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Expertise: Acute Coronary Care, Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS), Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI), Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Angina, Angioplasty, Atherosclerosis, Atherosclerosis Imaging, Cardiac Catheterization, Cardiac Disease, Cardiac Imaging, Cardiology, Cardiomyopathy, Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, Cardiovascular Disease in Women, Cardiovascular Disease with Chronic Renal Disease, Cardiovascular Diseases, Cardiovascular Interventions, Cardiovascular Medicine, Cardioversion, Chest Pain, Chronic Total Coronary Occlusion, Chronic Total Occlusions, Clinical Cardiology, Congenital Heart Disease, Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), Coronary Angiography, Coronary Artery Disease, Coronary Artery Stenting, Coronary CT Angiography, Coronary Endothelial Function, CT Angiography, General Cardiology, Heart Attack, Heart Conditions, Heart Disease, Heart Disease Prevention and Treatment in Women, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, Interventional Cardiology, Intravascular Brachytherapy, Invasive Cardiology, Ischemic Heart Disease, Lead Extraction, Myocardial Infarction, Pacemaker and ICD Lead Extraction, Pacing, Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI), Pericardiocentesis, Right Heart Catheterization, Rotational Atherectomy, Stenting, Syncope, Tilt Table Test, Valvular Heart Disease ...read more
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Dr. Jeffrey Brinker directs the cardiac pacemaker service and is an expert in interventional cardiology including pacemakers and implantable cardio defibrillators (ICDs), angioplasty, heart catheterization and lead extraction.
Dr. Brinker received his undergraduate degree from Hofstra University and his medical degree AOA summa cum laude from the State University of New York's Downstate Medical Center. He interned at Johns Hopkins Hospital and entered the residency program at Kings County Hospital, interrupting his residency for military service. After completing his residency at Kings County, he pursued a fellowship in cardiology at the University of Louisville, Kentucky and in cardiovascular disease at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Brinker joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1978. He directed the Catheterization Laboratory until 1990 and the Interventional Cardiology program until 1999.
Dr. Brinker has published over 250 journal articles and book chapters on topics of interventional cardiology. His research interests include cardiovascular imaging, cardiac pacemakers and lead extraction. He has served on the editorial boards of several medical journals and is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including seven military awards and Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. Dr. Brinker is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and serves on national health care committees and task forces.
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- Joint Appointment in Radiology and Radiological Science
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- Medicine - Cardiology
- Medicine - Cardiovascular
- Radiology and Radiological Science
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- MD; Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center (1970)
- Kings County Hospital Center/SUNY Downstate / Medicine (1975)
- University of Louisville Hospital / Cardiology (1976)
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Cardiovascular Disease (1978)
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- American Board of Internal Medicine / Cardiovascular Disease (1977)
- American Board of Internal Medicine / Internal Medicine (1976)
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Fischman DL, Leon MB, Baim DS, Schatz RA, Savage MP, Penn I, Detre K, Veltri L, Ricci D, Nobuyoshi M, Brinker J, et al. A randomized comparison of coronary-stent placement and balloon angioplasty in the treatment of coronary artery disease. Stent Restenosis Study Investigators. NEJM 331(8): 496-501, 1994.
Miller JM, Rochitte CE, Dewey M, Arbab-Zadeh A, Niinuma H, Gottlieb I, Paul N, Clouse ME, Shapiro EP, Hoe J, Lardo AC, Bush DE, de Roos A, Cox C, Brinker J, Lima JA. Diagnostic performance of coronary angiography by 64-row CT. New England Journal of Medicine; 359 (22): 2324-36, Nov 27, 2008.
Savage MP, Douglas JS Jr, Fischman DL, Pepine CJ, King SB 3rd, Werner JA, Bailey SR, Overlie PA, Fenton SH, Brinker JA, Leon MB, Goldberg S. Stent placement compared with balloon angioplasty for obstructed coronary bypass grafts. Saphenous Vein DeNovo Trial Investigators. NEJM 337(11):740-747, 1997.
Bittl, John A.; Strony, John; Brinker, Jeffrey A.; Ahmed, Waqar H.; Meckel, Clyde R.; Chairman, Bernard R., Maraganore, John; Deutsch, E.; Adelman, B., for the Hirulog Angioplasty Study Investigators. Treatment with Bivalirudin (Hirulog) as Compared with Heparin During Coronary Angioplasty for Unstable or Postinfarction Angina. The New England Journal of Medicine 333: 764-769, 1995.
Reis SE, Gloth ST, Blumenthal RS, Resar JR, Zacur HA, Gerstenblith G, Brinker JA: Ethinyl Estradiol Acutely Attenuates Abnormal Coronary Vasomotor Responses to Acetylcholine in Postmenopausal Women. Circulation 89: 52-60, 1994.
Grines CL, Watkins MW, Helmer G, Penny W, Brinker JA, et al. Angiogenic gene therapy (AGENT) trial in patients with stable angina pectoris. Circulation. 2002 Mar 19;105(11):1291-7.
Heldman AW, Cheng L, Jenkins GM, Heller PF, Kim D-W, Ware M Jr., Nater C, Hruban RH, Rezai B, Abella BS, Bunge KE, Kinsella JL, Sollott SJ, Lakatta EG, Brinker JA, Hunter WL, Froehlich JP. Paclitaxel Stent Coating Inhibits Neointimal Hyperplasia at 4 Weeks in a Porcine Model of Coronary Restenosis. Circulation 103:2289; 2001.
Activities & Honors
- Medical School - AOA Summa Cum Laude
- New York State Regents Scholarship
- Hofstra University Academic Honors
- National Pre-Medical Honor Society
- National Biology Honor Society
- National Military Honor Society
- Bronze Star Medal
- National Defense Medal
- Vietnam Service Medal
- Vietnam Campaign Medal
- Unit Citation-Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm
- Army Reserve Component Achievement Medal
- Army Commendation Medal
- American College of Angiology
- American College of Cardiology
- American College of Chest Physicians
- North American Society for Pacing and Electrophysiology
- Society for Cardiac Angiography
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- Best of Hopkins Lecture, Bangkok (01/27/1997)
Invited Speaker, 10th Annual Scientific Sessions, Anaheim (01/01/1997)
Association of Black Cardiologists
- Visiting Professor, Madigan Army Hospital (01/01/1997)
- Invited Speaker, University of Chicago Hospital, Tacoma (01/06/1997)
- Invited Speaker, AHA - Puerto Rican Chapter, Chicago (01/25/1999)
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On January 29 the Federal Reserve announced it would continue to curtail its nontraditional asset purchases in February, as the strength of the economy continues to improve. As the Federal Reserve draws back its level of asset purchases, mortgage rates will likely continue to slowly increase. Recent turbulence in emerging markets may be having a dampening effect on mortgage rates as investors move heavily into U.S. treasuries, driving down yields which will have the effect of lowering other interest rates. Currently, Freddie Mac reports the following figures: 30-year fixed rate, 4.39%; 15-year fixed rate, 3.44%; 5/1-year adjustable rate, 3.15%.
The year-over-year sales pace in December was down. The annual pace of sales in January was 657 homes, down 4.5% from last year and down 18% from last month. Surprisingly, Coop sales were up year-over-year in January, while Condos and residential single/multi-family home sales were actually down.
