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Season 02: Episode 10: Samantha Wilder Transcript
Queer Diagnosis Podcast
Season 02: Episode 10: Samantha Wilder
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Zarya: This is Queer Diagnosis. I'm Zarya. My pronouns are she/her/hers.
Srihita: I'm Srihita. My pronouns are also she/her/hers. Our guest today is Samantha Wilder, a fourth-year medical student at the Mayo Clinic Alex School of Medicine. She's currently applying to urology residencies. Hi, Sami, could you please introduce yourself with your pronouns?
Sami: Hi, I'm Sami and my pronouns are she/her/hers.
Zarya: Could you tell us a little bit about your involvement with the LGBT community on your medical campus?
Sami: Of course. So I actually came out as queer or pansexual during my first year of medical school, and in looking for a community to associate myself with and to find people who were like-minded and going through similar struggles as I was, I did notice that there was a lack of a student organization on campus as well as student-led initiatives for addressing LGBT health care disparities and community issues. So that was a struggle for me initially. I looked to our sister campus in Rochester, which had already had an established community since I was part of the second official four-year class at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. So we were still kind of a baby community, in general, as a medical school. So, I looked forward towards them to see what they had established. They had what they called the LGBT In Medicine student organization, which was both an organization to provide a community for LGBT identifying students and allies, as well as to supplement the curriculum in some ways regarding LGBT health issues by bringing in speakers and people who were notable in that field to teach about these topics. I thought that would be a very important thing to have addressed on the Arizona campus as well so I started the process of creating that group.
Zarya: Can you tell us a little bit more about the name of your group and what specific events you hold on campus?
Sami: So, it's called the LGBTI in Medicine interest group. It's a student organization; it's faculty and student-led. We have social events for the queer community and queer-identifying students as an opportunity to connect and grow as a community. We have more educational events where we bring in speakers to discuss pertinent topics in LGBT health care. We've had faculty-student mixers to connect queer-identifying students to connect with queer faculty to assist in the process of applying to residency and what to expect being out in medicine and provide mentorship as needed.
Srihita: So you mentioned the role that faculty has played in the organization. We have had the opportunity to talk to quite a few medical students and how it seems like students tend to take the lead on certain initiatives. Can you talk about the ways in which faculty have helped and how they've of responded?
Sami: Involvement of faculty and of the administration has actually been something that has really surprised me in terms of how open and how encouraging and motivated that they are to address these issues that have existed on campus and also in the broader community. One example of that is the administration reached out to myself and the members of the interest group in Rochester and requested that we create a working group with them under the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to address the issues on a systemic level at the school and that we would be working directly with our faculty advisors and different branches of the medical school administration who address these challenges. From the perspective of a student who was struggling to find a community and to figure out ways to address these issues that I was experiencing, it was really encouraging and motivating that the administration was taking such an active role in addressing these problems. Having that opportunity to work directly with admissions and curriculum development, Faculty Affairs, and Student Affairs has been really great and really promising and encouraging.
Zarya: I think one of the things that I enjoyed most about attending the Mayo Clinic information session was that as soon as I asked a question about LGBTQ plus resources on campus, multiple medical students responded in the chat, and they're like, "We have a barbecue and many other events." And it was interesting because I always try to ask questions about the resources available to students who are applying because I think that personally, as somebody who wants to be comfortable in their surroundings and be able to talk about their community, I definitely would want to go to a school that fosters that environment. It's really nice to see the response of medical students. They connected me with you, which is great. So I just really appreciate the fact that you started a whole organization modeled after the one in Rochester. One of the things that stood out to me in our preliminary conversation was, you said that LGBTQ+ students did not necessarily have access to LGBTQ+ inclusive providers. Could you speak a little bit more about that?
Sami: Yeah, so that's actually one of the issues that we're working to address through this working group under the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The main issue has just been that the structure in which the school has provided healthcare to students differs between the two campuses. In Rochester, the students receive health care through the Occupational Health Office. In Arizona, we get assigned to primary care providers through family practice. So, it is less of an issue on the Arizona campus specifically but still, a broad issue where students in Rochester, through occupational health, may not be connecting with providers who understand or who have really experienced LGBT-specific health care issues. There have been circumstances in which students have received the opposite of queer affirming care. We are working directly with the school to address that problem and to see if we can create a system in which students receive care through the residents' clinic or through a different avenue in which the providers that they see are more knowledgeable and more comfortable treating issues that pertain to LGBT students.
Srihita: How would you say the timeline has been for implementing change? I know it's a newer program. Has it been super flexible or has it been more of a slow burn?
Sami: I feel like it's been a little bit of both. A lot of things happened all at once, very quickly. I started this interest group and I started working with my colleagues in Rochester and then the school reached out to me and to my colleagues and wanted to start this working group. People were reaching out with ideas and there was a lot of momentum early on. As the actual process of change and the work needed to create that change continued, things slowed down a little, as they do naturally. Change doesn't occur overnight. When you're talking about institution-wide change, there's a lot of moving parts and a lot of stakeholders within that. Navigating that has been really interesting, from my perspective, just because it's not something I'd ever really done before: working with an institution to create system-level change. When we came out initially, when we had this opportunity to meet with the administration early on, we didn't know if this was going to be a long term thing or if this is going to be our one chance to tell them what our thoughts were and what we thought needed to change on campus. We came out with guns blazing. We had the whole document of all of the changes, probably a little aggressive in retrospect. It definitely was not well taken by everyone, but most people were pretty supportive. Some people thought it might be a little too aggressive on our part. As it morphed into this long-term thing that will continue even as I graduate and as my colleagues graduate, it has definitely taken on a more of a slow-burn feeling.
Zarya: I think, since ninth grade, whenever there's something that needs to be addressed within the student body, even if there's a student government, I'm the one who writes a petition, in a kind manner that's not disrespectful. I think it's funny you're using the word aggressive, but I would never admit it. I think everything I do is a little bit aggressive, but not in an intentional way. Srihita can tell you that I don't give up when something needs to be done. Even recently, they gave us it was a very minor thing, they gave us an assignment due during our fall break. Technically, according to SUNY policy, you cannot give a student an assignment during fall break. Most professors don't give you assignments, but it was a 40-page lab report due during fall break and I ended up becoming the point person for that. It's nice to know that, you mentioned earlier, the faculty has been very responsive to your initiatives. What do you see happening in the future? Do you have a leadership team to continue the program or the initiatives you started after graduation?
Sami: The two separate groups are the working group under the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion the student organization. They overlap significantly in terms of who's involved. In terms of continuation after I graduate, the working group has several student members from both campuses as well as several faculty members who have committed to continuing to be involved in this role. I also recruited additional Arizona membership to continue the Arizona representation after I graduate. Similarly, with the interest group, I've recruited leadership to facilitate that transition as I graduate as well. They have been becoming increasingly more involved and taking initiative and leadership on things as I phase out with residency.
Srihita: At the beginning of the interview, you were saying that you were coming out and looking for community. Did you ever expect to get so involved in this way where you're now working with the administration? Was that thought always in the back of your head or was this just the way that it unfolded?
Sami: Not at all. I was uncomfortable, as a baby gay, being the face of queer students on campus. I didn't feel like I really deserved that, whatever that means, maybe because of my limited experience and my own insecurities. So it kind of took a while for me to realize that I was probably the person who was going to have to do it, at least at that time. I would have started earlier on if I hadn't had those reservations. I did not expect it to be this situation where I am working with the administration and working with colleagues and faculty in Rochester. I didn't expect that at all. And I'm very grateful for the opportunity. It's been great.
Zarya: As an admissions committee member, we know that you also have a large say. How have you sought to increase the visibility of incoming classes in terms of the LGBTQ+ community?
Sami: My initial reason for even joining the admissions committee was to be an LGBT member of the committee and to increase that perspective during conversations about applying students. There's only so much that I can do as an individual, but as best as I can, I try to provide that representation along with another member of our LGBT working group from the Rochester campus who joined the committee. In terms of my role, I am an interviewer. As an interviewer, I have joined the admissions committee meetings to discuss applicants and then vote on applicants and rank them accordingly. I've been attempting to provide that perspective and increase the visibility of these students by, one, challenging any questions that come up about queer students in how their identity relates to their desire to practice medicine, and, two, definitely highlighting their strength and the strength of that within their application. I think there hasn't been a lot of opportunities to explicitly highlight queer applicants as queer applicants, but bringing attention to how humans' identities play a role in their desire to pursue health care, and how that affects their abilities to engage in certain activities that might be considered standard for pre-med applications, and the types of discrimination that students might be facing and the minority stress that comes along with being underrepresented in medicine is something I've tried to include in the conversation as much as I possibly can.
