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Thanks Mike. I agree, That was one of the examples I flipped around in my mind. I came to the conclusion that we convince ourselves that the immediate gratification is the best thing to do now, even though we know we will pay the price later. If we truly believed the best thing to do is refrain, then we would do that. Maybe it is semantics.


So there I sat in Good Friday service, Struck. As I heard the charges against Jesus read from Luke I was amazed at the idea of Jesus as a revolutionary.
He was so vehemently flying in the face of the established Judaisms that they had to kill him. He was a radical. I was resolute. Upon returning home after my Easter vacation, I would be more subversive. More radical. More Christlike.
As soon as I got home, I went to my friend Shawn's blog and found this: The Pentecost Project.
I was struck. My wife and I had already decided to pay down some debt with the entirety of the money. But I think that we should do something more. What if we decided to give a percent as a community to one unified goal. What if everyone at my church gave 10% of their "Bush Bucks" to a single purpose. We would be easily giving nearly $10,000. What could this do for our community? Not just our church but Myrtle Beach as a whole.
I need to be involved in this.
We Need to be involved in this.


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Placed once in 13 starts. Third of 6 behind Megatherm beaten 5l at 14-1 on his latest outing at Penn National over 1m in January. Outside chance.
Placed once in seven starts. Finished 5l behind Bullets Child when fourth of 8 at 40-1 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 6f in January. More required.
Placed in five of seven starts. Beaten a neck by Real Factor when second of 5 at 18-5 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 1m last month. Leading credentials.
Placed in four of seven starts. Beaten 1/2l by Dumtadumtadum when second of 9 at 7-1 on her latest outing at Laurel Park over 1m in December last year. Merits respect.
Placed twice in five starts. Finished 3 1/2l behind Real Factor when fourth of 5 at 13-2 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 1m last month. Solid claims.
Yet to place in six starts. Finished 6l behind Bitter Ring Home when fourth of 10 at 13-5 on his latest outing at Santa Anita over 1m last month. Having his first run for a new stable today, previously with Jeff Mullins. Held on recent evidence.
Placed in three of eight starts. Third of 6 behind Tri Try Colors beaten 3 1/2l at evens fav on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 1m earlier this month. Others appeal more.
GRAND OASIS went close to getting off the mark on his latest start and a repeat of that effort is likely to prove more than good enough on this occasion. She'slikethewind and Road To Oz are others to note.
She has won three times from 5f to 6f. Won on her latest outing when 16-10fav at Laurel Park over 5f (good) last month, beating Baytown Lindy. Warrants respect.
Successful twice at 6f. Won on her latest outing when 9-5fav at Laurel Park over 6f earlier this month, beating Di. Others preferred.
Successful at 5f and 6f. Third of 9 behind No Stone Unturned beaten at 18-1 on her latest outing at Laurel Park over 6f last month. Has to enter calculations.
A winner at 6f. Finished behind No Stone Unturned when fourth of 9 at 11-2 on her latest outing at Laurel Park over 6f last month. Drop in class a positive.
A winner at 6f. Finished behind No Stone Unturned when sixth of 9 at 6-4fav on her latest outing at Laurel Park over 6f last month. She is wearing blinkers for the first time and open to further progression.
A winner at 6f. Finished behind Jazzy J when fifth of 6 at 6-1 on her latest outing at Aqueduct over 6f last month. Recent form has been disappointing.
A winner at 5f. Finished behind Dirty Bird when fourth of 5 at 13-10fav on her latest outing at Aqueduct over 1m last month. One for the shortlist.
A winner at 6f. Finished 19l behind Nana's Shoes when sixth of 7 at 7-2 on her latest outing at Laurel Park over 1m last month. Having her first run for a new stable today, previously with Michael Trombetta. Looks up against it.
A winner at 5f. Third of 6 behind Mimic beaten at 10-1 on her latest outing at Laurel Park over 6f earlier this month. Could struggle to land a blow.
STARTING TOUR was unable to make it two from two here last month but drops in class which can see her prove too strong for the likes of Ma Meatloaf and No Refunds.
Beaten 1l by Escrow Finnidilly when second of 9 at 22-1 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 1m earlier this month, his only placing from 7 starts. More needed.
Dam won four times between 5f and 1m. Finished 7l behind Lucacito when fifth of 6 at 15-2 on his racecourse debut at Laurel Park over 6f last month. Open to progression.
Placed twice in ten starts. Beaten by Equus Novus when second of 7 at 50-1 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 6f earlier this month. Needs to back that effort up.
Unplaced in all ten starts. Finished 6l behind Escrow Finnidilly when fifth of 9 at 8-1 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 1m earlier this month. Hard to recommend.
Yet to place in four starts. Finished behind Southern Rules when fifth of 7 at 7-2 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 1m earlier this month. Recent form has tailed off.
Placed twice in nine starts. Third of 6 behind Lucacito beaten 1 1/2l at 17-10fav on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 6f last month. Holds every chance.
Placed in three of seven starts. Beaten behind I'mthetapitnow at 6-1 when eighth of 11 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 7f last month. Could bounce back to form here.
Placed twice in six starts. Finished behind Broker's Reward when fourth of 7 at 3-1 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 1m earlier this month. The one to beat.
Unplaced in both starts. Finished behind Southern Rules when fourth of 7 at 13-2 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 1m earlier this month. May find a couple too good.
AMERICA'S PRINCE has been knocking on the door and looks to have been found an ideal opportunity to get off the mark. Lucky Bull and Elevated Forever are the main dangers.
Half-sister to Jordanna Bananna, won three times between 5f and 1m. Might just benefit from this experience.
Placed once in four starts. Beaten 17l behind Cover Photo at 7-1 when seventh of 8 on her latest outing at Laurel Park over 6f last month. Took a backwards step there.
Unplaced in both starts. Beaten 20l behind My Muchacha at 80-1 when 11th of 12 on her latest outing at Laurel Park over 6f in October last year. Having her first run for a new stable today, previously with Jesus Cruz, but needs to find a spark from somewhere.
Unplaced in both starts. Finished 10l behind Bruja Bug when fifth of 7 at 9-2 on her latest outing at Delaware Park over 6f in October last year. She is wearing blinkers for the first time and they need to spark her into life.
Half-sister to Talk About Magic, won twice at 4f and 6f. Third of 8 behind Cover Photo beaten 3 1/2l at 18-5 on her racecourse debut at Laurel Park over 6f last month. That was a good first day at school.
Half-sister to Expedited Vision, won three times between 4f and 6f. Third of 9 behind Allison K beaten 4 1/2l at 22-1 on her racecourse debut at Laurel Park over 6f last month. Natural improvement would see her go close.
Unplaced in all four starts. Finished behind Mom I Forgive You when sixth of 8 at 75-1 on her latest outing at Aqueduct over 6f earlier this month. Sights lowered now.
Placed in four of 13 starts. Beaten 1/2l by Flirtation Walk when second of 9 at 3-1 on her latest outing at Laurel Park over 6f earlier this month. That is good form but she is in danger of becoming exposed.
Half-sister to Sweet Liam, won twice at 5f. Finished 10l behind Big Brown Cat when fifth of 7 at 9-2 on her racecourse debut at Aqueduct over 5f last month. Having her first run for a new stable today, previously with Danny Gargan, and a betting check is advised.
Dam a lightly raced maiden. Not much hope on pedigree.
GREAT FRENCH KISS showed up well for a long way when third on debut last month and should be all the wiser for that experience. Determined Mission has a similar profile and is considered, while Controllingthegold looks capable of winning one of these.
A winner at 6f. Beaten 13l behind Arrivederci at 28-1 when seventh of 10 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 6f earlier this month. Up against it.
A winner at 1m. Beaten behind Optic Way at 19-2 when eighth of 12 on his latest outing at Philadelphia Park over 1m in November last year. A break needs to have freshened him up.
A winner at 1m. Beaten by Chocomount when second of 10 at 9-4fav on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 1m last month. Having his first run for a new stable today, previously with Justin Nixon. Leading player.
A winner at 6f. Finished behind No Mistake N Me when fifth of 7 at 6-1 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 5f last month. Wasn't suited by a slow pace last time.
A winner at 1m. Finished behind M G Broker when fourth of 6 at 16-1 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 1m last month. Having his first run for a new stable today, previously with Phil Schoenthal. Could go well.
A winner at 1m. Finished behind Arkadag when sixth of 9 at 13-1 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 1m earlier this month. He is wearing blinkers for the first time and hopefully they do the trick.
A winner at 5f. Beaten behind Chocomount at 9-1 when seventh of 10 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 1m last month. Has a point to prove.
A winner at 18-5 at Laurel Park over 6f on his latest outing earlier this month, beating Buster's Brother by 1/2l. Comes into this with as good a profile as anything.
A winner at 1m. Beaten 14l behind Arrivederci at 19-2 when eighth of 10 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 6f earlier this month. Better than that but has to prove it.
A winner at 1m. Finished behind Disco Express when fourth of 7 at 2-1 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 1m earlier this month. One of the big hitters.
TOP HAT RAGTOP notched his breakthrough victory here last time and remains open to much improvement on just his third start for these connections. Street Review and Quest Of Glory are also noted.
Has won nine races from 5f to 6f. Finished 5l behind Taco Supream when sixth of 11 at 11-1 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 6f last month. Knows how to win at this level.
Winner of seven races from 5f to 7f. Beaten 8l behind Showalter at 5-2fav when seventh of 9 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 6f last month. Disappointing when asked for his effort last time.
Winner of seven races from 5f to 6f. Finished 2 1/4l behind Taco Supream when fourth of 11 at 12-1 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 6f last month. Should run his race.
He has won four times at 4f. A winner at 12-5 at Charles Town over 4f on his latest outing last month, beating Coaches Challenge by 3l. Another fair performance could be incoming.
He has won four times from 6f to 1m. Finished 5l behind Autostrade when sixth of 9 at 50-1 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 7f last month. The drop in trip could help.
Winner of five races from 5f to 7f. Finished 5l behind Showalter when sixth of 9 at 3-1 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 6f last month. Comes with his limitations.
Winner of six races from 6f to 1m. Beaten 11l behind Taco Supream at 25-1 when 10th of 11 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 6f last month. Hasn't looked the same since his winning run was ended.
Has won eight races from 5f to 1m. Won on his latest outing when 11-5fav at Laurel Park over 6f last month, beating Cobh by 3 1/2l. Having his first run for a new stable today, previously with Gerald Brooks, but needs to take his form to a new level.
Has won 11 races from 5f to 1m. Beaten 14l behind Tizk Tizk at 18-1 when eighth of 10 on his latest outing at Tampa Bay Downs over 7f last month. Having his first run for a new stable today, previously with M Ferraro. Hard to fancy.
NOVA BOY looks a most progressive type at this level and could continue to go well throughout the spring. Sir Orinoco and Victory Chimes are also taken seriously.
He has won four times from 6f to 1m. Finished 7l behind Team Tim when fifth of 7 at 3-1 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 7f last month. Having his first run for a new stable today, previously with Lacey Gaudet, and that could inspire improvement.
Has won eight races from 5f to 1m. Finished behind Mr. Brix when fifth of 8 at 12-5 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 6f last month. Place claims.
He has won four times at 1m. Won on his latest outing when 17-10fav at Laurel Park over 1m earlier this month, beating Totalitario by a head. Could follow up here.
Winner of six races from 6f to 1m. Beaten 10l behind Team Tim at 5-1 when last of 7 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 7f last month. Having his first run for a new stable today, previously with Phil Schoenthal, and his earlier form offers encouragement.
Successful twice at 1m. Beaten 1l by Saratoga Bob when second of 7 at 13-2 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 7f last month. Could go one better here.
He has won four times at 1m. A winner at 33-10 at Charles Town over 1m on his latest outing earlier this month, beating My Eminence by 7l. Has to be seen as a leading player.
He has won four times from 7f to 1m. Finished 7l behind Clubman when fourth of 10 at 7-1 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 1m last month. Holds each-way claims.
Winner of seven races from 5f to 1m. Won on his latest outing when 16-10fav at Laurel Park over 7f last month, beating Gold Man by 1l. Having his first run for a new stable today, previously with Damon Dilodovico, and has to be on the shortlist.
Has won 11 races from 5f to 1m. Finished 6l behind Clubman when sixth of 7 at 8-1 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 1m last month. More needed.
Successful twice at 1m. A winner at 9-2 at Laurel Park over 1m on his latest outing last month, beating Tattooed by a short head. Respected once again.
Successful at 7f and 1m. Finished 14l behind Dattt Melody when last of 6 at 17-4 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 1m in January last year. Having his first run for a new stable today, previously with William Komlo. Reserve.
TATOOED has won two of his last three, obliging favourite backers on both of those victorious spins, and he looks to do the same once again. When second two runs ago, Flying The Flag landed the spoils and he should be thereabouts here, while Narrow Escape and Team Trim are others to consider.
He has won three times from 5f to 6f. Finished 11l behind Missin The Big Dog when fifth of 6 at 5-1 on his latest outing at Philadelphia Park over 6f last month. Earlier form is respected.
Winner of five races from 7f to 1m. Beaten 12l behind Uncontested at 70-1 when 12th of 14 on his latest outing in the Grade 3 General George Stakes at Laurel Park over 7f last month. More needed now.
He has won four times from 6f to 1m 1f. Third of 8 behind Mr. Brix beaten at 9-1 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 6f last month. A winner before that and respected.
He has won three times from 1m to 1m 1f. Beaten 16l behind Papa Shot at 10-1 when last of 9 on his latest outing at Aqueduct over 1m last month. Needs to bounce back now.
Has won 11 races from 5f to 7f. Finished 2l behind Showalter when fourth of 9 at 11-2 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 6f last month. Having his first run for a new stable today, previously with Patricia Farro, and that could inspire improvement.
He has won three times from 5f to 6f. Beaten by Mr. Brix when second of 8 at 40-1 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 6f last month. Could go one better this time.
He has won four times from 5f to 1m. Finished 13l behind Long May You Run when last of 6 at 9-2 on his latest outing at Penn National over 6f in January. Holds each-way claims.
He has won four times from 6f to 1m. Third of 7 behind Clubman beaten 4l at 5-2fav on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 1m last month. Consistent and considered.
TWO CHARLEY'S struck the crossbar last time and could go one better to land this at the main expense of the consistent Bronx Sandman. Saratoga Bob and Cozy Lover are others with place possibilities.
Winner of five races from 5f to 6f. Finished 7l behind C. D. Jammin when sixth of 7 at 40-1 on his latest outing at Charles Town over 4f earlier this month. Others preferred this time.
Winner of six races from 5f to 1m. Finished 11l behind Watch My Dust when fifth of 7 at 13-5 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 1m earlier this month. Consistent performer to note.
Winner of seven races from 5f to 6f. Finished 12l behind Completed Pass when sixth of 8 at 14-1 on his latest outing at Charles Town over 4f last month. Hard to fancy.
Winner of five races from 5f to 6f. Beaten 18l behind Watch My Dust at 17-2 when last of 7 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 1m earlier this month. Has some solid form in the book.
He has won four times from 5f to 6f. Finished 6l behind Grecian Prince when fourth of 6 at 16-5 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 6f last month. Each-way possibilities.
Has won nine races from 6f to 7f. Finished 7l behind Jack O Liam when fifth of 11 at 13-1 on his latest outing at Philadelphia Park over 5f earlier this month. Hard to fancy.
Has won nine races from 5f to 6f. Finished behind Sir Rockport when sixth of 9 at 16-1 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 6f last month. Difficult to see him figuring.
Winner of five races from 5f to 6f, but last win was over two years ago. Finished 8l behind Nova Boy when sixth of 7 at 4-1 on his latest outing at Charles Town over 4f last month. Player.
Winner of six races from 5f to 7f. Won on his latest outing when 11-5jt-fav at Laurel Park over 7f last month, beating Cause He's Western. Leading claims.
He has won three times at 6f. Beaten 7l behind Autostrade at 55-1 when seventh of 9 on his latest outing at Laurel Park over 7f last month. A winner before that and considered.
DRIVE AT NITE has won his last three and looks the one to side with here. He can get the better of Young American and Midnight Cry, who both have some rock solid form in the book.


