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Is Glenn really up looking for new stuff to throw at us at 2:40 in the morning, or does he just set these things up to post at the times he sees fit... and if the latter: why this, why 2:40?
Hymowitz tells us us that men these days are angry -- angry that "young women are dishonest, self-involved, slutty, manipulative, shallow, controlling, and gold-digging" and "that the culture disses all things male" and "that marriage these days is a raw deal for men."
SYMs [single young males] of the postfeminist era are moving around in a Babel of miscues, cross-purposes, and half-conscious, contradictory female expectations that are alternately proudly egalitarian and coyly traditional...(Paging Bob Wright.)
As the disenchanted SYM sees it, then, resistance to settling down is a rational response to a dating environment designed and ruled by women with only their own interests in mind. "Men see all of this, and wonder if it's really worth risking all in the name of 'romance' and 'growing up,' " a correspondent who calls himself Wytchfinde explains. "After all, if women can be hedonistic and change the rules in midstream when it suits them, why shouldn't men? Why should men be responsible when women refuse to look into the mirror at their own lack of accountability?"...
By far the most important philosopher of the Menaissance is Charles Darwin. The theory that human sexual preferences evolved from the time that hominids successfully reproduced in the primeval African grasslands can explain the mystery of women's preference for macho—or alpha—males. At the same time, evolutionary theory gives the former wuss permission to pursue massive amounts of sex with an endless assortment of women. Finally, the emphasis that Darwinism places on natural selection encourages him to adapt to the brutal current sexual ecosystem. Culture, in both its feminist and Emily Post forms, hasn't won him any favor with women, so he will embrace Nature in all its rude harshness.
Hymowitz proceeds to tell us about something called the Seduction Community -- "a loose network of dating coaches, gurus" who teach something called Game, by which men can pick up women and use them however they like.
Teachers encourage clients to project confidence and sexual energy, what is called, depending on the guru, "cocky funny" or "amused mastery." In The Aquarian, a New York–based music magazine, Kevin Purcell describes his experience at a Game workshop: "One of our first tasks was to walk around the hotel silent, repeating in our heads 'I don't give a fuck what anyone thinks about me.' This mentality, it was assumed, would help lower the wall of anxiety and make us less prone to the pain of rejection. Like soldiers responding to a drill sergeant, when asked 'What are you?' we were instructed to loudly proclaim, 'A fucking ten!' "Wait! How much do guys pay for this training? Are Penn & Teller working on an episode of "Bullshit" on about Game? I'd say it's asking for it. I want to cameras at that hotel, pointed at those would-be pick-up artists wandering about thinking "'I don't give a fuck what anyone thinks about me." Presumably, they wouldn't object to the cameras, since they don't give a fuck what anyone thinks about them. To be fair, the guys are getting fucked... one way or another.
There's much more at the link. You can read it or not. Your call.
As I said, I read it in the middle of the night, in that strange mental peak between first and second sleep. And it freaked me out. Oh, so this is what life is like now, for those people in that most important part of life, the place from which the next generation springs (if it is to spring at all)? (I've been reading Mark Steyn's "America Alone," and that laid the groundwork for disturbing thoughts about a culture's failure to bring men and women together in reproductive success -- which is, of course, the real Darwinism.)
I clicked over to Metafilter for some fresh air, and the first thing I saw was a post about "Love in the Time of Darwinism." Everyone was trashing Hymowitz. It wasn't exactly comforting. In fact they sounded... SYMish. But it unfreaked me out nontheless. It broke the spell. And, anyway, my iPhone power was close to 0% and that's as good an indication as any that it's time for second sleep.


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Patent clocks are ticking on branded biologics worth billions. As time runs out, it's not clear when look-alikes will arrive in the US or be adopted, Deborah Weinstein reports
When it comes to biosimilars, one thing is certain: they are coming to the US. It's just not clear when the FDA will hand down the guidelines and open the approval pathway. The regulator released draft guidance in February 2012, but when MM&M checked in this January to see how things were going, the much-paraphrased response was that the rules need time to cook and the industry will just have to wait.
States are also wading into the regulatory mix, with several contemplating rules that would make dispense-as-written the de facto prescription-filling procedure. Motives behind these proposals can be interpreted as a means to protect a doctor's discretion over treatment, or a way to insulate branded biologics from cheaper competition.
Patent clocks are ticking regardless, and both patented biologics owners like Roche and Amgen, and biosimilars contenders Eli Lilly and Novartis are pins-and-needling their way to the finish line.
At first glance, look-alike biologics seem like a billion-dollar dogfight. After all, cancer therapy Herceptin padded Roche's coffers with $6.5 billion in sales last year, and $24 billion since 2007. Abbott/AbbVie's rheumatoid arthritis (RA) biologic Humira provided the company with a $9.3-billion windfall just last year, bringing its four-year sales total to almost $30 billion. Abbott's faith in the drug's potential was enough to make it the cornerstone product of spinoff AbbVie, which expects a string of indications to keep the cash flowing and the new company afloat.
Yet biologics and biosimilars are expected to run on parallel sales trajectories. IMS Health forecasts global spending on the look-alike drugs will jump from $693 million in 2011 to between $4 billion and $6 billion, or 2% of biologics spending, by 2016—just three years from now.
Senior principal of Symphony Health Solutions' inThought Research, Claudia Wiatr, told MM&M "everybody has an estimate of how big the biosimilars market is going to be" but that pricing dynamics and payer demands probably mean that the US biosimilars market will be worth "anywhere from $10-20 billion by 2020."
During this time, $40 billion worth of biologics will have lost their patent protection. A large reason for the shortfall between US biosimilars market estimates and the branded market totals is that the biologics-biosimilars discount won't be as wide as the one between small-molecule branded drugs and their generics. Estimates are that biosimilars may eke out a 20-30% price differential from the original biologic, as opposed to the 70-90% that can occur with small-molecule generics.
