Hello,I am seeking advice on applying to med school this cycle. I already submitted my AMCAS application, but I am having second thoughts on whether I have a shot at getting into the MD programs in FL, or into an MD program at all based on my stats. I am intimidated because all the MD schools have around 3.8 GPAs and mine is lower, my MCAT is competitive however. I am looking for advice regarding any MD schools that anyone thinks I would be competitive for in the south east? is it too risky to only apply to the 6 FL MD programs? Am i competitive for MD? and should I also apply DO just in case ? For background a non-trad applicant, URM, first generation. I am currently a physician assistant and have been practicing for 3 years. Prior to this profession I was a medical lab scientist working clinical esoteric testing including flow cytometry.
3.54 cGPA, but trended up and had 4.0 senior year 3.58 sGPA 4.00 graduate GPA 519 MCAT Clinical: 9,500 anticipate 2,000 more Volunteer: 150 Lab/research: 1,000 hrs, did a 1 year internship in a clinical lab where I contributed to some molecular lab research, but was not published with the team. 1 online publication, but it was not related to clinical research Hobbies: 250 Non-clinical work: 1,600 hrs
thanks for any advice you are able to provide.

Hi Folks,
I have started Against the Day at long last. Coming from a Pynchon hiatus since reading Inherent Vice a few years ago, along with many aborted attempts at Mason and Dixon and Vineland here and there. I just realised, to some existential dread, that it has been 8 years since I read Gravity’s Rainbow. Being 18 and trying to seem smart I pushed myself through it having no clue how to parse it and looking on equations that, at most, looked cool. I can’t remember much of the bizarre experience except for Rocketman, kink dungeons and Byron the Bulb, but it spurred on that Pynchon obsession. Now, instead of reading for a dissertation, I seemed to be absorbed now into Against the Day in a way I haven’t with Pynchon’s works before. Having just finished Part 1 and written copious notes, I feel compelled to write an essay, out of term-time, drawing together some of the themes as I see them so far. If it sparks off any thoughts, I would love the discussion.
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Light
One obvious key theme is that of light; how it works, its properties, its power for illumination and occlusion. From the epigraph, it seems to point to the night, darkness, the absence of light as the base state. In this, light illuminates the day, almost creating it. This immediately gives a view to the most intuitive aspect that the light symbolises in its guidance, guiding Merle and Dally down the roads and towards the Horizon, lighting the way of the Chums to the centre of the White City.
But what comes to the fore for me is how light is portrayed in its more complex aspects. Light, as a fundamental part of reality, and how we perceive it, is as much subject to control and shaping, lighting the way to a spectacle and the ‘truth’. Just as light guides the way of some down a certain road to their destiny, so too does it guides the ways down the rationalised grids of Chicago to the killing floors. In the explorations of the World’s Fair, an exhibition of the virtues of American progress and technology, the light illuminates the ‘White City’ at its centre, obscuring those who dwell in its margins and those left in its wake after its dismantled. The light at its centre illuminates a central constructed truth and narrative that excludes some as much as it guides others. This truth, like light, is similarly subject to shaping with Vibe wanting to undermine the progress promised at the fair, of the free electrical network, in its impact on the ‘world’ or the economy, that gives him his prestige and power. This exhortation of progress and technology, and the narrative of the power of America, the West and Capitalism it represents is the façade of a unified whole; a cohesive truth otherwise fractured within modernity.
This underlying fracturing of modernity points to the anxieties of the Aetherists. The want for light, as a fundamental aspect of reality, to be situated in a continuous whole is a want for that precarious comfort. For it to be discrete, fractured quanta, like all modern identities, selves and truths evokes a malaise seen once the Michelson-Morley experiment is done. This belief, in light and the unified stable truth is reflected in the religious devotion and fanaticism about the powers of light. Like the believers in the currents of the time, in the truth of progress and capitalism, the belief in the light gives them an uncritical view, unable to see past the façade. The experiment looks at another reality, past the spectacle they crave, risking to plunge light itself into fragments.
The power of light in constructing the truth is mirrored in how this truth is controlled and enforced. With references to the light of surveillance and the shining of light on things. As the Chums shine a light on Merle and Chevrolette’s ‘deviance’ they are forced back into the woods and shadows before coming back into the day done up and respectable. The Chums moving through the Fair move towards its central illuminated ‘safety’, its policed boundaries and shaped centre, away from the darker edges inhabited by those excluded and marginalised by its truth. To be able to construct the truth and enforce it through light gives further impetus to control light itself. The Aetherists posit that light is a finite resource that must be captured by nations as if like water rights. Vibe similarly looks to undermine technologies that may provide light and electricity to the masses for free, enforcing scarcity.
