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Martha Fling April 2, 2014 at 06:58 am
"Connection is protection"...Jean Malpas at The Gender Project at Ackerman Institute for…Read More the Family. Good work by Juvonen.
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Capo Parent April 4, 2014 at 12:24 pm
Union tools, and dull ones at that.
shelly April 4, 2014 at 04:04 pm
Capo Parent, Why the name calling?
fact checker April 4, 2014 at 05:23 pm
Because factual and respectful discussions aren't getting the results wanted. It's easier to trash…Read More than it is to back up a losing prospect.
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Rene Diedrich March 21, 2014 at 02:21 pm
Fletcher has betrayed the rank and file, but things will only get worse for teachers and schools…Read More with Caputo Pearl and a skate of stained incumbents behind him. Switching puppets helps Deasy dodge accoubtability for his litany of egregious transgressions . Pearl cheated by visiting schools , which us illegal and gave him an advantage as did the media bias arranged by Deasy in blogs , newspapers and even a smear job on the real underdogs in the Wall Street Journal . Unions were easy to topple when the billionaires got in the mix . Leadership in UTLA, CTC , NEA , AFT AND UFT Have notoriously sold out to line their pockets which all ready counts from $225,000 to $450,000 just on salery. There are bonuses, pensions, expense accounts, PPO s, cars, housing, vacations and paid speaking engagements but all that is not enough. When school officials share these same wages and benefits as the union leaders , they become peers with great power and peon teachers bringing in 10% of what the leaders do become the PWT ( poor white trash ) of professionals . What makes my blood boil is the wanton indifference to our mission as educators . Its all about. Profits and heeding the call of the eduction industrial complex with its edtech, testing, VAMBOOZLE virtual schools, charter Goldmines, scripted lessons and philanthropy gone wild . Eli Broad admits he knows nothing about teaching but says they. Can manage business. Education is not a business. Whatever these test factories are is not a public service and breaking the union never meant that it would not exist . That symbiotic relationship is necessary to maintain such a dysfunctional system, but any duty the union had to teachers was subverted by the plutocrats and their political puppetry . Pearl or Fletcher makes no difference. That's why less than 20% voted and none of them are likely to strike or rally bc they know their days are numbered.
Activists Deliver 5K+ Petitions to LAUSD, Call for More…
Rene Diedrich March 20, 2014 at 01:18 pm
I would not trust any initiative endorsed by Galatzan and Garcia.
E-Cigs to Be Restricted at West Los Angeles College
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Don March 17, 2014 at 07:00 am
Since its apparent after decades of inept indifference by LAUSD and the Teachers unions, what are…Read More the citizens of Los Angeles going to do about it? Continue apathy or demand with whatever measures necessary inmasse to say enough is enough. How about vouchers to start?
Ken Smith March 20, 2014 at 12:13 pm
I read throught the actual research and the reporter only highlighted the positive. One of the…Read More important pieces of information was that the study stated that 30% of charters in LA will perform below standard in math and 1/4 below standard in English. They also did not list the average demographic for the schools which I found significant and stated earlier. out of about 150,000 students, there are under 6,000 special education students. That is less than 4%. At my campus we have 22% special education and those numbers highly impact our performance and test scores. Again, charters had a higher number of whites which typically have higher test scores, a much lower number of latino students who historically do not score as high as whites or asians, and a lower number of students in poverty. I think it is clear how charters are making the advances in testing. They are getting students that 1. Have family support. 2. Want to succeed so they are making choices to improve. 3. There are less students with challenges like poverty, special needs and behavior.
Frank Estrada April 13, 2014 at 12:09 pm
Time to beak up LAUSD for the childrens sake..
L.A. Teachers Take Campaign for Raises to Parents
Don March 4, 2014 at 07:32 pm
Notice the familiar theme They said the same things when the new construction school bonds were…Read More passed then supplemented to the tune of 19 billion dollars Then they had the same theme again with the Maintenance and upgrade bonds to the tune of 7 billion dollars Then they combined new construction and Maintenance into a single organization and then spent New Construction Bond money on Ipads Class sizes were reduced, new schools were built, over 700 and nowthey're throwing the same theme at us again By the way a teacher works a 155 day school year. You work 255 days a year. That's 100 days difference. A starting teacher at 50k equates to over 80,000 dollars a year Feeling impoverished yet. You should. You're paying an awful lot for awful performance So paying them for being bad, doesn't sound all that good now does it?