Zarya: Can you tell us a little bit about your residency program and what specialty you're applying for?
Sami: So I'm currently applying to urology. I've applied pretty broadly in terms of the programs as one does when they apply the urology, it's a competitive specialty. I'm very excited to be in that process. Applications have already been submitted. Interviews just came out for urology programs, and so we're into that interview space now.
Srihita: I remember when I was applying to undergrad and, more recently, grad school, talking about my mental health was something I needed to think about. I've struggled with my mental health as a lot of people have and I was like, "Do I write about this?" It's such a part of who I am and how I arrived at this decision that I wanted to go to grad school and all that. It's this very fine balance where you're sharing yourself. I remember showing someone my essay and they were like, "You don't want them to think that something is going to happen to you." That's the big concern if you struggle with your mental health so it is a really interesting balance. I do think that medicine in specific but also just academia, in general, is coming around to this idea that our identity brings so much to the table. For instance, you being a part of the admissions committee and working with DEI is due to having this perspective that can implement systemic change. Even for me, I'm in economics. Economics for a very long time has been a bunch of old white men primarily working in microeconomics. We have this other perspective and these other interests that can also help and cause change.
Zarya: More recently, when I've gone to information sessions for medical schools, I've been trying to ask about different LGBTQ+ resources. I noticed that sometimes people will direct me to race and that as diversity which is understandable. I was trying to understand why when I asked about LGBTQ+ resources, people talked about race more than LGBTQ+-focused initiatives. I asked a medical student this recently and they had said, "Well, people like to speak to the things that they know." Sami, I think you even mention that not everyone is comfortable talking about this community because not everyone knows what to say and what is appropriate. You don't want to speak on something you're not knowledgeable about. One of my questions for you is have you shared your identity with residency programs?
Sami: I made the decision to come out in my personal statement in my residency application after discussing it with my mentors and with different people who've been involved in the residency application process. I decided that it was something that was important to me and my identity and that I felt was very relevant to what I wanted to share with prospective programs. It informed a lot of the work that I've done in medical school and I wanted to be able to highlight that as a strength in my application. And I also wanted to use it as a general screening tool. There are programs that would be upset by that or would be bothered by that in whatever way and I don't want to go to those programs. It kind of works as a very early screening tool. They take a look at my application. They see in my personal statement that I've come out and they can pass my application aside if they're bothered by it in any way. And so that was the decision that I made. In terms of interviews, I have only gone on a couple, I have been very open about that aspect of my identity, and the experiences that I've had and have really been trying to showcase it as a strength and an asset to whatever program.
Zarya: What advice might you have for someone who's deciding whether or not they want to be out to an admissions committee, either for medical school or for residency?
Sami: I'm not in residency so maybe I'm not equipped to give advice to that, but certainly for pre-med students, my advice is to be as open as you are comfortable with and as comfortable as you are discussing it. If you put it in your application, it is fair game to discuss at an interview. I don't think, at least from the perspective of the work that I have done on the admissions committee, that is ever viewed as a negative. It can only be viewed as a positive and especially in how you frame it: if you can kind of use it to inform why you're interested in pursuing medicine and why you're interested in working with the communities that you want to work with and how that strengthens you as an applicant. As frustrating as it can be sometimes, to kind of use these aspects of our identity as selling points to admissions committees, being able to do that is certainly going to boost your application in a way that can only help. I can't speak for every medical program. I'm sure that there are some that are a little more traditional in their ways. But, I think that anything that sets you apart and makes you stronger and makes you better equipped to work with different communities, whether it's your own community or other communities, is an asset and you should, if you are comfortable, use that in your application.
Zarya: I think one thing that I found as I was searching up whether or not to be out for a personal statement is the question of do you talk about your personal experiences versus how to relate it to a patient experience? Have you found a balance between that or chosen stick to one or the other?
Sami: I guess I'll talk about this in two ways. First, as an applicant to residency, my goal was to showcase it through the work that I've done in the school and then also patient experiences that I've had because I felt that nobody would be able to challenge that. It was a strength if it was solely portrayed as something that has only helped me in my medical career. I chose to stay a little bit further away from personal experience. I was open to discussing it if it comes up in interviews, but not something that I included in my personal statement. Also, you are very limited in terms of how much space you have to discuss things that are important to you in your personal statement. That was only one part of me that I wanted to share. There are several parts of me that I wanted to also include in my personal statement and so it was a choice about what to take out. As someone who reviews applications and interviews applicants, it is certainly a stronger personal statement whenever you're able to tie it back to patient care and to patient meaningful clinical experiences that you've had. It doesn't necessarily always have to be direct where you had one queer patient that did X, Y, and Z and taught you all these things. It doesn't necessarily have to be that direct. It can just be a lesson that you've learned that you will tie back to how you will treat patients in the future or things that are important to you in treating patients. It's just a stronger point whenever you're able to tie it back to medicine and why you want to practice medicine.
Srihita: So speaking of why you want to practice medicine, can you talk about how you got interested in urology?
Sami: I was always very interested in surgery, coming into medical school, most of my medical shadowing experiences have been in surgery. I really liked being in the OR, but I wasn't as much of a big fan of the culture of surgery. I found that that was something that was pushing me very far away from that. I wanted more meaningful and long-term relationships with my patients, not that surgical relationships aren't meaningful, but I wanted long-term ones. I didn't really know about urology. It's kind of this hidden gem in medicine, although less now as more and more people are applying to urology. I accidentally did a week in my second year on the urology service and I felt like I had found all of the things that I was missing when I had been thinking about general surgery or other surgical specialties. I found that the ability to have those long-term relationships with your patients is definitely there. Urology is clinical and procedural in nature. So you end up establishing those long-term connections. I found that the culture was very laid back. There was a lot of humor and fun and, and general happiness that urologists seem to have, which is something that I definitely wanted and definitely clicked more with my personality. And so I've ever since that week, I have just been all gung ho about urology all the time. I think it's a fantastic specialty. I think there's a lot of really great opportunities for innovation, for improving health disparities, and even for queer and gender-affirming care. I'm just really excited to be a part of all of that.
Zarya: I know that as a part of gender-affirming surgery, urologists are involved. So even if you're not involved in the surgical aspect, would you still be able to get involved otherwise in gender-affirming surgeries, or gender-affirming care?
Sami: In my experience, the way that I've seen gender-affirming care play out has been very multidisciplinary. You've got your endocrinologist, your primary care providers, your psychiatrists, your urologist, and plastic surgeons. I'm sure there are more. There are opportunities within that multidisciplinary, team-based model to really work with patients and achieve whatever their goals are because everybody's goals are different when it comes to gender-affirming care. I think that perhaps in a setting in which you don't necessarily have that multidisciplinary approach, so maybe in a community-based practice, I think there's a lot of opportunities for urologists to provide hormonal treatments, to manage that with their patients, and to manage long term care, post-surgical procedures and things that come up within that. You don't necessarily have to be involved in specific surgeries that you may or may not be comfortable with depending on your level of experience with those surgeries. It is very specific and not every training program is going to have that as part of the repertoire of surgeries that they offer. There are long-term management issues that every urologist I believe should be knowledgeable about and be able to manage in their patient population.
Zarya: Taking it back to your discussion of the admissions process, what improvements would you like to see to be more accommodating of LGBTQ+ applicants?
Sami: I think one of the biggest issues with the application process for LGBT applicants is that, as far as I know, the AAMC still doesn't consider LGBT students as an underrepresented minority in medicine. That leads to a lack of data that exists in terms of how many students are applying as LGBT applicants as well as the actual representation of LGBT providers in medicine, which I think is really important. I think it really doesn't address the fact that queer people have long been discouraged from applying to fields in medicine in both overt and covert ways. It's not that long ago that homosexuality was a DSM diagnosis. There's a lot of work on that side that needs to be done to improve how we view applicants as a whole and with all the various parts of their identities as they apply to medicine. I think this is true for every provider in medicine, and especially in educations. There's a need for more robust training on the use of pronouns and even just language that students might use and what language that you should use in return. Being comfortable discussing these topics, I think, is something that was lacking quite a bit in the medical field. I don't think that a lot of providers are comfortable talking about these topics. I think that then that translates over into the admissions process because typically doctors are the ones who are involved in the admissions process. I think that will come as there is more representation in medicine and as students and providers are more comfortable sharing that part of their identity throughout their training and throughout their practice. I think that comfort with these discussions will happen. But it's probably one of the more challenging aspects currently.
