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He was a star in his little hometown of Sperry, Okla., and in the big Boston hospital where he was a gifted anesthesiologist. But Brent Cambron was falling. For him, as for some of his peers, drugs meant to comfort patients became his refuge and his undoing.
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He was dead when they found him in the storage closet at the hospital, probably had been for hours. And there was no doubt what had killed the man. Drugs and syringes were scattered all around his body.
There was a half-filled vial of propofol, a sedative used to put patients to sleep during surgery, and a syringe filled with midazolam, a powerful drug similar to Valium. There were empty vials of morphine, hydromorphone, and Demerol - addictive opiates capable of providing tremendous highs. And then there was one nearly empty vial of vecuronium - an intravenous muscle relaxant that, when taken at such a high dose, would shut down the body's respiratory system in roughly three minutes, leading to certain death.
Brent Cambron would have known that, better than almost anyone. He wasn't just intelligent - the pride of his hometown, tiny Sperry, Okla. - he had become an anesthesiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He was highly trained to administer to patients the very medications that killed him, and he had every appearance of success.
Not only had he escaped small-town Oklahoma, as everyone back home knew he would, he had risen to near the top of his profession in Boston. He had a high-paying job and a posh Back Bay address. He had friends, and girlfriends, and all the promise in the world. Cambron was only 35.
But the drugs he used on his patients called to him in a way that haunts some anesthesiologists. Access led to a habit and cravings so powerful that even Cambron, who understood the risks involved, could not shake them. Long before his fellow doctors found him dead in the Beth Israel storage closet Oct. 14, Brent Cambron was slipping away.
He had lost weight, his job, and his reputation. Stints in rehab did not take, and promises to change did not last. He stole to feed his addiction, powerless against the drugs. And on July 3, 2007, he admitted it.
In police custody that night, after allegedly trying to steal drugs from Caritas Norwood Hospital, Cambron diagnosed himself. He told officers questioning him that he suffered from the "disease of addiction." When the officers asked what drugs he was addicted to, Cambron replied:
"To everything."
The medical profession is well aware of the risk of substance abuse for some anesthesiologists. It has worked in recent decades to develop protocols to limit access to anesthetics and increase awareness of the drugs' addictive qualities. And yet, too often, the people who know the most about such potent drugs are stealing them, using them, and sometimes dying as a result.
The number is relatively small; about 2 percent of anesthesiology residents are estimated to suffer from substance abuse. Still, studies have found that anesthesiologists are overrepresented among doctors seeking help for substance abuse. According to research, they have the highest rates of intravenous drug use, opiate dependence, and relapse among doctors. One 2005 study, surveying more than 100 anesthesiology residency programs, found that 80 percent of the programs had incidents of trainee impairment, and nearly 20 percent reported at least one death due to overdose or suicide between 1991 and 2001.
"It's a real problem," said Dr. Michael Nurok, an attending anesthesiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital. "And I think it would be foolish for any program not to take the issue seriously and recognize, if they're playing the numbers, they're going to have problems."
Some recent research suggests that anesthesiologists may be more susceptible to addiction because they inhale low-level amounts of anesthetics exhaled by patients or absorb them through their skin while on the job. But others say the main problem is the ease of obtaining such powerful narcotics.
Unlike internists or pediatricians, anesthesiologists have at their disposal some of the most potent and addictive medications available. And unlike other doctors who dispense drugs by writing prescriptions, anesthesiologists order what a patient needs and then personally give it to patients in surgery. For a small number of anesthesiologists, the drugs prove to be irresistible, especially as patients repeatedly tell them how great the drugs make them feel.
"After you've been told that several thousand times, you start to think, 'This must be some good stuff,' " said Dr. William S. Jacobs, a University of Florida associate professor of anesthesiology who tried the drugs and became addicted about a decade ago and is now in recovery. "If this makes these patients feel that good, maybe it will make me feel good. And it only takes one try. You're off and running and out of control."
To try to reduce the likelihood that others might go that route, the anesthesiology department at Massachusetts General Hospital launched a random drug testing program in 2004. Dr. Michael Fitzsimons, the program administrator, said it has led to decreased incidents of substance abuse. But more data are needed to draw definitive conclusions about its effectiveness as a deterrent, he said.
Most hospitals still do not use random drug testing. Instead, hospitals including Beth Israel focus on educating doctors about the risks and tighten controls over the drugs. At Beth Israel, for example, anesthesiologists must check out medications from a pharmacy, chart what they use, and return the rest for a pharmacist's review.
"We believe our controlled substance practices are similar to virtually all other major academic medical centers," said Beth Israel spokesman Jerry Berger. "There are stringent regulations governing the use of controlled substances in operating rooms, and that's so we can be sure that they're used properly."
Even with such regulations in place, anesthesiologists say, it's easy to beat the system. Because different anesthesiologists working the same kind of surgery might give widely varying doses to patients, doctors looking to get high can easily inflate the amounts recorded on patients' charts and pocket the rest.
Exactly how Cambron pulled it off is unknown. Beth Israel officials declined to comment, citing hospital policy not to discuss personnel matters. And how Cambron gained access to the hospital - and the drugs - after being dismissed in June 2007 remains a mystery as well.
