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Although the prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) is high in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS), there is little knowledge about the persistence of OSAHS in ACS patients after the acute event. We aimed to assess the prevalence and time course of OSAHS in patients with ACS during and after the acute cardiac event.
Fifty-two patients with first-ever ACS, underwent attended overnight polysomnography (PSG) in our sleep center on the third day after the acute event. In patients with an apnea hypopnea index (AHI) > 10/h, we performed a follow up PSG 1 and 6 months later.
Twenty-eight patients (54%) had an AHI > 10/h. There was a significant decrease in AHI 1 month after the acute event (13.9 vs. 19.7, p = 0.001), confirming the diagnosis of OSAHS in 22 of 28 patients (79%). At 6-month follow-up, the AHI had decreased further (7.5 vs. 19.7, p < 0.05), and at that time only 6 of the 28 patients (21%) were diagnosed as having OSAHS. Twelve of the 16 current smokers stopped smoking after the acute event.
We have demonstrated a high prevalence of OSAHS in ACS patients, which did not persist 6 months later, indicating that, to some degree, OSAHS may be transient and related with the acute phase of the underlying disease or the reduction in the deleterious smoking habit.
Schiza SE; Simantirakis E; Bouloukaki I; Mermigkis C; Kallergis EM; Chrysostomakis S; Arfanakis D; Tzanakis N; Vardas P; Siafakas NM. Sleep disordered breathing in patients with acute coronary syndromes. J Clin Sleep Med 2012;8(1):21-26.
The high prevalence and clinical significance of sleep disordered breathing, (SDB) as well as its effects on a range of cardiovascular conditions have attracted growing interest. Obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) is strongly associated with the incidence and consequences of hypertension,1,2 arrhythmia,3,4 heart failure,5–7 and stroke.8,9 Treatment of OSAHS with CPAP has positive results on its well-known cardiovascular consequences.10
In addition, OSAHS has been found to be a factor involved in endothelial dysfunction,11 inflammation,12 and sympathetic activation, which may promote ischemic events. Although an increased incidence of CAD has been found in patients with OSAHS,13,14 and even mild to moderate OSAHS has been associated with a worse prognosis in patients with existing CAD,15,16 the characterization of OSAHS in the acute myocardial ischemia setting is less clear.17–25 Based on the results of recent studies19,20,25 it is difficult to determine whether OSAHS contributes to the occurrence of ACS, or whether OSAHS is a consequence of the acute phase in ACS patients that may improve after medical stabilisation. We therefore conducted a longitudinal study to assess the prevalence of OSAHS in a homogeneous group of patients with ACS, who had no other medical or known sleep disorder, to examine whether OSAHS persists over time and to elucidate any possible connection with the severity of the underlying disease.
Current Knowledge/Study Rationale: Several studies have shown a high prevalence of Obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) in the acute setting. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and time course of OSAHS in patients with ACS, during and after the acute cardiac event.
Study Impact: The issue on the ideal timing of investigation for OSAHS after an acute cardiovascular event remains unresolved. Based on our results, attempting to diagnose OSAHS early in patients with ACS should be done with caution, because initial polysomnography (PSG) findings in the acute phase of ACS are not necessarily indicative of an ongoing problem.
Fifty-two of 103 consecutive patients (40 men, 12 women) admitted to the CCU with a first-ever ACS, and with preserved left ventricular function (LVEF > 40%), satisfied the inclusion criteria and were invited to participate voluntarily in this study. The purpose of the study was explained to patients and relatives by a study author within the first 2 days after admission. ACS included first ever-acute myocardial infarction (AMI), acute EKG changes (i.e., ST-segment elevation > 1 mm in 2 contiguous leads, new Q waves, ST-segment depression, or T wave inversion), along with positive cardiac enzymes and unstable angina. Excluded were patients who were confused; patients who had received sedatives or narcotics within the previous 48 h or inotropes on the day of the sleep study; patients who had suffered cardiac arrest; patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, severe bronchial asthma, a history of psychiatric disorders, stroke or sepsis, hemodynamic instability, or a need for mechanical ventilation and cardiac assist, or ongoing supplementary oxygen therapy at the time of the sleep study; and those with a known history of diagnosed OSAHS, restless legs syndrome, or periodic leg movement disorder.
Overnight attended polysomnography (PSG) was carried out in our sleep disorders unit, away from the CCU environment but in the same hospital, on the third day after the acute event. Safety and feasibility of PSG for acutely ill patients in the sleep disorders center has been described previously.26 A sleep history was taken from each patient and his/her relatives, and the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) was used to evaluate daytime sleepiness. Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) was estimated by echocardiography using the biplane Simpson method before every sleep study. Patients with an apnea/hypopnea index (AHI) > 10/h were followed up with PSGs 1 and 6 months later.
Patients while in the CCU environment were kept in rooms with windows, and the light was dimmed every night at 22:00 to avoid circadian rhythm disturbances; they were encouraged to follow a normal sleep schedule and to avoid napping. Moreover, they were continuously video-recorded in order to rule out any abnormalities in their sleep schedule that might influence the first PSG, performed 3 days after the acute event. On the day of the sleep study, the PSG procedure was explained to the patients and a short visit to our sleep disorders center was arranged.
The study was approved by the hospital's ethics committee, and each participant gave written informed consent.
Overnight attended polysomnography (Alice 5, Respironics) was performed in our sleep disorders center, located in the same hospital as the CCU. Patients underwent 3 nights of full diagnostic PSG, one at each time point, according to our standard techniques, with monitoring of the electroencephalogram (EEG) using frontal, central, and occipital leads; electroculogram (EOG); electromyogram (EMG); flow (by oronasal thermistor and nasal air pressure transducer); thoracic and abdominal respiratory effort (inductance plethysmography); oximetry; and body position. Snoring was recorded by a microphone placed on the anterior neck. A single modified EKG lead II was used for baseline cardiac monitoring (additional leads I, II, aVL, aVR, and aVF were used as backup for further evaluation of features suggestive of cardiac ischemia observed in the main EKG lead). An infrared camera synchronized to the PSG was used, and the number and timing of interactions between nurse and patient were documented.
Polysomnographic recordings were manually interpreted in 30-sec intervals, in accordance with the guidelines of Rechtschaffen and Kales and the new AASM guidelines27,28; the scorer was always the same, blinded to the patients' clinical condition and the PSG findings from the first assessment. The definitions of apneas and hypopneas were based on the new AASM standard criteria.28 Hypopneas were scored with the "recommended" AASM hypopnea rule that requires a ≥ 30% drop in the nasal pressure transducer signal and a desaturation ≥ 4% compared to the prior event baseline. The same PSG protocol and criteria were used on each of the 3 nights.