Srihita: Do you think the reluctance to have those discussions comes from a place of fear where they don't want to mess up or say something wrong or is it just from a reticence to change?
Sami: Being part of the working group under the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, on the faculty affairs side of things, it has really been the first thing that you said: the fear of messing up, fear of saying the wrong thing, fear of offending someone or pushing someone further away. That really is driving people away from maybe even just introducing themselves with their pronouns. They're not comfortable with it, and so they are afraid they might mess up. They're afraid that they might offend someone. I really don't see it as much as this sort of resistance to change. I think most people are really well-meaning and want to do right by their colleagues, their trainees, or patients. It's just this lack of comfort that's really driving them away from it.
Zarya: You mentioned earlier that the AAMC does not recognize the LGBTQ+ community as underrepresented. There's one program that I'm applying to for the summer since I'll have a gap year, and it says that they only want minority or underrepresented students to apply. I thought that LGBTQ+ would fall in that group. I'm actually a little bit surprised the AAMC doesn't consider to be underrepresented. In one interview that we did earlier, somebody mentioned that there were four medical students in their student body who were queer-identifying and there are four hours of LGBT+ healthcare in the curriculum. So it's four hours for those four students. That was the joke. I definitely wonder why that's something that they haven't kind of addressed that.
Sami: Each program views it differently. When I was applying for away-rotations earlier this year, I definitely saw there were programs and scholarships that were dedicated to the underrepresented and minority groups in medicine. Sometimes they had LGBT in their list and sometimes that didn't. I think it is program-dependent. I hope I'm not wrong on that. The last time I checked, the AAMC didn't view that as one of the underrepresented minorities in medicine. And I think that's unfortunate. And I don't know why. I wonder if it's a numbers thing. It might be what we talked about before, lumping racial and gender and sexual minorities all together and viewing it as everyone needing the same resources. Maybe that's part of it. I'm not entirely sure why I don't know the history of that. But it's certainly a problem. We are a minority group in medicine. There has been that discrimination that has existed for a long time in medicine, and that has discouraged people who are queer from coming out and discussing that and disclosing that in their work environments, and then also discouraging people from even trying to get into the field in the first place. I think that if it's not something that they are changing, it definitely should be on their list.
Zarya: I think we should both send emails. Turning back the time a little, to your pre-med self, what would you tell them in terms of advice?
Sami: I think the biggest fear that I had on the application trail was I wanted to be liked by everyone. I wanted to be what everybody wanted. I was afraid that if I showed too much conviction about a certain topic or not enough conviction or if I only highlighted the various very pretty parts of my application and not necessarily the more messy parts of my experience that I wouldn't - I just didn't want to exclude anyone from considering me as an applicant. I think that that it all worked out in the end but I do think it weakened my application quite a bit. I think the interesting parts of a person and what makes them unique and what makes them strong are often the things that are not as pretty to people. It is all in how you talk about it but the biggest strengths are the things that we've struggled with. I probably would tell myself to embrace those things and to use them as tools rather than as things I was afraid of talking about. I think that we had talked a little bit about mental health being sort of the struggle and whether or not to disclose that. Certainly, that's something that I've struggled with and definitely tried to hide from my application in any real way. I would just tell myself to embrace those things and to be able to talk about them and not necessarily try to fit the mold of whatever I thought everyone wanted me to be, and then, therefore, come out as a weaker looking applicant because I wasn't really anything. I think I would probably try to tell my story in a more genuine way.
Zarya: Do you think that you're staying true to yourself even in these residency applications? Are taking that advisor right now?
Sami: I'm doing the best I can. I think that it's a really difficult balance - to balance things that you want to highlight to a program as reasons why they should take you as well as the things that are honestly just true about you and are things that you've struggled with. Balancing those in a way that ends up making you an appealing applicant can be really difficult, especially if there are things that you're still struggling with, that you haven't necessarily resolved. Then you can't just say, "And now I'm so much stronger because of it" because you're still working through it. So I am doing the best that I can to highlight those parts of me in a way that hopefully will not be detrimental to my future career. That's kind of the stance that I'm taking and definitely bringing it through work I've done, patient encounters I've had, and how it's made me a better doctor. That's the lens I'm trying to use.
Srihita: Now, especially, when I look back on applying to college, it is a very strange phenomenon to ask a 17-year-old, "Who are you and what do you want to do with your life?" and to present yourself in this very neatly packaged thing. No one knows what they're doing when they're 17. I barely know what I'm doing now and it's been a couple of years. You touched on this before but the idea of taking parts of your identity and taking things that you've dealt with and your experiences and you essentially have to advertise yourself. As much stuff as we work through, there's always going to be some inherent dissonance and in trying to advertise yourself. It's just a strange thing.
Sami: I remember when I was applying to medical school, that dissonance that you just described being really frustrating to me. I felt like all of these things that I cared about were cheapened by this process of me trying to just advertise myself constantly and always use them as a way to get into medical school and not just as a thing that was genuine and true on its own. That was something I struggled with during the application process quite a bit. I think I'm a little more used to it now. It doesn't bother me as much but maybe it should, I don't know. What you said about having to package yourself even at 17 when you're applying to colleges is even harder now because every field is so oversaturated with applications. In college and medical school, everyone's overqualified. In residency, it's the same thing. There are too many applicants and not enough spots. You have to find a way to make yourself stand out and a lot of those things that make you stand out are those things that you might be afraid to talk about or you might be worried that it might make them not like you and not want to talk to you. You have to balance that desire to be liked by everyone and to be what you might call a good applicant with the things that will make you stand out and make programs, maybe fewer programs, more interested in you. Hopefully, it will prove fruitful in the end.
Zarya: The concept of Match Day really stresses me out even though I'm so far from that process. I still follow along with it on Twitter. I really hope that turns out great for you and I'd love to see where you're at. Hopefully, it goes well.
Sami: One of the great things about urology is it's an early match. We find out in February, and so you get a whole month on everyone else, which is really nice. It's not this prolonged interview process. Pretty much all of our interviews are condensed in the same month. Urology released all of their interview decisions on the same day as opposed to other specialties in which it can be this really prolonged process for several months. Then we get an early decision as well. It's a pretty shortened cycle compared to other specialties, which is stressful at the moment but I'm sure I will be grateful for it in the long term. I'm very excited about Match Day. It's been a long time. It's a very stressful time for a lot of students particularly when we talk about students who didn't match or who match at a program that was pretty far down on their list. Especially now with COVID, that is really impacting how programs make decisions. I think it is a difficult time for sure.
Zarya: Did you only apply to programs that you would actually attend?
Sami: Being a urologist is very important to me. It's something I really want to do so I'm willing to go to a program that maybe isn't in my top 10 or has red flags, depending on the red flag. I didn't apply to programs where I did not see myself ultimately going to, but I think I applied pretty broadly because the goal of being a urologist to me was more important than maybe going to only the best residency program that I could possibly get into. As I was deciding which programs to apply to I just asked myself very genuinely if I would rather be a urologist and go to this program, or would I rather do something else and not go to this program? That's kind of how I weeded out certain programs. Because urology is such a small field, pretty much any program is going to be a pretty good program. There are very few where I absolutely would rather not be a urologist than go to this program. So that's, that was my decision-making process.
Zarya: Just to be sure, you're not from Long Island right? The last few times we've interviewed folks, they've been from Long Island as we never got to as you where you're from.
Sami: No, I'm from Phoenix. I grew up in Phoenix and then I went to New York City for college and grad school. I attended Yeshiva University, and then NYU for grad school. And then I came back to Arizona for medical school.
Zarya: I saw a meme yesterday that said people in America go to New York for college, California for grad school, and then they go to the Midwest for whatever else, and Texas for their job. I thought it was really funny because how do people move so often? When I was younger, I used to think about the med school interviewing process. You just take a bunch of fights for a full week because I knew people there were flying out for their interviews. When I hear people talk about residency, it very much sounds like then going all over the place within a very short timespan. It's interesting to think about uprooting your whole life to go pursue like your career, but ultimately, I think it comes down to what you said before. There are pros and cons. If it is something that you really want to do then you will do it by any means necessary.
