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Former Army Recruiter to Serve 87 Months in Prison for Federal Child Sexual Exploitation Conviction
|U.S. Attorney's Office November 08, 2012
ALBUQUERQUE—Earlier today, Arnold Gonzales, 27, was sentenced to an 87-month term of imprisonment to be followed by 10 years of supervised release for his child sexual exploitation conviction.
Gonzales also was ordered to comply with sex offender registration and notification requirements.
Gonzales was a military recruiter employed by the U.S. Army and was stationed at the U.S. Army Recruiting Station in Midland, Texas, when he was arrested in this case.
According to the court filings, between April 24, 2012 and May 2, 2012, Gonzales used a computer and cellular phone to entice a person whom he believed to be less than 18 years of age to engage in sexual activity.
Gonzales was arrested on May 2, 2012, after he traveled from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Clovis, New Mexico, for the purpose of engaging in sexual activity with a person whom he believed to be a 12-year-old girl.
U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales said that, on July 17, 2012, Gonzales entered a guilty plea to an information charging him with interstate travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor. He has been in federal custody since that time.
During his plea hearing, Gonzales acknowledged that he was arrested as the result of an undercover investigation by the Curry County Sheriff's Office (CCSO). Gonzales admitted that, on April 24, 2012, he replied to an online advertisement placed by a CCSO undercover agent entitled, "Cute/young if age doesn't matter hit me up."
Gonzales' reply initiated a stream of e-mail and texting communication between the CCSO agent, who represented himself as a 12-year-old girl, and Gonzales, who asked the "girl" for nude photos of herself and discussed the sexual acts that he wanted to engage in with the "girl."
On May 1, 2012, Gonzales sent a text to the CCSO agent stating that he would be traveling to Clovis the following day for the purpose of having sex with the "girl."
On May 2, 2012, when Gonzales arrived at a location in Clovis provided to him by the CCSO agent, he was arrested.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Charlyn E. Rees and was investigated by the CCSO and the FBI. It was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.
Led by U.S. Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.
For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit http://www.justice.gov/psc/.
The case also was brought as part of the New Mexico Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force whose mission it is to locate, track, and capture Internet child sexual predators and Internet child pornographers in New Mexico. There are 64 federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies associated with the task force, which is funded by a grant administered by the New Mexico Attorney General's Office. Anyone with information relating to suspected child predators and suspected child abuse is encouraged to contact federal or local law enforcement.


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"The core-strengthening along with the hip-mobility exercises will help make your body more efficient. I sent a copy of this workout to Kathrine Switzer, who is the first woman to officially run in the Boston Marathon (in 1967). She wrote me a lovely letter in which she said 'I listened and did the routine - TREMENDOUS! I loved it. Your workout is helping me a lot. Thank you.'
"The Personalizing Pilates: Runners workout program includes three files. First is the free Ab Tutorial, which is a short workout that teaches you how to find and engage your deepest, supportive abdominal muscles. These muscles are important because they support the spine while your legs move and flatten the tummy!
"In the workout, my voice guides you through a Pilates workout that focuses on strengthening your abdominals, mobilizing your hips, and stretching out tight leg muscles."
This workout was created by and is taught by Sherry Lowe-Bernie, owner of Personalizing Pilates. Sherry is a PMA Certified Pilates Teacher, which means that you are working with one of the best Pilates teachers you can find. Sherry has over 10 years experience teaching Pilates and over 25 years teaching fitness. Sherry is currently training to run her fourth half-marathon.
Download the accompanying reference guide.
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Why should you clean your dryer vent?
According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission's 1997 Residential Fire Loss Estimates (latest information available) - 16,700 residential fires originated from dryer vents. 30 deaths and $84 million in property damage resulted from these fires. The previously reported number from 1995 was 13,700. The number of residential fires attributed to dryer vents in on the increase. Atlanta Air Experts is able to clean any residential, commercial and industrial dryer vent.
Reasons for inspection and cleaning of your Dryer Vent:
- Increased drying time?
- Is the dryer operating hotter than normal?
- Reduces chance of dryer vent fire. When the dryer is used, over time lint will collect and adhere to the inside of the dryer vent walls. The larger the buildup, the larger the risk of having a dryer vent fire.
- Reduces "wasted electricity" and "appliance stress". Use of a dryer with a dirty vent can cause the dryer to run longer to dry the same amount of clothes because the hot air being expelled cannot freely exit the vent. Longer drying time takes more electricity and puts added stress on the appliance.
Save time, money and be safe with a clean dryer vent
You've worked hard all week. Thankfully, you still manage to maintain laundry despite your busy schedule. Of course, you empty the dryer lint trap every now and then. However, if you're like most people, the importance of your dryer venting system doesn't often enter your mind.
There are clear advantages to dryer vent cleaning:
Yes, excessive lint is a fire hazard. The National Fire Protection Agency reports that a blocked dryer vent causes more than 18,000 fires each year.
Reduced utility bill
Every time your dryer is used, $0.50 to $1.00 is added to your electric bill. A blocked dryer vent wastes electricity – especially if more than one cycle is needed. Therefore, a clean dyer venting system will actually reduce your utility costs.
Save time
As each dryer cycle lasts from 45 to 60 minutes, multiple cycles for the same load is inefficient. Less dryer usage saves time.
But here's some truth, emptying your lint trap occasionally isn't enough. Approximately 60% of lint from each load of laundry is collected in the trap. Where is the other 40% of the lint? The lint that isn't collected in the trap settles in the rest of the dryer vent system where you can't see it.
A dryer vent system includes the lint trap, the dryer exhaust in the back of the unit, transition hose, vent elbow, dryer vent and the dryer vent roof exhaust.
This entire system is collecting lint every time you dry your clothes.
As they say: out of sight out of mind. What you can't see is sometimes forgotten and that's where the problems begin. 98% of the dryer vent system is confined inside the walls, crawl space, basement, or attic. Fire in a confined area may not be seen in time and may not trigger a fire alarm. Safety is a critical reason for maintenance but money is an important factor also. Proper dryer vent cleaning goes a long way and if you've noticed decreased performance, this could be the reason.
Keeping your family safe while being mindful of wasted electricity is quite simple. A professional cleaner will maintain the 98% of your dryer vent system that you can't see or reach. A cleaning process with brushes and forced air will ensure that the entire system remains lint-free. Call in Air Duct Cleaning professionals from Atlanta and you can go back to simply emptying the lint trap – worry-free
How do we clean the dryer vent ?
Depending on what type of dryer you have - stack-able, side-by-side, gas or electric - and how your dryer is vented - through the wall, up through the roof, across the inside of the ceiling, etc. - the basic procedure is the same.
Our service technician will inspect the dryer vent. We use air pressure and agitation tools along with vacuum to clean out the entire vent. Once the cleaning equipment has traveled the length of the vent enough times to thoroughly clean the vent, we'll clean out the connection piece, reattach your dryer and recheck the vent while your dryer is operating. We also have video inspection equipment we can use.


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Linguistics is the study of the remarkable human capacity to learn and use natural languages. Prominent questions include the nature of the systems of mental representation (both abstractly and neurologically characterized), how these representations arise, how they change, how they are written, and how languages are put to use in social and literary contexts.
You can major in this subject.
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Welcome to our Law Firm.
Theodosia Karalla Attorney at Law is one of Rhodes most prominent lawyers providing clients a complete range of legal services.
Services we provide. :
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text: After completing almost two weeks of course studies, students and staff joined professors Suzette Phillips and Adam DeVille in a festive celebration of the Divine Liturgy at the Sheptytsky Institute's Saints Joachim and Anna Chapel. The Metropolitan Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies was delighted to provide the students who stayed on after the successful Study Days 2010 with the opportunity to deepen their theological reflection in the area of East-West ecumenism and in the consideration of healing from an Eastern Christian perspective. Students who took both courses will earn 6 credits towards either a Certificate or Bachelor of Theology in Eastern Christian Studies.


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Here at the National Rose Garden, we honor the American landscape through our national flower, the rose.
Our unique hybrids will delight and astound in their variety, power and resilience – each playing a role in the complex ecology of our national environment. Whether you're a novice or an expert, the National Rose Garden welcomes you as we consider the American landscape. Explore our site and learn about our many projects, activities and open calls for citizens just like you to participate!


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I just heard about a new iPhone app that was released from 40oz Apps, DMX Color Mixer. You might know one of their other iPhone apps for lighting, DMX to Dip. 40oz Apps create simple and easy to use iPhone apps not only for lighting people, but also a couple BAC calculators for those who have party a little to hard.
DMX Color Mixer is exactly as the name suggest, a color mixer that is able to produce the intensity level or DMX levels of an RGB color. Pretty simple right? Here is more from 40oz Apps.
This super simple app is a reference for setting color values in DMX setup. Simply move one of the three faders to see how it affects the color at the top. You also can scroll through presets to see what values are used for common colors. [white, black, purple, magenta, blue, aqua, green, yellow, orange, red, amber]. The "DMX"toggles between DMX values (0-255) and percentage values, (0-100). The reset button resets all values to zero.