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This close-up image gives the impression of looking like bacterial cells and their internal structures which travel and split in the process of life. These features are fractal in nature: the same image is preserved through different scales, with the pattern repeating eternally.
The reality is, we are looking at one of Mars' polar regions; the South Polar residual cap to be precise, and, as with many things in Martian planetary science, there is a precise reasoning behind the name. With the coming and going of the seasons, this is an area on Mars where ice remains even after the peak of summer arrives.
The texture is very alien, bearing more of a resemblance to the universe of the very small, rather than the universe far, far away. But if this is a polar cap, then why does it not look like the polar caps on Earth? Indeed, there is no equivalent terrain observed here on Earth.
The so-called "Swiss cheese terrain," referencing the numerous holes of the region, is a product of seasonal exchange between the surface and the Martian atmosphere. With a predominantly carbon dioxide content at 98 percent, the colder temperatures condense the gas out of the atmosphere to produce dry ice. The prevalence of water is more concentrated in the north, leaving the South polar region more carbon dioxide rich, and it's this difference in composition that generates the unusual texture of the Swiss cheese terrain.
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The first chance of breakdown in communication usually happens during the mortgage application process. The mortgage process starts with a simple loan application which consists of your basic legal information from your name to social security number to date-of-birth. This basic information will allow a lender to pull a credit report on you which will give that lender a better idea of whether you have a high enough credit score (usually around 620) to get "qualified" for a mortgage. It can also ensure that there are no late payments or delinquencies on your account. However, a credit report is only one risk layer that lenders look at when evaluating whether you are fully "approved" for a mortgage.
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Tip: Don't let your lender tell you what you can afford. Instead, figure out what you are comfortable paying each month for a mortgage. Then you can back into your max purchase price by telling your lender what you want your monthly payment to be. Just because you can get a loan on a $200,000 home, does not mean that you will be comfortable making the required monthly payment after you calculate in taxes, homeowner's insurance, mortgage insurance, and possible HOA fees. Only YOU know what YOU are comfortable paying each month.
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#100: TheSpeakersCorner.co.uk - 100th Post!
Reaching our 100th post on TheSpeakersCorner.co.uk is a great achievement and another proud benchmark in our continued growth. The creation of these first hundred posts has been an exciting journey which has seen the initial idea for the website having grown into something larger and stronger than we'd ever envisaged.
With the quality and quantity of spoken-word in the UK (and indeed internationally) having risen with each passing month, it's been a privilege to both document and contribute to the growth of this exciting art form.
We've enjoyed interviews with Mark Grist, Luke Wright and The Ruby Kid and we're very proud to have built a portfolio of exclusive videos with many more talented artists (including John Berkavitch, Polarbear, Spoz, Hollie McNish, Inua Ellams, Tony Walsh (aka 'Longfella'), Stephen James Smith and Andy Craven-Griffiths amongst others!).
We've reported on dozens of events in Bristol (many at the superb cultural hub that is the Bristol Old Vic), covered the high-profile launch event of Kate Tempest's debut collection at Waterloo's Old Vic in London and joined the discussion regarding products, shows and videos via our website, on Twitter and more recently, on Facebook.
As the website has grown, so has the team of contributors involved behind the scenes. This has brought greater expertise and creativity to the melting pot, strengthening and also diversifying the content we create in our posts. We caught up with two of our most frequent contributors to hear what the 100th Post means for them.
Whilst the 100th post is indeed a time for reflection and celebration, it's also a time to look forward.
We believe we've built a strong foundation so far, but as we begin creating our next hundred posts we hope to be bigger, better and broader in scope. With the growth in popularity of spoken-word and the thrilling new creative territory being explored by the artists in the scene, we can't wait to see what lays await as we begin this next chapter in our journey!


