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Regional Director of Maryland
Dr. White, EMA's Regional Director of Maryland, demonstrates the importance of having engaged medical staff leaders and physician partners in the ED. A proven medical director, Dr. White has continued to ascend in leadership. He sits on several Board of Directors groups ranging up to the health system level.
Regional Medical Director, Bon Secours
Dr. Latimer is the current Regional Medical Director for our Southern Virginia Region. Dr. Latimer completed both her residency and fellowship at Johns Hopkins. She has a passion for learning and formerly served as our Chief Learning Officer, and Vice Chair at Carroll Hospital Center. Dr. Latimer brings a wealth of experience to her role.
Chief Value Officer
Dr. Sverha recognizes the importance of value when it comes to how we deliver care. Recognized as a clinical leader in the topic of value based care, Dr. Sverha has led our partnership with the Maryland Hospital Association in developing a Value Based Conference focused on non-traditional payment methods as seen in Maryland as well as strategies to be successful in a fee—for—service environment.
Special Operations Team
Dr. Kim is a key part of our clinical operations team, known internally as our "Go Team". When an administrator elects to retain the services of EMA, it is our commitment to create a seamless transition for the department and the hospital. Utilizing the talents of our "Go Team" providers, specifically Dr. Kim, the team is trained to develop an environment of efficient care quickly at a time when it is needed most.
Chief Innovation Officer
Dr. Mohseni, EMA's Chief Innovation Officer, is known for his ability to create streamlined and efficient solutions to address the many complex needs of a large practice. These initiatives have included the development of a new productivity-based incentive plan. This resulted in increased provider satisfaction and overall program performance.
Chief Performance Officer
Dr. Silverman is the ED Chairman at Virginia Hospital Center, and he also serves as Chief Performance Officer and Director of EMA's Leadership Academy. Dr. Silverman completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins, where he served as chief resident. He is the author of the "Director's Corner," in Emergency Physicians Monthly since 2008, and also published the book "Director's Corner: Lessons in Emergency Medicine Leadership and Management."
Chief Coding and Reimbursement Officer
Dr. Jason Adler is the Counselor to Management on Coding and Billing Reimbursement and works clinically at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center. Dr. Adler is the Base Station Medical Director of the ED and is currently serving his second term on Maryland ACEP's Board of Directors.
Chairman at DCH
Dr. Chopra serves as the ED Chairman and Medical Director of Observation Medicine at Doctors Community Hospital. Previously he served as the Director of Clinical Operations at the U. of MD Charles Regional Medical Center. Dr. Chopra received his Bachelors from Johns Hopkins University and his MD from The GW University. He subsequently completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at The GW University.
Chairperson at Jefferson Medical Center
Dr. Treese is the ED Chairperson at Jefferson Medical Center. Dr. Treese completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at University of Maryland Medical Center. She has been Physician of the Month at Carroll Hospital Center July 2008 and also at Jefferson Medical Center June 2013.
Director of Sports Medicine
Dr. Smith is the Director of Sports Medicine for EMA and the founder and co-director of Sports Medicine for MedStar Montgomery Medical Center. Dr. Smith served as 1 of 4 nationwide consultants on youth sports injury, teaches the popular Wilderness Medicine Field Course, and is the MedStar Sports Medicine Director of Adventure Medicine. She is also the Bioterrorism Director for EMA.
Director for Safety Innovation
Dr. Fuller is a safety specialist and director of the Safety Leadership Group whose mission is to develop innovative, practical solutions to strengthen safety in emergency care. He led the team that developed Safer Sign Out, a national initiative to improve handoff communication, which has been featured by the AMA, the National Patient Safety Foundation, the American College of Emergency Physicians and the Wall Street Journal.


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When I was a child I loved writing and making up stories; as a teengager I won theCoca-Cola and Telva magazine?composition prize. I finished my A Level and started working as a secretary, but then I married, had four children ? who I adore??, and I became a ?stay-at-home mom?.?
We moved to Cordoba 42 years ago and, at the right time, I started working again ? as a saleswoman, as a secretary, as an officer, as a pastry cook, as a dressmaker?
I re-started writing and learning with devotion. I prepared and passed the University admission tests. I wanted to study Spanish Language and Literature, or Early Childhood Education, but suddenly there was a great surprise on my family: my grandson, the main character of The Blue Eyed Elf.?
He is one of my beloved 7 grandchildren. In that right moment I decided to be at his disposal and I do not regret that. He has changed my life and so I changed the course of my studies to learn therapies for the body and the mind, such as Chiropractic massage, Metamorphic Techniques, Muscular Chains Stretching (MCS) and, finally, Reiki. These are techniques that I put at my grandson or any other person?s disposal.
I continue writing and, after a few years, I have attended several writing workshops. But this tale was the first work I've ever published. I had never thought about it but I felt like I should release my sad feelings and that I needed to send a message to society because I wanted to bring some social reality to light:?DISABILITY.
This reality has always existed but society does not accept or assimilate it as a natural routine. ?Maybe it is because of a lack of awareness. Since you do not live with it, you are not aware of the problem. It is painful and we are used to overlook sorrow or feelings. There are relatively few families that suffer it, so society doesn?t react? Maybe it's because of all these reasons. It is a sad fact - and I want to clear it up with my tale.
This tale is to be read by adults who will explain it to the children. The children have to be conscious about the fact that, even when there are many differences between people, everyone has the right to live a full and rich life into the same society. We must work for their conviviality with disability as a fact.?
I think that if we educate our children, at home or at the school, to live with these disabled people, it will be easier for them to live with it when they grow. Even if they are different and special people, they exist and need from us to love them.
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During a debate in the French Senate, all political parties harshly criticised the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), but the French government defended the potential deal, EURACTIV France reports.
