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Limited Edition
This edition of the original 16" x 16" painting by Andrew Fearnside was limited to 20 prints. Each print is 12" x 12" with a .5" margin on all sides, on archival Arches paper, and is signed and numbered by the artist. A Certificate of Authenticity accompanies each print.
Unlimited Edition
This edition of the original 16" x16" painting is open. Each print is 8" x 8" with a .5" margin on all sides. Each print was executed on Arches paper.
The limited edition and unlimited edition prints were created by Carr Imaging from a photograph by New Mexican photographer Margot Geist of the original painting by Andrew Fearnside. Carr Imaging's Giclee process uses archival inks that, together with professional framing and standard care for fine art, will allow this print to last for lifetimes.
Tiny Mighty Framed Print
A non-archival print of the original 16" x 16" painting is available. The image is 3.75" square, and framed under glass in a clean, un-ornamented white wooden frame measuring 5" square. Tiny Mighty frames are available on Amazon.com and can be viewed there.


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November 17, 2010
A decade ago as doctors tried to diagnose cancer so they could successfully treat it, most patients had to undergo invasive tests and surgery. Back then, it was much more difficult for doctors to understand the type, extent and location of cancer cells. These days, a combination of positron emission tomography and computed tomography (PET/CT) is more commonly used to detect, diagnose and stage various types of disease, including cancer.
Menorah Medical Center announces today that it is investing $2.6 million in the most advanced PET/CT scanner to be available in Kansas City. Beginning in early 2011, Menorah's doctors will use the new highly advanced diagnostic imaging system to gather critical information on tumors. The razor-sharp clarity of images will assist physicians in diagnosing disease early when treatment may be more effective. It will also help them select the most effective treatment for that patient's type of cancer.
For example, if radiation treatment is the most appropriate way to treat a certain type of tumor, information from a PET/CT scan will help doctors pinpoint a tumor's precise location and develop the best plan to target cancer. When it comes to receiving radiation treatment, cancer patients need advanced targeted options that minimize side effects and spare healthy tissue. "It's important that treatment is localized and quick," says Shalina Gupta-Burt, MD, a dual certified radiation and medical oncologist at Midwest Cancer Care at Menorah Medical Center. "Futuristic technology is critical when you're fighting cancer."
Now the thousands of Kansas City metro area residents that are diagnosed annually with cancer will have the opportunity to take advantage of this leading-edge technology at Midwest Cancer Care at Menorah Medical Center. PET takes an image of how cells processes glucose and pinpoints irregular cell activity that could be cancer, while CT looks for abnormalities in the anatomy, such as tumors and lesions.
So what exactly does the science of the newest generation of PET/CT mean for patients?
"As physicians on the frontlines helping individuals fight their disease, the new technology combines what traditional PET/CT scans did separately," says Dr. Gupta-Burt, MD. "We can better define someone's tumor and plan more efficient and effective treatment. The razor-sharp images generated by the new scanner will perhaps lessen the amount of radiation necessary, better determine the timing of surgery and spare healthy tissue around a tumor."
Menorah Medical Center is the only hospital in Kansas City area to offer this revolutionary technology.
"This $2.6 million imaging system is the best available on the market," says Menorah Medical Center president and chief executive officer Steven D. Wilkinson. "The new scanner is another tool that Midwest Cancer Care at Menorah Medical Center has to offer patients in their journey to efficiently diagnose and treat their disease."
When it comes to excellence in cancer care, Midwest Cancer Care at Menorah Medical Center is considered among the best in the country. Recently recognized with a prestigious Outstanding Achievement Award from the American College of Surgeons' Commission on Cancer (CoC), Midwest Cancer Care at Menorah Medical Center is in an elite group of 82 accredited cancer programs across the United States.
Bradley Koffman, MD, radiation oncologist, leads the CyberKnife technology at Menorah Medical Center and says the addition of the new PET/CT scanner means the hospital's radiation oncology department will be the only one in the region with access to the technology. "This is significant news for cancer patients because it means we can do better diagnostic work and incorporate findings in our radiation treatment plans," explains Koffman. "It's a distinct advantage for individuals with head, neck and lung tumors, in addition to other types of tumors, because we can accurately identify and target those tumors."
In addition, the technology offers improved patient comfort due to the shorter length of time it takes to perform a scan as well as the scanner's open scanning design, which alleviates the sense of claustrophobia some patients experience in conventional PET/CT systems. Lastly, it offers unique methods to greatly reduce radiation exposure to patients, helping to spare healthy tissue.
Menorah Medical Center, part of HCA Midwest Health System, Kansas City's largest healthcare network, has provided comprehensive nuclear medicine/imaging services to the community for more than two decades.
"We are committed at Menorah Medical Center to provide every patient with the highest level of care in an environment where people, compassion, community and integrity are valued," says Wilkinson. "The addition of the new PET/CT system allows us to offer the community the latest technology to help achieve more positive outcomes for our patients."

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'Superbug' infections threat calls for massive changes in health care procedures, LA BioMed researcher says
Monumental changes are needed in the way Americans use antibiotics, disinfect hospitals and treat disease if the growing threat of bacteria-caused infections called "superbugs" is to be contained, leading infectious disease experts warn in a scientific article to be published Thursday.
Dozens of strains of little-understood microscopic bacteria kill tens of thousands of people a year in the United States - largely because they have developed resistance to antibiotics from overuse in this country.
"We cannot confront resistance unless we stop exposing the environment to massive quantities of antibiotics and their resulting selective pressure," says the article published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Los Angeles County health officials discovered a pervasive problem with drug-resistant bacteria last year when 356 "superbug" cases were detected in medical facilities from June to December. The culprit was a bacteria called Klebsiella pneumoniae or CRKP.
The most common type of deadly bacteria - methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA - is treatable. But many other bacterial strains - including CRKP - have no known treatment, said Dr. Brad Spellberg, a lead researcher at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) near Torrance.
Spellberg authored the article, titled "The Future of Antibiotics and Resistance," with two other infectious disease experts. They argue that novel treatments and preventative measures are needed immediately.
"There isn't one single thing that's going to fix this if we're going to get back ahead of the microbes," Spellberg said. "To me, the iceberg has already hit the ship. It's just how much water are we going to take on until we decide to push past the traditional and push the boundary in how we respond."
Their recommendations include developing:
Self-cleaning hospital rooms.
A public reporting system of antibiotic use and resistance data.
Waste-treatment strategies that remove antibiotics from sewage.
Immune-based therapies.
Treatments that don't kill bacteria, but rather alter its impacts on the body so it doesn't kill the host or cause disease.
