Nearly half of US doctors struggle with burnout: study
Tue Aug 21, 2012 2:12am EDT
(Reuters) – Job burnout strikes doctors more often than it does other employed people in the United States, according to a national survey that included more than 7,000 doctors.
More than four in 10 U.S. physicians said they were emotionally exhausted or felt a high degree of cynicism, or “depersonalization,” toward their patients, said researchers whose findings appeared in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
“The high rate of burnout has consequences not only for the individual physicians, but also for the patients they are caring for,” said Tait Shanafelt of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who led the research.
Previous studies have shown that burned-out doctors are more prone to thinking about suicide and to making medical errors than their peers, Shanafelt added.
The survey included nearly 7,300 doctors who filled in questionnaires about their work-life balance in 2011.
Nicholas M. Campanello of Ridgewood , 16, died on Aug. 8.
Born in Hackensack, he lived in Ridgewood and would have been entering his senior year at Ridgewood High School in September. He was a member of The Asian Festival at Ridgewood High and was involved in The Youth Ministry Program at Mt. Carmel R.C. Church in Ridgewood.
He is survived by his mother, Rhonda (Bartole) Campanello; his father, Thomas Campanello; his brother, Dylan Campanello; his grandparents, Thomas and Judy Campanello; his grandfather, Richard Bartole; his godparents, Christina and Thomas; several aunts, uncles and cousins; and his close friends, Jacob, Ryan, Jeff, Mike, Andy, Chris, Kat and Cole.
A funeral Mass was celebrated on Aug. 13 at Mt. Carmel R.C. Church in Ridgewood. Cremation was private. Arrangements were by C.C. Van Emburgh Funeral Home in Ridgewood.
Memorial donations may be made to FAAN (Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network), 1178 Lee Jackson Highway, Suite 160, Fairfax, VA 22033 ATTN: Nick Campanello Memorial Fund.
New Jersey seeing its highest unemployment rate since 1977
Jobless rates rise in NY, NJ and Connecticut in July
(Reuters) – Jobless rates for New York, Connecticut and New Jersey all climbed in July, with New Jersey seeing its highest unemployment rate since 1977, according to data from the three neighboring states on Thursday.
New Jersey’s jobless rate rose for the fourth month in a row, to 9.8 percent, up from 9.6 percent in June and from 9.4 percent in July 2011, according to preliminary numbers from the state Department of Labor.
New York’s unemployment rate also increased from both June and the year-earlier month, rising to 9.1 percent. In June the jobless rate was 8.9 percent, and a year-ago July it was 8.2 percent, the state reported.
In Connecticut the unemployment rate climbed to 8.5 percent from 8.1 percent in June, but was down from 8.9 percent a year-ago.
For New York City, whose financial industry is the economic engine for the tri-state region, unemployment was unchanged at 10 percent in July, but still above year-ago levels when it was 9 percent, according to the data from the state’s Labor Department.
National Weather Service Follows DHS In Huge Ammo Purchase
Hollow point bullets designed to cause maximum organ damage
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Why would the National Weather Service need to purchase large quantities of powerful ammo? That’s the question many are asking after the federal agency followed in the footsteps of the Department of Homeland Security in putting out a solicitation for 46,000 rounds of hollow point bullets.
A solicitation which appears on the FedBizOpps website asks for 16,000 rounds of .40 S&W jacketed hollow point (JHP) bullets, noted for their strength, to be delivered to locations in Ellsworth, Maine, and New Bedford, Mass.
A further 6,000 rounds of S&W JHP will be sent to Wall, New Jersey, with another 24,000 rounds of the same bullets heading to the weather station in St. Petersburg, Florida.
The solicitation also asks for 500 paper targets to be delivered to the same locations in Maine, Massachusetts and New Jersey.
Exclusive: U.S. banks told to make plans for preventing collapse
By Rick Rothacker
Fri Aug 10, 2012 8:41am EDT
(Reuters) – U.S. regulators directed five of the country’s biggest banks, including Bank of America Corp and Goldman Sachs Group Inc, to develop plans for staving off collapse if they faced serious problems, emphasizing that the banks could not count on government help.
The two-year-old program, which has been largely secret until now, is in addition to the “living wills” the banks crafted to help regulators dismantle them if they actually do fail. It shows how hard regulators are working to ensure that banks have plans for worst-case scenarios and can act rationally in times of distress.
Officials like Lehman Brothers former Chief Executive Dick Fuld have been criticized for having been too hesitant to take bold steps to solve their banks’ problems during the financial crisis.
According to documents obtained by Reuters, the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency first directed five banks – which also include Citigroup Inc,, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co – to come up with these “recovery plans” in May 2010.
Study: Obesity Increases Driver’s Risk Of Being In Car Accident
August 7, 2012 7:27 AM
SEATTLE (CBS Seattle) – A new study claims that obesity could not only increase a driver’s risk of being in a car accident, but also result in more severe injuries.
The study, conducted by Canadian scientists at the University of Laval and published in the Journal of Transportation Safety & Security, claimed that morbidly obese drivers may be at increased risk of a crash due to weight-related health complications.
