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BELLEVILLE — If the hole they dug for themselves in the first half hadn't been so cavernous, the Lindenwood-Belleville Lynx might have climbed out.
The Lynx fell behind 27-0 in the first half as they lost to the St. Francis Saints 41-28 on Saturday in Lindenwood Stadium.
"We shot ourselves in the foot early in the game, and against a good football team, turnovers and penalties are going to kill you,'' Lynx coach Jeff Fisher said. "I think that's what happened. We operated as a young football team in the first half. I think this team grew up in the second half, but we have a lot more work to do.''
The Lynx trailed 34--0 early in the second half before mounting a furious rally.
Lindenwood-Belleville drove to the St. Francis 6 before an interception by the Saints' Jesse Grove ended its comeback bid.
"I'd like to say that we just ran out of time, but at the end of the day, if we don't put ourselves in that hole, it's a different deal,'' Fisher said.
The Lynx (2-1) committed six turnovers that led to 23 points for the Saints (2-0).
"That's the tale of the tape,'' Fisher said. "You won't beat bad football teams that way, you certainly won't beat good football teams that way.
"And, they're a good football team. That quarterback is exactly what is advertised.''
St. Francis quarterback E.J. White completed 27 of 38 passes for 287 yards and two touchdowns. He was intercepted four times. White also had 12 carries for 72 yards.
Lynx quarterback Kerry Gibson completed 22 of 39 psasses for 239 yards and two touchdowns. He was intercepted three times.
Running back Kameron Harris, a gradute of Althoff High School, had 18 carries for 64 yards for Lindenwood-Belleville.
The Saints received the opening kickoff and marched 80 yards on 14 plays.
Quest Young ran 3 yards for the touchdown to cap the drive. A two-point conversion pass fell incomplete.
Harris ran for 28 yards on Lindenwood-Belleville's first play from scrimmage, but the Lynx committed turnovers on their next two plays.
A fumble on handoff from Gibson to Harris was picked up by St. Francis' Mike Passo and returned 10 yards for a touchdown.
Gibson was intercepted by Derrick Caldwell, and two plays later, White threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to Dustin Greenwell.
The Saints led 20-0 with 8:17 left in the first quarter.
"Momentum isn't anything more than a word, but when you're 18- or 19-year-old men, then maybe it's a little more than a word,'' Fisher said of falling behind by so much so quickly.
White threw a 35-yard touchdown pass to Sheldon McGee as the Saints padded their lead to 27-0 with 7:44 left in the first half.
It looked like St. Francis had put the game out of reach when Sheldon McGee ran 14 yards for a touchdown with 11:44 remaining in the second half.
The Lynx finally got on the scoreboard on a 41-yard interception return for a touchdown by Trey Parker.
Lindenwod-Belleville trimmed its deficit to 34-14 on a 4-yard keeper by Gibson.
A 3-yard touchdown run by Malik Norman pushed the Saints' advantage up to 41-14 with 4:59 to go.
An acrobatic one-handed catch as he was falling out of bounds at the St. Francis 1 by Evan McFadden set up a 5-yard touchdown pass from Gibson to McFadden with 4:59 on the clock.
White fumbled and the Lindenwood-Belleville's Adrian Williams recovered the ball at the St. Francis 41 with 3:44 on the clock.
Gibson threw a 14-yard pass to Dylan Bradley, drawing the Lynx within 41-28 with 2:59 remaining.
Lindenwood-Belleville got the ball back with 1:58 to go, but it couldn't get in the end zone.
The Lynx were penalized nine times for 102 yards. The Saints were flagged 12 times for 128 yards.
"The turnovers are a fixable thing,'' Fisher said. "That's something you can rep in practice and you can get fixed.
"The unsportsmanlike penalties and the things of that nature, that's not acceptable. That's not what we are about, and if we have to make changes with personnel to get where we are a team, that's what we are going to do.''
Contact reporter Steve Korte at email@example.com or 239-2522.(*27*)

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The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest
The story of George Mallory, an explorer obsessed with becoming the first climber to reach the top of Mount Everest, as told through letters to his wife, previously unseen photos, and film from 1924 as well as from the 1999 expedition that discovered Mallory's body on Everest.No show times found for selected day.
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Rated PG for thematic elements involving hardships of climbing, and some historical smoking images
Length: 94 minutes
Released: August 6, 2010 Limited
Cast: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Conrad Anker, Leo Houlding, Natasha RichardsonDirector: Anthony Geffen
Producer: Anthony Geffen, Claudia Perkins
Writer: Mark Halliley
Genre: Documentary
Distributor: National Geographic Cinema Ventures
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Hot Topic Workshop Proposals Due August 1
The deadline for Hot Topics workshop proposals for the 2011 NLG Convention is: August 1, 2011
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The deadline for Hot Topics workshop proposals for the 2011 NLG Convention is: August 1, 2011
We are now in the planning stages for the next issue of Guild Notes! This is the official call for submissions, and the deadline is Friday, June 24.
Applications for convention workshops MUST be submitted by April 8, 2011. Click below to download the application packet.
he National Lawyers Guild and over 50 organizations and individuals have written to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama, emphasizing that the United States has domestic and international commitments to ensure that its weapons and its international aid funds are not used for grave international human rights or humanitarian law violations.
We are now in the planning stages for the next issue of Guild Notes! This is the official call for submissions, and the deadline is Friday, February 11th.
The National Lawyers Guild expresses its support and solidarity with Iran's human rights defenders who have been prosecuted and/or arrested due to their human rights activities.
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) urges you to exercise your authority over the Georgia Department of Corrections to institute several overdue systemic changes in the Georgia state prison system. The recent prison strike in your state has drawn national attention to deficiencies in the statewide correctional facilities, many of which violate the United States Constitution and longstanding human rights norms.
This 16-page pocket-sized booklet, designed as a companion to our popular publication Operation Backfire: A Survival Guild for Environmental and Animal Rights Activists, is a Know Your Rights guide for activists and others who are contacted by the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security or local law enforcement.
The Guild is one of 9 organizations who sent a letter to Patrick Leahy and Jeff Sessions opposing the nomination of Stacia Hylton for head of the U.S. Marshals Service on the grounds that she has a conflict of interest.
The following resolution regarding the FBI Raids was passed by a 2/3 majority vote of the NLG membership at this year's annual conference in New Orleans, LA.


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Welcome back to Eye on Evergreen, a daily look at your village from an alternative view. Every week, we'll have a photo or trivia question from Evergreen Park's Historical Commission and you've got the opportunity to tell us where in town the photographed item is, or the answer.
- The first person to answer the below question correctly will receive free Patch swag as a prize.
