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Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself--And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future.by Harriet A. Washington
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Think your body is your own to control and dispose of as you wish? Think again. The United States Patent Office has granted at least 40,000 patents on genes controlling the most basic processes of/b>/i>
From the award-winning author of Medical Apartheid, an exposé of the rush to own and exploit the raw materials of life—including yours.
Think your body is your own to control and dispose of as you wish? Think again. The United States Patent Office has granted at least 40,000 patents on genes controlling the most basic processes of human life, and more are pending. If you undergo surgery in many hospitals you must sign away ownership rights to your excised tissues, even if they turn out to have medical and fiscal value. Life itself is rapidly becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the medical- industrial complex.
Deadly Monopolies is a powerful, disturbing, and deeply researched book that illuminates this "life patent" gold rush and its harmful, and even lethal, consequences for public health. It examines the shaky legal, ethical, and social bases for Big Pharma's argument that such patents are necessary to protect their investments in new drugs and treatments, arguing that they instead stifle the research, competition, and innovation that can drive down costs and save lives. In opposing the commodification of the body, Harriet Washington provides a crucial human dimension to an often all-too-abstract debate.
Like the bestseller The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Deadly Monopolies reveals in shocking detail just how far the profit motive has encroached in colonizing human life and compromising medical ethics. It is sure to stir debate—and instigate change.
From the Hardcover edition.
Editorial Reviews
"Deadly Monopolies explores contentious issues in modern biomedical research that have been aggravated by the field's commercial emphasis.....Though she is not the first to raise many of these concerns, Washington offers an overarching framework that enables readers to see connections that are often obscured. The book's brilliance lies in the compassionately told narratives of individuals whose lives have been affected by the increasing corporate control of scientific research. Rather than simply writing another book about biomedical wrongdoing, Washington with her journalistic approach provides a more humane account of the problems tied to the for-profit nature of today's research industry. In doing this, Washington accomplishes what has thus far escaped previous authors. She makes the case for a broader political consciousness of science and technology....This is precisely the conversation an important book starts in order to challenge readers to see the world differently so that they connect the disparate dots. Deadly Monopolies is an extraordinary achievement in this and many other regards."—Osagie K. Obasogie, The American Prospect
"A searing look at the medical-industrial complex and its ability to patent genes and other biological products, resulting in an opportunistic and powerful pharmaceutical industry that often ignores the most pressing global-health issues in order to make a profit.
National Book Critics Circle Award winner Washington (Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, 2007, etc.) begins with the controversial 1980 Bayh-Dole Act, which allowed the commercialization of medical inventions based on government-funded patents, including those on living things. As a result, an unprecedented collusion between universities, researchers and private pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies spawned an era in which many vital medicines are too expensive or inaccessible to average consumers, or rushed to market before being adequately tested. Despite the fact that taxpayers largely fund medical research and development, pharma companies include that cost in their purported expenses, therefore using disingenuous figures to justify the skyrocketing costs of patented drugs. The author adeptly details the wide-ranging repercussions of this monopolistic research model and recounts chilling anecdotes that reveal a pattern of shady practices by biotech and pharma companies. These firms often display a lack of respect for patients' rights in a ruthless pursuit of "blockbuster" drugs without regard for helping those who need it most. As of 2009, only 10 percent of the more than $70 billion spent per year on medical research addresses "diseases that cause 90 percent of the world's health burden." In addition, minorities and poor populations are often exploited for their genetic material yet not compensated for their contribution. Thousands of people die from preventable causes simply because it's not profitable to save them. The author clearly presents data to elucidate these complex issues, and cogently argues that there are opportunities to reinstate transparency, collaboration and altruism in drug development and disbursement.
A gripping, revelatory account."
—Kirkus Reviews (starred)
"Harriet Washington has written an important and compelling book. She shows how recent changes in patent law have caused drug prices to soar, while reducing innovation by drug companies to near-zero. Well-documented, yet highly readable, the book paints a vivid picture of an industry that now exploits monopoly rights to patients' genes, and relies on taxpayer-funded NIH research for its few novel and important drugs—even as it turns out an endless stream of trivial variations of top-selling old drugs."
—Marcia Angell, M.D., author of The Truth About the Drug Companies and former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine
"Harriet Washington shines her relentless torch into the darkest corners of Big Pharma with courage, dedication and accuracy."
—John le Carré
"Big Pharma is not going to like Deadly Monopolies one bit, but you probably will—especially if, like most Americans, you're finding the co-pay on your drugs too much to handle. Washington correctly reminds us that, as hard as high drug costs are in the USA, they are lethal for the world's poor. Brava Harriet Washington!"
—Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and author of I Heard the Sirens Scream: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks
"Patents, we're repeatedly told, are crucial to fostering innovation. Deadly Monopolies reveals how the privatization of medical science is retarding research, putting patients at risk, and making what cures we have exorbitantly expensive. This book is a meticulously documented exposé of what's gone wrong with our medical innovation system, and a roadmap for change."
—Merrill Goozner, author of The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind The Cost of New Drugs
Praise for Harriet A. Washington's Medical Apartheid:
"An important book. The disgraceful history it details is a reminder that people in power have always been capable of exploiting those they regard as 'other.'"
—New York Times
"A fresh account of the Tuskegee study, including new information, lies at the center of Harriet A. Washington's courageous and poignant book. Washington sheds light on how our understanding of what constitutes medical research requires broadening in the face of new developments in genetic science."
—Washington Post Book Review
"Medical Apartheid is fascinating and compelling . . . The book's analysis challenges the reader to question established paradigms in the history of medicine.
—Dr. Marius Turda, Oxford Brookes University, in Social History of Medicine
"Groundbreaking . . . Washington is a great storyteller, and in addition to giving us an abundance of information on 'scientific racism' the book, even at its most distressing, is compulsively readable . . . Paints a powerful and disturbing portrait of medicine, race, sex, and the abuse of power."
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"One of [Washington's] goals in writing this book, aside from documenting a shameful past, is to convince [African Americans] that they must participate actively in therapeutic medical research . . . while remaining ever alert to possible abuses . . . Sweeping and powerful."
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
A searing look at the medical-industrial complex and its ability to patent genes and other biological products, resulting in an opportunistic and powerful pharmaceutical industry that often ignores the most pressing global-health issues in order to make a profit.
