This is the scarce WW2 Czech VZ24 rifle bayonet and scabbard made under the German occupation in WW2. The bayonet carries the German military factory code of tgf designating manufacture by the Tscheckische Gewehr Fabrik (Czech rifle weapons factory). The Germans continued the manufacture of both the VZ23 and VZ24 bayonets through WW2 but not in the same large numbers as the Mauser K98 bayonet. This bayonet has a 298mm parkerised blade and a steel muzzle ring and pommel. The wooden grips are held on by 2 screw bolts. The scabbard is made of blued steel. VZ24 bayonets made under German occupation seldom appear on the market. See Martin J. Brayley, An Illustrated History of Bayonets, Pages 52 – 54. The price includes U.K. delivery. BAYO 297.


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Q: How to moving pictures to the right using javascript I am very new to javascript and trying to do something basic with 4 images.  I am attempting to get the all to move right and the one on the end move to the front. Could someone tell me if I am headed in the right direction?  Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

<title>Onclick Assignment</title>

    Image 1
    Image 2
    Image 3
    Image 4

<form>
    <input type="button" value="Move Images..." id="button" onclick="moveImagesRight();"/>
</form>

A: I think I understand what you are trying to do.  It seems you want to switch the src of each img.
function switchSrcs(){
    var cells = document.getElementsByTagName("td"); // selects all cells!
    var finalSrc = cells[cells.length-1].firstChild.src; //get the src of the final image
    for (var i = cells.length; i > 0; i--){ //this iterates backwards
        cells[i-1].firstChild.src = i != 1 ? cells[i-2].firstChild.src : finalSrc;
    };
};

The line in the for loop is a condensed if statement checking that we are not at the first element (which will happen last because we are iterating backwards).
It would be beneficial to set an id for the tr and then select all of the child cells (td) for that particular id.

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The Donald Trump – Kim Jong Un meeting is being heralded as a world changer by some sections of media, in an attempt to erase the recent turbulent and dysfunctional role of USA in the recent G-7 summit. There have been staunch supporters who have been loudly and intensely proclaiming the Nobel Peace Prize for Trump, paying scant attention to their own resistance to Obama initiating talks with North Korea in the past.
Kim walks away back to North Korea, regardless of how the Talks fare, demonstrating his power – he got the most powerful country head traveling half way across the world to equalize with him … this act itself immortalizes Kim's power over North Korea, more than his predecessors … Would there ever be a movement to oust him? I guess this question would be endlessly postponed for the time being!
Today the talk between North Korea and USA is assuming a grand status while the real significant issues of trade, environment, and democracy get sabotaged … It is a surreal dystopian world that we live in!
b) Why do DICTATORS attract some of the Americans in power?
Even in my times, there was Saddam Hussain of Iraq, Musharraf of Pakistan, Mobutu of Democratic Republic of Congo, Habre of Chad, the entire Saudi Arabian monarchy … the list goes on ad infinitum. Trump now wishes to add Putin, Duterte, Kim and several others to these names… He also speaks of becoming a lifetime president like his Chinese counterpart.
It is almost as if the USA's powerful elite on behalf of a superpower, for all their cherished democratic ideals for the nation within, are unable to work with their own dark shadowy selfs … where they secretly admire the notion of a strong leadership akin to dictatorial power.
Is it aspirational or is it seductive but Trump and some of his predecessors seem to have a schizophrenic belief in democracy and in Human Rights. American credibility in protecting Democratic ideals and capitalism has been weak all along, but Trump makes it laughable.
There is a significant cost that USA pays in the entire process – they lose face and perhaps their position within the G7, and Kim and many other aspirational dictators would feel legitimized.
c) Why am I ranting?
I am no expert on global politics and economics, I am not even an American citizen (thankfully!) and i ask myself, as opposed to what i normally choose to write on, why am I ranting in this blog?
I guess I am in touch with my own resourcelessness, as i see many people like Trump – insensitive, greedy, weak, opportunistic, and bullies in my ecology – celebrating a a certain quality of 'being a powerful man' that is oppressive and destructive.
In India, I am in touch with people who celebrate Modi, not for his economic ideals, but because like Trump, he comes across to them as a strong hero willing to clean out the swamp of Indian polity, and make India GREAT again!
There is a certain battle that we all need to fight – but our struggle and our battle has to be on a different pitch – otherwise it just becomes a slugfest!
The first fight is with our Inner Selves – our dark sides that yearn for a power that makes us inhuman and impotent… in the name of 'ends' and 'goals' and fantasies' is blind to the sheer thrill and savagery this omnipotence brings in… If we don't fight this inner war – the Other becomes stronger!


Beautiful Incentives: Dorm co Rolling Polyester Pop up Hamper review. Plus Giveaway!
Dorm co Rolling Polyester Pop up Hamper review. Plus Giveaway!
As mentioned a million times before, I have back issues. Bad ones. When I can find anything that will help make things easier on my back, I rejoice! This is why Dormco has become one of my favorite sites. Not only for their cheap prices, but also for the nifty things they offer that happen to be oh so convenient, like this collapsible hamper I received for review.
This has been amazing to have. My back thanks dorm co. It is a laundry hamper in a pretty deep blue color that collapses when not in use, but easily pops up when needed. It has wheels, which is the main godsend. I no longer have to lug the heavier loads of laundry. I just throw it all in this large hamper and pull it to the laundry area. No lifting needed. Now If I could only buy magical powers to take the clothing out so I don't have to bend. At least half the feat is over! It is much larger than my other wicker hamper in the picture below, and 100 X lighter. This is a perfect size for me because I have very little whites and lights and a whole mother load of dark and medium colored clothing. All I have to lift on occasion is my small hamper for the other small loads.
I am very happy with my collapsible laundry hamper and it really isn't an eye sore so adults out of college would find great use from it too. If you are a college student, this will be your best friend when lugging all your dirty laundry to the laundromat, which is usually far away. If you have back problems or just need an easier more convenient way to transfer your dirty laundry to be cleaned, this is the answer!
45" L carry strap for those lighter load days or just to help pull the load.
Secure mesh drawstring top to keep clothing in place during transport.
There is also a small mesh pocket to put light things in, like a stain stick.
Collapses by just pushing down and securing with strap.
Dorm co. may be geared toward college students, but anyone and everyone will find something to fit their lifestyle. Seriously, they have everything you could ever need for organization. Such as this beautiful Sorority trunk I reviewed last yr.
Plus, shipping is always ONLY $2.95, with NO minimum purchase!
Dorm co offers a tremendous amount of awesome accessories with the latest inventive products, like this wall sticky holder for just $6.99, how nifty! There are so many things I need to get!
If you'd like to purchase now, learn more and keep up with their promotions, follow them on their social media sites.
Disclaimer: Product was provided to me for the purpose of facilitating a review with my honest opinions. I was not compensated monetarily or in any other form. This blog is not responsible for fulfillment of prize.
Dormco has been kind enough to offer the same hamper I reviewed to one lucky Winner. A perfect back to school necessity! Good Luck!
At home. I don't know how two people come up with the amount of laundry that we do but we're always running out of space.
I would love to win one for the kids room!
I would use this at home.
I will be using this at home.
I would use this at home it would be useful especially since we will be moving to a condo community with laundry facilities in a separate building.
at home in my kids room!
At home. Would be great for my kids room.
I will be using this at home! My husband and I could really use this!
I will be using this at home because I can't keep up with the laundry.
I'd use it at home!


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Q: Why am I getting access denied when I try to replace files I am trying to replace a file by basically copying a file named "test.csv" to "new.csv" But it cannot find test.csv even though its in the same working directory.
    def cop(self):
    with open('D:\\johnp\\kivy_venv\\betaapp2\\test.csv') as infile:
        with open('D:\\johnp\\kivy_venv\\betaapp2\\new.csv', 'w') as outfile:
            for line in infile:
            # do things
                outfile.write(line)

    os.replace('D:\\johnp\\kivy_venv\\betaapp2\\new.csv', 'D:\\johnp\\kivy_venv\\betaapp2\\test.csv')

def sign_in(self, text_input):
    self.text_input = text_input
    count = 0
    h = ""
    d = ""
    with open('D:\\johnp\\kivy_venv\\betaapp2\\test.csv', 'r') as fh:
        reader = csv.reader(fh)
        # get the headers out first, which is the first line
        headers = next(reader)

        for line in reader:
            # this will make a dictionary with the header values as
            # keys and the line entries as values
            entry = dict(zip(headers, (l.strip() for l in line)))

            # use key access, it makes the code a bit more readable
            if entry['Name'] == text_input.strip():
                if entry['Position'] == "Vice President":
                    line[8] = float(line[8]) + 3.5
                    self.cop()
                    self.signin()

        else:
            self.noUser()

The test.csv is supposed to be updated by running sign_in and then copying it to new.csv. And then replace test.csv with new.csv.