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The median home price increased 4.6% year over year in January, according to the Long Island Board of Realtors, to $375,000. From December, prices were down 2.6%, which is usual for this time of year and consistent with the tight inventory levels reported. The price gains of 2013 have returned thousands of homes to positive equity and positioned their owners to participate in the market for the first time in years. Residential & Condo home prices continued to increase, while Coop home prices decreased slightly year-over-year.
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Beam, which recently acquired Cooley DIstillery, has commenced a major marketing plan for Kilbeggan whiskey.
To that end they have appointed five Irish ambassadors for the brand across the U.S.
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Jennifer Graham, San Francisco
Jennifer Graham (27) earned her undergraduate degree from University College Dublin (UCD) and her MSc Masters from Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, UCD.
She is currently working in San Francisco, which she says has it all. Graham is from Sutton, north of Dublin's City Center, and says what she misses the most is having her friends and family close by.
Graham's biggest surprise living in San Francisco is that a couple hours drive north has slopes for skiing and a couple hours south has the famous California sun. Graham is never at a loss for something to do. She's looking forward to a skiing trip in March and until then plans to learn to surf. Although the area has great surfing, Graham says the regular shark sightings are a big deterrent.
San Francisco offers a wide range of cuisine, the most exotic she has tried is Peruvia. It also offers an endless stream of activities, including the America Cup qualifiers, Fleet Week, and Giants games to name a few. She also plans to visit the lovely neighboring towns of Murin and Socelito.
Graham's favorite Kilbeggan Distilling product is the Kilbeggan because she has a bit of a sweet tooth. She said "it has a really great balance of caramel, vanilla, and oak. It's so approachable yet really tastes like whiskey, much more so than other Irish blends out there."
Kilbeggan is a minimum four years older than Irish whiskey, which "leaves a really great balance of flavors as the whiskey has had more time to develop mature characteristics."
You can follow Graham on twitter @KilbegganJG.
Emily Duffy, Boston
Emily Duffy (23) graduated from the University of Limerick with a Bachelor of Laws with Irish/Gaelic. She is from Limerick, the city immortalized in the song "Limerick You're a Lady" and currently working in Boston.
She settled into Boston well, largely in part because of the large Irish and even larger Irish American population. Boston in a sporty city, which she loves and she can always find something entertaining to do. There are plenty of bars, including lots of Irish bars and many of them show rugby games. She adds, "The sheer amount of Irish bars in Boston is a sign of [the thriving Irish and Irish American population] and what better place to bring some great whiskey from home."
Duffy says she misses the hot weather in Ireland and her friends and family the most. She skypes them all the time and she receives viber calls to her phone and says, "it's almost like I never left!"
She can not pick just one Kilbeggan Distilling product and her favourite. She says it changes everyday. With the current cold weather, she likes to warm up with a smokey Connemara neat or a Kilbeggan "Hot Toddy."
Duffy said she was surprised at "how amazingly 'Irish' Boston is" and she says that "it's definitely a home from home."
You can follow on twitter @EmilyDuffy4.
Joanne Ryan, New York
Joanne Ryan, twenty five, is from Waterford and graduated from the Cork Institute of Technology.
Working in the US, Ryan misses her friends and family the most, but stays in touch with them through Facetime and Skype. She virtually attended her Mum's 60th birthday and helped her one-year-old niece Roisin blow out her birthday candles.
Ryan also misses her Mum's home cooked dinners, especially her favorite Shepherd's pie. She says, "No one makes it like my Mum."
She is currently based in New York and said her biggest surprise in America was how quickly she was able to settle in and how quickly New York began to feel like home. Ryan said she expected to feel some loneliness from moving to a big city, but settling in "was hugely helped by the friendliness of the people in New York, especially my team in New York with Beam. I had great support immediately."
She says that that thanks to her team and her job, she always felt like there was something to do and someone she could go to. In her own words, "I felt a part of the NY Beam family as soon as I met everyone which really helped me settle into my new life in New York."
Ryan finds it difficult to choose a favorite Kilbeggan Distilling products. One of her two favorites is the Kilbeggan, which is great for a night out with friends. She also really likes Connemara, which she says, "is perfect for me when I am in a cosy warm pub or on a winter's night at home in front of the fire." You can follow her on twitter @joryan87.
Michael Egan, Chicago
Michael Egan (24) is a recent graduate of Dublin Institute of Technology with a four year degree in Tourism Marketing. He was born and raised in Dublin and says he misses Gaelic football the most because he was very involved in the sport before his move to the United States.
Egan is currently working in Chicago as a brand ambassador for the Kilbeggan Distilling Company.
His biggest surprise moving to America was "how welcoming, friendly and understanding everybody [he] works with is" and he says their friendliness "has made the settling in process so much easier."
His favorite Kilbeggan Distilling product is the Greenore Single Grain Irish Whiskey.
You can follow him on twitter @mikegan88.
Ruth Dunne, Philadelphia
Ruth Dunne (22) is a graduate of the Dublin Institute of Technology where she studied International business and languages, French and Spanish.
She is from Clonskeagh, Dublin and misses her friends and family. She also misses her mum's home cooked meals and her mum would be pleased to hear, "I will never take them for granted again!" Dunne has tried to recreate them, but says that they never turn out the same.
She is currently working in Philadelphia and says she has met some wonderful people who have made her welcome in the City of Brotherly Love.
Her biggest surprise moving to America was how happy and friendly everyone is. She says it was very easy to settle in and Philadelphia "felt like home immediately." The Beam team was very welcoming and helped make the move to America easy. Dunne says about her Beam team, "Their patience and mentoring have been incredible and I am really looking forward to the year ahead."
Dunne's favorite Kilbeggan Distilling products are the Kilbeggan and the Greenore. The Kilbeggan goes well in Irish coffee, one of her favorites, as well as a mixed cocktail or even sipped on its own. The Kilbeggan is the flagship brand and a favorite among whiskey drinkers.
She also has great praise for the Greenore. "It's smooth texture and light, approachable flavor provide a good basis for many cocktails. Being the only single grain whiskey it is one not to be missed." She likes to use twitter to keep everyone up to date on events happening in Philadelphia and to upload photos of events.
You can follow Dunne on twitter @KilbegganRd.


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BOSTON (AP) — For one day, everything was fine again with the Boston Red Sox.
Adrian Gonzalez hit a two-run homer, Franklin Morales turned in another solid substitute start and the Red Sox averted a four-game sweep with a 6-4 win over the Minnesota Twins on Sunday.
"Hopefully it's the start of a long run," said Gonzalez, who finished with three RBIs.
Carl Crawford added three singles, an RBI and a leaping catch for the Red Sox on his 31st birthday.
The victory snapped Boston's four-game losing streak and salvaged a rough weekend against the AL's second-worst team.
Coming off consecutive late-inning losses — one in extra innings and the other when they blew a two-run ninth-inning lead Saturday, the Red Sox rebounded behind a strong showing by Morales (3-2).
Grumbling about manager Bobby Valentine's decisions and the lack wins can take a break for at least a day. The underperforming Red Sox moved to within a game of .500 again (54-55).
Morales, a 26-year old left-hander taking Josh Beckett's turn in the rotation after the righty left his previous start with a back spasm, gave up one run on three hits in six innings.