National Book Critics Circle Award winner Washington (Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, 2007, etc.)beginswiththe controversial 1980 Bayh-Dole Act, which allowed the commercialization of medical inventions based on government-funded patents, including those on living things. As a result, an unprecedented collusion between universities, researchers and private pharmaceutical andbiotechnology companies spawned an era in which many vital medicines are too expensiveorinaccessible to average consumers,or rushed to market before being adequately tested. Despite the fact that taxpayers largely fund medical research and development, pharma companies include that cost in their purported expenses, therefore using disingenuous figures to justify the skyrocketing costs of patented drugs.The author adeptly details the wide-ranging repercussions ofthis monopolistic research model andrecounts chilling anecdotes that reveal a pattern of shady practices by biotech and pharma companies.Thesefirms oftendisplay a lack of respect for patients' rights in a ruthless pursuit of "blockbuster" drugs without regard for helping those who need it most. As of 2009, only 10 percent of the more than $70 billion spent per year on medical research addresses "diseases that cause 90 percent of the world's health burden." In addition, minorities and poor populations are often exploited for their genetic material yet not compensated for their contribution. Thousands of people die from preventable causes simply because it's not profitable to save them. The author clearly presents data to elucidate these complexissues, and cogently argues that there are opportunities to reinstate transparency, collaboration and altruism in drug development and disbursement.
A gripping, revelatory account.
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Chapter One
A NEW LEASE ON LIFE: The Patent in American Medical Culture
How does it feel to be patented? There was a sense of betrayal. I mean, they owned a part of me that I could never recover. I certainly have no objection to scientific research . . . but it was like a rape. In a sense, you've been violated, for dollars. My genetic essence is held captive.
-John Moore, the subject of u.s. patent no. 4,438,032
In 1982, the mother of Japanese biotechnology scientist Dr. Heideaki Hagiwara was suffering from cervical cancer.1 When he learned that Dr. Ivor Royston at the University of California at San Diego was developing cell lines to treat cancer, he asked to join the laboratory and, once there, convinced Royston to use tumor cells from Hagiwara's mother's lymphatic system to create a therapeutic cell line.
A cell line is a community of cells, usually animal or human, that grows continuously in the laboratory, proliferating indefinitely under glass in precise, artificially maintained conditions, where it is used in research. In a warm living body, with its genius for homeostasis, every cell receives ample oxygen and nutrients in a dynamic environment tailored to its needs. But cells exiled to the cold, sterile prisons of unresponsive glassware tend to die quickly without the most assiduous coddling, although cancer cells live somewhat longer. Cell culture is the meticulous process by which optimal temperature, gas concentrations, and nutrients, which vary with the type of cell being cultured, are maintained, often with great difficulty.
Carefully tended cell cultures boost medical research by providing living human material for risk-free testing of the effectiveness and safety of drugs. But cell cultures can also host viruses and other pathogens, permitting them to be prepared in quantity for the manufacture of vaccines. Polio, measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox viruses are currently produced in cell cultures. In the early twentieth century, Ross Granville Harrison of Johns Hopkins University established the technique of maintaining cells in vitro and dubbed it tissue culture.2 Because cancer cell lines are somewhat more long-lived than those of "normal" human cells, many extant cell lines are derived from cancers. By the mid-1900s, cell cultures were commonly used in laboratories.3
Some cell lines retain the characteristics of and produce substances that are peculiar to their cells of origin. Royston was working on a cell line that he hoped would treat cancers by producing antibodies that attack cancer cells. Hagiwara suggested that he use lymph cells from his sick mother, and Royston did so, fusing Hagiwara's mother's cells to the line. UCSD researchers soon agreed that this particular cell line possessed unique cancer-fighting properties, so Royston patented the promising cells. Hagiwara then returned to Japan, surreptitiously taking with him a sample of the cell line, which he used to treat his mother, who rallied but ultimately succumbed to her cancer.
Months later, Hagiwara gave the cell line to his father, Dr. Yoshide Hagiwara, who was also a biomedical researcher, for use in the family firm, the Hagiwara Institute of Health in Osaka. He claimed patent rights to the cell line and the antibodies it produced because it emanated from his mother's body, entitling his family, he said, to a financial interest in the cell lines. The U.S. Office of Technology Assessment disagreed and sued Hagiwara fils for taking the patented cells without permission.4 Hagiwara argued that despite the UCSD patent, the fact that the cell line had originated with his mother's tissues gave his family rights to the cells as well.
Hagiwara won these rights in a 1983 settlement with the university that gave the Hagiwaras the sole license to the patent throughout Asia.5 Patented entities can be licensed in an exclusive or a nonexclusive manner, and they can be licensed for specific geographic regions, and even for specific uses.6 In this case, the Hagiwaras' agreement with UCSD permitted them to use the line in research, but not to license it commercially elsewhere.
Twenty years later, another family affair was handled quite differently when FBI agents tracked down, arrested, and jailed Dr. Jiangyu Zhu, thirty, of China and Dr. Kayoko Kimbara, thirty-two, of Japan on June 19, 2002, in La Jolla, California.
The married couple were former fellows of Harvard Medical School who had resigned to pursue new research positions. But their time at Harvard had been very fruitful: from November 1998 through September 1999, Kimbara identified two genes that block the action of calcineurin, an enzyme that signals the immune system to reject transplanted organs. This was a potentially lucrative discovery that could transform organ transplantation by leading to immunosuppressive drugs, medicines that drastically lower the risks of organ rejection. It also was a potential treatment for several diseases that affect the cardiovascular, immune, and nervous systems, which multiplied its commercial potential. Then, on October 22, 1999, Harvard filed a provisional patent on the two genes and their products.
On December 13, 1999, Zhu and Kimbara accepted university research positions at the Institute of Biotechnology at the University of Texas, San Antonio, and when they left Harvard, they took some materials and notes with them, as researchers are wont to do. They were to begin on January 15, and by early January 2000 they shipped some additional materials from Harvard to their new lab.
But the university's complaint says that in direct violation of the participation agreement signed by both Zhu and Kimbara, Zhu emailed Medical and Biological Laboratories of Nagoya, a biochemical company in Japan,7 indicating that he intended to collaborate with a researcher there to commercialize the antibodies suggested by his Harvard gene research after he left Boston. Harvard says that Zhu also sent three other genes to Japan without its knowledge.
Harvard officials angrily accused Zhu and Kimbara of violating the terms of their agreement by sneaking into the lab in the wee hours to remove contested material, and of lying about having done so. The duo denied this, and the facts were never established in court. But according to the university's complaint, the Japanese company did succeed in producing antibodies against two of the three genes and then shipped them to Zhu at the University of Texas, where he now ran his own lab.
Removing materials is not a crime and is certainly not prosecuted unless the materials are alleged to be the property of the university, not the researcher. Even removing university property is acceptable if the amounts are not excessive and the researcher has appropriate permission. If the accusations of having lied about the removal of large quantities of university property are true, the couple become less sympathetic.