Don March 5, 2014 at 06:44 am
Oh I forgot. What about the California Lottery where a minimum of 33% was to go to education. The…Read More system is fleecing you and if you go along with this you earned the right to this debacle. Tenure, outrageous pensions, workers comp fraud, can't fire incompetence and they feel neglected and mistreated. Somethings wrong with this picture
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Nicole Williams February 24, 2014 at 04:34 pm
They're too busy buying iPads at RETAIL prices!!!!When there's a sub, they automatically watch a…Read More dvd! My kid could learn MORE at home watching TV than at an LAUSD school. It's so frustrating!!!!!You can't even log onto the Net on a desktop at schools-it's RIDICULOUS!!
Librarygal February 25, 2014 at 06:35 am
As an LAUSD Library Aide since 2000 I have seen a lot of changes. Most of us have been reduced to 3…Read More hours a day. A typical day can be up to 6 classes scheduled, primary grades get story time, students come in at the same time to exchange books so they can keep up with the required reading program Accelerated Reader, teachers need guidance to find books which supplement the curriculum, not to mention shelving, putting up monthly displays, etc. We are constantly looking for funding to purchase new books & fun ways to promote the library. It's sad to think about school libraries that have to be closed because there is no Library Aide or Teacher Librarian. I promote the public library daily, but most students do not have the opportunity to go because their parents don't have time to take them. Hopefully things will change so all students may have equal access to the school libraries.
JMarsh February 25, 2014 at 07:14 am
The first elementary school I taught at years ago had a full-time credentialed librarian. She was…Read More wonderful. The library was always in order and open. We had a weekly library visit with our class. If you were studying a topic you could let her know and she would pull a number of grade level books on the subject. She always had featured books on display in the library. They were about holidays, etc. She really made a difference! None of the other schools I taught at had a librarian.
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GarfieldNeighborhoodWatch February 21, 2014 at 07:13 am
what happens when a student "loses" his ipad? maybe sell it on ebay to make some money?
michelle February 21, 2014 at 08:08 am
I have 3 children at LAUSD and I don't want them to be on an iPad at school. I understand that the…Read More iPad is an excellent learning took for many schools; however, the schools where the iPads are being used provide a comprehensive training program for the teachers so they can best utilize this great resource in the classroom. The teachers at our elementary school barely know how to upload a PDF to the teacher section of the school website! Buying iPads for each student is a complete waste of money and whoever was involved in making this reckless decision should be forced out of their position. They clearly have not thought about the many trials and tribulations that will come along with iPad ownership. Why not just provide each school with 2 iPad carts and have them rotate in the classrooms? Start there! What a bunch of dummies we are paying for.
michelle February 21, 2014 at 08:11 am
Oh and my children have to eat lunch outside in the 109 degree heat from the asphalt. Ridiculous.
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Kim Miller November 10, 2013 at 02:52 pm
Problem #1. No blood for oil
carolyn rios November 10, 2013 at 06:11 pm
One company, Pearson Education, has a monopoly control on these computerized tests in these states


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Marco Rubio, a Republican who is the junior senator from Florida, has a full head of thick black hair and a movie star's baby face. He speaks passionately and argues persuasively. Just forty years old, he has the youthful glamour of a Kennedy, with an attractive wife and four children. Tea Party activists love Rubio, and he is surely the most prominent Hispanic Republican in America. His longtime political mentor, Al Cardenas, who is the former Florida Republican state chairman, thinks Rubio's most winning quality is his humility: "He's the kind of young man you want as your own son." Rubio's parents immigrated from Cuba during the Eisenhower years, and, in his first speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate, in June, Rubio sounded a little like a certain former junior senator from Illinois, who soon went on to bigger things. "We should never forget who we Americans are," he said. "Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers. Of men and women who took risks and made sacrifices because they wanted their children to live better off than themselves. And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world."
National Republicans say openly that Rubio is a top contender to be the Party's 2012 Vice-Presidential nominee. He could, they suggest, secure victory for the Party in Florida and win over Hispanic voters in other states, many of whom have been angered by the G.O.P. Presidential candidates' harsh positions on immigration. Political betting markets list Rubio as many times more likely than anyone else to be the nominee. "Rubio is our superstar," Ed Rollins, a former Presidential campaign manager for Ronald Reagan, Mike Huckabee, and Michele Bachmann, says. "He would be my first choice. My premise is that if you can add someone to your ticket that gives you a state you don't have you're way ahead of the game. No Republican can win without Florida."