Summary descriptive statistics are reported as mean ± SD (standard deviation) or frequency (%), as appropriate. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used to confirm normality. Differences between consecutive values (BMI, sleep architecture parameters, respiratory and oxygenation indices) were assessed by a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) test with the Bonferroni correction. A p-value < 0.05 was considered to indicate statistical significance. The statistical package SPSS 16 (Chicago, IL, USA) was used for the entire analysis.
Of 103 consecutive patients, 51 were excluded based on the above-mentioned exclusion criteria (Figure 1). Table 1 shows the patients' demographics and clinical characteristics. Admission diagnoses were AMI in 47 patients (91%) and unstable angina (UA) in 5 patients (9%). All patients received the same scheme of potentially sleep-affecting medications, of which the administration remained unchanged during the study period. In detail, the vast majority of participants, in accordance with international guidelines, received β-blockers (77%), angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (90%), or angiotensin-1 inhibitors (10%), while all of them received aspirin and/or clopidogrel and were continued on these medications upon discharge.
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Patients' demographics and clinical characteristics
[i] Values are given as mean ± SD, or No (%).
[ii] ESS, Epworth Sleepiness Scale; LVEF, left ventricular ejection fraction.
Coronary angiography was performed before discharge and in any case 3 days after the first PSG. No correlation was found between the apnea-hypopnea index and the number of coronary arteries involved or the site of myocardial ischemia or infarction. No ischemic changes were documented on EKG during the sleep study, and none of the participants reported chest pain during PSG monitoring. The LVEF was slightly but not significantly increased during the follow-up period.
OSAHS (AHI > 10/h) was identified in 32 of 52 patients, giving a prevalence of OSAHS of 62%. Of those 32 patients, 3 patients declined to participate further and one died. The remaining 28 patients were followed up with PSG 1 and 6 months later. Sixteen were current smokers, 6 were former smokers, and 6 were nonsmokers. Data collected from patients who underwent all 3 PSG studies are shown in Table 2. We found that the BMI and ESS did not change significantly between the 3 assessments. As depicted in Figure 2, there was a significant decrease in AHI 1 month after the acute event (13.9 ± 5.9 vs. 19.7 ± 6.7, p = 0.001), confirming the diagnosis of OSAHS in 22 of 28 patients (79%), and giving a prevalence of OSAHS of 42% (22 out of 52 patients). The AHI decreased further 6 months later compared with the initial PSG (7.5 ± 4.6 vs. 19.7 ± 6.7, p < 0.05), confirming the diagnosis of OSAHS in only 6 of 28 patients (21%), and giving the final prevalence of OSAHS of 12% (6 out of 52 patients; Figure 2). In addition, 12 of the 16 current smokers stopped smoking after the acute event. Specifically, 2 of the quitters were in the group of 6 patients with the final diagnosis of OSAHS; the remaining 10 were in the group of 22 with no confirmed OSAHS diagnosis at 6 months. Central events represented less than 5% of scored respiratory events during the initial PSG. The mean percentage of time spent in the supine position did not change significantly between the 3 studies, and none of the patients met formal criteria for a diagnosis of positional OSAHS during our study.29,30
Clinical and polysomnography (PSG) parameters of 28 patients who showed an AHI > 10/h at first assessment, measured during the acute stage, and 1 and 6 months later
{ label (or @symbol) needed for fn } Data are presented as mean ± SD.
{ label (or @symbol) needed for fn } TIB, time in bed; TST, total sleep time; WASO, wake duration after sleep onset; REM(%), rapid eye movement percentage (%) of TST; SWS (%), slow wave sleep percentage (%) of TST; AHI, apnea hypopnea index; CAHI, central apnea-hypopnea index; OAHI, obstructive apnea-hypopnea index; ODI, oxygen desaturation index; SaO2, oxygen saturation.
* p < 0.05 between second and first PSG,
† p < 0.05 between third and first PSG.
Box plots showing total apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) values.
Middle horizontal line inside box indicates median. Bottom and top of the box are 25th and 75th percentiles, and the error bars outside the box represent maximum and minimum values, respectively.
An analysis of sleep stages comparing the initial PSG with the first follow-up PSG and the second follow-up PSG revealed difficulties in initiating and maintaining sleep, significantly shorter total sleep time (233.2 ± 42.5 min vs. 301.8 ± 24.5 min vs. 341.3 ± 23.7 min, p < 0.05) and poorer sleep efficiency, significantly greater arousal index (26.9 ± 10.9 vs. 12.9 ± 3.8 vs. 4.3 ± 3.5, p < 0.05), and significantly less slow wave sleep (expressed as a percentage of total sleep time: 5.5 ± 2.1 vs. 10.7 ± 2.1 vs. 13.7 ± 3.2, p < 0.05), as well as percentage REM sleep (2.4 ± 2.9 vs. 11 ± 1.3 vs. 13.6 ± 3.7, p < 0.05). Sleep architecture was less altered 1 month after the acute event, while 6 months later sleep duration and stages were within normal range. There were no significant differences in light-off/light-on or total time in bed.
No patients were placed on nasal positive pressure therapy during the 6-month follow-up period. We arranged further clinical follow-up in all 6 patients who still had confirmed OSAHS at the last PSG study. Two of them received treatment with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), and for the others we recommended that CPAP therapy should be initiated in the future if patient's cardiac status deteriorated, if hypertension became difficult to stabilize, or if daytime sleepiness developed.
A few studies have evaluated the time course of SDB in patients with ACS.19,20,25 The present study was performed to investigate the time course of OSAHS in a homogeneous group of patients with ACS and preserved left ventricular function, who were not mechanically ventilated or on oral or intravenous sedation. To try to explain the association between ACS and OSAHS, patient selection was strict enough to exclude other comorbidities (details in the materials and methods section) that may be causative related to OSAHS. Our results indicated a high prevalence of OSAHS (AHI > 10/h) in the acute phase of ACS. However, the AHI was significantly lower in the second PSG with a further reduction near to the upper normal values in the chronic phase namely, 6 months after the acute event. The significant decrease of AHI during consecutive PSGs represents a decrease in scored obstructive respiratory events. Central events were less than 5% of scored respiratory events during the initial PSG.
