MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'district'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:04:13 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5159632&cid=t_153598_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2F24%2Fthe-town-of-perth-ontarios-appreciation-of-her-past%2F My heart goes out to the people of Goderich who learned this week how quickly our architectural heritage can be severely damaged or wiped out completely. Having recently returned from a summer visit to my ancestral home (in Canada, at least, say ancestry.ca friends) I am renewed in my delight of how seriously the Town [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5159632 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:31:39 +0100 5159632 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4952743&cid=t_153598_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F06%2F17%2Fnursing-times-2011-volume-107-no-18%2F This study explores nurses’ experiences of using the Preferred Priorities for Care (PPC) document. The article concludes that district nurses found the PPC an invaluable tool and it’s use should be extended to a wider range of healthcare professionals and not solely district nurses. Contact the Library for a copy of this article. Filed under: Current Awareness, Journals Tagged: District Nurses, End of Life, End of Life Care, Preferred Priorities for Care (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4952743 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:37:58 +0100 4952743 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4577959&cid=t_153598_118_f&fid=34892&url=http%3A%2F%2Flifeinthenhs.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F03%2F12%2Fdr-vs-nurse%2F I am now 48 years old and as such am subject to both speaking and acting in a way as I would never have believed; i.e. I am now a middle aged parent type. Therefore, when reading a book by a nurse who trained in the 1950′s I am able to see that many of the great things about nursing generate from that era. Of course if I had read such a thing in 1982 I would have declared this the work of some old timer, stuck in the middle ages. This is of course the way of the world!!! In the 1950′s the sister was the queen, and the consultant, however he believed himself to be was only some kind of lowly prince, perhaps akin to prince Harry. Close to the throne, but without the deaths of his Granny, dad and brother never likely to be the king! I can’t deny that I remember medical stude... Life in the NHS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4577959 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:52:29 +0100 4577959 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4455255&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FoGphyKl99-g%2F By Tim LynchThe Washington Post has an interesting article about what has happened in the city since the Supreme Court declared the city's gun ban unconstitutional in the landmark Heller decision in 2008.  Basically, hundreds of residents have registered thousands of firearms. More than 2 years have passed and the predicted mayhem is not here. DC Mayor Fenty called the court ruling an "outrage" and said the ban was necessary to stop residents from intentionally or accidentally killing one another.  Paul Helmke of the Brady Campaign says the debate over the ban is not over yet.  Several more years of data gathering will be necessary.  And so the debate rolls on! For more on this subject, check out the Cato book on the Heller case,  Gun Control on Trial  by Brian Doherty.  Still more ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4455255 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:06:39 +0100 4455255 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4450277&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FoGphyKl99-g%2F By Tim LynchThe Washington Post has an interesting article about what has happened in the city since the Supreme Court declared the city's gun ban unconstitutional in the landmark Heller decision in 2008.  Basically, hundreds of residents have registered thousands of firearms. More than 2 years have passed and the predicted mayhem is not here. DC Mayor Fenty called the court ruling an "outrage" and said the ban was necessary to stop residents from intentionally or accidentally killing one another.  Paul Helmke of the Brady Campaign says the debate over the ban is not over yet.  Several more years of data gathering will be necessary.  And so the debate rolls on! For more on this subject, check out the Cato book on the Heller case,  Gun Control on Trial  by Brian Doherty.  Still more ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4450277 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:06:39 +0100 4450277 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4445783&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FuwoBo14pwyo%2F By Ilya ShapiroJimmy Margulies Obamacare, Part 2 is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4445783 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:27:17 +0100 4445783 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4233184&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fhealthcare-reform-law-state-courts-pose-a-threat%2F2010.12.06 Flush from their big win in the midterms, the Boehners are vowing to repeal and replace the Big O’s health reform law. They pose a legitimate threat, but an even larger one lies in the courts, where suits challenging the constitutionality of the law have been popping up like fireflies on a late August night. In Virginia for example, Republican-appointed Federal District Court Judge Henry Hudson has indicated that the Individual Mandate — a key provision of the law that has been challenged in a suit filed in his court by the state’s Republican Attorney General — might not pass his sniff test. Hudson said he’d rule on the matter this month. If he deems the provision to be unconstitutional, he might (it’s unlikely, but he might) enjoin the law altogether until higher courts rule o... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4233184 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:00:41 +0100 4233184 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4098312&cid=t_153598_133_f&fid=37107&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Faspiewebnet%2F%7E3%2Fn-7oSnKzBQM%2F In the area of Houstan Texas Alief School District has announced it is suing parents of an Autistic Special Education child for legal fees resulting from a drawn out battle for appropriate services for their son.  