But other Republicans worry that straight identity politics (Republicans need to win over Hispanics; Rubio is Hispanic; Rubio is our savior) might not work in their favor in this case. Rubio's positions on immigration are to the right of those held by most Hispanic Americans. And these views have helped lead him into a war with Univision, which is the dominant Spanish-language media outlet in the country, and which champions immigration reform. Many national Republicans have stood by Rubio in that conflict, but it is politically risky to fight with a network that has as much influence as Univision and, more important, it is perilous to maintain positions on immigration that anger the majority of Hispanics. Because Rubio comes from the small Cuban community, whose members have long been granted automatic citizenship—as political exiles, not as immigrants—he risks being perceived by Hispanics as an out-of-touch élitist. Earlier this year, the conservative columnist Ruben Navarrette wrote on CNN.com about the political dilemma faced by Rubio and his party: "Marco Rubio is the Republican Party's Superman. And the immigration issue, if not handled correctly, is his kryptonite."
Rubio's fight with Univision began in early July, when Gerardo Reyes, the chief of the network's investigative unit, called Rubio's older sister, Barbara Cicilia. Reyes said he had learned that, more than two decades earlier, her husband, Orlando Cicilia, had been convicted as part of a drug-trafficking ring that paid off cops and sold cocaine by the kilo. Other members of the ring had murdered and dismembered a government informer. Barbara said that her husband had never been arrested, and hung up the phone.
But, as Reyes knew, in 1989 a jury had found Cicilia guilty of possessing large quantities of cocaine and marijuana and of travelling to several states to sell and deliver drugs. He was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. After he was paroled, in 2000, Rubio's parents went to live with the Cicilias, in their new home; Rubio's father died in 2010, but his mother still lives there. Cicilia has not been actively engaged in Rubio's political campaigns, but the night Rubio was elected speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, in November, 2006, he joined the family on the stage. When Rubio ran for the Senate, in 2010, Cicilia's teen-age son was his travel aide. Orlando Cicilia was on the stage again when Rubio declared victory.
The reach of Univision is often underappreciated. It is watched regularly by two-thirds of all Hispanic television viewers in the U.S. In Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Phoenix, its stations' newscasts rate higher than those of their English-speaking competitors. Some nights, the network's national ratings exceed those of ABC, CBS, Fox, or NBC. And the audience is growing, in part because of demographics. Today, fifteen per cent of Americans are Hispanic; in 2050, the percentage will have doubled. According to Univision's news president, Isaac Lee, the network is openly committed to "pro-Hispanic" immigration reform, and it has a particular slant on the news: a dog biting any man is not a story, but a dog biting a Hispanic man is. Sergio Bendixen, perhaps the leading Hispanic public-opinion researcher in the U.S. and Latin America, says that Univision is the most respected institution among Hispanics in the country, ahead of the armed forces and the Catholic Church. "It is considered to be the institution that protects Latin-Americans in the U.S. and fights the institutions that abuse them," he says.


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We've gone over some of this before as to which faucets are the best. Too many choices and models to really nail that one down good.
A lot of plumbers get comfortable with certain parts and brands. It's always a learning curve to switch.
So if these are made by the Boguslavsky family, that's where you will be getting parts too.
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There is a strong gas smell in the area near C-470 and Santa Fe Drive. The reverse notification advised residents to evacuate if they can or close their doors and windows. It also suggested people stay inside if possible.
The gas leak in Jefferson County also resulted evacuation notification for Columbine Hills Elementary School, but the notice was canceled before the school had a chance to evacuate.
All the evacuations were lifted around 11:30 a.m.
It's a high-pressure line, so debris is blowing around due to the leak.Xcel is working to turn off the gas or to cap it.Xcel does not know who all is affected by the gas line issue.
There is a large plume of dust and dirt shooting into the air and can be seen from afar.
The right lane of C-470 westbound between Santa Fe Drive and Wadsworth Boulevard was blocked by the broken gas line for nearly two hours. The closure began at 10:17 a.m. Xcel asked the Colorado Department of Transportation to keep the right lane of westbound C-470 closed while they continued their investigation.
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We are doing a small research to find out the top 25 Expat employers in the Netherlands.
We'd like to hear which companies you think deserve to be on the list. We primarily look for companies that employ most number of expats.
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I know a lot of expats in Fluor and Nike,... I will try to think about more,...