There are moments with Merle and Webb where other aspects of the light come to the fore. Its other control strategies, and its potential to assert other truths. In Merle’s case, in his interest in alchemy and photography, he mentions the power to redeem light from metals and photographs. In metals, specifically silver, Merle points to the imperatives that he receives, evoking the light of currency, as fictions in embodying a measure of exchange value that provides imperatives for Merle and Dally’s constant moving from job to job. In photography, the capture of light and life into captured moments evokes some notion of the capturing of the day; the day, otherwise, capturing the moments of many millions into its control. But at the same time, there are other potentials and possibilities. In Merle’s risqué photography undertaken with Chevrolette, there are moments to capture life outside of the ‘light’, deviating from the respectable truth of the day. With metals, there is recognition of how to transform their light as money into light as explosive. This then ties to Webb Traverse. In recognising the power of light brought by explosions and its power to break through the occlusion of the domination of the Capitalist ruling-class. This however is similarly accompanied with a certain obsession and belief, an obsession with the smell of dynamite and the belief in the religious justifications given by Rev Moss Gatlin. As well, the intentional use of explosions by owners are used to justify reprisals on the workers and unions as the ‘Beasts that Did This’. The light of explosions can similarly be used and shaped by the powers that be to further their truth, narratives and power. Does this already point to the issues of the political terrorism pursued by Webb and Gatlin? Will their want to use the light be a dead end? It will not guide them to a promised future but will instead be coopted and used against them. Is the real potential for countermovement to be found in the shadows? On the new frontier?
Frontiers
In many ways frontiers represent the possibilities of new worlds, new ways of doing things. This is mythologised in the Old West and expansion of America that, however, ignores its accompaniment of extreme violence and exploitation as new possibilities were consolidated into the way of things. By the time late 19th century this frontier no longer remains. Vanderjuice points to a frontier you could find, stand on looking both east and west. But with the consolidation of American Capitalism, where once wild bison roamed the plains, now cattle and humans are heralded down lit rationalised grids to be killed and used, their deaths fodder to tourists of progress and the light. With the frontier lost, the light bends back on what is consolidated – in killing the animals and humans once free. Franz Ferdinand in not having buffalo to hunt settles for genocidal intentions towards Hungarians. Colonialism and imperialism come home to roost later in the 20th century.
But then, there feels like nods to the new frontier, the shadows. In the shadows of the worlds fair, there are those are marginalised and ignored. In this, new frontiers remain. Places outside of the control, the system and the light-truth. Some want to shine light on this space, to extend the control over the anarchists amassing in darkened halls. At the same time, Vibe seeks to control the technologies that will extend that, and so potentially allowing those frontiers to remain, potentials of new worlds to be worked out. ‘It is always night, otherwise we wouldn’t need light’ – not an anxiety, but a fundamental base state. Realities are occluded by the light shaping a narrative and the day, the spirit of the times. In the darkness are possibilities, potentials for a new world that are repressed and ignored. Other truths and alternate realities can be asserted; the truths of the exploitation of workers and ethnic minorities, the ruthlessness of capitalism and the bourgeois lies of liberty and equality.
It is also seen that those is pursue the light actively seem less able to see these shadows. They pursue the truth constructed and enforced and are unable to see through them in hope for cohesive truths, largely given by those with power to define the message and narrative. This narrative is to be illuminated at the Worlds Fair, a spectacle of light that heralds progress and a future already written for us. This façade gives hope to some, like Dally – glittering lights guiding the way to her mother. But reality is seen in the drift of exiles over the plains, like them. And those left behind to dismantle its edifice. Some characters on the borders of these states. Webb poking holes in the lies of freedom as he toils in dark mines but drawn to the light of explosions masking perhaps what could be gained from the shadows. Kit, is taught by his father, but is drawn to the light of electricity, the light of a life as one of Doc Tesla’s boys, so much that he accepts the funding of Scarsdale Vibe and his promise of the future. But in the shadows, a new frontier is found, holding possibilities of new worlds being lived by marginalised working people, toiling in dark mines, and cleaning up after the temporary exhortation of modern progress and technology is dismantled and burned. If the White City is an edifice of white capitalist American hegemony, it shows how fractured modernity always requires suturing into some truth that can be controlled. The light of its centre attempts to do so, but it cannot cover everywhere and can never be given out for free, it will always create those frontiers and margins where its light cannot shine on and unroot. Where other truths may be understood and asserted.
The Chums of Chance
But as the Chums stand on the volcanic island they are sent to, the light of the day is so bright that it blinds them, as if in the heart of diamond. The light is concentrated to the point it occludes their vision. In looking at the Chums, it makes sense that they represent this focal point. As ideal representations illuminated in books, they are concentrated fictions of this light and truth. Even with the political and personal insubordination of Darby and Chick, they cannot see outside of it truly.