Sami: With COVID, everything has been virtual. Interviews have been all virtual. So there's less traveling back and forth here which is great from a financial standpoint. It's a little discouraging from the standpoint of being able to actually see what these programs are like. It's a lot easier to alter certain aspects of your program when all you're doing is just presenting it in the zoom session as opposed to if I was physically walking through the halls of the hospital, I'd be able to see several things about the hospital. So that's kind of that frustrating. It's also stressful dealing with the knowledge that I could end up literally anywhere next year. I could be moving down the street, I could be moving across the country, I don't know. It's not like I'll have options at that point. With the match, you get one spot so it's decided for me which is very, very stressful. It's exciting, but it's stressful.
Srihita: I have a couple of friends who are going into medicine and are at the beginning of the process. And it's such a long, arduous process. Did you ever see yourself in any other career or was this it?
Sami: I actually considered philosophy for a while. I got my master's in bioethics. And I really loved that, but I think it just sort of reaffirmed for me that I did want to practice medicine. I did sort of want to be on the front lines of these ethical issues as opposed to pontificating about them behind the desk. I had a brief detour but came back to it just because there's nothing like it. There's nothing like being able to take care of patients and in more ways than just providing their basic medical care. I think that it's a real privilege and it's for the people who really want to do it. It's worth all of the stress and all of the long haul of medical school, residency, fellowship, and finally getting to that attending job. I think it's worth all that.
Zarya: Thank you so much for joining us. We really do appreciate you, being busy with your residency applications, but making time for us.
Sami: Thank you so much. It was really an honor to be here. And I really enjoyed talking with you guys.
Srihita: Bye!
Zarya: Bye!
Srihita: Hello, everyone, thank you so much for taking the time to listen to our conversation with Sami. This is the part of the episode where we like to reflect on our conversation with our guests and we're joined by our interns Aaliya and Sofia.
Sofia: I'm 21 years old and I am a senior in undergrad. I still don't think that I fully committing to med school. Some people when they're in their second year or third year of college already preparing for the MCAT, the interviews, and all that because it's very nerve-racking. I've always thought that if you want to be a doctor, you would know it instantly since at least high school. You'd already be set into going to med school and that you feel that there's nothing else for you. It was interesting for me because Sami mentioned that when she was in college she decided to go pursue a master's in bioethics. Until then, she was taking the coursework but she didn't actually commit to med school until she was in her master's degree. I thought that was very interesting because I'm also in the same boat. I want to pursue it. I want to be a doctor, but that's 10 years of your life. I already did the first four but that's another six years. I'm really not sure if I'm ready. I'm going to come out of med school and I'm going to be 30 or 31. I might be unmarried and have no kids. It's true though. Med school takes a lot out of your life. It's very much like a marriage. Sometimes it lasts longer than marriage.
Aaliya: I had an internship at a medical college for a while and one thing that my supervisor was telling another med student, in front of me, was, "Calm down, you're gonna end up getting married. You're gonna have three kids, you just need to ride the wave out." It's hard because I plan my life a lot. We talked about this in a previous reflection. You do think, "Oh, I'm gonna graduate med school when I'm 30 or 29 and then my life's over." But you're 30. The average age for a person to die is 82. You have 52 more years to just vibe. You know what I mean? It is hard to go into medicine though because it's a big commitment. I also like scared I'm like, Can I do it? Can I not do it? I think if that's what you really want to do, you'll be happy with that choice. You can find love in med school. It's happened to people. It can all happen at the same time. It doesn't have to be one or the other. Sofia, you mentioned how hard med school is, and you didn't know if you were willing to spend 10 more years of your life doing it. Some it could also be impostor syndrome. At the beginning of the interview, we asked Sami if she thought she was going to be this big of an influence on the LGBT community at her school. She didn't really think that and she never went in with this idea that she was going to be a big influence. She said that she didn't think she deserved to be the face of the LGBTQ program at her school. It's relatable because it's imposter syndrome, right? She's clearly put in hard work. She's done everything yet her mind is still like, "Oh, you don't deserve to be where you are." That's very relatable to me. I'm pre-med. I've wanted to be a doctor since I was 12 years old. I'm 21. I am about to apply soon, hopefully. My mind is still like, "Oh, you can't do it." You have to battle your thoughts. There's scientific evidence you can do it because you've made it this far.
Zarya: A really quick shoutout or editor Jameson because even though I'm sick, I'm sure this audio will come out dope. The thing that was most intimidating to me in talking with medical students from different organizations and guest speakers is that oftentimes medical students will have one story or one defining the moment in which they decide this is it for them, and I can't say it was ever one moment. There have been moments that have stood out but it was never just one thing. And that's something that really scared me because I haven't had that. I know I want to become a doctor. I can list a bunch of reasons why but it hasn't just been because of one thing. That really stressed me out for my personal statement. There are so many different things. How do you talk about them all? I think this is something that we have discussed in the last reflection but at the end of the day, it comes down to what will I contribute to medicine? I feel like that's exactly what Sami did, in the sense that she saw that there was a community there that was worth fostering and she created this organization as a means of creating a sense of community. I think that medical students to follow and even just undergraduate students like myself, we're looking to apply. It really means a lot to me to know that the folks who were ahead were in these positions are doing their best to take care of future generations like ours.
Sofia: For real though. When she spearheaded that program at her school for the LGBTQ community, I hope she realized that she made a very big change in that school. Fifteen years from now, that community is going to be so much bigger, so much more colorful, and it wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for her. That community wouldn't have found itself or people from the community wouldn't have been interacting with each other if it was it wasn't her for her effort.
Srihita: I wanted to touch on the point Zarya brought up about when someone's applying to med school, having to consider what they can contribute to medicine. In the case of Sami, when she decided to spearhead the organization, it didn't start from this place of her wanting to be an advocate necessarily. She was doing it because she was going through the experience of coming out and wanted to find a sense of community. Sometimes the ways in which you end up contributing also ended up feeding you and contributing back to you, the win-win situations, are the most inspiring ones. You take something that you're looking for, and oftentimes when you're looking for it, there's also a bunch of other people that are looking for it. The initiative that Sami ended up taking, as Sofia said, is going to end up benefiting so many people right now and in the future. So I think that's a really nice point to remember. I think on that note, Sami can definitely talk to people and we really, really enjoyed having this conversation with her and we hope you guys did too. As usual, take care of yourselves and we'll see you in the next one.
Zarya: Bye everyone!
Aaliya: Bye!
Sofia: Bye!
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A college baseball player in South Carolina tragically died Friday after collapsing on the field during practice.
Parker Neff, who was 21, was a shortstop for USC Salkehatchie and had previously played for North Greenville University.
Neff was a red-shirt sophomore who graduated from Travelers Rest High School in South Carolina. An autopsy is planned for Monday, according to the Greenville News.
A candlelight vigil will be held Monday night on the Salkehatchie baseball field.


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Announcing the New Issue of Middle East Report (MER 284) in partnership with NACLA: The Latin East
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This double issue of Middle East Report, "The Latin East," is a collaboration with the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). We publish it in tandem with the current issue of NACLA Report on the Americas, which is available for free online at www.tandfonline.com/toc/rnac20/50/1. With the kind permission of Routledge, we reprint in this magazine two essays originally appearing in NACLA's issue of "The Latin East."
In January 2009, thousands of protestors packed into crowded streets holding signs in support of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Since first taking office in 1999, Venezuela's firebrand president had led an unprecedented political transformation, what has been called the Pink Tide. Following decades of neoliberal rule, one country after another in Latin America elected left-wing governments of various stripes, all linked by a new focus on social spending, wealth redistribution and state power. In the process, Chávez earned the ire of venerable political and economic elites, who derided him as a populist, and the admiration of the popular sectors who came to see in Chávez a champion for the poor and the disenfranchised. On its own, that scene was unsurprising. What makes it noteworthy is that it took place not in Caracas or even elsewhere in the Americas, but half a world away in Ramallah, in the heart of the West Bank.
Approval for Chávez in Ramallah in part reflected the late president's full throated endorsement of Palestinian statehood. As early as 2006, he expressed his support in fiery speeches denouncing occupation, by hosting delegations of Palestinian activists, students and politicians in Venezuela and through the provision of economic aid to Gaza and the West Bank. He severed diplomatic ties with Israel over what he called its "cruel persecution of the Palestinian people" following a three-week military offensive in Gaza in 2009. By 2012, Venezuela had opened a diplomatic mission in Ramallah.
