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CNN: Special Investigations Unit
The First Patient: Health and the Presidency
Aired May 24, 2008 - 20:00 ET
SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Hello, I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta in Washington. Welcome to "The First Patient." The president of the United States has the most powerful job in the world. Over the next hour, we're going to show you the physical and mental toll it takes, as well as all that goes into keeping the president healthy. First, though, everybody knows the Secret Service protects the president. But did you also know that there's a White House doctor just steps away from the commander in chief at all times? (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA (voice-over): No matter where the president is, a White House doctor is close by. DR. CONNIE MARIANO, FORMER WHITE HOUSE PHYISICAN: The doctor is always within a few feet away, so you essentially shadow the president. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Kind of meld in with the Secret Service. DR. JOHN HUTTON, FORMER WHITE HOUSE PHYSICIAN: We were always on call. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: At any time, anywhere in the world. GUPTA: Dr. Connie Mariano ran the White House medical unit under President Clinton. Five military doctors, five nurses, five physician assistants, three corpsmen or medics and three administrations. The mission? Executive medicine. Keep the president healthy day-to-day and protective medicine. Treat the commander in chief in a worse case scenario like an assassination attempt. The nerve center for White House medical care since President Hoover is an office next to the map room, across from the elevator the president takes to get to the West Wing from his residence upstairs. HUTTON: We would just greet him as he got off the elevator. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's beautifully situated because it's right opposite the elevator so the president and first family can just walk across. GUPTA: President Bush's doctor is Air Force Colonel Richard Tubb, a family physician. He's in charge of the White House medical unit. The White House communications office declined to let us speak with Dr. Tubb. DR. RICHARD TUBB, WHITE HOUSE PHYSICIAN: The president continues to be in outstanding health. MARIANO: This is one of those moments you pinch yourself. The president says come walk with me. You just make sure you don't want to trip as you're walking in front of the world. GUPTA: But Dr. Connie Mariano, now at the Center for Executive Medicine in Scottsdale, Arizona agreed to give us a president's few of health care. How would you rate the medical facilities of the White House? MARIANO: At the White House itself, it's very much your typical doctor's offices. It's got a private exam room on the ground floor, which has a crash cart. GUPTA: A crash cart is used for emergency resuscitation. The goal -- stabilize the president and get him to a hospital. Air Force One also comes quipped with tremendous medical capability. MARIANO: In this compartment, we have an operating room table that can be brought out and placed in the center of the room. There's an operating light that can be brought forward around to the front of the table. All of this is all contingency planning in case we ever are in a worse case scenario. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How do you feel? BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Great. MARIANO: This is a patient like no other. Their decisions impact millions of lives. GUPTA: An ailing president potentially affects world diplomacy, president policy and the economy. Consider this. Use President Eisenhower's heart attack on Saturday, September 24th, 1955 caused the Dow Jones Index to drop 6.5 percent the following Monday. DR. JERROLD M. POST, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: An illness to the president is not just a personal matter. It is a devastating public crisis. ROBERT GILBERT, AUTHOR: And so this puts a tremendous burden on presidents, because obviously, they're human beings. They're not -- they're not gods. They're human beings. They do become ill, the way the rest of us become ill. They do get the colds. They do get the flu. And many presidents have had much more serious ailments. And they really have to continue to exude the fact that they are optimistic, that they are well, that they're able to meet any challenge that possibly comes their way. GUPTA: When we come back, we will take you inside the hospital and the White House situation room in the tense hours after President Reagan was shot. And the grueling life on the campaign trail. Is the primary schedule unhealthy? Plus, the biggest medical cover-ups in White House history. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He gave President Kennedy shots in the throats, which is almost horrible to think of because you don't know what he was putting in there. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) GUPTA: Less than three months after taking office on this very spot, President Reagan came face to face with a deranged young man with a 22-caliber handgun. The lessons from that tense and tragic afternoon have prompted presidents and their doctors to prepare for their worst. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA (voice-over): March 30th, 1981, 2:25 p.m. Six shots ring out as President Reagan leaves a Washington hotel. A Secret Service agent pushes President Reagan into his limousine as would-be assassin John Hinkley is wrestled to the ground. The limousine races down Connecticut Avenue, first toward the White House, until the president coughs up blood. And then toward George Washington University Hospital, six blocks away. DR. JOSEPH GIORDANO, GWU HOSPITAL: As he collapsed, his blood pressure was 70 -- very, very low. And we put him on the gurney and the residents immediately started IVs and got fluid in him. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The president has been shot once in the left chest. EDWIN MEESE III, COUNSELOR TO PRESIDENT REAGAN: As I got to the hospital with a couple of others there, the president saw us. And he looked up and he said, "Who's minding the store?" GUPTA: Minding the store at the White House -- cabinet members and a number of top aides. They gather in the situation room, trying to determine if a larger attack is under way. FRED FIRLEDING, FORMER WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL: But that was one of the major concerns we had was, you know, what was this? Who was it? Was it a lone gunman? Was it a conspiracy? Was it a start of something really significant? GUPTA: Remember, this is the height of the Cold War. RICHARD ALLEN, FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: There was double the number of Soviet submarines off our coast within a very short flying time, as we would say. If you had a missile, it was four to five minutes from the White House. GUPTA: As a precaution, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger orders an increased alert of strategic air command forces, putting B-52 pilots at the ready. Reagan's uncertain health triggers other responses. Directors of the New York Stock Exchange shut down trading, and the Treasury announces plans to buy back dollars to maintain the stability of U.S. currency overseas. DAVID GERGEN, FORMER WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECOTR: There was a great deal of tension in the room that day, because the vice president was gone. The president was incapacitated. And basically, the president's top three advisers -- the so-called "troika" of Baker, Meese and Deaver -- were all at the hospital. GUPTA: Outside the hospital, presidential aide Lyn Nofziger downplays the seriousness of Mr. Reagan's injuries. LYN NOFZIGER, FORMER PRESIDENTIAL AIDE: And the president's condition is good, remains good and remains stable. GUPTA: However, inside, President Reagan is suffering from serious internal bleeding. GIORDANO: We were watching the blood come out of the chest tube, and a very significant amount came out. And there was no question in my mind that he had to go to surgery. GUPTA: 3:24 p.m. President Reagan is wheeled into the operating room. At the White House, a desire to show the world there is no leadership vacuum that might be exploited by an enemy. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: As of now, I am in control here, in the White House. GUPTA: 6:45 p.m. President Reagan emerges from a successful operation to stop his internal bleeding and remove the bullet lodged near his heart. DR. WILLIAM KNAUS, TREATED PRESIDENT REAGAN: He was very, very tired. He had pain in his chest from his incision and the surgery itself. GUPTA: 7:00. Vice President Bush, having rushed back from Texas, meets in the situation room and decides no transfer of power is necessary. National security adviser Richard Allen is recording the meeting. GEORGE H.W. BUSH, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: My view is, the more normal everything is, the better it is. GUPTA: 8:20 p.m. Bush and deputy press secretary Larry Speakes give a press briefing. The vice president paints a rosy picture of the president's postoperative health. BUSH: But he's emerged from this experience with flying colors and with the most optimistic prospects for a complete recovery. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Has the president turned over control or authority to the vice president? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There has been no cause for that to take place. GUPTA: But there was a need in the 48 hours following surgery, according to Dr. William Knaus, an intensive care physician who treated President Reagan. KNAUS: He was disoriented. He had to be reminded periodically of where he was and what time it was. I mean, remember, any surgery patient loses concept of time and date and sort of place, because they really -- the effects of anesthesia. So, he had to be reminded what day it was, when he was shot, how long ago that was. And he had to be reminded frequently. GUPTA: Even so, chief of staff James Baker, deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver and counselor to the president, Edwin Meese, arrive in the president's hospital room at 6:45 the next morning. They get President Reagan to sign a bill restricting federal price supports for dairy products. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I brought the bill over to him, as I remember, then. I think it was worthwhile and useful to let the public know that he was OK, that he was not serious -- not more seriously injured -- and that business was as usual, or as much as usual it could be, with the president in the hospital. (END VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA: After suffering a stroke in 1957, President Eisenhower thought there should be a way under the Constitution to transfer power to the vice president temporarily. In 1967 -- 10 years later -- the 25th amendment was ratified, authorizing the vice president to assume command when the president is incapacitated. