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The DJ who signed WRVU off the public airwaves describes the end

I didn't know that I would be the last DJ on WRVU as we knew it.

College Music Journal had reported Monday, June 6, that our call letters had mysteriously changed to WFCL. No one at Vanderbilt Student Communications had told the station staff or us DJs about it. We'd been innocently misidentifying the station in legal IDs for nearly a week. Speculation was proliferating about a sale, either a done deal or an imminent prospect, and VSC had done nothing to squelch it. Program director Scott Cardone had advised DJs to "run every show as if it were your last."

Our Tuesday schedule featured a block of automation from 1 to 4 p.m. (In 2009, the number of "community volunteers" — that is, DJs who were not students, faculty or staff members, or alumni of Vanderbilt — had been limited to 25 by VSC action, and the summer schedule was thus riddled with gaps.) I thought it would be a shame to have the robot DJ (nicknamed "HAL" by staffers) on the air at such a delicate time. I took a vacation day from work and packed up a bag of CDs — not the R&B, jump blues and jazz that I played on my regular show Nashville Jumps , but an assortment of aggressive rock and punk that I thought reflected the core of WRVU at its best. It appeared I'd only be able to work until 2:30, though — VSC's electronic media adviser Jim Hayes told me that station engineer Carl Pedersen was scheduled to take over the studio for some maintenance then.

I sat through much of Ashley Crownover's show Set Records to Stun but missed the visit of WSMV News to the control room. There is footage of Ashley as DJ on the WSMV website — she looks flattened and forlorn, mirroring The Jam song she played toward the end of her show, "The Bitterest Pill." She told me that there was talk of an announcement, a press release, a press conference —something — later that afternoon.

I took over at 1 and began a fill-in edition of Rock and Roll Rent Control , my off-and-on secondary program. Early on I mentioned the maintenance scheduled for 2:30, naively telling the audience, "If you hear me suddenly go away, it's not anything nefarious going on — I don't think." I played a set sprinkled with songs given special meaning by the situation, some only in my mind — "Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio" by the Ramones, "Left of the Dial" by the Replacements, "No Fun" by the Stooges, "Mind Your Own Business" by Delta 5. I kept reciting both sets of call letters and promising an explanation of the switch before long.

Pill Identifier Lite : Head-to-Head comparison Against pill ...

Pill Identifier Lite :  Head-to-Head comparison Against pill identifiers in Epocrates and Lexi-Comp

Pill Identification can represent a challenging but occasionally even life-saving endeavor for healthcare professionals and the general public.  Examples where pill identification techniques can be of great assistance include: an ER physician diagnosing beta-blockade toxicity in a bradycardic patient or oral hypoglycemic toxicity in a seizing patient, parents discovering an unknown stray pill in their teenager’s belongings, an EMS finding an unresponsive patient who overdosed on opiates, or a hospitalist unraveling an elderly patient’s antihypertensive regimen in the setting of acute renal failure.  Thus, pill identification is often crucial in clinical practice.

On June 1, 2011, the Pill Identifier Lite App for iPhone from Drugs.com hit the #1 spot in the paid medical app rankings in the iTunes App Store.  This App, based on the Drugs.com Pill Identifier Wizard website (here) , aims to help users identify pills by color, shape, and imprint from the convenience of the iPhone or iPad.

Read below the jump to see how the Pill Identifier Lite stacks up against the Epocrates (reviewed here) and Lexi-Comp (reviewed here) Pill Identifier functions, concluding with a direct comparison:

Enjoyed the review of all the pill identifiers, but was a bit surprised that Pillbox ( http://pillbox.nlm.nih.gov/ ) was not included among them. Is this because Pillbox is not an app ‘proper’ in this form and is available as a mobile optimized site? Pillbox is worth checking out as it is produced by the NIH/NLM, has both pill ID capacity and linked drug information for free.

Enjoyed the review of all the pill identifiers, but was a bit surprised that Pillbox ( http://pillbox.nlm.nih.gov/ ) was not included among them. Is this because Pillbox is not an app ‘proper’ in this form and is available as a mobile optimized site? I think Pillbox is worth checking out as it is produced by the NIH/NLM, and has both pill ID capacity and linked drug information for free.

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