A: They are in the same directory, but you haven't instructed Python to check that:
import os
base_path = "D:\\johnp\\kivy_venv\\betaapp2\\"

with open(os.path.join(base_path, "test.csv")) as infile:
    with open(os.path.join(base_path, "new.csv"), 'w') as outfile:

Without path Python just looks in the current working directory.


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Truth is stranger than fiction. Have I said that before? Well it's true. I can't make up some of these stories, because I'm just not creative enough.
Three of my four trauma patients from overnight deserve special attention here. The first is a 16 year old kid who was skateboarding at midnight. In freezing temperatures. In the woods. How the hell does one skateboard in the woods? Poorly, apparently. He fell and hit his head, and he fractured his skull and bled into his brain. He will most likely be fine, but chalk it up to the stupidity of youth.
The next patient was around 1 AM, a young motorcyclist who passed several cars on the interstate like they were standing still. A few minutes later they came upon his motorcycle lying in the middle of the highway on fire. He was found about 75 feet away, pulseless and not breathing. He stayed that way, unfortunately. Coincidentally (and quite amazingly) I actually saw him in my trauma bay about two years ago after he had had a much more minor motorcycle accident. It seems he failed to learn anything from past experience, and he paid the ultimate price.
The final patient deserves a special spot here because he's a double-whammy. Dumb patient, dumber paramedic. A woman brought her 25-year old husband to the fire station after he deliberately cut his forearm. They took a look at his abdomen and saw some fluid coming out, so they thought he had stabbed himself in the abdomen also. Had they actually asked him what it was, they would have easily found out that he had an abscess (a boil) there about 8 months ago which was lanced, and he had been draining a bit of pus ever since. When I told this to the paramedic, he actually said, "I'm going to leave now before I feel any more stupid," and he walked out.
But here's the really strange part - I saw a lot of dried red stuff on his forearm all around his scratches (that's all they were...scratches). "It's just blood, Doc!" I hear you all screaming. No, it was actually hot sauce that he had poured on the scratches so he could feel the pain.
Hot sauce.
at December 30, 2011 6 comments:
Self-inflicted
Self-inflicted trauma is some of the worst. These poor people are trying to kill themselves, and I'm trying to prevent them from getting their wish. I've seen self-inflicted gunshot wounds and stab wounds, people who try to slash their wrists or thighs (don't try this - it never works), a drowning, and several jumpers. It's always sad, but this next kid was one of the saddest ones.
The call came in a few days ago as a self-inflicted stab wound . A level 1 trauma, the most severe kind, a patient that has a good chance of dying any second. The preliminary report from the ambulance was a young man who stabbed himself in the abdomen five times. Oh boy.
A few minutes later, in rolls in a 17-year old kid with tears running down his cheeks and his hands cuffed behind him. Uh oh - that's never good. The police accompanying him described it thusly: he got into an "altercation" with another person, and he decided instead of arguing, stabbing the other guy would be a good thing to do. Dumb idea #1. The police were notified, and when they showed up, he ran. Dumb idea #2. When they caught up to him, he decided to just end it all rather than go to jail. Dumb idea #3.
When I actually examined him, he had only managed to nick his skin five times. That was it - no deeper injuries. I sent him for a psychiatric evaluation before he went off to police custody.
I always feel sorry for these people, because obviously something has gone terribly wrong in their lives. But I'm sorry, you're not dying on my watch.
Mechanism of injury
"Trauma by mechanism" is my least favourite phrase I hear in my trauma bay. That just means that the mechanism of injury ought to be severe enough to cause some harm. Even if the patient is found walking around the scene of the accident with no complaints whatsoever, if the EMT deems that the mechanism is severe enough, that patient will be called a "trauma" and it'll drop into my lap.
Don't misunderstand me - I have a tremendous amount of respect for the emergency response personnel. They save lives, they get people to the hospital quickly, they do some amazing things. But I've met a few who aren't the sharpest tool in the shed.
I always try to keep in mind that these hardworking people are not doctors. I can usually assess someone and determine if that person is critically ill and/or will need surgery in about 15 seconds. But I've had 9+ years of formal, rigorous medical training, so it's an apples-to-rutabaga comparison.
The emergency medical technicians have to make a judgment when they first get on the scene - is this person injured to the point of requiring an evaluation by a trauma surgeon, or can we take him to the ER where he or she will likely sit in the waiting room for 3 or 4 hours before an ER physician can do the initial evaluation. It's doubtless a difficult determination, but in some cases it should be much easier than others. And sometimes, they just make boneheaded decisions.
The ambulance dropped off a patient this past week after he was in a car accident. He was wearing his seatbelt when he lost control and his car rolled over. He didn't lose consciousness, he was able to get out of the car by himself, and he had no complaints whatsoever when EMS arrived. They still slapped a cervical collar on him, strapped him to a backboard, and shipped him to me. I discharged him about 10 minutes later, no doubt with a headache and frustration of being sent to the hospital for no damned reason.
Even worse was a lady whose car was hit on the passenger side, again wearing her seatbelt. She appeared to have no injuries, and indeed when I asked her, she had no pain at all. I asked the EMT why she was called a trauma, and he told me it was by mechanism of a head-on collision. I tried to explain that she was T-boned, not hit head on. He told me that it was a "trauma by mechanism" (my blood started boiling) of the other car involved...not hers. She was actually upgraded to a trauma based on the amount of damage to the car that hit her car, which was minimally damaged. I had to control my rage or else he would have been my next trauma patient after I kicked him in the shin.
I discharged her about 10 minutes later too.
There's very little people should know more about than their own bodies. It's your body. You should know every little thing about it, including what's wrong with it. If you've had surgery, you'd better damn well remember what was done, who did it, and when. Seems pretty obvious, right?
I had a "gentleman" who was in the wrong place at the wrong time and got shot in the abdomen. We stripped off his clothes to assess the damage, and to my surprise and chagrin he had a long vertical midline scar on his abdomen.
Uh oh. Signs of man. Surgical archaeology.
"What's this scar from, sir?" I asked him.
"Oh that's from the last time I got shot."
Of course it is. "And what did they do in there?"
"Fuck, I don't know, doc. They fixed me up. They didn't tell me shit."
Right. After a big surgery like that, you didn't think to ASK WHAT THEY HAD DONE?? You must have been in the hospital for at least 5 days, and you must have seen the surgeon for at least one postoperative office visit to get your staples out, and you never thought to ask the guy what he did while he was rummaging around your abdomen?
He had a few holes in his small intestine which I once again "fixed up". I could tell that he had had a portion of his small bowel removed during his prior surgery, but that was it.
I made sure to tell him what I had done in the OR at least 3 time before he left the hospital. And again at his postoperative visit.
Hope and pray that you never have to be treated at this next hospital. I hate this certain hospital. If I had a dog, I wouldn't allow it to be treated here. I only practice here under duress, and I'm dropping it next month. Here's an example why:
The ER at this certain death trap hospital paged me tonight while I was in surgery at a different hospital. I called them back when I was done, and the receptionist said "Oh, that was Dr. X who paged you, but he's already left. Dr. Z is supposed to be here, but he's stuck in traffic."
So...the doctor left without signing out to another doctor? Who the hell was responsible for his patients? In what universe would this be considered good medicine??!
This is why I'll no longer be practicing there as of next month.
When it's not your time to go, it just isn't your time. It seems there's no rhyme or reason behind it, but if you're destined to live, no bullet or knife will kill you.
Sound far-fetched? Keep reading.
A guy got in a domestic dispute with his brother, and a fistfight escalated quickly to a knife fight. Well, it wasn't so much a fight as a one-sided assault. One of the brothers was brought to me with the other brother's steak knife embedded in his back. The handle was broken off. The guy seemed uncomfortable but not actively dying. Here's what his CT of his chest looked like:
That bright line going from bottom right towards upper left is the knife blade. The dark grey circle less than 1mm away from the knife tip is his spinal cord, and the white circle towards the top of the picture about 1cm away from the blade is his aorta. The black area on the right about 2mm from the blade is his lung. The bottom line here: nothing was injured. I pulled the blade out:
...and he went home the next day.
I had another gentleman who broke into his ex-girlfriend's house to confront her new boyfriend. He shot him dead, and then the girl grabbed the gun and shot him in the chest. He ran out and hid in the woods in sub-freezing temperatures for over an hour until the police captured him and brought him to me. He had a transmediastinal wound, meaning the bullet had gone in one side of his chest and all the way through the other side. This is a highly lethal injury, but all he had was two collapsed lungs. I put in chest tubes to re-expand both lungs, and the police hauled him off to prison a few weeks later.
It just wasn't his time.
What...why...um...
What happened to Amelia Earhart?
Why can't the Cubs win?
How did Paris Hilton and Snooki ever get famous?
Some things are just inexplicable. You want to know the answers but you may be afraid to ask the question. An important thing to remember is never ask a question that you don't want to know the answer to.
For example, when I was in medical school I was doing a history and physical examination on a prison inmate who was admitted to the prison ward at the hospital. After I was done, my curiosity got the better of me and I asked him why he had been incarcerated. He looked around, leaned in close to me, and whispered,
"It was for sexual crimes, but please don't tell the nurses."
That's the last time I asked that question.