Previous studies have shown a high prevalence of sleep disordered breathing and oxygen desaturation in patients with ACS.17–25,31 Additionally, a temporal association has been found between nocturnal myocardial ischemia and sleep apnea and hypopnea or desaturation in some patients with nocturnal ST-segment depression.32 The frequency of sleep disordered breathing in our study population at the time of the acute event (AHI > 10, 28 of 52 patients [54%]) and one month later (22 of 52 patients [42%]) is similar to that reported in previous studies.
However previous studies have several limitations, because the exact timing of the investigation in relation to cardiac events was either not stated or variable,18,25 and most of them calculated the AHI with a relatively less accurate monitoring system that did not employ an EEG.19,20,22–24,31 Furthermore, the patient samples were heterogeneous, since conditions that could increase the prevalence of OSAHS—confused patients, patients who had received sedatives or narcotics, and patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, severe bronchial asthma, or stroke—were not excluded.18,19,23,24 Moreover, sleep position and the fact that, as sensors need to be attached, patients are more likely to lay supine in the coronary care unit (CCU) or sleep laboratory setting as opposed to their own home, was not taken into consideration. Therefore, the possibility of transient OSAHS or a false-positive diagnosis cannot be excluded.
There are only a few reports of worsening of OSAHS in the acute phase of ACS.19,21,25,31 Our results from the follow-up investigation, in accordance with previous studies, showed that in a significant number of patients, the findings were transient and could not be repeated. A final diagnosis of OSAHS was confirmed in 6 of 28 patients (or 6 of the 52 [12%] of the original study group) 6 months later, indicating that PSG performed early after the acute event does not have good diagnostic value for determining the severity of OSAHS. However, our findings seem to contradict those previously reported by Bahammam et al., who showed a high prevalence of OSAHS persisting at 6 months after the acute cardiac event.20
The question of the ideal timing of an investigation for OSAHS after an acute cardiovascular event remains unresolved. It is well known that making the diagnosis of OSAHS in patients with cardiovascular disease is important, particularly given that adequate management improves its cardiovascular consequences. It could be argued that the diagnosis should be made as early as possible, when patients are in contact with clinical staff and in a setting where facilities for immediate investigation are more likely to be available. However, based on our results, attempting to diagnose OSAHS early in patients with ACS should be done with caution, because initial PSG findings in the acute phase of ACS are not necessarily indicative of an ongoing problem. In addition, disrupted sleep with alterations in sleep macro- and microarchitecture that is common during acute cardiac events may temporally increase sleep disordered breathing. Therefore, PSG should not be performed early after ACS to reliably establish the diagnosis of OSA, given the high rate of false-positive diagnoses (22 of 28 diagnoses: 79%) and should only very restrictively be performed in patients during ACS because PSG worsens the frail sleep in these already distressed patients. Additionally, performing sleep studies shortly after admission to the CCU may be a waste of resources.
An explanation for the high prevalence rate in the first study may be the abnormal breathing and negative impaired sleep microarchitecture during sleep from acute cardiovascular pathology, which results in overestimation of the baseline degree of apnea. However, in such cases there is a tendency for central respiratory events to occur, which did not appear in our results since patients with cardiac failure were excluded. Another explanation may be inflammatory changes and sympathetic neural hyperactivity associated with ACS,33 which could lead to destabilization of ventilatory control, affecting upper airway patency as well as chest wall muscles.34 Considering that smoking is a predisposing factor for OSAHS,35 an apparent explanation for the observed decrease of AHI 6 months later is that 12 of 16 current smokers in our study stopped smoking, with most of them included in the group of the 22 with decreased AHI 6 months later. Smoking habit has well-described negative effects in the upper airway via several mechanisms (inflammation, influence of declining nicotine levels in sleep stability, smoking related diseases) and may predispose or increase underlying sleep disordered breathing, especially in vulnerable populations, such as those with coronary disease.36–39 In addition, smoking reduction after an acute cardiac event is usually accompanied by improvement in other behaviors like exercise, alcohol consumption, and alterations in diet that may improve underlying sleep disordered breathing. An alternative explanation is that patients in the first study were more likely to lie supine (or spent more time supine) in the sleep laboratory compared to their own home because of the need for additional instrumentation (e.g., EEG leads) which may also have worsened OSAHS. However, the findings of this study showed that there were no significant changes in time spent in the supine position among the three studies. Furthermore, our group has demonstrated previously that patients with ACS have alterations in sleep architecture, which tend to disappear over time.40 Our study confirms that sleep architecture was clearly worse in the acute post-AMI phase than at follow-up, which suggests that the SDB was worse in the acute phase. Finally, it is worth noting that, according to Feinsilver, an alternative explanation for our findings is that these patients are not really "false positives" but demonstrate true OSAHS, albeit transient, during an acute cardiac illness.41
The present study did have some limitations that deserve comment. First our study had the limitation that it did not include a control group to control for regression to the mean. The absence of control group and the individual's selection based on one measurement followed by repeated measurements is definitely linked with both intra-subject and between-subject variations. The regression to the mean bias could affect particularly, the observed differences between baseline and first time-point measurements (1 month after initial estimation). However, our data of the second time-point (6 months) showed that these differences sustained not only between baseline and 6 months but also between 1 month and 6 months. Thus, we feel pretty confident that our entire conclusion that "to some degree, OSAHS may be transient and related with the acute phase of the underlying disease" is correct. Second, it is possible that gender factors could play a role, as the data presented were mainly based on male subjects, and therefore the results cannot be extrapolated to women. Another limitation of the study was the relatively small number of subjects. Nevertheless, previous studies exploring the time course of OSAHS in patients with ACS recruited similarly small numbers of patients. Taking the above into account, further studies using a larger number of patients will be needed to investigate the exact mechanism.
In conclusion, our data show a high prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome in the acute myocardial ischemia setting. In the majority of cases, this did not persist and AHI was significantly lower 6 months later, indicating that OSAHS may be transient. This suggests that the pathophysiological consequences of ACS (increased sympathetic activity and inflammatory changes) may be the main factors causing the high rate of OSAHS diagnosis during the acute phase. Therefore, sleep studies should not be performed early after ACS to reliably establish the diagnosis of OSAHS. However, further studies should explore the above-mentioned changes associated with the underlying cardiac disease and their contribution to the alteration in OSAHS. In addition, further research is needed concerning the role of short-term (one to six months) CPAP therapy in ACS patients with polysomnographic features who exhibit OSAHS around the acute event. This approach might improve patient outcomes (morbidity and mortality) during the period in which we observed a gradual decrease in the apnea-hypopnea index.