Payer pressure can nudge biosimilars adoption, but Wiatr says the EU, which has 14 approved biosimilars, shows that such pressure has its limits. "What we've learned at least from the European experience, is that it hasn't been enough to convince governments to encourage biosimilars…you also have to convince the physician it's not just about pricing." But Nathan Dowden, managing director of life sciences consultancy Frankel Group, says that sometimes cost savings alone aren't always powerful. If a cancer patient sill has to mortgage a house to pay for a biosimilar, he says, "I don't think that just appealing to out-of-pocket costs is going to get you there."
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Resistance to biosimilars could seem like noise to prop up patented drugs, but Peter Pitts, president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest and a former FDA associate commissioner, says "there are many issues," that could be factors in why a regulatory pathway wouldn't necessarily start a flood of look-alike drugs.
A key reason—and a very simplified explanation—is that generics ushered in by the 1984 Hatch-Waxman Act qualify by incorporating active ingredients and having a similar effect. Generic small molecules are allowed several differences, including how much of the active ingredient needs to be included. But a biosimilar has to match the branded biologic's structure and physical impact. These therapies are more complex than generics, and the best attempt at a twin will approximate the original. Pitts says this introduces an additional issue: interchangeability, which means a biosimilar needs to be swappable not just with the original product but among other biosimilars. Pitts, and others we spoke to, say developing a biosimilar that meets this criterion "is not as easy as it looks."
Pitts and Debbie Toscano, an industry analyst at Frost and Sullivan, tell MM&M that the more attainable goal would likely be to pursue a "biobetter" formulation, which would free drug makers from having to mimic a biologic, plus capitalizing on what's already known. A biobetter, however, is an altogether different approval pathway.
Generics are low maintenance, biosimilars are not
Marketing requirements add more complexity. Unlike a generic small-molecule which sounds like a fast-and-cheap channel—make it and market it—consultants say biosimilars are high-maintenance.
"It looks more like a branded market," says Sandoz's head of biopharma and oncology products Ameet Mallik. In addition to being part of a Novartis subsidiary with biosimilars experience in other markets, Mallik's institutional knowledge includes growth hormone Omnitrope, a biosimilar the US approved in 2006 via an alternate pathway, and one the company thought could be propelled by price.
"We probably treated it too much as a generic, relying on price, without having sufficient field forces, without having managed our brand, without having support services," Mallik says.
Why Europe is not America
The size of the US biosimilars market is also hard to gauge because Europe is the closest point of reference for adoption, but the interplay of payers and policymakers shapes biosimilar use and pricing trends in ways that won't be replicated in the American market.
Consultants say that to get traction in the biosimilars space, drug makers must be transparent. Frankel Group's Dowden points to the South Korean drug maker Celltrion, which made a biosimilar of Janssen Biotech RA medication Remicade and presented clinical trial data. South Korea's regulator approved it in July 2012.
Converts to the new medicines will be won through experience. Analysts say physicians will cotton to the biosimilars of biologics that they understand best. The reason: once doctors understand how a treatment works, it's easier to take educated risks.Frost and Sullivan's Toscano says biosimilars should make headway among younger patients first; other consultants said physicians will turn to biosimilars only after patients exhaust other options.


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For Buffalo playwright Donna Hoke, the theater is not a place to find easy answers.
Her 2010 play "The Couple Next Door," produced at Road Less Traveled Theater, was about the vagaries of a quartet of swingers on Grand Island and seemed to perplex and intrigue audiences in equal measure. The play contained no cookie-cutter happy ending, no Hollywood-worthy conclusion – just a lot of moral questions lingering uncomfortably in the air.
That's also likely to be the case for Hoke's new play, "Seeds," which deals with society's expectations about procreation in some shocking and unexpected ways. The show, developed as part of the Road Less Traveled New Play Workshop, opens tonight in a production directed by Kristen Tripp Kelley.
"Parenthood is just fraught with all these expectations," said Hoke, the mother of two sets of twins she had with the help of fertility treatments. "There's always an expectation that everyone becomes a parent and then when people choose not to, some people get grief for that. There's a stigma against women who choose not to have children, and then on the other hand there's a stigma against women who get pregnant when they're 16 years old. So it's all about having to do it the right way, the accepted way."
In Hoke's world, where questions seem to be far more important than the answers and conventional wisdom is a quaint anachronism, there is no single accepted way.
The play focuses on twin sisters, one of whom has fallen out of love with the idea of giving birth after years of unsuccessful fertility treatments at the prodding of her progeny- obsessed husband. The other sister has three children by three separate men, which presents an entirely different moral quandary. When the idea of egg donor surrogacy arises, things get complicated.
"It's a core part of our identity, whether you have children or how you have them or any of that. And we kind of just assume certain things about parenthood that don't always end up being the case," Hoke said. Her plays, she added, are "always about provoking thought in a certain area that people thought they were comfortable with and maybe making them see the other side."
For Hoke, who returned to her childhood home of Buffalo from New Jersey in 2004 and has long worked as a freelance journalist for local and national publications, playwriting wasn't on her radar until 2008. That year, she saw an ad for Road Less Traveled's workshop, enrolled and went on a productive tear that has resulted in six full-length plays, more than a dozen short plays that have been produced around the world and two full-scale productions (including "Seeds") at Road Less Traveled.
"I thought, I'm gonna try and write a play," Hoke said of her experience with RLT co-founders Scott Behrend and Jon Elston's New Play Workshop in 2008. "[I thought], I've been writing my whole life, maybe I can do this. So I got accepted into the workshop that year with a play called 'Cockeyed Today,' and the following year I workshopped 'The Couple Next Door,' which was the one they did. If that hadn't happened, if I hadn't had that early encouragement to say, 'You have something here,' I don't know if I would have had the confidence to write things and to start submitting them outside of Buffalo."
Hoke gave credit to Behrend and Elston, who invited her to be part of the theater's inaugural ensemble last year.
"Jon especially is just a great advocate for playwrights in Buffalo, and he really encourages people to keep writing and has brought people along who may have given up," she said. "Now, with the ensemble, I do feel like I have an artistic home."
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Thought they didn't go in fear of facing a (now confirmed from the B sample) juiced up Asif.