From the first moment with the Chums, in their place as characters in an adventure book series, they provide a fiction representing the ideal of the American boy at the turn of the century, and perhaps a wider ideal required to uphold this status quo. Within their group, Lindsay reinforces norm of good dress, language, patriotism, and education, looking down on the ‘undesirables’; gamblers, the badly raised. Gesturing to the valorisation of an upper-middle class boys ideal, they position themselves in opposition to the ‘evil’ anarchistic working classes. In their bemusement at those in the margins of the worlds fair, and of those from other countries, they exhibit this superiority and wider American exceptionalism and nationalism. In this however, they are not just embodiments of these ideals and values but actively reinforce them internally through their strict hierarchy and enforce them outwardly. As the big eye that descends from the sky to catch Merle and Chevrolette in their deviance from the respectable norms of society, in their surveillance of the Worlds Fair with the White City Investigations and their work with the interior ministry of Mexico against its subversives, they help construct and uphold the truth as epitomised in the White City; the dazzling light they are at the centre of. In helping states and private detectives enlisted by oligarchs, under orders from a shadowy organisation above them, or the author of their stories. These orders are then carried out through the logistical services manned by countless voiceless labourers quietly seen filing in and out with the instruments used to measure Tesla’s experiments.
As the Wiki points to, one point that is fascinating is the Chums malaise and depression in between their adventures, or ‘in between their books’. In between their orders and adventures, they fall into alcoholism in dingy rooms, almost rapidly ageing and decaying, at least spiritually. This lack of meaning or purpose in not having orders show how the ideal is rudderless without something further to conform to and enforce. With no adventure to go on, the Chums have no life or identity to fall back on. The ideal they represent is ultimately hollow and vacuous. They are fully conformed to the whims of the power that creates them, fully blinded by the light, and hindered from escape to the shadows for then they would truly not exist.
Against the Day and its other threads
These themes in some ways all come together in allusions to the title; against the day, giving back to the day, sufficient unto the day. In this the day means what? The spirit of the times and the current moment? The night illuminated by the light to create the daytime itself? The Worlds Fair almost shows this day’s reinauguration, a truth constructed, guiding one to the future and the centre in the spectacle. The day is coopted. Some accept it, give back to it and pay their tithings as Tesla puts it. Others give it all their hopes, believe in its promises in part, in its guiding light. Others are against it, against the day that is proclaimed, against the spirit and its light – shaped to mystify what is really going on. The day as the illusion.
Those who ride against it, the workers, and the anarchists. While Webb pokes holes in the lies of the bourgeoisie he perhaps falls into the days spirit all the same with the belief in the light and his ability to shape it himself. The battle for the light, is it a losing game?
The Chums take the day by storm, ride its waves of Aether and solidify it in the ideal. The good American boys enforcing the day, watching for those deviating from it and righting themselves when they do too. But this ideal is forever unstable, when they do not have a day to fight for, an area to conquer or a consolidated population to enforce the ideal onto, they become adrift, having no life or meaning outside it, becoming invisible and fictions, in an inverted sense to their usual being. Are they a manifestation of capitalism itself? The ideal it pretends to? The entrepreneurial crew supported by countless voiceless labourers with pretentions to their modernity, freedom within their strict hierarchy, given the newest technology to bore through even the earth itself. Spurred onto constant movement by orders of its own internal logic; the Chums must be given their orders, and so they move again – repeat ad nauseam.
With this, these major threads are then crosscut with others I have trouble cohering together just yet. Curious of the character of Scarsdale Vibe, the robber baron archetype. With the globe at the end of his cain, situated in the first wave of globalisation, he holds the world wherever he goes, hiding a bullet underneath it. Seemingly undermining Tesla at the start to funding him the next, capture and co-option? Or the brothers traverse, kits substitution and connection to the Twin Vibes.
“Sure, and isn’t that just the class system for ya? Eternal youth bought with the sickness and death of others.”
I am also taking in the nods to the extradimensional experiences of those such as Kit, Miles Blundell, Lew Basnight and Foley Walker. Seeing or hearing the invisible, versus the visible, dark versus the light. The other frontiers of the invisible and unilluminated? – of electromagnetism, the Chums existence as fictions, the daily unseen minutia or the markets respectively. New possibilities, alternate realities as diffuse as those in the shadows. With a minor adjustment here and there what would happen?
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Perhaps I tend towards the political and sociological as per my academic interests. My understanding of the scientific aspects of Pynchon’s writing plays pretty hard off of pop-science videos watched on YouTube at 1 in the morning. But it is exhilarating at least to be at a point of taking in a work such as this, not just as a bizarre experience, but as imparting some encyclopaedic knowledge I can perhaps make sense of, at least at this early stage.