But it is important to evaluate such actions in the context of research culture: researchers typically remove materials from their laboratories when they leave for other institutions and sometimes do not ask permission to do so. There is no question that Heideaki Hagiwara, for example, had violated the spirit and the letter of the agreements he signed, yet he and UCSD were able to come to an amicable arrangement that recognized his contribution and shared the rights in the contested cell line. Therefore, many in the research community felt that Harvard overreacted when the university decided to play hardball.
Moreover, given that they were sued by Harvard, an academic behemoth of sterling reputation, it is also easy to overlook that Zhu and Kimbara steadfastly denied having taken disputed materials with them and that Harvard's very public accusations of theft were never publicly backed up with copies of agreements or evidence of wrongdoing.
The school brought criminal charges, and the two were charged with conspiracy, theft, theft of trade secrets, and (since they had left Texas and were now ensconced in new labs in San Diego) interstate transportation of stolen property.8 The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New England.
The Department of Justice press release, titled "Pair Charged with Theft of Trade Secrets from Harvard Medical School," focused on the fear of corporate competition, speculating that the two shared an "intention of profiting from such information by collaborating with a Japanese company in the creation and sale of related and derivative products."
Because any attempt to develop drugs from the pair's Harvard discovery threatened Harvard's own ability to patent calcineurin and sell the rights to a biotechnology company or corporation, this was a turf battle between Harvard and Medical and Biological Laboratories as well as between it and its erstwhile fellows. Unlike UCSD, Harvard did not seem inclined to share patent rights with the Japanese firm. The school and the FBI's public statements, however, focused on Zhu and Kimbara.
"Prosecuting people who steal the intellectual property of individuals and institutions is a very high priority for the Department of Justice," declared U.S. attorney Michael J. Sullivan. "Congress has enacted a series of laws to assure that innovators get credit for their inventions and if people steal the ideas that belong to someone else and try to use those ideas for their own economic benefit, they will be prosecuted. Protecting cutting-edge ideas is crucial to the creation of new products and our economy as a whole."
Discovering the genes was Kimbara's achievement, but the patent "ownership" was governed by her signed agreement with the school, which was never made public. As a research fellow at Harvard Medical School myself, I was required to sign an agreement ceding patent rights for any discovery to the "President and Fellows of Harvard College," but this was years after the Zhu-Kimbara incident and may not reflect agreements they made. I can't help reflecting that the oft-voiced virtue of the patent as a means of protecting the rights of "innovators" sounds ironic considering that Kimbara, who discovered the gene, was being assailed for exercising her rights to it.
In fact, the only rights that immediately accrued to the duo were the Miranda rights read to them while being taken into custody in La Jolla. Sitting in the La Jolla jail, the researchers learned that they faced up to twenty-five years in prison and at least $750,000 in fines.9
In the subsequent hearing, the FBI and Harvard made a highly unusual request for a six-month delay. Then Harvard announced that Medical and Biological Laboratories, the Japanese company, had cooperated fully and returned all research data and products to Harvard Medical School.
After Zhu and Kimbara made bail, they were indicted by a grand jury, but there was no trial. Following a July 11 arraignment,10 all charges were dropped, prompting their lawyers to respond: "The indictment returned today abandons any claim that our clients stole trade secrets or attempted to commercialize them, recognition that there was never any truth to those charges."
As the pair left the courthouse, they were mobbed by Japanese reporters, whose intensive coverage of their case came not only because Kimbara was a Japanese national and a Japanese firm was involved, but also because the life patent was then foreign to Japanese scientific culture. Japan, unlike the United States, had refused to patent life-forms or to bolster a U.S.-style university- corporate symbiosis.
The Japanese bewilderment over bitter patent litigation that spilled over into criminal courts continued. In May 2001, the Cleveland Clinic similarly prosecuted researchers over monopolistic patent rights and Japanese journalists thronged its courtrooms as well, to convey the bizarre spectacle of scientists on trial over corporate property rights based on a patent. Today Japan is a major center of drug and biological design and treasures scientific innovation, but, in the words of Science magazine, "The Japanese are ill equipped to deal with stricter US laws on intellectual property."11
A Medical Sea Change
By contrast, Americans seemed unfazed by the interstate pursuit of medical research scientists on charges of the sort normally reserved for Ponzi scammers and mafiosi. For many of us, used as we are to accrimonious turf battles over intellectual property, the salient question turns on whether the Zhu-Kimbara team was guilty, not whether they should have been legally pursued.
But for the purposes of our present discussion, this event is important for a different reason: it dramatizes how the landscape of university medical research has changed in the United States. Medical- research culture has been transformed from a milieu of collegial public-goods resources devoted to the health of the community to a product governed by patents and other monopolies. Once a collaborative haven for independent inquiry and pure research, the university medical-research center is today just another arena of commercial corporate endeavor that takes competition seriously enough to deal harshly with disloyalty and raiding, to the point of seeking to send former colleagues to prison.
How did we get here, and what does the change augur for patients, medical consumers, and other everyday Americans? This acerbic exchange between Harvard and its former researchers was triggered by the potential loss of a lucrative patent that would enable someone- Harvard and its corporate partners, or another institution-to profit from the couple's research. It illustrates a face of the patent at odds with the very American values of ingenuity and independence upon which medical research has always relied.
However, the contentious climate of the patent gold rush has led to far more than mere turf squabbles, and these issues are the subject of this book. Biological patents, or "life patents," are those obtained for monopolies on living things such as pathogens, plants, animals, or portions of our own bodies, including, but hardly limited to, our genes. The requirement that U.S. patents be issued only on truly novel substances would seem to preclude U.S. biological patents on things that are commonly found in nature. So might the prohibition against patents on "laws of nature" or naturally occurring material. But the U.S. Patent Office has often issued patents on naturally occurring living things, as long as researchers have "purified," "isolated," or otherwise "transformed" the patented version into a new entity that, they argue, is not found in nature. Life patents, patents on products of nature, and related pharmaceutical patents on medications are now rife, highly profitable, and the frequent subjects of legal tugs-of-war between corporations.
From the Hardcover edition.
Meet the Author
Harriet A. Washington is the author of Medical Apartheid, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the 2007 PEN Oakland Award, and the 2007 American Library Association Black Caucus Nonfiction Award. She has been a fellow in medical ethics at the Harvard Medical School, a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University, a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and the recipient of a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University.
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This book is scary and makes me sad for the way our Medical/Healthcare future looks. No wonder we have not had any "break through" drugs or innovations in recent history. No wonder healthcare and drugs cost so much. No wonder we, as a nation are in trouble.


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On Sept. 28, South Carolina will travel to face the UCF Knights. The Gamecocks have won all three meetings against UCF with the last coming in 2005.
