It's a joke. But seriously, I work in the healthcare field and have a number of gastroenterologist friends who have told me about this therapy before. One method of administration is via a nasogastric tube and, sorry here folks, but notwithstanding the physical integrity of the tubing, just knowing that pureed shit was being pumped through my nose and down my throat would cause me some significant levels of distress (or maybe not, as it appears the C. Diff. is a really crappy illness to have, pun intended).
I took a sternwheeler ride up the Columbia River last year. At some point, a bunch of guys in kayaks got behind us and rode our swell about 10 miles up river without paddling a single stroke.
However, they got into trouble when we turned around because the sternwheeler didn't have to go all that fast to get back to port on time. So the swell wasn't big enough for the kayakers to ride. They had to paddle the 10 miles back (albeit with the current).
Political posturing for a vote the Democrats knew they would lose. If the Democrats were truly worried about the effect the FISA amendments have on our personal freedoms, they could have easily revoked them all during the first two years of Obama's presidency (when they had a solid majority in the House and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate). That they didn't make such a move shows you where they really stand on the issue.
I read through this thread hoping to see a reference to this book.
When I find an author with an intriguing plot and good writing skills (a combination that is somewhat lacking in the sci-fi genre), I generally read the book in a single sitting. This is the first book that I genuinely liked as a work of literature but nevertheless couldn't finish because I felt so fucking awful after each reading episode (I could only get through 20 or so pages at a time before I had to put it down for a break). I'll probably pick it up if only out of respect for the writing that can pull on my emotions as strongly as McCarthy's. But damn it's just brutally bleak.
"An awful lot of Africa's problems would diminish if they could just disburden themselves of the thugs with the guns. It doesn't do any good to teach a man to fish if you own the lake as your own private reserve."
This comment reminded me of an article I read a while ago in the NYT that presented an interesting theory about how to avoid famines.
That again depends on the court. Here in Oregon (where I practice), a corporation that sends and attorney to small claims court without having received prior permission from the judge will get tossed from the courtroom and the attorney could potentially be sanctioned. And judges here rarely give such permission. When my employer gets sued in small claims, we generally send a non-attorney from our risk management department.
I don't know about this particular court, but in many small claims courts, parties are not allowed to be represented by counsel (even if the attorneys are in-house counsel).
ARRA requires providers to give a copy of the record to patients who ask. As far as I know, it does not require providers to make the record easily understood by patients.
"They weren't worried about being confused and most said seeing the record would help them take better care of themselves helping them better remember their treatment plan, understand it and take their medication."
I had to laugh at this finding. I am a non-clinical worker in the healthcare industry and hold a post-graduate degree. Still, it takes a good deal of effort for me to fully understand a typical raw medical record. Assuming you get past the jargon used in most records (no small feat), you then have to see the big picture, which may or may not be spelled out in the record.
One huge issue is that providers have no motivation to chart with the idea that a patient will end up reading the record for substance. The primary motivation for most providers is to create a record that (i) will be understood by other highly educated medical professionals and (ii) can serve as the proper basis for creating a proper bill. I cannot think of a system that is less geared toward creating material that an average patient can understand (except, perhaps, if the record were in cuneiform).
I recently negotiated the purchase of a software program that takes a physician's instructions to a patient and suggests edits such that a 6th grader could understand the instructions. All written patient instructions are being run through this system at our hospitals (subject to ultimate review by the doc before they are handed to the patient). But these same 6th-grade level readers are now going to glean substantive meaning from a raw medical record? This is either evidence of how few people have reviewed a raw medical record or, alternatively, that hope springs eternal.
This isn't new, isn't specific to smartphones, and (as noted in the article) isn't unique to Brazil. Many employers have the ability to allow employees to check work email remotely from their home PCs. However, most sophisticated employers (or perhaps more paranoid) are careful about opening up such access to non-exempt employees (i.e. employees who are paid on an hourly basis) because of wage and hour issues. My employer (a US healthcare system) requires non-exempt employees to get manager permission before remote access is enabled and even then there are explicit rules about when the employees should be accessing email remotely. Compliance can be easily monitored but, conversely, wage and hour problems can also be easily proven through log in records.
It's already out. It's called an Open MRI. Pretty good resolution (sees right through you!) but you can't really move all that much. And it costs a ton. And you pretty much need to custom build a new house without a whole lot of ferrous metal anywhere near the system.