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA (voice-over): When President Reagan was shot in 1981, then Vice President Bush chose not to invoke the 25th amendment, a position endorsed by Reagan's top advisers. GERGEN: In retrospect, I think it was the right decision not to invoke. The tendency was, why do we want to rock the boat this way? As I say, there is a -- there is, I think, a natural, built-in tendency to want to present the country with a -- put things in the best light and to reassure people that things are in good hands. But I do think Vice President Bush would have been prepared to step up to it, had the recommendation come from the group. KNAUS: I think if, that day after surgery, you know, Vice President Bush had walked in and said, you know, I'm taking over now, I think it would have been absolutely appropriate. I don't think any medical person -- I certainly would not have questioned it. I would think that is was absolutely the logical thing to do. There would have been no question at all in our minds. GUPTA: Presidential historians have criticized the Reagan White House for not invoking the 25th amendment when President Reagan was shot. ROBERT E. GILBERT, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN: I think the 25th amendment certainly should have been invoked. There was a period of hours -- 10 to 15 hours -- when Ronald Reagan could not respond to a crisis. KNAUS: The consideration of transferring presidential authority or invoking the 25th amendment were never raised with any of the medical staff, as far as I was concerned. They certainly were never raised with me. GUPTA: Four years later, when President Reagan needed cancer surgery that required general anesthesia, he signed a letter transferring power temporarily to Vice President Bush. But some historians, and even members of the Reagan White House disagree over whether he ever actually invoked the 25th amendment. BUSH: I, George Herbert Walker Bush -- GUPTA: When he took over the Oval Office, President Bush established elaborate and classified contingency plans covering medical emergencies. He never needed them. President Clinton also drew up contingency plans when he took office. MARIANO: One of the earliest meetings is with a physician, chief of staff, legal counsel present -- actually first lady -- regarding the 25th amendment. And goes into effect, this is what we would do if something like this happened. GUPTA: President Clinton was planning to invoke the 25th amendment after tearing a quadriceps tendon, if his operation required general anesthesia. It didn't. GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Good morning, everybody. GUPTA: President George W. Bush made history on June 29, 2002, when he had a colonoscopy. ARI FLEISCHER, WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN: At 7:09 a.m., article 25 of the constitution was invoked, temporarily transferring the power of the presidency to Vice President Dick Cheney. At that time, anesthesia was administered to the president. BUSH: I did so because we're at war. And I just want to, you know, be super, you know, super cautious. TUBB: The procedure lasted for 20 minutes and was completely uncomplicated. No polyps were found. No abnormalities were found. GUPTA: The White House released this picture of President Bush later that day at Camp David. Mr. Bush resumed his presidency two hours and 15 minutes after invoking the 25th amendment. (END VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA: Connie Mariano gave us this laminated copy of the 25th amendment. If you look inside the medical bag of any white house doctor, you'll find a copy just like it. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Would you children like to be president of the united states? GUPTA: Next, be careful what you wish for. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: over the last 150 years, about two-thirds of presidents have failed to reach their life expectancy. GUPTA: When we return, we'll look at the toll the presidency takes on the person. (END VIDEO CLIP) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (NEWSBREAK) GUPTA: Welcome back. I'm at the Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta, in a replica of President Carter's Oval Office. Now, the person in the Oval Office probably has the toughest job in the world. With all that power, all that responsibility comes intense stress -- a proven risk factor for death and serious illness. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tell me, would you children like to be president of the United States? We'll start with you, Frankie. Would you? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, I think I would like to be president, because I think it's a great honor to be president. And I could help the poor people and maybe try to stop all the wars. And my -- I think my mommy and daddy and my brother would be very proud. GUPTA: It's great to believe anyone could grow up to be president. But the job itself is probably the toughest in the world. CAPRICIA MARSHALL, FORMER WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL SECRETARY: The demands are on you all day, all night, every single day of the calendar year. GUPTA: It's not only a tough job, it can be a real killer. GILBERT: Just looking at presidents who have died of natural causes, they have tended to do badly. Over the last 150 years, about two- thirds of presidents have failed to reach their life expectancy, despite the fact that they have the best medical care that you can imagine. GUPTA: Professor Robert Gilbert is a leading scholar on presidential health. GILBERT: People who run for president tend to have type A personalities. And type A personalities tend to be more prone to illness. GUPTA: While our last few presidents seem to have defied the odds and live long lives, historians have determined that many of our leaders were seriously ill while in office. Dwight Eisenhower suffered from both a heart attack and a stroke. Lyndon Johnson had gall bladder surgery and also had heart problems. Kennedy's health -- well, we'll get to that later. Besides cardiovascular illness and stroke, just in the last century, U.S. presidents have suffered from high blood pressure, cancer, diabetes, respiratory illness, gall bladder disease, kidney disease, prostate disease, Addison's disease, Graves disease, pneumonia, ileitus and obesity. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Brenda, would you like to be president? And don't you think it's time we -- UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, I haven't quite figured up my mind yet, but I think it is a great honor to be a president. POST: The job of the president is immensely difficult because he is under the constant glare of the public spotlight. GUPTA: Dr. Jerrold Post, an expert in political psychology, says the toll of the job can be seen in their faces. POST: The pictures of the president and how he ages from the day of inauguration, show a really disproportionate amount of aging in response to that stress. GUPTA: Hardest job in the world, they say. It's because of what, specifically? MARSHALL: The constant demand and from everyone and everywhere. It's -- it's not just the issues that we're dealing with in our country, or within the White House walls. GUPTA: A day in the life of the president can be grueling. Well, these are some of President Bush's daily schedules -- meetings, receptions, briefings, gaggles. Day in, day out, the pace can be unforgiving. Still, as with anyone, it's the stress of personal sadness that often causes the greatest burden. Capricia Marshall spent eight years in the White House as social secretary during the Clinton administration. A close adviser to the first family, she was often there during the trying times. MARSHALL: I was awoken in the middle of the night at my home by the White House operator, to be informed that Mrs. Kelley, his mother, had just passed away. And so, I went to the White House then. And -- which was very hard on him, even though he knew that his mother was very, very ill. But he was also going through so many other things -- issues, larger issues -- that the country was facing. It's something that not many of us can ever comprehend. POST: When President Clinton's mother died, I think the public really would have understood, had he taken a few days off to privately grieve. GUPTA: But he didn't. He went from the funeral to a NATO summit in Brussels. For most people under stress, a vacation is often the best medicine. GERGEN: The presidency, in particular, requires someone who is -- who's got internal reserves that are replenished on a regular basis. GUPTA: Gergen was an adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton. GERGEN: I happen to believe that we're better served by someone who is willing to take some vacation time, and not be there 24/7. GUPTA: But even when the president gets away, the presidency follows. MARSHALL: A vacation never was truly ever a vacation. And even Christmas with them was also work. I mean, you know, being the president and first lady, you never get to go home and turn it off. It's on 24/7. GUPTA: And that may be the biggest risk to the leader's health. DR. MICHAEL IRWIN, UCLA NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE: Stress is just as serious as these other factors, such as smoking, alcohol use, lack of physical activity. GUPTA: Dr. Michael Irwin studies the effects of stress on the body's immune system. IRWIN: We know that stress accumulates and affects one's body and one's mental health over time. And it's the accumulation of this chronic stress that is important. GUPTA: Every president has to find his own way of coping with stress. In the early 1900s, Theodore Roosevelt took to rugged hikes and outdoor adventure to keep his mind and body healthy. Herbert Hoover became known for his 10-pound medicine ball. Presidents have done pretty much everything to stay fit to lead, whether to prevent illness, or in spite of it. GERGEN: Roosevelt was someone who knew how important it was to not be there at the desk every hour of the day. Every afternoon, punctually, there would be a cocktail hour in which people were invited into the White House. His friends and family would be there. And it was against the rules to talk about politics. DR. LAWRENCE MOHR, FORMER WHITE HOUSE PHYSICIAN: During my time at the White House, it was very clear that each of the presidents had the ability to deal with the stress remarkably well. HUTTON: He said, there comes a time in the day when you're not on the newsreel any more, and you can turn it off. He says, because there's nothing I can do about this overnight. IRWIN: Social organization can also make you immune to stress. Good -- having a wide social support network to provide support for you. GUPTA: But even so, the presidency carries a unique burden. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In the final analysis, the president is the only one that makes the decisions. I mean, he relies on his aides, but he has to decide what advice to take. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think it's probably one of the loneliest jobs there is. You have so many people around you all day long, and yet, everyone depends and looks to you. But you very -- you have very limited people that you can look to and depend upon. There are people around you all day long, and yet, you're really by yourself. GUPTA: Coming up in the next half hour, secrets in the White House, medical cover-ups. And just ahead, what about the first patient's mental fitness? Did President Reagan have Alzheimer's when he was president? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think he did. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ROBERT E. GILBERT, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN: In the summer of 1924, Calvin Coolidge underwent a devastating personal tragedy, the death of his favorite child, 16-year-old son, a boy who played tennis on the White House tennis courts and who developed a blister on one of his toes and it became infected, and he was dead within a week. Calvin Coolidge's presidency changed after that. He was withdrawn. He slept 15 hours a day. He worked about four hours every day. He demonstrated all of the symptoms of clinical depression. From the time of the death of his son until Coolidge left office, he was an incapacitated president. (END VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA: I'm here at the National Museum of American History in an exhibit called "The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden." What happens when a friend or a colleague thinks the president is suffering severe depression or Alzheimer's? On those particularly touchy issues, there is no formal protocol, no special branch of the White House medical unit. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA (voice over): In the winter of 1974, as the Watergate investigations zeroed in on the White House, presidential aide David Gergen, who has worked for both Republicans and Democrats, says Nixon felt the pressure. DAVID GERGEN, FORMER PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER: I don't think we'll ever know clinically what his condition was in the final throes of Watergate, but we have enough accounts and I was there to know that he had some very bad nights. GUPTA: A group of senators led by New York's Jacob Javits worried that Nixon was wearing down under the stress. So they called Dr. Bert Brown, a psychiatrist and director of the National Institutes of Mental Health. He had treated many people in high level positions. DR. BERT BROWN, FMR. DIR. NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF MENTAL HEALTH: It was sort of a withdrawal from social contact. One of the senators mentioned that there wasn't a week that had gone by for four years where he didn't get a phone call on some point or other and had not received a phone call for several weeks. GUPTA: And Dr. Brown had no official responsibility for President Nixon. But he told the senators: look for warning signs like increased drinking, mood swings or an uncontrolled temper. GERGEN: This is a man who had wonderful lucid and far-reaching insight. And when he was under all that pressure, under all that stress, it's a close call whether the president is right there and should be there making decisions, say, on an international crisis. GUPTA: At the time, no one suggested publicly that the stress was too much for Nixon, but political pressure was too much and he resigned, avoiding impeachment. RICHARD NIXON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We don't have a good word for it in English. The best is "au revoir." We'll see you again. GUPTA: In 1964, "Fact" magazine quoted dozens of liberal psychiatrists analyzing Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Some examples: "a dangerous lunatic," "a result of rigid toilet training." Goldwater sued for libel and won. (On camera): Since then, the American Psychiatric Association tells its members not to analyze public figures from a distance. Of course, some psychiatrists still do, with varying degrees of scientific rigor. (Voice over): In 1984, Dr. Louis Gottschalk, a prominent neurologist and psychiatrist, studied the debates between then President Ronald Reagan and his challenger, Walter Mondale. Gottschalk is 88 years old now and he goes to work every day in a building that's named after him at the University of California in Irvine. He works with the Gottschalk-Gleser Scale, also named for him. It's a neurologic test of a person's ability to think clearly by looking at speech. Does that person repeat himself? Does he lose focus on what he's saying? You derive a score. A score between zero and one is considered normal. RONALD REAGAN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The system is still where it was with regard to the -- with regard to the progressivities I've said... GUPTA: In the presidential debates that year, 1984, Mr. Reagan's score was 2.14, out of the normal range, signaling moderate impairment. REAGAN: I have no hesitancy in saying so, and the prayers already answered. GUPTA (On camera): He looked a little lost there. DR. LOUIS GOTTSCHALK, UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE: I think so, too. He did repeat himself so much, and sometimes didn't finish sentences. GUPTA: Did President Reagan have Alzheimer's when he was president? GOTTSCHALK: I think he did. Some form of it. GUPTA (voice over): Ridiculous, say those who were close to the president. They say symptoms never appeared while he was still in office. They point to major triumphs of his second term -- landmark arms control deals and the crumbling of the Soviet Union. Alzheimer's creeps into a person's mind over a period of many years. In the president's case, the process likely started well before 1994, when he announced his condition publicly in a handwritten letter. But that doesn't mean he showed symptoms in office. And it may not have affected him at all for years. DR. JOHN HUTTON, WHITE HOUSE PHYSICIAN 1984-1988: I never, absolutely never -- as the expression goes, he had forgotten more than I ever knew. You know, it was the type of thing that I never really noticed anything of any sort. EDMUND MORRIS, REAGAN BIOGRAPHER: The unshakeable evidence is his diary entries. Every night this man wrote an account of his day as president. Every night for eight years. And the entries of his last days in office are as lucid and controlled and logical as they were when he became president. GUPTA: But with Reagan in his mid-70s, there was speculation, even at the White House. In 1987, the deputy to new chief of staff Howard Baker said that several White House staffers came to him with concerns. JAMES M. CANNON, WHITE HOUSE AIDE: They used, repeatedly, the words, "He's out of it," meanings with -- and suggesting that he was not really up to the job. GUPTA: James Cannon now says the information was no good, but at the time he did warn Baker. Baker didn't consult the doctor, but instead had a conversation with Reagan and decided he was fine. HOWARD BAKER, WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF: I've never seen Ronald Reagan more energetic, fully engaged and more in command of difficult circumstances and questions that we were dealing with throughout this day. He's never been better. DR. JERROLD M. POST, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: This is clearly a decision where not only the White House physician should be involved, but some specialists should be involved as well, from neuropsychology and psychiatry and so forth. GUPTA (on camera): Why should someone believe this, that President Reagan, while president, had Alzheimer's? GOTTSCHALK: Well, the clinch word is "should." I don't know that I would go that far. I don't believe that everybody will believe scientific findings. GUPTA (voice over): Gottschalk, who didn't publish his study until Reagan's term was ending, denies any political motivation. Democrats also faced questions about their mental state. The minds of presidents Woodrow Wilson and FDR were slowed by serious illness. Republican Dwight Eisenhower suffered a stroke and Lyndon Johnson's biographer, Michael Beschloss, said Johnson had struggled with depression and paranoia. (On camera): Do you think top officials such as presidents or leaders at various states should be tested in some way for cognitive dementia? GOTTSCHALK: I think so. But whether it can ever be done, I doubt. BROWN: Well, as the former director of the NIMH and 40 years of psychiatry, I think it's a terrible idea. I don't think any set of psychiatric and psychological examination would tell us any more than a person of wisdom and maturity would say about the president's status. GOTTSCHALK: It's all right to have a physical abnormality, but to have a mental problem is very touchy. (END VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA (voice over): When we come back, we'll hit the campaign trail. Is it possible to stay healthy in such a grueling schedule? (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (WEATHER REPORT) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: How's it going Boston? SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Hello, New Mexico. SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I will win here in the state of Alabama with your help. GUPTA (voice over): Running for president is a cross-country endurance race -- a marathon beginning early each morning and ending late at night. CLINTON: Hey, we're on the road again. GUPTA: It's a schedule that can leave candidates sick. CLINTON: Can I get some lozenge or something? GUPTA: And tired. DR. RICK KELLERMAN, AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS: Sleep deprivation is a very real problem for the candidate where it can lead to some foggy thinking. It can affect their memory. It can affect their concentration. GUPTA: Fatigue appears to be one issue where the candidates agree. OBAMA: You know what I got for Christmas? Eight hours sleep. CLINTON: We tried to sleep whenever possible which is usually on planes or in the car. And some days, you know, there's not enough caffeine in the world to keep you going. We just have to follow through. GUPTA: Wherever they go, candidates are tempted with food, often fast-food. CLINTON: I like hot food. GUPTA: Here's one thing you probably don't know about Hillary Clinton. She likes her food spicy. CLINTON: I like hot food and I am convinced that there is an ingredient in hot peppers that has kept me healthy since 1992. GUPTA: Tight schedules leave candidates little time for any real exercise. This may surprise you. For most of us depresses immune function, making us more likely to get sick. But Dr. Rick Kellerman at the American Academy of Family Physicians does not think stress is a big problem for the candidates. KELLERMAN: These are people that have learned how to cope at that stress. In fact, they may even thrive on the stress. GUPTA: National campaigns also place the bright lights of the media squarely on the candidates -- scrutiny that has uncovered health problems in the past. In 1972, Thomas Eagleton, George McGovern's running mate, dropped out after acknowledging to reporters he had undergone electroshock therapy for, quote, "nervous exhaustion." In 2000, Democratic candidate Bill Bradley disclosed he'd been suffering from atrial fibrillation. That's an irregular heartbeat affecting two million Americans. BILL BRADLEY, FMR. U.S. SENATOR AND DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE: I confirm that I've had four episodes since then. PAUL TSONGAS, FMR. U.S. SENATOR AND DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE: I declare my candidacy... GUPTA: No all candidates have been candid about their health. In 1992, would-be Democratic nominee Paul Tsongas said he had been cancer-free since a bone marrow transplant. But he didn't lead on that he had a recurrence of his lymphoma just a year earlier. His cancer was back again only days after the November general election and Tsongas died five years later. So just how healthy are the men and woman running for president? Ronald Reagan was our oldest elected president at 69, MCCAIN: Thank you for coming out today. GUPTA: John McCain is two years older. McCain is a cancer survivor. He was diagnosed in 2000 with the most serious form of skin cancer, invasive melanoma, on his left temple. He had the cancerous tissue and lymph nodes in his neck removed. MCCAIN: Thank you for serving, sir. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You bet. MCCAIN: My health is excellent. I see my dermatologist every three months. GUPTA: Not surprisingly McCain is known to be extremely careful in the sun. MCCAIN: We just get in the shade. GUPTA: Teddy Roosevelt at 42 was the youngest president ever. John F. Kennedy was the youngest elected president at 43. Barack Obama, at age 46, is the youngest of the current candidates. OBAMA: Thank you, Delaware. GUPTA: Obama was a smoker, a habit that cuts an average of 11 years off life expectancy. But the candidate told Larry King his wife Michelle pressured him to quit. OBAMA: I'm doing all right. That shows you how scared I am of my wife. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: How did you quit? Does that quitting down on... OBAMA: Nicorettes. You want one? UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Yes. OBAMA: Try one out. CLINTON: Hello. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Senator. GUPTA: Hillary Clinton is 60. She has not reported any health problems. Of course, there are no guarantees when it comes to health. KELLERMAN: There are things that happen to people that we cannot predict, that we cannot prognosticate. So we can develop a risk profile. But in the end, we can't tell exactly who's going to have what and when. (END VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA: Just ahead... (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ROBERT FERRELL, "ILL-ADVISED: PRESIDENTIAL HEALTH AND PUBLIC TRUST": There's only one word for it is weird. (END VIDEO CLIP) GUPTA: Some of the strangest, most dramatic medical cover-ups in presidential history. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) GUPTA: As the columnist William Sapphire once wrote, the president's body is not wholly his own. Of course, that hasn't stopped many presidents from zealously guarding their medical privacy. And in several situations, it has crossed the line and become a genuine cover-up. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) JOHN F. KENNEDY, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I, John Fitzgerald Kennedy... GUPTA (voice over): America's youngest elected president, 43-year- old, John F. Kennedy. A veil of secrecy has often shrouded the oval office, and when it comes to Kennedy's medical history, there was something lurking beneath the surface. FERRELL: There's only one word for it is weird. GUPTA: Presidential historian Robert Ferrell says Dr. Max Jacobson, known for his work with high society, was never officially the president's doctor, but treated him nonetheless. Ferrell says his research found that Jacobson, known as Dr. Feelgood, gave what he called, quote, "vitamin injections," to the president. FERRELL: With dirty hands, he would spilt pills out on a desk and he would whatever suited his fancy. When Kennedy went to meet with Khrushchev, Jacobson was along and he gave Kennedy shots in the throat, which is almost horrible to think of because you don't know what he was putting in there. GUPTA: What was in there, Ferrell says, were amphetamines. Dr. James Young was on the White House medical teams with Kennedy. He showed us the medical briefcase he used to carry. He's kept it in a closet for nearly four decades. Darvon Compound, morphine, equinel(ph) -- controversial today but ready if the president or anyone in his entourage should need them. But Young says the president was fit and says the only drug he ever gave the president was a daily dose of steroids for his Addison's disease. A second briefcase was kept under the White House in a secret bunker in case of nuclear attack. The combination -- 529. DR. JAMES YOUNG, FORMER WHITE HOUSE MEDICAL TEAM: JFK's birth date. GUPTA: Some 40 years after the president's assassination, the JFK library granted historian Robert Dallek access to Kennedy's medical records. Dalleck says the records paint a very different image from what many Americans thought of the young president, revealing a man in almost constant pain from a bad back. ROBERT DALLEK, "AN UNFINISHED LIFE: JOHN F. KENNEDY, 1917-1963":They were shooting him up with the procaine. He couldn't go up the staircase like a normal person might, couldn't roll over in bed at night, couldn't pull the shoe and sock on his left foot. GUPTA: Kennedy flatly denied his Addison's Disease, a hormonal deficiency that can cause fatigue, low blood pressure and weight loss. But he had it. DALLEK: He was on so many medications to deal with the Addison's Disease, to deal with the back pain, and to deal with the continuing colitis, diarrhea he suffered from. He would take antispasmodics to deal with prostititis, urethritis, sinusitis, and lots of antibiotics that he had to take. The country never knew about this. GUPTA: Yet Dallek believes President Kennedy showed sound judgment in the face of great suffering. DALLEK: I sent his medical records alongside of the two missile crises, and other crises, but principally (INAUDIBLE) missile crises. And what I found was that he was as cogent, as on top of things as you would ever want a president to be. The man had an iron will. There really was something heroic about him. KENNEDY: Ask what you can do for your country. FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. GERGEN: Fascinating question of history is whether the country would have elected Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 had people known that he couldn't walk. GUPTA: Franklin Roosevelt served from a wheelchair. While he couldn't raise himself to his own two feet, he made every effort to raise the country out of the Great Depression. He coerced reporters into helping him shield his disability. FERRELL: The reporters were a little careful with him. There's no question about that. But had they not been careful, the secret servicemen would have taken their cameras and removed the film. GUPTA: But when he ran for a fourth term, the doctors didn't even tell him that he was dying of heart failure. And the public certainly didn't know. President Roosevelt died a month after his inauguration. (END VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA: Our next cover-up began here in New York harbor in the summer of 1893. President Grover Cleveland had secret surgery on a friend's yacht while the country was embroiled in a financial crisis. Sounds more like a Hollywood script. But it happened here, just months after Grover Cleveland won his second term as president. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) FERRELL: He was on the yacht for two or three days. It went up to Massachusetts. And what happened there was that he was secluded from the public for perhaps six weeks. GUPTA (voice over): The president had an operation to remove cancer in his jaw. The operation was covered up from the public for 24 years. A plaster mold was made of Cleveland's jaw after the surgery. You can see a hole even bigger than a golf ball. A portion of that tumor is in the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia. Historians say another classic cover-up came in 1919, when Woodrow Wilson had a massive stroke. FERRELL: He was just a shell of a man. It was impossible for him to show any large decisiveness. He could concentrate on a problem and not very well at that for perhaps 10 minutes, and for the rest of it, just simply shuffle around the White House. Servants had to remove rugs when he went from room to room. And you could hear the tapping of his cane. GUPTA: Only his wife and a few associates knew how ill the president really was. They told the public their leader was suffering from exhaustion. Many say Edith Wilson effectively ran the country during that time. (END VIDEOTAPE) GUPTA: History has taught us to ask tough questions about the president's health. We leave you to decide whether the public knows enough. Over the last hour, we hope we've given you a sense of what it takes and how challenging it is to ensure that the president is fit to lead. Thanks for watching.


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3 Bells for A.kitchen
Craig LaBan is reminded of just how good a chef Bryan Sikora can be during three outstanding meals at a.kitchen.
It's the fish dishes, always the most delicate, that show a kitchen's skill. A gorgeous grouper with fresh favas, fennel-scented fava puree, and red-pepper piperade reminded me of Django. Crisped skate Provencale was ringed by a piquant necklace of capers. A gratin of airy gnocchi, meanwhile, mixed into bechamel with smoked haddock and snappy summer squash, is the kind of dish I'll be craving as the fall chill settles in.
3 Bells – Excellent
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There are three
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Is there a BCL class that has this functionality? Is there a non-hack way of doing it? (I thought perhaps changing the time limit on it might reset it) Thought on how hard it would be to reimplement a
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Market giving back gains post Corporate tax cut announcement, while the decisive change of direction post the announcement will hold the markets in a range. That should take about 2-3 quarters from now for a Bull Rally to resume. Markets are waiting for profit growth to show up in the balance sheets before buying power comes in.
Good time for SIP Investors as it does its job only when markets are down. One time investors can use STP route to get in and be ready for the next big bull market for India.


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A friend of mine from the Physics dept. at Lehigh University passed along a pointer to a recent paper published in Physical Review Letters (one of the most prestigious and well refereed publications in Physics – and the only place I ever managed to publish, so ya know it's good.)