Hmm...maybe Nike, but Fluor is pretty Dutch. There are some, but, unless they work on a job site, the Dutch dominate.
There are more expats at both Genzyme and Excerpta Medica I think.
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Maybe TomTom? That being said, like Fluor, it was pretty vulnerable during the worst of the economic turndown a couple of years ago. Lots were laid off; I don't know if they were ever replaced...
i guess Rabobank, ABNAmro, ING also have a large number of expats
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Maybe HP, Dell or other large software company.
They probably have offices here (although I don't know where offhand), but most of what we've mentioned above are the EU headquarters of international offices. Or head offices period of Dutch companies that have gone international, like TomTom or Philips.


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You will either have to be one of the fastest people on Earth, or need 6 hands to install ANY 3" fitting using repair couplings. You MIGHT get one in place before it grabs the pipe, (but the odds are against it), but NEVER two of them.
I'm new to the forums as a "poster" though I've learned much from reading about plumbing issues here in the past. I am adding a new kitchen island with a 2" PVC drain and AAV. I plan to connect to existing 3" horizontal drain using PVC WYE 3x2x3 fitting. My questions is: does the IPC allow use of 3" PVC repair couplings on both ends of the WYE? This fitting will be below existing floor and above a finished basement ceiling.
I believe I read that IPC does not allow no-hub or Fernco in finished space unless a access panel in provided (could not find any reference other than "welded connections"). My preference is to use the repair couplings, if allowed by IPC. Thanks for any insight!
You will either have to be one of the fastest people on Earth, or need 6 hands to install ANY 3" fitting using repair couplings. You MIGHT get one in place before it grabs the pipe, (but the odds are against it), but NEVER two of them.
Licensed residential and commercial plumber
They make these for PVC
And they are legal.
quote;; no-hub or Fernco
N0-Hub bands are designed for No-Hub cast-iron soil pipe ONLY, even though they can be fitted to plastic drainage, and "Fernco" type couplings are not allowed inside the building according to many codes. The "proper" "transition" coupling which is similar to a No-Hub but sized for plastic is allowable.
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Thanks for getting back on my question!
Thanks Terry- as HJ noted I would have to work real fast with the PVC Repair couplings. From what I've read, there is a good chance the adhesive would be scraped from part of the surface as the coupling slides into place resulting in "do over". My inspector also suggested a banded coupling like you show, so I am likely to go with that. I still have an inclination to try the repair couplings in a mock-up where a fail wont matter- just to see if that can be done.
One additional question- the sink in the island will be small prep sink only- no DW or disposal. Can I run 1 1/2" Sched. 40 rather than 2" to the existing 3" horizontal? Distance will be about 12 ft and will run thru joists. Drilling and placing 1 1/2" between the joists would be easier. Plan is to use an AAV at the island for vent.
Thanks for your help in completing my remod!
A prep sink used 2" for the waste and 1.5" for the trap arm.
That would be a good one to run by the inspector though.
The last prep sink I did was run in 2".
Since they had a 2x8 floor system, we ran below some of the joists, near the wall.


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I am dabbling with guitar refurbishment and assembly using parts gathered here and there. This string spacing rule is essential for cutting a string nut from scratch. My only (small) complaint is that it has no reference marks to identify the slots you select--I had to put tape down the middle and use colored dots in order to recall the dimensions I had selected. Perhaps a later model can include reference letters or numbers down the middle so that the user can note that position "B-6" worked best for a particular application.
THIS makes me accurate, every time. Great thanks very much, perfect for any guitar builder at any level
Accurate string spacing! Great tool!
Wish i would have came up with this tool it works sufficiently. Its a must when it comes to making a guitar nut
Easy to use, durable, fits ANY nut and neck. Great idea, wonderful tool. Thank you.
The String Spacing Rule came with good instuctions and is a very easy tool to use. I found that it speeds up the whole process of making new nuts. Now I don't have to guess or eyeball where I want string placement. Great tool!
At 60, my eyes can't take the strain and I needed something to make string spacing easier. This is the ticket. I should have got one of these while my eyes were good, They'd probably still be good!!
I decided to try spacing my strings mathmatically. It can be done. But I found that I couldn't be precise enough with my ruler and pencil even with 64th's. Hated to spend money on something that I'm only going to use 4-5 times (amateur luthier), but the minute I got it, I was glad I did. It's stupid easy to use, and very much worth it to me now. I highly recommend it even for a couple of builds. I know it took some effort to create this rule, but the price is still a bit high. Keeping it from getting 5 stars from me. Does what it's supposed to do and does it well, though.
