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Sachdev V, Shizukuda Y, Brenneman CL, Birdsall CW, Waclawiw MA, Arai AE, et al. Left atrial volumetric remodeling is predictive of functional capacity in nonobstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
ABSTRACT The left atrium is afterload sensitive, responding to immediate changes in left ventricular (LV) diastolic pressure, and left atrial volumetric remodeling has been reported in conditions associated with abnormal diastolic function. We examined the relationship between left atrial volumetric remodeling and objective measures of exercise capacity in patients with nonobstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
We compared LA volume indices, other 2-dimensional and Doppler echocardiographic parameters, invasive hemodynamic measures, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-derived LV mass with exercise duration, maximal oxygen uptake (MV* O2), anaerobic threshold (AT), and ventilatory efficiency (VE/V* CO2 slope) in 43 patients with nonobstructive HCM. Patients underwent cardiac catheterization within 48 hours and metabolic stress testing within 1 week of their echocardiogram and MRI examinations.
Left atrial volume at end-ventricular systole (LA max) and end-atrial emptying (LA min) correlated with MV* O2 (r = -0.39, P < .01 for both), AT (r = -0.42, r = -0.39, respectively, P < .01 for both), and VE/V* CO2 slope (r = 0.45, P = .003; r = 0.41, P = .008). Patients with an LA max > or =33 mL/m2 had significantly lower MV* O2 (P = .025) and AT levels (P = .017) and higher VE/V* CO2 slope levels (P = .004) as compared with patients with a smaller LA size. In multivariate analysis, MRI-determined LV mass, which was not a univariate correlate of exercise tolerance, provided additional effect when combined with LA volume index.
Left atrial volumetric remodeling predicts exercise capacity in nonobstructive HCM and may reflect chronic LV diastolic burden. This simple noninvasive measure of LA size may provide a long-term indication of the effects of chronically elevated filling pressures in patients with HCM and further studies testing its prognostic value are necessary.
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- "The estimation of left atrial pressure, E/E' [17,25], was also within the normal range for this group. The average of left atrial volume indexed to body surface areas was significantly larger than normative values (indexed left atrial volume < 34 ml·m-2) [9], reflecting typical HT morphology and 32 patients (64%) demonstrated indexed atrial volume > 34 ml·m-2. The indexed ΔLAV was 1.9 ± 8.5 ml·m-2·year-1, indicating a relatively small increase in the LAV over the one year observation period in this cohort. "
ABSTRACT: Heart transplant (HT) recipients demonstrate limited exercise capacity compared to normal patients, very likely for multiple reasons. In this study we hypothesized that left atrial volume (LAV), which is known to predict exercise capacity in patients with various cardiac pathologies including heart failure and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is associated with limited exercise capacity of HT recipients. We analyzed 50 patients [age 57 ±2 (SEM), 12 females] who had a post-HT echocardiography and cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPX) within 9 weeks time at clinic follow up. The change in LAV (ΔLAV) was also computed as the difference in LAV from the preceding one-year to the study echocardiogram. Correlations among the measured parameters were assessed with a Pearson's correlation analysis. LAV (n = 50) and ΔLAV (n = 40) indexed to body surface area were 40.6 ± 11.5 ml·m-2 and 1.9 ± 8.5 ml·m-2·year-1, data are mean ± SD, respectively. Indexed LAV and ΔLAV were both significantly correlated with the ventilatory efficiency, assessed by the VE/VCO2 slope (r = 0.300, p = 0.038; r = 0.484, p = 0.002, respectively). LAV showed a significant correlation with peak oxygen consumption (r = -0.328, p = 0.020). Although our study is limited by a retrospective study design and relatively small number of patients, our findings suggest that enlarged LAV and increasing change in LAV is associated with the diminished exercise capacity in HT recipients and warrants further investigation to better elucidate this relationship.Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 11/2010; 5(1):113. DOI:10.1186/1749-8090-5-113 · 1.03 Impact Factor
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- "Additionally, LA volume moderately correlated to the extent of LGE irrespective of LV mass. Also, in symptomatic HCM patients in this study, LV end-systolic volumes and LA volumes were larger and extent of LGE was higher compared to asymptomatic HCM patients, which is in line with previous reports [16,22]. Interestingly, paroxysmal AF did not seem to be more prevalent in symptomatic HCM patients than asymptomatic HCM patients, but persistent AF tended to have a higher prevalence in symptomatic HCM patients compared to asymptomatic HCM patients. "