- All guesses must be submitted in the comments section below.
- You will only be eligible to win once a month.
Let the games begin!
What historic Evergreen Park event was this photo taken at? Can you guess the year?
Submissions of your own Eye on Evergreen photos or trivia questions can be sent to the editor at firstname.lastname@example.com. Trivia questions must relate to Evergreen Park. Photos must be taken in public places or from public sidewalks. Photos where the focus is a person or private home will not be considered.


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"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."
"You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave."
"If someone hurts you, take a moment for the pain, learn the lesson from it and make your life better than before."
"I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort."
"When SOmeNODy BreAks YOur HEart To PIecEs And You Cry YOur Eyes OUt..... YOu See nO way Out To SmiLE BAck Again!!! WelLL JUs gIVe A gLaNcE oF UrselF IN tHE miRror. Your refLection With gooFy Red EYes ANd SwolEn RunninG NOse WIll noT juSt MAke you Smile BUt lAughh!!- We All DeserVe to Be HAppy no MAtter What HAppens! Cheers:D"
"Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly, Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams go, Life is a barren field, Frozen with snow"
"To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life."


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CMHPSR Accomplishments
March/April 2012
Rinad Beidas
- Dr. Rinad Beidas was selected to be a 2012 NIMH funded Implementation Research Institute Fellow at Washington University.
- Ethnicity and neighborhood context appear to have an additive influence on internalizing symptoms in clinically-referred anxious youth.
Beidas, R.S., Suarez, L., Simpson, D., Read, K., Wei, C., Connolly, S. & Kendall, P. (2012). Contextual factors and anxiety in minority and European American youth presenting for treatment across two urban university clinics. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 26, 544-554. doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2012.02.008
- School-based mental health professionals can improve their adherence and knowledge of an EST for child anxiety following training and consultation.
Beidas, R.S., Mychailyszyn, M., Edmunds, J., Khanna, M., Downey, M., & Kendall, P. (2012). Training school mental health providers to deliver cognitive-behavioral therapy. School Mental Health. doi: 10.1007/s12310-012-9074-0
- Randomized trial comparing three training modalities for CBT to treat anxiety among youths finds that the key to success was to follow up with three months of "virtual consultation."
Beidas, R.S., Edmunds, J., Marcus, S., & Kendall, P. (2012). Training and consultation to promote implementation of an empirically supported treatment: A randomized trial. Psychiatric Services. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.201100401
Steve Berkowitz
- The New York Times cited a 2010 study by Dr. Steven Berkowitz that reviewed a therapy program, called the Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention, which was used to treat traumatized children.
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Michael Blank
- Dr. Michael Blank's PATH intervention was discussed in Psychiatry Weekly.
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- Dr. Michael Blank published a piece on a reasoned action approach to HIV prevention for persons with serious mental illness.
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Jill Locke
- Dr. Locke served as expert for Autism Science Foundation online chat forum.
Click to read transcript
- Dr. Locke will report on social skills interventions at IMFAR
Click to learn more about the conference
Trevor Hadley
- Dr. Trevor Hadley steps down as Director of the Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research effective July 1, 2012.
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David Mandell
- Dr. David Mandell to lead Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research as new director effective July 1, 2012.
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- Dr. David Mandell keynote speaker first International Economics of Autism Summit, in Hong Kong (March 31, 2012).
Click to learn more
- Dr. Zuleyha Cidav, Dr. Steven Marcus, and Dr. David Mandell investigate effect of autism on parental earnings:
Cidav Z, Marcus SC, Mandell DS (2012). Implications of childhood autism for parental employment earnings. Pediatrics. 129(4):617-623
- Population-based examination of homelessness and children's use of mental health services:
Park JM, Metraux S, Culhane D, Mandell DS (2012). Homelessness and children's use of mental health services: A population-based study. Children and Youth Services Review. 34(1):261-265.
- New autism diagnosis and state funding: Dr. David Mandell interviewed on American Public Media's Marketplace:
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- Rising cost of autism: Dr. David Mandell interviewed on WHYY's Newsworks:
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Erica Reisinger
- Teacher and parent agreement on autistic children's social skills progress: poster accepted at the NIMH D&I Conference


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[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday ordered [text, PDF] a federal court in Georgia to consider the case of death row inmate Troy Anthony Davis [defense website]. Davis had filed an original writ of habeas corpus [cert. petition, PDF] directly in the Supreme Court. Justice John Paul Stevens wrote a concurring opinion, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Justice Antonin Scalia filed a dissenting opinion [text, PDF], joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, writing:
Today this Court takes the extraordinary step one not taken in nearly 50 years of instructing a district court to adjudicate a state prisoner's petition for an original writ of habeas corpus. The Court proceeds down this path even though every judicial and executive body that has examined petitioner's stale claim of innocence has been unpersuaded, and (to make matters worst) even though it would be impossible for the District Court to grant any relief. Far from demonstrating, as this Court's Rule 20.4(a) requires, "exceptional circumstances" that "warrant the exercise of the Court's discretionary powers," petitioner's claim is a sure loser. Transferring his petition to the District Court is a confusing exercise that can serve no purpose except to delay the State's execution of its lawful criminal judgment.


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The Daily Star
---- — Delhi sets pool hours
SUNY Delhi's pool will be open from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
The pool also will be open from 1-5 p.m. Sunday.
Little League
sign-ups Saturday
Catskill Mountain Little League will hold sign-ups from 9 a.m.-noon Saturday at the Robinson Terrace meeting room in Stamford.
Players must be ages 4-12 as of May 1, 2013. Original birth certificate and three proofs of residency are required at sign-ups.
For more information, call 607-538-9696.
Ice fishing clinic
set for Saturday
The Otsego County Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs, Otschodela Council BSA and NYSDEC are co-sponsoring a free Ice Fishing Clinic at Henderson Scout Reservation on Crumhorn Lake from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday.
This event is geared towards kids and those who are new to the sport. Species available include sunfish, pickerel, crappie and perch.
A warming area, food, bait and some tackle will be provided. Some tackle will be available.
No license is required to participate. To pre-register or for more information, call Bob Pierce at 607-432-1896.
Pitching camp
starts Sunday
The 2013 Oneonta Pitching Camp for girls ages 8-18 will run consecutive Sundays from Jan. 27-March 3 at the Oneonta Boys and Girls Club.
Session I is for advanced pitchers, Session II is for intermediate and Session III is for beginners. There are limited openings for Session I, which runs from 1:30-3:30 p.m. and costs $200. Pitchers must possess the basic fundamentals and mechanics of windmill pitching.