Thought they didn't go in fear of facing a (now confirmed from the B sample) juiced up Asif.
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Seems like, basically, Reg Dickason (who Cricket Australia has used for 12 years and they say has never let them down) visited Karachi during the Asia Cup on behalf of CA/NZ/ECB and has given a thumbs down, and Nicholls Steyn (who was engaged by the ICC and I'm sure is also a top security expert) had visited during the Asia Cup but also at other times over the last few months has been more positive.
Quick question... if the ICC wanted to persuade cricket Australia... why on earth didn't it take the Cricket Australia-trusted security expert along with them in their other visits to Pakistan?!
Haha. Classic.Dickason, hired by Cricket Australia, New Zealand Cricket and the ECB, provided, broadly, "a very negative report based on a one-day stay in Karachi simply advising them not to tour" according to an official involved in the recent meetings between the ICC task force and Australian players.
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With all these so-called expert reports your never going to get you something that says the place to 100% safe or potential not safe to play. If people can live in these countries and perform their normal lives then there will always be a good chance the tour will go off without any problems. Though all it takes is a couple incidents and the place to meant to be unsafe. But how can you make an assessment in one day, that just stupid.
Still can't understand how anyone can say Pakistan is safer then Sri Lanka. You might not get targeted specifically. But a lot more people die every day in Sri Lanka and you have as much chance of getting caught up in collateral damage, as you do in a targeted attack in Pakistan.
The whole thing is double standards at it best. Part of me hopes something happens in Sri Lanka, to just show how stupid they are. If they force the tournment out of Pakistan for no good reason. But I wouldn 't wish that on anyone.
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I dont know why Pakistan still insist all the other teams to tour their country for the champions trophy. Its really ridiculous on their part to tell to ICC that they would boycott if all the teams wont tour Pakistan....
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Can't blame any country for not going after reading this article.
A massive bomb blast killing at least 60 people and a declaration of war by the Taliban in Pakistan is alarming New Zealand cricketers set to play there next month.
Two suicide bombers overnight attacked Pakistan's largest weapons manufacturing complex near Islamabad killing at least 60 people.
The Taliban claimed responsibility and said they were declaring war on Pakistan itself.
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****, gone even FURTHER than any one could possibly go! Can't blame them for not touring, FTR.
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They've declared a war on India for decades. What's the big deal? And if I am not mistaken, they've done the same on the US. No one would visit the US either, right?
Again, perception overshadows reality. Doesn't really matter - the countries who won't tour had made their decision months ago. Nothing was going to convince them anyway. The tournament should go ahead without them, though the ICC have said it won't without teams like Australia. Sad end, unfortunately. But better than caving in to the sensationalists and moving it to an equally dangerous location.
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I like this measured article from Harsha Bhogle. Kind of sums it up for me portraying a level of understanding for both 'sides'.
As always, in my experience, Bhogle does a good job of trying to show both sides of the argument.
I would take issue with whether the 'chaos' and overflowing toilets have played much of a part in the decision making process. I think since the time of Steve Waugh the Aussies have been prepared to embrace the experience, and if there wasn't the terrorism/civil strife issue, the vast majority of the team would be very happy to go to Pakistan.
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Welcome to the Universal Access Wiki.
On June 22, 2007 in Washington, D.C., ALSC and ASCLA jointly sponsored a preconference entitled The Underserved 20%: Children, Teens and Adults With Disabilities.
Following is the content of a handout about serving people with autism, and a list of resources. Both of these were distributed to attendees of the preconference. Bear in mind that the book list is selective. There are many titles on this subject, and more published weekly...but the ones selected cover a variety of topics, are current and non-technical in their presentation.
The first thing to know is a common saying in the ASD community "When you've seen one person with autism, you've seen …one person with autism." They are not all alike, but there are common themes. Knowing some of these will help you when you encounter a person with Autism or Asperger's Syndrome at your library.
Most people who have ASD have impairments in four main areas:
• Language and Communication • Social Skills • Behaviors (Repetitive or Restricted) • Sensory Integration or Processing
There is a wide range in how these impairments manifest.
A person with ASD may:
o Have no language through non-stop speaking o Talk "at" you (be unable to converse) o Have strong decoding ability but poor comprehension o Be too loud o Speak in a monotone o Have immediate or delayed echolalia (repeating what they've heard, without comprehension) o Not attend to language (may appear deaf) o Have difficulty understanding abstractions, idioms, humor based on double meanings, sarcasm, hyperbole o Be a gestalt language learner (learn chunks of language) o Lack pragmatic speech (practical use of language) o Need time to process incoming communications
People with ASD often:
o Can't read emotions, facial expressions, body language or other social cues o Have difficulty empathizing or adopting another's point of view o May have no interest in friendships – or may have no understanding of how to make or be a friend o Have little or no pretend play o Don't learn by imitation or emulation o Exhibit little or no joint attention (following gaze or another's pointing to an object) o Don't understand appropriate social distance or appropriate touch o Don't make eye contact o Have difficulty in turn-taking or sharing o May not understand when a behavior or interest is socially inappropriate
A person with ASD may have strong obsessive interests or a very limited number of interests. They may do things in a ritualized manner and/or have a very strong need for sameness and predictability.
A person with ASD may also have sensory integration dysfunction. They may:
o Have difficulty with motor planning o Have vestibular (balance) problems o Have a poor sense of their bodies in space (and may need heavy pressure, weighted vests or wrapping to feel secure) o Be hyper- or hypo-sensitive to smells, noises or textures o Take off shoes or clothing, cover ears, tear or chew things (including their clothing), tantrum at haircuts, the sound of a vacuum cleaner, etc. o Be unable to process visual and auditory input at the same time o Be unable to block out background noise or other stimuli
Where are you likely to encounter people with ASD in the library?
• Children: story times, using computer workstations, attending movies and other public programs, on school visits (included with typical peers or in segregated special education groups)
In most cases, children with autism will be at the library with an adult caregiver, parent or teacher
• Adolescents: doing homework, using computers, volunteering or as part of your teen advisory board, at programs, etc.
