My beau's mom is really sick. She has diabetes, high blood pressure, she lost 2 toes to diabetes in April. Since then she apparently has had a few bone infections. She is also on dialysis 3 days a week. To say she is unwell is the understatement of the year. Tex likes to know the bottomline, the worst case scenario, so he can prepare himself and his younger siblings. He won't like hearing that 23% of dialysis patients die due to MRSA but that appears to be the fact.
Infection Control in Dialysis Settings
68 slides:
Slide #4 - 23% of those who get MRSA in a dialysis setting die. :(
Slide #7 - Cause-specific hospitalization rates among hemodialysis patients, 2004-05:
• Vascular access infection = 132 admissions / 1000 pt-yrs
• Bloodstream infection = 102 admissions / 1000 pt-yrs
• Pneumonia = 86.3 admissions / 1000 pt-yrs
Since 1993, rates have increased for:
Bloodstream infection (+29%)
Cellulitis (+24%)
Pneumonia (+19%)
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Kanye West is CRAZY!
Kanye West Storms Stage, Protests Taylor Swift's Victory Over Beyonce At MTV Awards
UPDATE:
When Beyonce won Video of the Year, she called Taylor out to the stage to give her interrupted speech instead.
PREVIOUSLY:
Taylor Swift got a surprise when she accepted the award for Best Female Video at Sunday night's MTV Video Music Awards. After Swift, looking shocked, beat out Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson and Beyonce for the honor, she took the stage and accepted the award. As she was thanking MTV, Kanye West ran up on stage, took her microphone, and said Beyonce had been robbed for her "Single Ladies" video. "Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!" Swift stood silently holding her trophy, cameras cut to Beyonce looking stunned in the crowd, and MTV then cut to break.
This is the hair of a crazy man.What is wrong with this fool?!? Why can he not go anywhere without causing a scene and embarassing people? A few years ago I thought his outbursts were just lame publicity stunts designed to sell more of his own CD's. Now I think there is something wrong with him, perhaps neurologically or psychologically. It's like he's hyperactive with a touch of Tourette's or maybe he's just bipolar or schizophrenic. Whatever the case, he needs help and he needs to be medicated or banned from awards shows.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
41st Annual Yellow Daisy Festival
41st Annual Yellow Daisy Festival
Dates: September 10-13, 2009
Location: Special Events Meadow
Thursday, September 10: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Friday, September 11: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday, September 12: 10 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, September 13: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
FREE WITH PARK ENTRY! Voted the Nation's #1 Arts & Crafts Show SIX YEARS IN A ROW by Sunshine Artist Magazine, a Southeast Tourism Society Top 20 Event and winner of multiple awards by the Georgia Festival and Events Association.
More than 500 artists and crafters from 38 States and two countries display their works for your appreciation and purchase. Daily live entertainment, Children's Corner activities, clogging and crafter demonstrations throughout the event as well as fabulous festival foods.
Vehicle entry to Stone Mountain Park is $10.00 for a one-day permit during the festival or $35.00 for an annual parking pass. No coolers or pets can be brought inside the festival.
The folks and I plan on going on Saturday if the weather is clear. Looks like a lot of fun, I love craft fairs.
Yellow Daisy Shopping Tips
Tips for the Inexperienced(and Professional)Yellow Daisy Shopper
The many shopping, food and entertainment options can be overwhelming to any shopper, whether a long time attendee or brand new to the festival. To minimize anxiety, tips on the best way to delight in the Yellow Daisy Festival are provided.
1.Gather your shopping posse. Whether it is your mother, grandmother, daughter or best friends you will want to make sure you experience the Yellow Daisy Festival with your best pals.
2.Prepare for your Yellow Daisy Festival shopping weekend by checking the weather forecast, and then choosing appropriate clothing. Clothing that is light and comfortable along with walking shoes will suffice.
3.Prepare a bag with essentials that you will need through-out the weekend. This bag should include: cash, credit card, check-book, sunscreen, lip gloss, compact and cell phone. Shoppers are welcome to bring their own shopping bags for purchases, or they can pick up a free biodegradable one at the Yellow Daisy Festival merchandise shop.
