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NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The jury at Bill Cosby's trial began deliberating Monday over whether he drugged and molested a woman more than a decade ago in a case that has already helped demolish the 79-year-old comedian's good-guy image.
A conviction could send Cosby to prison for the rest of his life, completing the stunning late-life downfall of one of the most beloved stars in show business.
The fast-moving case went to the jury of seven men and five women on Day 6 of the trial after closing arguments gave differing portrayals of what happened between Cosby and Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia estate.
Defense attorney Brian McMonagle told the jury that Cosby and Constand were lovers who had enjoyed secret "romantic interludes" and that the 2004 encounter was consensual. McMonagle said that while the comedian had been unfaithful to his wife, he didn't commit a crime.
Prosecutors countered by saying "fancy lawyering" can't save Cosby from his own words — namely, his admission about groping Constand after giving her pills he knew could put her to sleep.
"Drugging somebody and putting them in a position where you can do what you want with them is not romantic. It's criminal," District Attorney Kevin Steele said.
Jurors got the case at 5:30 p.m. and deliberated for 90 minutes before ordering dinner. The judge told them they could work as late as they wanted. Cosby and his lawyers were believed to be huddling in a room near the courtroom.
After the prosecution took five days to outline its side, the defense case consisted of just one witness, a detective, and six minutes of testimony Monday. Cosby did not take the stand, ending days of suspense over whether the jury would hear directly from him.
Legal experts said testifying would have been a risky move that could have opened the TV star to withering cross-examination about some of the 60 or so other women who have accused him of drugging or molesting them.
He is charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault, each one punishable by up to 10 years behind bars.
The black comedian once known as America's Dad for his portrayal of kindly Dr. Cliff Huxtable on "The Cosby Show" suggested recently that race could have played a role in the case against him. The jury included two black members.
McMonagle, in his closing argument, tried to sow doubt about Constand's story, saying it had evolved during her interviews with police. He also pointed out that Constand telephoned Cosby dozens of times after the alleged assault. Constand told the jury she was merely returning his calls about the women's basketball squad at Temple University, where she was director of team operations and he was a member of the board of trustees.
"This isn't talking to a trustee. This is talking to a lover," McMonagle said of one call that lasted 49 minutes. "Why are we running from the truth of this case — this relationship? Why?"
Cosby's wife of 53 years, Camille, was in the courtroom for the first time in the trial. She was stoic during the defense argument but left when it was the prosecution's turn. She sat in the front row, across the aisle from Constand, who didn't react to McMonagle's two-hour closing but smiled at the end of it.
Constand, 44, testified last week that Cosby gave her three blue pills and then penetrated her with his fingers against her will as she lay paralyzed and half-conscious. She denied they had a romantic relationship and said she had rebuffed previous advances from him.
She sued Cosby after prosecutors in 2005 declined to press charges. Cosby testified over a decade ago as part of that lawsuit, eventually settling with her for an undisclosed sum. His deposition was sealed for years until a judge released parts in 2015 at the request of The Associated Press, prompting a new set of prosecutors to take a fresh look at the case and charge him.
McMonagle told the jury that Cosby's freedom is at stake now, not just his finances. "This is not a civil case about money, money, money. We're talking about all the man's tomorrows," he said.
In the prosecution's closing argument, Steele said that Cosby's lurid statements from 2005 helped corroborate Constand's allegations. Steele also reminded jurors about a telephone conversation in which Cosby apologized to Constand's mother and described himself as a "sick man."
"This is where all the fancy lawyering can't get you around your own words," Steele said.
In his 2005 deposition, Cosby said he obtained several prescriptions for quaaludes in the 1970s and offered the now-banned sedatives to women he wanted to have sex with.
He also said he gave Constand three half-tablets of the cold and allergy medicine Benadryl before the "petting" began. Prosecutors have suggested he drugged her with something stronger — perhaps quaaludes.
The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they grant permission, which Constand has done.


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IBM today announced that its clients around the world such as the Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation, Tricon Geophysics and the United States Bowling Congress are building new, more dynamic infrastructures to help reduce costs, improve service and manage risk. The company also announced additional new dynamic infrastructure products and services. As a result, clients will be better able to respond to and manage challenges presented by today's globally integrated world.
Clients including Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation, Tricon Geophysics and the United States Bowling Congress are working with IBM to develop smarter, more intelligent infrastructures that help reduce costs and improve services they provide to their customers. The infrastructure technology helps clients manage and gain insight from an increasing number of things in their physical infrastructure that are being instrumented with intelligent sensors; analyze vast amounts of information; and become more "green" and cost efficient.
IDC estimates the market opportunity for the software, servers, technologies, and services to manage the world's converged IT and physical infrastructure to be $122 billion by 2012.
New dynamic infrastructure clients:
The Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation (THSRC) is using IBM software connected to intelligent sensors to manage maintenance and logistical data for the revolutionary high-speed rail network that runs along the west coast of Taiwan. These sensors identify maintenance issues and track train locations to make sure hundreds of trains carrying passengers between the south and the north are safe and on time. As a result, THSRC is able to greatly improve its customer service. The express trains are capable of traveling at up to 186 miles per hour (300 km/hr), meaning travel between Taipei City and Kaohsiung City is only roughly 90 minutes as opposed to the 4.5 hours by conventional rail. Using IBM software for insight into assets, their conditions and work processes, and for better planning and control, has helped THSRC maintain an average punctuality rate of 99.15 percent.
Tricon Geophysics, Venezuela's leading provider of seismic data processing and interpretation services for oil and gas companies is using an IBM iDataPlex system running Red Hat Linux for the seismic data collation, processing and migration needed for oil and gas exploration and production. This highly dynamic infrastructure based on IBM's iDataPlex enables Tricon to analyze 25 times more seismic data in the same time as compared to existing systems from an area of approximately 2500 square kilometers (close to 1000 square miles) and improve energy efficiency by 40 percent, while also reducing operating and cooling costs. Because the simulation of 3-D seismic data requires several compilations before it can be processed by standard petro-technical applications, the company also implemented an IBM System x3950 server running the Red Hat Linux operating system to pre-process seismic data. This capability gives Tricon a unique competitive advantage to conduct seismic analysis for oil and gas companies covering larger areas in a shorter time, cost effectively aided by energy efficiency and higher computing densities.
The United States Bowling Congress is the national governing body for the sport of bowling, serving more than 2.5 million adult and youth members. Recently, USBC consolidated its corporate data center on IBM POWER servers and blades using IBM PowerVM virtualization software. It also uses intelligent sensor technology to manage power utilization to reduce cooling and electricity costs in its data center. By using intelligent sensors, USBC can monitor data center activity and automatically adjust to optimize temperature and humidity. This results in a nearly 50 percent reduction in cooling cost and eliminates more than five tons of carbon emissions annually. This new consolidated blade server-based data center helps to run the world's largest participatory sporting event, the USBC Open Championships and allows all the entry information, scheduling and results to be updated and accessed in real time during the tournament's 140-day run.