• Adults: browsing in the stacks, at the reference desk, using computers, attending programs Adolescents and adults may attend the library with caregivers or groups, but they may also be at the library by themselves
Given the impairments of most people with ASD, what can make a library visit a success?
With Children:
• Simplify language Avoid figures of speech, humor, etc. Give single-step directions Allow time for the person with ASD to process communications • Minimize sensory over-stimulation if possible Limit background noise, loud voices, smells Have carpeting Avoid fluorescent lighting Be aware of textures in craft project • Don't insist on eye contact or "good manners" • Don't touch the person, unless you are sure it is okay • Be prepared if the person comes closer than is comfortable and climbs into your lap, plays with your hair or jewelry, takes your pencil from you, etc. Gently disengage them. • Allow the person with ASD to have transitional objects, squeeze balls or other objects that provide centering and comfort • Be predictable – explain simply what is coming or use pictures or flannel boards (many children with ASD use activity schedules at home or school). Avoid abrupt transitions • Have routines that the person with ASD can expect (especially if this is a program with several sessions) • Tell the person with ASD simply and specifically what you want him to do and how (not "don't do that") • Be flexible and have realistic expectations • Include non-fiction and non-abstract fiction in story times • Let the person with ASD tell you about his interests, but set limits • Don't insist that the person with ASD join in all activities • Have large balls or T-stools for rocking children to sit on • BE KIND AND WELCOMING
With Adolescents and Adults:
• In a reference encounter, explain what is happening and what is going to happen (for example, "I am looking up the book you mentioned on my computer, then we can check the shelves…") • Avoid multi-step directions and idiomatic language • Don't insist on "manners" (soft voice, patiently waiting your turn, etc.) or eye contact if these clearly seem impossible for the person to maintain but • When there is inappropriate behavior, tell the person what you need them to do, not what they shouldn't do • Avoid abrupt transitions, and give the person time to process your request (for example, "you have five more minutes of computer time. I'll let you know when your time is up.")
• Social Stories (written-out scripts that describe what will happen) • Activity Schedules (a plan for the day) • Sensory Diet (squeeze balls, swinging, brushing, therabands, gum chewing, weighted vests, etc.) • Time library visits for success (when person with ASD is not tired or overloaded or when the library is quiet and reasonably empty) • Provide PECS or other picture communication system if the person with ASD is nonverbal • Review programs to decide if they are developmentally appropriate and what if any accommodations are needed • Introduce the user with ASD to library staff, describing eccentricities and what is most likely to produce meltdown
• Meltdowns can come from sensory overload or a change in the environment that removes a sense of security (a new librarian, change of schedule, different room, rearrangement of furniture) • Meltdowns can also come from frustration or an abrupt transition • Sometimes meltdowns can be avoided by applying the steps above to make the library visit more safe and predictable • Sometimes meltdowns cannot be avoided. If they happen: o Try not to be afraid of the child or adult who is having a tantrum o Be kind, but if the person with ASD is with a caregiver, it is okay to ask them to remove the person in meltdown o If possible provide a quiet place for the caregiver to take the person with ASD to cool down o For regular adolescent and adult library users, it is helpful if you can find out if they live with family or in a program or group home. If there is a problem, you can contact the responsible party without having to involve the authorities o But, if an older child, adolescent or adult is in the library alone and escalates to the point where he is a danger to himself, you or others, it is okay to call the police for everyone's protection
• Provide programs that are effective with children with ASD (but also work well with typical children). These could include sensory story times (Mt. Lebanon Public Library, PA has this), or signed story times (Stratford, CT does this). Animal programs are also good with this population • Provide programs for parents – speakers on legal and financial issues, etc. • Develop collections of relevant books, DVDs, magazines and other materials for parents (like The Ferguson Library, Stamford, CT's Special Needs Center) • Provide referrals to local agencies, programs and resources (through your I & R service or a bulletin board) • Provide a meeting place for support groups (for parents, for siblings or for adults with Asperger's Syndrome) • Make accommodations (letting a child sit in the front of the room, or the parent of a teen stay with them during a teens-only program, letting a child with autism chew gum during a program, etc.) • Be understanding. Make the family feel welcome. Parents are often embarrassed by their child's behavior and worried about what people think about their inability to control disruptions. Because of this, they may not go into the community much. They will appreciate knowing that they are welcome at the library and that you will work with them to make the library visit a success.
(prepared by Barbara Klipper, Youth Services Librarian, The Ferguson Library, Stamford, CT. 2007)
AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS RESOURCES (prepared by Barbara Klipper, The Ferguson Library, Stamford, CT 2007)
For Ordering Books and Other Materials
Autism Asperger Publishing Company (AAPC) www.asperger.net/index.htm Different Roads to Learning (Applied Behavioral Analysis Materials) www.difflearn.com Future Horizons www.FutureHorizons-autism.com Jessica Kingsley Publishers www.jkp.com Woodbine House Publishers www.woodbinehouse.com
Other Useful Autism-Related Websites
Autism Society of America www.autism-society.org Autism Speaks and national Alliance for Autism Research (NAAR) www.autismspeaks.org Center for the Study of Autism www.autism.org Cure Autism Now www.cureautismnow.org First Signs www.FirstSigns.org O.A.S.I.S. (Asperger's Syndrome site) www.aspergersyndrome.org
Recommended Books
Atwood, Tony Asperger's Syndrome: A Guide for Parents and Professionals 1998 ISBN-13: 978-1853025778
Ayres, Jean Sensory Integration and the Child: 25th Anniversary Edition 2005 ISBN-13: 978-0874244373
Grandin, Temple Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life With Autism 2006 ISBN-13: 978-0307275653
Gray, Carol The New Social Stories Book 2000 ISBN-13: 978-1885477668
Harris, Sandra and Beth A. Glasberg, PhD Siblings of Children With Autism: A Guide for Families 2003 ISBN-13: 978-1890627294
Kranowitz, Carol Stock The Out-Of-Sync Child (revised edition) 2006 ISBN-13: 978-0399531651
Kranowitz, Carol Stock The Out-Of-Sync Child Has Fun (revised edition) 2006
Newport, Jerry and Mary Autism-Asperger's and Sexuality: Puberty and Beyond 2002 ISBN-13: 978-1885477880
Romanowski, Patricia and Barbara L. Kirby The OASIS Guide to Asperger Syndrome 2005 edition ISBN-13: 978-1400081523
Sicile-Kira, Chantal Autism Spectrum Disorders 2004 ISBN-13: 978-0399530470
Sicile-Kira, Chantal Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum 2006 ISBN-13: 978-0399532368
Stone, Wendy L. Does My Child Have Autism? 2006 ISBN-10: 0787984507
Willet, Liane Holliday Asperger Syndrome in the Family: Redefining Normal 2001 ISBN-13: 978-1853028731
Information on the Preconference agenda can be found at the ==Library Services to Special Population Children and Their Caregivers Wiki== under ALSC Committee Wikis


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When the previous century was young – in 1906 to be exact – an equally youthful educator at the University of Cincinnati built a tenuous bridge between education's ivory tower and industry's smokestack. He sent 27 untested engineering students into turn-of-the-century mines and mills to see what lessons they'd learn from the paid positions he'd arranged for them.
