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Skip to comments.Citizen MD [American Medical Association op-ed against Intelligent Design]
Posted on 12/03/2005 6:18:54 AM PST by Right Wing Professor
Im afraid we live in loopy times. How else to account for the latest entries in Americas culture wars: science museum docents donning combat gloves against rival fundamentalist tour groups and evolution on trial in a Pennsylvania federal court. For those keeping score, so far this year its Monkeys: 0, Monkey Business: 82. That's 82 evolution versus creationism debates in school boards or towns nationwidethis year alone. [1]
This past summer, when most Americans were distracted by thoughts of beaches and vacations or the high price of gasoline (even before the twin hits of Katrina and Rita), 2 heavy-weight political figures joined the President of the United States to weigh in on a supposedly scientific issue. US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Arizona Senator John McCain, and President George W. Bush each endorsed the teaching of intelligent design alongside evolution in the science classroom. Can anyone reasonably convince me that these pronouncements were not just cynical political punditry but, rather, were expressions of sincere beliefs?
So you have to ask yourself in light of all of these events, are we headed back to the past with no escape in the future? Are we trapped in a new period of history when science, once again, is in for the fight of its life?
In times like these, as inundated as we are by technical wizardry, one might conclude that American technological supremacy and know-how would lead, inevitably, to a deeper understanding or trust of science. Well, it doesnt. Perhaps just the opposite is true. Technology and gee whiz gadgetry has led to more suspicion rather than less. And a typical Americans understanding of science is limited at best. As far as evolution is concerned, if youre a believer in facts, scientific methods, and empirical data, the picture is even more depressing. A recent survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Science found that 64 percent of respondents support teaching creationism side by side with evolution in the science curriculum of public schools. A near majority48 percentdo not believe that Darwins theory of evolution is proven by fossil discoveries. Thirty-three percent believe that a general agreement does not exist among scientists that humans evolved over time [2].
What if we become a nation that cant chew gum, walk down the street, and transplant embryonic stem cells all at the same time? Does it matter?
New York Times journalist Cornelia Dean, who balances her time between science reporting for the Times and lecturing at Harvard, told me that she believes that science stands in a perilous position. Science, as an institution, has largely ceded the microphone to people who do not necessarily always embrace the scientific method, she says. Unless scientists participate in the public life of our country, our discourse on a number of issues of great importance becomes debased [3].
Others, such as journalist Chris Mooney, point to the increasing politicization of science as a pollutant seeping into our nations psyche. In his recent book, The Republican War on Science, Mooney spells out the danger of ignorance in public life when ideology trumps science.
Science politicization threatens not just our public health and the environment but the very integrity of American democracy, which relies heavily on scientific and technical expertise to function. At a time when more political choices than ever before hinge upon the scientific and technical competence of our elected leaders, the disregard for consensus and expertiseand the substitution of ideological allegiance for careful assessmentcan have disastrous consequences [4].
Jon D. Miller, PhD, a political scientist on faculty at Northwestern Universitys School of Medicine, believes that the sophisticated questions of biology that will confront each and every American in the 21st Century will require that they know the difference between a cell and a cell phone and are able to differentiate DNA from MTV. For decades, Miller has been surveying Americans about their scientific knowledge. We are now entering a period where our ability to unravel previously understood or not understood questions is going to grow extraordinarily, says Miller. As long as you are looking at the physics of nuclear power plants or the physics of transistors [all 20th Century questions] it doesnt affect your short-term belief systems. You can still turn on a radio and say it sounds good but you dont have to know why it works. As we get into genetic medicine, infectious diseases if you dont understand immunity, genetics, the principles of DNA, youre going to have a hard time making sense of these things [5].
These ideological battles arent likely to vanish any time soon. If anything, an organized and emboldened fundamentalist religious movement buttressed by political power in Washington will continue to challenge accepted scientific theory that collides with religious beliefs. So one must ask, is it too farfetched to see these ideological battles spilling over into areas of medical research and even into funding at the National Institutes of Health?
Now I am not asking for a world that doesnt respect religious belief. My education as a Roman Catholic balanced creed and science. In the classroom of my youth, one nun taught creationism in religion class while another taught evolution in science, and never the twain did meet.
So what does one do? How can a medical student, a resident, or a physician just beginning to build a career become active in these larger public battles? Burt Humburg, MD, a resident in internal medicine at Penn States Hershey Medical Center, is one role model. Hes been manning the evolutionary ramparts since his medical school days in Kansas in the late 1990s when he became active in Kansas Citizens for Science. On a brief vacation from his residency volunteering as a citizen advocate for the federal trial in Pennsylvania, he said education is the key role for the physician. While he realizes that medical students, residents and physicians might not view themselves as scientists, per se, he sees himself and his colleagues as part of the larger scientific collective that cant afford to shirk its duty. The town scientist is the town doctor, so whether we want it or not, we have the mantlethe trappingsof a scientist [7].
It is time for the medical community, through the initiative of individual physicians, to address not only how one can heal thy patient, but also how one can heal thy nation. There are many ways to get involved; from the most rudimentaryattending school board meetings, sending letters to the editor, and volunteering at the local science museumto the more demandingrunning for office, encouraging a spouse or partner to do so, or supporting candidates (especially financially) who are willing to speak out for science. As Tip ONeill, the larger-than-life Speaker of the House of Representatives, famously declared, All politics is local. Speak out for science. Isnt that a message that should be advanced in every physicians office?
Northwesterns Jon Miller concedes that speaking out may come with a price, It wont make [physicians]...popular with many people but is important for any profession, particularly a profession based on science to do so [5]. Consider this: shouldnt civic leadership be embedded in the mind of every blooming physician? In the end, doesnt combating this virulent campaign of anti-knowledge lead us back to that old adage of evolutionary leadership by example, Monkey see, monkey do? Seize the day, Doc.
I note that you don't accept abiogenesis, which however is not part of the theory of evolution. Darwin amongst any others suggested that the first life could have been divinely inspired.
So, do you have any arguments about the Theory of Evolution?
Question: Would you rather be ruled by knaves, or fools?
The theory of evolution does not discuss the origin of life. This has been repeated enough times that you are certain to be aware of it, and therefore the above is just an intellectually dishonest straw man.
Being blinded by their materialist worldview, evolutionists cannot explain the genesis of information or intelligence let alone acknowledge the all-important role that these immaterial factors play in the development of life. Wholly bereft of any argument based in science evolutionists are forced to resort to personally attacking the people who raise such important questions.
This is mere vapid hand-waving. It is perfectly possible to come up with scientifically defensible schemes for the genesis of information - as for intelligence, prokaryotes only have intelligence in comparison with creationists, a deplorably low standard.
\ You and your fellow evolutionists are in trouble, RWP, because your theory sucks. The more honest among you (Crick, Denton, Kauffman et al) have admitted it. It has an enormous and embarrassing gap that you can only fill by pleading 1) it came from somewhere else (which merely begs the question), or that something magical happened (the Santa Fe group), or by completely ignoring it as if ignorance were a sufficient explanation.\
You lie. Research groups all over the world are actively investigating the means by which life arose, and bridging the gap between abiogenetic origins and modern prokaryotic life forms.
And if you can't answer it, you'll be damned if you'll allow anyone else to try, hence these feeble screechings from your allies in the AMA and related bodies that are quite obviously attempting not to join the debate but to intimidate others into silence.
In the hysterical hyperbole of contemporary fundamentalist Christianity, an organization speaking out to defend the very intellectual core of what it represents is 'intimidation'. What a shame that in the last 20 years, the religious right has chosen to learn philosophy and tactics from the multiculti left, and nothing from the scientists who spend two decades fighting off multiculturalist encroachments, only to face the multicultis' tag team partner, Pat Robertson and his polydactylous cohorts.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
No, I'm ashamed of you. I'm ashamed we both call ourselves conservatives
Unforttunately, it appears either way we are to be ruled by knaves and fools.
It's the same as the church telling Galileo not to teach that the earth revolves around the sun, or at least to also teach the earth centric model. Do you think the science community should meet this with a half-hearted, ho-hum defense?
