San Antonio Community Hospital is now the second hospital in San Bernardino County designated a receiving center for a particular kind of heart attack.

ST elevation myocardial infarction heart attacks, or STEMI, are caused by a clot or clots in one or more of the coronary arteries and require treatment within 90 minutes after the attack. (ST refers to a segment on the wave on the electrocardiogram doctors look at to determine a STEMI heart attack.)

Inland Counties Emergency Medical Agency designated San Antonio Community Hospital as a STEMI-receiving center based on the experience and expertise of its medical team and the advanced technology and processes the hospital already has in place to rapidly handle heart-attack patients, according to a news release from the hospital. Loma Linda Medical Center was the county's first hospital to receive that designation.

"One of the primary reasons the hospital received this designation is because of our proven outstanding door-to-balloon times in treating STEMI patients," said Dr. B. Don Ahn, medical director for San Antonio's Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and co-director of the STEMI-receiving center for patients. "This means they can be assured of rapid cardiac intervention from the moment they reach our Emergency Department -- not only saving as much of their heart muscle as possible but perhaps even saving their life.

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Hey, all....yes, it really is Mandy! I am finally posting after a few weeks of silence. We had a great trip to Utah and Idaho. However, it went by way too fast and now we are hurriedly organizing our house and avoiding the holiday rush so we can enjoy what time we have together as a family.

In Utah, we spent most of our time with Matt's family in Brigham City and a little time in Idaho with his dad and brother and then our favorite college friends the Allen family. (If you want to see some really cute pics of our girls, be sure to check out the Allen Family blog!). Lacey and I went fabric shopping and to one of my favorite places- Costco! We visited and ate lots of yummy food and then I oogled over her food storage. You wouldn't believe how awesome it is! Way to go, Lac!

We were able to spend a day up at Matt's family cabin in Island Park and that was very cozy and relaxing. Grace continually climbed the stairs and was told "No" due to the gas fireplace. She left there with another word in her vocabulary...you guessed it- "NO!" She's too cute when she does it! (I'll get sick of it one day I'm sure, but for now I find in adorable).

We played a lot of dominoes with Matt's mom. She loves to play games, even more than we do if that's even possible! We often were up until midnight playing Mexican Train. Even though we were exhausted....we had way too much fun to complain.

We went on a date night to see Quantum of Solace, which we both very much enjoyed. That's only the second date night we've been on in the last 6 months. Yikes!

We also got to go to Maddox and have a nice quiet dinner with his family. Then we went to Salty and spent a bit of time with my family. We had a great family home evening with my Dad's family and spent the next day with my grandparents learning about their trip to Mexico and my grandma also sat down and taught me how to Index names for family history. Very cool!

My mom's family came next and we had a FULL T-day dinner and were able to spend some time scrapbooking, visiting and most of all watch Grace climb the stairs and show all of her "tricks" to the family who haven't seen her since she was crawling. Again, so stinkin' cute I could bite her.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving...I know we did. Matt cooked all but one side dish for us! What a chef. He's the greatest....and he's all mine!

This has already been a pretty long post and we did a whole lot more while we were away, but I think I'll stop there. I will try to post more regularly.

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I find myself thankful for many things today – particularly the people I love, the creature comforts and little delights of life, and the fact that I still have a job doing what I enjoy most.
But, seeing as how this is a political blog, I’ll share here a few other things for which I give thanks today.
I’m thankful that a record 130 million Americans voted this month, including a record 24 million or so people ages 18 to 29; I hope this is the start of an historic reversal of apathy, a dawning civic re-engagement at all levels of government.
I’m thankful that we change our government and settle our political differences with ballots and celebrations, not with guns and mourning.
I’m thankful to have lived a life thus far largely free of the shadow of discrimination; I hope everyone will be able to say this someday.
I’m thankful that democracy and technology have conspired to provide many of us with more ways to express our views to more of each other than ever before in human history. I think we can only benefit from the dialogue, so long as we keep open minds.
And I’m thankful that, even as the economy struggles and so many people try to figure out what to do next, we live in a nation so wealthy, so resourceful, so secure that we can discuss numbers like “$7 trillion” as we look for containment and fixes. In too many parts of the world, a crisis far worse than what our nation now experiences still would be the best day people ever had. We live in a land of plenty, and we can and will find our way through tough times.
Happy Thanksgiving, readers.

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By Blake Helppie - A few weeks ago Steve Levitt, the co-author of Freakonomics, blogged about a recent study published by our company, JobApp Network, on how web-only applicant tracking, talent acquisition and hiring management systems may be unwittingly hampering diversity at hourly employers, particularly in retail and restaurants.
Rarely have I seen such a torrent of controversy unleashed by what was originally intended to be just another quarterly white paper. Academics were asking questions and bloggers revived a largely dormant “Digital Divide” discussion. I think the last time that the “Digital Divide” generated any real political or economic debate was somewhere around the time that I watched Detroit Rock City in theater (voted the worst movie of 1999 by the other 6 people who actually watched it).

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