Now, Valentine just needs to find a spot for him in the rotation.
"I think it's an easy decision. We just have to figure out all the parts," Valentine said. "He wants to start and I want him to start. We can't always count on a guy getting injured to get him out there."
Gonzalez also understands how well Morales has pitched in a spot role.
"Yeah, it's really impressive," he said. "Every time he's out there he does a good job.
Josh Willingham hit a solo homer, his 28th, and Ryan Doumit a two-shot for the Twins.
Ben Revere extended his career-best hitting streak to 19 games with a single, drove in a run and made a splendid over the shoulder catch for Minnesota.
On Saturday, Joe Mauer's three-run homer with two outs in the ninth capped a comeback win for the Twins.
"We've had a pretty good feeling. One big hit, a couple of walks, take some pitches and try to make them throw some pitches," Minnesota manager Ron Gardenhire said. "You get a couple of guys on, you never know what's going to happen. We've had some success battling, we've been in a lot of close ballgames lately. We're not going to quit. I can guarantee you that."
Alfredo Aceves, the losing pitcher Saturday, got the final three outs for his 23rd save.
The Red Sox hadn't been swept in a four-game series at home by Minnesota since 1991.
Morales has given up two runs or fewer in five of his six starts this season.
Revere's hitting streak is the longest by a Twins' player since Torii Hunter had a 23-gamer in 2007.
Leading 2-1 with two outs in the fifth, Gonzalez hit a drive into seats above the Green Monster off starter Nick Blackburn (4-7) after Crawford singled.
Cody Ross' RBI single made it 5-1 in the seventh. Jacoby Ellsbury added a sacrifice fly in the eighth.
Blackburn's road woes continued, giving up four runs on nine hits in five innings to fall to 17-35 in career road starts.
Revere robbed Jarrod Saltalamacchia, running full speed to the center-field wall to make the grab on the track and then turning to throw to second to complete a double play.
Willingham and Doumit homered off reliever Vicente Padilla in the ninth.
Blackburn had a feeling the Twins were going to do it again.
"I thought we had a decent chance there in the ninth," he said. "It's exciting to see."
Boston had jumped in front 2-0 with a pair of runs in the third. Crawford had an run-scoring grounder after Mike Aviles singled and Ellsbury doubled. Gonzalez followed with an RBI single.
Minnesota cut it to 2-1 in the fifth on Revere's sacrifice fly. Alexi Casilla walked, stole second and advanced on Jeremy Carroll's ground out.
Crawford, who wore his uniform pants high with his bright red socks showing nearly to his knees, robbed Doumit with his second-inning catch at the wall.
The two clubs have played seven four-game sets in Fenway Park since the last time the Twins swept a four-game series.
NOTES: During the game the Red Sox acquired Twins 3B Danny Valencia for Class A outfielder Jeremias Pineda. The 27-year old Valencia hit .198 with two homers and 17 RBIs in 34 games with Minnesota this season. He was assigned to Triple-A Pawtucket. Pineda is hitting .421 in 36 Gulf Coast League games. … OF Willingham was back in the starting lineup after resting Saturday with a right-hander going for Boston. … Valentine said "everything is on track" for Beckett to start Wednesday against Texas. … Boston CF and leadoff hitter Ellsbury returned to the starting lineup after resting what Valentine called a minor leg injury Saturday. … Red Sox righty Aaron Cook (2-5) faces Japanese star and Rangers right-hander Yu Darvish (11-7) at Fenway on Monday night.
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Two-time champion Adam Scott set the second round clubhouse target at the Barclays Singapore Open after consecutive rounds of 65.
And the Australian, a winner at Sentosa Golf Club in 2005 and 2006, hopes to put his previous record to good use over the weekend after establishing a two shot lead over another player who knows how to get the job done in Singapore - defending champion Ian Poulter.
"Every time you have won somewhere you always enjoy going back and you have good feelings," said Scott.
"I have had a great run here in Singapore in the past and it would be great to have another great run over the weekend and get win number three.
"But I just enjoy being here, everyone is really supportive and I have a good time playing golf here."
After a four-hour delay caused by thunderstorms on the opening day, most of the field were able to complete their second rounds in perfect conditions.
Scott had opened with a six under par round on the longer Serapong Course and looked set to build up a significant lead when five birdies and an eagle in six holes from the third saw him turn in 29 on the Tanjong set-up.
But the 30 year old lost his way slightly with bogeys at the 11th and 13th before leaving his birdie putt at the 14th millimetres short.
An approach to within six inches at the next saw him pull a shot back to reach 12 under par at the halfway stage.
"It was a good day overall, it was a long day - 30 holes of golf - so I'm pleased with the outcome," said Scott.
"It was a shame to slow down a bit on the back nine but that's golf I suppose. It's out there and you still have to go out and make the putts if you are going to score well.
Ryder Cup star Poulter opened with a 69, and was nine shots adrift of Scott when he turned in 34 on the Tanjong Course.
But the World Golf Championships - Accenture Match Play champion produced a blistering inward 29 to move right into contention.
Birdies at the 11th, 12th and 14th were followed by a second shot to six inches at the 15th and after a solid par at the 16th he left himself another tap-in birdie at the 17th.
He then proceeded to hole a mammoth 100 foot left-to-right putt on the last to sit ten under.
"It was the very, very left edge of the back of the green and I reckon it is a good 100 feet, if not a touch more and I certainly can't remember holing anything of that length in the past," said Poulter.
"I'm looking forward to going back onto Serapong. It is definitely the harder of the two courses but I like that. I hear it might be a bit windy on Sunday which is good so I have to put myself up there in the hunt again."
Graeme McDowell lies third alongside Fredrik Andersson Hed and Kyung-nam Kang, the US Open Championship winner starting his second round with four straight birdies.
But that was as good as it got for the Northern Irishman as he followed an opening 65 with a 68.
Andersson Hed also opened with a quartet of birdies as the Swede's impressive season continued with a second round 65.
Having gone through Qualifying School 12 months ago, the 38 year old landed the BMW Italian Open and is flying high at 21st on The Race to Dubai.
World Number 567 Kang shone with a bogey-free 67, while in-form Dutchman Joost Luiten was also nine under with six holes of his round remaining.
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I recently meet a person through a friend and the subject of religion arose. I talked about my lack of belief and my reasons carefully as I didn't know the person. To my surprise he told me he was an atheist 'once'. Intrigued my this I asked for a little more detail.
He told me a similar story to mine, he was born into a very religious family and when he questioned himself about religion he realized he actually had no belief in any deity. Then he told me a close family member had passed away and that he had 'found' his faith again and did so because he couldn't imagine there not being a place where he would meet this person again.
After some thought I have two questions as a result of this conversation I'm hoping some of you can answer.
Mainly for interest's sake has anyone ever meet an person who was an atheist but converted to a religion without the influence of a family member, close friend's death, terminal illness etc. You know just one day upped and choose to be religious without an underlying reason.
My second question, a more personal one, is when someone close to you dies, is it a pitfall to convert/reconvert to religion? I have been extremely fortunate not to have someone close to me die yet, but after having this conversation I have wondered what I will do once this inevitability does happen, as I can see it as being the weakest and most vulnerable time that will befall me. I know this isn't something that everyone will be comfortable discussing, and I apologise in advance if this question upsets anyone.
