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Papa Grows Funk Movie needs $5000 to get made thru crowdsourcing

2013-06-27T20:55:00.001-05:00

What to watch on Netflix - decision-maker

2013-05-13T18:52:00.001-05:00

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Obama isn't a socialist, and director of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", who immigrated from socialist-era Czechoslovakia, tells you why (from the NYT)

2012-07-11T18:06:00.002-05:00

I lived in Czechoslovakia from my birth in 1932 until 1968. The Communist Party was my Nurse Ratched, telling me what I could and could not do; what I was or was not allowed to say; where I was and was not allowed to go; even who I was and was not.Now, years later, I hear the word “socialist” being tossed around by the likes of Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and others. President Obama, they warn, is a socialist. The critics cry, “Obamacare is socialism!” They falsely equate Western European-style socialism, and its government provision of social insurance and health care, with Marxist-Leninist totalitarianism. It offends me, and cheapens the experience of millions who lived, and continue to live, under brutal forms of socialism.

Possom --> Wilson --> Tweezer @ Bonnaroo - Phish hd video

2012-06-20T18:10:00.000-05:00

Patient Safety and Quality: For-profit dialysis chains have higher mortality rates than non-profit dialysis chain. From Research Activities, 12/2011

2011-12-06T22:53:00.000-06:00

Research Activities, December 2011: Patient Safety and Quality: For-profit dialysis chains have higher mortality rates than non-profit dialysis chain

To learn more about Nephrotic Syndrome, FSGS, and Minimal Change Disease, as well as link with patients, families, friends and caregivers for support and inspiration, visit Nephspace and contact the NephCure Foundation for other research, education, and advocacy opportunities.

The following is an excerpt from the December 2011 Newsletter for Patient Safety and Quality from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. For the original newsletter, and to receive email updates, please click here or cut and paste the following link in your browser: http://www.ahrq.gov/research/dec11/1211RA11.htm

"Concerns have been raised about the quality of care being delivered to end-stage renal dialysis (ESRD) patients, given that most large dialysis providers are for profit (FP) entities. Of the five largest dialysis chains, the lowest mortality risk was found among patients treated at a nonprofit (NP) chain, according to Yi Zhang, Ph.D., and colleagues at the Medical Technology and Practice Patterns Institute in Bethesda, MD. Compared with the nonprofit chain, mortality risk was 19 percent higher at one FP chain and 24 percent higher at a second FP chain. Overall, patients from FP facilities, regardless of chain status, had a 13 percent higher risk of mortality than NP facilities.

Most U.S. patients with ESRD receive hemodialysis treatment three times a week from Medicare-certified dialysis facilities. Since 1991, the number of chain-owned dialysis facilities has grown more than 11-fold. Today, roughly 85 percent of the FP and nearly one-third of the NP facilities are operated by large corporations. Some contend that lower resource use in the delivery of dialysis by FP facilities compromises the health outcomes of dialysis patients. A number of earlier studies have suggested that factors related to practice patterns, such as dialysis dose, vascular access, and injectable drugs (including epoetin therapy, vitamin D, and iron) can influence patient outcomes.

This study evaluated and compared the use of all three major injectable drugs among dialysis facilities. The findings suggest that patients from the NP chain who used the least amount of injectable drugs had the best survival. If all other chains were to follow the resource use of the NP chain, costs of injectable drugs might be reduced without compromising patient outcomes, with the caveat that the provider will not excessively lower doses. The study included 3,601 free-standing dialysis facilities and 34,914 Medicare patients with ESRD during 2004. The study was supported in part by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (HS18697).

See "The effect of dialysis chains on mortality among patients receiving hemodialysis," by Dr. Zhang, Dennis J. Cotter, M.S.E., and Mae Thamer, Ph.D., in the June 2011 HSR: Health Services Research 46(3), pp.747-767.

Zach Wahls Speaks About Family

2011-12-01T13:04:00.000-06:00

NephCure Walk Baton Rouge, LA - Event Information

2011-11-01T10:55:00.000-05:00

NephCure Walk Baton Rouge, LA - Event Information

The Road to the Carter 4 Mixtape - download here free

2011-04-26T10:18:00.001-05:00

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Download the Road to the Carter 4 Mixtape - Lil' Wayne. The hype is rype - sick mixtape.