Nice little app for what it does. It really has a nice look to it and gives the feeling of a console. What I would like to see is give me another option to mix colors. The faders are RGB, or Red, Green, Blue. How about adding a toggle switch to allow us to mix in CMY mode and HSV mode? Just a thought.
DMX Color Mixer runs .99 cents in the iTunes App Store. For more information about the app or any of the other apps that 40oz Apps developed, visit their website at www.40ozapps.com.


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Air Leaks Where do they come from? Besides the problems of fuel contaminated with sludge, microbes and water, there is another common problem that affects the diesel engine; Air leaks. This is air entering the fuel system through fuel lines, connections, the primary filter and the engine fuel system. Most air leaks happen between Continue Reading
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Water It's all around us and also in your fuel system. The quality of today's diesel fuel has not advanced. In fact it's deteriorated. Today's diesel fuel contains more asphaltene solids and water than the fuel of just a few years ago. Alphaltenes are components of asphalt, that are generally insoluble and are present Continue Reading
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Summaries of EU Legislation
Summaries of EU legislation: direct access to the main summaries page.
Contained use of genetically modified microorganisms
Directive 2009/41/EC on the contained use of genetically modified microorganisms
It lays down rules for the contained use* of genetically modified microorganisms (GMMs)* in order to protect human health and the environment in the EU.
Classifications and notifications
Users of GMMs must assess the contained uses regarding the risk to human health and the environment. The assessment results in one of the following classes.
- Class 1: for activities with no or negligible risk.
- Class 2: for activities with low risk.
- Class 3: for activities with moderate risk.
- Class 4: for activities with high risk.
- When a contained use of a GMM is to be carried out for the first time, the user must submit a notification containing information (listed in Annex V of the directive) to the competent authority of their EU country. This is to satisfy them that the proposed installation is appropriate for the purposes of the activity so that there is no risk to human health and the environment.
- Following the notification to the competent authorities, class 1 contained use may proceed without further notification.
- Class 2 contained use can proceed immediately after notification provided the premises were the subject of previous notification to carry out class 2 or higher. However, if this is not the case and in the absence of a refusal from the competent authority, class 2 contained use may proceed 45 days after the submission of the notification (or earlier with the agreement of the authority).
- A class 3 or 4 contained use may not proceed without the prior consent of the competent authority, which must communicate its decision in writing.
Accidents *
Before a contained use begins, EU countries must ensure that:
- in order to react in the case of an accident, an emergency plan is drawn up for cases where failure of the containment measures could lead to serious danger; and
- persons at risk of being affected by an accident are informed of all aspects related to their safety.
- Should an accident occur, the respective EU country must ensure that the GMM user informs the competent authorities and communicates the information necessary for assessing the situation and taking action.
It applies from 10 June 2009.
This directive repeals and consolidates Directive 90/219/EEC and its successive amendments into a single act.
It lays down minimal standards applicable to the contained use of GMMs. EU countries are permitted to take stronger measures.
Contained use: Any activity in which microorganisms are genetically modified, cultured, stored, transported, destroyed, disposed of or used in any other way and for which containment/safety measures are used to limit their contact with the general population and the environment.
GMMs: Micro-organisms, such as bacteria, viruses or fungi, that have had their genetic material altered in a way that does not occur naturally by mating and/or natural recombination.
Accidents: In the context of this directive, these refer to any incident involving a significant and unintended release of GMMs in the course of their contained use that could be hazardous to human health or the environment.
Directive 2009/41/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 on the contained use of genetically modified micro-organisms (Recast) (OJ L 125, 21.5.2009, pp. 75-97)
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Vodafone launches iPhone 3GS in India at 8GB phone at price Rs. 29,500
Vodafone iPhone 3GS price in India
Soon after the cellular giant Bharati Airtel made an announcement to sell iPhone 3GS in India and already started with the sales, a similar announcement in now coming from Vodafone Essar. Vodafone Essar Ltd., the local unit of UK's Vodafone Group is India's third largest cellular service provider.
The telecom major said on Friday that it will launch Apple iPhone 3GS in India beginning today at a price of Rs. 29,500 onwards.
iPhone for 3G 8GB is priced at Rs. 33,500 and iPhone 3GS 16GB version is priced at Rs. 40,500 and 32GB is priced at Rs. 47,500 in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh however in the rest of the region it will be priced for Rs. 35,500 for 16 GB and 41,500 for 32 GB. The 8GB version of iPhone 3G is priced at Rs. 29,500.
Vodafone Essar has three plans to offer to its iPhone customers; a prepaid plan of Rs. 100 and two post paid plans with Rs. 799 (wherein the customer would get 249 minutes talk time and 250 MB data usage free) and Rs. 999 (which offers free talk time of Rs. 299 and data usage of 600 MB without charge).
Vodafone Essar Chief Marketing Officer Kumar Ramanathan said, "We are delighted to offer iPhone 3GS in India. We are confident that our customers will enjoy the revolutionary iPhone and the flexibility of our tailor tariff plans." iPhone 3GS is seen as the most powerful phone ever launched by Apple.
The iPhone 3GS is equipped with amazing features like 3 MP camera with autofocus, video recording and hands free voice control feature. The handset also offer an access to Apple Apps Store which has more than 1.5 lakh apps in various categories right from social networking to games.
There were high speculations about Vodafone joining Airtel in the iPhone 3GS sale race. The company has also submitted for the bid in the upcoming auction for the 3G spectrum in India. This bid for the participation in the bandwidth for third generation will allow the successful bidder to offer 3G services on a commercial basis from September 1, 2010. The high speed services on 3G will give a chance to telecom companies to make huge sums for its high speed services and its multimedia capability in the Indian market.
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Making An Impact On Diabetes In the Minority Community
The Central Ohio Diabetes Association recognizes the ever changing diversity that makes up our community. Diabetes affects everyone, specifically various minority groups including Asian, African American, Hispanic, who are more at risk. That's why the Central Ohio Diabetes Association has established the Multi-Cultural Diabetes Resource Center, which offers information that will help you learn how to prevent and manage diabetes.
By using the Center's resources, you can help yourself manage the disease by learning the steps to good diabetes care. The Multi-Cultural Diabetes Resource Center is funded through a grant from the Columbus Medical Association Foundation (CMAF).
The Multi-Cultural Diabetes Resource Center will also add to the number of minority educators in the community by providing culturally specific diabetes education and training to qualified individuals, with the goal of increasing minority participation in diabetes education and detection programs.
The Central Ohio Diabetes Association clinical staff will serve as mentors to these educators, with the hope that this action will lead to better health outcomes and reduced disparity for minorities with diabetes.
In Ohio, studies show that minorities are underserved and underrepresented in formal diabetes education programs.
How Can The Center Help Me?
What Can I Find There?
Who Does It Affect
What is the Central Ohio Diabetes Association?
One in 10 people in our community will develop diabetes. The Central Ohio Diabetes Association helps Central Ohioans with diabetes detect their condition, prevent onset and complications, and learn to live well with the challenge of diabetes regardless of their ability to pay.
What is Diabetes?
Diabetes is a dangerous disease that can make you very sick. Some people call their diabetes "sugar." It happens when there is too much sugar in the blood. When the body can't turn sugar from food into energy for the body, it stays in the blood. Too much sugar in the blood for a long time causes health problems. High blood sugar can damage many parts of the body, such as the heart, blood vessels, kidneys and eyes. It can block the flow of blood to your feet and lead to loss of limbs.
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gee, I wonder what marketing wizard at Nokia figured out that product names like "Chocolate" are more powerful in the market than "7360". The really remarkable thing about this is that Nokia felt it necessary to come out with a press release about this a mere couple of days after they released new handsets with, you guessed it, numbers as product names.
Nokia to baptize phones by name rather than number – Yahoo! News:
the world's top handset maker, said on Thursday it will give new phone models a name rather than a number, following the success of rivals with model names like RAZR and "chocolate."
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Black Tie Affair: Fundraising Gala & Cabaret
Friday Aug 16, 2013
Hope Evangelical Free Church
4710 Juan Tabo NE
Albuquerque, NM
Albuquerque, NM
Phone: 292-5444
Cost:By donation
Contact:Encore! Theatre
Website: Click to Visit
More events at Hope Evangelical Free Church
Encore! Theatre presents an evening of music, merriment and more.
Be entertained with scenes from hit Broadway shows such as West Side Story, Wicked, and Les Miserables. The evening also includes sketch comedy from comedians such as Lucille Ball, the One Ronnie, and Stephen Fry. Additional entertainment provided by: Affinity Jazz Combo. Doors open at 6:00pm. Tickets are available by donation at the door. Refreshments will be served during intermission. Encore! Theatre (c.2010) is a student run, student-led theatre company in Albuquerque, New Mexico.


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July 22, 2008
Shipwreck Dinner and Lecture at 1699 Winslow House
Shipwreck dinner and lecture at 1699 Winslow HouseMARSHFIELD - The 1699 Winslow House will host its annual ''Shipwreck Dinner and Lecture,'' at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at 634 Careswell St.
