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"I saw people who were in pain"
One of the countrys most
visible and admired physicians and the director of the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National
Institutes of Health, Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.,62 has
led the fight against AIDS and, in the process, won the trust
and respect of his one-time opponents.
By Donald N.S. Unger
of the signal features of AIDS activism in the late 1980s
was the vociferous attack mounted against federal agencies,
like the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA), and the National Institutes of
Health (NIH). These agencies were accused of doing too little,
doing it too late, and often, of handcuffing individual doctors
and people with AIDS with medical regulations that were too
cumbersome to deal with a fast moving and deadly epidemic.
One of the most frequent accusers in this dialog was writer
and activist Larry Kramer, founder of Act Up, the AIDS Coalition
to Unleash Power, an organization founded in New York City
in March of 1987, with the avowed purposeas its name
impliesof taking a tactical line that might better
be described as uncivil disobedience.
One of the most frequent targets of Kramers rhetoric,
and of Act Up protests, was Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., 62,
the federal governments chief point man in the fight
against AIDS, who has headed the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at NIH since 1984.
By October of 1992, however, a curious series of things
had happened: When the Circle Repertory Company premiered
Kramers play, The Destiny of Me, that month
at New Yorks Lucille Lortel Theater as a benefit for
Gay Mens Health Crisisanother organization which
Kramer foundedFauci was in the audience.
On stage, most of the play is seen from the point of view
of the hospital bed of Kramers stand-in, the character
Ned Weeks, an AIDS patient undergoing experimental treatment,
who spends a chunk of his time berating or sparring with
his primary caretaker, Nurse Hanniman, or with her husband,
Weeks physician, the hospital administrator, Dr. Anthony
Della VidaDr. Lifeand no reasonably informed
member of the audience could have failed to identify the
model for the character.
These days, Kramer and Fauci describe each other as friends;
when Kramer is in Washington, Fauci takes him out for Italian
While this rapport might at first seem unlikely, the fact
is that AIDS activists and medical researcherswhatever
disagreements they had and continue to have about pace, funding
or methodsshare, and have always shared, a common goal.
Clarifying that, and moving an often sclerotic and stubborn
medical establishmentboth its public and private arms
and its formal and informal practiceshas been a key
part of what success there has been in fighting AIDS in the
United States in the past two decades.
Fauci has been one of a handful of people, in the higher
reaches of the medical establishment, at the fulcrum of that
Brooklyn Born and Bred
Anthony Stephen Fauci was
born in New York City on Christmas Eve 1940, the second of
Stephen and Eugenia Faucis two children. His parents,
both the children of immigrants, met as students at Brooklyns
New Utrecht High School and married when they were just 18.
He grew up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, where his father, a
Columbia University educated pharmacist, owned a neighborhood
drugstore, at 13th Ave. and 83rd St. The family lived in
an apartment above the store, and all pitched in when neededhis
father in the back, his mother and older sister, Denise,
at the register.
I was delivering prescriptions from the time I was
old enough to ride a bike, Fauci recalls.
Routinely cited in recent decades for the length of his
work day and the peripatetic nature of his job, Fauci took
on these habits early and came to them naturally. He was
that kind of kid, too.
He grew up surrounded by disparate influences that he seems
to have enjoyed and that seem to have benefited him: There
was his pharmacist father, known as Doc in the
neighborhoodwhom he describes as laid backand
his mother, also college educated, whom he describes as goal
oriented. There was an attraction to medicine and science
fostered from an early age, and a commitment to the humanities
nourished by premedical studies at Holy Cross that also encompassed
the study of Latin, Greek and philosophy.
And there is early evidence, as well, that Fauci had a streak
in him that was something between puckish and perversea
stubborn adherence to his own values and interests in the
face of local prejudice that had to have been fierce. Growing
up in post-war Brooklyn, playing baseball in Dyker Heights
Park, on Gravesend Bay, in the era of Jackie Robinson and
Pee Wee Reese, Fauci was a Yankees fan. Among his heroes
were Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, which, he says, made
him something of a sports outcast among his friends, Brooklyn
Dodgers fans all.
If he had been a sports outcast, he was an athletic one.
In a 1989 interview with the NIH Historical Office, he remembers, We
used to play basketball from the beginning of basketball
season to the end, baseball through the spring and summer,
and then basketball and football again in the winter. When
he was younger, he played CYO basketball in the neighborhood;
in high school, he captained the basketball team. Today,
hes a daily runner who has completed the New York and
Marine Corps marathons.
He attended Regis High School, a Jesuit school on Manhattans
Upper East Side. And the distance he had to travel to get
there is difficult to explain, for reasons of time or geography
and also for reasons of culture. Time and geography matter,
of course, in multiple ways: the trip took 75 to 80 minutes
each way, a bus and three subways during rush hour in both
directions. By rough calculation, all the time he spent commuting
during his four years at Regis, it cost him more than 70
days. And he didnt just let the time go: then,
as now, he was focused and organized. He was the kid on the
subwaypacked up against the other passengers, elbows
against his body, wrists and forearms folded inward, a book
almost on top his face, readingin his case, probably
Ignatius Loyola, at some point or other, and likely in Latin.
Time and geography also matter because Brooklyn was further
away from Manhattan in the 1940s and 1950s than it is today,
and Bensonhurst is deep Brooklyn, just a short three or four
milesa few stops on what was then the BMT Seabeach
local linefrom Coney Island and the beach. New York
is New York, but its also five boroughs and a million
neighborhoods. And working class, Italian and Jewish Bensonhurst,
might as well have been 15 light years away from Manhattans
Upper East Side, then, as now, one of the countrys
most affluent zip codes.
The Nefarious Act of Reading
In his commencement
address this past May, U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins 63whose
time at Holy Cross overlapped with Faucis, although
they didnt know each otherspoke with some nostalgia
of the 10 oclock dorm curfew of that era, and how students
learned to black out their rooms with towels,
newspapers and tin foil.
It was behind these drawn shades, Collins said, that
we indulged in the nefarious act of reading.
Fauci came to Holy Cross in the fall of 1958. He played
intramural sports when he had the time, but his days of more
organized competition were over. He had entertained the vague
idea that he might make the basketball team as a walk on,
but the competition was fierce, and he didnt quite
have the height. Always a fully engaged student, moreover,
he took to his premedical studies with gusto; the nefarious
act of reading didnt leave him a lot of spare
There was a certain spirit of scholarship up there, he
remembers, that was not matched in anything that Id
experienced. The idea of seriousness of purposeI dont
mean nerdish seriousness of purposeI mean the importance
of personal development, scholarly development and the high
standard of integrity and principles that became a part of
everyday life at Holy Cross. And that, I think, was passed
down from the Jesuits and from the lay faculty to the students.
The premed program covered enough science to get the students
into medical school, but also stressed the humanitiesa
continuation, in some ways, of what he had been taught in
high school. Fauci often credits part of his professional
success to the inculcation of Jesuit intellectual rigor that
was a core part of his education: an emphasis on organization
and logic, on succinctness and clarity of expression. Arguably,
the twinning of science and the humanities has proved useful
in his dual roles as physician and researcher as well.
Summers, he worked construction in New York, balancing personal
and scholarly development with a measure of dust and grit.
In the summer of 1961, before returning to Holy Cross for
his last year, he was part of a crew working on a new library
for the Cornell University Medical College (now the Weill
Medical College of Cornell University), about six blocks
east and 15 blocks south of his high school alma mater.
He recounted the following anecdote at the Medical Schools
centennial celebration in April of 1998, and it was recently
reported in the Regis Alumni News:
One day during lunch break, while the rest of the
construction crew was sitting along the sidewalk on York
Avenue eating their hero sandwiches and making catcalls at
the nurses who were entering and leaving the hospital, I
snuck into the auditorium to take a peek. I got goose bumps
as I entered, looked around at the empty room and imagined
what it would be like to attend this extraordinary institution
a few minutes at the doorway, a guard came and politely told
me to leave since my dirty construction boots were soiling
the floor. I looked at him and said proudly that I would
be attending this institution a year from now. He laughed
and said, Right kid, and next year I am going to be
Police Commissioner.
Fauci received his M.D. from Cornell in 1966. He was ranked
first in his class. There is no record of what sort of footwear
he chose for commencement. Howard R. Leary was New York Citys
Police Commissioner in the spring of 1966. There is no record
of his ever having worked security at Cornell.
A Professional Lifetime in Public Service: Researcher,
Physician, Administrator
Fauci has spent his entire
professional career at the National Institutes of Health.
He started as a clinical associate in the Laboratory of
Clinical Investigation at the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in 1968, after a two-year
residency at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.
