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7 Movies You Didn't Know Can Come True (With Mental Illness)
#3. Aphasia - Life is a Musical
The Movie:
If you've ever walked through a cornfield or a suspiciously well-lit back alley and had the sudden, inexplicable urge to break out into song you're probably: A) in a drunken blackout (which explains the corn field), or B) living in a musical. It's a world where everyone belts their internal monologues and gang fights turn into homoerotic ballets.
As obnoxious as it all seems, this is all a part of normal life in the world of musicals, which of course have nothing to do with reality...
The Disorder:
...unless of course you live with Aphasia. The disorder is characterized by the sudden lack of language comprehension or inability to speak clearly and is typically caused by a stroke. However, studies showed that Aphasic patients who could still form words were easier to understand if they sang instead of spoke. Even some who were totally unable to speak could still sing songs and communicate that way.
Living an Aphasic life (which incidentally sounds like a great title for a song from a Broadway musical) would be like living in a musical all the time, where even the most mundane aspects of communication are sung, hopefully in key and without the exuberant costumes. It probably sounds like fun, until you are really really pissed off and are trying to get someone to take you seriously.
#2. Syndrome of Delusional Companions - My Sandwich is Talking to Me
The Movie:
In Night at the Museum, Ben Stiller plays a nighttime security guard at the Museum of Natural History. On his first night on the job, the once funny Zoolander star discovers all the museum's exhibits come to life thanks to a cursed Egyptian tablet also housed in the building (typical). Throughout the film, the various exhibits create comedic trouble as Stiller tries to control them. Hilarity kind of ensues.
Also see: any Pixar film where everything from toys to cars chat it up when humans aren't around.
The Disorder:
Your life can too be a humorless vehicle for the final death knell of Ben Stiller's comedic talent... that is if you suffer from Delusional Companion Syndrome. Imagine for a moment that every inanimate object around you was a sentient being, with its own hopes and dreams and could actually speak to you. For some victims of Alzheimer's disease, that is their everyday life.
Recently, psychiatrists have found a rare complication in Alzheimer's patients where the afflicted believe comforting inanimate objects such as a favorite Hummel figurine or a half-used tube of Bengay are sentient and chatty. While a home full of pals actually might seem like an improvement for a lonely old woman, it surely does give one pause when reaching for the toilet paper.
#1. Reduplicative Paramnesia - The World is an Illusion
The Movie:
If there's one sci-fi mindfuck more common than the evil twin, it's this one. You've got The Matrix, eXistenZ and The Thirteenth Floor where (SPOILER!) the world turns out to be a computer-generated simulation. Then you have Vanilla Sky where Tom Cruise finds out his life has been (ALSO SPOILER!) a dream induced by a cryogenic sleep. And then there's The Truman Show where Jim Carrey finds out his whole world is a gigantic set for a reality show he didn't know he was starring in.
The Disorder:
If you wake up tomorrow and get the odd feeling that your bedroom is not in fact your bedroom but has been meticulously replaced by someone, odds are you are not in the Matrix but simply have Reduplicative Paramnesia.
It is a malfunction in the memory centers of the brain, normally stemming from some kind of head injury, that causes patients to believe a location they currently inhabit has somehow been duplicated. For instance, they may perceive that the hospital room they are lying in is really inside their dining room, while the real room still exists in the hospital, but is empty.
Sometimes they'll even believe the hospital itself is located in their home town when it actually isn't. When questioned as to how that could be possible, patients have explained that their current surroundings are obviously an exact copy of the real place and will further claim that the same staff work at both locations in order to complete the illusion.
Once more this condition is very rare, so keep that in mind if you intend to use it as an excuse to call in for work tomorrow ("Look, boss, you and I both know I'm already at work. It's not my fault you've disguised the Burger King to look like my apartment, and replaced the french fry station with an Xbox playing Call of Duty").
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Theft: Work vehicle entered Thursday in the 300 block of Third Street and power tools taken.
Theft: Residence in the 300 block of Lawson Avenue entered and PlayStation taken, Thursday.
Arrested: Stephanie Pytash, 32, no fixed address, bench warrant out of municipal court and possession of drug paraphernalia, Thursday.
Arrested: Jodi Valentine, 31, 664 Spring Ave., failure to appear warrant out of municipal court, Thursday.
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Yeah that's what I was getting at.
Darth Kreia makes me ashamed of being a Sith.
Didn't do much for the concussion or broken arm, but it made me feel good otherwise.
I do have to say that preacher's church was heavy on the praise and worship section and low on sermon. I liked that. Benediction was a bit excessive at times, but it was nice to know the people that went there didn't expect the sermon and benediction to be over like 15 minutes before lunch so they could get a nice table at K&W or Chili's.
Then again, this preacher used to be in a rock band, so there was also that.
^ I agree completely
The greatest assault on faith comes from the most devout.
I also love Chicken in a Biskit
like if penis tasted like Chicken in a Biskit, I'd totally be gay. Or just a dude who loves Chicken in a Biskit flavored dick. I dunno.
Chicken Biscuit != Chicken in a Bisket. Not by a stretch.
Ohhhh ok. I thought that was some fast food place I hadn't heard of.
Ha ha ha. Best amazon review of Chicken in a Bisket crackers "If Chuck Norris was edible, he'd be C in a B." and if that Chicken in a Bisket penis squirted Kraft Easy Cheese!? OMYGWAD
Oh hell yeah. The cheese would definitely be the best part.
Shane. You cannot live in the South and have never experience the glory of Chicken in a Bisket. Get on that shit man.
Mmmm Chicken in a Biscuit crackers. *drools* Putting spray cheese on those is fucking heresy though. Sick bastards. Only freshly sliced mild cheddar.
Now that we're looking at BigThink videos, I feel this video of Mr. DeGrasse Tyson describes my feelings on religion as a whole fairly accurately (hoping this hasn't been posted already, lol).
Whether his definition of agnosticism is 100% correct isn't really of my interest, as I'm referring to the actual explanation of his beliefs.
It's definitely a very interesting topic that can be discussed in a million ways, and it's nice to see a forum where the majority of the discussions don't consist of "UR WRONG ABOUT GOD BCUZ SIENCE SAYS NO" and "GO AWAY I CAN HAS FAITH".


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Toyota's "Giving Veterans a Lift" program extended through 2013
Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A. (TMHU), created the "Giving Veterans a Lift" program with two objectives in mind: to help veterans find employment and to assist its dealers in recruiting qualified service technicians. In an announcement today, Toyota plans to extend the program through December 2013.
Veterans are encouraged to apply for Toyota Industrial Equipment (TIE) dealership service technician career opportunities at toyotalifttech.com. For every veteran hired by a TIE dealer as a service technician, TMHU will match a dealer's donation (up to $500) to Hire Heroes USA, in honor of the newly hired veteran.
Hire Heroes USA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating job opportunities for U.S. military transitioning service members, veterans and their spouses. The services provide transitional, job search assistance and job placement services to those who have served in the U.S. military and to their spouses.
"Since the inception of this program, Toyota has seen first-hand how job training can directly help veterans and how veterans' work ethic can benefit business," said Jeff Rufener, president of TMHU. "We are proud that 139 veterans have taken advantage of Toyota's programs this year and hope that many more can learn a new job skill or bring their expertise to our dealerships."
Toyota also extended its veteran operator safety training program, which was originally launched in 2011 and provides discounted forklift operator safety training for veterans. This program is available through December 31, 2013 via Toyota's network of participating dealers and offers veterans a $200 discount on the training, which trains individuals how to operate lift trucks.
To learn more about the "Giving a Veterans a Lift" program and the operator safety training program, visit http://www.toyotaforklift.com/pages/training/veterans.aspx.