New dynamic infrastructure products and services:
To help clients build and manage more dynamic infrastructures, IBM is further expanding its portfolio of offerings by introducing a range of new products and services for mid-size and enterprise clients.
New offerings designed to help clients build more flexible and dynamic infrastructures
A new consulting service -- the IT Optimization Business Value Roadmap -- is designed to help clients with multiple information technology (IT) projects planned to re-evaluate priorities and shift resources to fewer projects in today's existing economic environment. The service helps clients execute a targeted optimization plan that can save between 20-40 percent in costs, and prioritize and map future IT projects based on key business priorities.
The IBM Service Management Center for Cloud Computing, which now includes new IBM Tivoli Identity and Access Assurance, IBM Tivoli Data and Application Security, and IBM Tivoli Security Management for z/OS, for Cloud environments.
Two new System x appliances for system and application monitoring and service request management: IBM Tivoli Foundations Application Manager and IBM Tivoli Foundations Service Manager are suited for small and mid-sized clients looking to reduce costs, manage risks, and improve their service quality.
New infrastructure offerings designed to help clients reduce costs, become more green
IBM announced at the COMMON user group meeting in Reno, Nev., the industry's first virtualization software capabilities, IBM PowerVM Active Memory Sharing that allows memory to automatically flow from one virtual server--or "logical partition"--to another for increased utilization and flexibility of memory usage. Using this software, memory can be pooled and automatically adjusted to meet fluctuating workload demands.
New Power 520 and 550 servers use 4.7GHz and the world's fastest 5.0GHz POWER6 processor respectively, and allow companies to save up to 91 percent in energy usage and reduce floor space by 92 percent. (2)
The new BladeCenter JS23 and JS43 are the premier blades for 64-bit applications on i, AIX or Linux operating systems. Using a 4.2 GHz POWER6 processor they deliver performance and scalability improvements at compelling prices. For example, a BladeCenter JS23 with four cores delivers twice the performance of an HP 860c Itanium blade according to industry benchmarks. (1)
Continuing IBM's commitment to a new generation of leadership in x86 technology built on the 4th generation IBM X-ArchitectureTM, and building on the recently announced System x racks, blades and iDataPlex products, today's announcement includes two new 2-socket tower servers, System x3400 M2 and x3500 M2. These offerings help clients to significantly reduce cost with energy efficiency, including all new thermal designs, new voltage regulators and higher integration on the board to simplify power distribution and reduce distribution loss. This includes new, greater than 92 percent efficiency power and provides up to 60 percent reduction in power when idle. It also provides up to 25 percent reduction when fully utilized vs. the previous generation. As a result, energy savings can reach up to 95 percent compared to previous generations of x86 servers.
The new technology found in both servers features new systems management tools such as Integrated Management Module, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), Systems Director and Tools Center, helping customers establish a virtual infrastructure with less hardware. In fact, clients can reach greater than 11:1 consolidation from 2005 generation x86 servers when transitioning to IBM HS22 blades, and an estimated 9:1 consolidation when transitioning to x3650 M2 servers.
Also debuting is the Cluster 1350, a fully integrated solution designed to increase high-performance computing needs in a broad-range of application areas, while reducing overall power and cooling costs by up to 50 percent.
To support clients in their energy initiatives, IBM has designed a prescriptive Energy Management Adoption Model to provide clients with concrete steps to improve the energy efficiency of their infrastructure. The model covers the entire infrastructure including IT, Facilities/Property and other business assets. It defines 4 stages of adoption including discovery, manage, optimize and report with well defined projects that leverage available capabilities to provide quick ROI while delivering larger energy savings over time. As part of this Model, IBM also announced enhancements to its energy management portfolio including enhanced integration between IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Energy Management and Tivoli Business Service Manager, enable unified energy management of IT and non-IT infrastructure assets, consolidating energy information across a facility into a customizable energy dashboard and a free 60 day trial of IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Energy Management.
New offerings to help manage, analyze, store, secure staggering amounts of information
New risk management and business intelligence software for System z -- ACI Proactive Risk Manager (PRM) for System z -- designed to handle high-volume fraud assessments as part of the authorization process to detect whether a transaction is approved or denied, without impacting legitimate credit card, check or debit card transactions.
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence for Linux on System z includes enhancements to get fast and easy access to the most up-to-date business information from any location on handheld devices such as BlackBerrys.
A new version of the IBM System Storage DS5000 that will include self-encrypting disk technology for mid-market clients. Data is automatically protected against unauthorized access, eliminating the costs associated with data exposure, while helping clients address regulatory requirements. Other enhancements include faster, 8-Gbps adapters to improve efficiency and increase performance, along with greater capacity of up to 448 disk drives in a single system to provide lower total cost of ownership.
A new version of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center delivers new performance analytics technology and customization features that enable IT administrators to manage large-scale storage environments while increasing overall system performance, reducing management complexities, and improving system availability. The new analytics technology helps identify hot spots for problem determination and quick tuning to improve performance and storage utilization in order to help clients increase service levels and improve efficiency. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center also delivers expanded heterogeneous platform support, advanced reporting, and security features for multi-vendor storage environments.
New networking offerings
IBM today announced new hardware, software and services to help improve networking connectivity for greater infrastructure efficiency. Building on its extensive experience in networking, IBM is introducing a new service offering, IBM Networking, Strategy, Optimization and Implementation Services for consolidation and virtualization.
Also as part of today's networking news, IBM is increasing the range of the choices it offers for network connectivity, beginning with an expansion of its OEM agreement with Brocade to introduce a family of IBM-branded Ethernet switches and routers. This OEM network equipment from Brocade position IBM to provide customers with a more complete set of offerings for emerging dynamic data centers. Brocade has been a strategic IBM supplier for Storage Area Network products and this new offering adds a set of 1G and 10G Ethernet switches and routers to that portfolio. These complement IBM's current networking offerings, such as those from long-time strategic networking supplier Cisco that IBM continues to work with on a global basis to expand its strong relationship. IBM has also strengthened its collaboration with Juniper Networks, Inc. In February, the two companies demonstrated hybrid public-private cloud capabilities. IBM and Juniper continue to explore opportunities to further expand the relationship.
As part of today's announcement IBM also introduced financing options to help enterprises specifically acquire IBM's new line of dynamic infrastructure products and services.
For additional information visit www.ibm.com/dynamicinfrastructure.