By 1974, he was head of the clinical physiology section
of the lab. In 1980, he became chief of the Laboratory
of Immunoregulation (a position he still holds) and since
1984, he has been the director of NIAID.
The lab work that has dominated one major facet of Faucis
professional life isnt necessarily what lay people
imagine. On a day-to-day basis, doing science, as
a lot of researchers casually refer to it, encompasses most
of the same administrative, and even promotional, frustrations
as running a small business. Added to that are the imperatives
of academic and scholarly progress: publish or perish.
Dr. Peter Warburton, a molecular biologist who runs a lab
at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, puts it
this way, Running a research lab is supposed to be
fun; youre doing science, working hard but focusing
on your research, which hopefully you love and find endlessly
fascinating. But when you finally become successful enough
to get your own lab, reality clicks in, and you find out
how much administrative work is required to run a lab, and
how little time is left to actually do the science.
Suddenly, not only do you need to be a scientist, graphic
artist, technical author, public speaker and politician,
you also need to be a personnel and business managerand
an accountant, usually with a budget of several hundred thousand
dollars a year.
For Fauci, of course, the budget numbers are rather larger,
as noted below.
At the same time that he has continued to do lab research,
however, Fauci has never stopped seeing patientsand
he has continued both of those kinds of hands-on workas
his administrative duties have increased, along with their
attendant political and media responsibilities. While others
have sometimes characterized this as a difficult juggling
act, Fauci has always stressed the benefits. Others have
noted them, on occasion, as well.
In 1990, for example, journalist Randy Shilts, who would
later write an important memoir of the early years of AIDS, And
the Band Played On, wrote caustically in the San Francisco
Chronicle of researchers who no longer did research,
but singled out Fauci as an exception: Although the
federal governments leading AIDS celebrity, Dr. Anthony
Fauci of the National Institutes of Health, actually goes
into his immunology lab in Bethesda to work with test tubes,
a lot of the people you see quoted on TV as major laboratory
researchers dont. They have assistants don white coats
and do all that tedious work, even though theyre the
ones Dan Rather chats with once the results are in.
Politically, Fauci has overseen a huge increase in the budget
of NIAID. Figures in Government Executive Magazine put
the Institutes 1984 budget, at the beginning of his
tenure, at about $357 million per year; the 2003 budget will
be approximately $3.9 billion. In comparative terms, NIAID
had moved from taking up 7 percent of NIHs budget to
taking 14 percent, and from the sixth highest funded Institute
to the second.
While a great deal of attention has been focused on his
work on AIDS, Faucis scope is much broader than that,
as evidenced at the beginning of this year when he was one
of the most visible of the government officials publicly
discussing the threats posed by anthrax and other possible
bio-terror weapons. His is the timbre of voice that one wants
to hear in that sort of atmosphere: calm, reassuring, but
not falsely so. He spoke the facts and had a credible record
of speaking the truth under difficult circumstances.
The balancing act that he has accomplished between the various
parts of his career is underscored as much by what he has not done
as by what he has done. Twice, during the presidency of George
H. W. Bush, he was offered the position of director of NIH,
and twice, he turned the position down; on the second occasion,
he did so in the Oval Office.
How AIDS Changed Medicine
Its easy to forget,
some 20 years into the AIDS epidemic, both how terrifying
and chaotic the early onslaught of the disease was, and how
much AIDS activism has percolated through our approach to
other diseases, changing in many ways the entire doctor-patient
relationship in the United States, and the ways in which
drugs are tested and approved and research is funded.
As Fauci describes the pre-AIDS attitude of the medical
establishment: It was not traditional or acceptable
for anyone to question what physicians or public health personnel
did. We knew better; therefore it should be done this
way. Period.
AIDS changed that, he says.
With the HIV epidemic came the birth of a certain
form of activism that demanded participation in the
decision making, he says, particularly when it
was dealing with a deadly disease, for which there was no
But those changes were not instantaneous, of course, nor
were they consistentneither within the clinical practice
of medicine, nor within the medical research community. Its
easy, in retrospect, to say that unnecessary bureaucracy
shouldnt hold up the release of crucial medication.
But what do those terms mean without the words safe and effective?
The relationship of doctor and patient is similarly complex.
Most people would count it as progress that, over the past
20 years, physicians more often have been socialized to interact
with than to dictate to their patients. And the
AIDS crisis has been a key part of moving medicine in this
direction. At least in the beginning, it leveled the playing
field: doctors often knew no more than their patients, who
were then motivated to go out and find their own answers.
But taken to the extreme, this leveling of the doctor-patient
relationship can feel like an abdication of responsibility.
The first wave of the epidemic, in gay enclaves on both
coastsplaces like Greenwich Village, West Hollywood
and San Franciscowas heralded by a mix of patient complaints
both esoteric and mundane: a rash of otherwise healthy young
men coming down with normally rare diseases like Kaposis
sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia, odd yeast infections,
suffering inexplicable immunological failures; another group
in the same cohort suffered with chronic fevers, night sweats,
swollen glands, illnesses sometimes transient, sometimes
not, again without good explanations and not responsive to
This was frightening, first and foremost, of course, to
the people suffering from the disease, who, in the beginning,
didnt even have a name for what they were going through.
That fear and concern quickly spread through the local communities
that were hardest hit and into the population at large.
One of the early problems that the disease spawned was discrimination
against the people who contracted it, and an early reluctance
in some quarters to treat AIDS as everyones problem.
As Fauci puts it, It was and is a combination of a
real disease in the classic sense, a huge societal problem
with disenfranchised populations, an ethical issue, a social
issue, a very charged political issue, with conservatives
early on
not really wanting to recognize that this
is something that we should pay attention toprobably
because the subjects of the disease were people who were
Immediately, this put public health officials dead center
in an agonizing struggle.
Walking Among Them
Carol Brown Moskowitz, a research
nurse and neurological nurse practitioner, recalls running
into a group of leather-clad men, many of them body pierced
and draped in chains, in the lobby of Washingtons Omni
Hotel, in the fall of 1988. They looked as if they might
be members of a motorcycle gang, but the Omni seemed an unlikely
place for a biker convention.
When she asked one of them who they were, he told her that
they were members of Act Up, and that they were
going out to make some noise at the FDA about the AIDS epidemic
and the lack of funding for research.
Make some noise they did. On Oct. 11, about 1,000 demonstrators
descended on the FDA facility in Rockville, Md., for some
nine hours and shut it down; there were almost 200 arrests.
A smaller group splintered off and headed out to Bethesda,
to the NIH campus.
What Fauci remembers about the demonstration, and the demonstrators
themselves, was the sense of layers: theatricality, genuine
anger, but also an underlying core of pain.
Like Carol Moskowitz, he mentions their clothing first.
They were dressed funny; they had all these strange
outfits; and they were screaming and cursing and yelling, he
recalls. And I looked at them, and I saw people who
were in pain. I didnt see people who were threatening
me, I saw people who were in pain. And thats exactly
what I saw, and I was very moved by the pain. Boy, they
must really be hurting for them to do this. And I think
I conveyed that to them, and they saw that thats how
I was feeling toward them.
Fauci asked the police and the FBI on the NIH campus not
to make arrests. He also asked that a handful of the demonstrations
leaders be brought to his office.
That began a relationship over many years that allowed
me to walk amongst them, Fauci says. It was really
interesting; they let me into their camp. I went to the gay
bath houses and spoke to them. I went to San Francisco, to
the Castro District, and I discussed the problems they were
having, the degree of suffering that was going on in the
community, the need for them to get involved in clinical
trials, since there were no other possibilities for them
to get access to drugs. And I earned their confidence.
It was in San Francisco, in February of 1989, that he met
Terry Sutton, a former school teacher, who was losing his
sight to cytamegalovirus, one of the secondary infections
then common among AIDS sufferers. The infection, it was already
known, could be treated with the antiviral medication ganciclovir,
but the FDA had not yet approved the medication for release.
The meeting was arranged by Martin Delany, the founder of
San Franciscos Project Inform, which had been on the
leading edge of getting both information and medicationoften
imported illegally from other countriesto people with
AIDS at a time when the government approval process was perceived
to be too slow.
I arranged for Tony to come to the Hilton Hotel, to
meet some people face to face, Delany remembers. It
was sort of based on the feeling that if people like him
would just get in the face of people who were really sick
and desperate over some of these regulatory issues, it might
change how they felt about them
That was how he connected
to them. And you could see clearly that he was moved emotionally
by that.
Less than four months later, in June of 1989, at the 5th
International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Fauci publicly
spoke out in favor of releasing ganciclovir to people who
needed it, and by the end of the month, the FDA had reversed
course and done so.