This is a must-have time-saving tool for the working pro tech/luthier. The only caveat is that at the narrow end of the scale, the center-to-center E-to-E tick marks for a 6 string is 1.328", and some (very very few!) necks have narrower nuts that the scale can't handle. Still, the best spacing tool around for nuts and saddles.
A clever little ruler! I don't know how i went without it!!
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IN LATE MARCH, New Jersey's Acting Governor Richard J. Codey signed legislation requiring that physicians take "cultural-competency training" in order to obtain a license or be relicensed by the State Board of Medical Examiners. The intent of the training, which will be mandatory for medical students and resident and practicing physicians, is to provide docs with a better understanding of the different health-related cultural beliefs and expectations patients bring with them to a doctor's practice, and how different diseases affect diverse populations. The legislation does not address how this training will be funded.
It is up to the State Board of Medical Examiners to implement the law, including the amount of training that will be required and what that training will consist of. Legislators in Arizona, Illinois, and New York are considering similar bills that would require cultural-competency training for medical students, residents, and physicians. California's Cultural and Linguistic Competency of Physicians Act of 2003, which set up a voluntary linguistic and cultural-competency program for physicians, may be bolstered if proposed legislation to make this type of training mandatory is passed. But one thing is certain: CME providers who develop cultural-competency education are going to face some pushback from physicians.
"It seems so misguided," says Pennie Marchetti, a family physician who authors the MedPundit.blogspot.com weblog. "Perhaps its worst sin is that it assumes that all people of certain ethnic backgrounds behave and think so much alike that it's possible (or necessary) to make their behavior a subject for education."
What's the Problem?
However, the disparity in the quality of healthcare provided to different populations has been established by reports from the Institute of Medicine and numerous studies, including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's National Healthcare Disparity Reports for 2003 and 2004.
Robert Like, MD, MS, associate professor and director, Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity, Department of Family Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey — Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, N.J., says that changes are already taking place in medical schools and residency programs. "The American Association of Medical Colleges has introduced mandatory requirements, and the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education also is pushing more of a focus on cultural-diversity issues as part of the need for increased professionalism and humanism in medicine," says Like. He adds that there is an increasing global interest in multicultural medicine and cultural competency, citing as an example the European Union Amsterdam Declaration relating to the Migrant Friendly Hospitals initiative.
Robert Pallay, MD, associate director for practice initiatives and policy at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School's Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity, says, "It's well-documented that the indigent and minority populations are not receiving the same quality of care as the mainstream population." In addition, he says, the U.S. population is growing more diverse, "From what I've read, by 2050, well over half the population is going to be composed of [what we now call] minorities — they will be the majority of the population."
Like believes the New Jersey legislation is necessary: "I think the fact that the legislation has taken off in New Jersey and now is being looked at in other states is testimony to the idea that current education is viewed as not doing the trick."
Expect Some Pushback
But, Allen Roberts, MD, an emergency medicine physician in Fort Worth, Texas, likens mandatory cultural-competency training to the mandatory ethics training some states require. "Does anyone really think an hour of ethics CME is going to stop doctors from ripping off Medicare? No. And with some people there aren't enough hours in the day to make them behave ethically. While the overwhelming majority of doctors behave ethically every day, we'll make everyone take ethics classes and that way legislators can say they're doing something about unethical doctors. The same thing goes for cultural competency. It just makes a good sound bite for the politicians. It's hard as a medical community to put our foot down and say this is the wrong answer to the right question."
But Pallay, who normally doesn't support mandates, says, "This is a mandate that I'm in favor of, and not just because I'm in this field. Most physicians feel that once they get in a one-on-one with a patient, they can take care of the problem. But this isn't true when it comes to treating people from other cultures." In this case, he says, "in order to get where we need to go in medicine, we need to mandate that physicians learn about diversity and [gain] cultural competence. Otherwise docs don't give the best care, not because they don't want to do the right thing, but because they just don't know how to best handle someone from another culture."
Roberts does admit that some types of cultural-competency training could be useful. "I was first exposed to patients whose nation of origin was the Philippines when I was in the Navy as an intern. I had to see several patients before I realized that when they say, 'Doctor, I feel dizzy,' it has nothing to do with vertigo or lightheadedness. 'I feel dizzy' is just the way that culture expresses, 'I don't feel good.' That's a cultural-competency aspect that's useful to know. Is that something a required course is going to teach you? Maybe, maybe not. Too much of CME doesn't require you to learn, or understand, or even agree with what they're saying. It's like serving a sentence; you do your time, then you go home. One thing this new law will do is to provide an excellent market for cultural-competency seminars, educators, and CME classes."