The minister in charge of foreign trade, Nicole Bricq, admit with regret that France was the country where the mobilisation against what they call the 'transatlantic treaty', is the strongest.
A debate, which took place in the Senate on Thursday (9 January), showed bipartisan opposition to the agreement and the government found itself somewhat isolated on the topic after facing criticism from speakers from all political sides.
American public markets
The most moderate speakers underlined the potential opportunities that the opening of the US public markets would represent for French companies.
For many, a dream that is still far from becoming a reality. Indeed, because of the "Buy American Act," the US is very hostile to the idea of having Europeans participate in tenders such as water or waste where they could be competitive.
One of the rare French senators to show optimism on the issue, the socialist Daniel Raoul, warned against the danger of a dispute settlement mechanism between investors and states, which is in the negotiation mandate of the Commission.
This mechanism gives companies the possibility to sue a state whose legislation could have a negative impact on the company's activity. A US shale gas producer could, for example, take legal action against France because it prohibits its exploitation. That would have serious financial consequences.
"We wish that this arbitration option be removed. This provision is likely to impose unacceptable costs on states, thus undermining their ability to legislate," the senator stressed.
Currency parity
The former French interior minister, Jean-Pierre Chevènement, reminded that the idea for a partnership was first and foremost an American idea, as the US wished to rebalance the trade surplus that the EU had with the country and bring back jobs to their continent.
"The companies' interests are not always those of the states," warned a politician, who considers that the currency issue should have been settled before signing a trade agreement.
"We should have put in place a transatlantic snake in the tunnel in order to establish, softly, a real parity between the euro and the dollar. We cannot talk about free trade when the parity between euro and dollar go from one to two in ten years only."
In his opinion, this aspect should be included in the negotiations, but the minister Bricq replied it was not on the agenda.
André Gattolin, a Green MP, also strongly opposed the partnership project, said that Europe had its own identity and should preserve it. He also put forward the impact it would have on inequality in different European countries.
'Loaded dice'
"We are promised 0.5% growth but only some zones will take advantage of it like the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp," the MP went on to say.
"As it is, this project is bad and we saw with the NSA scandal that the dice are loaded," he added.
Jean Bizet from the centre-right opposition, UMP, expressed concern about the food and agriculture aspects of the deal and notably the milk file, as cheese imports increase in France and milk producing regions grow anxious at the end of milk quotas in 2015.
Camembert war
"We may be solving the champagne war but it would not be responsible to start a Camembert war," the senator said.
The Communist party was just as harsh a critic. Michel Gillout said that the "opacity of the negotiations represents a very bad sign ahead of the European elections."
He also was worried that the social rights would be threatened and questioned the motivations of the authors of the various studies made to assess the consequences of the free trade agreement.
The sharpest remark came from a member of the government's socialist majority, Marie-Noëlle Lienemann. "I am very hostile to this treaty," she said. "We are forced to note that happy globalisation did not happen! … multinational companies are in a situation that we cannot regulate," she added.
The MP was sceptical about the growth perspectives, too. She added that the promised growth points could be reached with a recovery policy supported by large-scale work projects.
Meat, sugar, bioethanol, transport
Lienemann also expressed her concern at the impact of the 'treaty' on the French industrial sectors.
"The Commission admitted it is mainly meat, sugar, bioethanol producers, transport and metallurgy sectors that will be mostly touched. There could be substantial and prolonged adjustment costs for those sectors."
She also questioned the agreement between the EU and Canada, as the agreement has not yet been made public.
"What is there to hide if not a huge risk for the European beef and pork production?"
A free trade agreement, she added, will bring "peanuts compared to what we'll lose on pork, beef and car industry".
Democratic debate
The foreign trade minister tried to play down the criticism by welcoming the democratic debate. "It is not a common practice of the Commission to involve national parliaments in the debates, but the process is evolving," she promised, all the while avoiding answering a series of questions.
Nicole Bricq stressed that NGOs and American trade unions hoped that the free trade agreement between the two blocks would level up social and environmental issues in the USA, before admitting that the third round of negotiations had stumbled on strong divergences on regulation issues.
The disagreements between the two are related to the inclusion of financial services, opposed by the US, and on public markets access for Europeans.
The next round of negotiations are scheduled for early February, when tariff barriers will be discussed, and then a meeting at the end of February will take stock of previous rounds.
The talks should be suspended between mid-April and autumn 2014 because of the renewal of the European institutions.
Negotiations between the US and the EU on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) started in July.
If successful, the deal would cover more than 40% of global GDP and account for large shares of world trade and foreign direct investment. The EU-US trade relationship is already the biggest in the world. Traded goods and services are worth €2 billion.
TTIP would be the biggest bilateral trade deal ever
negotiated, resulting in millions of euros of savings for companies and creating hundreds of thousands of jobs. It is claimed that average European households would gain an extra €545 annually, and that Europe's economy would be boosted by around 0.5% of GDP, if such a deal was fully implemented.
Brussels and Washington have set the ambitious goal of completing negotiations by the end of 2014.
- 14 January 2014 : public presentation of the negotiations outcome in Brussels
- February 2014 : TTIP negotiation round on tariff barriers
Further Reading
European Commission
EU's position in the negotiations
- Investment Protection and Investor-to-State Dispute Settlement in EU agreements - Fact sheet, 26 November 2013
Member States endorse EU-US trade and investment negotiations
The economic advantages of TTIP
- Independent study outlines benefits of EU-US trade agreement 12 March 2013 - Memo
- Reducing Transatlantic Barriers to Trade and Investment - Study
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By Malathi Nayak
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Take-Two Interactive Software raised its fiscal 2014 results forecast on Tuesday after reporting that second-quarter revenue quadrupled, driven by record-breaking sales of the video game "Grand Theft Auto V."