In the face of Faucis public change in position, theyd
had little choice.
Delany also points to the 6th International AIDS Conference
in San Francisco the following year as a time that solidified
a more positive view of Fauci in the activist community.
This was also part of a broader series of moves undertaken
by the researchers and public officials fighting the epidemic
to take account of the activists and people with AIDS: a
number of free passes to the conference were offered to activists,
community members and people with AIDS, who couldnt
afford the $550 cost of admission. There were nightly debriefings
and question and answer periods held at a local public auditorium
for people not attending the conferenceone of them
run by Fauci. Researchers joined an AIDS rally in downtown
San Francisco, where conference organizer and AIDS researcher,
Dr. Paul Volberding, told the crowd, The apparent divisions
between us are not real.
Undoubtedly, what Volberding had said was true as a matter
of spirit: everyone there was united in a desire to see the
disease conquered. What had changed significantly, between
Montreal and San Francisco, was the degree to which that
process was to be overtly open to patient input. In Montreal,
Act Up protesters had seized the stage; in San Francisco,
theyd had a place on the stage. Some joked that rioting
had now been given an official slot on the program.
This approach was not without its detractors, nor was a
loosening of the strictures on the release of new drugs universally
seen as a good thing. Many researchers worried that it would
now be difficult to get people to enroll in well controlled
clinical trials, and that the data from people who did enroll
might be contaminated by exposure to a broad variety of untested
medications. By managing to walk a line between conflicted
constituencies and work at redrawing those lines, often under
heavy fire, Fauci has succeeded as an administrator.
When to Take a Punch
Observing the strategic tussles
between Kramer and Fauci in the 80s and into the early 90s,
one might liken them to the Punch and Judy Show, with Kramer
always in the role of Punchand with a real bat. But
this would be to misunderstand what was going on, as, ironically,
the dramatist Kramer sometimes seemed to do.
One can see Faucis awareness of the dynamic of his
relationship with Kramer in an article Natalie Angier wrote
in The New York Times in February of 1994:
And through it all, Dr. Fauci accepts the criticisms,
and he accepts that someone must absorb the anger and terror
that AIDS has spawned, so why not somebody of strong vertebrae
who was raised on the streets of Bensonhurst? I was
on a C-SPAN program a couple of months ago with Tony, and
I attacked him for the entire hour, said Mr. Kramer. He
called me up afterwards and said he thought the program
went very well. I said, How can you say that? I did
nothing but yell at you. He said, You dont
realize that you can say things I cant. It doesnt
mean I dont agree with you.
Dr. Fauci claims he does not take the intermittent blasts
personally. Thats the activist mode, he
said. When theres a disagreement their tendency
is to trash somebody. But I know that when Larry Kramer
says the reason were all in so much trouble is because
of Tony Fauci, hes too smart to believe that.
I dont want them to change or compromise that
mode, he added, as long as they dont
ask me to change my opinions.
And through it all, Dr. Fauci accepts the criticisms,
and he accepts that someone must absorb the anger and terror
that AIDS has spawned, so why not somebody of strong vertebrae
who was raised on the streets of Bensonhurst? I was
on a C-SPAN program a couple of months ago with Tony, and
I attacked him for the entire hour, said Mr. Kramer. He
called me up afterwards and said he thought the program
went very well. I said, How can you say that? I did
nothing but yell at you. He said, You dont
realize that you can say things I cant. It doesnt
mean I dont agree with you.
Dr. Fauci claims he does not take the intermittent blasts
personally. Thats the activist mode, he
said. When theres a disagreement their tendency
is to trash somebody. But I know that when Larry Kramer
says the reason were all in so much trouble is because
of Tony Fauci, hes too smart to believe that.
I dont want them to change or compromise that
mode, he added, as long as they dont
ask me to change my opinions.
What Fauci has accomplished over the course of his war on
AIDS is nothing short of amazing: he has managed to build
a bridge between deeply antagonistic constituencies, working
all the while under the relentless glare of media scrutiny.
And he has built that bridge using the tools he spent a lifetime
cultivatinga tireless work ethic, a scrupulous honesty
and an abiding sense of compassion.
Where Does He Get the Energy?
It also helps that
he has a spouse who shares his goals and values. Fauci is
married to Christine Grady, who completed her bachelors
degree, with a double major in nursing and biology, in the
mid-1970salthough she might have gone premed instead.
She returned to Georgetown University more than a decade
later, completing a Ph.D. in philosophy and bioethics in
1993. She currently heads the section on human subjects research
in the department of clinical bioethics at NIH.
In a 1997 interview with the NIH Historical Office, she
describes how she and Fauci met. Grady had spent two years
in the early 1980s working as a nurse educator and manager
of ambulatory care for Project Hope in Alagoas, Brazil; when
doctors needed someone to translate for a Portuguese-speaking
patient at the NIH hospital where she was working, they knew
who to ask.
I met him (Fauci) here over the bed of a patient who
happened to be from Brazil. I was called in as a translator
because this man wanted to go home, and they were afraid
to let him go home because the guy had vasculitis. His vasculitis
was not in great control. And so they said, Could you
come translate for Dr. Fauci? whom I had not metthe
inimitable Dr. Fauci everybody was afraid of. When
he came in, I thought, What are they so afraid of him
for? He is not so scary.
But it is actually a great story because Tony, in
his very serious way, said, Make sure that you do your
dressings every day and sit with your leg up, and I
forget all the details. But I translated that to the patient,
and the patient said, You are kidding. I am so sick
of being in this hospital. I am going to go home, I am going
to dance all night, I am going to go to the beach, I am going
to do this. So I think to myself, How am I going
to do this? So I turned around to Tony and said, He
said he would do exactly as you said. I kept a straight
face all the time.
When Grady was called to his office later that day, she
figured that she had been found out. As it happened, the
inimitable Dr. Fauci just wanted to ask her out on a date.
Married for 17 years now, they have three daughters, ranging
in age from 10 to 16. As a couple, they are in a better position
than most to understand each others work. During her
career, Grady not only worked with AIDS patients in the early
years of the epidemic, she also educated other nurses about
caring for patients with AIDS. Her doctoral dissertation,
published in book form in 1995, is titled The Search for
an AIDS Vaccine: Ethical Issues in the Development and Testing
of a Preventive AIDS Vaccine.
No fast take on the Faucis family life seems to be
complete without the notation that they tend to all eat dinner
together around 9:30 every nighttestimony both to their
busy schedules and to the importance that they ascribe to
spending time together.
One might ask: Where does Faucithe researcher, clinician,
administrator, politician, husband, fatherfind the
energy? The truth is the good doctor, like a long-distance
runner, seems to thrive on his efforts.
When asked about his multiple roles in the fight against
AIDS, he responds by discussing the multifaceted character
of the disease:
It was complex. It was a health problem; it was an
ethical problem; it was a legal problemthe legal rights
of these people. And I just felt that if this problem needed
to be tackled, I couldnt be completely unidimensional
about it. And the more I got into the other issues, the more
interesting it became, because they were all linked with
each other.
It doesnt seem to occur to Fauci that he is doing
the work of three people. For him, the key word is interesting. Fauci
is doing what he wants to do. On all fronts. And, for the
most part, it appears he always has. For his part, this makes
him, among other things, an extraordinarily fortunate man;
and he knows it.
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., 62 Sidebar
Donald N.S. Unger is a New York City born writer of
fiction and nonfiction and a political commentator for
NPR affiliate radio WFCR. He lives in Worcester.


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Eleanor Anderson is devastated when she finds her husband dead beside her one morning. Things get worse when she finds out that he changed their insurance policy four years before without telling her. Her confusion grows when she realizes there is almost no money for her to live, and the house was re-financed. After thirty-eight years of marriage, she assumed he would leave her enough to take care of her. Hearing the beneficiary of the policy is left to a woman she's never heard of, leaves her with questions that she isn't too sure she wants to answers to.
Claire Anderson is a professor who is juggling work and two kids, and finding little time for herself. Her husband is always out of town for work, which makes things hard, but she handles it. When an insurance agent calls her out of the blue, telling her that her husband has died and that he's been buried two days before, she's hurt, confused and angry.
Soon, Eleanor finds out who Claire is, and worse, there are children involved. She's heartbroken and more so, livid. She's understandably mad at her late husband, but she's also mad at herself. Mad that she allowed him to have control over everything, and mad that she didn't allow her voice to be heard.
I felt for both women, as both were lied to and led to believe different things. I was mad for both of them, more for Eleanor because he left her financially berift. I also felt for Claire who is suddenly dealing with the reality of knowing her husband was not the man he thought she was.
