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He's worn the U.S. national team shirt at four World Cups—and now DaMarcus Beasley will be sporting Dynamo orange.
The club made a major midseason splash on Wednesday with the news that Beasley, one of the top American players of his generation and the only man to play for the U.S. in four World Cups, is joining Houston. "I've always said one day I might come back to MLS and today is that day," he told HoustonDynamo.com.
Beasley played every minute of all four U.S. matches in Brazil and has 120 caps and seven goals for his country. He is in the USMNT top five all-time in appearances, and the top ten in goals and assists, and led the team with 17 appearances under Jurgen Klinsmann last year, captaining the side during their successful Gold Cup campaign.
The speedy 32-year-old left-sided player also brings immense top-level club experience to Houston. He has made more appearances and scored more goals in the UEFA Champions League than any other U.S. national team player. Beasley said he is eager to get started in Texas and he already knows Brad Davis and Ricardo Clark from their time together with the U.S.
"In the past, Brad and Rico have always said good things about Houston and the team and definitely the fans," Beasley said. "I felt that this was a good opportunity for me, for my family. I'm really excited to be joining Houston. They showed a lot of interest in me over the past couple of weeks and for a player it was great to feel wanted by a team. Hopefully it all works out on the field and we can do some special things together."
Beasley arrives in Houston on Thursday morning. It is uncertain whether he will make his Dynamo debut on Saturday night when the club host Aston Villa in the Charities Cup (8 p.m. CT; TICKETS), but he is expected to play the following week when D.C. United visit BBVA Compass Stadium with MLS points at stake.
"He's a good player, it's really that simple. He's a good player that can make the team better," Dynamo president Chris Canetti told HoustonDynamo.com. "That seems almost obvious but that's where the conversation started, when the opportunity was presented and he was available, we thought, could he help us? And the answer was yes. He obviously has a great résumé with all the wonderful clubs he's played at around the world."
The Fort Wayne, Indiana native has won trophies in multiple countries. He signed an MLS contract in 1999, before his 17th birthday, and was allocated to the Los Angeles Galaxy. He made his MLS bow the following year for the Chicago Fire and moved to Europe in 2004 when Dutch side PSV Eindhoven bought him as a replacement for Netherlands star Arjen Robben. The following year he appeared in the Champions League semifinals with PSV.
Beasley spent the 2006-07 season on loan at English Premier League club Manchester City, then signed for Scottish giants Rangers in the summer of 2007. After three years in Glasgow, Beasley moved on to German side Hannover, and was most recently in Mexico with Puebla.
After making his name as a nimble winger dubbed "jitterbug" who rose to international prominence in the U.S. side that reached the quarter-finals of the 2002 World Cup, Beasley's career was reinvigorated by his move to Liga MX and a positional switch to left back.
"I kept confidence in myself knowing that if I got another chance I could do something special and try obviously to get on the national team. I knew I could still play at that level. In Mexico it went well, obviously, but I've always kept my head down and worked hard and always had that confidence in myself that if I got another chance I would definitely make a run at it," he said.
Beasley's determined attitude looks to be a perfect fit with the Dynamo's ethos. "We've all see how versatile he is, how effective he is whether playing midfield or at the back. Brings a good amount of experience, he's quick, great player, has a great reputation and for good reason and I think for us to be able to acquire a player like him is a big bonus for the team," Dynamo head coach Dominic Kinnear told HoustonDynamo.com.
"I spoke to him a little bit today and he says he's ready to get here, get to know the guys and get going. The World Cup was a great event for him and obviously he's a big part of the success and I'm sure he's motivated for that … he wants to come home and play well. He's always been a very driven player which is one of the reasons why we went after him."
- BEASLEY: For Club and Country
In order to position themselves to sign Beasley, the Dynamo acquired the number one spot in the MLS allocation order and allocation money from Toronto FC in exchange for Warren Creavalle and the Dynamo's 14th-place order ranking. The versatile 23-year-old leaves Houston after making 60 MLS regular-season and postseason appearances over three seasons. One of his biggest moments came against Toronto, when he scored a stoppage-time equalizer at BMO Field in April last year.