Shares in Take Two jumped after it reported the results, which beat Wall Street forecasts. The stock has gained 5 percent since its signature title went on sale in September.
"Grand Theft Auto V," a free-wheeling game in which players roam an urban landscape modeled on Los Angeles, notched $1 billion in sales over its first three days, smashing records and becoming the industry's fastest-selling title.
Take-Two raised its forecast for earnings and revenue in the fiscal year ending March 31. It now expects revenue of $2.2 billion to $2.3 billion, with earnings-per-share of $3.50 to $3.75 per share for the fiscal year. The previous forecast was $1.76 billion to $1.9 billion in revenue, with earnings per share of $2.25 to $2.50.
Shares in Take-Two were up 1.6 percent at $18.25 after hours, from a close of $17.95 on the Nasdaq.
"The company is firing on all cylinders but the thousand-pound gorilla this year for this company is Grand Theft Auto V," CEO Strauss Zellnick said in an interview. "Our goal is to have the 'James Bonds' of the interactive gaming industry."
Take-Two, which also publishes "BioShock Infinite," said non-GAAP revenue was $1.27 billion in the quarter ended Sept 30, compared to $288 million a year ago. That beat the $954 million average estimate of analysts polled by Thomson-Reuters I/B/E/S.
On a non-GAAP basis, adjusted for the deferral of digital revenue and other items, income was $325.6 million, or $2.49 per share, compared with a net income of $10.2 million, or 11 cents per share, a year earlier. That beat the Street's view of $1.71 per share, according to Thomson-Reuters I/B/E/S.
Take Two's bigger rival, Electronic Arts Inc, reported higher quarterly profit due to cost controls and strong digital sales. Revenues fell from a year earlier.
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On June 2-4 2008, a conference titled "Immigration, Justice, and Crime: Where Do We Go From Here"was held at John Jay College. Speakers discussed issues concerning immigration, including debate over local police enforcement of immigration laws.
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Access the program agenda here.
Twenty-four journalism fellows who cover immigration attended the conference in conjunction with the Center on Media, Crime and Justice and the Institute for Justice and Journalism. The list of fellows can be accessedhere.
Aarti Shahani, Deepa Fernandes, Philip Kretsedemas and Tom Diaz discuss local versus federal funding towards fighting illegal immigration.
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As our concert on Friday nears, I am thinking of Sir David Wilcox, who passed away earlier this year.
Although in his nineties, it seemed (to me at least) he would live forever. For many singers, familiar with his Christmas Carols for Choirs books ("the green book and the orange book"), his arrangements of many Christmas carols became canonical, the standards, indeed a central part of the sound track of the Christmas season.
Heard so often in services such as the deeply moving Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols made famous in King's College Chapel, and a staple of so many Christmas concerts worldwide, his beautiful, sensitive arrangements bring such joy; I grew up with them, and they are part of my own personal Christmas experience; without them the season for me would be diminished, and just a little bit empty.
At our concert on Friday, we (and you!) will be singing a few Christmas classics made magical by his deft arrangements. Sir David has passed, but his genius will always be part of Christmas, and in that sense he will live forever, as long as Christmas continues to be Christmas. We hope you will join us this Friday night for a small taste of how he made Christmas special.
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It is easy to forget that much of a child's language develops within the context of play with an adult or with other children. Play can be an ideal vehicle for language acquisition for a number of reasons (Sachs, 1984):
- Since play is not goal oriented, it removes pressure and frustration from the interactive process. It's fun.
- Attention and the semantic domain are shared by the interactive partners, so topics are shared.
- Games have reciprocal role structure and variations in the order of elements, as do grammars.
- Games, like conversations, contain turn-taking.
In languages as different as English and Japanese, levels of play and language development appear to be similar (McCune-Nicolich, 1986; Ogura, 1991). Play and language develop interdependently and demonstrate underlying cognitive developments. This relationship is presented in the table below.
Initially, both play and language are very concrete and depend on the here and now. With cognition maturity, however, they both become less concrete. At about the time that children begin to combine symbols, they begin to play symbolically in which one play object, such as a shoe, is used for another, such as a telephone. In like fashion, symbols represent concepts.
Children often attempt to involve their parents in this pretend play. As playmates, parents can show by example how to play. Often, parents contribute running narratives of the play as it progresses and provide children with the basic problem-resolution narrative or story model. Even 2-year-olds can learn the basic problem-resolution format, as in "The doggie barked, so Mommy let her go outside." In general, the number of sequences in children's play is related to the syntactic complexity of their speech (Bates, Bretherton, & Snyder, 1988).
Thematic role playing and accompanying linguistic style changes begin at around age 3. By this age, children possess generalized sequential scripts of many familiar situations (Nelson, 1986). At first, a child's role represents himself or herself. Later roles are projected on other persons and dolls. Eventually, an object may play a reciprocal role.
By age 4 a child is able to role-play a baby, using a higher pitch, phonetic substitutions, shorter and simpler utterances, and more references to self. At about this time, a child begins to role-play "Mom and Dad" differently. In general, mothers are portrayed as more polite, using more indirect requests, with a higher pitch and longer utterances. Role-played fathers make more commands and give less explanation for their behavior. Prosodic and rhythmic devices are the first stylistic variations used by children, followed by appropriate content and then syntactic regularities.
Although the language used in solitary play is not typical of a child's performance, social play is quite different. In social play, language is used explicitly to convey meaning because of the different realistic and imaginary meanings of props ("This'll be a phone") and roles ("You be the daddy"). Language is used to clarify ("You can't say that if you're the baby") and negotiate ("Okay, you can say it if you want to"). Play themes consist of sequential episodes whose organization increases with a child's age (Galda, 1984; Pellegrini, 1985).