Here's the abstract:
"The solar influence on global climate is nonstationary. Processes such as the Schwabe and Gleissberg cycles of the Sun, or the many intrinsic atmospheric oscillation modes, yield a complex pattern of interaction with multiple time scales. In addition, emissions of greenhouse gases, aerosols, or volcanic dust perturb the dynamics of this coupled system to different and still uncertain extents. Here we show, using two independent driving force reconstruction techniques, that the combined effect of greenhouse gases and aerosol emissions has been the main external driver of global climate during the past decades."
In other words, having analyzed the temporal spectrum and the pertubative forces in two different ways, the authors are able to point to a human origin for the present round of global warming. The fact that both methods show the effect is a strong indication that this isn't just a model dependent artifact.
This's actually good news. It means if we modify our behavior we can slow down or even stop it. The idea that the present global climate change was completely natural would mean that it would be a much more difficult phenomenon to deal with – especially if it was more solar based than terrestial.
Read the rest here: Global Warming Is Driven by Anthropogenic Emissions: A Time Series Analysis Approach


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Choosing the proper Desktop Computer Furniture
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The impact of COVID-19 and how the enterprise tech industry responded
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Enterprise tech vendors have not only seen an impact from COVID-19 on their bottom line, but have also worked quickly to release new products in response.
Earlier this week we did a round-up of some of the top case studies on diginomica, assessing how businesses have adapted to the pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic. But it's also worthwhile to note the response from enterprise technology vendors, as investment decisions are being made in a rapidly changing environment and they are now having to serve buyers with wildly different needs compared to a few months ago.
With that in mind, we have collated our ongoing analysis below of how the enterprise technology industry is responding to the ongoing pandemic.
Unit4 CEO Mike Ettling shares his take on the business impact of COVID-19
Unit4's Mike Ettling shared his thoughts on how he believes that COVID-19 will permanently change the way that people consume technology in business - much like the financial crisis of 2007/2008 led to a surge in cloud adoption. Ettling also provided insights into remote project go-lives and the prospect of increased spend in local government.
Reports from the Workday front line in a time of COVID-19
Cloud HCM and financials vendor Workday shared various stories of how its customers are adapting to their new circumstances, including using technology for emergency workforce planning, to track employee health status and to rapidly introduce additional pay or benefits.
"What we're seeing right now will not go away" - BT CEO Philip Jansen on how COVID-19 has changed customer expectations forever
BT is a company that plays a dominant role in the UK's national infrastructure and its response to the pandemic has focused on supporting the National Health Service's response to COVID-19, as well as ensuring its customers shift with ease to distributed workforces. BT has also taken a people-first approach during the health crisis, ensuring no-one loses their job and that everyone gets paid under all circumstances.
Microsoft's having 'a good war' so far as COVID-19 fuels "2 years worth of digital transformation in 2 months"
One of the key trends we've seen over the past few months is that certain investment decisions that were in the long-term pipeline have been brought forward as priorities for buyers. Microsoft is seeing the benefit of that, as CEO Satya Nadella notes how the tech giant is seeing "immediate surge demand and systemic structural changes" across all of its solution areas.
Okta for Good - non-profit goals don't change, but accelerate in response to COVID-19
Okta's corporate social impact initiative, Okta for Good, outlines how the organisation has had to pivot to home working, but also had to turn to digital fundraising. However, more importantly, the key message is one of how there is a nonprofit technology gap and the need to invest in these organisations has come to the fore.
A work in progress - Salesforce's plan for re-opening offices involves best practice, employee trust and localization
As lockdowns around the world began to ease, it quickly became clear that the post-COVID-19 workplace will be very different to 'normal times'. In response, some vendors have been rapidly deploying solutions to help organisations get prepared. Salesforce released a new Work.com bundle with this in mind, which includes features such as contact tracing, emergency response management, shift management, and a focus on employee wellness.
ServiceNow reveals products to help companies plan for new COVID-19 workplaces
Similarly to Salesforce, ServiceNow has recognised the need from buyers that require help in getting their workforce back to the office and announced a Workplace Service Delivery product. Coming off the back of acquiring the 4Facility assets of App4Motion, the release includes features that allow employees to reserve desks and parking spots, as well as allowing leaders to communicate with employees and trigger workplace maintenance and cleaning workflows.
Infor CEO Kevin Samuelson believes COVID-19 will accelerate cloud adoption
Infor CEO Kevin Samuelson shared insights into how the vendor has pivoted to remote implementations and go-lives, as well how the company is seeing increased demand for its GT Nexus platform, given that buyers have a renewed focus on visibility and resilience in their supply chains. In addition to this, Infor is anticipating that COVID-19 - much like the financial crisis - will drive adoption in the cloud.
Zendesk data finds organizational agility is key as customer support operations adapt to COVID-19 demands
Zendesk's Benchmark Snapshot, which tracks support interaction data from 23,3000 companies around the globe since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, found that (perhaps unsurprisingly) there has been a global uptick across all industry sectors in support requests. One of the significant takeaways is that there has been a notable channel shift towards messaging, social media and text.
New Relic CEO Lew Cirne - the world needs the 'lifeblood' of software more than ever
New Relic CEO Lew Cirne notes how the "world needs software more than ever" and that whilst the pandemic is a dire situation, it could have been much worse if it wasn't occurring in a tech-enabled age. New Relic's role in this, Cirne adds, is to instrument the internet and help companies of all sizes around the world deliver better software.
ServiceNow expands employee safety and well-being services to help the C-Suite manage return to workplaces
Expanding on its workplace offering, ServiceNow again responded swiftly to the demands of its customers by announcing a suite of products that support employee readiness, employee health screening, workplace safety management, and workplace PPE inventory management.
Box freshens up for a 'systemic' change in how we work
With the notable shift to distributed workforces and digital collaboration as a result of national lockdowns, it's unsurprising that firms such as Box have seen a huge surge in usage. However, Box didn't stay still during this period of increased demand and decided to introduce a new UX for its products. Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel explains why this matters.
Pega CEO - 'Customers are shifting from short-term COVID-19 survival, to long-term strategic change'
Pega specialises in customer engagement and business process automation, which CEO Alan Trefler believes will play a critical role as the nature of work and business changes. He said that given the negative impact that was felt by many companies around the globe, in terms of ensuring operations continued during the pandemic, there is going to be a renewed focus on process and digital resiliency going forward.
COVID-19 - an unwelcome validation of the rise of the Subscription Economy as Zuora customers outperform in the crisis
Zuora's 'subscription economy' mantra has been given a boost by the COVID-19 outbreak, according to founder and CEO Tien Tzuo. He said that whilst the pandemic is a public health crisis, it has also validated the resiliency of subscription business models - pointing to stats gathered from Zuora customers' performance over the past few months.
Customer momentum continues for MongoDB despite COVID-19 - and sometimes because of it
Whilst MongoDB has been cautious about its performance in the wake of COVID-19, CEO Dev Ittycheria has found that customers are more committed than ever to their digital transformation initiatives. He explains that this is being driven by the need for speed and agility, and that the current conditions will only accelerate a shift to cloud delivery.
Coupa turns in strong Q1 numbers as product offerings align with COVID-19 procurement and spend needs
Coupa CEO Rob Bernshteyn outlines how the procurement vendor saw an increase in demand during the first quarter of the year for applications that offered the fastest return, driven by the COVID-19 crisis. Bernshteyn outlines how a number of its customers - including the Bank of Montreal - are using its products to guide them through these uncertain times.
Why corporate values count - Salesforce's Marc Benioff and Workday's Aneel Bhusri on the crisis challenges of COVID-19, racial equality and leadership
The leaders of Salesforce and Workday discuss how the pandemic, an economic crisis, as well as the social and racial crisis, has shone a light on a huge global leadership crisis. Benioff and Bhusri discuss the meaningful and urge companies to assess their core values and step up.
Powering up your business prospects post-pandemic - the AWS angle from Werner Vogels
Cloud giant AWS attempts to offer some insights for technology leaders and their teams about how to successfully come out of the pandemic and get their businesses motoring again. The key message being that you shouldn't just focus on getting back to the status quo, but instead look to where new opportunities lie post COVID-19.


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Our proprietary Injury Management Action Plan (IMAP) provides employers with a proven 4-step process that streamlines internal reporting and follow up.
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Celebrate the Holidays with Video Marketing for Dentists
The holidays are here giving you the perfect opportunity to up your video marketing and social media marketing game.
When you take time to perfect your video skills you will see a reward with more likes, comments and shares. Filming patient testimonials and other dental marketing videos during the holidays is fun, especially when you add those videos to your social media pages.