The speaker will be author Colin Woodard, who will discuss his recent book ''The Republic of Pirates.''
Reservations are required; call 781-837-5753.
Rehab center gives Cohasset money for elder-van gas costs
COHASSET - Golden LivingCenter of Cohasset has given Cohasset Elder Affairs $1,000 toward van gasoline costs.
"This is a wonderful gift they're giving us," Linda Elworthy, the agency's director, said.
The check was presented Monday by the nursing care and rehabilitation center's Executive Director Robert Rego, according to Colleen Kissell, the center's sales and marketing director.
Area residents 65 or older also may enroll in a free membership in the center's gym, she said.
"It's a way Golden Living gives back to the community," Kissell said.
The Golden Living facility is at 1 Chief Justice Cushing Highway (Route 3A) at the Hingham line.
Edible plant walk at Holly Hill Farm
COHASSET - Holly Hill Farm in Cohasset will host an edible plant walk led by environmentalist Russ Cohen at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in the woods and fields of the farm.
The cost of the program is $20.
The farm is at 236 Jerusalem Road.
For more information, call 781-383-1455.
Road closings in Carver for July 26 road race listed
CARVER - The annual Old Home Day celebration will be held on July 26, and several roads will be closed for a road race.
West Street from Main Street (Route 58) to Beaver Dam Road will be closed from 8 until about 11:30 a.m.
Main Street from the Governor John Carver Elementary School to Meadow Street will be closed from 8:45 until approximately 9:15 a.m., including Carver Square, Center Street, South Meadow Road and Crescent Street.
Police expect traffic delays on Main Street in Carver Center until 2 p.m.
Habitat for Humanity fundraiser to be held on Sunday
KINGSTON - Habitat for Humanity of Greater Plymouth will have a fundraiser from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 91 South St.
The fundraiser, called Christmas in July, will feature vendors who will donate a portion of their profits to Habitat for Humanity
For more information, call 508-866-4188 or go to hfhplymouth.org.
Harriet Beecher Stowe lecture is set for Tuesday
MARSHFIELD - The 1699 Winslow House continues its coffee hour lecture series at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday with historian Philip McFarland, author of ''The Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
He will sign copies of his book after the lecture.
Tickets are $7. Light refreshments will be served. For reservations call 781-837-5753 or go to winslowhouse.org.
A capella 'Under the Stars' at South Shore Conservatory
HINGHAM - The South Shore Conservatory's Evenings Under the Stars summer concert series continues at 7 p.m. Saturday with a performance by Ball In The House at the Jane Carr Amphitheater, 1 Conservatory Drive.
One of the country's best known a capella acts, Ball In The House will perform a variety of class pop and R&B tunes.
Tickets are $15 for lawn seating and $25 for pavilion seating. Add $2 for tickets purchased at the door. Guests may also to attend a pre-concert reception with light refreshments at the conservatory's Alan G. Carr Building. Reception tickets are $20.
For tickets or more information call 781-749-7565, Ext. 51, or go to www.sscmusic.org.
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On The Oprah Winfrey Show in October 2007, Sinéad O'Connor disclosed that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2003. The website, "Famous Bipolar People," said Sinéad had suffered from depression and had thoughts of suicide since the age of 23. She also experienced voices urging her to harm herself. The voices got so loud, she said, she took herself to hospital. She was put on antidepressants, which helped. "These all confirmed that she had bipolar disorder." Then a few years ago, she went public with an announcement that she had been misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder for eight years.
During her interview with Oprah, she said she didn't think she was born with bipolar disorder. She thought her illness was caused by a number of outside pressures. "I believe it was created as a result of the violence I experienced." She was scared to take the medication at first. But she realized that she had nothing to lose, so she tried them. "It was brilliant because I felt this huge hole. And when I took the meds, within half an hour, it was literally like I felt concrete coming in to fill the hole." She said she thought she had died and then was 'born again' as a result of taking the meds.
But after spending eight years on the medications, she realized her depression was still there. Additionally, "some of the same problems she'd had before being medicated were persisting." And she received complaints about her weight from people in the music business. By the way, weight gain is one of the side effects from antipsychotic medication. When she mentioned her weight problem to her doctors, they suggested taking her off of the bipolar meds as a remedy.
Writing for About Health, Angel Rouse said O'Connor was alarmed with the casualness of the suggestion and aware that simply stopping meds could be dangerous. So she sought outside opinions, eventually getting three additional ones. Their conclusion was that she was not bipolar. Rather, she actually suffered from PTSD. She revealed that when she cancelled her tour in 2012, she had tried to stop taking her medication cold turkey. Ironically, as a result of that attempt, she struggled with bipolar problems of mania and depression for nearly a year. Interviewed for the Irish Mirror, she said:
The illness was in fact what happens when you don't go about coming off these meds properly. I'm delighted to be able to say that after ten years of poisoning myself with these drugs and having to live with the extremely difficult side-effects of them I can shortly begin the very, very slow indeed, process of getting them out of my system and my life and getting my life back.
Sinéad O'Connor is not a unique case. The NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) website claims that 2.6% or 6.1 million American adults have a bipolar disorder. NAMI referenced this "mental health fact" on data they took from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), which in turn cited this article by Kessler et al. from JAMA Psychiatry on the prevalence, severity and comorbidity of DSM-IV disorders. See Table 1 in the article for the reported percentage. But if Sinéad O'Connor could be misdiagnosed as having a bipolar disorder and mistakenly placed on potentially harmful medications that are seen as necessary to stabilize and control the bipolar 'illness,' how many others are similarly misdiagnosed? Regarding the medications she was on, O'Connor told the Irish Mirror:
They are extremely debilitating drugs. Tiring to the extreme. Ironically, extremely depressing. They can cause suicidal or self-harm type thinking. They can mess up your menstrual cycle very badly and cause you to be incapacitated for a week before. . . . [They] f**k up your liver, your kidneys, your eyes, your appetite, your entire way of thinking and generally your entire life.
Within his seminal book, Anatomy of an Epidemic, Robert Whitaker described "The Bipolar Boom" in chapter nine. He related a talk given by Fredrick Goodwin at the 2008 annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Goodwin said the illness has been altered since 1990. There was more rapid cycling; more mixed states; more lithium treatment failures than when he'd coauthored Manic-Depressive Illness. "The illness is not what Kraepelin described anymore, and the biggest factor, I think, is that most patients who have the illness get an antidepressant before they ever get exposed to a mood stabilizer." Whitaker said not everyone speaking agreed that antidepressants had been disastrous for bipolar patients, but no one questioned Goodwin's assessment that bipolar outcomes had noticeably worsened since 1990.
On his website, Whitaker noted that before 1955, bipolar illness had been a rare disorder. Only 12,750 people were hospitalized with the disorder that year. There were only about 2,400 "first admissions" that year in the country's mental hospitals. Outcomes were fairly optimistic. Seventy-five percent of these first-admissions were projected to recover within 12 months. And only 15% of first-time admissions were expected to become chronically ill. And at least 70% were projected to return to work and have active social lives.
Today, bipolar illness is said to affect one in every 40 adults in the United States. A rare disorder has become a very common diagnosis. There are several reasons for this. First, many drugs–both illicit and legal–can stir manic episodes, and thus usage of those drugs leads many to a bipolar diagnosis. Second, the diagnostic boundaries of bipolar illness have been greatly broadened.
Allen Frances is a psychiatrist and the author of Saving Normal. He was also the chair for the DSM-IV, which expanded the criteria in diagnosing bipolar diagnosis by adding the bipolar II category. In Saving Normal, he described a dilemma when the APA was revising bipolar diagnosis for the fourth edition of the DSM. Patients with "hypomania," less-than-full-manic episodes, didn't fit neatly into the unipolar or bipolar depression categories. The bipolar II category was seen as a compromise that would lessen the dangers of classifying them as having unipolar depression and treating them with antidepressant medication that could trigger a manic episode.
We knew that bipolar II would expand the bipolar category somewhat into unipolar territory, but we did not think that it would double. Undoubtedly, our decision resulted in more accurate diagnosis and safer treatment for many previously missed truly bipolar patients. But like all fads, it overshot and had led to unnecessary medication for many unipolar patients who have been misdiagnosed as bipolar on very flimsy grounds and are now receiving unnecessary mood stabilizing drugs.
Whether you agree with Frances' assessment that adding bipolar II resulted in more accurate diagnosis and safer treatment for many, don't miss that he also said it led to misdiagnosis and unnecessary medication. If you follow this link, also given above, to Robert Whitaker's website, Mad in America, you will find a series of journal articles describing how substance abuse can be related to developing bipolar disorder; the effects of antidepressant use on bipolar disorder and how these drugs can worsen long-term bipolar outcomes; and the deterioration of bipolar outcomes in the modern era.