The free PDF of The Drug Users Bible can now be downloaded from Kingdom Market, Incognito Market, Cypher Market and soon Abacus Market. Smaller emerging markets include M00nkey, 3Dogs and Drugula. A number of vendors have also started to provide a download link to the PDF from their market profiles.
Note that this initiative was announced by Dread, who are also hosting and fully supporting it.
This is seriously happening. Please do take part.
If you are a market admin, please host the PDF or link to it. If you are a vendor please link to it from your market profiles.
The concept of consumers being able to access harm reduction information at point of drug purchase is massive. It makes a significant difference to the most vulnerable in our community.
This is something we can all help with: It's free, and it will save lives and reduce misery. Please come on board. The links to the PDF download are provided on this page, or feel free to contact me directly. I have also copied the original post below.
NOTE: Although the media is obviously hostile to anything related to drugs, this story was recently covered by the BBC World Service, so we are already reaching a wider audience and hopefully beginning to positively influence negative public perception.
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A POSITIVE DRUG STORY
On visiting a doctor and being prescribed medication it is taken for granted that you will be provisioned with the requisite information to proceed in a safe and sensible manner. This will perhaps include the dose, the required frequency of administration, potential side effects, and so on. A small-print sheet with details might also be forthcoming.
With respect to recreational drugs and medicines, this is not the case, despite the myriad of additional risks largely created via prohibition (such as the potential for substance impurity and mis-identification). You are usually on your own, with input limited to whatever ad hoc advice is given by your peers or anything you research for yourself (assuming that you make the effort).
However, if you purchase drugs from the darknet this may no longer be the case. There is now a decent chance that at some point in the process you will be offered free harm reduction information in the form of a PDF copy of my book: The Drug Users Bible.
This scenario is developing quickly but consider for a moment the concept; of harm reduction information being provided to consumers at the point of drug purchase. Imagine the potential for injecting safety awareness where and when it matters most. Imagine the impact in terms of mitigating risk and reducing misery.
The unfortunate reality is that there is presently no official engagement from any formal authority. The government patently does not care about the welfare of drug consumers; the mainstream media don’t care; law enforcement agencies don’t care. If there is to be a safety net at this particular juncture, it has to be furnished by the community itself. It has to be provided by ourselves: we all have to look after each other.
This is precisely what is unfolding on the darknet.
A HISTORY LESSON
On a much smaller scale this has occurred before. Allow me to paint the picture as it existed in the UK some 10 years ago. This was with respect to a forum (the UK Chemical Research Forum) which operated during the legal high years. As described in the book itself:
"The sophistication of the market developed equally quickly, with internet forums becoming a hive of often detailed discussion. These communities became increasingly important vehicles, and not only through the dissemination of safety information. They were central in framing vendor reputation, which in turn would positively influence the conduct of suppliers." "An astonishing scenario of market/public self-regulation flourished, no doubt saving many lives, until the Cameron Government introduced the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016, under the blinkered stewardship of Theresa Mary May. This free to access source of developing and life critical information, and of self-sustaining consumer protection, was instantly destroyed, with the inevitable tragic consequences."
In the UK at least this scenario was real, and it was effective. The main players in the drug eco-system were self-regulating and protecting the consumer, despite the hostility of the usual culprits: the government, the media and law enforcement.
DREAD, THE DARKNET MARKETS & DRUG VENDORS
Zoom forward to 2023. Dread is the major social media platform on the darknet, and has long picked up the mantle of consumer protection: a place for those who choose to use drugs to learn how to avoid many of the more common pitfalls. It is the equivalent of the UKCRF in the above scenario, but on a massive global scale.
Here it has supported the above initiative from the outset; announcing the launch of the PDF and encouraging the markets to involve themselves.
Established markets, such as Kingdom Market, Incognito Market and Cypher Market, have quickly stepped forward. Drug vendors too have embraced the project, including some of the largest. All are offering links to, or hosting, The Drug Users Bible, or making the material available in some form to all visitors and consumers.
All these parties understand the magnitude of the issues, and the importance of education and awareness. It is about people: user and consumer protection. It’s about the safety of real human beings: the well being of the community. It is ultimately about saving lives.
THE COMMUNITY & THE ECO-SYSTEM
We thus have a situation in which the community itself is doing for itself what governments refuse to do: self-regulate to voluntarily provide a framework of consumer protection and risk mitigation, inclusive of the free of charge provision of safety data.
This demonstrates again that the biggest problem in the entire scenario, in its widest sense, isn’t users, vendors or facilitators; it is prohibition. It is politicians, law enforcement agencies and the mainstream propagandistic media.
This ultimately, is a hugely positive drug story: but it is the sort of news that you won’t be reading on the front pages of the Daily Mail, the Telegraph or the Sun.
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FOOTNOTE: WHAT IS THE DRUG USERS BIBLE?
From Amazon: “Over a 12 year period the author of this book self-administered over 180 psychoactive substances; both chemicals and plants. For each he recorded the life-sensitive safety data, including the anticipated onset times, the common threshold doses, the routes of administration, and the expected duration of the experience. In addition, for every compound he also produced a trip report, detailing the qualitative experience itself. This delivered another invaluable insight, enabling, for example, an objective assessment of the extent of any loss of judgement and self-control.”