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Death with Indignity
How Medicare and other federal subsidies rope the elderly into painful, futile, and costly end-of-life care.
by Shannon Brownlee February 22, 2015 January 8, 2022
How is it that the one place my father swore he never wanted to set foot in again was the very place he spent ten of the last twenty days of his life? At eighty-four, desiccated and frail, his life had narrowed to reading in short bouts between naps. He could no longer sculpt or carve jade, or had the will to paint. The high point of his days was now focused on going out to lunch with my brother or stepmother. He was deaf in one ear and so hard of hearing in the other that conversations could never proceed in a linear way, but constantly looped back upon themselves because he needed things to be repeated. To the end he retained his sense of humor.
The Conversation:
A Revolutionary Plan
for End-of-Life Care
by Angelo E. Volandes
Bloomsbury USA, 240 pp.
A series of medical emergencies, small and large, had landed him in the hospital multiple times over the previous decade. A side effect from a cholesterol drug led to kidney failure and three weeks in the hospital on dialysis. There was a small stroke, and then another. He was hospitalized for constipation that over-the-counter remedies could not resolve.
Many of these ailments meant a trip over the Coast Range to the big hospital in Portland, Oregon, where the doctors and nurses are caring, but the indignity and pain left Mick loathing every second he spent there. During his previous stay, he fumed that the nurses insisted on accompanying him to the toilet to prevent him from falling. "I can't even take a piss on my own!" He outsmarted them by perching on the edge of the bed and using a urine bottle, a trick that was probably more likely to lead to a fall than if he shuffled the ten steps to the bathroom on his own. Once he returned home, he told me, my brothers, my stepmother, and anybody else who would listen that he never, ever wanted to be in that hospital again.
In November 2013, however, he developed a volvulus, a loop in the gut that at first shows up as constipation and vomiting but if left untreated often leads to a section of the bowel dying and the patient developing a fatal infection. My brother took him up the coast to the community hospital, where the loop in his bowel was straightened out with a simple procedure. They could have kept him there overnight to see if the volvulus developed again, but the emergency room doctor said Mick might be having a small heart attack and he didn't "feel comfortable" keeping him there. He wanted him to go to the hated big hospital in Portland. Keep Mick away from Portland, I urged my brother on the phone from my home 3,000 miles away. No chance. Into an ambulance Mick was bundled for the bumpy ride across the mountains. So much for respecting the wishes of the dying.
Once in Portland, my father's new set of doctors began "working him up." Blood was drawn, vital signs taken. He was assigned a young hospitalist, a primary care doctor employed by the hospital to interact with the family and coordinate the various specialists involved in my father's case. Shortly after arriving, Mick suffered another volvulus, which was again resolved with a quick procedure. But now it was apparent that this was probably going to keep happening. The only treatment for recurrent volvuluses is abdominal surgery.
There was almost no possibility that Mick would emerge from major surgery in any shape to leave the hospital, much less resume his old, already much diminished life at home. On the phone again, I urged my brother to ask for a consult with the palliative care team. These doctors are trained to relieve symptoms and help patients and families understand their choices when a patient is seriously ill. Yet when my brother requested the consult, the hospitalist replied, "We aren't there yet." In other words, in the hospitalist's (erroneous) view, palliative care was strictly for the dying, and my father wasn't yet at death's door, just in the waiting room.
By the time I got to Portland, a cardiologist had succeeded in giving Mick a useless nuclear stress test to determine if his heart was fit enough to have a surgery that the rest of his body could not withstand. Once that was done, the surgeon confirmed that my father was not a candidate for surgery. Now, finally, the hospitalist was willing to call in palliative care, but not before he managed to hook my father up to something called "total parenteral nutrition," an IV line that delivered a milky glop that did nothing but prolong his dying.
Curing Medicare: One
Doctor's View of How Our
Health Care System Is Failing
the Elderly and How to Fix It
by Andy Lazris
CreateSpace Independent Publishing
Platform, 290 pp.
The one bright spot in my father's stay was his nurse, Eric, a former military medic who offered respect and humor. Mick wasn't talking a lot, whether from weakness or anger at being in the hospital or some combination, but he would answer Eric's questions.
One day, when my youngest brother was there, Mick sat up in the bed, grasped my brother by the wrist, and looked him in the eye. "Take me home," he said. "I'm ready to die. I just want to go home." My brother could see that our father was desperate to get out of there, and his eyes welled up. "Dry your tears," Mick said, "I'm done."
A little later, Mick began struggling with the bedclothes, trying to swing his legs over the edge of the bed. This set off an alarm in the nurses' station, sending Eric into the room. "Mick," he said. "What do you want?"
"A head start," replied my father.
Before Mick died, I knew on an intellectual level that we do death badly in America. Only 19 percent of Americans die at home, which is where the vast majority of us want to spend our last days. Most of us die in the hospital or nursing home. I recently helped produce a report on dying in California which found that in parts of Los Angeles, one in six patients with terminal cancer receive chemotherapy, are put on a ventilator, or receive some other form of "life-sustaining" (that is, death-prolonging) treatment in the last month of life, despite the fact that the American College of Oncology says it's bad medical practice. I knew that magical thinking by patients and families contributes to the insanity of futile care. A survey conducted about a decade ago found that 35 percent of Americans believe that any disease can be cured with enough money and the right doctors. In other words, death is optional. But knowing the statistics is one thing; it's quite another to understand, and feel, the suffering a medicalized death so often entails, on the part of both the dying and the surviving.
By now, many more Americans have begun to gain such an understanding, from reading Atul Gawande's moving and lyrical Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters at the End. Published last fall to great acclaim, including a glowing review in these pages (Phillip Longman, "The American Way of Dying," November/December 2014), Being Mortal movingly depicts many of the indignities visited upon the dying.
But two other books by physicians are needed to round out a clearer view of why we have made such a mess of death, and what we can do about it.
In The Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care, author Angelo Volandes's telling of seven deaths eloquently illuminates both how and why we fail the dying. One is the story of Taras Skripchenko, a Ukrainian immigrant with no family, dying of inoperable lung cancer. Volandes was a young resident, still in his training when Skripchenko was admitted to the hospital from a nursing home. The patient was in the final stages of multiple chronic conditions but was too delirious to direct his own care, and thus was automatically placed on "full code," meaning do everything to delay death.
Volandes was in a cramped elevator with his preceptor, a senior resident just a couple of years older, when Skripchenko, whose heart had stopped just a little while earlier, went into cardiac arrest. The younger doctor climbed up on the gurney to straddle their unconscious patient to do chest compressions, breaking ribs in the process. Volandes tried, unsuccessfully, four times to remove the fluid from the sac around Skripchenko's heart with a long needle inserted between the ribs. Finally, the patient was placed in the ICU, where he was hooked up to eight different IV lines and tubes, including a urinary catheter, a rectal trumpet tube, and a tube that snaked through a hole cut into his chest to drain the fluid around his heart. Skripchenko would linger another two weeks in the ICU, never regaining consciousness before he died.
After delivering their patient to the ICU, Volandes voiced feelings of misgivings to his preceptor. "Perhaps it was because I was a young doctor," he writes, "not yet numbed to the brutal experience of caring for hundreds of patients." The senior resident replied, "We did everything by the book. Look, this is the system. We have a job to do."
"End-of-life care is broken at every level," writes Volandes, and patients and their families are largely in the dark about what awaits them at the end of life at the hands of the health care system. This lesson was conveyed to him by another patient, an intelligent, highly educated woman who was dying of cancer, about whom Volandes told me in an interview two years ago. On call late at night when she was admitted, Volandes asked her if she had thought about how she wanted to be treated as she approached death: Did she want comfort care? CPR? Intubation? She told him she didn't know what she wanted—because she had no idea what he was talking about. In a moment of inspiration, he decided to show her. He wheeled her upstairs to the ICU, where a patient happened to be having a ventilator tube removed. Afterward, she looked at Volandes and said, "Whatever that was, I don't want it."
The doctor says, "Do you want us to do everything for your mother?" The family hears, "We can save your mother's life." Volandes began to perceive the gulf that lies between what doctors say and what patients and family members imagine. Over the next decade, he created a series of short videos intended to bridge the gap. Each video describes in simple terms and images what end-of-life care entails.
For example, one three-minute video shows a woman in the advanced stages of dementia, while the narrator describes the typical course of dementia, which inexorably robs sufferers not just of memory, but also the ability to speak, understand simple questions, and perform such tasks as eating and going to the toilet. Another shows a patient on a ventilator, or breathing machine, as the narrator slowly and simply explains that a tube will be inserted into the trachea, and the patient must often be sedated and cannot speak. Each video includes easy-to-understand statistics about, for example, how rarely frail, elderly people get off a ventilator and actually go home. (Full disclosure: The videos are narrated by Volandes's wife, Aretha Delight Davis, also a physician and a member of the board of my organization.)
