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SKY REPORTER: March 2012
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Thursday March first, sunrise is at 6:29 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. That evening the sun, located in the constellation Aquarius, sets at 5:48 p.m.
Civil twilight occurs when the sun is less than six degrees of arc below the horizon. It precedes sunrise and follows sunset by about a half hour. During darker segments of this period the moon, bright planets, and several of the brightest stars might be seen.
Thursday March 15th sunrise is at 7:07 a.m. (Eastern Daylight Time) and sunset occurs that day at 7:03 p.m.
On the last day of the month, Saturday March 31st, the sun is in Pisces, rising at 6:40 a.m. and setting at 7:20 that evening. During March the length of time the sun is above the horizon each day increases by one hour 21 minutes. The altitude of the sun at noon, its maximum daily elevation, ascends during March from 42 degrees of arc on the first to 54 degrees on the 31st.
During this month average overnight temperatures recorded in Central Park rise from 29 degrees Fahrenheit on the first to 37 degrees on the last day of March.
Principal Phases of the Moon are:
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|March 8
|Last Quarter
|March 14
|New Moon
|March 22
|First Quarter
|March 30
Sky Cast
During March, in addition to start of Daylight Saving Time and the beginning of the northern hemisphere's spring season, there is a full slate of planetary activity. Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, plus elusive Mercury and faint Uranus are on the evening sky stage.
All month, brilliant Venus and Jupiter form a striking pair in the western sky for several hours after sunset. At the start of March they are easily seen in the same field of view after twilight fades.
During March, Mars is at its brightest for 2012. Early this month the red planet is at opposition, rising at sunset and remaining in the sky all night.
On March first, Mercury sets an hour and 28 minutes after the sun. The first weeks of this month provide opportunities for locating Mercury in the evening sky. Saturn rises at 9:33 p.m. on March first, other bright planets are all above the horizon at sunset.
Venus and Jupiter are spectacular visual treats throughout March. On the first of the month they are just 12 degrees of arc apart. They appear to approach each other until Tuesday the 13th, when the two are in conjunction. The brilliant planets then slowly separate, and by month's end are 15 degrees apart in the western sky.
Mars is at opposition Saturday March third. It is then directly across the sky from the sun, and rises at about sunset. The red planet remains above the horizon all that night, shining at magnitude -1.2. Its distance from Earth then is about 62,658,700 miles, and the planet presents an apparent disk diameter of 14 seconds of arc. This small size makes viewing Martian surface details a challenging task, even with moderately sized telescopes. By comparison, during the great August 26, 2003 opposition, the disk of Mars appeared 21arcseconds in diameter.
Wednesday and Thursday, March 7 and 8 the moon appears near Mars in the constellation Leo.
On March 8 the Full "Worm" Moon is located in Virgo, 14 degrees southeast of Mars. Worms apparently become active this month. Other traditional names for March's full moon include Full Crow Moon and Full Crust Moon, associations with late winter appearances of these loud birds and ice crusts on partially melted, then refrozen snow.
Saturday March 10th, the waning gibbous moon forms a nearly equilateral triangle with Saturn and first magnitude star Spica in Virgo. These objects are then seven degrees of arc from each other. The span is approximately equal to the apparent width of three fingers seen at arm's length.
Daylight Saving Time begins during the early morning of Sunday March 11th when at 2 a.m. we set our clocks forward one hour.
Venus and Jupiter are in conjunction Tuesday March 13, with a separation of three degrees of arc, about six times the apparent diameter of the full moon's disk.
On the night of March 14, the last quarter moon may be seen near the first magnitude red supergiant star Antares in the constellation Scorpius.
The northern hemisphere's spring season begins at 1:14 a.m. EDT Tuesday March 20th when the sun is directly over a point on the equator at longitude103° 05' east, in Sumatra Indonesia, about 104 miles south-southwest of Singapore.
During early evenings of Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday March 25th through 27th, the waxing crescent moon is near Venus and Jupiter in the western sky. Such configurations are among the most spectacular and beautiful celestial sights to unaided eyes. Treat yourself to the breathtaking experience of seeing these configurations. Add to the pleasure by asking friends to sky watch with you.
On the night of the 26th, the moon is just three degrees of arc from Venus, and seven degrees from the Pleiades open star cluster. Sharp eyed observers may be able to discern six or seven stars in this famous cluster, including its brightest member, third magnitude Alcyone. The cluster's brightest stars form a pattern that resembles a tiny dipper, considerably smaller than the Little Dipper in Ursa Major.
The First Quarter moon is in the constellation Gemini during the night of March 30th. It is among stars marking feet of mythical celestial twins Castor and Pollux.
During the early morning of March 31st Mars sets at 5:39 a.m. and Mercury rises at 5:58. That evening Saturn rises at 8:26 p.m., Jupiter sets at 9:57, and Venus disappears beneath the west-northwest horizon at 11:24.
Sky Lore
March is the time of year when we prepare to bid temporary farewell to stars in and around Orion. By month's end the sun's progression through the zodiac begins to overwhelm light of stars typical of winter evenings. As springtime advances we say good-by to objects such as the Pleiades and Belt stars of Orion, and must wait until early mornings of August to revisit them.
Before that happens, we might turn a telescope to features such as the Great Nebula in Orion, located just south of the Hunter's Belt, and resembling a "fuzzy star" to unaided eyes. And perhaps we might turn our telescope to the second magnitude star Castor, marking the head of the more northerly of Gemini's twin stars. Nearby Pollux is the other star-brother-hero of ancient Hellenic mythology. Although seen as a single object to our unaided eyes, Castor is actually a multiple system containing three mutually orbiting sets of double stars, a total of six, whose blended light forms naked eye Castor. A small telescope reveals the three major components, designated Castor A, B, and C. The double nature of each is only revealed with the help of spectroscopic analysis.
Castor was said to have been mortal, while his brother Pollux was the immortal child of Leda and Zeus. Both were Argonauts who sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece and were considered patrons of navigators and warriors.

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Actor Gerard Butler has confirmed reports he once fooled around with reality TV star Brandi Glanville, but he insists he had no idea who she was at the time.
The "300″ star appeared on Howard Stern's show on Monday and opened up about his fling with Eddie Cibrian's ex, who once revealed the Scot was an 11 out of 10 in bed.
Butler admitted he had hooked up with the "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star at a beach party, but she refused to tell him what she did for a living – and he only knew her as Brandi.
He recalled, "We hung out, we had a bit of fun and then suddenly, one day, I'm walking down the street and this papper (photographer) … runs up in my face and says, 'So, Brandi Glanville says you're great in bed…' You know what I said? 'Who's Brandi Glanville?' because, one, I didn't know her last name, and, two, I didn't know she was a celebrity – and I didn't know she was gonna go and tell people about it (fling).
"I felt bad. … Then I worked it out … and I called her and said, 'One, I'm not very happy that you did that because there are certain things you've got to keep a little private, and, two, I'm sorry because I said I didn't know who you were.'"


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Isabel will be a valuable resource in further evaluating the diagnosis and treatment of complex clinical patients
Ann Arbor, MI (PRWEB) January 31, 2013
Isabel Healthcare announced today that HealthCare 365 has deployed the Isabel diagnosis decision support tool to support efficient decision making from diagnosis through treatment. Isabel will be integral in helping clinicians make efficient and effective decisions about their patients.
"We are pleased to provide the Isabel diagnosis and clinical content management tool for our clinicians.. Isabel will assist us in our mission to fully understand our patients and provide comprehensive service from diagnosis to treatment and management." said Vera Kohut, Hons BSc, MD, CCFP, FCFP at HealthCare 365. "Isabel will be a valuable resource in further evaluating the diagnosis and treatment of complex clinical patients, as we strive to provide excellence in our comprehensive service, from diagnosis to treatment, and management of a patients' care."
