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PROVO — An emotionally distraught Rachel MacNeill testified against her father Thursday, saying he insisted an autopsy be conducted on her mother's body in case police launched an inquiry and accused him of murder.
"He specifically said to me he was concerned there would be a police investigation, that he didn't want anyone to think that he had killed my mother," a tearful MacNeill said. "It was shocking to me. Why would anybody think that?"
Michele MacNeill was found unconscious in the bathtub of her Pleasant Grove home on April 11, 2007. Utah County prosecutors say Martin MacNeill over-medicated his wife with painkillers she was given after plastic surgery and then drowned her in the tub. They believe MacNeill killed his wife to begin a new life with his mistress, Gypsy Willis.
A former osteopathic physician and lawyer, Martin MacNeill, 57, has pleaded not guilty to murder, a first-degree felony, and obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony. The trial is in its second week and is expected to last until mid-November.
An initial autopsy by the Utah State Medical Examiner's Office found that Michele MacNeill died of natural causes related to heart disease. An updated report by the same office in 2010 concurred but called the manner of her death suspicious and undetermined. A third examiner, who is a witness for prosecutors, found that the former California beauty queen drowned.
None of the examiners concluded the death was a homicide. Utah County authorities began investigating the death in 2008, but criminal charges in the case were not filed until 2012.
He specifically said to me he was concerned there would be a police investigation, that he didn't want anyone to think that he had killed my mother. It was shocking to me. Why would anybody think that?
–Rachel MacNeill
Testifying was clearly difficult for Rachel MacNeill, who said that as a child her father was her "best friend." She broke down repeatedly, her lip and chin visibly quivering, sometimes closing her eyes and shaking her head. At times, she seemed angry or confused by the questions of both prosecutors and defense attorneys, and she had trouble remembering things she said in the past.
She also became so upset when asked to use the tub inside the court to re-enact her father's demonstration of finding her mother's body that Judge Derek Pullan called for a recess.
"He said she was under the water. … He said he couldn't lift her out," Rachel MacNeill said, her face twisting in pain. "He said that she must have fallen or hit her head. … I didn't want to listen to it. It was so horrible."
The eldest of the MacNeills' seven daughters, Rachel MacNeill also had a clear memory of meeting Willis outside the Mount Timpanogos LDS temple in American Fork.
Martin MacNeill met his daughter at the temple six days after Michele's death in order to "pray" about hiring a nanny for the younger kids. Willis approached them, introducing herself under the pseudonym "Jillian" as they sat on a bench outside, and Martin MacNeill pretended as if he was meeting Willis for the first time.
Within two weeks, Willis had been hired as the nanny and moved into the house, although Rachel MacNeill said Willis "didn't do anything related to the children" but sat around the house "all goo-eyed at my dad."
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"I expected her to be focused on the children," Rachel MacNeill said with a sneer. "It was very different than it was with my mother."
Rachel MacNeill also testified that her father had said her sister Alexis Somers "was no longer in the family" because both she and Michele had accused him of having an affair with Willis.
"He said that was ridiculous," Rachel MacNeill said.
On cross-examination, defense attorney Susanne Gustin picked through Rachel MacNeill's testimony from past hearings, noting the discrepancies and noting when she offered information Thursday that she had not previously disclosed.
Gustin also tried to discredit Rachel MacNeill's testimony by asking about her mental health history, including a 2012 medical report from an emergency room physician indicating she was suffering from delusions and psychosis.
"I don't know," Rachel MacNeill said, pausing before giving an answer. She also said didn't remember telling a doctor that she had "altered reality testing" but did acknowledge that she had been diagnosed as suffering from bipolar disorder.
Earlier in the day, Judge Pullan held a two-hour hearing to consider whether the MacNeills' youngest adoptive daughter, Ada, will be allowed to testify in the case. She was the first to discover Michele in the tub. She was 6 at the time and is now 12.
Defense attorney Randall Spencer objects to Ada testifying and contends her memory may have been tainted over time by conversations with others, specifically her elder sisters, Somers and Rachel MacNeill, who pushed for their mother's death to be investigated as a homicide.
Spencer has said he fears Ada's memory has been so compromised that "there is a high probability of false memories."
Prosecutors questioned investigators Doug Witney, now a Utah County Commissioner, and Jeff Robinson and Somers about their interactions with Ada over time.
All said investigators had asked Somers to query Ada about the details of what she saw that day, including her mother's position in the tub, the water level and if she was clothed. Ada was also asked to diagram her mother's position in the tub — an exercise that was supervised by Somers, who is now Ada's legal guardian.
Somers assured the court that she had not "tainted" her sister's testimony by suggesting details to her about the alleged crime or letting her see any newspaper or television accounts about the case. She conceded, however, that Ada is familiar with Somers' own conclusions about the case.
"I know she's aware that I think my dad killed my mom," Somers said.
Pullan said he will issue a ruling on the matter Friday.


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Several weeks ago, we reported that Tron Legacy would have to gross $50 million in its opening weekend to recoup its $200 million budget. This weekend wasn't much help, as it's on track to gross $20.1 million.
Tron Legacy placed behind the roundly loathed Meet The Fockers and the Coen brothers' latest Western outing, True Grit. The Jack Black vehicle Gulliver's Travels opened with $7.2 million at 7th. Overall, the holiday weekend was down 42% from 2009 — last year was bolstered by blockbusters like Avatar and Sherlock Holmes. The blizzard on the East Coast certainly didn't help this weekend's box office haul.
Given that Tron Legacy isn't getting the numbers Disney's looking for, it's unclear what this means for the future of the Tron franchise. Disney certainly seems committed to make it work (what with the upcoming Tron Uprising TV series), but will a flaccid box office gross put the kibosh on a sequel (or Tron Legacy director Joe Kosinki's upcoming remake of Disney's The Black Hole)?


