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Three years in the making, Avery Brewing Co.'s "world-class" brewery is under construction in Boulder.
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Avery has spent the past three years searching for sites, pulling together money and working to change city regulations.
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"It obviously caused a lot of pain," he said. "We've been in that building at least three or four years too long."
Avery Brewing won't face similar constraints at the new brewery.
After a city of Boulder code change was made to allow for breweries, wineries and distilleries in industrial zones to have restaurants on-site, Avery was able to pull the trigger on the 5.6-ace property in the Gunbarrel area of Boulder.
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"We costed out the entire project, and what we initially thought we could build was outside the scope of what we could pay for," Avery said.
The $27.4 million project will be funded by $5 million from Avery Brewing's cash and a $22.4 million loan from Colorado Business Bank and Citywide Banks.
"I think it was really important to our people" to not take outside investment capital, Avery said. "I think people like working for us because we're a family-owned business and we're not a bunch of bean-counters."
The project originally was approved to be developed in two phases, with the first phase including the bulk of the manufacturing area and 249-seat restaurant with some additional manufacturing coming in the second phase.
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The terms of the financing required the manufacturing portion of the project to be in production prior to the full restaurant portion of the property, according to the filings made with the city.
Avery estimated that the first phase could be complete in 12 months. The second phase could get under way in the following months, Avery Brewing officials said.
When the first phase of the new brewery is completed, Avery Brewing immediately will double its production capacity. And if the 5.6-acre is built to capacity, Avery Brewing could be producing 500,000 barrels on an annual basis.
By comparison, New Belgium Brewery produced nearly 765,000 barrels of beer at its Fort Collins facility in 2012.
The intent behind Avery Brewing's new brewery is not to become a craft beer juggernaut, but to meet existing demand and to further increase the quality of beer produced, Avery said.
"This is a game-changer for us," he said. "We make world-class beer and now we're going to get a world-class facility."
When the new Gunbarrel facility opens, Avery Brewing will wind down its operations off east Arapahoe Avenue. Avery hopes to sell or lease part of that facility to another craft brewery.
"I think that would be the best-case scenario for us and other small breweries; there's so much infrastructure built in," he said.
The arrival of Avery Brewing in Gunbarrel could help to bolster the existing craft breweries in that area of northeast Boulder, said Chris Asher, who runs Asher Brewing at 4699 Nautilus Court.
"I think it'll be good for us in the long run. We might have a little dip in the beginning," Asher said. "Since there is going to be more breweries in Gunbarrel, we'll be more of a destination for people going on brew tours and bike tours. I think it'll increase that."
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Somewhere, a plate of French fries is smiling today, thanks to Oakland, Calif.-based HV Food Products Co. This subsidiary of The Clorox Co. rolls out "The New Ketchup" -- Hidden Valley for Everything Topping & Dip. The product keeps the same taste as the traditional salad dressing, but has a creamier, thicker texture that is ideal for use on a wide variety of foods and snacks – from burgers and fries to pizza and chicken wings.
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Manufacturer - August Home, Inc.
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The connected home is rapidly becoming a reality, and the August Smart Lock is at the forefront of a new era.
We've reached a stage where most consumers are familiar with the concept of a "smart home," full of "connected devices," that works, at least in the commercials, something like the futuristic home of The Jetsons. The problem is that unless you're building a home from scratch, most people are going to be adding these smart features in a piecemeal fashion. Each device has to justify its price tag over cheaper, more conventional appliances.
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Speaking from personal experience, the struggle is real. As Johnson notes, in New York City alone, two million people per year get locked out of their own homes. Since my smartphone is basically welded to my hand at this point, perhaps it's time to try using it in place of an analog device I can't seem to help misplacing on a weekly basis.
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"Control a smart lock with your voice: Good idea or bad idea?"August's Smart Lock works with HomeKit, Alexa and Google Home, but is voice control making home security devices more vulnerable?
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Today, I practice appellate and technology law, primarily on a consulting basis. I have more fun than should be allowed hosting this WEEK in LAW and writing the occasional column for The American Lawyer — both gigs that came my way due to the good graces and endorsements of folks I met online. Blogs I write or have written include Bag and Baggage, Lawgarithms (CBS Interactive/ZDNet), Between Lawyers (Corante), and The Industry Standard. Want to know even more? Here's my Google Profile.