Other times, it's clear the question just shouldn't be asked. I had a car accident victim come into my trauma bay recently, and we are supposed to disrobe everyone completely to do a full exam. Sometimes things get skipped, and this guy's underwear stayed on while his pelvis Xray was shot. Here it is:
That ring on the bottom of the picture is outside his pelvis. Outside his body. But it's right at the base of the penis. Have you guessed yet what it is?
It's a cock ring. He was driving alone...wearing a cock ring. Why, you may ask? I didn't ask the question.
I like a drink or two every now and then. I'm a big fan of Belgian ales and dark stouts. But I know when enough is enough, and I would never be stupid enough to drink and drive. Unfortunately, that's not the only activity that one can do while drinking that can get one into trouble.
I've had three very intoxicated patients just in the past 3 hours all get injured by different mechanisms.
- One guy with a blood alcohol level of 0.47 walked into a bus. He WALKED INTO A BUS. He was fine.
- Another guy with an alcohol level of 0.39 was hit by a car. Also fine.
- A third guy with an alcohol level of 0.27 fell down the stairs. Again, no injuries except a broken shoulder blade. The kicker here is that he weighs (according to him) about 600 pounds, or roughly 272 kg. So doing the math and considering his size, he had to have approximately 30 drinks in an hour to get his blood alcohol level that high.
What the hell is wrong with people?
Reality versus fantasy
Have you ever noticed how people die immediately after getting shot or stabbed? Or they have their last few gasps before saying the name of their killer or "Avenge me!" or something equally dramatic and stupid. And have you ever noticed that the people who DON'T die immediately after getting shot just need to have the bullet removed so that everything is ok. They can go to a back-alley doctor or a veterinarian or anyone with a pair of pliers, and as soon as that nasty bullet is extracted, everyone sighs a big sigh of relief, because "He'll be ok!"
Well, I have some bad news for you - TV and movies are NOT reality. This shouldn't come as a shock to you, but it does to everyone else.
You see, I usually don't remove bullets from people who have been shot. Once they go through you, the damage is done. After it stops moving (if it's still inside you), it doesn't do anything. It just sits there. There is simply no reason to remove it, unless the police really need it to help find the shooter. Make sense? It seems to be common sense to me. However, whenever I tell this to someone, they look at me like I'm crazy.
"YOU AREN'T GOING TO REMOVE THE BULLET??"
No, I'm not.
"OH MY GOD! WHY NOT??!"
I try to explain what I just said above, but they still look at me like I have two green heads with antlers. Removing the bullet usually does more harm than good. Digging around for it can damage the surrounding tissues, and there's no benefit to removing it anyway.
Don't even get me started on the TV show "House" and all the mistakes they make.
at December 01, 2011 11 comments:
Good saves
Ok, I'll apologize in advance - there will be no stupid stories today and no stupid patients. Today is all about great saves. I'll start by saying that 95% of all my trauma patients do not end up needing surgery by me. They may need orthopaedic surgery, hand surgery, plastic surgery, etc. But the vast majority do not have life threatening injuries. Those that do often do poorly, but every now and then I have what I consider a good save - someone who may well have died if not for my intervention. I'm not trying to pat myself on the back...ok, maybe I am a little.
Last night, I got two trauma patients at once - a woman who had T-boned another car, and the driver of the other car as well. Neither was seriously injured. The husband of the first woman was sitting in the back seat during the accident, but he wasn't brought in as a trauma patient - he walked in and started complaining of some chest pain. He was immediately upgraded to a trauma, and a CT scan of his chest and abdomen showed a fracture of his sternum (breast bone) as well as some blood in his abdomen and evidence of active arterial bleeding from the mesentery (the blood supply to the bowel). He was initially stable, but his blood pressure began to drop even though I transfused 4 units of blood. I took him to the operating room where I found a small bowel laceration and about 5 liters of blood in his abdomen due to two large lacerations of the mesentery with active arterial bleeding. I got the bleeding under control, repaired the mesentery, and repaired the small bowel laceration, all in under an hour.
This morning he is awake, alert, his vital signs are all completely normal, and his blood counts are also normal and stable.
My best save is from about 3 years ago - a young woman was shot in the abdomen by her ex-boyfriend while she was holding her two-year old daughter. Her parents were also both shot, but they were ok. I took her to the operating room where I repaired her diaphragm, repaired her liver, repaired two holes in her stomach, removed the tail of her pancreas, and removed her left kidney. She essentially walked out of the hospital about two weeks later. I've seen her in my office several times over the past 3 years, and she's doing great - she's remarried and back to work full-time.
THIS is why I do trauma. It isn't to take care of the idiot drunk driver who puts everyone around him at risk or the criminal who gets shot in a shootout with police. It's to take care of these innocent victims and get them back to their normal lives. THAT'S what makes it all worth it.
Two beers
Two beers. It's always "Two beers."
Me: How much did you have to drink tonight, sir?
Idiot patient who reeks of alcohol: Two beers
It's almost ALWAYS two drinks. No one ever admits to getting plastered, but everyone feels the need to lie to the doctor in order to look better, I suppose. Even when I tell them that I'm not the police and that we're getting a blood test so I can see their exact blood alcohol level, they continue to lie.
Same goes for drug users - people readily admit to using marijuana, but no one likes to admit to using heroin or pills or cocaine. People on PCP are too doped up (and stupid) to admit anything.
Look people, I'm just the guy trying to take care of you. If you've hurt someone, you better believe I'm going to find the police and make sure they know about you. But I'm trying to make you better, and lying to me isn't helping.
Don't bullshit me
DISCLAIMER: I WILL PROBABLY LOOK LIKE A POMPOUS ASS IN THIS POST
I've said before that I don't claim to be the smartest guy in the world, but after 4 years of college, 2 years of graduate school, 4 years of medical school, and 5 years of surgery training, I think it's safe to say that people like me are some of the more highly-educated people in society. There are some other very highly-educated people in this world as well (Ph.D.s, lawyers, educators, pharmacists, dentists, etc), but that doesn't give them any insight into medicine or physiology. Some highly-educated people just don't seem to get that.
A patient of mine introduced himself as "Dr. Suchandsuch" (not his real name), so I naturally assumed he was a medical doctor. Now my conversations with other physicians are on an entirely separate plane as compared to non-physicians, because there is a reasonable assumption of medical knowledge no matter what the field. Even a psychiatrist knows most surgical jargon. This guy nodded and went along with me through my whole talk with him about his condition. When I was done, I asked him if he had any questions.
"Just one - what did you just say?"
Turns out the guy isn't a doctor at all - he has a Ph.D. in mathematics. He's a SMART guy, don't get me wrong, and I would have no problem calling this guy "Dr. Suchandsuch" if I were a student in his class as a sign of respect for someone in his position. But I'm sorry, if you are a Ph.D., you do NOT introduce yourself as a doctor to another doctor when you are the patient. I don't think of myself as better than this guy, but that's nothing short of arrogance.
I've had chiropractors pull the same bullshit with me. Chiropractors are NOT doctors, despite their "DC" tag that they give themselves. When I've been a patient, I've introduced myself as my first name. If the subject comes up, I'll tell the doctor that I'm a physician as well. That allows us to communicate a lot easier. But when I'm a patient, I'm a patient. When you're my patient, don't bullshit me.
Losing patients
I lost a patient today.
Losing patients sucks. I've lost two this week. One of them was nearly dead by the time I was consulted on him, and he ended up finishing himself shortly after I operated on him. The second one went well, but despite the fact that we did everything right, he still bled to death.
Life isn't really fair sometimes. I've taken care of some scumbag gangbangers who got shot in the chest and survived, and this hardworking family man suffered an injury that could have been survivable, but he died.
I can't tell you how many patients I've lost, and you may think I'd become immune to it after a while. But each and every one stings like hell.
If you don't know what "RFB" stands for, I highly suggest you do a Google search. No, it isn't a type of rifle (since that what Google will come up with for you). In medicine, RFB stands for Rectal Foreign Body. I'm constantly amazed at what people will insert in their rectums far enough that they can't retrieve it.
About 2 years ago I was asked to see a guy who had this impacted in his rectum:
Fortunately for him, I was able to grasp it with a surgical clamp and take it back out the way it went in.
Another gentleman came to the ER complaining of severe abdominal pain, and on questioning him he admitted to putting this in his rectum:
Why did he do that, you ask? He was preparing for a fisting party. Yes, preparing for a fisting party. He managed to perforate his colon and required a colostomy.
My favourite story will be familiar to anyone who has viewed my profile on fmylife.com. I got called to the ER to see a guy who had something "stuck up there". The nurses were all snickering about it when I arrived - "Did you hear about the guy in room 15?" I walked in to the room, and after I introduced myself, he said, "Doc, I'm not gay, but my wife is out of town with the kids, and I did a stupid thing." Yes he did - here is his Xray:
After I told him that I wasn't interested in his personal affairs, he pulled these out of his bag:
He told me that he figured there was a vacuum behind the bottle that wasn't allowing him to remove it himself, so he had used this bit to drill a hole in the bottom of another bottle. He then handed me the drill bit...and a spare bit, just in case the first one broke...as he expected me to drill a hole in the GLASS BOTTLE IN HIS RECTUM.
"Sir," I said, "I assure you I will not be drilling a hole in the bottle."
I took him to the operating room and put him to sleep, and when the muscle relaxants kicked in, his rectum and anus relaxed enough for me to get the bottle back out the way it went in. He signed himself out of the recovery room, and I never heard from him again.
Mondegreens