"The diagnosis decision is critical to patients' wellbeing, and getting to the correct diagnosis as soon as possible is the cornerstone to effective and efficient treatment," said Don Bauman, Isabel Healthcare chief executive officer. "We are excited to have HealthCare 365 as our first Canadian partner and to have Isabel as part of their clinician's tool kit."
About Isabel Healthcare
Isabel Healthcare Inc. was founded in 2000 by Jason Maude and is named after Maude's daughter who almost died after a potentially fatal illness was not recognized. For over 10 years, Isabel Healthcare has provided the Isabel diagnosis decision support system to hospitals, physician practices and individual physicians and gained peer reviewed validation and unmatched experience. Today, Isabel is the only diagnosis checklist system fully integrated with EMR and is used by thousands of physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and students worldwide, providing diagnostic support and education by broadening their differential diagnostic considerations. Connect with us at info(at)isabelhealthcare(dot)com, 734-332-0612 or Isabelhealthcare.com or info.isabelhealthcare.com/blog to learn more.
About HealthCare 365
The HealthCare 365 Clinic was opened in 2010 as a lab to study primary care in Canada. Based on what we learned, our mission is to create a personalized, multi-faceted program to manage your health across your lifetime. Each program is specifically tailored to address your needs and goals, so that together - we stay in control. We believe that by making informed decisions from solid medical evaluations and ensuring that we follow "best practice" protocols throughout the entire management process, we will finally be able to provide that "missing link" and improve your health outcomes over time Connect with us at http://www.healthcare365.org.


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Walter Olson / Cato Institute:
Kim Strassel and the WSJ on the Lost IRS Emails — Earlier this week Wall Street Journal columnist Kim Strassel won a much deserved Bradley Award for her work in investigative journalism. It's at times like this, in which revelations about evidence destruction at the Internal Revenue Service …
Discussion: Weekly Standard
The Scrapbook / Weekly Standard: Well-Deserved Prizes
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
About Those Missing Emails — The fact that they are "lost" at all suggests Congress is looking in the right direction.
Discussion: Power Line
Scott Johnson / Power Line: On the lost IRS emails
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
IRS Official Whose Emails Were "Lost" Visited White House More Than 30 Times — 1.1K — SHARES — Last night on The Kelly File Chief Counsel at the American Center for Law and Justice Jay Sekulo revealed that the former chief of staff to former IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, Nikole Flax …
Rachael Bade / Politico:
IRS chief defiant on Lois Lerner email loss
IRS chief defiant on Lois Lerner email loss
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
White House notified of missing IRS e-mail 6 weeks before Congress?
White House notified of missing IRS e-mail 6 weeks before Congress?
Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Ed Driscoll, protein wisdom and CNSNews
Jeff G. / protein wisdom: "White House Learned of Lerner's Crashed Hard Drive 6 Weeks Before Congress"
Chris Moody / Yahoo! News:
Ralph Reed: Those who oppose same-sex marriage can draw lessons from fight against slavery — Seeking to encourage social conservative activists to persevere in the fight against same-sex marriage, Faith and Freedom Coalition founder Ralph Reed drew parallels between the ongoing debate …
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Mediaite and Washington Post
Tina Nguyen / Mediaite: Ralph Reed Compares Fight Against Same-Sex Marriage to Fight Against Slavery
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Presbyterians Vote to Divest Holdings to Pressure Israel — DETROIT — After passionate debate over how best to help break the deadlock between Israel and the Palestinians, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted on Friday at its general convention to divest from three companies …
Discussion: The PJ Tatler, RT and Prairie Weather
Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Every Senior V.A. Executive Was Rated 'Fully Successful' or Better Over 4 Years — All of the 470 senior executives at the Department of Veterans Affairs received annual ratings over the last four years indicating that they were "fully successful" in their jobs or even better …
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Governor Scott Walker Releases Column in Response to Media Coverage of John Doe — Madison — Governor Scott Walker today released the following column in response to media coverage of the John Doe. It is submitted for your consideration to print. — Abraham Lincoln once said …
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Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo: Christie Says He Has 'Complete Faith And Confidence' In Scott Walker
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Stockman bill allows taxpayers to use same lame excuses as IRS — WASHINGTON — Taxpayers who do not produce documents for the Internal Revenue Service will be able to offer a variety of dubious excuses under legislation introduced by Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX 36) a week after the IRS offered …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Hot Air and Independent Journal Review
Nickarama / Weasel Zippers: Hilarious: Rep. Steve Stockman Proposes "The Dog Ate My Tax Receipts Resolution"
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Proposed House bill puts taxpayers on equal footing as IRS
Mark Felsenthal / Reuters:
White House announces funding to address immigrant surge — (Reuters) - The White House on Friday announced tens of millions of dollars of new funding and expanded enforcement facilities to step up efforts to deal with the surge of children arriving illegally from Central America.
Discussion: Guardian
Edward Helmore / Guardian: Anger grows at Arizona's 'bullying' Border Patrol
Oil Odyssey Offers Glimpse of Kurdish Independence in Iraq — A tanker containing a million barrels of crude oil is floating around the Mediterranean, and any buyer will be helping Iraq's Kurds to win greater independence. — The oil aboard is available at half-price …
Discussion: Israpundit, The Dish and Bloomberg View
Andrew Sullivan / The Dish: Kurdistan's Moment? Ctd
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Rick Santorum Explains Why Ronald Reagan Would Be 'Appalled' By Today's GOP — "Rick Santorum Explains Why Ronald Reagan Would Be 'Appalled' By Today's GOP" Share: — Rick Santorum appeared to make the case for greater government involvement during a speech at the Faith & Freedom Coalition on Friday …
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Martin Longman / Washington Monthly: Rick Santorum is Not a Populist
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Hillary's People — The facts are these. In 1975, before she married Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham defended a child rapist in Arkansas court. She was not a public defender. No one ordered her to take the case. An ambitious young lawyer, she was asked by a friend if she would represent the accused, and she agreed.
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Conservatives Attack Hillary Clinton For Being A Criminal Defense Attorney 40 Years Ago
Joe Saunders / BizPac Review: Rape victim confronts Hillary for taking her 'through hell' in '75: 'I hear you on the tape laughing'
Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog: HILLARY DID HER JOB, BUT SHE COULD MAKE THE SITUATION A LITTLE LESS HORRIBLE (AND PROBABLY WON'T)
Soopermexican / The Right Scoop: Angry rape victim says Hillary Clinton 'lied like a dog' in defending her attacker
Jerome Hudson / Daily Surge: Rape Victim Says Hillary Clinton "Lied Like A Dog"
Jonathan H. Adler / Washington Post: Is Hillary Clinton's conduct as a young attorney fair game?
Hunter Walker / Business Insider: Library Insists Conservative Site Was Not Banned From Its Clinton Archives
Robby Soave / Hit & Run: Authoritarian Library Demands Censorship After Publication of Anti-Clinton Files
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion: Hillary's sisterhood questioned again as rape victim speaks out
Travis Gettys / The Raw Story: Conservative site slapped over copyright breach, library says, not Clinton vendetta
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Policy Statement Regarding Sophomore Vocational School Students Who Are At Least 16 Years Old
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Regarding Sophomore Vocational School Students Who Are At Least 16 Years Old
The Board of Registration of Cosmetology ("Board") voted at its meeting on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 to allow students to obtain certain credits from vocational schools not previously allowed by Board regulations. In making this allowance, the Board reiterates that all other regulations are to be fully adhered to and will be enforced, however, pending the next regulation change which will formally codify this allowance, the Board has deemed the enforcement of the letter of the regulation as written to be not in the best interests of the public.
