Anne: day 7

Friday Anne sat up in a chair for ten minutes. Saturday she went 30 minutes. This morning, Anne made it an hour! But, it took so much effort that she immediately went to sleep afterwards.

Today, I was invited to my drummer's home for lunch. While I was at lunch, Anne got out of bed and went to the sink to brush her teeth. The nursing staff has told her that she needs to get out of bed and move a bit to get her GI tract motivated. She has taken it to heart and is making what effort she can to not allow atrophy to set in.

 

Along those lines, they cut off the NG (nasal gastric) tube today and she didn't get nauseous. So it was removed and she was given permission to drink water and eat ice chips. Tomorrow she will begin on "clear foods" (tea, jello, etc.) and possibly take a very short walk.

The suture line looks clean and straight. Tara thinks that it will heal nicely and leave only a very thin scar. He didn't use staples, so there will be no "zipper" effect.

Liz, Dr. Lim's P.A., has come by several times and is overjoyed at Anne's progress. In fact, it's kind of funny how excited Liz gets; she shakes and is nearly speechless! She told Anne the other day that she's their "model patient" because all her wounds look so nice and everything is healing perfectly.

 

Keep those prayers coming and don't forget to love those closest to you,

Don and Anne


PS
I've been asked if Anne would like flowers or cards. Anne has so many flowers that the staff is setting them on the chairs! So, if you'd like to send a card, she's in room S-165. You can send it to:

Anne W. Peer, room S-165
c/o Renown Regional Medical Center
1155 Mill Street
Reno, NV 89502

Please feel free to give this information to anyone that would like to send a card.

 

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Love is the music of life;
Compassion is its melody.
  - Don Peer ( o)==#

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Just wanted to share

While I was at work they got Anne up today and she sat in a chair!

I feel like I missed my baby’s first steps… L

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Anne, day 3

 Last night was business as usual for Anne and John, her PM nurse. He came in every couple of hours and moved the pillows, rolling her onto her other cheek, checking her pain levels and switching or adjusting various IVs. She's not laying fully on her side, just leaning more to one side or the other. Her stomach is extremely sore from the surgery and any movement, including putting the bed flat, causes a great deal of pain.
 But the pain is fairly well managed and she generally reports 2-3 (out of ten) when asked. Unless, of course, they're moving her around or messing with her stomach. Then it goes to 11 pretty quickly.
 Today was a busy day for everyone, both staff and us. The morning started as usual with a chest X-ray at 6:00 followed by various blood tests, shift change and a visit from Dr. Lim. After checking on Anne he recommended that she be moved to a regular room. (Yeah!)
 So the call went out and more staff arrived to prepare her for movement to oncology. Once the guy with the gurney arrived everyone lifted Anne gently out of her bed and onto her new vehicle. After disconnecting any tubes they could and hooking up to portable oxygen, away we went. With the IV tree in one hand and guiding Anne with the other, this gentleman led me through the maze of the hospital to her new room.
 Once we got her positioned into her new bed, I went to lunch so that the staff could get her settled in without me in the way. While Lady and I ate, Tara texted and wanted to know when I'd be heading back. I told her ten minutes and wrapped things up, leaving a sad puppy to "hold down the fort."
 Shortly after we arrived, Justus called and said he was out front. I gave him direction and put my shoes on to go meet him. By the time I reached the nurse's station, he was arriving there. (Them long legs give him quite an advantage!)
 Anne was very happy to see him and I took Tara to get some coffee while they talked. We sat by a large bay window and talked about how precious life was. We joked about childhood things and how proud I am of her and the way she not only mastered her demons, but beat them soundly into the ground. She's become so spiritual and empathetic that it drives her focus on healing and has made one of the best nurses in town.
 Just before heading back, I stopped at the frozen yogurt shop and picked up a bowl of vanilla with fresh blueberries for Justus. When he saw that his eyes lit up! I had one yesterday and it's really delicious. Not only that, but it's low fat and no added sugar!
 A few minutes later a nurse came in and needed to perform some procedures, so Justus said his good byes and took off. Tara and I helped roll Anne around and change the linens. Then they gave her a sponge bath and dressed her in a fresh gown.
 After the procedure Josh called and I put him on speaker phone. Anne struggled out a few comments, but mostly listened, smiled and nodded. It was getting late and he had to work tonight, but before he went Tara came up with a good idea.
 She suggested that the "long arm of the law" should reach out in the night and touch someone. That person would be Anne's RN, who was still waiting for the "boots" to prevent her from getting sores on her ankles while being laid up for so long. Josh said he'd really like to help with that and would also check on her pain level and whether she'd been moved. You should have seen that nurse's face when Tara told her that L.A.P.D. would be calling look in on Anne!
 With that I kissed my precious love "Good night" and headed home. Lady was overly exuberant to see me and we ate dinner in silence, missing our loved one. Now that I'm caught up, I need to run the Red Bug for her before we hit the sack.
 Good night and God bless you all,
Don and Anne