What's clear is that Cambron made a choice. Despite everything he knew about the addictive properties of the drugs, he started to use them. And once he did, he could not stop himself, even if it meant losing everything he had worked to achieve.
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Cambron grew up in Sperry, Okla., population 1,031, just north of Tulsa. He spent his days riding four-wheelers, playing guitar in his bedroom, and tinkering with his computer, one of the few in town. There was no question that Cambron was going to get what he wanted, friends and former teachers recall.
"He wanted to get out of Sperry," said Debby Newman, who coached Cambron on Sperry High School's academic team 20 years ago. "He wanted to do something with his life. He wanted to better himself and he made it known that he didn't want to be stuck here."
And so, to no one's surprise, Cambron left. After graduating as valedictorian of his high school in 1991, he went on to earn undergraduate and medical degrees from Oklahoma University, where he partied like most of his college peers but earned better grades than just about all of them. And upon finishing medical school, he landed a coveted spot in Beth Israel's anesthesiology residency program in 2002.
Cambron got an apartment on Newbury Street amid the pricey boutiques and salons, collected ticket stubs from all the events he attended around town, and made a name for himself as a doctor who was both highly skilled and unflappable under pressure. He was respected enough to be voted chief resident in 2004 and then, after finishing his training two years later, Beth Israel brought him on staff. He was an attending physician in a field where doctors typically earn six-figure salaries, assisting in surgeries and helping patients suffering from chronic pain.
"My take on Brent was he was a very smart person, very clever. Things came easy for him," said Dr. Anasuya Vasudevan, an attending physician at Beth Israel who was an anesthesiology resident with Cambron. "And he was very courteous and humble. He wasn't headstrong."
But the affable doctor, who friends say was always more comfortable talking about others than talking about himself, was far less put together than he allowed others to know. In Boston, Cambron felt isolated, he admitted in recent years while seeking help. As early as 2002 - the first year of Cambron's residency at Beth Israel - he was concerned about his drinking, according to notes kept by Cambron documenting his troubles. And soon after a longtime girlfriend left him in 2005, according to those same notes, which were viewed by the Globe, Cambron began turning to the powerful drugs that eased his patients' pain, stealing them from Beth Israel when necessary.
Within the year, by his own account, Cambron became addicted, doing what he could to keep his problem secret, including once in 2006 when he blacked out, sliced open his forehead in a fall, and lied about it to people at work. But soon, at least one patient noticed that Cambron seemed troubled.
"I just knew that something was wrong with him," said Sue Wennerstrand, a 53-year-old Norwood woman suffering from chronic leg pain who was first examined by Cambron in January 2007.
"Everything was dirty" she said. "His shirt was dirty. His white coat was dirty. His fingers were dirty. He was very unkempt. And really, by the second time I saw him, that's when I realized I didn't want this person to be my physician."
Wennerstrand didn't have to worry about it for long, however. When she returned for her third appointment with Cambron in March last year, hospital officials told her Cambron was gone, Wennerstrand said, and that she would have to see a different doctor.
Within three months, Cambron would be out of work at Beth Israel for good. In June 2007, the hospital revoked his staff privileges and he signed a voluntary agreement not to practice medicine anywhere else in Massachusetts. He sought help through Physician Health Services, a nonprofit founded by the Massachusetts Medical Society to assist doctors struggling with mental health and substance abuse problems, and he even opened up to friends.
In a conversation that spring, John E. Thomas, Cambron's college roommate, recalls Cambron admitting his problems: that he was in rehab, concerned about getting his medical license back, and mortified that he had let down his friends and family.
"Come home," Thomas recalls begging Cambron.
His friend didn't listen, and Thomas thinks he understands why. There was no way that Cambron was returning to Sperry like this: as a fallen doctor in need of rehab. "Oh, my God," said Thomas. "That just would have been the scandal of the decade."
But in Boston, life was about to get even harder for Cambron.
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It was the housekeeper who reported him first. About 10 p.m., on July 3, 2007, she told security at Caritas Norwood Hospital that a man had been holed up in a bathroom near the operating rooms for roughly three hours, preventing her from cleaning it.
Officers responded to find Brent Cambron wearing blue hospital scrubs and acting, according to police, like he was "on something." Under questioning, he admitted that he had stolen drugs, including the sedative propofol, from several rooms, stuffed them into his backpack, and then injected them into the femoral artery in his leg in the bathroom.
"It was all a big mistake," Cambron said as police booked and charged him with a litany of crimes. And it would not be his last. On April 25 this year, Cambron was arrested a second time - this time at Beth Israel - under similar circumstances. A security guard, responding to reports of a suspicious man roaming the halls with a backpack in hand around 9:30 p.m., reported finding Cambron in an exam room lurking behind a curtain.
As the guard pulled the curtain back, Cambron dropped a dozen needles on the ground. He looked startled, the security guard noted, and also "confused and unaware." He was handcuffed, placed against a wall, and charged with larceny, trespassing, and possession of drugs.
Within two weeks, he checked into High Watch Farm, a treatment facility in western Connecticut. He completed the facility's initial 21-day program and was "cooperative and compliant," according to officials who wrote letters on Cambron's behalf for his court case. On June 4 this year, High Watch officials, citing Cambron's "extraordinary commitment to recovery," accepted him into their long-term extended care program.