|Half of the original group of co-op students
Today as we approach the 2005-2006 school year, hundreds of thousands of students studying everything from accounting to urban affairs continue the ever-expanding educational experiment – which was once defined in Webster's unabridged dictionary as "The Cincinnati Plan." Using the classroom as their home base, co-op allows students around the globe to alternate quarters or semesters spent in school with paid, professional experience related directly to their majors, just like those first UC students. These co-op terms are sequential, each one adding ever-advancing layers of professional responsibility linked back to classroom lessons. In other words, co-op means a salary well earned and academics well learned.
|Co-op was so closely associated with its founding school and city that the 1934 edition of Webster's Dictionary defined co-op as the Cincinnati Plan.


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Portland Trail Blazers center Greg Oden will undergo microfracture surgery on his left knee Friday and will miss the remainder of the 2010-11 season, the Trail Blazers announced this evening.
Dr. Richard Steadman will perform the surgery with assistance from Trail Blazers orthopedic surgeon Dr. Don Roberts at the Steadman Hawkins Clinic in Vail, Colo.
Oden, 22, has been sidelined since fracturing his left patella in a Dec. 5, 2009, game vs. Houston. A recent MRI showed damaged cartilage to the surface of his femur, and his current injury is unrelated to the fractured left patella.
Oden previously underwent microfracture surgery on his right knee Sept. 13, 2007.
He holds career NBA averages of 9.4 points, 7.3 rebounds, 0.6 assists and 1.43 blocked shots in 82 games over parts of two seasons from 2008-09.


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June 4, 2013 — This month, we'll be focusing on LGBT issues and workplace inclusivity ("Everyone at the table"). We're kicking off our coverage with today's blog post—written by a former Catalyst intern!—which details obstacles faced by butch women in the workplace. As we delve into these important and timely topics, please don't hesitate to share your thoughts in the comments section below!
When my fiancée graduated from college with a dual degree in Mathematics and Secondary Education, a stellar GPA, and glowing references, I thought she would have no trouble finding a job. High school math teachers were in demand, and she had completed the training process with flying colors. Schools would be falling over themselves to hire her, right?
Wrong. That first post-grad summer, she sent out countless applications and went on back-to-back interviews. Often, she would run into her college classmates, who were interviewing for the same jobs. And every time, her classmates would score the position, despite their lackluster qualifications. It didn't matter that my fiancée's resume glowed with the accomplishments of a talented overachiever. No one wanted to hire her.
The problem is, my fiancée's physical appearance isn't as conventionally appealing as her CV. She only wears men's clothing. Her eyebrows aren't plucked, her face is never made up, and her nails are always polish-free. When it's time for a haircut, she bypasses the beauty salon and pays a visit to the local barbershop. Within lesbian circles, my fiancée's masculine demeanor earns her the label of butch, and it's an identifier she embraces proudly. But it's an identity that's made it almost impossible for her to land a decent job.
And she's not the only one. Almost every butch I know is either jobless or underemployed. Take my friend P., for example, who runs a support group for butch women of color and has been unemployed for years. Or my friend D., who has a degree in business management, but has spent the last ten years working in restaurants and retail stores. And then there's V., who's trying to make a name for herself as a personal trainer, but keeps getting derailed by unceremonious firings.
All of them have heard the constant refrains, "You just aren't a good fit for our company," "You wouldn't mesh well with our staff," and, "I'm sure you'll be very successful in a different environment." These statements are really just half-baked excuses, attempting to explain away the fact that many employers aren't comfortable hiring a woman who doesn't jive with stereotypical gender norms.
Even the most seemingly inclusive workplaces are guilty. D., who's recently switched from waiting tables to canvassing for the Human Rights Campaign, told me she'd like to be an office-worker at an LGBT nonprofit some day, and did I have any contacts to share with her? I did—I've been working in the nonprofit sector for years. I'm also the kind of lesbian who wears skirts and makeup. It's no coincidence that, with little experience and no degree, I managed to score the job that D.'s been dreaming of for years. If you're a woman in the workplace, femininity is the most powerful business suit you can wear.
So when we talk about shattering the glass ceiling and closing the wage gap, we need to be fighting for all women, not just the ones who meet our expectations of what women should look like. Because for every pair of heels that makes it to the C-Suite, there's an army of women in men's suits who are still locked out of the office.


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Jesse Carter's first job out of homelessness and a crack cocaine addiction took him on an improbable journey, from a Philadelphia ghetto to the top floors of Boston's Marriott Copley Plaza, where he worked on an $18 million renovation of the towering Back Bay hotel.
Arranged by his church, a Christian drug rehabilitation ministry called Victory Outreach, the job offered Carter hope of a steady wage and a fresh start. But inside the Marriott his optimism quickly faded, displaced by unshakable fatigue and pain from the daily demands of the work. He said he was moving furniture 12 hours a day, six days a week — part of a crew from Victory Outreach working around the clock last winter to remodel the hotel's 1,100 guest rooms.