Chávez's rhetorical and material solidarity with Palestinians formed part of a much broader, and often fraught, relationship forged between Latin America and the Middle East at a time of deep flux in both regions. As the Pink Tide reached its crest in the mid-2000s, left-wing governments throughout Latin America increasingly made generating a multipolar world to disrupt US hegemony a central part of their agenda. Outreach to the Arab world in particular figured prominently in those efforts. Chávez led the way by hosting the Organization of Oil Producing Countries (OPEC) heads of state in Caracas in 2000 in a bid to file the long-dormant organization's teeth. He also met with longtime US nemesis Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and later staged massive rallies in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iran and elsewhere in the region where crowds, showcasing rifts and dissatisfaction with local leaders, proclaimed him "Chávez of Arabia."
But Chávez was far from alone. Over the years, other Pink Tide countries and leaders in Latin America followed suit, developing economic, political and cultural ties with Arab countries more broadly in a clear bid to flex newfound geopolitical muscle vis-à-vis the United States. In 2005, leaders of Arab and Latin American nations met in Brasilia for a first-of-its-kind gathering, the Summit of South American-Arab Countries (ASPA), which was repeated in 2009 in Doha and in 2012 in Lima. In response to Israeli military operations in Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank, several Latin American countries besides Venezuela broke diplomatic ties with Israel. Iranian presidents, first Mohammad Khatami and later US antagonist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, traveled throughout Latin America in unprecedented official state visits. In 2010, Brazil, Turkey and Iran brokered a deal to curb nuclear weapons acquisition. Though US pressure ultimately scuttled that agreement as well as other multilateral initiatives by the two regions, the efforts powerfully showcased a new era of autonomous cooperation between Latin America and the Middle East.
Meanwhile, in the Middle East entrenched power regimes teetered against a wave of social and political movements that began at the end of 2010 and were broadly identified as the Arab spring or Arab uprisings. The uprisings had precursors to be sure—the post-war twentieth century Middle East was far from the docile region that is often portrayed in popular discussions or academic analyses. Nevertheless, the uprisings upended a regional equilibrium and revived the role of mass movements. Authoritarian regimes, regional powers and international intervention have managed to shatter the early promise of the uprisings, bringing back a suffocating political climate in places like Egypt and engineering social and humanitarian catastrophes in Yemen, Syria and Libya.
Of course, the fact that many of these teetering regimes were the primary partners in Latin America's outreach efforts exposed uncomfortable realities about the mostly state-to-state rather than people-to-people nature of that relationship. As the Arab uprisings deepened, widened and turned ever more deadly, it increasingly appeared that dissatisfaction with the status quo in the Arab world had been obscured by solidarity that was limited mainly, it now seemed, to shared antagonism against US foreign policy in both regions. The perspectives included in this issue of Middle East Report and the companion issue of NACLA Report on the Americas allow us to dive deeper into the origins and development of various relationships between the regions and allow for a rethinking of assumptions about what was possible in the past, what is possible now, and what may be possible in the future between Latin America and the Middle East.
Above all, Latin America's striking and strategic outreach to the Middle East during the Pink Tide invites questions—as yet largely unasked, much less answered—about how the role and image of Latin America in the Middle East changed in the process. Moreover, as the Pink Tide recedes, and in the case of Venezuela and Brazil—two major drivers of Latin American outreach to the Middle East—enters deep crisis, and as renewed conflict and authoritarianism grips the Middle East in the wake of the Arab uprisings, the time is ripe to consider the origins, contours and legacies of their relationship.
This special double issue is the result of an unprecedented collaboration between MERIP and the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) that seeks to explore the roots of Latin American outreach to the Middle East and the larger processes, problems and possibilities inherent in ties between the two regions. NACLA and MERIP have much in common. Through our print magazines, we have offered independent reporting and analysis of Latin America and the Middle East over almost half a century. We have brought together prominent and up-and-coming scholars, journalists, artists and activists to cut through the imperial gaze to which both regions have long been subjected by both mainstream media and policy circles in the United States.
Our reporting has consistently interrogated the underlying assumptions and consequences of US actions in both regions and presented deeply informed alternative viewpoints. Our coverage extends far beyond a focus on US endeavors, however. Both NACLA and MERIP provide informed and critical perspectives that crucially emphasize the view from the region. We seek to shed light on underreported crises, long-term challenges and struggles for social change ranging from the politics of garbage collection in Lebanon and Sahrawi activism for self-determination in Algeria and Morocco to contestations over welfare state politics in Kuwait. In NACLA, recent coverage has included the influence of #BlackLivesMatter in Brazil, the deep history of border wall politics between the United States and Mexico and old and new machinations of resurgent right-wing movements across Latin America.
In this collaborative publication of Middle East Report and NACLA Report on the Americas we have pooled our resources, expertise and experience to explore links both new and longstanding between parts of the world infrequently considered side by side. Our collaboration is organized around three themes: Latin America in the Middle East, comparative regionalism and recent history.
Due to the legacy of successive waves of migration from the Middle East to Latin America in the twentieth century, most accounts of the relationship between the regions have focused on the influence of the Middle East in Latin America. As contributors to the first theme reveal, however, Latin America's influence in the Middle East, direct and indirect, is deep, longstanding and wide ranging, appearing in politics, economics, culture and ideology. Writing in NACLA, Fernando Camacho-Padilla draws on his long experience teaching courses on Latin America at Iranian universities to offer a rich account of how elite and popular perceptions of Latin America, going back decades, inform present day views about the region. Houzan Mahmoud and Ismail Hamalaw, Kurdish writers and activists, reveal longstanding fascination with Latin American revolutionary leaders, and especially literature, among Iraqi Kurds in their quest for autonomy and independence from Baghdad. Lena Meari, too, traces widespread and serious study of Latin American revolutionary tracts and testimonio literature among Palestinian prisoners during the first intifada against Israel in the 1980s, an influence and readership that continues today among new generations of Palestinian youth. Meanwhile in Middle East Report, Iraqi novelist and poet Sinan Antoon explores the haunted memories of Iraqi poet Sargon Boulus and his poetic tributes to the Peruvian poet César Vallejo.
Comparative regionalism is our second organizing theme. It features contributions that focus on how democracy, neoliberalism, post-neoliberal development, political parties and social movements manifest themselves similarly or differently in both regions. In Middle East Report, Hiba Bou Akar and Roosbelinda Cardenas describe their experience co-teaching courses that compare ethnographic texts on Latin America and the Middle East and how the specter of violence appears again and again as an analytic yoke tying both regions together, in ways largely detrimental for comparative reflection. Kevan Harris uses the lens of inequality to examine different contours of democratization and forms of integration into the global economy, yet also finds similarities between the regions in the challenges presented by violence, unequal relations with the global North and conglomerate forms of capitalism. While Latin American texts made their way to Israeli prisons during the intifada and after, Sara Awartani traces how Palestinian struggles for national liberation influenced Puerto Rican activists seeking independence from the United States.
Nadim Bawalsa, writing in NACLA, digs even further—spatially and historically. Drawing on newspapers published by Palestinian migrants in early twentieth century Chile, he uncovers a fascinating story of how a community that self-identified in pan-Arab terms came to see itself as explicitly Palestinian, powerfully shaping what is by far the largest and most tightly organized community of Palestinian descendants in the Americas. Omar Tesdell, too, reads deep into the twentieth century to uncover how Mexican and Palestinian agronomists sought to turn dry-farming techniques into a political tool for land tenancy, development and eventually national identity formation, as the Mexican revolution raged and the Ottoman empire collapsed. Mexico also features in Marwan Kraidy's essay, which examines the meanings of modernity in both regions through the lens of two prominent intellectuals who have shaped discourse and policy in the Americas and in Egypt, in particular, with wider impact across the Middle East. Egypt is also a key site of comparison for Paul Amar, whose explosive piece considers how the return of military dictatorship in Egypt in 2014 and the resurgence of right-wing rule via parliamentary coup in Brazil in 2016 are two sides of the same coin of military capitalism with striking, and troubling, parallel trajectories in each region. Finally, Omar Dahi and Alejandro Velasco demonstrate how both regions confront not just a changed global economy, but a global South landscape greatly altered from that of the Third World era, and the possibilities and challenges that have come with the dramatic rise of China as a global industrial power.