ABSTRACT: We sought to evaluate the relation between atrial fibrillation (AF) and the extent of myocardial scarring together with left ventricular (LV) and atrial parameters assessed by late gadolinium-enhancement (LGE) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). AF is the most common arrhythmia in HCM. Myocardial scarring is also identified frequently in HCM. However, the impact of myocardial scarring assessed by LGE CMR on the presence of AF has not been evaluated yet. 87 HCM patients underwent LGE CMR, echocardiography and regular ECG recordings. LV function, volumes, myocardial thickness, left atrial (LA) volume and the extent of LGE, were assessed using CMR and correlated to AF. Additionally, the presence of diastolic dysfunction and mitral regurgitation were obtained by echocardiography and also correlated to AF. Episodes of AF were documented in 37 patients (42%). Indexed LV volumes and mass were comparable between HCM patients with and without AF. However, indexed LA volume was significantly higher in HCM patients with AF than in HCM patients without AF (68 +/- 24 ml.m-2 versus 46 +/- 18 ml.m-2, p = 0.0002, respectively). The mean extent of LGE was higher in HCM patients with AF than those without AF (12.4 +/- 14.5% versus 6.0 +/- 8.6%, p = 0.02). When adjusting for age, gender and LV mass, LGE and indexed LA volume significantly correlated to AF (r = 0.34, p = 0.02 and r = 0.42, p < 0.001 respectively). By echocardiographic examination, LV diastolic dysfunction was evident in 35 (40%) patients. Mitral regurgitation greater than II was observed in 12 patients (14%). Multivariate analysis demonstrated that LA volume and presence of diastolic dysfunction were the only independent determinant of AF in HCM patients (p = 0.006, p = 0.01 respectively). Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis indicated good predictive performance of LA volume and LGE (AUC = 0.74 and 0.64 respectively) with respect to AF. HCM patients with AF display significantly more LGE than HCM patients without AF. However, the extent of LGE is inferior to the LA size for predicting AF prevalence. LA dilation is the strongest determinant of AF in HCM patients, and is related to the extent of LGE in the LV, irrespective of LV mass.Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 09/2009; 11(1):34. DOI:10.1186/1532-429X-11-34 · 4.56 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Summary form only given, as follows. Neural networks that can recognize 36 handwritten alphanumeric characters are studied. Thin line letters, in 32*32 binary arrays, are used as the input pattern. The system is built from two major units, a three-layered preprocessing unit and a recognition unit. Shift, scale, and deformation tolerance in recognition are provided through reprocessing. Three learning paradigms including an error backpropagation learning, a simple perceptron learning, and a competitive learning are examined and compared.< >Neural Networks, 1989. IJCNN., International Joint Conference on; 02/1989


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The new-age movement has invaded Rocky Mountain National Park--and knowingly or not, modern-day mystics are destroying sites of historical significance to American Indian tribes.
The damage is being done by people who move rocks and other artifacts in places where Indians once lived or conducted religious ceremonies, says Kenny Frost, a Ute Indian who works with the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management to identify archaeological sites.
Frost says he and U.S. Forest Service archaeologist Bill Kight discovered the vandalism about three weeks ago while visiting the area at the request of park archaeologist Jeff Conner. "Jeff wanted us to confirm what he suspected were a number of sites," Frost says.
Rocky Mountain National Park lies within the traditional boundaries of the Ute homeland. Trail Ridge Road follows the old Ute Trail used by that tribe to travel through the mountain regions of Colorado. It also contains sites of ancient battles between the Utes and the plains-dwelling Arapaho, who would venture into the mountains to hunt and raid.
Frost and Kight confirmed Conner's suspicions, finding religious and battle sites as well as signs of habitation, including wickiup lodges. "Quite a lot" of those sites, says Frost, had been disturbed.
Frost blames much of the destruction on new-age adherents who mix and match a variety of religions, including those of Native American tribes. In one case, he says, rocks had been moved to spell out the phrase "God Is." Other stones had been formed into large peace symbols and arrows.
In past years, Frost has faced off against new-agers who use Indian sites for their own purposes. This time, Frost says, he isn't sure if the vandals are even aware of what they're destroying.
"It may be that the sheer beauty [they find at] 12,000 feet makes them want to make their own religious statement," he says.