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Eleanor closed her eyes, blocking out the ugly sight of sibling rivalry. She couldn't believe she was sitting there listening to her children squabble over their father's money. Their money. Her money.
"He didn't leave it to any of you," Jim admitted. "I haven't contacted the primary beneficiary yet."
"Wait a minute. Let me get this straight." Jeffrey tiredly rubbed his forehead. "You're telling us that Dad left his money to someone else? Not to Mom, not to either of us, but to someone else? And that he has no idea he's inherited millions?"
"She has no idea."
She? Eleanor shivered, uncertain whether she'd heard Jim correctly. She shook her head as if by doing so she could dislodge the words rattling around in her brain like loose pennies that somehow had ended up in the bottom of her purse. She? She was certain there must be some mistake. Richard never would have left his money to another woman.
Would he?
"Let's stop the bullshit," Jeffrey said. "We're his family, Jim, and we have a right to know. You said you could release the name to Dad's personal rep? Well, you're looking at him. And I'm telling you right now, in my legal capacity as his personal representative: I want to know. I demand to know."
Genevieve's eyes narrowed. "Me too."
"Eleanor?" Jim's voice was a soothing stream of quiet concern. "Are you all right?"
What a stupid question, she thought to herself as she pulled her sweater tighter around herself. Of course she wasn't all right. She'd had the oddest feeling when she'd woken that morning that today wouldn't be a good day. Jim's revelation was all the confirmation she needed to officially pound the last nail in the casket. Richard's casket, so to speak. And now, if it wasn't too much to ask, all she wanted was to be allowed to crawl back into bed, burrow down in the blankets, pull the covers over her head, and go to sleep. And maybe, when she woke up, she would discover all this had simply been a horrible nightmare. Richard would come strolling in the door, as he had countless times in the past, returning from yet another extended trip to the Middle East, his rolling suitcase filled with dirty socks and underwear, and a world-weary look about him. And after planting a kiss on her forehead, he would head upstairs where he would collapse in their bed, once sleeping for nearly sixteen hours straight, before he finally woke. Yes, that would be the way of it. She'd go upstairs and sleep off this nightmare. And when she was awake again, this ghastly business would have drifted away, leaving only mists of misery as a remembrance.
"Mom? Are you okay?"
Eleanor couldn't remember hearing Jeffrey's voice sound so distraught save for the day he'd returned from Hawaii, the day after Richard's death. He'd broken down when he saw her, collapsing in her arms and crying unabashedly like he'd done as a little boy. She'd done the comforting when he was small, and she'd been the one to provide the comfort last week too, never questioning whether he'd been grieving over the loss of a father to whom he'd never been close or the lost opportunity to put things right between them. It hadn't mattered then, and it didn't matter now. Somehow she managed to summon the willpower to open her eyes and discovered the three of them staring at her.
"I'm fine." Eleanor pulled in a deep breath. Much as she didn't want to hear Jim's news, she knew in her heart that she didn't have a choice. "Jeffrey's right. We need to hear the truth."
Jim's face was a cacophony of ethical concern versus friendship, and for a moment, she wondered if he would respect Jeffrey's command and abide by her wishes. But thirty-plus years of friendship with their family finally won out.
"He left the money to a woman named Claire Anderson," Jim finally admitted.
Claire Anderson? Eleanor frowned. The first name meant nothing to her, but the last name certainly did. It was the same name listed on her own driver's license. She'd been Eleanor Anderson since she and Richard had exchanged wedding vows at the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago thirty-eight years ago last month.
Claire Anderson. She couldn't recall ever hearing Richard mention that particular name. He'd been an only child, so she couldn't be a niece. A long-lost relative? A distant cousin? But if that was the case, surely he would have told her. Wouldn't he? After all, she was his wife.
Correction, Eleanor reminded herself dully. She had been his wife. She was the one he should have turned to. All those years they were married. You'd think he would have told her something as important as this. She hung her head, hugging herself close, trying to remember the last time Richard had held her close.
On second thought, maybe he wouldn't have told her.
On third thought, obviously he hadn't told her.
"Claire Anderson?" Jeffrey's voice cracked through the black void, trapping her like a clap of thunder. "Who the hell is Claire Anderson?"
"Yes. Who is Claire Anderson?" Eleanor echoed to no one in particular. Though, if Richard happened to be listening from beyond the grave, she would appreciate him providing some answers. She rubbed her forehead, sifting through the memories of those who'd crowded the funeral home, who'd followed them to the cemetery, who'd paid their respects at the house afterward. So many people, so many faces. The crush was overwhelming, yet she couldn't remember seeing anyone she hadn't known.
No woman she didn't know.
"I've never met her." Jim shifted in his chair, his face impassive. "I'll be able to tell you more once I speak with her. She lives in Hyde Park. From what I understand, she's a professor at the University of Chicago."
"Why would Daddy leave his money to some dull old professor?" Genevieve's bottom lip jutted out in a pretty pout, a trick Eleanor recalled her daughter perfecting as a toddler. "Who is she? What's her connection to Daddy?"
"I don't know," Jim admitted.
She rolled her eyes and turned to her mother. "Do you know her?"
Eleanor shook her head. She couldn't imagine what Richard had been thinking. Why would he change his insurance policy? They were his family. She was his wife. "No."
"This is ridiculous," Genevieve fumed. "I can't believe no one knows her."
"Obviously, Dad did," Jeffrey muttered.
Genevieve slumped back in her chair, her arms forming a barricade across her chest. "Someone had better figure out who she is. I have plenty of questions for her."
Eleanor stared wordlessly at her daughter. For once, the two of them were in complete agreement. Meanwhile, she had a few questions of her own.Beginning with who exactly was Claire Anderson, and what kind of hold did she have on Richard?
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A friend of mine writes me:
For about the last two months now I've been having issues with what I think is my graphics card. When I boot up my computer it gets to the Windows log in screen, and says Welcome, then when it tries to load my desktop the screen goes black. Rebooting into safe mode has no problems, leading me to believe it's a driver issue somewhere. Just restarting my computer multiple times allows it to click over to my desktop and everything is fine. Then, attempting to start a game up, my screen messes up, flashes lots of colors, goes black, and then recovers giving this error "Kernel mode driver version 195.85 has stopped working and has recovered". After I get that error, and recovery the computer is fine for the rest of the day until I shut it off and reboot again the next day. I've tried the following to fix this issue... 1) Rebooting in safe mode, and uninstalling the drivers, installing the latest drivers from my card manufacturer (EVGA), and rebooting. 2) Changing screen resolution in safe mode to see if its a monitor issue. 3) Installing older drivers that I know work. All of these failed to fix the issue. Today I called EVGA, and needed to open up my computer to get the serial number from the graphics card to receive tech support, after doing so, and closing the case back up and booting up I received an issue I had at about the end of November last year. I push the power button on, my computer gains power for about three seconds, completely shuts off its power, and then starts back up again, maintaining power, but not posting anything. I think that's what it's called but am not really sure, all I know is that now I see nothing on bootup, I cannot get to BIOs, do not see the motherboard maker flash on the screen like normal, nothing, it's like my monitor isn't even recognizing my computer being on. The first time I had this issue I replaced my motherboard and everything was fine on that end, until now. From what I've gathered so far, many seem to think it's a power supply issue, but to me that doesn't make sense, as after I replaced my motherboard it was running fine for a bit until the graphics card issue hit. System specs are: Intel Q9550 quad core 2.83 processor
Asus P5Q Pro Turbo motherboard nVidia GTX 280 graphics card 6GB DDR2 RAM (2x2GB OCZ Reaper,2x1GB of a name I forget)
700 watt OCZ power supply
500GB Western Digital HD
I thought is sounds more like an Nvidia\Win7 issue and\or power supply issue. I would also try resetting the BIOS and looking for an update but I have googled the error message and have found nothing definitive. All replies and opinions are greatly appreciated and respected.
The problem is cpu, board, psu. or ram. And i suspect the psu failed, gtx 280 require 550w with +12v@40, better change psu first or if it's graphic card issue u can try remove it clean the dust and test it into another system along with psu, do u hear any beep or beeps when u start the system? If yes describe them eg 2shorts and 1long beeps.
Thanks for the reply. I will send these suggestions along to him and wait for results tomorrow. Thanks again.
I emailed him and suggested he take the components out (power supply,ram,video card) and try them other machines to see if they perform okay. I am waiting for his reply.
Ya i'm waiting
I had suggested he take the mentioned components out to try
them in another machine yesterday after seeing the replies here
and I have yet to hear back from him. He is a serious gamer and
serious about his equipment so...don't know if he resolved it or
not. I had read of some issues with this model of nividia card with
Win7. I did not read of any resolutions as of yet. Thanks for the
replies. In my book, it's death...taxes...and computing.net.