Legend has it that writer Sylvia Wright misheard the lyrics to "The Bonny Earl of Murray" when she was a child. The actual lyrics are "Thou have slain the Earl of Murray and laid him on the green", but what she heard was "Thou have slain the Earl of Murray and Lady Mondegreen". And the mondegreen was born.
Fortunately, these aren't limited to songs ("'Scuse me while I kiss this guy"). Medical mondegreens abound. Some like Old Timers' Disease (Alzheimer's) are quite descriptive, but wrong nonetheless.
Yesterday a patient told me that his legs always swelled because of his very close veins (varicose veins).
Another patient came to my office complaining of pain at her biblical hernia (umbilical). Fortunately the fireballs in her eucharist (fibroids in her uterus) didn't bother her.
Some are a bit harder to decipher. It took me a good 5 minutes to figure out that the lady with "65 roses" actually had cystic fibrosis. And the little girl with Smilin' Mighty Jesus really was suffering from spinal meningitis.
Excitement!
My heart always beats a little faster when my trauma pager goes off. Then when I look at what's coming in and I see "GSW" or "stabbing", my heart beats a little faster still. Is it a stabbing to heart? A gunshot wound to the abdomen? The anticipation is exciting, but the results are often...underwhelming.
At 5PM I found out we would be getting a stabbing victim. I rushed down to the trauma room where the nurse told me that it was a prison inmate who was stabbed in the abdomen. That's always nerve-wracking - what did the psycho use? A knife? A sharpened toothbrush? And what did it penetrate? Intestine? Colon? Stomach? Liver?
About 5 minutes later, the patient was wheeled in wearing his traditional orange prison jumpsuit, handcuffed to the gurney. He looked like he weighed about 450 pounds. They move him over to the hospital gurney, and the guard just sort of looked at me and grinned. "He stabbed himself, Doc. You just have to see it to believe it." So I pulled back the sheet to see...
...a spoon. Yes, a spoon sticking out of his abdomen. A plastic spoon. I looked up at the guard again, and he smiled at me as if to say, "I told you!" So I asked the patient what happened, and he told me very matter-of-factly that he inserted the spoon into his abdomen (he had already had a wound there). And why did he do that, I asked him.
"The voices told me to."
Of course they did. Fortunately this guy's abdominal wall was so thick and his exam was so benign that I immediately knew there was no way the spoon did any real damage. So I reached for the spoon to pull it out when he said, "There's a pen in there too, Doc."
Of course there is. So I pulled out the spoon, fished around and pulled out a regulation prison-issue safety pen, and released him back into the wild.
When relatives are sick, you want them to get better. I get that, and I support it. When someone is critically ill, you want the doctors to do everything possible, right? Well, most of the time. You have to look at the whole picture, not just a snapshot in time. Sometimes doing everything isn't the right thing to do. Sometimes it's ok to let people go.
The gentleman I was asked to consult on this evening is just one of those people. He's in a nursing home, bedbound, nonverbal. He developed an "acute abdomen", meaning he needs emergency surgery for some intra-abdominal catastrophe. He was near death, and I told his next-of-kin that he would likely die with or without surgery. She wanted everything done, and on exploration, his entire small bowel was dead. Gangrene. Not compatible with life. Cases like this make me feel helpless because these patients are unfixable.
Sometimes the humane thing to do is nothing.
I had chicken pox when I was 8. It sucked. I had a belt of pox around my waist that itched so much it made me want to crawl out of my skin. If I had had the opportunity to have a vaccine rather than go through the intense itching, I would have jumped on it. Now there IS a vaccine for chicken pox. Huzzah! It's 85-90% effective, and even if you do catch chicken pox after getting the vaccine, you'll only get a very mild case of it! That's great news, right? Right?? Well...
Unfortunately, some blithering idiots have something against vaccines because another blithering idiot falsified his data to make it look like the MMR vaccine was linked to autism. That wasn't just a little bit of data-massaging, it was outright, bald-faced FRAUD. But some parents still believe that vaccines are bad, so they turn to, well let's say other methods of getting their kids immune to the chicken pox virus.
Some geniuses on Facebook have started forming groups that either look for pox parties (to share the virus, thereby purposefully infecting everyone) or to MAIL A LOLLIPOP THAT AN INFECTED CHILD HAS LICKED. Yes, seriously. What the ever-loving fuck is wrong with these people?
Fortunately, sending diseases through the mail is illegal. I hope these morons go to prison and pick up some colorful diseases of their own.
at November 07, 2011 12 comments:
I don't think I can stress this enough. Drugs make you crazy, stupid, and insane. And they make you lie.
A patient of mine that I have been seeing for several weeks with an ulcer on her leg had herself admitted to the hospital because of severe pain in her leg. She had admitted to me that she used to use crack cocaine and PCP, but she swore up and down that she was clean for several months.
I looked at her ulcer, and it was pristine. There was no sign of infection, an MRI showed nothing except a superficial ulcer, and her labs were all normal...except for a urine drug screen which was positive for (dramatic pause) COCAINE AND PCP.
I love it when people try to claim that the test was a false positive or that there simply MUST have been a mix up in the lab. The lab equipment doesn't lie, folks. Why can't people just be honest with me?
Nothing to do with medicine
Even though this has nothing to do with medicine, it still has to do with stupid people. Welll, stupid person. It just pisses me off more than I can even start to describe.
A judge in Texas (yes, a judge) was taped beating his 16 year old daughter with a belt several years ago, and she posted the video to Youtube a few days ago. The fact that she's disabled is almost irrelevant. I'll warn you that the video is disturbing, and that means a lot coming from a guy who regularly sees people stabbed in the heart and shot in the head.
As a parent, I was absolutely horrified watching this. I wanted to reach into the computer screen, grab this guy by the ears, and yell, "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU!??!"
http://news.yahoo.com/family-court-judge-caught-beating-ill-daughter-videotape-183647572.html
I promise I'll get back to more stupid patients next. I just couldn't let this go. There's a special place in Hell for people who abuse children.
I've said before that life is a series of learning opportunities, and who we are is defined by how we react and learn. Some people, unfortunately, either choose not to learn or are too stupid to realise a learning opportunity when they see it.
An older gentleman came to my trauma bay having suffered severe burns to his face and neck. Now burn victims have a rather unique odor about them (much like cooking beef or pork have distinctive smells...disgusting analogy, I know), but this guy smelled more like cigarette smoke. Plus, the distribution of his burns was a little strange.
It turns out that he had severe emphysema from smoking and was on home oxygen, but he just continued smoking...while the oxygen was flowing. Free flowing oxygen plus ignition source (lit cigarette) plus fuel (facial hair) = big boom.
While I'm on the subject of burns, another older lady came in having sustained third degree burns to her shoulder. She admitted to falling asleep while smoking, and the lit cigarette set her blanket on fire. When I examined her shoulder, the burned area seemed to have a strange checkerboard appearance to it, which I thought may have been transferred from the blanket.
Said the lady, "Oh, that's a skin graft from the last time this happened."
I know that "The truth is stranger than fiction" is a cliché, but it's completely true. I can't make this stuff up - I'm just not that creative.
Last time I was on call, I got a call at 3 AM (I HAAAAATE those) about a level 1 trauma (that's generally a person who is very close to dying), a woman who had fallen down the stairs and was unconscious. Even at 3 AM, my heart starts beating a little faster when I hear the patient is "level 1". However, my palpitations soon changed to amusement.
The woman arrived a few minutes later without a scratch on her. The second I laid eyes on her, I knew that something didn't exactly add up. And then the paramedics launched into her history: she was drinking at home and passed out, so her husband (also drunk) decided to carry her upstairs to bed. Halfway up the stairs, he dropped his cell phone. Now what would you do:
A) Ignore the phone and continue carrying your bride towards her peaceful slumber
B) Bring her back downstairs, get the phone, go retrieve her, and start over
C) Grab the phone and risk dropping her
I think by now you've guessed he chose "C". And he dropped her. She landed in a jumbled mess of inebriated unconsciousness at the bottom of the stairs...still passed out drunk. The paramedics didn't know if she was unconscious because of the alcohol, massive bleeding in her brain, or both. Of course, it turns out that she was completely fine, except for her blood alcohol level of nearly 0.2.
Don't drink and walk.
This one may be a few years old, but it makes me giggle every time I think about it. A young guy covered with tattoos (in my neck of the woods this usually indicates a gang member) came in shot in the buttock. Nothing is quite as amusing as a grown man crying like a schoolgirl because he was shot in the ass. I usually ask these rock stars what happened, and here's this guy's explanation:
"I was gonna shoot this asshole, but he grabbed my gun before I could shoot him and that motherfucker shot me in the ass!"
Yes, yes he did.
at October 31, 2011 1 comment:
Drug seeking
ATTENTION ALL DRUG SEEKING MORONS. ATTENTION. PLEASE READ.
I'm smarter than you. Have I said that before? I think so, but it bears repeating. You may think you're very clever and have it all figured out. You can try to claim you're allergic to ibuprofen, aspirin, naproxen, Toradol, Ultram, Tylenol/paracetamol, and everything except Dilaudid. But you can NOT fool me. I'm amazed that people are so arrogant that they think they can trick me into giving them narcotics.
Last night, two 22-year olds were in a car accident, and both claimed to have severe, crippling back pain. Red flag #1. I was suspicious, so I pulled up the driver's prescription record (didn't know I could do that, did you, smarty pants?). In the past few weeks, he had prescriptions for codeine, Vicodin, Percocet, 2 benzodiazepines, Ambien, and Viagra. Yes, VIAGRA. Red flag #2. Oh, and his arms were covered in track marks. Red flag #3.
After a CT of both their spines were normal (please, control your surprise), I watched as both were propping themselves up in bed and twisting and turning - all things that people with back injuries can not do. Red flag #264. I accused them of drug seeking, and the driver immediately threatened to sue me for malpractice (ha!!). I happily gave him my hospital ID and a pen and told him to write my name down and have his lawyer call me. Not the best idea, threatening to sue the guy who you're trying to con some narcotics from.