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The Gamecocks were previously scheduled to host South Carolina State on Sept. 21, but that game has been canceled.
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Book club , Camping , Coffee and conversation , Cooking , Fishing/Hunting , Gardening/Landscaping , Hobbies and crafts , Movies/Videos , Museums and art , Music and concerts , Exploring new areas , Nightclubs/Dancing , Performing arts , Playing cards , Religion/Spiritual , Travel/Sightseeing , Volunteering , Watching sports , Wine tasting
Dancing, Other types of exercise, Running, Swimming, Walking / Hiking, Weights / Machines, Yoga
I exercise 3-4 times per week.
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I like Dogs, Fish, Horses
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I have lived in the Friendswood area for 2 and a half years and have a very weak list of local hot spots. Haak winery, Best Shot Range, are a few places on my list.
The power of a storm as it breaks overhead, sunrays that brighten the day, dancing, learning new things and the great joy of conquering something and making it truly my own once I have learned the basics.
When I lived in Florida the beach and dancing were my main outlets. I still love any where with live music and a dance floor, but haven't done much dancing since I moved. Trying to discover more of Houston, but sometimes distracted by the choices.
Killing Lincoln - NonFiction Book written in novel style. Great read and made that period of history really come to life.
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|6'0" (182cms) to 6'11" (210cms)
|Body type:
|About average, Athletic and toned, A few extra pounds
|Blue, Brown, Grey, Green, Hazel
|Dark blonde
|Auburn / Red, Dark brown, Blonde, Dark blonde, Bald
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|No Way, Cigar aficionado
|Social Drinker
|Social Drinker
|Education / Teacher / Professor
|Executive / Management, Legal, Medical / Dental / Veterinary / Fitness, Political / Govt / Civil Service / Military, Education / Teacher / Professor, Law enforcement / Security / Military, Architecture / Interior design
I teach early elementary age children. Tons of work, but I love every minute and can't imagine investing my time any where else.
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|$35,001 to $50,000, $50,001 to $75,000, $75,001 to $100,000, $100,001 to $150,000
|Never Married
|Never Married
|Have kids:
|Yes, and they sometimes live at home, No, Yes, and they live at home
|Wants kids:
|Definitely, Someday
|White / Caucasian
|Asian, Black / African descent, East Indian, Latino / Hispanic, White / Caucasian
I am just a truly American "mutt". My ancestry has some German, Irish, English, and a few others. Because I have such a varied background my family has a lot of unique and crazy holiday traditions, but that just makes for great family memories.
|Christian / Other
|Christian / Catholic, Christian / Protestant, Other, Christian / Other
I am WELS Lutheran and in this short space I will not be able to explain what I believe. Religion is something that needs to be talked about when both individuals trust that their views will be heard and that they will not be attacked or belittled.
|Bachelors degree
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Since the medium in which light propagates is spacetime, would light be able to exist if spacetime did not exist? Is this like one of those chicken/egg problems, or can light be thought of as a legitimately independent entity? This might be bordering on an philosophical question, so if it is, let me know and I'll delete it.
Space-time is not really a "medium", it does not vibrate when a light wave is passing through. It just gives a reference of positions and instants in times in order to measure these quantities. Waves always need variations in time and space so you need to define the space-time first.
The "oscillating thing" of light waves is called the "electromagnetic field", which is not composed of matter per se. We do not perceive it directly. We are only able to observe some of its consequences, for example the light that gets in our eye, or the heat that we feel from the sun.
A couple related questions:
Light cannot exist without spacetime.
Every light ray has one place of emission and one place of absorption. You might agree that between both places there must be a spatial distance, otherwise there would be no light ray and no transport of momentum.
Light in vacuum (v=c) is associating this spatial interval with a zero spacetime interval, because it is a lightlike movement. This seems to be an essential characteristic of light so that I would say that the concept of light is closely linked to the concept of spacetime, and it cannot exist without spacetime. Philosophical considerations are not required.


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Mary Wilkerson has taken a position as the new administrator at Good Samaritan Society – Dodge City. Wilkerson hails from Florida and earned her degree in nursing home administration from the University of Central Florida. She brings experience in the healthcare field including working with rehabilitation therapy, patient financial services and patient admissions. She has also been a volunteer ombudsman for the state of Texas. "I've always been interested in meeting the needs of seniors," Wilkerson said in a news release. "The person-centered care and homelike environment at Good Samaritan Society – Dodge City reflects my passion for working with older persons. I want to help make life as meaningful and full for them as possible." "Mary is a great asset to the Good Samaritan team in Dodge City," Director of Operations Randy Fitzgerald said. "I have been very impressed by Mary's kind heart and devotion to our Christian mission." Wilkerson started her new position Oct. 21. She said that so far the experience has been positive. "I love it," Wilkerson said. "I love the staff and residents. I love the new people I get to meet in the community. It feels really good." Good Samaritan Society – Dodge City is one of more than 240 long-term healthcare centers and senior living communities across the country owned and operated by the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society. The mission of the Good Samaritan Society is to share God's love in word and deed by providing shelter and supportive services to older persons and others in need.
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Definition of unflappable in English:
Having or showing calmness in a crisis: I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic circumstances self-contained, unflappable Glaswegian common sense
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imperturbable, unexcitable, cool, calm, collected, {cool, calm, and collected}, controlled, self-controlled, self-possessed, cool-headed, level-headed, relaxed, insouciant, serene, stoical, phlegmatic, unmoved
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Firefighters rescued two people who were trapped inside a home after a tree fell on it early Sunday morning.
Firefighters rescued two people who were trapped inside a home after a tree fell on it early Sunday morning.
One person died in a crash on I-264 near Greenwood Drive early Sunday morning, according to Virginia State Police.
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Marcus Paige finished with 13 points and Brice Johnson and Justin Jackson led North Carolina with 16 apiece
Leaders, activists and supporters lit up joints as they protested in Lafayette Square.
Participants say the "United for Blue" march is to show officers they have the support and appreciation of the community.
Business and homes around Hampton Roads lit their buildings in blue to show support for Autism Awareness Day.
Protesters to House Bill 2 showed up Saturday afternoon in downtown Raleigh outside the NC Governor's Mansion.
More than 200 people are taking part in a 32-hour computer coding marathon at William & Mary.
The Wildcats set an NCAA record by beating the Sooners by 44 points.
The store has four locations in Hampton Roads.
Emergency crews were called to a commercial fire in the 600 block of Green Tree Road Saturday afternoon.
At this time, there is no confirmation on whether someone was in the vehicle or not.
Emergency crews had to rescue a woman from an overturned vehicle on West Military Highway Saturday afternoon.