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- Women in Tech You Need to Follow on Twitter, from The Huffington Post
- Ask Ars: Which image service might commercialize my photo? from Ars Technica
- Music industry will force licenses on Amazon Cloud Player -- or else, from Ars Technica
- Twittering for Clients, from The California Lawyer
- 7 Tips for Successful Blogging, from The California Lawyer
- The Search for Intelligent Life in the Blogosphere, by Jeanette Borzo, from The California Lawyer
- Business Travel Nightmares, by Susan E. Davis, from The California Lawyer
- Lawyers Must Get Creative About Marketing, by Ari Kaplan
- Lawyers Podcast a Wide Net, by Eriq Gardner, from Corporate Counsel
- Honorable Mention, the AlwaysOn/Technorati Open Media 100
- Do You Blog?, by Sarah Kellogg, from Washington Lawyer
- Spanning the "Blawgosphere", by Ben Wickert, from Ohio University
- Dennis Kennedy's 2004 Legal Blogging Awards (The Blawggies)
- Build Your Own Blog, by J. Craig Williams, from Law Technology News
- "Must Reading" per the EDDix Top 50
- Rants, Rulings, Recipes: Lawyers and other legal professionals speak their minds on the Web, by Susan E. Davis, from The California Lawyer
- Marketing Directly To Clients With Weblogs, by Larry Bodine, from Immigration Daily
- It's A Blog World After All, by Carolyn Elefant, from Legal Times
- Paying Spammers Not to Spam, by Amit Asaravala, from Wired News
- "The Screen Savers Meet The Blawgs" — Bag and Baggage on the August 28, 2003 broadcast of The Screen Savers
- Blogging For Law Firms, Not Why, But When And How, by Barbara Weckstein Kaplowitz, from Marketing for Lawyers
- Bemused About Blogging, by Stephanie Francis Ward, from the ABA Journal eReport (B&B comments and links)
- Technofile, Blogging for Business, by Anne Stuart, from Inc.com
- Saving the Net, by Doc Searls, from Linux Journal
- Legal And Appellate Weblogs: What The Are, Why You Should Read Them, And Why You Should Consider Starting Your Own, by Stephanie Tai and Gary O'Connor, from the Journal of Appellate Practice and Process
- B-Blogs: Mega-Meta, Very Viral, by Rebecca Lieb, from ClickZ
- Gag Rules? Bloggers Report Anyway, by Leander Kahney, from Wired News (B&B comments)
- Lawyers Who 'Blawg' (10 MB PDF), by Jason Krause, from The ABA Journal
- Lawyers as Pundits, by Way of the Web, by Bob Ambrogi, from the National Law Journal and Law Technology News
- Rosie's Ramblings (February, 2003), by Sandra Rosenzweig, from The California Lawyer
- Bag and Baggage is honored to be included in The Virtual Chase's Legal Research Guide, LLRX's LawPro Links, and LexisONE's Sites of the Month
- A Discreet Bullhorn, by Matt Fleischer-Black, from The American Lawyer
- How I Learned to Love the Blog, by Rick Klau, from The American Lawyer
- Rosie's Ramblings (October, 2002), by Sandra Rosenzweig, from The California Lawyer
- Rosie's Ramblings (August, 2002), by Sandra Rosenzweig, from The California Lawyer
- Rosie's Ramblings, by Sandra Rosenzweig, from The California Lawyer
- Rosie's Ramblings, by Sandra Rosenzweig, from The California Lawyer
- Blog Me!, by Molly Kilmer Flood, from the ABA's Site-tation
- Writing For The Web -- Concise Writing A Must: Content And Presentation Are Inseparable, by Diana Digges, from Lawyers Weekly U.S.A. (registration/subscription required; three week free trial available)
- A Blog In Every Law Firm?, by Rick Klau, from the ABA's Law Practice Management Magazine
- How I Learned to Love the Blog, by Rick Klau, from Law Technology News
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BlogHer, panel on "Women Who Want to Fund, Build and Sell Things, as blogged or commented on by:
Saturday, June 25, 2005
Gnomedex, panel on Today's Digital Legalities. Related links at del.icio.us tag lawnow. As blogged or commented on by:
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Digital ID World 2004, panel on Trusted Computing. MP3 audio available (4.9MB). As blogged or commented on by:
Thursday, October 14, 2004
In Google We Trust (264KB PDF), discussion in the ABA Journal about the growing role of search for practitioners and lawmakers
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
KCET (Los Angeles), Life & Times, segment on cell phone cameras and privacy.
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- Beth Goza: panel notes
- John Palfrey: comments
- Martin Roel: panel notes
- David Weinberger: panel notes
- Phil Windley: panel notes
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Indescribable...Indestructible...Nothing Can Stop It! Revenge of the Blog, panel on Law And Blogs, as blogged or commented on by:
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- Jeff Jarvis: "Cause For Jealousy"
- Rory Perry: panel notes
- The Comedian: panel notes
- The Kitchen Cabinet: panel notes
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Friday, March 26, 2010
Choices Choices Choices
That's correct, although the allocation system need not be as corrupt as the one described in the e-mail by this reader. In that case, it seems that members of the graduate admissions committee assign themselves students in a preferential way. I would think that other faculty would object to that quite strenuously.
In departments with which I have been associated, decisions about who can accept new students, and how many, involve the following factors:
- quality of the applicants, as evaluated from the applications and/or from interviews;
- how many students an adviser already has;
- how many more students an adviser wants to admit and/or can reasonably take on (explained more below).
- what distribution of students among the various potential advisers will result in a good balance of students in the major subdisciplines.
Regarding the last point, consider that this year a certain research group in my department was described as the primary interest by many applicants, including most of the top applicants in the entire pool. If admissions decisions were based only on merit of the applicants, >50% of those admitted would have been interested in working with <10% of professors in the department. That would not be a good situation for anyone.
I am most familiar with departments that guarantee support for their students. In financially good times, there have been enough TA positions so that even faculty without major grants could advise a student or two and be sure that those students would be supported, at least for their salary, tuition, and benefits. In economic good times, any professor who wants to advise a qualified student can do so.
In times of economic crisis, faculty must demonstrate that they have the financial resources to provide an RA for at least some, if not all, of a student's support. For international students, advisers in some departments have to guarantee 12 months of RA support in the first year. Grad students are therefore preferentially allocated to faculty with resources, and the admissions committee makes decisions, in consultation with these faculty, about which applicants have the best qualifications for admission.
This year, during the admissions process, I had to provide detailed information about my existing funding, pending proposals, and planned near-future proposals. Based on my own estimation of what I could cover in the way of RA support, I proposed a certain number of students to be admitted.
Of course the number admitted does not correspond to the number who accept their offers, so there is a bit of guessing involved in deciding how many to admit.
Admissions committees may also consider factors related to a potential adviser's career stage and/or previous history advising students. For example, some departments want tenure-track faculty to advise graduate students, but the number of students advised by a new professor might be monitored so that it neither zero nor a huge number.
My correspondent described a senior professor who claimed that a certain applicant would be his "last student", although a current student was also supposedly his last student. This made me laugh because I have a colleague who has done this as well. He is either on his 2nd or 3rd "last student". The "last student" argument is compelling for making a case to advise one more student, but eventually an admissions committee should affirm that "last means last" and stop using hypothetical lastness as a factor in admissions decisions.
Furthermore, an adviser with a history of what I will vaguely term "difficult" interactions with graduate students might not be given input into admissions decisions and might not be allocated students.