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6 Crackpot Conspiracy Theories (That Actually Happened)
We really do try very hard here at Cracked to maintain a no-bullshit policy. We're not the goddamned New York Times, but we do try to make sure we don't repeat a claim unless we can link to a smarter group of people who confirm it. We kind of think everyone who touches a keyboard should do that.
But in the course of looking down our noses at the nutjobs who spread urban legends and conspiracy theories, we have to sometimes stop and point out that there are downright terrifying historical precedents for even their craziest of claims.
#6. The Government Is Transmitting Thoughts Into Our Brains!
This is the stereotypical "tin foil hat" conspiracy theory that the government has the ability to beam thoughts into or out of your skull using its Illuminati mind-ray technology. This is a favorite of crazy people because, well, they're crazy, and hearing strange voices in your head is as common a symptom of craziness as you'll find. Assassins Mark Chapman and Sirhan Sirhan both claimed to hear voices in their heads telling them to murder their targets.
You can use the same excuse to get away with stealing lunches from your co-workers.
But they're not the only ones who have ever claimed to hear voices broadcast directly into their heads. All over the country, people who aren't murdering beloved public figures have also asserted that the United States government is trying to control their minds by transmitting thoughts directly into their brains. Which is why some of them elect to don the aforementioned tinfoil headgear -- to keep the voices out. This is why the tinfoil hat has become the emblem of all things conspiracy-related, mocked in movies and elsewhere.
ProTip: Make sure you remove the leftovers from the tin foil before putting it on your head.
Why It's Not So Crazy
They can totally beam voices into your head.
In 2006, a guy whom multiple counselors labeled as a "paranoid schizophrenic" filed a Freedom of Information Act petition requesting all declassified government documents pertaining to covert attempts at microwave auditory effect, telepathy and hypnosis. While no one was surprised that a guy who once complained that the backs of his shoes were vaporized by an electromagnetic weapon would go through the effort of filing the request, a lot of people shit a brick when they saw the papers that came back.
Page after page of verified government documents confirmed that taxpayer dollars had funded research on everything from a telepathic ray gun to fever lasers that made victims disoriented and less aggressive. And, yes, one of the released tests even broadcast a person's voice telepathically by "using close-range microwaves ... to project the spoken numbers 1 to 10 across a lab to volunteers."
Inside their heads.
If you think that's fucked up, just imagine the shit they shredded.
So, not only is this technology possible, the government has toyed with using it. And considering the United States government's track record with mind control, well ...
#5. The Census Is a Tool for Government Oppression!
Most of us didn't give a second thought to filling out our census forms last year. But among the loonier elements of American society, speculation abounded about what exactly the government was going to do with all that data it collected, other than, you know, allocate congressional seats. One conservative website speculated that GPS coordinates of households collected by census workers would possibly prepare UN soldiers for a U.S. invasion. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann even stated that she and her family would refuse to answer any census questions beyond how many people were in her household, because "the Constitution doesn't require any information beyond that."
Look for our new sister site, "Stupid Shit Michele Bachmann Says", to launch in February. We won't even need to hire writers.
Thanks to the fact that, yes it does, Bachmann took a lot of heat for her paranoid rhetoric. Especially when the actual results of the census led to speculation that her own state might lose a congressional district.
So, we could all sit back and laugh at the paranoid types who thought the government was going to use the census to round us up and put us into camps.
Why It's Not So Crazy
The U.S. government totally once used census data to round people up and put them in camps.
Looking pretty good compared to Hitler: not a high bar, but it's one we can reach.
After years of hearing nothing but denial, in 2007 the world found out that the U.S. Census Bureau actually did assist the Secret Service in rounding up Japanese-Americans for internment. And it was given the authority to do so by an executive emergency law enacted by then-president Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Prior to the Second War Powers Act of 1942, information collected by census takers was confidential and protected. But once Pearl Harbor was bombed and the U.S. got its frenetic anti-Asian ball rolling, all bets were off for any American whose eyes weren't shaped "white." So when the Secret Service came knocking on the Census Bureau's door for the names and addresses of Japanese-Americans, even the ones who were citizens, the data collectors were willing to oblige. The law that gave the government that authority wasn't repealed until after the war ended.
Tags are way less awful than tattoos!
And that wasn't the last time racial data were handed over in a politically charged atmosphere. In 2004, the Census Bureau took a beating for giving the Department of Homeland Security information about Arab Americans, including ZIP codes with dense Arab populations. Some speculated that the data even led to the deportation of people who wouldn't have otherwise been targeted.
So, yeah, they'd never use that information against you. As long as you're white.
Three cheers for the genetic lottery!
#4. The Government Controls the Media!
The logic behind this gem goes a little something like this:
The mainstream media never report on government conspiracies.
Therefore ...
The mainstream media are in on government conspiracies. ERGO
The government controls the media.
The believers of this idea don't just take for granted the so-called liberal bias demonstrated by media outlets across the board. What these guys allege is much more sinister: that the federal government is in charge of media outlets across the board. Not just moderating or regulating, but controlling what we see, hear and read. One conspiracy site speculates that the government exercises its control not just through content but through the information released through government spokesmen, through subsidies, press passes and embedded reporters in wartime. In other words, everything that government officials touch with regards to the media is just another way for them to control it.
The plot of the Robert DeNiro movie Wag the Dog involved a president actually fabricating an entire war, with the news media obediently publishing story after story at the government's behest. Ridiculous, right?
Between the poster, the title and Dustin Hoffman, we were 90% sure this film was about masturbation.
Why It's Not So Crazy
Beginning in 1948, a man named Frank Wisner ran a branch of the CIA called the Office of Policy Coordination and was given all sorts of secret authority to pretty much do any awful thing he felt like if it advanced his version of American ideology. Under that sleazy umbrella, Wisner began Operation Mockingbird, which was his effort to infiltrate every major media outlet with journalists and editors who were in his pocket.
By the mid-50s, the CIA had over 400 journalists working with them across the country. And these guys weren't just cub reporters, either. They included top level employees from all three major networks as well as The New York Times, Time Inc. and Associated Press, all not only capable of planting pro-government stories in their respective media but also able to suppress anything that wasn't government-friendly. And the whole shebang was so easy to accomplish because, as one operative noted, "You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month."
Journalists give better head, too.
The good news is that Operation Mockingbird was exposed and disbanded by the mid-70s. The bad news is that even in the past decade, the government has had its sticky fingers all over wartime reporting and is still using psychological warfare to get the entire world on our side. It's working like a dream, guys!
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Service-learning courses and partnerships can have remarkable results and provide opportunities for growth and transformation for everyone involved in the experiences. Below, learn about some collaborations in service-learning experiences and hear the students, faculty members and community partners share their thoughts about what service-learning has meant to them.
Dr. Elizabeth Schimdt teaches many service-learning classes that include: Africa: Past and Present, Women and Social Change in Modern Africa, & Conquest and Colonization in Africa. She was featured in Loyola Magazine discussing service-learning in her classes. The following links are of Dr. Elizabeth Schmidt's interview about her service-learning courses and the Refugree Youth Project in the current issue of Loyola Magazine along with her students' reflections about service-learning. http://magazine.loyola.edu/issue/academics/2533/cura-personalis-elizabeth-schmidt-phdhttp://magazine.loyola.edu/issue/academics/2576/reflections-on-refugee-youth-project
Dr. Allen Brizee is featured in The Dean's Updates for his service-learning class, Introduction to Rhetoric. His students worked closely with the small York Road community of Richnor Springs to bring awarness to the community. Students contributed to their LiveBaltimore information, the neighborhood association meeting flier, and now in WR325, created a new website for Richnor Springs to create awareness for the community. To read more about Dr. Allen Brizee's Service-Learning class, the full article can be found at the following link: http://www.loyola.edu/newsletter/loyola-college/october2011/servicelearning.html.