Policy No. 09-01
To relax the requirements of 240 CMR 4.07(2) and grant credit to students in vocational programs who are the age of 16 or older and have attained at least the sophomore level of a school providing a Board approved vocational cosmetology program which has met Board requirements.
As written, 240 CMR 4.07(2) states the following:
"No student may be granted credit for hours completed in a program prior to attaining the age of 16 years. No student may be granted credit for hours completed during the freshman or sophomore [sic] year of a program or as part of an "exploratory" or similarly titled program."
Effective immediately, the Board will accept hours completed by a vocational student 16 years of age or older who is in their sophomore year of school (there is no change to the prohibition on credit for "exploratory" type programs). In allowing this change, the Board is in no way allowing vocational schools to change their cosmetology programs or other curriculum to take advantage of this allowance without prior Board approval.


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NEWS- Nearly dyeing: Co-ed's hair-raising holiday
When UVA fourth year Sara Gilliam went home to Northern Virginia for Thanksgiving, she made an appointment at her salon to have her blond tresses dyed dark. But her plans for holiday hair turned quickly to a holiday hair horror that landed Gilliam in the hospital.
"I had been wanting to try something different, and I thought it would be fun to go dark," says Gilliam, a Hook intern, who did what women have been doing at salons for generations. "I brought a picture from a magazine," she says.
Once Gilliam arrived at Hairport, her regular Loudoun County salon, her stylist mixed the dye and applied it to her hair. She says all seemed to be going well, and– thrilled with her new dark auburn locks– she headed home to show off the new look to her parents and younger brother.
The next morning, however, there were signs of trouble.
"I noticed my neck was a little sore," she says, "but I thought it was from lying in the sink for so long." But by that night, she says, " I could feel swelling, and my head physically hurt."
When she went to tell her mother she wasn't feeling well, her mother knew a trip to the ER was in order.
"She was so, so swollen around both eyes," says Kathy Gilliam.
Gilliam says things went downhill at the ER, where doctors said she was likely reacting to para-phenylenediamine, a compound found in almost all permanent hair dyes. Experts say reactions to PPD are common– though usually not as severe as Gilliam's– and doctors didn't seem too concerned even after she had "some sort of seizure" as they attempted to insert an IV drip of anti-histamine and steroids to combat the reaction.
"The seizure was so, so scary," says Kathy. "She just started shaking, and everyone ran in. To have your child do it in front of you..."
Though it was frightening, doctors told her the seizure, a subsequent drop in her blood pressure, and irregular breathing were unrelated to the reaction, and they believed once they had her stablilized and an IV inserted in the other arm, she'd be able to go home in a few hours. Her reaction, however, proved more severe than they expected.
"Her breathing got better quickly," says Kathy, "but she still had all the swelling. She was completely round with fluid, just huge."
Gilliam says doctors told her she couldn't go home until the swelling went down– something that didn't happen until Friday, when Gilliam had already missed Thanksgiving with her family.
As for the hospital's Thanksgiving feast?
"I really wasn't very hungry," she says.
Is Gilliam's hair-raising story a cautionary tale for all women? How dangerous is hair dye?
Don't worry about having to go gray gracefully just yet, says local dermatologist Anna Magee, who adds that she's seen many patients react to PPD, but never as severely as Gilliam.
While Magee says PPD is a common cause of "contact dermatitis," in which the skin reacts to an irritant, the vast majority of people are not allergic to PPD. Among those who are, however, the reaction can range from mild redness to blistering and severe swelling, as in Gilliam's case. Anywhere the compound has touched "can be like a burn," says Magee. In addition to hair dye, Magee says PPD is now being added to some temporary henna tattoos popular among children on beach vacations.
"I've seen a couple of children with severe reactions," she says, and if a child is prone to keloid scarring, the temporary tattoo can, in a way, become permanent.
Once someone has been sensitized to PPD with a single exposure, reaction to later exposures can become far more serious. Such is the case with Gilliam, who now recalls having a mild allergic reaction to a henna-based tattoo when she was 13.
Dr. Alfred Huber, a local allergist, says even people who have used hair dye in the past can become allergic at any time.
An allergy occurs when the immune system mounts an "inappropriate response" to a substance, says Huber, who has seen "a couple of dozen" cases of PPD allergy, including one recent case in which a patient's head swelled like Gilliam's. That patient, he said, did not require hospitalization and was simply treated with steroids.
Even the most severe allergic reactions to PPD are "not typically life threatening," says Huber, who recommends that anyone planning to dye his or her hair perform a "patch test," in which they put a small amount of the dye on their skin to see if they react. Home hair dye kits also recommend this approach.
Gilliam says she wishes she'd done such a test, and says her days in the hospital have convinced her to return to her natural color. Thanks to a get well gift certificate from Hairport (which Gilliam says is not to blame for the reaction) she won't even have to pay.
"I like the dark," she says, "but I think this hair color will always make me think about being so sick."
In Gilliam's case, it seems, blonds really do have more fun.
Dark days for Sara Gilliam.


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Dr. Michael Berens and his research colleagues at Barrow Neurological Institute are hunkering down, trying to defend themselves from the barrage.
Outside the BNI building, marching protesters accuse them of torture. Sporadic death threats pop into their e-mail inboxes or get funneled through the hospital switchboard. There are incoming questions from concerned public officials, reporters and grant-funding agencies -- questions they are tired of answering.
So they stay in the bunker, under siege from all sides and seeming rather resentful about it. They're trying to save lives, after all.
In his federally funded research project, Berens operates on pregnant beagles. Around day 36 of each dog's pregnancy, Berens makes an incision into its swollen abdomen and, using ultrasound to guide his hand, injects cancer cells into the hind legs of the fetal puppies. If a puppy develops a tumor after birth, Berens surgically removes the lump and places it into the pup's brain through a drilled hole. The idea is to develop a tumor model on which researchers can test potential treatments for human brain tumors. But after 10 years of study and a couple hundred euthanized and aborted dogs, only three pups have successfully developed cancer. So in 1999, the Arizona State University animal research oversight committee told Berens to remove his dogs from their kennels and house them someplace else.
As a target for an animal rights crusade, the beagle project could hardly be more ideal. Here is a study with a documented failure rate, criticism from an otherwise research-friendly university and subjects that are a particularly adorable species of man's best friend. It's like blood in the water. The founder of the Bay Area group In Defense of Animals calls the beagle study the "Achilles' heel" of animal research. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has issued an "Action Alert" against Berens, dubbing him the "Beagle Butcher." Animal rights Web sites urge protesters to call the sheriff's office (charge Berens with animal cruelty!), Berens' grant provider (take away his money!) and his employers at BNI (make him stop!).
"If I was running gerbils down a maze, and it wasn't working after 10 years, I would change it," says Dr. Patricia Haight, a psychologist who is leading the protests. "All of the killing of these puppies is never going to give him the information he is looking for."
Through it all, Berens and his colleagues have remained defiant, yet they confess they are privately alarmed.
The vice president of research at BNI, Dr. Joan Shapiro, received an e-mail with a description of her car, her license plate number and a message remarking that she drives home late at night, alone. Undescribed "things" have been left at Berens' home, and threats have been made against his family.
"I'm in the crossfire," says Berens. "Their mind is already made up: 'Don't confuse me with the facts.' There are people who are steeped in the effort to move forward with challenging diseases, and there are people who say, 'Yeah, we should have better opportunities for treatment, but nobody should get hurt in the process.' Well, that's not going to happen."