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19 June 2009:
The lessons of selling off the caring role to the private sector have not been learnt. The failed ABC Learning Centres left families in the lurch with child care. Now 300 Victorian residents, who are either frail or experiencing disability, have lost, or are under threat of losing, their residential care homes.
Three nursing homes and seven supported residential services have failed to provide the security that vulnerable people require. The two companies running these homes are in debt and have gone into voluntary administration.
Yet again, we find that private-for-profit aged-care and disability-care providers can't manage their affairs. Yet again, frail residents fall victim to the vagaries of market forces.
It is as simple as ABC to know that caring for both the very young and the very old is a community responsibility and should not be driven by the need to generate profits.
The Aged Care Crisis Team asks calls for an urgent review of the Aged Care Act (1997) which made caring a commodity and not a community responsibility. It is now 12 years since this Act was in force and there has been no evaluation of its affect on the lives of frail, older people.
The Aged Care Crisis Team asks why it is so hard to achieve a fair go for frail older Australians.
Aged Care Crisis asks, yet again, for better protection and support for our most vulnerable citizens.
For further information contact Aged Care Crisis


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Two FRM (Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale) grants on Addiction awarded to OptoPath scientists08/08
OptoPath scientists have been awarded two very competitive FRM grants:
Serge Ahmed for a research project based on "Decision-making in pathological addiction to cocaine: causal role of orbitofrontal neuronal activity" and Veronique Deroche-Gamonet for a project entitled "Is addiction to nicotine a single entity? A preclinical model to identify subpopulations which are differentially sensitive to treatment"
The "Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale" (Foundation for Medical Research, FRM) supports medical research in all areas: Alzheimer's disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, infectious disease, leukemia, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, orphan diseases...
To better understand molecular and cellular mechanisms of addiction, as well as its related pathophysiology, FRM launched in 2014 a very competitive call to support research projects on these areas. The submitted projects had to consider new ways of prevention, treatment or management of long-term patients.


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October 2018 is the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA), as used by successive UK governments to restrict access to the out-of-work long-term sickness and disability benefit known as the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).
The most radical reform in British welfare policy since the 1942 Beveridge Report was promoted as offering opportunity and releasing the potential of chronically sick and disabled people. It has been described ever since by politicians and civil servants as "supporting" those in receipt of long-term benefits for chronic illness and disability to return to work, regardless of any clinical diagnosis or prognosis which is completely disregarded by the WCA, rendering the assessment both meaningless and dangerous.
In reality, the adoption of the WCA in October 2008 introduced the greatest government enforced human suffering in the history of social security funding, as chronically ill people who are too ill to work are being, quite literally, killed by the State with an average of 90 people per month dying after being refused access to ESA and found "fit for work".
It is surely cause for serious concern to learn that the government's own mental health technical working group, as used by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in 2006 and 2007 to help to design the WCA, were then disregarded when advising the DWP that the WCA should be abandoned as it would create preventable harm, especially for those with a mental health problem.
As exposed by the Disability News Service: "Ministers and civil servants were "ruthless" and "reckless" in forcing through their new "fitness for work" test and refusing to abandon it, even after they were told of the harm it was causing…"
Perhaps of greater concern is that the 2005 DWP commissioned research "The Scientific and Conceptual Basis for Incapacity Benefits" by the former DWP Chief Medical Officer Mansel Aylward and former orthopaedic surgeon Gordon Waddell, as used by the DWP to justify the adoption of the WCA, has been totally discredited and has failed all academic scrutiny.
This DWP commissioned research funded by corporate America was used to justify the language of shirkers and scroungers in the relentless political attack on the sick and disabled community by adopting the Waddell and Aylward biopsychosocial (BPS) model of assessment for the WCA, and has been discredited by academic excellence.
Co-written with colleagues, Shakespeare's paper concluded that the Waddell and Aylward BPS model demonstrated "no coherent theory or evidence behind this model" and revealed a "cavalier approach to scientific evidence". That's as damning a critique of one academic's work by another that I have ever seen.
More commissioned research appeared in 2007 by the former banker David Freud. The 'Freud report' emphatically suggested that one million sick and disabled people should be removed from the then 2.68 million people claiming Incapacity Benefit, which was the disability benefit replaced in 2008 with the adoption of the ESA.
Justified by sweeping generalities such as "work is good for you", when citing 2006 DWP commissioned research that presented very little evidence other than sweeping generalisations, Freud recommended the reduction of one million claimants whilst disregarding the health implications having later admitted in a 2008 interview that "I didn't know anything about welfare at all when I started".
Gently introduced by the New Labour government in 2008, it was the Coalition government who added to the burden of chronically ill and disabled people by manufacturing evidence for their official reports, and adding unnecessary austerity measures to the ongoing welfare reforms in 2010.
The DWP totally disregarding all detailed evidence of the preventable harm to public mental health created by the fatally flawed WCA, as independent academic research identified the WCA as being directly linked to an additional five hundred and ninety suicides in a three year period to this imposed ideological tyranny as NHS statistics identified 50% of ESA claimants having attempted suicide.
"[…] In total, across England as a whole, the WCA disability reassessment process during this
(3 year) period was associated with an additional 590 suicides, 279,000 additional cases of
self-reported mental health problems and the prescribing of an additional 725,000
antidepressant items.
"In particular the reviews indicated that the (WCA) process was impersonal and mechanistic
and did not adequately capture the impact of chronic health conditions…
"Given that doctors and other health professionals have professional and statutory duties to
protect and promote the health of patients and the public, our evidence that this process is
potentially harming the recipients of these assessments raises major ethical issues for
those involved…
"Our study provides evidence that the policy in England of reassessing the eligibility of benefit
recipients using the WCA may have unintended but serious consequences for population mental
health, and there is a danger that these adverse effects outweigh any benefits that may or may
not arise from moving people off disability benefits…"
'First do no harm': are disability assessments associated with adverse
trends in mental health? A longitudinal ecological study.
B.Barr, D Taylor-Robinson, D Stuckler, R Loopstra, A Reeves, M Whitehead
Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
Volume 70, Issue 4, November 2015
Using the Waddell and Aylward totally discredited biopsychosocial (BPS) model of assessment for the WCA, that disregards diagnosis and prognosis, leading to the inevitable death of thousands of chronically ill people, the DWP were very confident that their American influenced welfare reforms would be successful, not least because the British press had been silenced and would not report the influence of corporate America with the British welfare reforms.
Instead, the British press were successfully used to demonise those too ill to work, as the planned destruction of the British welfare state increased. Sick and disabled people were stigmatised by the dangerous commentary, and prosecuted disability hate crimes increased by 213% during the Coalition government's term in office.
The latest DWP Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Esther McVey MP, recently gave evidence to the Social Security Committee of the Scottish government, demonstrating that no details of claimant suffering and distress were of interest.
Mo Stewart, Independent Disability Studies Researcher.
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author only. Originally titled: "Crime Without Punishment When Killed By The State".
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Independent Fair New York 2015
The March is going to be a truly exciting period when it comes to the art fairs. The ARCO Madrid 2015 art fair ended at March 1st; we have already written about Art KARLSRUHE 2015 – the fair taking place in March as well; and also there is Basel Hong Kong in the middle of March. Yet, another interesting and important art fair attract the collectors and art lovers in the coming days and weeks. It is the Independent Fair New York 2015. The Independent Art Fair is now at its sixth year. The Independent 2015 will feature 50 galleries and non-profit institutions representing fourteen countries. Also, there will be many galleries for the first time participating at this fair, while the other ones are regular participants. The amazing list of renowned galleries and artists ensures that the outstanding art works will be shown at this art fair.
Independent 2015 Highlights
Among the Independent 2015 Highlights are the paintings by French artists Loïc Raguénès and scylptures by Belgian aritsts Koenraad Dedobbeleer. They will be presented by the CLEARING. David Kordansky will present 13-exhibited artist Andrea Büttner and the multimedia installation of her recent sculptures, prints, glass paintings. The Nogueras Blanchard will present the work by there amazing artists – Michiel Ceulers, Anne-Lise Coste and Wilfredo Prieto. Ceulers moves the boundaries of conceptual and performative paintings with his experimental approach to abstraction, from tactile grids to shaped canvases and collages. Coste is known for her radical approach, in which the creative potential of her art is articulated in the spontaneous gesture, while the work by Prieto are representing the apparently indecipherable dofficulties of our societies. The extraordinary works by Navid Nuur and Achraf Touloub will be presented at the booth of PLAN B Gallery. Joe Kyack, who is exploring Americana through performances, sculpture and drawings, will be present at the Praz Delavallade from Paris. Finally, the kurimanzutto gallery from Mexico City will bring a sculpture from 1997 by the famous Jimmie Durham.