NephCure Ambassador Dawn Evans Featured in USA Today

2011-01-19T16:06:00.002-06:00

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featured in USA Today!

Read about the great work Dawn is doing to help NephCure in her fight against the kidney diseases FSGS and Nephrotic Syndrome.

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Purchasing a copy of the paper
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Forwarding it via email to your network of friends - patients, nephrologists, EVERYONE! Ask them to do the same.
Sending it to Oprah - Click Here.

Suggested copy - "Oprah, Dawn Evans is such an inspiration. Please click on this article to learn more about how she is inspiring everyone as she battles the incurable kidney disease FSGS." Note: you will have to copy and paste link into the field.

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Cheap Textbooks!

2011-01-18T12:22:00.000-06:00

I'm a law student, and textbooks can cost over $1,000 a semester. Because of Textbooks.com, I got mine for under $250 this semester. Easy and safe. Click the link below.

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2010-12-03T06:38:00.000-06:00

Check out music from School Of Business SOB

2010-11-20T18:06:00.002-06:00

My boy Cass manages these guys. Sick New Orleans hip-hop. Not what you'd expect, better.

Exclusive - Jay-Z Extended Interview - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 11/17/10 - Video Clip | Comedy Central

2010-11-18T17:49:00.000-06:00

Exclusive - Jay-Z Extended Interview - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 11/17/10 - Video Clip | Comedy Central

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c

Exclusive - Jay-Z Extended Interview

www.thedailyshow.com

Daily Show Full Episodes

Political Humor

Rally to Restore Sanity

Jon Stewart: The Most Trusted Name In Fake News Rallies to restore SANITY. Download the NPR interview Here.

2010-10-11T12:42:00.001-05:00

Jon Stewart recorded an interview in front of an live audience last week. Check out the story on NPR.org

In an NPR interview at the World's Third-Most-Sacred Jewish Site, the 92nd Street Y in New York City, the comedian and host of the Daily Show discusses his Rally to Restore Sanity, being held on the National Mall on October 30 (as well as Steven Colbert's "rival" Rally to Keep Fear Alive. He also delves into Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, his remarkable similarities to Glenn Beck, and why his rally will be just like "Woodstock, but with the nudity and drugs replaced by respectful disagreement."

Download the mp3 of the interview HERE:
Download John Stewart's interview with Terry Gross, (mp3) in its entirety HERE!

David Vitter's Forgotten Crimes

2010-09-29T16:08:00.000-05:00

David Vitter's Forgotten Crimes

Senator David Vitter knowingly employs a Criminal who abuses and imprison women, bangs hookers, and runs his campaigns on his "family values." Vote him out in November!

A Stellar “Superjam” - My memories and the Offbeat Archive...

2010-09-21T12:51:00.000-05:00

The New Years Dilemma & A Stellar “Superjam” :: offBeat :: Louisiana and New Orleans Online Music Resource

A few months after moving to New Orleans, I had my first true funky experience, at what I believe was the 6th Superfly Superjam, at the Howlin' Wolf. I just had no idea... An old friend, Scotty, who lived across the hall from me in the freshman dorm - Sharp Hall - at Tulane, convinced me to go, and I've been searching in vain for funk OR jazz that good ever since. If I were to point to one moment that made me a "lifer" in New Orleans (I'm in Baton Rouge now, but I'm gonna make it back soon - stupid law school) it was eleven years ago, around 1:45am, December 4th, watching Porter and Medeski go at it, smilin' and trying to one-up each other, while I was watching from the balcony dumb-founded and drooling (from the music and the strong drinks). Oh, Superfly, why spend the summers in Tennessee, when you could be throwing sick parties back home? I found the description on the old OffBeat archives...
"The people at Superfly Productions have put together an outstanding aggregation of talent for December 4th at the Howlin’ Wolf: John Medeski (keys), John Scofield (guitar), George Porter, Jr. (bass), Zigaboo Modeliste (drums), and a horn section featuring Roger Lewis (baritone sax) and Gregory Davis (trumpet) of the Dirty Dozen and Clarence Johnson (tenor sax). The idea to combine the original Meters rhythm section (Porter, Modeliste) with two masters of jazz fusion (Medeski, Scofield) and a killer New Orleans hon section is brilliant to say the least. Adding to the excitement, this is the first, and possibly only time they will perform as a group.