 

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Love is the music of life;
Compassion is its melody.
  - Don Peer ( o)==#

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Tuesday: quick update

 I snuck home to feed the dog and get some lunch, so I thought I'd throw this out for you.
 It was a very, very long day, yesterday. I was finally able to lay down about 3:30am on the pull-out in Anne's room. But, the constant beeping, buzzing and flashing lights made it impossible to sleep. About 5:30 the poking, prodding, blood draws, etc. started. I monitored it all and helped when I could, watched when I could not.
 (After all that she's been through I wish that they'd just let her rest. But I understand that they have her best interests in mind.)
 They removed the air tube this morning and she's breathing on her own. A pulmonary doctor came by to see her and go over things with her nurse because her blood pressure was very low and the blood's PH was, also, very low. So, another unit of blood was added to the two she'd received during surgery along with some and continuous IV of saline solution. Hopefully, her BP will be back up tomorrow and they'll move her to a standard surgery recovery room.
 Dr. Lim, her surgeon, will come by tonight at the end of the day.

Two questions that people have asked me:
 After the operation, did the surgeon feel he did in fact get all of the cancer? Yes. He is very confident that he'd gotten all that could be seen and everything that was in near proximity to it, where it may have spread to, but wasn't yet in evidence.

 Was anyone with you yesterday? Yes. Tara, my daughter, stayed with me until Dr. Lim came out and told us it was done. She's an RN and helped to "translate" for me. Also, she prepared me psychologically for the results of the surgery. For this I will always be grateful.

  Prayers on turbo,

Don and Anne

 

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surgery complete

 Anne came out of surgery at midnight tonight. Her doctor is happy with the results and said that she handled it well. She will be in ICU for a couple of days and then to a regular unit for a week to ten days.
 We're not out of the woods yet, so keep her in your thoughts and prayers, please.
Don

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Not good

 We arrived at 9:30 this morning and they didn't take Anne in until 3:00. She's in surgery as I write this and the surgeon came out about an hour after he started to tell me that it was as bad as it could be. He showed me a picture of the tumor. Before going back in, he assured me that she'd be alright and had tears in his eyes. This is not what he'd been hoping for, but he's going to get all the cancer out of her. I told him that we can deal with whatever needs to be done. I just want my wife back.
 Not sure, right now, how much longer it will be. Or the recovery period we're looking at. I'll let you know later about all that.
 Keep praying and double up on those good thoughts,
Don

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Love is the music of life;
Compassion is its melody.
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Do NOT buy things embedded with anti-biotics!

When I was at the store recently I noticed an over-abundance of items that were coated, embedded or integrated with anti-biotics. Things like hand soap, cutting boards, hair combs, etc. are all being pushed on the public. These things are unnecessary and causing the proliferation of "super bugs". These infections are resistant to the treatments hospitals and doctors usually give that, in the past, could cure you. But, the more sterile you try to make your world the more potent the inhabitants of that world must become.in order to survive!

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'Greatest threat to human health'

Experts are warning of a not-too-distant future where life-saving medical interventions will be too risky to undertake; a future where chemotherapy is impossible and organ transplants are no longer an option.

They say this would happen in a world without effective antibiotics, and they are calling for more public awareness of the problem of rising antimicrobial resistance.

"Basically without antibiotics those patients can't be saved, we can't do those sorts of therapies," said Dr John Ferguson, Director of Infection Prevention and Control for Hunter New England Health.

They point to the "over-giving" and broadscale use of antibiotics in the community, a practise which has the effect of unnecessarily speeding up the ability of bacteria to evolve their defences.

The proof was in the rising number of infections treated in hospitals in which the first, second and even the third-option antibiotic was no longer effective, and studies which show the circulation of newly resistant bacteria in the community.

Antibiotics also kill off the body's friendly bacteria, or "gut flora", creating an opportunity for re-colonisation with more resistant bacterial strains.

"We need to make people understand that this is part of your body, in fact you carry around 1.5 kilograms of bacteria and they are very important," Prof Cars said.

"The more antibiotics you use, necessary or unnecessary, the more you select your own flora towards a more resistant population - so when you get infections they become more and more difficult to treat."

Studies have shown it can take months, or even years, for a person's gut flora to return to the state before a course of antibiotics.