The driver's father, who is an oncologist, came and picked them up, and they amazingly were able to get up and walk out. It's a miracle!!!
You're both cretins. And you're busted.
at October 28, 2011 16 comments:
Seatbelts!
There is a reason that many countries around the world (including mine, thankfully) have laws requiring seatbelts to be worn: China, Russia, Australia, EU, UK, United States (WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU WAITING FOR, NEW HAMPSHIRE??!). They save lives. Unless I'm moving my car from one position in my driveway to another position in my driveway, I put it on (and even then I usually automatically reach for it). I have to consciously try NOT to put it on. It takes 4 seconds and it doesn't hurt, although it may hamper your ability to get your cell phone that you accidentally dropped while you were texting while driving. That's a whole other rant I'll get into some other time.
Three friends were coming back from a party at 1 AM. The driver was a bit tipsy, the other two were flat-out drunk. The driver and the front seat passenger were wearing their seatbelts when the driver lost control and flipped the car several times. The rear-seat passenger wasn't. The driver walked away with scratches and the passenger had a few broken ribs and a broken sternum. He went home in a few days. The rear-seat passenger wasn't wearing his seatbelt. For comparison, here is what a relatively normal cervical spine looks like:
And this is his. That his 6th cervical vertebra completely impinging his spinal cord. He's now paralyzed from the neck down, forever, because he didn't put on his seatbelt.
Like many radio stations, I take requests. Someone yesterday noticed that I have some stupid patient stories, but no stupid DOCTOR stories. Well, you asked for it...
I was on general surgery call at one of my hospitals yesterday, and I got a call from an ER physician about a young lady with right lower quadrant abdominal pain. The first thing general surgeons always think about in a young patient with pain in that location is appendicitis. It's incredibly common, and very easy and rewarding to treat. The ER doc had ordered a CT scan of her abdomen which failed to identify the appendix. There wasn't any inflammation in the area of where the appendix should be, but there was a recently-ruptured right ovarian cyst which surely was causing her pain.
But why couldn't the CT scan identify her appendix?
She had an appendectomy 4 years ago.
On a completely unrelated note (and having nothing to do with medicine whatsoever), PETA (in the US) is asking a federal court to give constitutional rights to 5 employees of SeaWorld. Doesn't sound like such a big deal, until you realize that these employees are WHALES. Yes, PETA wants constitutional rights extended to orcas, and they are claiming that the whales' captivity violates their 13th amendment rights banning slavery.
"By any definition, these orcas are slaves — kidnapped from their homes, kept confined, denied everything that's natural to them and forced to perform tricks for SeaWorld's profit," some PETA whackjob said.
Animals in captivity aren't slaves, you moron. They are animals in captivity. I am offended on behalf of all those people who actually were in slavery. Fuck you, PETA. Fuck you.
You can't fool me
I always find it fascinating when people think they can outsmart me. I'm not claiming to be the smartest person in the world, but I'm pretty damned sharp. Tonight a 22-year old schmuck who REEKED of alcohol drunkenly rolled his golf cart at the country club tonight and then tried to claim he only had 2 beers...nice try, stupid. Even after I tell these idiots that I am NOT the police and that I WILL be checking his blood alcohol level, they all stick with their story. It's almost always "2 beers". Were these 60 ounce beers?
Don't judge a book...
I always try to believe the best about my patients, but a few experiences have severely curtailed my faith in humanity.
I have a guy now who was shot in the abdomen multiple times, and he suffered injuries to his small intestine and colon. That's nothing new - it happens regularly, and these patients tend to do quite well. This guy seemed like a nice enough guy - very polite, courteous, etc. When I was making my rounds yesterday, I noticed he had been moved to the ward upstairs...the corner room with the locked door that can only be unlocked from the inside. I figured the guy was under police protection, and I was right...sort of. After being buzzed in by the police guards, I noticed he was handcuffed to the bed. Turns out the guy has an outstanding arrest warrant. For murder.
How the hell can I trust any of these people?
Can I talk about motorcycles for a minute? Wait, it's my blog. I can talk about anything I damn well please!
Motorcycles suck. They really suck. On a scale of 1 to suck, they SUCK.
If I hit someone at 60 mph/100kph, there is something rather comforting about having 1.5 tonnes/3000 pounds of steel, aluminum, and fiberglas surrounding me, not to mention the crumple zone, seatbelt, and multiple airbags that are designed to protect me. If you're on a motorcycle and you hit a car (or a concrete barrier) at 60 mph/100kph, no combination of helmet, leather jacket, and armored pants are going to save your sorry ass. It's just you and the road. The road ALWAYS WINS.
What pisses me off even more are the idiots who defend their murdercycles to the death. Literally. I've had several patients tell me that their horrific motorcycle accident was their last and they are giving up riding. But I had one guy a few months ago who had his leg nearly amputated at the knee. He adamantly told me that he would get right back on his bike as soon as he was able, because the accident wasn't his fault.
Wasn't your fault? What the hell does that matter? Whether it's your fault or not, you almost died, and you almost lost your leg. Life is a series of lessons from experiences. LEARN SOMETHING FROM THIS ONE.
Surgery has its share of tragedies, but I seem to see more than my fair share.
I was scheduled to do a colectomy a few weeks ago on a guy with a large colon polyp which couldn't be removed without surgery. He showed up for surgery 2 hours before his procedure, right on time. So what's the problem?
His wife died last night. And he still came for his surgery on time.
He told me he'd be willing to go through with surgery, but he'd have to go home right afterwards. This is NOT outpatient surgery - people have to stay in the hospital for about 4 or 5 days after a colectomy. Poor guy - I told him to go home and take care of his affairs. I wish all of my patients could be compliant like this guy, even though he took it several steps too far.
Ok, more stupid patient stories. One of my favourites is a 33 year old woman who jumped out of a second story window. Why? Because the guy she was with told her she had to go. So she went...out the window. Of course she was high on cocaine, why even ask!
She broke several bones in her back, but that's not the best part. I was doing a FAST (Focused Abdominal Sonogram for Trauma) to check for any signs of internal bleeding, and when I put the ultrasound probe over her pelvis, I saw something move.
"Any chance you could be pregnant?" I asked her.
"No, I just had my period 2 weeks ago," she replied.
The fetus was actually 24 weeks along and probably just as high on cocaine as she was.
Stupidity isn't limited to trauma - it carries over to general surgery, too. I finished doing a hernia repair on a guy a few days ago, and as we all know, patients who undergo hernia surgery should avoid any heavy lifting for 3-4 weeks after the operation. I reminded him of this, and he looked at me askance and said, "But my leading lady weighs about 21 stone (300 pounds)."
I thought he must be kidding. But he wasn't smiling or laughing.
"Just don't pick her up," I replied, thinking he must be joking.
"I mean in bed."
He's 71 years old. His wife is too.
More stupidity
What the hell is going on with PCP? There's a major revival going on in my area, and more and more idiots are coming in so screwed up that they can't see straight. These are just stories from this week:
A 55 year old guy was doing something on his roof while high on PCP. Who the hell knows what...probably trying to fly. He fell off, hit his head on the concrete, and had a major bleed in his brain. He's on a ventilator now and probably will be for the rest of his pathetic excuse for a life.
A 24 year old guy decided it would be a good idea to go car surfing while high on PCP. Much to the surprise of NO ONE, he fell off, hit his head, and bled into his brain. He'll probably be a vegetable forever.
I find it difficult to have sympathy for self-induced trauma.
Life is cruel sometimes
This happened a few months ago, and it's just a sign that the world can be a cruel bitch.
A man came in having been involved in a high-speed rollover car accident. He was unresponsive in the field with no pulse. CPR was started. By the time he got to me, he was still pulseless. Massive chest trauma, flail chest, etc. We continued CPR for 20 minutes before I declared him dead. I got the really bad news a few minutes after that -
It turns out he was on his way from out of state to attend his wife's funeral. She had died a few days before, also at my hospital, having hit a deer with her car. The impact with the deer didn't kill her - the deer went through the windscreen and kicked her repeatedly in the head. That's what killed her.
They had a 1 month old child.
First post...again
Well goddammit, I started this blog 2 damn years ago, and I can't remember the password to access it. I didn't like the name of it anyway, so to hell with it. I'm starting over. I'll steal some of the stories from that one.
Anyway, I'm a surgeon. Specifically, I'm a trauma surgeon, and as the name suggests this is about my patients who do stupid things. Once or twice a week I stay in the hospital for a 24 hour shift to see the worst of the worst. One of my hospitals is in a rather poor suburb of a rather large metropolitan area, and the other is in a rather affluent suburb. No, I'm not going to divulge which city. The patients at the first hospital tend to be hopped up on PCP, drunk, shot, stabbed, or some combination. Those at the second hospital tend to be teenagers who crashed Daddy's Mercedes. Almost all of them are stupid, have done something stupid, or have made a really bad decision just before coming to me.
The first stupid story - a couple was involved in a car accident, and as they were wheeled into my trauma bay, she was wailing in pain and he was yelling "NO DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME! TEND TO MY GIRLFRIEND!" I asked him if anything hurt, and he yelled, "Yes, my heart! It breaks for my girlfriend!"
Ugh. She was still wailing uncontrollably.
I worked them both up and they were fine. No injuries, just bumps and bruises. I walked into their room in the ER to see his WIFE and her HUSBAND yelling at them, along with her 2 sisters who had no idea she was cheating. Shockingly, they were both drunk at 8 AM.