In Fall 2009, Dr. Jean Lee Cole and her upper-level English students in the service-learning course, The Novel in America, created an exhibit called "The City That Reads: Novels in Baltimore." The exhibit featured projects undertaken by members of the class-- four groups of service-learning students, several groups engaged in archival research, and several who researched novel-reading on campus. It was displayed at the Loyola Notre Dame Library and exists online at www.drivehq.com/web/novels.
"Not only did I enjoy working with the kids, but I was able to gain a better understanding of course concepts through my time with the Refugee Youth Project. Through the kids' interactions with each other and the volunteers, one could learn a great deal about hierarchy of authority, race relations, gender relations and family structure."
Ali Williams, in HS 389, "Women and Social Change in Modern Africa"
Ali Williams, in HS 389, "Women and Social Change in Modern Africa"
"The opportunity to work with St. Mary's students through my basic photography class has been one of the most rewarding experiences I have had while teaching at Loyola. Every week my students teach the St. Mary's students the skills they recently acquired in my class. The friendship and joy that is created through this shared education is an experience that will last a lifetime."
Dan Schlapbach, Department of Fine Arts
Dan Schlapbach, Department of Fine Arts
"Service to others gives us an understanding of the world; through learning we are inspired to do more. The combination of both can make us powerful agents of change in our own lives and the lives of others. Challenge yourself and others to be partners in the process."
Laura Spada, Executive Director, St. Ambrose Center
Laura Spada, Executive Director, St. Ambrose Center
"I find that service-learning helped emphasize the Jesuit ideal of developing a whole person. The concept of utilizing class material in order to better ourselves and the community truly exemplifies Loyola's overall goal of developing students who are 'inspired to lead, lead and serve in a diverse and changing world'."
Stephanie Holden, in SP203, "Introduction to Communication Disorders"
Stephanie Holden, in SP203, "Introduction to Communication Disorders"
"As a result of students' service-learning experience in my developmental psychology courses, they critically think about prejudice, discrimination and injustice more deeply. In confronting these social problems through personal relationships formed with community members, students' strengthen their commitment to combating these social injustices."
Dr. Carolyn Barry, Department of Psychology
Dr. Carolyn Barry, Department of Psychology
"They come with an attitude that says 'I want to learn and I want to help.' But it's deep in them and I see it in them in ways that I don't see it in other students. There's some magic that happens at Loyola that prepares them for the work that they do."
Pat McLaughlin, S.S.N.D., Executive Director, Caroline Center
Pat McLaughlin, S.S.N.D., Executive Director, Caroline Center
"Many of my students claim that their service-learning experiences were among the most rewarding of their college years—or even their lives! Others claim that the experiences were life-changing, altering perspectives and career goals."
Dr. Elizabeth Schmidt, Department of History2007 Recipient, Nachbar Award
Dr. Elizabeth Schmidt, Department of History2007 Recipient, Nachbar Award
"The students were a tremendous source of support in our outreach to immigrant students and families. Their work preparing written materials (including letters to editor, testimony, etc.) helped us to accomplish our mission."
Liz Alex, CASA of Maryland
Liz Alex, CASA of Maryland
"As a student, a daughter, a sister and a strong individual, I feel that by providing my time, nurturing, experience and knowledge to the children of Archbishop Borders School has allowed me to delve into a whole new part of myself. I have learned about my own values, other people's values, customs, languages and it is through Italian 104 that I was granted all of these amazing benefits."
Student in IT104, Intermediate Italian II
Student in IT104, Intermediate Italian II
"With Sareyi, it took me about three weeks to gain his trust and friendship. This bond finally was apparent at the last session because I was greeted by Sareyi, who was smiling and running toward me as soon as I walked through the door."
Student in HS389D, Women and Social Change in Modern Africa
Student in HS389D, Women and Social Change in Modern Africa
"By going to ABBS every week, I saw what a tool and weapon language can be. I began to study Italian even more after the service had been ongoing for a few weeks. I wanted to have that tool that the children had; hearing them speaking two languages, I want to be able to do the same. So I began concentrating more on the oral labs. I have learned more than what is required of me in the syllabus. The children have taught me much more than I could have ever expected."
"Working with these children, I was able to pick out the cultural differences and the culture shocks that the children were experiencing. Taking this history class, it helped me make the connection with what I learned in class and apply them out of class."
"Service-learning has raised my level of academic integrity because I have learned to be emotionally attached to my schoolwork."
"My service at Archbishop Borders School tied in very well with the rest of my Italian 104 class. Particularly because of our discussions that we had in class, I was able to take more away from my service experience. The experience is something that will be with me for the rest of my life."


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Abatacept Reduced Intensity for Non-Malignant Diseases (Aba NMD)
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Hurler Syndrome
Fanconi Anemia
Glanzmann Thrombasthenia
Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome
Chronic Granulomatous Disease
Severe Congenital Neutropenia
Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency
Shwachman Diamond Syndrome
Diamond Blackfan Anemia
Dyskeratosis Congenita
Chediak Higashi Syndrome
Severe Aplastic Anemia
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
Drug: 4 doses of abatacept
Drug: 6 doses of abatacept
Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
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|Abatacept for Post-Transplant Immune Suppression in Children and Adolescents Receiving Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplants for Non-Malignant Disease: a Dose Assessment Pilot
- Tolerability of abatacept [ Time Frame: 2 years after enrollment ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]To assess the tolerability of four and six doses of abatacept when combined with cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil as graft versus host disease prophylaxis in children undergoing unrelated hematopoietic stem cell transplant for serious non-malignant diseases.
- Immunological effects [ Time Frame: 2 years after enrollment ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]To compare the immunological effects of the two dose levels.
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|Study Start Date:
|January 2014
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|January 2020
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|January 2018 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Active Comparator: 4 dose
4 doses of abatacept received on days -1, +5, +14 and +28.
Drug: 4 doses of abatacept
4 doses of abatacept received on days -1, +5, +14 and +28.
Active Comparator: 6 dose
6 doses of abatacept received on days -1, +5, +14, +28, +56, and +84.
Drug: 6 doses of abatacept
6 doses of abatacept received on days -1, +5, +14, +28, +56, and +84.
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Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) represents the only viable cure for children who suffer from a wide variety of rare, serious non-malignant diseases, such as Fanconi Anemia, Hurler syndrome, and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. A major obstacle to the success of HSCT is morbidity and mortality from graft versus host disease (GVHD), driven by donor T cells recognizing and reacting against disparate host antigens. This trial is being conducted as a step toward testing the long-term hypothesis that the costimulation blockade agent abatacept can be added to a standard post-transplant GVHD prophylaxis regimen, cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil, to improve disease-free survival after unrelated hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) using low dose total body irradiation based conditioning for children with non-malignant diseases. This study will have the following Specific Aims.
Specific Aim #1: To conduct a randomized, open-label multicenter pilot, assessing the tolerability of two dose numbers of abatacept (n=20). Patients will be randomly assigned to receive four doses (arm A;10 mg/kg IV on days -1, +5, +14 and +28), a schedule well tolerated by adolescents and adults with hematologic malignancies in a previous pilot, or six doses (arm B;10 mg/kg IV on days -1, +5, +14, +28, +56 and +84). Abatacept will be combined with cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil.
Specific Aim #2: to compare the immunological effects of four and six doses.
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Must be between the ages of 0-21 years at the time of admission for transplant.