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Now, the Home Ministry of India has 'alerted police to take appropriate action' against MF Husain for his controversial Paintings. Earlier, the Bombay High Court asked him 'to file an affidavit in response to criminal action against him' for his nude paintings of Hindu gods and goddesses.
What is with Artists and nude paintings? Why do most artists (including me) paint nudes?
For most artists nudity doesn't necessarily represent obscenity unlike most common people. Artists tend to depict nature, people or the things that they see in various forms- like shedding it to bare, raw or simple forms, or seeing it in the most bizarre forms, or as abstract and unrealistic as possible. And the freedom for artistic expression is essential for such artists to thrive. Sometimes art can be offensive to some people, like some paintings, or certain books, or certain music albums, in which case they are NOT open to everyone but only to those who are ready to experience it. I put a picture of MF Husain Painting on the top to show case how an artist depicts his experiences. The picture above is that of MF Husain's Durga (the goddess) and if it were to be nude, you can imagine how offensive it could be :)
Depicting a man or a woman in nude is one of the biggest challenges for an artist. And many artists do paint nudes one time or the other. Sometimes they may cover the private parts with a fig leaf or a small piece of flying cloth, but nevertheless, they are trying to capture human in nudity.
Is nudity a perversion of an artist?
Yes and No. Perversion comes from making every one, a king, a farmer, an angel, a laborer, a goddess, all equal by reducing them to their barest and truest form with no ornament, no garment or a man-made status symbol.
Artists in
When does the 'artistic freedom' stop and 'respecting other people's sensitivities' kick in?
While an artist should have his creative freedom, he is not free to do anything he/she wants. What if he wants to cut the body parts of a human to adorn his canvas? That involves hurting or mutilating another human and crosses the boundaries of artistic freedom and starts being trampling on other people's rights (and bodies). Can I play offensive music loud in a street? I would then be causing inconvenience to others, and I do not have freedom to do that. Can I play the same offensive music in my headphones? Of course Yes, and if someone stops me from listening then they are trampling on my rights.
Can I put a nude poster on a huge billboard? If the society allows it, I can (like in
So, why should it bother anyone if MF Husain paints nude paintings of Mother India and Durga and showcase it in an art gallery which is restricted to only those who want to look at it? This is where the intolerant, orthodox and conservative Indian masses kick in. The common man, who has no idea of what culture or heritage he once had, gets to say what an artist can do. And they go about protesting and taking it to court. And the court agrees to uphold such intolerant concerns.
When does 'getting offended' translate into 'being intolerant'?
We are not able to publish books on how Hindus meted cruel treatment to Sikhs after Indira Gandhi's assassination, we are unable to uphold woman's rights when she is divo
People get offended by almost everything in the name of 'Indian culture'. While our ancestors enjoyed and practiced Kama Sutra and depicted it in sculptures where gods and goddess perform various sexual positions in abandon and freedom, our generation looks at everything sexual as obscene. While most of the new songs on MTV and VH1 are quite vulgar, that seems to be OK, but nudity is a strict no-no. While young girls in
Or is MF Husain targeted because he is a Muslim depicting a Hindu goddess in nude? Its like saying, 'we can have these nude figures in our temples, because they are Hindu temples, but how come, you being a Muslim dare to paint our goddesses nude'? I see a great deal of 'progressive thinking' taking place within Hindus who are now emulating their brother nations like Iran by announcing Rs. 51 Crore prize money to anyone who beheads MF Husain. "If Afghans, Iranians and Arabians are intolerant, you haven't seen much, just give us some more time and you will see what we can come up with!"
Or is it because Muslims get their fun and frolic while relieving the frustration protesting the Cartoons of Prophet while Hindus don't get any fun? Hindus need those occasional kicks too.


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Pyaasa lyrics and translation: Yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaaye
Here are the lyrics and my translation:
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- ajnabi said...
That song is amazing! My son and I stared at the screen for the duration with our jaws at half-mast. LOL Thank you for the lyrics and translation--and now I must find Pyaasa!
- Wednesday, August 06, 2008
:-) You rock!
- Wednesday, August 06, 2008
hi there, I was searching for somethings on bollywood and I came to ur blog, I would like to know do you add ur own subtitles? I was trying to create HINDI subtitles for English movies, I was able to create them i nnotepad in BARAHA, but not able to put it in movie in VLC player. Please let me know anything u know about this! my email id is email@example.com
thanks in advance
- Wednesday, August 06, 2008
- theBollywoodFan said...
Hi Ajnabi: Glad you liked the song, and I was like that throughout the film. Your son was probably thinking, 'how archaic', what will all the black and white! :)
In any case, I hope you find the film. I would say it's well well worth getting.
Hi Memsaab: Always a pleasure. Thank *you*! :)
- Wednesday, August 06, 2008
- Senta said...
What can I say - Guru Dutt, Sahir Ludhyanvi, S.D. Burman, Mohammad Rafi - they were transcendental genius. What incredible collaboration.
Bravo! Bravo!!
- Saturday, November 01, 2008
- Senta said...
The song truly captures Guru Dutt's sheer disgust with this material, selfish, scratching world and then completely and utterly rejects it.
Burn it, Burn it, destroy this world. Take it away from me. It your - you look after it - I want nothing to do with it.
The edge of madness and genius.
- Saturday, November 01, 2008
- theBollywoodFan said...
Hi Senta: Agree completely with your comments. This team was so effective in what they did in Pyaasa. Amazing stuff! Thank you for stopping by, and do come again.
- Sunday, November 02, 2008
- linusvanpelt said...
i dont mind sending a cd of this film to someone who cannot find it.
- Monday, November 24, 2008
- theBollywoodFan said...
Hi Linus: It is a difficult CD to get, but I believe the songs are now available on iTunes, so at least we could get it from there.
Thank you for stopping by and for your comment. Do visit again.
- Friday, November 28, 2008
this is something really exciting. but its fonts are too small......otherwise just a word thanks 4 u........
- Wednesday, March 25, 2009
- theBollywoodFan said...
You're welcome, Pranav. If you click on the image in the post (the one with the text and white background), a bigger version of it should display. If it doesn't work, click here.
- Wednesday, March 25, 2009
I can't tell how true this is. Also loved
Muhammad Rafi's "Zindagi to Bewafa Hai".
Never took the time to hear these songs, par jab chot padti hai to sachhchaiye samajh mein aati hai.
- Tuesday, March 31, 2009
- theBollywoodFan said...
Anonymous, it's a line of thought that is well worth appreciating, and I agree. But chot padne par zakhmon ki marham karna bhi zaroori hota hai, and the sooner that's done, the better, right? Thanks for your visit and comment. Best wishes.
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SPOILER ALERT: If you haven't seen the final minutes of tonight's episode of The Voice, then stop reading! Otherwise you'll ruin the utterly shocking developments.
I'm still reeling from the holymolywhatjusthappened!? ridiculousness of the final minutes of Monday's episode, which featured a new rule change that forced the night's coaches (Christina and Blake) to send one of their artists home immediately after the performances concluded.
Christina picked an utter shocker, former frontrunner Jesse Campbell, while Blake opted to eliminate rocker Jordis Unga, whose gorgeously slow-burning performance tonight made me really think she might stick around for another week. Perhaps most shocking was that each team had at least one noticeably weaker performer, who may face the music tomorrow when America's votes are revealed.
PopWatchers, what did you think of tonight's jaw-dropping final moments? Did Christina and Blake make the right choices? Were you completely shocked by the decisions, too!?
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The dreaded Carrie remake is circling a director. Thankfully, it's Kimberly Peirce of Boys Don't Cry fame, which makes us slightly optimistic for her translation.
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Earth casts a sharp shadow on the moon's disk during the height of Monday's partial lunar eclipse, as seen from Wichita, Kan.
The full moon put on a show today from one side of the Pacific to the other, in the form of a partial lunar eclipse.
Unlike last month's annular solar eclipse, half of the world could see Earth's shadow fall upon the moon's disk at one time. The viewing zone took in most of the Americas, the Pacific, Australia and East Asia. At the time of maximum eclipse, 37 percent of the moon was covered with darkness.
Even if you were in the eclipse zone, you had to be looking up at the right time, under the right conditions. For North Americans, the right time was before sunrise. For example, the picture you see above was taken at around 5:40 a.m. CT by Robin Taylor, and sent in via our FirstPerson sharing website. Taylor also lucked out with the weather: The wispy clouds add an air of mystique without spoiling the view.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the ocean, skywatchers in Indonesia, Japan and other Asian countries turned their eyes and their telescopes to the skies after sunset.
This lunar eclipse took place just two weeks after the solar eclipse, which also gave an advantage to Pacific Rim observers. That's no accident: Lunar eclipses occur when Earth gets exactly between the moon and the sun, and solar eclipses occur when the moon gets exactly between the sun and Earth. Over the past couple of weeks, the tilt of the moon's orbit was favorably aligned with respect to Earth for both configurations.
As a reminder of the annular "Ring of Fire" eclipse, I'm including a shot contributed this week by Dario Infini of Carmel, Ind. Infini's photograph shows a woman standing on a high sand dune in Albuquerque, N.M., at the height of the solar eclipse. "The circumstances of clear weather, relative accessibility and a relatively unobstructed view near the horizon made this a very rare set of photos, potentially once in a lifetime," Infini writes.
And speaking of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, Tuesday offers the last chance until the year 2117 to witness the transit of Venus across the sun's disk. It's worth seeing — but make sure you see it safely. Your options for precautions range from solar-filter glasses to pinhole projectors to webcast views. Here's a guide to safe observing, and here's a guide to photographing the transit. If you get some great pictures, will you please share them with us? You can use the FirstPerson tool to pass them along.
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A skywatcher peers through a telescope to look at a partial lunar eclipse in Jakarta on Monday evening. The first partial lunar eclipse of the year provided dramatic scenes across Indonesia and other parts of Asia and the Pacific, with a clear moon visible to many as the event unfolded.
A partial lunar eclipse is seen on Monday through the Sapporo TV Tower in Sapporo, Japan.
Submitted by Dario Infini / UGC
Dario Infini took this picture of a woman standing on a high sand dune in Albuquerque, N.M., framed by the "ring of fire" created by May 20's annular solar eclipse. A solar filter gives a golden tone to the scene.
More views of eclipses:
- May 2012: Your views of the annular solar eclipse
- Panoramic view of the eclipse from a California peak
- Relive the 'Ring of Fire' solar eclipse of May 20
- December 2011: Your views of the total lunar eclipse
Alan Boyle is msnbc.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following @b0yle on Twitter and adding the Cosmic Log page to your Google+ presence. You can also check out "The Case for Pluto," my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.