Hi, I’m a pre-nursing major in the USA who got accepted into a nursing program but now I’m hesitant on attending said program. I think nursing isn’t right for me and I’d like to pursue a career in the sciences or as a doctor.
To become a doctor in the USA you need a BS, med school pre-requisites, good gpa, good mcat, and good extracurriculars etc. Technically I could become a doctor with a nursing degree but I don’t think I’d use my nursing degree.
I have many options. 1. Do nursing and then pursue being a doctor

1. Pursue a full on sciences degree plus medicine and have my fall back be a career in the science’s
   
2. Pursue a philosophy degree with a premedical emphasis and try to do something with the philosophy degree if medicine doesn’t work out.
   
3. Go live with my aunt in Sweden and just live life until I figure things out or maybe even study there
   
4. Join the military and gain an Officer scholarship to help finance my education. I would have to serve about 4 years as an officer in the airforce after graduating. I heard officers are treated way better than enlisted soldiers.
   

more context: 1. My parents are Highly against dropping nursing and will not support me getting another degree 2. If I switch majors I would probably try to switch universities too via going to cc and then transferring out 3. I’m pursuing working in a research lab to see if the sciences is a good fit for me at the moment 4. At this moment in time I am not entirely sure what or how studying in Sweden would look like as an international student 5. I’ve made peace with the fact that my parents may resent me forever if I leave nursing, I’ve also been itching to live on my own and gain independence since they’re very controlling and overbearing 6. My aunt has an open room at her house and is aware of my dilemma and has offered me a place to stay although no formal plans have taken place 7. I am not fluent in Swedish but I can speak French and English fluently and some mandarin. I am also very willing to learn the language.

1. I’ve saved 9k usd from my part time jobs
2. I think the military would be a great way to gain independence and life skills since my parents heavily sheltered me. I’d also love the financial help the military can provide. I was inspired by veterans like Kelly stamps, Jonny Kim, Bella Porch, and Nicole Mann.

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I’m seeking advice on behalf of one of my best friends. She’s been a postdoc at a top-tier medical school for the past two years. She brought her own funding and was very productive as a graduate student (many awards, several first author pubs, talks at international conferences, etc.), but her postdoc experience has been subpar. For some context, her grad school advisor was pretty overbearing and demanding, and actually had a big hand in who she chose to do a postdoc with.
Her advisor seems very disinterested in actually providing any mentorship and instead criticizes her for not being able to do new techniques perfectly. My friend tries to bring new ideas to the table, make adjustments, seek out solutions, etc. but just gets shot down. Instead of letting her work on other projects, she “punishes” her by just telling her to read papers for weeks on end. In general she seems like a textbook micromanager who sees her lab as just a publication factory.
We’ve talked through lots of options and she’s in an area with lots of biotech + other universities, so she has no shortage of options. I’ve known her for 8 years and the entire time she’s been steadfast in her desire to be a PI. I think she has what it takes, but it’s being beaten out of her by this shitty experience. I’ve enjoyed being a postdoc in large part due to how great my mentors are — working with them has helped combat some of the awful parts of being a postdoc and helped me overcome some of my own bad experiences in grad school, and would love for her to have a similar mentor relationship.
She and I have talked a lot and I think the biggest barrier for her right now is getting over the (reasonable) fear of seeking out a new mentor and switching labs/projects. We’ve talked a lot about industry and I think she’d do great moving out of academia (which is where I’m leaning), but I also want her to feel more agency in the decision and not entirely like she’s getting pushed out. So…at this point I’m trying to crowdsource some advice and perspectives to help with next steps.
For those of you who switched postdoc labs, how did it work out? Would you do it again? How did you navigate finding a new position and did you have to burn bridges? I’m especially curious to hear from anyone who had to navigate switching their NIH funding to a new PI/institution.
For those of you who stuck it out in shitty labs, same question: did it work out and would you do it again? Any advice for making your situation better?
And for anyone on hiring committees: how do you feel about candidates who have switched postdoc labs?

I’m seeking advice on behalf of one of my best friends. She’s been a postdoc at a top-tier medical school for the past two years. She brought her own funding and was very productive as a graduate student (many awards, several first author pubs, talks at international conferences, etc.), but her postdoc experience has been subpar. For some context, her grad school advisor was pretty overbearing and demanding, and actually had a big hand in who she chose to do a postdoc with.
Her advisor seems very disinterested in actually providing any mentorship and instead criticizes her for not being able to do new techniques perfectly. My friend tries to bring new ideas to the table, make adjustments, seek out solutions, etc. but just gets shot down. Instead of letting her work on other projects, she “punishes” her by just telling her to read papers for weeks on end. In general she seems like a textbook micromanager who sees her lab as just a publication factory.
We’ve talked through lots of options and she’s in an area with lots of biotech + other universities, so she has no shortage of options. I’ve known her for 8 years and the entire time she’s been steadfast in her desire to be a PI. I think she has what it takes, but it’s being beaten out of her by this shitty experience. I’ve enjoyed being a postdoc in large part due to how great my mentors are — working with them has helped combat some of the awful parts of being a postdoc and helped me overcome some of my own bad experiences in grad school, and would love for her to have a similar mentor relationship.
She and I have talked a lot and I think the biggest barrier for her right now is getting over the (reasonable) fear of seeking out a new mentor and switching labs/projects. We’ve talked a lot about industry and I think she’d do great moving out of academia (which is where I’m leaning), but I also want her to feel more agency in the decision and not entirely like she’s getting pushed out. So…at this point I’m trying to crowdsource some advice and perspectives to help with next steps.
For those of you who switched postdoc labs, how did it work out? Would you do it again? How did you navigate finding a new position and did you have to burn bridges? I’m especially curious to hear from anyone who had to navigate switching their NIH funding to a new PI/institution.
For those of you who stuck it out in shitty labs, same question: did it work out and would you do it again? Any advice for making your situation better?
And for anyone on hiring committees: how do you feel about candidates who have switched postdoc labs?