This was not an industry supported study. The authors have indicated no financial conflicts of interest.
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Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) Wins Third National Championship
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. - (Box Score | Bracket) No. 2 Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) claimed its third all-time national crown with a 3-2 victory over No. 12 Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) on Saturday in the 2012 NAIA Women's Soccer National Championship final, presented by the Sports Medicine Center at Orthopedic Group, P.C., and Encore Rehabilitation. With the victory, the Blue Raiders become sixth program in NAIA women's soccer history to win three-or-more national titles.
"I was just hoping we'd get to halftime two-to-two," said Lindsey Wilson head coach Drew Burwash. "We battled in the second half. I don't know what it was statistically, but we turned it on and fortunately we got a goal that put us over the top."
"It's just a group of kids that battled their hearts out for us," continued Burwash. "It's a great feeling. We've been talking all year about having a great attitude and giving a great effort. We gave a good effort in the first half, but were disorganized defensively and we let some things happen. We tightened things up and it made the difference. Give credit to that team over there (Olivet Nazarene) - we feel lucky to get out of here with a win."
Olivet Nazarene's Devin Johnston opened the scoring with her first goal of the championship with a header off a corner kick from Kelsey Warp in the fourth minute of action. Emilia Jonsson, who entered the contest with only one goal on the season, tied the game at 1-1 with a top-shelf blast less than two minutes later.
The Tigers took their second lead of the match at the 19:14 mark when Jessica Higer netted her 10th goal of the season. The strike came from the far side of the 18-yard box and looped over the leaping Lindsey Wilson goalkeeper and into the far corner. The lead would hold until the 32nd minute when Elisha Fry posted her first goal of the championship on a low free kick that found its way into the bottom-left corner of the net.
Both defenses held until Elizabet Madjarac, who received Championship Outstanding Offensive Player honors, scored the game-winner in the 60th minute. The goal is Madjarac's second of the championship and ninth of the season.
Lindsey Wilson goalkeeper Josephine Frigge stopped two Olivet Nazarene shots on goal to get credit with the win. Wendy Espejel was given the loss after posting three saves.
The five combined goals are the most in a championship final since 1996 when former NAIA member Simon Fraser (B.C.) defeated Mobile (Ala.), 3-2, in five overtimes.
Lindsey Wilson, who improves to 28-11-2 all-time in championship action, ends its season at 20-4-1.
Olivet Nazarene, playing in its first-ever national championship final, ends its season at 19-4-1. The Tigers had previously never advanced past the second round.
National Championship Post Game Interviews
Lindsey Wilson head coach Drew Burwash
Lindsey Wilson midfielder Mia Persson
National Championship Final Notes
• Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) wins its third all-time women's soccer national championship. The Blue Raiders are the sixth NAIA women's soccer program to win three-or-more national crowns. The others include: Westmont (Calif.), former NAIA member Berry (Ga.), former NAIA member Pacific Lutheran (Wash.), former NAIA member Lynn (Fla.) and Lee (Tenn.).
• Lindsey Wilson's other two national titles came in 2004 and 2006
• The combined five goals is the most in an NAIA Women's Soccer National Championship final match since former NAIA member Simon Fraser (B.C.) defeated Mobile (Ala.), 3-2, in five overtimes.
• In all-time national championship action, Lindsey Wilson improves to 28-11-2 all-time, while Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) is 4-1-2.
• Prior to 2012, Olivet Nazarene had never advanced past the second round.
• Lindsey Wilson is the only team from the Mid-South Conference to win a women's soccer national championship.
• As a team, Lindsey Wilson outscored the opposition 12-3 in five national championship final site matches.
2012 NAIA Women's Soccer National Championship – All-Tournament Team
|Wendy Espejel
|Olivet Nazarene (Ill.)
|Ontario, Calif.
|Sarah Yancer
|Spring Arbor (Mich.)
|Freeland, Mich.
|Renee Hurd
|Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)
|Pensacola, Fla.
|Devin Johnston
|Olivet Nazarene (Ill.)
|Bloomington, Ill.
|Jenna Peterson
|Concordia (Ore.)
|Federal Way, Wash.
|Karly Linton
|Spring Arbor (Mich.)
|Midland, Mich.
|Mia Persson
|Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)
|Sjobo, Sweden
|Leah Fortune
|Lee (Tenn.)
|Chicago, Ill.
|Ashley Aragona
|Lee (Tenn.)
|Waxhaw, N.C.
|Elizabet Madjarac
|Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)
|Bronby Strand, Denmark
|Jordan Davidson
|Vanguard (Calif.)
|Tucson, Ariz.
|Lindsey Holman-Kelly
|Vanguard (Calif.)
|La Mesa, Calif.
|Jessica Higer
|Olivet Nazarene (Ill.)
|Kuna, Idaho
Championship Outstanding Offensive Player
Elizabet Madjarac, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)
Championship Outstanding Defensive Player
Renee Hurd, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)
Championship Most Valuable Player
Mia Persson, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)
Champions of Character Select Sport America-NAIA Scholarship Recipient
Mia Persson, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)


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By: Thomas Adams September 27, 2013
The still at Black Button Distilling is in place and being connected to the boiler this week, and the rest of the equipment is scheduled to arrive next month as Jason Barrett prepares to launch his craft distillery near the Rochester Public Market.
Barrett, 26, had hoped to be open by now but is awaiting approval of federal licensing, which then triggers state approval. Federal approval could come as soon as Monday, he said.
"The new target date is Dec. 1," Barrett said this week, "but it all depends on those licenses, and we don't have a lot of control over what Albany or Washington does with those."
Black Button will be the first grain-to-glass distillery in Monroe County. Barrett is investing $1 million to set up his business at 85 Railroad St.
"Some of the individual pieces of equipment are over $100,000 and have to be custom-built to our specifications, so there's no sending them back," he said. "There's a 2 million BTU boiler back there that had to be all plumbed and natural gas. The whole safety system had to go in and be hardwired."
Black Button shares a building with Rohrbach Brewing Co., spawned by building owner John Urlaub.
"I really wanted to be right down here at the Public Market," said Barrett, president and head distiller. "We get great foot traffic, and it's the kind of people that'll be interested in our product.
"We were going to be right across the street, but when that deal fell through, at the same time we met John Urlaub. He was giving us a tour and made a joke about it being too bad that we couldn't move in here. I looked at him and said, 'Well, why can't we?' We negotiated the lease, and a few months later we moved in and started construction."
Barrett signed a lease in April. Construction started in mid-May.