You can't scientifically disprove ID. It's a religious Idea, not a scientific one. This point has been made so many times, by so many scientists, that it beggars the imagination it still hasn't sunk in to some people.
The argument was between two different scientific theories one of which "the church" bought into .. so stop rewriting history.
"What were Galileo Galilei's conflicts with the Roman Catholic Church? It was not a simple conflict between science and religion, as usually portrayed. Rather it was a conflict between Copernican science and Aristotelian science which had become Church tradition. Galileo expressed his scientific views supporting Copernicus as well as his biblical views in a 1615 letter to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany ..." MORE
And how would they go about doing that? How do you disprove the existence/influence of a supernatural force? Tell me what scientists could show that would disprove ID.
[hint] There isn't any way. That's why ID can't be a "theory."
When ID does something to increase the sum of human knowledge, they can put it in science class
AMA is once again deciding to leave behind medicine and enter into the world of "Lofty Know Betters vs. Peasant Idiots".
The AMA regular publishes some of the most unscientific studies available, simple because the editorial staff like the outcome.
I know a dozen or so doctors and none of them think much of the AMA. Of course, I don't live in the North East.
"It was Pasteur who indeed proved that life does not occur/evolve readily spontaneously, that it occured through infections. "Darwinists" of today are in fact more on the side of spontaneous generation cult that attacked the inventor of the vaccine himself than on the side of science." ~ Judgemall
Michael Crichton and I agree with you:
...As the twentieth century drew to a close, the connection between hard scientific fact and public policy became increasingly elastic. In part this was possible because of the complacency of the scientific profession; in part because of the lack of good science education among the public; in part, because of the rise of specialized advocacy groups which have been enormously effective in getting publicity and shaping policy; and in great part because of the decline of the media as an independent assessor of fact.
The deterioration of the American media is dire loss for our country. When distinguished institutions like the New York Times can no longer differentiate between factual content and editorial opinion, but rather mix both freely on their front page, then who will hold anyone to a higher standard? ... [snip]
...At the conference in Washington, during the question period, Ehrlich was reminded that after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, scientists were quoted as saying nothing would grow there for 75 years, but in fact melons were growing the next year. So, he was asked, how accurate were these findings now?
Ehrlich answered by saying "I think they are extremely robust. Scientists may have made statements like that, although I cannot imagine what their basis would have been, even with the state of science at that time, but scientists are always making absurd statements, individually, in various places. What we are doing here, however, is presenting a consensus of a very large group of scientists "
I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.
There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.
In addition, let me remind you that the track record of the consensus is nothing to be proud of. Let's review a few cases.
In past centuries, the greatest killer of women was fever following childbirth . One woman in six died of this fever. In 1795, Alexander Gordon of Aberdeen suggested that the fevers were infectious processes, and he was able to cure them. The consensus said no. In 1843, Oliver Wendell Holmes claimed puerperal fever was contagious, and presented compellng evidence. The consensus said no. In 1849, Semmelweiss demonstrated that sanitary techniques virtually eliminated puerperal fever in hospitals under his management. The consensus said he was a Jew, ignored him, and dismissed him from his post. There was in fact no agreement on puerperal fever until the start of the twentieth century. Thus the consensus took one hundred and twenty five years to arrive at the right conclusion despite the efforts of the prominent "skeptics" around the world, skeptics who were demeaned and ignored. And despite the constant ongoing deaths of women.
There is no shortage of other examples. In the 1920s in America, tens of thousands of people, mostly poor, were dying of a disease called pellagra. The consensus of scientists said it was infectious, and what was necessary was to find the "pellagra germ." The US government asked a brilliant young investigator, Dr. Joseph Goldberger, to find the cause. Goldberger concluded that diet was the crucial factor. The consensus remained wedded to the germ theory. Goldberger demonstrated that he could induce the disease through diet. He demonstrated that the disease was not infectious by injecting the blood of a pellagra patient into himself, and his assistant. They and other volunteers swabbed their noses with swabs from pellagra patients, and swallowed capsules containing scabs from pellagra rashes in what were called "Goldberger's filth parties." Nobody contracted pellagra. The consensus continued to disagree with him. There was, in addition, a social factor-southern States disliked the idea of poor diet as the cause, because it meant that social reform was required. They continued to deny it until the 1920s. Result-despite a twentieth century epidemic, the consensus took years to see the light.
Probably every schoolchild notices that South America and Africa seem to fit together rather snugly, and Alfred Wegener proposed, in 1912, that the continents had in fact drifted apart. The consensus sneered at continental drift for fifty years. The theory was most vigorously denied by the great names of geology-until 1961, when it began to seem as if the sea floors were spreading. The result: it took the consensus fifty years to acknowledge what any schoolchild sees.
And shall we go on? The examples can be multiplied endlessly. Jenner and smallpox, Pasteur and germ theory. Saccharine, margarine, repressed memory, fiber and colon cancer, hormone replacement therap6y the list of consensus errors goes on and on.
Finally, I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.
But back to our main subject. ... [snip]
...In trying to think about how these questions can be resolved, it occurs to me that in the progression from SETI to nuclear winter to second hand smoke to global warming, we have one clear message, and that is that we can expect more and more problems of public policy dealing with technical issues in the future-problems of ever greater seriousness, where people care passionately on all sides.
And at the moment we have no mechanism to get good answers. So I will propose one.
Just as we have established a tradition of double-blinded research to determine drug efficacy, we must institute double-blinded research in other policy areas as well. Certainly the increased use of computer models, such as GCMs, cries out for the separation of those who make the models from those who verify them. The fact is that the present structure of science is entrepeneurial, with individual investigative teams vying for funding from organizations which all too often have a clear stake in the outcome of the research-or appear to, which may be just as bad.
This is not healthy for science.
Sooner or later, we must form an independent research institute in this country. It must be funded by industry, by government, and by private philanthropy, both individuals and trusts. The money must be pooled, so that investigators do not know who is paying them.
The institute must fund more than one team to do research in a particular area, and the verification of results will be a foregone requirement: teams will know their results will be checked by other groups. In many cases, those who decide how to gather the data will not gather it, and those who gather the data will not analyze it. ....[snip]
I believe that as we come to the end of this litany, some of you may be saying, well what is the big deal, really. So we made a few mistakes. So a few scientists have overstated their cases and have egg on their faces. So what.
Well, I'll tell you.
In recent years, much has been said about the post modernist claims about science to the effect that science is just another form of raw power, tricked out in special claims for truth-seeking and objectivity that really have no basis in fact. Science, we are told, is no better than any other undertaking. These ideas anger many scientists, and they anger me. But recent events have made me wonder if they are correct. We can take as an example the scientific reception accorded a Danish statistician, Bjorn Lomborg, who wrote a book called The Skeptical Environmentalist.
The scientific community responded in a way that can only be described as disgraceful. In professional literature, it was complained he had no standing because he was not an earth scientist. His publisher, Cambridge University Press, was attacked with cries that the editor should be fired, and that all right-thinking scientists should shun the press.
The past president of the AAAS wondered aloud how Cambridge could have ever "published a book that so clearly could never have passed peer review." )But of course the manuscript did pass peer review by three earth scientists on both sides of the Atlantic, and all recommended publication.) But what are scientists doing attacking a press? Is this the new McCarthyism-coming from scientists?
Worst of all was the behavior of the Scientific American, which seemed intent on proving the post-modernist point that it was all about power, not facts. The Scientific American attacked Lomborg for eleven pages, yet only came up with nine factual errors despite their assertion that the book was "rife with careless mistakes." It was a poor display featuring vicious ad hominem attacks, including comparing him to a Holocust denier.
The issue was captioned: "Science defends itself against the Skeptical Environmentalist." Really. Science has to defend itself? Is this what we have come to?
When Lomborg asked for space to rebut his critics, he was given only a page and a half. When he said it wasn't enough, he put the critics' essays on his web page and answered them in detail. Scientific American threatened copyright infringement and made him take the pages down.