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NEAR a prairie dotted with cattle and green with soy beans, barley, corn and oats, two bearded Hasidic men dressed in black pray outside a slaughterhouse here that is managed by an evangelical Christian.
What brought these men together could easily have kept them apart: religion.
The two Hasidim oversee shehitah, the Jewish ritual slaughtering of meat according to the Book of Leviticus. The meat is then shipped to Wise Organic Pastures, a kosher food company in Brooklyn owned by Issac Wiesenfeld and his family. When Mr. Wiesenfeld sought an organic processor that used humane methods five years ago, he found Scott Lively, who was just beginning Dakota Beef, now one of the largest organic meat processors in the country.
Mr. Lively adheres to a diet he believes Jesus followed. Like Mr. Wiesenfeld, he says the Bible prescribes that he use organic methods to respect the earth, treat his workers decently and treat the cattle that enter his slaughterhouse as humanely as possible.
"We learn everything from the Old Testament," Mr. Lively said, "from keeping kosher to responsible capitalism."
Humane, sustainable practices like Mr. Lively's are articles of faith for many Americans concerned with the way food gets from farm to plate. But they are even more deeply held matters of faith for a growing number of farmers and religious groups. In the past few years protecting the environment has emerged as a religious issue. Now, something similar is taking place in the way people of faith view their daily bread.
Christians, Jews and Muslims who see food through a moral lens are increasingly organized and focused on showing their strength. The Religious Working Group on the Farm Bill, a national coalition of more than a dozen religious organizations, is lobbying Congress for legislation to help small farms. The National Catholic Rural Life Conference is helping congregations and universities in the Midwest buy local produce from family farmers.
Environment-minded Jews are asking the leaders of Conservative Judaism to rewrite their kosher certification rules to incorporate ethical concerns about workers, animals and the land. Hazon, the Jewish environmental organization, has set up community-supported agriculture programs, or C.S.A.'s, in which customers purchase shares of a farm's harvest.
"This is the first time I have seen such a deep and growing involvement of the faith community," said Brother David Andrews, who is on sabbatical from his job as executive director of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference and has followed these kinds of issues for 30 years.
If this nascent cause was taken up by large numbers of churches and synagogues, the economic effect alone could be profound. "The religious movement is a huge force," said Arlin S. Wasserman, the founder of Changing Tastes, a consulting firm in St. Paul that advises food companies and philanthropic organizations on trends in food and agriculture. "Already, religious institutions oversee the production of $250 billion per year in food if you bundle together halal, kosher, and institutional buying.
"Religious leaders have been giving dietary advice for decades and centuries, telling us to eat fish on Friday or to keep kosher in your home. What we are seeing now are contemporary concerns like the fair treatment of farm workers, humane treatment of animals and respect for the environment being integrated into the dietary advice given by the churches."
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Agasthiyar was a Siddhar, or sage, in the Vedas. The clan of Agasthiyar is also mentioned Agasthiyar Nadi Astrology in Thrisur. to have "authored" many of the mantras in the Rig Veda, the oldest and most adored Hindu scripture, in the sense that the Supreme Brahman first revealed the mantras to him in his mind. The Agasthiyar Samhita Nadi Astrology in Thrisur was also written by Agasthiyar. Agasthiyar is considered by some to be the greatest of the Seven Sages or Saptarshis. Additionally, the word is spelled Agasti and Agathiyar Nadi Astrology in Thrisur. also a Shiva-related name. Urvashi was the place where Mitra and Varuna, the Gods, gave birth to Agasthiyar, the Muni. Agasthiyar Nadi Astrology in Thrisur, which is also the Indian astronomical name for the Canopus star, is known as the "cleanser of waters" because its rising coincides with the Indian Ocean's calming. Sage Agasthiyar Nadi Astrology in Thrisur is said to have sought assistance from the Kalakeyas, an Asura clan, after they had fled to the Cosmic Ocean, making it difficult for the Devas to defeat them. The sage took in all of the ocean's water after hearing about the Devas and kept it inside him until the demons were destroyed. He describes and explains how to make medicines for fever (of any kind), cancer, impotence, abdominal problems, brain and eye problems, bone problems, and other conditions in his book. His medications, it is said, have no side effects and provide quick results.
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Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati have a conversation at the beginning of the predictions in Siva Nadi Astrology in Thrisur. Parvati asks Lord Shiva to tell her son or daughter, who has come forward to inquire about it, about the predictions for the future. Lord Shiva then makes the predictions. The Maha Siva Sukshma Nadi Astrology in Thrisur is more comprehensive and accurate at predicting future events than the Kousika and Agasthiya Nadi Astrology in Thrisur that our family used in the past or other Naadi Jodhidams & Nadi Astrology in Thrisur that others in the south used. This is why the price of this Sukshma Nadi Astrology in Thrisur is a little bit higher. However, the price is extremely low in comparison to the enormous benefits we receive from Naadi. Like in astrology, there are twelve Kaandams, which correspond to the twelve Bhavas, or houses. In addition, there are specialized kaandams for the Dasabhukthi, Deeksha, Vaidya, and Shanthi Pariharam kaandams. A brief description of the subjects covered in each kaandam can be found in the Appendix, which may be of interest to the person being mentioned. In the chapters that follow, we have also provided in-depth explanations of a few significant Kandams. However, the first Kaandam must be performed. It is believed to be the index for all other Kaandams. It is not necessary to consult any of the Kaandams or the specialized Kaandams. However, it is impossible to independently consult any other Kaandams without first reading the first chapter. The fact that the prediction itself indicates when the customer will visit our office for advice is another important aspect of the Sukshma Naadi. It is commonly believed that the individual who wishes to know his future will be present when Jupiter and Saturn are in particular Rasis.
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Maharshi Bhrigu was a Manasputra of Lord Brahma. In addition, there were sages like Narada, Vasishtha, Atri, and Gautama. It is believed that Bhrigu is one of the nine Brahmas. His wives were Usana, Puloma, a daughter of Kardama, and Khyati, a daughter of Daksha. Dhata and Vidhata, two sons, and a daughter named Shri were born to Khyati. Since Master Brahma made Maharshi Bhrigu Nadi Astrology in Thrisur to help him in the formation of the universe, he is otherwise called Prajapati, or maker. His daughter Sri (Lakshmi) married Shri Vishnu. Because she is the daughter of Bhrigu, she is referred to as Bhargavi (Bhargaveem, Bilva Nilayaam, Vararohaam, Yasaswineem, Vasundharaam, Udaaraaangaam, and Harineem). Hemamalineem, the Daridrya Mochana Stotram). Similar to Sukracharya, the Daityas' preceptor, Bhrigu also had a son named Kavi, Bhargava, and so on, who was born to Usana. We will try to learn more about these great sages in the future. Maharshi Bhrigu Nadi Astrology in Thrisur had participated in and led numerous Yagnas. Using his powers, he carried out the wishes of others to have sons. He spent the two months of Bhadrapada and Shravana in the chariot of the Sun God. When Usana was killed, both Devatas and her powers were released. Sage Bhrigu Nadi Astrology in Thrisur wished that Vishnu would be born on Earth, go through the cycles of birth and death, and suffer in the same way that we do. His abilities allowed him to revive his wife. Vishnu accepted the curse of the sage in the same way that He accepted the curse of Sage Durvasa. When the sage cursed Vishnu's fervent devotee Ambareesha, Vishnu stood invisibly between them and took the curse on Himself.