4.Plan your shopping route. With an estimated 200,000 shoppers over the four day festival, it is easy to miss artist booths. Blackberry Lane is the suggested beginning; a map can be found here.
5.Arrive thirty minutes before the festival gates open. Hours are 10a.m.- 6p.m. Thursday, Friday and Sunday and 10a.m.- 7:30p.m.on Saturday.
6.Visit the featured artist, Vikki Mancil Weigel, at booth A35. Vikki is a self-taught artist and is recognized for her brilliant color palette and childlike spirit.
7.Send your husband, brother or father to the Men’s Den where they can relax in recliners while watching fall football games on a big screen TV.
8.Send your kids to the Children’s Corner where they can participate in crafts, rock walls, face painting and crazy hair.
9.Take a break from shopping and indulge in the fried candy bars, roasted corn and fresh cut fruit located at the many vendors. While on your break, enjoy the live bands providing entertainment at the Yellow Daisy Main stage.
10.End your weekend by taking inventory of all your purchases and plan next year’s Yellow Daisy Festival trip.
Dates: September 10-13, 2009
Location: Special Events Meadow
Thursday, September 10: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Friday, September 11: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday, September 12: 10 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, September 13: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
FREE WITH PARK ENTRY! Voted the Nation's #1 Arts & Crafts Show SIX YEARS IN A ROW by Sunshine Artist Magazine, a Southeast Tourism Society Top 20 Event and winner of multiple awards by the Georgia Festival and Events Association.
More than 500 artists and crafters from 38 States and two countries display their works for your appreciation and purchase. Daily live entertainment, Children's Corner activities, clogging and crafter demonstrations throughout the event as well as fabulous festival foods.
Vehicle entry to Stone Mountain Park is $10.00 for a one-day permit during the festival or $35.00 for an annual parking pass. No coolers or pets can be brought inside the festival.
The folks and I plan on going on Saturday if the weather is clear. Looks like a lot of fun, I love craft fairs.
Yellow Daisy Shopping Tips
Tips for the Inexperienced(and Professional)Yellow Daisy Shopper
The many shopping, food and entertainment options can be overwhelming to any shopper, whether a long time attendee or brand new to the festival. To minimize anxiety, tips on the best way to delight in the Yellow Daisy Festival are provided.
1.Gather your shopping posse. Whether it is your mother, grandmother, daughter or best friends you will want to make sure you experience the Yellow Daisy Festival with your best pals.
2.Prepare for your Yellow Daisy Festival shopping weekend by checking the weather forecast, and then choosing appropriate clothing. Clothing that is light and comfortable along with walking shoes will suffice.
3.Prepare a bag with essentials that you will need through-out the weekend. This bag should include: cash, credit card, check-book, sunscreen, lip gloss, compact and cell phone. Shoppers are welcome to bring their own shopping bags for purchases, or they can pick up a free biodegradable one at the Yellow Daisy Festival merchandise shop.
4.Plan your shopping route. With an estimated 200,000 shoppers over the four day festival, it is easy to miss artist booths. Blackberry Lane is the suggested beginning; a map can be found here.
5.Arrive thirty minutes before the festival gates open. Hours are 10a.m.- 6p.m. Thursday, Friday and Sunday and 10a.m.- 7:30p.m.on Saturday.
6.Visit the featured artist, Vikki Mancil Weigel, at booth A35. Vikki is a self-taught artist and is recognized for her brilliant color palette and childlike spirit.
7.Send your husband, brother or father to the Men’s Den where they can relax in recliners while watching fall football games on a big screen TV.
8.Send your kids to the Children’s Corner where they can participate in crafts, rock walls, face painting and crazy hair.
9.Take a break from shopping and indulge in the fried candy bars, roasted corn and fresh cut fruit located at the many vendors. While on your break, enjoy the live bands providing entertainment at the Yellow Daisy Main stage.