Further attacks since have made it clear what is going on. Lomborg is charged with heresy. That's why none of his critics needs to substantiate their attacks in any detail. That's why the facts don't matter. That's why they can attack him in the most vicious personal terms. He's a heretic.
Of course, any scientist can be charged as Galileo was charged. I just never thought I'd see the Scientific American in the role of mother church.
Is this what science has become? I hope not. But it is what it will become, unless there is a concerted effort by leading scientists to aggressively separate science from policy. The late Philip Handler, former president of the National Academy of Sciences, said that "Scientists best serve public policy by living within the ethics of science, not those of politics. If the scientific community will not unfrock the charlatans, the public will not discern the difference-science and the nation will suffer." Personally, I don't worry about the nation. But I do worry about science.
Thank you very much."
"Aliens Cause Global Warming"
A lecture by Michael Crichton
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
January 17, 2003
How do you disprove the existence/influence of a supernatural force?
Wrong. Its like Galileo dictating to the church that because the Earth revolves without strings attached, that they can't teach that God set it in motion. Its amazing how quickly scientific-free-thinkers are to squash even the airing of apposing views. Can't science stand on its own?
Your failure to understand the threat ID poses to science education and to intellectual freedom may someday come back to vex you. Or, as they say, "if ignorance isn't bliss then I don't know what is."
I was away when this got posted, so I'm late in deploying the ping list. Great article.
Evolutionary theory is necessarily founded on the assumption that the universe has always existed (not in the Einsteinian sense, but the Newtonian sense). Evolutionary theory needs a forever universe in which to have sufficient time for random chance to do its magic.
It was the work of Einstein and modern physicists that destroyed the forever universe piffle and conceit of the evolutionists. The spectacular COBE results have since confirmed the existence of a cooling universe that was infinitely hot and dense less than 20 billion years ago. The forever universe is no more. That's a development that evolutionists desperately wish had never come along.
Geologists and geophysicists (Ward, Brownlee et al) have since pointed out the astonishing confluence of precise balances of physical forces that must exist to allow advanced life to flourish on earth. How did this happen in such an incredibly short span of time (less than 20 billion years)? Evolutionists have no answer. Their theory is too small and worldview too cramped to allow them to even address the question.
However, if we merely look around us (and isn't observation the prime imperative of the scientific method?) we see that human beings are able to plan and implement analogously intricate and precise balances in short time spans in laboratory and industrial settings. Is this a random and aimless process? Does a space shuttle appear by mankind waiting for one to appear organically from the soil through the action of survival of the fittest? No. Rather, human beings design a plant in which the conditions can be precisely controlled for materials to be brought together to form a completed vehicle. And they do this how? By employing organizing intelligence.
The influence of an organizing intelligence is the only force we know of in the material world that can balance the forces and create initial conditions necessary to allow something as complex as human life and derivative products ranging from arrowheads to space shuttles to form.
ID theory honestly and straightforwardly proffers by way of analogy that the best inference we can make about the existence of life is that an organizing intelligence set the initial conditions and devised the plans necessary for life to arise and evolve to the levels of present day complexity. It is the most logical and rational way, based on our observations, to explain how we got to where we are in less than 20 billion years.
ID theory makes no attempt to name or identify this organizing intelligence, although some ID adherents privately and personally might choose to identify the intelligence as Logos.
Evolutionists, on the other hand, quite clearly name and identify their organizing deity. It is none other than Chaos. Sadly for them, Chaos is only adequate to the task in a universe other than the universe that modern physics has disclosed to us.
Huh? I rest my case.
Sorry, that's not the way it went down.
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It was somewhat tricky to order because the menu has so many tempting choices. As if that wasn't enough, they have daily specials on a chalk board like what you'd find on a café or pub in the London's Canary Wharf. The Rivington Grill philosophy or Rivi concept is what they call Back to Basics - fresh ingredients, innovative menu ideas, seasonal specials, regularly changing à la carte… and that's exactly what you'll find.
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So at this point we take a break to savor the time together, setting, and amazing food when they remind us of the desert menu.
With both of our appetites satiated, we decided to share the apple and raspberry crumblet; again a great choice. The fresh raspberry gave it a sharp tart flavor in contrast to the sweet apples all covered in a warm cinnamon crumble.
After an extremely pleasant evening, we went upstairs to check out the bar scene where couples and friends chatted over drinks. We sat outside in the chic lounge area chatting about life as well as the flawless dinner that will not be soon forgotten.


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Cytokine expression profiles of immune imbalance in post-mononucleosis chronic fatigue
– Source: Translational Medicine, Sep 13, 2012
By Gordon Broderick, MD, et al.
[Note: A provisional full text PDF of this article is available at http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/pdf/1479-5876-10-191.pdf. This study by ME/CFS researchers at clinics in Canada and several US states measured a broad range of cytokines, using uniform laboratory protocols, in patients diagnosed according to uniform criteria, all after infection with the same pathogen (Epstein-Barr) and all still ill at 24 months post infection. Cytokines, produced by the immune system, are involved in the inflammatory response.]
Background: As Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) has been known to follow Epstein-Bar virus (EBV) and other systemic infections, our objective was to describe differences in immune activation in:
• Post-infective CFS (PI-CFS) patients
• And recovered controls.
We studied 301 adolescents prospectively over 24 months following the diagnosis of monospot-positive infectious mononucleosis (IM).
We found an incidence of CFS at 6, 12 and 24 months of 13%, 7% and 4% respectively.
Methods: Using chemiluminescent imaging we measured the concentrations of IL-1a, 1b, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12 (p70), 13, 15, 17 and 23, IFN-gamma, TNF-alpha and TNF-beta in duplicate plasma samples available in bio-bank from 9 PI-CFS subjects and 12 recovered controls at 24 months post-infection.
Standard comparative analysis indicated significant differences in IL-8 and 23 across subject groups.
In constructing a linear classification model IL-6, 8 and 23 were selected by two different statistical approaches as discriminating features, with IL-1a, IL-2 and IFN-gamma also selected in one model or the other.
This supported an assignment accuracy of better than 80% at a confidence level of 0.95 into PI-CFS versus recovered controls.
Conclusion: These results suggest that co-expression patterns in as few as 5 cytokines associated with Th17 function may hold promise as a tool for the diagnosis of post-infectious CFS.
Source: Translational Medicine, Sep 13, 2012. PMID: 22973830, by Groderick G, Katz BZ, Fernandes H, Fletcher MA, Klimas NG, Smith FA, O'Gorman MRG, Vernon SD, Taylor R. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois; University of Miami, Florida; Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Miami, Florida; Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern, Chicago, Illinois; CFIDS Assoc. of America, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. [Email: firstname.lastname@example.com]


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Blackburn will hold a press conference on Thursday morning to confirm Henning Berg as their new manager.
After Rovers managing director Derek Shaw told Press Association Sport of the news, the club confirmed an 8:30am press conference at Ewood Park to unveil their new manager. Shaw revealed the former Norway defender became the board's number one choice on the back of an impressive interview.
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By CHRISTOPHER A. VITO
Finally, the 76ers will introduce center Nerlens Noel in a 1 p.m. press conference today, nearly a month after they traded for the Kentucky freshman.
No word on when they will introduce a new coach, however � but more on that later.
Sixers general manager Sam Hinkie and Noel will attend the presser at the team�s practice facility, at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, making official � at least from the Sixers� end � the transaction made June 27 on draft night. That day, the Sixers sent Jrue Holiday and the rights to their 2013 second-round draft choice to the New Orleans Pelicans for Noel and a top-five-protected 2014 first-round draft selection. The Pelicans introduced Holiday, a 22-year-old All-Star point guard, in a press conference July 12.
A number of factors contributed to the trade hold-up. Hinkie and the Sixers� brass had been in Florida for the team�s involvement in the Orlando Pro Summer League, all the while Holiday � who was recently married � was on his honeymoon and therefore unavailable to sign trade papers. Last week, Hinkie was in Las Vegas for a summer league out that way, thus pushing any possible announcement from the Sixers to this week.
