, 14 Telemed Serv. Cert. (MITS) tive Forward (Online) (MITS) Optional Trainer of Demo/Interac Digital/Video/Product/Media 15 Trainers Cert. tive Clips. (Online Consult) Telemedicine Practice Cert. UWI School of Graduate (Intermediate) Studies / Infoserv Tel-Med-Telehealth- Powerpt / CD/ Intermediate (Network) 16 Global Self Info/Com/Tech Skills Powerpt/CD/De Teleconferencing/ 17 mos/Self Streaming/Cable Health TV Demo/Interacti Personal Area Networks / 18 ve Personal Digital Assistants Demo/Interacti Remote Sites /Home / Health 19 ve Tourism/ Export Services Didac./ CD/ ICT Budgeting & Cost Control/ 20 Demo ROI Didac./ CD/ Electronic Research and 21 Demo Development methods Interactive/ CD/ Interpersonal Relations / 22 Demo Marketing Telemedicine Practice Cert. UWI School of Graduate Studies / (Advanced) Infoserv Telemedicine Wide Area Network Telemedicine Wide Area Network Network Operating Centre Network attached Storage Local (NOC) (NAS) Systems Area Fault tolerant NOC mirror Engineer Network T1 (FTNOCM); (back-end). (LAN) Telephony ISP/ Web hosting VOIP Site Settings Firewall Network Administrator etc. server Firewall National Telemedicine / Telehealth Network System (Front-end) siteLink 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 * 8 # domainDNS Cajun P112T SD 1 2 3 4 9 10 11 12 17 18 19 20 5 6 7 8 13 14 15 16 21 22 23 24 PWR NMA RED LNK COL TX RX RDX Application server NMA Lucent Technologies Router PWR WIC0 ACT/CH0 WIC0 ACT/CH0 ETH ACT Storage Generic Admin computer OK ACT/CH1 ACT/CH1 COL 7x 8x 9x 10x 11x 12x 7x 8x 9x 10x 11x 12x file server Ethernet C A 11 7 8 910 12 12 34 56 1x 2x 3x A 4x 5x 6x 1x 2x 3x B 4x 5x 6x VPN POWERFAULT DATA ALARM RAS Hub Health TV Chan. Op. TALK / DATA TALK RS CS TR RD TD CD subnet Centre PSTN Cable Modem Band width; from V-sat, Telemed computer, Techno- medical Admin. via wireless; Cable, Via Cable modems siteLink3 Dir. Program/ Edit/ Schedule WIC0 WIC0 ETH PWR ACT/CH0 ACT/CH0 ACT OK ACT/CH1 ACT/CH1 COL PWR WIC0 WIC0 ETH ACT/CH0 ACT/CH0 ACT OK ACT/CH1 ACT/CH1 COL International VPN collocation Wide Towers VPNs Area Multi-media /program /edit/ device Network (WAN) Rest of Country City &Town Switch Wireless HS1 HS2 OK1 OK2 PS COL- ACT- STA- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910 12 11 CONSOLE Switch Cable Modem Telemedicine / Telehealth units for Drs. Office; Clinic; Hospital; / DSL Pharmacy; Schools; Factories ; Enterprises; Homes; Hotels; Prisons ; Sports Medicine; Homes for Elderly; UWI; UTECH; Training Instits.; All online in real time. Hotel / School Health Cable TV Telehealth Unit Telemedicine Unit Multimedia Streaming and capture Home Health Cable TV diagnostic devices located at Telehealth Unit Telemedicine Unit patient terminals on LAN and WAN Internet / Web, E-Health, Telemedicine Services for export to Overseas Jamaicans, Tourists, the Caribbean Community & Ghana. System designed by: Dr. Winston Mendes-Davidson. This diagram is copyright protected; Use may only be made with the permission of the author. 20th February 2002. What Are Our threats? • The Lack Of: Professional Will Entrepreneurial Will Appropriate Business Models Political Will Willingness to share techs with Atalacc partners
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As some of you may know, I've been in the Peace Corps application process for almost a year now, but I've finally been invited to serve in Azerbaijan, teaching English. I know this isn't tea-related but it's pretty big news. Also, this is an opportunity for people to send me tea! (just kidding, but not really). I'm planning on bringing some tea, but not a lot since I have to travel light. Probably just the basic balled-up oolong, since wiry type tea takes up more space and is more prone to breakage. This may also mean that I won't be updating this anymore after I leave, since it'd just be me drinking the same kind of tea over and over again.