The language used in play is influenced by the participants and the play context. In general, preschoolers prefer same-gender pairs with no adult present (Pellegrini & Perlmutter, 1989). While children of both genders prefer replica play, such as dolls, a pretend store, or dress-up, boys also prefer play with blocks.
Initially, preschoolers prefer very functionally explicit props, such as a phone, car, or cup. As children mature and participate in more frequent imaginative play, they use more ambiguous props, such as blocks or stones, that can represent other entities (Pellegrini & Perlmutter, 1989).
Although a preschool child is too young for team games and is not cognitively ready to follow game rules, he or she does enjoy group activities. Language learning is enhanced by the songs, rhymes, and finger plays common among children in daycare or preschool. Within play, a child and a communication partner can participate in a dialog free of the pressures of "real" communication. In addition, the child is free to experiment with different communication styles and roles...after all, this is play!
Cognition, Play, and Language
|Approx. Age (mos.)
|Cognitive Development
|Play Development
|Language Development
|Below 12
|Association of events with habitual actions
|Recognition of objects and functional use
|Presymbolic communication
|Global representation of events
|Self-pretend: Meaningful actions used playfully
|Single words for global referent
|Analysis of represented objects or events
|Differentiated pretend play with dolls and other activities. Decentered play with reference to others
|Reference to a range of entities, parts, and states
|Juxtaposition of symbolic elements
|Pretend combinations
|Simple language combinations
|Complete event stored with organized component parts
|Planning and storage of symbolic goal while trying to accomplish. Combinatorial play episodes with two themes.
|Store message while parts organized
Source: Adapted from Bretherton (1984).
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About 100 people were inside Gregory's on the 800 block of Shore Road in Somers Point, New Jersey when a speeding car rammed the place at about 1 a.m.
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Vietnamese press claim that that the boy is named Pham Quang Sang and will be renamed Pax Thien Jolie. Pax means "peace" in Latin and Thien is "sky" in Vietnamese.now i don't know if the press is reporting the translation of the name, or if that is what vietnamese officials have told the press, or if angelina picked out the name, but i can tell you with some degree of accuracy, that "thien" does not translate into "sky". now granted my own vietnamese skills are rather poor, i recall the vietnamese equivalent of sky to be "trời". after conferring with my sainted mother, whose vietnamese skills are much better than mine or angelina's, she confirmed this. according to my mom, "thien" refers to spiritual sense of sky, as in heaven. it can also be used to mean god, as in the judeo christian god. but most people use trời in everyday conversation. furthermore, i believe that thien is a common name for dudes as i seem to recall some of my mom's friends being named this. and if my mom isn't a good enough authority for you, perhaps this website will be. anyways, i just wanted to set the record straight.
also, the renaming of the kid strikes me as curious. he's three years old and presumably has been answering to sang quang (remember, in east asia, the last name comes first), but apparently that wasn't good enough for vietnamese officials or angelina, so they had to give him a freakin lame name like pax. what was so wrong with the name that he already had? they may as well name the kid Whitey McIamnotvietnamese.
you know, i think that generally angelina gets a hard time for being a humanitarian. from what i can tell, she actually does take the time to go to places and see first hand for herself what is going on. and i guess that awareness is being raised. so i think that she doesn't get lauded enough for her efforts. however, not getting something as simple as the translation of the kid's name correct doesn't help the perception that she's just baby crazy like that deputy trudy weigel (fast forward to 1:46 to see what i'm talking about).


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Star of the West approaching Fort Sumter. Illustration from Frank Leslie's Weekly.
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Star of the West was an American civilian steamship. In January 1861, she was hired by the United States government to transport military supplies and reinforcements to the U.S. military garrison of Fort Sumter, but was fired on by cadets from The Citadel.[1] The ship was a substitute for Sloop-of-war USS Brooklyn, an armed screw sloop that continued to escort Star of the West on its journey.[2]
Star of the West was a 1,172 ton steamship built by Jeremiah Simonson, of New York for Cornelius Vanderbilt, and launched June 17, 1852. Its length was 228.3 feet (69.6 m) and its beam 32.7 feet (10.0 m), with wooden hullside paddle wheels and two masts. She started service between New York and San Juan de Nicaragua on October 20, 1852 and continued this service for Charles Morgan from July 1853 to March 1856. In June 1857, she started the New York to Aspinwall service for the United States Mail Steamship Company until September 1859 when it went onto the New York, Havana, New Orleans service.[3] In January 1861, she was chartered to the War Department.
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On January 9, 1861, weeks after South Carolina declared that it had seceded from the U.S. (but before other states had done so to form the Confederacy) Star of the West was fired upon by cadets from The Citadel stationed at the Morris Island battery as the ship entered Charleston Harbor. [4]
This prevented Star of the West from resupplying Major Robert Anderson's garrison at Fort Sumter. Star of the West was given a warning shot across the bow and turned about to leave the harbor mouth. She was hit three times by what were effectively the first shots of the American Civil War. Although Star of the West did not suffer any major damage, her captain, John McGowan, considered it too dangerous to continue and turned about to leave the harbor. The mission was abandoned and Star of the West headed for her home port of New York Harbor.
The ship was then hired out of New York as a troop transport for $1,000 a day under its master, Elisha Howes. Star of the West sailed for Texas to pick up seven companies of United States troops assembled at Indianola. On April 18, 1861, while anchored off Pass Caballo bar leading into Matagorda Bay, the ship was captured by Colonel Earl Van Dorn and members of two Galveston militia units, the Wigfall Guards and the Island City Rifles. Two days later the ship was taken to New Orleans where Louisiana's Governor Moore changed its name to CSS St. Philip. The old name persisted, however, and Star of the West served as a naval station and hospital ship until Admiral David Farragut captured New Orleans.