For a postscript, I want to return to note one last piece of information on Sinéad O'Connor. While she has cast off her diagnosis of bipolar disorder, it isn't finished with her. Many websites, like that of "Famous Bipolar People" mentioned above, still list her as one of their own. There was a concluding note in the "About Health" article on Sinéad O'Connor that said: "In spite of her having stated clearly on several occasions that she does not have bipolar disorder, O'Connor continues to be included at many sites that compile lists of famous bipolar people."
Famous Bipolar People, if Sinéad had said it's over between the two of you, accept it and move on. There are plenty of more fish in the sea. You still have Kay Redfield Jamison. She's written two books that touch on bipolar disorder, An Unquiet Mind and Touched with Fire. And both have been made into movies. The movie, Touched with Fire, is a fictional love story about two people with bipolar disorder who meet in a psychiatric hospital and fall in love. The trailer has a slight Romeo and Juliet feel to it; two young lovers who family and friends try to keep apart. So there will be plenty of new discussions about who is and who isn't bipolar related to the movie. Just let go of Sinéad; let her go and move on.


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Here we are on Thursday and I have another brown bag lunch for you. What happened to Wednesdays lunch??? There was extra chicken salad from Tuesday that I packed for my husband. There won't be a brown bag tomorrow. The whole family will be home.
Today's lunch is a pork sandwich, strawberries & picked beets.
Last night we had breaded, boneless, pork chops for dinner. I cooked and extra chop so I would have lunch for my husband today. To prepare my chops, I salt & pepper, then pound them with a meat mallet. I grind up French bread in the blender to make fresh breadcrumbs. They are cheaper and so much tastier than those hard, bread crumbs from the store. I dip the chops in and eggs & milk mixture, coat with the bread crumbs and put them on a pan. Give them a good spritz with olive oil spray and bake them for 30-40 minutes. I used the left over French bread for the sandwhich today. Spread it with a little mayo, added lettuce from the garden and tomato. Cost: $1.50
Instead of an apple, today I sent my husband strawberries. They were on sale for 99 cents a pound and I sent him about 1/3 of the container. Cost: 33 cents
Pickled beets, love them or hate them, there seems to be no inbetween. We grow beets in the garden. I shredded and pickled beets earlier this week. These beets are not your typical red beets that you see in the grocery store. Beets actually come in a variety of colors. I sent about 1/2 a jar of my homemade picked beets for something different today. It's hard to figure costs when you grow and pickle your own food. Estimated cost: 50 cents.
Here's another lovely lunch for just $2.33. So much better for you than Micky D's!


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Planned Parenthood's political arm released a television ad Tuesday warning women voters that Ken Cuccinelli II, the Republican candidate for Virginia governor, is opposed to abortion in nearly all cases, including pregnancies that are the result of rape or incest.
"Three hundred thousand women report being raped in America every year," a female narrator says in the ad as black-and-white images of women fill the screen, followed by an image of an ambulance. "But Ken Cuccinelli would put his extreme policies ahead of their needs. He'd force a survivor of rape or incest in Virginia to carry a pregnancy caused by her attacker."
The ad also states that Cuccinelli is opposed to emergency contraception that could prevent a pregnancy after a rape, and ends with this declaration: "Ken Cuccinelli: Wrong for women. Wrong for Virginia."
The Cuccinelli campaign referred questions related to the new ad, paid for by Planned Parenthood Votes, to the Republican Party of Virginia. In a statement, spokesman Garren Shipley did not challenge any of the assertions made in the ad and instead highlighted work that Cuccinelli has done to protect women and children, including starting a sexual assault awareness program in college and combatting human trafficking and sexual predators as attorney general.
Although the ad does not mention Cuccinelli's opponent, democrat Terry McAuliffe, Shipley criticized attack ads sponsored by McAuliffe or his supporters.
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The Planned Parenthood Votes ad will soon air in the Richmond and Norfolk areas as part of a $1 million television and radio ad campaign the group launched this month. Planned Parenthood Votes has been active in Virginia since February with a campaign of "Keep Ken Out."
Women voters have cemented McAuliffe's lead over Cuccinelli, according to recent polls, a division along gender lines that has emerged in the past few months. The McAuliffe campaign has saturated television with ads about issues of special concern to many women, including Cuccinelli's stances on access to birth control and abortion rights.
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"Inconsistent" and "unfair" grants process criticised
With thousands of students accepting the first round of CAO college and university offers this week, South Tipperary T.D. Tom Hayes has branded the current Student Grant Scheme as "inconsistent" and "unfair."
The TD's criticism comes following a stream of complaints from members of the public who are unhappy with the measurement schemes being used by state bodies.
New student grant regulations come into affect for the first time this autumn and the distance a student lives from their third level college can mean the difference between a full maintenance grant of E3,120 and a 75%, 50% or even a 25% grant of just E315.
The Student Support Act 2011, passed in February of this year, increased the distance a student must live away from the institution in order to qualify for the full 'non-adjacent maintenance grant' of E3,120. The distance is now 45km.
However, the legislation did not call for a uniform system of measurement to be used in deciding whether or not an applicant's home was within the 45km limit, says Deputy Hayes.
All of this has resulted in hundreds of unhappy families around the country, dismayed at inaccurate measurements and little to no information on how their situation was assessed, he says.
"My office has been inundated with calls and emails on this matter, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. What is clear to me is that we need to introduce clarity to this situation. All deciding bodies, whether they be VECs or local authorities, should have a standard and accurate system of measurement when determining an applicant's suitability for the non-adjacent rate. It is our responsibility as lawmakers to legislate for that, something which the previous Government failed to do" stated Mr Hayes.
The need for a singular method of measurement is obvious, given some of the cases Deputy Hayes has come across. "Obviously we are appealing a huge amount of these cases. I've seen evidence of products such as Google Maps being used to decide an applicant's suitability. It doesn't take a genius to realise that the use of such an informal system is both inconsistent and unfair".
One of Deputy Hayes' success stories, a Tipperary student attending college in Limerick, successfully appealed his decision. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, worried they may reverse his decision again, he spoke of his shock as to the workings of the current system,
"I was surprised that my application was initially rejected. I travel that route to college regularly and I knew I was entitled to the higher maintenance grant. I think it's important that something more accurate than Google Maps is used to decide somebody's application. It's an absolute disgrace. I've been lucky, but so many others have not."
Mr Hayes is seeking changes to be made to the current legislation that will allow for a fairer review system to be implemented, "All of this leads me to the conclusion that a single reliable system must be put in place to determine the distances for these adjacent and non-adjacent grants. I will be looking to raise this topic with the Minister when the Dáil resumes in September and I hope we can begin the process of amending the current legislation.
"I have also written to the South Tipperary VEC and County Council seeking to clarify what system they use to review college grant applications. I don't see why a group like Ordnance Survey Ireland, who provide a fantastic service to the state, couldn't be used as the official guide to college grant applications in the years to come," concluded Deputy Hayes.
The Student Support Act comes into effect for the first time this autumn. It merges the previous grants systems including the Higher Education Grants Scheme, the Vocational Education Committee's Scholarship Scheme, the Third Level Maintenance Grants Scheme for Trainees and the Maintenance Grants Scheme for Students Attending Post-Leaving Cert Course.
Adjacent and Non-Adjacent Rates relate to a student's living distance from college. Under the Student Support Act the Non-Adjacent limit was increased from 24km to 45km. i.e. an applicant had to live 45km or more away from their college to qualify for the higher, non-adjacent rate.


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Plainview's Lakeside Fifth Grade Learning Center soon will be looking for a new principal, according to Superintendent Dr. Ron Miller.
Miller said second-year principal Brandon Shelton has resigned, effective June 7, citing Shelton's desire to move closer to home.
Miller said PISD will take applications for the position through June 9.
Interested individuals should contact him at the central office, 296-4000.
"Hopefully we'll have a new principal by the June 17 (board) meeting," Miller said.
Shelton said he and his wife, Lauren, are from southwestern Oklahoma.
"We both come from very close families," he said. "We want our parents to be able to interact with our little boy (Eli)."
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Greys Court, near Henley-on-Thames, is an English mansion built in the 1550s. Now a major heatwave has revealed that the mansion was once much larger through "parch," areas of dead grass, outlining structures from the original building.
Archaeologists are scrambling to map the building before the weather changes and the outlines are lost. "The marks tell us that there were walls, probably brick, extending across the existing forecourt which divided this space in the 16th Century into an outer or 'base' court and a more formal inner court," said archaeologist Gary Marshall.


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Laura COONEY–KOSS and Jerome Koss, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. Jennifer H. BARLOW, M.D., Defendant Below, Appellee.
A. Diane McCracken, M.D., and All About Women of Christiana Care, Inc., Defendants Below, Appellants, v. Laura Cooney–Koss and Jerome Koss, Plaintiffs Below, Appellees.
In this medical malpractice action we consider whether the Superior Court committed reversible error by denying appellants' motion for judgment as a matter of law, and by excluding certain evidence. The trial court correctly determined that appellees' medical expert evidence supported a verdict in their favor. Thus, its denial of the motion for judgment as a matter of law is affirmed. The trial court's evidentiary rulings, however, constituted an abuse of discretion requiring a new trial.