That program, according to the High Watch letters, typically lasts six months or longer. But Cambron didn't stay that long. Back in Boston, he had met and started to date a woman, Margaret Yoh, 24, an employee at a Beacon Hill antique gallery. Around the end of August, Yoh said, Cambron returned to Boston, moving back into his apartment overlooking Newbury Street.
Yoh, a recovering alcoholic, understood Cambron's issues better than many others did, and the pair went to Red Sox games and to local clubs to hear music, a passion of Cambron's. Even though he had left High Watch, he was dedicated to staying clean and sober, Yoh said. "He wouldn't even like it if I looked at a wine list," she recalled. "He'd rip it out of my hand."
But in the final weeks of his life, Cambron was under great stress. On Sept. 29, he lost a bid to suppress the statements he made to police in his arrest in Norwood, a blow to his case. Doctors overseeing his addiction treatment questioned his commitment, Yoh said, because he had left High Watch. "He kind of felt defeated," she said. And amid it all, Cambron remained ashamed, Yoh said, to the point that he skipped a friend's wedding recently, not wanting to face his former colleagues.
"He had everything going for him," Yoh said. "But he felt this tremendous amount of pressure to be infallible. And I think that pressure was a driving force for his addictive behavior."
But however well she understood him, Yoh said she never suspected that Cambron was considering using drugs again. The day before he was found dead last month in the closet at Beth Israel, the couple slept in, got coffee at a Back Bay
Around 5 p.m. that evening, Yoh called him, she said, to say she'd like to watch the movie sooner rather than later, so that she could get to bed early. Cambron didn't call back. So Yoh decided to send him a text message.
Again, no response.
Finally, at 6:20 p.m. that evening, Yoh sent him one last message.
"Love you," she wrote.
But Cambron never replied. The doctor had other plans that he wished to share with no one.
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Despite all the cheerleading for healthy eating, Americans still eat only about 1 serving of fruit per day, on average. And our veggie consumption, according to an analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, falls short, too.
So, with the back-to-school season underway and families thinking about what to pack in the lunch box, grocers are hoping to entice young consumers and their parents to the produce aisle by creating new, kid-focused snacking sections.
Giant Eagle is in the process of installing the go-to kid sections in about 200 stores in the mid-Atlantic and Ohio. And Walmart is piloting the concept in 30 stores in California, with plans to roll it out to 1,500 stores later this fall.
Bolthouse Farms, the food company that rolled out the successful extreme baby carrot campaign, is behind the effort.
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When kids open the package and shake in the seasoning, the carrots take on some of the characteristics of chips like Doritos. "They give you that crunch and flavor," says Jeff Dunn, CEO of Bolthouse. "You're going to lick your fingers, and get that same sensory [experience] you get with salty snacks."
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Despite all the efforts to promote healthy eating in recent years Americans still only eat on average about one serving of fruit each day and less than half of the recommended amount of vegetables. So as families prepare for back-to-school and thoughts turn to lunchboxes, some grocery chains are making a new effort to entice families into the produce aisle. NPR's Allison Aubrey reports.
ALLISON AUBREY, BYLINE: Think baby carrots. They're everywhere. And if you want to know how they got so popular you got to talk to Jeff Dunn. He used to be a top executive at Coca-Cola, but several years back he left and decided to try something new. He and his marketing buddies looked around a typical grocery store produce aisle.
JEFF DUNN: Well, we said it was boring. (Laughter) You know.
AUBREY: And he saw lots of potential to drive up sales of fresh produce and get kids to eat healthy by using the marketing tactics he learned in the soda industry. So he created a Mountain Dew-style ad-campaign for baby carrots.
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AUBREY: And Dunn says the strategy has worked. His company, Bolthouse Farms, has seen sales of fresh carrots - which were flat four years ago - start growing.
DUNN: So we've been able to turn that trend around really through marketing efforts. So it shows that marketing works.
AUBREY: Since then, more and more healthy products aimed at kids have started appearing on the shelves. There are brightly colored, all-fruit smoothies with wacky characters on the bottle, squishy tubes of pureed fruit and yogurt that you can slurp. And now in order to get to the next level, Dunn has another idea. He wants to give kids their own go-to destination in the grocery store, their own section really filled entirely with products that are healthy and presented in funky ways. He's been working with retailers - including Walmart and Giant Eagle - to reorganize their produce aisles. And his company's been developing new products to help draw kids in.
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AUBREY: That's Peter Deichman Birmingham. He's 18. Not really kid anymore, but he's lasered in on the latest version of baby carrots. It's not just bag of carrots, nope. They come with a little pouch of colorful, chili-lime seasoning that you can shake onto the carrots. They're spicy, crunchy and have that flavor that sticks to your fingers. Not quite Doritos, but close. Middle schooler Alex Goley gets it.
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AUBREY: Alex's mom, Rhonda Goley, says bringing junk-food tactics to the healthy stuff makes sense.
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AUBREY: David Just of Cornell University, who studies what motivates people to eat better, agrees. Despite concerns about marketing to kids, this combination of making healthy products fun and bringing them all together is spot on.