Frost says he hopes to alert members of the public to the problem, along with National Park Service employees who may not realize the vandalism is occurring.
Several acts of Congress can be used to prosecute people who disturb Indian sites. One is the National Historic Preservation Act, which generally applies to building sites; another is the Archaeological Resource Protection Act, which prohibits disturbing sites of human habitation more than fifty years old; another is the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act, which protects burial sites and requires that human remains be returned to American Indians for reburial; and finally, there's the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, which protects religious sites whether or not physical artifacts are present.
Frost says he hasn't kept count of the number of Rocky Mountain National Park sites destroyed so far. However, he says, "so much of the area near Trail Ridge Road has been disturbed that we're going to have to write it off."
The damage is so extensive, says Frost, that it's "often impossible to tell what is legitimate and what is not.
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3-Day Isle of Skye Small-Group Tour from Edinburgh
Read what other Viator.com travelers think about the 3-Day Isle of Skye Small-Group Tour from Edinburgh. What they loved, what they liked and what they think could be improved, it's all here to help you make the most of your next trip.
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Duncan our tour guide was knowledgeable and entertaining
Beautiful places, very nice guide! He explained a lot of thing about Scotland, the history, the land, the people and so much more. He made our tour like a radio play-he told us stories with the perfect music.
Thoroughly enjoyable trip. Richard was knowledgeable and witty guide. Very punctual.
The Isle of Skye tour exceeded our expectations. We hit a double jackpot - 1) Karen (our driver/tour guide); and 2) our B and B accommodations and hostess; were the absolute best! Karen's passion for Scotish history, geography, and natural wonders made the time fly by, and we came away loving Scotland in a way that we had not anticipated. It was a delightful three days that will live with us forever.
Our driver and guide Mav was great. He shared a lot of stories and history with us along the drive. Took us to see amazing sites. Stopped frequently and ran a great tour. The size of the group was good to be able to move through Scotland and was a comfortable size with 16. We met some nice people on the tour. The Almond Bank B and B was great too thanks to Effie!!!!
Amazing, our tour guide Steve was extremely knowledgable, passionate and it seemed like he knew everything about Scotland! Would definitely recommend this tour to anyone.
We were very pleased with the tour, especially our guide. She was an excellent person.
It was a perfect way to be introduced to Skye. Our tour guide, 'party' Pete was perfect. Very informative about the history and very conscientious about taking care of our group. Plenty of stops in all the right places.
We enjoyed this tour very much isle of Skye is a very inviting and peaceful place. Thank you . Regards Kim McWhirter.
Loved the tour. Jamie was our driver and did a great job pointing out interesting sites and history of the area. Our B and B was Great!. I would highly recommend to anyone.
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I had the most wonderful time in this tour. Sarah was full of wonderful information and history. I would totally recommend this tour to anyone wanting to see a lot of Scotland in a short amount of time. I can't wait to come back.
This tour was absolutely spectacular and was the highlight of my two-week tour of Europe. I can't recommend it enough. The Scottish Highlands and the Isle of Skye are so beautiful that they are almost impossible to describe in words. They are one of the most magical and compelling places I've ever visited. The tour had the perfect balance of guiding and independent time, and the small group of 16 meant we all got to know each other. It felt more like a big road trip with friends than a regular tour. Our guide, Ruth, was fantastic: she was passionate, energetic and filled with incredible stories of the history and culture of the area, so our time passed quickly in the van. Stops were well spaced out so we never felt like we were driving too much, and we had plenty of time at each place. I dream of the day I can return to this magnificent area of the world. I highly recommend this experience for both first-time and return visitors to Edinburgh!
Had a amzing time! Highly recommended
Our tour guide, Steven, was exceptional. He knew the history, he knew the folklore, and he kept us engaged by telling the stories with enthusiasm and sound effects. He was 'chill' to the max; so easy to to understand and so pleasant to spend time with him on the bus.This is a must do trip. The countryside is breathtaking and the sites like none other I have seen. We stayed at Quiraing Guest House for two nights and had lovely accommodations.
Excellently organised, personalised and inspiring. Would book it again.
Tour was great Tour guide, Gus, was excellent coach very comfortable
the tour guide was very good and he explained and told us lots of stories about the place. Quite a nice experience.