On April 22, 2010, Dr. Jennifer Barlow performed a Caesarean section on Laura Cooney–Koss to deliver her baby. There were no apparent complications from the delivery, and Laura was discharged from Christiana Hospital three days later. On the morning of May 2, 2010, Laura suffered heavy vaginal bleeding, and she returned to the hospital by ambulance.
In an attempt to slow or stop her bleeding, a hospital physician gave Laura medicine to contract her uterus. The doctor then took an ultrasound of Laura's uterus, and determined that she would need a procedure known as a dilation and evacuation ("D & E"). Dr. A. Diane McCracken performed the D & E, removing blood clots and debris from Laura's uterus. During that procedure, McCracken actively massaged Laura's uterus and gave her additional medicine to try to stop her bleeding. Those efforts were unsuccessful.
McCracken tried to find other possible sources of the bleeding by performing a laparotomy. Throughout that procedure, McCracken again massaged Laura's uterus. The laparotomy was unrevealing, and Laura continued to bleed. During the 30 minutes that McCracken had been treating her, Laura lost approximately one liter of blood. McCracken decided to perform a hysterectomy, believing that Laura would die otherwise. The doctor removed Laura's uterus, and Laura eventually stopped bleeding.
On October 22, 2010, Laura and her husband, Jerome Koss, filed a complaint in Superior Court against McCracken, Barlow, their employer, All About Women of Christiana Care, Inc.,1 and Christiana Care Health Services, Inc.2 The complaint alleges that McCracken negligently failed to undertake an appropriate number of conservative treatment options to stop Laura's bleeding before performing the hysterectomy, which was unnecessary. After trial, the jury returned a verdict in favor of the Kosses. The Superior Court denied McCracken's motions for judgment as a matter of law or for a new trial.3 This appeal followed.
McCracken appeals from the trial court's denial of her motion for judgment as a matter of law, as well as several evidentiary rulings. She argues that the trial court should have granted her motion because the Kosses' expert agreed with McCracken's expert that it is appropriate to perform a hysterectomy if vaginal bleeding is not controlled by more conservative measures. As to the evidentiary rulings, McCracken contends that the trial court abused it discretion by: (1) excluding the testimony of Laura's treating anesthesiologist; (2) excluding medical records and corresponding expert testimony indicating that Laura suffers from a bleeding disorder that predisposes her to significant risk of hemorrhage;4 and (3) prohibiting McCracken from using medical literature to cross-examine the Kosses' standard of care expert.
I. Motion for Judgment as a Matter of Law
At trial, Dr. William Spellacy, the Kosses' standard of care expert, testified on direct examination that McCracken had breached the standard of care by not exhausting appropriate conservative treatment options before performing the hysterectomy.5 On cross-examination, Spellacy agreed that, if a doctor exhausts all other medical options and a patient continues to bleed, then "a hysterectomy is the last option you would come to."6 Relying on that statement, McCracken says that "the undisputed testimony was that [she] made an appropriate and good-faith decision" to remove Laura's uterus.7
The record does not support McCracken's claim. Spellacy did not testify that McCracken exhausted all appropriate conservative treatment options; nor did Spellacy testify that McCracken exercised appropriate medical judgment by removing Laura's uterus. To the contrary, Spellacy testified that McCracken breached the standard of care by failing to attempt more conservative treatment options before resorting to a hysterectomy. Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the Kosses, Spellacy's expert testimony raises an issue of material fact for consideration by the jury.8 Therefore, the Superior Court correctly denied McCracken's motion for judgment as a matter of law.
II. Exclusion of the Treating Anesthesiologist's Testimony
McCracken attempted to call Dr. Tak Lui, the treating anesthesiologist during Laura's hysterectomy, as a fact witness. During his deposition, Lui testified that he had no memory of the May 2010 procedure, and that the notes from surgery did not refresh his recollection. Nonetheless, McCracken contends that Lui should have been able to review the notes9 and testify, based on his routine practice, that: (1) Lui would have been alarmed by Laura's rate of blood loss; and (2) Lui would have communicated that concern to McCracken during the procedure. The Superior Court excluded Lui's testimony, on the ground that "allowing [Lui] to testify would be speculative at best and inappropriate" because he does not remember the procedure.10
McCracken argues that evidence of Lui's routine practice is admissible under Delaware Rule of Evidence 406, which provides:
Evidence of the habit of a person or of the routine practice of an organization, whether corroborated or not and regardless of the presence of eyewitnesses, is relevant to prove that the conduct of the person or organization on a particular occasion was in conformity with the habit or routine practice.11
In Brett v. Berkowitz,12 this Court held that "evidence presented under Rule 406 must consist of specific, 'semi-automatic' conduct that is capable of consistent repetition."13
Courts in other jurisdictions have allowed medical practitioners to testify about their routine practice as evidence of what the practitioners did on a particular occasion. For example, the Supreme Court of Rhode Island recently held that a plaintiff's treating physician, who had no recollection of treating the plaintiff, could testify about his practice in treating patients with similar symptoms.14 The court noted that: (1) "[t]here is no bright-line rule about the number of times the witness must have engaged in a particular practice before evidence of habit and routine may be admitted"; (2) "the jury was permitted to accord whatever weight to this testimony the jurors deemed appropriate"; and (3) "[t]he plaintiff was free to question the reliability of this testimony and challenge the number of times defendant had treated patients with [similar] injuries."15 Other states have taken a similar approach.16
We agree that a medical practitioner should be allowed to testify as to what he or she "would have done" in cases where the conduct in question is part of the practitioner's routine conduct. Here, Lui testified during his deposition that, when he has particular concerns about a patient during a procedure, he communicates those concerns to the operating surgeon.17 For example, when Lui was asked whether the anesthesia team communicates with the surgeon about a patient's stability, Lui answered, "[I]f we had concerns about vital signs ․ we would let the surgeon know."18 Lui also testified that he would be alarmed by a patient losing one liter of blood in a 30–minute period because it is difficult to "keep up" with a patient losing blood at that rate. He stated that he would be concerned about any patient suffering that rate of blood loss.
In sum, Lui's deposition testimony establishes that, as part of his routine practice, (1) he would have been concerned about "keeping up" with Laura's rate of blood loss, and (2) he would have communicated that concern to McCracken. That testimony is both admissible and significant. All of the experts agreed that a hysterectomy is the appropriate procedure of last resort. The issue was whether Laura's condition had deteriorated to the point that a hysterectomy was necessary. Lui's confirmation of McCracken's concern could have been very important to the jury. For these reasons, the trial court abused its discretion by excluding Lui's limited testimony.
III. Exclusion of Evidence About Laura's Purported Bleeding Disorder
On May 7, 2012, two years after the hysterectomy, a portion of Laura's colon was removed in an emergency surgery after conservative measures failed to stop bleeding from her rectum. McCracken received medical records from that surgery before trial in late June 2012 (the "May 2012 Records").19 McCracken sought to introduce the May 2012 Records to show that Laura may have an undiagnosed bleeding disorder that is unresponsive to conservative treatments and, therefore, the May 2010 hysterectomy was inevitable. The Superior Court ruled that the May 2012 Records were too prejudicial to be introduced for that purpose absent an expert who could identify a bleeding disorder. McCracken then retained Dr. Lawrence Lessin, a hematologist, who was prepared to testify that Laura suffers from such a bleeding disorder.
In his expert report,20 Lessin found that "[b]oth the 2010 and 2012 admissions to the hospital failed conservative treatment of hemorrhage and required removal of bleeding organs to stop life-threatening blood loss."21 Based on the records and his medical experience, Lessin opined, "I believe that Ms. Cooney Koss suffers from an underlying bleeding disorder that predisposes her to significant risk of hemorrhage that is refractory to conservative forms of treatment."22
The Superior Court excluded Lessin's expert testimony because it was irrelevant, and because it was "too late" to introduce this evidence "less than a week before trial."23 The timing issue is moot, given that there will be a new trial. Thus, the question is whether the trial court abused its discretion in barring this evidence as irrelevant. We conclude that it did. The bleeding disorder evidence helps prove that a hysterectomy would have been necessary no matter how many conservative options were attempted. If the jury accepted that expert opinion, it could have found that McCracken's negligence, if any, did not cause damages. In addition, the May 2012 Records, which were excluded in connection with the ruling on Lessin, would be relevant in evaluating Laura's credibility. According to the May 2012 Records, when Laura reported her medical history, she denied having acute bleeding episodes in the past. Laura's credibility may not have been directly at issue, but the plaintiff's credibility can be an important component of the jury's overall evaluation of the claim.
IV. Exclusion of Medical Treatises on Cross–Examination
McCracken sought to impeach Spellacy, the Kosses' standard of care expert, using certain medical treatises (including literature that Spellacy had co-authored). The Superior Court excluded the medical treatises, ruling that the parties had agreed in a pretrial stipulation24 that all medical literature was to be disclosed before trial.25 But the pretrial stipulation expressly allowed the impeachment evidence McCracken had proffered:
Defendants further reserve the right to introduce rebuttal exhibits and exhibits used for impeachment purposes, including medical literature, the identity of which cannot be known until after the presentation of Plaintiffs' case at trial.26
The trial court made its mistake because it focused on another section of the pretrial stipulation. Since there was no other basis on which the trial court excluded the evidence, its ruling was an abuse of discretion.