Relax Rewind and Have Fun with Video Marketing
Of course, you do need to relax and enjoy the holidays but also remember that while you may be taking a couple of weeks off from the technology and the business side of dentistry you can still experiment with video marketing and social media marketing for dentists.
Instead of sitting in front of the TV during your vacation, check out the competition on social media. Are they having fun and responding to comments and shares, or are their pages lying dormant. It does take time to keep pages current but it is well worth it in the grand scheme of things.
Plan Your Video Marketing for the New Year
Planning your video marketing strategies for the New Year is fun when you add inventive ideas to the mix. Everyone has different ideas about video marketing for dentists. Talk to your team and find out what they would like to see on the dental practice social media pages.
Make Good Use of the Holidays
In between Thanksgiving and Christmas, go live with your team and your patients. One of the best ways to show your patients you care is with thoughtful live videos in your waiting room.
If you have been considering video marketing for your overall digital marketing strategies talk to a professional video production company. While it's fun to go live and shoot some videos on your phone, a professional video production company will really give you the edge.
Social Media Marketing and the Holidays
Show how much fun you and your team have and dress in ugly Christmas sweaters the day before you go on holidays.
Get your fans and followers in on the mix and ask them to share their ugly sweaters on your social media pages.
Run a competition between now and Christmas and give a prize to the person who gets the most likes, shares and comments about their ugly sweater. This is an excellent way to increase your audience and your dental flow.
For Daily Holiday Ideas and Marketing Tips, download our new DentalYear Mobile App.
Dress up for the Occasion
If you really want to get into the act dress up as Santa or Mrs. Claus. Your social media pages will light up with likes, comments and shares. Go one step further and have the team dress up as elves. Having fun is what social media marketing is all about.


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As reported in the most recent edition of Workshopping Our Words, several months of hard work by the OPA team has paid off in the form of a Community Arts Fund grant from The Columbus Foundation (TCF). After painstakingly updating the OPA profile, submitting applications, and patiently awaiting a response, the Association was awarded a grant of $500 this past summer. These funds will be used to help produce the forthcoming OPA anthology.
The OPA first established a profile with TCF two years ago under the guidance of then-OPA President Doug Rutledge. The profile is part of the TCF PowerPhilanthropy program and was originally established in an effort to improve OPA's ability to secure funding via charitable giving. The first success of these efforts was achieved last fall, when OPA raised over $700 during the TCF "The Big Give" campaign. Since that time, OPA officers have steadfastly sought other avenues of fundraising.
Those interested in donating to OPA may do so at any time via the TCF PowerPhilanthropy program website. Simply search "Ohio Poetry Association" and follow the instructions to make a donation.
The Ohio Poetry Association gratefully acknowledges The Columbus Foundation for its continued support. And we thank everyone who continues to fund our efforts to promote the art of poetry and support poets and others who appreciate poetry.


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Stop experiencing the symptoms of free radical-related fatigue and get your energy back with a chelated form of Vitamin C from Solgar that's easy to absorb! Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin that fights free radicals which lead to oxidative stress and premature aging. It also helps with the production of collagen, which is important for healthy and elastic skin.
About this product
Vitamin C, or L-ascorbic acid, is one of nine water-soluble vitamins in certain foods and dietary supplements. Due to its water-soluble nature, it dissolves faster, and your body can't store it for long. This vitamin is essential for L-carnitine production - an amino acid that maintains your energy metabolism. The human body can't produce this vitamin itself, so regular vitamin C intake is essential to stay healthy.
What does the research say?
Vitamin C can help you reduce tiredness by up to 33%
According to the National Safety Council, almost 70% of workers experience workplace fatigue. If you're one of them, Vitamin C can be helpful to you, assisting your body in L-carnitine production. This amino acid turns fats into energy.
At the same time, vitamin C acts as an antioxidant, protecting your cells from oxidative damage (which may be the reason for your excessive fatigue). A study has shown that workers reduced their tiredness up to 33% in two weeks by taking vitamin C daily. Thus, this vitamin supplement may be helpful for you to maintain high energy and live through the day or exercise for a longer time.
Source: Journal of the International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine: Changes In Worker Fatigue After Vitamin C Administration
Vitamin C has cell-protection properties, supporting your memory
It can be pretty hard to memorize everything and stay on top of your brain performance in a world where you're drowning in information. Though, Vitamin C supplements may be helpful for you in supporting your memory and cognitive skills.
A study says this vitamin acts as an antioxidant, protecting your brain cells from oxidative damage. It may be effective for preserving your working and short-term memory and improving your abstract thinking skills.
Source: US National Library of Medicine: Vitamins and Minerals for Energy, Fatigue, and Cognition: A Narrative Review of the Biochemical and Clinical Evidence
Vitamin C helps maintain a healthy nervous system
A healthy cognition guarantees that you can be productive and agile, not depending on your age. Researchers have discovered that vitamin C has a solid connection to your nervous system. Vitamin C accelerates impulses transmission between neurons while maintaining their differentiation and maturation.
The survey found people with cognitive disorders have a significantly lower vitamin C level in the blood than cognitively intact ones. Besides, vitamin C is a collagen component, so it supports your blood vessels to maintain your cognitive function on a sufficient level.
Source: US National Library of Medicine: Vitamin C Status and Cognitive Function: A Systematic Review
Vitamin C supports your immunity
You should know this vitamin as a traditional cold cure and a powerful immunity booster. Research has discovered that vitamin C helps your body produce white blood cells that helps fight infections. Taking it may help you avoid wasting productive days in your bed, all sick and exhausted.
Source: National Library of Medicine: Technical advance: ascorbic acid induces the development of double-positive T cells from human hematopoietic stem cells in the absence of stromal cells
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We saw that by combining EV charging and solar production into one integrated solution, we could improve the way energy is produced and consumed. In addition, it made sense to embed an EV charger in an inverter as both verticals share similar customers.
Benefits of Combining EV Charger and PV Inverters
Q&A with Lior Handelsman, VP of Marketing & Product Strategy and Founder | SolarEdge Technologies
Tell us about SolarEdge products and the role in EV Charging.
SolarEdge's belief that innovations help drive the PV industry forward is behind every product development that we bring to market. This view is what led to the company's foundation and its first breakthrough, the DC optimized inverter. Continuing to propel us forward today, this outlook led to the development of our HD-Wave inverter technology, which significantly decreased inverter size and weight and achieved record efficiency. Today, we are continuing this tradition with our EV charging solar inverter. We saw that by combining EV charging and solar production into one integrated solution, we could improve the way energy is produced and consumed. In addition, it made sense to embed an EV charger in an inverter as both verticals share similar customers. This development is only one facet of our strategy to integrate more functionality into the inverter so that it can take on a much wider and more strategic role as a smart energy manager.
What technical developments are apparent in the EV charging solar inverter?
SolarEdge's EV charging solar inverter is the first solution to integrate PV and EV charging into on piece of hardware. This integration enables users to power their EVs with solar energy, shrink their dependency on fossil fuels and reduce electricity bills. We did not stop at hardware integration, but took the technology a step further and developed a solar boost mode by using a dual power source concept that combines grid and PV power. Because the power combination occurs after the circuit breaker, charging rates can surpass the built-in limits of the circuit breaker and reach up to six times faster charging than a standard EV charger.
And how does it compare to other EV chargers on the market?
SolarEdge's EV charging solar inverter surpasses competitive technologies in a number of ways. It is the only solution on the market that combines PV and EV charging into one piece of hardware. This means that unlike other EV chargers, it can use both solar and grid energy for charging with its solar boost mode, increasing charging rates by up to 6 times compared to the standard plug-in charger. Because the solution leverages solar energy, it offers a smart mode that uses excess solar energy to maximize self-consumption. In smart mode, the charger can also be set to charge exclusively from solar energy. Comparatively, standard EV chargers only focus on the need of the EV without taking into consideration any other energy goals, such as maximizing PV usage.
The hardware integration also offers several other advantages compared to other EV chargers on the market. There are hardware and labor cost savings, since no additional conduit, wiring, or breakers are required, and while most EV chargers require panel upgrades, SolarEdge's solution virtually eliminates the need for an additional dedicated circuit breaker. This saves space and prevents a potential main distribution panel upgrade. There are also lower installation costs as it reduces the workload and upfront costs of installing a standalone EV charger and PV inverter. Lastly, SolarEdge's EV charging inverter offers a warranty of 12 years (extendable to 20 or 25 years) in comparison to the industry standard for EV chargers of 1-4 years.
How does SolarEdge's solar boost mode work?