The show is the sixth installment of the popular “Superjam” series. These are essentially well-promoted all-star jam sessions which, even if all the players on stage aren’t coming out of the jazz idiom (and usually at least a few do), thrive on the kind of spontaneous interaction and virtuosity associated with jazz. The dramatic success of these shows (people are still talking about the sold-out ‘99 Jazz Fest “Superjam,” which also featured Medeski) is ample proof that live music audiences remain hungry for the most essential element in jazz, improvisation."

PostScript by Jon - that was definitely the only time they have ever played. If anyone out there has a recording of this show... well I'd be willing to do some pretty extreme things to get a hold of it.

Also Posted on WWOZ's facebook page, a response to "Magical Crescent City Moments."

Key Religious Groups Either Oppose Or Won't Weigh In On 'Ground Zero Mosque' - From TPM

2010-08-17T19:32:00.001-05:00

Links on "Talking Points Memo" | Facebook

I posted this comment to a story about how the media has blown the issue of the Muslim community center being built two blocks from Ground Zero WAY out of proportion. Check the discussion out on facebook, and be informed.

Remember how the earliest colonies, the original European inhabitants of the Americas, fled Europe because they could not practice their religions openly. The Puritans, the Quakers (thank you, Will Penn) all driven out by the majorities - the Catholics and the Church of England. Congress shall make no law respecting religion, and all shall have complete religious freedom in the Unites States because of this heritage. Our country is great because people can believe whatever they want, openly and without fear. I'm not a Muslim, but the groups and individuals who are fighting this mosque are trying to infringe on all of our personal freedoms. Many of these same people claim to be 'strict constructionists.' How can they sleep at night?

LA Bishops To Jindal: Uh, No, You Can't Bring Guns Into Our Churches | TPM LiveWire

2010-07-20T22:49:00.001-05:00

So, who is the biggest reactionary who is out of touch with the majority of the American (and the world) population? Choices:
1) The Catholic Church
2) The Louisiana Legislature
3) Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal
4) or comment with your own response.

See the official discussion here:
LA Bishops To Jindal: Uh, No, You Can't Bring Guns Into Our Churches | TPM LiveWire

The Little Oily Mermaid

2010-07-17T15:08:00.002-05:00

Tar balls reach Lake Pontchartrain | NOLA.com

2010-07-06T16:28:00.001-05:00

Tar balls reach Lake Pontchartrain | NOLA.com

I can't really comment on this. I'm all the way in Baton Rouge. But I hope I can, because of the gravity of the situation, re-print the picture associated with the article here... Thank you Nola.com and Times-Pic, for your outstanding reporting on this travesty, the greatest environmental disaster (hopefully) in our lifetime.

phish & jay-Z - 99 problems & big pimpin' 2004-06-18

2010-07-05T12:47:00.001-05:00

Why I remain proud of Pennsylvania! Shirking the Constitution may be shiek, but it's still wrong.

2010-07-04T19:28:00.001-05:00

Media Law Prof Blog: Federal Judge Strikes Down Pennsylvania Business Naming Law

Tonights Phish Show! Live Broadcast from UStream

2010-06-30T20:31:00.002-05:00

Live Broadcast by Ustream.TV

Recap-O-Rama - Futurama is Returning! Catch up here.

2010-06-17T20:58:00.002-05:00

Futurama

Thurs, June 24 10pm / 9c

Recap-O-Rama: 5 Seasons in 7 Minutes

www.comedycentral.com

Futurama New Episodes

Ugly Americans

The Ultimate Guide to Internet Law: 100 Guides and Resources for Future Lawyers | OEDb

2010-05-31T17:00:00.000-05:00

The Ultimate Guide to Internet Law: 100 Guides and Resources for Future Lawyers | OEDb

A list from two years ago, but still a good list.