V. Rulings Significantly Prejudiced McCracken
We reviewed the Superior Court's evidentiary rulings under an abuse of discretion standard.27 Having found that the trial court abused its discretion, now we must decide "whether the error[s] rise[ ] to the level of significant prejudice which would act to deny the defendant a fair trial."28 The three rulings, together, meet this standard.
The first two rulings—the exclusion of the treating anesthesiologist's testimony, and the exclusion of evidence related to Laura's bleeding disorder—go to the heart of Laura's claim. If Liu were allowed to testify that Laura's blood loss was alarming, the jury could have concluded that McCracken's decision to perform the hysterectomy was not negligent. Evidence about Laura's bleeding problems, likewise, could have convinced the jury that McCracken made the right decision. Alternatively, the bleeding disorder evidence could have led the jury to find no damages, because the need for a hysterectomy was inevitable. Finally, although not as prejudicial, the exclusion of medical treatises impaired McCracken's ability to impeach Laura's only standard of care expert at trial. Because there is a real possibility that the jury would have reached a different outcome had all of this evidence been introduced, we conclude that McCracken was denied a fair trial.
VI. Cross–Appeal Lacks Merit
The Kosses cross-appealed the grant of summary judgment in favor of Barlow. The trial court held that there was no expert evidence that Barlow's alleged negligence caused the hemorrhaging that led to the hysterectomy. We agree. Spellacy opined that Barlow breached the standard of care by failing to properly suture Laura's uterus after the Caesarean section. In addition, Spellacy testified that Barlow's failure to properly suture Laura's uterus resulted in a small hole and some bleeding into Laura's abdomen. But no expert, including Spellacy, testified that the suturing, the hole, or the bleeding, was causally connected to the bleeding condition that led McCracken to perform a hysterectomy. In fact, Spellacy testified to the contrary. When asked whether it was his opinion that the suturing lead to the hemorrhaging, Spellacy replied, "No. No. The hemorrhage is coming from a different thing."29
Based on the foregoing, the judgment of the Superior Court is hereby REVERSED and this matter is REMANDED for a new trial in accordance with this opinion. The entry of Summary Judgment in favor of Barlow is AFFIRMED.
1. McCracken and All About Women of Christiana Care, Inc. are referred to collectively as "McCracken," unless the context requires otherwise.
2. Christiania Health Services, Inc. was voluntarily dismissed from the suit on February 7, 2012.
3. Cooney–Koss v. Barlow, 2013 WL 1400899 (Del.Super.Feb.28, 2013).
4. McCracken also claims that the Kosses' statement, in closing argument, that the jury should "hold [her] accountable" caused unfair prejudice. She did not object at trial, and we agree with the trial court that there was no plain error. See Appellants' Appendix at A–1559.
5. See, e.g., Appellants' Appendix at A–0955–57.
6. Appellants' Appendix A–0988; see also A–0985, A–0997–98.
7. Appellants' Opening Brief at 29.
8. See, e.g., Mazda Motor Corp. v. Lindahl, 706 A.2d 526, 530 (Del.1998) (noting that this Court reviews a Superior Court ruling on a motion for judgment as a matter of law to determine "whether the evidence and all reasonable inferences that can be drawn therefrom, taken in a light most favorable to the non-moving party, raise an issue of material fact for consideration by the jury").
9. Although the notes from surgery were mostly written by a nurse anesthetist, Lui had initialed them in multiple places.
10. Cooney–Koss v. Barlow, 2013 WL 1400899, at *3 (Del.Super.Feb.28, 2013).
11. D.R.E. Rule 406.
12. 706 A.2d 509 (Del.1998).
13. Id. at 516–17.
14. Dawkins v. Siwicki, 22 A.3d 1142, 1155 (R.I.2011).
15. Id. at 1155–56.
16. Jacob v. Kippax, 10 A.3d 1159, 1160 (Me.2011) (holding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it allowed the defendant oral surgeon, who lacked memory of the plaintiff patient's specific treatment, to testify as to his routine practices in his treatment of patients); Thomas v. Hardwick, 231 P.3d 1111, 1116–17 (Nev.2010) (allowing the treating emergency room doctor, who had no recollection of the plaintiff patient, to testify "that he routinely urges patients with chest pain complaints and inconclusive results ․ to be admitted"); Rivera v. Anilesh, 8 N.Y.3d 627, 838 N.Y.S.2d 478, 869 N.E.2d 654, 657–58 (N.Y.2007) (permitting the treating physician to testify about his routine procedure for administering injections of anesthesia); Palinkas v. Bennett, 416 Mass. 273, 620 N.E.2d 775, 777–78 (Mass.1993) (holding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it allowed a defendant pediatrician to testify that he "followed the same routine when discharging premature infants throughout thirty years of practice as a licensed pediatrician"); Aikman v. Kanda, 975 A.2d 152, 163 (D.C.Cir.2009) (allowing a surgeon to testify about a component of a mitral valve operation when the surgeon established that he had performed more than 500 similar operations).
17. See, e.g., Appellants' Appendix at A–0090, A–0114–15.
18. Appellants' Appendix at A–0115.
19. Appellants' Appendix at A–1562–76.
20. Appellants' Appendix at A–0299–302.
21. Appellants' Appendix at A–301.
22. Appellants' Appendix at A–302.
23. Appellants' Appendix at A–0339–41.
24. Appellants' Appendix at A–0270–85.
25. The trial court did allow McCracken to ask Spellacy questions that included language from the medical treatises, but McCracken was not allowed to reveal the sources of those questions. Impeaching a witness's credibility with medical treatises is far more effective if the jury actually knows that the cross-examination questions are coming from medical treatises. Thus, the trial court's attempted solution was unhelpful.
26. Appellants' Appendix at A–0261.
27. See, e.g., Jones v. State, 940 A.2d 1, 9 (Del.2007).
28. Manna v. State, 945 A.2d 1149, 1153 (Del.2008).
29. Cooney–Koss v. Barlow, 2012 WL 4097291 at *2 (Del.Super.Aug.29, 2012).
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Written on the Dock of the Bay: October 20, 2011
Take my word for it: what I am about to say is news. There's a good book out there about San Francisco called Luminous Airplanes by Paul La Farge. It's Green Apple Books-recommended at that! Mr. Farge says of his book, "It's about failure. It's about hope. It's about big worlds and little ones. It's about San Francisco in the 1990s. It's about dance music. It's about phrenology. It's about anthropology in the Southwestern United States. It's about the search for Atlantis, and the hollow-earth theory. It's about caves. It's…" And then from there we might as well take a drive to "Etc. Land." Or read the book.
On Tuesday, October 18, Robert Finigan, noted Bay Area wine critic died at 68. Finigan earned his bachelor's degree in English literature and master's degree in business at Harvard. He went on to San Francisco where he proclaimed with confidence that vintage wine was "trash." He soon wrote a memoir called Corks and Forks which he called "a fine practical education in what was good and what was not," and then penned Robert Finigan's Essentials of Wine, known as a literate guide to wine tasting.