Noel, a 19-year-old, 6-10 center, has not played competitively since tearing the ACL in his left knee Feb. 12. He�s not expected to be healthy enough to debut for the Sixers until December at the earliest.
Widely anticipated to be taken first overall in the 2013 NBA draft late last month, Noel slid in the draft order due to health concerns related to his knee surgery. The Pelicans selected him sixth overall. Noel reportedly said he plans to wear No. 5 to signify the number of teams that looked past him, despite that already being Sixers second-year forward Arnett Moultrie�s number.
Noel averaged 10.5 points and 9.5 rebounds in 24 games in his only season at Kentucky, earning SEC Freshman and Defensive Player of the Year distinctions.
He is expected to be a key contributor to the Sixers� rebuilding process that�s being steered by Hinkie. The team has only one veteran (Thaddeus Young) under contract beyond the upcoming season. The Sixers would have to make a qualifying offer of $8.7 million in order to make counteroffers to Evan Turner in the offseason, while Jason Richardson � who�s recovering from new surgery � has a player option for the 2014-15 campaign. Every other veteran on the roster has an expiring contract.
Already this summer, Hinkie has overhauled his new team�s roster by trading with Houston for Royce White, an anxiety-stricken second-year forward with an expiring contract next season, and casting off the hefty contract of Holiday. Also, the Sixers drafted Syracuse point guard Michael Carter-Williams and Oregon forward Arsalan Kazemi.
Amid Noel�s introduction, there are sure to be plenty of questions lobbed Hinkie�s way today regarding the Sixers� search for a new head coach. They have been without one since April 18, when Doug Collins resigned after three seasons. Recently, the Sixers have been said to have refined their search to two candidates � Sixers associate head coach Michael Curry, who coached their Orlando Summer League team, and San Antonio assistant coach Brett Brown.


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Program: Wide Angle
Date: Wednesdays
Time: 9 p.m.
The new season of Wide Angle begins July 1. This series delivers up-to-the-minute reports from global hotspots to give American television viewers a unique forum for understanding the complex, often dramatic, sometimes explosive and always relevant stories that are shaping the present and future of the world. Each program focuses on a single subject, bringing to life international events and issues that matter to Americans today — from global epidemics to economic development and matters related to the war on terrorism.
July 1 the series premiers with "Crossing Heaven's Border." This documentary focuses on North Korean defectors who take life-threatening journeys, some traveling thousands of miles from their homeland through China and Laos, in the hope of settling as free citizens in South Korea. Intrepid South Korean journalists with hidden cameras risk their own lives capturing the action and emotion.
The Wide Angle web site features web only video related to each of the films. In this clip, watch the vivid story of a woman, Myong Hui Eom, who was a model North Korean citizen before being arrested for practicing Christianity, a crime punishable by prison, torture and even death.
Other upcoming episodes:
Heart of Jenin
When a 12-year-old Palestinian boy was killed in the West Bank city of Jenin by Israeli soldiers who mistook his toy gun for the real thing, something extraordinary happened that turned Ahmed Khatib's tragic 2005 death into a gift of hope for six Israeli children whose lives were on the line: while overwhelmed with grief, Ahmed's parents consented to donating their son's organs.
Birth of a Surgeon
In sub-Saharan Africa, where doctors are in short supply, a woman's chances of dying in childbirth are a shocking 1 in 22. But in Mozambique, a midwife named Emilia Cumbane is doing something radical to stem the trend. She is part of an extraordinary grassroots initiative in which midwives, otherwise untrained in conventional medicine, are learning to perform advanced life-saving surgery. Among the first of its kind in the world, Cumbane's program may offer a working alternative to the life-threatening lack of doctors in other developing countries. In this 2009 update, WIDE ANGLE host Aaron Brown travels to a rural hospital in Mozambique to meet with Cumbane to see how both she and the program are faring.
The Market Maker
WIDE ANGLE travels to East Africa to tell the dramatic story of an Ethiopian economist on a mission: Seeking a market-based solution to end hunger in her famine-plagued country, she creates Ethiopia's first commodities exchange. What she didn't count on was a world financial crisis getting in the way.
Contestant No. 2
How far can one young woman push a conservative culture? Duah Fares is an Arab-Israeli teenager and member of the Druze minority, a religious sect living predominantly in Israel, Syria and Lebanon. She longs to be an international superstar like Angelina Jolie, but when she changes her name to Angelina and sets her sights on the Miss Israel pageant, her tight-knit religious community balks. Miss Israel requires a bathing suit competition; to appear that way in public would disgrace her family and even put her in danger from those who would rather see her dead than see the community dishonored. "Israel's Next Top Model" follows Fares and her family as they navigate the boundaries of traditional values as she tries to reach her dream.
Burning Season
As temperatures and sea levels rise, the world is scrambling to stop global warming — a threat the UN Secretary General has described as "the defining issue of our era." But international consensus is slow to emerge, and debate over how to slow climate change continues. WIDE ANGLE travels to Indonesia, where rainforest areas equivalent to 300 soccer fields are cut down and burnt every hour to clear land for crops such as oil palms. New studies show that the devastation of Indonesia's forests has helped to make it the world's third-largest emitter of carbon dioxide — exceeded only by the U.S. and China. How to reduce these harmful greenhouse gas emissions?
Victory Is Your Duty
Dominating the field of Olympic boxing for the past quarter-century, Cuba's gold medal-winning athletes have propelled their tiny nation onto the world stage and served as an unconventional tool of foreign and domestic policy. The legendary Havana Boxing Academy — where physical training and revolutionary indoctrination go hand in hand — opened its doors to a foreign film crew. As Fidel Castro's faltering health throws the future into question, this program reveals the academy as a microcosm of Cuban society, where grade-school boys are groomed to fight for the honor of the revolution.


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County and BEA Economic Area Employment Estimates for 1974 and 1985: [United States] (ICPSR 9278)
Published: Jan 12, 2006
Principal Investigator(s):
William B. Beyers
Version V1
This study provides employment estimates for a number of different fields. Using Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) designations and an aggregate of the SIC codes, data are presented by county and Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) economic regions, which are aggregates of counties. The BEA economic regions data files are categorized further by Metropolitan Statistical Areas and non-Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Industrial categories covered include agricultural services, eating and drinking places, and health services.
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Some employment estimates in state files are negative. For the following state files, a blank line which according to the format should be present at the end of the file is missing: 1985 Alaska (part 4), 1974 and 1985 Arizona (parts 5-6), 1974 California (part 9), 1974 Georgia (part 21), 1974 Michigan (part 45), 1974 and 1985 Missouri (parts 49 and 50), 1974 and 1985 Montana (parts 53-54), 1974 Nevada (part 61), 1974 New Jersey (part 65), 1974 New Mexico (part 67), 1974 and 1985 Virginia (parts 93 and 94), 1974 Washington (part 95), 1974 Wisconsin (part 97), and 1985 Wyoming (part 102).
Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.
- The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.
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Activase Dosing and Administration
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Activase Dosing and Administration
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Activase® (alteplase) is indicated for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke (AIS). Exclude intracranial hemorrhage as the primary cause of stroke signs and symptoms prior to initiation of treatment. Initiate treatment as soon as possible but within 3 hours after symptom onset.
Activase is indicated for use in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) for the reduction of mortality and reduction of the incidence of heart failure.
Limitation of Use: The risk of stroke may outweigh the benefit produced by thrombolytic therapy in patients whose AMI puts them at low risk for death or heart failure.
Activase is indicated for the lysis of acute massive pulmonary embolism (PE), defined as:
Do not administer Activase to treat acute ischemic stroke in the following situations in which the risk of bleeding is greater than the potential benefit: current intracranial hemorrhage (ICH); subarachnoid hemorrhage; active internal bleeding; recent (within 3 months) intracranial or intraspinal surgery or serious head trauma; presence of intracranial conditions that may increase the risk of bleeding; bleeding diathesis; and current severe uncontrolled hypertension.