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Qt, and therefore KDE, deals with 3 predominant ways of rendering graphics. I don't feel like bothering with transitions today, so find your own way from beards and dwarfs to Qt/KDE graphics. Those three ways are:
- On the CPU with no help from the GPU using the raster engine
- Using X11/Xrender with the X11 engine
- Using OpenGL with the OpenGL engine
First there's the default global engine. This is what you get when you open a QPainter on a QWidget and its derivatives. So whenever you have code like
void MyWidget::paintEvent(QPaintEvent *)
QPainter p(this);
you know the default engine is being used. The rules for that are as follows:
- GNU/Linux : X11 engine is being used
- Windows : Raster engine is being used
- Application has been started with -graphicssystem= option :
- -graphicssystem=native the rules above apply
- -graphicssystem=raster the raster engine is being used by default
- -graphicssystem=opengl the OpenGL engine is being used by default
- QWidget the default engine is being used (picked as described above)
- QPixmap the default engine is being used (picked as described above)
- QImage the raster engine is being used (always, it doesn't matter what engine has been selected as the default)
- QGLWidget, QGLFramebufferObject, QGLPixelBuffer the OpenGL engine is being used (always, it doesn't matter what engine has been selected as the default)
While OpenGL engine should in general never fallback, that is not the case for X11 and there are fallbacks. One of the biggest immediate optimizations you can do to make your application run faster is to assure that you don't have fallbacks. A good way to check for that is to export QT_PAINT_FALLBACK_OVERLAY and run your application against a debug build of Qt, this way the region which caused a fallback will be highlighted (the other method is to gdb break in QPainter::draw_helper). Unfortunately this will only detect fallbacks in Qt.
All of those engines also use drastically different methods of rendering primitives.
The raster engine rasterizes primitives directly.
The X11 engine tessellates primitives into trapezoids, that's because Xrender composites trapezoids.
The GL engine either uses the stencil method (described in this blog a long time ago) or shaders to decompose the primitives and the rest is handled by the normal GL rasterization rules.
Tessellation is a fairly complicated process (also described a long ago in this blog). To handle degenerate cases the first step of this algorithm is to find intersections of the primitive. In the simplest form think about rendering figure 8. There's no way of testing whether the given primitive is self-intersecting without actually running the algorithm.
To render with anti-aliasing on the X11 engine we have to tessellate. We have to tessellate because Xrender requires trapezoids to render anti-aliased primitives. So if the X11 engine is being used and the rendering is anti-aliased whether you're rendering a line, heart or a moose we have to tessellate.
Someone was worried that it's a O(n^2) process which is of course completely incorrect. We're not using a brute force algorithm here. The process is obviously O(nlogn). O(nlogn) complexity on the cpu side is something that both the raster and X11 engines need to deal with. The question is what happens next and what happens in the subsequent calls.
While the raster engine can deal with all of it while rasterizing, the X11 engine can't. It has to tessellate, send the results to the server and hope for the best. If the X11 driver doesn't implement composition of trapezoids (which realistically speaking most of them doesn't) this operation is done by Pixman. In the raster engine the sheer spatial locality almost forces better cache utilization than what could be realistically achieved by the "application tessellate->server rasterization" process that the X11 engine has to deal with. So without all out acceleration in this case X11 engine can't compete with the raster engine. While simplifying a lot it's worth remembering that in terms of cycles register access is most likely smaller or equal to 1 cycle, access to L1 data cache is likely about 3 cycles, L2 is probably about 14 cycles, while the main memory is about 240 cycles. So for CPU based graphics efficient memory utilization is one of the most crucial undertakings.
With that in mind, this is also the reason why a heavily optimized purely software based OpenGL implementation would be a lot faster than raster engine is at 2D graphics. In terms of memory usage OpenGL pipeline is simply a lot better at handling memory than the API QPainter provides.
So what you should take away from this is that if you're living in the perfect world, the GL engine is so much better than absolutely anything else Qt/KDE have it's not even funny, X11 follows it and the raster engine trails far behind.
The reality with which you're dealing with is that when using the X11 engine, due to the fallback you will be also using the raster engine (either on the application side with Qt raster engine or the server side with Pixman) and unfortunately in this case "the more the better" doesn't apply and you will suffer tremendously. Our X11 drivers don't accelerate chunks of Xrender, the applications don't have good means of testing what is accelerated, so what Qt does is simply doesn't use many of its features. So even if the driver would accelerate for example gradient fills and source picture transformations it wouldn't help you because Qt simply doesn't use them and always falls back to the raster engine. It's a bit of a chicken and an egg problem - Qt doesn't use it because it's slow, it's slow because no one uses it.
The best solution to that conundrum is to try running your applications with -graphicssystem=opengl and report any problems you see to both Qt software and the Mesa3D/DRI bugzillas because the only way out is to make sure that both our OpenGL implementations and OpenGL usage in the rendering code on the applications side are working efficiently and correctly. The quicker we get the rendering stack to work on top of OpenGL the better off we'll be.