Still under Confederate control, Star of the West escaped recapture by transporting millions in gold, silver, and paper currency to Vicksburg and continued to Yazoo City, Mississippi. When federal Lieutenant Commander Watson Smith tried to lead two ironclads and five smaller vessels through the Yazoo Pass into the Tallahatchie River to attack Vicksburg from the rear, Confederate defenders hurriedly constructed Fort Pemberton, and Major General William W. Loring had Star of the West sunk broadside in the Tallahatchie near Greenwood to block the passage of the Union flotilla. In a skirmish on April 12, 1863, the Union forces suffered heavy casualties and were forced to withdraw.
Following the war, the owners of Star of the West collected $175,000 in damages from the United States government for their loss.
In popular culture
The incident looms large in a novel by John Updike, Memories of the Ford Administration (1992).[5] Although Updike's protagonist is trying (in the early 1990s) to write about the mid-1970s, he spent those years seeking to write a book about President Buchanan, and his mind keeps reverting to the 19th century and, among other incidents, the mission of this sloop to Sumter.
The Star of the West Medal is awarded annually to the "best drilled cadet" at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.[6] In June 1893, The Citadel Superintendent, Colonel Asbury Coward, took the corps to Aiken, South Carolina for their annual encampment and graduation exercises. The excellent military work of the cadets suggested to Dr. Benjamin H. Teague, a Confederate Veteran, and a collector of Confederate relics, to present to the Citadel a medal for the winner of the Best Drilled Cadet competition. Among his many curios, Dr. Teague had a piece of oak from the Steam Ship Star of the West. He sawed a small piece of this wood into the shape of a star and had it mounted on a gold medal. The recipient would wear the medal for one year and then pass it to the next recipient. The winner's names are inscribed on the "Star of the West" monument on the college grounds. However, the original medal with the wood has been lost to history.
See also
- Charleston, South Carolina in the American Civil War
- George Edward "Tuck" Haynesworth
- William Stewart Simkins
- Yazoo Pass Expedition
- ↑ "152nd anniversary of the Star of the West - The Citadel - Charleston, SC".
- ↑ "Star of the West". Georgia's Blue and Gray Trail. Retrieved 2007-09-09.
- ↑ "Steamships on the Panama Route – Both Atlantic and Pacific". The Ships List. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ Horres, Russell. "Brief History of Morris Island". Civil War Trust. Archived from the original on 2009-01-23. Retrieved 2008-07-22.
- ↑ Updike, John (1996). Memories of the Ford Administration. Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-449-91211-6.
- ↑ Tony Horwitz (1998). Confederates in the Attic (1st Vintage Departures ed.). Vintage Books. p. 65. ISBN 0679439781.
External links
- "Shots at the Star of the West". Son of the South. Note the date given as 10 January.


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Teeming with oodles of Gaelic charm and imbued with its director's inimitable wit and humanity, The Last Hurrah (1958) ranks among the finest – and woefully underrated masterworks – in John Ford's illustrious oeuvre. The subject is only superficially political; that is to say, based on the novel by Edwin O'Connor – itself, a very transparent homage to Boston's 4-term mayor, James Michael Curley. Yet, at its crux, The Last Hurrah is far more interested in telling the tale of a great man's inevitable decline and defeat; Frank Skeffington, played with superior intelligence and uncharacteristic warmth by Spencer Tracy. Frank S. Nugent's screenplay deconstructs this seemingly unrepentant political animal, driven by ego perhaps, though arguably, with his heart always in the right place as a benevolent pater to his loyal constituents and devout cronies alike. And although well-oiled, the machinery behind Skeffington's reelection campaign is hardly predicated on the time-honored 'win at all costs' graft and 'spin-doctored' media manipulations that today seem to have entirely run off with even the notion of politics as a higher calling to serve one's community; instead, supplanted by the greedy understanding it can become a vocation, expressly exploited to one's own advantage.
Rich in spirit, Frank Skeffington is otherwise a relatively poor man; risen through the ranks on the ether of the oft popularized American dream. In 'honest' political terms, this means he is a vessel to his people. In one of the most understatedly eloquent moments in the film, Skeffington takes his nephew, Adam Caulfield (Jeffrey Hunter) on a walking tour of the old neighborhood; a dingy tenement and tight back alley that was home, not only to Frank, but also Adam's father-in-law; now, the embittered and highfaluting, Roger Sugrue (Willis Bouchey); also, his eminence, the Cardinal Martin Burke (stalwart, Donald Crisp) who, in more recent years, has distanced himself from Frank and his political ambitions. Like all great leaders, Frank Skeffington is buffeted by self-righteous and fame-seeking usurpers, newspaper editor, Amos Force (John Carradine) and banker, Norman Cass Sr. (Basil Rathbone); each anxious to tear down Skeffington's mantle of quality. Both lack integrity, politicizing Skeffington's own as an affront to the city's future prosperity – or rather, their inability to dictate to it from the sidelines as a puppet regime. For that, these enemies turn to political virgin, Kevin McCluskey (Charles B. Fitzsimons); an empty suit, reporting to be the new 'everyman', but with his head decidedly filled full of lies and dead air.