These allocation decisions are made to provide balance among the disciplines, maximize the amount of RA support that admitted students can be guaranteed, and optimize the chances that a student will have a productive and successful graduate program. For these and other reasons, the decisions have to involve more than academic merit of the applicants. That doesn't mean that unqualified applicants are admitted (although I might not always agree with the some admissions decisions), just that other factors are used to decide among a pool of qualified applicants whose number always exceeds the available admission slots.
21 comments:
- EliRabett said...
Students don't pick their advisers? Of course the adviser can decline. If Eli were a student again he would never go to your place
- John V said...
Your system is much more top down than the ones I worked within.
We also have a central committee of 6 or so who represent the 30 or 40 who might advise students, and funnel TA and scholarship nominations, but the system in the end is driven by the applicants and advisors.
The primary determinant of which advisor has first shot at an applicant is who the applicant requests, or even more decisive, who has already been contacted.
The secondary determinant is whether one of the contacted advisors has inclination, time and/or energy to take on this particular student.
Few students have not already specified some preferred faculty, and those few generally are choosing us as a back-up, and unlikely to come if they end up having their choice of programs.
- Nick said...
I am slightly confused by the "admission" and "allocation" of students to your program as described. Am I reading correctly that the graduate admissions committee has the final say in which professors advise which students? While such a procedure is neither inconceivable nor inherently bad, programs in my own field (chemistry) were much more flexible. After accepting admission to my preferred school and starting classes, I spoke to each of the eight professors in the section of the department to which I had been admitted and came to an agreement with one of them. Is this atypical?
Different fields - and different departments - have different ways of dealing with this issue. In my world, admissions committees have virtually nothing to say about which students are advised by which faculty members. First-year grad students "rotate" through three different labs, based on their interests and the willingness of the faculty to take them on for a few months. Everything gets sorted out at the end of the first year, when students and faculty match themselves up for the long term. It is understood that faculty who commit to taking students will support them from grants, although departments may have to pick up stipends later on if the prof's grant isn't renewed. This process does tend to result in an imbalance, with some labs having many students and others having few or none, but students usually ending up working on projects that excite them.
- Kevin said...
Our department is small and our applicant pool is large, so the "admissions committee" consists of the entire faculty.
We don't allocate students to faculty on admissions---they have to do 3 rotations to find a lab that matches. We do make sure that the student has expressed interest in fields we have strength in, but do not attempt to balance the input.
It is rare that one faculty member wants someone that the rest don't (hasn't happened yet).
There is some natural sorting into wet-lab/dry-lab students, but quite often the students surprise us---more often by computational people deciding they want to do wet-lab work than wet-lab people turning out to be good computational researchers.
We've found that students generally want the big-name prof when they apply, but often end up preferring someone else's lab.
One exception is foreign students, who cost a lot more---a faculty member has to be willing to pay their first year (while they do at least 2 rotations with other faculty) for us to admit them. Generally only super-star foreign students are admitted to our program. This is very different from, say, the EE department, where almost all the students are foreign.
The difference is that we have a strong pool of domestic applicants, while for EE the domestic applicants tend to be rather weak.
- female Science Professor said...
I didn't mean to give the impression that the admissions committee was quite so powerful, though the committee can make decisions about applicant qualifications and they are the ones who oversee the "balance" issue. For example, one professor couldn't decide to advise 15 new students, however excellent these students might be. The major decision/choice is between adviser and student, though. Applicants express a preference and the adviser can decide whether they want to advise that student or not.
Thank God for the lab rotation system in most biomedical sciences! I cannot imagine either: 1) picking a lab as a student without the benefit of more than a short visit, or 2) picking a student without some equivalent time to evaluate the match.
The "allocation" issue is an interesting one even in Departments or universities with a lab rotation system. In an earlier time, we accepted grad students as a Department (about 35 MCDB faculty). We generally were looking for the "best students" without a strong worry about their stated interest area, though that could lead to trouble as in a given year some labs are "in" and others "out". We now have switched to one portal for all 300 biomedical science faculty in ten Departments. We do think about things in very broad interest areas (in part to pacify Departments who feel they are not "getting enough students"). But at the end of the day, its now a free market and a faculty member needs to learn how to sell what she or he does, both when students are choosing rotations and afterward. Attention to webpages and active involvement in recruitment and teaching help at the front end and a happy lab and a good training record help at the back end.
Mark P
yeah, i'm in geosciences and kind of jealous of the whole lab-rotation setup... i never even knew that happened in some disciplines until i started reading blogs!
When I first started out as a prof, I had a hard time attracting any grad applicants. One of my colleagues suggested that I get myself on the admissions committee so I could get dibs on some prospective grad students. Thank goodness I didn't do it - that committee involves a fuckload of work. But, it is true that occasionally a seemingly well qualified people apply without any idea of who they would work with, or on what questions. And there is one person who seems to have a habit of staking a claim to these prospectives before anyone else even sees the files. Sometimes they turn out to be a good students...but not very often.
My department -- and a number of other engineering-ish departments I know -- use a very different model:
1) students are admitted to work with a particular professor, who commits to supporting them for the duration of their studies (technically, we only commit for one year, but the accepted standard is that you either continue supporting a student or stop advising them).
2) TAs are allocated to professors, who decide which students to support. In our extremly nonsocialist system, TA slots are allocated *proportionally to research funds (actually, to RA's supported in the recent past). In other words, you can't have students at all unless you're continually bringing in grant money and supporting RAs.
I don't think the system is optimal (especially part 2). But it is the system for now in my department (which lives on the border of Science and Engineering).
Wow, this is a very complicated system. Is it common in the US?
At my university, students are hired directly by professors/advisors, who pay 80% of their salary for five years. The university guarantees the other 20% for any student that an advisor is willing to support. So yes, one person could advise 15 (or more) PhD students if they have a lot of funds. It really never happens that someone has no students at all (unless they don't want any) - if someone doesn't have enough grant money for even one PhD student they aren't likely to be a successful scientist anyway.