Do not administer Activase to treat acute myocardial infarction or pulmonary embolism in the following situations in which the risk of bleeding is greater than the potential benefit: active internal bleeding; history of recent stroke; recent (within 3 months) intracranial or intraspinal surgery or serious head trauma; presence of intracranial conditions that may increase the risk of bleeding; bleeding diathesis; and current severe uncontrolled hypertension.
Warnings and Precautions
Activase can cause significant, sometimes fatal, internal or external bleeding, especially at arterial and venous puncture sites. Avoid intramuscular injections and trauma to the patient. Fatal cases of hemorrhage associated with traumatic intubation in patients administered Activase have been reported. The concomitant administration of heparin and aspirin with and following infusions of Activase during the first 24 hours after symptom onset has not been investigated. Because heparin, aspirin, or Activase may cause bleeding complications, carefully monitor for bleeding, especially at arterial puncture sites. Hemorrhage can occur 1 or more days after administration of Activase, while patients are still receiving anticoagulant therapy. If serious bleeding occurs, terminate the Activase infusion.
In the following conditions, the risks of bleeding with Activase are increased and should be weighed against the anticipated benefits: recent major surgery or procedure; cerebrovascular disease; recent intracranial hemorrhage; recent gastrointestinal or genitourinary bleeding; recent trauma; hypertension; high likelihood of left heart thrombus; acute pericarditis; subacute bacterial endocarditis; hemostatic defects including those secondary to severe hepatic or renal disease; significant hepatic dysfunction; pregnancy; diabetic hemorrhagic retinopathy or other hemorrhagic ophthalmic conditions; septic thrombophlebitis or occluded AV cannula at seriously infected site; advanced age; and patients currently receiving oral anticoagulants, or any other condition in which bleeding constitutes a significant hazard or would be particularly difficult to manage because of its location.
Orolingual Angioedema
Orolingual angioedema has been observed during and up to 2 hours after infusion. In many cases, patients received concomitant angiotensin‑converting enzyme inhibitors. Monitor patients treated with Activase during and for several hours after Activase infusion for orolingual angioedema. If angioedema develops, discontinue the Activase infusion and promptly institute appropriate therapy.
Cholesterol Embolization
Cholesterol embolism, sometimes fatal, has been reported rarely in patients treated with thrombolytic agents; the true incidence is unknown. It is associated with invasive vascular procedures and/or anticoagulant therapy.
Reembolization of Deep Venous Thrombi during Treatment for Acute Massive Pulmonary Embolism
Activase has not been shown to treat adequately underlying deep vein thrombosis in patients with PE. Consider the possible risk of reembolization due to the lysis of underlying deep venous thrombi in this setting.
Coagulation Tests May be Unreliable during Activase Therapy
Coagulation tests and/or measures of fibrinolytic activity may be unreliable during Activase therapy unless specific precautions are taken to prevent in vitro artifacts.
Adverse Reactions
The most frequent adverse reaction associated with Activase therapy is bleeding.
Although exploratory analyses of the AIS clinical studies suggest that severe neurological deficit (National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale [NIHSS > 22]) at presentation was associated with an increased risk of intracranial hemorrhage, efficacy results suggest a reduced but still favorable clinical outcome for these patients.
Allergic‑type reactions, e.g., anaphylactoid reaction, laryngeal edema, orolingual angioedema, rash, and urticaria have been reported.
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Step 1: Remove the protective cap from the top of the Activase vial and the vial of SWFI. Swab the top of each vial with an alcohol wipe to reduce the risk of contamination.
Step 2: Using the large-bore needle and syringe, withdraw 50 mL of SWFI. Do not use Bacteriostatic Water for Injection, USP. Do not prime the syringe with air. Safely discard the diluent vial according to institutional procedures.
Step 3: Insert the syringe into the stopper on the 50-mg vial of Activase and inject the contents, directing the stream into the lyophilized cake. DO NOT USE IF VACUUM IS NOT PRESENT. Safely discard the needle and syringe according to institutional procedures.
Step 4: Mix the solution with a gentle swirl. DO NOT SHAKE. Slight foaming of the solution is normal. Let the solution stand undisturbed for several minutes to allow any large bubbles to dissipate. Visually inspect the Activase solution for particulate matter and discoloration before administration.
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Israeli journalist Ari Shavit's new book, My Promised Land, The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel, is being hailed for its historic sweep and insights into the Israeli experience. Shavit was in Toronto recently, and he discussed his award-winning book with The CJN's Paul Lungen.
Can you tell us what the book is about, why you wrote it?
I wrote this book because I felt what happened to us is that we've lost our narrative. Israel was a narrative before it was an entity. We had a very strong sense of where we were coming from and why there is a need to build a home for the homeless people that we were. And what happened, sadly, over the years is that while Israel physically grew stronger, its sense of meaning and narrative disintegrated in many ways.
So what I tried to do in this book, in my own way, is to rewrite a narrative, to look at the larger picture of our existence.
My point is that we got lost in the friction, in the conflict, in the debates over the territories, the settlements, the religious issues, and we lost sight of the great miracle that Israel is.
The book is about getting the story back. I think the way I do it is by telling the life stories of different Israelis, reflect the different aspect of our lives, the different aspects of our history. And I think by doing it, I want to enable readers who care about Israel to refresh a renewed interest in this country, to see how magical it is, that with all its faults and problems and flaws, how remarkable it is. And really to bring back the love of Israel, especially to those who were alienated by Israeli policies in the last decades.
You talk in your book about Israelis' existential fear. Are you an optimist or a pessimist about peace with Israel's neighbours?
My claim is that contemporary Israel is defined by two unique situations. One is occupation. The other is intimidation. And my claim is that while people on the left tend to focus on occupation and ignore intimidation, people on the right tend to emphasize intimidation and ignore occupation. I think the realistic approach called for is to address both, to see that the uniqueness of the Israeli situation is shaped, is defined by these two elements.
On the one hand, we are the one democracy that rules over another people. On the other, we are the only democracy and probably one of the only nations in the world that is really existentially threatened. This is a fundamental feature of our being. Now I'm not saying that peace is impossible, but I think that the conflict between us and our neighbours is a very deep one. I oppose occupation and have to deal with it, but I don't think this is a conflict over occupation or settlements.
I think it's a deep conflict that has a historic dimension, and it has to do with the identity of both sides. There are religious elements in it, cultural elements in it. There is the element of tension between a Jewish state and an Islamic world; the conflict or tension between a Jewish nation state and the Arab world; and there is the conflict between the Zionist state and the Palestinians. All these create a conflict that I don't think can be easily resolved.
I think a realistic approach to peace is needed. And my approach is basically the following: try what [U.S.] Secretary [of State John] Kerry is now trying, which is to achieve a final status agreement, but don't wait for this to happen.
If I were in power, I would prepare in advance Plan B, a different approach which is based not on solving all the core issues, but rather to move forward in a sort of gradual, cautious, creative process where we gradually deal with occupation while the Palestinians gradually build their state.
So if peace cannot be achieved this year, I think we should not fall into despair, but we should try to design some new peace approach [in] which we pull out gradually from parts of the West Bank and give the Palestinians more and more space, geographic space, economic space, political space. So at every given moment the Palestinians will have more than they had before, but they will not have everything.
And then hopefully, after we go through this long process, we are able to go for the final reconciliation, which I doubt we can reach right now.
Why would the Palestinians have any incentive to negotiate a peace agreement if you're handing over territories and powers? Is there reciprocity?
I support the prime minister's position, unlike many of my peers and friends. I think the Palestinians should recognize Israel as a Jewish state. It is very important, because it will signal to Palestinian youngsters that we Jews belong on the land.
If an interim agreement cannot be achieved, I think this kind of situation that moves us toward a two-state solution to create two states, improves our position and improves their position.
It improves our position because it deals with the moral issue of occupation, it deals with the demographic problem of controlling another people, and mainly with a problem Israel has now with its legitimacy.
Do you see a danger that your approach will heighten divisions within Israel?