I thought this tour was fantastic i couldn't of ask for anything better. The up was pictures we had plenty of photos stops along the way as the weather was so sunny. I stayed at the b and b called Feochan which was so beautiful, the people who run this b and b are amazing and so welcoming we had a blackout one night and they came around and gave us all flash light and made sure everyone was doing ok. The driver/guide name was jamie and he was a great guide/driver and had so many stories and knew so much about the history. The isle is magical i don't think there is any other way to describe it, ive never seen so much beauty in my life, This had been one of the best tours i have done in such a long time and im glad i make to decision to go, i will remember this experience for ever and i cant wait to tell my friends and family all about and i also cant wait to come back but next time it will be for longer
We went as a family on this trip and all of us thoroughly enjoyed the three day tour. The bus was comfortable and clean, the scenery was spectacular, the accommodation great and the landlady of the Quirang was really lovely. Despite the awful weather on Skye our fantastic guide (Keith) made the best tour he possibly could, he was incredibly knowledgeable, passionate about his tour and a good laugh (we have downloaded the Bricklayers song!) .. oh, and he gave us plenty of stops!! We would most certainly go on another tour with Rabbies and would recommend this tour to anyone who wanted to see the Highlands and Skye (and all the other attractions) without the hassle of driving (and in our case arguing over a map book!). Thank you Keith for making our tour something we will always remember.
Amazing trip, the guide was very knowledgeable and helpful
Fantastic trip, great toe guide, and we saw lots of Skye and stayed in a fantastic hotel. Overall a fantastic break
This trip was to put it simply, amazing!!! I actually didn't know what to expect when going in, but the scenery took my breath away, and I just had a really amazing time. The Guide was amazing too, and I actually felt like I went away having learnt a little more. I could not recommend this any more!!!! A must do experience of Scotland!!
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Our trip was amazing, despite the less than ideal weather. Our tour guide, Duncan, made sure to find fun activities for us to do regardless of the weather and even stuck it out with us when we were determined to be soaking wet tourists. The island is absolutely beautiful and we feel like we got to see a lot of different things in our 3 days there. If you are a nature lover then you will love this tour! We also had our first stay in a bed and breakfast and it was so adorable...situated on a beautiful little lake with the nicest hosts! Would definitely recommend!
This was one of these best tours I have ever gone on. If you are short on time and want to see the Isle of Skye in comfort then this tour is for you. For only 3 days you actually see a vast amount of Skye and the Scottish highlands, Loch Ness and many many other amazing places along the way.
Our group was only 10 people and we were in a medium sized bus which was very comfortable, the small group made it easy to get to know people and have one on one time with the tour guide, if you want to. There are heaps of photo stops, toilet breaks and places to get food/drinks. Eric, our amazing tour guide, had an impressive amount of knowledge on Scotland and it's history and information about each place we visited. He really made the tour what it is - a very personable, funny guy who accommodates everyone's needs and answers anyone's questions. He was so helpful, passionate and really made the tour exciting all of the time, even when we were just cruising for a couple of hours on the bus to our next stop.
The acommodation is in a town called Portree and the B and B we were put in was excellent. Fantastic view of the surrounding area and harbour of Portree, with a friendly and welcoming owner who cooked the most delicious breakfasts.
Overall this was a well organised, informative, fun and enjoyable tour conducted by a company called Rabbies. I highly recommend it and truly believe I got the most out of Skye and Northern Scotland etc in the short time I had. 5 out of 5!
The tour was very well planned with ample of sight seeing as well as time to relax. But the highlight was the driver/ guide. He was very knowledgable and accommodating.


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H.R.4873 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage investment in affordable housing.109th Congress (2005-2006)
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In a speech at the Human Rights Watch's Greater New York Gala, Attorney General Eric Holder made a bold declaration, "In every courthouse, in every proceeding and in every place where a member of the Department of Justice stands on behalf of the United States, they will strive to ensure that same-sex marriages receive the same privileges, protections and rights as opposite-sex marriages under federal law."
This means that for the first time, married same-sex couples have the same protections as all married couples in legal proceedings.
The Obama administration has taken several steps to ensure equal protection for same-sex couples over the last few years. The military's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy was reversed and the government refused to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), including when the case reached the Supreme Court. It was there that SCOTUS declared DOMA unconstitutional, making legally married same-sex couples eligible for federal benefits. Since then, married same-sex couples can now file joint federal tax returns, have access to military spousal benefits, Medicaid, and Children's Health Insurance Programs if they quality.