Must have one of the following diseases:
- Glanzmann thrombasthenia
- Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome or other combined immune deficiency
- Chronic-granulomatous disease
- Severe congenital neutropenia
- Leukocyte adhesion deficiency
- Shwachman-Diamond syndrome
- Diamond-Blackfan anemia (transfusion dependent)
- Thalassemia major
- Fanconi anemia
- Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
- Dyskeratosis-congenita
- Hurler Syndrome
- Chediak-Higashi syndrome
- Acquired (immune; non-inherited, non-congenital) severe aplastic anemia
- Other inherited or congenital marrow failure syndromes complicated by severe aplastic anemia
- Other inherited or congenital red blood cell disorders requiring monthly chronic transfusion therapy.
- Congenital platelet disorders requiring frequent platelet transfusions (patient must have received at least 10 transfusions in the last 3 years).
- Other inherited or congenital granulocyte disorders resulting in at least three inpatient hospitalizations in the past three years for infection.
- Must have an unrelated adult donor (marrow or PBSC) who is matched at least seven of eight HLA alleles (A, B, C, DRB1; the mismatch can be at an allele or antigen level)* or an unrelated cord blood unit that is matched at least seven of eight loci (A, B and C antigen level-DRB1 allele level) and provides a minimum pre-cryopreservation TNC dose of 7.5 x 107 TNC/kg recipient weight. Mismatches at the DRB1 locus may be at an antigen or allele level.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) matched related donor
- Severe combined immune deficiency.
- Sickle cell disease.
- Biopsy proven cirrhosis.
- Pulmonary: Diffusing capacity of lung for carbon monoxide (corrected for hemoglobin), forced expiratory volume at one second or forced vital capacity < 40% of predicted. In child unable to perform pulmonary function testing, a chronic need for supplemental oxygen will serve as the exclusionary criterion.
- Severe renal dysfunction defined as estimated glomerular filtration rate of <30 ml/min.
- Severe cardiac dysfunction defined as shortening fraction < 25%.
- Karnofsky or Lansky functional performance score < 50%
- HIV infection.
- Uncontrolled viral, bacterial, fungal or protozoal infection at the time of study enrollment.
- Patient with unspecified chronic toxicity serious enough to detrimentally affect the patient's capacity to tolerate bone marrow transplantation.
- Patient or patient's guardian(s) unable to understand the nature and risks inherent in the blood and marrow transplant process.
- History of lack of compliance with medical care that would jeopardize transplant course.
- Patient is pregnant or lactating
- Patients HLA antibody testing (see below) demonstrates an antibody directed against a disparate HLA molecule.
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|Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Stenger, MD
|Principal Investigator:
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non malignant conditions
blood and marrow transplant
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Blood Platelet Disorders
Anemia, Aplastic
Fanconi Anemia
Fanconi Syndrome
Granulomatous Disease, Chronic
Anemia, Diamond-Blackfan
Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome
Lymphohistiocytosis, Hemophagocytic
Mucopolysaccharidosis I
Dyskeratosis Congenita
Chediak-Higashi Syndrome
Bone Marrow Diseases
Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency
Pathologic Processes
Hematologic Diseases
Leukocyte Disorders
Anemia, Hemolytic, Congenital
Anemia, Hemolytic
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Anemia, Hypoplastic, Congenital
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I've been having trouble landing an interview with my current portfolio. I was wondering how I can improve it. I realize I need some hard surface modeling, which I am currently studying. I try to update it every few months, but I'm considering removing all of the content and replacing it with just 4 or 5 new models.
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Do you havea 'printed' (Word copy) of your resume and covering letter we could look at? Also, how many companies have you applied to? How many of those have you called back and inquired about your application?
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Every company I've applied for only requested either a portfolio website link, or 3 images of my work, so I have never sent a printed resume. I have used the resume on my website, and my initial email as a cover letter.
What I write depends on the company. I try to mention an ability to produce assets for games they have made in the past, or a project that I know they are currently working on. It's mostly mentioning my abilities, the school I recently graduated from, and thanking them for taking the time to look at my portfolio.
I have applied for 12 companies in my area. One company immediately replied the second I sent my application with an automated email saying they had my portfolio on file, and would contact me if interested. Another company got back to me after a few months with another automated email saying they weren't interested in me at this time. None of the other 10 companies have contacted me.
Location: UK
Edit: A more art orientated colleague has mentioned that your portfolio is heavily reliant on ZBrush modeling and does not demonstrate typical modeling work flow in the games industry. If you look at the galleries on CGTalk and 3Dbuzz you can get a rough benchmark of the level.needed
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Sorry for misreading. Each of the companies I applied to were through general email@example.com email addresses. I have no way of following up short of resubmitting my portfolio, or finding a general phone number for each of the companies as suggested in the article. I will try the latter before remaking my portfolio.
I feel that I am as equally proficient in 3ds Max as I am in Zbrush, and that I follow a typical game development work flow on most of my models. If my portfolio isn't conveying that, then I need to change it.
Location: UK
Most company sites should have a contact number to call (maybe it is different in the US), if that fails then keep sending emails every several days or week till you get a response.
Definitely add some 3DS Max work as similar tools are commonly used in the industry. Wire frame renders would be useful to see how the model is constructed.
The 2D section isn't fantastic and I would remove it unless you have something much better to show.
What I didn't mention before is your resume, the sections seem to be in the wrong order. Since you are a recent graduate, your education information is most important and should be first.
Proposed order:
Work History
Software (probably should be part of skills)
Your current 'Qualifications' are not qualifications and are at best, skills. Traditional and CG Art should go into the Skills section and everything else in that list should be removed and be mentioned in the covering letter instead.
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Follow up emails are good, calls can be a bother. Some websites state that they do not want be contacted via phone about jobs. So becareful before calling.
What I suggest for follow up emails is that before you send out the first one, have a piece ready to go up on your site but hold off from posting it. Of course make sure your portfolio is strong enough and doesn't need the peice. Then a week later post it, and send out follow up emails if any fish haven't bitten. "Hey I just updated my site and I wanted to make sure you where aware bla bla bla" That way they have something new to look at and can gage the time it took you to do something.
About your particular portfolio.
I see zero finished game art. This will hurt you. Knowing Zbrush is nice but what is critical is knowing the 3D app the company uses. Normally 3dsMax or Maya.
You need to demonstrate that you can successfully complete all the tasks they will ask of you. If you are applying for a modeling position, that means showing low poly modeling techniques, carefully unwrapped UV layouts, well painted textures and possibly a rigged/animated character. Notice that ZBrush doesn't fall into too many of those catagories and that the work you have posted is untextured, possibly unwrapped, unrigged and even the low polys are a bit high poly.
It looks like you're going for character modeling positions, which are pretty hard to come by and the competition is feierce. It seems that is mostly what schools focus on for some reason. Which is kind of wierd when the bulk of the work is often done by enviroment artists.
In short, finished game art, fully textured and if you have the know how and the time rigging and animating is great. It also helps to have examples of your models made into custom player models in popular games that support those types of things. id games, Epic games, Valve games ect...
I'd say if a place was looking for a zbrush artist you could apply with what you have but not much more outside of that, until you can demonstrate you have the other skills it takes to make game content.
Personally I think there are WAY too many character artists portfolios out there and not enough Environmental Artist portfolios. I would ballance it out and work on Environment props for a while, your chances of getting in as an enviro artist are greater because the competition is less feirce and there are more jobs available. If your heart is for doing character art, then being on the inside already will help you get there.
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|This Vietnamese Cabbage Salad is perfect to make with leftover chicken, and I love that the dressing has no oil!