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AUBREY: It's what the cereal aisles and candy shelves have been doing for decades, but...
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The Slave Master of the Blackrock clan led the raid on the settlement of Strahnbrad. He killed Villager Joe, Villager Mike, and Villager Scott by trampling them with his horse as Arthas watched helplessly. Arthas killed him as he was capturing villagers as slaves to sacrifice to the Burning Legion.[3]
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- Slave Master's model is actually that of a scrapped unit from the Warcraft III beta called Orc warlord.
- Slave Master's name may be Mathog. The name "Mathog" comes from the icon and the model file of the Slave Master in the Warcraft III World Editor. The name "Mathogg" was later used in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, in the orc campaign.
- Slave Master has red skin indicating he is a chaos orc. However, the other Blackrock orcs in and around Strahnbrad have green skin and the only other chaos orc in the clan is Jubei'Thos. He may be the only one who drank demon blood in his group.
- In the official scenario map, WarChasers, one of the playable heroes was a chaos orc using the same model and his class was "Beast Knight", but he may not have any relations with the Slave Master.
- He is one of the few orcs who ride a horse instead of a wolf or worg.
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- ^ According to the World Editor sound files ("ChaosWarlord") and the Warcraft III Beta (orc warlord).
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Lindsay Lohan Admits She Failed Drug Test On Twitter — 'I Am A Work In Progress.'
The former actress comes clean about testing positive for cocaine as her future begins to look uncertain.
Lindsay Lohan responded to reports she failed a court ordered drug test by taking to her Twitter. The 24-year old actress posted, "Regrettably, I did in fact fail my most recent drug test and if I am asked, I am prepared to appear before judge Fox next week as a result." Lindsay now faces the possibility of returning to jail.
Lindsay went on to say, in one of her typically long Twitter posts, "Substance abuse is a disease, which unfortunately doesn't go away over night. I am working hard to overcome it and am taking positive steps forward every day. I am testing every single day and doing what I must do to prevent any mishaps in the future. This was certainly a setback for me but I am taking responsibility for my actions and I'm prepared to face the consequences. I am so thankful for the support of my fans, loved ones and immediate family, who understand that i am trying hard, but also that I am a work in progress, just as anyone else. I am keeping my faith, and I am hopeful….Thank you all!!!"
Even if Lindsay does not go to jail for this offense, there is a very real chance she will be unable to leave the state of California, meaning she would have to cancel all work obligations in other states. She currently has the film Inferno she is set to begin work on and there had been talks of her returning to Saturday Night Live.
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Ultimate New York By Night
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ATTENTION: The game is on hiatus, and will resume normally on October 15, 2011. Contact the GM if you'd like to join, and stay tuned for updates, schedule changes, etc.
If There's No War, Why Are We Losing?
We've turned away from the sun;
In the East, the Mountains loom,
their tallest painted purest white.
They say these, too, will shake apart
or crumble down to dust.
I leave, heading east,
hoping to slip between the mountains
before the lunar oracle proclaims their doom,
instructs their snowy crowns to haunt the valley.
And if I'm never seen again,
oh well,
I'll some day break in their abyss,
so why not now? And seal our final argument,
which conjured Christ and Sartre,
Camus, Prince, our father, and the Buddha.
And yet I kept Schrodinger's secret safe,
galvanized by my squinting son,
who's blue eyed smile says, "Bye-bye,"
to prophecy that I'll return
with certainty so perfect that it quakes
the ancient church across the street.
* * *
Wasn't there supposed to be an Apocalypse, a Reckoning, some sort ending to this nightmare? Sadly, it appears the buzzkill elders in the Camarilla were right, it's all a bunch of hooey. There is only the eternal struggle…and that sucks.
The World of Darkness has fallen into grinding stagnation. The Sabbat and Camarilla are locked in a brutal game of whack-a-mole, continuously fighting over the same domains. The discord and divisiveness stretches down into the Sects themselves, with the Camarilla stuck debating its very nature and destiny, and the Sabbat brutally purging itself in increasingly trivial disputes. Even those thin-blooded neonates lurking in the alleys can barely function. Coteries spend as much time battling each other as they do the mutual dangers of unlife.
New York City is ground zero for this stagnation, the no man's land marking the front line of all the bloody internecine conflicts affecting the World of Darkness. The Sabbat has seized control of the globalized megacity after a ten year absence, but the crusade was costly, and the wounds continue to fester. The Camarilla has valiantly maintained an impotent but resilient remnant presence in the city, but teeters on a thin line between a momentous power struggle and a catastrophic leadership vacuum.
This is where you find yourself, here in this miserable fucking city. You are a subject of the Camarilla, trusting in the Traditions, but confused about your purpose and destiny in unlife. A Sabbat shovelhead, eager to believe and take up the sword, but constantly looking over your shoulder. An Anarch ruffian, looking for a better way in unlife and finding only your worst fears confirmed. Or an Independent, wanting absolutely no part of any of this bullshit, thank you very much.
What will you do? Will you struggle – or fail – in these endless, frustrating civil wars? Or do you have a vision of the page turning, an answer to these impossible questions? Pfft, yeah right.
Welcome to New York. It was nice knowing you, pal.