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I don't personally know of any atheist who has reverted to religion. I know of some but I never met them.
The atheism of a seasoned atheist shouldn't be at all phased by the death of anybody, loved one or not.
I knew someone online who claimed to have been an ex theist and reconverted because 'I saw an angel'.
The gist of the story was, she was walking along and there was a man walking front of her, he turned a corner, she followed hime round it, and tah dah, he was gone. No-where he could have gone, apparently.
Seems pretty flimsy to me. I refer you to my story of the man on the moped in another thread somewhere.....
When someone suffers a bereavement they can have a number of negative reactions. I admit to drinking heavily and taking drugs when a man I was in love with died. My mother told me she had sex with a lot of strangers after her father died and her first husband left her in the same month and this was not something she was happy doing before this - it was a comfort thing and she felt disgusted with herself afterwards. My friend turned to Christianity when her husband left and she felt very alone - she was an atheist before in that she had never thought about gods existing (we are in the UK where that is possible) and when she felt stronger she stopped going to church. In short, yes, people can seek a crutch of some kind when they are feeling very low and this includes religion.
However, apart from the fact that most of us cannot believe what we don't believe even if we want to, most of us don't want to. We seek comfort from friends and family. It is people with shaky mental health in the first place who may not deal with grief well. That was me then but since then I have suffered grief and handled it realistically. If you are someone who finds you still miss some aspects of faith and also have not completely lost all your superstitious fears, I recommend reading some atheist books - deprogramme yourself fully? I needed to do that - I had not believed since I was 16 but it took me until 30 to get rid of all my faith. Then when you do lose someone, you are unlikely to sink back into religion for comfort. Its not a good idea because it is a crutch and stops you working through the grief - also there are numerous reasons why religious belief is not good for anyone. The God Delusion deprogrammed me but I may have misunderstood your meaning and you have no vestiges of belief left.
My grandfather was somewhat religious, though in the personal and non-proselytizing way, and he screamed a lot for a few weeks before he finally died. My parents were both flabbergasted and annoyed at his behavior as it was undignified in comparison to the rest of his life. My parents may not be particularly atheist, but they neither believe in an afterlife nor do they fear death. The experience have left them stoic and prepared, their major worry is that they lose their minds and horrify us (their children) the same way they were mortified of my grandfathers undignified passing.
My best friend lost his atheist (medical doctor) mother a few years back from cancer when she was in her early sixties. The story of her bravery of calmly and heroically facing her last days, as retold by him, is quite strengthening for me when it comes to how a purely rational human (should) act when faced with the inevitable.
It isn't a pitfall to be desperate, it is a very acceptable human weakness which none of us can truly say we will not do until faced with the situation. The totality of life must be measured, not the tail end of it.
I have never met anyone who had converted back to theism, but I have heard various stories from theists saying that "God has power enough to help even atheists" etc..
In my opinion, it is often the people who are not the atheists that debate, use logic, and that use constant questioning of the idea of a god that are the ones that convert back. It is the ones that have an attitude of "I don't have time to think about what I believe or why I believe it, so by default I am an atheist". That, or the ones that are angry at everything (because we all know those kinds of atheists). Then because they have no true basis for being an atheist, they may easily be persuaded into the 'acceptance' and 'always loving' lie that theists advertise their beliefs as.
I do believe, however, that after a major crisis or life changing event we are all vulnerable to things that we may normally not do. We may start to think in ways that we never did before.
My grandma passed away about a year and a half ago, we were very close as she pretty much raised me from when I was a child. I knew then that I was truly an atheist as I was not grieving her passing, but the fact that I was never going to see her again. I found comfort in the fact that she had a long and good life, a life that a lot of people were never given the chance to live. I am glad that I did not need to turn to a nonexistent excuse for death such as "God has a plan" and such as this would have just made me angry.
Different strokes for different folks I suppose. :)
I was just stepping into Atheism when I lost my Grandfather to cancer. I was only 16, I was confused and hurt, and yes, for a moment I did lapse back into Christianity. It lasted about a week, enough time to deal with my grief and come back to my senses. I look back on it now as a learning experience, understanding how weak I was, and a bit disgusted with what I viewed as a cowardly regression to a state I had thought I'd put behind me. I've lost more family since, but that was my only relapse.
great question
I recently had a Grandpa die and it was very hard for me to see him in his last stages of his life. before he had died i question the religion that my family has which is catholic, but my religion or lack-of is still in questioning i haven't made up what i believe, but i can tell you is that people may convert based on the hopes of the deceased will go to heaven when he or she dies, thus giving the person hope and converting. it was shortly after his death that i came to this site for answers that i couldn't find im my own home.
I have to change my answer a little because I thought back to last year when I lost my cousin (something I avoid because it was the worst two weeks in my life), I realized I did somewhat revert. It was desperation. He was in a coma for a week before he died. I was going through finals week and could do nothing, not even go up there to see him. I was desperate to try to do anything that I prayed. I prayed it would be me instead of him. Once he did die a few days later, that's when I saw how stupid that was. And that's when I really started questioning religion.
Also, thanks to people who have responded. I don't feel so alone anymore. :)
Belief can be simply a tool and can be used to achieve goals, such as coping with loss. Whatever works.


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In the two years since that essay was posted here, the price of gold has increased more than 60%, and the price of silver has exploded by nearly 200%. In consequence of which, your Curmudgeon must now direct your attention to the following:That's right: Copper. Even silver, for a long spell "the poor man's gold," is now too expensive for the average American to purchase in quantity, as an inflation hedge and a disaster reserve. Partly because of the explosion in its price, and partly because those who have it have become increasingly reluctant to sell it for paper dollars, the rate of trade in silver rounds has fallen off dramatically. The copper rounds in the photo above are currently selling for about $1.35 each in modest quantities. Trade in them appears brisk...Please, please, please: If you missed the run-up in silver, don't miss the one about to occur in copper. Copper has already climbed 40% in price in the last year. If it's within your means, buy a thousand ounces or so and put them in a safe, dry place.
There was a piece on Fran Porretto's site a little bit ago about the rising cost of copper and copper coins available as the, for now, still affordable form of wealth conservation.I'll hunt it up if anyone's interested.
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"Thanks for transforming our lives!" exclaimed Isabella. With the support of Caminar Latino, Isabella, a survivor, learned that domestic violence is not a part of a healthy marriage, and that everyone deserves to live happily and free from violence.
When she was first married, Isabella and her husband were very much in love, giving birth to two children. Later on, everything changed. Name-calling, slapping, pushing and beatings became an ongoing aspect of her married life, and this deeply affected her children. Feeling isolated and on her own, Isabella did not know where to go for help; she did not have family nearby, and she did not speak English. Then, one day, Isabella learned about Caminar Latino.
Caminar Latino is a non-profit domestic violence intervention and prevention program, whose mission is to create opportunities for Latino families affected by violence to transform their lives and their communities. Caminar Latino (Latino Journey) is the only Spanish speaking, culturally-specific domestic violence program in the Atlanta metro area that provides services for women, men, and children.