For those who wish, you can follow my adventures in Azerbaijan over at my other blog here
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Evah came to become a star. She was ready for some big dick for cash. She was hot in that mini skirt and heels. She had a sweet biscuit under that skirt that was ready to get pounded. She bent over and displayed that hot ass. She put those sexy panties to the side and began playing with that luscious pussy. Ian came and joined in on the fun. It was not long until he had his face in that hot muff. Then, she got on her knees and stuffed that cock in her mouth. She got on top and crammed that dick in her tight little pussy. Then, she requested man juice all over her face and she received it. I believe we have a star in the making.
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715 North 4th Street
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Systematic database query generation and abstraction
Filtering library for systematic database query generation using Node.js
The purpose of db-filters is to provide an abstraction layer between data and the underlying database language. It provides a means for taking objects and then generating queries (eventually, for multiple database engines and families) automatically. Traditionally, a database abstraction layer would hide the API for interacting with the database behind a single API that can easily convert calls to support MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, etc. However, SQL must still be written to send to these databasee, and it is not abstracted by the API.
db-filters fills this gap by providing an abstraction to the query language itself. In principle this allows for seamless migration between SQL and NoSQL solutions, but for now its primary purpose is to generate SQL statements programmatically with high consistency, safety (i.e. proper escaping), and simplicity, as compared to writing SQL by hand.
The premise of filtering data for query generation moves the task of translating object properties into database fields away from user code. Instead central rules are specified that can decode all of the object properties. This approach allows for simpler user code specifying what information is to be retrieved from a database, and it gracefully handles a complex combination of array types, optional values, and compound types that should always map to multiple fields or require additional preprocessing before being placed into an SQL query.
Trivia: This was originally a PHP library that I wrote, but the code was very ugly. Now, a friend of mine is backporting the new Javascript version to PHP 5.3.


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The actual color of the chair is a tad darker than the picture; be sure to check your measurements because the chair is bigger than you might think for an accent piece. Very comfortable and sturdy. Looks fabulous in our room!
- How did the color on site compare with the actual product? the actual color is just a bit darker
- Please tell us about the quality of the product. very good quality; very sturdy
- How accurate was the on site description of the product? spot on
These two chairs filled the void in my solarium perfectly. Very stylish, very smart and quite firm which serves my purposes. The gray is dark and the additional pillows simply a nice touch. However, they were not easy to put together. Every bolt should be left loose until the arms are affixed as per the directions. Had to readjust the first chair after I finished the second chair. Not necessarily a beginners challenge.
I put this chair in my bedroom. Very easy to assemble. It took about 45 minutes. I took my time so I did not have any redos. The chair is large and deep. I definitely need the pillow at my back to make it cozy when reading. The color is a deep gray, so deep one would think a touch a purple has been added. But it is a rich hue. A true value and a great purchase.
This chair is solid and sturdy enough to hold up my 250 lbs 6'4 husband without complaint and is wide enough to fit him comfortably. I wanted two but I'm happy i just purchased one as this chair takes up plenty of space. I love the look of this chair and the material. Everything about this chair screams subtle elegance.
- How did the color on site compare with the actual product? Yes
This chair is wide so check the dimensions before you ordered. Happy with finish and fabric - good buy. I used it in a lobby as a guest chair at front desk.
- How did the color on site compare with the actual product? Color is as picture
- Please tell us about the quality of the product. Great
- How accurate was the on site description of the product? Accurate
I was looking for a decorative, but functional chair and this one fit the bill just right. It is wider than other chairs, but the style is very nice. This chair is very comfortable as I like firm chairs. Putting it together was about as easy as any assembly can be. The only real issue is the placement of the cushion on the seat frame fitted over the brackets through which you attach the screws. The brackets were a little bit out of place and I had to screw in the screws at an angle so they would attach to the seat frame. If the seat cushion had a wider frame that would have prevented the problem. As it is, I was able to attach most of the screws into the cushion's frame in order to keep it in place. The color is also a very nice neutral color entirely consistent with what is pictured.
Easy to assemble and nice and sturdy. Love the color grey on the seat and back!