I think the point is there is another people there and we cannot ignore that. If we ignore that, we actually risk the entire Zionist enterprise. If you look today at the new world we are facing, Israel has three main external threats. The first one is Iran. I'm very firm on the Iranian issue. I think it's a dramatic threat.
The second one is occupation, which is killing us quietly and gradually.
And the third one, which has to do with occupation, is Israel's legitimacy. If we are to regain our international legitimacy, we must deal with occupation. That would also enable us to deal with Iran.
I'm not one of those people on the left who are into settler-bashing. I respect many of the settlers. But I think they made a fundamental historic mistake, although they had the best intentions. They totally failed in convincing the world that there is justification for their endeavour. As a result, they are putting Israel's legitimacy in jeopardy. They do not mean that, they do not want that, but this is the outcome. If we do not deal with occupation, we will lose international support, and when we need it to deal with the real existential issues, like Iran and others, we will have no allies.
Can you comment on the social protest movement in Israel a few summers ago?
I think that of all the world's social protest movements, Israel's was the most remarkable. It was civilized, it was moderate, it was reasonable. It had very wide support.
I saw in this really the awakening of Israeli civil society. I think we have a great people, I think we have flawed politics. And this was a summer-long occasion where you saw the eruption of the power and the energy of civil society in Israel, demanding deep change.
I think there was a conceptual revolution. The mindset of Israelis has changed. I think in the future we will see new forces that will emerge from that movement. So, no it wasn't an event of one summer, although the demonstrators are not out in the street, they really changed our psyche.
The capitalist revolution in Israel went too far and we let the market be our ruler. Here was a demand to have the state back, not like extreme socialism, but to strike the right balance with I would say is a kind of social democratic undertone to it. It was proof of the strength and vitality of Israeli society, and I think we'll see more coming as a result of it.


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A man involved in a September bank robbery in Pampa pleaded guilty Friday to a federal charge of aggravated credit union robbery.
Billy Michael Grimes faces up to 25 years in prison and a fine up to $250,000 after he robbed the Amarillo Community Federal Credit Union in Pampa of about $2,600, court records showed.
On Sept. 15, Grimes entered the credit union, approached the teller while wearing a black hooded-sweatshirt, black sweatpants and a New York Yankees baseball hat, and said he need to make a withdrawal, court records said.
When the teller told him he needed to fill out a withdrawal slip, he replied that he did not need one, displayed a gun and told the teller to give him all the money, court records said.
The teller took a stack of $100 bills, including two marked bills, from her drawer and gave it to Grimes, records said. He then turned and ran out of the building, records said.
Police arrived at the bank and were given copies of the marked bills, records said. Officers reviewed the robbery video and a detective recognized Grimes as the robber, records said.
Police located Grimes in a vehicle and stopped him, records said. Grimes had a doughnut bag with him and told police he had just come from a doughnut shop, records said.
The investigation revealed Grimes had used one of the two marked $100 bills to pay for the doughnuts he bought after robbing the credit union, records said.


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Mechanical Engineering (Master of Science)
The Mechanical Engineering graduate program offers a Master's of Science (M.S.) degree in mechanical engineering. Each student must meet the general requirements for admission as outlined under the regulations of the University of Vermont Graduate College. Typically, students entering the program have received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or a related field. Applicants with other backgrounds will be evaluated individually and must complete prescribed undergraduate technical course work. Part-time study leading to the M.S. degree is also possible for engineers who are employed in the vicinity. Areas of research interest in the program currently include: Smart Structures, Aerospace Engineering, Turbulence, Complex Fluids, Multiscale Mechanics, Micro and Nano Engineering, Nanomaterials, Energy Harvesting, Conversion and Storage, Control Systems, Microorganisms and Cells, Biomaterials, Theory and Simulation using High-performance Computing.
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Requirements for Admission to Graduate Studies for the Degree of Master of Science
An accredited bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent is the typical requirement; however, students holding a bachelor's degree in a related engineering or scientific field may also qualify for admission.
Requirements for Advancement to Candidacy for the Degree of Master of Science
A cumulative grade-point average of 3.00 or better.
Minimum Degree Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science
The Mechanical Engineering graduate program offers both thesis and non-thesis options for the master's degree. Both options require the completion of advanced courses in mechanical engineering, mathematics, and other approved courses and research (for thesis students) totaling at least thirty credits. Graduate students receiving financial support via teaching or research fellowships are required to select the thesis option. Part-time students typically select the non-thesis option but may choose the thesis option if they prefer. Students normally decide on which option they intend to pursue at the beginning of their program.
All students are required to complete (1) a prescribed set of nine core course credits which cover areas of advanced engineering, mathematics, continuum mechanics, and numerical methods; and (2) six course credits in the area of specialization for their degree. Currently, the program offers areas of specialization in (1) Bioengineering and Biomechanics; (2) Control Theory and Mechanical Systems; (3) Solid Mechanics and Materials; and (4) Thermal Sciences and Fluids. Further details on the core course requirements and the areas of specialization can be obtained from the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program website.
Option A (Thesis): In addition to core courses, students selecting the thesis option must complete between six and nine thesis credits (ME 391) prior to the master's thesis defense, with the expectation that the student's research must culminate in an original piece of work publishable as a conference proceedings paper or a peer-reviewed journal article. Those opting for a six-credit thesis must complete an additional three credits of approved course work.
Option B (Non-Thesis): Students selecting the non-thesis option must complete an additional fifteen credits of course work beyond the core credits in lieu of a thesis. Of the additional course work, a minimum of nine credits must be in a chosen area of specialization.
- Colleges and Schools: College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. Graduate College.
- Departments and Programs: School of Engineering. Mechanical Engineering Program.


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There is nothing more routine than the process of turning books into movies. Most often they are hurled, spineless, into some roiling vat somewhere in California, where a rotating team of screenwriters and script doctors take turns stirring the pot. It's a long process filled with starts and stops and thoughts of beginning again, and in the end, the most common output is a soft bland porridge that retains only a faint whiff of whatever singular aroma made the original so special.
When one considers the smorgasbord of rich novels that have been watered down for the screen over the years, it's no surprise that so many writers have been wary of adaptation. This week, though, books and their authors get a bit of payback when a literary legend comes to the big screen—not in an adaptation, but as the subject of a remarkable documentary that does something surprising: it makes us long for books.
I'm talking about Salinger, a new film from Shane Salerno that hits area screens this weekend (an in-depth companion book was published by Simon & Schuster this week). The 40-year-old Salerno might seem a surprising man for the project—his recent credits include writing an Aliens vs. Predator movie—but he has pulled together a piece of work that not only shines a light on the famously reclusive writer's past life, but also dangles some tantalizing hints about the future of his literary legacy: it turns out that Salinger, who died in 2010 at the age of 91, may have a few books left in him yet.
It's been known for years that Salinger continued to write long after he stopped publishing, but until now there hasn't been any real reason to imagine that the author planned to publish again. But according to Salerno and his sources—although kept anonymous and unaware of one another, Salerno claims they told the same story—there are some five or more books in the publishing pipeline, due to begin trickling out in the next few years. For book lovers, this is the equivalent of finding a lost Beatles album.
The question of whether Salerno's claims hold water may have to wait. In the meantime, his film remains a testament to the enduring hold Salinger's work has on a wide swath of America. Writers, actors, and more gather to discuss the Salinger's influence on their own career paths and on creative culture in general (when I was a young man, he was the first person who made me think writing could be fun). They also try—while recounting the three shootings (John Lennon, Ronald Reagan, and actress Rebecca Schaeffer) linked to the book—to probe the later years of Salinger's life, when he disappeared into his concrete bunker in Cornish, N.H., to write in private. As actor Danny DeVito puts it in the film: "We all like a mystery."
Also this week: Shelburne Falls' Pothole Pictures brings an under-appreciated film back to the Valley for two shows this weekend. Goodbye Solo is the story of Solo (Souléymane Sy Savané), a Senegalese cab driver building a new life in Winston-Salem, N.C. Though he's brightly optimistic by nature, Solo is tested when he picks up William, a crusty white Southerner who offers Solo a big fare for a one way trip to the top of Blowing Rock National Park—a place where the snow blows upward and old men, apparently, go to die. Neither man broaches the true subject of the trip, but as Solo and William begin to know each other, they start to form a bond that Solo hopes will keep him from accepting William's fare.