Sessions II and III are $85 each. Session II runs from 3:30-4:30 p.m. and Session III runs from 4:30-5:30 p.m.
For more information, call Oneonta High softball coach Randy Brockway at 607-435-8205 or John Seedborg at 607-765-6837.
O-State to host baseball clinics
Oneonta State will host two high school baseball clinics at Alumni Field House this winter.
The Red Dragons will hold a pitchers/catchers clinic Sunday and a hitting/defense clinic Feb. 3. Registration for both runs from 11:15 a.m.-noon, followed by the clinic from noon-3 p.m.
Cost is $35 per camper for one clinic or $60 per camper for both. The clinics are designed for high school players who will graduate during the 2013-2016 time period.
For more information, call O-State coach Ben Grimm at 607-436-2661 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
O-State softball
to host dinner
Oneonta State's softball team will host its annual spaghetti dinner fundraiser from 5-8 p.m. Feb. 2 at the 6th Ward Athletic Club in Oneonta.
Tickets can be purchased in advance from players or the coaching staff for $8 each. Tickets cost $10 the day of the event. Children ages 5 and under eat free. The event also includes raffles and a small silent auction.
The fundraiser will support the team's trip to Florida in March.
For more information, call head coach Liz Wagner at 607-436-3590.
Hartwick to hold indoor soccer camp
Hartwick College will host its Jr. Hawks Winter Indoor Soccer Camp from Feb. 18-21 at the college.
The camp is for children ages 6-12 and runs from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. each day. Cost is $80.
For more information, call Matt Verni at 607-431-4728.
Gun shows
start Feb. 10
The Midstate Arms Collectors and Shooters Club will host gun and knife shows from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on the following dates.
Feb. 10: Sidney Gun Show at Elk's Club on River Street ($2 admission)
March 3: Oneonta Gun Show at Holiday Inn ($2 admission)
Aug. 11: Unadilla Gun Show and Flea Market at Unadilla Rod & Gun Club (free admission)
Oct. 13: Lisle Gun Show at Lise Fire Co. ($3 admission)
Nov. 3: Oneonta Gun Show at Holiday Inn ($2 admission)
Table reservations cost $15 and must be paid by cash in advance.
For more information, call 607-748-1010.
Umpires to hold meeting Sunday
Local chapters of the Schohanna Board of Baseball/Softball Umpires will hold their first business meeting of the season at 10 a.m. Sunday in Lecture Hall 1 of Oneonta State's IRC Building.
Anyone interested in becoming an umpire for the upcoming high school/summer seasons should attend.
For more information, call 607-287-3537 or visit the website www.schohannaumpires.org.
Cooperstown seeking nominations
Cooperstown Central is accepting nominations for its Athletics Hall of Fame, which will induct its Class of 2013 in the fall.
Nominations are due by Feb. 18.
For more information or a nomination form, email Cooperstown athletic director Monica Wolfe at email@example.com.
Youth soccer forms due March 1Registration forms for the Oneonta Youth Soccer Association's spring recreational program will be distributed through Oneonta elementary schools and are due March 1. Forms also are available at Latte Lounge on Main Street in Oneonta.
The program is open to youths in grades K-3 who attend school or live in the Oneonta City School District. For more information, email Geoff Davis at email@example.com.
Delhi to offer lifeguard training
SUNY Delhi will offer Red Cross Waterfront Lifeguarding Training, AED, First Aid and CPR-FPR on Mondays and Wednesdays from March 18-May 6.
Classes will run from 6-9 p.m. There will be no classes on April 15 and 17.
Attendance at all sessions is required. Pre-screening the first night includes a 550-yard non-stop swim, a brick swim and retrieval, and a ring retrieval.
Class size is limited, with a minimum of six students. Cost is $270, including a $45 non-refundable deposit at registration. Remainder of fee is due the second day of class.
For more information, email email@example.com.
State boys basketball tickets on saleTickets for the March 15-17 New York State Public High School Athletic Association's Boys Basketball State Championships at the Glens Falls Civic are on sale.
The first 1,000 tickets purchased before March 1 cost $8 each. A 4 for $50 package (four tickets, four hot dogs, four sodas) will be offered as well but is only available until March 1.
Regular ticket prices are $10 per session or $50 for all sessions over the three-day event.
State championship weekend begins with the Class D semifinals at 10 and 11:45 a.m. March 15, followed by the Class C semis at 1:30 and 5 p.m., and the Class B semis at 6:45 and 8:30 p.m.
The March 16 schedule opens with Class A semifinals at 9 and 10:45 a.m., with the Class AA semis to follow at 12:30 and 2:15 p.m. Finals for Class D (5:30 p.m.), Class C (7:15 p.m.) and Class B (9 p.m.) are also scheduled for March 16.
The Class A final is set for 1 p.m. March 17, with the Class AA final closing the weekend schedule at 2:45 p.m.
Tickets are available at all Price Chopper locations, the Civic Center Box Office, by phone at 855-GFCC-TIX and online at www.GlensFallsCC.com.
State wrestling tickets on sale
Tickets are on sale for the 51st annual New York State Public High School Athletic Association Wrestling Tournament, which will run Feb. 22-23 at the Times Union Center in Albany.
Session 1 starts at 9:30 a.m. Feb. 22 with the Parade of Champions, followed by Division I and II preliminaries from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., quarterfinals from 2-4 p.m. and wrestlebacks from 4-8 p.m.
Session 2 features state semifinals and wrestlebacks from 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Feb. 23, followed by wrestlebacks and consolation semifinals from 12:30-2 p.m. and consolation finals from 2-3:30 p.m.
Session 3 highlights Division I and II state championship matches and begins at 6 p.m. Feb. 23.
One-session tickets cost $12 apiece. Three-session ticket packages cost $38 for premium seating and $33 without. All seating is general admission, except for premium seating for the finals. Premium seating will not be sold separately during the finals.
To purchase tickets, visit the Times Union Center box office, call 1-800-745-3000 to charge by phone, or visit the website www.timesunion.com.
The Times Union Center will host the state wrestling championships through 2016.
CSC accepting Futsal registrations
The Clark Sports Center in Cooperstown is taking registration for its Individual Winter/Spring Futsal League, which will run Sunday nights.
Cost is $60 for non-members and $25 for members. Players must be at least age 18 and out of high school.
For more information, call Scott Whiteman at 607-547-2800, ext. 109.
Golf continues through March
Colonial Ridge Golf in Laurens is accepting sign-ups for its winter simulator golf league.
Two-person teams compete weekly in a captain-and-mate format. Play runs through the week of March 25-29. Playing times are flexible as teams may on weekdays of their choice from week to week.