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Vashishta Nadi Astrology in Thrisur is one of the Saptarishis and a manasputra of God Brahma (Seven Great Sages Rishi). He had the divine cow Kamadhenu and her daughter Nandini, both of whom were capable of doing anything for their owners. Arundhati is the name of the wife of Vashista. One of the nine Prajapatis, Vashista Nadi Astrology in Thrisur, is credited with writing Mandala 7 in the Rigveda. Vashista and his family receive praise in RV 7.33 for their participation in the Battle of the Ten Kings. He is the only non-Bhava mortal to be the subject of a Rigvedic hymn because of this. Another work that is said to be his is the book Vashista Samhita, which is about the Vedic system of electional astrology. The following is a brief discussion of a few of the folktales and stories that include Vashista Nadi Astrology in Thrisur. In the Ramayana, Vashista is portrayed as Dasharatha's court sage. Sage Vashistha Nadi Astrology in Thrisur, Ram's guru and Rajpurohit of the Ikshwaku dynasty, is the subject of a legend. He was a great Rishi who emphasized intelligence, charity, and peace. He had established Gurukula, a residential college where he and his wife Arundhati cared for thousands of students, on the Beas River's banks. The Sadguru of his time was Vashistha. He knew everything there was to know about God and the universe, and he had twenty "kala's," or divine arts. Many of his Shlokas are also in the Vedas. In order to provide food for a feast, Vashistha calls Kamadhenu, also known as Sabala, the cow of abundance. Nandini, Kamadhenu's daughter, was the name of the cow that lived in Vashista. She was able to immediately produce enough food to feed an entire army. The cow made the king Kaushika, who later became Vishwamitra, very impressed when he visited Vashistha's Nadi Astrology in Thrisur hermitage. He tried to get Vashistha to take it away from him, but Kamadhenu/Nandini's spiritual power was too much for him to handle.


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Once upon a time, I was a journalist, covering war in Indochina, Central America, and the Middle East. I made it my job to write about the victims of war, the "civilian casualties." To me, they were hardly "collateral damage," that bloodless term the military persuaded journalists to adopt. To me, they were the center of war. Now, I work at home and I'm a private eye — or P.I. to you. I work mostly on homicide cases for defense lawyers on the streets of Oakland, California, one of America's murder capitals.
Oakland's poor neighborhoods are a war zone whose violence can explode onto streets made rich overnight by the tech boom. Any quiet day, you can drive down San Pablo Avenue past St. Columba Catholic Church, where a thicket of white crosses, one for every Oaklander killed by gun violence, year by year, fills its front yard.
Whenever I tell people I'm a private eye, they ask: Do you get innocent people off death row? Or: Can you follow my ex around? Or: What kind of gun do you carry?
I always disappoint them. Yes, I do defend people against the death penalty, but so far all my defendants have probably been guilty — of something. (Often, I can only guess what.) While keeping them off death row may absolve me of being an accessory after the fact to murder, it also regularly condemns my defendants to life in prison until they die there.
And I find spying on people their ex-spouses fantasize about killing much sleazier than actual murder. Finally, I'm a good shot, but I don't carry a gun because that's the best way to get shot.
I work on the low-profile cases: poor people charged with murder, burglary, or robbery, who don't have the money for a lawyer or their own P.I. (I'm paid, if you can call it that, by the state.)
Then people invariably want to know: How can you help defend a murderer? The law school answer is: the constitution guarantees everyone a fair trial.
For me, however, if it's a death penalty case, it's simple: I'm against the death penalty no matter what the accused did (or didn't do). But in this age of stop and frisk, racial profiling, mandatory sentencing, the death penalty, and life without parole, not to mention execution-by-cop, the real answer is: I can't. Defend anybody, that is. Not really.
I'm just a tiny cog in America's vast Criminal Injustice System. One of the lawyers I work for sometimes calls himself "just a potted plant." My defendants may be guilty — but seldom of what they are charged with. They are rarely convicted of what they actually did and are never sentenced fairly.
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One day recently, I was getting ready to hit the Oakland streets in search of a witness to a murder when I found in my email Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent in the Supreme Court Case of Utah v. Strieff. It had been forwarded to me by a psychologist with whom I once worked on a death penalty case.
Anyone lulled into thinking the new coalition of liberals and conservatives who hope to reform the criminal justice system will actually get somewhere should read Strieff. The facts are the following: a Salt Lake City cop was watching a home rumored to house methamphetamine dealers. When Edward Joseph Strieff left the house, the cop stopped him, questioned him, and checked his record. When the cop found a warrant for an unpaid parking ticket, he searched Strieff, found meth in his pockets, and arrested him for possession of drugs. In Strieff and other cases leading up to it, the Supreme Court has now decreed that evidence gathered in an illegal search isn't "the fruit of the poisoned tree" as Justice Felix Frankfurter put it in 1939, and so no longer must be suppressed. Even though gathered illegally, evidence can be used at trial against a defendant.
In short, stop-and-frisk policing and racial profiling, key targets of the new civil rights movement, just got a stamp of approval from the highest court in the land.
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan also dissented. But it was Sotomayor who sounded the alarm in an opinion evoking nothing less than James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and adding quotations from W.E.B. Du Bois, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Michelle Alexander for good measure.
She wrote:
The Court today holds that the discovery of a warrant for an unpaid parking ticket will forgive a police officer's violation of your Fourth Amendment rights. Do not be soothed by the opinion's technical language: this case allows the police to stop you on the street, demand your identification, and check it for outstanding traffic warrants — even if you are doing nothing wrong. If the officer discovers a warrant for a fine you forgot to pay, courts will now excuse his illegal stop and will admit into evidence anything he happens to find by searching you after arresting you on the warrant. Because the Fourth Amendment should prohibit, not permit, such misconduct, I dissent.