I know of American colleagues in my field who advise 20+ PhD students, while others at their universities may have very few, so apparently this is not unheard of over there either.
Interesting anyway, to hear how others do it.
In spite of now having had some good experiences with rotation students, I still prefer the (European?) system where a PhD student is hired directly by a lab, like any other employee hired for job X, in this case the job of doing the PhD research. The student knows what the project is, interviews with the lab and off you go. That said, after finishing their MSc, most students (in my home country) have done multiple lab rotations (6+ months each), so they have a pretty good idea of what they want and often end up being hired by the lab they rotated in. I find the downside of the US rotation system that it is really seen as feeling if there's a good fit between the student and the lab. That's very useful, but from a rotation-period-output point of view, it's not always worth the investment on the hand of the supervising PhD student or postdoc. Some first year students are also so swamped with classes that they are barely able to spend any time in the lab to begin with.
That being said, the rotation system at least leaves the student in control: I think it should always be up to the student to ultimately decide where they want to spend the next years of their lives in a longer than average workweek. The advisor has to be willing to accept the student, but it's your career, so you pick the PhD spot!
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Students in my field don't have to work with a particular adviser if they don't want to; no one is ever forced to work with any one adviser.
We admit students with guaranteed funding for three (of five+) years. They are required to find a supervisor during that time and the supervisor must guarantee a portion of their funding for the remaining years. No one wants to supervise you? Well, then it gets complicated ...
The original admissions are made primarily by committee but any faculty member can say "Admit that one, I'll pay it all!" and they are in.
There can be some competition for students between profs once they are here but that seems quite reasonable.
My previous department was much more rancourous -- advisors emailing potential students subtly and indirectly slagging off colleagues, stealing them out from each other with money, promises, etc ... bah!
- female Science Professor said...
I have found it difficult to co-advise students based in engineering departments, in large part owing to differences in how/when students select advisers and also differences in grad funding systems (e.g., an engineering student might TA a class even while being paid an RA from my grant). Owing to these differences, I decided not to co-advise any more engineering-based students, but I would be happy to co-advise a student with an engineering colleague if the student is admitted through my department.
See...this is where mathematics is soo much better. The success of faculty members and the success of their grad students hardly have any correlation.
- Kevin said...
Is it legal for a student to get both an RA and a TA position simultaneously at your institution? It certainly isn't here!
Is the problem with engineering students, or with one who cheated on the system, figuring he wouldn't get caught because the science and engineering bureaucrats don't talk to each other?
Fascinating. At my institution, I pick them, I pay for them, and the admissions committee rubber stamps them, unless they fail some numerical criteria for admission, which can be accommodated with a probationary period. We don't have a lot of TA support in my department.
At my institution, there is actually a shortage of students to TA because there's a lot of money in biological sciences so ~85% of grad students are paid RA's. To fulfill this shortage, students actually TA for "free" as part of a requirement to graduate. Their salary is paid by either their adviser directly (RA) or from a pool all the PI's pay into if the student is in their first year and doesn't have a permanent adviser yet. So regardless the student makes the same amount even if they are technically both doing an RA and a TA. Maybe something similar is occurring at the engineering dept at FSP's school.
- Kevin said...
"To fulfill this shortage, students actually TA for "free" as part of a requirement to graduate."
Can't do that here. TAs are unionized---can't work them for free. GSR salaries come from grants, and work done needs to be at least plausibly related to the grant. Some grad students have chosen to work with their adviser on a course without being TAs, but we certainly could not require it.
- female Science Professor said...
I don't know if it was a temporary policy or standard operating procedure in that engineering department, but it seems to me that the RA-pay for a TA scenario would only work if the adviser had large amounts of guaranteed funding (perhaps from various sources) for the duration of a student's graduate program.


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With the craft beer market share in BC at 20% and the number of craft breweries in the province approaching 100, the landscape is starting to look a lot like Downtown Vancouver's skyline. That's not to say the market can't sustain more breweries, given the other 80% that hasn't come under the craft beer umbrella, but there will need to be more growth. The question is, where will it come from?
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The easy days – if there really ever was such a thing – are over. Considering names like Surgenor, DIX, Taylor's Crossing, and R&B, opening a craft brewery in BC is no longer a sure thing. Having a passion is not enough to carry a business. Now, a lot more dispassionate business acumen has to go with it. Marketing needs to be a fundamental component of one's business plan, not an afterthought. That means realistically analyzing the market to find your niche and developing a strong brand around it before spending a cent on real estate and plant. Or for those with an existing business, it's time to take a hard look at where the industry is going and ask yourself if major changes will be needed in how you operate to stay in the game.
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Alio, Amina
Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences
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Brown, Theodore
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Professor of History and Public Health Sciences
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- Influence of organized philanthropy on medical research, health policy, and medical education
- American health left, and its role in both domestic and international health policy
- History of American and global public health
Chin, Nancy
Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences and Medical Humanities
Member of the Steering Committee for Public Health-Related Majors
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Dees, Richard
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics
Chair of the Steering Committee for Public Health-Related Majors
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- Historical foundations of modern politics in the eighteenth century
- Health care ethics, including justifications for modifying our brains, and the intersection of health care and political philosophy in public health ethics
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Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine and Public Health Sciences
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Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences, Environmental Medicine, and Dentistry
Member of the Steering Committee for Public Health-Related Majors
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Office of Mental Health Promotion
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FitzPatrick, William
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Dr. FitzPatrick has an interest in many questions in bioethics, especially related to stem cell research and the moral status of embryos. (Bioethics students only.)
Hudson, Larry
Associate Professor of History
Dr. Hudson is interested in the relationship between poverty and health in the African-American community.