Independent 2015 Interesting Moments
There will be many galleries presenting for the first time at the Independent Fair New York 2015. Maybe the most interesting one to mention are JTT from New York, Catherine Bastide from Brussels, and Kurimanzutto from Mexico City. The Catherine Bastide gallery booth will present the works by Jean-Pascal Flavien and William Pope.L. These two extraordinary artists are well-known for their amazing works, usually dealing with the interconnections between the art work and the space (both indoor and outdoor). The Broadway 1602 will present the works by Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), Archive, Lenora De Barros, Rosemarie Castoro, Lydia Okumura, Majorie Strider and David Tudor – Composers Inside Electronics (CIE). The Peres projects has announced its participation at Independent 2015, as well as Galerie NEU from Berlin. The Office Barroque from Brussels will present the works by Aaron Bobrow, Matthew Brannon, Jan De Cock and Tyson Reeder. Among the participating galleries are also: Hannah Hoffman Gallery from Los Angeles, the kaufmann repetto (Milan/New York), Tanya Leighton from Berlin, Mendes Wood from Sao Paolo, The Modern Institute, Glasgow and many others. Maureen Paley from London will be present as well (we recently wrote about the exhibition of the young Lithuanian artist Gintaras Didžiapetris at this gallery, you can check it out here). The Fergus McCaffrey from New York (that recently organized an exhibition of work by Noriyuki Haraguchi) will participate, while Real Fine Arts will present the works by Taslima Ahmed, Whitney Claflin, Andrei Koschmieder, Mathieu Malouf, Jon Pestoni, Stefan Tcherepnin, Ned Vena and Amelie von Wulffen.
The Independent Fair New York 2015 Practical Information
The Independent 2015 fair will begin on March 5th and will be opened until March 8th. The tickets cost $ 20, and a limited- edition publication will be published on the occasion of the 2015 edition with fair's media partner, Mousse. The architectural design of the exhibition spaces, which will reflect the spatial and curatorial concerns of the galleries and curators, will be designed in collaboration with Jonathan Caplan, Project – Space. This year,Independent will return to its original location at 548 West 22nd Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues, in the heart of the Chelsea gallery district.
If you are interested in art fairs, you can also check out our articles about VOLTA NY 2015, PULSE New York 2015 and the Art on Paper art fair.
To see the list of exhibitors at Independent 2015, please go to the Page 2 of the article.
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Independent 2015: The list of Exhibitors
Bellow you can find the list of exhibitors at Independent 2015. The amazing list of renowned galleries ensures that the outstanding art works will be shown at this art fair.
|List of Exhibitors
|Artists Space, New York
|Christian Andersen, Copenhagen
|Balice Hertling, Paris
|Catherine Bastide, Brussels
|BQ, Berlin
|Broadway 1602, New York
|Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
|Bureau, New York
|CANADA, New York
|C L E A R I N G, New York/Brussels
|Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
|Corvi - Mora, London
|Croy Nielsen, Berlin
|Elizabeth Dee, New York
|Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
|Galería Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan
|Gaga, Mexico City
|Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles
|Herald St, London
|JTT, New York
|Karma, New York
|kaufmann repetto, Milan/New York
|David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
|kurimanzutto, Mexico City
|Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna
|Labor, Mexico City
|Tanya Leighton, Berlin
|David Lewis, New York
|Martos Gallery, New York
|Fergus McCaffrey, New York
|Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo
|Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
|The Modern Institute, Glasgow
|Murray Guy, New York
|Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne
|Galerie NEU, Berlin
|Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt
|NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona/Madrid
|Office Baroque, Brussels
|Maureen Paley, London
|Peres Projects, Berlin
|Plan B, Cluj/Berlin
|Praz - Delavallade, Paris
|RaebervonStenglin, Zurich
|Real Fine Arts, New York
|Micky Schubert, Berlin
|Kerry Schuss, New York
|Société, Berlin
|Sprüth Magers, London/Berlin
|Supportico Lopez, Berlin
|Tilton Gallery, New York
|The Box, Los Angeles
|Three Star Books, Paris
|Wallspace, New York
|White Columns, New York
|Michael Werner, New York/London
|Galerie Susanne Zander/Delmes & Zander, Berlin/Cologne
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Chocolate Is Good Protection Against Heart Disease
Chocolate lovers had reasons to be happy these days. This developed after a recent study has shown that eating chocolate could offer protection against heart disease and stroke. Despite this latest medical development, medical experts however warned chocolate lovers to eat in moderation. The medical experts said eating too much chocolate could lead to weight gain and diabetes.
To get the latest data, researchers compared the people with the highest chocolate consumption against those with the lowest consumption. Those who ate lots of chocolate were linked to a lower risk of heart disease. The study also showed that eating chocolate resulted in the 37 percent reduction in cardiovascular disease and a 29 percent reduction in stroke.
The latest study pertains to all kinds of chocolates, dark or milk chocolate, and included consumption of chocolate bars, drinks, biscuits and desserts. Chocolate are raw or processed food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. According to reports, Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America, with its earliest documented use around 1100 BC.
More Chocolate Headlines:
2 days ago … Chocoholics have reason to celebrate today: A large new study helps confirm that chocolate may be good for the heart and brain.
Is chocolate good for your heart? It depends | Reuters
3 days ago … PARIS (Reuters) – Chocolate may be good for the heart but cardiologists are not giving you a license to indulge.New research presented at …
Chocolate can be good for your heart. … Recent evidence suggests that chocolate – especially dark chocolate – is rich in substances that may actually help fend …


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Williams Incident
|Incident Name:
|Williams Incident
|Incident Time:
|5:59:00 a.m.
|Incident Date:
|Incident Location:
700 Block of Williams Street
|Incident Type:
|Structure Fire
|Resources Used:
Engine 41; Truck 41; Battalion Chief 2;
Breathing Support; Arson Unit
Bakersfield City: Engines 2, 6, 4, 1;
Trucks 1, 7
Bakersfield, CA
At approximately 5:59 a.m. the Kern County and Bakersfield Fire Departments received a call for a structure with smoke showing in the 700 block of South Williams Street. Crews arrived on scene to an abandoned 2 story apartment complex with heavy smoke and fire showing from one of the apartments on the second floor. Due to the size of the fire, a second alarm was called. Fire crews deployed hose lines and conducted a primary and secondary search of the building. Receiving an all clear on the search Kern County and Bakersfield fire crews aggressively attacked the fire and were able to keep it contained to the second floor. The building is abandoned and has no power. Cause of the fire is under investigation. There were no injuries as a result of this fire.
Assisting Agencies: Bakersfield Police Department, Pacific Gas & Electric, Building Department


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Preventing Dental Caries from Sugary
April 28th, 2014
Root canal therapy is needed when a tooth is infected, it is mostly related to the soft tissue nerves in the root of the tooth. Inflammation or infection can occur for multiple reasons such as: severe decay, cracked tooth, trauma. The infected nerves should be removed and the canals should be shaped and cleaned. If the tooth remains untreated it becomes symptomatic with pain and an infection can turn into an abscess, which is more serious problem that cause bone loss in the jaw. For treatment your dentist or Endodontist remove the inflamed or infected pulp and clean the canal then fill the canal with biocompatable root filling material. After completion of root canal therapy the tooth needs permanent restoration (filling or Crown) to seal the tooth and make it properly functional.Arlington Advanced Dental Care is always welcoming new patients to our practice and we would love to have you as part of our dental family. Dr Hossein Ahmadian is dedicated to bringing to his patients and their families state-of-the art dental care and helping them to have a beautiful smile. This affordable dental care is located conveniently in Arlington, Ballston, VA, Orange line- Ballston stop.Dr. Hossein Ahmadian and his staff provide a vast array of services, including Same day Emergency Dental Care, Invisalign, Dental Implants, Crowns, Bridges, Porcelain veneers, tooth sensitivity treatment, Extractions, Dentures, Root canals, Periodontal treatment, Professional teeth whitening, TMJ treatment, Sleep apnea, and many more Cosmetic Dental Services. Please explore our web site to learn more about us. You can find information about our staff, our office, and the procedures and services that we offer.


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Titi Abubakar, wife of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has pointed out an issue, in which her husband was victimized for carrying out his duty, while he was a Custom officer in 1984.
According to Mrs Atiku, a Northern traditional ruler had in the 80's imported 53 suitcases into the country, and Atiku who was head of custom officer in charge of the Murtala Mohammed airport, Lagos, insisted that the suitcases be searched – A stand that earned Atiku serious trouble, which led to his transfer from Lagos to Kano.