And she concluded:
This case tells everyone, white and black, guilty and innocent, that an officer can verify your legal status at any time. It says that your body is subject to invasion while courts excuse the violation of your rights. It implies that you are not a citizen of a democracy but the subject of a carceral state, just waiting to be catalogued.
We must not pretend that the countless people who are routinely targeted by police are 'isolated.' They are the canaries in the coal mine whose deaths, civil and literal, warn us that no one can breathe in this atmosphere.
Sotomayor's dissent describes daily existence for my defendants. Too poor to buy car insurance, fix broken tail lights, pay parking tickets, or get green cards, they are always on high alert for the police. (Alice Goffman's brilliant study, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, describes just how it works in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods). My defendants have been sentenced to life in a war zone even before they find themselves charged in court. They have been sentenced to a life without parole or sometimes to death, caught as they are in a crossfire between cops and warring neighborhood gangs.
A warrant for, say, unpaid parking tickets discovered in a Strieff-approved stop gets you a search of yourself and your car by police and maybe a bust for weed, the intoxicant of choice for many of the poor. If you object or run or the arresting officer is having a bad day, it may get you dead. (Refusing to pay protection money to your neighborhood gang or standing on the wrong corner at the wrong time may do the same.)
Once you're arrested, if you say you want a lawyer, you get a public defender with so many cases she or he may not even be able to meet you or read the complaint against you before you appear in court. You may serve weeks or months in jail, even if you're innocent, before your case is heard, and years before you are tried.
A district attorney (DA) has a whole police department to use to investigate a crime (although the Oakland Police Department, which I'm often up against, solves only 27% of its murder cases, and so is not exactly the most formidable of foes). A recent investigation by the East Bay Express reveals that many Oakland cops are too busy hooking up with underage sex workers on Facebook and screwing them in police cars to solve murders. But if a DA needs to find a witness, the OPD's army of street cops can often locate him through their CIs (confidential informants), or they can pull him in on a warrant for those unpaid parking tickets, threaten a drug bust or revocation of his parole or probation, or hold him as a material witness if he resists cooperating.
At best, a defendant gets just me — and most of the accused don't get an investigator at all. The landmark 1963 Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright may have given poor defendants the right to an attorney, but there is no legal right to an investigator (except in death penalty cases). And unlike a DA, no one has to talk to me or face trouble with the law. I have no muscle. But I have been known to find a witness who doesn't want to be found and nag him or her into submission.
In the last 10 years, in cases mostly in Northern California, among scores of people I've helped defend, only three have been white — and they were as destitute as the poor blacks and Latinos who jam American jails and prisons.
Defense teams I've been on start off by guessing if and why the accused might have done what he's charged with. It's human nature to do so. But if the accused is pleading not guilty, it's better not to know.
"I don't know what happened, I wasn't there," one death penalty lawyer I work with regularly says to shut off such speculation. As for the why, the shrinks often can't help, even if you call on them to testify. Decades of research into the criminal mind often comes down to: "he snapped." That's not a good line for a jury, but it's the kicker to many a defense meeting.
"It Ain't Just, but That's How They Do"
In a real trial, the truth of what actually happened doesn't matter anyway. Only the truth of the evidence counts.
Are poverty, racism, and a desperate childhood a defense? Prosecutors love to face this argument. They get on their high horses and trot out the American dream and all the poor people who suck up their rage and despair and don't murder someone.
All the folks who don't snap.
But in California, what might have caused someone to snap isn't admissible at trial anyway, except in death penalty cases. A "diminished capacity" defense was abolished in 1981 after ex-San Francisco Supervisor Dan White used one to beat a murder rap for killing Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. The jury bought his lawyer's argument — which came to be known as the "Twinkie defense" — that White was addled by junk food when he killed the two of them. It ignored evidence that White intended and planned the murder, taking his gun to City Hall, climbing through a window to avoid metal detectors, and reloading it after first shooting Moscone.
These days, only in the penalty phase of a death penalty case — when the jury decides whether the defendant they've just found guilty will face capital punishment or life in prison without parole — can defense lawyers present evidence of the tragic facts of the defendant's life. The jury may then hear of his years in foster care, his Mom the crack addict, his Dad absent in prison, and the older brother who initiated him into street life. Only then will the jury be asked to see the accused as a person with a life beyond the crime with which he is charged. The defense will finally replace a prosecutor's blown-up mug shot of the defendant and Facebook screen shots of him showing off a gun with family photos of him at his sixth birthday party decked out in a silly hat and others of his toddler and baby mama.
Most jurors don't much like this defense. They assume it's just an excuse. But it's not. It's an explanation.
Take Larry. He's a 50-year-old African-American man who grew up in dire poverty in Deep East, Oakland's most murderous neighborhood. Larry has symptoms of schizophrenia but has never been able to get real mental health care. He's been living, on and off, with his mother who is also schizophrenic in Acorn ("The 'Corn"), one of the toughest housing projects in West Oakland. His mother is too afraid of its gangs to leave her apartment. Larry recently told a counselor at a walk-in clinic for the poor that he thought he had PTSD from all the shooting and killing he's witnessed.
Like many poor Oaklanders, he makes his meager living in the underground economy, dealing small amounts of weed to regular customers who phone him on his cell. While cell phones have made it possible to sell drugs without the turf battles of the past, The 'Corn is ruled by a gang called The Acorn Mob and their rivals, The Gashouse Team. The Mob doesn't just support itself moving guns or drugs. It also makes money ripping off small-time dealers like Larry, demanding protection money from neighborhood people, and robbing the elderly when they cash their social security checks.
Like many poor people living on such violent streets, Larry is always looking over his shoulder. A simple walk down the block might mean being rolled by The Mob, accosted by police, or caught in the crossfire of someone else's feud.
In early 2012, Larry's life dropped off a cliff. His brother died of cancer; his daughter died in a freak case of emergency room malpractice; he witnessed a friend gunned down in a gang battle; and he was robbed at gunpoint on a street near The 'Corn. Meanwhile, the Acorn Mob was stepping up pressure on older dealers like Larry to pay them protection money.
As Larry tells it, one morning that August, two of the most vicious Mob members dogged him on the streets around The 'Corn, demanding to know when he'd take up a collection from his buddies to pay them off. He took shelter along with his crew in a friend's apartment in one of the project's towers. When he told his friends about the latest threats, the group debated what to do, damping their fears by smoking weed and drinking mai tais.
Later, near dark, Larry and his friend Arthur wandered over to the local liquor store to buy the cigarillos they filled with weed to make blunts. On the way, the same two Acorn Mob members who had accosted them earlier that day threatened to kill Larry if he didn't come up with some money fast. Larry and Arthur sought refuge in the store, but one of the young men followed them inside. The other waited outside the door.