Shapiro, thinking about how she tenses up every time a driver pulls alongside her car, speaks a bit more aggressively.
"People could be very seriously injured by me because I will do something first and ask questions later," she says.
But beyond all the noise and exclamations and claims and threats from both sides, there has been little real examination of Berens and his study. Berens' critics see him as the Captain Ahab of animal research -- an unstoppable menace plunging on regardless of the cost, obsessed with an impossible outcome. To fellow cancer warriors, however, his passion is understandable, even admirable. Sometimes it takes an Ahab determination to fight the most clinically frustrating and lethal disease on the planet.
"To give up is not acceptable," declares Berens. "[The research is] not going nowhere; it's having labored success. If you want to see a real lack of success, come on over here to our brain tumor clinic."
Half of American men and a third of American women will get cancer in their lifetimes. It's the plague of all centuries with a different variety named after every organ it attacks. Cancer of the brain has one of the most dire outcomes. A tumor, either a spontaneous development (primary) or a growth inspired by cancer cells spread from another organ (metastatic), takes up residence in your gray tissue. The cancer cells quickly infect and mutate neighboring cells. It's what researchers call "walking," as in, "His tumor has already started walking." The multiplication is exponential as cell after cell is conquered, each transformed into something that's deathly dysfunctional yet maddeningly unique, like diseased snowflakes. A photo of cancer DNA even looks villainous -- schizophrenic clumps of broken chromosomes. Since the brain has no pain receptors, a tumor can grow for years without symptoms. After a while, there are little things: headaches, dizziness, blurred vision. If diagnosed with a primary brain tumor, as 16,500 Americans are each year, the patient most likely faces toxin treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Both have been significantly refined over the years, but they are still physiological sledgehammers. Speech, motor control and mental faculties deteriorate. You lose your ability to recognize loved ones. It's a horrific way to die.
"It's difficult for many people to grasp just how dreadful this type of cancer is. It is cancer in the organ that makes us human," says John Henson, executive director of the Brain Tumor Center at Massachusetts General Hospital. "[Gliobastoma] tumors take the lives of patients in one year, on average. And despite very aggressive research efforts over 25 years . . . the improvement in median survival is about a couple months."
Michael E. Berens grew up in Phoenix, the son of a BNI surgeon. Berens says his father would take him along on house calls to visit recently discharged patients.
"I'd pick grapefruit in the trees and he'd pick out stitches," Berens says. "That was how I grew up."
After receiving degrees from Arizona State University and the University of Arizona, Berens completed his postdoctoral training in oncology at the University of Zurich. In 1990, he was working as a research biologist at the University of California-San Francisco when he was recruited by Barrow Neurological Institute, a division of St. Joseph's Hospital.
"I was sure that I was going to find some things that would make a difference," he says.
Not just any difference, a major difference. Most cancer studies prove our limitations, but Berens wanted to "swing for the fence," and he thought he knew how to do it.
Cancer researchers needed a large-animal model for studying the most deadly form of brain tumor, a gliobastoma. Berens had performed tumor studies in mice, but mouse brains are about a fifth the size of a thimble. Beagle brains are about the size of a small child's, and beagles have a high incidence of naturally occurring brain tumors. But how can you make an animal sprout a gliobastoma tumor on command?
The answer hit Berens while driving down a freeway: He could teach the animal's immune system to accept a tumor, then transplant it into its brain.
The way he figured it, a fetal animal's immune system is the same as its mother's. It accepts her system as its own. Berens thought if he injected cancer cells into a beagle early enough, the developing immune system would not fight the cancer and would allow it to grow -- thus becoming a perfect model for testing new therapies.
It was a clever idea, and Berens was optimistic. He arranged some private funding and, later, was awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health. He ordered some pregnant beagles (at $2,000 each) from Marshal Farms in New York, a breeder of "purpose-bred animals." He also had a talk with his wife.
"I said, 'Patty, I have this idea, and it involves some animal research, and I'm sure that people will have a hard time with it.' And so she asked, 'Why us? Why can't somebody else do it?'"
There was a real cause for concern. Berens' grant manager at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Tom Jacobs, says many researchers are reluctant to develop large-animal models. They worry about protesters and the increased level of peer-review scrutiny. One reason the NIH agreed to fund Berens in 1998, despite his history of trouble with this project, was the study's inherent technical and political difficulty -- and inherent promise.
"He's considered a pioneer by his peers and by us," says Jacobs. "He has taken on a formidable challenge of developing an animal model that, until this time, has been extremely difficult and has hampered our understanding of brain tumors."
From the start, there was another issue as well: Berens' protocol is undeniably grim. ASU says the study is at least three on the standardized one-to-four pain scale for animal research.
Though the pregnant dogs can be adopted out, their puppies are another matter.
The puppies that don't get cancer are euthanized.
The puppies that do get cancer are given large doses of chemotherapy and radiation -- then euthanized.
It is not fair to an adopting family, researchers say, if their pet later develops a brain tumor because of the fetal surgery. Also, once an animal is adopted, Berens is not allowed to examine it again. It is now a pet, and researchers, perhaps out of psychological necessity, draw a fine distinction between research animals and pets. To Berens, he is not killing Snoopy.
"Snoopy is a pet," Berens says. "It should be cuddled and loved and played with on the floor with rolled-up socks and those kinds of things. It's a very sensitive thing. Nobody in the United States for the past 15 years does research on pets. The decision was made decades ago that there is such a thing as a pet population and there's such a thing called a 'purpose-bred animal population.' Every animal that we've worked on has been a purpose-bred research animal. They were never bred for purposes of being Snoopy. Is that different? That's hugely different. We're not dealing with the emotionally charged issue of pets."
Less emotionally charged for Berens, perhaps, but certainly not for animal lovers. A dog is a dog. And a dog does not know why it was bred.
Yes, Berens himself has pets. A Shetland sheepdog, but no beagles.
"I can't think of doing an experimental surgical procedure on my pets," he says.
Then what does he think about when injecting cancer into the pups?
"I get one or two phone calls a month from friends of friends whose wife/sister/cousin/uncle has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. So before every procedure, I look my research assistant in the eye and say, 'Last Tuesday I got a call from a 38-year-old mom with two kids who's just been diagnosed. And by all statistics, she won't be here next year. Let's do this as well as we can.'"
And when the experiment does not yield the desirable results, Berens reassembles his staff to try another batch.
"I ask my staff, 'Are you willing to help me try again?' What a horrible question to ask. Everybody wants it to go well, everybody has tremendous tension, everybody has pets."
Berens has received support from BNI, a longtime proponent of animal research studies. In one notable breakthrough, a BNI researcher used baboons to develop a dramatic brain surgery technique called Cardiac Standstill. In that procedure, a patient is chilled and his heart is stopped. The patient lies clinically dead on the operating table for more than 20 minutes, allowing an unprecedented degree of surgical intrusion. Then the patient is resuscitated.
"Yes, 11 baboons died," says Shapiro. "But 89 people have walked out of here totally cured. No one else would touch these people."
Cardiac Standstill was introduced in the early 1990s. About the same time, Berens seemed to be on the verge of a similar success. One of his beagles had produced a tumor. The tumor was transplanted to its brain. And it grew.
Berens was ecstatic. He had proven his model could work.
Then, over the years, the elation turned to frustration. And his short-lived success turned into an animal rights controversy.