Weekly fees are $10 per person. A one-time fee of $20 per person is also required to pay for prize money (110-percent cash payout).
For more information or to sign up, call Colonial Ridge Golf at 607-263-5291.
Rat Snake registration open
Registration is open for the 2013 Rat Snake, a triathlon held in honor of the late Dr. Ken Stalter.
The event, which is scheduled for May 18, will feature professional timing. The triathlon/team triathlon will begin at 7 a.m., followed by the trail run at 10 a.m. and the 3-kilometer jog/stroll at noon.
The triathlon and trail run will be limited to 100 participants. The team triathlon will be limited to 10 teams.
For more information, visit the website theratsnake.com.


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Breaching experiment
In the fields of sociology and social psychology, a breaching experiment is an experiment that seeks to examine people's reactions to violations of commonly accepted social rules or norms. Breaching experiments are most commonly associated with ethnomethodology, and in particular the work of Harold Garfinkel. Breaching experiments involve the conscious exhibition of "unexpected" behavior/violation of social norms, an observation of the types of social reactions such behavioral violations engender, and an analysis of the social structure that makes these social reactions possible.[1] The idea of studying the violation of social norms and the accompanying reactions has bridged across social science disciplines, and is today used in both sociology and psychology.
The assumption behind this approach is not only that individuals engage daily in building up "rules" for social interaction, but also that people are unaware they are doing so.[2] The work of sociologist Erving Goffman laid the theoretical foundation for ways to study the construction of everyday social meanings and behavioral norms, especially by breaking unstated but universally accepted rules. Garfinkel expanded on this idea by developing ethnomethodology as a qualitative research method for social scientists. Later, in the 1970s and 80s, famous social psychologist, Stanley Milgram, developed two experiments which enabled observations of responses to breaches in social norms to be quantified in order to empirically analyze people's reactions to the violation of social norms.[3][4]
Goffman published two seminal works related to this domain: Behavior in Public Places in 1963 and Relations in Public: Microstudies of the Public Order, published in 1971. Goffman draws on his earlier studies of individuals in mental asylums, as well as other stigmatized social groups, in order to highlight the often taken-for-granted rules of social interaction, as well as the results when rules are broken. He argues that the most common rule in all social situations is for the individual to "fit in" [5] He defines norms as a kind of guide for action which is supported by social sanctions or reactions, in that there are penalties for infraction, or breaking norms, while individuals are generally rewarded for compliance.[6] If an individual breaches a social norm, the act is often attributed to some property of the individual, such as that the person is sick or mentally ill. For example, a person who is observed talking to himself in a public place is assumed to be mentally ill by any strangers who may notice.
Goffman further states that social gatherings have significant importance for organizing social life. He argues that all people in a social setting will have some concern regarding the rules governing behavior. Infractions, or violation of an unstated rule, may be "taken as a sign that the offender cannot be trusted" not to take advantage of the situation "even though the original infraction itself" may actually be harmless. Individuals come to "feel that rules for participating in gatherings are crucial for society's well-being" and that these "rules are natural, inviolable, and fundamentally right"[7]
Harold Garfinkel and "making commonplace scenes visible"[edit]
Garfinkel suggests that each member of society uses "background expectancies " in order to interpret and decide how to act in a social situation. However, individuals are unable to explicitly describe what each of these expectancies, or rules, are. One way to help make background expectancies more visible is to be a "stranger to the life as usual character of everyday scenes" [8] Although the term "breaching experiment" developed as a result of Garfinkel's approach, he warns it should not properly be called an experiment, but more accurately, a demonstration meant to produce disorganized interaction in order to highlight how the structures of everyday activities are ordinarily created and maintained.[8]
Some examples of everyday scenes include the home, school, or workplace. One task Garfinkel assigned to his graduate students was to challenge everyday understandings by frequently asking for clarification during a normal conversation with a friend or family member. Below is an example of an excerpt quoted in Garfinkel's text, Studies in Ethnomethodology:
Case 2:
S: Hi Ray. How is your girlfriend feeling?
E: What do you mean, "How is she feeling?" Do you mean physical or mental?
S: I mean how is she feeling? What's the matter with you? (He looked peeved)
E: Nothing. Just explain a little clearer what do you mean?
S: Skip it. How are your Med School applications coming?
E: What do you mean, "How are they?"
S: You know what I mean!
E: I really don't.
S: What's the matter with you? Are you sick?"[8]
This is a breaching experiment in the form of interpersonal conversation. The violation of the expectancy of shared verbal understanding between friends results in the subject expressing confusion and irritation. Garfinkel instructed his students to treat such everyday, implicit understandings as problematic phenomena to be studied. Breaching experiments reveal the resilience of social reality, since the subjects respond immediately to normalize the breach. They do so by rendering the situation understandable in familiar terms. It is assumed that the way people handle these breaches reveals much about how they handle their everyday lives.[2]
Social psychology approach to breaching norms[edit]
Later work in the field of social psychology adapted this approach, but often refers to the phenomena as social norm breaking. Two of the most well known studies of violation of social norms by a social psychologist were carried out by Stanley Milgram, well known for his infamous obedience experiments. One was conducted on the New York City Subway in the 1970s, when experimenters boarded crowded trains and asked able-bodied but seated riders, with no explanation, to give up their seats.[3] The other was conducted in the 1980s, and studied the reactions to graduate student experimenters cutting ahead in lines of people waiting to purchase railroad tickets.[4] Although these experiments build on the sociological work on breaching norms, it is also noteworthy that they are approached quantitatively by being structured in a way which allows the experimenter to observe and count people's reactions.
Milgram defines "residual rules" as rules which fulfill two criteria: 1) people must be in substantial agreement about them 2) they are not noticed until a violation occurs. A residual rule of everyday interaction on the New York Subway is that seats are on a first-come, first-served basis and individuals are not supposed to talk to one another in such close quarters.[3]
The experimenters violated this implicit rule by asking people to give up their seats. They then measured the responses as the number of times individuals consented or refused to give up their seats, and also noted people's verbal and physical reactions to the request. Experimenters approached individuals under three conditions:
1) The experimenter approached the subject and said, "Excuse me. May I please have your seat?" No justification was offered.
2) The second condition tested the hypothesis that subjects gave up their seats because they assumed the experimenter had some important reason for requesting it. In order to rule out this assumption, experimenters were instructed to ask "Excuse me. May I please have your seat. I can't read my book standing up."