Vietnamese Cabbage Salad with Chicken and Cilantro
Dressing Ingredients:
3-4 drops Green Tabasco Sauce, Sriracha Rooster Sauce, or other hot sauce (more or less to taste)
1/4 tsp. garlic puree or minced garlic
2 T Splenda, Stevia In the Raw Granulated Sweetener, or sugar (use Splenda or Stevia for South Beach Diet)
2 T rice vinegar (not sweetened)
3 T fresh lime juice (I use my fresh-frozen lime juice)
2 T fish sauce (I only buy Three Crabs Fish Sauce)
fresh ground black pepper to taste
Salad Ingredients (for each Salad):
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1 cup diced cooked chicken or turkey
1/4 red onion, sliced into rings (or sliced green onions)
1-2 cups chopped green cabbage
1/2 cup sliced radishes
1/4-1/2 cup chopped cilantro
Dice the chicken and chop the red onion (or slice green onions; then put diced chicken and onion in plastic bowl and mix with a generous amount of dressing. Let marinate 15 minutes or longer while you chop the cabbage and cilantro and slice the radishes.
When ready to serve, add the cabbage, radishes, and cilantro to the chicken/onion/dressing and toss, adding more dressing until the salad is as moist as you'd like it. Serve immediately.
This dressing will keep in the fridge for at least a week, and this is a perfect salad to prep ahead and then mix together when you're ready to eat it.
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More Asian Cabbage Salads to Keep You Cool:
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Spicy Asian Slaw with Napa Cabbage, Carrots, and Ginger Dressing ~ Cookin' Canuck
Thai-Style Spicy Cabbage Slaw with Mint and Cilantro ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Asian Cabbage Salad ~ The Nourishing Gourmet
Sandee's Sensational Asian Salad with Chicken and Cabbage ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Quick and Easy Asian Pickled Cole Slaw ~ The Perfect Pantry
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Archbishop Dolan is not happy with Obama
After a lecture Tuesday evening on "Law and the Gospel of Life" at Fordham Law School, I asked New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan about his reaction to President Obama's decision on the contraception mandate -- a decision which seemed to run decidedly counter to the impression Obama had left with the archbishop after their Oval Office meeting last November. From my RNS write-up:
"The president seemed very earnest [in November], he said he considered the protection of conscience sacred, that he didn't want anything his administration would do to impede the work of the church that he claimed he held in high regard," Dolan recalled on Tuesday. "So I did leave a little buoyant."That optimism ended last Friday, however, when Obama phoned Dolan to tell him that he was not expanding the conscience exemption to include religious institutions -- such as Catholic hospitals, universities and social service agencies. In a bid to appease critics like Dolan, the White House gave church organizations an extra year to find a way to comply with the mandate that all health insurance plans provide free contraceptive coverage."I had to share with him that I was terribly let down, disappointed and disturbed, and it seemed the news he had given me was difficult to square with the confidence I had felt in November," Dolan said.
Understandable, I think, given the grief Dolan could now face from bishops who want to take a harder line with the administration.But not to worry! As my RNS colleague, Lauren Markoe reports, the White House yesterday honored Catholic teachers. All good. Right?
"Irony is the word of the day," said Sister Mary Ann Walsh, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Ouch.UPDATE: BTW, the nine educators (one of them a student and educator) got shafted as their stories and their cause got swamped by the political controversy. I have a blog post on them over at RNS.
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A very judicious and interesting report.
I am trying to understand the multiple dimensions and opinions about this, but it does not seem that "religious freedom" is imperiled. I would imagine dioceses are exempt because their purpose is explicitly religious, no? Isn't it the social services provided and those provided through the hospitals, schools, etc. that have long accepted public and federal funding and are therfore subject to the same regulations as secular agencies. The hierarchical objections to respecting rights to adoptions by gay persons and spousal rights are already at issue and it seems that new understandings of being private/public agencies is being developed.
Dave, that's actually a problem because it seems that dioceses and the like would not be exempt. The issue of exposure to regulation for those taking state funds is a related issue, but even if you don't take government money you have to comply with this mandate. And since dioceses and parochial schools and social service groups that do not take government funds also serve non-Catholics and employ non-Catholics, they would have to comply. It's all a bit of a mess. I still can't figure out how the so-called "Hawaii option" is supposed to work, except that all Catholic hospitals, universities, social service agencies and the rest are supposed to move to Hawaii. That could be nice.
Excerpts from a manuscript in progress, The Development of Religious Liberty by Barack Obama, with contributions from his shadow Curia:"If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."Barack ObamaWe have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy."Nancy PelosiSr. Keehan receives presidential pen for supporting health care despite bishops' objections"This is a big f***ing deal"Joe Biden"This proposal strikes the appropriate balance between respecting religious freedom and increasing access to important preventive services."Kathleen Sebelius
On learning the President's political decision, I found it somewhat fetching that Dolan allowed that he was "terribly let down, disappointed and disturbed," and that he felt somehow misled at their November meeting.He didn't see this coming? Isn't that the way politics among the hierarchy is played in the Vatican? Did Dolan learn at cardinal training school that in politics you never say what you mean and never mean what you say?Bottom line, beyond all the stated high-minded principles involved, Dolan didn't have the votes. His political math is deficient. This was most fundamentally one politician, Obama, telling another politician, Dolan, that you are no threat to me. Besides Obama is not going into an election with the economy in the dumpster and do something to alienate some of his most ardent base supporters [those who believe that women have constitutionally protected rights to privacy and equal protection under the law.
I found Rick Garnett's comment on MOJ this morning interesting, basically that the Administration didn't have to pick this fight by crafting an exemption that accomplished the goal of coverage for those employees who wanted such coverage without so offending the status quo. Garnett's forgotten more on this topic than almost anyone writing on this anywhere. He also has a nice reply to Eric Bugyis's post up now as well.http://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/
Garnett's "forgotten more on this topic than anyone writing on this"? I'm not sure that recommends his analysis (with which I agree, by the way).
Jim,It shouldn't matter whether or not Dolan "has the votes" or not. The whole point of natural rights (e.g. the right to religious liberty) is that they need to be honored even when they aren't popular. The government shouldn't be coercing religious institutions into taking actions that violate tenets of their faith. The majority of Americans don't agree with the Church of Latter Day Saints' prohibition of alcohol and caffeine. That wouldn't make it okay for the federal government to require to Mormon institutions to purchase such products on behalf of their employees. One need not agree with the Catholic Church's teaching on contraception to see the injustice of the new HHS rule.
David Tenny,Actually, religious liberty is not the only constitutional right that is in play in this instance. I would argue that the Obama Administration is attempting to balance the First Amendment prohibitions against the free exercise of religion and the constitutionally inherent right to privacy and the equal protections of the law embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment.I would argue that the Obama Administration has tried to carve out exemptions for church ministers, who ostensibly are exercising their religious liberty, while protecting the rights of employees [remember, we are mostly talking about women here] of religious institutions, who may or may not share the religious sentiments of a church, and may not be a member of that church, to equal protections of the law as applies to compensation and benefits of their employment contracts.You can't have it both ways. If Catholic institutions are going to accept federal taxpayer money, as Catholic hospitals and Catholic universities do, then they must accept the constitutional protections and guarantees that are afforded to all US citizens. The Catholic Church does not enjoy exemption from intrusion into an individual's right to privacy just because they are a church. That would be unAmerican. That is what the Bill of Rights was all about.Women who are employees at a religiously affiliated hospitals, or who are students at religiously affiliated universities, have a right to the same access to health care as other women at secular institutions. Government, not the church, is the guardian of those rights.Why is this such an issue when most states including New York, California, etc. already have these kind of legal requirements for religiously affiliated institutions - and have been in effect for decades? Could it be that the hierarchs are hell bent on playing politics in this most political of election years? Could it be that the hierarchs see some political gain to sabotaging the single greatest political accomplishment of a progressive president that is not politically beholding to the hierarchs?It is possible that Catholic hierarchs see a political opportunity to shore up their standing with the reactionary hegemony that is now dominant in the Vatican? Is it possible that the hierarchs are grandstanding yet again in a doomed effort to prop up their failed anti-feminine ideology?