Dr. Patricia Haight is at Orbit Restaurant to talk about the beagles. The meeting is for lunch, but she does not eat. Haight is very intent, very determined. Her tremulous voice rises and falls as she practically vibrates with outrage. She quit teaching at Paradise Valley Community College last semester to concentrate full-time on protesting Berens' project, yet objects to being called a "protester," or her efforts being called a "campaign."
"I don't consider this a campaign," she says. "I consider myself a psychologist with some concerns."
Haight has performed animal research studies herself, and says she even worked at BNI as a research assistant some 25 years ago. She does not object to all animal research, she says, just the beagle project. When Haight first heard about Berens' research from a student in her Abnormal Psychology class, she filed a Freedom of Information Act request for more information.
By any standard, the documents she received raise serious concerns.
Only three successful tumors out of 138 puppies in 10 years. Unknown numbers of aborted dogs and birth defects because of trauma suffered during the fetal implant procedure. Admissions by Berens that, because of the difficulty of successfully injecting cancer cells at such an early stage of development, oftentimes it was impossible for him to tell which pups were injected and which were not. And in 1998, BNI's animal labs were cited for a number of noncompliance issues; a Department of Health and Human Services director harshly summarized, "It was the opinion of the site visitors that [Barrow] has placed itself and the research community as a whole at risk by operating in the manner in which it is presently proceeding."
BNI brought itself into compliance with most of the complaints six months later, Haight says, but still . . .
"I'm tired of this," she says. "They should have planned well ahead of time for the possibility that these puppies wouldn't develop tumors. They should have had a control group that was never injected. They never did that. They never thought it through. They should have thought it through!"
And then, there was the criticism from ASU's animal research oversight committee.
ASU received a portion of Berens' $200,000 annual grant to house the beagles. The committee repeatedly urged Berens to change his protocol, and Berens refused. The school veterinarian said the pups were confined in pens for "much longer than is necessary or justified."
One crucial difference between the institutions, say observers on both sides, is that BNI staffers have daily exposure to cancer patients.
"If our dogs were at the University of Arizona, you and I wouldn't be having this conversation," says Shapiro. "Because they have a cancer institute, their thought patterns are different. While ASU has very good animal facilities, and does good animal research work, their questions are different."
ASU's animal oversight chairman, Edward Castañeda, says BNI is willing to "go further" than the university in its use of animals, and he does not think ASU is being too squeamish or setting the bar too high.
"The use of the animals and the basic research, I think, is totally valid," he says. "Now the problem starts when you're not collecting any valid data, then it becomes difficult to justify using the animals. If he had come to us with a proposal to change his approach -- and by that I don't mean so much to improve the success rate as to try to improve the success rate -- we would have been delighted."
To Haight, such infighting simply underscores her belief that there are some serious divisions in the scientific community over the validity of the beagle project. To further illustrate her point, she whips out photos of painful-looking surgical restraints and an autopsied dog.
"You want the bottom line on this? Every night I go to bed and I know that those 22 puppies are at risk. I know that they're going to be killed. We know that there's very little chance that they're going to give them any more information than they got from the rest of the puppies."
The release of the remaining beagles, currently housed in an undisclosed Tucson kennel, is one of the main goals of the anti-Berens contingent. On an animal rights Internet discussion board, Haight described a tour of the beagles' ASU kennels as "like visiting Treblinka or Dachau."
Wanting to see the BNI research labs, and speak with Berens about Haight's concerns, New Times arranged to take a tour of Barrow.
Shapiro says she is a firm believer in freedom of the press, notes that the beagle study is funded by taxpayers and says BNI has "nothing to hide." She gladly arranges a tour of BNI's labs, a tour that plays out like an elementary school filmstrip.
There are spotless labs full of beakers and computers. There are introductory "What Is a Cell?" diagrams on poster board and cancer DNA models. There are researchers in white coats and peeks through microscopes. There's even some scripted patter. ("In this room, you might say we're all working in the dark -- it's a dark room!")
Which is all fine and interesting, but . . . where are the animals? Animal research is the reason we are here, yet the animal kennels and veterinary surgical suite are not part of the tour. The vivarium is downstairs, and, apparently, off limits. Yet Shapiro repeatedly asks if we would like to meet cancer patients, the visceral counterpart to Haight's research-roadkill dog photo.
Later we are told media are not allowed in the vivarium out of concern for "the safety of the animals." This is not quite as bogus as it sounds, but it's close. The potential for animal infection is a genuine concern for researchers, and so are fears of security details being leaked to animal rights activists. Media are allowed on tours at other animal research labs, however. ASU, for instance, allows tours in all but its primate labs.
Even more problematic than being denied access to the one area that's under protest is some of the conflicting information from BNI.
Shapiro insists Berens has patented only his discovery of when beagles become immune tolerant, but records at the U.S. Patent Office show he has actually patented his entire fetal implant procedure. There is nothing illicit about patenting your work, but protesters insist one reason Berens continues his project is to make it commercially viable to sell to pharmaceutical research companies. Berens wholeheartedly denies this, and a BNI media relations representative says Shapiro simply misspoke.
And though Shapiro also comes clean about the study's failure rate -- "Do we have all the answers? Are we perfect? Has this thing been a great success? We're perfectly willing to say no, no and no" -- she stresses that Berens' beagle research can be used for learning about early genetic detection for brain tumors.
Berens himself dismisses this possibility. "Early detection is not where the project is going," he says.
Then where is this project going?
Michael Berens is tall, with white hair and compact glasses. He wears a lab coat to our interview and talks with kindly passion. He's not only a doctor, he could play one on TV. But his warm composure cracks when he talks about animal activists.
"Ascribing the term 'torture' to me is inappropriate," he says. "It's very inaccurate. If you read [protester] literature, everything is the most derogatory, aggressive kind of adjectives, and that's not what I'm like. I'm not a torturer. I'm not cruel. That's wrong, wrong, wrong. I'm compassionate from the get-go."
Berens is initially hesitant to permit an interview, and outright refuses to sit for a photo. Each news story about his research has sparked more death threats, and he has developed a Pavlovian dread of the press.
It should come as no surprise, then, that Berens is not very First Amendment-friendly. He declares that activists should have to go through a peer-review panel before they're allowed to protest, just as he does for his research grants, and at one point says that by interviewing him, New Times has "set back cancer research by several hours."
He retracts that last statement when challenged, but the sentiment feels genuine. Berens is frustrated at having to defend his work. Berens is frustrated with his project. Most of all, Berens is frustrated with being afraid of unseen threats, threats that may or may not be real.
"When you have a reaction in the press about this research, you feel exposed to the last 10 to 15 years of press that talks about [activist violence]," he says. "When I think about my kid walking to school, it scares the hell out of me. Now, how much of [the threat] is real? Well, when you have those feelings, it's real. And how do you get that out of your head?"
Berens' wife is equally concerned, saying her family makes sacrifices to accommodate her husband's quest. "He's trying so hard to find some help for all the suffering," says Patty Berens. "That's why we, as a family, put up with the long hours and missed weekends and canceled vacations."
To gain some industry perspective on Berens' research, we contacted a neurologist, a tumor researcher and representatives of brain tumor associations (Naomi Burkowitz of the American Brain Tumor Association; Robert Tufel of the National Brain Tumor Foundation; Mitchell Berger, chief of neurosurgery at UCSF; and John Henson, executive director of the Brain Tumor Center at Massachusetts General Hospital).
All have heard of Berens and the beagle study. All made a point to mention that Berens has an excellent reputation in the field of tumor research -- save one, who also noted that tumor research on beagles sounded "somewhat unusual." Two knew the specifics of Berens' protocol and affirmed that the research is valid. But both declined to say whether Berens should continue despite his failure rate.