For three years the parents of special education student Chuka Chibuogwu sought to get more appropriate services in the [...] (Source: AspieWeb.net) AspieWeb.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4098312 Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:37:51 +0100 4098312 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3862003&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fem9DHbqcQio%2F By Julian SanchezThe Electronic Frontier Foundation trumpets a surprising privacy win last week in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. In U.S. v. Maynard (PDF), the court held that the use of a GPS tracking device to monitor the public movements of a vehicle—something the Supreme Court had held not to constitute a Fourth Amendment search in U.S. v Knotts—could nevertheless become a search when conducted over an extended period.  The Court in Knotts had considered only tracking that encompassed a single journey on a particular day, reasoning that the target of surveillance could have no “reasonable expectation of privacy” in the fact of a trip that any member of the public might easily observe. But the Knotts Court explicitly reserved judgment on potential uses ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3862003 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:22:10 +0100 3862003 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3858137&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fem9DHbqcQio%2F By Julian SanchezThe Electronic Frontier Foundation trumpets a surprising privacy win last week in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. In U.S. v. Maynard (PDF), the court held that the use of a GPS tracking device to monitor the public movements of a vehicle—something the Supreme Court had held not to constitute a Fourth Amendment search in U.S. v Knotts—could nevertheless become a search when conducted over an extended period.  The Court in Knotts had considered only tracking that encompassed a single journey on a particular day, reasoning that the target of surveillance could have no “reasonable expectation of privacy” in the fact of a trip that any member of the public might easily observe. But the Knotts Court explicitly reserved judgment on potential uses ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3858137 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:22:10 +0100 3858137 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3683754&cid=t_153598_125_f&fid=37825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbibbynews.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F06%2F21%2F710%2F The 7th District Dental Hygienists Association of the State of New York, Rochester, Finger Lakes Region, has donated materials to the dentistry archives located in Bibby library at Eastman Dental. This endeavor will ensure that the group’s history will be preserved, digitized, and accessible to the public for scholarly use. Of particular interest are a [...] (Source: Bibby Library News and Tips) Bibby Library News and Tips blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3683754 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:51:01 +0100 3683754 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3658953&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fdoc-fix-vote-awaits-reimbursement-cut-to-take-effect%2F2010.06.14 Senators visited their districts Friday and again today, so the earliest they could vote on the doc fix is tomorrow (6/15) — the day the 21.3 percent reimbursement cut takes effect. Slowing down the process are the numerous amendments. For example, the duration of the fix is still being negotiated. And there are amendments such as redefining what makes up a rural health district. In California, some rural areas are seeing urban levels of patient demand, but giving more money to these counties is being seen as a kickback akin to others that were proposed during healthcare reform. (Part B News, The Hill) *This blog post was originally published at ACP Internist* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3658953 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:00:00 +0100 3658953 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3655580&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F5uQVykFZKw0%2F By David RittgersFrom the Washington Post: Nearly 400 people were convicted of driving while intoxicated in the District since fall 2008 based on inaccurate results from breath test machines, and half of them went to jail, city officials said Wednesday. D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles said the machines were improperly adjusted by city police. The jailed defendants generally served at least five days, he said… The District’s badly calibrated equipment would show a driver’s blood-alcohol content to be about 20 percent higher than it actually was, Nickles said. All 10 of the breath test machines used by District police were wrong, he said. The problem occurred when the officer in charge of maintaining the machines improperly set the baseline alcohol concentration levels, Nic... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3655580 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:21:24 +0100 3655580 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3487034&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FoUSfgdiOaXM%2F By Julian SanchezLast week, I wrote that we’d learned that the Lower Merion School District may have gathered many more photos of more students than had previously been revealed. Now, the Philadelphia Inquirer has put a number on it: A security program installed on laptops assigned to students captured 56,000 images over the course of two years, including screenshots (showing programs in use and private messages being sent) and surreptitious webcam photos of students at home. Many of these images, it should be noted at the outset, do appear to have come from laptops that really had been stolen. Almost two-thirds of the total came from six laptops that had been stolen from a high school gym, and which kept transmitting for  almost six months, though even there it’s a close ques... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3487034 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:14:29 +0100 3487034 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3487037&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FRfts-SGcthQ%2F By Roger PilonOpposition is building to the proposed D.C. Voting Rights Act because it also restricts D.C.’s draconian gun-control laws. Mary G. Wilson, president of the League of Women Voters of the United States, and Billie Day, president of the League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia, said today that “asking citizens to sacrifice their safety in order to have representation in Congress is unacceptable.” And on NPR’s Morning Edition today, we heard the thoughts of D.C. councilwoman Mary Cheh, my con law professor: “I would rather wait to eternity before I bow down to the gun lobby and say ‘The only way I’m gonna get this is if we give up the right to protect ourselves.’” The District’s gun laws protect us? By keeping guns out of the hands of crimina... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3487037 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:58:47 +0100 3487037 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3443915&cid=t_153598_131_f&fid=34995&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.discovermagazine.com%2Fgnxp%2F2010%2F04%2Fdistrict-13%2F I wasn’t feeling well today (flu), so I decided to see what was in Netflix. I ended up watching Luc Besson’s District 13. It’s an action film without the typical special effects, rather, it hinges on the main actors’ mastery of parkour. Here’s a YouTube clip of a sequence which illustrates the parkour techniques: Much more like an Asian martial arts flick than a Western action movie. Highly recommended for these sorts of sequences. Here’s an article in The New Yorker about parkour. (Source: Gene Expression) Gene Expression blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3443915 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 05:11:52 +0100 3443915 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3420539&cid=t_153598_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F03%2F29%2Fteenage-bullying-leads-to-9-indictments%2F You know things have gotten bad when prosecutors start prosecuting teens — some on felony charges that could result in significant jail time — because of bullying. Yes, bullying. Most of us have experienced bullying at one point in our lives, or know someone who has been bullied. Of course for most, the bullying didn’t result in lifelong scars. Part of that is because the extremes of bullying were not really known 20 or 30 years ago. You couldn’t bully someone 24/7 through Facebook, Twitter, email and forums devoted entirely to making other people’s lives miserable (yes, such online communities exist). So nowadays sometimes bullying is taken to an extreme. Not by one or two teens or kids, but by a whole gang of them. In central Massachusetts, it led Phoebe P... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3420539 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:17:02 +0100 3420539 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3354295&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fsrd0HN_MzQY%2F By Chris MoodyAlthough public schools are usually the biggest item in state and local budgets, spending figures provided by public school officials and reported in the media often leave out major costs of education, and understate what is actually spent. In a new study, Cato’s Adam B. Schaeffer reviews district budgets and state records for the nation’s five largest metro areas and the District of Columbia. Schaeffer finds that, on average, per-pupil spending in these areas is 44 percent higher than officially reported. In this new video, Schaeffer explains the whole thing in under three minutes: (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3354295 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:10:21 +0100 3354295 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3235942&cid=t_153598_114_f&fid=34646&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uscourts.gov%2Fnewsroom%2F2010%2FDIR10-018.pdf The Committee on Court Administration and Case Management of the Judicial Conference of the United States has issued a memo regarding Juror Use of Electronic Communication Technologies.At its December 2009 meeting, the Judicial Conference Committee endorsed a set of suggested jury instructions that federal district judges should consider using to help deter jurors from using electronic technologies to research or communicate about cases while they serve as jurors. The recommended instructions were developed as a result of the increased use of web enabled mobile phones and devices that can be used to research information and communicated in a variety of ways, including email, social media, etc.The Proposed Model Jury Instruction reads as follows:Proposed Model Jury InstructionsThe Use of El... Health Care Law Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3235942 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:47:32 +0100 3235942 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3175855&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FtPVu3o9rO70%2F By Jim HarperThe bag tax recently instituted in the District of Columbia is a daily annoyance for District residents and a burden on the poor. It was sold as a way to fill the Anacostia River Cleanup and Protection Fund, and it will move some money to that project, but what’s interesting about it is how exquisitely designed it is to ensure that the incidence of the tax falls on consumers, not on businesses. Indeed, the bag tax may add to businesses’ profits. Below I’ve copied the language in the D.C. code that establishes the tax. (It’s referred to as a “fee.” Nobody’s buying that.) It’s not a simple five-cent tax on bags. It requires the consumer to hand over the five cents, and makes it illegal for retailers to absorb the tax. If a sandwich shop wanted to cover the tax a... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3175855 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:51:02 +0100 3175855 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3100779&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FOI6DbSktnF4%2F By Andrew J. CoulsonColbert King argues that DC should continue the opportunity scholarships private school choice program on its own dime, instead of complaining that Congress is killing it off. He starts off with a refreshing dose of realpolitik: “It should come as no surprise that Democratic congressional leaders are effectively killing the program. They, and their union allies, didn’t like it in the first place.” Too true. This is what disgusts many Americans about politics, but hey, that’s the reality. But then he seems to descend into uncharacteristic naivete with this: If the city likes vouchers so much, why shouldn’t the District bear the cost? The answer is as clear as it may be embarrassing to voucher proponents: D.C. lawmakers don’t want to a... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3100779 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:03:22 +0100 3100779 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2981057&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FXXiVf30PFJQ%2F On the day that we honor veterans for defending our freedom, I read this: Community groups and Los Angeles Unified officials on Tuesday condemned an anonymous flyer handed to Latino parents that threatened them with deportation if they supported plans to convert their neighborhood school to a charter. Calling it an escalation in a series of “scare tactics,” district officials and community advocates said distribution of the flyer was timed to weaken one of LAUSD’s boldest efforts to reform public education in Los Angeles. A generation or two from now, when children are studying how school choice began to spread throughout America, they will read of such incidents and marvel at the depths to which opponents sunk. If you’re a policymaker or opinion leader, on which si... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2981057 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:33:03 +0100 2981057 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2890621&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FAyL4iXsr2_w%2F In Bell Atlantic v. Twombly (2007) and Ashcroft v. Iqbal (2009), the Supreme Court gave trial courts more latitude to dismiss a lawsuit at a very early stage, before the parties have had a chance to engage in discovery (the often lengthy and expensive fact-finding stage of civil litigation), if judges think the suit is not founded on “plausible” allegations of wrongdoing.  There’s a rich, angry debate about the effect the decisions will have on dismissal rates of meritorious suits in lower courts. But the consensus among academics seems to be that both decisions will trigger a sea-change in lower court practice—one deeply unfavorable to plaintiffs. We won’t know the real effect of these decisions for many years to come. But a 2007 study by the Federal Judicial Center on the eff... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2890621 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:07:59 +0100 2890621 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2851749&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FxSzRo3XvKyE%2F With its decision today to hear the case of McDonald v. Chicago, the Supreme Court should settle the question of whether states must recognize the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. In June of 2008, in District of Columbia v. Heller, the Court found, for the first time, that the federal government must recognize the Second Amendment right of individuals, quite apart from their belonging to a militia, to have an operational firearm in their home. But the decision left open the question whether states were similarly bound. Thus, the so-called incorporation doctrine will be at issue in this case – the question of whether the Fourteenth Amendment “incorporates” the guarantees of the Bill of Rights against the states. The Bill of Rights applied originally only against the feder... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2851749 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:49:36 +0100 2851749 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2610877&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FmQ9vEXvV0jU%2F In my IBD piece today I gave total per pupil spending in DC as $29,000 per pupil. That was based on an official k-12 audited enrollment count of 44,681, which I was told by a district official included the special needs students placed by the district in private schools. It turns out this was not the case, so we have to add in the special needs students to arrive at the total enrollment figure. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get that enrollment correction into the IBD in time for publication. Its impact on per pupil spending is not large, however. The grand total audited enrollment was 48,353 students. From that we have to subtract 997 students in adult education programs and 1,498 students in preschool programs who are not covered by my k-12 budget calculations. That leaves... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2610877 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:52:08 +0100 2610877 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2580339&cid=t_153598_114_f&fid=34646&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wvnd.uscourts.gov%2FCMECF%2FAttorney%2520Filing%2520Manual%252007-02-09.pdf Brian Peterson highlights a great resource for lawyers who regularly practice in the United States District Court for the Northern District Court of West Virginia.The Attorney Filing Manual is a 20 page manual that provides guidance to lawyers on how to e-file certain types of documents wth the Court. The manual explains when documents should be filed electronically and the exceptions to the mandatory electronic filing requirements. The manual contains specifics on the filing of all types of pleadings and provides sample certificate of services format for electronic filing.The manual also discussed the use of "hyperlinks" in documents and allows electronically filed documents to contain hyperlinks to other portions of the document or to internet sites that contain source documkents for cit... Health Care Law Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2580339 