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IMAX® set to invade China.
This is likely to be a record-breaking year for Hollywood. But the biggest box office winner on Wall Street doesn't make blockbuster movies. It shows them on enormous 3-D screens.
IMAX (IMAX) shares are up 30% so far this year and are trading at an all-time high. The stock has done better than Disney (DIS) and leading movie theater chains Regal (RGC) and AMC (AMC).
It makes sense. IMAX movies make a ton of money thanks to the premium ticket prices.
The company pulled in more than $18 million during the opening weekend of "Avengers: Age of Ultron" earlier this month. That works out to an average of nearly $50,000 for each of the company's 364 screens.
"Furious 7" and "Mad Max: Fury Road" have been big hits as well.
And the summer is just getting started.
Earthquake drama "San Andreas" hits IMAX theaters Friday. "Jurassic World" and "Terminator Genisys" -- the first Terminator film with Arnold Schwarzenegger since 2003 -- come out in June and July respectively.
So it's no wonder that analysts are expecting this to be a fantastic year for IMAX. Wall Street is predicting that sales will increase 22% and that earnings per share will be up nearly 55%.
But IMAX doesn't just want to rule the silver screen in the United States. The company has its sights set on taking China by storm as well. And that has investors extremely excited.
IMAX announced on Thursday that it planned to take its IMAX China Holding subsidiary public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. IMAX shares rose 3% on that news.
Richard Gelfond, the CEO of IMAX, said it has become increasingly clear that boosting its presence in China is key to its long-term growth -- and that it has to do so with partners in China.
"Over time, being a bigger Chinese player will benefit the company," he told CNNMoney. "We realized years ago that IMAX had to be more and more focused on China and less on North America."
IMAX sold a 20% stake in the China unit to two Chinese companies last year. IMAX currently operates 239 movie screens in China and has plans to install another 219 over the next few years.
The box office success of "Transformers: Age of Extinction" in China last year is another sign that Hollywood is going to need to target the Chinese moviegoer even more directly. That should be good for IMAX.
"Studios have been following the box office globally -- and a lot of the international box office is coming from China," Gelfond said.
Stifel analyst Ben Mogil thinks that the timing is right for IMAX to capitalize on the box office boom in China.
He boosted his price target for IMAX following the Hong Kong IPO news, citing the fact that Chinese movie theater operations trade at a higher valuation than those in the U.S. because of their growth potential.
But don't expect IMAX to diminishing its focus on the U.S.


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Joanne Knight Breast Health Center
The Joanne Knight Breast Health Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine has been a designated Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology since the designation was first awarded.
The designation means that the facility is fully accredited in all imaging methods.
The Breast Health Center offers a full array of all-digital breast imaging services, including screening and diagnostic mammography, breast ultrasound, and breast MRI.
The Breast Health Center is now an all-tomosynthesis site. Tomosynthesis, or 3D mammography, enables radiology technologists to obtain breast images from multiple angles, reducing the potential for patient call-backs to obtain additional imaging scans. Studies have found that 3D breast tomosynthesis reduces the call back rate by up to 40 percent.
Specialized breast procedures include image-guided core needle biopsy, fine needle aspiration, cyst aspiration, and ductography to evaluate nipple discharge.
At the Breast Health Center, breast imaging services are adjacent to the breast surgical team and in close proximity to medical oncologists. The synergy between the linked practices facilitates rapid referral and care.
The Breast Health Center is open from 7 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. The center is now also offering some Saturday hours; contact us for details.
To schedule an appointment at the Breast Health Center, call 314-454-7500 for mammography or other breast imaging services or 314-362-2280 for a breast surgery consultation. You can also fill out this appointment request form.
The Breast Health Center is located on the 5th floor of the Center for Advanced Medicine.
Our radiologists, all of whom are affiliated with the internationally recognized Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, sub-specialize in comprehensive breast imaging. That means 100 percent of the time, these specialists are solely dedicated to interpreting breast imaging studies at the main hospital campus and Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital.
All radiology technologists on staff have advanced certification in breast mammography and have undergone rigorous training in breast anatomy and physiology, positioning and compression, as well as imaging of patients with breast implants.
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Specialty trained Breast Health Patient Navigators are available to guide patients through diagnostic and treatment services. Patients or providers may request a patient navigator upon referral or when scheduling an appointment.


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ATLANTA — Knowshon Moreno and Jonathan Dwyer both had to wait their turn.
Moreno didn't even get on the field his first season at Georgia, a move coach Mark Richt is probably kicking himself about now. Dwyer spent his freshman year backing up Tashard Choice, one of the most prolific running backs in Georgia Tech history.
Once they got in the lineup, Moreno and Dwyer ran like they were making up for lost time. They'll certainly be at the center of attention Saturday, when No. 18 Georgia Tech travels to Athens to face 13th-ranked Georgia.
"This is going to be a big altercation," Dwyer said. "He's a good back, but I'm going to try to do what I can to have the upper hand."
While Moreno and Dwyer will never be on the field at the same time, they'll inevitably be compared before, during and afterward.
Moreno is the top rusher in the Southeastern Conference (1,244 yards) and, with this one plus a bowl game remaining, he's got a chance at putting up the greatest season in Georgia history by someone not named Herschel Walker. Working out of Georgia Tech's triple-option offense, Dwyer leads the Atlantic Coast Conference in rushing yards (1,184) and still has an outside shot at the best year in school history, especially if the Yellow Jackets claim a spot in the league championship game.
Imagine them both in the same backfield. Georgia made a strong recruiting pitch for Dwyer, who played his high school football in suburban Atlanta, but he picked the Yellow Jackets.
"Oh yeah, we tried to get him," Richt said. "He's a good one."
The Bulldogs (9-2) have no complaints about the runner they ended up with. Moreno, who grew up in New Jersey, headed south to become one of college football's most dynamic players. He rarely goes down on the first hit and has put together his own highlight reel this season, from hurdling a Central Michigan defender to soaring through the air to score a touchdown at Arizona State.
As if his running skills weren't enough to keep defensive coordinators up at night, Moreno is Georgia's third-leading receiver with 23 catches for 255 yards.
"Certainly off the tape, he's the best running back we've played," Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson said. "If you watch all their games, you could probably count on one hard the number of times the first guy gets him down. He's very valuable in that he's good pass receiver, too. He's a tough matchup for you coming out of the backfield."
When Moreno arrived on campus, the Bulldogs were loaded in the backfield. He showed glimpses of his potential in practice but Richt decided to redshirt the freshman, figuring there was no need to use up a year of eligibility on a few meaningless carries.
In hindsight, that move could limit Moreno's college career to only two seasons.
Anyone who's been in school for three years is eligible to enter the NFL draft, and Moreno would appear to have few individual goals remaining at Georgia. He put up 1,334 yards rushing as a redshirt freshman and has set himself up for even better numbers as a sophomore, putting him within range of Garrison Hearst's 1,594 yards in 1992 for the fourth-best rushing season in school history. Walker, the 1982 Heisman Trophy winner, remains in a class by himself with three straight years of more than 1,600 yards.
Moreno said his only goal is sending out the seniors with a win in their final home game.
"That's what I've dedicated my whole season to," he said. "From high school, I know how it feels to be a senior. You want to go out with a great season."
And could this be his last game at Sanford Stadium, too?
"I'm definitely not thinking about that," Moreno said. "It's not the time to do that right now. For this one, I'm thinking about the seniors."
Dwyer spent his freshman year backing up Choice, getting on the field enough to rush for 436 yards and nine touchdowns. But the Yellow Jackets fired coach Chan Gailey after a disappointing season and turned to Johnson, who brought along his unique, run-oriented offense that's a throwback to the era when offenses such as the wishbone and veer ruled college football.
While Dwyer knew he would have a chance to pile up big yards, he also was a bit wary of playing the "B" back position — a spot that often requires the runner to take a hit from the defense even when he's not carrying the ball in the triple-option.
Johnson won him over.
"I think Jon saw it as a great opportunity," the coach said. "He'd seen the numbers that position put up on other teams, and rather than dwell on all the negatives people were saying about this and that, he said, 'Hmmm, this might be pretty good."'
It was. The 6-foot, 228-pound Dwyer has eight 100-yard games and a streak of three in a row, even though he only played the first half against Miami a week ago. He left after twisting a knee, but insists he'll be 100 percent for the Bulldogs.
"I'm a tougher guy now," he said. "I don't mind the hitting. It's just another thing I have to deal with. It's a challenge I face each and every week, and I'm willing to take the challenge. I'm willing to do whatever I can for this team."
He'll gladly let Moreno have all the glory Saturday — as long as Georgia Tech is ahead at the end. The Yellow Jackets haven't beaten Georgia since 2000, a streak of seven straight losses that's one away from the longest skid by either team in the series.
Asked if he's eager to have more yards than Moreno, Dwyer said, "It's not about that. It's about getting the win, trying to switch the winning streak around and have a winning streak here at Georgia Tech."