I bought 2 of these and you can't beat the price. They are very comfortable and assembly was easy. It would have been a lot easier, had I paid attention a bit more. Instructions are not that great and the color is slightly darker than what is shown on the pictures. I like it.
The chairs(2) look the same as pictured. The colors are darker and the chairs larger than I thought, but still fit in with my decor. My family enjoyed putting them together...no problems.
I love this overstock purchase! I needed 2 stylish gray chairs for my living room and this one fit the bill perfectly. The chair is wide so make sure to measure your space but I actually love the extra width because it makes it very comfortable to sit in. Also, the chair was a little bit more blue than I had originally wanted in a gray/cream room but it ended up looking great. I would definitely recommend this chair!
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- Please tell us about the quality of the product. very good
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This chair is very large and is solid construction. The cushion on the base could stand to be softer.
Minor part broke while assembling. Parts don't fit well. Seat is too weak to hold an adult.
Beautiful Chairs. In fact they are the exact chairs used by Billy Bush and Kat on the Extra tv Show, however, they are not very comfortable for long term use and are Super Wide, which for some reason even with the dimensions, I didn't expect. The extra pillow is nice and finds its way all around my house. Solid buy, just not the BEST buy for me personally.
Great chair very comfortable, looks just like picture and a quality product!
A lot larger than expected, but in a good way. Very comfy and nice quality
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I love this chair. I bought two and they look great! Guest are comfortable and always complement how nice they look. This chair is very sturdy and the color looks exactly like the picture. They arrived quickly. Assembly took about 45 minutes. Make sure everything is assembled correctly prior to adding the wood caps that cover the screws. Once you cover the screws with the cap you can not remove the cap or the screws. This intentional for a seamless look. I recommend this chair for any contemporary,modern,rustic or traditional room.
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What number of pregnancy is this for you?
Momma to an adventurer!
Born @ 34 weeks with a whole list, but a magical spirit :)
Officially more days OUT of Children's Hospital than IN!
This is my 4th, but I had a miscarriage with one. I have two girls.
Ava 7-16-2005
Alianna 9-02-2010
Brandon 7-02-2013
Pre-e and HELLP survivor, twice!
Destiny Evalyn, May 2008, 30 w 3 d, 14 in, 900 grams
This is my fourth pregnancy. I had two miscarriages before having my baby girl.
Pregnancy #2 and baby #2.
Natasha Rachel 11/27/10
Orson James 8/25/14
4 Chemical pregnancies 11/3/12, 1/7/13, 6/14/13, 8/23/13
Pregnancy number 4, baby number 3 :)
Skylar (11/17/05), Landon (11/11/10) and Baby Logan (07/13); eptopic (08/04)
This is my third pregnancy, I have a daughter who is almost two and I had a MC in early September. Praying this baby sticks, looking forward to going through pregnancy and infancy again . . . and of course being a part of another birth club!
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Israel's Iron Dome provides cover, but not normalcy (+video)
Israeli sources claim the Iron Dome missile defense system has successfully shot down most of the rockets that it has tried to intercept from Gaza.
Ashdod and Kiryat Malachi, Israel
Israel's Iron Dome system, a relatively new umbrella to stop the Gazan rockets that have been raining down over southern Israel, has achieved a claimed success rate of roughly 90 percent in its most rigorous test yet.
Despite a barrage of more than 800 rockets this week, including several long-range ones targeting Tel Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time in decades, only three Israelis have been killed. But the high-tech system has not been as effective in addressing the other casualty of such escalations: the interruption of school, work, and family life.
"You can't continue to live like this," says Danny, a young navy reservist in Ashdod whose apartment shook yesterday when a rocket hit another home in the same complex. "You want to study, but you can't. Every five minutes you have the missiles and you have to go to the shelter. How can you finish school like that?"
He points to his sister next to him, who turned 15 yesterday, and then up to the damaged apartment, with twisted metal hanging off the front. "This is what she gets for her birthday…. It is not natural."
$50,000 a shot
The Arab world has criticized Israel's offensive, which so far has killed 53 Palestinians. Israel has justified its Pillar of Defense operation as imperative, given the incessant rocket fire from Gaza, where the Hamas government has proved either unable or unwilling to rein in various militant factions.
The Iron Dome system – part of a multilayered missile defense program that began about 20 years ago – enables Israel to target such militants in Gaza without risking nearly as many civilian casualties to its own people. So far, five batteries have been deployed – the last one only yesterday, two months ahead of schedule and just in time to intercept at least two rockets targeting Tel Aviv, Israel's largest city.