Our third thematic area examines recent history. Here, contributors consider social movements, political, economic and cultural exchanges, and transnational solidarity and diaspora politics in light of the Arab spring and winter and against the backdrop of nearly two decades of left-wing governance in Latin America. Writing in NACLA, Tariq Dana offers a sweeping appraisal of factionalism in the Palestinian liberation movement. His essay provides a crucial corrective to the kind of surface-level solidarity that has long informed Latin American views not only of Palestine but of political movements in the Middle East more broadly. This kind of solidarity has obscured fraught internal dynamics and their harmful effects in the region. In Middle East Report, Cecilia Baeza and Paulo Pinto shed light on the practices, repertoires and forms of mobilization of diaspora populations through an examination of support for Syrian President Bashar al-Asad's regime within the Syrian-Lebanese community in Argentina and Brazil. Paulo Farah examines the potential and challenges of the Summit of South American-Arab Countries (ASPA) and sheds light on the possibilities of state-led South-South solidarity.
Finally, our jointly published issues of NACLA and Middle East Report are only the first of a two-part collaboration. On April 27 and 28, 2018, contributors to both magazines will assemble in New York City for a major conference, jointly sponsored with Jadaliyya, to present their work and to launch a platform for future projects. Thus we begin a game-changing initiative to kick off both publications' next 50 years of publishing in the same way as we have our first half century: by bringing you cutting edge coverage and analysis of the Middle East, Latin America and the wider world that you will not find anywhere else.
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One child from Alberta First Nation dead, others in hospital: RCMP
A police spokesperson said investigators on scene weren't sure what they're dealing with
Apr. 4, 2018 3:20 p.m.
One child from a community west of Calgary is dead and 13 other children and a man have been taken to hospital.
Police say EMS personnel pronounced the child dead in a home in Morley on the Stoney Nakoda First Nation, about 60 kilometres west of Calgary.
"The investigation is very preliminary right now," Cpl. Curtis Peters said. "We don't know a lot of details, but unfortunately we can confirm that a child did die at that residence."
Calgary EMS spokesman Stuart Brideaux said paramedics dealt with 15 people at the home including the dead child.
Fourteen people were taken to hospital who ranged in age from four months to a man in his late teens.
One of the children in hospital was in serious condition.
Brideaux said investigators aren't sure what they are dealing with.
"At this time, EMS is working to sort out the potential origin of the circumstances," he said. "It seems to be of a medical nature. There is no concerns of trauma or violence attached to this incident."
Brideaux said the patients do not appear to be suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Bon Jovi is gearing up for a major run of live tour dates in 2017, after laying low the past couple years. The 'This House Is Not for Sale' Tour was accounced on Oct. 5 and will be in support of the band's 13th studio album, which the tour has been named after.
On. Dec. 1, a handful of new Bon Jovi tour dates were shown, including stops in Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh, and more.
For the time being, North American Bon Jovi fans in Greenville, S.C., can look forward to the tour opener on Feb. 8. The album, meanwhile, dropped Nov. 4, while the lead single, "This House Is Not for Sale," was released on Aug. 12.
Though the song boasts a familiar Bon Jovi sound, various group members are not same this time around. The group's Richie Sambora, former guitarist, has been absent since his unexpected departure during the 2013 tour and was not involved with the new album nor will he be joining for the tour. Phil X will be taking over such obligations, while bassist Hugh McDonald is officially part of the band.
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Bon Jovi Tour 2017
Feb. 8 – Greenville, S.C., Bon Secours Wellness Arena
Feb. 10 – Atlanta, Philips Arena
Feb. 12 – Sunrise, Fla., BB&T Center
Feb. 14 – Tampa, Amalie Arena
Feb. 16 – Birmingham, Ala., BJCC
Feb. 18 – Nashville, Bridgestone Arena
Feb. 19 – St. Louis, Scottrade Center
Feb. 21 – Oklahoma City, Chesapeake Energy Center
Feb. 23 – Dallas, American Airlines Center
Feb. 25 – Las Vegas, T-Mobile Arena
Feb. 28 – Sacramento, Golden 1 Center
March 1 – San Jose, SAP Center
March 4 – Phoenix, Talking Stick Resort Arena
March 5 – San Diego, Viejas Arena
March 8 – Inglewood, Calif., The Forum
March 14 – Denver, Pepsi Center
March 16 – Memphis, FedExForum
March 18 – Columbus, Ohio, Nationwide Arena
March 19 – Cleveland, Quicken Loans Arena
March 22 – Indianapolis, Bankers Life Fieldhouse
March 26 – Chicago, United Center
March 27 – St. Paul, Minn., Xcel Energy Center
March 29 – Detroit, Joe Louis Arena
March 31 – Philadelphia, Wells Fargo Center
April 1 – Uncasville, Conn., Mohegan Sun Arena
April 5 – Pittsburgh, PPG Paints Arena
April 7-8 – New York, Madison Square Garden
April 10 – Toronto, Air Canada Centre
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Depressing Police Adventure This Is The Police Has Good and Bad News
Taylor Woolstenhulme
In a Kickstarter campaign update posted early last month on September 7; the Belarus-based indie studio Weappy, developers of the upcoming police-themed strategy/adventure game This Is The Police, confirmed that they lost their publishing partner. The game's developers were originally working with the British developer/publisher Team 17, known for developing the Worms series and publishing games like The Escapists and the upcoming platformer Yooka-Laylee. Team17 was originally scheduled to provide press coverage and marketing for the game, alongside supervising its development process. According to the post, Weappy is no longer working with the studio due to, quote, "some disagreements."
The developers noted that the loss of their partner heavily affected a lot of their plans, but their core goal of delivering a good game remained intact. The post ended with more of an upbeat note, with them teasing a large update coming out on September 30.
In a pleasant turn of events, the studio released the Kickstarter update earlier than originally planned; coming out on Monday (September 28) rather than on Wednesday. Alongside new gameplay footage and screenshots, the post contained two bits of new information. The first bit of news was the announcement that This Is The Police will kick in Steam Greenlight's door sometime later this week. Following up on that was a statement confirming that Weappy is still in need of a new partner.
The gameplay footage consists of brief clips showcasing various elements of the game: responding to the press during a conference, dispatching officers to investigate reported crimes, and handing out badges to units. The post ended on a somber note, with a screenshot of a dead officer killed in what appears to be a car accident 9possibly the result of a car chase gone awry).
This Is The Police was successfully funded at the start of the year, raising a total of $35,508. The game was scheduled to launch on PC in December 2015, though it's currently unknown if the loss of the studio's partner has affected the release window at all.
Raised on a steady supply of superhero cartoons, videogames, and heavy metal Taylor Woolstenhulme was destined to have a lifelong love affair with everything geek. Fascinated by the possibilities of emergent gameplay; Taylor's favorite genres include the non-explosive kind of RPG, grand strategy, and open world sandboxes. He lives in sunny California, and hopes to pursue writing as a full-time career.
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In 2009, War Resisters' International released the 'Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns'; a toolbox of ideas and resources to support activists to run more effective campaigns.The original was translated into over ten languages, including Spanish, German, Tigrinya (spoken in Eritrea), Nepalese, Turkish, and Arabic, and has been used by activists all over the world.
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I have been asked often for an archive, a place for Fish Reports, and now that I'm going forward with tutorial videos along with diagrammed pictures…it made sense for "FishDuck.com" to be a reality. Like any new project — it grows much bigger as we explore all that we can do, thus it will be much more than just an archive of Fish Reports.
What is the new site about? The Fish Football Tutorials videos are meant to be timeless, as basic explanations of the Oregon Offense. (And later our defense) The Fish Reports will continue to be timely observations/analysis of scrimmages and games as in the past. The FishWrap will be occasional thoughts and ponderings through the week (like a blog) and The FishBowl will be a football message board. We will be ruthless in sorting out the wackos and those who insult, and are behaving unlike a gentleman. They can go to other sites for that, as we want great football discussion-highbrow stuff and we will prune out the culls in a hurry.
I encourage everyone to continue with the other sites as usual. I will not be doing player/coaches interviews or recruiting information as other sites do. We as Duck fans need the valuable services and information they provide and even I will keep my own three subscriptions with all of them to learn a lot of new recruiting information and reports that come on a daily basis. I am grateful for all they do, and I wish to complement what they do by offering something they don't; in-depth analysis that people can SEE as well as read, along with a safe environment for heavy-duty football discussion without the inane nonsense that occurs on most boards. I fully expect that we will have our own high-quality market segment…that will attract those who like to ponder stuff without being ridiculed or chided. There will not be any cost…and since I don't know it all — I am open to corrections and additions to what I am writing to benefit the greater body of Oregon fans who want to learn.