3) The third condition was included because the experimenters believed that subjects might have been so startled by the request that they didn't have time to think about an adequate reply. Therefore, in this condition, in order to alert the subject that a seat might be requested, two experimenters entered the subway car from different doors and engaged in the following conversation:
E1: Excuse me. Do you think it would be alright if I asked someone for a seat?" E2: I don't know"
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The experimenters reasoned that subjects in the no justification condition engaged in normalization of the breach by attributing a meaning to the violation that would make it seem not to be a violation at all. An example of such a normalization would be he is asking for seat because he is sick. Since the second condition, the trivial justification, prevented the process of normalization, subjects could not as easily imagine an appropriate justification for the request, and therefore, a much lower number gave up their seats. In the third, overheard condition, the experimenters reasoned that the warning of the pending seat request allowed subjects to be better prepared to refuse the request.
An important aspect of the maintenance of social norms is also revealed in the emotional reactions felt by the experimenters. Most of the experimenters reported great difficulty in carrying out the task. They reported that, when standing in front of the subject, they felt anxious, tense, and embarrassed. Many felt unable to verbalize the request for a seat and had to withdraw. They sometimes feared they were the center of attention in the car and were often unable to look directly at the subjects. Once they made a successful request for a seat, they felt pressure to act in a way which would actually justify the request, such as pretending to be ill. Milgram proposes that the experimenters were playing the social role of subway rider, and they felt an extreme emotional reaction as a result of breaking implicit rules for that role. These extreme emotional reactions reflect how important it is to people to engage in routine, everyday activities.
"Response to intrusion into waiting lines"[edit]
Another norm breaching study led by Milgram sought to examine the response of people waiting in line to intruders, again violating first-come, first served. This was done by having experimenters break into naturally formed lines around New York City and noting how people respond to them. The experimenters encroached on a total of 129 waiting lines, formed at railroad ticket counters, betting parlors, and other New York City locations.
The lines had an average of six people waiting. The experimenter calmly approached a point between a 3rd and 4th person in line and said in a neutral tone "Excuse me, I'd like to get in here." Before anyone in the line could respond, the intruder cut in line and faced forward. If the experimental intruder was directly admonished to leave the line, he or she did so. Otherwise, the intruder stayed in the line for one minute before departing. Three female and two male graduate students acted as intruders, with an observer watching nearby to record physical, verbal, and nonverbal reactions to the intrusion. The experiment manipulated conditions by having either one or two intruders break into the line, as well as varying one or two buffers, or experimenters standing passively by in the line. This enabled the researchers to test whether the responsibility of addressing the intruder would extend from the person closest behind in line to the rest of those in line.
Broadly, results indicated that others in line objected with greatest frequency, (91.3%), when there were two intruders and no buffers. One intruder and no buffer resulted in the next highest frequency of objections (54%). The least amount of objection (5.0%) occurred when there was only one intruder and two buffers. Thus, objections occurred most frequently when there were more intruders and fewer buffers. The researchers noted the following rates for each type of objection: physical action (10%), verbal interjections (21.7%), nonverbal objections such as dirty looks, hostile stares, and gestures (14.7%).[4] Verbal responses were the most common, with comments such as, "No way! The line's back there. We've all been waiting and have trains to catch."
As reported in Milgram's subway study, experimenters in this study also experienced a high level of negative emotion associated with the task of intrusion into lines. Experimenters described feeling nauseous, anxious, and struggling to get up the "nerve" to intrude in a line. Milgram reasons that these feelings make up the "inhibitory anxiety that ordinarily prevents individuals from breaching social norms" and indicate that the internal restraints against intruding into lines play a significant role in assuring the integrity of the line.[4]
- "The inexplicable do-gooder": Social science researcher Earl R. Babbie writes that "it is a social rule that ordinary citizens should not pick up garbage from the street, or mend street signs, or otherwise fix problems."[9] Babbie claims that people have negative reactions when they see somebody fixing something that is not his/her "job" to fix; in some cases, altruistic actions are viewed as personal intrusions.
- A game of tic-tac-toe where the experimenter asks the subject to make the first move, then erases that mark and move it to another square before making the responding move.[2]
- Standing very, very close to a person while otherwise maintaining an innocuous conversation.
- Saying "hello" at the termination of a conversation.
- In a now classic experiment, Garfinkel instructed a class of students to return to their parental homes and to act as lodgers. To the parents, the behavior of their children was bizarre and disturbing, as the taken for granted (and unnoticed) conventions of how children behave in their home (and thus how parents behave to their children) were unraveled.[8]
- ^ Rafalovich, Adam (2006). "Making sociology relevant: The assignment and application of breaching experiments". Teaching sociology 34 (2): 156–163. doi:10.1177/0092055X0603400206
- ^ a b c Ritzer, George. 1996. "Ethnomethodology." Pp. 373-399 in Sociological Theory. 4th Ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill| ISBN 0078111676
- ^ a b c Stanley, Milgram; Sabini, John (1978). "Advances in environmental psychology 1, the urban environment". In Baum, A.; Singer, J.E.; Valins, S. On maintaining social norms: A field experiment in the subway. Erlbaum Associates. pp. 31–40. ISBN 0898593719
- ^ a b c d Milgram, Stanley; Liberty, Hilary; Toledo, Raymond; Blacken, Joyce (1956). "Response to intrusion in waiting lines". Journal of personality and social Psychology 51 (4): 683–689. doi:10.1037/0022-3522.214.171.1243
- ^ Goffman, Erving (1963). Behavior in Public Places. Free Press. ISBN 0029119405.
- ^ Goffman, Erving (1971). Relations in Public: Microstudies of the Public Order. Basic Books. p. 95. ISBN 141281006X.
- ^ Goffman, Erving (1963). Behavior in Public Places. Free Press. p. 235. ISBN 0029119405.
- ^ a b c d Garfinkel, Harold (1991). Studies in Ethnomethodology. Polity Press. p. 36. ISBN 0745600050.
- ^ Babbie, Earl. 2001. The Practice of Social Research (9th Edition). Wadsworth ISBN 0-534-62029-9 - chapter 10, according to [1]


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But there were somber moments, too, including remarks from Obama about the BP oil disaster, and some overtly political comments from McCartney, who praised Obama and took some digs at George W. Bush. "Getting this prize would just be good enough, but getting it from this president …," McCartney said. Later, he noted, "After the last eight years, it's great to have a president who knows what a library is." But the evening, after all, was about McCartney, and Obama praised the timelessness and the universal appeal of McCartney's music — and also geeked out with some Beatles statistics: 200 of McCartney's songs have charted, Obama said, and they've stayed there for "a cumulative total of 32 years."