Each battery includes a radar detection system, a command and control center, and mobile launchers that can be repositioned as necessary. When a rocket is fired from Gaza, the batteries quickly calculate whether it is headed for a populated area or sensitive target; if so, one of the interceptors is quickly dispatched, at a reported cost of $50,000. If the rocket is headed for an open area, however, no action is taken.
Of the more than 750 rockets fired from Gaza since last week, 245 had been intercepted as of last night. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has not published the number of attempted intercepts, so it is impossible to calculate the exact success rate. But Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren as well as Israel's former director of missile defense, Arieh Herzog, have said that the success rate of attempted intercepts is about 90 percent. That is a significant improvement over the 80 percent rate achieved when the system was first deployed in March 2011.
The deployment of Iron Dome, together with the IDF's airstrikes on Gaza, have brought a mixture of relief and hope to Israelis, says Yehudit Bar Hay, a trauma expert at the Israel Center for Victims of Terror & War, known as NATAL.
There is a "feeling that the government is at least looking at us and doing something," says Ms. Bar Hay, who lives less than a mile from the Gazan border. "Not that we like war, but this is some kind of response that we didn't get for these 12 years."
That feeling that the government is doing something – most important, preventing casualties – has given Israel breathing room in deciding how to proceed, says veteran analyst Yossi Alpher.
"It reduces public pressure on the government to do something," Mr. Alpher says. "With the expansion of [Iron Dome] to Tel Aviv, people are feeling relatively safe and able to withstand a longer-term campaign."Â
Holes in Iron Dome
To be sure, there are still rockets that pierce Israel's anti-missile umbrella. Around the corner from a huge Ashdod billboard peddling "Spikes to go" – with dagger-like high heels dangling from the fingers of a sultry model –  a Gazan rocket careened into a courtyard yesterday, creating a large divot in the dirt.
Alona Bererzin, a resident walking near the freshly filled-in hole in the evening, said Iron Dome's batteries clearly needed improving.
"They do nothing," said Ms. Bererzin, whose apartment is located less than 75 feet from where the rocket hit. "They tried to get three of them, but they didn't get any."
Half an hour away in Kiryat Malachi, family members mourned one of three people killed in a Nov. 15 rocket attack. The IDF would not confirm whether the town is protected by Iron Dome, afraid of revealing its weak points to Hamas, but the deep rumblings of what residents said was an Iron Dome launcher could be heard throughout the afternoon.
Mr. Herzog, the head of Israel's missile defense program from 1999 until January of this year, says that typically missile-defense systems have a much lower rate of success than Iron Dome. But he says it's crucial that the system be used in tandem with bomb shelters, because "from time to time the system does not intercept what it wants to intercept."
Lack of bomb shelters
The bomb shelter on the ground floor of the damaged Kiryat Malachi building is piled with junk, allowing space for perhaps two or three people at most. Like many of Israel's older buildings, it lacks a mamad – a bomb shelter within one's apartment or just outside it, which is easier to access in the 15-to-90-second window that Israelis have to reach a shelter once missile sirens begin to wail.
"The big problem is that there are lots of old buildings that don't have mamads," says Hanna Shukrun, a resident whose daughter and 3-day-old granddaughter have come to take shelter with her. "Even without a war, it'd be a problem."
But while the newer mamad shelters provide good protection, the routine of sirens and shelters is wearing.
"You are afraid of doing the routine things of your life, like going to the bathroom, going to take a shower, whatever," says Ben Hay, the trauma expert.
"All your life stops," says Mesodi Sugaker, a lifelong resident of Kiryat Malachi. "There is no school, no work…. Stores are open only until noon… Even the cows are afraid," she and her sisters joke while enjoying tea on her balcony overlooking a local farm.
But she becomes more somber when the evening news comes on, showing a rapid montage of Iron Dome interceptors, Gazan missiles, and suffering on both sides of the border.
As Shabbat comes to a close, she takes comfort, however, in a higher power – implied in the Hebrew name for the operation, Pillar of Cloud. The name is a biblical reference to the divine light that guided Moses and the children of Israel through the wilderness.
"Everybody from Israel sees … He protects us," she says, referring to God. "He's with Israel all the time."