Prof Cars advised: "Save your own bacteria... you should be friends with them. We have to save these precious drugs for the very ill." Read more at www.smh.com.au

 

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Not sleeping well? It's your gear!

Amplify’d from www.computerworld.com

Mike Elgan: Why gadget lights are dangerous

Device makers put lights on everything. Yes, the lights are annoying, but they can also wreck your health.

Computerworld - When I turn off my bedroom light at night, the room is still lit up like the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. No, I'm not some sci-fi fanboy, just a gadget-happy materialist.

Lights on during sleep harms health

New science has shed light on various health effects of sleeping in a room that isn't dark.

Lights at night can make you depressed and fat. An Ohio State University experiment on mice led researchers to conclude that even dim light in a room during sleep may cause depression. In a different study, Ohio State researchers found that sleeping in a dimly lighted room increases the amount of hunger experienced during the day, which can contribute to weight gain and possibly susceptibility to diabetes.

Sleeping in a room with dim lights increases a woman's chance of getting breast cancer, according to research conducted at the National Cancer Institute and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The reason is that the body produces a cancer-fighting hormone called melatonin at night during sleep. But this process is interrupted if the room isn't dark. Read more at www.computerworld.com

 

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Skynet cometh

This is just the beginning. As we all know, technology marches forward and things get smaller and cheaper. It won't be long before this technology is available to the average person. Unfortunately, corporate greed will be the "push" behind its advancement.

The price of such power? You have read 1984 or seen the Terminator series, haven't you? The basic problem is that those who make decisions regarding how and where this technology is to be used

1) are motivated by profits

2) are insulated against the consequences

3) cannot comprehend how their ideas could be misused

4) and are not even open to discussing this possibility!

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My Puny Human Brain

This was to be an away game for humanity, I realized as I walked onto the slightly-smaller-than-regulation Jeopardy! set that had been mocked up in the building's main auditorium. In the middle of the floor was a huge image of Watson's on-camera avatar, a glowing blue ball crisscrossed by "threads" of thought—42 threads, to be precise, an in-joke for Douglas Adams fans. The stands were full of hopeful IBM programmers and executives, whispering excitedly and pumping their fists every time their digital darling nailed a question. A Watson loss would be invigorating for Luddites and computer-phobes everywhere, but bad news for IBM shareholders. Read more at www.slate.com

 

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360 degree music video!

Make sure to mouse over everything or you might miss something!

http://craigwedren.com/

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FB behind your back

How secret Facebook algorithms change your social life:

 http://post.ly/1dBBb

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World Traveler?

Check out the Social Media Filtering Map before you go:

http://opennet.net/research/map/socialmedia

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Facebook scam re: stroke on TV

Facebook users have started getting messages, which look like they are from friends, that say something like "OMG, this reporter had a stroke on Live TV check it out," followed by a link.

If you get this message, don't click on the link.

http://money.msn.com/saving-money-tips/post.aspx?post=1e7a1961-5dab-4eca-b9ab-2a3d85c4abb5&GT1=33009

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Getting real about blocking

Never mind Google, New Extensions Block Spam Across Browsers & Search Engines

http://www.kynetx.com/personalblock/

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Phone tax

Taxes on Cell Phones Hit All-Time High, 10 Best and Worst States:

 http://t.co/PhMsdFG

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Twitter for non-tweeters

"In addition to offering the Twitter experience to everyone, with or without a Twitter account, UberCurrent creates a unique streamlining process for getting valuable content to the appropriate users."

http://www.ubercurrent.com/

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Go see MoMA!

#ArtProject has launched! 17 museums, including MoMA & indoor "street views." http://bit.ly/artproject

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Don't wait 'till it's too late

RT @paulocoelho - Very inspiring morning read: "I wish you enough":

http://bit.ly/gfCib1

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Have you seen Watson?

Dissecting IBM Watson's Jeopardy! Game:

http://t.co/pqHI2vm

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Everything everywhere

Sync your files online and across computers with @Dropbox. 2GB account is free!

http://db.tt/1M61dft

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Out of the water!