The proof that seeing is understanding lies in a series of rigorously controlled studies Volandes has done with funding from the National Institutes of Health. In one study, published in 2010, two groups of terminal cancer patients either were shown a video or heard a verbal description of their end-of-life choices (the words in both the film and the description were the same). Of those who saw the video, more than 90 percent chose comfort care, versus 22 percent who heard only the words and opted for greater medical intervention.
Like The Conversation and Being Mortal, Andy Lazris's Curing Medicare: One Doctor's View of How Our Health Care System Is Failing the Elderly and How to Fix It weaves the stories of patients throughout a larger narrative. It is also a cri de coeur from a geriatric specialist who wants desperately to care for his elderly patients with compassion and kindness, but finds himself thwarted at every turn by an overzealous medical culture, irrational regulations, and perverse Medicare payments that too often make sending patients to the hospital the easiest option.
Curing Medicare is passionate, smart, and a little terrifying. Lazris tells of patients with minor conditions who, once in the hospital, become agitated and must be "restrained"—doctor code for tied to the bed by the wrists—to prevent them from pulling out tubes or getting out of bed. Their care is overseen by young hospitalists (like my father's doctor), few of whom, writes Lazris, "are cognizant of how to care for the elderly. They call in a squadron of specialists, tackling one problem at a time. The end result is aggressive care."
One of his patients, a Mrs. R, was sent by a cardiologist to the hospital for a rapid heartbeat—a minor condition that Lazris would have treated in his office and then ordered a home health nurse to monitor for a few days. The family decided to follow the cardiologist's recommendation, in part because Medicare would not pay for a home health nurse, one of the many ways Medicare reinforces bad care.
Once admitted, Mrs. R was found to have a little fluid on her lungs. She was prescribed an intravenous diuretic, but the dose was too high, causing her to become incontinent. She became dehydrated, and her blood chemistry was thrown off. She lost sleep and grew delirious. She was "restrained" and given medication to calm her, but she grew more agitated, and then unable to eat or drink, which caused her kidneys to fail. The nurses pushed liquids and food on her, which she inhaled, causing a raging pneumonia that necessitated a trip to the ICU. There she was put on a ventilator, lost blood, and developed an infection that caused intractable diarrhea. She lasted two weeks before dying.
Lying just below the surface of these three books is a set of political decisions with which the United States will be forced to grapple in coming decades. When a frail, elderly person gets sick, takes a fall, or has trouble breathing, it's as if they have stepped onto a slippery chute leading straight into the hospital, no matter how fervently they and their families might wish to avoid invasive treatment as they age and approach death. That's because hospital services are what our medical industrial complex has been built to offer, and delivering invasive end-of-life care is the job for which we have trained our doctors and nurses. Medicare policy, federal subsidies for hospitals, and taxpayer dollars for medical training all have helped create a technology-rich, hospital-centric system.
What we don't do is train clinicians to talk to patients, and what we don't have is the community-based infrastructure for delivering "high touch" care to people where they live. We don't provide the simple services, like regular meal delivery and aides to help with housecleaning and bathing, that can help an elderly person preserve some autonomy and dignity. We don't have enough primary care doctors practicing in the community—in part because our teaching hospitals make more money when they train more specialists—and the primary care doctors we do have are too busy to make house calls. Of course, there's always an assisted-living facility— for those who can afford the $3,000 to $6,000 a month. For the rest of us, once we can no longer perform the simple tasks of daily living, like cooking for ourselves, or toileting, we can either move in with the kids or go to the nursing home.
Policymakers should heed Lazris's list of the Medicare regulations that should be modified or scrapped. For instance, we should get rid of the rule that says a patient has to stay in the hospital for at least three days before being eligible for a skilled nursing facility. We should pay for home nursing for people who need a little temporary help but don't need to be hospitalized. Beyond that, as a nation we are going to have to acknowledge our overinvestment in hospital-based care and underinvestment in communities, and recognize that few mechanisms currently exist, including Obamacare, for reversing them.
It took my family ten days to pry Mick out the hospital and get him into home hospice. Mick took another ten days to die. We eased the dryness of his mouth with ice chips. He asked for and got a sip of beer in the afternoons when friends visited. "That tastes good!" he would say. He slept more and more each day, and responded more infrequently to questions or a squeeze of his hand. Right until the end his eyes remained the clear blue of glacier ice. When he died, my stepmother and I dressed him in his best Japanese kimono, and then we sat with family in the darkening living room, as the surf boomed on the shore, drinking champagne and alternately weeping and laughing as we retold every funny story we could remember from the life of a great artist and complicated man. Dying is hard. The epidemic of futile, indifferent, often harmful medical intervention that has infected American health care makes it even harder.
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Shannon Brownlee is a lecturer at George Washington University School of Public Health and Special Advisor to the President of the Lown Institute.
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"Most Requested" or Most White?
K-12 Enrollment Race & Racism
April 8, 2016 by alimcollins
School tour season is in the air and I've been helping prospective families tour my daughters' school. All these tours has got me thinking about the enrollment process… But before I get going, Friday, January 12, 2018 is the last day to register for SFUSD schools. (Unless your child is applying to Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, or Lowell High School, in which case your deadlines are Wednesday, December 13 and 15th, respectively.
Musings on SFUSD's Assignment System
From playgrounds and playgroups to parent listserves, if you're a parent of a child ages 3-5 years old, you are familiar with one of San Francisco's favorite past-times– bashing SFUSD's School Assignment System.
When applying to SFUSD schools, parents can chose from any of the roughly 70 schools in our district and with this choice comes stress. From researching all the options: start times, language programs, school demographics, and enrichment programs, the process can be more than a little overwhelming. And if you've made the investment to visit all the potential elementary schools on your list, school tours can feel like a part-time job. AND if you wait till the last minute to turn in your paperwork, standing in line at the Enrollment Placement Center (EPC) is no barrel of laughs, maybe a barrel of monkeys if you have a screaming toddler and wiggly Pre-K child in tow.
For these and other reasons the school enrollment process is regularly labeled as stressful, confusing, and even "byzantine". (Yes, this SAT word has actually been used many times, in print, to describe our enrollment system… though I think it's a tad melodramatic, no?)
If you aren't a parent, you may think I'm exaggerating. As proof, I offer an example straight out of the SF Chronicle which typifies the narrative around the SFUSD School Assignment System:
"Certainly, the numbers are incontestable. Nearly one-third of white, school-age students in San Francisco have opted out and are attending private school. Families routinely cite the byzantine school assignment system as a reason to leave the city and live somewhere where choosing a kindergarten isn't a full-time job."
What? White families are fleeing the public education system to go to private schools because of the sign-up process? Dear God…. NOOOOOOOOO!
Some context: The above quote comes from SF Chronicle writer C.W. Nevius, a long-time columnist notorious for his rants against tents for the homeless, rights for the mentally ill, and public nudity. (Duuude! What would San Francisco be without the random sighting of a nude guy wearing only huaraches and a fedora?)
Let's look at the numbers
All kidding aside, Mr. Neivus' claims are widely parroted by prospective parents throughout the city. And if you are of childbearing age and attend open-houses, cocktail parties or heck, you breathe, you can attest to the fact that these narratives dominate discussions about SF's public schools.
So let's examine, shall we?
First off, the fact that Neivus centers his perspective around the needs of White families only is very interesting. Most folks agree, all our kids, including white ones, do better in ethnically and culturally diverse schools. Nonetheless, using "whiteness" as a measure of school desirability is undoubtedly troubling.
Now, let's get to the meat of the matter. Neivus says "the numbers" don't lie. Maybe not, but they don't exactly prove Mr. Nevius' assertions. According to a recent SFUSD enrollment report, of all the families applying to kindergarten during the 2015-2016 school year, 87% of them were offered enrollment at one of the schools on their list, while 60% received their first choice!
: / That doesn't seem too bad, does it? I guess it depends on where you land in this whole lottery thing, right? You're either happy or you're not. If you're one of the 13% that didn't get into one of the schools on your list, it shouldn't matter that 87% of all the other families got what they wanted, correct? In fact, hearing all your friends talk about how happy they are they got the "perfect" school might make you feel worse, or does it?
Due to this horrible (?) success rate, Neivus states, one third of all white families opt out of the public system altogether. And, some of them are even forced to apply to private schools (which are apparently much easier to get into) or, dare I say… move to the suburbs!
But seriously, let's look at the facts.
Contrary to Neivus' claims, Data from the San Francisco Department of Public Health, shows despite changes in the SFUSD enrollment system in 2011, enrollment for White students in SF has remained fairly static for the last 40+ years. In fact, based on the chart below, while the number of white students has declined in our city, the proportion of white public schools students in relation to the overall white student population has actually gone up. Specifically, in 1980, one third of white children attended SF public schools, whereas in 1990 this ratio grew to just under a half.
"Was white enrollment always so low?" you might ask. "What was enrollment like before 1980?" Looking at other data, you can see white enrollment fell dramatically in the 1970's and has remained fairly stable ever since.