Directed by Ramin Bahrani (Man Push Cart) with an assured and easygoing steadiness, Goodbye Solo is an independent movie that has no need of quirkiness, slackers, or self-aware ironic detachment. Instead it is a warm-hearted and big-hearted story about two men, each with their own struggles, coming together to help prop each other up. In an era when so many indie films seem like excuses for great soundtracks, we could use more films like his.•
Jack Brown can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Heart care is in the midst of a transformation. Many problems that once required sawing through the breastbone and opening up the chest for open-heart surgery now can be treated with a nip, twist or patch through a tube.
These minimal procedures used to be done just to unclog arteries and correct less common heart rhythm problems. Now some patients are getting such repairs for valves, irregular heartbeats, holes in the heart and other defects -- without major surgery. Doctors even are testing ways to treat high blood pressure with some of these new approaches.
All rely on catheters -- hollow tubes that let doctors burn away and reshape heart tissue or correct defects through small holes into blood vessels.
"This is the replacement for the surgeon's knife. Instead of opening the chest, we're able to put catheters in through the leg, sometimes through the arm," said Dr. Spencer King of St. Joseph's Heart and Vascular Institute in Atlanta. He is former president of the American College of Cardiology. Its conference earlier this month featured research on these novel devices.
"Many patients after having this kind of procedure in a day or two can go home" rather than staying in the hospital while a big wound heals, he said.
Not everyone can have catheter treatment, and some promising devices have hit snags in testing. Others on the market now are so new that it will take several years to see if their results last as long as the benefits from surgery do.
But already, these procedures have allowed many people too old or frail for an operation to get help for problems that otherwise would likely kill them.
"You can do these on 90-year-old patients," King said.
These methods also offer an option for people who cannot tolerate long-term use of blood thinners or other drugs to manage their conditions, or who don't get enough help from these medicines and are getting worse.
"It's opened up a whole new field," said Dr. Hadley Wilson, cardiology chief at Carolinas HealthCare System in Charlotte. "We can hopefully treat more patients more definitively, with better results."
For patients, this is crucial: Make sure you are evaluated by a "heart team" that includes a surgeon as well as other specialists who do less-invasive treatments. Many patients now get whatever treatment is offered by whatever specialist they are sent to, and those specialists sometimes are rivals.
"We want to get away from that" and do whatever is best for the patient, said Dr. Timothy Gardner, a surgeon at Christiana Care Health System in Newark, Del., and an American Heart Association spokesman. "There shouldn't be a rivalry in the field."


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Because of the evacuations, many people are in need of assistance right now. The following is information about various groups and charities that may need donations/assistance.
Please keep in mind, many charities are being inundated with items they cannot use. We advise you to call ahead before dropping off items.
As people evacuate, there is also concern about their pets and livestock.
For emergency animal evacuations, call the Fire Emergency Operations Center at:
For information on places that are taking in large animals, call:
For information on places that are taking in small pets, like dogs and cats, call the Pikes Peak Humane Society's Buddy Center in Castle Rock:
The Humane Society is looking for people willing to house displaced pets, in case the fire spreads and they need more places to put the animals.
Douglas County
Livestock: Jefferson County Fairgrounds
Companion Animals: The Dumb Friends League Buddy Center
Jefferson County
Livestock: Jefferson County Fairgrounds
Companion Animals: Table Mountain Animal Center
Park County
Livestock & Companion Animals: Park County Fairgrounds
Teller County
Livestock: Teller County Sherif's Office 719-687-9652
Companion Animals: Humane Society of Pikes Peak Region
The Teller County fairgrounds in Cripple Creek is also taking in large animals. They also need donations of hay and oats. For information, call the Teller County Sheriff's Office at:
Teller County Sheriff's Office is taking donations to help displaced animals. Send checks to:
Teller County Sheriff's Office, Attn: Animal Welfare, PO Box 27, Divide, Colorado 80814
Woodland Park
Animals can be taken to the Rodeo Grounds
Pikes Peak Therapeutic Riding Center is helping to evacuate livestock from the Lake George/Woodland Park area.
Front Range Equine Rescue - two locations
Woodland Park - 719-495-6389
Woodland Park Saddle Club 719-687-9975
Horse Owners who need shelter can call Hillary Wood at:
Other numbers:
Douglas County Fairgrounds 720-733-6903
Teller County Extension Service 719-689-2552
Free parking for Trailers/Campers
Rockrimmon Self-Storage
John Sant
6125 Mark Dabling Road
719-273-2206; pager 719-389-9829
A-1 Self Storage Warehouse
4825 E. Platte Avenue
Colorado Springs, CO 80915
Reserving 15-20 Units for Woodland Park evacuees. Free rent for a month on units. Proof of residency required.
Care & Share accepting both monetary & non-perishable food donations at 4875 Northpark Drive. Items needed: bottled water, canned tuna. canned meals (such as chili), pasta, canned soup, cereal, canned fruit, peanut butter & canned vegetables.
People who wish to send a financial donation in support of the Salvation Army Disaster Relief may send a check to:
The Salvation Army
PO Box 9947
Colorado Springs, CO 80909
Firefighters in need of: bottle water, lip balm, lotion, sun block, eye drops, toothpaste power bars & heavy gloves. Bring items to:
Black Forest Baptist Church on Wednesday, June 26th 4-7P. For more information:
Pam @ 719-495-3035 or Martha @ 719-495-9356
Sponsored by the Black Forest Arts & Crafts Guild
Help the Community during fire disaster - drop off items for Firemen of Colorado. Items needed: gatorade, power bars and packaged nutritional food or drink, clothing, ie socks and t-shirts etc. Drop of at these Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits sites:
Colorado Springs
Meals for Firefighters
Monument Hill Baptist Church
18725 Monument Hill Road
The UTE PASS VACATION GUIDE, WALMART and the VOLUNTEER CENTER OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION would like to send out a huge THANK YOU for your support. The effort to assist us has been phenomenal! GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
At this time, NO ADDITIONAL SUPPLIES OR DONATIONS ARE NEEDED for the Volunteer Fire Departments in the Pikes Peak Region.
Additional food donations for the Salvation Army may be dropped off DIRECTLY to their locations at the Sheriff Station in Divide or at the Lake George Volunteer Fire Department.
CASH DONATIONS may still be sent to:
Ute Pass Fire Relief Fund
Account #2271409
1616 N. Circle
Colorado Springs, CO 80909
***The Florissant Fire Department is selling quality cotton T-shirts with a silk-screen picture from the New York Fire Department, depicting three firemen raising a flag on a charred mountaintop. On the front is the Florissant Fire Department logo. The T-shirts sell for $20 each. Cash and checks only, please. Order by calling 719-749-3909 or mail your check to payable to the Florissant VFD at P.O. Box 502, Florissant CO 80816.***
Now is the time to begin assisting evacuees who have lost their homes or will be without electricity or water for several weeks to come. Cash donations are being accepted through the Ute Pass Fire Relief Fund.
The Fund also expects to be setting up areas where evacuees can come and begin picking up needed items to begin their lives again and will notify the public when and where these places will be. Those wishing to drop off items can call 719-684-9295.
PLEASE keep in mind that new, undamaged, clean items will mean a lot more to these people than used, broken or dirty items.
WALMART IS NO LONGER ACCEPTING DONATED ITEMS. Please call 719-684-9295 for information about where to drop off donations.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, MONEY, DONATIONS AND EFFORTS! Every dime we receive goes directly to help those who are helping us. Please forward this to whomever you think might be able to help
Below is a list of needed items at this time:
Mountain Communities 687-2766
(Deckers, Westcreek)
CASH donations are welcome and appreciated!