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John Gemmill, the president of the Memphis Blues Society, says there is a standard look to blues festivals – a poster with a guitar player and "fill-in-the-name-of-the-city blues festival," and a lineup that includes performers from all over the place.
Jamie Elkington has been promoted to director of communications at ABO Marketing & Communications. In this position, she will direct and implement public relations plans for the nonprofit and business organizations the firm serves.
Trezevant recently announced that it has named A C Wharton, Jr. to its board of directors. Wharton is the former mayor of both the city of Memphis and Shelby County. An attorney by trade, he has also served in a number of leadership roles, including as director of Memphis Area Legal Services, chief public defender for Shelby County and chairman of the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.
If all goes according to plan on the Aug. 4 election day, Linda Phillips hopes the result is that you don't see her in any of the reporting on election night.
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Shine Chen Schattgen has joined the Memphis office of Bass, Berry & Sims LLP as an associate in the law firm's health care group. Schattgen, who previously practiced in the Boston office of Ropes & Gray LLP, counsels health care clients on a range of operational, regulatory and transactional matters.
Just before the Memorial Day weekend, candidates in the most hotly contested races on the Aug. 4 ballot got the packages they've been waiting on – yard signs.
And social media messages were out by Friday afternoon urging supporters to sign up for them.
Terry Cowles flashes a photo of ceiling lamp fixtures on the screen and tells state legislators a vendor's state Capitol team used its electrical training to remove, repair and reinstall fixtures, saving taxpayers $15,500.
The Memphis chapter of Facing History and Ourselves has named the people and groups that will be memorialized on its "Upstanders Mural," a public art project honoring those who chose to take positive action in the face of injustice.
Even now, Explore Bike Share founder Doug Carpenter does not try to pretend that the initiative will cure all that ails Memphis.
It won't wipe out poverty. It can't cure cancer. It won't eliminate diabetes and obesity, solve all of the city's transportation problems or totally bridge cultural and racial gaps that predate the bicycle's invention.
It looks like the dry rub will be in order for Memphis in May's barbecue weekend with a shower or two keeping the dust down in Tom Lee Park Wednesday.
If you can see it through the smoke, Mud Island might strike a first-tme observer as a marked contrast to all of the activity in Tom Lee Park that goes right up to the bluff's edge.
Attorney David S. Jones has joined Fisher & Phillips LLP as a partner in the firm's Memphis office. Jones has more than 15 years' experience in immigration and employment law, most recently serving as a partner at Jackson Lewis P.C. In his new role, he represents corporate clients in complex matters relating to both immigration benefits and enforcement, as well as export control compliance under the Export Administration Regulations and International Traffic in Arms Regulations.
2015: Formal opening of Bass Pro Shops at The Pyramid, an adaptation of a former 20,000-seat arena that took a decade to pull off. City leaders approached Bass Pro Shops about opening a store with other attractions in the arena after a look at other adaptive reuses of arenas across the country.
Business was good and getting better. This was 2010 and Huston Akins steadily had grown his private investigative and security operation. But his contract with Kroger was the cornerstone.
The account with Kroger covered 19 stores. His plain clothes officers, dispatched at various intervals, would troll for shoplifters. But in February of 2010, Akins found his business at risk.
Memphis College of Art has confirmed the consolidation of its Downtown campus with its Overton Park campus and will begin relevant construction over the summer.
That construction includes converting five MCA-owned apartment buildings around the Overton Park campus into studios for use in the graduate program.
Michael Donahoe has joined commercial real estate firm Avison Young as vice president of its Memphis branch. Donahoe's main focus will be overseeing all of the firm's landlord leasing projects in Memphis and the surrounding areas. Toronto-based Avison Young opened the Memphis office in December, marking its third location in Tennessee and its 50th nationally.
Two years after a disastrous slate of races for countywide offices, there is a move among younger Democratic partisans in Memphis to shake up the Democrats who represent the city in the Tennessee Legislature.
The Republican primary race to fill the 8th District Congressional seat Republican incumbent Stephen Fincher is giving up drew a field of 13 contenders – seven from Shelby County and four from Jackson, Tennessee – at the Thursday, April 7, noon filing deadline for the Aug. 4 ballot.
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Somewhere near the beginning of the Thursday, March 17, meeting of the Beale Street Tourism Development Authority, Caren Nichol talked about how unique the entertainment district is because of its cultural and historical importance.
John R. Butler has been selected as the new president of Agricenter International, officially beginning his position on July 1 of this year. Butler, a fifth-generation farmer who also held various management roles at Cargill, Inc., will succeed retiring president John Charles Wilson.
Legislative Democrats got a chance to beat their chests a little bit after a proposal to allow guns in the state Capitol and Legislative Plaza failed, and they hope to do the same with outsourcing.
Tennessee baseball coach Dave Serrano wasn't setting the bar too high when he met with the media for his 2016 preseason press conference.
Serrano made that mistake before the 2015 season with talk of reaching an NCAA regional and perhaps Omaha, Nebraska, site of the College World Series.
Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it – isn't that how the saying goes?In our case, it might be better to say everybody talks about the television weather coverage but nobody does anything about it.As we all know now, Memphis dodged the "blizzard" warning artfully and passive-aggressively teased by several television stations who shall go un-named here because they know who they are and you do too.That's because they spent much of the day of "the blizzard that wasn't" whining about the reaction from viewers who complained about the hype and then the promos the stations ran the day of the big fizzle.We didn't get much in the way of snow in Memphis, but we got a couple of feet of hype.
Way back in the 1990s, perhaps before the Grizzlies and FedExForum were even a twinkle in anyone's eye, Chris Wallace came to Memphis and The Pyramid for a preseason NBA game featuring Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls.
Tennessee football coach Butch Jones got serious about taking the next step with his football program not long after his team's 45-6 victory over Northwestern in the Jan. 1 Outback Bowl.
Jones fired defensive coordinator John Jancek on Jan. 6, and three days later hired his top candidate for the opening, Bob Shoop of Penn State.
As more details emerged this week of a new high school in the mammoth Crosstown Concourse redevelopment, there remained many other details to work out before the August 2017 planned opening.
Crosstown High School, which would use the University of Memphis' Campus School as a model, has been talked about behind the scenes since Gestalt Community Services pulled out of Concourse last year. SCS board members got their first look at the plan Tuesday, Jan. 19.
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) – Netflix says it will make a special effort to produce programming for children and families, with the streaming service offering 20 new programs in the category this year led by the Feb. 26 premiere of the "Fuller House" remake.
Football fans in Charlotte, N.C., have had a fun season watching the NFL's Carolina Panthers reel in 15 wins, a near perfect season, and secure the top playoff seed in their conference.