Simply developing new antibiotics to kill bacteria is not sufficient because the microbes are too adept at developing antibiotic resistances, Spellberg said. A dramatic shift in the traditional way of fighting disease is needed, he said.
"Maybe we don't need to kill bacteria and maybe we need to change the way bacteria interacts with the host," Spellberg said. "If you're not killing the bacteria, you're not selecting for resistance. If all you're doing is modulating how bacteria interacts with the host, then there's no selective pressure."
The researchers also support federal legislation that would end the use of antibiotics for livestock growth, and create pathways for quicker federal approval of new drugs in order to more quickly combat new bacterial strains. Also, they said the lack of federal and private funding sources to research and develop new treatments is a major problem because pharmaceutical companies have stopped investing in these less-profitable areas.
"We need to invest in basic and clinical research and policy activities," Spellberg said. "There are pieces of legislation that are relevant that have never been voted on."
These harmful bacteria are often spread in hospital settings, so the article suggests prevention measures that include developing self-cleaning hospital rooms, and also making overall improvements in public health and health-care delivery.
"If we want a long-term solution, the answer is not incremental tweaking of these policies and processes," the article states. "Novel approaches, based on a reconceptualization of the nature of resistance, disease and prevention, are needed."


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Tripwire Announces Vulnerability Management Software - Tripwire SecureScan
SAN FRANCISCO, CA: Tripwire, Inc., a provider of risk-based security and compliance management solutions, announces Tripwire SecureScan, a free, cloud-based vulnerability management service for up to 100 Internet Protocol (IP) addresses on internal networks.
This new tool makes vulnerability management – a widely recognized security best practice among large corporations – easily accessible to small and medium-sized businesses that may not have the resources for enterprise-grade security technology.
Smaller businesses generally have fewer resources to invest in security, making them extremely attractive to cyberattackers. According to Symantec, cyberattacks on small businesses rose 300 percent in 2012. Small businesses commonly rely on anti-virus software and firewalls, but these security controls, while useful, are not enough because they do not detect unpatched systems that are frequently targeted by cyberattackers.
"Our goal is to raise the bar for cybersecurity because we want to help make the Internet a safer place for everyone," said Dwayne Melancon, chief technology officer for Tripwire. "As more individuals connect to corporate networks from remote locations, it is increasingly important to find ways to limit the risk these connections introduce to company networks. This will become even more critical as the 'Internet of Things' leads to more Internet-connected devices on our home networks, increasing the opportunity for compromise."
Melancon continued: "Tripwire SecureScan makes it easy for smaller organizations to know exactly which devices are on their networks, how these devices are vulnerable and how to manage their security risks."
Tripwire SecureScan is a comprehensive vulnerability management solution that requires no hardware or software to be installed and managed. Organizations of any size can use the service to discover detailed information about networked devices and find vulnerabilities in hardware and software applications that are used in cyberattacks. Tripwire SecureScan discovers these vulnerabilities and then provides users with prioritized, in-depth information on how to fix these security weaknesses.
Tripwire SecureScan uses the same proven enterprise-class vulnerability scanning platform behind Tripwire's award-winning vulnerability products, Tripwire IP360 and Tripwire PureCloud Enterprise. These products protect many of the largest, most sensitive networks in the world.
Key Tripwire SecureScan features include: easy-to-use, with no software or hardware installation required; free internal vulnerability scanning for up to 100 devices four times a month; easy discovery of lost or hidden devices that can result in security blind spots; prioritized vulnerability scoring that makes it possible to fix the most important security problems first.
"Organizations that live 'below the security poverty line' are cutting corners on security all the time," said Wendy Nather, research director, enterprise security practice at 451 Research. "They may not have the expertise to tune and use an open source tool either. Having a commercial product available to them for free can help these enterprises get a leg up -- in some cases for the first time."


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L.A.'s Freedom Ride: BKoB
On the fourth Sunday of every month, cyclists take over the streets of Los Angeles as part of the "Black Kids on Bikes" (BKoB) ride. BKoB is part of a series of rides called the "Freedom Rides" aimed at getting more black Angelenos to enjoy the unique experience of a safe, fun group cycle ride for kids. Despite it's name, the ride is open to riders of all races and skill levels.


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Mental confusion or decreased alertness is the inability to think clearly and quickly. When confused, one has difficulty concentration, paying attention and may feel dizzy or depersonalized. Confusion interferes with ones ability to make decisions clearly and correctly. Many health problems cause confusion or decreased alertness. Decreased alertness may occur when a person is not fully awake, aware of, or able to respond normally to his or her external environment. Decreased alertness may also indicate that a chronic illness has worsened.
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- Sluggish cognitive tempo
- Intoxication
- Low blood sugar
- Head trauma or head injury
- Concussion
- Lack of fluid (dehydration)
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Although it is not an actual cure, time, a walk in the park, or meditation can alleviate the symptoms of confusion. However, methods of curing more serious episodes of confusion must be determined by a doctor.
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Water, Fire, Destruction: After the Superstorm
NEW YORK (AP) - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the death toll in the city from the huge storm is up to 10.
He also says it could be three days or more before power is restored to hundreds of thousands of people now in the dark. He is giving no estimate on when public transit would be running, though he expects some buses be running later Tuesday.
The megastorm Sandy caused 13-foot storm surges in Manhattan. Trees also fell throughout the area.
New York City is starting to clean up after the storm hit late Monday into Tuesday causing flooding, high winds and major power outages.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says the sudden middle-of-the-night flooding of two towns was the result of a tidal surge that sent water overflowing a natural berm.
The governor says the surge hit the Hackensack River.
He says hundreds of people have been rescued from the low-lying towns of Moonachie and Little Ferry.
Residents of a Moonachie mobile home park say water overflowed a nearby creek when the tidal surge occurred. In Little Ferry they say water gushed out of storm drains.
Local and county officials initially reported a levee had broken, but the governor says that was erroneous.
A blizzard warning covers a large part of West Virginia as snow and high winds blow over Appalachia on the edges of superstorm Sandy.
The National Weather Service said Tuesday a foot and more of snow was reported in lower elevations of West Virginia, where most towns and roads are. High elevations in the mountains were getting more than two feet.
More than 128,000 customers in West Virginia were without power.
Authorities closed more than 45 miles of Interstate 68 on either side of the West Virginia-Maryland state line because of blizzard conditions and stuck cars.
The State Highway Administration in Maryland says the higher elevations in the western state have gotten more than a foot of snow since Monday afternoon, and it was still snowing at 5 a.m. Tuesday.
Phone and cable companies are still assessing the damage in the storm-hit areas of the East Coast amid widespread reports of phone outages in flooded areas.