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:55:09 +0100 2580339 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2527765&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FkBRHPUtVinA%2F One year ago today, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in District of Columbia et al. v. Heller. The decision affirmed the Second Amendment as protecting an individual right to keep and bear arms and invalidated the District of Columbia’s draconian gun control regime. The case generated a storm of media attention. The Cato Institute filed an amicus brief, one of nearly four dozen in the case. The Cato Institute held a forum for Brian Doherty’s book chronicling this victory for liberty, Gun Control on Trial: Inside the Supreme Court Battle Over the Second Amendment. The Heller case also figured prominently in Cato multimedia from Robert A. Levy and Clark Neily. Heller did not settle all of the questions related to the right to keep and bear arms. The incorporation of the... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2527765 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:40:19 +0100 2527765 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2452377&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fei6jvzEUVn0%2F First, the Democrats in Washington for all intents and purposes killed the District of Columbia’s proven voucher program, but did it with Ninja-like stealth. The weapons: Nearly impossible reauthorization requirements, late Friday announcements, and politically expedient promises to keep kids currently attending good schools from being very publicly booted. Now it’s Milwaukee’s turn. The new Democratic majority in Madison is on its way to cutting the value of individual vouchers while raising public school per-pupil expenditures, and even worse, is larding new regulations on private schools participating in the choice program. Perhaps the most ridiculous proposed reg: Requiring all participating private schools with student bodies that are more than 10 percent limited... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2452377 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:16:10 +0100 2452377 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2424038&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FAPEcfsVKigg%2F The USA Today editorializes this morning in support of the DC voucher program and school choice in general. That’s a shift from last year when Robert Enlow of the Friedman Foundation had to respond to their dismissal of vouchers. From the enlightened board: As an Education Department spokesman says, “The unions are not happy.” But 20 million low-income school kids need a chance to succeed. School choice is the most effective way to give it to them. The shift of center-left elite opinion on school choice is a hugely important development, as I noted with the first wave of mainstream media attention to the DC voucher program’s death-sentence: When elites unite on mainstream issues, the public’s response is relatively nonideological and lopsided. School choice is progr... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2424038 Tue, 19 May 2009 14:23:13 +0100 2424038 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2398592&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FOYz7MGa3phk%2F Conclusion The cases above illustrate that the general principles of detention have not changed significantly with adjusted definitions. The terms “enemy combatant,” “direct participation in hostilities,” and “substantial support” will be interpreted by judges on a case-by-case basis much like a finding of probable cause to issue a warrant or justify a search. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2398592 Thu, 07 May 2009 19:16:43 +0100 2398592 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2398594&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FNhy_ss5eFls%2F There is a new review of Brian Doherty’s book, Gun Control on Trial: Inside the Supreme Court Battle over the Second Amendment, over at The American Spectator. The review captures the uphill battle that the Heller litigants faced in the District of Columbia: When an employee on the Taxicab Commission once suggested that taxicab drivers be able to arm themselves for self- defense, a spokesman for then mayor Anthony Williams said, “The proposal is nutty, and obviously, it would not be entertained seriously by any thinking person.” After D.C. readjusted its laws in the wake of Heller so that guns were no longer prohibited but regulated to the point of making ownership exceedingly difficult, Mayor Adrian Fenty justified it thusly: “I don’t think [the people of D.C... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2398594 Thu, 07 May 2009 18:41:23 +0100 2398594 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2398596&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Ffy4yHG00BNY%2F The front page of the tabloid Washington Examiner blares Violence mars students’ days Weapons, assaults common at area schools Now I know that headlines have to be short to fit the space. But a more accurate headline would read Weapons, assaults common at government-run schools Fights, sexual assaults, and deadly weapons, described in the article as happening “almost once a day at some area high schools,” are almost nonexistent at private schools. Which is why it’s such a shame that the small number of District of Columbia students who have been granted a voucher to escape the D.C. public schools are going to lose that lifeline if the Democratic majority in Congress gets its way. I once proposed in the Washington Post: The D.C. school board should declare an educati... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2398596 Thu, 07 May 2009 16:27:51 +0100 2398596 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2389662&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FXuvHEXgBc7U%2F Tomorrow afternoon at 1pm, supporters of Washington DC Opportunity Scholarships will be rallying in Freedom Plaza to save the school voucher program. Why? That’s easy: Because a federal Department of Education study shows that parents are overwhelmingly more satisfied with it than they are with DC’s public schools. Because the same study shows that the program is raising student achievement above the level in the public schools. Because the children participating in it feel it is giving them a chance to realize their full potential in life — a chance that will disappear if the program is allowed to die, as they have attested in numerous YouTube videos. The harder question is why Congress — particularly congressional Democrats led by Sen. Richard Durbin (D., Ill.) &#... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2389662 Tue, 05 May 2009 18:21:46 +0100 2389662 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2364922&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FkfDZ8RxMauE%2F Cleveland Park, an upscale neighborhood here in the District of Columbia, might be the last place you would expect appeals to the principles of the free market.  It is, after all, the home of what David Brooks once called ”Ward Three Morality,” an outlook that celebrates government control of the economy. But not always. Recently an entrepreneur proposed opening a new wine store in Cleveland Park. He sought the support of the advisory neighborhood commission, a local government board, before making his case for a liquor license to DC’s Alcohol Beverage Control Board.  The most serious opposition to the entrepreneur’s plans seems to have come from an existing wine store nearby. According to its attorney, the existing wine store was “a beloved extension of t... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2364922 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:09:53 +0100 2364922 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2306732&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FlVUA2bAIvR8%2F The latest federal study of the D.C. voucher program finds that voucher students have pulled significantly ahead of their public school peers in reading and perform at least as well as public school students in math. It also reports that the average tuition at the voucher schools is $6,620. That is ONE QUARTER what the District of Columbia spends per pupil on education ($26,555), according to the District’s own fiscal year 2009 budget. Better results at a quarter the cost. And Democrats in Congress have sunset its funding and are trying to kill it. Shame on them. If President Obama believes his own rhetoric on the need for greater efficiency in government education spending and for improved educational opportunities, he should work with the members of his own party to continue and ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2306732 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:24:11 +0100 2306732 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2307043&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Fsarah-harman-watch-1.html A reader emails to point out that Sarah Harman is at it again.A solicitor representing a number of the families of the 13 people who died of C-diff at Eastbourne District General Hospital said the case had 'striking similarities' to a similar outbreak which killed 90 patients cared for by Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. Sarah Harman, of solicitors Harman & Harman, which specialises in medical negligence, said that the hospital had failed in its duty of care. Ms Harman said comparisons could be drawn between the Eastbourne hospital and Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust which came under fire in October 2007 after a report revealed 90 of its hospital patients had died from the disease.Ms Harman, the sister of Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Harriet Harman, said: "We have ... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2307043 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:19:00 +0100 2307043 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2284349&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FlUuti90WMdE%2F Here’s an interesting letter penned by Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association — the largest union in the country (hat tip to Cato’s own Neal McCluskey). It reads, in part (boldface added, ALL CAPS “shouting” in the original): Letter to the Democrats in the House and Senate on DC Vouchers March 05, 2009 Dear Senator: The National Education Association strongly opposes any extension of the District of Columbia private school voucher (”DC Opportunity Scholarship”) program.  We expect that Members of Congress who support public education, and whom we have supported, will stand firm against any proposal to extend the pilot program.  Actions associated with these issues WILL be included in the NEA Legislative Report Card f... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2284349 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:51:22 +0100 2284349 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2209971&cid=t_153598_86_f&fid=34461&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdigicmb.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F02%2Fupdate-on-opensearch-plugins-for.html Image by testdriverone via FlickrOf course I know browser plugins are not big news. They have been around for a while now. It just did not pass my path before as a need-to-do priority in the work load I already have. But suddenly you get the chance to make a great overview because somebody already did a load of work for library licenced databases & plugins. (Aaron Tay, a Librarian with NUS Libraries) Then I attacked the subject as I normally do: jump in, head first, see what I understand. And figure out what I do not understand, by trial and error. For now this results in a short list of available library plugins. I was surprised by the nice collection of the MyCroft Project, but just discovered yesterday they also offer a nice Plugin Create/Submit "wizard" This takes away having to un... DigiCMB blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2209971 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:50:00 +0100 2209971 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2087570&cid=t_153598_133_f&fid=37107&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Faspieweb%2F%7E3%2Flh6hyysMqxY%2F Parents of a child with Aspergers watched there kid turn from happy to scared according to a lawsuit they filed against a school district.  