At night, Carter and 11 other laborers packed into a pair of two-bedroom apartments in Chelsea provided by the contractors. His pay for nearly three months of labor worked out to about $4 an hour, half the required minimum wage in Massachusetts.
"For what we got paid," Carter said, "that job was crazy."
In searching for a foothold out of poverty, the 50 year old got swept into a little-known corner of America's underground economy. His job at the Marriott was not an isolated arrangement, but one of many hotel projects that have employed, on short wages, impoverished men affiliated with Victory Outreach, an international evangelical church that operates recovery homes for addicts and former gang members in some of America's poorest neighborhoods.
Using church labor has allowed a southern California furniture installer to cut costs on the renovation of hotels from Anaheim, Calif., to Boston, where his company has won jobs moving furniture at properties operated under brands such as Embassy Suites, Marriott, and Disney.
The firm, Installations Plus, pays Victory Outreach a fraction of its revenue for each hotel job for supplying the labor, and then appears to keep much of the remainder. The company's owner, George A. Herrera, defended his use of the church-supplied labor. He said he pays Victory Outreach a lump sum — typically tens of thousands of dollars — and suggested it is the church's responsibility to ensure the men are adequately paid.
"I don't know what the church pays the guys or what it promises them," said Herrera, who runs his national business with no commercial office space or clerical staff, relying on a cellphone to handle day-to-day operations.
Victory Outreach administrators said the church uses its partnership with Herrera and other business owners to raise money for its ministry, which includes more than 700 churches and recovery homes around the globe. The church was founded in 1967 by pastor Sonny Arguinzoni, a former heroin addict and petty criminal who professed a vision to reach out to disenfranchised people with nowhere else to turn.
New members receive daily religious instruction and are eventually asked to perform jobs such as washing cars, landscaping, or moving furniture. The men, some of whom credit the church with rescuing them from their addictions, are paid little or nothing, with the money they earn instead going to Victory Outreach to pay for their care.
"Part of our mission is to restore a positive work ethic," said Philip La Crue, the church's executive director. "We've been doing this for over 40 years. We've talked to judges and mayors about it — no one has a problem with it."
Victory Outreach portrays the arrangement as volunteer labor, and said few of its members object to the lighter tasks. But heavy labor, like the Marriott job, is another thing.
"$40 a day is slave wages," said Matt Dixon, a member of the crew at the Copley Place hotel.
Carlos Garcia, another Victory Outreach member who worked under Herrera at Southern California hotels between 2002 and 2004, said he does not blame Victory Outreach, but he questions the motives of Herrera and his company. "They knew we were guys in recovery," said Garcia. "And they knew they could take advantage of that."
'For what we got paid, that job was crazy.'
The arrangement at the Copley Place Marriott sparked an investigation by Massachusetts authorities. Attorney General Martha Coakley found last month that contractors failed to pay minimum wage to 37 Victory Outreach workers who together were owed more than $31,000 for their work in the hotel.
Still, no one was charged in the case.
Baystate Services Inc., the Woburn-based general contractor in charge of the work, agreed to pay the back wages owed to the men, but did not admit any wrongdoing.
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc., which benefited with newly renovated hotel rooms, said it did not know of the problems until authorities began investigating and did not face punishment.
Herrera and Victory Outreach have not paid any of the back wages or faced penalties. Herrera has cut off communication with investigators, while Victory Outreach said it did not have any money to pay the men. Under state law, only direct employers can be held accountable for wage violations.
"It's a real problem," said Joanne Goldstein, secretary of the state Labor Department, which is still investigating the Marriott renovation. "The weakness in the law often insulates companies from liability.''
Division of labor
Victory Outreach pastors often compare their recovery homes to boot camps where drug addicts and gang members face a stark choice: They can study the Bible and devote their daily lives to the ministry, or they can go back on the streets.
The rehabilitation program is free and, because it is affiliated with a religious organization, not funded or regulated by public authorities, although it often receives referrals of new residents from state probation departments in California, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere. Many of the homes are run by former addicts who graduated from the program and now preach its blend of strict discipline and loyalty to the church.
"What they essentially say to men in the rehab homes is, 'We took you out of a much worse place, so you're working for us now,' " said Arlene Sanchez Walsh, a theology professor at Southern Methodist University's Perkins School who wrote a book on Victory Outreach.
Showing their devotion invariably involves work, though the church does not view it that way.
"We really don't call it work; we call it fund-raising," said La Crue, who works out of a small headquarters office in San Dimas, Calif. He added that the church's primary goal is to help the men build their relationships with God. Part of that, he said, is keeping them removed from temptations that could trigger a drug-buying relapse.
"The people that we reach," La Crue said, "it's not good for them to have a lot of money."
The church preaches that money will come in time, through hard work and devotion to God and the church.
Arguinzoni, its founder, is a perfect example of that hard road up.
He was a recovering heroin addict when he founded Victory Outreach in his East Los Angeles home in 1967. Since starting the church, he and his wife have accumulated considerable wealth, including a waterfront home in Newport Beach valued at $2.5 million and another in Chula Vista valued at $1.5 million, according to California property records. He travels the world spreading the church's message.
Arguinzoni, 72, has authored several church-related books and also owns California property used for church operations. His son, Sonny Arguinzoni Jr., now is the day-to-day head of operations for Victory Outreach.
Church administrators said money from its programs and churches is not used to enrich Arguinzoni or other administrators. The elder Arguinzoni did not respond to multiple phone messages.
Massachusetts is not the only state in which the church's labor arrangements have come under scrutiny.
In Oregon, Mark Hopkins, a resident of Victory Outreach home, filed a workers' compensation claim with the state in 1999 after being injured moving boxes on a loading dock for Kobos Co., a coffee roaster.
His claim was denied because the state determined that he was a volunteer and therefore not covered under Kobos's insurance policy. But the board noted that the work arrangement benefited everyone except Hopkins.