And it could turn out to be quite the edge for the Panthers in their quest to reach the Super Bowl.
State Sen. Ken Yager isn't quite ready for the state of Tennessee to reclaim the Refugee Resettlement Program from Catholic Charities.
I'm blaming Rudy Kalis. As the years passed in a long career as a sports writer, I always swore I'd never be the oldest guy at the press conference. As long as Rudy was in the house as sports anchor for WSMV-TV, I was safe. Then he got a morning gig at Channel 4.
No way Tennessee's football team can lose Saturday's homecoming game against North Texas, one of the worst teams in college football.
Tennessee (5-4) was a 40.5-point favorite early in the week coming off a 27-24 victory over South Carolina last Saturday at Neyland Stadium.
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It's still election season in 70 percent of the city, which sounds like a weather forecast – part warning and part advisory.But the seven-day outlook calls for an increased chance of political engagement this week. Early voting in the set of five Memphis City Council runoff races continues this week at eight satellite locations as well as the Downtown site, 157 Poplar Ave.The runoff elections in council districts 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 will determine the identity of a council that will have at least six, possibly seven new members. Super District council members Philip Spinosa and Martavius Jones, the two confirmed new faces on the council, were elected outright on Oct. 8.
I miss Steve Spurrier.
It won't be the same without Spurrier coaching South Carolina when Tennessee (4-4, 2-3 SEC) plays host to the Gamecocks (3-5, 1-5) on Saturday.
It wasn't the same this week without Spurrier throwing a jab or two at UT leading up to the game.
Plans to put Tennessee's real estate and government operations in the hands of private business are much further along than Gov. Bill Haslam would like people to think.
A master of downplaying big issues, Haslam says he's simply looking for ways to make government run more efficiently and save money.
Hillary Clinton is headed to Tennessee next month, with plans to make appearances in both Memphis and Nashville.
Campaign staff for the Democratic presidential frontrunner sent word Wednesday morning that she'll make her first campaign stop in the state Nov. 20.
Kiwanis Club of Memphis will meet Wednesday, Oct. 21, from noon to 1 p.m. at The University Club of Memphis, 1346 Central Ave. Brooks Museum of Art director Emily Ballew Neff is the guest speaker. Cost is $20. RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com.
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen and outgoing Memphis Mayor A C Wharton are among the Memphis Democrats who have formally joined former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
After three times blowing double-digit leads this season, the University of Tennessee Volunteers rallied from a 21-point deficit to upset Georgia 38-31 on Saturday, Oct. 9.
It was a history-making day for quarterback Joshua Dobbs, who threw for 312 yards and rushed for 118 yards, marking the second time in Tennessee history a player had more than 300 yards passing and more than 100 yards rushing. (Dobbs did it for the first time in program history against South Carolina in 2014.) Dobbs also accounted for five touchdowns: three passing and two rushing.
The identity of the Memphis City Council that will take office in January with six new members was still in flux at the end of a very long and frustrating Oct. 8 election night.
The races for four of those six open seats and the seat now held by an appointee to the council are going to a Nov. 19 runoff election – one week before Thanksgiving.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam appears to be on the brink of privatizing state government. But he won't be able to do it without a battle, especially from university unions and Democratic lawmakers.
John Jancek begins his third season as Tennessee's defensive coordinator under head coach Butch Jones, and thanks to two solid recruiting classes should have his best defense with the Vols.
UT is bigger and faster on the defensive side than the previous two seasons, when the Vols showed improvement from the 2012 season by shaving more than 100 yards and 11 points per game allowed.
Kimberly O'Donnell has joined Trezevant as director of resident services. In her new position, she will be responsible for managing a variety of programs and functions while serving as liaison to the residential community.
The Beale Street Tourism Development Authority is looking at a narrow three-month window to get its lease agreement with City Hall signed and, in effect, begin its work for the city and hire some kind of day-to-day manager for the entertainment district.
Dr. David Shibata has been named the Scheinberg Endowed Chair of Surgery and a professor in the Department of Surgery in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
Another season at Alabama and another battle for quarterback.
Last year's runner-up, Florida State transfer Jacob Coker, returns for a second shot at the job after losing out to Blake Sims in 2014. Redshirt freshman David Cornwell showed enough last spring to become a contender, and the race may be wide enough open to go beyond these two if neither can assert himself as the leader of the offense.
Five Memphis Tigers Claim Scholar-Athlete Awards: Five University of Memphis student-athletes claimed Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence Awards for their efforts on the field and in the classroom during the 2014-15 season, the American Athletic Conference has announced.
NEW YORK (AP) — As drivers, shippers and airlines continue to enjoy lower fuel prices, the oil industry is responding to much lower profits with sharp cuts in spending and employment that are hurting economic growth.
University of Memphis transfer forward Austin Nichols has committed to the University of Virginia; Nichols announced his decision on Sunday, July 26, in a statement released to multiple media outlets.
Shelby County Election Commissioners have certified the Memphis election ballot for Oct. 8.
These are the names to appear on that ballot for the 15 elected offices.
The commission met hours after the noon Thursday, July 23, deadline for candidates to withdraw from the ballot if they wished.
The bottom-line question about Memphis Grizzlies rookies Jarell Martin and Andrew Harrison is the same as after every other NBA Draft: What does the team really have in these guys?
The Memphis Grizzlies needed more shooting and may have found at least some of it in two off-Broadway draft day trades. But with the 25th overall pick in the first round Thursday night, June 25, the Grizzlies went a different direction and chose 6-foot-9, 235-pound forward Jarell Martin from LSU.
As two high profile Memphis murder cases moved toward retrial this week, the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals reversed another murder conviction in Shelby County Criminal Court earlier this month.
Jimmy Hyams moved to Knoxville from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the summer of 1985 looking for a fresh start to his journalism career and found a job as a sportswriter for the Knoxville News Sentinel.
Logan and Stacie Mathes were on "pins and needles" as they waited for Gov. Bill Haslam to sign legislation into law allowing cannabis oil to be used to treat seizures and similar medical problems in Tennessee.
Why aren't Tennessee Republicans happier?
With the GOP so dominate in the Tennessee General Assembly and losses so rare – on the Hill or in elections – the party's lawmakers should be jubilant with this year's session. But it's never enough.
Todd Kelly Jr. concludes his first spring practice with Tennessee's football team this week in a heated competition for a safety job.
Since August, Tennessee appeals courts have overturned the convictions of six Shelby County Criminal Court defendants on charges that ranged from murder to bad checks.
The latest reversal and new trial involved jurors in the 2012 first-degree murder trial of Eric Williams being passed a shotgun to examine after a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agent testified about how double-barrel shotguns operate.