At Caminar Latino, the staff welcomed Isabella in her own language, and invited her to participate in support groups for herself and her children. Advocates taught her about domestic violence and its impact on children. Through Caminar Latino, Isabella learned about her rights, took parenting classes, and received individual therapy. They helped her with legal matters, and, perhaps most importantly—they provided her with the support she needed to better every day. In fact, Isabel and her family feel so at home at Caminar Latino that she and her children have been involved with the program for 6 years now.
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After predicting a positive EBIT margin — the ratio of profit to revenue — of 4-5% in its 2013 results in January, the company now admits that its EBIT dived to a negative two-digit million-euro sum on revenues of EUR 710 million.
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The drastic change in renewables support that virtually eliminated the large solar plant sector, a former Juwi core segment, were a major negative factor, the spokesman told Windpower Monthly in mid-July. German solar installations will shrink to a quarter of the 2012 level this year, the company predicts.
By contrast, Juwi's remaining core onshore wind business expects to carve out 10% of annually new installed capacity in Germany over the coming years. That translatesinto 200-300MW per year, as achieved in the previous three years, the spokesman said. More than 200MW will be installed in Uruguay, South Africa, the US and Australia in 2014-2015, with further projects under way in Chile, Japan, the UK and elsewhere, he added.
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The company claims it has "adequate financing" but wants to take minority investors on board. Firm talks with strategic and financial investors are under way, the spokesman said. The Juwi Group and its sister firm Juwi IPP (Independent Power Producer) already have cooperation agreements with partners including German municipal energy companies Stadtwerke Aachen, Stadtwerke Trier and Energieversorgung Offenbach. In February, Juwi IPP said it owned 472MW of wind and solar power capacity assets, mainly in Germany, but planned to expand its portfolio by 700MW with acquisitions in Germany and elsewhere in Europe.
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Demonstrating that developing onshore wind is profitable, German competitor PNE Wind, a pure wind player with activities in 14 countries, was given a bullish review in June by independent equity research firm 7C Consult. Although clocking up only 20% of Juwi's annual revenue at EUR 144 million in 2013, albeit up from EUR 84.3 million in 2012, largely through acquisition in 2013 of fellow German developer WKN, the PNE Group has achieved "a critical size and benefits from volume purchasing, direct sales channels to institutional investors such as pension funds, insurance companies and infrastructure funds and ample liquidity bolstered by working capital credit lines", 7C commented. This was reflected in an EBIT of EUR 45 million in 2013, following EUR 20.4 million in 2012.
Energiekontor, another pure wind player based in Germany, also received a thumbs-up by First Berlin Equity Research in its first assessment of the company. Larger than PNE Wind, with revenue of EUR 163 million in 2013 after EUR 96.4 million in 2012, the company reported an EBIT of EUR 34.14 million in 2013, up from EUR 8.76 million in 2012.
Energiekontor is praised for its business policy of not only developing and selling turnkey wind farms, but also building up its own portfolio of currently about 500MW. In contrast, PNE has retained only around 30MW of wind capacity, giving it about EUR 2 million in recurring EBIT annually, said 7C.


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A Third Of Employees Are Ready to Quit: How To Hold On To Yours
This article is a reprint of Wise Bread's contribution to OPEN Forum from American Express -- where small business owners can get advice from experts and share tips with each other.
Take a look around your office. A third of the people you see think the best thing 2012 could bring them is a new employer. And that's true all over the world; something that's worrisome for multinational companies.
This year's annual "What's Working" study just released by Mercer, a global HR advisory firm, might be more aptly named "What's Not Working." Besides showing that almost a third of U.S. employees are seriously eyeing the exit, the survey found that more than half of senior managers are among them. And if your hope is to replace the retiring boomers on your staff with some of your up and comers, think again. More than 40 percent of employees 34 and younger are tweaking their resumes, too.
Who's Leaving and Why
At the depth of the recession employees were grateful just to have a job, but now the bloom is now off the rose. The stress and strain of being tasked to do more with less, watching co-workers get laid off and worrying about their own fate, and suffering through salary freezes have finally taken their toll. Despite economic uncertainties, employees—particularly those with the best prospects—are now confident enough to make a move.
All of the demographic and labor force factors that led to the labor shortages of just a few years ago are still there. But we seem to have fallen into a recession-induced amnesia about them.
The cost of losing a trusted employee is estimated at between 75 percent and 200 percent of an employee's annual salary. That's not including the drain on organizational memory or the cost of customers and co-workers that may follow them.
To Keep Your Employees, Keep Them Engaged
So how do you keep from losing your best and brightest?
Mercer's answer is engagement, something they call the Holy Grail of 21st century management. An engaged employee, according to Mercer, is one who feels a vested interest in the company's success and is both willing and motivated to exceed their job requirements.
The 2011 study points to 13 factors that influence engagement (listed in order of importance):
- Being treated with respect;
- Work-life balance;
- The quality of organizational leadership;
- Working in an environment they can provide good services to others;
- The type of work they do;
- The quality of people they work with;
- Benefits;
- Base pay;
- Long term career potential;
- Having flexible work arrangements;
- Learning and development opportunities;
- Opportunities for promotion;
- Incentive pay/ bonuses.
Why Engagement Matters
Mercer and other HR experts have shown that the benefits of an engaged workforce go far beyond employee retention. Employee engagement translates into:
- Increased productivity;
- Greater levels of innovation;
- Improved service quality;
- Higher customer satisfaction;
- Reduced absenteeism;
- Lower healthcare costs;
- The ability to attract talent;
- Increased competiveness;
- Higher shareholder value.
While employee preferences and motivating factors differ across industry and location, Mercer found the following four factors consistently have the highest impact on engagement:
- The work itself—in particular, understanding how their individual contribution fits into the larger scheme of things;
- Confidence and trust in leadership—managers should act in a way that's visible and transparent;
- Recognition and rewards—most importantly they should be internally fair and externally competitive;
- Organizational communication—it should flow smoothly up, down, and laterally throughout the organization and recognize that not everyone communicates in the same way.
Interestingly, other research shows that merely paying attention to what employees have to say—through surveys, focus groups, and active listening—can have a marked impact on engagement, even without any real change in organizational behavior.
People want to feel like they matter. They want to have some say in where, what, when, and how they work. After all, work accounts for the largest chunk of time they'll spend at one thing in their entire lives. They want to be treated like thinking adults. And increasingly, if they don't get what they want, they'll find it elsewhere.
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Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder. The lining of the intestine becomes inflammed when foods with gluten are consumed. The damage can interfere with the ability of the intestine to absorb important nutrients from food. As a result people with untreated celiac can become malnourished. A gluten-free diet can halt the damage. Gluten is mainly found in wheat, rye, and barley, but can also be found in some prepared products, flavored coffee, and beer. This can make it difficult to make a diet completely gluten-free.
Booth Hall Children's Hospital in England reviewed several past studies to determine if there was a particular gluten level that was tolerable for people with celiac disease. The review, published in Aliment Pharmacology Therapy , found that the tolerable levels of gluten can vary greatly between individuals.
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Researchers conducted a systematic review of 13 previous studies. The studies had all tested the response to varying levels of gluten. The studies examined the level of mucosal abnormalities or clinical symptoms after ingesting gluten. The review found a wide range of gluten tolerance such as:
- Amount of daily gluten to cause intestine abnormalities ranged from 10 mg-36 mg (milligram).