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It is not Dalyan township that is beautiful, it is what surrounds it.
From the stunning 4.5 km long and narrow spit of land, Iztuzu Beach, more fondly known internationally as Turtle Beach, to the fresh, cold waters of mountainous Yuvarlakçay and the towering ancient city of Kaunos, there is an incredible environment to look at, experience and enjoy in every direction.
The town of Dalyan is interesting in itself, though it does owe much of its touristic success to the natural environment in which it sits, so it seems incredulous to think that there are people in this world who want to ruin it.
Sadly, these people do exist.
Iztuzu Beach has been an area of many protests against privatisation over the years.
All it seems is a simple wish.
That wish is to retain Dalyan's traditional and natural charm through the introduction of more electric powered boats to service the Dalyan waterways than what is currently in use. One of the more prominent business owners fighting for more electric boats introduced the first boat to Dalyan, which is at Dalyan Resort Hotel. The majority of boats are still using oil and petrol. This I believe is an ongoing fight to achieve a balance for locals to make a living and protect the environment and the species that live there.
These are environmentalists with a passion.
One such person who is very much known to locals and the world with her tireless work with the turtles.
Who is this woman? What drives her?
Her birth name is June Haimoff.
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Born in Essex into a family who loved to travel, thanks to her father's career as a petroleum engineer. Her love affair with the Dalyan region started in 1975, long before the district had succumbed to the tourism trade.
Over the years, June and her sailing boat, the Bouboulina, visited Dalyan so often that the locals gave her the title of Kaptan June [orginally Kaptan Bouboulina] which is still very much the name she is known as today.
June eventually settled in Dalyan and lived in her own beach hut on Iztuzu Beach [presently resides in the township of Dalyan]. With her discovery of tracks and a turtle laying eggs and nesting on Iztuzu beach began her fight to conserve this natural habitat.
From 1984 to 1998 she used every resource she could find to win her battle. With letters to Prince Philip, head of the World Wildlife Fund. She was consequently put in touch with conservationists such as David Bellamy who alongside Günther Peter, Nergis Yazgan, and Keith Corbett launched an international campaign against the developers to save the beach and the turtle's nesting habitat, backed by organisations such as the International Union for Conservation of Nature, Greenpeace and WWF. Prince Philip himself asked the Turkish Prime Minister for a moratorium while awaiting an environmental impact assessment, which was granted.
Finally, in July 1998, the Turkish government decided against the development and Iztuzu Beach was given Special Environmental Protection Area status.
As a result, Kaptan June managed to implement some changes to the usage of the beach which have protected the turtles ever since. The beach is only open between the hours of 8 am and 8 pm during the summer season, vehicles and animals are not permitted to enter the beach, and sun loungers are forbidden in the marked nesting zones. Speedboats are also banned within a 1-mile zone from the beach and in the Dalyan delta and river.
As short-term visitors, what can we do to help?
- Pick up litter, on a regular basis, even though it was not you who dropped it
- When shopping you could bring cloth bags to put your groceries into instead of using plastic bags.
- If you see a person drop rubbish pick it up and show them by example what should be done
- Don't use boats that aren't electrical. Make sure before you enter into a boat that it has a Kapton June sticker on it which proves the boat is turtle friendly
- Support her cause, [The Kaptan June Sea Turtle Conservation Foundation focuses on the protection of the beach, the implementation of propeller guards and the education of the future generation] by either visiting her hut and buying a book about her work
- Don't feed the turtles, we would not go to the local Dalyan restaurant where they feed the turtles
- Support local artists who donate part of their proceeds to Kaptan June's cause
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'Skyfall' has best opening in Bond movie history – MarketWatch.
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — The latest James Bond movie, "Skyfall," not only beat rivals at the box office this weekend, but also had the best North American opening for a Bond movie in the franchise's 23-movie history.
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The film, starring Daniel Craig, raked in $87.8 million in ticket sales for its U.S. and Canadian debut this weekend, according to a Reuters report.
That tops the $67.5 million debut of 2008's "Quantum of Solace," formerly the franchise's best opening, according to the Associated Press.
"Skyfall" has earned $518.6 million globally since opening in overseas theaters in late October, according to Sony Pictures (NYSE:SNE) , its distributor, Reuters reported.
Domestically, the movie beat Walt Disney Co.'s (NYSE:DIS) "Wreck-It Ralph," which brought in $33.1 million this weekend, as well as "Flight," the Denzel Washington drama from Paramount Pictures (NASDAQ:VIA) , which came in third at $15.1 million.


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How Will You Commemorate Veterans Day 2012 in Texarkana?
Whether we've had family or friends serve in the armed forces or not, we all owe a debt of gratitude to the countless Americans who have fought for our freedom since the birth of the nation. So how will you commemorate Veterans Day this year? Here are some ideas to help you plan for this upcoming day of remembrance.
Texarkana residents can head downtown on Saturday, Nov. 10 for the annual Veterans Day Parade which begins at 11 a.m. and takes the customary parade route downtown. If you'd like to find out more about this event, call Gregory Beck at (870) 773-8279.
If a parade isn't your thing, head over to Little River County for the Veteran's Day Celebration in Ashdown. The party starts at 10 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 9 on the Little River Courthouse lawn and will feature special music, veteran recognition and a special tribute to veterans past and present.
This list will continue to grow as we learn about other activities in the Ark-La-Tex. So if you know of something happening in your neck of the woods, send your tips and comments to our Digital Managing Editor, so we can list them here.