Larry had had enough. He snapped. He grabbed an old handgun Arthur carried for protection and ran out of the store. He says he fired once, hoping to scare off the two of them. That started a volley of wild shots. When Arthur's gun jammed, Larry ran back inside the liquor store. As soon as the shooting stopped, Larry and Arthur split the neighborhood. Somehow in the melee, one of the Acorn mobsters was shot and later died at the county hospital.
Larry and Arthur were arrested some months later. Larry was charged with murder and Arthur with being a felon with a gun and an accessory with knowledge of a crime. Word on the street was that the victim had been killed accidently by his own cousin, who had followed Larry into the liquor store. Even the victim's stepfather told me he believed that. But no witness — and there were many standing outside the liquor store during the melee, including several of Larry's buddies — would come forward. They all had records, were doing drugs, and were afraid of the police.
Six cartridges from one gun and a single cartridge from another were found in the street near the body. Neither gun was ever found. The victim had suffered a "through and through" wound, which meant there were no bullet fragments to match to a particular gun anyway.
California's self-defense and provocation laws — unlike Florida's "stand your ground law," which figured in George Zimmerman's killing of Trayvon Martin — are very strict. Larry's lawyer worried that a judge would rule self-defense couldn't be justified because Larry had fired the first shot (even if it was, as he claimed, in the air). His possible PTSD, the recent dire tragedies in his personal life, the pressures of Oakland's streets, the fact that his mind was addled by weed and mai tais — all would be irrelevant in a California trial.
So Larry didn't have the luxury of a Twinkie defense. He feared a jury. No poor person gets a jury of his or her peers. Few poor people are called for jury duty because the lists of potential jurors are made up from voter and drivers' license records; few poor people living the fugitive life vote and many don't have a driver's license. Coming to court might mean being stopped and frisked by the police. (I've had a defense witness arrested on a warrant while waiting to testify outside court and others who have been followed home by the police after they showed up to support a family member on trial.) No prosecutor would permit anyone on a jury who's led the kind of life Larry has — someone with a drug record (even if 20 years old), or who understood life and death in Oakland's war zones firsthand.
Larry feared mandatory sentencing, which severely restricts a judge's ability to vary a sentence by taking into consideration mitigating facts in a particular person's life like Larry's clean record for the last 20 years, his possible PTSD, or the daily grind of violence in The 'Corn. That meant he was facing 25 years to life if convicted of murder. For defending himself. For firing one shot when it wasn't even clear who had killed the victim.
Larry took a plea to a killing he may not have done. Voluntary manslaughter with a mandatory sentence of 12 years in prison.
The Acorn Mob youngster who threatened Larry in the liquor store that August night and probably fired the fatal round was soon arrested for many armed robberies and sent to prison for 15 years.
I saw Larry right before he left the county jail for prison. I apologized for not being able to defend him. He thanked me for trying and added, "It ain't just, but that's how they do."
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1⁄2 teaspoon lemon zest, grated
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
black pepper
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red onion, thinly sliced
tomatoes, diced
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LAGORCE, CHARLES-IRÉNÉE, priest, Cleric of St Viator; b. 6 June 1813 at Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada, son of Charles Lagorce, notary, and Marie-Angèle Morin; d. 23 Feb. 1864 at Sainte-Claire, on the Etchemin River, and buried at Saint-Hyacinthe.
Charles-Irénée Lagorce was educated at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe. He was ordained priest on 30 July 1837 and appointed to the parochial ministry, serving as curate at Saint-Denis on the Richelieu (1837–38) and at Sorel (1838–41), then as parish priest at Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines (1841–44) and at Saint-Charles on the Richelieu (1844–48). At Saint-Charles Abbé Lagorce attempted to give instruction to a deaf mute, Antoine Caron. From his initiative sprang the Institution des Sourds-Muets in Montreal.
With the support of Bishop Ignace Bourget*, Lagorce actually started a class for deaf mute boys on 27 Nov. 1848 in the hospice of Saint-Jérôme-Émilien, in the Québec faubourg of Montreal, assisted by a man named Reeves, himself a deaf mute. On Sundays Lagorce gave lessons to deaf mutes of both sexes, usually in a room in the Asile de la Providence [see Albine Gadbois*]. After several changes to ensure the progress and stability of the undertaking, it was established canonically by a pastoral letter of Bishop Bourget, dated 30 Aug. 1850. Lagorce immediately began a regular teaching programme for deaf mute boys in a three-storey building at Côte Saint-Louis (Montreal).
But devotion was not enough to make up for shortage of well-trained staff. On the advice of the founder, Bishop Bourget decided to entrust the work to a religious community. Lagorce therefore went to France in May 1851 in order to learn the teaching methods used by those religious who might agree to come to Canada. Unsuccessful among the religious of the Congregation of the Holy Cross at Le Mans (dept of Sarthe), he turned to the Clerics of St Viator at Lyons. In mid January 1852, no doubt with better service to deaf mutes as his aim, Lagorce entered the noviciate at Vourles. He took his first vows there in July, returned to Montreal with Brother Joseph Fayard on 4 September, and went to L'Industrie (Joliette), where the Clerics of St Viator had been established since 1847 [see Antoine Manseau].
Lagorce resumed his teaching first at L'Industrie, where he took in seven or eight deaf mutes, then at Côte Saint-Louis in August 1853. He was director of the Institution des Sourds-Muets and priest in charge of the developing parish. But soon the task became too heavy for him. A sick man, he gave up teaching in June 1855, and handed over to his community (which in fact he left in August 1856) the responsibility of continuing his work, content that the institute was in excellent hands and knowing that his was the honour of founding it. After numerous ups and downs Brother Jean-Marie-Joseph Young (Yung), in the years 1856 to 1863, gave the institute its greatest development. Lagorce again tried life in a religious order, this time among the Fathers of the Holy Cross, and he ended his days at the Trappist monastery of Sainte-Justine-de-Langevin, which he had entered in 1862.
Lagorce's life in itself is not of particular interest. In 1848, when an institution for deaf mutes was started, Bishop Bourget was already looking for a founding priest. The work would have borne fruit at the same time without Lagorce's zeal. But the founding of the Institution des Sourds-Muets illustrates two points in the religious history of Canada. If the church was the guiding spirit behind so many social undertakings in a country already involved in urbanization and social development, it was because its ideal of charity compelled it, as a duty, to fill the gaps left by the state and society. In February 1832 the parliament of Lower Canada had actually authorized the creation of a school for deaf mutes at Quebec, and had undertaken to support it financially. A layman, Ronald MacDonald*, had been put in charge, after he had studied, at Hartford, Conn., methods calculated to ensure its success. But in 1836 the legislature had withdrawn its encouragement of the newly begun project so that in 1849 there were in Canada 1,100 deaf mutes dependent on the charity of the Roman Catholic Church. In addition, Lagorce's undertaking proved that the religious communities usually were best able, through the coordination and continuity of their efforts, to ensure the permanence and stability of any charitable organization in the essentially Francophone Lower Canada of the 19th century. It was therefore in response to the needs of society that European religious communities were brought in or that new Canadian religious communities were established. Thus Bishop Bourget's zeal proved to be far sighted and adapted to the requirements of his day.