"Victory profits because it receives money for its programs using people who expect no remuneration and Kobos profits because it receives labor without having to use its own employees," the board wrote. "Individuals such as the claimant, however, who become injured when performing work, are losers from this arrangement."
States treat the volunteer labor differently, but work performed in the hotels appears to run afoul of laws in California, where many of the renovation jobs occurred.
A 1988 opinion currently posted on the state Division of Labor Enforcement's website states that if a person is performing work of a "commercial nature," then they must be paid according to the state's minimum wage law.
Victory Outreach officials said they have solicited input from California labor officials to ensure the legality of their operations, but a spokeswoman for the Division of Labor Enforcement there said it has no record of any contact with the church.
Boston labor attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan said Massachusetts offers an exemption for volunteer work done by people being rehabilitated or trained in charitable or religious orders, but moving furniture in a large for-profit hotel would not be considered an exempted activity.
"Even if you're providing workers with a residence and other services, that can't be a substitute for wages," she said. "There are extremely limited exceptions to this. Our Legislature has said very clearly that you can't take advantage of people who because of various circumstances are willing to work for little or nothing."
A way out for addicts
Jesse Carter's life hit a low point two years ago, when he was evicted from his North Philadelphia home and began sleeping in his 1985 Lincoln Town Car. He was unemployed, penniless, and panhandling to feed a daily cocaine habit.
"I was spaced out of my mind," Carter said. "I wanted to commit suicide."
A friend told Carter about Victory Outreach, which operated a recovery home for men in Philadelphia's Kensington district, one of the poorest urban neighborhoods in the country.
There was no cost for living in the home; Carter just had to commit to staying there, and to staying clean. He moved in soon after.
The recovery program's daily regimen of prayer and Bible study quickly changed Carter's perspective. He said he was moved by the church's mission of reaching out to people like him.
"God is using me and our church to go out to where other churches don't go," he said. "When Jesus Christ walked the earth, he didn't go to the rich. He went to the sick. He went to the poor. He went to the sinners . . . That's what we've got to do — go out to the people that society has turned away."
Carter spends several hours a week at the church, which is housed in a large brick building that shares a block with a TV repair business and the Coconut Ranch bar.
On a recent Wednesday evening, Pastor Titus Buelna bounded onto the altar wearing a bright blue T-shirt with the words "Winning is an Attitude." On a large projection screen he showed about 80 worshipers a picture of a boy running on prosthetic limbs, a wide smile on his face.
"This is the kind of kid I want to hang out with," Buelna declared, telling the crowd that struggles in life must be overcome through hard work, perseverance, and faith.
Sitting among the worshipers that night was Joseph Bishop, an associate pastor who handles a different side of the church's business. He was the church official who made arrangements for Carter and the other men from the church to go to the Marriott Copley Plaza and work under Herrera.
Bishop declined to comment when asked how much money the church received from the job at the hotel, saying only that Victory Outreach has been working with Herrera for more than 15 years.
Conflicts of payment
For Herrera, Victory Outreach has been an ideal business partner.
In the early 2000s, the church's recovery homes offered an army of cheap laborers to his company, Installations Plus, which has removed and installed furniture at dozens of hotels nationwide in recent years. According to its website, its clients have included the biggest names in the hospitality business, from Marriott to Westin to Hilton.
Herrera latches onto projects as part of a general contractor's bid to renovate hotels. On large projects, his subcontracts installing and removing furniture are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to contractors who perform the work in Massachusetts.
The men of Victory Outreach did the work, and Herrera's only cost for their labor was a donation to the church to help pay for their care.
The amount depended on the size and duration of the job, ranging between several thousand dollars and $45,000, according to pastors and home administrators.
Although that would leave Herrera with a substantial profit, some home administrators said he sometimes failed to pay the agreed-upon amount.
"There was always an excuse," recalled Mario Morales, director of a recovery home in Santa Ana, Calif. "He'd say our guys were sitting around or come up with some other reason not to pay."
Morales said he supplied men from the recovery home for hotel jobs between 2002 and 2004; the largest was the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim — part of the massive entertainment park — where his men moved furniture and ripped out carpets for four months.
After chasing Herrera to get payments — which sometimes would come in the form of used hotel furniture instead of cash — Morales said he stopped working with him. "We trust people, but sometimes we end up getting burned," he said.
Herrera said he has used Victory Outreach for multiple hotel jobs, but said he does not remember Morales and could not respond to his allegations.
A spokeswoman for Disneyland Hotel said it requires its contractors to comply with state labor laws and could find no record of Herrera's company working on the hotel.
Such records typically do not exist, however, because hotels do not deal directly with his company, instead hiring a general contractor which then subcontracts the furniture installation to Herrera.
Other California hotels where men from Victory Outreach recalled working said they had no record of Herrera's company or that the renovation work was done under a prior owner.
But Morales and others said they renovated several hotels with Herrera, who at the time was working alongside his brother, Richard. Carlos Garcia, now a pastor in San Diego, said he worked under both Herreras while staying in a recovery home in Santa Ana.
"It was much more of a blessing for them than it was for us," said Garcia, who recalled moving furniture in a Marriott Residence Inn in Costa Mesa and making furniture deliveries to the luxury Hotel del Coronado near San Diego.
Despite the complaints, Herrera was able to continue to move through the network of Victory Outreach churches, which operate independently of one another in cities on opposite coasts.
In Connecticut, Herrera recruited men from Pivot Ministries in Bridgeport, after being referred to that mission by the neighboring Victory Outreach church. Pivot's pastor also said he came to regret the deal he struck with Herrera.
The pastor, David B. Smith, said he provided Herrera with about a dozen men to move furniture at the Quincy Marriott and Waltham Embassy Suites in early 2011, where Baystate Services was the general contractor. The job lasted nearly three months, with work often stretching beyond 40 hours a week. Herrera paid the church $42,080 — about $7.30 an hour per person, still below minimum wage.
"It's not right, and the reason they do this is cheap labor," Smith said. "My men were overworked and not treated properly."
Herrera, who said he supports Victory Outreach's mission to rehabilitate addicts, said he negotiated lump sum payments with all the churches and recovery homes that supplied him with labor.