Dr. Neil Bomar has joined Support Solutions as its first staff psychiatrist, a role in which he will help individuals with intellectual disabilities and those with a history of long-term mental illness who are currently supported by the organization. Bomar's addition makes Support Solutions one of the only industry providers in the Mid-South to provide this level of support.
Tennessee football fans might want to look past the defensive lineup for the Orange & White Spring Game. It will bear little resemblance to the unit that will start the 2015 season opener against Bowling Green on Sept. 5 at Nashville's LP Field.
Joshua Dobbs enters his junior season as Tennessee's undisputed No. 1 quarterback and team leader, the player most responsible for the Vols' relevance again in SEC football.
For the fifth time since August a state appellate court has reversed a conviction in Shelby County Criminal Court and ordered a new trial for the defendant.
The latest reversal came Thursday, March 26, from the Tennessee Supreme Court in the case of Frederick Herron, who was convicted by a jury in 2012 of raping a child. Criminal Court Judge Carolyn Wade Blackett sentenced him to 25 years in prison.
You don't need to search the Allan Jones Aquatic Center for a reminder of Tennessee's glory years in men's swimming under legendary coach Ray Bussard.
Hanging from the rafters are 10 SEC championship banners and the 1978 NCAA championship banner. Bussard coached eight SEC championship teams – the first in 1969 and seven consecutive from 1972-78 – and the NCAA title team.
State Rep. Sherry Jones is continuing her push for legalization of medical marijuana in Tennessee after taking it further than ever in the legislative process last year.
WASHINGTON (AP) – A burst of hiring in February underscored the resilience and confidence of U.S. businesses, which are adding workers at the fastest pace in 17 years. Yet the strong job gains did little to raise wages last month.
Jacob Waters isn't old enough to drive a car yet. But, by his own account, he has driven a tractor a few times.
KNOXVILLE – Butch Jones has done it again.
Tennessee's football coach has created a national buzz with his 2015 recruiting class.
UT finished with the No. 4 class in the nation as rated by 247Sports and ended up ranked No. 5 by Rivals when the Feb. 4 national signing day was over.
Memphis City Council members are likely to have some questions Tuesday, Jan. 20, about the still tentative settlement of the last part of the court fight for control of Beale Street.
The tentative terms of the settlement between the city of Memphis and the Beale Street Development Corp. leaked last week and include a share of revenues from the operation of the entertainment district for the BSDC that would otherwise go to the city, which owns the property between Second and Fourth streets.
In Nashville real estate circles, it is difficult to say goodbye to 2014. We loved that 2014 and she was wonderful.
Missing her already, we hope she returns in 2015. But for the current trend to continue, Nashville is going to need some inventory.
About 45 percent of Americans make New Year's resolutions – or so says the Journal of Clinical Psychology. And one of the best ways to ensure they stick? Make them public.
So, we asked a few Nashvillians in various fields – some of whom we spoke with earlier in the year – to share their resolutions, goals or intentions for both their personal lives or businesses as well as hopes they have for the city.
KNOXVILLE – Christmas break has come and gone for the University of Tennessee's football team. Now it's back to business.
The Vols return to campus for practice Saturday and, after a Sunday practice, fly to Jacksonville for the Jan. 2 game against Iowa in the TaxSlayer Bowl, formerly the Gator Bowl.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Cargill aims to sell more corn and soybeans. MasterCard covets another site for Americans to swipe credit cards. Marriott sees beachfront property that needs hotels.
And outside Orlando, Florida, Danny Howell just knows there would be demand for his classic Chevrolet parts.
KNOXVILLE – Derek Barnett is spending most of the Christmas holidays away from his Nashville home, and he wouldn't have it any other way.
WASHINGTON (AP) – A burst of U.S. hiring in November – the most in nearly three years – added 321,000 jobs and provided the latest evidence that the United States is outperforming other economies throughout the developed world.
KNOXVILLE – University of Tennessee football coach Butch Jones doesn't have to remind his team about the disappointing fade last November.
UT went 0-3 to start what has historically been its best month of football. First, the Vols lost to Missouri and Auburn. Then a 14-10 loss to Vanderbilt in Neyland Stadium knocked the Vols out of bowl eligibility.
The odds of an income tax becoming a reality in Tennessee – one of the nation's lowest-taxed states – are slim to none.
And, yet there is an amendment on the Nov. 4 ballot that would change Tennessee's constitution by giving the Legislature authority to prohibit passage of an income tax or payroll tax in the state.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – The killer of country comic David "Stringbean" Akeman and his wife, Estelle, has been granted parole after 40 years in prison.
John A. Brown was originally sentenced to 198 years. The board had denied several previous parole requests.
The man convicted and sentenced to death for the brutal 2003 double murder of a husband and wife in Bartlett will get a new trial, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled last week.
The court decision Thursday, Sept. 25, in the case of Henry Lee Jones is the latest reversal of a conviction in Shelby County Criminal Court by the highest court in the state.
KNOXVILLE – It doesn't get much easier for the University of Tennessee's football team.
The Sept. 20 open date has come and gone. UT's coaches and players had ample time to digest and dissect details of the 34-10 loss to No. 4-ranked Oklahoma on Sept. 13 and a week to prepare for a challenge just as formidable.
The Tennessee Supreme Court reversed Thursday, Sept. 25, the first-degree double-murder conviction of Henry Lee Jones for the 2003 murders of Clarence and Lillian James in Bartlett.
Butch Jones was sitting in the office of Knoxville's South-Doyle High School athletic director and football coach Clark Duncan during a visit to see recruit Jocquez Bruce last winter.
Cindy Branch, Meritan's associate vice president for health services, has been selected to represent Tennessee as one of the nation's top 50 home care and hospice nurses by the National Association for Home Care & Hospice and the Home Healthcare Nurses Association. Branch, a registered nurse, has oversight of Meritan's nursing programs, including home health, private duty nursing and medical residential homes. She will be recognized at NACH's annual meeting in October.
The South Carolina defense still has improvement to make, but in beating Georgia 38-35 last Saturday the Gamecocks made a fourth-quarter goal-line stand and reasserted their presence in the SEC East Division.
Shelby County Commissioners elect a new chairman Monday, Sept. 8, for the next year at the first voting meeting of their four-year term of office.
And their agenda includes votes on appointments by Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell to his second-term team of division directors and administrators.
KNOXVILLE – You had to be hiding under a rock not to hear the buzz this week about the University of Tennessee's football team.
One person not reveling in the Vols' 38-7 season opening victory over Utah State on Sunday night was UT coach Butch Jones.