- In one trial, no symptoms were present with 200 mg/day but three patients had loose stools with 1 gram/day.
- In one trial, symptoms were not induced by 36 mg/day.
- In a separate trial symptoms, were induced by 1.5 mg/day.
How Does This Affect You?
It is very important to manage celiac disease to prevent long-term damage and secondary illnesses. There may be varying degrees of reliability between the studies reviewed here. However, it does appear that gluten tolerance may vary greatly between individuals.
Work closely with your doctor to find the right balance for you. Once you know your gluten goals, work with a dietitian to develop a varied nutrition plan. Look for gluten-free foods as a substitute for foods that are traditionally high in gluten.
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If you have been waiting for the right time to buy software for your Mac or iPhone, now is the time to get what you want while supporting a great charity. Seth Dillingham is
once again pedaling his bicycle in the Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC) and selling generously donated software to sponsor his ride proceeds of which go to the PMC. All the money goes directly to the organization which, in turn, donates the money to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Massachusetts. The organization, which does research and patient care, receives 100 percent of the PMC-raised money. Last year, Seth was able to raise $10,000 for the charity. He has the same goal in mind for this year, but we would like to see him raise even more.
Simply go to Seth's website and find all the software you want from the long list provided, then make Seth an offer. It should be pointed out that that all lowball offers will be rejected (he's doing this for charity, after all), but Seth is a reasonable man. If he approves your offer, you make a donation in his name to the PMC. Email him your receipt, and he sends you activation codes for your software.
If you want to participate, you have a few more weeks to do so, but be advised that there are a finite number of licenses available for each title. The longer you wait, the less likely the software you want will be available. Thus far, Seth has raised $9,000 and has yet to release a few big ticket software titles—Microsoft Office 2008 and Adobe Photoshop CS4—into the fray. If you are a developer and you want to donate copies of your own software to the cause, donations are still being accepted.
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For the sixth year in a row, Doritos is crowdsourcing its two Super Bowl ads. Five finalists have been selected and we at Business Insider were so taken with one spot that we had to announce our endorsement of what we think is the clear winner: the Doritos goat.
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Anne Hathaway's Norbit
Anne at the Palm Springs Film Festival last night more gussied up than she was on Monday at the Bride Wars premiere but still in black, and serious, and elegant, and very not frivolous despite the exceedingly frivolous and insipid and dumbassness of her new film opening this weekend Bride Wars. Maybe that's the point. Full Story
Gay with a guitar on a boat
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The Chicago Public Schools, the Silk Road Ensemble, the Humanities Festival, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Citizen Musician, "cultural entrepreneurship" — Yo-Yo Ma has a way of filling his plate during his now-frequent visits to Chicago.
The world-renowned cellist and CSO creative consultant arrives Thursday for almost a week of activities with Chicago institutions as he continues working to elevate the role of culture in our everyday lives. As usual there will be performances and public appearances: He and his Silk Road Ensemble will make their first Symphony Center appearance since 2007 on Saturday night for a program that includes Dimitri Yanov-Yanovsky's "Sacred Signs," written to mark the centennial of Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring."
The Chicago Humanities Festival's Northwestern Day on Sunday features "Yo-Yo Ma and Damian Woetzel: A Conversation About Arts and Citizenship" (7:30 p.m., Cahn Auditorium, 600 Emerson St., Evanston). Ma and ballet star Woetzel, his frequent collaborator and the Aspen Institute's arts director, will discuss, as the program puts it, "how artists practice their citizenship, as individuals and through institutions — and how the arts fulfill a fundamental human need by forging and strengthening community." Sunday's presentation will feature CSO composer-in-residence Anna Clyne and brief performances by Ma and CSO and Civic Orchestra members, plus a music-accompanied poetry reading by a Chicago high school student.
Ma and Woetzel also are slated to participate in a Monday morning program involving the Chicago Public Schools' arts plan, and Ma will be back on the Symphony Center stage Tuesday night for a town hall meeting with the young Civic Orchestra musicians, with whom he'll be engaging more directly to boost their involvement in the broader cultural world.
"As musicians, we are trained to work toward something bigger than ourselves," Ma wrote in a letter to the Civic musicians last month. "Identifying and responding to the needs of the people around us is one way music can be of service. You are citizens of the world, advocates and ambassadors for all the cultures we represent. Our borders are limited only by our imaginations."
On the phone from the Berkshires earlier this week, Ma said: "We have a wonderful opportunity to present and to work with and to challenge and to nurture or to just share various things with younger musicians of Civic Orchestra age, early 20s, and to look at how many different ways music is actually active in society. And to have them take leadership roles in not only being Citizen Musicians but also to model that with other people, with the people they come into contact with."
Civic principal conductor Cliff Colnot said Ma not only will be sharing the principles of the CSO-initiated Citizen Musician project with the musicians but also collaborating with them throughout the year to prepare for a May performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 6.
"This is big-time deal to have someone of his gravitas to interact with the Civic, for them to be able to hear his points of view about the Citizen Musician (initiative) and to hear him play and rehearse," Colnot said. "It's quite something for the young musicians."
Silk Road Ensemble members also will be conducting workshops with Civic musicians during Ma's stay.
Ma, who will participate in plenty of meetings on top of his appearances, said these activities are part of a larger effort to recognize and boost the importance of culture. The Citizen Musician effort began in January 2011, but now he's broadening the conversation to "cultural entrepreneurship," sort of a corollary to the recent push for social entrepreneurship.
"These days most people would say what we need in our workforce are people with the following qualities: collaboration, flexibility, imagination and innovation," Ma said. "Musicians, people in the performing arts … those are the very same values that we're trying to practice. So the question is, are we practicing those values as much as we can? Are we practicing them in the places we want to? If you think you can do more or do it differently or do it better, that leads to the concept of cultural entrepreneurship."
He added that he expects such themes to be raised in his Humanities Festival program.
"I'm excited about the Humanities Festival in that they have a theme of 'America,' what is America today?" Ma said. "Perfect for election time. Is it a geographic mass? Is it an idea? Is it the Constitution? Is it the people? Is it the human resources? What is it? For people in culture or in education or in the workforce or in industry, I think those are questions that each field, and each one of us has to actually grapple with, because if we don't, we could lose the plot."
At any rate, Ma, who previously has met with Mayor Rahm Emanuel about his efforts, said he'll be happy to be back engaging in so many facets of Chicago's life.
"I so love the city," he said, "and I'm so inspired by people in the city and by the will — by the grittiness and the loftiness both together."
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan is limiting airstrikes against houses to self-defense for troops, following a strike last week that killed women and children alongside insurgents, a spokesman for the alliance said Monday.
Such airstrikes are now being designated a weapon of last resort to rescue soldiers, cutting back their use.
Though airstrikes on homes are a small part of the international operations in Afghanistan, they have brewed resentment among Afghans, even when there are no casualties, because of the sense that homes and privacy have been violated.
Civilian deaths from such operations have threatened to derail the Afghan-U.S. alliance.
A pact signed by the Afghan government and the U.S. military in April putting Afghans in charge of joint raids in villages was supposed to ease these tensions, but the aftermath of Wednesday's airstrike against a home in eastern Afghanistan has shown that the Americans are still making the decisions on the ground.