Cablevision, which serves parts of Long Island, New York City and New Jersey, says it's experiencing widespread outages due to the loss of power. Verizon Communications, the biggest phone company in the region, says some facilities in downtown Manhattan are flooded, shutting down phone and Internet service. The company doesn't yet know the extent of outages in New Jersey, which bore the brunt of the storm.
AT&T says there are "issues" in hard-hit areas, and it's in the early stages of checking for damage and restoring service.
Superstorm Sandy has a long reach, with flight cancelations stranding air travelers around the globe.
The flight-tracking service FlightAware says more than 6,000 flights were canceled today, bringing the total to more than 15,000 canceled across the Northeast over two days. And more than 500 flights scheduled for tomorrow have also been canceled. The number surpasses the winter storm of early 2011 when 14,000 flights to be scrapped over four days.
New York is the nation's busiest airspace with about one-quarter of all U.S. flights going through daily. But the three big New York airports remain closed for a second day.
Flights have been canceled across Europe and Asia and travelers overseas could wait days to get back to the East Coast of the U.S. An official with a trade group for airports worldwide says even if storm damage is minor, it could be a week before operations are normal at major East Coast airports.
Amtrak says most train service in the Northeast remains suspended and a decision will be made later in the day on restoring limited service north and south of New York on Wednesday.
The railroad said in a statement that Amtrak crews are currently inspecting tunnels, tracks, equipment and stations in the Northeast to assess damage from Hurricane Sandy and are beginning to make repairs to sections of Amtrak-owned track. Amtrak said it is also working closely with other railroads on whose tracks Amtrak trains operate to determine when passenger train service can resume.
Most Amtrak service on the East Coast as far north as Boston and as far south as Raleigh, N.C. remains suspended and stations along those routes are closed.
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How, insightful.. But nontheless, you necroed the topic. You, my friend, are hereby executed from the proximities of the HTS community. Any further contact and you will be shot, hanged, dragged by a horse, or worse, castrated. Consider this your first and only official warning.


text: Our future health, happiness and economic well-being depends on producing plentiful, inexpensive, carbon-free energy that is available 24 hours/day, worldwide. Coal, oil and gas supply over 80% of the world's energy but cause pollution and add to global warming. Renewable energy, such as wind and solar, may not be able to supply enough energy. Ed Moses and the National Ignition Facility have an idea that could change everything-fusion energy-unlocking the force inside the nucleus of hydrogen that powers the sun and the stars. Learn what it will take for fusion power to become a reality in the next few decades. (#20233)


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About the Author: Julia Grace McCammon
Julia Grace McCammon is an experienced, evidence-based natural healer with perseverance for improving life situations. People benefit according to their personal needs, many express transformative emotional, mental, physical and spiritual improvements. She has demonstrated her gift to harness and transmit intelligent Life Force energy across the world, to enhance clients' Health, Happiness and Well-being. Her healing power is validated in scientific research using cell-based and mouse models. It has been measured, documented and published in international, peer-reviewed science journals.


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Hudson Hospital Foundation accepting grant applicationsWednesday, January 10, 2018
Hudson Hospital Foundation is a nonprofit organization that serves the community by raising funds to support Hudson Hospital & Clinic, as well as other local health-related projects. The Foundation is currently accepting applications for grants from their Unrestricted Fund in coordination with the Hospital's service lines of Heart, Senior, Women's, Cancer and Emergency Care.
Grants are authorized to 501c-3 nonprofit organizations and/or recognized exempt nonprofit entities primarily serving residents in Hudson Hospital & Clinics service area.
The Foundation will consider grant applications for the following: start-up costs for promising new programs that demonstrate sound management and clear goals relevant to community health needs; program expansion; special projects of a time-limited nature; funds to match contributions received from other sources or to provide a challenge to help raise new contributions. Grants cannot be considered for: ongoing annual operating expenses; sectarian religious programs; grants to individuals or athletic programs; capital projects; programs not serving residents in hospital's service area. To see if a project fits the Foundation's guidelines and interests, applicants may submit a letter of inquiry describing the proposed project before preparing a full proposal. Letters of inquiry and full proposals must be in writing and should be addressed to: Grants Committee, Hudson Hospital Foundation, 405 Stageline Road, Hudson WI 54016.
Grant proposals are due by February 21. Grants awards will be announced in April. Contact the Foundation at 715-531-6075 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com with questions about grant applications.
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The epic bureaucratic deadlock keeping you and your boyfriend Jon Hamm apart has finally ended, as it appears that the show will be back for a fifth season starting next January. Two more seasons will follow, and at that point, Sterling Cooper Draper Cramer Price Alcoholism Racism & Philanderer, Inc will be closing its doors forever. At the rate they're filming new seasons, by the time the show ends, the Draper kids will be played by 30-year olds. It will be like Dawson's Creek but set in the 1960's. They'll have to order a special adult sized tricycle for the scene with Glenn's 6th birthday party so the 15 year old actor playing him doesn't break it. But I digress.
While fans will rejoice at the news that the show will go on for three more glorious, "WHAT?!"-filled years, Hamm, in an interview with the BBC, expressed his desire for the show to end.
"I think it should end. Everything should end. I was a big fan of 'The Office' over here because it ended."
Hamm went on to say that even though an air date has been set for the premiere of the fifth season, he doesn't believe that scripts for next season exist yet.
Many fans would initially disagree- because TV shows can never get bad if they just go on forever and ever, like The Simpsons- it makes sense to eventually end a show like Mad Men, before Pete Campbell starts doing motorcycle stunts in Hawaii, or Christina Hendricks is replaced by Dick Sargent.
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SILVER SPRING, Md. -- The FDA on Friday issued a draft guidance implementing penalties for manufacturers who delay inspections or deny access to inspectors, the agency announced at a day-long public meeting here on drug supply chains.
The guidance is the agency's latest action under new authority granted last year in the FDA Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA) in order to ensure drug products shipped to and distributed in the U.S. are what they purport to be and not counterfeit.
"In this new globalized world, we have to step outside our own borders and think in new ways," FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, MD, said at Friday's public meeting soliciting input on how to implement section VII of the law.
Section VII of the law gives the FDA broad new powers to regulate the global supply chain in an era where 40% of finished products and 80% of active ingredients come from outside the U.S. -- many passing through hands that can't be accounted for. The number and variety of manufacturers, shippers, and distributors continues to grow, creating challenges for the FDA in regulating them and opportunities for criminals to introduce counterfeit drugs into the supply chain.
Friday's guidance defines the types of actions and circumstances the FDA will consider to be delaying, denying access, or limiting inspections. Doing so will have the products associated with such a facility deemed adulterated and not permitted for sale in the U.S.