The wife of the former VP made this known, while speaking in Abuja, during a courtesy visit to the former Federal Commissioner for Information and Niger Delta leader, Chief Edwin Clark, and other leaders of the South South, Afenifere, Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Middle Belt Forum, in Clark's Asokoro residence on Wednesday.
She said:
"When Atiku was in Customs, there was one incident that happened in the 80's when 53 suitcases were brought in by a traditional ruler during the administration of the present president and he (Atiku) insisted that those suitcases must be opened.
"But they were very angry with him and they called the then Minister of Finance, Onaolapo Soleye, and they said they should throw him out of the job."
"But the minister said to them, this is one of the finest officers he had, that he would never throw Atiku out. That was what the man did. They said, 'it's ok, if you don't want to throw the man out, transfer him immediately. Atiku was that day transferred to Kano."


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Monday, April 30, 2012
What are You Reading?
The past couple of weeks I have read mostly YA and picture books.
I finished "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio. It was amazing and totally lived up to the reviews I read. It really renewed my faith in goodness in people and the necessity of being kind.
I also finished "How I Came to be a Writer" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor". As I come across books by authors about their writing life, I read them and look at their road to being an author (one I am trying to navigate).
In class, I finished "Stone Fox" by John Reynolds Gardiner, as our novel read aloud. This is the fourth time I have read this book to a class and each time I still get effected by the ending. I have the children write me a letter after most of the read alouds - it was interesting to read their thoughts and feelings about this book. For the first time, I actually had a student say they found it boring! I wrote back to her that it is important she have her own opinions, as long as she backs them up.
Today, I read "Maple Moon" by Connie Brummel Crook. I love this story and had read it numerous times. Connie actually came to a class in Bowmanville about 10 years ago and read her book. What an experience that was.
I finally got to see the movie "The Hunger Games". I loved the series and I actually love the movie. The differences with the book did not detract from enjoying this movie.
I also saw the movie "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close". The young actor who plays Oskar was incredible. Strange movie, strange book - but worth seeing.I did prefer the movie this time,
Right now I am working on a number of books:
I am still reading: "Stolen Child" by Marsha F. Skrypuch
"Life is a Verb" by Patti Digh
I have just started: " Desire to Inspire" by Christine Mason Miller
and plan to start this week: "Three Day Road" by Joseph Boyden (for our May pick for our social justice book club)
Posted by Beverley Baird at 4:38 PM 3 comments:
Labels: Book Challenges, What are you reading?
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Sunday Weekly Wrap-Up
Lisa Wright's book group on "Mess" has been a fun exploration.
This weeks mess has been focused on cut and paste for the most part. I steered away from wet messes - just wasn't up to that this week!
Collage has always been my favourite and I enjoyed the few I did in the book.
Blue collage:
Daily Collages
I am almost finished the month of daily collages. I have sometimes had to create 2 in a day to catch up, but I have enjoyed the process. I have used different materials and focused on composition.
In May I want to try a sketch a day, using a picture or photo as my model.
Here are a couple of collages:
From scraps pf painted papers:
We now have a morning dove nesting on our ladder on the porch. The past few years a robin has made a nest there. The doves make a very minimalist nest but they sure do make a mess on the ground! It will be interesting to see the eggs and babies develop.
Posted by Beverley Baird at 8:43 AM 6 comments:
Labels: Collages, doves, Mess, Sunday Weekly Wrap-up
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Shadow Shot Sunday
It is time once again to share shadows. It is an addiction I must admit. No matter where I go, it is often shadows I notice first.
Yesterday, it was cool but sunny, with lots of shadows to be found. Here are a few.
Be sure to check at SSS2 for some amazing shadows.
Posted by Beverley Baird at 8:46 AM 12 comments:
Labels: Shadow Shot Sunday
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Sunday Weekly Wrap-Up and Making a "Mess"
Making a mess - what fun - although I am still not able to put my book (Mess by Keri Smith)in the rain or bury it.
This week I only did 2 full pages, although I added some doodles and rubbings to a couple of other pages.
I covered the page with white glue and dropped bits of white paper on the black pages.
I used blue painter's tape to create an abstract.
The "Mess" book club is being hosted by Lisa Wright - check my sidebar for more info. It is a great way to loosen up and get involved with another supportive community.
Collages for April
This week I continued my daily collages. Two I created came from envelopes from a swap I hosted on zentangle mandalas (the cards from this swap were gorgeous!)
This week I finished 3 sets of ATCs - 2 photo challenges and one of collage.
With spring almost here (actually it comes and goes - we may have snow tomorrow!), the flowers are growing . Here are a few from our garden:
Posted by Beverley Baird at 3:26 PM 3 comments:
Labels: ATCs, Collage Card a day, Mess, Sunday Weekly Wrap-up
Monday, April 16, 2012
It's Monday! What are you Reading??
It's time again to share books we've read. I have not read as much as I would have liked the past couple of weeks, but have finished a few books, and started several more!
My favourite was "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers. It was shocking in parts but so very interesting.I am looking forward to Thursday, when our social justice book club meets to discuss the book. Should be a very challenging discussion!
Two other books I read over the Easter weekend and thoroughly enjoyed, were:
"Comfort Food" by Kate Jacobs (the author of the Friday Night Knitting Club - loved that series of books!)
"The Edge of Winter" by Luanne Rice.
At school I reread "The Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams. It is one book I don't mine rereading over and over again. My class this year saw immediately the connection to "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" - a book they absolutely loved and were moved by.
We are just starting to read "Stone Fox" by John Reynolds Gardiner. I hope to have them view the movie when we are finished and compare the 2.
I am currently reading:
"Life is a Verb" by Patti Digh (Reading and experiencing it as there are exercises to do)
"Wonder" by R.J. Palacio (A YA novel recommended all over blogland!)
"Stolen Child" by Marsha F. Skrypuch. I just discovered this author is from Brantford and writes a lot of historical fiction, which I love.
Any favourites you have to share?
Posted by Beverley Baird at 6:52 PM 6 comments:
Labels: Book Monday
Sunday, April 15, 2012
A Mess and Weekly Wrap-up
A Fine Mess!
It has been a busy weekend, so have not done as much with the "Mess" booklet. I started out a bit too tame:
but by the end I really did make a wet mess!
As I was reading a few of the options, many struck as being very brave. I will have to work up to those.
Daily Collages
I am continuing with the daily collages. They have been quick and fun. I am using up scraps and trying to think of composition as I lay the papers down. Here are a few from the past week:
April 4 -using painted papers and handmade paper as well as used stamps
April 6
April 13 - with a day focused on the number 13th, I used numbers for this collage
I completed a few swaps this past week - flowers and sunflowers.
(I did not scan the sunflowers unfortunately)
I have a number of other ones I am working on - should have those finished this week.
From skies to flowers there were a few subjects to photograph this week.
(This is a nest, believe it or not, being built on top of a step ladder on our porch!)
Posted by Beverley Baird at 7:57 PM 9 comments:
Labels: ATCs, Mess, Sunday Weekly Wrap-up
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Shadow Shot Sunday
This week has had very changeable weather but there have been a few sunny days that create lovely shadows.
This week as well, I took my class on a field trip to the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford to learn about the history and culture of the native people in our area. Lots to see and a few great shadows to be found!
This lovely artwork, "The Great Tree", was created by Stan Hill Sr. from a moose antler.
Early lacrosse stick.
Be sure to check out the shadows from around the world at SS2 (see sidebar)
Posted by Beverley Baird at 7:24 AM 11 comments:
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Lisa at Wright Brain Stuff has started a new book group, using a new book by Keri Smith.
invites us to make a mess and have fun. It looks to be another great adventure in fun and comradeship. Please join in the fun!
I just received my book yesterday and had my first intro to the book with a page from the middle - make a collage using a stack of cut-out shapes from a magazine. I enjoyed it.
I am so looking forward to this new art journey of making messes!
Posted by Beverley Baird at 3:54 PM 2 comments:
Labels: Mess
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Shadow |Shot Sunday
A beautiful, sunny day produced lovely shadows! One I couldn't resist was the dandelion right outside the front door!
I also had to include one of Fluffy. (Next month she will be 20!)
As well, here's one from the garden - love the stark shadows.
Be sure to visit SS2 for great shadows around the world.
Posted by Beverley Baird at 3:22 PM 6 comments:
Labels: Fluffy, Shadow Shot Sunday
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|Butterfly wings from Altered Pages
The palette paper is adhered to cardstock, cut to fit inside these glassine envelopes, which then fit inside a business size envelope
|Butterfly wings from Altered Pages
Ooooh such beautiful creations!