Additionally, car designs that are less than sympathetic to larger frames could leave obese drivers in more critical condition following an accident.
Accoring to sources in las Vegas In what is sure to be a boon for the Las Vegas Strip’s many beer pong-friendly locations, Olympic officials have announced beer pong will be an official event at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
Long considered to be a frontrunner to become a “demonstration summer sport,” beer pong has surprised critics and leap-frogged the lengthy approval process to become a recognized sport in record time.
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Networks That Fawned Over Obama’s World Tour Mock Romney’s International ‘Blunders’
By Scott Whitlock | August 02, 2012 | 11:42
Mitt Romney’s week-long international trip resulted in unrelentingly negative coverage from the big three broadcast networks, a stark change from the glowing press awarded to then-candidate Barack Obama’s world tour in 2008. While Obama was treated like a rock star (from the Associated Press: “It’s not only Obama’s youth, eloquence and energy that have stolen hearts across the Atlantic….”), Romney endured a focus on gaffes and the trivial.
MRC analysts examined all 21 ABC, CBS and NBC evening news stories about Romney’s trip to London, Israel and Poland between July 25 and July 31. Virtually all of these stories (18, or 86%) emphasized Romney’s “diplomatic blunders,” from his “golden gaffe” at the Olympic games to “missteps” that offended the Palestinians.
Explaining the Senate’s growing conservative Latino caucus
A Ted Cruz win in November gives the Tea Party five supporters in the Senate
August 4, 2012
By: Achy Obejas
When Ted Cruz, the U.S. senate GOP nominee, wins in November — and it will be a helluva a scandal if he doesn’t — the world’s greatest deliberative body will have three Latino senators. And two of them will be Republican.
Given the Democratic Party’s much “greater civil rights record”(guess the author never herd of Lincoln) and its much more traditionally muscular grassroots efforts, there’s something off about those optics. So how did that happen?
Photo by Boyd Loving Robert Menéndez,swearing on Mayor Paul Aronsohn
Robert Menéndez, the Latino Democratic senator from New Jersey, rose up the old fashioned way, through a close and often controversial mentorship with an older pol, former Union City Mayor William Musto (against whom Menéndez eventually testified). Menéndez worked his way up steadily, from school board member to mayor, to state senator to U.S. congressman to U.S. senator.
Marco Rubio, the incumbent Republican senator from Florida, appeared to be following the same route as Menéndez when he began his political career. He interned for Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the powerful South Florida Cuban-American congresswoman, and got close to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Rubio did stints in local government, both as a city commissioner and as a state legislator. From 2007 to 2009, he served as the first Hispanic and the youngest Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives.
NJT: Inbound Lanes Approaching Lincoln Tunnel Closed During Overnight Hours – Expect Delays
The Roadway will Remain Open During Peak Hours – Beginning Monday, August 6, 2012
August 02, 2012
Beginning on or about Monday, August 6 and continuing through 2013, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey will begin construction on the Lincoln Tunnel Helix along 495 East. During the first phase, the inbound lanes (to New York) approaching Lincoln Tunnel will be closed during overnight hours for construction work as follows:
Weeknights – 10:30 PM to 5 AM
Saturdays – 12:01 AM to 8 AM
Sundays – 1 AM to 9 AM
The roadways will remain open during peak hours. Buses will be diverted to Pleasant Avenue and Boulevard East in Weehawken for alternate access to the Lincoln Tunnel.
Buses will be delayed both inbound and outbound from the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Customers should allow for additional time when traveling or consider mass transit options such as PATH and NJ TRANSIT trains.
Ridgewood Affected bus routes include:163*, 164,
Note: *Denotes this route normally uses a local street from Union City and Weehawken to approach the eastbound Lincoln Tunnel and will encounter detoured traffic from the NJ 495 construction and could encounter a service delay as a result.
NJ TRANSIT customers are advised to review Informational web sites with travel times before travel:
For more information on the project, visit www.panynj.gov/thehelixfix
For real-time traffic information, please call 511 or visit 511nj.org
We regret any inconvenience. Thank you for your patience.
Many are qualifying for the Olympics tweet heat
By LEVI SUMAGAYSAY
It’s the nature of the job: GMSV has watched the controversy over tweets and the Olympics more than the sports. And now we throw caution to the wind — and risk the wrath of the International Olympics Committee — and dub these summer games the Twitter Olympics. From Twitter fails to protests (by the athletes themselves, over sponsorships) to controversies, the San Francisco-based microblogging service has been the star of the show so far.
• The talker du jour is the suspension of a Twitter’s journalist account, which seems to have been influenced by NBC and Twitter’s Olympics partnership. A PR nightmare now faces both, but bigger questions surround Twitter. After all, CEO Dick Costolo has called his company the “free speech wing of the free speech party.”