Jamieson, Jeremy
Assistant Professor of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology
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Professor of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology
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We are LIVE from The Manning Center in Oxford as our #SXMCampTour brings you a preview of @OleMissFB 2014. pic.twitter.com/LXTHS61HXj-- SiriusXM College (@SiriusXMCollege) August 4, 2014
Right now, @ChildersRadio & Gene Chizik sit with @OleMissFB's @CoachHughFreeze. #SXMCampTour pic.twitter.com/hLVnZ0OvgV-- SiriusXM College (@SiriusXMCollege) August 4, 2014
The SiriusXM College Sports Nation Camp Tour visited Ole Miss on Monday, as Chris Childers and former Auburn head coach Gene Chizik talked Ole Miss football live from the Manning Center.
The three-hour show featured live interviews with athletics director Ross Bjork, co-offensive coordinator Dan Werner, defensive coordinator Dave Wommack, senior quarterback Bo Wallace, junior defensive end C.J. Johnson, senior linebacker Serderius Bryant and senior safety Cody Prewitt, as well as pre-recorded interviews with head football coach Hugh Freeze and head baseball coach Mike Bianco.
The show will re-air on Tuesday from 3-6 p.m. CT on SiriusXM College Sports Nation, channel 91 on satellite radios, on the SiriusXM Internet Radio App and online at SiriusXM.com. Here's a sample of the show with Wallace talking about being a senior leader and Freeze talking about the start of camp.
Here are some highlights from Chizik talking with Childers, as he previewed the upcoming season for Ole Miss:
On expectations: "The recruiting classes have been off the charts. Depth, you are finally going to see play a factor. That's probably one of the things why you see them in these SEC matchups, where they can't quite close on the deal on a Texas A&M or an Auburn. Now, all their young guys are gaining experience and gaining year. They have a lot of depth, and you are going to see it make a difference this year.
On Bo Wallace and cutting down on his turnovers: "If you look at some of the premier quarterbacks in the league who really had a chance to win their division -- the AJ McCarron's of the world, the Nick Marshall's and Connor Shaw's -- you're looking at guys who turned the ball over in air four or five times, and for Connor Show, one time. He has to be able to do that. He has to manage those games in the critical times. You're going to see a better Bo Wallace. I really do.
On veterans back on defense: "You have three years in Dave Wommack's system and you have nine starters coming back, and you have some other guys who have played a lot on top of that, not among the nine. You're going to see a very aggressive defense. I have always admired how hard they play. Dave keeps it simple enough, where they can just turn those guys loose and play. They're going to have to play well early and give the offensive line, which has a lot of new guys, time to gel and get better. The defense is going to be a critical element in the first four games of the year.
In between segments, I caught up with Chizik and he shared his thoughts on this year's Ole Miss team and the state of the program:
On season opener against Boise State: "It's cool for the players. I don't know if they train any harder or practice any harder, but certainly as the game gets closer, it has a whole new meaning to a player because it's opening in a pseudo bowl game. They will be excited about it. It's a national TV game and it's going to be one of the biggest games at the beginning of the season. It can be a great opening for Hugh and the football team to play a team like Boise, which has also had a lot of success in its openers, even going back a couple of years to its game against Georgia. The fan base, the players and everyone is going to be excited.
On continuity of staff: "It's night and day if you're trying to build a program, and every two years you're replacing coordinators or you're replacing recruiting coordinators. The kids feel good when they walk back into the building every day and they hear the same voice and the same message. Everyone is beating to the same drum.
On last year's freshmen now sophomores: "So many of the freshmen last year --and they were a very highly-touted class -- came in and had to play, probably more than they needed to play or should have played, when you're talking about freshmen. Hindsight obviously being 20/20, knowing that you had to do that, it certainly makes a better case for you the next year. There were so many guys last year that really had to do it when they were thrown in the fire early. It will pay huge dividends for all those guys this year.
On question marks along the offensive line: "It's going to be huge on the defense. The defense plays a part in that. It's a team game. It's the hardest to put 11 guys on one side and 11 on the other together, but ultimately 22 guys blend together, plus special teams. The defense's job is to buy time for your offensive line to get some experience and gain some confidence, to play together and to listen to the calls. The only thing that you can do with a young line is to give them that experience, game by game, and hopefully you're winning while you're doing it.
On going from the "hunter" to the "hunted": "I don't know if anything changes. There's an awareness there from the coaches and the players that when people play us they have to strap it on and play us for 60 minutes. They can't beat us in 58 minutes. They have to prepare and they have to play the whole game. In this league, they're learning that every week you're the hunted, no matter who you are. Now, they have experienced a great amount of confidence in some of the big games they have won, like the LSU game last year. It makes them very aware that everybody is going to be gunning for them."
On taking the next step as a program: "There's not a day that goes by here that Hugh is not telling his football team that there's one goal, and that's to win the SEC West and go to Atlanta. As you look back and watch the games they have played in the SEC West, there's probably not one guy in that meeting room who thinks that's not a reality, a possibility. They have played everybody tough and beat some of them. That's certainly the goal that they talk about on a daily basis.
On what to look for in first couple of games: "You always look for special teams play. You always look for coverage units and hidden yardage with field position. A lot of people overlook those things because they're looking for touchdowns, interceptions and long runs. That's huge in early games. The other thing is turnovers. You have to protect the ball and you have to try to get the ball back to your offense. Those are the things that every coach in America is going to look for in their openers."
Here are some more highlights from the live interviews on SiriusXM College Sports Nation:
Time to get the latest on @OleMissFB's offense with Co-OC & QB Coach Dan Werner. #SXMCampTour pic.twitter.com/Hqk83fLKqi-- SiriusXM College (@SiriusXMCollege) August 4, 2014
Werner, on Bo Wallace: "The big thing with Bo is that he's sort of a gambler. He'll take his shots. You have to live with it and die with it. When he throws one in there, I'm up the press box and I just go, 'Oh, no,' but then it pops for a touchdown and everybody is happy.