Robert Centor, MD, an academic general internist with a Southeastern medical school, said on his blog, Med-Rants.com, that cultural-competency training just isn't practical. "Cultural competency sounds so good. Most physicians try to understand their patients. Cultural competency gives the sense that we will better understand our patients' needs." But, he adds, "How do we develop a curriculum that works for all physicians? Some physicians have exposure to many Latinos. But Mexican culture differs from South American culture, which differs from Cuban culture. How do we balance all those issues? Certainly Minnesota physicians have different cultural-competency needs than Hawaiian physicians. Those in urban practice have different cultural-competency needs than rural physicians. We have a different culture in the South than in the West. How do we provide a course that really helps practice?"
Some also worry that this type of training will backfire. As one person who commented on Centor's blog wrote, "What's the difference between cultural competency and cultural stereotyping? Are they both not ways of telling us that a patient who is Laotian/Jewish/Chinese/Indian can be expected to have this or that attribute, or that she will like/dislike this or that behavior or activity? What ever happened to taking patients one at a time?"
Like agrees that the worry that this type of training could increase stereotyping and overgeneralization is a legitimate one. "I unfortunately have experienced diversity training programs and educational materials that are very problematic. While it may be helpful to have some general guidelines and descriptive information about different ethnic and sociocultural groups, in the end, you have to look at every individual as an individual. Every encounter is a cross-cultural encounter."
Like also believes that cultural-competency training is possible, but that it will not be attained through a "cookbook approach to care. We have to see this as different from other types of CME courses," he says. "It has to be a process of how we continue to learn about the diverse populations we're caring for as well as our own personal and professional biases, values, beliefs, and behaviors — I don't think taking a one- or two-hour course is going to be effective. The question is, how do we bring this into the ongoing training that other physicians and care providers are already getting?" In addition, he believes that it should extend to all those involved in healthcare, including nurses, dentists, physical therapists, pharmacists, psychologists, social workers, and other allied health professionals. "We also have to look at the organizations and systems in which we work and to reduce institutionalized barriers to providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services. Although the legislation is helpful as an incremental step, I think it needs to go much further in regard to affecting other constituencies in healthcare."
The Devil Is in the Details
Because it was unknown at press time what exactly the mandated training will be in New Jersey, it is difficult to predict how it will play out with physicians and their patients. Will cultural competency be woven into existing CME on various disease states? Will the required training instead consist of stand-alone courses on the medical and communication challenges of different populations? And who's going to pay for it? Physicians? Hospitals? Managed Care? Pharma?
Like adds, "I would have preferred an incentivized approach to an unfunded mandate. On the other hand, this could be an opportunity to develop programs that make a difference. CME itself isn't going to solve the problem of disparity in healthcare, but it is one critical piece of the puzzle."
Cultural-Competency Mnemonics
Robert Like, MD, MS, associate professor and director, Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity, Department of Family Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey — Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, N.J., uses this mnemonic in his clinical practice:
ETHNIC: Explanation (The doc should elicit the patient's explanation of the problem.), Treatment (What has the patient already used to treat the condition, including herbal and other nontraditional treatments?), Healers (Who else has the patient has seen for treatment?), Negotiation (What kind of help does the patient want?), Intervention (pharmacological, psychological, social, spiritual, educational), Collaboration (Who does the doc need to work?)
Source: Levin, SJ; Like, RC; and Gottlieb, JE. ETHNIC: A framework for culturally competent clinical practice. In Appendix: Useful clinical interviewing mnemonics. Patient Care 2000; 34(9):188-189.
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The place was impressive: high ceilings and a large terrace beyond French doors.
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She walked toward the outside wall, peering over. "You're not afraid of heights, are you?" he asked. She smelled his musky cologne as he slowly came up behind her.
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"We...ended things a few months ago." She turned it over to him. "You've never been married?"
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September 9, 2012
EAST HARTFORD — It starts with the offensive line. And it starts with a good line.
It usually does.
As Adam Masters and Jimmy Bennett stood there Saturday, two 300-pound mountains trying to explain how the slants by the N.C. State defense had so throttled the UConn running game, there was another big guy across the room with another slant.