All legally married same-sex couples are eligible for federal benefits even if they reside in a state that doesn't recognize same-sex marriage.
With the new directive, married same-sex couples gain new protections under federal law. In federal civil and criminal proceedings spouses have the same legal rights, including not being compelled to give testimony against their spouse. The DOJ policy states that the federal government cannot object when someone invokes this right, even if the state does not recognize same-sex marriage. In bankruptcy proceedings, couples can now file jointly and include alimony payments to a former same-sex spouse as a debt. Federal prisoners will now have the same spousal privileges regarding such things as visitation and compassionate release when a spouse is incapacitated.
This isn't the first time that the DOJ has used its policy power to grant benefits to same-sex couples.
The justice department has already approved policy changes in other agencies. As of last summer, federal employees in same-sex marriages can apply for medical, dental and retirement benefits to include their spouses. Joint placement in retirement homes as allowed by Medicare is also now available. Social Security death benefits will be paid to a surviving spouse and green cards can be issued to foreign national same-sex spouses.
In addition to the legal protections, Holder will make same-sex spouses eligible for benefit funds run by the justice department. This means surviving spouses can now receive death benefits when law enforcement officers are killed in the line of duty, as well as from the September 11th Victims' Compensation Fund.
As the legalization of same-sex marriage slowly makes its way through the states (Nevada and Virginia are the latest states to no longer defend their states' marriage bans), the Obama administration is committed to giving protections wherever same-sex couples live. "We are, right now, in the middle of marking a number of 50-year anniversaries of key milestones in the civil rights movement," Holder said Saturday night. "And yet, as all-important as the fight against racial discrimination was then, and remains today, know this: My commitment to confronting discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity runs just as deep."
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Here is a headline for you Gerald
..marriage does NOT CREATE BABYS!!!! IMPRGNATING EGGS DOES. You dodnt have have to have sex for that anymore. If Mother nature doesnt give a shit if Gay People exist then YOU shouldnt. its none of your business. It isnt hurting mankind. it isnt hurting the gene pool
..it isnt creating a baby shortage.
So find something else to be concerned about. Not something YOU have no control over. They are pasrt of the system God created, if you beleive in God. So someohow you know more about the subject than God??
So tired of seeing so many people quoting the bible when they don't live by it. The only time they bother with it is when they want to prove that whatever they hate is wrong and everyone should live by that. Such bull-crap. My nephew is gay, lives/works in NYC and has a wonderful partner. It is not my business to interfere and I would not want to. I believe in letting people live their lives as they want to, not as you say they have to. They make a wonderful couple, better than a couple of families I know. It is not anyone's business but their own. Grow up.
Another reply to Gerald's "It will be a frosty day in hell when same sex unions produce off-spring"
It must snowing in your hell Gerald. Same sex couples produce off-spring all the time using the same reproductive technologies used by opposite sex couples who struggle with fertility.
Suba G.: "Gerald,
In response to: 'It will be a frosty day in hell when same sex unions produce off-spring.' Again who cares?" BOOM!
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Each step counts, especially when you're counting on it - smile.
Gerald L.
Just so you understand, being gay is natural just like rain and sunshine. Just like sunshine and rain can help the grass grow, they also have other purposes. Marriage is not only for the purpose of procreation. If it were, there are many legally recognized marriages already that should not be allowed. Just because that is what marriage might mean to some does not mean that is the only thing it is to everyone.
Gerald L.
"I am agreement with "civil unions" officiated by a Justice of the Peace and property rights, health benefit plan sharing, pension's etc. But have objection to watering down of gospel doctrine by infiltration of people into churches with the agenda to do so. This has caused major church splits."
So it sounds to me like you are for gay marriage as long as it isn't in your church, would that be accurate? I ask because if that is the case it sounds like we want nearly the same thing. I have no desire to force a church to allow marriage within it's walls if it goes against that churches beliefs. I only want the people that worship in that church to acknowledge that they do not have the right to impose their beliefs on people outside of those walls.
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My recent conclusion is the parable of the tares among the wheat; Matthew 13:24-30 (Jesus words)
No, you see, those are words some people claim was named Matthew.
Whoever the true author of Metthew is he copied them from something transcribed after decades of something called oral tradition stories. Every tell a story at a party and hear the story you originally told and somehoe the story barely sounds like the story you began with?