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16 February 2016 - STAMFORD, Conn. and LUCCA, Italy
Finance Expert Steve Player Discusses Role of New Technology in Planning and Forecasting in Tagetik's Next Progressive CFO Webinar
Webinar presentation will addresses how cloud computing, big data, and mobile technologies are reinventing planning and forecasting processes and helping companies move away from traditional budgeting
Tagetik, a visionary leader in global performance management software solutions, will host the webinar "How Technology Helps CFOs Rejuvinate the Planning and Forecasting Process," the seventh presentation in Tagetik's popular Progressive CFO™ series, on Thursday, February 18, at 2 p.m Central European Time and at 2 p.m. Eastern Time. Steve Player, founder of The Player Group, a research and consulting firm focused on finance process improvement, will discuss how a range of new technologies and user-friendly tools are helping companies move away from the traditional budgeting methods developed almost 100 years ago.
"The fundamental problem I have with budgets is that they are based on assumptions that typically turn out to be wrong. Sometimes the economy comes in stronger, sometimes it comes in weaker. The budget locks everyone into an annual cycle. We need to be moving much faster than that in order to have the agility needed in today's business climate." Player is the co-author of Future Ready: How to Master Business Forecasting Beyond Performance Management. He is also the North American program director for the Beyond Budgeting Round Table, a learning network with more than 60 corporate members in North America, and founder and program director for the ABM Advanced Implementation Group, a community of practice for the world's leading ABM implementors.
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More than 200 Utah teachers are expected to pack a convention hall on Thursday for six hours of concealed-weapons training as organizers seek to arm more educators in the aftermath of the Connecticut school shooting.
The Utah Shooting Sports Council said it normally gathers a dozen teachers every year for instruction that's required to legally carry a concealed weapon in public places. The state's leading gun lobby decided to offer teachers the training at no charge to encourage turnout, and it worked.

Organizers who initially capped attendance at 200 were exceeding that number by Wednesday and scrambling to accommodate an overflow crowd.

"Schools are some of the safest places in the world, but I think teachers understand that something has changed _ the sanctity of schools has changed," Clark Aposhian, one of Utah's leading gun instructors, said Wednesday. "Mass shootings may still be rare, but that doesn't help you when the monster comes in."
Gun-rights advocates say teachers can act more quickly than law enforcement in the critical first few minutes to protect children from the kind of shooting that left 20 children and six adults dead Dec. 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. In Arizona, Attorney General Tom Horne has proposed amending state law to allow one educator in each school to carry a gun.
Educators say it's bad policy but that Utah legislators left them with no choice. State law forbids schools, districts or college campuses from trying to impose their own gun restrictions.
"We're not suggesting that teachers roam the halls for a monster," said Aposhian, chairman of the Utah Shooting Sports Council. "They should lock down the classroom. But a gun is one more option if the shooter comes in."
A major emphasis of the required safety training is that people facing deadly threats should announce they have a gun and retreat or take cover before trying to shoot, he said.


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With the approach of Google's massive API deprecation at year-end, I have paid closer attention than ever to Google products. (The API deprecation news was followed by an announcement about winding down Google Labs earlier this week).
I really enjoy Google Maps, whose API is among the deprecated. While reading more about it, I happened to notice a most unusual looking Google-esque map.
This had that distinctive look and feel of Kotke to me. Although the image, see below, appeared on the Programmable Web blog, I promptly unearthed evidence that was highly suggestive of a Kotke origin. The title revealed all.
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I highly recommend giving it a try. Visit Maps without the Map for entrée. Try accessing some of the usual Google Maps features, like Streetview. I was pleasantly surprised at how well the version without the map, so to speak, is integrated with the real Google Maps. The sans map version uses JavaScript along with some CSS-like functionality for color choices.*
For explanatory details see the Programmable Web post (September 2010).
For visual fun, play with this image gallery of Google Maps Styles, and this excellent tutorial** on how to get the most out of Google Map Styles in general.
For specific usage guidelines, review the Google Maps Styles documentation.
* Take a look at the map footer. The plain white Google logo featured in the sans map version is amusing!
** I found the Google Maps Styles tutorial (May 2011) on the rather excellent BestFromGoogle website, an unofficial Google-themed blog. It is much more substantive than my own modest Google hobby blog. Features include code snippets, various tutorials and other cool stuff, in a readable, well-designed format.


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Putting a cheeky and provocative title like Real Men Wear Kilts on a journal article ensures it will be widely read and commented upon, even if it isn't the gold standard of medical research — an original, double-blind, controlled study. So a recent piece in the Scottish Medical Journal is raising eyebrows if not kilts around the world.
In a nutshell, Erwin JO Kompanje of the Erasmus MC University Medical Centre in Rotterdam, argues that wearing a kilt in the regimental fashion (without underwear) likely produces an ideal physiological scrotal environment, which in turn helps maintain normal scrotal temperature, which is known to be beneficial for robust spermatogenesis and good sperm quality.
Kompanje laments the decrease in kilt wearing among Scottish lads, saying that it is now relegated to ceremonial occasions and that there are only few young men in Scotland who wear the kilt on a daily basis. Presumably they work in stores that sell them to tourists. He even ventures into the psychological domain, writing that research indicates that men wearing a kilt experience a strong sense of freedom and masculinity and that many women are attracted to men in kilts.
It's important to note that Kompanje didn't actually run around sticking thermometers under kilts. He formed his arguments from Scottish folklore and the general principle that heat is bad for sperm production, which it certainly is.
Other studies have actually brought out the thermometers. One, in the Journal of Urology, found that the mean scrotal temperature in those wearing briefs were actually lower, 33.6 °C, than those sporting boxers who clocked in at 33.8 °C. Robert Munkelwitz and his colleagues concluded that it is unlikely that underwear type has a significant effect on male fertility, which seems to settle the boxers vs. briefs vs. kilts debate once and for all.
Yet a new culprit has come on the scene to threaten our testicles. Laptop computers. The more powerful they get, the more heat they tend to generate. A 30-year-old U.K. man was told by doctors that he was cooking his sperm by sitting all night with his laptop on his lap.
According to the Daily Mail, Mr. Reed started using his laptop on a table instead and three months later Mrs. Reed became pregnant with baby daughter Taryn. Also anecdotal, but interesting.
A 2012 study from Argentina adds another culprit, using WiFi connections. In what sounds like it would have made a fun science fair project, researchers in Argentina divided sperm samples into two batches. One was exposed to WiFi from a laptop computer for four hours, and afterwards those sperm were significantly worse at swimming
and showed more DNA fragmentation. The researchers claimed this was independent of any thermal effect.
Their conclusion — "we speculate that keeping a laptop connected wirelessly to the internet on the lap near the testes may result in decreased male fertility"— has been disputed by other researchers who argue that watching sperm swim in glass tubes is not the same as studying the complicated biology of the human reproductive system.
More research will undoubtedly follow, but for now the simplest plan is to just put your laptop on a table.
Taking hot baths have been a form of folklore birth control for years, and now of course we have hot tubs and saunas to think about too. A study from Finland, where they really know their saunas, showed that being in one for 15 minutes caused a three-degree rise in scrotal temperature. Since the testes like to be about two degrees cooler than body temperature, this can have an adverse effect on sperm production.
Other factors that have been shown to lower sperm quality include excessive bike riding, smoking (anything,) drinking alcohol, sedentary lifestyle, and bad diet. There's some evidence that vegetarians might want to use protein supplements to beef up their sperm-making. The best news is that ejaculating every day seems to ensure that your sperm are fresh, and it's hard to be opposed to that.
Of course this line of research is primarily of interest to men who are seeking to become daddies. Yet regardless of age or intention, having good sperm quality is an important part of healthy manhood. In addition, we're learning that sperm are not just specialized delivery capsules for a precious cargo of 23 chromosomes. They even have some subtle functions in the development of the embryo.
As Douglas Carrell writes in a Fertility and Sterility journal article called Epigenetics of the Male Gamete, some studies, and numerous anecdotal observations, have hinted at a potential role of sperm contribution to embryogenesis. So the job of those hardworking little fellas is not over when one has successfully penetrated the egg, as we were taught in high school. Be nice to them.
Dr. Tom Keenan is an award-winning journalist, public speaker, and professor in the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary.