The lawsuit alleges that the child was tormented to the point of wanting to kill himself. According to an article by King5 John was repeatedly “hit with books,  …. spit on,  … [...] This is an excerpt from an article on AspieWeb.net, A blog writen by an Autistic Blogger. (Source: AspieWeb.net) AspieWeb.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2087570 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:58:22 +0100 2087570 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1901615&cid=t_153598_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FEeTiRNWztms%2F Over at the On Special Education blog at EdWeek, Christina Samuels describes a seeming “perfect storm’ of education issues” that the District of Columbia school system faces: ……not enough programs for students with disabilities, some demoralized staff, and a class-action lawsuit on behalf of underserved students looming over everything. The district spends millions of dollars a year on out-of-district placements for students with disabilities and is struggling to bring that figure down. Now, Richard Nyankori, the acting deputy chancellor for special education, has said what a lot of people already believe to be true: some staff members aren’t paying attention to the requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Act because they just don’t care.... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1901615 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:33:27 +0100 1901615 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1321800&cid=t_153598_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F256227550%2F Children who wander away and are not able to find their way home, and who cannot tell someone who they or their parents are. This is a fear of parents of autistic children: Last Wednesday, 13-year-old Celeste Robinson, who is autistic, was missing for some 13 hours from her home in East Texas, the Typer Morning Telegram reports. She was found the next morning about 400 yards from her house, curled up and crying. And then this from Buffalo, New York: According to WIVB, back in November of last year, Discovery School teacher Charlene Harris claimed that she witnessed an aide sexually abused a 5-year-old autistic boy in a school bathroom. Harris reported what she had seen to the school principal and the aide was moved to another classroom in the district for two weeks—-after which the s... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1321800 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:09:08 +0100 1321800 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1111823&cid=t_153598_118_f&fid=34892&url=http%3A%2F%2Flifeinthenhs.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F12%2F21%2Fi-wonder%2F If my back would ache this much right now if I had never been a nurse. So today I have been to work and to the supermarket to spend an amazing amount considering how little of any substance I bought. I have carried the shopping into the house and put everything away and then I have crawled around the floor wrapping presents. The latter might not have been the best way to do that particular task, but then I have never been one to make life easier for myself. My tree now looks lovely, with presents all around it. But I have serious back ache. Back in the 1980s when I first became a nurse I was taught to lift patients manually. We did two kinds of lifts, both of which are pretty much outlawed now - the kind of drag up the bed lift and the Australian lift which actually was my favorite on acco... Life in the NHS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1111823 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:26:46 +0100 1111823 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1097696&cid=t_153598_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F201264530%2F The December 14th Guardian reports on a study that has found that geography, race, class and gender play a greater role in determining a child’s chances for getting help, over and above “the nature of the learning difficulty.” The study was done by Harry Daniels and Jill Porter of the University of Bath; their report states that: “There is a pervasive gender bias, with not only higher incidence amongst boys than girls, but earlier recognition of boys’ difficulties. Children from certain ethnic minority groups are more likely to be identified as having social emotional behavioural disorders than others…..Children with dyslexia and autism have powerful lobby groups and are over-represented within the system…children from more affluent backgrounds re... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1097696 Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:15:20 +0100 1097696 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1081610&cid=t_153598_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F197220644%2F I live in the New Jersey suburbs precisely because it’s here that we’ve found the right kind of autism school program for Charlie. I work in Jersey City, which is an Abbott District, meaning that—-due to its socio-economic classification and other factors–it is considered a “special needs” school district, receives supplemental funding from the state, and is overseen by the state. It would be nice to live in Jersey City, much closer to my job, but it’s a suburban school district that can provide the sort of education and supports that Charlie needs; I’ve enough of a sense of the other problems in Jersey City schools from students who have student-taught in a local high school, and from a friend who teaches middle-school science. The Governor... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1081610 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:00:21 +0100 1081610 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1048724&cid=t_153598_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F190200821%2F We went to the pool for a special Saturday program in which autistic children are paired with teenage volunteers. I was talking to two mothers I know and we all looked down at the same time and saw a little boy, swim diaper showing over his swim suit, crawling on the ledge that goes all the way around the pool. He was grinning and a teenager was right near by. The others mothers—their sons are 4 and 8—and I glanced at each other and shared a mutual chuckle, and a bit of a sigh: Our boys would never be little enough to crawl there again. Charlie was hanging onto a swim noodle and splashing around; he had been paired with an eighth grade girl just a few inches taller than him and had given her a big smile before getting into the pool in the shallow end. As I watched him doing his... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1048724 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:42:49 +0100 1048724 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=828369&cid=t_153598_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2F149007708%2F Obesity rates in the US continue to go up, up, up! And we all know what that means. So will all the medical conditions and diseases that accompany obesity. High blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes to name a few. So, what states topped the list? By the way, this is not the list to be bragging about! Anyway, Mississippi has won the gold on this one. They are now considered the most obese state in the US with over 30% of persons meeting the criteria. Alabama and West Virginia took second and third place. Colorado is the leanest state with only 17%. Childhood obesity was also measured and District of Columbia weighed in with over 20% of their children overweight. The leanest children in the US can be found in Utah. If you care to read more about how childhood obesity can prove to be fat... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=828369 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:33:13 +0100 828369 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=773286&cid=t_153598_125_f&fid=34819&url=http%3A%2F%2Fflapsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D5362 John Torres, right, special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, holds a Ruger Mini-14, a .53-caliber semiautomatic rifle, one of several weapons seized or bought undercover, as Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, left, and City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo listen at a Los Angeles news conference after law enforcement authorities fanned out [...] (Source: FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog) FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=773286 Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:39:11 +0100 773286 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=773284&cid=t_153598_125_f&fid=34819&url=http%3A%2F%2Fflapsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D5364 The Miguel Contreras Learning Complex opened across the street from the Los Angeles Chamber at 3rd and Bixel on Sept. 5, 2006 to 1,800 students. Looks like Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Vilaraigosa, his parks department and the Los Angeles Unifed School District is in trouble again. The water was off-limits. But it certainly seemed somebody was all [...] (Source: FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog) FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=773284 Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:39:11 +0100 773284 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=691252&cid=t_153598_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2007%2F06%2Faz-school-district-recognizes-heroic.html S/T Special Education Teachers Will Receive $1,000 StipendThe Snowflake School District is suffering a shortage of certified special education teachers, partly due to a shortage in the marketplace, so the school board approved a stipend for each in an effort to retain those they have and attract new ones.Superintendent Monte Silk advised the school board June 14 that the shortage is disproportionate to regular teachers. The district chose not to renew one special education teacher’s contract, three others have resigned and the supply of applicants is low.In an effort to compete with the demand and provide support for current employees who have stayed with the district, Silk recommended a stipend for all case managers within the district.The case managers’ workloads are heavy, and their... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=691252 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:00:00 +0100 691252 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=540228&cid=t_153598_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F04%2Fgreat-gable-and-great-war-memorial.html Great Gable seen from WasdaleA glorious day for walking. Clear sky, cool and sunny. We decided to do Great Gable, not from Wasdale as illustrated above, but from the Slate Mine on Honister Pass. Sadly, although visibility was excellent, with the sun came haze and so it was not the greatest day for photographs.The path up from the slate mineThe purist will say tackling the Gables from this starting point is cheating, as you have won a thousand feet before you get out of the car. But we have been up Gable a fair few times, and this was an ideal day for a family walk across from the Slate Factory, looking down on Haystacks and Innominate Tarn, around which Wainwright’s ashes are scattered: “All I ask for, at the end, is a last long resting place by the side of Innominate Tarn on Haystacks... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=540228 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:42:00 +0100 540228 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=624651&cid=t_153598_97_f&fid=35601&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mrhunnybun.com%2F2007%2F04%2Femergency.html Bank Holidays also tend to be the days when I wait for the phone to ring. Occasionally I'll get called out by a District Nurse or the Out-of-Hours service for an emergency. These tend to be for more esoteric medications such as Diamorphine, Cyclizine and Levomepromazine. Normally these are for use in one of these. It's weird going into a deserted pharmacy in the middle of the night. Quite often I get the urge to take all of my clothes off and dispense naked. Fortunately I have managed to restrain myself. Maybe next time?Diamorphine comes in 5,10,30,100 and 500 mg ampoules. With your eyes stuck together and semi-awake it's surprising how similar they all look. I have no desire to inadvertently be the next Harold Shipman. It's a case of "look at the prescription, check the strength, count th... A day at the pharmacy. blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=624651 Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:08:00 +0100 624651