Imagine how that degredation in meaning, context, word choice, accuracy, relevance and authority is compounded by large multiples in telling and retelling some story it before it is written?
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Constitutional Court of South Africa
It wasn't just a question of who was stronger physically, who could mess up and hurt the other side the most effectively to extract information. It was what we stood for, and the ANC, as an organization, took a very, very firm position that we put people on trial. We don't have indefinite detention without a trial, whatever the suspicions might be, and we don't use torture -- sleep deprivation, water boarding, suffocating people, physical abuse. We just don't use that, because that's not the kind of people we are. And I mention this with some emphasis, because it meant, when eventually it came to writing the South African constitution, we didn't need any persuading about the importance of fundamental rights. We had applied the theme of fundamental rights to our enemies in circumstances where conditions were often desperate for us. It was part of our integrity, and our personality, and that dream and sense of idealism that made us a liberation movement, and not just another group of people fighting for power, to dislodge one group and replace them with another group. View Interview with Albie SachsView Biography of Albie SachsView Profile of Albie SachsView Photo Gallery of Albie Sachs
Albie Sachs: When I was young, I learned to dream. I learned to imagine doing impossible things. I learned to feel that we have just one life that can be very rich. It can be very special, it's really up to us. I don't think that's changed really. The details, the formatting of it, the experiences have changed. I've had to rethink a lot of things about happiness. I thought you would just be happy, and then -- personal happiness -- you'd meet the right person, you fall in love and you just become happy. I thought that everybody who had money would be happy. Poor people are unhappy 'cause they're short of bread and they can't go to school and so on. I discovered rich people are unhappy. I discovered you could meet someone you loved very much, you'd been through a lot together, but somehow you weren't happy together. Life in that sense is a much richer, more nuanced experience, in many ways much more wonderful because it's not automatic. View Interview with Albie SachsView Biography of Albie SachsView Profile of Albie SachsView Photo Gallery of Albie Sachs
Developer of Polio Vaccine
Why do I see things differently from the way other people see them? Why do I pursue the questions that I pursue, even if others regard them as, as they say, "controversial?" Which merely means that they have a difference of opinion. They see things differently. I am interested both in nature and in the human side of nature, and how the two can be brought together, and effective in a useful way. View Interview with Jonas SalkView Biography of Jonas SalkView Profile of Jonas SalkView Photo Gallery of Jonas Salk
Co-Founder, Innocence Project
It was quite an extraordinary it is sort of a landmark case. Because what happened, we did a six-month evidentiary hearing. There were Nobel Prize winners on the prosecution side, we had all these great scientists. And by the end of the hearing, Eric wrote an article about it in Nature. But what happened is he got the prosecution scientists to agree with our scientists about the data and they conceded. They wrote a joint statement at the end of the hearing that you couldn't match the fragments, you couldn't make an adequate statement about their significance, and called on the National Academy of Sciences to convene a panel immediately to help with the transfer of this technology from medical and research purposes to the forensic arena. And that was really a great and extraordinary development. That's really how we began. So we knew immediately that DNA would prove a lot of people innocent. View Interview with Barry ScheckView Biography of Barry ScheckView Profile of Barry ScheckView Photo Gallery of Barry Scheck
Barry Scheck: I feel, and my colleague Peter Neufeld and everybody that works on the Innocence Project in New York and in the other projects across the country, we feel we are involved in an international human rights movement. Because it has been established now in the United Kingdom, Norway, Israel, China, people are trying to start -- well, Taiwan -- trying to start an Innocence Project. They are very interested in -- mainland China as well -- in this whole issue, and they have delegations over to look at it. But I think that it's an essential human right. No matter what kind of a system you have, whether it's adversarial or inquisitional, there has to be a mechanism in place for people to be able to prove after an adjudication that they really didn't commit the crime. And we've had problems in the American criminal justice system being able to get back into court to prove innocence. And we now have established that far more innocent people are convicted than anybody ever really thought. It was really a necessary fiction to believe that we have an infallible system, but it certainly isn't, and there is no good reason to believe it is infallible. Indeed, I think a law student should say, what's really great about the Innocence Project is not simply that you're able to save a life or the lives of family members of the wrongfully incarcerated and the wrongfully convicted. View Interview with Barry ScheckView Biography of Barry ScheckView Profile of Barry ScheckView Photo Gallery of Barry Scheck
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