Old World of Darkness Made New
Ultimate New York by Night is a chat-based, persistent-world Vampire: the Masquerade chronicle incorporating both official Old World of Darkness canon and unique lore accumulated from other chronicles over the years. Originally a tabletop chronicle, the game has since evolved into it's current online iteration.
This game is slightly different from others you may have played. You are not a gamer operating an avatar, rather you are an actor and a writer composing and presenting a play in real time. While not technically free form (or dice-less) role playing, the game is laser-focused on creating drama and crafting a narrative. Dice, statistics, and rules are often blatantly ignored in favor of the narrative, and players are encouraged to explore the full extent of their character's dramatic arc. Rules Lawyers and Power Gamers will find it frustrating, while character actors and fiction writers will flourish.
Players are given extraordinary freedom to create the lore, the setting, and the entirety of their personal stories. Notice a clan that seems under-represented, or a part of the city that seems unexplored? That's because you haven't done it yet. Storytellers will work closely with you to allow you to make the city – and the story – your own, while still keeping it faithful to Storyteller plotting and White Wolf canon. And while we do try to remain as close as possible to the official game lore, players are whole-heartedly encouraged to innovate and examine new and creative perspectives on the classic game material.
Can You Handle Life in the City?
We use Skype and an online dice roller, so players in different locations are more than welcome, as long as you can keep to the schedule! We play every Saturday night, unless posted otherwise on the Calendar, and players are expected to attend regularly. Due to the nature of the gameplay, moderate to high participation on Obsidian Portal is required, and regular, reliable internet access is a must.
Headsets/webcams are not required as we only use the chat function of Skype – for now. You are not required to participate in the Admin/OOC channel except on Saturday nights, although it is available 24/7 for you to connect with other players and Storytellers.


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Nightmare Alley (Paperback)
Staff Reviews
The Greatest Generation had plenty of losers, abusers, and thugs too. Doubt me? Read this harrowing American classic, a true pulp masterpiece from a writer who never fulfilled this initial promise. If you're a fan of Bukowski, Burroughs, David Lynch, Cronenberg, even the old show "Carnivale," you'll find much to admire and thrill you here. Note: Guillermo del Toro just announced his next film as being an adaptation of this novel. So take a walk on the wild side. I dare you. — From Stephen's Picks
April 2010 Indie Next List
"Carny Stan Carlisle turns himself into a spiritualist/con-man and slowly builds his 'act' for the biggest take of his life, and then sees it all fall hideously apart. The aptly drawn sketches of lowlifes, losers, geeks, and limelight seekers are masterful. I'm so glad to see this classic noir thriller from 1946 be reissued in the great New York Review of Books Classics series."
— Carl, Boswell Book Company, Milwaukee, WI
One of the twentieth century's most darkly beautiful works of crime fiction—a story of carny life, spiritualism, and a con man of merciless resolve.
Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a freak-show geek—alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd's gleeful disgust and derision—going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low. There's no way in hell, he vows, that anything like that will ever happen to him.
And since Stan is clever and ambitious and not without a useful streak of ruthlessness, soon enough he's going places. Onstage he plays the mentalist with a cute bimbo (before long his harried wife), then he graduates to full-blown spiritualist, catering to the needs of the rich and gullible in their well-upholstered homes. It looks like the world is Stan's for the taking. At least for now.
About the Author
William Lindsay Gresham was born in Baltimore on August 20, 1909. His family moved briefly to Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1916, then to New York City, where he graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn in 1926. Gresham's was a tortured mind and a tormented life, and he sought to banish his demons through a maze of dead-end ways, from Marxism to psychoanalysis to Christianity to Alcoholics Anonymous to Rinzai Zen Buddhism. From these demons came his novel Nightmare Alley (1946), one of the underground classics of American literature. He wrote one more novel, Limbo Tower (1949), which went largely unnoticed. Three nonfiction books followed: Monster Midway (1953), Houdini (1959), and The Book of Strength (1961). Nightmare Alley brought Gresham fame and fortune, but he lost it all. The second of his three wives, the poet Joy Davidman, left him in 1953 for the British author C. S. Lewis. He killed himself in New York City on September 14, 1962.
Nick Tosches is the author of more than fifteen books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. His most recent novel is Under Tiberius. He has long been working on a book about William Lindsay Gresham. He lives in New York City.