"He makes the exact same throw four plays later and it gets intercepted, and now not so much. That's the thing that I've talked to him about. We have to cut down on those types of plays. We're not going to hit as many big plays, but we're going to keep the chains moving."
From one defensive mind to another, Gene Chizik talks to @OleMissFB DC Dave Wommack as our #SXMCampTour rolls on. pic.twitter.com/D3NpCCwX1A
-- SiriusXM College (@SiriusXMCollege) August 4, 2014
Wommack, on C.J. Johnson: "He's one of the leaders of the defense. They all rally around him."
Wommack, on Anthony Alford: "He's one of the top two or three athletes on the team."
Wommack, on Robert Nkemdiche: "We will move him around and use him in different packages, in different places."
The defense talk continues as DE CJ Johnson, healthy ankle & all sits w/ us! #SXMCampTour @OleMissFB pic.twitter.com/8q4diZHFAD
-- SiriusXM College (@SiriusXMCollege) August 4, 2014
Johnson, on being back healthy: "When I'm on the field, it's go-time. I'm ready to go."
Johnson, on season opener against Boise State: "We have a target on our back (as an SEC school). That's another part of the motivation."
.@OleMissFB QB Bo Wallace: If you're living your personal life right, it's going to carry over to football. pic.twitter.com/0Pzi8C3C4U
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Wallace, on last year's Mississippi State game: "It was really frustrating. I felt like we had a good plan for them. I felt like we were the better team. I still feel that way. To be out there, I felt helpless. I didn't know what to do, but I'm healthy now and excited for the year."
Wallace, on leadership: "For me, every guy on the team, when they ask, who wants to win more than anybody, a lot of them are going tell you it's me. That's a huge thing. Competing for those guys, they want to see you're going to put everything on the line every time you walk out there. That's huge for a leader. I'm a quiet, lead-by-example-type guy. I need to be more vocal as a senior and with it being my offense. I'm working on being more vocal."
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Bryant, on the defense: "It's crazy how we all fly around on defense. Everyone's making plays."
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Prewitt, on returning all four starters in the secondary: "It means a lot to be coming back with the same four people in the back end. You can sense what the other guys are going to do and the reads they're going to make. It makes it easier to execute the game plan well."
Prewitt, on Denzel and Robert Nkemdiche: "It's really fun to watch them interacting with each other and the way they push each other. It makes all of us better."


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It's a jungle out there: every day, as you go to school, participate in sports, or just lounge around on the sofa watching television, you are surrounded by thousands of predators, just waiting to pounce. But in this case, the predators are not lions or tigers. They are germs—tiny organisms so small you can see them only with a microscope (which is why they are known as microbes). Some burrow into the soil around your house; others live in the water you drink, the air you breathe, and even the food you eat. Still others cling to doorknobs and phones, settle into your pillows, and hitch a ride on your clothes or skin as you go about your business. Fortunately, your body has a vast army of defenders to guard against invasions by predatory germs. This army is your immune system, and it includes a variety of soldiers, a sophisticated communications system, and highly targeted weapons. It wages a continuous battle against the opposing army of bacteria, viruses, molds, parasites, and other microscopic organisms that can infect your body and cause disease or illness if left unchecked. While most microbes are harmless, and many are even quite helpful, some, if they are not stopped, can make you sick to your stomach, give you a miserable cold, or cause more serious problems—such as pneumonia, food poisoning, and even some types of cancer.
Microbes are among the oldest living things on Earth, having existed long before humans. Geologists have found fossil records of bacteria dating back 3.5 billion years. What we now know as polio was depicted in Egyptian stone engravings from 1300 B.C.; the Greek physician Hippocrates described malaria in the fourth century B.C. The famous Ice Man, the remarkably well-preserved Ice Age human discovered in northern Italy in 1991, was found to have the eggs of a type of parasitic roundworm in his intestines.
Scientists first linked microbes to infectious disease in the 1800s, and by the late 1900s it had become clear that microbes were also involved in a number of chronic diseases and conditions. Since microbes are virtually everywhere in our environment, they have many ways to infect us:
Modern medical science has increasingly implicated microbes in coronary artery disease, diabetes, autism, multiple sclerosis, chronic lung disease, and certain types of cancer. In fact, microbial infections account for more deaths worldwide than any other single cause, and the cost to treat them exceeds $120 billion a year in the United States alone.
Your body's first line of defense against any hostile invader is something you probably take for granted: your skin, the body's largest organ. Among other health-related duties, the skin protects against biological predators in several ways. Skin has three layers, providing a formidable physical barrier to bugs. Sweat, oils, and other skin secretions help neutralize and wash away invaders. And our skin is populated by harmless bacteria that consume nutrients that would otherwise feed enemy invaders.
But the barrier that skin provides isn't foolproof: the eyes, nose, and mouth all provide openings where invaders can sneak in. For this reason, your body has a second set of biological barriers, located in the mucous membranes that line these openings. Every time you blink your eyes, for example, your eyelids wash away microbes much the way windshield wipers sweep away debris. Inhale something that your body knows doesn't belong, like pollen, and you'll sneeze the invader out. Saliva and tears both contain the enzyme lysozyme, which destroys bacteria. Any harmful bacteria that somehow manage to sneak down your throat plunge into a deadly acid bath in your stomach.
Unfortunately, wily bugs are sometimes able to breach these multiple barriers. Or germs might sneak in through a temporary open door, such as a cut in the skin. That's when the battle really begins.
Although the type of soldiers the immune system deploys and the protective strategy it uses depend on the type of invader, your immune system defense generally consists of two basic components, the innate immune system and the adaptive immune system.