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When the Pope celebrated Mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York in April 2008, a TV newsman reminded us that the cornerstone of that magnificent church was laid in 1858. But I was reminded of one of the men who made that church possible: "Dagger" John Hughes….
By John E. Carey
Peace and Freedom
John Joseph Hughes (1797–1864), Catholic Archbishop of New York, played three critical roles for Lincoln and the United States during the Civil War. He traveled to Europe in search of able-bodied Irishmen to enlist in the Union Army. He participated in tricky diplomatic missions to France and the Vatican to keep them out of the war. Finally, Hughes used his personal powers of persuasion and clout to help quell the 1863 draft riots in New York.
Archbishop John Hughes is also responsible for starting the project, raising the first monies and laying the cornerstone for St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York — where Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Catholic Mass this week end.
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By the time of the Civil War, "Dagger" John Hughes was nearing the end of his influence and his life. He earned the nickname "Dagger" for two reasons: first, he signed his name to include a small cross, often confused for a dagger. Second: Hughes' hard-nosed style and ability to toughly face difficult challenges earned him the reputation as the "Dagger" of the Irish community in New York.After the Civil War began in 1861, Lincoln desperately needed to keep up a dialogue of understanding with European monarchs. Lincoln wanted to keep European nations from assisting the Confederacy. Lincoln wanted a Catholic of stature to assist him in dealing with the Catholic leaders in Europe. He chose Dagger John Hughes.
Lincoln paired Hughes with Thurlow Weed to head the mission to Europe.
Harper's Weekly reported on November 23, 1861 that "Mr. Weed [and Archbishop Hughes] left this port [New York] on Saturday last for Europe. He states himself that he goes on private business; the public, however, will be apt to suspect that his private business concerns the public interest. If the suspicion be correct, we may feel assured that our affairs will suffer no mischance in his hands. Few men in the country are such true patriots as Thurlow Weed."
European leaders wanted a divided nation on the American continent. In September 1861, England's former Colonial secretary Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton stated that a permanent division of the United States would benefit the "safety of Europe." A truly united United States "hung over Europe like a gathering and destructive thundercloud … [but] as America shall become subdivided into separate states … her ambition would be less formidable for the rest of the world."
"Dagger" John understood his mission and President Lincoln's concerns: even though he harbored no animosity toward the Confederacy. "My mission was and is a mission of peace between France and England on the one side, and the United States on the other. ….I made it known to the President that if I should come to Europe it would not be as a partisan of the North more than of the South; that I should represent the interests of the South as well as of the North; in short, the interests of all the United States just the same as if they had not been distracted by the present civil war. The people of the South know that I am not opposed to their interests."
While Weed headed to London to apply his tact and persuasion on members of Queen Victoria's government, Dagger John went to France to call upon Napoleon III.
Historian Dean B. Mahin wrote that "Napoleon thought an independent Confederacy would provide a buffer between royalist Mexico and the republican United States."
Even so, Hughes convinced the monarch to avoid involvement in the American conflict.
Then Hughes went to Italy on two missions. The first mission involved convincing the Vatican to keep out of the conflict. Hughes' second mission was to persuade Irishmen serving as mercenaries in the Army of the Vatican to join their Irish immigrant countrymen in America and fight for the Union.
Hughes accomplished both missions. The Catholic Pope stayed out of the war, despite intense pressure and diplomatic maneuvering from the Confederacy. Jefferson Davis sent Bishop Patrick Lynch of Charleston to the Vatican in 1861 and Father John Bannon in 1864. Nether could change the neutrality of the influential Pontiff.
In Rome, Hughes also met with leading and influential Irish mercenaries, including Miles Keogh and John Coppinger. Both agreed to join the Union cause and both persuaded others to join them.
A short time later General George McClellan described Keogh as "a most gentlemanlike man, of soldierly appearance," whose "record had been remarkable for the short time he had been in the army."
Keogh would serve in many engagements of the Civil War and die alongside George Armstrong Custer at the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876.
Bishop Hughes recruit John J. Coppinger also served with Custer. During the Civil War, General Custer wrote that Coppinger's "ability as an officer is of the highest order. … As a soldier I consider him a model."
Coppinger was still serving the United States during the Spanish-American War of 1898 when he was promoted to Major-General of Volunteers.
Hughes remained on his diplomatic mission in Europe until the summer of 1862.
Dagger John's final, but perhaps most significant, contribution to the Union cause came during New York's draft riots of July 1863.
The Irish, most of whom were Catholics, hated the Union Army draft. Most Irishmen lacked the funds to buy their way out of service, the way more wealthy men did throughout the war. The Irish also avidly read newspapers recounting the valor of the Irish Brigade and other units. But Irish losses appalled them — and seemed disproportionate to the losses of non-Irish units. Irish boys made up about 15 percent of the Union army – and they were dying in droves.
The Irish had also reacted badly to Lincoln's January Emancipation Proclamation. The Irish, arguably members of the lowest echelon of free American society, believed Lincoln's emancipation of the slaves only added another large population to their small niche of society.
So when Lincoln called a draft of even more men, the Irish went wild.
The New York Times reported that, "It seemed to be an understood thing that the negroes should be attacked wherever found." An orphanage was burned to the ground, stores were ransacked and dozens of police officers were killed or injured.
In three days of mayhem and unrest, 443 people were arrested, 128 wounded, and over 50 people dead. The rioters also burned down more than 100 buildings and damaged about 200 others. Many of the killed and wounded were free Black men. were killed. Irishmen were largely responsible for the rioting.
"In New York no one had to ask who ruled the Church," explained Professor Jay P. Dolan of the University of Notre Dame in his book "The Immigrant Church: New York's Irish and German Catholics, 1815-1865."
"John Hughes was boss….He ruled like an Irish chieftain," wrote Professor Dolan. A newspaper reporter of the time wrote that Archbishop Hughes was "more a Roman gladiator than a devout follower of the meek founder of Christianity."
But Hughes and the Irish did not rule all New York. New York was rued by Protestants, who winked at the unruliness of the Irish Catholics. The historian E.P. Spann called New York City in the mid-19th century "the capital of Protestant America." Protestant leadership, said Spann, "made no secret of their belief that Roman Catholicism was alien and inferior." Though not condoning the riot, the Protestant leadership of New York largely considered the disorder "a Catholic problem."
Hughes left his death bed to appeal to the Irish, their honor and their pride. Hughes challenged the Irish leaders with the words, "no blood of innocent martyrs, shed by Irish Catholics, has ever stained the soil of Ireland." Thus Archbishop Hughes convinced the Irish to end the rioting and peace was restored in New York.
President Lincoln wrote that "having formed the Archbishop's acquaintance in the earliest days of our country's present troubles, his counsel and advice were gladly sought and continually received by the Government on those points which his position enabled him better than others to consider. At a conjuncture of deep interest to the country, the Archbishop, associated with others, went abroad, and did the nation a service there with all the loyalty, fidelity and practical wisdom which on so many other occasions illustrated his great ability for administration."
Dagger John Hughes proved himself a formidable force in an era when a fighting bishop was needed. When the Vatican nuncio, Archbishop Bedini, asked an American priest to explain why people in America held Archbishop Hughes in such esteem, the answer was: "It is because he is always game."
Dagger John Hughes: Lincoln emissary and leader of American Irishmen died in New York on January 3, 1864.
John Hughes is also the one man most responsible for the building of the St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Catholics have made a very long and indelible contribution to the history of North, South and Central America. It is appropriate at the time of Pope Benedict's visit to recall Archbishop John Hughes.
Mr. Carey is president of International Defense Consultants, Inc. He writes for the Washington Times.