Throughout the evening, the president — sitting with the first family and McCartney's girlfriend, Nancy Shevell — occasionally let down his guard and was visibly transported by the Beatle's music. During McCartney's opening number, "Got to Get You Into My Life," Obama briefly closed his eyes, smiled broadly, and swayed his head sideways. During Stevie Wonder's lean and energetic rendition of "We Can Work It Out," the president and first lady grooved and made eye contact, even as their daughters appeared somewhat stone-faced. Sasha and Malia Obama, however, were more receptive to the next performers: the Jonas Brothers, who turned in a note-perfect, lively version of "Drive My Car."
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Greater Western Sydney coach Kevin Sheedy is targeting as many as six wins in 2013 as his fledgling AFL club aims to build on a solid inaugural season.
To many pundits, the Giants' two wins this year with 36 debutants in their squad and average home crowds of around 11,000 in a highly competitive Sydney football market can be regarded as a relative success.
Although the veteran mentor concedes winning games is "pretty crucial" for the future of the Giants, the code's most prominent ambassador likes to look at the bigger picture.
For Sheedy that's growing the AFL's profile in Australia's largest city, as he philosophised on Wednesday about his goals for 2013.
And Sheedy believes crosstown rivals the Swans' premiership win will only benefit his side.
Far from being intimidated by the A-League's Sydney derby that attracted a raucous crowd of 26,000 last weekend, he says the AFL should be excited that sports fans crave city rivalries.
Reflecting on a challenging year that yielded wins over Gold Coast and Port Adelaide, Sheedy insists a solid foundation has been laid for the future.
"You'd hope we can get between three to six wins (in 2013) depending on injuries and how the season plans out," he said after a tough training session in warm conditions.
"We ran out with the most first-game players this year in the history of footy, so that makes it hard to balance out where you're going to be the following year.
As big a concern for the 64-year-old is building the AFL in Sydney and avoiding the fate of the Gold Coast Suns, who suffered a 20 per cent drop in memberships and crowds in their second season in the competition this year.
Sheedy gave a back-handed compliment to his former club Richmond, who he played 251 games for between 1967-1979.
Despite not winning a premiership over the past 30 years, he paid tribute to the club's culture that has created continued popularity in the face of some on-field struggles.
"It's quite an amazing story," said Sheedy.
"It's about how you create a football club.
"(And) the best thing about this club (GWS) is it's a white canvas. We can create our own history."
Sheedy hopes GWS can boost their membership tally to 15,000 with an exciting crop of youngsters coming through and having recruited the likes of experienced defenders Bret Thornton from Carlton and Stephen Gilham from Hawthorn.
"There's 350,000 people in Sydney that barrack for AFL clubs," he said.
"We need to find them and encourage them to build our game.
"If we're the second club (they support), I don't have a problem with that, although I'd love us to be their first."
Far from embracing a siege mentality against rival football codes, Sheedy welcomes the options open to youngsters in the west.
"We're the only country that has the four codes – AFL, rugby league, rugby union, soccer," he said.
"It's the best way to go in this country. We deliver the whole menu in football. That's what makes us a special place."© AAP 2014
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Brewski said | December 20th 2012 @ 5:09pm | Report comment
If they get 6 wins, i will be very suprised, what tends to happen is a club reaches a stage where they are competetive but still lose matches, TBH i reckon they should be happy to reach that stage.
GC should be eying 6+ wins, and having a stack of competetive losses.
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Lockport Union-Sun & Journal — Incumbent Legislator Rick Updegrove asks voters to look at the progress Niagara County has made under the GOP-led Legislature, while challenger Anthony Molinaro says they should take a look at a tax bill and find any change.
Molinaro and Updegrove are squaring off in the race to represent the 12th District in the Niagara County Legislature. The district covers the city and town of Lockport.
Updegrove, a Buffalo lawyer seeking his sixth two-year term, has served as the Legislature's Republican majority leader since 2007. He is also carrying the Conservative and Independence lines.
The GOP majority took over 10 years ago, a year after the county saw a double digit increase in taxes, Updegrove said. Over that time, Updegrove says the county tax rate has been reduced by 12 percent and the size of the government by 16 percent, mostly by privatizing certain services such as long-term and home healthcare.
And since 2008, the county Industrial Development Agency has approved projects totaling $887.4 million in capital investment, leading to the creation of 1,421 jobs, Updegrove said in a letter to County Manager Jeffrey Glatz. Updegrove was asking Glatz to use any budget surplus to reduce the tax rate.
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As we continue to mourn the deaths of the children brutally murdered in Newtown, Connecticut, the issue of gun violence is rightfully so in the mainstream.
The National Rifle Association has a solution to gun violence - whether it is a member of Congress being shot at in Arizona, a school shooting in Connecticut or a mentally ill individual in a crowded shopping mall unloading his rifle - a solution of calling for armed guards at schools. I want to examine, why, as a nation, this is horrible federal public policy and just a sideshow distraction by a gun industry only interested in one thing: money.
The gun industry (like so many other corporate industries, whether its cigarettes, oil or defense), has some of the most well-paid and powerful lobbyists in the country. Make no mistake about it, nobody is attacking anyone's 2nd Amendment rights. The gun lobby has a job to make it as easy as possible to make sure guns are easy to purchase, even if it is someone who fails a background check or is mentally unstable. They have one goal and that is to make sure gun manufacturers sell guns. You have an extreme group of the population that is 110% in support of the gun lobby, characterize this as an attack on the 2nd Amendment and want to make everything about that 'attack'. Fortunately, that is a fringe group in our country. Unfortunately, that fringe group can make a lot of noise.
The overwhelming majority of Americans can agree, that together, Democrats, Republicans and Unaffiliateds should come together to stop illegal guns from getting into our cities. The overwhelming majority of murders in Newark and Camden are from illegal guns. That should be the primary focus.
Second, the majority of Americans agree that if you are a law abiding citizen who so desires, you should be able to purchase a basic gun for self-protection. However, why should non-military and non-law enforcement folks be able to purchase an AK-47 or another type of gun?
Third, background checks need to be enforced so that those who have a criminal record, or is an undocumented resident or is mentally unstable is unable to purchase any type of gun, period. Similar to how we penalize bar owners for serving alcohol to minors, the severest penalties need to be given to any gun shop owner or manufacturer who sells a gun to any of the above categories and more.
Together, these are 3 areas that a strong majority of Americans agree on and Congress and the President should enforce these areas to the strictest. We currently aren't even stopping illegal guns or those who are mentally unstable from purchasing a gun!
Putting tens of thousands of guns now in schools throughout the country with armed guards does nothing to solve the situation. What happens if more than one attacker comes into a school, like a Columbine, where they had an armed guard?
What happens if at a place like a police station, such as in South Jersey earlier this week, a gun is stolen from a police officer and three people are shot?