Ford pauses a moment here, just enough to pin his audience on their nostalgia for another time and a way of life that, like all having since passed before it, seems more richly satisfying and sweetly familiar. Thematically, Ford is drawing on a bottomless wellspring for inspiration. The Last Hurrah is a picture of such moments, loosely strung together to buoy the 're-election' narrative. This is really the film's backstory, not its primary focus. And Ford, a master storyteller, stealthily peels away the various layers of double-talk and hyperbole to slowly reveal the winning side. Alas, the winning side is not the one that wins the election; rather, he who graciously admits defeat, seemingly without dismay or a bitter heart. Herein, Spencer Tracy illustrates the gravity of a man's life's work in the political arena; the tenacity required to navigate through these proverbially shark-infested waters, manage the daily duties with a firm hand and clear-eyed view from on high, never talking down to those responsible for securing his office, but thoroughly unwilling to surrender even an inch to the backroom backstabbers who would deny him his place in the sun. Make no mistake; Frank Skeffington is a political animal, though undeniably the lesser of two evils facing voters at the polls.
In preparing his movie, John Ford was challenged by an injunction from James Michael Curley, not on the grounds the movie might demonize his reputation, but rather, because Curley had sincerely hoped some film company would take an interest in doing a 'legitimate' bio-pic based on his real experiences in the political arena. The suit came to not; settled out of court, reportedly for a meager $42,000. And Ford, conscious of the fact politics and cinema rarely made for phenomenal box office, worked diligently to ensure The Last Hurrah remained more centrically a character study than an exposé, in the process, managing to bring his production in $200,000 under its initial $2.5 million budget. Curiously, The Last Hurrah does not seem to suffer from Ford's penny pinching. If anything, it has the look of a stately, if atypical, Columbia movie from the period, its greatest asset, a superb cast; most of them old-time alumni, appreciative to work with the old master one more time. Tracy's performance is undeniably the standout. But he is flanked on all sides by some of the most respected names in the industry; the crème de la crème from Hollywood's golden era, looking older and, perhaps, slightly frayed around the edges, yet nevertheless capable of commanding the screen.
In retrospect, it is one of Hollywood's supreme ironies Spencer Tracy did not make the grade for a Best Actor Academy Award – not even a nomination! Historically, AMPAS has had a dodgy track record honoring noteworthy performances. While it may be argued the market then was saturated with such outstanding contenders, herein, the snub seems particularly unfair; Tracy marginally moving beyond his iconographic star presence, permeating this characterization with sentiment and sincerity; also a hint of playful petty larceny. His Frank Skeffington is neither the perfect politico nor entirely altruistic in his motivations. Four terms in the coveted hot seat, how could he have remained thus? But Ford's direction, Nugent's screenplay, and, Tracy's performance all conspire to paint a portrait of a man unbowed, either by the weight of his office or by the necessary machinations forcedly observed and frequently equalized against the principles of his finer nature. Late in the movie's second act, Skeffington explains the art of the compromise to his nephew's wife, Maeve Sugrue Caulfield (Dianne Foster) as knowing 'what the people want' but also 'what you can settle for'; perhaps, the most succinct, yet factual definition yet made to define politics: the sideshow that thinks it is the whole circus.
Caught in the crossfire of Skeffington's reelection bid is nephew, Adam Caulfield, torn between familial loyalties, particularly as Rodger is one of Skeffington's most vehement adversaries, and, the mayor's blindly devoted 'everyman', Ditto Boland (Edward Brophy) – arguably, the novice of the piece destined to be stripped of his wide-eyed optimism. Skeffington, a widower, who daily places a single fresh rose at the foot of his late wife's portrait, prominently hanged in the front hall of the mayor's mansion, is saddled with a devil-may-care for a son, Frank Jr. (Arthur Walsh); oblivious to practically everything except a good time and far more interested in preening glamor gals and golf than his father's embattled race for a fifth term. Without belaboring the point, Ford casts a jaundice view on children born to privilege; their thoroughly misguided selfishness and inability to grasp at any reality without parental codependence – especially monetary support.
After an ebullient main title, featuring a torch-lit processional in support of Frank Skeffington (Spencer Tracy), our story begins in an undisclosed 'New England' city. Skeffington, a devout Catholic and a widower, who rose to prominence from the Irish ghetto, announces his plans to run for a fifth term as the city's mayor. Until now, Skeffington's most valuable asset has been his own political savvy; figuring out ways to exploit the machinery of his ward heelers to do his bidding while maintaining an ever-loyal Irish Catholic constituency. While rumors of graft have swirled around his administration for years, Skeffington's reputation remains Teflon-coated, despite some heady opposition from Protestant Bishop Gardner (Basil Ruysdael), ruthless banker, Norman Cass (Basil Rathbone) and curmudgeonly newspaper publisher, Amos Force (John Carradine). His Eminence, the Cardinal Martin Burke (Donald Crisp) has also shied away from Skeffington's cause, backing the candidacy of one Kevin McCluskey (Charles B. Fitzsimons), a cherub-faced young Catholic lawyer and war veteran with virtually no political experience.
At present, Skeffington's nephew, Adam Caulfield (Jeffrey Hunter) is a sportswriter for Force's paper. His father-in-law, Roger Sugrue (Willis Bouchey), is among those who bitterly oppose Skeffington; his venom frequently driving a wedge between Adam and wife, Maeve (Dianne Foster) whose loyalties are understandably divided right down the middle. Plucking Adam from his relative obscurity, Skeffington invites him to partake in this final election, purely as an unobstructed inside observer. He may cover the story from any perspective that suits his fancy; Skeffington laying down some ground rules as to how the modes of campaigning have shifted in his own time; from a hands-on approach to meeting the people, shaking hands and kissing babies, to the more prolific, but clinical, approach of building an audience through mainstream medias outlets like radio and – more importantly, television. Asked by Adam to quantify the reason why his publisher should so despise Skeffington, Frank explains how in years gone by Adam's grandmother worked as a housemaid in Kaleb Force's grand manor; accused of stealing a few overly ripe bananas and publicly cast out as an ingrate. The pall of this inconsequential thievery has forever colored Amos Force's opinion of the Skeffingtons.