Archives des Clercs de Saint-Viateur, Province de Montréal (Montréal), II, N, États de service du père Irénée Lagorce; P, Institut des sourds-muets. Le Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe, 26 févr. 1864. Mélanges religieux, 12 févr. 1850. Allaire, Dictionnaire. Le Jeune, Dictionnaire, I, 391. [J.-P. Archambault], Une œuvre sociale: l'Institution des sourds-muets [. . .] (Montréal, 1949). Antoine Bernard, Les Clercs de Saint-Viateur au Canada (2v., Montréal, 1947–51), I, 650. Notices historiques sur l'Institution catholique des sourds-muets pour la province de Québec dirigée par les Clercs de Saint-Viateur, Mile-End, Montréal (Mile-End, 1893). Hector Tessier, Saint-Viateur d'Outremont (Outremont, Qué., 1954). "Centenaire de l'Institut des sourds-muets, 1848–1948," L'Ami des sourds-muets (Montréal), octobre 1912, 74–84; avril-mai 1948, 25–40. "Les écoles des sourds-muets à l'exposition de Chicago," La Semaine religieuse de Montréal, XXII (1893), 117–22. "L'Institution catholique des sourds-muets de Montréal," L'Ami des sourds-muets, juillet–août 1939, 138–49. "Institution des sourds-muets," et "L'Institution des sourds-muets au Mile-End, Montréal," La Semaine religieuse de Montréal, XIX (1892), 299–302 et 237–239, 313–16. "Numéro-souvenir du 75e anniversaire de l'Institution des sourds-muets, 1848–1923, célébré le 16 mars 1924," L'Ami des sourds-muets, mars–avril 1924, 118–32. Corine Rocheleau-Rouleau, "Parler est chose facile, vous croyez," RHAF, IV (1950–51), 345–74. P.-G. Roy, "Les commencements de l'Institution des sourds-muets à Montréal," BRH, XXX (1924), 70–79.
Andrée Désilets, "LAGORCE, CHARLES-IRÉNÉE," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 9, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed July 25, 2024, https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/lagorce_charles_irenee_9E.html.
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Author of Article: | Andrée Désilets |
Title of Article: | LAGORCE, CHARLES-IRÉNÉE |
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Sadly, I must inform you that Swami Harinanda passed away early in the afternoon on Tuesday, August 19, 2014. His death came quickly and without pain. As per his wishes there was no service nor memorial, although he would have appreciated donations to the SPCA or any animal shelter that you like. It goes without saying that this one–of–a–kind and great man will be greatly missed.
I first came to know Swami Harinanda around 1995. He was a customer of mine. One way or another, we got talking about spirituality and he mentioned to me that he was a swami. I must admit, I thought he was joking. But then I realized he was serious. We corresponded by email. Amazingly, I still have a printed copy of his early emails to this day.
Swami Harinanda was able to answer some of my basic questions about yoga and although I had started on the yogic path before I met him, talking to and knowing Swami Harinanda helped make my path more clear.
I was lucky enough to have met Swami Harinanda for the first time in April, 1996. I can remember the first time I met him as I drove up to his house. He came outside to greet me — I felt a great sense of joy and calm come over me.
The next day, Swami Harinanda personally taught me the science of yantra yoga at his dining table. I wrote down the principles of yantra yoga on both sides of a blank piece of paper as Swami Harinanda talked. It was a beautiful moment for me — finally my teacher had come. These lessons I still have to this day and still act as my foundation regarding yantra yoga.
Starting around late 1996 to 1997, I helped Swami Harinanda build an early web site. Later we expanded and moved his web site to this current location real-yoga.com. Swami Harinanda wanted people to see the words real yoga
— he wanted people to awaken to the truth of what real yoga is not. Swami Harinanda was not interested in yoga for health.
While building the real yoga
web site, Swami Harinanda didn't know what information we should add. So I suggested to him that we should add informaton that is not easily found elsewhere regarding real yoga. I told Swami Harinanda that myself and others want to know why we should practice yoga, what are the types of yoga, who are some famous yogis and a lesson in pure hatha yoga. So this is what we did. I asked the questions, Swami Harinanda wrote the content.
Swami Harinanda was a pure teacher. He would never accept money for teaching. Yoga or spirituality is part of universal knowledge that belongs to everyone. Therefore, one cannot charge for what already belongs to them. Swami Harinanda always said that a good teacher has a day job and then teaches on his or her own time for free. The teacher should pay for any room rental, etc — this is the sign of a pure teacher which Swami Harinanda was.
Swami Harinanda was taught or told personally by Ramana Marharshi to never accept payment and as Swami Harinanda would always say, Ramana Maharshi is never wrong.
Swami Harinanda did not go to meet Ramana Maharshi in India, instead, they met on the astral plane. Ramana told Swami Harinanda that he did not need to be in a cave or anything like that to be a good student of yoga. Swami Harinanda took those words to heart and lived a normal life while being totally dedicated to self realization.
Swami Harinanda knew many little or lesser known things about yoga. He really studied the theory of yoga and put himself into a position to meet people that would impact him. Somewhere along the way he learned the Master's Chant
, as an example, and many more things. Swami Harinanda would openly teach kriya yoga as well. Swami Harinanda loved the yogic life and just absorbed every little detail.
In 1996, I was personally quite ill and possibly near death. Swami Harinanda gave me the book on Karma Yoga by Swami Vivekanda to read. It was the best medicine I've ever received. From that day onwards, I fell madly in love with karma yoga. Knowing this, Swami Harinanda bestowed the name Karmananda
to me. I thank him very much for this honour.
Swami Harinanda was a good teacher, a good person and a good friend.
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Rapamycin, a drug given to transplant recipients to suppress their immune systems, has a paradoxical effect on cells responsible for immune memory, scientists at the Emory Vaccine Center have discovered.
In experiments conducted in both mice and monkeys, rapamycin can stimulate the formation of memory CD8 T cells, which enable the immune system to respond faster and stronger to an infectious agent upon a second encounter.
The results were published online ahead of print June 21 in Nature. The finding means that doctors might be able to boost the effectiveness of vaccines with drugs that act similarly to rapamycin, says postdoctoral researcher Koichi Araki, PhD, who is first author.