Afghan officials have said that 18 civilians were killed in the strike. President Hamid Karzai rebuked U.S. forces for failing to consult their Afghan counterparts before calling for an airstrike in the house where insurgents had taken cover. NATO discovered that civilians had died the next morning when villagers piled the bodies into vans to display to Afghan officials.
Karzai demanded in a meeting Saturday night with NATO and U.S. forces commander Gen. John Allen that the international troops ban all airstrikes on homes.
A spokesman for the alliance, Lt. Col. Jimmie Cummings, said Monday that airstrikes were being severely curtailed.
"We will continue to conduction combat operations against insurgents who use civilian dwellings, but we will not use air-delivered munitions against civilian dwellings unless it is a question of self-defense for our troops on the ground," Cummings said.
Commanders previously could order airstrikes against insurgents on houses, as long as they were confident that there were no civilians present. Cummings says that the new restrictions mean commanders will not be able to call in a strike unless it is necessary to save the lives of their troops. This applies even if it is clear there are no civilians in the house.
"This restriction in no way limits our ability to take the fight to the enemy," Cummings said. He said that of about 3,000 NATO airstrikes in the past six months, only 10 of them were against civilian homes. Of those 10, seven resulted in civilian casualties, he said.
In addition, he said, NATO forces are in negotiations with Afghan officials about how to involve the Afghan military in decisions on airstrikes. Afghan forces have already had to sign off on joint operations in villages, but there has not been a procedure for involving them in the often split-second decision of when to call in air power.
Last year was the deadliest on record for civilians in the Afghan war, with 3,021 killed as insurgents stepped up suicide attacks and roadside bombs, according to the United Nations. The number of Afghan civilians killed dropped 36 percent in the first four months of this year compared with last year, though U.N. officials have said that a likely cause of the drop in violence was the particularly harsh winter.
Anti-government forces, including the Taliban and other militants, were responsible for 79 percent of civilian casualties in the first four months of this year, according to the U.N. tally, while Afghan and international forces were responsible for 9 percent.
Violence has started to increase with the warm summer weather, including regular reports of civilian casualties. Nine civilians were killed Monday in two separate incidents, including one in which an ambulance rushing a pregnant woman to a hospital struck a roadside bomb. The woman and four of her family members were killed in the blast in Sar-e-Pul province, the Interior Ministry said.
Another two women and two children were killed Monday in the east when a mortar fired by insurgents hit their home in Ghazni province's Gilan district, said Ghazni provincial spokesman Fazel Ahmad Sabawon. The militants appeared to be aiming for a government building nearby, he said.
In another development, the United Nations reported that it fired three Afghan officials as part of an investigation into allegations of fraud in the management of a $1.4 billion fund for the training and support of the Afghan police force. The program, which pays police salaries, is an important part of the effort to maintain security in Afghanistan as international forces draw down over the next two years.
"This ongoing investigation indicates zero tolerance toward fraud," said Brian Hansford, a spokesman for the U.N. Development Program, which oversees the Law and Order Trust Fund for Afghanistan. He declined to give specific information on those fired or the exact accusations. It was not immediately clear how much money was involved.
Also in Kabul on Monday, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian met with Karzai and coalition officials, including Allen, as part of his trip to pay homage to four French soldiers who were killed on Saturday in eastern Kapisa province and visit the five other French soldiers who were wounded.
The recently elected French President Francois Hollande has promised to pull France's 2,000 combat troops out of Afghanistan by the end of the year - well before the 2014 goal for the majority of NATO combat troops to leave the country.
The defense minister said the recent deaths had not altered France's withdrawal plan, but stressed that some French forces would stay to help train Afghan security forces and help manage the airport in Kabul. About 1,400 French soldiers are expected to remain.
"Our presence in the coalition will be maintained until the end of the coalition mission in 2014," he said.


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On Dan Brumberg's Egypt essay
Dan Brumberg has an essay in The Atlantic about Egypt's transition. It's a good read and has some very perceptive insights. But it also has a couple of flaws I see as fundamental.
One is about his retelling of what only recently became known as the "Constitution First" camp, and which is already receding after this week's protests, where many activists with impeccable democratic credentials told me the whole Constitution First affair was now over and that revolutionary forces accepted the sequencing of the transition. He writes that story as if there was a camp calling itself constitution first back in February, which is not true, even if there were those that proposed (such as ElBaradei) the creation of a constitutional assembly before elections. Nor does he touch upon the undemocratic nature of ElBaradei (and others') proposal for a constituent assembly or even a transitional presidential council whose members would be appointed, or self-selected, rather than elected.
The second is related, in that Brumberg seems to have identified good guys (liberals) and bad guys (the military, former NDP officials, most Islamists) in his narrative of the transition. This is evident in that he gives (good) advice to what he calls the Constitution First Camp (which, again, may hardly be a relevant name anymore). But is he not too concerned about which camp Americans would like to see "win" here? If there is a clean election in the fall, and Islamists do well, why would that be undemocratic? Like it or not we are in the logic of electoral democracy here, and if the process is irreproachable one should accept the outcome. We continue to see the dangers of not taking this approach in Palestine, where the international community decided that global standards for electoral democracy did not apply to Hamas.


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This collection contains demographic, military, and industrial indicators for each international system member for the years 1816-1985. There are two identification variables and seven substantive variables, which include urban and total populations, military expenditure, military personnel, iron and steel production, and energy consumption. Each system member is also coded as a major or minor power for each year.
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- Singer, J. David, and Melvin Small. NATIONAL MATERIAL CAPABILITIES DATA, 1816-1985. Ann Arbor, MI: J. David Singer, University of Michigan, and Detroit, MI: Melvin Small, Wayne State University [producers], 1990. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1993. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09903.v1
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Justice League of America #21
This is a strange, neither-fish-nor-fowl sort of issue--it leads directly into FC, but FC also has to be able to function without it (for the inevitable collection), so it's going to end up being a bit redundant, I suspect. Still, the issue number is formally appropriate: the last time there was a JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #21, back in 1963, it was the very first "Crisis"!
Cover: This is the first appearance of the "Sightings" banner, which... well, graphically speaking, it sure doesn't look like Chip Kidd designed it. And that would appear to be a Crime Bible in Libra's hand.
Pg. 1:
Yes, there really was a Mr. Polka-Dot, seen in DETECTIVE COMICS #300 in 1962, and never since. (Fred Hembeck covered that story here, in a piece that also explains the "little girl in the comic strip" joke for anyone who doesn't get it.)
Pp. 2-3:
Can anyone identify the provenance of the Einstein quote? I haven't found a source for it that suggests its context.
John Henry Irons is also known as Steel; "boom tubes" are getting-from-here-to-there-instantly technology created by Jack Kirby for his Fourth World comics.
Pg. 4:
Vixen kissed Superman in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #15, which is also where the "teaching moment" mentioned a few pages later happened.
Pg. 6:
The race was in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #10; the hole-punching bit was in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #6.