So, if recent tweaks to our school assignment didn't cause these drastic changes, what did? What happened in the 1970's to cause the great exodus of White students from our public schools?
Can you say bussing?
In 1971, after an African-American family filed a lawsuit against San Francisco Unified's racially segregated system, the district engaged in a court-ordered desegregation plan based on 'bussing' African American, Latino and Asian students into formerly white schools and vice-versa. When the plan was first implemented, a full 41% of the White families boycotted. Two years later, SFUSD had lost a third of its White public school students.
In the video below, three San Francisco principals share their thoughts on White Flight and racially isolated schools.
[Read more here.]
Listening to former San Francisco principal Mark Sanchez (in the video), you may be surprised to hear that most Cleveland families din't actively engage in the "choice" process of going on school tours, researching lottery odds, or attending school enrollment fairs. They just signed up for their neighborhood school and were happy.
This was my experience as well. Though I went to more than enough school tours, I ultimately chose schools that were under the radar. I got my first choice school, and just like that, my girls were enrolled in kindergarten.
So that leads me back to the families who didn't get ANY of their choices. With roughly 70 schools to choose from, it makes me wonder. Which schools were the "Unlucky 13%" choosing?
Looking at this enrollment report, the odds do seem dauanting… that is, only if you are interested in the most requested schools. Based on SFUSD enrollment reports for the current 2015-2016 school year, you can see that a child hoping for a coveted spot at Clarendon ES, would be competing with 97 other students! Comparatively, Harvard has an acceptance rate of 1 to every 17 applicants, not 1 in 97.
So how does this relate to White Flight? Well according to a report from Priceonomics, most of San Francisco's White students are in a small percentage of elementary schools. Here's what the report concluded:
Half of San Francisco's elementary schools have a student population that is 13% white or less. A few elementary schools are over 50% white, while a quarter of elementary schools are under 3.3%.
Pull out your reading glasses. Here's how it breaks down by school. (Legend: White Students, Latino Students, Black Students, Asian Students, and Decline to State.)
Looking over the list of "whitest" schools, you will see many of the same names on the "most requested schools" list. If you separated out affluent Asian-American students vs. their lower-income newcomer peers, it looks even more similar to the "most requested" list. For example, #20 Sunset Elementary (a "most requested" school) had roughly 46% Asian and 27% White students in the 2013-2014 school year. Nonetheless, only 33% of students were low-income, and only 23% were English Language learners.
So… let's go BACK to the SFUSD's original enrollment numbers again, shall we? Based on this more recent chart below, showing the percentage of White students in our public schools, roughly 28% of San Francisco's population is White, yet only 13% go to public schools.
Based on my experience and the experience of many school principals like, Mark Sanchez, at racially isolated schools, many Black, Brown and new-immigrant Asian families do not even participate in the "choice" process and are happy with their enrollment experience. So now, I'm beginning to wonder…
Is the narrative about a broken lottery and byzantine enrollment system the REAL reason for White Flight (and many of our segregated schools)? Or is this a problem of too many white (and other affluent) families requesting the same list of schools?
Want to know more about school choice and it's impact on school segregation? Read these great articles below:
San Francisco Schools' Changing Demographics
As Parents Get More Choice, S.F. Schools Resegregate
How Racially Diverse Schools and Classrooms Can Benefit All Students
3 Ways White Kids Benefit Most From Racially Diverse Schools
Where Are All the White People in San Francisco Public Schools?
Why White Parents Won't Choose Black Schools
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14 thoughts on ""Most Requested" or Most White?"
empowertogetherconsulting says:
Here's what I noticed, looking at this data. The crash in White public school enrollment starter in 1971 with integration, as you point out. And it's been an unfailing 50% of White families who avoid public schools ever sense. Regardless of the particular enrollment system, regardless of if there was gifted or not, and regardless of how many enrollment workshops touting public schools were given. PPSSF was founded in 1999, with a race neutral message. In 1999 there were 7,400 white families in public schools. There was a slight drop & then at the end of this chart, a few years ago, 7,400 families. Still 50% of White families opting out. So it makes me wonder if all the hard work we've all been putting in to changing this dynamic are pretty wasted unless we face race head on. Seems worth a try & like work we White folks need to take on.
Thank you, Ali, for highlighting the racism underpinning "good" vs. "bad" school assessments. I think racism is part of the bigger problem of rationing K-12 public education. Vying for privilege or preference is the expected, rational outcome when we accept that not everyone is going to get a good education and that high quality education is something individuals secure if they are monied, savvy, especially talented, or win the lottery. It's no accident that we talk about lottery winners. We know there are losers. That's part of the design we've accepted. Given that, it's no surprise that structural Racism stacks the deck against Black and Brown students.
The way I see it, families fall into two main camps – public or private. Public school families are going to send their kids to public schools no matter what. Private school families are shopping among both private schools and public schools. I think (little-r, personal) racism is correlated with being a private school shopper. Private school shoppers aren't always racists, but most racists are either private school shoppers or wish they could afford to be. (And, yeah, everyone is a little bit racist, but racism and private schools share some foundational elements like exclusion and privilege.) Targeting middle class, white or established Asian families as the key public school outreach audience to be won over from private schools is a flawed strategy. Prioritizing private school families' needs first reinforces a model that is killing public education. The idea that public schools need to be attractive in the same ways as private schools quickly slips into idea that public schools should be more like private schools because private schools are somehow inherently better than public schools. Private schools can never serve the functions of public education, and don't attempt to. Similarly, public education can never compete with private schools in terms of exclusivity. It's the old "business is better than government" view that ignores the value of public goods, costs of externalities, and pretends there are no missing markets. In economic terms, private school families have more elastic demand for public education. It's classic price discrimination. SFUSD gives discounts to private school shoppers in the form of special programs or disparate resources at elementary sites. The shoppers know this, and have every reason to extract whatever concessions they can from the district. That is exactly what is being said when a parent says, "I believe in public schools but will have to go private if X, Y, or Z" or when a new dire flight to private schools is warned. The problem is that by focusing attention on attracting private school families, SFUSD is using the wrong objective function. The district shouldn't care about increasing student head count at any cost. The district should care about making high quality education available to everyone.
On a related note, I'd love to hear ideas of how can we limit the negative side-effects of private school shoppers on SFUSD student assignment system (SAS)? Private school families add noise, inefficiency, and stress to the SAS process. Consider the person who gets their top pick trophy school but only applied to SFUSD as a back up and doesn't enroll after the acceptance letter comes from a trophy private school (true story). That seat gets assigned in subsequent rounds or waiting lists. Many public school parents might not want to spend more energy and stress on another lottery. Is there a functional way to create a preference for public school families? Could there be a public school tie-breaker? Private colleges cooperate for early action admissions. Private elementary schools cooperate with each other by timing their admissions letters. Is there a way for public schools to coordinate with private schools so that there's less impact on SAS?
KFox says:
Even though my kids and I are white, I intentionally chose schools with the most Asian-American students. Why? Because their culture – similar to Filipino and Jewish culture – tends to value education, hard-work, and respect for teachers. This is the thing that no one wants to directly address: different cultures place more or less value on schooling and getting an education. Even the best-behaved and motivated kid will not get a decent education if kids in the class are so disruptive that the teacher spends more time getting the class to settle down than actually teaching.
alimcollins says:
I appreciate your response because it is a great opportunity to discuss a big issue in San Francisco public schools: the model minority myth.
We need to stop assigning cultural superiority to Asian American cultural groups. Not only because these harmful stereotypes are untrue, but also because they reinforce white supremacy which keeps anti-Black racism firmly in place, while also is hurting Asian American peoples (which are a very diverse group.)
Here's a great explanation:
"While these sorts of comments might seem like compliments or affirmations, they are actually overly simplistic generalizations that reveal the devious and exploitative nature of race and racism in the United States.
And they all fall under the model minority myth – a stereotype that generalizes Asian Americans by depicting them as the perfect example of an if-they-can-do-it-so-can-you success story.
This myth is also a political strategy that highlights the success of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Indian immigrants with a specific professional and educational background. It is a historical and presently used tool designed to protect institutionalized white supremacy and validate anti-black racism.
For a long time, Asian American activists have worked to debunk the model minority myth by discussing its negative consequences and impacts."
Read more here: http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/04/dismantle-model-minority-myth/
My girls go to a mostly Asian American school, and being in the minority (biracial White/Black) has been a great experience for me and my girls because we've gotten the opportunity to learn a lot about the beauty and history of Chinese culture. My girls and I have also gained awareness of and empathy for the challenges new immigrant, English Learner and low-income students and families face. We are better for this experience.
Nonetheless, Chinese American students are inherently no more hard-working than other racial or cultural groups. And Chinese parents don't "care about education" than the Black, Latino, or White patents I speak with.
I encourage you to learn more about the model minority myth and to challenge your preconceptions and biases about Black and Latino families. Not only will you open yourself up to learning more about cultural and historical contributions of these families and cultures, you will be modeling anti-racist behavior for your kids.
kathy emery says:
Fascinating analysis. you also might be interested in Chapter 7 of my dissertation. http://educationanddemocracy.org/Emery/Emery_chapter7.pdf and my analysis of SFUSD back in 2004 http://educationanddemocracy.org/SF/StateOFSFUSD.html
Hmmmm…. interesting. Thanks for sharing. I'll definitely check it out!
Shellie says:
Does anyone know a site, book, thesis, article, whatever, – where we can compare the percentages of where families with school-age children live, broken down by the same 5 ethnicity categories above, with the school distributions? I am interested in the school proximity to home issue for non-special program schools.
This would be really interested to see. I don't know of any report, but maybe we could bring this up as a request of study during the district school assignment re-design process meetings
Brisa says:
My kid is going to K in August. My main criteria is location – meaning close to home. However 5/7 of the schools that are closest to me are "the most coveted" schools, including Clarendon and West Portal. One of the schools in these 7 is 10-minute walk, but I am shaking in my boots about getting it. It also happens to be one of the most white schools in the city – that's not my fault (and FYI: I'm not white). Frankly, I am not worried about any school in the city being "too white" – get a grip, we live in a very diverse city! I am not interested in driving across town for an enrichment program because I am a working parent who needs some convenience in the daily commute with 2 kids. I feel pretty annoyed at being told that I am an elitist when all I want is something that doesn't involve 2 hours of driving on a daily basis.
You may not be white, but I'd probably be right if I assumed you weren't Black or English Learner latino student. I've been working in this district for roughly 20 years and can tell you horror stories about some of the ways "good" school treat Black/latino kids. I live in Russian Hill. What has shocked me most about watching neighboring parents choose schools is how many actually choose by race. I can't tell you how many parents I've heard explain that "living in a diverse city" gets them off the hook when it comes to putting their children in schools where they will actually have meaningful friendships with children from different economic and linguistic backgrounds. My family is a mixed race family, so we care about integration and lifting up and learning about marginalized cultures. What message does it send children when so many parents say they "care about integration" but choose segregated schools?
cuisinesaba says:
Well, you are quite right. My main criteria are: distance, test scores, and quality of education. Integration and diversity are good, but they are not ahead of daily logistics for my family and having my child be prepared for the future. I am not sure SFUSD is the right place for me as I see that most folks more concerned with diversity than with with reading, writing, and math. Wish I could afford private school; I wouldn't bat an eyelash.
It's interesting you care about test scores when private schools don't participate in standardized testing. That tells me test scores are code for affluence and whiteness. I have friends at local private schools and have also attended the "good" public schools. All schools have good/bad teachers and all schools have discipline issues. Tests don't tell us anything about overall instruction. (BTW, we picked a local school that's predominantly low-income, and my girls are reading well beyond their grade level.) What they DO tell us is how affluent the demographics of the school. White and affluent families don't need test scores for private schools because they already have barriers to keep low-income, students needing special education services, English Learner and children of color out (schools often call these students a "bad fit"). What I'm finding is you experience is not unique. Lots of white and affluent folks SAY they care about diversity and integration, but feel more comfortable with segregation. They have been self-segregating from our school system since the 1970's and bussing started, and this pattern has remained the same. The only difference between now and then is we have test scores to justify it.
David Johnson says:
I definitely appreciate the very thorough analysis and data, this is helpful. For my part, I am white. Born that way, no choice in the matter. In any case, according to the stats, I have a 50% chance of getting my daughter into my neighborhood school (Glen Park). For me, like Brisa, location is critical. We are two working parents and have no option to drive our daughter across town in stop and go traffic every day. If the school system had a bus system, I might support a "choice" system, but without busing, I don't see how it's fair to force 50% of white families to travel to other neighborhoods for their schooling. I know, it's not fair to be born a minority either. But still, you should be able to walk to your school. This gets you even more involved in the place and community. Plus it's so obviously convenient and practical. You will be disappointed to hear that I will send my daughter to private school if I don't get Glen Park. For me, this would be the obvious choice so we can handle work, commuting, and child pickups. I am not sure what is the better way to encourage diversity and practicality, but it doesn't seem like the current system is equitable.
I appreciate your candor and for sharing your experience. Every family has to make the best choice for their child, and in some cases, that may not be a public school. My daughters were lucky to attend a neighborhood school for both elementary and middle school (Jean Parker ES, and Francisco ES respectively). While we each have to make our own best decision for our family, it's also important to interrogate the internal beliefs and societal pressures that might guide those choices. My intention is to help us all be more reflective. At the same time, I also want to elevate the voices of many families who are also absent from these types of conversations. Families living in the Bayview have consistently said they would favor neighborhood schools if they felt those schools had high quality programming. African American Advisory Council parents have repeatedly said they support a transition to a neighborhood system AFTER the district is able to ensure all schools offer the same high quality educational opportunities as some of the high choice schools. Thanks again for sharing your perspectives!
We have to do what's right—when it's right!