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Apart from hedge fund interest, the company is doing well. GNC Holdings management upped its guidance for FY 2013. It is experiencing all-round growth as all its major segments including franchise, wholesale and retail recorded growth for FY 2012. The company has reported positive same-store sales growth for 29 consecutive quarters. GNC Holdings runs 7,600 retail locations globally and is active in 53 countries. With projected earnings growth of 22 percent for next five years, the company offers good long-term investment opportunity. For the third quarter of the year, GNC Holdings reported 28 percent increase in its earnings. The stock trades at Price/Earnings ratio of 16.81 and thus is not an expensive stock.
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A Santa Monica High School teacher and wrestling coach caught on cell phone videos fighting with a student Friday was placed on leave pending an investigation into the incident, the school district superintendent announced.
According to a letter sent to parents by Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Superintendent Sandra Lyon, no one was injured in the classroom confrontation between teacher Mark Black and a student whose name has not been released.
But Lyon said she was alarmed by what she saw of the videos capturing the fight, which caused Santa Monica police to come to the school.
"We really don't want teachers putting their hands on other students," the superintendent said. "We really want everyone to act in a way that keeps each other safe."
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Based on what she has seen, the "physical restraint" used by the teacher was "unacceptable," Lyon wrote.
A Santa Monica police spokesman declined to comment on the incident and instead referred questions to the school district.
"We have been in contact with the student's family, and we will work with them to offer the support that they may need," Lyon wrote. "I am grateful that there is no reported serious physical harm to students or teachers, but that neither dismisses the severity of this situation nor my commitment to gather all the facts and make sure the proper actions are taken."
Students claim Black confronted their classmate about alleged illegal activity.
"The little boy was selling drugs in class," said Kylan Townsend, a student. "The wrestling coach told him to stop ... I guess he didn't listen and tables were thrown. They started fighting."
"The kid said like, 'Hey, get off me,'" said student Sam Wittert. "And he pushed the coach. And the coach, like, pushed him up against the wall."
Parent Skipp Townsend believes Black could have handled the situation better.
"The teacher was in a position where he could have controlled the situation without using violence," he said. "But I definitely understand being frustrated with the children being out of compliance."
School security and Santa Monica police intervened and the student was detained.
Neither the superintendent nor police would discuss the boys' status Friday night.
Some think Black got a raw deal.
"Yeah, I think he should come back first day after spring break," said senior Sam Borghese. "He's old. I think he's 50 or 60, something along those lines. He's about to retire!"
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Evaluation and Research Findings: Communication Study part 3
Over the past year, the evaluation team has been conducting A Study of Communication in the NISE Network (Network Communication Study) to learn about how the Network's primary communication components, NanoDays, face-to-face meetings, the regional hub structure, and the nisenet.org website, are being used by actively involved partners. We'll be highlighting different findings from the study - such as the bulleted points below - over the next few months in our Featured Finding section, and you can also read the whole report at http://www.nisenet.org/ncs.
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Actively involved NISE Net partners especially value Network components that allow for communication between partners and across the Network, such as face-to-face meetings and the regional hub structure.
We're excited that partners are interested in sharing their work with the Network and are looking to create more opportunities for partners to do so in future years. In the meantime, if you have done something that you would like to share in the Nano Bite, please get in touch with Eli Bossin at [email protected].


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Another day, another slipup by the Internal Revenue Service.
The incident involves the unwitting exposure of "tens of thousands" of Social Security numbers, according to a recent audit by the independent transparency and public-domain group Public.Resource.org. The identifying numbers were on the Internet for less than 24 hours after being discovered, but the damage was done. And unfortunately, the data-breach concerns some of the most sensitive types of transactions: Those made by nonprofit political groups known as 527s.
Every so often, 527s have to file tax forms to the IRS, which then get added to a database. The database itself is hardly a secret; the IRS has been sending updated records routinely to Public.Resource.org and other public-interest groups, and it's a favorite among political reporters. But when the IRS told the group's founder, Carl Malamud, to disregard the Form 990-Ts included in the agency's January release, he took a closer look at the files in question.
After analyzing the breach, Malamud wrote a letter to the IRS pointing out 10 instances where a social security number was accidentally revealed on the government's website—just a small sample of the larger breach.
Just the day before, Malamud had filed another letter to the agency describing a problem with the 990-Ts. Of over 3,000 tax returns contained in the January update, 319 contained sensitive data the agency should have scrubbed, Malamud wrote in the July 1 report that he filed to the inspector general's office. In that mixup, some 2,319 social security numbers—perhaps more—were revealed.
To determine the extent of the exposure, we've analyzed our logs and have also analyzed the data received from the IRS. We maintain a privacy registry based on any clicks made on the privacy cover sheet on the top of each return. That registry indicates that 8 clicks were made from 4 unique IP addresses. However, none of those resulted in privacy complaints and could have been made by an automated process.
In addition, we examined our FTP and HTTP logs. We only maintain a 7-day window for HTTP logs and did not see any HTTP-based access that was not from a search engine crawler. For the FTP logs (which indicates bulk download activity), we did not see extensive activity for the January directory, but it was clear that at least one copy of the DVD ISO image (the image of the original DVD) had been transferred.
Public.Resource.org took down its copy of the compromised 990-Ts and replaced them with a clean version that the IRS had sent. But it was another day before
"senior White House officials" the IRS removed the files from public view on their end, on July 3.
Calling the IRS's efforts at data security "unprofessional and amateur," Public.Resource.org is requesting that the IRS shut down the entire 527 database to prevent further lapses. In an email, Malamud told me that the IRS has, in fact, shut down the database—but that it should also reopen it as soon as possible in the interest of transparency.
In May, the IRS drew fire for singling out conservative political groups for greater scrutiny, leading to the resignation of the agency's acting director and sparking a slew of congressional hearings.
I've called the IRS for comment, and I'll update if I hear anything.
Update: An earlier version of this post didn't make sufficiently clear the distinction between the 990-Ts and the 527 database, which are each the source of separate, if similar, problems. Both the tax documents and the database revealed social security numbers; the IRS sent Public.Resource.org a clean copy of the first but didn't fix the second until Malamud contacted the agency.
Update, July 9: The IRS has responded with a statement, saying the agency is "assessing the situation and exploring available options."
"When we were alerted last week that a substantial number of Social Security numbers were posted on IRS.gov in forms filed by section 527 political organizations, the IRS decided out of an abundance of caution to temporarily remove public web access to the records," an official wrote. "The law requires the IRS to publicly post forms, such as Forms 8871, 8872 and 990, that are submitted by section 527 organizations. The IRS frequently and routinely reminds organizations of the public disclosure of these forms and urges them not to include personal information, including Social Security numbers, in their public filings."