SolarEdge's solar boost mode works by simultaneously using grid and PV power for up to 6 times faster charging than a standard Level 1 charger. This is achieved by utilizing a dual power source concept, which combines inverter output and grid current only after the circuit breaker, thus allowing charging rates to surpass the built-it in limits of a lower circuit breaker while still complying with electrical standards and norms.
What are the benefits of combining EV charger and PV inverters?
First and foremost, using a renewable energy source instead of fossil fuels to charge EVs helps reduce dependency on fossil fuels and shrinks carbon footprints. Next, despite a significant overlap in goals and target markets, the EV and PV markets have existed as two independent verticals. By integrating the hardware, it helps to accelerate the adoption of both. In addition, combining these technologies improves system ROI through maximizing self-consumption and reducing upfront costs, thus making PV and EV more accessible to more people. At the individual level, users are able to manage and monitor their solar energy and EV from a single, easy-to-use app. While at the grid level, the integration also helps to decrease stress on the grid by using the intermittent supply of solar energy to support the unprecedented energy demand patterns from EVs.
What kind of feedback are you getting from Solar Installers? Are they able to capitalize on including EV charging in a Rooftop solar application?
Solar installers are excited to offer a product that helps them diversify and expand their business offering from rooftop PV applications to now include an EV charging solution. This can help them to differentiate their service offering and reach higher ASPs.
What are the common misconceptions regarding EVs and their impact on the environment?
There is widespread misconception about the environmental benefits of EVs. Many people move to EVs to be environmentally friendly; however, the carbon emission of an EV is only as good as its energy source. EVs charged by an electric grid powered by 100% coal actually have a larger carbon footprint than petrol- or diesel-powered cars. It is when EVs are charged with a renewable source, like solar, that they become truly sustainable, so solar charging is key to turning EV driving into a more sustainable alternative to conventional vehicles and to meeting government environmental goals.
Why do you feel combining solar and EV charging is so important for the growth of both solar and electric vehicles?
Both markets show no signs of slowing down. Solar capacity has increased by 300% in the past 5 years, and is expected to grow another 170% by 2025. Moreover, the EV market is expected to increase globally from one million EVs purchased in 2018 to ~20 million in 2030. The simultaneous growth of these two markets are causing significant strain on the grid – PV with its intermittent supply and duck curve and EV with its unprecedented demand patterns causing even steeper ramp-up times in the evening. We are already seeing calls from utilities to limit the amount of PV feed in and if EVs become the norm, it could push the total demand for electricity beyond existing grid capacity. If the penetration of EV and PV causes too much grid instability, it could potentially cause push back from the utility and slow down both of the markets. However, combining the two technologies provides a solution. 40% of EV owners also have a PV system, and since there is significant overlap between the EV and PV target market, charging EVs with solar could limit the effects of both to grid instability.
About Lior Handelsman
Lior Handelsman founded SolarEdge in 2006 and currently serves as our Vice President of Marketing and Product Strategy in which he is responsible for defining and steering SolarEdge's strategic global marketing activities, media outreach, product roadmap and vision, corporate product strategy, as well global product management, and corporate business development. Prior to founding SolarEdge, Mr. Handelsman spent 11 years leading power electronics research and development teams and directing large-scale, multidisciplinary research and development projects. Mr. Handelsman holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering (cum laude) and an MBA from the Technion, Israel's Institute of Technology.
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Can We End Violent Crime on Transit Without Over-Policing?
4:42 PM PST on March 2, 2020
Editor's note: This post originally appeared on Streetsblog Chicago. But as the author points out, neither over-policing nor racial bias in law enforcement are unique to the Windy City. And if we want to stay vigilant of preventing both while preventing violent crime on transit, we need to learn from other communities' examples — good and bad.
Update 2/28/20, 5:00 PM: Shortly after this post was published, news outlets reported that Chicago police shot a man at the CTA's Grand Red Line station.
While violent crime can happen anywhere in public space, many Chicagoans are understandably alarmed about the recent wave of violence on the CTA. Since Thanksgiving, there have been many violent robberies on the 'L', and several high-profile assault cases. These include the brutal stabbing of a musician on the Jackson Red platform on February 4; the shooting of a man on the Blue Line near the UIC/Halsted stop on February 5; and the fatal shooting of Edward Charleston, 24, on February 17 in the tunnel between the Jackson Red and Blue platforms.
According to an NBC Chicago report, there had been at least 45 robberies on CTA platforms, buses, and trains this year as of February 1, and last year, there were 591 robberies on CTA property, the most in five years. A recent Chicago Tribune analysis of CPD data found that the number serious crimes — ranging from pickpocketing to robbery and sexual assaults — on the 'L' has doubled since 2015.
So clearly Mayor Lori Lightfoot had to do something to reassure Chicagoans that she's taking the issue of public safety on public transit seriously. The question is, what is the best approach, which will result in a net increase in safety and comfort for all CTA customers, in a city that has well-documented issues with police misconduct?
Today Lightfoot announced her public transit safety plan, which calls for adding adding 50 more officers to the Chicago Police Department's public transportation unit, "smart policing technology," and dedicating four detectives to solving crimes on transit. The 50 new officers will be in addition to several hundred officers currently patrolling the CTA.
"Public transit is the great connector of our city, and residents and riders deserve a world-class public transportation system that is not only accessible, reliable and affordable, but most importantly safe," said Lightfoot said in a statement. "With these new public safety investments, we are building on our 'all-hands-on-deck' public safety strategy to maximize resources and expand manpower as well as increase cross-agency coordination to create real, widespread and lasting public safety."
"The safety and security of the traveling public are extremely important to us," said interim police chief Charlie Beck, who came to Chicago after leading the Los Angeles Police Department, which is credited with helping bringing crime down 17 percent over the past five years on the LA Metro train and bus system. "Today's transit safety enhancements puts Chicago in alignment with other major city transit systems across the country and allows us to leverage technology-based policing that has helped reduce crime and violence in Chicago for the last three years."
The CPD will also be adding a new Strategic Decision Support Center to the 1st District headquarters at 18th and State streets, which will be used for solving CTA crime as well as other crimes in the district. Slated to launch this spring, the center will have access to more than 32,000 surveillance cameras already installed on CTA property. The SDSC room was funded by a donation from Republican hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin, Illinois' richest man.
According to the city's press release, the SDSC room will shorten the time needed to access surveillance footage from both CTA cameras as well as private security cameras, which in the past has taken detectives hours to retrieve. "These district-based intelligence centers give real-time access to district intelligence information to police officers in the field, helping them determine deployment strategies based on historical crime data. This mobile technology will allow for smarter, data-driven patrols and significantly decreased response times to potential service calls."
In addition to the strategies announced today, Beck has already deployed SWAT officers in green uniforms on the 'L'.
Arguably, in the wake of the recently violent crime headlines, Lightfoot had no choice but to add more police to the CTA. However, it's worth noting that New York City has seen massive protests after a saturation-policing strategy to reduce fare evasion resulted in widespread arrests of low-income people of color for nonpayment, as well as crackdowns on other minor infractions. For example, in high-profile cases last November, officers on transit patrol detained and/or handcuffed two different Latina churro vendors.
A recent Sun-Times editorial mentioned Beck's home city of LA as a best practice. In addition to the overall 17 percent crime drop on Metro, that transit agency said robbery and assault have fallen 23 percent since 2015, and less serious crimes declined by 11 percent.
Metro officials credited the drop in crime to a 2017 policing plan that brought in officers from LAPD, the country sheriff's department, the Long Beach Police Department, private security firms, and the agency's own police, including uniformed officers to enforce fare payment.
However, Sahra Sulaiman, Boyle Heights and South Central communities editor for Streetsblog LA, who has closely tracked Metro public safety issues, said that Chicagoans should take the reports of successful transit crime reduction with a grain of salt. She argued that the additional policing has involved the criminalization of poverty, potential civil rights violations, and heavy-handed enforcement tactics that have actually made many Black and Latino transit riders feel less safe.
"One of the things I harp on are the questions of 'Safety for whom?' and 'What kind of safety?'" Sulaiman said. "There was no discussion of what Metro viewed as safety or how it wanted its trains policed prior to the [policing] contract approval. It assumed the police would know what to do and how to do it."
Sulaiman noted that data released as part of an inquiry into possible civil rights violations by Metro showed that while African Americans made up only about 19 percent of rail ridership, they represented almost 60 percent of arrests. "The fact that the percentage of Black and brown folks arrested on transit has remained both rather consistent over the years and so disproportionate to their ridership numbers suggests that we're criminalizing poverty."