"I think the players will welcome the move in the locker room although we're losing a very good and popular player with Warren, sometimes you have to give up something you don't want to in order to get something and that was the case here. I think DaMarcus Beasley coming into our locker room is a very positive thing for us," said Kinnear. "From his first World Cup to his last one and in-between, he's always played well on the big stage. I think that says a lot about a player."
Beasley, who was out of contract at Puebla, is a Designated Player. Houston were made aware of his desire to return to MLS in early July. "We threw our hat into the ring right away, said we were interested, started dealing with his agent and I think we played a fairly vital role in helping a deal get reached between MLS and DaMarcus. Once a deal was reached the challenge became: how do we try to get him to Houston, seeing as there's a process?" Canetti said.
With the Dynamo currently four points off the Eastern Conference playoff pace, his arrival should be a timely boost—and the club is still looking at ways to enhance the roster. "We want to try to make a run this season, we're not satisfied with not making the playoffs whatsoever," said Canetti. "So we're trying to make moves that will improve us this year but we're not doing anything that would negatively impact our future. We think DaMarcus is a guy that can help us now and also in the next few years to come."
Beasley may not yet have met most of his new teammates, but he already has a firm target in mind. "I don't know most of the guys on the team, but I know they're all winners and they want to get to the playoffs. That's what we're going to push for," he said. "I'm really excited to get started."
Tom Dart is a contributing writer to HoustonDynamo.com and HoustonDashSoccer.com. Former editor and reporter for The Times of London and reporter for SI.com, Dart currently freelances for The Guardian.


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As for Ashley Greene – well, think of what Taylor Swift ordinarily might wear on a carpet (Swifty did great last night, more on this later!) or Shania Twain or Carrie Underwood. Think of the kinds of options that might be presented to them and then look at Ashley Greene. Exactly.
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Here's how a dress like this happens. It's Donna Karan, by the way. And Ashley Greene – or her mickey mouse manager/agent – would have probably started calling off a list of design houses and gotten laughed off the phone. Donna Karan may have taken pity, but put her on hold. Why? Because it's only Ashley Greene. And if I'm Donna Karan, I'm saving my good sh-t for girls of way higher standing than Ashley Greene.
Which is how Ashley Greene probably got something from like the back drawer, you know? A dress that no one else wanted, and certainly not anything Donna Karan would have preferred to highlight but you pick and choose your moments, and if she gets a line or two out of this one, that's the least of her best, so be it, at least it's something.
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TEMPE, Ariz. -- Angels owner Arte Moreno confirmed Friday the club is in talks with Mike Trout about a long-term contract, said he isn't opposed to going over the luxury-tax threshold for the right player and expressed optimism about snapping a four-year postseason absence in 2014.
As for negotiations with the City of Anaheim regarding a new stadium lease?
"The easiest way for me to say it right now is we're at a stalemate," Moreno said Friday in an extensive interview.
Back in September, the Anaheim City Council approved a non-binding framework for a deal in which the Angels could commit $150 million to improve the infrastructure of the city's 48-year-old ballpark. To help fund those improvements, the Angels would have the rights to develop the surrounding 153 acres of land for $1 a year. The city also approved an extension of the current opt-out date from 2016 to '19. The deal would keep the Angels in Anaheim through 2036.
But Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait has objected to the deal and believes the city should benefit from some of the profits the Angels make on that surrounding land.
"Somewhere along the line, there has to be a partnership," Moreno said. "Everybody thinks I'm going to make this fortune off the land. The first thing I have to do is capitalize the team, and then I have to capitalize the stadium, and then I have to go develop something, and who knows how long that takes before it becomes profitable."
Angel Stadium opened in 1966 and went under a major renovation in '98, split between the city and the Walt Disney Company that owned the Angels.
Asked about the likelihood of the Angels eventually playing somewhere else, Moreno said: "We haven't crossed that line yet."
"But it's the fourth-oldest stadium," he added later, "and there's been a lot of new stadiums built, and we're sort of looking a little bit at the footprint of what happened [with the Braves, who will move from Atlanta to Cobb County in 2017]."
Does Moreno have a deadline for agreeing to a deal or walking away from negotiations?
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The timeline for an Angels extension with Trout is a lot simpler: They'd like to sign the 22-year-old center fielder to a long-term deal shortly after Opening Day, so they don't have to go through the complex arbitration process next year and his new contract doesn't count against the team's Collective Balance Tax payroll until 2015.