Berens' 10 years of frustration, some pointed out, is not necessarily a long time for a research study. A researcher must take a cool, collected dive at death, inflicting pain to potentially prevent it. Listening to Berens talk about his research, it seems animal rights activists are correct about his past failure driving his current determination to succeed, except they got it backward -- Berens doesn't press on despite the beagles' suffering, he presses on to validate the suffering that he has already caused.
"This is not fun. There is no thrill in this procedure," Berens says. "I wish I could have stopped nine and a half years ago. And I lose sleep over it -- 'Why did that litter abort?' -- and rack my brains and call other people. When things go well, we are excited and grateful. And when things go poorly, we are devastated."
Then why proceed with the same technique that has yielded so few results and so much criticism?
"I feel the next procedure is going to work," he says. "It would be real easy for me if we had been completely unsuccessful, because then I'd say, 'This doesn't work.'"
In a significant new development, Berens' grant manager, Dr. Tom Jacobs, says it's time for Berens to rethink the beagle project. Jacobs notes that funding will cease in April as planned, and predicts that Berens -- who has several ongoing grants and research projects aside from the beagle work -- will quit.
"Once he evaluates all the data, he'll be in a better position to decide what to do," Jacobs says. "He has not applied for additional funding, so the project, as I see it now, will end this spring."
Berens, however, is hopeful that his final batch of data will reinvigorate the project. Laying out a best-case scenario for the future of his work, Berens runs down his hopes:
"Year 2001, we develop a large-animal model for brain tumors. I have some wild, therapeutic ideas that are different than how we traditionally approach cancer therapy. I would like to test them in a large-animal model system for ways to change the behavior of tumor cells to make them much more responsive to therapy -- and I would do that in 2002. And in 2003, we take this to clinical trials. And the audience I need to sell this to is the oncologists . . . [who] will be interested because they know the outcome for these patients.
"That's the scope, and I could be wrong," he says. "Or, I could be something else. And that something else is pretty exciting."
That something else keeps him going, keeps him injecting and euthanizing, focusing on potential outcome rather than past failures. He's getting better, he says. The fetal injection procedure once took 14 hours; now it takes four. He's fine-tuning the lab animals, ordering beagles bred with certain genetic variables that increase his probability for success. Besides, about 40,000 animals are euthanized in Maricopa County every year. They die for no reason. At least his beagles have a chance -- however small -- of contributing to a cure for a lethal disease.
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He's on the verge. He's sure of it. Except . . .
"I always feel like this one is going to be the one that's going to have a perfect outcome," he says. "And, of course, that hasn't been the reality."
And when fighting brain cancer, the disease that always seems to win, Berens will not allow that reality to burden him.
"I don't feel the weight of failure," Berens says. "Which amazes me."


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Hundreds of thousands rally for Morsi in latest battle of street protests
Supporters of Mohammed Morsi rallied on behalf of the ousted president Friday in their biggest demonstrations since he was removed from office, part of a strategy to get him reinstated by using the same means that forced his removal: mass protests.
"Ir-hal!!" they chanted _ leave, in Arabic – the same word Morsi's opponents had yelled in urging the president to resign just days ago. This time, the chant was directed at Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the minister of defense and the head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, who'd announced Morsi's ouster on July 3.
Indeed, the pro-Morsi campaign looks much like the one his opponents had mounted. Just as Morsi's opponents refused to work with his government, the Muslim Brotherhood, through which Morsi rose to prominence, has rejected entreaties from the new prime minister, Hazem el-Beblawi, to join his Cabinet. Morsi's opponents now are accusing the militarily installed transitional president, Adly Mansour, of grabbing power with a highly unpopular declaration that gives him near dictatorial powers. It was the same charge leveled against Morsi last fall.
"We are using the same weapon they are using against us, but the difference between them and us is that we are using it in a peaceful manner. We did not believe in democracy in the first place but we agreed to play democracy as they did and we won," said Naguib el Shanenwy, a 30-year-old imam who marched in support of Morsi.
The likelihood that Egypt's political battles would continue to be played out in competing street demonstrations, perhaps for months, filled analysts with despair.
"I'm pessimistic," said Frederic Wehry, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington. "This is going to get worse before it gets better," he said, predicting that the Brotherhood "is not going to go quietly."
Wehry also predicted that young secular revolutionaries who formed the Tamarod, or Rebel, movement to demand Morsi's resignation and who've backed the military overthrow of a democratically elected leader would likely rue the decision. The Tamarod movement "made a Faustian bargain" with the military "that they'll come to regret," Wehry said.
The United States joined Germany on Friday in calling for the military to release Morsi, who hasn't been seen since a middle-of-the-night speech hours before his overthrow was announced. The military has said only that Morsi is being held for his own safety. Pro-Morsi demonstrators believe he's under arrest at the headquarters of the Republican Guard, whose troops ordinarily protect the president.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the United States agrees with the German Foreign Ministry that there must be an "end to all restrictive measures considering Morsi."
The battle over what constitutes legitimacy and democratic process – the ballot box, as the Brotherhood says in arguing that Morsi should serve out the remaining three years of his term, or the street, as Morsi's opponents say, in arguing that massive anti-Morsi demonstrations validated the military putsch that toppled him – shows no signs of easing. That leaves little room for discussions over how to fix the country's seemingly intractable economic, social and security problems.
And there are worries the conflict could explode into violence again as it did on Monday, when the country's elite Republican Guard opened fire on Morsi partisans, killing more than 50. The situation is volatile, with hundreds of Brotherhood officials, including its supreme leader, Mohammed Badie, under arrest, and the possibility that Morsi, too, will face charges.
With $12 billion in promised aid from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait over the past week, the new government has financial space to muddle through the months ahead without tackling the problems that contributed to Morsi's undoing.
Morsi supporters have vowed to stay in the streets for months, if necessary, to see him reinstated.
On Friday, the Brotherhood bused in tens of thousands of people from around the country. The show of force may have totaled as many as a million participants, though it was still much smaller than the anti-Morsi outpouring of as many as 14 million that crowded the streets in the days ahead of his ouster.
The goal of the pro-Morsi demonstrators was Rabaa, the Cairo district that has become the gathering place for Brotherhood supporters. But the military blocked the roads leading there, so protesters, most of whom are observing the fast required of Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan, had to walk in the heat for at least 30 minutes – without water _ before arriving.
On loudspeakers, near military tanks, some troops played a recital of the Quran in the background in an effort to mollify Morsi's Islamist supporters.
As sunset approached, when protesters could break their Ramadan fast and eat and drink again, the exhaustion caused by hours of heat and dehydration was evident. Slippers dragged along by shuffling feet became the dominant sound as the crowds sought out the dates, bread, chicken, rice, sandwiches, juice and water whose odors had hovered around them.
"It is not logical to meet the demands of a protest that lasted only two days while we had been here for many days and no one looked at our demands," said Assma al Samak, 22, one of the protesters.
Ismail is a McClatchy special correspondent. Roy Gutman in Cairo contributed to this report.


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Now you have to have known Grandma Kelly. She was pretty much a Victorian woman in many respects. She never met a cabbage rose wallpaper pattern she didn't like. She played rag-time on the piano which, just for fun, she called her pi-an-nee. She loved to tell stories, fact based or not, and was given an award for elocution when she was a girl. In a time before TV and even radio, this was a good skill to have.
Grandma grew up in the Western Maryland town of Frostburg, was born in the old house at 89 West Main Street and died in the same room in which she came into the world. It was her father's house and after she and Grandpop Kelly were married they lived there too. When her parents were gone, the house was hers entirely. But it was kind of haunted.
Helen Gertrude Zeller (1894 - 1985)
As a lovely young girl and before she married.