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In fact, it might have been one of the very first times Disney stars went to war over a relationship. As if these two Disney Channel frontrunners needed more of a reason to have tension!
He admitted Ashley Greene was his first real girlfriend.
He also revealed he first got drunk at 16 and lost his virginity at age 20.Their first major theatrical film role was in the 1999 comedy, Big Daddy, in which they co-starred with Adam Sandler.They later appeared in several television sitcoms and starred in the straight-to-DVD films I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus and Just for Kicks.Unfortch, life did not imitate art and the short-lived couple called it quits only after a few months (while still having to perform lovey-dovey tunes like "Wouldn't Change a Thing" while touring).Things only grew even more awkward when Joe started hooking up his The whole Lindsay/Aaron/Hilary debacle was the Disney Channel love triangle heard 'round the world back in 2004.
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Congressional testimony on patent law
Campuswide series offers ways to strengthen public engagement
More than 160 faculty and staff participated in the yearlong Conceptualizing Public Engagement series, and their involvement will help shape how the University of Michigan strengthens its partnerships with audiences beyond campus.
New ideas, new views of Michigan after Road Scholars tour
When the bus wheels stopped spinning, it didn't take long for other wheels to start spinning in the minds of 28 U-M faculty and staff members who experienced the Michigan Road Scholars tour from May 6-10.
U-M, Detroit gathering shares impact and ways forward
The only way to break the cycle of poverty is to get people into jobs, but that's harder than it sounds, said Mike Duggan, Detroit's mayor and a University of Michigan alumnus.
Michigan counties struggle to meet need for opioid treatment
More people now die of drug overdoses than car crashes in the state of Michigan, ranking the state among the top third in the country for drug-related deaths.
While medication-based treatments for substance-abuse disorders are effective, there are substantial barriers to accessing care across the state.
Water Center report details phosphorus sources in Detroit River watershed
Although the Detroit River delivers one-quarter of the phosphorus that flows into Lake Erie, there's never been a detailed accounting of the nutrient's urban and agricultural sources across the entire binational watershed.
20th Road Scholars tour aims to connect U-M to state's communities
Kamran Diba, associate professor of anesthesiology, came to U-M in mid-2017 and feels a need to get a better sense of his new home state. So he's joining 28 other U-M faculty and staff members for the 20th Michigan Road Scholars tour running through Friday.
Enriching Scholarship showcases learning tech, public engagement
There's no shortage of good ideas at U-M when it comes to using technology in teaching and research. But it's not always easy for these ideas to spread across schools, colleges and units on a large campus.
Panel explores how scholars can influence policy amid politics
The knowledge and research scholars produce is often valuable in helping shape policy and combating social inequities. But navigating the public sphere in today's political climate can be challenging.
Speaker series aids effort to engage public in scientific inquiry
When President Mark Schlissel announced an increased focus on expanding the university community's engagement with the public, he outlined two primary goals.
Automotive Research Center funded with $50M through 2024
With a $50 million contract from the U.S. Army, the University of Michigan's Automotive Research Center will shift its focus to autonomous technologies for military ground vehicles.
The funding extends the center's 25-year partnership with the Army through 2024.
U-M will make bid to host 2020 presidential debate
The University of Michigan is exploring the possibility of hosting a presidential debate during the 2020 campaign.
U-M celebrates public engagement, explores how to encourage more
An event celebrating public engagement at the University of Michigan showcased the momentum among faculty making an impact outside academia, and explored ways to support and encourage more to participate.
Faculty members testify regarding worker safety, financial stability
Faculty members from the School of Public Health and the Stephen M. Ross School of Business offered testimony this week before congressional panels that were holding hearings on topics related to workers who are exposed to dangerous chemicals, and oversight for some nonbank financial institutions.
CHRT 2019 Policy Fellowships now underway
Six university-affiliated researchers and six Lansing-based policymakers will participate in a series of seminars and experiential learning opportunities focused on health policy and practice in Michigan and nationally.
Poverty Solutions report a testament to partners, progress in Detroit
A growing partnership on economic mobility with the city of Detroit, a new collaboration with Harvard University, community voices, policy impact and student engagement are highlighted in the University of Michigan's Poverty Solutions Impact Report.
DIA Plaza finalists hope to bring joy, cohesion, parking to Detroit
When Craig Wilkins looked out into the audience during his team's presentation at the Detroit Institute of Arts on Wednesday, he was happy to see many of his University of Michigan students in the crowd.
University launches nine new projects to fight poverty
On any given day across Michigan nearly 100 homeowners or renters could be evicted — a rate almost one-and-a-half times the national average. That is a problem one of nine new projects funded by Poverty Solutions and supported by the Detroit Urban Research Center aims to tackle this year.
Julia Putnam, Tim Wise to deliver MLK Symposium keynote
Author and educator Tim Wise and Detroit school principal and writer Julia Putnam will deliver the 33rd annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium memorial keynote lecture.