4 Mile 719-689-3417
(Off Teller 1 near Evergreen Station)
bar oil for chainsaws
diesel oil Rotella
transmission fluid Type F and Dextron
10/30 and 5/30 two cycle oil
CASH for Wild Land Gear
Helmets with lights
Thos-Chek Class A Concentrate firefighting foam
1" forestry hose
Kenwood hand-held radios
Divide 719-687-8773
CASH for gas and unforeseen supplies
double A batteries for radios
New Skin Band-Aids
candy bars
Florissant 719-748-3909
CASH for gas and unforeseen supplies
Beef jerky
4 13 gallon trash cans
large plastic tote boxes
Kenwood hand-held radios
Lake George 748-3022
sunglasses with straps
washer or laundry service
industrial work boots - sizes 5 to 9 ½ - NO STEEL TOES
1 3/8" nylon rope
bungee cords
NE Teller County Woodland Park 719-687-1866
No needs at this time
EACH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT IS ACCEPTING DONATIONS AT THEIR FACILITIES, or you can send your contribution through the following resources:
Ute Pass Fire Relief Fund
Account #2271409
Pikes Peak Credit Union
1616 N. Circle
Colorado Springs, CO 80909
720 W. Midland
Woodland Park, CO 80863
Volunteer Center of the Pikes Peak Region
Brenda Clifton, Director 719-575-4342, 2 N. Cascade, Suite 110, Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Mountain Communities 719-687-2766
(Deckers, Westcreek)
CASH donations are welcome and appreciated!
4-Mile 719-689-3417
(Off Teller 1 at Evergreen Station)
CASH for Wild Land firefighting gear
bar oil for chain saws
Rotella diesel oil
Transmission fluid Type F and Dextron
10/30 and 5/30 two cycle oil
Helmets with lights
CASH for Thos-Check Class A Concentrate firefighting foam
1" forestry hose
CASH for Kenwood hand-held radios
Divide 719-687-8773
CASH for gas and unforeseen supplies
Double A batteries for radios
New Skin Band-Aids
candy bars
"busy" toys of a non-violent nature for children of firefighters and evacuees
Florissant 719-748-3909
CASH for gas and unforeseen supplies
beef jerky
4 13 gallon trash cans
CASH for Kenwood hand-held radios
"busy" toys of a non-violent nature for children of firefighters and evacuees
***The Florissant Fire Department is selling quality cotton T-shirts with a silk-screen picture from the New York Fire Department, depicting three firemen raising a flag on a charred mountaintop. On the front is the Florissant Fire Department logo. The T-shirts sell for $20 each. Cash and checks only, please. Order by calling 719-749-3909 or mail your check to payable to the Florissant VFD at P.O. Box 502, Florissant CO 80816.***
Lake George 719-748-3022
sunglasses with straps
industrial work boots, sizes 5 to 9 NO STEEL TOES
1 3/8" nylon rope
bungee cords
Green Mountain Falls/Chipeta Park 719-684-2293
No needs at this time
NE Teller County 719-687-1866
(Woodland Park)
No needs at this time
Salvation Army Food Wagons at Lake George, Divide and Rampart Range Road outside of Woodland Park
(located at the Sheriff Station on Highway 24 in Divide or the Lake George Volunteer Fire Department on Hwy 24 in Lake George)
fresh, cooked or fried chicken
chicken or tuna salad
hot dogs
canned corn and green beans (larger cans are better)
other fresh vegetables (corn, lettuce, onion, etc.)
fresh fruits (oranges and melons do not bruise as easily)
frozen pizza or other frozen food
condiments (mustard, mayo, ketchup, salt & pepper)
bulk hamburger and patties
spaghetti sauce
gravy and other sauce mixes (no hot or spicy, please)
grated cheese
hamburger and hotdog buns
any type of ready to serve meals in large quantities, homemade or other
breakfast items (eggs, pop tarts, tortillas, sausage, etc.)
olive oil
Aleve or ibuprofen (sealed and unopened please)
Styrofoam cups, plates and bowls
plastic knives, forks and spoons
trash bags
Diapers, baby food and other items are becoming a necessity. Donations may be dropped off at the Salvation Army stations in Divide or Lake George, or at the Florissant Grange in Florissant.
Ute Pass Fire Relief Fund
Account #2271409
1616 N. Circle
Colorado Springs, CO 80909
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, MONEY, DONATIONS AND EFFORTS! Every dime we receive goes directly to help those who are helping us. Please forward this to whomever you think might be able to help!
ABATE of Colorado District 2 is heading up a effort to support one of the local fire districts. We have established a fund for the Florissant Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department. This will help pay for gas, oil, repairs ect. They have old equipment that breaks down daily and we are trying to do our part. For more information:719-684-8386 or by cell at 719-641-6345.
Veterans Carpet Care
Shane Skeen 622-9699
NO COST for victims of Hayman Fire
Provide services to those people with smoke damage - carpets, upholstery, draperies # automobiles
Hello Wonderful Mary Kay World!
Just wanted to let you know that a director friend and myself went yesterday and delivered the first donations you have all so graciously donated. We counted everything before we took it to the Firefighters and it amounted to $5,643!!! You all are absolutely awesome!
You should have seen the scene when we pulled up in that pink Cadillac! there were little pup tents everywhere that the off duty visiting firemen are sleeping in and big red fire trucks parked everywhere too!!!
I had gone to Kmart and purchased three huge plastic storage tubs to put all the sunscreens, lip balms, lip protectors and moisturizers, night creams and extra emollient night creams in and they were sooo heavy to pick up.... but the firemen came right to the trunk and were more than happy to unload them for us. They were soooo grateful and also said all of those products, a total of 593 separate items which amounted to $5,643 retail, would probably all be gone within ONE DAY!!! That just shows how many firemen are here from all over the U.S. helping Colorado with this tragic wild fire!
Thanks so much for all you are donating, and please know you can continue to send any donations for me to deliver to them! They said they will be fighting this fire about three months!!!!
My name and address again are:
Connie Lustig
4984 Castledown Road
Colorado Springs, CO 80917-2250
Air Academy Federal Credit Union establishes Colorado Wildlife Relief Fund. This will help assist those left in need by the devstation of the wildfires. Contributions will be accepted at any Air Academy Federal Credit Union Branch in Colorado Springs, The AFAA, Monument, Castle Rock, Parker @ Highlands Ranch. For more information call: 1-800-223-1983 ext 1027
The University of Colorado @ Colorado Springs is ready to help victims of the Hayman fire IF additional evacuations are necessary. Fifty-four beds are available at NO CHARGE to fire victims. The University will also offer reduced-price meals.


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SWAT team raids home, arrests man
The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office SWAT team raided a residence on the Buffalo Shoals Road Thursday morning.
Lincoln County Sheriff's Sgt, Steven Grinnell received information that James Andrew Woods Jr. was wanted on a number of charges and was at the residence at 843 Buffalo Shoals Road in Lincolnton. Grinnell confirmed the information and contacted the SWAT team leader.
The Baker District officers and SWAT team met with Lincoln County Sheriff David Carpenter at a predetermined location at 5:30 a.m. Thursday for a briefing before going into the residence with a search warrant. Officers surprised Woods and found him asleep on a recliner in the living room. Woods, who was on the run from law enforcement for several months, was taken into custody without incident.
Woods had outstanding warrants from Catawba, Gaston and Lincoln counties. He was served with felony warrants for possession with the intent to manufacture a controlled substance, possession of marijuana exceeding half an ounce and a true bill of indictment. He was also served with two misdemeanor warrants for failure to appear in court.
Woods was placed in the Harven A. Crouse Detention Center under a $283,700 secured bond.


text: Electronic Arts immediately forwards all pre-orders to a secretive processing facility, so if you happy to change your address after ordering a game eight months in advance, well, tough. At least that's what Electronic Arts told Micah when he asked to update his pre-order for the now sold-out limited-run collector's edition of Warhammer: Age of Reckoning. When Micah pointed out that it might not be the best idea to sell games eight months in advance without a way to update addresses, Electronic Arts canceled his order altogether and told him to find another copy somewhere else.