Sulaiman said the over-policing of Metro has manifested itself in several high-profile cases, from a teen who refused to take her foot off a seat being dragged off a railcar by an officer and cuffed, to a young man who was tackled by police after being stopped for nonpayment, which led to him being crushed by an incoming train. (In the wake of that death, Metro switched to using "transit security officers" who are supposed to do the fare-checking to put a buffer between riders and police.)
On a day-to-day basis, Sulaiman said, officers have been staking out transit station plazas and chasing away skateboarders, timing patrols to coincide with school hours, boarding trains at every other stop, and "aggressively demanding TAP cards from folks of color" while in plain clothes. "It all feels like criminalization and intimidation."
So while adding more police to the CTA may have been inevitable, the experiences in New York and LA suggest that it's going to be crucial for them to stay focused on preventing and addressing serious crimes, not cracking down on fare evasion and other relatively minor infractions. If the additional patrolling is perceived as unfairly criminalizing poor people or singling out residents of color, there's sure to be a backlash.
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The guy who the Republican establishment is praying for brought his road show to the Philly area where hundreds of mostly preppy Main Line white kids packed like sardines to hear him speak.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who last night won his home state of Ohio in his quest for the presidency, held a town hall event at Villanova University today (he said he was in Philadelphia — he was not!) and spent a large portion of the time either sounding like a therapist or talking like a teen.
He said Twenty One Pilots' "Stressed Out" is his campaign theme song. He rolled out to Walk the Moon's "Shut Up and Dance." He referred to everyone in the room who wasn't a college student as "grown-ups," said Uber is overregulated and unapologetically tried to appeal to young Republicans by touting a socially moderate record — one that's up for debate depending on who you ask.
But he also spent a portion of his time in the spotlight telling the students who came to see him that they're special. He preached about staying away from drugs (apparently he didn't hear about 'Nova's very recent LSD bust). He told them they have the power to change the world.
"You were made to do something that only you can do by the the creator,"
Rev. Gov. Kasich told the students, "to give you a chance to live."
Kasich, the veritable "nice guy" of the Republican presidential campaign (not hard when you're compared to Ted Cruz, of whom his Senate collegues are not a fan, and oft-derided but super-popular Donald Trump), is the first major Republican presidential candidate to make a foray into the Keystone State.
The future of Kasich's campaign could actually rest in Pennsylvania and our closed, winner-take-all primary that'll give the victor 71 delegates. The only state between now and the Pennsylvania primary on April 26 that has more delegates is New York, which has 95 delegates up for grabs but operates a proportional primary so delegates can be split between candidates.
However, he's being sued in a bid to get him off our ballot, after a challenge to his signatures from supporters of Marco Rubio. The challenge, though, may have been filed just a few minutes past the filing deadline and it's making its way through the state courts system.
Currently, Kasich is in fourth place in terms of the number of delegates. That's fourth out of three remaining candidates. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who lost his own state by double digits earlier this week, dropped out of the race but still has more delegates than Kasich, who has garnered a total of 142. Sixty-six of those came from his home state of Ohio, which he won on Tuesday.
Now, Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz say there's basically no path for Kasich to the nomination and they plan to use their collective anti-establishment powers to muscle him out so the campaign can be a two-man race heading into April. Kasich shied away from throwing too much direct shade at Trump or Cruz, though he did say he plans to refrain from taking "the low road" to the presidency.
Still, the crowd at Villanova responded positively to many of Kasich's anecdotes. He told a story about how he sent a letter to President Nixon when he was a teenager and secured a 20-minute meeting in the Oval Office (which he says was more Oval Office time than he got during his 18 years in Congress). He described growing up in McKees Rocks, Pa. in Allegheny County. And he talked about making the decision to go to Ohio State.
"You realize," he said, "I'm as idealistic today as I was when I sat in a chair as a student at Ohio State?"
The governor also garnered applause when he answered his first question of the day, which came from an 18-year-old high school senior who wanted to know if there's a place for young Republicans who consider themselves fiscally conservative, yet moderate on social issues.
He responded by implying that he is. Regarding fiscal conservatism, Kasich took a stab at Bernie Sanders, saying: "The one thing that we don't want to buy into is this idea of socialism and free stuff."
But he touted a record as a social moderate and brought up his current stance on rights for gay couples — "If you're a cupcake maker and somebody comes in that is gay, sell the cupcake" — which has changed over the years. In 2013, Kasich told a reporter that he was for same-sex civil unions, and then hours later his office walked back the statement and said he opposed all forms of same-sex unions. Today, he says gay marriage is the law of the land and he's not going to fight it.
Kasich called himself a moderate on environmental issues, adding that he believes humans are part of what's causing global climate change and called for increased investment in renewable forms of energy. And he chided the idea that all Muslims should be banned from immigrating into America, saying to cheers: "There are Muslims fighting in the war right now for the United States."
One social issue he didn't address in front of this young crowd: Abortion. Kasich was pivotal in closing half the abortion clinics in his home state of Ohio, and frequently steers clear of discussing the issue, usually diverting when asked. But this crowd didn't ask.
By far the question that grabbed the most applause of the day came from Jack Shapiro, an 11-year-old boy who Kasich invited on stage with him. Shapiro grabbed the microphone, looked up to Kasich and said: "In terms of your strategy for defeating ISIS, to what extent will American personnel be involved?"
Kasich answered that Americans will be involved in fighting the Islamic State if he's elected to the White House, describing the group as "evil" and "the sickest group of people we've ever seen."
"Whether they like it or not, the world depends on us," he told the kid. "Sometimes we have to do more than we think we should and sometimes more than we want to."


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As part of improving the customs clearance of imported goods and facilitating international passengers, the Centre has introduced ICEDASH and ATITHI, which is expected to provide better service.
ICEDASH is an Ease of Doing Business system of the Customs Department. The system would help the people to check daily clearance times of cargo at the various ports and airports. ICEDASH is an effective tool that helps people to compare the clearance times and plan their logistics accordingly. The ICEDASH dashboard has been developed by the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs in collaboration with NIC. The dashboard can be accessed from CBIC website.
ATITHI is an easy to use mobile application for travellers to file Customs declaration in advance. Even before boarding the flight to India, the passengers can file declaration with respect to dutiable items. The application is available on both Android and iOS platforms.
Launching ICEDASH and ATITHI, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman lauded the CBIC for such measures that help in improving the services. She said that ICEDASH and ATITHI would help in further improving the whole system as the whole mechanism becomes more transparent. She also mentioned that ATITHI would help in encouraging business travel and tourism.


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text: Apartments in Labin 'Res Publica Albonessium' or today Labin, a town on the hill above Rabac As its Old Celtic name implies, Albona or the town of Labin today, is the town on the hill, from the fort of which you can see Rabac and Cres. It is remarkable for its rich cultural and historical heritage, numerous artists' ateliers and superb architecture. Nearby there is also Forma Viva, a park with more than 70 outdoor sculptures, and the city museum, which preserves the mining model that is unique in this part of Europe. Take a walk around Labin and, while enjoying its beautiful culture, have a coffee in one of the many cafes or simply treat yourself to some exceptional specialties in one of its restaurants. Labin has been mining town for a very long time, so the kind hosts of numerous apartments, studio apartments and holiday houses will be glad to tell you stories of underground worlds, stories that every traveler will be delighted by because they are so picturesque and they can take you to an enchanted world of fairy tales and mystical treasures found in the earth's womb. Those who enjoy the summer, swimming and sunbathing will be delighted by the beautiful beaches only 3 kilometers away from this fabulous place in Istria. Everyone who wants to party until the early morning hours can find entertainment in a nearby (5 kilometers) Rabac. Plan your holidays and vacations on the Adriatic Coast in Labin and dig your luck there.


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The Fundamentals – A Gallery of Student Work
I remember when I first offered the class called The Fundamentals of Drawing on Tuesdays from 17:00 to 19:00 in the Spring of 2017, I was doubtful that it would be at all popular: up until that time it seemed that most wanted to skip the drawing and go right to the painting (not realizing that in doing so they were setting out to build a stone castle over quicksand).
To my amazement, I was wrong. Many did want to learn to draw. ("If you build it, they will come"?) And the results showing improvement—especially for those who had never drawn before in their life—were practically immediate. This confirms something I've long believed: anyone can learn to draw and, while natural ability helps, it's not essential.
The following gallery is a collection of student work from the Fundamentals class that spans a two-year time period: from the Spring of 2017 to the Spring of 2019.
If you too dream of learning to draw from life, keep in mind two things:
- It is never too late to start.
- It is a process that puts you on a rewarding creative path, free from all the clutter of this digital era!
Timothy Allen
September 18th, 2019
Rome, Italy