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Q: RewriteCond HTTP_HOST still passes I'm building a preprod environment where the client and developpers will be able to check that everything is working fine for their website they are about to put up but i must disable all HTTPS redirection because at this point it would fall in the PROD site wathever the HOSTNAME is sent in the request.
This is one of the examples i'm using:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (www\.)?domain\.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^s\.domain\.com
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?basket/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?basket/add/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?basket/delete/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?basket/modify/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?basket//add/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?basket//delete/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?basket//modify/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?basket/info_panier.js
RewriteRule ^/?basket/.*$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]

Problem is, even if i visit:
http://s.domain.com/basket//coordonnees/login/

It still redirects me to the HTTPS version, but i have a rewrite condition on the s.domain.com saying to skip this rule... What am i doing wrong?
CrazyCoder

A: Never mind i found it two seconds later, but this might help other people:
The condition:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (www\.)?domain\.com

Came clashing on the condition:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^s\.domain\.com

Because i didn't put a ! off the start. If i put ! before the (www.)?domain.com it will not match s.domain.com and thus work fine...


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  AfterContentInit,
  Component,
  ContentChild,
  ContentChildren,
  EventEmitter,
  HostBinding,
  HostListener,
  Input,
  Output,
  QueryList,
} from "@angular/core";
import {
  animate,
  state,
  style,
  transition,
  trigger,
} from "@angular/animations";

@Component({
  selector: "mdl-expansion-panel-header",
  template: `
    <ng-content></ng-content>

      expand_more
      expand_less

  `,
})
export class MdlExpansionPanelHeaderComponent {
  @HostBinding("class.mdl-expansion-panel__header") isHeader = true;
  isExpanded = false;
  onChange: EventEmitter<null> = new EventEmitter<null>();

  onClick(): void {
    this.onChange.emit();
  }
}

@Component({
  selector: "mdl-expansion-panel-header-list-content",
  template: "<ng-content></ng-content>",
})
export class MdlExpansionPanelHeaderListContentComponent {
  @HostBinding("class.mdl-expansion-panel__header--list-content")
  isContent = true;
}

@Component({
  selector: "mdl-expansion-panel-header-secondary-content",
  template: "<ng-content></ng-content>",
})
export class MdlExpansionPanelHeaderSecondaryContentComponent {
  @HostBinding("class.mdl-expansion-panel__header--secondary-content")
  isSecondaryContent = true;
}

@Component({
  selector: "mdl-expansion-panel-content",
  template: "<ng-content></ng-content>",
  // eslint-disable-next-line
  host: {
    // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/naming-convention
    "[@isExpanded]": "isExpanded",
  },
  animations: [
    trigger("isExpanded", [
      state("true", style({ height: "*" })),
      state("false", style({ height: "0px" })),
      transition("* => *", animate("250ms ease-in")),
    ]),
  ],
})
export class MdlExpansionPanelContentComponent {
  @HostBinding("class.mdl-expansion-panel__content") isPanelContent = true;
  isExpanded = "false";
}

@Component({
  selector: "mdl-expansion-panel-body",
  template: "<ng-content></ng-content>",
})
export class MdlExpansionPanelBodyComponent {
  @HostBinding("class.mdl-expansion-panel__content--body") isContentBody = true;
}

@Component({
  selector: "mdl-expansion-panel-footer",
  template: "<ng-content></ng-content>",
})
export class MdlExpansionPanelFooterComponent {
  @HostBinding("class.mdl-expansion-panel__content--footer")
  isContentFooter = true;
}

@Component({
  selector: "mdl-expansion-panel",
  template: "<ng-content></ng-content>",
})
export class MdlExpansionPanelComponent implements AfterContentInit {
  @ContentChild(MdlExpansionPanelHeaderComponent, { static: true })
  header: MdlExpansionPanelHeaderComponent | undefined;
  @ContentChild(MdlExpansionPanelContentComponent, { static: true })
  content: MdlExpansionPanelContentComponent | undefined;
  // eslint-disable-next-line
  @Output() onChange: EventEmitter<boolean> = new EventEmitter<boolean>();

  @HostBinding("class.disabled")
  @Input()
  disabled = false;

  @HostBinding("tabindex") tabindex = 0;
  @HostBinding("class.mdl-expansion-panel") isExpansionPanel = true;

  private isExpanded = false;

  public get expanded(): boolean {
    return this.isExpanded;
  }

  // expanded property is getter/setter for the internal 'isExpanded' flag
  @HostBinding("class.expanded")
  @Input()
  public set expanded(bool: boolean) {
    this.toggleIt(bool);
  }

  @HostListener("keyup", ["$event"])
  onKeyUp($event: KeyboardEvent): void {
    if ($event.key === "Enter" && !this.disabled) {
      this.toggle();
    }
  }

  ngAfterContentInit(): void {
    this.header?.onChange.subscribe(() => {
      if (!this.disabled) {
        this.toggleIt(!this.isExpanded);
      }
    });
  }

  toggle(): void {
    this.toggleIt(!this.isExpanded);
  }

  expand(): void {
    this.toggleIt(true);
  }

  collapse(): void {
    this.toggleIt(false);
  }

  disableToggle(): void {
    this.disabled = true;
  }

  enableToggle(): void {
    this.disabled = false;
  }

  private toggleIt(isExpanded: boolean) {
    this.isExpanded = isExpanded;
    if (this.content) {
      this.content.isExpanded = `${isExpanded}`;
    }
    if (this.header) {
      this.header.isExpanded = isExpanded;
    }
    this.onChange.emit(isExpanded);
  }
}

@Component({
  selector: "mdl-expansion-panel-group",
  template: "<ng-content></ng-content>",
})
export class MdlExpansionPanelGroupComponent implements AfterContentInit {
  @HostBinding("class.mdl-expansion-panel-group") isPanelGroup = true;
  @ContentChildren(MdlExpansionPanelComponent)
  panels: QueryList<MdlExpansionPanelComponent> = new QueryList<MdlExpansionPanelComponent>();
  expandedIndex = -1;

  ngAfterContentInit(): void {
    this.panels.forEach((panel, i) => {
      /**
       * Set the expanded index to the panel index which is initialized in expanded state
       *
       * Having more than one of the panels being initialized in expanded state
       * is NOT supported
       */
      if (panel.expanded) {
        if (this.expandedIndex > -1) {
          const errorMessage = `
            PanelGroup does not support more than one Panel to be expanded initially.

            Make sure only one <mdl-expansion-panel> receives input like [expanded]="true".
            `;
          throw new Error(errorMessage);
        }
        this.expandedIndex = i;
      }

      /**
       * Expand the panel and collapse previously
       * expanded panel when a panel is toggled.
       * Save the new expanded panel index.
       */
      panel.onChange.subscribe((isExpanded: boolean) => {
        if (isExpanded) {
          if (i !== this.expandedIndex && this.expandedIndex >= 0) {
            this.panels.toArray()[this.expandedIndex].collapse();
          }
          this.expandedIndex = i;
        }
        if (!isExpanded && i === this.expandedIndex) {
          this.expandedIndex = -1;
        }
      });
    });
  }

  getExpanded(): number {
    return this.expandedIndex;
  }

  getPanel(index: number): MdlExpansionPanelComponent {
    return this.panels.toArray()[index];
  }
}