For government officials, the oath of office marks the boundary between the ability to get elected and the ability to govern.
But it's not always apparent to those taking the oath what they have gotten themselves into.
Just when you thought it was safe to believe in the wisdom of the system, they pull this.
Back in 2008, when the Great Recession made its way into Middle Tennessee and the area began to feel the pain that other regions had endured for several years, the financial world collapsed.
Coaches such as Alabama's Nick Saban get paid millions to lead and win championships, so it's only natural that Saban would say something like this:
"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist."
Democrats have retained their seven-vote majority on the new single-district Shelby County Commission that takes office Sept. 1.
That and the re-election victory of Democratic incumbent Cheyenne Johnson in the race for Shelby County Assessor of Property were the only bright spots for a divided local Democratic Party that lost every other countywide partisan elected position to Republicans in the Aug. 7 county general election, just as they lost every countywide position to Republicans four years earlier.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen held off Thursday, Aug. 7, the most serious electoral challenge he's faced since winning the Congressional seat in 2006, in the form of attorney Ricky E. Wilkins.
Alex Yates has joined the Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial Advisors Capital Markets team as vice president, assisting and executing investment sales, debt/equity placement and development advisory projects. Yates' efforts will be heavily concentrated in multifamily and retail, but he will focus on other product types as well.
The Memphis Bar Association poll of attorneys on the judicial races on the Aug. 7 ballot shows 16 percent to as high as 38 percent of the attorneys participating have no opinion in many of the judicial races.
Public school superintendents in Tennessee are not elected in a popular vote anymore. They are appointed by school boards – the only hiring decision school boards make.
So when the Shelby County Schools board voted 6-0 Monday, June 23, to extend the three-year contract of superintendent Dorsey Hopson through June 2018, it was a mandate by the board for the student achievement gains Hopson and the board have set as goals.
WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. employers added 217,000 jobs in May, a substantial gain for a fourth straight month, fueling hopes that the economy will accelerate after a grim start to the year.
One educator's reform is another educator's wrong move.
Dorsey Hopson doesn't use the word "reform" as often as he uses the term "game changer."
But the superintendent of Shelby County Schools has himself become a game changer as the school board that signed him to a three-year contract last September weighs a further extension of his three-year contract that for now runs through September 2016.
Shelby County Schools board members are scheduled to vote on a contract extension for schools superintendent Dorsey Hopson at a special board meeting June 23.
Notice of the meeting comes about a week after school board chairman Kevin Woods authorized the school system's attorney, Valerie Speakman, to begin contract negotiations with Hopson and his representative on the extension.
The Shelby County Schools board will discuss Tuesday, May 27, an extension of Dorsey Hopson's three-year contract to be superintendent of the school system.
And a vote could come at the board's June 17 work session, if not sooner. Under state law, the body has up to 45 days before the August school board elections to extend the contract or leave the matter for consideration by the next school board.
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ARLINGTON – Three Bearkats scored in double figures, including 15 from DeLuis Ramirez as Sam Houston State rolled to a 79-65 win over Texas-Arlington on Wednesday night on the stage at Texas Hall.
Ryan Bright added 14 points and Shamir McDaniel scored 11 as the Kats picked up their 20th win of the season for the fifth time under head coach Bob Marlin. Sam Houston has posted 20 or more victories each of the last three seasons. Never before have Bearkat squads had three consecutive 20-victory seasons.
The two teams were back-and-forth in the early going, with UTA taking a 15-14 lead seven minutes into the game. Bright hit a three to get the Kats (20-6, 8-5 SLC) back in the lead and they never looked back. Bright's basket sparked a 14-0 run by SHSU.
In the first half the Kat led by as much as 16, but UTA was able to cut that in half by the break. The Bearkats started the second half strong, however, with Ashton Mitchell knocking down a 3-pointer as well as picking up a steal and a layup, to give the Kats a 49-34 lead.
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- Kristin M. FergusonAffiliated withSilberman School of Social Work at Hunter College Email author
- , Bin XieAffiliated withSchool of Community and Global Health, Claremont Graduate University
- , Shirley GlynnAffiliated withDepartment of Psychiatry and Bio-Behavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles
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Prior research reveals high unemployment rates among homeless young adults. The literature offers many examples of using evidence-based supported employment models with vulnerable populations to assist them in obtaining and maintaining competitive employment; yet few examples exist to date with homeless young adults with mental illness.
The purpose of this study was thus to adapt an evidence-based intervention for adults with psychiatric illnesses [i.e., the Individual Placement and Support (IPS)] with homeless young adults with mental illness.
Convenience sampling was used to recruit 20 homeless young adults (ages 18–24) with mental illness from the host agency. Participants received the IPS intervention over 10 months. A comparison sample was used at a separate agency of 16 homeless young adults with mental illness, who received standard agency services. Using a pre-post, self-comparison quasi-experimental design, the impact of the IPS was assessed on five employment outcomes: (1) ever-worked rate, (2) working-at-follow-up rate, (3) monthly work rate, (4) weekly work hours and (5) weekly income.
The IPS group was significantly more likely to have worked at some point over the 10-month study as well as to have worked a greater number of months overall.
Findings provide greater insight into adapting, implementing and evaluating the IPS model with homeless young adults with mental illness. The study demonstrates that the IPS model is adaptable to work with homeless young adults with mental illness and is associated with successful retention and employment outcomes.
KeywordsCompetitive employment Individual placement and support Supported employment Mental health Homeless young adults
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- Adapting the Individual Placement and Support Model with Homeless Young Adults
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Child & Youth Care Forum
Volume 41, Issue 3 , pp 277-294
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- 2012-06
- 10.1007/s10566-011-9163-5
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- 1053-1890
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- 1573-3319
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- Springer US
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- Competitive employment
- Individual placement and support
- Supported employment
- Mental health
- Homeless young adults
- Authors
- Kristin M. Ferguson (1)
- Bin Xie (2)
- Shirley Glynn (3)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, 2180 Third Avenue, New York, NY, 10035, USA
- 2. School of Community and Global Health, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, USA
- 3. Department of Psychiatry and Bio-Behavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA


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The word "invaluable" is what you're looking for I think. Definition: beyond calculable or appraisable value.
To quote the well-know credit card ad: priceless.
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Top-ranked Florida capped a perfect run through the Southeastern Conference when Kentucky failed to get off a shot on its final possession, allowing the Gators to escape with a 61-60 victory in the league championship game Sunday. Florida (32-2) built a 16-point lead early in the second half, but Kentucky nearly pulled off an improbable comeback to hand the Gators their first loss since early December. Two missed free throws gave the Wildcats (24-10) a final possession, but James Young slipped trying to drive into the lane.
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