Mrs. Christiana Wilhelmina Henrietta Zachow (born Strei) was born in Regenwalde, Pommern, Germany, on July 4, 1831, and died at her home in this village (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) on Saturday, March 1, 1919, aged 87 years, 7 months and 24 days. In 1892 she arrived in this country with her husband, Carl Zachow, who died eleven years ago. For four eyars after their arrival in this country they resided at Hayton, Calumet Co., Wis., and then they moved to the town of Worden, Clark County. After Mr. Zachow's death deceased made her home in this village. She enjoyed excellent health up to within a few days of her death. She ran the journey of her life in nearly eighty-eight years. It is a path marked with deeds of kindness and cheer to which all her neighbors and friends can testify. She leaves to mourn one daughter, Mrs. L. Hilbo, and nine grandchildren. The funeral took place on Tuesday afternoon, services being held at the home and at the M. E. Church, Rev. Laabs officiating, interment following in the cemetery in the town of Worden beside the remains of her husband.


Project Care Track saves lives because we are able to find clients with more accuracy and in a shorter amount of time. With Project Care Track, the missing are typically found in about an hour. The average search time for someone without a bracelet or tracker can be up 12 hours, increasing the likelihood of a bad outcome. Your support ensures that this program, which is so important to Snohomish County residents affected by Alzheimer's, autism or other cognitive disabilities, remains a viable resource for the communities we serve.
The Alzheimer's Association of western Washington endorses and supports Project Care Track. We recognize that this new technology will provide an important safety net for those affected by Alzheimer's disease or related dementias in our community.
Sponsored by the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office through Snohomish County Volunteer Search and Rescue.
The tendency to wander is prevalent among people that are suffering from Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. People with Downs syndrome, Autism and traumatic brain injury also exhibit this tendency.
A lost person with Alzheimer's or a related illness or injury represents a critical medical emergency. It is estimated that 59% of people with these illnesses will wander and become lost.
An elderly patient left outside for more than 24 hours will have their survival rate cut in half. Efforts to intervene and locate them to prevent a tragedy are often frustrated by the patient's inability or unwillingness to communicate with rescuers. Traditional search methods rely on the ability of the lost person to respond to the calls of the searchers. Project Care Track is designed to give an "electronic" voice to those who can't communicate. It becomes the life link to the patient and allows the search to end quickly and successful in many cases. It is the safety net that can give a caregiver great peace of mind.
Each client wears a one ounce electronic bracelet that emits a unique radio signal around the clock, 24 hours a day. When needed, a call to 911 brings a unique highly trained and experienced team that can track the radio signal and who has special training in working with patients who are struggling with these illnesses and conditions.
We will be glad to answer your questions related to enrollment and fees.
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Art Industry News: Sotheby's Will Astound and Amaze With a Sale of Magician Ricky Jay's Spellbinding Collection + Other Stories
Plus, a looming U.K. lockdown could threaten Frieze London, and pioneering painter Yolanda López has died at 78.
Artnet News, September 8, 2021
Master magician Ricky Jay poses for a portrait circa 1994 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty Images)
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here's what you need to know on this Wednesday, September 8.
NEED-TO-READ
October "Firebreak" Lockdown Threatens Frieze London – A member of the U.K. government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies says that authorities are developing a contingency plan for a "firebreak" lockdown in October should coronavirus hospitalizations continue to rise at the current rate. This could pose major problems for Frieze London and other satellite fairs. Ministers denied the report, adding that such restrictions would only be used "as a last resort to prevent unsustainable pressure on the NHS." (Independent)
Artist Yolanda López Has Died at 78 – The pioneering painter died at home on September 3 from complications from liver cancer. Raised in San Diego by Mexican immigrants, López depicted Mexican Americans or Latinos in her works at a time when they were largely invisible to the mainstream public. Her first solo museum exhibition opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, in October. (Washington Post)
Sotheby's to Auction Ricky Jay's Magic Collection – The late magician Ricky Jay was described in the New Yorker as "perhaps the most gifted sleight of hand artist alive." It turns out he was also a dedicated collector, assembling a trove of around 1,000 objects related to the history of magic that will hit the block at Sotheby's next month. Highlights include the first edition of Reginald Scot's treatise on witchcraft, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584) (estimate: $50,000–$70,000), and a collection of Harry Houdini posters. (Press release)
U.K. Police Bill Could Threaten Protest Art – A new bill called the Police, Crime, Sentencing, and Courts Bill that is currently under consideration in the U.K.'s House of Lords would restrict the public's right to protest. Given the bill's broad strokes, one expert says the restrictions could even be applied to "performance art as a form of protest." (The Art Newspaper)
Perrotin to Co-Rep Tavares Strachan – The gallery will present a new work by the Bahamian artist, Nobody Moves, at Art Basel this month. Perrotin will present a solo exhibition of Strachan's work in Paris in October 2022 alongside an exhibition at Paris's Marian Goodman Gallery, which continues to represent him. (Press release)
LJ Roberts Joins Hales – The American artist, who lives and works in Brooklyn and who is known for creating intricate textile installations and embroideries, is now represented by the London and New York gallery. Roberts's first solo show in New York opens on September 10 at Pioneer Works. (Press release)
Dallas Art Fair to Donate $50,000 to Planned Parenthood – The art fair will donate $50,000 to Planned Parenthood in Texas following the state's near-total ban on abortions. The decision comes after one exhibitor, Mother Gallery, withdrew its participation in the fair due to the state's new law, and encouraged others to boycott Texas. (ARTnews)
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery Names Sales Director – Renee Coppola, who worked at Tanya Bonakdar's New York space between 2010 and 2015, is returning to help steer its Los Angeles gallery. She previously served as director of sales for Gemini G.E.L. and as deputy director of the Las Vegas Art Museum. (Press release)
FOR ART'S SAKE
Paris Bookshop Collects Suitcases for Afghan Creatives – Paris's beloved bookstore Shakespeare & Company is asking people to donate suitcases for artists, playwrights, and journalists who have recently arrived in France from Afghanistan. Read the comments for a little jolt of appreciation of humanity. (Instagram)
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Wong Kar Wai Is Auctioning Off Never-Before-Seen Footage of 'In the Mood for Love' as an NFT at Sotheby's Hong Kong
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Retirement has become a reality for a Melbourne man in his sixties after he scooped the entire $15 Million Oz Lotto jackpot on Tuesday the 29th of September. The lucky winner, who apologised for being "totally gobsmacked" when contacted by lottery officials, said that he intended to take stock of his affairs first but was looking forward to his "new-found free time". Once the news of his new multi-millionaire status had sunk in, that is!
The $15 Million Oz Lotto winner, who chose to remain anonymous, said he was in the habit of having a "dabble" in lotto in his down time from work, but didn't expect to land a Division 1 prize with his 9-game Quickpick. "This certainly was a very lucky trip to the newsagency!" he said. The winning ticket was purchased from a local newsagency in Camberwell.
When asked what he planned to do with the multi-million dollar windfall, the man said he'd "love to take a leisurely trip to Europe or South Africa". But he also intends to help others, including paying off his children's HECS debts and donating to charity. He speculated that with so much free time on his hands, he would be able to do some volunteer work to give back to the community.
A syndicate of Oz Lotteries members was also celebrating after winning over $83,000 in last Tuesday's draw. The group played a System 11 ticket and won numerous prizes in Divisions 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. They were only 1 number off matching all 7 winning numbers needed to win Division 1 in Oz Lotto. The winning numbers in Oz Lotto draw 1128 were 34, 26, 1, 10, 12, 3 and 42, plus supplementary numbers 4 and 20.