Trout is still four years away from free agency, but the Angels, Moreno confirmed, are already "communicating very well" with his agent about an extension, though he declined to say if anything is close.
"The reality is it always gets down to the number," Moreno said. "I think he likes it here; we like him here."
The Angels just completed a relatively quiet offseason, their biggest signing being the three-year, $15.75 million contract for setup man Joe Smith. Moreno felt Masahiro Tanaka's asking price was too high for someone who has yet to pitch in the U.S. He also confirmed a previous report that the Angels offered Matt Garza a four-year, $52 million contract -- which he pulled off the table shortly after the Winter Meetings -- only to watch Garza sign a four-year, $50 million deal with the Brewers in late January.
"When he's good, he can be a [No. 2 starter]," Moreno said of Garza. "He can help you. And it would've really given us that layer of depth."
The Angels don't really have that now. They're basically relying on three young starters behind Jered Weaver and C.J. Wilson -- Garrett Richards, Hector Santiago and Tyler Skaggs -- and they're hoping Joe Blanton and Mark Mulder can emerge as secondary options.
But they also have an additional $15 million of wiggle room before hitting the luxury-tax threshold of $189 million, at which point first-time offenders are taxed 17.5-percent of the overage, and the Angels could use that flexibility to make in-season improvements.
That threshold has essentially marked the Angels' spending limit the past few years, but Moreno said it isn't necessarily because of the tax.
"The reality is we have an operating budget, and the operating budget is below the threshold," Moreno said. "What we try not to do is try to go negative. Long-term, it just doesn't work to be in the red financially."
Moreno left the door open for exceeding the threshold to bring in the right player.
"Let's just say we come out of the box good," Moreno said. "It's a long season. We come out of the box, and we get to the break and there's somebody available, then what you have to do is try to do the best you can to get somebody in here.
"People keep saying that we're bringing in players and it's crippled us in the market. It hasn't crippled us. We have no debt on our team, we aren't losing money. We made some money last year. We really would make some money if we could figure out a way to make the playoffs."
Last year, as the Angels embarked on what would be an 84-loss season, speculation swirled that Moreno would have to make a decision between keeping long-time skipper Mike Scioscia or new general manager Jerry Dipoto. Instead, both stayed and Scioscia's coaching staff was reconstructed.
Asked about keeping both, Moreno pointed to Scioscia's track record, talked about how much he likes Dipoto's front-office team -- and said there was never really a decision to be made.
"No one ever called me or asked me that question," Moreno said. "Everybody implied it."
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Shelbi Olson went 4 for 4 in Game 1 against Dartmouth Sunday (Harvard Athletic Communications).
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard softball team wrapped up its regular season in fine style, downing Dartmouth, 10-9 and 10-1 (6 innings), Sunday at Soldiers Field. Harvard finishes the regular season with a 34-14 overall record, tying the program record for wins in a season. The Crimson also posted a program-best 18 regular-season league wins, including a perfect 12-0 record against Ivy North Division opponents.
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The score stayed at 8-1 into the bottom of the sixth where Macadam led off with a single to short and advanced to second on a throwing error. A Regan sacrifice bunt in the next at bat proved unnecessary as Lange followed with a walk-off, two-run homer to end the game an inning early with a 10-1 final.
Lange finished Game 2 with three hits and four RBI while Macadam also had a trio of hits in the game. Brown reached the 20-win plateau, going four innings and striking out five and Zumbro pitched two scoreless innings of relief.
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Friday, December 26, 2008
HooHaa TB Race - The Little Cap That Could
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Now I'm really glad mine got to Hawaii. All I need is one vacationer to pick it up and bring it home and I will have a good chance of catching up to Gunny.
- December 26, 2008 at 5:02 PM
- Just John said...
I think tripcyclone may have a huge advantage over my little bug. He's much more likely to get some tourist action.
- December 27, 2008 at 5:39 PM
I'll get you, my pretties!!!
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Put a Human Voice in Your Resume (with Examples!)