No, trademark owners are required to protect their IP rights or risk losing them. The one possible exception in the patent world is submarine patents, but it doesn't sound like that sort of situation was present here.
Just about anything will be too large unless every country with an international stock market adopts the same practice all at once. Otherwise, expect to see large chunks of business simply move to another part of the globe. Remember, the people who will be most impacted by this (the big investment banks) get paid billions of dollars to pay attention to these details and even very small changes count. These are the same guys who are motivating Hibernia Atlantic to spend over $300 million on a new trans-Atlantic undersea cable that will reduce trading latency by all of 10ms.
That might work if the case is about anything newsworthy. But 99% of them aren't and the judge knows it.
Ordinarily, attorneys are a lock for getting kicked off panels. Yet I've been practicing for 14 years and have been put on two juries in the past two years (most recently on a federal criminal jury). What's up with that? The next time I'm called, I'm going to answer every voir dire question with, "Mine's bigger than yours."
Setting up an LLC wouldn't have changed things (and might have made them worse). By default, distributions from an LLC to members who play an active role in the LLC's operations are also subject to FICA/FUTA withholdings (limited members who don't play any role in operations can avoid this outcome). An LLC can elect to be treated like an S corp for tax purposes but why would you want to go through that trouble when you can just be an S corp in the first place?
And as for Steve Jobs, has anyone seen his personal income tax return? Do we know what he payroll taxes he or Apple have paid with respect to his compensation? I would be surprised if Apple's publicly available financial statements went into this level of detail.
Getting off topic, but I seem to recall that this is one of a few instances in which female Star Fleet personnel were referred to as "Mr." I don't know if this was some reference to the way certain ranks are referred to in the US armed forces now or in the past but that was the line Spock used and similar gender references have been used in other Star Trek scenes.
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It's a joke. But seriously, I work in the healthcare field and have a number of gastroenterologist friends who have told me about this therapy before. One method of administration is via a nasogastric tube and, sorry here folks, but notwithstanding the physical integrity of the tubing, just knowing that pureed shit was being pumped through my nose and down my throat would cause me some significant levels of distress (or maybe not, as it appears the C. Diff. is a really crappy illness to have, pun intended).
Yeah, the whole idea kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
I took a sternwheeler ride up the Columbia River last year. At some point, a bunch of guys in kayaks got behind us and rode our swell about 10 miles up river without paddling a single stroke.
However, they got into trouble when we turned around because the sternwheeler didn't have to go all that fast to get back to port on time. So the swell wasn't big enough for the kayakers to ride. They had to paddle the 10 miles back (albeit with the current).
No, OP is right. Please listen to this if you still believe otherwise:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhnUgAaea4M
Political posturing for a vote the Democrats knew they would lose. If the Democrats were truly worried about the effect the FISA amendments have on our personal freedoms, they could have easily revoked them all during the first two years of Obama's presidency (when they had a solid majority in the House and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate). That they didn't make such a move shows you where they really stand on the issue.
I read through this thread hoping to see a reference to this book.
When I find an author with an intriguing plot and good writing skills (a combination that is somewhat lacking in the sci-fi genre), I generally read the book in a single sitting. This is the first book that I genuinely liked as a work of literature but nevertheless couldn't finish because I felt so fucking awful after each reading episode (I could only get through 20 or so pages at a time before I had to put it down for a break). I'll probably pick it up if only out of respect for the writing that can pull on my emotions as strongly as McCarthy's. But damn it's just brutally bleak.
How else could the IMF team snap a little doodad on the cable and magically get a high-def feed to the most sensitive parts of every building? Duh.
"An awful lot of Africa's problems would diminish if they could just disburden themselves of the thugs with the guns. It doesn't do any good to teach a man to fish if you own the lake as your own private reserve."
This comment reminded me of an article I read a while ago in the NYT that presented an interesting theory about how to avoid famines.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/01/arts/does-democracy-avert-famine.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
That again depends on the court. Here in Oregon (where I practice), a corporation that sends and attorney to small claims court without having received prior permission from the judge will get tossed from the courtroom and the attorney could potentially be sanctioned. And judges here rarely give such permission. When my employer gets sued in small claims, we generally send a non-attorney from our risk management department.
I don't know about this particular court, but in many small claims courts, parties are not allowed to be represented by counsel (even if the attorneys are in-house counsel).
I wish I had mod points for this. Thanks for the laugh.