In May, the FDA issued a proposed rule outlining the steps and procedures to detain drugs thought to be counterfeit or adulterated.
"Specifically, administrative detention is intended to protect the public by preventing distribution or subsequent use of drugs encountered during inspections that may be adulterated or misbranded, until FDA has had time to consider what action it should take concerning the drugs, and to initiate legal action, if appropriate," the proposed rule stated.
Increased penalties for people who knowingly adulterate a drug that causes adverse health consequences or death take effect later this year.
"These are the first of several new authorities under FDASIA," Hamburg said.
Others include:
- Allowing further collection, analyzing, and sharing of information about manufacturers with foreign regulators
- Making inspection cycles more uniform between foreign and domestic manufacturers
- Advancing an inspection schedule that places more emphasise on high-risk facilities
- Shifting the burden to the importer to prove the safety of a drug before it's allowed into the country rather than the FDA having to prove it's adulterated
FDA-regulated shipments to U.S. ports have quadrupled in the last decade, with the agency now overseeing 130,000 importers from 300,00 foreign facilities.
"There is no sign this trend is going to abate," Hamburg said. "In fact, we see it increasing every day."
John Taylor III, JD, acting deputy commissioner for Global Regulatory Operations and Policy, said this "staggering" increase has "eliminated distinguishing between foreign and domestic importers."
The FDA can't just be domestically focused any more, Taylor said, and has established 12 posts in 10 countries to help regulate the products that will make their way to the American drugstores.
Taylor noted cases of counterfeit or adulterated products entering the U.S., including atorvastatin (Lipitor) in 2003, heparin in 2008, and most recently bevacizumab (Avastin).


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The Mission and History of the NIH UMMS Senator Paul D. Wellstone MD CRC
U.S. NIH Eunice Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) funds the University of Massachusetts Medical School Senator Paul D, Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center Cooperative Center for Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD) Research. The type of funding mechanism utilized to fund the center is known as a U54 or a NIH Cooperative Agreement Specialized Centers (U54) funding mechanism. This differs from many NIH funding mechanisms is that NIH program and scientific staff are actively involved with ongoing activities and research in the center.
"The NICHD was initially established to investigate the broad aspects of human development as a means of understanding developmental disabilities, including mental retardation, and the events that occur during pregnancy. Today, the Institute conducts and supports research on all stages of human development, from preconception to adulthood, to better understand the health of children, adults, families, and communities.
The mission of the NICHD is to ensure that every person is born healthy and wanted, that women suffer no harmful effects from reproductive processes, and that all children have the chance to achieve their full potential for healthy and productive lives, free from disease or disability, and to ensure the health, productivity, independence, and well-being of all people through optimal rehabilitation."
Source: http://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/
"The NICHD has made revolutionary progress toward achieving its goals. Since the Institute was founded:
- Infant death rates in the United States have dropped more than 70 percent, with much of this decline resulting from NICHD-sponsored research.
- Survival rates for respiratory distress syndrome have gone from 5 percent in the 1960s, to 95 percent today, due to advances in respirator technologies and the availability of replacement lung surfactant, resulting from the research efforts of the NICHD and other Institutes.
- The rate of sudden infant death syndrome has dropped more than 50 percent, since the NICHD-led Back to Sleep education campaign to reduce the risk of SIDS began.
- Transmission of HIV from infected mother to fetus and infant has dropped from 25 percent to less than 2 percent, as a result of NICHD's efforts in collaboration with other agencies and organizations.
- The incidence of Haemophilus Influenzae B (Hib), once the leading cause of acquired mental retardation, has dropped more than 99 percent, because of development of the Hib vaccine by NICHD scientists, which has nearly eliminated this disease.
- Congenital hypothyroidism, once responsible for many cases of mental retardation, no longer has an impact on cognitive development because of screening techniques used to detect the condition in all newborns in time to allow treatment to prevent its effects.
- Phenylketonuria, a disorder that also caused mental retardation in many individuals, has been successfully eliminated as a factor in cognitive development through newborn screening and dietary therapy.
- Infertility that at one time kept couples from having babies of their own often can be treated and reversed.
- Sound scientific information about the safety and effectiveness of different contraceptive methods for women and men is now available.
- Many social, physical, and behavioral rehabilitation treatments for people with mental, developmental, and physical disabilities are now available."
Source: http://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/
Senator Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Centers
"The MD-CARE Act authorized the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish centers of excellence for muscular dystrophy research, and NIH currently funds six Senator Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Centers" at the University of North Carolina, the University of Rochester, the University of Massachusetts Medical School, the University of Iowa, Children's National Medical Center, Washington DC, and the University of Pennsylvania/Johns Hopkins University. "These Centers are supported by cooperative agreements with three of the NIH institutes; the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. The Wellstone Centers promote side-by-side basic, translational, and clinical research and provide resources that can be used by the national muscular dystrophy research community. They also serve as focal points for research collaborations, training and communication. Collectively the centers are engaged in research on Duchenne/Becker, myotonic dystrophy, facioscapulohumeral, limb-girdle, congenital and other forms of muscular dystrophy. They are exploring promising approaches for treatment of these diseases including gene, stem cell, pharmacological and molecular therapies. The Wellstone External Advisory Committee provides guidance to the NIH on issues involving the centers."
Source: http://www.wellstonemdcenters.nih.gov/
U.S. Muscular Dystrophy Coordinating Committee
Muscular Dystrophy Coordinating Committee (MDCC)
"The Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research, and Education Amendments of 2001 ("MD-CARE Act"; P.L. 107-84) authorized the establishment of the Muscular Dystrophy Coordinating Committee (MDCC) to coordinate activities across NIH and with other Federal health programs and activities relevant to the various forms of muscular dystrophy. The MD-CARE Act directed the Committee to develop a plan for conducting and supporting research and education on muscular dystrophy through the national research institutes, and to submit this plan to Congress within the first year of the establishment of the MDCC. The MDCC has conducted two stages of planning. The first stage led to the Muscular Dystrophy Research and Education Plan for NIH, which was submitted to Congress in August 2004. This formed the basis for a subsequent, more intensive planning process that produced the MDCC Action Plan for the Muscular Dystrophies (approved by the MDCC in December 2005). The Action Plan contains specific research objectives that are appropriate to the missions of all MDCC member agencies and organizations and thus serves as a central focus for coordination of research in muscular dystrophy."
Source: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/about_ninds/groups/mdcc/
MDCC Charter
The Muscular Dystrophy Coordinating Committee (Committee) shall coordinate research activities across the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and with other Federal health programs and activities relating to the various forms of muscular dystrophy, including Duchenne, myotonic, facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy and other forms of muscular dystrophy.