But he said his arrangements with church leaders did not address the amount ultimately paid to the workers. "We never discussed any type of compensation paid to the men," he said.
Despite a steady flow of jobs at major hotels, Herrera does not appear to be living an extravagant lifestyle. He rents a 2,200-square-foot home in a Corona and the only vehicle registered under his name is a 2006 Ford pickup truck, according to motor vehicle records. County property records indicate he owes more than $116,000 in back taxes to the state of California and the Internal Revenue Service.
Herrera said he is in a dispute with Baystate Services over the Marriott Copley renovation, saying the company has refused to pay him for his work.
A lawyer for Baystate said the firm does not owe Herrera money because it backcharged him for the $31,000 it agreed to pay to the workers from Victory Outreach. The lawyer, Tom Elkind, said Herrera had initially told Baystate, a nonunion contractor, that he planned to hire from around Boston, but switched to Victory Outreach when he could not find locals to do that job.
"He explained that they were more reliable than the transitory workers he could pick up otherwise," Elkind said.
Rushing, then the end
The Victory Outreach workers arrived in Boston in early November, after making a six-hour drive from Philadelphia to the pair of apartments in Chelsea where they would stay.
Each morning, the men woke up at about 6 a.m., ate breakfast, and made the 20-minute drive through early morning darkness to the hotel, where work started at 8 a.m.
The job was fast-paced and demanding. The men removed mattresses, headboards, chairs, and ottomans.
Their first day lasted 12 hours, Jesse Carter and other workers recalled, and the shifts would continue that way over the following weeks. They only had Sundays off.
They worked among painters, drywallers, demolition men, and flooring crews — more than 100 of them crowding onto a couple of floors, sharing one elevator. Tempers flared constantly.
"It was crazy in there," said Eric Diggs, another member of the Victory Outreach crew "Everything was rush, rush, rush."
Nights were hardly restful.
Each apartment had two bedrooms to be split by 12 men, sometimes more. Some slept on a couch or found a spot on the floor.
For some, the pace and the hours on the job got to be too much. Chatting with other laborers in the Marriott elevator, Diggs said he learned that others were making two to three times the $200 in cash per week Victory paid its workers.
"We were working harder than anyone there, but we were getting paid the least," said Diggs, a former drug dealer.
By December, he said, some of the men from Victory Outreach started walking off the job or started slacking off and were fired. More men were sent from Philadelphia to fill the gap. Diggs, Carter, and several others slogged on, trying to finish the work.
The end would come quicker than they thought.
On Jan. 20, State Police investigators coursed through the Marriott's hallways on behalf of the attorney general's Fair Labor Division. The officers halted work and started pulling the men aside to be questioned. The officers wanted to know who they were working for, how much they were getting paid, and where they were staying.
"They were asking all kinds of questions," Carter said. "I just told them we were trying to make some money for us and our church."
The next day, Victory Outreach administrators decided to pull their men off the job. Once they returned home, the workers learned that a temporary crew was brought in for $8 an hour, double the wages earned by the Victory Outreach workers.
It's the kind of money Diggs wished he could have made. He is now bouncing between odd jobs, struggling to make ends meet, and unable to even pay his phone bill. "Myself and a lot of others were really set back by this," he said.
The attorney general's agreement with Baystate will help, but the $31,000 will be divided among 37 men. The size of their checks depends on how many hours they worked, with some to get as little as $100; the biggest payout will be $2,332.
Carter said he is trying to put the messy memory of the Marriott behind him. On a recent evening, he stood outside the Victory Outreach church in Philadelphia and greeted worshipers gathering for a service. He said he knew he and the other men had been taken advantage of in Boston, but he did not want to dwell on it.
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And that's how it is
12 comments:
- Untamed Shrew said...
Love it. Way to start the day, with a hearty chuckle. :D
- February 8, 2011 at 8:35 AM
- Angela said...
Fantastic...oh the joy of work neither interrupted nor immediately negated by someone causing the carpets to be in need of steaming, or the plant to be repotted. Bonus points for implementation of the umlaut. "füdtrash"= sehr fantastich!
- February 8, 2011 at 8:55 AM
- Elaine said...
"Kleenices" LOL!!
- February 8, 2011 at 9:15 AM
- Rev. Thomas C. Messer, SSP said...
First, I hate when that happens!
Second, I am supremely confident that I have never heard a tale about taking out the trash so interesting and well told. You are an artist with the pen (or, keyboard), Rebekah, that's for sure.
Thanks for sharing - simply delightful! :)
- February 8, 2011 at 10:00 AM
- HappyFox said...
That was awesome. Thank you.
- February 8, 2011 at 10:14 AM
- Leah said...
I believe I shall never again hear another story of trash that will compare.
- February 8, 2011 at 11:11 AM
- Marie said...
Was that KJV or NKJV?=)
- February 8, 2011 at 12:35 PM
- Rebekah said...
I'm just glad all of you could share the wonder. :D I certainly haven't gotten over it.
Marie, what a question in a year ending in 11!
- February 8, 2011 at 8:09 PM
- Gauntlets said...
I really think the title of this post should be, "What I did over my summer vacation."
And I'm dying to know: When you sprayed your fudtrash, did you have a spray nozzle? Or did you employ mega awesome thumb action?
- February 8, 2011 at 10:28 PM
- Reb. Mary said...
>>free of panic, wrath, or interruption<<
I just wanted to repeat that glorious phrase :D
- February 9, 2011 at 1:25 PM
- Emommy said...
Amazing--the telling, and the actual event. Thank you!
- February 9, 2011 at 5:00 PM
- Emily Cook said...
Love it! It is amazing how we moms of many find tiny moments of mental peace! :)
- March 10, 2011 at 8:41 PM


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Neujahr said a tougher schedule has made the squad better even though more losses may result.
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Gothenburg, now 9-7 for the season, hosted St. Paul Tuesday and travels to Ogallala Thursday for a double header against Gering and Scottsbluff.
The Swedes host the Gothenburg Invitational Saturday (see info box on page B1).
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