How is this plan financially feasible? Armed guards could cost up to $100,000 each and where does that end? Do we put armed guards whereever children are? Churches? Playgrounds? Public transportation? Shopping malls? Beaches? Where else? This is not Israel and we are not at war constantly fearful of an enemy about to bomb us. What is the psychological impact to students of having an armed guard at every school? Do you feel safer seeing guards at airports?
My point is simple...has this well-publicized plan thoroughly been discussed or analyzed before the National Rifle Association and right-wing extremist members of Congress announced this as the solution? Some on the far right compare this to 9/11 and air safety. We don't have air marshals on every flight and the threat of global jihadist terrorism is a lot different than a mentally ill 20 year old.
As a Democratic County Chairman, this is my view. I happen to agree with Republican Governor Chris Christie as he and I agree on why we should not have a federal policy of putting armed guards in schools. However, I don't take issue with any school district who believes they need an armed guard at a school.
The Democratic Party Mayor of Marlboro Jon Hornik, Democratic Council members and the elected Marlboro Board of Education came out strongly in favor of armed guards at the Marlboro Schools. I don't disagree with their decision because I don't have the same information or same knowledge as Mayor Hornik and the Board of Education has on what goes in the Marlboro schools.
In fact, I don't have an issue with any individual school district that chooses to do it. That is why there is an elected Board of Education who the people entrust to make those choices and local residents will evaluate if that is what's best for the children in that town. Elected Board of Education members have information at hand regarding the safety of their district schools that the general public does not have. I am sure there are school systems in Newark and Jersey City that may have several armed guards working there. I do, however, take issue with a proposed NRA federal policy mandating that on all schools spend millions of dollars placing armed guards at every school district throughout the country.
At the end of the day, until we first address why those suffering from mental health illness are able to purchase guns, illegal guns in general and legislation preventing background checks, the situation will continue.
The extreme National Rifle Association is trying to divide this country and they are succeeding, by talking about armed guards as if that is the solution of gun violence. Thirty three people are dying every day due to gun violence, most of it illegal gun violence, and the policies advocated by the gun lobby are why this is happening.


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Joseph Harwell, MDEdit My Page
Title: Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Department: Medicine and Pediatrics
+1 401 793 2928
HIV in women, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, clinical care of HIV in resource-poor settings, sexually transmitted infections
Research Description
The world has seen a dramatic scale-up in the care and treatment of people living with HIV since 2002. The establishment of the President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Global Fund for HIV, tuberculosis and malaria during this time created funding mechanisms that have financed the bulk of this scale-up. Since 2005 I have been working with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) to help national governments develop and strengthen HIV treatment programs, largely financed through the Global Fund and PEPFAR, and to help them run more efficiently and effectively. My primary focus has been in Asia, where I serve as the Regional Clinical Officer for the CHAI country programs in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Vietnam. These programs have had particular emphases on children and rural areas, where the economic, structural, and technical barriers to care and treatment are considerable.
1998 "Outstanding Fellow of the Year" as selected by the internal medicine housestaff, Baystate Medical Center
2002 "Dean's Teaching Excellence Award," Brown Medical School Bio 282 Pathophysiology Infectious Disease
2002 "Vision Award" New Visions for Newport County Inc. Jean E. Hicks Community Health Center for community service and support
2004 "Dean's Teaching Excellence Award," Brown Medical School Bio 282 Pathophysiology Infectious Disease
2005 "Dean's Teaching Excellence Award," Brown Medical School Bio 282 Pathophysiology Infectious Disease
1999- Staff Physician, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI
1999- Staff Physician, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI
1999- Staff Physician, Hasbro Children's Hospital, Providence, RI
2006- Staff Physician, Women and Infants Hospital, Providence, RI
Funded Research
1. Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program (NIAID TW000237). Co coordinator of Cambodian programs. Co-investigator.
2. HIV Prevention Trials Network (NIAID). Site representative for STD working group. Involved in microbicide trials and perinatal working group. Co-investigator.
3. "Pilot study of genital tract and blood plasma virology and pharmacology in HIV-1 infected women" (Rhode Island Foundation 20020737). Principal Investigator.
4. "Clinical evaluation of Vironostika HIV-1 plus o microelisa system" (Biomerieux 226034). Principal investigator. $21250.00.
5. "Sexual risk and HIV/STD in vulnerable Cambodian females" (NIAID). Co-investigator.
6. "HIV, abuse, and psychiatric disorders among youth" (NIMH 1R01MH061149-01). Co-investigator. 30 September 2000 21 January 2003.
7. Scholar in the "Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH Scholars) Program," NIH Grant K12 HD043447, (Coustan) to Women & Infants. 1 January 2003 31 December 2005.
8. Establishing a Women's HIV Clinic in Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Clinical and Research Training and Development (World AIDS Foundation 320 (03-038), Harwell). 1 September 2003 31 December 2005.
9. Genital Tract HIV Shedding in Cambodian Women (1 R03 TW006981-01, Harwell). 1 April 2004 31 March 2007.
10. "Clinical Training in Pediatric HIV Care in Clinton Foundation Partner Countries" (Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative). 1 January 2006-31 December 2006.
11. "Supplement for RCR Training in Cambodia" (5D43TW000237, Cu-Uvin). Co-investigator. $50,000. 1 September 2011 - 31 August 2012.
12. "A randomized controlled trial to assess the effect of peer support to children with HIV in relation to adherence, virological treatment failure as well as physical and cognitive development" Government of Sweden (Larson). Co-investigator. $387,000. 1 November 2011 31 October 2014.
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Selected Publications
- Theng T, Sok P, Harwell JI, Cu-Uvin S, Pugatch D. HIV prevalence among parturient women in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. International Journal of STD & AIDS (in press) 2003.(2003)
- Harwell JI, Flanigan TP, Mitty JA, Macalino GE, Stenzel MA, Carpenter CCJ, Cu-Uvin S. Directly observed therapy to reduce genital tract and plasma HIV-1 RNA in women with poor adherence. AIDS (in press) 2003.(2003)
- Chhin S, Rozycki G, Pugatch D, Harwell JI. Etiology of Meningitis in HIV-Infected Patients in a Referral Hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. International Journal of STD & AIDS (in press) 2003.(2003)
- Harwell JI, Moench T, Mayer KH, Chapman S, Rodriguez I, Cu-Uvin S. A Pilot Sutdy of Treatment of Bacterial Vaginosis with a Buffering Vaginal Microbicide. Women's Health and Gender Based Medicine 2003;12:255-9.(2003)
- Tashima KT, Alt DN, Harwell JI, Fiebich-Perez DK, Flanigan TP. Internet Sex Seeking Leads to Acute HIV Infection: A Report of Two Cases. International Journal of STD and AIDS 2003;14(4); 285-6.(2003)
- Senya C, Mehta A, Harwell JI, Pugatch D, Flanigan T, Mayer KH. Spectrum of Opportunistic Infections in Hospitalised HIV-Infected Patients in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. International Journal of STD & AIDS 2002;14:411-6.(2002)
- Lally MA, Alvarez S, MacNevin R, Cenedella C, Dispigno M, Harwell JI, Pugatch D, Flanigan, TE. Acceptability of Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening among Women in Short-Term Substance Abuse Treatment. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Vol. 29, No.12;752-755, December 2002.(2002)
- Cu-Uvin S, Hogan JW, Caliendo AM, Harwell JI, Mayer KH, Carpenter CCJ. Association between bacterial vaginosis and expression of HIV-1 RNA in the female genital tract. Clin Infect Dis 2001; 33:894-6(2001)
- Morris AB, Cu-Uvin S, Harwell JI. et al. A Multicenter Review of Protease Inhibitors in 89 Pregnancies. J AIDS 2000;25:306-311(2000)


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How Dare Republicans Attack Obama on Bin Laden Death?