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Announcing Footwork's investment in the SaaS platform powering mobile commerce for brands and retailers.
Nikhil Basu Trivedi
At Footwork, we look for companies that have signs of product-market fit, in thesis areas we've studied to develop a point of view. We also look for founders and founding teams that demonstrate the hunger and humility required to win in competitive markets.
When we were first introduced to Tejas Konduru, co-founder and CEO at Via, we had started to map the landscape of application and infrastructure software in the eCommerce vertical. This is, of course, a market that has already produced several large venture-backed winners, such as Shopify, the business-in-a-box platform that enables anyone to start, manage, and grow an online store, which is a public company worth over $150 billion.
There's a simple reason for why: eCommerce has become a more exciting opportunity every year for the past several decades, culminating in a banner 16 months due to the pandemic. Brands and retailers, small and large, are gaining more customers online, and consumers are more open to purchasing products of all sorts from any online merchant than ever before. Yet, eCommerce still remains under 20% of total retail sales in the U.S., so the opportunity ahead feels vast.
We believe the opportunity is particularly exciting in mobile commerce, which now accounts for 2/3 of all eCommerce. Merchants want better tools to sell on mobile, through SMS, messaging platforms and their own mobile apps, and consumers are demanding a better buying experience on their phones. That's where Via comes in — a full suite of software to enable mobile commerce for online merchants.
As we learned about the Via product and go-to-market approach, we became more and more convinced that marketing SaaS in eCommerce is a many-winner market, and that mobile commerce is its future. Via has grown from 0 to over 190 customers in a year, with 400% year-over-year growth in annual recurring revenue (ARR). The product has generated over $50 million in sales for its customers, and represents nearly 50% of revenue for its top customers. The company has burned less than $1 million in capital to achieve these milestones, and has never even done a press release.
None of the above happens without serious customer love, product-market fit, and a driven, hardworking team. Spending time with Tejas, and his co-founder Greg Woodfield, we got more and more excited about Via's customer-obsessed company DNA, and the vision for what the business can become.
Via's co-founders Greg Woodfield (left) and Tejas Konduru (right).
We're delighted to announce today that Via is coming out of stealth with a $15 million Series A led by Footwork, alongside our friends at Peterson Ventures, which led the company's Seed, Soma Capital, Worklife Ventures, and an all-star group of eCommerce and SaaS founders, CEOs and executives, including Ryan Smith at Qualtrics, Josh James at Domo, Jeff Kearl at Stance, Todd Pedersen at Vivint, Curt Doman at Progressive Leasing, Jack Altman at Lattice, John Kim at Sendbird, and Anand Chandrasekaran at Five9. Footwork co-founder Mike Smith joined Via's board alongside Ilana Stern at Peterson (check out her blog post here!) and Via's co-founders Greg and Tejas. More on Via's story, including an interview with Tejas, in this piece by Connie Loizos at TechCrunch.
We couldn't be more excited to work with the Via team, based across Utah and the San Francisco Bay Area, to help eCommerce merchants across the country be more successful in selling on mobile. If this mission appeals to you, come join us! We're hiring across customer success, engineering, finance, legal, product, and sales.
© 2023 Nikhil Basu Trivedi