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The Maryland House of Delegates has today passed a bill, approved by the State Senate on March 6, that replaces capital punishment with the sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Governor Martin O'Malley is expected to sign the bill.
Hooray for Maryland!
This would make Maryland the 18th state in the US to ban capital punishment, and the sixth state in as many years to bring a repeal. In the last six years, Connecticut, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York and Illinois have repealed the death penalty. (The District of Columbia has also rejected capital punishment.)
As a former resident of Maryland, I am thrilled that the state has chosen to reject this barbaric punishment.
Maryland currently has five men on death row, though the measure makes it clear the governor can commute their sentences to life in prison. The state last executed someone in 2005.
Capital punishment has been on hold in Maryland since a December 2006 ruling by the state's highest court that the lethal injection protocols had not been properly approved by a legislative committee.
Many of us hoped that last November California would become the latest state to see the light and decide to get rid of capital punishment, but instead 52 percent of California voters cast ballots to keep the death penalty. Nevertheless, this slim majority indicates that Californians are growing increasingly concerned with the costs and unfairness of the death penalty.
But with today's Maryland news, we can hope that the tide is really turning, and the US is no longer embracing the death penalty. In recent years, the number of government-ordered executions has fallen: there were a total of 43 executions nationwide in 2011 and again in 2012, compared with 85 executions in 2000. In addition, death sentences have declined by 75% and executions by 60% since the 1990s.
Along with China, Iran, North Korea and Yemen, the United States currently leads the world in carrying out the most death sentences. What great company we are in.
Yet worldwide there seems to be a general trend toward the abolition of capital punishment. Over the past decade, 31 countries have eliminated the death penalty in law or practice. The US should be the next country.
And indeed, legislatures in several other states are considering getting rid of death sentences: Colorado and Delaware will be seriously considering death penalty repeal bills in the coming weeks.
Mona Cadena, state strategist for Equal Justice USA declares today's vote in Maryland to be a "decisive victory."
"This is a thrilling day," she states, "and a victory that has been many years in the making." She continues, "Things are definitely changing in this country. So many states are asking critical questions now, like 'Is the death penalty worth our time, given all the problems with racism and errors?' And the bottom line is asking whether it's OK to execute an innocent person. One by one, states are saying 'No' to the death penalty."
In Maryland, as in the rest of the country, there have been significant racial disparities; four out of the five men on the state's death row are African-Americans whose victims were white.
Deliberately taking another person's life is not justice, but nothing more than a crude instrument of revenge. It is a cruel and degrading punishment, and the US should banish the death penalty now.
Congratulations to Maryland for doing the right thing.
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maryland is literally down the road and across the river from me (less than 2 miles.) i wish virginia would abolish the death penalty but i don't see it happening.
Thank you Judy, for Sharing this!
thanks for sharing
Syd H. 5:01PM PDT on Mar 18, 2013
Statistics can be used to promote any agenda, so I'm not going to dwell about your numbers. Only add somthing to your final comment. The British law system is different from any other country, and any other country in the world has its own. Life in prison means about 14 years in Britain. In Sweden about 18-30. In Norway at least 21, but could be indefinate (Compare the massmurder of July 22, 2011). And, life without the possibility of parole are handled differently all over the USA. Some spend all their lifes behind bars, some get out after 15-20 or after spending 25 inside. If there were a national law defining a life sentence, it could be established as being for the rest of the prisoners life. Then it would mean that the public would be protected, the families of the victim never having to see the prisoner again (at parole hearings, appeals, etc.) and that the convicted could start paying back what they owe the victims by being forced to work.
Too many innocent people have been executed already. One more is one too many!
I oppose the death penalty.
When they first developed the ability for DNA testing, I was shocked at how many persons in prison were exonerated by it. Immediately, I thought of the many who were sent to their death proclaiming their innocence. How many persons have died for something they didn't do? Unless a person is caught red-handed in the act, videotaped DURING the crime, I would not trust the moral integrity of the police, or the intelligence and impartiality of a jury with the life of another human being.
Syd H, thanks for the figures, but there are other factors that could account for the increase. We cannot make such generalised conclusions with limited data.
To those who disagree with Maryland's decision, it's not about saving the murderers. Apparently it costs more to enact the death penalty than it does to simply keep a murderer in prison for life without the possibility of parole.
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