I'm sure the guy is dead now, whoever he was, but I have a major bone to pick with whoever invented resumes. What a horrible idea! Who could expect us to get twenty, thirty or sixty years of awesome life and work experience across in a two-page document? The idea of a resume itself is what my sporty friends would call a non-starter.
On top of the sucktastic two-page resume format, we've got other obstacles in our way when we try to get across our power and heft on the job hunt. Most of us have been taught to write our resumes in a style we could only call Corporate Zombiespeak. It's the worst. We're taught to describe ourselves as Results-Oriented Professionals and Motivated Self-Starters, whatever the heck those awful terms mean. We're taught to talk about our Skills and Competencies.
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SUPPLIES: Cardstock: (pink) Patterned paper: (Basic Graph from Black & White Basics collection) Reminisce Stickers: (pink flowers, foam alphabet) Adornit-Carolee's Creations Fibers: (black gingham ribbon) Michaels; (pink rickrack) Fancy Pants Designs Font: (Century Gothic) www.fonts.com Tool: (tab punch) Stampin' Up! Other: (green album) Aaron Brothers Finished size: 7 1/4" x 6 3/4"
1 Adhere rickrack to cover.
2 Tie bow and adhere ribbon.
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5 Print tab titles on cardstock. Punch with tab punch and adhere to pages.
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For this album, Wendy made tabs for "All Occasion", "Birthday", "Love", and "Thank You". Depending on your card stash, you can customize the tabs to include different themes.
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Is Microsoft Linux's New BFF?
Jul 25, 2011 5:00 AM PT
Those of us who have been around the block a few times here in the Linux blogosphere have seen it many times before: With one hand, Microsoft holds out a small olive branch to the Linux community, while with the other it prepares a new patent attack, posts a "cautionary" FUD-filled video, or perpetrates some other kind of anti-FOSS mischief.
That's why it felt like deja vu all over again last week, when we learned not only that Microsoft is apparently one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel, but also that it had sent an early birthday present to Linux in the form of an apparently lighthearted video.
'Microsoft and Linux?'
Featuring cartoon versions of Bill Gates and Tux, the video begins by recounting the "rocky start" the two experienced, including the famous Halloween Documents exchanged among Microsoft executives about Linux and the "bickering" that continues today.
Also shown is Tux throwing a rock at Gates' "window."
"There's no truce in sight," the video reads... "Or is there?"
The final line then concludes by changing the text "Microsoft vs. Linux?" to "Microsoft and Linux?" followed by birthday wishes.
Is it conciliatory? Is it touching? Is it passive-aggressive? Linux bloggers have been struggling to decide.
'Pigs Still Don't Fly'
"Is it time to start trusting Microsoft?" was the title of an open ballot over on TuxRadar, for example, and respondents weren't shy with their opinions.
"No way!" exclaimed kaaposc, for instance. "Remember, pigs still don't fly."
"Nope," agreed mfraser. "Under no circumstances should we start trusting them, they are still trying to use their patent portfolio to extract money from companies making Android phones."
'I Needed a Good Laugh'
On the other hand, "they can be trusted... sort of," countered Vredfreak.
"Microsoft can be trusted to do one thing: whatever it takes to make money," Vredfreak added. "For years they accomplished it by simply exercising its monopoly on the desktop space. There are too many avenues open for this to work anymore, so they have to find new strategies, mainly patent trolling and the appearance of integration and cooperation with competitors."
Then again, "trust Microsoft?" wrote reup. "wharfff wharfff wharfff ! Cool, I needed a good laugh today."
TuxRadar's post was soon followed by a two-part series on OStatic (here and here) on much the same topic, so it quickly became clear the topic was gaining momentum.
Linux Girl took to the heavily air-conditioned Broken Windows Lounge to learn more. Was the birthday video a genuine gesture -- or just one more Machiavellian maneuver?
'They Need to Quit with the Lawsuits'
"It really did seem conciliatory, especially when they referenced some of their own contributions to the hostility, such as the Halloween Documents," consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack told Linux Girl.
Still, "if they really want to make peace, they need to quit with the patent threats and lawsuits," Mack added.
Others took a stronger view.
'Nothing But a Series of Lies'
"Passive-aggressive doesn't begin to cover it," Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza told Linux Girl, for example.