42 U.S.C. 283g, section 404E of the Public Health Service Act, as amended. The Committee is governed by the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C Appendix 2), which sets forth standards for the formation and use of advisory committees.
The Committee shall develop a plan for conducting and supporting research and education on muscular dystrophy through the national research institutes, and shall periodically review and revise the plan. The plan shall (a) provide for a broad range of research and education activities relating to biomedical, epidemiological, psychosocial, and rehabilitative issues, including studies of the impact of these diseases in rural and underserved communities; (b) identify priorities among the programs and activities of the National Institutes of Health regarding these diseases; and (c) reflect input from a broad range of scientists, patients, and advocacy groups.
The Committee shall consist of not more than 15 members, including the Chair, appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary). Two-thirds of the members shall represent governmental agencies, including the directors or their designees of each of the national research institutes involved in research with respect to muscular dystrophy and representatives of all other Federal departments and agencies whose programs involve health functions or responsibilities relevant to these diseases, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Food and Drug Administration, and representatives of other governmental agencies that serve children with muscular dystrophy, such as the Department of Education. One-third of the members shall be members of the public, including a broad cross section of persons affected with muscular dystrophies, including parents or legal guardians, affected individuals, researchers, and clinicians. None of these members serve as Representatives. A quorum for the conduct of business by the full Committee shall consist of a majority of currently appointed members. A quorum for each subcommittee shall be three members.
Public members shall be invited to serve for a term of three years, and may serve for an unlimited number of terms if reappointed. Terms of more than two years are contingent upon the renewal of the Committee by appropriate action prior to its termination. Members may serve after the expiration of their terms until their successors have taken office.
The Chair of the Committee shall serve as the principal advisor to the Secretary, the Assistant Secretary for Health, and the Director of NIH, and shall provide advice to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, and to the heads of other relevant agencies. The Committee shall select the Chair for a term not to exceed two years. The Chair of the Committee shall be appointed by, and be directly responsible to, the Secretary.
As necessary, subcommittees may be established to perform functions within the Committee's jurisdiction. The advice/recommendations of a subcommittee must be deliberated by the parent advisory committee. A subcommittee may not report directly to a Federal official unless there is statutory authority to do so.
Subcommittee membership may be drawn in whole or in part from the parent advisory committee. All subcommittee members may vote on subcommittee actions and all subcommittee members count towards the quorum for a subcommittee meeting. Ad hoc consultants do not count towards the quorum and may not vote. Subcommittee members who are not members of the parent committee may attend closed sessions of the parent committee meeting but they may not count towards the quorum of the parent committee and they cannot vote on committee actions.
The Department Committee Management Officer will be notified upon establishment of each standing subcommittee and will be provided information on its name, membership, function, and estimated frequency of meetings.
The Committee may call upon special consultants, assemble ad hoc working groups, and convene conferences and workshops as necessary to assist in the work of the Committee.
Administrative support shall be provided by the Department of Health and Human Services (Department).
The Committee shall meet as appropriate as determined by the Secretary in consultation with the Chair. All meetings will be held at the call of the Chair with the advance approval of a Government official, who shall also approve the agenda. A Government official shall be present at all meetings.
Meetings shall be open to the public, except as determined otherwise by the Secretary or other designated official to whom the authority has been delegated; notice of all meetings shall be given to the public.
Meetings shall be conducted and records of the proceedings kept, as required by applicable laws and Departmental regulations."
Source: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/about_ninds/groups/mdcc/Meeting_Minutes_Agendas.htm
U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Action Plan
The Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research and Education Amendments of 2001 (the MD-CARE Act, Public Law 107-84) specified a number of provisions for expanding and intensifying research on muscular dystrophy. One important provision of the Act was the establishment of the Muscular Dystrophy Coordinating Committee (MDCC), an interagency committee consisting of representatives from federal agencies with an interest in muscular dystrophy as well as members of the public including patient advocates and representatives from patient voluntary groups. Since its formation, the MDCC has met four times and has been instrumental in coordinating and facilitating muscular dystrophy research activities. Most importantly, the MDCC, with input from scientific experts in the field, developed the Muscular Dystrophy Research and Education Plan for NIH, and recently revised this Plan and created the more comprehensive Action Plan for the Muscular Dystrophies. This Action Plan identifies research objectives that should be considered by the entire muscular dystrophy community to help achieve the effective detection, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of all types of muscular dystrophy.
Action Plan for the Muscular Dystrophies (January 2006)
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/about_ninds/groups/mdcc/MDCC_Action_Plan.doc [MS Word]
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/about_ninds/groups/mdcc/MDCC_Action_Plan.pdf [PDF]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has also been actively implementing the provisions of the MD-CARE Act. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have initiated and expanded a number of activities to advance basic, translational, and clinical research on the muscular dystrophies and to address issues related to epidemiology, diagnosis, and screening for muscular dystrophy.
The MD-CARE Act requires that the MDCC biennially submit a report to Congress describing these HHS activities and that the report also include any revisions to the Research and Education Plan. This report is submitted in response to this request.
Report on Implementation of the MD-CARE Act: July 2007
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/about_ninds/groups/mdcc/md_care_2007.pdf [PDF]
Report on Implementation of the MD-CARE Act: May 2006
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/about_ninds/groups/mdcc/md_care_implementation.pdf [PDF]
Annual Report on Implementation of the MD-CARE Act: March 2005
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/about_ninds/groups/mdcc/MDCC_BiennialReport_200503.pdf [PDF]


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KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Astros first baseman Japhet Amador won't report to camp on Wednesday, or any time soon, general manager Jeff Luhnow said. Amador is in Mexico with a family emergency.
"He's not going to be here, and we don't know what the next steps are with him," Luhnow said. "For now, he needs to spend some time with his family, so he won't be showing up here today. Other than that, we expect everybody else to be here."
Amador, a 6-foot-4, 311-pound slugger who signed out of the Mexican League last year and played in the Arizona Fall League, was going to compete with Jesus Guzman, Brett Wallace, Jonathan Singleton and Marc Krauss at first base.
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BUERK! THE NEWSICAL Makes London Debut at Network Theatre, Now thru May 4
Following two sold-out performances at Seven Arts in Leeds in 2011, hilarious comedy musical 'Buerk! The Newsical' is coming to London's Network Theatre. Playing three nights, tonight, 2nd to Saturday 4th May 2013, the hit show will be making its much-anticipated London debut.
'Buerk! The Newsical' comes from the minds of Tom Bailey and Greg Jameson. Using TV newsreader Michael Buerk as the story's hero, 'Buerk! The Newsical' is a fictional look back to the 80s reimagining Buerk's career at the BBC. Featuring characters based on iconic TV personalities including Moira Stuart and Ian McCaskill, the show is a hilarious and irreverent look at what life could have been like for Buerk.