Cousins Linda and Joann started telling what they knew about the haunting and retelling stories of haunting as I mostly listened and made notes as fast as I could.
The first in a long line of stories had to do with Ma, Grandma's Mother, Moretta Workman Zeller (1859 - 1946). Ma would say with regularity, "Oh what I saw last night!" Tales of furniture moving on the upper floor were quite common. As was the report of head laughing. No body, just a head.
Moretta Workman Zeller
(3 April 1859 - 24 MAR 1946)
(3 April 1859 - 24 MAR 1946)
Now I do have to admit here that Ma was a jokester and story teller in her own right. I have the distinct impression that when Ma got bored she'd cook up some fun! So what did Ma see?
Finally, a young Helen told her parents that she had seen a woman's face with gold teeth laughing. Grandma was the apple of her father's eye, Gustav Zeller. He was well off and owned a couple of barbering emporiums in the region so money was no object. He promptly built an addition to the house as Grandma's bedroom so she wouldn't have to sleep upstairs... and the hauntings always happened upstairs.
Gustav Zeller
(3 FEB 1858 - 12 Mar 1927)
(3 FEB 1858 - 12 Mar 1927)
At this point you need some information about "upstairs." Next to the indoor bathroom with the six-foot tub designed especially for Gus Zeller because he was tall, was an exceedingly narrow stairway, hidden behind a curtain, that immediately made a sharp bend to the left. Kids could scamper up it but it was difficult going for the older folks. At some point Grandma Kelly just gave up on going up there altogether and sent us kids to fetch stuff. I gotta say, I could be kind of spooky up there.
Cousins Linda and JoAnn said that whenever they went to Grandma's house she'd usually send them up on errands and say, "Now hurry and go up can come back down!" No wonder we all thought the place was haunted!
Mom and Dad and I lived in Cleveland but when we went to visit we'd bunk upstairs. I never thought a thing about it being haunted... but then maybe they didn't tell me!
When Grandma passed we bought the old house from the estate. Just wanted to freshen it up a bit and then we'd have a country place to stay in summers. One thing lead to another and we found out that it was way crooked on the foundation, needed a new furnace, plumbing, electrical, and oh, by the way, the walls were all coming down because they were original horse-hair plaster. Many bills and a year and a half later I finally slept in Grandma's house for the first time. Have to confess it was sort of spooky! Said a wish to Grandma to protect me from hauntings. It worked! I slept like a baby:)
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Flames excited by maturity they see in Klimchukby Aaron Vickers
CALGARY -- By his own admission, it's been a whirlwind ride for Calgary Flames prospect Morgan Klimchuk.
Signing his three-year, entry-level contract on Dec. 17, it took the Regina Pats standout just a little under six months to go from a potential first-round pick to inking his first professional pact.
It's just been one "dream come true" after another for Klimchuk.
"To actually sign my first pro deal is something that's obviously every kid's dream growing up," he said. "To actually get it done, it feels great.
"For them to put that faith in me and actually sign me to a deal is something that's a huge honor. That's all I can really say. It's a goal to get drafted and to go to my hometown is something that's very special and to be officially joining the organization now by signing a contract, I'm over the moon right now. I'm very excited.
"I'm just very thankful for the opportunity."
The Flames wasted little time making the Calgary, Alberta, product their second signing from the 2013 draft class after No. 6 pick Sean Monahan, who is currently plying his trade in the NHL.
It's for good reason too, according to Craig Conroy.
"He's a young man and he's got a lot of things to improve on, but I think at this point we love that even in our interviews leading up into the draft, how serious he was and how he wants to be a player," said Conroy, the special assistant to the general manager. "He's going to have to put a lot of work in, but we feel at some point with all that work and the way he wants to be a player, that one day he's going to be in the NHL."
Klimchuk's arrival could come sooner than later.
The 18-year-old has been impressive for the Pats this season, scoring 12 goals with 29 points in 26 games.
But as much as his offensive contributions have meant to the Western Hockey League club, it's what Klimchuk has brought Malcolm Cameron's team in other areas that's been most impressive.
"He's just a mature kid," said Cameron, who serves as Regina's head coach. "I think a lot of it is his preparation, what he puts in each and every game, each and every practice. Seeing that, you have to be reminded he's only 18 years of age. He's 18 going on 25 in terms of his maturity. He makes the players around him better and makes his guys better people."
That maturity is what made Klimchuk a must-sign for the Flames.
"As much as we liked what we saw on the ice, it was his personality away from the rink," Conroy said. "Being a Calgary guy, we know that he trains hard and does all those little things and will do whatever it takes to reach the next level. His attitude has been unbelievable for us. That was a big reason why we drafted him, and now moving forward as he gets bigger and stronger, his game is going to mature and eventually hopefully we'll get him in Calgary one day."
Conroy and the Flames have had plenty of opportunities to observe the personality Klimchuk has displayed in trying situations.
Just days before the draft, the 6-foot, 180-pound winger was left off Canada's National Junior Team summer development camp roster despite being a top-10 scorer at the World Under-18 Championship three months prior.
No bother. Two days after the snub, Klimchuk's silver lining came in the form of hearing his name called at pick No. 28 by the Flames.
But when his first opportunity to skate with his future teammates at Calgary's training camp came in September, Klimchuk was relegated to the sidelines with an abdominal wall strain previously sustained while with the Pats.
"He's going to have to put a lot of work in, but we feel at some point with all that work and the way he wants to be a player, that one day he's going to be in the NHL."
-- Flames special assistant Craig Conroy
Again, Klimchuk carved out a silver lining, silently observing from the sidelines and learning the difference between what it takes to go from a Western Hockey League standout to an NHL regular.
He took those lessons to heart, and with an eye on representing Canada at the World Junior Championship, Klimchuk applied what he's learned in Regina.
But a hip flexor injury suffered against Russia in his second Subway Super Series game in late November halted any designs on representing Canada on the international stage.
Though he hasn't played since, Klimchuk remains upbeat.
"I was happy with how I played there in both those games and how the first half of my season went," said Klimchuk, who will return when the WHL schedule resumes after Christmas. "It's over and done with. Now I have to focus on my team and how I'm playing. That's something that I'm looking forward to doing and getting back in the lineup."
Another sign of his maturity, Conroy pointed out.
"And that's his personality," he said. "That's what we saw when we talked to him. He's going to overcome things, and he's going to do that with effort and hard work. He's willing to put the time in and he's not going to let things hold him back.
"That's what we like."
And it's what could have him representing his hometown team sooner rather than later.


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Back to School
NCLB Update
Picturing America
Descriptive Data
ACT Scores
ED.gov Survey
Quote to Note
Upcoming Events
Back to School
It's that special time of year! In preparation for the return to school, the federal government's web portal, USA.gov, has posted an impressive collection of web sites (http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Back_to_School.shtml), with resources for students, parents, and educators. In particular, browse the Census Bureau's annual Back to School feature (http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/
archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/012084.html), which highlights customary statistics on students, teachers, and learning, as well as data concerning back to school shopping ($7.5 billion was spent at clothing stores in August 2007, surpassed only by November and December), lunchtime (9.3 billion apples were produced in the U.S. in 2007, half from the State of Washington), and the rewards of staying in school (with an advanced degree, the average annual earnings of workers 18 and older in 2006 was $82,320; with a bachelor's degree, $56,788; with solely a high school diploma, $31,071; without a diploma, $20,873). The Department's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) also issued selected Back to School statistics: http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372.