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10 Ag Bloggers You Should Follow
To celebrate National Ag Day, we're sharing a few voices representing agriculture on social media who you might enjoy.
These social-savvy storytellers use their voice and the internet's platforms to instruct, inspire, entertain and engage, they're creating living history around the modern American farming lifestyle.
Wanda Schott Patsche somehow manages to maintain a widely read blog while sitting on the board of the Minnesota Pork Board, speaking frequently on the farm show circuit, and owning and running an independent farm in southern Minnesota. Wanda is a mother of three and grandmother to six.
www.mnfarmliving.com
Real Pig Farming
Sponsored and curated by the National Pork Board, this blog does a great job of seeking out personal stories, thought-provoking industry news angles and expert insights that matter to the pork producing community.
The mix of content includes everything from swine nutrition to farm safety to love stories. Yes, you read that right: Valentine's Day featured a Facebook–generated collection of members' love notes to farming, plus one farm-owning couple's story of meeting on a blind date and eventually getting married. It showcases different pork producers of every age and career level, from past Pig Farmer of the Year to pig farmers of tomorrow.
https://realpigfarming.com/
AgChat
Weekly Twitter conversations draw professional "food, feed, fuel and fiber" producers and growers – the topics encompass policy, business goals, leadership tactics, marketing and everything else relevant to the farming industry. On non-chat days, the account stays busy re-Tweeting members' content. It shares blog posts, photos and memes, and generally amplifies the many "agvocate" voices of its membership.
agchat.org
Amy Thielen
Between her Food Network show "Heartland Table," her 2017 food memoir Give a Girl a Knife, and the James Beard Award-winning cookbook New Midwestern Table, Minnesota native Amy Thielen has done much to positively showcase Midwestern food and the farm lifestyle on a national level.
Amy appeared in Hormel Foods' Mogler Farm video in fall of 2017, and hosted a "Farm Flavor in the City" holiday event in New York. She is currently working on a second cookbook, and posting delicious-looking candid shots on Instagram of her cooking activity and life on a hundred-acre wood.
http://www.amythielen.com/
Though their content started out on the more informative/educational side, these brothers became legitimately YouTube famous with their pop music parodies like BALE! and I'm So Farmer. Their channel still has a section for informational videos, and for straightforward vlogs about their day-to-day life on the farm.
https://petersonfarmbrothers.com
The Farmers Wifee
Krista Stauffer is a wife who's putting her all into working side-by-side with her husband on the dairy farm he started, raising her family on said farm, and blogging about every aspect of it. Her blog voice is real, and completely present, and passionate even when she's telling stories of frustration and failure.
http://www.thefarmerswifee.com/
How Farms Work
The Kuster brothers behind How Farms Work are gaining an impressive following for their authentic and transparent style of farm genre content. Ryan Kuster, the youngest of two siblings from Wisconsin, produces the videos, which take the viewers along on the chores and tasks required across 10 different crop and beef farms — whether it be getting up before sunrise to harvest corn, spreading manure, or raking and baling alfalfa hay.
https://www.howfarmswork.com/
Kim's County Line
Kansas farm wife and regional KFRM Radio reporter Kim Fritzemeier has been blogging steadily since 2010, and Kim's County Line is often listed among the country's top farm blogs. Her "camera clicks" of life around the farm are stunning, Mrs. Fritzemeier is a former newspaper journalist, and her blog voice maintains that career reporter clarity and easy readability, while still feeling like a personal diary as she shares her worries about a summer storm about to hit the corn field, or posts a list of "life lessons learned from a 3-year-old."
http://kimscountyline.blogspot.com/
Pink Tractor
Pink Tractor, a magazine for women in ag, also has a community of nearly 270,000 Facebook followers. Online they share inspiring quotes and stories of female farmers around the world. The team is also working to increase magazine readership via live events and giveaways of cute/functional branded merchandise.
https://www.pinktractor.com/
A digital hub that's an extension of the real-world Common Ground community of volunteer farmers, this is a great starting point for anyone to connect with people who are responsible for producing America's food supply. It's a professionally maintained forum for female farmers and ag professionals to share their viewpoints and make themselves available for candid discussions.
Many of the agriculture industry's most compelling voices are represented in the blog contributor section, and the blog archives are full of great content. The Common Ground content team says 2018 will see a shift in focus toward social media conversations – so if you'd like to join, please Like, Follow, and introduce yourself!
findourcommonground.com
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Students Honored at Hormel Luncheon Event recognizes students in grades nine through 12 who earned straight A's the first semester of the school year
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The Duchess of Sussex has made her first official visit to the National Theatre. Earlier this month The Duchess was announced as Patron of the National Theatre, one of two Patronages passed on to her by Her Majesty The Queen. The Duchess is a strong believer in using the arts to bring people from different backgrounds and communities together. Today Her Royal Highness had the opportunity to see some of the work the NT is doing across the UK with communities and schools as well as hearing more about training opportunities for backstage careers.
Launched last year, Public Acts creates extraordinary acts of theatre and community. The first Public Acts production was a new musical adaptation of Pericles which brought over 200 people of all ages from across London together with 6 professional actors to breathe new life into the Shakespeare classic in a new musical version. Following the workshop the Duchess met with Percy, Sharon and Blessing from the Public Acts company who told her about their experiences of being part of Public Acts and performing in Pericleslast summer on the Olivier stage.


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Floris is a London-based perfumery house that has been in operation since 1730 and continues to be run by descendants of the founders. Originally founded by Juan Famenius Floris and his wife, Elizabeth, Floris sold grooming and shaving products as well as perfumes from their 89 Jermyn Street location. They received a Royal Warrant in 1820 as "Smooth Pointed Comb Maker" to King George IV. Royalty, historical figures and celebrities have long been customers of Floris, whose famed clientele includes Florence Nightengale, Winston Churchill, explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes and actress Marilyn Monroe.
In 1878, Mary Anne (Floris) Bodenham and husband James took over the business from Mary Anne' brother, Joseph Floris. Bodenham and Floris family descendants still operate the company today. Production and sales continued at the 89 Jermyn Street location until 1989, when a factory was opened in Devon. The Jermyn Street location continues to be the company's headquarters and flagship store.
Floris celebrated its 280th anniversary in 2010, and commemorated the occasion with a limited edition perfume, 280.
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SFWGossip: Lindsay Lohan's Neighbor's Want Her Gone!Safe For Work Gossip (SFWGossip)! Safe for work news, safe for work pictures, yet 100 percent entertaining!
Lindsay Lohan's Neighbor's Want Her Gone!
As many people have now heard, this past weekend poor Lindsay Lohan had a break-in at her house.
I feel a little bad for normal people whose lives are changed because of who they live by. Of course, if these people are living in multi-million dollar homes, so I think they could easily find a home elsewhere. Home is home though and something like this should spark Lindsay to consider moving to an enclave comfortable with the celebrity lifestyle.


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Home Theatre Criticism LOCKDOWN REVIEWS: 'Augmented' at Southbank Centre's Unlimited Fest
Southbank Centre have gone online this week to present Unlimited Festival, which features dance, performance, comedy, music and visual art with the intention of celebrating the artistic vision and creativity of disabled artists. Augmented was presented on the opening night of the festival in the format of a live-stream of a pre-recorded film of the staged production, which was touring in March 2020 when Covid19 cut the tour short. It has gone on to be featured at several theatre festivals around the country in the 12 months that followed.
Augmented, a new play by self-proclaimed 'cyborg' Sophie Woolley explores how hearing (and not hearing) has shaped her identity over the last three decades. In brazen style and with side-splitting honesty, she shares her personal story of navigating from the world of the hearing to the deaf, then returning as an implanted 'cyborg' version of her former self. Turning the cochlear implant on may be as simple as flicking a switch, but the reality of returning to the hearing world is quite different.
Over the course of her journey we see many Sophie's, all with barriers they must face. The world is not as simple as 'hearing' and 'deaf' and as her hearing loss changes, she mourns and celebrates in equal measure what she gains and what she has lost. She celebrates being able to switch off and return to hearing nothing but mourns the hearing-Sophie that will never completely return. In showing us how she is treated in the binary of 'hearing' and 'deaf' our prejudices and behaviours are justly challenged, but with humour and with production elements that allow us to feel welcomed into her head.
"but you can't dance to a bloody train, can you?"
Sophie herself is open, warm and engaging, but it is the melding of soundscape, choreography, lighting design and her performance itself that really bring her story to life and help hearing audience members to get inside her head. Losing the music she once enjoyed affects her deeply and it is a shame we are not in the room for this live stream to really feel the vibrations of the trains on the railway bridges she stands underneath, "the vibrations tells me what's there… but you can't dance to a bloody train can you?".
Muffled beats and vibrations are used to help us understand the frustrations of her hearing loss, but then by contrast her impressions of sounds when she is first testing her implant are projected across the stage as beautiful waves of light, a mesmerising interpretation that wonderfully illustrates the colour flooding back into her world. She situates this scene on a London Underground escalator, so in reality the space around her would have been drab, grey and full of strangers faces. As the sound around her allows her to see differently, it's a joy to imagine it not through her eyes but her ears. She is delirious with the volume of it as being deaf, she points out, you can't appreciate silence because silence is not what you are hearing – you are hearing nothing.
"there is quite a lot for the hearing to learn in Sophie's world"
As well as the experience of her discoveries to enjoy, there is quite a lot for the Hearing to learn in Sophie's world. Breaking eye contact between deaf persons signing is considered the height of rudeness (at least by Sophie's mum!) because so much is expressed not just through the hand signs but through the face. She also shares a lot that you might not have considered about implants, like having to sit through a consultation where they explain the process of drilling into your head. Or the fact that it isn't simply a cure, it's a whole new type of hearing. Her honesty is refreshing, as she cajoles herself with YouTube videos of 'switch-ons' before getting cross with herself for falling for the hope they offer. Her own switch-on when it comes, does not go entirely to plan!
A good deal of effort has gone into making this production inclusive and stimulating for those who may not have sight or hearing. From the reverse-projection of words onto a screen made from blinds (creatively laid out and formatted like poetry – not just a transcript) to the vivid descriptions in Sophie's language that enable the imagination to take over, to the BSL interpreter and inclusion of signed conversations between Sophie and the other characters she brings in to tell her story. It's a production that has been well considered for a spectrum of senses.
Whilst Sophie's story spans three decades, she also considers the future. Her hearing loss is hereditary and in a reflective moment, Sophie recaps her mum's rumination on how the family have adapted to it through the generations. From her grandfather who relied on lip reading, to her mum's BSL sign language, to the future of the implant. One thing is clear, Sophie loves being a cyborg and even tries to sell us the benefits of a new cyborg, modified generation where hearing can be controlled at will; it certainly sounds exciting.
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Shows are streaming from 13th to the 17th Jan and some are available to watch beyond.
Photo Credit: Helen Murray.
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