Dude, if you get the red ray player, it's gonna die on you before the first episode is done.
ARRA requires providers to give a copy of the record to patients who ask. As far as I know, it does not require providers to make the record easily understood by patients.
"They weren't worried about being confused and most said seeing the record would help them take better care of themselves helping them better remember their treatment plan, understand it and take their medication."
I had to laugh at this finding. I am a non-clinical worker in the healthcare industry and hold a post-graduate degree. Still, it takes a good deal of effort for me to fully understand a typical raw medical record. Assuming you get past the jargon used in most records (no small feat), you then have to see the big picture, which may or may not be spelled out in the record.
One huge issue is that providers have no motivation to chart with the idea that a patient will end up reading the record for substance. The primary motivation for most providers is to create a record that (i) will be understood by other highly educated medical professionals and (ii) can serve as the proper basis for creating a proper bill. I cannot think of a system that is less geared toward creating material that an average patient can understand (except, perhaps, if the record were in cuneiform).
I recently negotiated the purchase of a software program that takes a physician's instructions to a patient and suggests edits such that a 6th grader could understand the instructions. All written patient instructions are being run through this system at our hospitals (subject to ultimate review by the doc before they are handed to the patient). But these same 6th-grade level readers are now going to glean substantive meaning from a raw medical record? This is either evidence of how few people have reviewed a raw medical record or, alternatively, that hope springs eternal.
This isn't new, isn't specific to smartphones, and (as noted in the article) isn't unique to Brazil. Many employers have the ability to allow employees to check work email remotely from their home PCs. However, most sophisticated employers (or perhaps more paranoid) are careful about opening up such access to non-exempt employees (i.e. employees who are paid on an hourly basis) because of wage and hour issues. My employer (a US healthcare system) requires non-exempt employees to get manager permission before remote access is enabled and even then there are explicit rules about when the employees should be accessing email remotely. Compliance can be easily monitored but, conversely, wage and hour problems can also be easily proven through log in records.
It's already out. It's called an Open MRI. Pretty good resolution (sees right through you!) but you can't really move all that much. And it costs a ton. And you pretty much need to custom build a new house without a whole lot of ferrous metal anywhere near the system.
Actually, bacon bits are the pixie dust of the universe. There isn't anything they can touch which isn't improved by a whole order of magnitude.
No, trademark owners are required to protect their IP rights or risk losing them. The one possible exception in the patent world is submarine patents, but it doesn't sound like that sort of situation was present here.
Just about anything will be too large unless every country with an international stock market adopts the same practice all at once. Otherwise, expect to see large chunks of business simply move to another part of the globe. Remember, the people who will be most impacted by this (the big investment banks) get paid billions of dollars to pay attention to these details and even very small changes count. These are the same guys who are motivating Hibernia Atlantic to spend over $300 million on a new trans-Atlantic undersea cable that will reduce trading latency by all of 10ms.
Actually, his company does pay tax on his salary (the employer side of FICA/FUTA).
And renting is not a means of avoiding property tax. It's just a means of paying it on a monthly basis through your landlord.
Very old news.
http://comedians.jokes.com/pete-holmes/videos/pete-holmes---privacy-is-uncool
at least I hope it's a joke:
Surgery
That might work if the case is about anything newsworthy. But 99% of them aren't and the judge knows it.
Ordinarily, attorneys are a lock for getting kicked off panels. Yet I've been practicing for 14 years and have been put on two juries in the past two years (most recently on a federal criminal jury). What's up with that? The next time I'm called, I'm going to answer every voir dire question with, "Mine's bigger than yours."
Setting up an LLC wouldn't have changed things (and might have made them worse). By default, distributions from an LLC to members who play an active role in the LLC's operations are also subject to FICA/FUTA withholdings (limited members who don't play any role in operations can avoid this outcome). An LLC can elect to be treated like an S corp for tax purposes but why would you want to go through that trouble when you can just be an S corp in the first place?
And as for Steve Jobs, has anyone seen his personal income tax return? Do we know what he payroll taxes he or Apple have paid with respect to his compensation? I would be surprised if Apple's publicly available financial statements went into this level of detail.
Getting off topic, but I seem to recall that this is one of a few instances in which female Star Fleet personnel were referred to as "Mr." I don't know if this was some reference to the way certain ranks are referred to in the US armed forces now or in the past but that was the line Spock used and similar gender references have been used in other Star Trek scenes.