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NEW DELHI - India is not planning to invite Ukraine to the summit of the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations in September, its external affairs minister said Thursday.
India has avoided condemning Russia's war in Ukraine and has sought to end it through diplomacy and dialogue.
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ADVERTISEMENT. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations in Japan in May. It was their first meeting since Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year.
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🗓 Date: June 13, 2023 @ 5PM
🗺 Location:** Long Beach Civic Center411 W. Ocean Boulevard
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Agenda Item

CD8 - AACLB Jazz Evening

Item #1 • File #23-0602 (Details, PDF)
Sponsors:

• Councilman Al Austin, Eighth District

Recommendation to increase appropriations in the General Fund Group in the City Manager Department by $1,500, offset by the Eighth Council District One-time District Priority Funds, transferred from the Citywide Activities Department, to provide a donation to African American Cultural Center of Long Beach in support of their “Evening of Jazz”; and Decrease appropriations in the General Fund Group in the Citywide Activities Department by $1,500, to offset a transfer to the City Manager Department.

CD7 - Community Event Fund Transfers

Item #2 • File #23-0603 (Details, PDF)
Sponsors:

• Councilmember Roberto Uranga, Seventh District

Recommendation to increase appropriations in the General Fund Group in the City Manager Department by $5,500, offset by the Seventh Council District One-Time District Priority Funds, transferred from the Citywide Activities Department, to provide support for the following: 1. $3,500 in support of the Uptown Jazz Festival; 2. $500 to Wild West Women, Inc., in support of the Women’s Fair; 3. $1,000 to Century Villages at Cabrillo, in support of the Written in the Stars Gala; 4. $500 to the Long Beach Century Club in support of the Mayor’s Trophy Charity Golf Tournament; and Decrease appropriations in the General Fund Group in the Citywide Activities Department by $5,500 to offset transfers to the City Manager Department.

CD3 - Various Fund Transfers

Item #3 • File #23-0621 (Details, PDF)
Sponsors:

• Councilmember Kristina Duggan, Third District

Recommendation to increase appropriations in the General Fund Group in the City Manager Department by $2,500, offset by the Third Council District One-time District Priority Funds, transferred from the Citywide Activities Department, to provide donations of: • $500 to Alamitos Heights Improvement Associations to support the 2023 Alamitos Heights Neighborhood Picnic; • $500 to the Long Beach Century Club to support the Mayor’s Trophy Charity Golf Tournament; • $500 to Partners of Parks for the 2023 Long Beach Juneteenth Celebration; • $250 to Wild West Women, Inc. to support the Long Beach Woman’s Fair; • $300 to Temple Israel Long Beach to support Make a Difference Day; • $250 to LGBTQ Center of Long Beach to support the 10th Annual Black and White Gala; • $200 to the Long Beach Public Library Foundation to support the Grape Expectations Gala; and Decrease appropriations in the General Fund Group in the Citywide Activities Department by $2,500, to offset a transfer to the City Manager Department.

CD6 - Success in Challenges Gala Fund Transfer

Item #4 • File #23-0622 (Details, PDF)
Sponsors:

• Councilwoman Suely Saro, Sixth District

Recommendation to increase appropriations in the General Fund Group in the City Manager Department by $250 offset by the Sixth Council District One-time District Priority Funds transferred from the Citywide Activities Department, to provide contributions to Success In Challenges 2023 Gala; and Decrease appropriations in the General Fund Group in the Citywide Activities Department by $250 to offset a transfer to the City Manager Department.

CC - Minutes

Item #5 • File #23-0604 (Details, PDF)
Sponsors:

• City Clerk

Recommendation to approve the minutes for the City Council meetings of Tuesday, May 16 and May 23, 2023.

CC - Damage Claims

Item #6 • File #23-0605 (Details, PDF)
Sponsors:

• City Clerk

Recommendation to refer to City Attorney damage claims received between May 26, 2023 and June 5, 2023.