With original songs penned by the show's creators Tom Bailey and Greg Jameson along with musicians Allan Stelmach and Mark Kingston, 'Buerk! The Newsical' is the funniest new British show to grace the stage in recent memory.
'Buerk! The Newsical' whisks us back to the 1980s, a time of hope and innocence when beer was cheap, red braces were in and ska was all the rage. Follow our hero Buerk (Greg Jameson) as he starts his career at BBC News, falls in love with Moira Stuart (Helen McDonald) and becomes the nation's most beloved newsreader. But it isn't all jollity and endless refills of Martini Rosso at News Towers. Buerk's new friend Ian McCaskill (Ollie Burton) appears to be a feckless weather boob, but he has a secret life. What evil plan will he conjure up to get Buerk out of the picture so that he can swoop on Moira?
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The show will run tonight, 2nd - Saturday 4th May. Start time: 7.30pm. All performances take place at the Network Theatre, 246A Lower Road, Waterloo, London SE1 8SF. Tickets cost £10 and are available online at http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/buerkthenewsical/Writers: Greg Jameson & Tom Bailey
Director: Tom Bailey
Songs by: Greg Jameson, Tom Bailey, Allen Stelmach & Mark Kingston
Cast: Greg Jameson as Buerk, Helen McDonald as Moira and Ollie Burton as McCaskill. Also featuring Stephen Mosley, Warwick St John and Tom Bailey.
Duration: 90 mins (including interval)
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The controversy surrounding the University of Texas Board of Regents' hiring of an analyst from the Texas Public Policy Foundation as a $200,000-a-year "special adviser" continued Thursday, as the president of the Texas Exes urged the organization's members to "hold the regents" to promises about university research and faculty evaluations.
A firestorm of outrage was ignited when the board last month hired Rick O'Donnell, a TPPF analyst who has written policy papers attacking research and advocating that Texas colleges and universities secede from national accreditation systems.
Stalwart UT supporters, including lawmakers, felt O'Donnell's hiring could undermine Chancellor Francisco G. Cigarroa. Regents' chairman Gene Powell agreed to reassign O'Donnell, but last week the Texas Exes sent a letter warning the organization's 91,000 members that academic research at UT was under threat.
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"Our message has been heard loud and clear, and the Regents have asked to meet with representatives of the Texas Exes to discuss our concerns.
…The Regents write that they support academic research and have no desire to diminish its importance. They also say they have no interest in substituting part-time, contract lecturers for distinguished, tenured faculty or grading individual professors by how much revenue they generate. These are positive and encouraging statements. We will hold the Regents to them.
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It had been five hours since my intrepid robot Gilligan left its garage on the front of the submersible Mir 1 and disappeared inside the cavernous shipwreck. Our sub was parked on the upper deck of the most famous wreck in history, surrounded by eternal blackness and over 5,000 pounds per square inch of pressure, both thanks to a two-and-a-half-mile column of water over our heads.
Safe inside the Mir, I flew the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) with gentle nudges of the joystick, its thrusters maneuvering it into the ship's treacherous interior. The "bot" had penetrated to F Deck, paying out a thin fiber-optic cable like Theseus in the labyrinth, with only Ariadne's twine to guide him back. Though the tiny vehicle was now seven decks below me, I felt as if my consciousness were inside the bot, its cameras my eyes, staring down the corridors of the ship. Its jeopardy was also mine, and my pulse raced with each new hazard. Turning a corner, I barely escaped being pinned by a falling "rusticle," one of the stalactite-like formations created by the bacteria that are slowly devouring the steel of the ship.
As I passed through an entrance, suddenly revealed in my lights were sparkling reflections off a wall of gleaming blue and green tiles. Teak chaise lounges lay upturned on the floor, incredibly well preserved, and above them was an arabesque dome covered in gold leaf. I had entered the elegant spa on the most luxurious ship of its time. "Tell them we're in the Turkish baths," I said to Mike Arbuthnot, the marine archaeologist sitting next to me. He keyed the microphone and relayed the message up to the surface.
Our interior archaeological survey of the ship had begun in 1995, as I was wrapping up shooting the wreck for the movie Titanic. Back then we had an unwieldy ROV called Snoop Dog, which was little more than a movie prop, but we flew it down inside the ship's grand staircase nevertheless, all the way down to D Deck. Its lights revealed that much of the ornate wood paneling remained intact. Snoop reached the end of its tether and could go no farther, but I could not help wondering what lay in the shadows just beyond its lights. After the movie was released, I commissioned the building of two revolutionary new robotic vehicles so we could return and truly explore the interior. In 2001 and again in 2005 I made multiple dives to the Titanic wreck and flew our bots deep inside, exhaustively surveying her interior. Ultimately we imaged and documented 65 percent of Titanic's surviving internal spaces, including the first-class cabins, first-class reception and dining rooms, steerage cabins and open space, cargo holds, and Marconi room.
One incredible discovery followed another, in dizzying succession. In the first-class dining saloon and reception rooms, we found the tall leaded windows still intact. The hand-carved mahogany paneling on the walls and columns remains, some of it with the original white paint still visible. There are cut crystal chandeliers and, in the first-class staterooms, immaculately preserved brass beds. Filigreed iron grilles cover the yawning elevator shafts. When I first laid eyes on the intact brass call button, I felt as if I could reach out and touch it, and a ghostly elevator might still arrive. Titanic sank on her maiden voyage before her interiors could be photographed, so most of the archival images used as references for the movie's sets were photos of her sister ship, Olympic. For the first time we were learning how Titanic herself was actually built, and the details of her decoration have now been painstakingly reconstructed from the bot videos. I now know where the movie is accurate, and where it's not.
Of all our discoveries, the most evocative are the relics that suggest the human hands that touched them. In Henry Harper's D Deck cabin, his bowler hat remains in the ruins of his closet, right where he left it. In Edith Russell's cabin on A Deck, the mirror still gleams in her washstand, reflecting back the bot's LED lights instead of Edith's terrified face as she rushed back into the room to get her lucky toy pig before running to board a lifeboat. In another stateroom, a glass decanter and water glass sit, impossibly, still on the washstand. Had the glass been empty, it would have floated out of its holder when the room flooded, and been lost. But someone took a drink and left it half full, and there it sits today.
In the soundproof Marconi room, the wireless apparatus survives, the knife switches still in the positions left by the young operators, Harold Bride and Jonathan Phillips, revealing that they cut the power when they abandoned their post as the water rushed up the deck outside. We even imaged the transformer they had repaired just the night before the sinking. Acting against guidelines, the two young wireless geeks managed to restore the set to full power—an act that may have saved 712 lives, since without this power they might not have reached the rescue ship Carpathia with their historic SOS. Capturing these precious bot images was like touching history itself.