"The first hostility in the video is a penguin (Tux?) throwing a rock at a Windows-logo window with Bill Gates behind it, followed by Microsoft trying to 'scare' Linux 'at Halloween,'" Espinoza explained. "This is immediately followed by the assertion that Microsoft found Linux's ideas 'childish,' which directly contradicts the stance of the Halloween Documents, which prove that Microsoft saw Linux as a threat."
Chronologically, "this video is nothing but a series of lies presented to make Microsoft look like the good guy, which could not possibly be further from the truth," Espinoza concluded.
'The Thin Edge of the Wedge'
Indeed, "M$ hates Free Software of any kind," blogger Robert Pogson agreed. "They have attacked Linux, the GPL, copyleft, etc. -- stuff that would be of no interest to them at all except their customers see the advantages of Free Software.
"What the world does with Linux, the GPL and copyleft is the world's business, not M$'s," Pogson added. "We should not do any more than allow M$ to use Free Software if they want."
Accepting any kind of offering from Microsoft is "the thin edge of the wedge," Pogson cautioned. "Their hypervisor is of value to M$'s customers and it does not hurt freedom to have M$'s customers using GNU/Linux. We should, however, also promote and improve KVM, which is pretty cool."
Finally, "for any who think M$ is just a business competing in the real world on price/performance," Pogson offered the following reminders:
" M$ paid UUNET Pipex, an ISP, big bucks to ship Internet Exploder so as to cut Netscape out of the market";
"M$ has a deliberate policy of shortening the life of PCs to maximize revenue"; and
"M$ charges different prices for essentially the same technology."
A 'Tarnished' Reputation
Chris Travers, a Slashdot blogger who works on the LedgerSMB project, had a more measured outlook.
"What's going on here is that Linux has become deeply embedded in the server market," Travers told Linux Girl.
That, in turn, has created two problems for Microsoft, he suggested.
"First, they have invested a LOT of effort trying to keep that from happening," he pointed out. "This has reduced their credibility regarding further attacks on Linux."
Second, however, is that while it's getting better, "Microsoft has not been the best at interop in the past," Travers added. "This too has tarnished their reputation."
Bottom line? "What I think Microsoft is trying to do here is make an about-face to undo the embarrassment that they are facing."
'Why Would the Community Care?'
Last but not least, Slashdot blogger hairyfeet answered Linux Girl's question with another question: "Why would the Linux community care one way or the other?"
The fact that it does indicates a "serious problem" in the Linux community, hairyfeet suggested: "the community fixates on the last war instead of trying to plan for the next one.
"Want to see the most likely future for MSFT in 15 years? Look at IBM now," he asserted. "Once upon a time everyone was scared of old 'big blue' -- nobody dared to try to mess with the big dog. Now? Just another company -- a big company, but just a company."
'Say Thanks and Move On'
Microsoft will likely "rule the desktop" for as long as there is one, hairyfeet opined, "but more and more of people's lives are being held off of the desktop, in tablets and phones."
Rather than adapt to that new market, meanwhile, Microsoft "shows their 'I don't understand my customers' problem by putting Windows 8 on everything, including ARM, instead of focusing on making winPhone a top notch OS," he said. "They are gonna royally burn their customers."
So why should the community care about the video birthday greetings?
Hairyfeet's advice: "Just say 'gee thanks' and move on."


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Phalanx wrote:Did anyone mention Loomis's Figure Drawing for All it's worth?
The Art of Comic Book Inking by Gary Martin, published by Dark Horse books.
This is a great overview of inking with some fascinating comparisons of famous inkers inking over the same Steve Rude pencils. Great book
mcDuffies wrote:It's that part. It's kind of hillarious, hals of those inking examples look exactly the same. I mean, they're all good, but there's only a few of them that are distinctive from the rest. I don't have an eye of a professional inker, but far from it being unexperienced eye.
I think the fault was the choice of Penciler on whose pencils they war working. It's too tight, doesn't let inker spin his wheel properly.