We will not be using banner ads, pop-ups, and company's ads down the side of the page. Typically the other football sites get approximately an eighth of a cent from the advertisers every time someone comes on the page that contains the usual banner ads. It is not a big money-maker, and while they wish to sort out the extreme rogue posters, they will allow most to remain since they need the hits on the pages. When the rude poster does write — it will frequently bring a response from many people, hence a thread of nonsensical back-and-forth. Thus over time these other boards get PAID for the uncouth ruining it for everyone else. There are a great number of knowledgeable, intelligent posters who refuse to post again after having someone jump down their throat because they disagreed on a point of discussion.
The only ads on FishDuck.com will be for my investment services thus the overall plan begins to make more sense as I don't want the wackos because they are not serious about football discussion. Websites get paid by advertisers for the number of hits on a page while their ads are present. I do not need the hits, and want fewer of the high quality people that are a matchup for a Gentlemen's board. Hence the opposite effect could result; by pruning all the culls we could attract the higher quality posters from other places, or many who currently do not post might now be more inclined to do so with a "safe" place to write. We have no compunction about being callous at eliminating those who pick at others, insult or name-call. We will not tolerate even the slightest passive-aggressive nonsense, or any antagonistically offered "questions" by opposing or our own rude fans.
Everyone will be welcome, especially the classy fans of other teams to trade info about each other's teams to enhance the enjoyment of the games for all. But everyone has to be nice, with no insults, names, or any snide stuff. There are all the other sites for that where they can go to get that…just not on this one. We are Gentlemen here, and we will defend everyone immediately from even the slightest attack. We want your thoughts in The FishBowl, and we WILL make it a more refined place to trade information with fans of all teams. There are wonderful people cheering for all teams out there and we want them to stop by here, while all of us learn from each other and make new friends.
If they can be Gentlemen, then so can we!
It could emerge with quite a following when intelligent, rational people from all teams realize there is a "safe" place to go to talk football and Xs and Os. We would rather have 100 posters who are good and decent, instead of 10,000 posters who engage in nonsense. We don't need the hits…so we won't tolerate the nonsense. In fact it will be fun to weed them out!
As it comes together…there will be no other site like it. With the way I write my Fish Reports and now the tutorials…the atmosphere will be different as one of learning and sharing notes. If you disagree or have information to add, then do give me link to see where you are referring as I do in my reports. I HAVE changed reports in the past and will continue to as I learn from all of you. I will encourage classy fans of other teams to come learn about Oregon and share some Xs and Os about their team. Anyone who is civil, smart, pleasant, etc (you get the idea) is welcome.
I originally did not plan to have a message board…but I see the need out there for precisely what I just described…so why not do it? We will be the Rolls-Royce of Football boards — not in features, not in costs, but in the membership.
Now — let's learn some more FOOTBALL!


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Pacts set to ensure food, drug safety
China and the United States are expected to sign two binding agreements today to ensure the safety of food and drug exports, top officials from both countries said yesterday.
One pact, to be signed between China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) and the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), deals with exports of food and animal feed; and the other, between China's State Food and Drug Administration and the HHS, will be on drugs and medical devices.
The agreements are to ensure that food and drugs China and the US export to each other meet import standards, HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt said at the American Chamber of Commerce in China yesterday morning.
"Any country that desires to produce goods for American consumers needs to produce them in accordance with American standards... and we (US and China) should have common expectations of one another in this regard," he said.
Chinese animal feed, seafood and toys exported to the US have aroused safety concern this year, while some US exports, including pork and potato chips, have also been found unsafe according to Chinese standards.
Therefore, Leavitt said while meeting AQSIQ Minister Li Changjiang yesterday afternoon, the two countries should collaborate in formulating standards to ensure products made in one country meet all the requirements of the other.
"We have different systems, but share the same goal, and should establish more communication channels to enhance contact and cooperation," Leavitt said.
Li said both agreements are products of long and fruitful dialogue.
"Product safety is a concern shared by the whole world, and we need intensified international cooperation, especially in sharing information and experiences," Li said.
AQSIQ Vice-Minister Wei Chuanzhong also disclosed yesterday after meeting a delegation from the US Department of Agriculture that the two countries are discussing a third agreement on the safety of agricultural products.
"Basically, the agreement aims to improve our working relationship and cooperation on how to handle problems of meat, poultry and egg products," Ellen Terpstra, deputy under secretary for farm and foreign agricultural services, who headed the delegation, told China Daily.
"An important goal of the agreement is to ensure smooth trade flow for both sides," she said.
The two nations still have a few disagreements, but both Wei and Terpstra said they hope the agreement will be signed as soon as possible.
US Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez yesterday also pointed the direction toward product safety.
"As the next step, perhaps we can look at an agreement with the US National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, which has a seafood inspection system. The system is voluntary but can be very helpful for your fisheries exports," he said while meeting Li.
He also suggested that cooperation be strengthened between the US National Institute for Standards and Technology and the Chinese National Institute for Metrology to jointly develop standards.
At the end of the meeting, the US delegates received Chinese toys as Christmas gifts. "It's a nice gift. It's a lot of fun," Gutierrez said while picking a doll that can speak, laugh and cry.
(China Daily December 11, 2007)
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- Exports from canned meat manufacturer suspended
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- National food safety campaign to be launched this month
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Unfortunately, cerebral palsy can sometimes be as a result of a lack of appropriate skill or care in labour or delivery.
Caring for a child with cerebral palsy can be challenging not only physically but also emotionally and financially.
A successful compensation claim will ensure that your child has the care and support they need for the rest of their life.
Cerebral palsy is a movement disorder resulting in a neurological injury or injury to the brain which is said to occur in about 2.1 per 1,000 live births.
It is caused by damage to the part of the brain that controls movement, balance and posture and can result in poor coordination, stiff and weak muscles, and tremors. There may also be problems with sensation, vision, hearing, swallowing and speaking. There can also be cognitive impairment. No two cases are the same.
Cerebral palsy can be caused during pregnancy, childbirth or shortly after birth. In some cases the cause can be unknown.
Cerebral palsy is classified by the type of motor impairment.
Spastic cerebral palsy where there is muscle stiffness and weakness affecting the range of movement.
Ataxic cerebral palsy where motor skills can be affected as well as balance and visual and auditory processing.
Athetoid / Dyskinetic cerebral palsy resulting in mixed muscle tone often with involuntary movements, irregular speech and hearing.
Whilst only a small number of cases are actually caused by a lack of oxygen during birth, unfortunately damage can sometimes result from a lack of all appropriate skill or care in labour or delivery, often due to a failure to intervene in a timely fashion where there is clear evidence of fetal distress. If delivery is delayed, then the baby may be deprived of oxygen resulting in permanent damage to the brain.
We can work with you to help clarify whether failures in the management of your pregnancy and/or delivery had led to the development of cerebral palsy and whether a successful claim can be pursued.
Caring for a child with cerebral palsy is inevitably challenging not only physically but also emotionally and financially. It can be a struggle to obtain all appropriate support from Health and Social care. There can often be a failure to meet all of a child's special needs and delays in the provision of essential equipment, assistance and services.
We recognise the very real difficulties that exist in caring for an injured child. Not least difficulties accessing ongoing medical treatment, care and support, education, therapy and equipment. In cases where liability is resolved, we will always seek interim payments at an early stage to ensure access to such treatment, support and assistance. Our education specialists and community care team are also here to advise and provide assistance in securing all requisite NHS and Local Authority care and support during the continuance of your claim.
We are also able to offer our clients in an appropriate case a specialist 'immediate needs assessment' service.
A successful compensation claim will ensure that your child has the care and support that they need for their lifetime and will frequently include financial provision to cover the cost not only of care but also essential therapies such as physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy. It can also often help with requirements for assistive technology and equipment, aids and equipment, transport needs, provision for special education and even appropriate accommodation for both your child and the family.
Compensation claims in catastrophic cases can result in awards in excess of £20 million. It is essential however to obtain specialist legal support and advice. For more information please contact Tim Spring.


Most groups I've been a member of give little thought to this, adopting a "it was hard for me to become a part of the group, so don't expect a free pass, newbie" attitude. That's not a good way to run a railroad.
Written October 10, 2018 at 4:30 p.m.