"The thing I'm most passionate about is the corn whiskey and the bourbon we're going to put out," he said. "The bourbon takes a minimum of two years to age. Pretty much every time we've got an extra thousand dollars, we're going to put away another barrel of whiskey.
"When are we cash-positive? Hopefully sometime next summer. When do we actually turn a profit and stop building inventory? It could be eight or nine years, because every time you've got some extra cash lying around, you've got to decide what you want to do with it. We want to put away as many barrels as possible."
Industry growth
The American Distilling Institute says it has 400 craft distillery members. There were 69 craft distillers with distilled spirits plant licenses issued by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau in 2003 when the ADI was formed, its website says.
The ADI expects as many as 800 craft distillers in the United States and Canada by the end of 2015. New York ranked second to California in the number of craft distilleries, a 2012 ADI study found, but had produced fewer than 50,000 cases.
The lack of volume is largely the result of the newness of the industry in New York but also is due to limitations of the state's Farm Distillery Law, passed in 2007, the study says. The law requires distilleries to use primarily New York farm products.
Born and raised in Rochester, Barrett studied political science at SUNY College at Cortland and took some MBA classes at George Washington University.
His interest in craft beers and liquors was piqued while he was working in Washington, D.C., as a business consultant for Paychex Inc., doing small-business payrolls for businesses such as DC Brau Brewing Co., Beltway Brewing Co. and Catoctin Creek Distilling Co. LLC.
"I had been a home brewer for many years and got to know a lot of the craft breweries that were coming on line in D.C.," Barrett said. "I became very good friends with several of them. I looked at buying one, actually, at one point. When that deal fell apart, I decided I would just open my own brewery."
After doing some business planning and research, he decided craft distilling was of more interest than craft brewing.
"I really like experimenting with things, walking people through different taste profiles and explaining what we did differently," Barrett said. "There's a lot more opportunity for that in distilling, and I like great whiskey as much as I like great beer."
His education is a product of several distilling schools, including programs offered by Michigan State University, Cornell University, Catoctin Creek in northern Virginia, the Koval Inc. distillery in Chicago and Dry Fly Distilling in Spokane, Wash.
"The guys in Chicago are really good with yeast management," Barrett said. "The guys from Cornell know a ton about barrel aging. There are some folks in Denver that have the process of how you move the whiskey through the facility down really well."
Each school offered a seminar of three to five days.
"Over the course of two years, I started going to them sort of as hobbies when I still had my day job," Barrett said. "I would take my vacations and go do that.
"Towards the end, I did my master distilling work in Spokane and pretty much quit my job two weeks later."
The Black Button distillery includes a 300-gallon hybrid pot still to make whiskey, vodka and gin. Barrett plans to start with a wheat-based vodka, a citrus-forward gin-its orange and lemon flavors create more of a citrus taste than regular gin-and an unaged corn whiskey.
There will be four full-time employees, along with several part-time brand ambassadors and bartenders with day jobs or other sources of income who want to promote Black Button beverages.
"There may be a Wednesday night where we're doing two tastings at liquor stores, we might have a private party here and we might need to be bottling," Barrett said. "I might need 18 people, and yet the very next day I might need two.
"Having that sort of bench of people who are very flexible, where they want to do it to be involved, will work out very well for us."
Regional interest
Black Button will be one of a few craft distilleries in the region. Those include Finger Lakes Distilling and Myer Farm Distillers on Seneca Lake and the newly opened Apple Country Spirits in Williamson, Wayne County.
"Generally, distilleries tend to focus on either fruits or grains just because that's the equipment you need to process stuff," Barrett said. "We have all the equipment to grind grain. I can do wheat, rye, triticale, oats, really anything. But if you brought me 10,000 pounds of apples, I don't have any pressing equipment."
Barrett plans to sell his products, as well as other merchandise, on location. He also wants to do tastings and tours, private events and classes on how whiskey is made.
A dozen liquor stores and two dozen bars have inquired about Black Button products, Barrett said.
"It'll be at least an extra 60 days where we'll be able to sell it here but won't be able to sell it through wholesalers because we haven't gone through New York State price posting," he said.
"As soon as we get our state and federal licenses, we can start making and tasting, and we make 900 bottles a week. It only takes about three weeks to get started from when those licenses come in to actually having the first product."
Additional licenses are required for labeling.
"We'll already have bottles in the back, full of product waiting to be labeled," Barrett said.
"We want people to come and visit us, certainly, but we also don't want them to have to come here every time they want a bottle."


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Lipscomb track and field team travels to fellow Atlantic Sun Conference member ETSU for the Niswonger Invite. The meet takes place Friday and Saturday in Johnson City, Tenn.
The invite expects 800 student-athletes from 60 institutions competing in 16 men's and 16 women's events.
For the first time this season the Lipscomb distance runners will be competing. In the past, the distance runners have been some of the strongest events for Lipscomb.
"Dani Walker took it to another level at the end of the cross country season," Lipscomb head coach Bill Taylor said. "She will be competing in the 800, 3000 and the DMR. We also have a crew of distance runners and you never know who will emerge from one meet to the next.
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The Purple and Gold looks to build on performances from last weekend after the Blazer Invite.
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Tucker Peabody was one of a few highlights from last weekend as he finished third in the 200m dash. Taylor expects him to continue his trend.
"He has won a conference title on this track," Taylor said. "I think he will be motivated to take it up another level with the track conditions conducive for him to run better."
If there was a reason to add extra motivation, competing in Johnson City is important to Taylor.
"We are going to ETSU which is the site of the A-Sun Championship," Taylor said. "There is a little extra motivation to perform well in a facility that we need to perform well in."


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Sorry, Ladies, But You Have No Choice
Ladies, You Have No Choice
How extremists took over U.S. family planning policy
Every Friday morning, Stirling Scruggs receives a fax that the sender, an organization called C-FAM, may or may not have intended for him to receive. C-FAM is the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, based in New York near the United Nations, a behind-the-scenes anti-abortion group that has established itself as one of the most vociferous factions in the U.S. culture wars. Scruggs, who grew up in Tennessee and looks more like a country-western singer than a man who oversees an entire UN division, doesn't at all like what he sees. It's his job, as director of the Information and External Relations Division of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), to watch out for disinformation being disseminated through the United States and abroad by a network of shadowy anti-choice organizations of which C-FAM is one. What he sees coming in today is a doozie.