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Abstract: Judging from the number of communities and cities striving or claiming to be sustainable and how often eco-development is invoked as the means for urban regeneration, it appears that sustainable and eco-development have become "the leading paradigm within urban development" (Whitehead 2003). But what is it that is driving these urban transformations? Clearly, there are many probable answers to this complex question and in what follows we will focus on one particular catalyst of change – urban design competitions. Considered as field changing events (Lampel & Meyer 2008, Anand and Jones 2008), urban design competitions are understudied mechanisms for bringing about field level changes. This paper examines how urban design competitions can bring about changes within two types of fields – professional fields and local geographical fields. The context for our study is urban regeneration in two cities in France and Denmark, both of which have been suffering from industrial decline and have invested in establishing "eco-districts". Based on these two case studies we explore how the different parties involved in these urban development projects have developed innovative design templates and practices that can instantiate field level changes. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8405
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Talk:Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
Oldest conservative organization
The Republican Party has not historically been a "conservative organization." But if you have another example, let's see it before you censor the statement here.--Andy Schlafly 22:19, 23 June 2009 (EDT)
Unsigned rant against AAPS below
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons is an American medical-legal advocacy group. Its website declares:
- The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a non-partisan professional association of physicians in all types of practices and specialties across the country. Since 1943, AAPS has been dedicated to the highest ethical standards of the Oath of Hippocrates and to preserving the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship and the practice of private medicine. Our motto, "omnia pro aegroto" means "all for the patient."
Many of these activities appear to violate their "Patient's Bill of Rights", which, among other things, states:
- (the right) to refuse third-party interference in their medical care, and to be confident that their actions in seeking or declining medical care will not result in third-party-imposed penalties for patients or physicians
- AAPS files lawsuit against FDA to overturn approval of "Plan B" morning after pill for over the counter use by women over 18 [1]
- Fight against "Sham Peer Review": The AAPS recognizes "sham peer review" as an abusive use of such entities as hospital by-laws and disciplinary committees to exclude physicians for other-than legitimate or the explicitly-stated reasons.[2]
- Defense of a physician convicted of improper narcotic prescribing while operating a clinic to treat patients with chronic pain[3]
- Fighting mandatory vaccination [4]
- Fighting against mandated mental health parity[5], which is advocated by the National Alliance on Mental Illness, American Medical Association [6], the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry[7]
- Promoting contracting between physicians and patients without government or insurance company involvement.
- Fighting socialized and single-payer healthcare[8]
- Fighting to debunk "Shaken Baby Syndrome", and to link it to vaccines rather than abuse.[9]
- Advocating for so-called "Freedom of Conscience" to allow pharmacists to refuse to fill lawful prescriptions.[10]This would appear to interfere with a patient's right "to refuse third party interference in their health care".
- Fighting abortion, not simply through moral objection, but also by attempting to link abortion to unrelated health problems[11], including breast cancer[12]
- Advocating against the sale of organs for transplant[13]
- Advocating against organ donation in cases where brain death is unclear.[14]
- Advocating against withdrawal of care, as in the Terri Schiavo case [15], including misrepresenting the results of autopsy in the case.[16]
- ↑ http://www.aapsonline.org/judicial/planb.php
- ↑ http://www.louisianamedicalnews.com/news.php?viewStory=934
- ↑ http://www.aapsonline.org/painman/mciver.pdf
- ↑ http://www.aapsonline.org/alerts/03-14-07.php
- ↑ http://www.aapsonline.org/testimony/mhparity.pdf
- ↑ http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/475/910.doc
- ↑ http://www.aacap.org/cs/legislative_action_110th_congress/help_support_mental_health_parity
- ↑ http://www.aapsonline.org/newsletters/apr07.php
- ↑ http://www.aapsonline.org/sbs.htm
- ↑ http://www.aapsonline.org/ethics/foc.php
- ↑ http://www.aapsonline.org/nod/newsofday236.php
- ↑ http://www.jpands.org/vol10no1/aschlafly.pdf
- ↑ http://www.aapsonline.org/nod/newsofday417.php
- ↑ http://www.aapsonline.org/nod/newsofday402.php
- ↑ http://www.aapsonline.org/ethics/terris.htm
- ↑ http://www.aapsonline.org/nod/newsofday186.htm
The AAPS publishes the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (JPandS), until 2003 called the Medical Sentinel. The journal is not considered a valid, peer-reviewed journal for inclusion in major scientific databases, and has been listed by Quackwatch and the World Health Organization as a source of concern.