Most of the MeetUps I have been to of late suffer from this problem as well. The most successful groups I have joined spend significant effort incorporating newcomers with methods similar to what Eric Holscher's suggests.
In community stewarding having pathways both for increasing and decreasing my level of engagement fluidly are important. This is a nice example.


Coronavirus puppies survival (CCoV) is dependent on early diagnosis. Don't panic. The disease is rarely fatal.
The disease lives in the small intestine and can spread to other parts of the body such as the lungs and liver.
The key is early detection and treatment. There is a more virulent or lethal strain of canine coronavirus, however this has been seen in very limited cases.
The most common and often only symptom is diarrhea. The number one cause of diarrhea in pups is Parvovirus and number two is Coronavirus.
Not all diarrhea in pups is the same. Diarrhea from eating trash tends to have mucus, where diarrhea from Coronavirus is watery and often has a foul smell.
If you see blood it probably is the much more severe Parvovirus. While rare, there are cases of having Coronavirus and Parvovirus at the same time.
The virus unusually starts 2 - 4 days after it is ingested and can lasts between 2 - 7 days. The virus is shed in the stool for 6 - 9 days or more.
The key to coronavirus puppies survival is preventing dehydration (not getting enough fluids or water).
If you puppy will drink, try small amount of Pedialyte or Gatorade.
If your puppy will not drink at all, the Veterinarian willintroduce forced water hydration. This is often done byhydrating through under the skin injections or an IV.
The Veterinarian may introduce antibiotics to prevent secondary infections.
There is mixed scientific evidence regarding the long termeffectiveness of coronavirus vaccines.
If your Veterinarian recommends it, the vaccine is usually part ofa multi-disease vaccine and is given at age 12, 14 and 18 weeks.It typically lasts for one year.
The best way to prevent coronavirus in a puppy is to minimize exposure. This means not allowing your pup outside or near other dogs until it is fully vaccinated.
Often dogs from "puppy farms" or kennels without the highest standards suffer from outbreaks. Have a puppy purchased examined by your Veterinarian right away.
If you have another dog, minimize contact between the two and wash any shared toys and dishes.


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PALACE NOT SURE OF SAKHO
Premier League side Crystal Palace are not sure they would eventually give former Liverpool star MamadouSakhoa deal, according to reports in England.
The manager Sam Allardyce admitted this despite the player's run since leaving Anfield.
The 27-year-old has been decent since he started featuring for the Glaziers. Big Sam admits this but opines that getting a permanent deal is still difficult. However, he hailed the player's contributions to the team.
"It would be a big negotiation at the end of the season if we were to stay in the Premier League.At this moment in time Mama has chosen crystal Palace to play first-team football, I think he has settled into the environment exceptionally well," Allardyce said.
Sakho was crucial to Palace's clean sheets, joining new additions Patrick van Aanholt and Luka Milivojevic as the club fights relegation. Continue reading PALACE NOT SURE OF SAKHO
Posted on March 30, 2017 Author indexCategories EaglesTags Crystal, FIFA, Freedman, Goal, Highlights, Palace
CRYSTAL PALACE WANT CHELSEA'S IVANOVIC
English Premier League side Crystal Palace want Chelsea's veteran defender Branislav Ivanovic as the player remains out of favour at Stamford Bridge.
Antonio Conte's new formation has forced out the Serb as the manager prefers three quick players at the back. According to reports, Crystal Palace are willing to play the veteran as the 32-year old right back might get axed from Chelsea.
With the current set-up, Chelsea have enjoyed four wins in four games. They have kept a clean sheet and scored eleven goals, even against top teams. Ivanovic last played for the blues in the 3-0 loss to Arsenal on September 24. With just three players at the back, Victor Moses has taken his spot. Moses has been impressive in the role, forcing speculation that Ivanovic might exit the club at the end of the season before his career finally winds down completely.
Continue reading CRYSTAL PALACE WANT CHELSEA'S IVANOVIC
Posted on November 16, 2016 Author indexCategories EaglesTags Crystal, Goal, Highlights, Palace
CRYSTAL PALACE MANAGER ADMISTS THEY LOST FOCUS
English Premier League side, Crystal; Palace manager, Alan Pardew says his team's focus was blurred in the crucial Premier League match against Manchester United. The Reds Devils had a two goal romp over the side to put pressure on others in the top four spot.
Alan Pardew said his team were motivated by the chance at a silverware when they take on Watford led by Odion Ighodalo, in the FA cup tie.
An early own goal Damien Delaney put the team in misery at first, then the effort of Matteo Darmian ensure the hosts close the gap with the top four in the Wednesday encounter.
Alan Pardew said his team were already thinking of the pressure at Wembley without dealing with the task at hand and it affected their focus during the game.
"It's not the start anyone wants at Old Trafford – to concede after four minutes knocked us a little bit but our focus is slightly blurred as we have the semi-final on Sunday," Pardew admitted.
"It's a big game for Manchester united [on Saturday] but it's much bigger for us as we could win a trophy. My players worked hard and some players got some game-time. The one-bit of key news to come out of tonight is that we're fit and well for Sunday," the coach said.
On the other hand, Watford sent a message to Palace with their win. The team has had a poor run of matches soil their brilliant first half of the season. Both teams will trade tackles on Sunday in the crucial FA Cup semi final tie. Continue reading CRYSTAL PALACE MANAGER ADMISTS THEY LOST FOCUS
Posted on May 4, 2016 Author indexCategories EaglesTags Crystal, Goal, Goals, Palace
Replaced and eventually forgotten in Chelsea, Cech still has a place in Czech Republic
A few weeks ago, PetrCech made a huge change in his playing career as he ended his relationship with Chelsea which spanned for over 10 years and the veteran shot-stopper joined Arsenal.
Even at his 33 years of age, PetrCech is one of the highest rated players in his position but he couldn't compete against the likes of ThibautCourtois who has displayed his world class skills and earned the trust of Jose Mourinho.
Unfortunately for PetrCech, he will eventually be forgotten in Stamford Bridge despite of everything that he has accomplished with the Premier League club, some fans of the club will probably still keep the Czech in their memories but taking into consideration the steady rise of ThibautCourtois, memories of PetrCech will fade away.
PetrCech suffered in his last few years with Chelsea as he had to settle with being a substitute player as he watched ThibautCourtois take center stage and it wasn't the best way for him to finish his stay in Stamford Bridge.
IkerCasillas and Real Madrid have experimented something similar as IkerCasillas left Real Madrid and replaced by KikoCasillas but the sad thing in these players is not that they have been replaced, every single player will eventually get changed by a younger version, the thing that has disappointed fans is in the way that these players had to exit their respective clubs.
Casillas announced his departure in a tearful press conference where he was left completely alone. It was a very different exit compared to Barcelona when all of the players of the Spanish squad were there with Xavi Hernandez after the midfielder announced his exit and the players as well as all the executives of the club were shaken up as they saw one of their most influential figures in the club leave. Continue reading Replaced and eventually forgotten in Chelsea, Cech still has a place in Czech Republic
Posted on November 15, 2015 Author indexCategories EaglesTags Crystal, Goal, Johnson, Palace
Alan Pardew has dismissed suggestions that he feels quite relieved
Former Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew has dismissed suggestions that he feels quite relieved to be away from the north-east club and into Crystal Palace. Pardew joined Crystal Palace at the start of 2015 and this has been beneficial to both parties.
The London club were involved in a relegation fight when Pardew came to the club. Since then, they have won several matches and have moved into a position where even a top-10 finish remains a possibility. Pardew was one of the longest serving manager in English football prior to joining Palace. He had been at Newcastle for four years.
During this period, Pardew faced a number of ups and downs. After coming very close to sealing a Champions League spot in the 2011-12 season, the manager faced a lot of criticism from his own supporters on a number of occasions. This was very evident even at the start of the season. Pardew has revealed that his biggest regret will come in the fact that he did not get enough results in the Tyne-Wear derby. Pardew became the first Newcastle manager to lose four consecutive matches against Sunderland. However, the former boss has praised the support received by Newcastle and says that it remains one of the best clubs he has coached. Continue reading Alan Pardew has dismissed suggestions that he feels quite relieved
Posted on April 1, 2015 Author indexCategories EaglesTags Crystal, Goal, Goals, Highlights, Palace
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Posted on December 14, 2014 Author adminCategories EaglesTags Crystal, Goal, Juan, mata, Palace