Friday, October 21
Amy Snyder reading // There are perfectly sane people out there who decide each year, "I think I will ride my bike from the West Coast to the East Coast. Off I go!" Those people participate in Race Across America. During this race, those who want to win survive only on power naps. Some hallucinate due to lack of sleep. Neck muscles stop working after one keeps one's head up for too long. (Mother always said not to be too confident.) Lungs self-destruct. In Hell on Two Wheels, Amy Snyder poses the question you are probably asking by now, which is, "Holy dude, who are these people? And why, why, why, why, why do they do it?" // DETAILS: Friday, October 21, 7pm. Ocean Cyclery. 1935 Ocean Avenue, San Francisco
Saturday, October 22
Ozzy Osbourne book signing // The famous writer, high-ranking member of the literary world, and prince of the historical kingdom known as Darkness has written another book. It's called Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy: Advice from Rock's Ultimate Survivor. Ozzy says, "If someone had told me a few years ago that I'd end up writing a book of advice, I'd have punched them in the nose for taking the piss. I mean, unless the advice is how to end up dead or in jail, I'm not exactly qualified." Turns out, he was. One man wrote him asking if he should cut down on his cocaine use "cause he'd just found out he had high cholesterol." If you want Ozzy's autograph, buy the book, come on down, and, take some advice: don't take his advice. // DETAILS: Saturday, October 22, 3pm. Booksmith. 1644, Haight Street, San Francisco
Monday, October 24
Author reading // Henry Rolls, poet and punk rocker, is on a mission to bum us out. In the best, most necessary way possible. That's why he's presenting Occupants, his visual testimony of Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Northern Ireland, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and elsewhere over the last few years. In this book, he shows a destroyed Krygyzstan and describes it as, "the enduring power of Father's love. Father seems angry." Under Afghanistan's photograph, he writes, "Welcome, my friend. You have given me a reason to live and a reason to die. We have been expecting you." Under Russia's photograph, he says, "When it comes to your homeland, there is only do or die. OK, well, there is also do or have other priorities. There's also do or don't show up. Otherwise, it's do or die all the way." It's scary, touching, darkly funny, and you should check it out. // DETAILS: Monday, October 24, 7pm. Books Inc. 1760 4th Street, Berkeley
Book launch party // Cancel your flight to Japan. It will no longer be necessary. That's because Haruki Murakami's 1Q84, once only available in Japan, is coming to the United States. Yes. Score. We win. To celebrate, Green Apple Books is staying open until midnight so you can get the book. There will be tacos. Beer as well. Is this heaven? Probably. // Details: Monday, October 24, 12 midnight. Green Apple Books. 506 Clement Street, San Francisco
Tuesday, October 25
Film screening // There is something about a deaf open mic that makes me think, "Holy dude, that's awesome! I want to see it!" Then there's also something about a deaf open mic, and the fact that I don't speak sign language, that makes me wish there was a movie about an open mic, so I could watch the open mic and understand what's being said thanks to the glory of subtitles. Thus, Deaf Jam, a documentary about a deaf spoken word artist. Go see it. // Details: Tuesday, October 25, 5:45pm. Koret Auditorium. 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco
Wednesday, October 26
Reading series // 98 Wounds by Justin Chin is about the people out there who actually say things like, "Well, I mean, you know, all gays are different. What I'm saying is: there are some good gays, and there are also, unfortunately, some bad gays." It's about the social constructs that have people thinking in this framework. In 98 Wounds, Chin uses improbably linked stories to reconcile "the abject, the outlaw, the ostracized, the misfits, and the cranky contrarians among us." Sounds fun. // DETAILS: Wednesday, October 26, 7pm. City Lights Bookstore. 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
First Person Singular // Patti Smith, called by the New York Times the Godmother of Punk, deserves some celebration. For that reason, First Person Singular is hosting Dancing Barefoot: The Art of Patti Smith. Joshua Raoul, you play the piano. Julia McNeal, you perform selections from her memoir. And then, to quote directly from Pegasus Bookstore's website, "party follows." This means, we party. Sing it, Patti Smith: Can't touch you now, can't touch you now. Because the night belongs to lovers." Indeed. // Details: Wednesday, October 26, 7:30pm. Pegasus Books. 1855 Solano Avenue, Berkeley
Thursday, October 27
Grant Writing // The young artist sits, cross legged in her apartment, living on creativity. The world outside? To that, the young artist pumps her fist, and says, "I know of no such world! Who's he? I AM ARTIST." Except not really. Artists are practical in some ways, because they must be. For instance, if they want to get funding, they're going to have to know how to step back from their novel for a second and write a grant. The Artist's Guide to Grant Writing by Gigi Rosenberg is one such tool, and coming down to ask questions and hear Rosenberg speak is another. // DETAILS: Thursday, October 27, 2pm – 4pm. Foundation Center. 312 Sutter Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco
Pop-up bookstore sells permanence, for a limited time only
The current state of our economy is getting everyone to think more creatively. For business owners, this means finding ways to cut costs, and in San Francisco, it's all about space. Leasing or renting can be expensive, so there's been a surge of pop-up ventures, like gourmet food trucks and sidewalk sales. The latest is a pop-up bookstore, and it's a real store: You can go in, look for books, buy them, and take them home. The catch is that it's only open for the month of October.
Nick Hoff – brother to KALW's Chris Hoff – partnered with friend Matt Borruso to see if they could pull this off. KALW's Casey Miner recently paid them a visit to find out.
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CASEY MINER: Matt Borruso and Nick Hoff are standing on opposite sides of a big, empty table in a big, empty art gallery on Valencia Street, piling stacks of books in front of them.
MATT BORRUSO: I just like the absurdity of this. We're going to collect 400 boxes of books or whatever, then we're going to build a whole store that should be here for the next 20 years, and then we're going to take it apart in a month.
Three days from now, this room will be a bookstore. But come November, there won't be a book in sight.
BORRUSO: If there's a Cormac McCarthy book it could just go in like a little fiction section.
Borruso's a visual artist; Hoff's a translator and writer. Both support themselves in part by collecting and selling books. They often sell at flea markets, and they wanted to try out a storefront. Hoff says the store is more of an event than a business, because it's only up for a month. But because it's based around books, it gives people a chance to think about bigger issues – like whether actual bookstores have any role to play in an increasingly digital marketplace.
NICK HOFF: There's all this talk in the media about the death of the book, the death of the bookstore, e-books rising and everything, the decline of reading in general. We're also having a bunch of events that focus on different issues around print culture. This is a way to focus people's attention…
And this particular bookstore is as much an art project as a literary one.
HOFF: We thought if we had a physical space, we could really develop a display and certain types of categories that we feel aren't really represented in your average bookstore.
Which is to say, you won't find 600 cookbooks here, or John Grisham's entire life's work.
BORRUSO: We have great freedom to just do whatever we want. If we want to have a huge section on eyes we can have that even if nobody wants it.
Borruso says that's because even though this bookstore does sell books, profit is not its main goal. Which brings us to its name: Scanners. It's a play on a term booksellers use to describe people in the industry who only value profit – to the point where they visit bookshops armed with mobile bar code readers. So part of this store's goal is to spark discussion about the value of books in a scanner culture. But Borruso and Hoff also want to give people the chance to do the other kind of scanning, the kind you do when you're just letting your eyes roam over a random shelf. And to suggest maybe that's a valuable activity in itself.
BORRUSO: The used bookstore is no longer a viable economic model. And so we've done this as an idea of what we might like a bookstore to be.
A few days later, that idea is open for business. Every shelf is packed with books; hundreds more sit on the tables, and still more are mounted on the walls, covers facing outwards. Alyson Sinclair, who works at City Lights bookstore in North Beach, says she's impressed with the display.
ALYSON SINCLAIR: They could be framed pieces in a gallery; very visual books about, like, space; some don't even have titles, they're just colors.
A little after 6pm, about 30 people are browsing. Many of them are here for Scanners' first public event, a conversation about architecture … books about architecture. But a few people, like Jay Moses, stumbled on the store by chance.
JAY MOSES: Evidently they're only open for a month here. But the theme is books, obviously, and eclectic books at that. Nothing appears to be pedestrian but there's a certain randomness.
An example: On one wall, there's a tome called Artist and Computer, next to an old FBI bulletin, next to a book titled Foreign Beer Cans.
MOSES: I can't put my finger on exactly what commonality there is to all these books except that they seem to be mostly rectangular.
The lack of traditional structure doesn't seem to matter to the patrons. They're all happily browsing.
HELEN GILBERT: There's actually a book right behind you that I've been trying to make my way to called Making Plastic Pipe Furniture.
NOTARA LUM: Patchwork Quilt Art in a little paperback, that was pretty cool.
JAY MOSES: There's a book here on kitsch. I opened it up: Hitler's tea service. A book dedicated to bad taste. Here it is.
KIM RANDOLPH: I bought a copy, very inexpensive, just a little paperback, a copy of The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury. I haven't read that book for years.
The delight shared by Helen Gilbert, Notara Lum, Jay Moses, and Kim Randolph is exactly what co-curator Matt Borruso was hoping would happen.
BORRUSO: It's the idea that you're going to find something really good in here that you didn't know you were going to find.
His partner, Nick Hoff, is philosophical about the enterprise.
HOFF: If you want to make a sustainable business model, this is not it. But this is a bookstore. It's a possibility.
A possibility of discovery. A possibility of community. A possibility of remembering what it's like to lose yourself in world you never knew existed – and a possibility that other people might value that experience too. A possibility – for the next three weeks, anyway.
In between the FBI bulletin and Foreign Beer Cans, I'm Casey Miner for Crosscurrents.
Scanners is open at the Mina Dresden Gallery at 312 Valencia Street through the end of October. Their next event is tomorrow night, Wednesday, October 12, at 6:30pm – it's a talk about hoarding in the digital age.
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This is an interesting discussion. My husband says what do you expect when it is free. Recently I"ve been thinking that I get so much from my blog, I should pay, and have considered paying the money for custom design, but if I start paying, then I would get really annoyed with these changes, so perhaps it isn't worth paying for it, if I am not given notice about changes, or are given no options to put in my two cents worth, not having the summary makes the stats almost worthless. I think many of us are saying we want easier access to them.
Need help? Check out our Support site, then
Summary Tables for stats
If they remove the summary tables is very bad and they will become less competitive respect other platforms since you cannot use Google analytic or anything else. So I hope that it is just a bit of a problem or they may move the link in another part of the website.. hopefully.
I have 3 blogs accessed via the same dashboard, and the stat table link posted by minitermquito only shows the table for the main blog. I can't access the stat tables for the other two blogs. Any pointers?
kikiorleans -- there is a drop down menu above the tables. You can choose which blog stats you want to look at from there.