According to their literature:
AAPS members believe this patient-physician relationship must be protected from all forms of third-party intervention.
- The organization, a third party to the Schiavo case, interfered in the relationship between the patient's advocate and physicians, even helping to bring the power of the federal government to bear on a single medical case.
- AAPS advocates for so-called "freedom of conscience" where patients are denied legal drugs, treatments, and information based on the morals of the provider rather than the patient.
- AAPS views patient advance directives designed for dignity at the end-of-life as a financial plot to kill patients in order to save money.[1]
I would like to remove the statement "It may be the largest physician organization funded virtually entirely by membership dues". If true that is great, but it is an uncited, guesswork statement. Unless there is significent evidance for this statement, I think it should be removed.--IScott 19:51, 19 July 2009 (EDT)
- Your point is a valid one (your spelling could be improved, however). But the statement is almost certainly true and could be confirmed by some research. Medical societies are notorious for being pawns of the pharmaceutical, insurance and hospital industries, and for taking significant chunks of money from one or more of them.
- Tell you what: I'll find the data on the AMA (I think less than 20% of it is physician-membership-funded), and you can spot-check any other group. How's that?--Andy Schlafly 20:30, 19 July 2009 (EDT)
Phil Gingrey
If we're going to have the Phil Gingrey quote in this article, we should probably point out that while sexual contact is the most common way to contact HPV, it is not the only way it is contracted. We should also point out that as an OB/GYN making a patently false statement like that should call into question his medical knowledge, political ethics or perhaps both. I'll leave this for 24 hours of discussion per site guidelines before adding this information with sources. Fnarrow 01:51, 3 May 2013 (EDT)


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A quick shout-out to all the people that make Boskone one of the most pleasant conventions of the year. Thank you, NESFA! It's always a smoothly run, just-the-right-size convention with a kickin' art show.
Fuzzy iPhone or "borrowed" photos here.
Great to see John Picacio, Artist Guest of Honor. John is a unique voice in the field and dedicated to the vitality of the genre as a whole. [top image]
Michael Whelan had a 40 painting exhibit. An amazing retrospective that started with his college work and chronological built up to brand new paintings.
Omar Rayyan had a knock out out show. Man, that guy just keeps getting better.
Bob Eggleton and Marianne Plumridge where a delight to share dinner with...And made me think, why not have a Boskone panel meet at one of the nearby art museums?
The now-traditional Rick Berry Studio visit was, as tradition will have it, a mellow blast.
These photos, taken by John Picacio, made me laugh because it reminds that I didn't leave that seat very much throughout the day...Or weekend, for that matter. Charlie Stross on the left and Michael Whelan on the right.
After the con I was able to convince now-Boston artist Scott Bakal to come out and play while the dead-dog party deaded around us.
....and it's possible this Rick Berry painting followed me home.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
A quick shout-out to all the people that make Boskone one of the most pleasant conventions of the year. Thank you, NESFA! It's always a smoothly run, just-the-right-size convention with a kickin' art show.
Labels: Conventions, John Picacio, Micheal Whelan, Rick Berry
3 comments:
- John Picacio said...
1. Great idea: an art-related panel meeting up at a nearby art museum. I would love this not only for Boskone, but for other sf/f cons. Good one.
2. Saw your Flickr set. IMG_0533: At the show, I stared for minutes at the sculpting of that left arm. Doesn't make anatomical sense in certain places, but graphic perfection nevertheless.
3. You were right -- visiting Berry's studio was all that. I wish we didn't have to fly out so early the next morning or I would've stayed longer. Hugely inspiring.
4. Envious of your possible acquisition. That's a great piece.
- ces said...
Possible??? :-)
Just like it's possible that Manchess"s SDCC painting of that red guy followed Martiniere home? :-)
Glad you made, what with the weather and all. I'd rather ride a train than a plane any day!
Yes, great idea, Irene!
I help out a little with Boskone program. Just wrote this up for my next year's idea seed bank.
It's about 3 miles as the crow flies to the Gardner Museum, a little less to the Museum of Fine Arts. But the Institute of Contemporary Art is only a few blocks away, on the waterfront. Special exhibits aside, any opinion on the best museum choice if we did something like this?
-- Bob Devney