You are born with the components of the innate immune system already in place and ready to defend you. These inborn defenders are white blood cells known as phagocytes, which respond quickly whenever they detect a biological bad guy. Phagocytes are fast, but not particularly discriminating: they attack and destroy—literally gobble up—any type of invading germ. Sometimes this is enough to prevent you from getting sick, but more often the phagocytes require additional help. That's when the second component of the immune system—the adaptive immune system—is activated. The adaptive immune system consists of white blood cells known as lymphocytes. These cells are armed with highly specific traits that enable them to destroy particular types of enemy cells. What's more, lymphocytes never forget a foe or how to destroy it, which is why adaptive immune system protection is sometimes referred to as acquired or learned immunity.
Although these two components of your immune system are quite distinct, they are enormously effective because they coordinate their response when faced with a threat. Whether you think of the two components of your immune system as first responders and reserves, or as generalists and specialists, the most important point is to think of them as a team.
Gradually, through a series of discoveries over hundreds of years, scientists have learned about the way the immune system works and how to safely harness its protective power. One of the most significant advances in immunology—the creation of the first vaccine, in 1796—resulted from the effort to protect people against smallpox, a disfiguring viral scourge throughout history (and one that has recently risen again as a bioterrorism threat). Over the centuries, people around the world tried to protect themselves against smallpox by exposing themselves to the actual disease (a method known technically as inoculation). An early Chinese emperor, for example, inhaled dried smallpox scabs in an effort to inoculate himself. George Washington inoculated his troops against smallpox during the Revolutionary War by introducing the virus into the skin, then keeping troops in isolation until they were no longer contagious. But these early inoculation efforts, which involved exposure to the unaltered—and therefore quite virulent—smallpox virus itself, killed some people and made others extremely ill.
The world's first vaccine, developed for smallpox, relied on a similar strategy but provided a much safer alternative. The road to discovery began in the late 1700s, when Edward Jenner, a country doctor, sought to explain why milkmaids and other farmhands exposed to cowpox, a relatively mild disease, did not come down with smallpox. To test the theory that cowpox exposure somehow bolstered a person's defenses against smallpox, Jenner took pus from a milkmaid infected with cowpox and injected it into a healthy eight-year-old boy. Jenner then exposed the child to smallpox, but the child never succumbed. After several additional experiments, Jenner proved that it was possible to prevent an infectious disease with a vaccine—a word derived from the Latin word vacca, or cow—derived from a substance that was similar but not identical to the real culprit.
Although Jenner's discovery represented a significant advance, it took many more years before scientists began to understand how diseases occur and to recognize clues that, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, would reveal why vaccines confer protection.
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In the late 1860s, the French scientist Louis Pasteur solved a puzzle that had long plagued brewers and wine makers: why beer and wine sometimes went sour during fermentation. Pasteur discovered that harmful bacteria fouled the brew—an insight that led to investigations into the role bacteria and other microbes might play in disease. Pasteur and a German physician, Robert Koch, separately conducted experiments which gradually proved that various infections were caused by particular microbes. The idea that germs could cause disease, once scoffed at, gradually gained acceptance.
But the manner in which the body defended itself was not clear until the late 1800s. Elie Metchnikoff, a Russian zoologist, decided to do an experiment with starfish larvae. At the larval stage starfish are translucent, so it is possible to see inside them. Metchnikoff inserted a rose thorn into a starfish larva and then waited to see what would happen. The next day, he noticed that the thorn was surrounded by a puslike substance. Metchnikoff discovered that the pus consisted of white blood cells, which seemed to consume infectious microbes. Metchnikoff called the cells phagocytes, from the Greek words phagos (to eat) and cyte (cell). At about the same time, Emil von Behring, a German bacteriologist, discovered that something in the blood of an immunized animal could protect people against diphtheria. Although the substance itself wasn't known (Behring called it the antitoxin), this finding showed that the body relied on defenses in the blood as well as in cells. Metchnikoff's discovery marked the beginning of the science of innate immunity, while Behring's discovery of antibodies was the first example of adaptive immunity.
The discoveries continued as scientists investigated the microbes that cause disease and the cell- and blood-based defenses that provide protection.
In this book, you'll learn about the immune system in all its complexity. You'll learn how the immune system can both protect against and—when it mistakenly turns its firepower at the wrong target—contribute to disease. You'll read about dramatic discoveries that have propelled the field of immunology forward, and about particular diseases, such as AIDS, which have caused much human tragedy. You'll also learn about the brain's impact on the immune response. This book may not make you an expert on immunology—few people are—but it should help you more fully appreciate the vast armies of defenders the body continuously relies on for its health.
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American Muslim leaders, who have struggled to present a clear public voice or organize politically in the decade since Sept. 11, are increasingly apprehensive about the direction Rep. Pete King will take when he convenes hearings next month on the threat posed by radical Islam in America.
King, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, plans to focus on the Times Square bombing attempt and the Fort Hood shooting, both involving American-born Muslims, as well as other incidents and on what he sees as the failure of Muslim leadership to combat extremism.
King has been critical of the Obama administration for failing to take the threat of domestic terrorism seriously and has been sparring with Muslim leaders since soon after Sept. 11 for not taking their own steps to combat it.
"The leadership of the community is not geared to cooperation," King told POLITICO.
His upcoming hearings have caused deep concern and consternation among various Arab and Muslim advocacy groups across the country that fear King's witness list will help define, for the purposes of the American public conversation, which Muslim leaders are legitimate and which should be regarded as extremists.
"You can definitely say overall the hearings are seen with great apprehension, suspicion and distaste — sometimes sorrow," said Khaled Abou El Fadl, an expert on Islam and Islamic law at the University of California, Los Angeles. "These hearings have a history of stigmatizing whole groups of people."
King insists that the goal of his hearings is not to stigmatize Muslims but to confront the threat of homegrown terrorism and to explore the role of Muslim leaders in dealing with it.
"This isn't a question of scoring points," said King. "It's the fact that there's a real threat coming from this attempted radicalization of the community and it's, in many ways, coming from overseas."