And a good line.
"It's not going to be hard to get fired up for that one," defensive lineman Ryan Wirth said of the next game against Randy Edsall and Maryland. "That's all I'm going to say about that."
So there's still animosity about being deserted in the desert after the 2011 Fiesta Bowl?
"I'm not going to comment on that," Wirth said. "I'm just going to say we're going to get it done. We're going to practice our ass off and get it done."
Good slant, Ryan, but not as good as N.C. State's slants in its 10-7 victory over UConn before 34,202 fans and 6,000 empty seats at Rentschler Field.
Good line, Ryan, but now it's time for the offensive line to be good. Or else this 2012 season is going to be an increasingly frustrating exercise where the defense does extraordinary things and the offense drags the Huskies back down to ordinary.
Coach Paul Pasqualoni saw it in the opening 37-0 rout of overmatched UMass and introduced the topic immediately. He didn't like the way the run game looked. He didn't like the way the run game was being blocked. Some saw 147 yards. Good. Others saw only 3.4 yards per carry and a lack of third-down conversions at times. Not so good.
Turned out Pasqualoni was right.
"Frustrating afternoon to put it mildly, very disappointing from a rushing standpoint," Pasqualoni said after the Huskies produced a pitiful 35 net yards on 32 carries for an average of 1.1 yards. "They slanted the front … played a lot of guys close to the line of scrimmage. We didn't do a good job of blocking."
Bennett said Pasqualoni lit into the team afterward.
"When Coach was talking after the game, it was dead silent," Bennett said. "A lot of guys were shaking their heads. He was obviously upset with the offense. All 11 of us have to work together and move the fricking ball down the field."
The Huskies had 18 net rushing yards in the season finale against Cincinnati last year, but in college football, you include the sacks. They had 81 yards gained and 63 lost that day. Johnny McEntee was a sack a minute. On Saturday, the Huskies gained 78 and lost 43. There was no sustained push down the field. They were 2-for-14 combined on third- and fourth-down conversions.
The limelight isn't fair to offensive linemen. They work. They sweat. They pound in the trenches, piles of flesh anonymous beneath a bunch of numbers like six and seven. They are oxen engaged in an intricate ballet. Yet about the only time the media wants to talk to them is when something goes wrong.
So while quarterback Chandler Whitmer and running back Lyle McCombs, who both had their problems, spoke mostly in the typical modifiers of the skill positions — "a little bit" and "sort of" — the big guys didn't hold back.
"I saw a lack of execution and, really, a lack of communication and focus," Masters said. "What happened today is unacceptable and something we need to change."
"It's really upsetting," Bennett said. "I took a lot longer than I usually do to get dressed [afterward] … coming off the field frustrated so many times it's hard to take."
How's that for honesty of emotion?
"We're not picking up the slants," Bennett said. "Sometimes we're a little too heavy on some guys, not getting off to the second level. You're seeing the linebackers making the plays on us. We've got to really work on getting to the second level. Last game against UMass, the middle linebacker made all the plays. We've got to identify the rifles off the side or the guys flowing over top."
How's that for honesty of X's and O's?
Whitmer has five interceptions and no touchdown passes in two games. On two of his three interceptions Saturday he forced passes. He got greedy. Although Whitmer made more of the third pick when he forced it long off a fake reverse, the second into double coverage was worse. The more frustrating it got in the second half, the more his throws seemed to take off on him.
"I've got to protect the football," Whitmer said. "This isn't high school or [junior college]."
No, it isn't.
Whitmer is under the microscope. And so, to an extent, is McCombs. Mike Ryan and Moe Petrus aren't around to run behind anymore. Granted the line gave up a slew of sacks last year and the pass protection appears to be better, but the run blocking sure isn't.
McCombs ran for 1,151 yards last year. He's also 166 pounds. If UConn doesn't find another running back to take some pressure off him and if the blocking doesn't improve markedly, well, there's something called diminishing returns.
"I think we're just having a problem finding our identity in the run game right now," McCombs said. "Yeah, I'm surprised. We just have to learn from these two games. I have no doubt in my mind we will get the running game going soon enough."
Pasqualoni said it wasn't like the team wasn't prepared. He said the Huskies worked hard on the run game all week.
"We just didn't get it done," Pasqualoni said.
"It's a matter of fundamentals and technique and taking care of your responsibility," Masters said.