Skeffington launches into his 'last hurrah' preferring to pursue old-fashioned politics, attending numerous rallies, luncheons, dinners and giving speeches that incur Force's ire. Skeffington's influence is such that when he elects to attend an unpopular old friend, Knocko Minihan's wake, what ought to have been a quiet gathering for bereavement is suddenly transformed into a three-ring social mixer; even bringing out Skeffington's opponents, like the bombastic, Charles J. Hennessey (Wallace Ford) in a show of faux communal support. Adam is frankly appalled by the orchestration of these events until one of Skeffington's insiders, John Gorman (Pat O'Brien) points out without such attendance the deceased's widow, Gert (Anna Lee) would have been left almost penniless by expenses incurred. Instead, the outpouring of sympathy – however manufactured – has come with a flood of donations, Skeffington quietly donating a cool $1,000 to the cause without publicizing it.
After Norman Cass' bank turns down a loan for the city to build a housing development, Skeffington crashes the exclusive Plymouth Club to confront him, Force, the bishop, and other members of the social elite who are presently at luncheon. Bishop Gardner is likely amused by the intrusion; Skeffington playing hardball with Cass, accusing him and the rest of the gentlemen seated at his table being opposed to the clearance of slums in Ward 9. The confrontation quickly escalates after Skeffington is told it is his municipal administration that is hampering this development; Cass suggesting he clear his conscience by clearing out of city hall to make way for new blood. But Skeffington challenges Cass on his uppity blue-blood heritage. The city is being made to suffer because its civic-minded authorities are not of the same class or religious background as the Mayor and that is all. They are the ones holding Skeffington's administration, and, by extension, the people hostage, not the other way around. Frank vows to push the housing development project through, with or without their help and furthermore, he threatens its' grand opening will be on the most distinctly Irish of all national holidays: St. Patrick's Day.
Not long afterward, Skeffington taps into an idea how best to humiliate Norman Cass; by appointing his dimwitted son, Norman Jr. (O.Z. Whitehead) as the city's new Fire Commissioner; a post for which he is neither suited nor even modestly capable of defining, hence creating a public spectacle of himself, surely to chagrin the family name. Norman Sr. is outraged, considering Skeffington's bluff a crude and shabby attempt to force his hand on the housing loan. But Skeffington forewarns he has no quam about leaving Norman Jr. to his own devices, to stumble and fall and embarrass himself thoroughly. Cass is over a barrel and knows it. He uses the Mayor's phone to immediately put the load through; also, to contact Amos Force, offering absolute backing of Kevin McKluskey's campaign. The next day, Adam takes notice of the Plymouth Club, decked out in red, white and blue as the official campaign headquarters for Kevin McKluskey. However, in attempting to portray McKluskey as the all-American everyman with fresh ideas, the initial launch of his campaign platform hits a major snag when a scripted (though, supposedly spontaneous) interview on live television goes hopelessly awry. The dog hired to portray the family pet misbehaves and will not stop barking, causing Kevin to badly mangle his speech, while Mrs. McKluskey (Helen Westcott) is stricken with a paralytic bout of stage fright.
Cass had sincerely hoped Bishop Gardner would endorse McKluskey's candidacy. But Gardner refuses, pointing out he would rather support a wily rake than a naïve fool. His Eminence, the Cardinal is equally disappointed by the lad's performance, also morally outraged to discover a very large portrait of himself prominently hanging above the fireplace and featured in the TV interview, thereby giving the illusion the Cardinal is supporting McKluskey's bid. Alas, McKluskey is no more a politician than he is a garbage man, incapable of knowing his own mind because he has never fully invested himself to learn about the issues at stake. He can be easily bought and manipulated – exactly the sort of Mayor both Cass and Force hope for to use to their own advantage.
As a show of pleasant protest, Skeffington has his torch lit campaign parade, complete with open top car and marching bands, pass slowly by the Plymouth Club, allowing Force and his cronies to quietly observe the spectacle in all its' flourish. Afterward, Adam brings 'Uncle Frank' over to his house for dinner; an impromptu surprise for Maeve who is, at first, moderately reluctant. Almost immediately, Skeffington lays on the charm, his seasoned way with a kind word, the quintessence of authenticity. Maeve is completely won over, if not by the compliments; then, certainly by Skeffington's art of the compromise. The election enters its final round, the voters going to the polls and Skeffington riding a crest of popularity he fervently believes will leave him comfortably ensconced in the Mayor's mansion for a fifth term. Tragically, after some promising early returns, the tide turns against him. McKluskey sweeps the polls with unanticipated force, leaving Ditto distraught and in tears. Ever the pro, Skeffington invites the press in for a gracious consolation speech.
Afterward, refusing Adam's invitation to return to his house for a post-election powwow, Skeffington instead takes a stroll past the Plymouth Club before heading home. The results have hit him harder than he anticipated. He suffers a stroke and collapses on the stairs. The next afternoon, Skeffington's loyal campaigners rally at his home; Ditto fielding telephone calls and bouquets of flowers brought to the front door by devoted well-wishers, including Gert Minihan. Dr. Tom (William Forrest) advises complete bed rest. Frank is to see no one except his immediate family. Unhappy chance for Skeffington, his son has yet to grasp the gravity of the situation, preferring to stay out all night and only breeze in to check up at a glance on his old man. Adam steps in as his surrogate, the son Frank ought to have had, and Maeve rushes to be with her husband. Regrettably, she is accompanied by her father, who cannot wait for Skeffington to expire. But even Roger is bewildered to discover both Bishop Gardner and the Cardinal at Skeffington's bedside. As Dr. Tom prepares for the worst, Roger cruelly mutters with utter malevolence, "I'm sure if he had it to do all over again, he'd do things differently" to which Skeffington, weak but still very much alive, proudly reiterates, "The hell I would!"