Independent correspondent Guy Adams was critical of NBC’s Olympics coverage and used Twitter to say so. One of his tweets read: “The man responsible for NBC pretending the Olympics haven’t started yet is Gary Zenkel. Tell him what u think!” Adams then included Zenkel’s work email address. NBC, which said it filed an official complaint after reportedly being alerted to the tweets by Twitter itself, said distributing Zenkel’s email address violated Twitter’s rules. But Adams says, according to the New York Times, “I didn’t publish a private e-mail address. Just a corporate one, which is widely available to anyone with access to Google, and is identical [in form] to one that all of the tens of thousands of NBC Universal employees share.” After taking a look at Twitter’s policy, most reasonable people would probably agree with Adams.
GMSV has emailed Twitter for comment. Twitter told the NYT it doesn’t comment about individual users.
Twitter is, of course, a free service and a business that can choose to do what it wants. But over the years, it has cultivated an image that has earned it the respect of many journalists and other supporters of free speech. Among other things, it has fought the U.S. government’s request to divulge information about users with ties to whistleblower website WikiLeaks. (Also see Trending: Praise for Twitter after it stands up for a user’s rights.)
Media critic Dan Gillmor writes for the Guardian that if the service doesn’t reinstate the journalist’s account, “this is a defining moment for Twitter. It will have demonstrated that it can be bullied by its business partners into acts that damage its credibility and ultimately the reason so many of us use it as a platform.”
• Another Olympian has been kicked out over a racist tweet. This time, a Swiss soccer player tweeted something that “discriminated against, insulted and violated the dignity of the South Korea football team as well as the South Korean people,” Swiss Olympic team chief Gian Gilli reportedly said. Last week, a track star was expelled from the Greek Olympic team over her tweet about African immigrants in her country. (See Quoted: on the dangers of tweeting, the Olympics version.)
• Last — at least for now — a teenager has been arrested over tweets he directed to an Olympic athlete, British diver Tom Daley. The teen reportedly tweeted to Daley that he had “let down [his] father,” who died last year. The Guardian has rounded up some of the teen’s subsequent tweets afterward, some of which include profanity and threats.
Calif. cities eye plan to seize mortgages
By AMY TAXIN and CHRISTINA REXRODE | Associated Press – 15 hrs ago
FONTANA, Calif. (AP) — In the foreclosure-battered inland stretches of California, local government officials desperate for change are weighing a controversial but inventive way to fix troubled mortgages: Condemn them.
Officials from San Bernardino County and two of its cities have formed a local agency to consider the plan. The securities industry has been quick to register its displeasure and say it will only make loans harder to get.
Discussion of the idea is taking place in one of the epicenters of the housing crisis, a working-class region east of Los Angeles where housing prices have plummeted. Last week brought another sharp reminder of the crisis when the 210,000-strong city of San Bernardino, struggling after shrunken home prices walloped local tax revenues, announced it would seek bankruptcy protection.
Now — and amid skepticism on many fronts — officials from the surrounding county of San Bernardino and cities of Fontana and Ontario have created a joint powers authority to consider what role local governments could take to stem the crisis. The goal is to keep homeowners saddled by large mortgage payments from losing their homes — which are now valued at a fraction of what they were once worth.
Colorado Shootings : One Glaring Omission
July 21,2012
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, like everyone we are sadden to hear of the events in Colorado and commend the authorities for their quick response to the the crisis which probably averted more deaths. We also commend most of the media for showing restraint except for ABC News which could not resist making fools of themselves by immediately looking to politicize the crisis.
While in the coming days I am sure we will be inundated with the usually cries for gun control with the blame game looking to finger everyone from bugs bunny cartoons, Batman , TV violence, addiction to porn . Bushes fault, Obama’s fault ,the parents ,the Tea Party ,salt ,Slurpee’s , the economy and anything and everything but personal responsibility, because we all know that spoons make people fat.
The usual suspects of Hollywood’s clueless ,agenda driven politicians and bigots and uninformed talking heads will bombard us with their off the mark missives.
Before this all goes south we wanted to mention one glaring detail that as of now has gone unnoticed or at lest unreported To quote Time Magizine of all things “While it does take, primarily, a particularly deranged person to shoot up a crowded theater during one of the most anticipated movie premieres in recent memory, it also takes some serious firepower.” ( https://newsfeed.time.com/2012/07/21/colorado-theater-shooter-carried-4-guns-all-obtained-legally/ )
And James Holmes had no shortage of firepower . Holmes had four guns on him when he was apprehended an AR-15 assault rifle ,a Remington 8-gauge 1270 shotgun and two 40-caliber Glock handguns. FOXNews is reporting he also had 6000 rounds of ammunition including high capacity clips for the assault rifle . His apartment was also rigged with over 30 explosives and he was wearing a significant amount of body Armour and used smoke grenades.
Far be it for the Ridgewood blog to be cynical but how exactly did and unemployed student afford all this state of the art equipment and where did all that money come from. An AR-15 can cost $900 and $1,500 while the shot gun could run from $250- 500.00 and the Glocks about $500.00 each . A Bullet proof vests runs $450-600.00 so let me get this straight the guy is unemployed, paying rent ,eating , joining porn sites and investing in all this equipment ?
Something to think about over the next couple of weeks while the media starts shoveling the bull .
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