CM - Revise title of the Sustainable City Commission to the Climate Resilient and Sustainable City Commission

Item #7 • File #23-0606 (Details, PDF)
Sponsors:

• City Manager

Recommendation to amend Long Beach Municipal Code Chapter 2.38 to change the Sustainable City Commission’s name to the Climate Resilient and Sustainable City Commission; and Request City Attorney to prepare ordinance amending Chapter 2.38 of the Long Beach Municipal Code to: (1) revise the title of the Sustainable City Commission to the Climate Resilient and Sustainable City Commission. (Citywide)

CM - 2023 Office of Climate Action and Sustainability Work Plan

Item #8 • File #23-0607 (Details, PDF)
Sponsors:

• City Manager

Recommendation to review and approve the 2023 Office of Climate Action and Sustainability Work Plan. (Citywide)

CM - Placement of California Climate Action Fellows in the City of Long Beach

Item #9 • File #23-0608 (Details, PDF)
Sponsors:

• City Manager

Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement, and any necessary documents including subsequent amendments, with Bay Area Community Resources, to participate in the California Climate Action Corps Program, for the placement of California Climate Action Fellows in the City of Long Beach (City) for the 2023-2024 Fellowship cycle, at no cost to the City, for the period of one year, with the option to renew for two additional one-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager. (Citywide)

FD - LBCC to allow enrolled students to participate in clinical ambulance ride-alongs

Item #10 • File #23-0609 (Details, PDF)
Sponsors:

• Fire

Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an Educational Affiliate Agreement, and all necessary documents, including any subsequent amendments, with Long Beach City College, to allow enrolled students to implement a ride-along program for emergency medical service students participating in EMT and paramedic coursework, for a period of five years. (Citywide)

DHHS - Multiple contracts to dispense eligible drugs to qualifying patients

Item #11 • File #23-0610 (Details, PDF)
Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to amend and restate Contract No. 35066 with Wellpartner, LLC, of New York, NY (Wellpartner), to continue serving as Administrator of the 340B Pharmacy Program on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services (Health Department), a covered entity, to provide reduced pricing for eligible prescription drugs, with the option to renew the contract automatically for successive terms until canceled by the City of Long Beach (City), at the discretion of the City Manager; Authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to amend Contract No. 35172 with Cardinal Health 110, LLC, and Cardinal Health 112, LLC (collectively, Cardinal Health), of Dublin, OH, to continue serving as DistributoDrug Wholesaler, to provide eligible drugs under the 340B Pharmacy Program to the Contract Pharmacies, with the option to renew the contract automatically for successive terms until canceled by the City, at the discretion of the City Manager;

DHHS - Bioterrorism response programs

Item #12 • File #23-0611 (Details, PDF)
Sponsors:

• Health and Human Services

Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement and all necessary documents or subcontracts, including any amendments to the allocation amount, with the County of Los Angeles, for County Measure B funds in the amount of $1,000,000, to support ongoing bioterrorism response programs, for a one-year period, with the option to renew for four one-year periods; and Increase appropriations in the Health Fund Group in the Health and Human Services Department by $1,000,000, offset by reimbursement revenue. (Citywide)

DHHS - Contract w/First to Serve for homeless prevention $637K

Item #13 • File #23-0612 (Details, PDF)
Sponsors:

• Health and Human Services

Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. RFP HE-23-190 and award contracts to First to Serve, Inc., of Los Angeles, CA, and Interval House, of Long Beach, CA, to provide operation and supportive services for homeless prevention and rapid rehousing, in annual amounts not to exceed $637,500 and $355,618, respectively, through September 30, 2023, with the options to renew for one additional one-year period, at the discretion of the City Manager; and, authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all necessary documents to enter into the contracts, including any subsequent amendments. (Citywide)

PD - MOU w/Job Corps D7

Item #16 • File #23-0615 (Details, PDF)
Sponsors:

• Police

Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute a Memorandum of Understanding, and all necessary documents, including any subsequent amendments, with Long Beach Job Corps Center (LBJCC), to provide local law enforcement authority to enforce laws and conduct investigations on LBJCC premises, 1903 Santa Fe Avenue, which are under federal jurisdiction, for the period of July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024, with an option to renew for four additional one-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager. (District 7)

FM - Mid-Year Performance Report Development

Item #18 • File #23-0623 (Details, PDF)
Sponsors:

• Financial Management

Recommendation to receive and file the Fiscal Year 2023 (FY 23) Mid-Year Budget Performance Report providing an update on the City of Long Beach’s FY 23 financial status and projections and adjust appropriations in departments to reflect the funding where programs will be managed. (Citywide)

DHHS - Contract w/First to Serve for homeless prevention $787K

Item #20 • File #23-0618 (Details, PDF)
Sponsors:

• Health and Human Services

Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. RFP HE23-229, and award contracts to First to Serve, Inc., of Los Angeles, CA, and Interval House, of Long Beach, CA, to provide operation and supportive services for homeless prevention and rapid rehousing, in annual amounts not to exceed $787,061 and $787,061, respectively, for a period of one year, with the option to renew for an additional one-year period, at the discretion of the City Manager; and, authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all necessary documents to enter into the contracts, including any subsequent amendments. (Citywide)

PRM - Silverado Park Playground project from HUD D7

Item #21 • File #23-0619 (Details, PDF)
Sponsors:

• Parks, Recreation and Marine
• Public Works

Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement and any necessary documents including subsequent amendments, with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Community Development Fund to accept and expend grant funds for the Silverado Park Playground project (Project), in the amount of $1,500,000; Increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund Group in the Parks, Recreation and Marine Department by $15,000, offset by grant revenue; Increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund Group in the Parks, Recreation and Marine Department by $15,000, offset by a transfer of HUD Community Development grant funds from the Capital Grants Fund; Increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund Group in the Public Works Department by $1,485,000, offset by grant revenue; and Increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund Group in the Public Works Department by $1,485,000, offset by a transfer of HUD Community Development grant funds from the Capital Grants Fund. (District 7)

ABC License

PD - ABC License - Grill Em All D3

Item #14 • File #23-0613 (Details, PDF)
Sponsors:

• Police

Recommendation to receive and file the application of Two Dudes, One Truck, LLC, dba Grill Em All, for an original application of an Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) License, at 5411 East Ocean Boulevard. (District 3) Levine Act: Yes

PD - ABC License - Plantita's D7

Item #15 • File #23-0614 (Details, PDF)
Sponsors:

• Police

Recommendation to receive and file the application of Aileen Elizabeth Orozco Castaneda, dba Plantita’s Kitchen, for an original application of an Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) License, at 1950 West Willow Street, submit a Public Notice of Protest to ABC, and direct City Manager to withdraw the protest if a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) or Conditional Use Permit Exemption (CUPEX) is granted. (District 7) Levine Act: Yes

Public Hearing

FM - Ballast Point Entertainment Permit D3

Item #17 • File #23-0616 (Details, PDF)
Sponsors:

• Financial Management

Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, and grant an Entertainment Permit with conditions for Entertainment without Dancing to Kings & Convicts BP, LLC, dba Ballast Point Brewing Company, at 110 Marina Drive. (District 3)

Resolution

FM/Utilites - Natural Gas Purchase Revenue Bonds, Series 2007B

Item #19 • File #23-0617 (Details, PDF)
Sponsors:

• Financial Management
• Utilities

Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing and approving a change in the index rate for the Natural Gas Purchase Revenue Bonds Series 2007B, issued by the Long Beach Bond Finance Authority and the related Interest Rate Swaps, authorizing and approving certain documents and actions relating thereto, and delegating authority to officers in connection therewith. (Citywide)

Ordinance

CA - Senior Advisory Commission Name Change

Item #22 • File #23-0620 (Details, PDF)
Sponsors:

• City Attorney

Recommendation to declare ordinance of the City Council of the City of Long Beach amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending Chapter 2.57 relating to the Senior Citizen Advisory Commission Name Change to Advisory Commission on Aging; read the first time and laid over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for final reading. (Citywide)

DS - Noise Element

Item #23 • File #23-0586 (Details, PDF)
Sponsors:

• Development Services

Recommendation to declare ordinance amending Long Beach Municipal Code Chapter 8.80 to implement amendments to the Noise Ordinance, read and adopted as read. (Citywide)

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One strategy that has gained traction among retail investors is tracking penny stocks with higher-than-average volume. This approach can provide a significant edge when compiling a list of penny stocks to watch, offering insights that can help investors seize time-sensitive opportunities.

Penny Stocks: Risk & Reward

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Penny Stocks To Watch

Akebia ($AKBA)

Akebia Therapeutics has gained investor interest due to its significant increase in April and May due to its appeal to the FDA for vadadustat, anemia treatment. The company is currently in discussions with the FDA, receiving an interim response and a positive opinion from the European CHMP.
Akebia received marketing authorization for vadadustat, now branded as "Vafseo®," from the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency. However, the US market faces scrutiny, with the FDA rejecting its formal dispute resolution. Analysts like HC Wainwright and Piper Sandler have set price targets above current levels. Akebia is presenting at the Jefferies Healthcare Conference today.
CEO John Butler discusses regulatory updates, Akebia's oral hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase inhibitor, and potential global commercial opportunity for Vafseo.

Corvus Pharmaceuticals ($CRVS)

Corvus, a leading oncology therapy development company, announced its clinical pipeline plans, including accelerating the development of CPI-818 for T-cell lymphomas. CEO Richard A. Miller stated that the company has established scientific foundations for product candidates, allowing them to initiate mid-stage trials in lung and renal cell cancer.
Analysts have adjusted their outlook on CRVS stock, with Cantor Fitzgerald increasing its $2 target to $4 and Ladenburg Thalmann increasing its $4 to $10. Corvus will be in presentation mode in June at the Jefferies Healthcare Conference and the International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma.

Amyris ($AMRS)

Amyris shares rebounded in mid-May after completing a sustainable squalene supply license with Croda International, aligning with the company's commitment to sustainability in innovative ingredient supply.
Amyris' restructuring plan increased volatility in the penny stock, with CEO John Melo expressing satisfaction with PwC team and board support for expansion and cost reduction. The plan aims to reduce costs, improve operational effectiveness, achieve sustainable growth, and invest in a leading consumer brand portfolio.
Though there was an initial adverse reaction in the stock market this week, that seems to have subsided so far.