Praise For…
"[Gresham's] legacy was a brilliant and horrific book — read it and you'll never refer to someone as a geek again." —The Times (London)"Written in 1946 and just reissued, Nightmare Alley was adapted into one of the most scabrous films of the 1940s. It's a grifter story, a carny story, whose main character is Stan Carlisle, a handsome con artist/fake mind reader who slowly works his way down the food chain until there's nothing left for him except the job of circus geek. It's a novel in which no ray of light ever penetrates. The novel is a fascinating curio of undoubtedly justified self-loathing — Gresham's second wife, the poet Joy Davidman, left him for C.S. Lewis. Gresham committed suicide in 1962. The new edition has a preface by Nick Tosches, who is working on a biography of Gresham. Certainly one of the most valuable reissues of the year." —The Palm Beach Post
"For contemporary audiences who have never strolled through sawdust and tinsel, the carnival chapters of Nightmare Alley offer an unnerving slice of seedy Americana." —The Baltimore Sun
"The 'nightmare' of the title rings true, for this delirious and unstoppable novel…inverts the American dream. The plot turns the Horatio Alger myth on its head and the psychology leans on Freud, but the torment, the pervading sense that the human creature lives in a trap he or she is doomed never to escape, comes from the heart and mind of the author. Never was noir more autobiographical than here….Nightmare Alley remains a masterpiece, not only due to its driving narrative power, but because it's underpinned by the premise that the human animal is alone, helpless in the face of destiny, stumbling in the dark, down the nightmare alley toward the inevitable wall of death at the end. Yet we can't stop ourselves hoping, and fearing, that there might be something beyond that wall. The message of this disquieting book couldn't be more human, yet that message is metaphysical rather than moral." —Los Angeles Times
"Nightmare Alley combines the creepy world of Tod Browning's movie, 'Freaks' with the relentless cynicism of a Jim Thompson novel." —Time
"For fans of vaudeville and magic, the book is a treasure trove of trade secrets." —Walter Kirn, The New York Times
"Nightmare Alley is a portrait of greed seen through the rise and fall of a carny con man." —Publishers Weekly
"An impressive low-life novel." —The Observer (London)
"Mr. Gresham yanked the reviewer into the midst of his macabre and compelling novel, and kept him a breathless captive until the tour was over. It's a truly rewarding whirl through his nightmare alley…All of it adds up to Grade-A guignol with a touch of black magic about it…If you enjoy hundred-proof evil—and a cogent analysis of same with your nightcap—then, in the words of the Ten-in-One barker, hurry, hurry, hurry!" —James MacBride, The New York Times
"While Gresham is usually described as a 'popular novelist,' the epithet fails to capture his contemporary notoriety. Gresham wrote the 1946 best-seller Nightmare Alley (dedicated to Davidman), a grotesque noir classic about the carnival demimonde, later made into an arresting film with Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell. One reviewer described the book as a 'tough, relentless, colorful novel that exposes the private world of the freaks in order to comment on a sick, degrading society.'" —San Francisco Chronicle"Certainly one of the most valuable reissues of the year." —Canada.com
"[C]apable of eating toasted little Cormac McCarthy novels for breakfast." —Chicago Reader
"William Lindsay Gresham was obsessed by the darker side of circuses and carnivals. His knowledge was profound, his sensitivity to the vice and viciousness lying just underneath the tinseled, gaudy, surface, remarkable." —John Howard Reid, Hollywood Gold
"Gresham…has something of Nelson Algren's mordant power in picturing denizens of the lower depths…his is a promising contender for heavyweight honors in the rough, tough and morbid division." —Jack Conroy, The Chicago Defender


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Atmospheric Remote Sensing: Instruments
Mini-MOPA CO2 Doppler Lidar
The Mino-MOPA lidar is housed in a mobile laboratory constructed from a modified sea-going cargo container. It provides vertical profiles of wind speed, wind direction, turbulence, aerosol species concentration (DIAL – introduction to Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) techniques), cloud geometry and microphysical parameters. Research applications include:
- Boundary Layer Studies
- Wind profiles
- Turbulence and momentum flux measurements
- Profiles and flux measurements of water vapor and ozone (under development)
- Dual Doppler (future)
- Cloud Studies
- Cloud geometry
- Cloud microphysical parameters (particle size and concentration)
Contact: Alan Brewer
Basic Parameters Measured
- Range resolved radial velocity
- Range resolved backscatter intensity
- Dual wavelength differential absorption or backscatter (under development)
Field Projects
|Project Name
|Rain in Cumulus over the Ocean Experiment (RICO)
|January 2005
|Eastern Atlantic and Western Caribbean
|New England Air Quality Study (NEAQS)
|July-August 2002
|New Hampshire
|Eastern Pacific Investigation of Climate (EPIC)
|September-October 2001
|Tropical Eastern Pacific
|September 2000
|New Hampshire
|Ammonia DIAL Measurements
|March-May 2000
|Boulder, Colorado
|Southern Oxidants Study (SOS) 99
|June-July 1999
|Nashville, Tennsessee
|Table Mountain Doppler Experiment
|November 1998 - January 1999
|Boulder, Colorado
|Cloud and Radiation Testbed (CART) / Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM)
|April 1996
|Ponca City, Oklahoma
Typical Specifications
|9.2 - 11.3 µm line tunable (fully eye-safe)
|Pulse energy
|2 mJ
|Pulse rate
|< 300 Hz
|Pulse length
|0.5 - 10 µs
|Wavelength switching rate
|< 50 Hz
|Upper hemisphere
|Range Resolution
|> 60 m
|Time Resolution
|0.3 sec (100 pulse avg.)
|Minimum range
|90 m
|Maximum range
|5 - 12 km
|Velocity accuracy
|> 5 cm s-1
Zhao, Y., Line-pair selections for remote sensing of atmospheric ammonia by use of a coherent CO2 differential absorption lidar system, Applied Optics, 39(6), 997-1007, 2000.
Brewer, W.A., and R.M. Hardesty, Development of a dual-wavelength CO2 mini-MOPA Doppler lidar, OSA Coherent Laser Radar, 293-296, Keystone, Colorado, 1995.