BTW, here's a nice plug for David Gibson's Religion News Service from the eminent sociologist of religion, Peter Berger:"The Religious News Service provides daily briefings which are quite useful to obsessive religion-watchers like me."http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/berger/Berger here refers to (as far as I can tell) a non-existent "Religious News Service" but he references two stories featured on the "Religion News Service" for the date he mentions and so must have meant the latter in his recommendation. Like Homer, Berger occasionally nods; still the plug is probably the more welcome for being spontaneous.http://www.religionnews.com/blogs/religion-news-blog/thursdays-religion-...
I should have used the more permanent URL for the Berger plug: http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/berger/2012/01/25/stubborn-amish-...
Coming from Peter Berger, that is flattering indeed (in my view)! His Religious/Religion mistake is not uncommon, and understandable, if unfortunate, since our degree of "religiosity" could certainly be called into question. But Prof. Berger may be recalling a far off day when it was Religious News Service, a kind of church-sponsored ecumenical effort, like a non-denominational CNS. But it went to "Religion News Service" many years ago, and then the Newhouse family bought it and ran it for years. Now we are revamped as a non-profit, technically speaking, which is a novel development for me. But a number of non-profit venture have done good journalism, and it will be interesting to see if this is actually a viable model. Having worked for big corporate media outlets and family-owned media outlets, I'm game to try something new. But that is media inside baseball. Back to our regularly scheduled arguments...
Markoe's headline: After angering Catholics, White House honors teachers".It implies that Catholics in general are angry at the decision. Is that true? (No.)And I don't see the "irony" in honoring Catholic teachers. I think it's lovely that President Obama's administration recognized the contributions of these dedicated people. What about a thread on how little honor Catholic teachers get from their employers? And how little money, how few benefits, how little job security, how little justice. Parochial school teachers are fired without warning or due process. Pastors withhold paychecks with impunity. Etc. Ironic, isn't it?
Mr. Jenkins,The right to privacy is a creation of the Supreme Court; it is found nowhere in the text of the Constitution--it suposedly lurks in the "penumbras" and "emanations" of several of the Bill of Rights.Even assuming it has some constitutional warrant, however, the right of privacy doesn't require one person to pay money to another person. That's what Obama wants Catholic institutions to do, in ways that violate the teachings of the Church. You may think that's wonderful, but I don't. And I'm also glad the bishops aren't going to take this one lying down.
Here's the address for the ReligioN News Service: http://www.religionnews.com/Click "Blogs" to get to David G.
Jim Jenkins,You act as if no-one objected to the contraceptive mandates enacted in New York and California and that the Church is only objecting now becuase of politics. It is suprising how short a memory we have on this issue. Catholic charities sued California on this issue and lost back in 2004. Many people wrote about it back then, including Pro. Garnett (http://old.nationalreview.com/comment/garnett200403030850.asp) who I was lucky enough to have learned from at ND (in addition to commonweal's Prof. Kaveny). The reason the hierarchy is more vocal now if because the ACA is national in scope, not because Obama is president or because it is an election year. As for your right to privacy and 14th amendment arguments, lets just say those are some serious "emanations and penumbras" you are invoking. How is the Church intruding on someone's right to privacy by refusing to pay for their contraception or abortion? I would think allowing indivuals to purchase contraceptions without having to inform their employers through insurance benefit requests would be more of a safeguard to privacy than forcing the employer to pay for how you choose to conduct your sex life.
It always amazes me that respect for the right of privacy appears to rest on the notion that these rights are one sidedly enjoyed by those who disagree with traditional, conservative familial principles, when the origination of the right to privacy in the modern era arose out of a case involving the teaching of German by a private Catholic school, which the state of Nebraska tried to prohibit during WWI. The case is called Myer v. Nebraska: http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0262_0390_ZO.html"While this Court has not attempted to define with exactness the liberty thus guaranteed, the term has received much consideration and some of the included things have been definitely stated. Without doubt, it denotes not merely freedom from bodily restraint, but also the right of the individual to contract, to engage in any of the common occupations of life, to acquire useful knowledge, to marry, establish a home and bring up children, to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, and generally to enjoy those privileges long recognized at common law as essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men."
Gerelyn --I think that was an odd use of the word "irony" too. But these days I can never figure out what it means. It's used about so many different kinds of situations it's useless.Thorin --I don't see why you think the case at issue is a matter of a right to privacy.
I think the WSJ is right on the use of politics.
Ann,I don't think this case involves the right to privacy. Jim Jenkins does, and I was responding to him.
Ann, thanks for the reference to our website. The design is new, and VERY problematic, in my view. Plus, I haven't posted on the blog in weeks. Posting here is easier. And more fun.
Ah, Card-des Timmy: you are used to playing with the few, the proud and the relgiously haughty. Welcome to the world of big boy politics, secular style. BTW, it's a land that you, as a successor to the apostles, are best removed from.
Jeff, and others reading Garnett, here's the commentary that I just posted to Rick's MOJ piece:Rick, Thanks for your reply. It's always fun to go back and forth with you on this (and I am being sincere!). In the long avalanche of commentary on the various posts that went up at Commonweal (including Grant Gallicho's reiteration of Commonweal's editorial position, which is different from my own, David Gibson's, which seems similar to Grant's, and Lusa Fullam's commentary on David DeCosse's NCR piece, both of which, I think, support my own view), some of us came to some slight agreement on the situation. Grant boiled down the issue to this: The nature of the dispute is the problem raised by the governments decision to force religious institutions to act in a way that violates their moral teaching. We agreed that in the case of, say, Jehovah's Witnesses denying life-saving blood transfusions to non-JW patients or coverage to non-JW employees, the government would have a supervening interest to protect the life/health of its citizens by mandating that JWs either provide these services or get out of a business in which they would be expected to provide them or, perhaps, be fined so that the government could provide them. So, the question seems to be: When does the interest of the State to protect the rights of its citizens supervene on the freedom of religion of those who would conscientiously object to providing the services to which their patrons or employees are entitled?This determination has absolutely nothing to do with the conscientious objection itself or the specific religious reasons for it. In the case of JWs, it is not within the competence of the government to consider JW theology in deciding that a non-JW individual's access to blood transfusions is important enough to supervene on the religious views of a JW doctor or employer. Mutatis mutandis, the Catholic Church's moral teaching on contraception and the consciences of Catholic employers have nothing to do with determining the minimum healthcare provisions that will be included in an employee's right to coverage. The only consideration is whether contraception (or, indeed, any medical service) meets the criteria for inclusion, which includes some combination of weighing health risks versus benefits, the financial burden and relief involved, the impact on long-term health and quality of life, etc. You argue that "we make efforts to specially accommodate religion-based objections," but I'm not sure that this is or should be an expectation placed on a government that explicitly claims to refrain from adjudicating which religion-based objections can and cannot be accommodated, which would involve concluding that some religious-reasons are better or worse, at least in the eyes of the State. In the case under consideration, this would mean that although blood transfusions and contraception have both been deemed "medically necessary" as part of the basic right to healthcare, the government would be deciding that Catholics have better religious reasons than JWs to claim exemption. Now, you can argue that contraception is not "medically necessary" and blood transfusions are, but this is a properly "public" argument that does not require any recourse to religious premises.So, the Bishops are clouding the issue when they claim a right to exemption based on conscience, which in a pluralist democracy is a question of an individual's ability not to be directly and unduly coerced to personally engage in activities that challenge his or her moral convictions, or religious freedom, which protects the direct exercise of religious belief and practice by groups of like-minded individuals. The Obama Administration has already made the necessary provisions by allowing that any group of explicitly confessing like-minded individuals engaged in religiously-informed work with and for co-religionists can choose to have an insurance plan that does not cover the services to which they ALL object, and, of course, any individual can deny any medical service to which he or she personally objects. However, if one is going to serve and employ non-co-religionists, it is in the direct interest of a representative democratic government, which has determined that access to minimum "medically necessary" care is a right, to make sure that all of its citizens have the opportunity to exercise that right, via the mechanisms put in place to enable it. You can object to the right itself, the criteria governing "medical necessity," or the method by which healthcare is being distributed, but none of these objections have anything to do with religion, and they certainly have nothing to do with the Bishops.