Pg. 9:
The "secret mission" was infiltrating Cygnus 4019, the prison planet in SALVATION RUN. (How that series dovetails with this issue is unclear--the final issue was supposed to be out two weeks ago, but it's been pushed back to June 18.) The new Atom is Dr. (Ryan) Choi; Ray Palmer, the previous Atom, disappeared after his ex-wife Jean Loring killed their friend Sue Dibny in IDENTITY CRISIS. Jean, who'd been Eclipso for a while (let's not get into it), was last seen in COUNTDOWN TO MYSTERY #4, apparently about to either drown or be eaten by a shark. Ray, as of the end of COUNTDOWN, is one of the new meta-Monitors, but word doesn't seem to have gotten around, so "losing Jean" here probably refers to her being insane and institutionalized in IDENTITY CRISIS.
Pg. 10:
Ah, here we go. The Human Flame's first and only appearance before DC UNIVERSE 0 was that 5 2/3-page Martian Manhunter backup in DETECTIVE COMICS #274, a story so skimpy we didn't even learn his last name. It was reprinted in that 80-page DC UNIVERSE SPECIAL: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA a couple of weeks ago, but if you want a really, really in-depth (and very funny) analysis of it, I recommend the Absorbascon's five-part exegesis, here, here, here, here and here.
Pg. 12:
Hawkgirl was created by Gardner Fox and Sheldon Moldoff, and first appeared (under that name) in ALL STAR COMICS #5 in 1941. This incarnation of the character first appeared in JSA SECRET FILES #1 in 1999.
Red Arrow was created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp (I think--Wikipedia claims Paul Norris; can anyone set the record straight?), and first appeared in MORE FUN COMICS #73 in 1941. He started using the name Red Arrow in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #7 last year, although a future version of him as Red Arrow had appeared in the sorta-kinda-in-continuity miniseries KINGDOM COME much earlier.
Pg. 18:
I'm guessing this is supposed to be Twisters (the ceiling lighting fixture is the same), although it'd have been nice if there'd been some common reference for stuff like the exterior, the chairs, the lighting...
I'm gonna need some help to identify the characters here. Panel 2, going clockwise from Libra and the Human Flame, we have [unidentified], Dr. Polaris, the Key, Weather Wizard, Shatterfist, Shrike, Cyborgirl, Ace and... Ten?... from the '80s version of the Royal Flush Gang, and the Icicle. [Thanks to Tom Bondurant and Frank Lee Delano.]
Pg. 19:
The guy with the arrow on his head is Red Tornado, who was created by Gardner Fox and Dick Dillin, and first appeared in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #64 in 1968. The one with the flaming head, who isn't in a position to even be talking about making that kind of joke, is Firestorm, created by Gerry Conway and Al Milgrom, who first appeared in FIRESTORM #1 in 1979; this version of the character first appeared in the FIRESTORM #1 published in 2004. And I believe this is the first mention of Libra being an "alien warlord"--I'm pretty sure that wasn't suggested in his first appearance.
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Clockwise after Libra and the Human Flame: Gorilla Grodd, Ocean Master, Talia al Ghul, Vandal Savage, Lex Luthor. Grodd, created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino, first appeared in 1959 in FLASH #106. Luthor, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, first appeared in 1940 in ACTION COMICS #23.
Pg. 22:
J'onn J'onzz, here apparently traveling via Boom Tube, was created by Joseph Samachson and/or Jack Miller (not the same person; see comments) and Joe Certa. He first appeared in 1955, in DETECTIVE COMICS #225.
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- Tom Bondurant said...
The guy to Dr. Polaris' right looks like Javelin from the Len Wein/Dave Gibbons Green Lantern of the mid-'80s. On Polaris' left is the Key, as redesigned by (I think) Oscar Jiminez early in the Grant Morrison run of JLA. The guy with the horns and the woman with the wings look like Shatterfist and Shrike from The Cadre. No idea about the woman with the headband.
- May 21, 2008 at 7:36 PM
- Tom Bondurant said...
Also, isn't the Hall of Justice supposed to be on the Mall in Washington, D.C.? The scenery Pacheco has drawn doesn't match up, unless there are mountains near D.C. of which I am unaware.
- May 21, 2008 at 7:39 PM
- raphaeladidas said...
The Einsteins quote has been attributed both as a remark by him and a line in a letter to Truman. I think it's probably apocryphal.
- May 21, 2008 at 8:15 PM
- raphaeladidas said...
By "Einsteins" I of course mean the Earth-1 and Earth-2 versions.
- May 21, 2008 at 8:16 PM
- Douglas Wolk said...
Good calls, Tom--thank you! This is a more direct link for Shatterfist and Shrike...
- May 21, 2008 at 9:17 PM
- Garrie Burr said...
Hey, Douglas... Congratulations on your first 'Sighting'!
Will you also be covering the 'Dark Side Club' sightings seen also this week in Flash and Birds of Prey?
I do not remember this cover tie-in blurb being mentioned in other Final Crisis promos, but these would appear to be part of the FC mythos given the rather expansive look at Darkseid and friends. Especially since they appear here (at least in looks) as we saw them last in Morrison's Mr. Miracle.
- May 22, 2008 at 7:32 PM
- Don MacPherson said...
Roy Harper was first seen as Red Arrow in Kingdom Come, if I recall correctly.
For the sake of completeness, you might want to include a note about the Hall of Justice and its origins in TV, given that it's the first visual in the comic.
- May 22, 2008 at 8:36 PM
- Douglas Wolk said...
Garrie--I don't think I'm going to be covering the Dark Side Club tie-ins, just things that are announced as being directly related to FC proper (this JLA has a "to be continued in Final Crisis" note on the last page, which I figure counts). Haven't read the new Birds of Prey yet, but that bit about a "sister box" in Flash is pretty intriguing, though.
Don--good call on Red Arrow, thank you! I'll fix that soon. For sanity's sake, I'm pretty much only treating comics as canon, though.
- May 23, 2008 at 11:12 PM
- Frank Lee Delano said...
Between Shrike and the RFG is Cyborgirl of Villainy Inc.
- June 5, 2008 at 11:37 AM
- Frank Lee Delano said...
The creators of J'onn J'onzz are difficult to pin down, as I wrote in the article referenced below. It is believed the first Martian Manhunter story was written by Joe Samachson, but I've sometimes heard it was scripted by Jack Miller, though I have my doubts about that. Samachson and Miller are too different people, one being an actual scientist who moonlighted in pulp fiction, while the other was a longtime (bad) comic book writer and (good) editor.
- June 5, 2008 at 11:44 AM
- Rick said...
Just found the blog, so sorry I'm late...
I doubt that's Weather Wizard on page 18, as he hasn't worn a cape in years. My bet is it's
Count Vertigo, although it could be Stingaree. :)
As far the other unidentifed man in green, I'm stumped. He most closely resembles Sand, but that's not right. I would have to go with a downsized Sledge (who has died twice now and still came back in Villains United) based on the hair and costume color, but I doubt that's it either. I want to say Gun...something.
- July 30, 2008 at 11:13 PM
- Rick said...
I've got it! The mystery man in green is mostly likely Cannon from Vigilante, back in the 80s, with a new crew cut and a miscolored shoulder pad.
Another possible for the Weather Wizard/Count Vertigo guy: the original Atomic Skull.
- July 30, 2008 at 11:49 PM
Interesting factoid!
The Human Flame has a couple of panels appearance in JLA #17! Not that he does anything....at all....but please to check out page 7 for further evidence!
- August 10, 2008 at 1:50 AM


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