January 31st, 2010 by admin

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER:

This one is a little different… Two Different Versions… Two Different Morals

OLD VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away…

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

MODERN VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green.’

ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome ” . Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.

President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper’s plight.

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share..

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn’t maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.

The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.

Thanks for that Clare.

January 31st, 2010 by admin

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER:

This one is a little different… Two Different Versions… Two Different Morals

OLD VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away…

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

MODERN VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green.’

ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome ” . Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.

President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper’s plight.

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share..

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn’t maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.

The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.

Thanks for that Clare.

January 30th, 2010 by admin

I was going to buy Nudge, which seemed relevant to our Friendfolio work.

Then I read the reviews.

I can do without another Outliers.

January 30th, 2010 by admin

I was going to buy Nudge, which seemed relevant to our Friendfolio work.

Then I read the reviews.

I can do without another Outliers.

January 29th, 2010 by admin

January 29th, 2010 by admin

January 29th, 2010 by admin

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The genetics of albuminuria: from haplotype association mapping in mice to genetic causation in humans
Roel Sterken and Krzysztof Kiryluk
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Anemia treatment in chronic kidney disease accompanied by diabetes mellitus or congestive heart failure
Steven Fishbane and Nobuyuki Miyawaki
Abstract: http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=77&m=34590955&r=MTc2MzAwNDQzNwS2&b=2&j=NjYzMjA3NjIS1&mt=1&rt=0
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Hepatitis B virus infection in hemodialysis populations: progress toward prevention
Katherine A Barraclough and E Geoffrey Playford
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MEETING REPORT
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IgA nephropathy at two score and one
Rosanna Coppo, John Feehally and Richard J Glassock
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Endoplasmic reticulum stressin proteinuric kidney disease
Andrey V Cybulsky
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Prehypertension: is it relevant for nephrologists[quest]
Rigas G Kalaitzidis and George L Bakris
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Genetic analysis of albuminuria in aging mice and concordance with loci for human diabetic nephropathy found in a genome-wide association scan
Shirng-Wern Tsaih, Marcus G Pezzolesi, Rong Yuan, James H Warram, Andrzej S Krolewski and Ron Korstanje
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Parathyroid cell resistance to fibroblast growth factor 23 in secondary hyperparathyroidism of chronic kidney disease
H Galitzer, I Z Ben-Dov, Justin Silver and Tally Naveh-Many
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Renal failure occurs in chronic lithium treatment but is uncommon
Hans Bendz, Staffan Schon, Per-Ola Attman and Mattias Aurell
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Circulating soluble receptor of advanced glycation end product inversely correlates with atherosclerosis in patients with chronic kidney disease
Giuseppina Basta, Daniela Leonardis, Francesca Mallamaci, Sebastiano Cutrupi, Patrizia Pizzini, Lorena Gaetano, Rocco Tripepi, Giovanni Tripepi, Raffaele De Caterina and Carmine Zoccali
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Depressed expression of Klotho and FGF receptor 1 in hyperplastic parathyroid glands from uremic patients
Hirotaka Komaba, Shunsuke Goto, Hideki Fujii, Yasuhiro Hamada, Akira Kobayashi, Koji Shibuya, Yoshihiro Tominaga, Naoki Otsuki, Ken-ichi Nibu, Kimie Nakagawa, Naoko Tsugawa, Toshio Okano, Riko Kitazawa and Masafumi Fukagawa
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A secondary analysis of the CHOIR trial shows that comorbid conditions differentially affect outcomes during anemia treatment
Lynda A Szczech, Huiman X Barnhart, Shelly Sapp, G Michael Felker, Adrian Hernandez, Donal Reddan, Robert M Califf, Jula K Inrig, Uptal D Patel and Ajay K Singh
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Rapid, enhanced, and persistent protection of patients with renal insufficiency by AS02V-adjuvanted hepatitis B vaccine
Murielle Surquin, Christian L Tielemans, Imre Kulcsar, Miroslav Ryba, Peter Voros, Olivier Mat, Serge Treille, Michel Dhaene, Jean-Claude Stolear, Sherine O Kuriyakose, Maarten X Leyssen and Sophie A Houard
Abstract: http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=122&m=34590955&r=MTc2MzAwNDQzNwS2&b=2&j=NjYzMjA3NjIS1&mt=1&rt=0
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Disaster-related education for dialysis patients
Viroj Wiwanitkit
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Response to /`Disaster-related education for dialysis patients/'
Nancy G Kutner and Andrew J Cohen
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Targeting hyperphosphatemia: truth or dare
Bjorn Meijers and Pieter Evenepoel
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=119&m=34590955&r=MTc2MzAwNDQzNwS2&b=2&j=NjYzMjA3NjIS1&mt=1&rt=0

Response to /`Targeting hyperphosphatemia: truth or dare/'
Tamara Isakova, Orlando M Gutierrez and Myles Wolf
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The case of the solitary sick kidney
Piero Stratta, Caterina Canavese, Alice Monzani, Lucia Corrado and Mara Giordano
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=54&m=34590955&r=MTc2MzAwNDQzNwS2&b=2&j=NjYzMjA3NjIS1&mt=1&rt=0

Response to /`The case of the solitary sick kidney/'
Robert L Chevalier
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Treatment of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
Claudio E Ponticelli and Richard J Glassock
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=52&m=34590955&r=MTc2MzAwNDQzNwS2&b=2&j=NjYzMjA3NjIS1&mt=1&rt=0

Response to /`Treatment of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis/'
Alain Y Meyrier
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NEPHROLOGY IMAGE
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The retained stent: forgotten but not gone
E C Jolly, J M Adshead and K Farrington
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MAKE YOUR DIAGNOSIS
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The Case [mid] A woman with severe metabolic acidosis
Yu-Ming Chang, Yeong-Woei Chiew and Chwei-Shiun Yang
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January 29th, 2010 by admin

Over the last week, I’ve been deluged with an email from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales inviting me to join her network on Amplify. She writes:

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P.S. Are you Imran Khan the famous cricketer? If so, could you ask Buddy Holly to join my network on Amplify?

So I’ve watched the demo video and I think I get it. Amplify is in the crowded diigo/posterous/tumblr/etc space and tries to hijack the conversation from sites elsewhere in the web.

Is that right? Do I need another destination online? I think I’ll pass – unless I’m missing something?

January 28th, 2010 by admin