Adding to Ann's link to the RNS site, I suggest bookmarking this and having access to more than David G. I particularly enjoy Mark Silk as well. http://www.religionnews.com/politics
Eric: your summary above is one of the best I have read yet and I will distribute it to a wide variety of individuals that I know who are on both sides of this debate.Thanks for keeping the faith.
Jimmy, Mark Silk is aces -- the class of the (emerging) operation.
"Its all a bit of a mess. I still cant figure out how the so-called 'Hawaii option' is supposed to work, except that all Catholic hospitals, universities, social service agencies and the rest are supposed to move to Hawaii. That could be nice."Because I'm the one who pointed to Hawaii law in October 2011, I'll explain what I had in mind. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-faith/post/seeking-a-win-win-solu... did not suggest that Hawaii law would or could trump federal regulations. Presumably, the Supremacy Clause would bar that kind of thing. Instead, I suggested that the federal government seek to honor both the free exercise interests of all religious employers and the interests of employees of objecting religious institutions that would like to get these benefits. How? First, broaden the exemption to permit all objecting religious organizations to refuse to provide these benefits. Second, ensure that employees of objecting religious organizations could gain coverage for contraceptives on favorable terms. I pointed to a provision of Hawaii law that ensures that employees of objecting organizations can get these benefits directly from the insurer at a cost not higher than the enrollees pro-rata share of the price the employer would have paid had it not objected. That's one way to accomplish the second goal, but there could be others as well. Thus, I was pointing to some ideas from state law as examples of ways that the federal government might accommodate both sides interests in a revised federal regulation.
It should be noted, again, that Eric Bugyis' argument would support requiring Catholic employers to pay for employees' abortions, as he has admitted. And comment number 5 to the Mirror of Justice post referred to by Jeff Landry above cogently argues that that is precisely what the Obama Administration eventually intends to require: http://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2012/01/confusion-about...
I don't see how this sets the stage for coverage of abortion when the ACA specifically bars taxpayer funding for abortion. Obama would have to undo his own law, and would certainly incur the wrath of Congress if he tried to do so. The votes just aren't there. Hyde gets passed every year as a matter of course.
Dolan et al want the Affordable Health Care Act to impose 'Humanae Vitae' on employees of religious organizations, even though it has been rejected by the vast majority of Catholics.
Jamie Manson's column at NCR seems helpful and correct and I'm digging out McGreevy's "Catholicism and American Freedom" again...
Here is a stupid question. Don't 28 states already mandate this? How have religious organizations handled this? Is there a dirty little secret that maybe some/many Catholic organizations have already been providing these benefits?
Anthony - you are correct. And this will increase with 2014 and PPACA.
Mr. Thorin, to put it briefly:- The Constitution contains no reference to any "right to privacy"- However, over more than 100 years, courts have found a fundamental (but somewhat vague) right to privacy implicit in the Constitution- Many "right to privacy" cases deal with sex, sexuality, or abortion, and are thus quite controversialWhile you may not agree with Supreme Court precedence and interpretation of the US Constitution on the right to privacy, your beef is with the US Supreme Court, not my argument.And in any case, equal protection under the law IS written right there in the Fourteenth Amendment. The 14th Amendment is a protection that must be extended to ALL women and men. You dont get to pick and choose.Im not suggesting this, but if Catholic institutions think providing full health care services to their employees (not their ministers) violate their religious principles, then they dont have to take federal and state tax money which supports many, if not most, of their programs and services.
A thought experiment - - Suppose a Palin administration determines that each college-level course (sciences excluded) should impart a minimum number of patriotic lessons in each semester. A panel of experts has determined that in a polarized society there is a pressing need for common beliefs to bring us together. In order to prevent anarchy all colleges and universities receiving federal funds of any sort will be required to present inspiring patriotic themes in their classrooms, stressing the importance of the common good and the need to respect legitimate authority. Without such an initiative students will find it simply too difficult to locate the proper patriotic materials on their own.The program is in no way coercive since institutions remain entirely free to reject federal funding. Of course they also will pay pay a non-coercive fine as a simple deterrent ensuring that the freedom of students is acknowledged in practical ways. Some professors will object on the basis of spurious conscience claims but the rights of students to receive a patriotic education are paramount. And no one is forcing professors to choose such a profession. They are entirely free to become street-corner orators.Colleges and universities have been granted a more than generous 12 months leeway so that they may adjust to this long-delayed educational revolution. Look forward to many more such exciting initiatives as we look for ways to create a more homogeneous citizenry free of obnoxious institutions.
@ MikeDMaybe you should have taken a few classes in constitutional law over at Biolchini Hall when you were at ND.There are over 100 years of Supreme Court precedence regarding the right to privacy. [See my post above.] And then, the Fourteenth Amendment is pretty explicit in its mandate that all laws must be equally applied to all citizens [no "emanations and penumbras" here - it's written in plain English].There are actually 28 states, not just New York and California, that mandate similar coverage for reproductive healthcare as does the Affordable HealthCare Act. I cite these because they illustrate what may be feeding the present political motivations of the hierarchy.Why are we hearing these objections from the hierarchs only now when this has been the practice in a majority of states over decades? Are the hierarchs trying to get the federal government to enforce their rejected and bizarre ideology about sexuality among Catholics and employees at Catholic institutions where they have failed so miserably?Could it be that politically the hierarchs are trying to muscle the president in an election year? If so, I think they just found out that Barack Obama knows how to push back. Others writing here on this blog have offered the "Hawaii solution" where especially the hierarchs could get what they need to save face. After all, the president is from Hawaii.
Thanks for the shout out, Jimmy. Glad you found it helpful.
WaPo and the WSJ have both come down on the side of the bishops. You can read the editorials by accessing them through this America article::http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&entry_id=4884
The Tablet, the English Catholic newspaper, is also supporting the bishops position. http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/162257


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Who's Next? The Marriage Equality Waiting Room
Within just a few weeks, Delaware, Rhode Island, and Minnesota have established marriage equality for same-sex couples, following an equally successful Election Day in Maryland, Maine, and Washington last November. In the past year, the number of states that extend marriage rights to same-sex couples has literally doubled. But now that same-sex couples in 12 states plus the District of Columbia can legally wed, LGBT people in 38 other states are left waiting for full marriage rights. That's why we've ranked the remaining states in the order of likeliness to establish marriage rights for same-sex couples.
The Advocate's ranking takes into account current relationship laws, pending lawsuits and legislation, the number of gay state officials, the percentage of gay couples, the latest opinion polls, the governor's political affiliation, and whether there has been any attention from national organizations such Freedom to Marry, the Human Rights Campaign, or the American Civil Liberties Union on particular states. The states were awarded points based on these various factors, with the number after each state representing its total score. This produces a list of sure bets and surprises that outline the marriage equality lobby's playbook for the next couple of years. That is, of course, unless the U.S. Supreme Court miraculously decides to not only overturn the Defense of Marriage Act but also Proposition 8 and all constitutional marriage bans in every state.