Pearson, G.N. and B.J. Rye, A high-pulse-repetition-frequency CO2 Doppler lidar for atmospheric monitoring, Rev. Sci. Instrum., 64, 1155-1157, 1993.


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Hi all, I'm looking to take a step back and get your opinions on the very aim of schooling. Most of this is taken from an article I prepared and showed to other Coop'ers; they suggested it would make for a reasonable post, and so here I am.
I'll first bring up a couple of existing paradigms on general education:
Alan Paton (Cry, The Beloved Country) provides the following except, which I very much like. I think it's reasonably self explanatory, talking about a character that realizes how much the traditional educational model fails his (rural) people in teaching the skills they need to survive in Johannesburg:
He would go back with a new and quickened interest in the school, not as a place where children learned to read and write and count only, but as a place where they must be prepared for life in any place to which they might go.
With a different approach here in the USA, the KIPP schools aim to maximize achievement on standardized assessments. I know there are sources out there that say KIPP doesn't live up to their claims, but let's take it as face value. If not KIPP, some group out there will be able to put a system together focusing purely on academics that teaches under-served kids to pass state standardized tests, get 1200 SATs, and get into college.
These are two reasonably opposing approaches for a "school system," and they do not share the same goals in "education." I want your opinion on what the role of schools should be in our society. Let's try to be very realistic about the people and culture of the USA as it is, but take a moment to redesign the "schooling institution" from the ground up. What would it look like, and, more to the point: to what extent are schools responsible for ensuring the conveyance of how much of which kinds of knowledge?
Just to get past the basics, here are a couple thoughts: were we to say that schools above all should teach kids how to work together and lead authoritatively (the Paton approach, if you will), would you accept that children who learn how to lead and work collaboratively through scouts, in football, and with part time jobs will waste their schooling since it will just duplicate what they learn in their everyday lives? On the other hand, if we focus on teaching how to read and write and count only (KIPP), will it be ok to produce some adults without the ability to identify propaganda, solve problems collaboratively, or to integrate next year's new discoveries into their current framework? (I'd probably say we should leave "think critically" out from either side since both benefit ; failing to teach it is a fault of assessments based on memorization).
I personally find it too easy to take these extremes as a dilemma, and picking between the two, say, we must focus on teaching methods of new information acquisition, leadership, community participation, and collaborative development. Earlier in life, I've argued that teaching how to derive a proof in physics is useless in general education and that a psychologist, entrepreneur, welder, or computer programmer probably will never need to know it (and could look it up if they did). Yet, there will be some psychologists, entrepreneurs, welders, and computer programmers that will use it later in life – not to solve a physics problem, but to realize they need to consult a colleague in the department of physics or send a proposal back to the engineers. This is the true core of liberal arts education, and if we don't have a rigorous general education when you're young, we will not even know how to cross outside of our specialized silo of learning later on.
Alternatively, we want everyone to be an informed citizen, capable of seeing through advertisers' and politicians' spin. They need the tools to quickly pick up the knowledge required for a job, adapt as the market and environment changes, and learn new skills and technologies that didn't exist when they were in school. Everyone in every career needs good collaboration skills, and all students (ideally) will find a place in society, follow the important laws, vote, and (more ideally) participate in community organizations, churches, and schools as laypeople and volunteers. The general educational system is the only place currently where we as a society can make sure our future citizens have the skills to constructively participate.
The difficult problem for me remains in determining which parts should be addressed in schools and which parts elsewhere. Once we have a consensus on what our schools should teach, we can move on to develop better methods of education, build appropriate assessments, and facilitate the success for those who have not yet succeeded.
So, I'd like your thoughts : To what extent and how much of which kinds? Give us a vision of what schools should be to effectively service the society that we have.


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IT'S A PLAN... often dreamed about and discussed over drinks, sometimes for years and years. A pair of friends'll plop down and ponder walking the Appalachian Trail or Australia's Great Ocean Road. Maybe they'll take a few months off to do, so, in their fantasies. And then another round is ordered and the subject is changed. Our recommendation? One has to work up to the big dreams, because big dreams have a way of disappearing if they aren't approached in a can-do way. Taking on smaller hikes, in terrain that is still interesting, wild, and gorgeous, is key, and we, as Californians, happen to have a hike-packed place in our own proverbial backyard: The Sierra. Better yet, you can snowshoe in the famous mountain range come winter, adding a new, tougher, more terrific dimension to your hiking outing. Nope, you probably can't snowshoe all of the Sierra -- you might need to take off the next half century to even approach that goal -- but you can trod through smaller bites. Tenaya Lodge, which sits just outside the gates to Yosemite National Park, has a snowshoe package on for winter, and that seems to us an excellent starter point, a way to work up to bigger dreams and resolutions.
PACKAGE DETAILS: It's a midweek deal, which is nice, meaning things'll be a bit more chill -- pun intended, we suppose, given that it is winter? -- and you'll have a lot of the landscape to yourself, or yourself-ish, at least. Cost starts at $205 a night, and you'll nab a room and snowshoe rental for two, for a half day. Plus? Breakfast. Yep, you have to power up, protein-style, before even saying the word "snowshoe." And, no, we can't promise you'll work your way up to the Big Trails, capital B, capital T, of the world, but you have to start somewhere. Starting small, snowy, and wild seems like a fine and daydream-worthy plan to us.