The newly arrived fax alleges that the UN Population Fund was complicit in the forced sterilizations of poor, indigenous women in Peru during the presidency of Alberto Fujimori. The allegation comes from another group in the network, called the Population Research Institute (PRI), which is based in the horse-country town of Front Royal, Virginia. This assertion, says Scruggs, is "total fiction." C-FAM, he says, is passing along PRI's charges as part of an orchestrated campaign to discredit the UN in general and UNFPA in particular. He points out that PRI has included no substantiation for these charges. Wasting no time, he gets on the phone to his UNFPA colleagues in Lima, alerting them to the inevitable ruckus this story will cause, and requesting that they coordinate any response with his office.
C-FAM's use of fax rather than e-mail may seem quaint, but the group's influence is both calculated and potent. The "Friday Fax of Misinformation," as Scruggs ruefully calls it, is circulated to a network of other, like-minded, groups that will in turn do their best to provoke the rage of fellow anti-abortionists all over the world. It also goes to certain members of the U.S. Congress and selected members of the media who can be counted on to promote the group's anti-choice agenda.
That agenda, says the UN's Scruggs, is not simply to oppose abortion. Rather, the anti-abortion rhetoric is a kind of code for something more pervasive. "These groups are not just anti-abortion, they are anti-women, and oppose population policies and programs in general," says Scruggs. "They hate us because we have been very effective in promoting women's rights and providing poor communities with the information and means to voluntarily plan their families. The pity is that refuting these lies takes up valuable staff time-time we could be using to carry out our primary mandate, saving the lives of poor women, men, and adolescents."
Behind their innocuous-sounding names and claims to represent "pro-life" interests, C-FAM and its network of like-minded groups-others include the Pro-Life Action League, American Life League, Campaign Life Coalition, Concerned Women for America, and National Right to Life Committee-have lobbied heavily against women's rights to make their own decisions about having or not having children. C-FAM was established ostensibly to monitor UN activities in the population and reproductive health fields. But according to investigations carried out by other groups, including Catholics for a Free Choice, what C-FAM really does is orchestrate misinformation campaigns against the UN system, disrupt meetings, and brand all specialized agencies and NGOs engaged in reproductive health and family planning initiatives in developing countries as "anti-family."
C-FAM's president, Austin Ruse, is one of a growing number of figures who are apparently bent on undermining all aid to developing countries by organizations that even mention the words "family planning," "reproductive health," "women's rights," or "free, informed choice." He has reportedly told supporters that reproductive health is just a "cover-up for abortionists" and that efforts to achieve reproductive health and establish rights for poor women is a "feminist conspiracy" to "destroy the family."
A particular target, for Ruse, is the Beijing Platform of Action, a product of the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, China, in 1995. In the typically bland but well-meaning language of UN delegates everywhere, the Platform calls for actions "to eradicate persistent and increasing burden of poverty on women; to remove the obstacles to women's full participation in public life and decision-making; to eliminate all forms of violence against women; to ensure equal access for girl children and women to education and health services; to promote economic autonomy for women; and to encourage an equitable sharing of family responsibilities." To Ruse, this is "one of the most radical and dangerous documents you can imagine" (italics added).
It's not clear whether Ruse is one of those Montana-style militants who believe the UN storm troopers will arrive by night in black helicopters (New York is not Montana, after all), but he's by no means alone. Nor is his characterization of the Beijing Platform as "dangerous" a thing that people like Scruggs can just shrug off. C-FAM and the Population Research Institute are part of a tightly woven group of organizations bent on "dismantling 30 years of progress in population assistance," says a USAID (Agency for International Development) official who prefers anonymity. Both organizations were founded and financed by the same parent organization-Human Life International (HLI), an offspring of Human Life International Canada. The offices of Human Life International are next to PRI's in Front Royal.
The pit-bull of this labyrinthine assemblage is the Population Research Institute, which was set up in 1989 by Benedictine priest Father Paul Marx, who at the time was president of Human Life International. Sometime in the mid-1990s, Marx recruited a man named Steven Mosher to run PRI. Marx is perhaps best known for his assertion that the success of the abortion rights movement in the United States and elsewhere is the work of Jews. In a 1993 newsletter to supporters, Marx wrote: "Today, certain members of this people whose ancient religion and culture managed to survive Auschwitz and Buchenwald are presiding over the greatest Holocaust in the history of the world. American Jews have been leaders in establishing and defending the efficient destruction of more than 30 million preborn [sic] children in this country."
Mosher, the man Marx would later recruit to run PRI, started out his adult life as an apparently serious student, entering a doctoral program in anthropology at Stanford University. He was expelled from the program, however, for having engaged in what the university termed "illegal and seriously unethical conduct" that "endangered his research subjects." Though it is unclear what Mosher was initially researching in China, he began to study the country's population-control practices, which in the 1970s and 1980s were very harsh. His observations there may have colored his subsequent views, as he witnessed women being forced to have late-term abortions against their will. Mosher published photos of some of these women in a magazine in Taiwan, but neglected to conceal their faces-thereby exposing the practice but also exposing the women (who could have been seen as cooperating with Mosher) to retaliation by the Chinese authorities.
Mosher then morphed into his current persona: stridently anti-abortion and anti-China. He also evidently believes-along with some of those Montana militiamen-that the UN is a global conspiracy to impose a "new world order" on the community of nations. Part of that new world order, he says, is a plan to use family planning as a way to "selectively reduce the population of the world to a manageable number."
Putting Family Planners in the Crosshairs
During the 1990s, the views of Mosher, Ruse, and their network made steady but quiet inroads into the thinking of the increasingly conservative U.S. Congress. As long as Bill Clinton was in the White House, these views were ignored by the administration. With the arrival of George W. Bush, however, the balance shifted suddenly. "These groups have been around for the past decade," points out Richard Snyder, chief of UNFPA's External Relations Branch. "The difference is that now they have an ear in the White House." The moment the Supreme Court decided Bush was president, the anti-choice campaigns moved into high gear. And on his first day in office, Bush gave them their first reward-reactivating a discredited Reagan-era policy called the "global gag rule," according to which no organization can receive U.S. family planning assistance if it performs abortions, provides counseling and referral for abortions, or lobbies to make abortion legal or more available in its own country.
The next target to be put in the White House crosshairs was UNFPA. The Congress allocated $34 million to the Population Fund in 2002. But then Mosher's PRI issued a report alleging that UNFPA aid funds were being used for coercive abortions and sterilizations in China. Congressman Chris Smith, a Republican from New Jersey who made his reputation as a UN basher, became very excited about the report-even though it actually contained no hard evidence and seemed to be little more than a bad memory of what Mosher had reported 20 years earlier. Smith dispatched a letter to Bush urging that the funding be withheld. Bush, not known for his willingness to be dissuaded from an action by any lack of hard evidence, decided to withhold the funds. His reason, he said, was the Kemp-Kasten Amendment to the 1985 foreign aid bill [officially the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act], which stipulates that no funds can be allocated to any organization or program "which supports or participates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or sterilization."