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Q: How do I remove my item from the cart in WooCommerce? I'm generating my cart as such:
if( !is_wp_error( $this->getCartContentsCount() ) ) {
    $cart_items = WC()->cart->get_cart();
    foreach( $cart_items as $item ) { ?>

                <?php echo $item['data']->get_image(); ?>

<?php echo $item['data']->get_name(); ?>

                <?php echo $item['quantity'] . 'x' ?>
                <?php echo $item['data']->get_price_html(); ?>

            <?php
                echo apply_filters( 'woocommerce_cart_item_remove_link', sprintf(
                    'X',
                    esc_url( wc_get_cart_remove_url( $item ) ),
                    __( 'Remove this item', 'woocommerce' ),
                    esc_attr( $item['product_id'] ),
                    esc_attr( $item['data']->get_sku() )
                ), $item );
            ?>

    <?php }
}

As you can see, I'm using the basic Woocommerce implementation of the "remove item" mechanism as per cart.php, but unfortunately, it doesn't work.
This is what Woo generates:
X

I have checked every attribute and it is indeed valid!
Other symptoms:

*

*The link, if accessed directly, takes me to the cart itself (I
believe it is due to the nonce).

*Dumping the cart before and after the click still shows the same
    cart with just one item in it, so the mechanism to delete doesn't
    work as the cart doesn't change its state.
How come it doesn't work?

A: I actually went ahead and copied the cart.php implementation and customized it to my needs:
ob_start();

if( !is_wp_error( $this->getCartContentsCount() ) ) { //This checks if there are any items in the cart.
    foreach( WC()->cart->get_cart() as $cart_item_key => $cart_item ) {

        $_product = apply_filters(
            'woocommerce_cart_item_product',
            $cart_item['data'], $cart_item, $cart_item_key
        );

        $product_id = apply_filters(
            'woocommerce_cart_item_product_id',
            $cart_item['product_id'], $cart_item, $cart_item_key
        );

        if ( $_product && $_product->exists() && $cart_item['quantity'] > 0 && apply_filters( 'woocommerce_cart_item_visible', true, $cart_item, $cart_item_key ) ) {
            $product_permalink = apply_filters(
                'woocommerce_cart_item_permalink',
                $_product->is_visible() ? $_product->get_permalink( $cart_item ) : '', $cart_item, $cart_item_key
            ); ?>

            <div class="cart-item <?php echo esc_attr( apply_filters( 'woocommerce_cart_item_class', 'cart_item', $cart_item, $cart_item_key ) ); ?>">

                    <?php
                        $thumbnail = apply_filters(
                            'woocommerce_cart_item_thumbnail',
                            $_product->get_image(), $cart_item, $cart_item_key
                        );
                        if ( !$product_permalink ) {
                            echo wp_kses_post( $thumbnail );
                        } else {
                            printf( '%s', esc_url( $product_permalink ), wp_kses_post( $thumbnail ) );
                        }
                    ?>

                    <?php
                        if ( ! $product_permalink ) {
                            echo wp_kses_post( apply_filters(
                                'woocommerce_cart_item_name',
                                $_product->get_name(), $cart_item, $cart_item_key ) . ' '
                            );
                        } else {
                            echo wp_kses_post( apply_filters(
                                'woocommerce_cart_item_name',
                                sprintf(
                                    '%s',
                                    esc_url( $product_permalink ), $_product->get_name()
                                ), $cart_item, $cart_item_key
                                )
                            );
                        }
                        // Meta data.
                        echo wc_get_formatted_cart_item_data( $cart_item ); // PHPCS: XSS ok.
                        // Backorder notification.
                        if ( $_product->backorders_require_notification() && $_product->is_on_backorder( $cart_item['quantity'] ) ) {
                            echo wp_kses_post( apply_filters(
                                'woocommerce_cart_item_backorder_notification',
                                '
' . esc_html__( 'Available on backorder', 'woocommerce' ) . '
'
                                )
                            );
                        }
                    ?>

                        <?php
                            $product_quantity = sprintf(
                                '%s<input type="hidden" name="cart[%s][qty]" value="%s" />',
                                $cart_item['quantity'], $cart_item_key, $cart_item['quantity']
                            );
                            echo apply_filters(
                                'woocommerce_cart_item_quantity',
                                $product_quantity, $cart_item_key, $cart_item
                            ); // PHPCS: XSS ok.
                        ?>

                        <?php
                            echo apply_filters(
                                'woocommerce_cart_item_price',
                                WC()->cart->get_product_price( $_product ), $cart_item, $cart_item_key ); // PHPCS: XSS ok.
                        ?>

                        <?php
                            echo apply_filters( 'woocommerce_cart_item_remove_link', sprintf(
                                '×',
                                esc_url( wc_get_cart_remove_url( $cart_item_key ) ),
                                __( 'Remove this item', 'woocommerce' ),
                                esc_attr( $product_id ),
                                esc_attr( $_product->get_sku() )
                            ), $cart_item_key );
                        ?>

        <?php
        }
    }
}

$markup_output = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

echo $markup_output;

A: Simple use this WC_Cart::remove_cart_item( $cart_item_key );

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F1 champion Lewis Hamilton receives knighthood
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On December 15, 2021, seven times Formula One (F1) champion Lewis Hamilton has received "knighthood" for services to motorsport.
He received knighthood, days after he lost at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. He lost out to Red Bull driver Max Verstappen on December 12, 2021.
Lewis Hamilton holds the record of most race wins with 103.
He is tied with Michael Schumacher from Germany, on seven drivers' championships.
Hamilton is the fourth F1 driver to be knighted.
Before him, late Australian Jack Brabham, Stirling Moss and triple champion Jackie Stewart have been knighted.
However, Lewis Hamilton is the only one to have received this award while still racing.
Sportsmen who received Knighthood
Other sportsmen who have received a knighthood include:
Cycling's Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins
Olympic 5,000 & 10,000 metres gold medallist Mo Farah
Two times Wimbledon champion Andy Murray and
England cricketer Alastair Cook.
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Coach Samantha spent last weekend working on her craft as a coach and attended the CrossFit Level 2 seminar. She'e coming back with lot's of knowledge and can't wait to use her new skills in classes. The Level 2 seminar requires that you have coached a minimum amount of hours prior to attending and it's very hands on as you are put into scenarios to coach and get critiqued by CrossFIt staff members. It takes confident and humility to put yourself out there and look for ways to improve, I'm glad she took on this challenge and is bringing great things back to Jigsaw!
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Self-care is a major buzzword these days in the wellness and mental health worlds. I'm not mad about it. It's important to "fill your cup" and "guard your energy" and "recharge" -- it really is.
A recent article on medium.com had a really interesting take on this self-care movement. When Self-Care Turns to Self-Sabotage made the argument that "just because something feels good, doesn't mean it's good for you." For example, if you're taking bubble baths to avoid paying your phone bill or canceling plans with friends and isolating yourself on a daily basis -- it may be time to reassess your approach.
1. Do I want to do this? If no, why not?
2. What positives might come from this? What negatives?
3. Am I willing to take a risk? Can I tolerate these feelings of discomfort today?
There will always be times when staying home is actually the right choice. We all need that time to ourselves, time to recharge. It's just equally as important that we not use "self-care" as a crutch -- when really what would be most beneficial is to face our fears/worries/bills/deadlines(etc) head on.