Yet Bennett, who said he thought the pass protection was very good, did introduce an interesting point.
"We've gone against one of the best defenses for three weeks in camp," he said. "I think we come out and maybe take it a little too easy. In practice it goes a certain way and they expect it to be that way in a game. We've got to recognize things change, like [N.C. State] was supposed to do [strong-side] rifle. This week they did [weakside] rifle.
"It's the speed of the game, getting into it and blocking at that speed. Practice isn't as fast as we'd like it to be, so when we get to the games maybe we're a little shocked about it."
Masters' take?
"There's obviously a difference between the scout team and the starters for the other team. You've have to understand what the defenses are going to do on game day and you have to practice like it's game day every day."
After Dan Orlovsky left, there wasn't a running play Edsall didn't seem to love. Donald Brown, Andre Dixon, Jordan Todman — the heavy-lifting was done on the ground. That why, going into the Deserted in the Desert Bowl, it's somewhat ironic that it's the UConn running game under duress.
"It's extremely frustrating," Masters said. "We've always been good at the run and these past two games haven't been good enough. That's going to change, because we're still going to be a running team."
"I want to see perfect execution. I want to see more physicality. I want to see O-linemen getting nasty."
Adam Masters isn't alone.
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For this I need to enable synchronization of frame buffer flips on the vertical sync in order to avoid tearing. However, so far I did not manage to find the correct settings for the driver to force this vsync behavior. Strangely enough, it works well when playing a pre-recorded movie. Initially I thought it could be overcome by calling vaSyncSurface() before vaBeginPicture(), but this turns out to cause some surfaces not to update properly (and insist on showing old content). I use vaPutSurface() to make the buffers flip.
I used the following xorg.conf settings (and variations of that):
OpenGLOverlay = onOverlayOnCRTC2 = 0Capabilities = 0x00000800TeturedVideoSync = on
and the following settings in /etc/ati/amdpcsdb:
Can anyone come up with suggestions and/or the correct set of the settings?
Another possibly interesting fact: glxgears seem to be affected well by vsync settings, since it outputs only 60fps.
This is the gaming forum. There is a developer forum, you might wanted to post this there.
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I will try it at http://devgurus.amd.com/community/graphics_programming .
Sorry for misposting. Thanks for your suggestion!
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Medicaid is a federal-state program and thus its quality and accessibility depend on the level of commitment from a state.
The sad news is that Alabama is mostly upside-down, demanding more the poor. Alabama's Medicaid is near the bottom when it comes to the level of poverty it demands to qualify for health care. Same goes for Alabama's contribution, which has historically been the minimum amount required. When it comes to co-pays from Medicaid enrollees, however, starting next month Alabama will increase them to the highest level allowed by federal law.
Before we completely condemn the Sheriff Nottinghams behind these policies that place a heavy burden on the poorest Alabamians, we should consider things from their point of view. Since the Great Recession of the previous decade, Medicaid has grown to 900,000 enrollees, or more than 1-in-5 Alabamians. This growth along with medical inflation has demanded the state pay an increasing share of its budget for the program; more than one-third of the current General Fund went to Medicaid.
The Republicans in charge in Montgomery surely feel their hands are tied. They need more money, but their ideology and fear of taxes are greater than their concern for the health and well-being of the least of these Alabamians.
Part of this ideological prison is Gov. Robert Bentley's opposition to expanding Medicaid, which was an option under the Affordable Care Act. The rejection meant Alabama was ignoring billions of federal dollars that would have gone toward an expanded Medicaid program.
"My guess, the guess of most experts, is that in Alabama the expansion would bring in between $15 billion to $17 billion in those first three years with the cost to the state of between $770 million to $1 billion," Retirement Systems of Alabama CEO David Bronner said recently. "After 2016 the cost to you and me would be 10 cents on the dollar. How dumb would it be not to take that trade? It's 15-to-1. You'd take that trade all day long."
The bad news is that Gov. Robert Bentley did not take that trade. An even worse trade is demanding more money from the poor on Medicaid. Unfortunately, that's the one Alabama took.


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text: FWIW, when you notch a joist, you effectively make the whole joist the equivalent of the thinnest section. The top and bottom are the parts that provide the most strength, either in compression on the top or tension on the bottom. When there's a gap from a notch, the bending moment's location changes and it gets much weaker. That's why there are rules about where it is acceptable to put holes in them (basically, avoid the ends, and limit their diameter). I'd probably box it out, but see what the others have to say.