The action was denounced by scores of U.S. legislators. One of them was Carolyn Maloney, a Democratic representative from New York City. "What I find so outrageous is that Bush withheld this $34 million based solely on testimony from the Population Research Institute, an arm of a far-right group," she said. "PRI is the only organization that has ever made these allegations. The administration is going against the will of Congress and the international community by allowing a small band of extremists to hamstring its foreign policy."
The "small band of extremists" is doing more than hamstringing U.S. foreign policy. PRI and its spawn are attempting to remake policy to fit their own triumphal new world order-in hopes of reversing decades of progress by UN agencies, NGOs, and community groups. Operating mainly behind the scenes, they have helped to persuade the Bush administration to systematically de-fund the main international organizations that work in the field of reproductive health and family planning.
The campaign began even before Bush moved in. Bill Clinton had pledged to raise U.S. contributions to $1 billion a year for UN agencies and NGOs that provide critically needed reproductive health and family planning services, but was unable to get a Republican-controlled Congress to authorize the funding. In 2002, the Global Health Council reported that between 1995 and 2002 the shortfall in funding had resulted in an estimated 300 million unintended pregnancies and the deaths of close to 1 million women from botched abortions and pregnancy-related illnesses and complications. The World Health Organization confirmed that over half a million women die every year from pregnancy-related causes, and that 90 percent of those deaths could be prevented if the women had access to trained health care providers or emergency obstetric services.
From the day Bush first sat down in the Oval Office, his decisions in the areas of family planning and population appear to have been guided solely by ideology, with little interest in what is actually happening in developing countries. After the delivery of the PRI report on China, for example, several high-level independent delegations were sent to China to look into the charges PRI had made, and their findings were sent to Bush-but were ignored.
Niek Biegman, former Dutch ambassador to NATO with a long history of UN service, headed the first delegation, under UN auspices. Upon his return, Biegman wrote that "UNFPA is very much in the business of helping the Chinese government fulfill its obligation under the Cairo Programme of Action, which is entirely based on a voluntary approach to family planning" (italics added). In the 32 pilot counties where UNFPA is working with the National Population and Family Planning Commission to eliminate targets and quotas and introduce improvements in service delivery, including access to a wide range of contraceptives, Biegman observed that the Fund was "enabling Chinese family planning programs to deliver better quality services, based on choice and informed consent." China has changed greatly since the 1980s, but in Steven Mosher's mind-and now in Bush's-the nightmare goes on.
Biegman's investigation was not the only one to find a gaping disparity between the White House view and reality. Three other major independent missions have confirmed Biegman's findings. In April 2002, a three-member group of British parliamentarians-one of them a conservative Catholic-visited China and found no evidence of misconduct by UNFPA. The next month, a three-person team was sent by the U.S. State Department. Embarrassingly for Bush, the U.S. team found "no evidence that UNFPA has knowingly supported or participated in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization in the PRC. Indeed, UNFPA has registered its strong opposition to such practices." All told, in the past decade there have been more than 160 UN monitoring missions to China. None of them confirmed the PRI report that had so excited Congressman Smith and so galvanized George Bush.
Another independent mission, organized by Catholics for a Free Choice, sent a nine-member team of faith-based organization leaders and ethicists to China in September 2003. Their conclusions were unequivocal: "On the basis of our meetings with Chinese family planning officials and ordinary citizens, we can say with confidence that all of the programs with which UNFPA is currently working are committed to avoiding any practice of forced abortions or involuntary sterilizations."
Why is the Bush administration so unresponsive to such findings? One answer is offered by Ronald Green, chairman of the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and a member of the 2003 delegation. "The Bush Administration has made UNFPA a sacrificial lamb for the religious right in America," says Green. "It's crass election politics. These groups not only oppose abortion, they are against family planning and reproductive health in general. Their positions...have no basis in reality."
The Death Toll Your News Channel Doesn't Discuss
Considering the amount of damage that has resulted from the see-no-research Bush policies-in every area from maternal mortality to girls' education to healthy parenting-many Washington-watchers have wondered just why these policies have been applied with such a vengeance. For Los Angeles Times columnist Robert Scheer, the reason is clear: "Women in other countries can't vote in U.S. elections," he writes, "but the members of the National Right to Life Committee not only vote but also donate to candidates and political action committees.... More than any other in recent memory, this administration is marked by a foreign policy driven primarily by a domestic agenda." Brian Dixon, director of government relations for the Washington, D.C.-based NGO Population Connection, agrees. "Since the first day of this Bush administration, there has been one guiding principle in its foreign policy decisions: appeasing the right-wing, anti-choice base. The result is to undermine the health of women all around the world."
A related explanation for why this anti-female action has come on so harshly and so hard is that in opening the White House door to religious guidance (Bush's advisor Karl Rove has set up a "Faith-Based and Communities Initiative Office" in the White House), the administration has opened a flood gate. Economist Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York, believes that by letting religious zealots in the policy door, Bush is fracturing the Constitution. Sachs wrote recently in New Scientist: "It is more than 200 years since the church and state were officially separated in the U.S., but anyone with an eye on American foreign policy under the Bush administration knows that this basic tenet of the Constitution is under threat." The religious right, he continues, "has found the ear of the White House to an unprecedented degree. This is especially true when it comes to U.S. policies on international development, which are riddled with evangelical opposition to family planning and the use of condoms to fight HIV/AIDS."
Despite the fact that every scientific study ever to address the issue has rated condoms as one of the most effective means of halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), the Bush regime has entered into an implicit alliance with the Vatican to preach abstinence-only programs. One immediate consequence has been a significant drop in the number of condoms shipped to poor developing countries by USAID, which, under Clinton, was one of the two largest donors of condoms in the world (the other was UNFPA). According to Population Action International, an NGO based in Washington, D.C., Bush's partisan policies have ended life-saving shipments of condoms and other contraceptive supplies to 16 of the poorest developing countries in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Family planning agencies in another 13 countries, nearly all in sub-Saharan Africa, no longer get condoms and contraceptives from USAID because they will not agree to the conditions set forth in the global gag rule. With funds in short supply, donor governments now provide only one-eighth of the number of condoms needed to effectively combat the spread of HIV/AIDS.