Araki works in the laboratory of Rafi Ahmed, PhD, director of the Emory Vaccine Center and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar.
Vaccination relies on memory T cells, survivors after the immune system produces an abundance of T cells to fight an infection or respond to a vaccine. Araki had been examining rapamycin's effects in mice infected with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV).
"Usually during the response to this virus, 90 percent of the CD8 T cells produced to fight an infection die after a few weeks. The memory cells are generated from the 10 percent that survive," he explains.
T cells come in both CD4 (helper) and CD8 (killer) forms, but scientists have found that CD8 T cells are more important for fighting LCMV.
When mice were treated with rapamycin, more CD8 T cells that react against LMCV survived, Araki found. Under the influence of rapamycin, the mice not only produced more memory T cells, but the cells had a greater ability to proliferate and respond upon a second exposure to LCMV.
Rapamycin's effects are "surprising and unexpected," Araki says. During a transient viral infection, the targets of the immune response eventually disappear, a situation markedly different from a transplant, Araki notes. That difference may have helped him recognize rapamycin's effects, he says.
Also, rapamycin's effects depend on the dose — too high a dose will inhibit all T cells without regard to what type they are, he says.
Araki and Ahmed teamed up with Christian Larsen, MD, PhD, director of the Emory Transplant Center and chair of the Department of Surgery, to show that rapamycin had similar effects in rhesus macaques infected with vaccinia virus as in mice. That research was conducted at Emory's Yerkes National Primate Research Center.
Rapamycin, also called sirolimus, was approved by the FDA in 1999 for use after kidney transplants. It was discovered in a soil sample from Easter Island, whose Polynesian name is Rapa Nui.
Transplant patients usually don't take rapamycin by itself, so rapamycin's paradoxical effects may have been masked by other drugs, Larsen says.
For transplant patients, memory T cells can play a role in graft rejection, but they can also protect against infections.
"We are appreciating more and more that memory T cells respond differently to interventions than naïve T cells and we have to pay close attention to the situation of the individual patient," Larsen says.
Scientists at the Emory Vaccine Center continue to study how T cells decide whether to become memory cells, because of their importance in maintaining the immune response against chronic infections such as HIV and hepatitis C.
The effects of rapamycin were seen even if Araki gave animals rapamycin only for a week after the infection began, suggesting that the beginning of the infection was when T cells were deciding whether or not to become memory cells.
By using an inhibitory technique (RNA interference) on the genes known to be targeted by rapamycin, Araki was able to show that rapamycin is acting on the CD8 T cells and not on other cells with which they interact.
Date: June 21, 2009
Source: Emory University


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Those of you who follow my blog and my recent travels, know that I have a soft spot for Portugal in general, and Lisbon in particular. For the last three years I've been visiting Lisbon six times already and shot hotels, restaurants and street scenes for various magazines.
From an outsider point of view, and as a photographer, it is great to see how the city has changed through these year.
The city is buzzing with tourists, the cafe's are packed with people, new wine boutiques, boutique hotels, trendy restaurants, chefs' restaurants, colorful tik-tok taxies, yellow trams riding back and forth the historic route of Lisbon. Even the sardines smell better. I call it The Revival of the City.
When Virtuoso magazine has asked me to shoot 'Lisbon Tasty Renaissance' a food story about Lisbon, I said Yes right away. Especially since the Portuguese kitchen is one of my favorite.
I was lucky to shoot some of the top chefs in Lisbon, such as Jose Avillez and Joao Rodrigues, who both won a Michelin star. I also shot the new Mercado da Riberia and some other great restaurants and bars. It was a great way to discover Lisbon through the food.
Scroll down for some highlights and addresses from the article, for your next travel in Lisbon.
Mercado da Ribeira
Start your exploration of the Mercado da Ribeira by nibbling on petiscos, the Portuguese equivalent of Spanish tapas, a tradition of small bites that is rising in popularity in Lisbon. These might be a vinegary octopus salad, fried green beans, or local cheeses. Sip wild cherry liqueur and eat a prego, or steak sandwich, served on soft, circular bolo do caco bread. Sample bites of cured ham and sausage, sourdough acorn bread, and creamy cinnamon gelato from Santini, and make sure to buy a small bottle of local piri piri chili oil. With around 30 stalls, you can easily wander and try whatever looks good. One of the best souvenirs is inexpensive but high-quality tinned fish at the Conserveira de Lisboa outpost. For kitchenware and other Portuguese-made finds, browse the shelves of local favorite A Vida Portuguesa. Rua Anchieta 11.


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Is hand washing enough to stop the spread of disease?
Not drying your hands thoroughly after washing them, could increase the spread of bacteria and rubbing your hands whilst using a conventional electric hand dryer could be a contributing factor. Frequently people give up drying their hands and wipe them on their clothes instead, but hand-hygiene is a key part of infection control and drying hands after washing is a very important part of the process.
A study by researchers at the University of Bradford and published today in the Journal of Applied Microbiology looked at different methods of hand drying, and their effect on transfer of bacteria from the hands to other surfaces. The different methods included paper towels, traditional hand dryers, which rely on evaporation, and a new model of hand dryer, which rapidly strips water off the hands using high velocity air jets.
Our bodies naturally have bacteria called commensals all over them. However, bacteria from other sources, such as raw meat, can also survive on hands, and can be easily transferred to other surfaces, increasing the risk of cross-contamination. When hands are washed the number of bacteria on the surface of the skin decreases, but they are not necessarily eliminated. If the hands are still damp then these bacteria are more readily transferred to other surfaces.
In this study the researchers quantified the effects of hand drying by measuring the number of bacteria on different parts of the hands before and after different drying methods. Volunteers were asked to wash their hands and place them onto contact plates which were then incubated to measure bacterial growth. The volunteers were then asked to dry their hands using either hand towels or one of three hand dryers, with or without rubbing their hands together, and levels of bacteria were re-measured.
Dr Snelling and her team found that rubbing the hands together whilst using traditional hand dryers could counteract the reduction in bacterial numbers following handwashing. Furthermore, they found that the relative reduction in the number of bacteria was the same, regardless of the hand dryer used, when hands are kept still. When hands are rubbed together during drying, bacteria that live within the skin can be brought to the surface and transferred to other surfaces, along with surface bacteria that were not removed by handwashing. The researchers found the most effective way of keeping bacterial counts low, when drying hands, was using paper towels. Amongst the electric dryers, the model that rapidly stripped the moisture off the hands was best for reducing transfer of bacteria to other surfaces.
Dr Snelling says: "Good hand hygiene should include drying hands thoroughly and not just washing. The most hygienic method of drying hands is using paper towels or using a hand dryer which doesn't require rubbing your hands together."


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