I tried that, minitermquito, before posting here but it just takes me back to the graph overview, not the table statistics of the respective blog.
My summary tables are gone, too - I want them back!
kikiorleans, if you go to any blog's dashboard and click on "Site stats" in the left-hand column, you'll get the old-style stats page, which still has the link to the summary tables (right-hand side above the graph). Not ideal, but at least you'll find the info....
I understand that this is a free blogging platform, (although some of us, including me, do pay for certain upgrades) and that WordPress can tweak as it wants. However, I would still like to hear from Staff what their reasoning is, if in fact, it is an intentional change and not a massive glitch.
In general, major changes tend to be controversial. Some people like them, some people don't and some have no opinion, and WordPress or any entity in question has its reasons why the parties responsible believe a change is an improvement. But in this case, it's difficult to anticipate what a possible advantage to making it harder for bloggers to access their stats would be. It's possible that some bloggers don't particularly care, but in that case, they don't have to look. Stats are not relevant for my private, personal blog. But for public blogs that serve a broader purpose, we need to have the option to know as much information as is available that can help us respond to the interests and needs of our readers.
This isn't working. I tried the manual link and it only works for one of my blogs. I have 3. And the one it does work for I don't use. Why can't we just get the link button back? Seems like we all use it every day. It this a bug they will soon fix?
http://www.accustomfigures.com is the blog I'm having trouble with.
Just in case anyone failed to read the first page of this thread:
The link is gone from the bar graph to summary tables, but manually can be reached at: https://wordpress.com/#!/my-stats/?view=table
Yeah, I read all the pages and posts. In case anyone didn't read my post, the manual one is no good. Only works for one blog, and you have to bookmark it separately. That's a bit archaic. I'm not trying to be rude, but it's a button. Something WordPressers appreciate and use several times every day. Why can't it just be put back?
I love the summary stats page. I do hope the link comes back to the bar chart. I miss it already even if I know how to get to the page manually; hit is much easier to have the link on the page.
Please bring it back - it is essential.
Changes still appearing, but not for the better as far as I can see.
Let me add myself to the list of people who liked the stats summaries link where it was. I can certainly do without it for a week or so if some new overhaul is in progress, but I very much like its calculation of daily average hits over various time scales, so easily accessed. Thanks!
Don't you just love the way so many people are so unhappy with the change, and what are we hearing from WP staff, NOTHING, as usual. It would be great if they listened to us.
Or even someone could say whether it is a glitch, or a real chance.
Someone please tell us.
So it is still there - great , but a bit tricky to get too don't you think? It's like some 10 year old has made the coding changes!
I agree that it is a free platform but WP needs input to generate advertising revenues so it should at least consider its contributors!
Very well said
I love that response:
"If you don't like it go somewhere else"
I am going to nominate you guys for a top customer services award!
Who said that
This is just silly. I can reach the summary tables by going through the Dashboard and Site Stats, and there's a Summaries link to them above the graph. But there's no similar link from the WordPress.com page. If the tables exist, why not link to them from there as well?
Not much to add except adding another request to have the stat table link be added back to the UI. And to thank you for posting the link here.
same here, no stats for the weekly average....
Sorry folks. I just saw this thread.
Don't worry, we're not taking away the summaries view. This was a bug. If you refresh, you should see the Summaries link in the upper right corner of the chart.
Please let me know if you do not.
Thank you so much, so glad it is back.
@jblz Yes-- thank's. Happy it's back.
Thanks! I like the new visitors stats too.
Thanks for exterminating the bug.
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PUCL Bulletin,
September 2001
of sexual health workers in Lucknow
Dear Sir
I am a Delhi based journalist. Have been following the incident of arrests
of sexual health workers in Lucknow. I am extremely angry about the statements
of the police officials to the Media. Statements like these organizations
are busy "promoting homosexuality" are extremely insensitive
and irresponsible.
We are making Section 377 harass the sexual minority by keeping quiet.
On one hand Government shows solidarity with NGOs working in the area
of sexual health and on the other is blatantly supporting homophobia.
Please look into this matter. All that we gender sensitive people are
asking from you is atleast give the men in LKO a fair hearing. Please
ask NACO why are they quiet now?
-- Rukmini Sen, via
the Web site, July 15
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October 9, 2006
On October 7, 28 ECE undergraduates were initiated into Eta Kappa Nu (HKN), the Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society at Carnegie Mellon. The society's officers led the ceremony, which was held on campus and followed by dinner. In attendance were ECE Department Head T.E. Schlesinger, who delivered congratulatory and concluding remarks, and Susan Farrington, HKN staff advisor and director of alumni/student relations.
This year's officers are Lauren Chikofsky, President; Sonali Kapoor, Vice President; Jonathan Bingham, Treasurer; Kush Jawahar, Secretary/Bridge Correspondent; Vinay Chaudhary, Webmaster/Tour Chair; and Mark Hairgrove, Mentoring Program Chair.
ECE majors in their junior year who are in the top quarter of their class and ECE majors with senior class standing who are in the top third of their class are eligible for membership in the society. HKN members organize a mentoring program, tours of the department, and Wednesday night socials in the ECE undergraduate lounge.
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New members of Eta Kappa Nu (HKN), the ECE Honor Society, gather for their initiation ceremony.


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Is Morsi a Contender for Erdogan's Crown?
Egypt's newly-elected President Mohamed Morsi has had a remarkable political rise. He became the Muslim Brotherhood's presidential candidate only after the party's first-choice was disqualified. Yet, he has proved an adroit player in the game of civil-military relations, reclaiming powers for the parliament and presidency and sending into retirement key figures from the old army guard. He has walked a tightrope between reassuring Saudi patrons and engaging Iran, which he visited after a trip to Beijing to court Chinese shipping, investment, and tourism. Following up on the deal between rival Palestinian groups Fatah and Hamas brokered by the Muslim Brotherhood, he has called on key regional players-Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia-to come together over Syria, while slipping in a critique of the Assad regime during his trip to Tehran. Morsi's Syrian initiative, even if it fails, affirms Cairo's rekindled ambition to be leader in the Middle East.
Morsi's moves have worried some who fear he may scuttle Egypt's relationship with Israel or the West. But he could also cast a shadow on the efforts of Turkey's charismatic Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to consolidate his country's vaunted potential to lead the region. Morsi appears to be moving swiftly to establish civilian control of Egypt, and, unlike Erdoğan, has yet to squander the support of other civilian factions. As leader of the largest Arab state, which shares a border with Gaza and is treaty-bound to engage Israel and the United States, Morsi can bring more leverage to negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians than can Turkey.
To what extent does the emerging Morsi story challenge the narrative of Erdoğan's Turkey as the "model" for governments that came to power in the Arab revolutions? When Erdoğan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in 2002, Turkey was an economic and political basket case and Erdoğan himself was banned from politics. Within weeks, he burst onto the scene, spearheading Turkey's EU accession-oriented reform process. Delivering an average annual economic growth of 6-7 percent and more than doubling per capita income, Erdoğan attracted new voters with every election and built a strong mandate for constitutional reform. This helped the AKP defeat a court case brought by secularist opponents seeking the party's closure and tame the politically meddlesome military. Meanwhile, he converted Turkey's rejection by prominent personalities in Europe into victories on other fronts, tirelessly promoting the country's profile in the Middle East, Caucasus, Balkans, and Africa. This provided a stage for populist performances that garnered Erdoğan a reputation as a champion of the weak in a region prone to a sense of victimhood at the hands of crony governments and foreign powers. Turkey thus seemed well-positioned to capitalize on the Arab revolutions.
Yet, less than a year after a poll flagged Erdoğan as the most admired world leader among Arabs, he and Turkey face serious challenges. The first is the reignited and largely homegrown Kurdish conflict. Kurdish sentiment-previously favorable to the AKP due to its stance on cultural rights-was soured by crises like the Uludere killing of 34 cross-border traders who were mistaken for PKK operatives. Mutual recriminations and violence have mounted. Turkey's second big headache is the willingness of Damascus and Tehran to play the Kurdish card in order to punish Ankara for its support of Syrian rebels.
Caught between a Kurdish rock and a Syrian hard place, an AKP-led Turkey may not be able to act as an impartial and effective broker. To recover its momentum, Turkey must rise to the two greatest challenges facing the region at-large: economic development and meaningful pluralism. Any power in the Middle East that achieves both-especially if it is a trading state rather than an energy exporter-will become a beacon for the region. Having made astounding strides on the economic front, Turkey's path to leadership would seem assured should it resolve its Kurdish problem.
If it fails to do so, Morsi could reap the crop Erdoğan has sown. After all, he has a home-field advantage as an Arab in a region where many still rankle from Ottoman dominion. If, however, Turkey's prime minister lent the full force of his personality to resolving his country's Kurdish problem, he would offer a powerful example of reconciliation across divided communities in a torn region where, to date, winners have taken all. This might secure Turkey's status as the region's rising star, and leave Morsi gasping in admiration.


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