"These ill-conceived and dangerous policies are costing human lives, not saving them," comments Steven Sinding, the director-general of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), headquartered in London. IPPF, the largest voluntary organization in the world that provides reproductive health and family planning services to women, men and adolescents, is active in 182 countries. As a result of the Global Gag Rule, the Federation is losing at least $18 million a year in U.S. funding; $75 million over the next four to eight years.
IPPF predicts that the number of women who die from unsafe abortions every year-estimated minimally at 70,000 by the World Health Organization-will soar due to Bush's policies. Making abortion illegal, or difficult to obtain, does not stop abortion from happening. In the Philippines, an overwhelmingly Catholic nation where abortions are completely illegal, IPPF estimates there are half a million a year. Many of them take place in unsafe, unsanitary conditions. At just one hospital in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia - another country where abortion is illegal-a study found that half of all female deaths were from botched back-street abortions.
Perhaps the ultimate tragedy in this saga is the loss in reproductive health and family planning services to poor women-ironically, the very services that can prevent abortions from taking place. IPPF points to just a few of the programs it had to cut: In Bangladesh 14 clinics in poor neighborhoods had to be closed; in Nepal, over $700,000 has been lost for family planning, safe motherhood, and contraceptive services; in Cambodia over $3 million has been lost for HIV/AIDS prevention and counseling; in Kenya three clinics servicing 56,000 clients, mostly poor women of reproductive age, had to close; and in eastern Nepal, the local branch of IPPF had to close clinics and cut back services for over 300,000 people, endangering their health and welfare.
Other international NGOs with decades of experience providing quality health services in the poorest regions of developing countries have also seen their funding shrink as a result of the global gag rule. Marie Stopes International, for instance, had to close a major clinic servicing 300,000 people in Kenya's poverty-stricken Mathare Valley. The clinic provided STI screening and treatment, HIV testing and counseling, and a complete array of basic family planning and reproductive health care services. Apparently, it matters not to anti-choice opponents that no abortions were ever performed at that facility, or that there are no other health clinics in the entire area. Meanwhile, HIV infection rates in this region, as in the rest of Africa, are on the rise.
On a much larger scale, UNFPA calculates that the loss of $34 million, about 13 percent of its total budget, is having a devastating effect on programs in some of the poorest countries in which the Fund works. In Bangladesh, where close to 70 percent of pregnant women receive no medical care before, during, or after childbirth, programs to train doctors to deal with obstetric emergencies had to be cancelled. In Kenya, where the Fund was working with the Catholic Church to prevent teenagers from contracting the HIV virus, the project had to be shelved when funds dried up. Overall, UNFPA estimates that the loss of U.S. funding will result in 2 million unwanted pregnancies, 800,000 abortions, and more than 81,000 deaths.
Stirling Scruggs reckons that UNFPA has lost between $500 and $600 million since the fundamental change in U.S. population policy in 1986, funds that could have been used to advance women's health and rights worldwide. "It is sad when one considers that the U.S. was the prime mover in creating UNFPA during the Nixon administration," reflects Scruggs. "UNFPA has become just what the U.S. envisioned, the world's premiere reproductive health and rights organization." But now, that reputation is in jeopardy-not because of misdeeds, but because of misinformation. If the tactics practiced by C-FAM and PRI are any indication of what is to come, "then we are in for a lot more than false accusations, lost funds, and inflammatory rhetoric," says UNFPA's Snyder.
Indeed, PRI and other fundamentalist groups are now going directly into developing countries to spread their misinformation, employing techniques used by the CIA to discredit governments. Three years ago, PRI sent Austin Ruse to Pristina in Kosovo with the message that UNFPA was in league with the Serbs, and that the Fund's family planning services were actually a form of "ethnic cleansing." Fortunately, a quick reaction from UNFPA and supporting organizations avoided a potential lethal situation. "We were in a post-conflict situation, operating in very difficult conditions," recalls Scruggs. "If that rumor had persisted it could have put our people in the line of fire."
UNFPA, IPPF, and other international organizations working in the field of population are girding themselves for worse times ahead. To IPPF's Steve Sinding, UNFPA's Scruggs, and others who have toiled on the front lines of development, these cutbacks in funding from the world's richest country are not just numbers, but human faces-like that of the 25-year-old woman in the Philippines who died from hemorrhage on her way to a hospital 20 kilometers away because the local clinic didn't have the training or equipment to stop her from bleeding to death after giving birth to her sixth child in seven years; or the 20-year-old college student in Botswana who died from AIDS for lack of a condom; or the adolescent girl from Ethiopia who, forced to give birth at the tender age of 13, ended up suffering from fistula-a condition in which a woman's rectum, urethra, and vagina are torn apart during childbirth, leaving her incontinent and causing bodily wastes to seep through her vaginal canal and down her legs. According to the UN, nearly half of all women in developing countries deliver their babies without the aid of a trained medical attendant or access to emergency obstetric care. "We are dealing with real people and their unmet needs, not statistics," says Sinding. "These acts are a testament to the Bush administration's war against women and his overall contempt for their fundamental civil and human rights."
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Akio NiisatoNiisato creates his Luminescent Vessels by utilizing the self-honed hotarude (transparent pattern) technique, which allows his translucent porcelain work to carry light in itself, much like a firefly.
Niisato's works are admired worldwide; he has held workshops and participated in artist residencies in numerous locations, including the Art Center at Harvard in the US, Leach Pottery in the UK, and Museo Carlo Zauli in Italy.
1977 Born in Chiba
2001 Diploma, The Tajimi City Ceramic and Design Center
2011 Received a Fellowship of Japanese Government Overseas study program for artist by the Agency of Japan Cultural Affairs (Boston,USA)
Currently living in Toki, Japan
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2003 The 40th Asahi Ceramic Art Exhibition, Aichi
2004 Cool & Light New Spirit in Craft Making at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2005 Premio Faenza 55th Editional, Italy (Also in '07)
World Ceramic Biennale 2005, South Korea (Also in '07)
2010 About the Tea Ceremony – A Viewpoint on Centemporary Kogei at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
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2011 The White Time at Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art / Ceramic Art Messe Mashiko, Tochigi
2013 Master Teabowls of Our Days at Musee Tomo, Tokyo
2016 MADE IN JAPAN Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza, Italy
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2005 Award for the New Artist, Premio Faenza 54th Edition, Italy
2008 Grand Prize, Paramita Museum Ceramic Copmpetition
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