In a move that will come as a relief to Muslim leaders, King told POLITICO that he's not planning to call as witnesses such Muslim community critics as the Investigative Project on Terrorism's Steve Emerson and Jihad Watch's Robert Spencer, who have large followings among conservatives but are viewed as antagonists by many Muslims.
King aims, he said, to call retired law enforcement officials and people with "the real life experience of coming from the Muslim community." Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim to serve in the House and a critic of the hearings, will likely be a minority witness, according to both King and the Minnesota Democrat.
The focus, King said, will be on — among other topics — reported complaints from Somali Muslims that the Council on American-Islamic Relations and other groups discouraged them from talking to the authorities about young men who left to fight for the Islamist cause in Somalia and on cases like that of the imam who — while ostensibly cooperating with the FBI — allegedly tipped off a would-be subway bomber off as investigators closed in.
Muslim leaders respond that American Muslims have been key to an array of terror investigations, beginning with the Muslim street vendor who first noticed the smoking car in Times Square.
"I hope my colleague from New York .... does not make the mistake of trying to paint all Muslims with a broad, extremist brush," Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.), the other Muslim in Congress, said in an e-mail to POLITICO. "Because for one, that's not an accurate depiction of the millions of peace-loving Muslims, and two, our national security depends on us forging strong partnerships with people across the Muslim world."
Possible witnesses, according to King, include Dutch critic of Islam Ayaan Hirsi Ali and M. Zuhdi Jasser, president and founder of Arizona-based American Islamic Forum for Democracy. Jasser is a sharp critic of leading American Muslim groups, whose agenda he calls "Islamist."
"We have to admit as Muslims that we need a 12-step program," Jasser told POLITICO. "The first step is acceptance."
"If they don't see us leading a charge for reform, they're going to see us as part of the problem," he said.
Jasser is a rare Muslim voice welcoming the hearings. Other community leaders who spoke to POLITICO are afraid that their fragmented community is not ready for this fight.
"This could be a very damaging hearing. It really could be something that spreads a lot of vitriol and poison, and I'm worried about it, and I don't understand why the community has decided to allow itself to be so unorganized," said Hussein Ibish, former communications director at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee who is now a senior fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine.
"Nearly all Muslim organizations need ... new political leadership, simply because most of the leadership continues to be from the immigrant community. English continues to be not their first language, and their primary education was obtained elsewhere, before they came to the United States," said Fadl. "Eventually, they'll learn."
One group that is ready to debate the likes of King and Jasser on cable — CAIR — has not been invited to testify.
"If I saw the hearings were sober and objective, I'd have no concerns," said Corey Saylor, CAIR's legislative director. "But King is opting for a political circus approach."
The group, which has roots in the Hamas-allied Islamic Association for Palestine in the 1980s, was named as an unindicted cohort in the federal prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development for allegedly conspiring to aid Hamas.
And though it fiercely denies any affinity to radicalism — and while the latter designation was formally lifted last year — those two facts have put it largely beyond the political pale.
"No one in Washington will deal with CAIR except the [American Civil Liberties Union] — which deals with everyone," lamented a prominent official at one putatively allied group, adding that the group's past makes it "radioactive."
Saylor dismissed the alleged Hamas link as a "smear," as well as the claim that community leaders don't encourage cooperation with the authorities.
"We consistently advise constitutionally informed cooperation with law enforcement. That is pretty standard for a civil rights group," he said in an e-mail.
But between CAIR on one end and Jasser and Hirsi Ali on the other is a wide abyss in terms of organized political activity — despite the efforts of half of a dozen small groups.
Organizations like the Islamic Society of North America represent, in theory, hundreds of thousands of American Muslims. But many of those Muslims have little interest in political activity and little ability to project themselves on the political stage. Officials of the society declined to comment on the King hearings.
And the community remains defined as much by sectarian, ethnic and political divisions between groups as by what they have in common.
The community's most prominent figure at the moment, Ground Zero mosque planner Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, is the representative of the minority Sufi sect whose ties to interfaith leaders are stronger than those to his fellow Muslims.
The disorganization is, at the moment, the subject of broad hand-wringing across the Muslim political leadership.
"There's a lot of flailing around," said Suhail Khan, former Bush administration official and senior fellow for Christian-Muslim Understanding at the Institute for Global Engagement, describing the Muslim community's response to the Ground Zero mosque and other recent controversies, like a Florida pastor's vow to burn a Quran.
Some blame critics of Islam for stigmatizing the community. "You're dealing with an emerging community that's still trying to find its political voice," said Ellison. "There's not that many new American communities [that] have an organized opposition out to thwart them."
Others blame CAIR.
"They've looked like they're not as strongly behind counter-terrorism polices that needed to happen," said Mohamed Elibiary, Department of Homeland Security consultant and Dallas-based community activist.
"That makes them a very easy target," said Elibiary. "We ought to have some kind of national representative body that then can represent us collectively, as opposed to today."
"We haven't matured," said Elibiary. "The Jewish community didn't get there until the 50s."
There has been talk, two officials of Muslim organizations said, of setting up a politically palatable rival to CAIR, though that plan hasn't been fully realized.
In the meantime, the response will likely be led by a group that many on Capitol Hill choose to ignore — the Muslim Public Affairs Council.
"If we think that it's political theater, we're also willing to address this in a very public way. We've got a list ready of various law enforcement agents from the local to the federal level who have talked about the work that Muslim Americans have done," said Haris Tarin, director of the group's Washington office.
King, for his part, insists the goal of the hearings, which are scheduled for late February, is not to paint an an entire community with a broad brush. "The overwhelming majority of Muslims," he said, "are outstanding Americans."
Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the case in which a New York imam alerted a terror suspect to a federal investigation. Imam Ahmad Wais Afzali tipped off the attempted suicide subway bomb plotter Najibullah Zazi, not the attempted Times Square bomber.


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