In 2001 I had wanted to get into the C Deck suite of Ida and Isidor Straus, the elderly couple famous for choosing to die together rather than be separated by the evacuation rule of "women and children only." Their suite was the most ornately decorated on the ship, and in fact had been the basis for Rose's suite, the room in which Jack Dawson draws the heroine's portrait in my fictional narrative. I got our stalwart bot Jake as far as the purser's office, discovering the tall purser's safe in the process, but I couldn't penetrate to the Straus suite next door. In 2005, determined to find a way, I wriggled the slightly smaller Gilligan through a constriction, knocking rusticles out of the way, and emerged into an open space. The bot's lights revealed gleaming gold sparkles. Not only was the ornate mahogany fireplace still intact, but sitting on it was the gold-plated clock, just as it appeared in the archival photo, and just as we had re-created it for the movie. It was a surreal moment, fiction and reality merging in the stygian depths.
After 33 dives to the wreck, averaging 14 hours each, I have spent more time on the ship than Captain Smith himself did. In all that exploration, the strongest memories are these out-of-body experiences of ghostwalking through the corridors and stairwells of Titanic via my ROV avatar. Its gothic ruin exists now in a ghostly limbo, neither in our world nor completely gone from it. The rusticles have transformed Edwardian elegance into a phantasmagorical cavern, a surreal underworld ruled only by dream logic. But despite the sheer alienness of the place, I felt a tingling déjà vu exploring there. Having walked the faithfully built movie set for many weeks, I would turn a corner in the wreck and already know, before the bot's video camera revealed it, what would be there. It was an eerie feeling but also strangely comforting, as if I were somehow home.


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The world still can't get enough food and water to the hungry and thirsty one week after an earthquake shattered Haiti's capital. The airport remains a bottleneck, the port is a shambles. The Haitian government is invisible, nobody has taken firm charge, and the police have largely given up.
Even as U.S. troops landed in Seahawk helicopters Tuesday on the manicured lawn of the National Palace, the colossal efforts to help Haiti are proving inadequate because of the scale of the disaster and the limitations of the world's governments. Expectations exceeded what money, will and military might have been able to achieve so far in the face of unimaginable calamity.
"God has abandoned us! The foreigners have abandoned us!" yelled Micheline Ursulin, tearing at her hair as she rushed past a large pile of decaying bodies.
Three of her children died in the quake and her surviving daughter is in the hospital with broken limbs and a serious infection.
Rescue groups
Rescue groups continue to work, even though time is running out for those buried by the quake. A Mexican team created after that nation's 1985 earthquake rescued Ena Zizi, 69. She had survived a week buried in the ruins of the residence of Haiti's Roman Catholic archbishop, Monsignor Joseph Serge Miot, whose body was found Tuesday sitting in a chair in what appeared to be his office.
Doctors said Zizi was dehydrated and had dislocated a hip and broken a leg.
"I'm all right, sort of," she said, lying on a foil thermal blanket outside the Cuban hospital, her gray hair covered in white dust.
An ardent Catholic, Zizi sang a hymn of praise and thanks to God in a strong but strained voice that resonated across the hospital garden filled with ailing quake victims on stretchers.
"This is a miracle," said one of her sons, bank clerk Joseph Josner.
Those who survived the quake from the beginning but had lost their homes and possessions were growing desperate as they camped out in the streets and in a plaza across from the National Palace.
"We need so much. Food, clothes. We need everything. I don't know whose responsibility it is, but they need to give us something soon," said Sophia Eltime, a 29-year-old mother of two who has been living under a bedsheet with seven members of her extended family. She said she had not eaten yet Tuesday.
Aid slow
It is not just Haitians questioning why aid has been so slow for victims of one of the worst earthquakes in history: an estimated 200,000 dead, 250,000 injured and 1.5 million homeless. Officials in France and Brazil and aid groups such as Doctors Without Borders have complained of bottlenecks, skewed priorities and a crippling lack of leadership and coordination.
"TENS OF THOUSANDS OF EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS NEED EMERGENCY SURGICAL CARE NOW!!!!!" said a news release from Partners in Health, co-founded by Dr. Paul Farmer, the deputy U.N. envoy to Haiti.
"Our medical director has estimated that 20,000 people are dying each day who could be saved by surgery." No details were provided on how the figure was determined.
The reasons are varied:
-- Both national and international authorities suffered great losses in the quake, taking out many of the leaders best suited to organize a response;
-- Woefully inadequate infrastructure and a near-complete failure in telephone and Internet communications complicate efforts to reach millions of people forced from homes turned into piles of rubble;
-- Fears of looting and violence keep aid groups and governments from moving as quickly as they'd like;
-- Pre-existing poverty and malnutrition put some at risk even before the quake hit.
Governments have pledged nearly $1 billion in aid, and thousands of tons of food and medical supplies have been shipped. But much remains trapped in warehouses, diverted to the neighboring Dominican Republic, or left hovering in the air. The non-functioning seaport and impassable roads make it even more difficult to get aid to the people.
Aid is being turned back from the single-runway airport, where the U.S. military has come under criticism for poorly prioritizing flights.
Doctors Without Borders said a plane carrying 12 tons of medical equipment, including drugs, surgical supplies and two dialysis machines, had been turned away three times from the Port-au-Prince airport since Sunday night, resulting in the deaths of five patients.
"We were forced to buy a saw in the market to continue amputations," coordinator Loris de Filippi said Tuesday in a statement.
Flight operations
The U.S. Air Force said it had raised the airport's daily capacity from 30 flights before the quake to 180 on Tuesday.
"We're doing everything in our power to speed aid to Haiti as fast as humanly possible," said Gen. Douglas Fraser, head of U.S. Southern Command.
The World Food Program said more than 250,000 ready-to-eat food rations had been distributed in Haiti by Tuesday, only a fraction of the 3 million people thought to be in desperate need. There have been anecdotal stories of starvation among the old and infirm, but apparently no widespread starvation {mdash} yet.
The WFP said it needs to deliver 100 million ready-to-eat rations in the next 30 days. Based on pledges from the United States, Italy and Denmark, it has 16 million in the pipeline.
So far, international relief efforts have been unorganized, disjointed and insufficient to help a people in need of such basics as food, water and medical care.
"It's frustrating to see planes landing, officials coming in and military planes coming in, carrying military personnel and their supplies," Marie-Noelle Rodrigue, Doctors Without Borders' deputy operations manager, said from Paris. "We see there are priorities being given but don't understand on what grounds."