Remember that teenage girl who got her arm taken off by a shark? Here comes the movie: http://bit.ly/gyZljb

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Surgery reminder

  Just a short note about Anne's upcoming surgery. She's scheduled to go in at 2pm Thursday afternoon. Depending on what he finds, it could last several hours. Again, we won't really know anything until after he finishes.   Anne is fighting a cold tonight and is hoping that she can kick it soon. Apparently, they could call off the surgery if she's been sick prior to going under the knife. Yesterday she stayed home and rested, drinking lots of fluids and taking DayQuil to alleviate her symptoms.   Today she felt better and went to coffee with a friend this afternoon. But as the evening worn on she began to get a headache. So, we laid down for a nap. But she couldn't sleep because of all the things she has on her mind.   After our evening ritual of Chai tea, she watched the news and headed for bed. Before laying down she asked me to remind everyone that her surgery is on Thursday and to please pray for her. It's truly done wonders and she needs all the help she can get!   Bless you and bless those you care for, Don and Anne     ---
Love is the music of life;
Compassion is its melody.
  - Don Peer ( o)==#

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Fun iPod Speakers

http://mashable.com/2010/07/01/ipod-speakers/

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Great new cancer tech!

http://www.smartplanet.com/business/blog/smart-takes/purdue-physicist-creates-cancer-cell-motion-detecting-technology/14266/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

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Facebook instant personalization: How to disable it, and why

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/facebook-instant-personalization-how-to-disable-it-and-why/8006

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Top 10 YouTube Videos of All Time

Just 2 humor or baby videos. Will this list soon be only music videos?

http://rww.tw/8F69C3

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Notes from the HP WebOS event

Todd Bradley, HP Exec. VP:

HP serves over a billion customers, 174 countries, 145,000 partners, 210K services providers, 88K retail locations. "Our global reach is unprecedented." In the last 60 seconds we shipped 120 PCs, 120 printers.

Jon Rubenstein, Senior VP and GM:

Veer: Today, much the industry going to larger and larger devices. Power of the large phone in a more compact size is what we should have. "Something that is powerful yet elegantly small."  "about the size of a credit card". Slide out QWERTY keyboard, 6-inch capacitive touch screen with gestures. Full Web, plus Flash. Built-in GPS, location aware SS. 5-MP camera, USB cord, audio jack. HSPA+ 802.bg Bluetooth EDR 2.1, 8GB storage, and same memory as Pre 2. Qualcomm 7230 processor.

Pre 3: Also a slider phone, looks a little longer than the Veer. Thin portrait slider with the largest keyboard Palm makes. Gesture area. 3.6-inch 480x800 WVGA display. 2.5X the resolution of the Pre. 5 Mpixel camera with video stabilization, and forward facing camera. Two versions: EVDO world phone HSPA, 8 GB or 16 GB storage Bluetooth 2.1 Memory is same as Pre 2. 1.4 GHz Qualcomm chip

Both phones are Touchstone compatible.

TouchPad: 1.5 pounds, 13mm thick. 9.7-inch capacitive display. 1024x768. 1.3 mPixel Webcam, Beats audio tech, video calls, 802.1BGN, 16/32 GB storage, twice the memory of Pre 2, Bluetooth 2.1 EDTR gyro accelerometer compass. 1.2 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon.

If you own a WebOS phone, you already have a combined calendar and email addresses. If you get a Touchpad, these things just show up.

Touchpad is more than a pretty face: a powerful work tool too. Virtual keyboard has a number row. Comes bundled with Quick Office to edit MS docs. Also has Dropbox and Box.net. Has Skype, too. If you need to print: can send docs wirelessly. VPN support too.

Accessories: case doubles as a stand with kickstand. Wireless keypad. Can charge on a new sloping dock, even within the case. While they're docked, they can share information wirelessly.

Sachin Kansal, Director of Product Management:

Can charge phone on Touchstone. While it charges, it shows upcoming appointments, or photos- turns in to photo frame.
Touchpad and Pre 3 talk to each other, so you can receive texts on it. And you can also call from it, apparently, via Bluetooth.

When I'm done using an app can flick it off the screen to close. "This takes tablet UI to a whole new level, to a level that is unmatched in the industry."

Email demo. Can read text, with inline images. If you drag the window to the right, it shows new messages.

Email shows multiple accounts: Exchange, Google, Yahoo, etc. Selecting Exchange places the folder at top. Multi-select button at the bottom of the page Tap multi-select, then tap multiple email messages, and delete all at once.

Attachments open in Quick Office: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Adobe PDF. Connects to Box.net, Google Docs. Quick Office will come bundled, with editing features built in.

Email about "Kung Fu Panda" open s video. Flash-based trailer of the sequel runs flawlessly.

While he was browsing people tried to get a hold of him. Great thing about messages is that they're unobtrusive. Drop down windows shows how many email messages, IMs etc. Can swipe extraneous messages off the drop down window. Or, you can touch them and brings you the message. Messaging integrates SMS, IMs from Yahoo, AIM, Google.