NCLB Update
On August 4, Secretary Spellings announced that Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, and Virginia have been approved under a pilot program to allow school districts to reverse the order in which public school choice and supplemental educational services (SES) are offered to eligible students in schools in the first year of improvement, offering SES a year earlier than usual, or offer both choice and SES to eligible students during that first year of improvement. In addition, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, and Indiana have been approved for this same flexibility under the differentiated accountability pilot program announced in July. In exchange, states and participating districts must meet several conditions, including increasing the capacity to provide SES (with at least two SES providers for each participating district), providing timely notification and outreach to parents, and reporting trends in participation in choice and SES. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2008/08/08042008.html.
Regarding differentiated accountability, in a recent letter to Chief State School Officers (http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/guid/secletter/080801.html), the Secretary invited eligible states to submit new proposals to differentiate between underperforming schools in need of dramatic interventions and those that are closer to meeting the goals of No Child Left Behind. "As we continue to work with Congress to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act and because we have not yet reached our initial cap of 10 states to participate in the pilot," she said, "I am offering states the opportunity to submit a proposal to incorporate differentiated accountability into their current accountability system for the 2009-10 school year, based on assessments administered in 2008-09." To be eligible to participate, states must meet five criteria, such as having a fully approved standards and assessment system. Moreover, all proposals must be consistent with 10 core principles, outlined in the Department's comprehensive peer review guidance (http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/guid/daguidance.doc). The deadline for proposals is September 17.
The Achiever newsletter, available solely online, focuses on how successful schools across the U.S. are working toward the goal of the No Child Left Behind Act: to have every student reading and doing math at grade-level by 2014. The latest story, leading with a "recipe for student success," spotlights a Providence, Rhode Island, school that has produced double-digit growth in academic proficiency. Between 2005 and 2007, the percentage of students proficient in reading at Albert Shaw Feinstein Elementary Schoolwhere one in four students is an English language learnerjumped from 29% to 50%, and the school saw even bigger increases in math proficiency, from 14% to 42%. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/achiever/.
Picturing America
This fall, after the most successful application process in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), more than 26,000 schools and public libraries across the country will be receiving free Picturing America materialshigh-quality reproductions of 40 great American works of art (approximately 24" x 36" in size) and an illustrated teacher resource book with notes for all grade levels. For schools and public libraries that did not apply during the initial application period, NEH is now accepting another round of applications through October 31. Free materials will be delivered in spring 2009. Picturing America is designed to promote the study, teaching, and understanding of American history and culture by exposing students and the public to America's art treasures. From the courage and leadership portrayed in Emanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware to the power of democracy shown through Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech, these images of people, places, and events in American history allow citizens to better understand our nation's past and the principles for which it stands, while also introducing the broader world of the humanities. For more information and to apply, please go to http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/.
Descriptive Data
Over the last two weeks, the Department's National Center of Education Statistics (NCES) has released some initial findings from its 2007 National Household Education Surveys (NHES) Program:
Parent and Family Involvement in Education: School Year 2006-07 (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/
pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2008050) presents data collected, through interviews with parents of students in grades K-12, from January to May of 2007. Selected findings: 89% of parents indicated that an adult member of the household attended a school or PTA meeting; 78% of parents indicated that they attended a regularly scheduled parent-teacher conference; and 89% of parents indicated that there was a place set aside for homework in the home. Among students in the upper grades, less than 1% had parents who said they did not expect their child to complete high school; 40% expected them to earn a four- or five-year college degree, and 30% expected them to earn a graduate or professional degree.
School Readiness of Young Children: School Year 2006-07 (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/
pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2008051) presents data collected, through interviews with parents of children ages 3-6 who had not yet entered kindergarten, from January to May of 2007. Selected findings: 58% of parents reported their children attended either a day care center or preschool; 89% of parents reported they expected to enroll their children into kindergarten on-time (parents of boys were more likely than parents of girls to plan to delay entry into kindergarten); and a majority (55%) of parents reported they or another family member read to their children every day. On average, children watched TV for 2.6 hours on a typical weekday and 2.7 hours on a typical day of the weekend.
For more information, please go to http://nces.ed.gov/nhes/.
ACT Scores
Despite an amazing 9% increase over last year in the number of students taking the ACT (fueled, partly, by Michigan joining Colorado and Illinois in making the test part of its statewide assessment system for eleventh-graders), the 2008 national average ACT composite score was 21.1 (on a scale of 1 to 36), up from 20.9 in 2004 and only a slight dip from 21.2 in 2007. Scores on all four subject-area tests were stable, with math scores (21.0) unchanged from last year, English (20.6) and reading (21.4) scores dropping by one-tenth of a point, and science scores (20.8) dropping by two-tenths of a point. Similarly, scores among all racial/ethnic groups subgroups were steady, with Hispanic (18.7with 21,560 more test takers) and white (22.1with 116,441 more test takers) scores unchanged from last year and African-American scores (16.9with 26,005 more test takers) dropping by one-tenth of a point. Nevertheless, the results suggest students must continue to take courses beyond minimum high school requirements to adequately prepare for college. In fact, just 14% of graduates who took Algebra I and II and geometry earned a score of 22 or higher on the math test (compared to 38% of graduates who also took trigonometry), while just 20% who took general science, biology, and chemistry earned a score of 24 or higher on the science test (compared to 38% of graduates who also took physics). Students with these scores have a high probability (75%) of earning a "C" or better and an even chance of earning a "B" or better in college algebra and biology classes, respectively. For more information, please go to http://www.act.org/news/data/08/. (The Secretary's statement is available at http://www.act.org/news/data/08/spellings.html.)
Also: President Bush has nominated Cheryl Oldham to be the Department's Acting Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education. Oldham, who is currently Chief of Staff for the Undersecretary of Education, previously served as executive director of the Secretary's Commission on the Future of Higher Education. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2008/08/08012008.html.
ED.gov Survey
When you visit the Education Department's web site (http://www.ed.gov/), why do you come and what do you hope to accomplish? The agency is trying to identify the most important or popular tasks at ED.gov. Please add your two cents! Simply go to http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/focus/
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Quote to Note
"The National Technical Advisory Council (NTAC) will play a vital role in ensuring that we address the technical needs of states and their accountability systems. Its work will be invaluable as we move forward in strengthening and improving No Child Left Behind."
|Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings (8/13/08), announcing the appointment of 16 members to the NTAC (http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/
Upcoming Events
Attention! On Monday (August 18), the Department's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS) is hosting a National Symposium on Emerging Issues in Character Education in the Department's auditorium (400 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C.). The event will bring together grantees, educators, researchers, and the business community to hear from five authors commissioned to prepare research papers on a variety of topics. Following the symposium, a monograph, including an overview of the proceedings and the papers, will be produced. For more information, please contact Linda McKay at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Next, on September 11, the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans will host a Summit on Education Reform and Hispanic Education Attainment, also in the Department's auditorium. The event will underscore promising practices White House Initiative partners are employing to improve education outcomes for Hispanic students. Presenters and attendees will represent a cross-section of partner organizations and stakeholder groups; featured speakers include Secretary Spellings and U.S. Treasurer Anna Escobedo Cabral. For more information, please go to http://www.yic.gov/news/events.html.
Then, on September 19 and 20, the Department will host a Global Summit on Education, subtitled "Inclusive Practices for Students with Disabilities," at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel (downtown Washington, D.C.). The purpose of this event is to bring together advocates, educators, researchers, and government officials to (1) connect with colleagues to promote an international dialogue, (2) gather tools to continue building academic opportunities for students with disabilities, and (3) share successes and challenges from a global perspective. On the first day, Secretary Spellings will deliver the keynote address. For more information, please go to http://dev.osep-meeting.org/2008globalsummit/.
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