10.End your weekend by taking inventory of all your purchases and plan next year’s Yellow Daisy Festival trip.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Why we don't heckle the president
Commentary: Why we don't heckle the president
Editor's note: John Feehery worked for former House Speaker Dennis Hastert and other Republicans in Congress. He is president of Feehery Group, a Washington-based advocacy firm that has represented clients that include News Corp., Ford Motor Co. and U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He formerly was a government relations executive vice president for the Motion Picture Association of America.
John Feehery says heckling the president is showing disrespect for the office.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- When I worked in the House of Representatives in the mid-'90s, Congressional Republicans grew enamored of the idea of replicating the tradition of "Question Time" that was popular in the British House of Commons.
C-SPAN had just started broadcasting "Question Time", where the British prime minister thrusts and parries with colleagues on the other side of the aisle, while hoping for supportive statements from those on his side of the aisle.
It seemed like a lot of fun, most of all because the party out of power could show their disdain for the government's leader in no uncertain terms, and best of all, face-to-face.
The proposal to do an American-style question time, with Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich as the principal antagonists, died, mostly because the president had little interest in subjecting himself to that kind of ridicule on a weekly basis.
I thought of that episode in congressional history when I heard the immortal words of Joe Wilson, who impolitely called the president a liar Thursday evening. Unlike in the House of Commons, where the governing minister is part of the parliamentary body, in America, the president represents both the government and something more exalted.
While Congress is the first branch named in the Constitution, the president is the commander-in-chief, the leader of the country, and in many unspoken ways treated as a king.
We stand when the president enters the room, no matter who the president is. He has his own tune when he goes anywhere. When he gives a speech, his seal is on the lectern. The president is treated with royal respect, even though he is overtly not a royal. Ever since George Washington declined to become a king, we have established traditions that give the president all the kingly trappings.
That is why when Joe Wilson blurted out loud about the president, it was so jarring. Wilson is a very nice guy, very earnest, conscientious, hardworking and unfailingly polite. He is not one to do this sort of thing. He is not a protester, a demonstrator, a conscientious objector or a nonviolent resistor.
So when he blurted out what many other Republicans probably were thinking, he crossed an invisible but firm line of decorum on the House floor. Under House rules, you are prohibited from casting aspersions on the motivations of your colleagues. There is even a procedure for punishing those who do. You can be stripped of your right to speak for the rest of the day on the floor if your words are taken down and ruled out of order. No such specific prohibition exists in the House for when a president is speaking because, well, it is just not done. Members understand that presidents, no matter who they are, deserve respect.
Joe Wilson understands that fact, which is why he apologized so quickly to the president's chief of staff.
When the queen addresses the British Parliament, she is accorded ritualized decorum and respect, firmly rooted in history and precedent. It is not so different here in America. In our nation's rituals, we treat the president with the respect befitting the office, no matter who the current occupant might be.
Some may question why we treat the office of the president with such respect, when sometimes our presidents in the their personal or professional lives perhaps weren't worthy of that respect. After all, America was founded as a reaction against monarchy, we pride ourselves on our democratic impulses, and we have ably resisted the temptation to crown a king for more than 200 years.
I guess it is because the office of the president is one of the unifying symbols of our country, and we place our best hopes and worst fears in the lap of the occupant, hoping that whoever resides in the Oval Office will resist partisan temptation and do the best for all of our citizens, regardless of party or philosophy.
We treat the office of president with the utmost respect because we hope that the president will return the favor.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of John Feehery.
I'm inclined to agree with John Feehery, about heckling the President showing disrespect for the office. Since I do not know Joe Wilson personally I can't comment on whether or not he is a nice guy; but judging by his most recent public behavior I'd have to say he was a butthead. :p
Editor's note: John Feehery worked for former House Speaker Dennis Hastert and other Republicans in Congress. He is president of Feehery Group, a Washington-based advocacy firm that has represented clients that include News Corp., Ford Motor Co. and U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He formerly was a government relations executive vice president for the Motion Picture Association of America.