Natural-style keyboard with number row. Ooh... the virtual keyboard can be resized. Nifty. Just three sizes, though. No dynamic keyboard scaling.

http://www.palm.com/us/products/phones/veer/index.html

http://www.palm.com/us/products/phones/pre3/index.html

http://www.palm.com/us/products/pads/touchpad/index.html

"Our customers are going to have various options with how to purchase and buy this content". Partners include Time, also working to make it for platform for books: Amazon Kindle app is native as well.

HP partners: worked with Qualcomm, one of the first to showcase Snapdragon processors. So here comes a Qualcomm executive: CEO Paul Jacobs, to speak:

Now we're going to talk about how multitasking takes advantage of Qualcomm capabilities. "Full Web", sleek and elegant designs.

Qualcomm's ability to deliver dual-core specifically for mobile environments. Running two cores allows for multitasking and performance for touchpad user. Highest multimedia. Console quality gaming, stereoscopic 3D.

Jimmy Lovine of Interscope and Chairman of A&M records:

Touchpad supports Beats audio technology.

"What we're trying to do here is fix the degradation of music that the digital revolution has caused. And then there's a piracy reference followed by a comment on the audio degradation.
"We record our music in 24-bit. The record industry downgrades that to 16-bit and ships that to iTunes and older digital services. Why? I don't know. It's not because they're geniuses."

Working with Apple and other digital device manufacturers to work with them to shift to 24-bits. But it's a long road.

When you play them through a Dell, it sounds like they're being played through a portable television." At PC OEMs start with 50 cents (to spend) on sound, and then it gets cut over time.

HP is stepping forward and wants to own music, Lovine says. Now it's going to be on the touchpad. It's a musical instrument. "Bottom line, music is still the best app for the Internet, no matter what they build."

Rubenstein: Developers and content creators will have a field day.

Steven McArthur, senior VP of apps and services on stage to talk about developers:

These fantastic new products are just the first part of the plan to build the largest installed base of users to expand to. HP's sheer scale is positioned to take this goal. HP's developer community is also in position to achieve this goal.

WebOS doesn't just enhance big players like Facebook. Self-Aware Games created Word Ace, which combines word games and Texas Hold ‘Em. A version for Touchpad optimized for multi-tasking. For us, the real pleasure is helping our devs.

Original product announcement:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379927,00.asp

[comment from user]: Per Veer's tech spec, it is a GSM phone. (Will it be only on AT&T/T-mobile?)

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Cool Chrome add-in

http://www.my6sense.com/twitter/

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Hahaha!!!

A man comes to doctor: "I am addicted to Twitter", he says. Doctor says: "I am sorry, I don't follow you"

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Attacks identified on new devices such as smartphones

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/mcafee-malware-going-mobile/44549?tag=nl.e539

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Facebook Announces Its Big Move

http://mashable.com/2011/02/08/facebook-menlo-park-2/

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Hahaha...

http://therawfeed.com/apple-lawyers-tell-guy-he-cant-sell-wooden-cu

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One more reminder...

The people that run facebook are EVIL and don't care what you need for security. To them it's all about selling your information! After all, you give it to them of your own free will. So, they figure they can do what they want with it!

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3 hours ago Your Facebook profile could be one of 250,000 on 'dating' site

To make a point that putting trust in Facebook comes at a price, a media artist and media critic created a "dating" website where they placed 250,000 Facebook profiles — without asking for any permission. Read more at technolog.msnbc.msn.com

 

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Vipre speed freaks

http://www.vipreantivirus.com/speed-matters.cfm

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Superbowl ad!

This is the VW ad that they are going to be playing at the Superbowl!

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It's simple... money

From the Gates Foundation:

Rethink education with data. The key word here: feedback. According to

PISA, two things differentiate U.S. education from other countries. The first: foreign students are in school for more hours. The second: American schools do very little to measure, invest in, and reward teacher excellence.

“The remarkable thing about great teachers today is that in most cases nobody taught them how to be great,” Gates writes. “They figured it out on their own.”

There’s nothing revolutionary here that Gates hasn’t described in detail before, but the elephant in the room is simple: money. Despite Gates’ immense personal wealth, the success of his philanthropic foundation rests in convincing other well-heeled donors that these causes are worth investing in — not just morally, but with a guarantee that additional funds will make a difference.

Will others buy in?

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Bill and Melinda plans to do good work

http://www.smartplanet.com/business/blog/smart-takes/gates-foundation-six-goals-for-2011/14115/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

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Verizon appears to be back online

Everyone else OK?

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Anyone else having trouble w/ Verizon?

I hear that a tower may be down. Trying to confirm now.

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