It is the penultimate moment of farewell for Spencer Tracy's beloved and uncompromising politico; director John Ford, sparing us the exact moment of Skeffington's passing with a beautifully composed metaphor in its place; Maeve and Adam descending the grand staircase, Adam pausing a moment on the landing before the portrait of Skeffington's dearly departed wife to replace the softly wilted single rose as his Uncle Frank always did as a gesture of his enduring fidelity in their marriage. The last shot is as symbolic of the great man's sudden absence; the staircase, lights dimmed, ascended in silence by a steady stream of Skeffington loyalists in half silhouette, their heads bowed. Ford's artistry herein is faultless: a master craftsman, so confident in his ability to stir the heart and mind in tandem, so utterly secure in his storytelling decisions to convey all the funerary drama, sadness, etc., that he denies us its obvious aftermath in tears; replaced by impressionistic glimpses of what more genuine mourning involves.
Like all Ford's greatest masterpieces, The Last Hurrah is immensely satisfying on an emotional level. Despite his own outwardly curmudgeonly façade, I suspect John Ford was a rank sentimentalist at heart; perhaps a man who masked his own tenderness behind those dark lensed glasses and perpetual scowl, chomping on his smelly cigar - a stone face by design - meant to prevent the outside world from recognizing what an ole softy he truly was. Without question, those who knew him best and readily appeared in his pictures, were both fond of the man and eager to come when he called. They did their best work for him too. In retrospect, The Last Hurrah is a perfect marriage between Ford's storytelling prowess, perfect performances and Frank S. Nugent's first-class screenplay. On its own, portions of the dialogue might be considered maudlin or, on occasion, too theatrical. Yet, put into the mouths of such skilled thespians, these same words becomes almost Shakespearean in nature, full of fire and music. The Last Hurrah might just as easily become heavily weighted toward the politics in the piece. But Ford, a man of deeper wellsprings than most his contemporary critics gave him credit for, exercises great restraint herein. He is impervious to rank schmaltziness, yet susceptible to the good cry. The finale to The Last Hurrah allows the audience just such a release. Critical praise for the film was immediate and nearly unanimous, Variety (the showbiz Bible) leading the charge, labeling The Last Hurrah "a classic of Americana". Even so, the picture proved a financial disappointment, losing more than $1.8 million.
I've dug back a bit for this one. In the old days when Sony had yet to fully annex Columbia Studios via marketing, The Last Hurrah appeared as part of their signature 'Columbia Classics' DVD line. It bears mentioning herein that Sony has always taken the high road where film preservation and restoration is concerned. Despite being released to home video during DVD's infancy in 1998, and even more impressive when critically compared to today's level of expectations in hi-def, The Last Hurrah on standard DVD holds up remarkably well: impeccably, in fact. The anamorphic B&W image is crisp and solid with barely a hint of age-related dirt orscratches. Film grain is consistently rendered and there is a level of fine detail, particularly startling in close-up that is nothing short of astounding. Bottom line: Charles Lawton Jr.'s cinematography looks magnificent. While I would respectfully champion Sony to reissue The Last Hurrah to Blu-ray with God's speed, realistically, I cannot imagine how much better it might look in 1080p. The DVD is quite simply that good! The audio is Dolby Digital mono and equally as impressive. Skeffington's night parade, as example, has an unanticipated aggressiveness. The one unforgiveable sin: no extras, except for a trailer. Personally, I'd like to see Criterion get a hold of this one and do an 'extra features laden' special edition. The Last Hurrah is certainly deserving of such a treatment. For now, this DVD rates my highest level of recommendation.
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Study Questions Cost of Complexity
New Haven, Conn. Higher organisms do not have a cost of complexity or slowdown in the evolution of complex traits according to a report by researchers at Yale and Washington University in Nature.
Biologists have long puzzled over the relationship between evolution of complex traits and the randomness of mutations in genes. Some have proposed that a cost of complexity makes it more difficult to evolve a complicated trait by random mutations, because effects of beneficial mutations are diluted.
While a mutation in a single gene can have effects on multiple traits, even as diverse as the structures of brain, kneecap and genitalia, we wondered how often random mutation would affect many traits said lead author Gunter Wagner, professor and chair of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale. The phenomenon wherein mutation in a single gene can have effects on multiple traits is known as pleiotropy.
This study showed that most mutations only do affect few traits. Further, the effect of an individual mutation is not dampened because of its effects on other traits.
Observing 70 skeletal characteristics in the mouse, the researchers identified total of 102 genomic regions that affect the skeleton. They concluded that substitution in each genome segment affected a relatively small subset of characteristics and that the effect on each characteristic increased with the total number of traits affected.
You wouldnt expect to make a lot of random adjustments at the same time to tune up a car, said Wagner. Similarly, it appears that tuning up a complex trait in a living organism is well coordinated and the effects of pleiotropy are more focused than we thought.
Other authors on the paper are Jane P. Kenney-Hunt, Mihaela Pavlicev, Joel R. Peck, David Waxman and James M. Cheverud. Funding for the research was from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Humboldt Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, the Austrian Science Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust.
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The process of taking an abdominal CT begins by taking many different X-ray views at various different angles, which are then combined with the use of computer processing to create cross-sectional images of the bones and soft tissue inside of your body, including tissues inside of solid organ. Ordinary X-ray testing does not show clear images of soft tissue, so doctors often request CT scanning to get a good image of soft tissue including organs, muscles, blood vessels, nerves, and the brain. Sometimes a contrast dye is used as it shows up clearer on the screen.
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