John Feehery says heckling the president is showing disrespect for the office.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- When I worked in the House of Representatives in the mid-'90s, Congressional Republicans grew enamored of the idea of replicating the tradition of "Question Time" that was popular in the British House of Commons.
C-SPAN had just started broadcasting "Question Time", where the British prime minister thrusts and parries with colleagues on the other side of the aisle, while hoping for supportive statements from those on his side of the aisle.
It seemed like a lot of fun, most of all because the party out of power could show their disdain for the government's leader in no uncertain terms, and best of all, face-to-face.
The proposal to do an American-style question time, with Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich as the principal antagonists, died, mostly because the president had little interest in subjecting himself to that kind of ridicule on a weekly basis.
I thought of that episode in congressional history when I heard the immortal words of Joe Wilson, who impolitely called the president a liar Thursday evening. Unlike in the House of Commons, where the governing minister is part of the parliamentary body, in America, the president represents both the government and something more exalted.
While Congress is the first branch named in the Constitution, the president is the commander-in-chief, the leader of the country, and in many unspoken ways treated as a king.
We stand when the president enters the room, no matter who the president is. He has his own tune when he goes anywhere. When he gives a speech, his seal is on the lectern. The president is treated with royal respect, even though he is overtly not a royal. Ever since George Washington declined to become a king, we have established traditions that give the president all the kingly trappings.
That is why when Joe Wilson blurted out loud about the president, it was so jarring. Wilson is a very nice guy, very earnest, conscientious, hardworking and unfailingly polite. He is not one to do this sort of thing. He is not a protester, a demonstrator, a conscientious objector or a nonviolent resistor.
So when he blurted out what many other Republicans probably were thinking, he crossed an invisible but firm line of decorum on the House floor. Under House rules, you are prohibited from casting aspersions on the motivations of your colleagues. There is even a procedure for punishing those who do. You can be stripped of your right to speak for the rest of the day on the floor if your words are taken down and ruled out of order. No such specific prohibition exists in the House for when a president is speaking because, well, it is just not done. Members understand that presidents, no matter who they are, deserve respect.
Joe Wilson understands that fact, which is why he apologized so quickly to the president's chief of staff.
When the queen addresses the British Parliament, she is accorded ritualized decorum and respect, firmly rooted in history and precedent. It is not so different here in America. In our nation's rituals, we treat the president with the respect befitting the office, no matter who the current occupant might be.
Some may question why we treat the office of the president with such respect, when sometimes our presidents in the their personal or professional lives perhaps weren't worthy of that respect. After all, America was founded as a reaction against monarchy, we pride ourselves on our democratic impulses, and we have ably resisted the temptation to crown a king for more than 200 years.
I guess it is because the office of the president is one of the unifying symbols of our country, and we place our best hopes and worst fears in the lap of the occupant, hoping that whoever resides in the Oval Office will resist partisan temptation and do the best for all of our citizens, regardless of party or philosophy.
We treat the office of president with the utmost respect because we hope that the president will return the favor.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of John Feehery.
I'm inclined to agree with John Feehery, about heckling the President showing disrespect for the office. Since I do not know Joe Wilson personally I can't comment on whether or not he is a nice guy; but judging by his most recent public behavior I'd have to say he was a butthead. :p
Thursday, September 10, 2009
I'm a fan of expendiency:
I'm a fan of expendiency:
Can we stop with all the nonsense about
Obama being a socialist, a Marxist, and a
Stalinist, and just call the man the n-word
already! Dang!
~ Dee Hill Zuganelli
Can we stop with all the nonsense about
Obama being a socialist, a Marxist, and a
Stalinist, and just call the man the n-word
already! Dang!
~ Dee Hill Zuganelli
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
I'd love to ask my great-great-grandparents 'What was it like to be a slave?'
What was it like to be a slave?
I'm black. Duh :p My great grandmother on my mothers side was born a slave. If I have to go back to great-great grandparents I'd want to know all about the horrors of that life.
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