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Caliber Collision is the largest, fastest-growing collision repair company in America. Right now, we're looking for highly talented, dedicated, and quality-focused teammates to help restore the rhythm of our customers' lives.
Job Summary
Provides World Class Customer Service Experience to all Caliber customers on the phone, in person and throughout the entire repair process. Serves as the primary point of contact for the customer throughout the repair process from the point of drop-off through the delivery of the completed vehicle. Responsible for coordinating communications with all other (internal & external) stakeholders for the repair
Essential Job Duties
- Estimate all drive-in appointments and complete repair plans
- Complete process review with customer
- Repair Orders: All files are opened with BAR (CA) and DRP compliance, including obtaining proper authorizations.
- Prepare and complete proper paperwork for final customer packet prior to vehicle delivery (DRP, final invoice).
- Post repair plan documentation (Autowatch)
- Provide post repair plan communication including all vehicle status updates
- Total loss administration
- Comply with all Caliber safety rules, guidelines and standards
- Performs other related duties as assigned for the purpose of ensuring a world class customer service experience
- Final QC, including test drive
- Other duties as assigned
- Must be at least 18 years of age
- Must have a valid driver's license and be eligible for coverage under company insurance policy
- Must be able to satisfactorily complete a criminal background check
- Ability to effectively communicate with others – verbal and written
- Working estimating knowledge, including systems
- Strong sales orientation
- Organization and multi-tasking skills, good time management and adapt easily to fast-paced environment
- Personable, friendly demeanor with "World Class" customer service approach
- Well groomed, professional appearance
Position is based in a normal shop environment. Occasional physical activity such as reaching below and above shoulder level, kneeling, bending, squatting and stooping to inspect repairs, and lifting and carrying objects over 50lbs. Exposure to fumes, chemicals, dust, along with high levels of noise. Subject to weather conditions both inside and outside. Required to wear protective equipment when necessary. Occasional sedentary work. Must have visual acuity to determine the accuracy and thoroughness of the work assigned.
About Us
Caliber Collision didn't get to be the nation's largest collision repair company by accident. It's taken an unyielding commitment to being the collision repair center of choice in every community we serve – a vision that began when our company was founded in 1997 and continues strong to this day. To achieve this, we're not just part of the collision repair industry - we lead it. Not only by setting new standards in customer service, but also by implementing cutting edge technology at every turn. This is how we've built a company with more than 1,000 convenient, state-of-the-art repair centers and growing, and why hundreds of thousands of people entrust their vehicles to us every year. We are driven by our purpose – to restore you to the Rhythm of your Life. A career at Caliber is not for everyone, but if you've got the drive, we've got your ride!
Posted Date: Oct 31, 2019
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'Broadway Musicals' will be shown in October; festival planned for April
"Do you know what a nosh is?"
Peggy Pancoe Rosoff started our interview by asking me that question. It's from a Yiddish word for a snack, and it's how she and Beverly Schoninger describe the first event in what they hope will become an annual tradition.
The first screening in the Wilmington Jewish Film Festival will be the movie "Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy." It's written, produced and directed by Michael Kantor, who will be at the screening and participate in a question-and-answer session afterward. The film will be shown at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 13, at Thalian Hall, and the $10 tickets can be purchased from the Thalian Hall box office.
It's a "nosh" because it's just a taste of the larger four-film festival planned for April 3-6 at Thalian.
Co-chairs Rosoff and Schoninger have been cooking up this festival for months, with considerable help from committee members and advisers.
The purpose, they said at Rosoff's house last week, is to educate people who aren't Jewish about their heritage, and to foster dialogue within the Jewish community.
Schoninger cited the Hebrew phrase "tikkun olam," which means repairing the world and encourages Jews to act for social good, as a reason for their outreach.
They hope the film festival will foster dialogues between Jews and non-Jews as well as among various groups within the local Jewish community.
Debate, or dialogue, is an integral part of the Jewish faith. It's how people study the Torah, they said, by discussing sections of it.
In fact, they said, Jewish folks are prone to debating just about anything when they get together.
So just how does one go about creating a film festival?
Schoninger had the idea. She moved to Wilmington from Denver about four years ago. There was a long-running Jewish Film Festival there.
In March, Schoninger and Rosoff, along with Frank Block and Bucky Stein, went to Charlotte for its Jewish Film Festival, which was in its ninth year. They visited with some of the organizers.
Then in June, they attended the Jewish Film Presenters Conference in New York, which explores the nuts and bolts of putting on a festival: How much films cost, how to attract audiences, ideas for financing.
They also talked to Dan Brawley, director of the Cucalorus Film Festival.
More than 200 Jewish film festivals exist worldwide, according to Haaretz, a newspaper in Israel, and 150 of them are in the United States. They range from large festivals in major cities to smaller ones in largely rural towns. Altoona, Pa., Haaretz said, no longer has a full-time rabbi but it does have an annual Jewish film festival.
The Wilmington United Jewish Appeal and other community organizations are contributing to fund the local festival.
Schoninger said religion has been an important part of her life.
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