These look great, Trisha - so colourful and I love the way you use everything. xx
Just beautiful Trisha!! And thank you so much for my happy mail today! much love xoxo
oh Trisha super gorgeous! your art just gets better and better! xo
Truly some beautiful art Trisha.
This looks AMAZING Trisha!
Beautiful !
Wonderful 'brayer prints' - love their complexity and naturalness.
These are very nifty looking. The flourishes are a fabulous addition. What a fun way to use up your palette paper.


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Glamour Gloss
The first time i bought from this brand was when i heard raves about their Eye Base. I remember buying that, and a lipgloss (Glamour Gloss), some eyeshadows and an eyeshadow brush.
The second time i bought from them was when my teacher, RB Chanco, told how much she likes LipGloss #28. It's nude and great for matching smokey eyes. I then knew i just had to get that. LOL
and with that purchase, i also got Lipgloss #43...and that purchase was followed by another...and another...
what i love:
- gorgeous colors
- its staying power. it would be better to line your lips with a lip liner first then apply this. so the color won't bleed.
- it doesn't taste weird. i personally love the taste of the Glamour Gloss...hehhe
- it doesn't give you that look on your lips as if you've been eating fatty, oily foods.
i've been using the Glamour Gloss on some of my wedding gigs and they also love it!
what i hate:
- consistency is kinda runny. as y0u can see on my pictures, the lines on my lips are still visible. but there are two ways to remedy that: 1) apply the first layer then wait for some seconds for it to set then apply another layer or 2) apply a base...then the gloss
- for me who's not really into lipsticks/lipglosses, i think it's expensive. priced at Php675 (i know, i am so cheap...lol) i wish they are cheaper just so i can get all the shades!
will i buy again:
YES! i seriously want ALL of their shades


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More on Sierpinski Triangles -- Area and Perimeter, and 3-D
As the Sierpinski Triangle develops toward an infinite stage, what happens to its Area? To its Perimeter? Mr. McKeague explains.
See a Sierpinski Triangle in 3-dimensions at about 5:30 minutes into the video. Mr. McKeague again walks us through the ideas. Here we see an example of our Tetrahedronal kite. Then he gives us a zoom into the Mandelbrot set. This gives an intuitive glimpse into one of the main ideas within fractals -- self-similarity at various levels. Wonderful graphics! Let's build one with software!


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Mission and Philosophy
At the Kalden Clinic our philosophy is one of "Biological Medicine", combining traditional and holistic medical approaches for the management of cancer and other chronic diseases. We believe that good health results from the natural balance of all elements in the human body. The body's very own inherent therapeutic process can be thrown off by internal and external forces. Negative impacts such as poor nutrition habits, the lack of exercise, psychological and emotional stress in work and personal lives and poor leisure habits are weakening our bodies' healthy immune response. Those negative influences can result in psychological and/or physical problems. Conventional medical evaluation and assessment methods do not take into account the multiple layers of potential causes for illness, and so often only treat the symptoms not the underlying cause.
Another essential area of our focus is palliative medicine and care. Palliative medicine is appropriate for patients in all disease stages and addresses physical, emotional, spiritual and social concerns. With palliative medicine we try to relive suffering in all areas of a patient's life. But especially Cancer patients with severely advanced illness often feel left behind, alone and isolated by conventional medical or hospice care. We profoundly believe that even in the most advanced stages of cancer the patient's quality of life can definitely be improved by biological medicine.
Conventional pain management therapies are combined with gentle physical treatments, acupuncture and / or other holistic multidisciplinary approaches. Our mission is to provide a more individualized and strong palliative care for good life quality of our patients.
At the Kalden Clinics, we employ 25 years of experience in traditional and holistic cancer treatment. Therefore we have been able to develop a widespread diagnostic program. This includes Contact Regulation Thermography, BET analysis, and immune system blood testing. Through this we aim at complementing conventional clinical examinations. All this gives us the additional information we need to develop highly individualized treatments against cancer and chronic diseases. Furthermore we offer a detoxification program, nutrition counseling as well as physical exercise and lifestyle management to complement more traditional approaches. All of our therapeutic models and therapies are listed under the point Treatments


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Since 2013, LifeFlight (CareFlight) has served Gladstone and surrounds in support of local CSG to LNG gas industry projects. This contract expired on Sunday 11 September and was not renewed.
Removalists were also noted at Gladstone Airport preparing to move equipment and ultimately dismantle LifeFlight's 'temporary' hangar.
Of interest, VH-XCY is a 2006 built Bell 412EP helicopter powered by two Pratt & Whitney PT6T-3DF turboshaft engines. The immaculately presented chopper is capable of uplifting 2 stretchered patients, cruising at 120 knots, obtaining a service ceiling of 10,000 ft and achieving an approximate range (weather & payload dependent) of up to 250 nautical miles (450 kms).
Thanks 'Mick' for sharing these great photos and video.
All photos and Video taken by 'Mick' ©


text: Two-for-two. Kiwi sensations Burling and Tuke conquer New York City at the America's Cup World Series. The Transat: Gàbart and Coville duel across the Atlantic to the Manhattan finish-line. 1,300 windsurfers from 38 countries meet in Gruissan for a fun but windless Défi Wind. Meanwhile in Austria José Gollito Estredo wins the PWA Freestyle kickoff. Rohart and Ponsot clinch the Hamburg Grand Slam at the Star Sailor's League. Wallys, Maxis, TP52, Swans, Js, and Dragons? Only at Palma Vela. Plus! Back-to-back wins and goodbyes, from Taj Burrows at the WSL Bali Pro, and lots more coming up.


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This anything to do with whether cellphones interfere with bees navigation systems ?
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Summary: The latest, of many, findings is that the anecdotal evidence of brain lesions and cancer due to the exposure of sustained levels of microwaves now has a significantly traceable pattern. The group that I am in, as I am a Telecommunications Engineer, focuses primarily on mobile devices, that use microwaves, to function. In other words, cellphones, TREOs and Blackberrys. Oh, and most GPS systems, which are okay, since you do not use them or are exposed to them in a constant manner.
LSMFT, Lucky Strikes Mean Fine Tobacco....did you wanna wait for them to tell you that it also caused cancer, heart disease, and impeded fetal growth? You know, they wouldn't have until they were forced to do so!
And, do you wanna wait now, until Erikson and Motorola tell you that using a microwave device can cause brain tumors and lord knows what else.....they won't until they are forced to do it.
Hey, baffle the door closure device on your microwave oven, it's easy...just stick a rag in each of the slots. Put your tv, and your radio on. Start it and enjoy the noise that you hear...for god sakes don't stick your hand in it.......by the time the skin starts to move, you have all ready cooked your hand. A few seconds of exposure, and years of recovery.
Sure, it is low level, different freqs from the oven that heats your tv dinner,, but it is STILL Microwaves.......and they go straight into your head!
Peace and Warning,
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From Tracy and 3-legged non phone using neighbor cat who likes to press the ESC button on my computer so that all my work disappears.
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|Hmm....I notice that when my microwave is in use and I am using my home phone which is cordless, I get interference and the voice cracks and pops and goes in and out...I wonder how much of that icky stuff you speak of is entering our ears!
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|Hi Lorsie,
According to our research group, (you can Goog if you want technical data), cordless phones are okay....operating on the gigahertz bands (older ones on the megahertz) they only have enough power to communicate with the base station and lose it at about 2,000 feet for gig phones and about 250 to 750 feet on the meg. Nice feature is that when cradled, cordless phones radiate negligible freqs.
Mobile devices, on the other hand, whether on or off, (unless you have an ancient amp system phone) constantly radiate freqs and stay in touch with the nearest tower, which might be miles and miles away.....the little lithium batteries are that powerful. Upside? If you slide into a ravine and are injured, whether your phone is on or off, we can find you...or at least a specific location of where you are. If the battery dies, then, well.......send up a flare and say a prayer.
Marty and Phoneycats, Luck, Popp and Sissy
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|Hi TracelTercel:
Don'tcha hate that? I don't mind everybody getting a chance to type, but I hate when one decides to "escape"......or "enter" when I was not finished!!!!!
I think it is just because they want to have the computer to call their catfriends on Skypeeeee. What they talk about, I don't know and don't want to know.....but man, they have a contact list a mile long!
Peace and Feline Felicity,
Marty and Microchip Chats, Luckylee, Poppyhead and SissyGigaGirl
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|Makes sense to me; ear gets hot if phone near it too long ...
.... then I was onto something possibly with my bee presumption/guess ? !!
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