If the miracle route doesn't take shape, James Esseks of the ACLU says the first step is to continue winning marriage in states where passing a law is all that's required. The next battle would target states with constitutional amendments by working on repealing them, and then replacing those laws with marriage equality laws, as is currently the plan in Nevada and Oregon. Those states also would require a voter initiative to legalize marriage, which has become a successful effort for marriage equality activists as of late.
"We're going to need to keep doing this work and keep working in state legislatures where there isn't a constitutional amendment and pushing to get every one of those states," Esseks says.
The Sure Things
13. California, 14.998
Outside of the Proposition 8 case that has finally made its way to the Supreme Court, California is one state that seems to be completely primed for extending marriage equality to same-sex couples. The Golden State has the largest population of gay couples and the most LGBT representatives, and it already has some state recognition of same-sex relationships through a domestic-partnership registry. Even though the makeup of the country's most populous state includes religious proselytizers, farmers, and impossibly rich conservatives, alongside Hollywood liberals and the progressive Silicon Valley and Bay Area crowd, at least 50% of voters support marriage equality. So LGBT people in more conservative states may hope that the phrase, "As California goes, so goes the nation," is proven true again, at least in this case.
14. Colorado, 14.817
California has only had a slight edge over Colorado, another Western state that mixes rural and suburban conservatism with urban progressiveness. The effort to establish civil unions in Colorado proved to be a lengthy but worthy test run for the next level of recognition for same-sex couples.
15. Oregon, 11.986
Esseks of the ACLU says that Oregon could likely provide the first legislative victory for marriage advocates in 2014. "There's a very serious effort led by Basic Rights Oregon and a coalition of organizations including the ACLU, with the goal of putting the amendment on the ballot, to take back the marriage amendment that was passed there in 2004 and instead insert a provision with the freedom to marry for same-sex couples into the constitution." With a high percentage of gay couples, existing relationship recognition laws, and a majority of Oregon voters supporting the right to marry, a ballot initiative in 2014 might be successful.
16. Hawaii, 11.933
Legal activity in Hawaii during the 1990s was the major catalyst for the rest of the country, as states scrambled to institute bans on marriage equality. Nowadays Hawaii extends civil unions to gay and lesbian couples, but the next step is marriage. "In Hawaii, there was a marriage bill that we all pushed in the state legislature this session," Esseks says. "It did not pass, but the legislature has set up a study commission to evaluate the successes or failures of civil unions. That report will come out sometime in the next year, and we — the ACLU and many other partners — are going to be pushing hard for a marriage law in that legislature." The study was commissioned by the legislature and is being conducted by the University of Hawaii, with the results due November 1.
17. New Jersey, 6.75
Politically, New Jersey is similar to its big neighbor New York (before marriage, of course). In the grand scheme of things, the Garden State leans to the left, but that's despite its Republican governor, Chris Christie, a moderate who vetoed New Jersey's legislature-approved marriage bill last year. "I think our side still has a shot," Esseks says. "It might mean getting the freedom to marry through a legislative override [possible through January 2014], or potentially even with Governor Christie evolving on the issue while he's still in office."
Whether Christie is called to run for president in 2016 or is termed out of office may also affect how and when the state establishes legal marriage equality.
"If it doesn't happen before [2016] I don't see why we wouldn't be able to get a marriage equality law passed with the next governor, because the legislature has already voted for the freedom to marry, and I don't see them going back on that," Esseks says. In either case, a Democratic governor would be expected to support marriage equality, while a Republican governor could express his support without losing a ton of political capital in a state like New Jersey.
18. Nevada, 5.926
The major factor in establishing a marriage equality law in Nevada is time. "The effort in Nevada involves putting a repeal-and-replace initiative on the ballot in 2016, but that has to be passed by the current legislature [as it recently was] and then the next legislature before heading to the voters." When Nevada's state Senate passed the measure, Sen. Kelvin Atkinson came out to his colleagues and constituents in the process, and the state Assembly approved the bill shortly thereafter.
Likely/The Wild Cards
19. Illinois, 0.671
The only thing holding Illinois back is its House of Representatives. The state Senate approved marriage equality legislation on Valentine's Day, and Gov. Pat Quinn has said he would sign the law if it reached his desk, but the House failed to vote on the bill before the end of the General Assembly's regular session on May 31. But still it may come up in a special session or the "veto session" later this year. Recent polls show at least half of Illinoisans supporting marriage equality.
20. New Mexico, -2.016
At this point, New Mexico is the only state lacking both a law providing relationship recognition (like civil unions or domestic partnerships) and a statewide ban on same-sex marriage. This prompted Santa Fe's city council to urge the state attorney general to determine whether county clerks could just start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. While that is being evaluated, marriage litigation was filed in March. "I think the New Mexico constitution is very protective of civil rights," Esseks says.
21. Pennsylvania, -6.33
State representative Daryl Metcalfe proposed a constitutional amendment in early May that would bar same-sex couples from marrying. But according to out state representative Brian Sims's office, the proposal has only 27 cosponsors; the last time it was introduced, there were 40 cosponsors.
"There is perhaps no better indication of how effectively we are moving forward on the advancement of LGBT civil rights in this state than Representative Metcalfe's bill," Sims said in a statement shortly after Metcalfe's bill was introduced. "He has been trying to codify his personal religious beliefs surrounding LGBT Pennsylvanians since becoming a representative and each session, he receives less and less support. This year, his support has hit an all-time record low and at this rate, in the 2015 session he may be introducing this bill by himself. Ultimately, what matters here is that common sense, decency and compassion are winning the day against cruel attempts to harm Pennsylvania's families."
Long Shots/Not Unless They're Forced
The remaining 29 states all have constitutional or statutory provisions to prevent same-sex couples from marrying, and the support for marriage equality among them averages at about 38%. As Esseks says, the states with constitutional bans will require efforts to not only repeal those bans but then to replace them with marriage equality laws. This seems unlikely to happen without a lawsuit or more LGBT or allied lawmakers in those states to start working on the effort (Georgia has three LGBT state lawmakers, the most of any of these states, and the average is less than one per the remaining states). Georgia, Florida, and Arizona also have a relatively high percentage of gay couples, similar to Colorado's.
22. Wisconsin, -1.402
23. Arizona, -7.12
24. Montana, -7.44
25. Alaska, -8.283
26. South Dakota, -9.569
27. Florida, -11.116
28. Virginia, -11.328
29. Ohio, -12.379
30. Michigan, -12.438
31. Wyoming, -13.494
32. Idaho, -14.44
33. Kansas, -14.445
34. North Dakota, -14.604
35. Georgia, -15.168
36. Indiana, -15.343
37. North Carolina, -16.272
38. Missouri, -16.358
39. Nebraska, -17.48
40. Oklahoma, -19.329
41. Utah, -19.338
42. Texas, -21.244
43. Kentucky, -21.327
44. South Carolina, -21.36
45. Mississippi, -21.437
46. West Virginia, -22.314
47. Alabama, -22.402
48. Tennessee, -23.345
49. Louisiana, -24.297
50. Arkansas, -24.389


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I have a bathroom in the basement that has an exhaust fan but it doesn't go anywhere. I need a filter on it to clear/clean the air and moister.
A bathroom fan needs to vent to the outside, so as to actually remove moisture effectively.
While you could cobble something up with a dehumdifier, there's no good reason to, and plenty of good reasons not to; Which is why you won't find that for sale anywhere.
Oh yes it does. The damp air is being pulled up into the area above the ceiling. This is likely to end up causing water damage in that area (like to the roof sheathing). That's why bathroom fans are vented to the outside. Look up venting a bath fan on the web: you should find plenty of info to help you.
A dehumidifer does some air filtering, though not enough for odor removal which is one of the best reasons for an air exhaust.
A electrostatic air cleaner might be up to that though. There are many such dehumidifers. However, there is some danger that oxygen could be depleted in worst case situations.


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