French Cooperation Minister Alain Joyandet went as far as demanding a U.N. investigation into U.S. aid efforts; although his boss, President Nicolas Sarkozy, defended the U.S. on Tuesday, as did the United Nations. U.N. spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs credited the U.S. with bringing in great amounts of aid and expertise, and said the airport wouldn't be working without U.S. military help.
U.S. defence officials acknowledged bottlenecks, but said they have been working aggressively to eliminate them. They note that many military flights also carry aid, and White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said that by Monday, fewer than a third of flights into Haiti were U.S. military.
About 2,200 Marines established a beachhead west of Port-au-Prince on Tuesday to help speed aid delivery, in addition to 9,000 already on the ground. Lt. Cmdr. Walter Matthews, a U.S. military spokesman, said helicopters were ferrying aid from the airport into Port-au-Prince and the nearby town of Jacmel as fast as they can.
The U.N. was sending in reinforcements as well: The Security Council voted Tuesday to add 2,000 peacekeepers to the 7,000 already in Haiti, and 1,500 more police to the 2,100-strong international force.
"The floodgates for aid are starting to open," Matthews said at the airport. "In the first few days, you're limited by manpower, but we're starting to bring people in."
The WFP's Alain Jaffre said the U.N. organization was starting to find its stride after distribution problems, and hoped to help 100,000 people by Wednesday.
"The problem is the logistics: getting the food to the people," he said. "We're challenged by trucks, staff, roads and security, in declining order of importance."
The effort was also hampered by a lack of leadership.
With its seat of power destroyed and many officials dead, the Haitian government has largely disappeared. President Rene Preval hasn't addressed the nation, beyond sending one taped message to a radio station. He is only known to have toured briefly one of the thousands of sites where people are dead or dying.
First lady Elisabeth Debrosse acknowledged that Preval "is limited in his capacity to act," but insisted: "The president is in control and is trying to focus on what the priorities are and those priorities are changing every minute."
The U.N., which itself lost its Haiti headquarters, its top two officials and many others inside, has tried to fill the void but has struggled to bring the international relief effort together. The United States has taken charge of pieces of the operation but coordination has been uneven.
"Is the U.N. going to run it or is the military? Somebody needs to take charge here," said Robert Kind of CMC Construction. He was at the airport looking for somebody to get a generator that his company donated to a University of Miami field hospital. It took three days to fly the generator in, he said, and it has sat on the grass since Monday.
Rodrigue, of Doctors Without Borders, said it would have been helpful if immediately after the quake, all the aid donors and governments responding to the crisis had had a discussion "to know who's in charge, what are the procedures, when everyone knew that bringing material into Haiti was going to be an issue."
"We didn't see that," she said.
Hanging over the entire effort was an overwhelming fear among relief officials that Haitians' desperation would spill over into violence.
"We've very concerned about the level of security we need around our people when we're doing distributions," said Graham Tardif, who heads disaster-relief efforts for the charity World Vision. The U.N., the U.S. government and other organizations echoed such fears.
Occasionally, those fears have been borne out. Looters rampaged through part of downtown Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, just four blocks from where U.S. troops landed at the presidential palace.
Hundreds of looters fought over bolts of cloth and other goods with broken bottles and clubs.
"That is how it is. There is nothing we can do," said Haitian police officer Arina Bence, who was trying to keep civilians out of the looting zone for their own safety.
U.S. officials insisted they had no plans to take on a policing role in Haiti, and the arriving Marines are allowed to use force only in self-defence, according to U.S. Maj. Gen. Cornell A. Wilson Jr. But troops of the 82nd Airborne took up positions outside the General Hospital on Tuesday when the crowd grew too large.
Haitian Police Chief Mario Andersol said he can muster only 2,000 of the 4,500 officers in the capital and said even they "are not trained to deal with this kind of situation."
Some police are urging citizens to take the law into their own hands, and neighbourhoods are creating their own security forces, forming night brigades and machete-armed mobs to fight bandits. "If you don't kill the criminals, they will all come back," one officer shouted over a loudspeaker in the Cite Soleil slum.
Despite the criticism, some aid officials defended their efforts and said the world is judging them too harshly.
"The aid is never fast enough for the armchair aid workers sipping their lattes," said Steve Matthews, a Haiti-based spokesman for World Vision. "Despite the slowness, aid is flowing. Things are happening. We understand the race against time. Everyone's working 16-hour days.
"Critics want a two-hour movie with a happy ending."


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It was reasonable to assume that the Dolphins parted with Brandon Marshall, for a discount price, to make Peyton Manning happy. It's the same sort of roster-baiting the Titans are engaging in with their very public courtship of guard Steve Hutchison. But things can have, like, more than one reason, man. Like Marshall being accused of punching a lady outside a Manhattan club early Sunday morning.
According to the New York Post, Marshall and another unidentified football player were ejected from Marquee, which I cannot believe is still open. A woman celebrating her 24th birthday got involved in the continued argument on the sidewalk, and claims she took a punch from Marshall. It's not clear if she was the target or just caught in the crossfire. The woman says she suffered a black eye, and filed a police report the next day.
Marshall's lawyer quickly issued a statement:
"While at the function a fight broke out NOT involving Mr. Marshall or his friends. While attempting to leave to avoid the melee Mrs. Marshall was struck in the face by a thrown bottle. She suffered serious injury. While attempting to leave and take his wife to the hospital, the mayhem continued outside. Finally Mr. Marshall was able to take his wife to the hospital where she was treated for serious injuries. Mr. Marshall is hoping to assist authorities in regards to this matter."
It is not exactly the outright denial the Bears probably would have liked to see, but at least they weren't caught by surprise: Chicago announced they were aware of the incident when they traded two third-round picks for him yesterday. It's the age-old tradeoff for teams dealing with Marshall. Does his preternatural ability to catch a football outweigh his preternatural penchant for finding trouble? Have you seen the Bears' receivers? Their answer is an unqualified yes.


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A little over an hour after two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, resulting in dozens of casualties and at least two fatalities, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof used the tragedy to blame Republicans for blocking B. Todd Jones, Obama's choice for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
A post on his Twitter feed (since deleted) linked to an old Washington Post story on a Republican political maneuver:
explosion is a reminder that ATF needs a director. Shame on Senate Republicans for blocking apptment articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-02-01/wor…
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) April 15, 2013
About half an hour later Kristof took back his original tweet: "People jumping on me for criticizing Sen Repubs for blocking ATF appointments. ok, that was low blow. i take it back."
Kristof's offensive, politically motivated tweet is remindful of Times columnist Paul Krugman's post two hours after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, accusing the shooter (before he was even named) of being motivated by conservative politics.