The right constantly attacks, slings mud, takes words of those running for office on the left out of context, but now that a Democrat dares to do it—well, watch out!
Americans and the world came together to mark the one year anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden. Now those on the right attack the president for an ad that is running regarding his decisions surrounding this event. And for the past year, many on the right have belittled or downplayed the president's role in this event. Now, they accuse him of being the divisive one…perhaps they should not stand so close to their glass houses.
And over the weekend, Arianna Huffington, a former Republican who claims to be a liberal, called an ad run by the Obama campaign on this very issue "despicable."
[Vote: Is Obama Wrongly Politicizing Osama Bin Laden's Death?]
I have watched the ad several times now. What is despicable about it I wonder?
The president is in a tough and tight race to keep his position as president. In the ad, former President Bill Clinton points out the decision the president made, how difficult it is, and how different the styles of President Obama and his opponent Mitt Romney are in this regard.
[See a collection of political cartoons on the 2012 campaign.]
When you're in a bid for re-election, and you are being attacked for the economy, the unemployment rate, the housing market, environmental issues, the behavior of government offices and staff, illegal immigrants, foreign policy, etc., why isn't it okay to point out your accomplishments? Why shouldn't the American people know the differences between the candidates they're looking at voting for, or against?
Now some say it's taking Mitt Romney's words out of context that is disturbing. Well, where was the outrage last November when a Mitt Romney ad quoted President Obama saying something that actually Sen. John McCain, President Obama's former opponent, had said? Mitt Romney did not apologize for the ad, even though it was proven the president was misquoted, his words taken out of context. Or more recently, when the Romney camp went running with a "silver spoon" remark the president made, also taken out of context!?
[Read Peter Fenn: GOP Attacks on Obama's Bin Laden Success Are Hypocritical]
I am amazed how the right wing constantly attacks, slings mud, takes words of those running for office on the left out of context, but now that a Democrat dares to do it—well, watch out! I'm not sure if it's the truth that hurts in this ad, or the fact the Democrats were using Republican-style campaign tactics. Besides, I was always taught everything's fair in love, war, and presidential campaigns, right?
The bottom line is this is the very party that questioned President Obama's religion, his place of birth, demanded to see his birth certificate; this is the party that did not become outraged with the numerous racial slurs and cartoons that surfaced since President Obama came on the radar screen; this is the very party that remained silent as the first lady was booed at a NASCAR event for charity; and now a decision that made the world safer is being attacked by the right—that, I find despicable.


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WASHINGTON — The congressman who held 22 hearings over a year and a half that tracked public backlash against the Transportation Security Administration says he's ready to offer legislation to save the agency from itself.
"The truth is this is a very dangerous world," Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Transportation Security Subcommittee, said in an interview. "TSA not surviving isn't an option. We have got to make it, though, smarter and leaner."
The Alabama Republican said he plans to offer a proposal next year, and its chances will improve if Republicans win control of the Senate in the November elections. The legislation would be shaped to force change onto a reluctant agency and congressional Democrats while blunting calls from within his own party to eliminate the TSA altogether, he said.
The legislation would give airports more power to hire private contractors for screening and make it tougher for the TSA to refuse, Rogers says. It also would scale back passenger pat-downs; require changes in how the agency buys screening equipment; mandate periodic reassessments of security procedures; and possibly eliminate the agency's list of items that can't be carried onto planes, he said.
"There's not another department inside the U.S. government that interacts with the American public more intimately and on a more regular basis than the TSA," said Rick "Ozzie" Nelson, director of the homeland security and counter-terrorism program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "As long as every conversation about the TSA starts with a horror story, we're not going to have the agency we want."
Congress has an important oversight role and TSA has to be able to work with lawmakers, agency Administrator John Pistole said in an interview.


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Two Strongsville men have been indicted on child pornography charges following a seven-month investigation by the the Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force.
Bruce Mazur, 63, of Greenbrier Drive, and Patrick Ziska, 22, were among 20 adults and one juvenile indicted as part of "Operation Rise and Shine."
Mazur's house on Greenbrier Drive was raided by ICAC agents on July 11. Neighbors said agents carried out computers and boxes.
Ziska was previously indicted by a federal grand jury in March for distributing and possessing child pornography following an investigation by the FBI.
In that case, Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, said Ziska was charged with distributing images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and possessing child pornography between Nov. 26, 2008 and Feb. 25, 2009.
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty said Operation Rise and Shine targeted traders of child pornography across the state.
Using new technology, detectives identified IP addresses being used to trade and download child pornography pictures and videos.
Between March and October, law enforcement officers from 21 agencies executed 31 search warrants on homes in 19 communities throughout Cuyahoga County.
Officers seized 2,455 items like computers, external hard drives, thumb drives, CDs and DVDs. An additional 76 cases were referred to 57 other law enforcement agencies in Ohio and one in Michigan.
The indictments include:
Michael Kleinschmidt, 51, of Cleveland, who was charged in a 103 count indictment that includes downloading, trading, and possessing child pornography. Kleinschmidt was previously indicted and pleaded guilty in December 1992, to one count of unlawful possession of a dangerous ordnance and four counts of disseminating matter harmful to juveniles. He was sentenced in January 1993 to 1-1/2 years in prison.
Walter Jacobsen, 46, of North Olmsted, was charged in a 24-count indictment that includes downloading, trading, and possessing child pornography. He is an employee of the Positive Education Program (PEP) which is designed to provide a safe and nurturing environment for children. Jacobsen continues to deny purposefully downloading child pornography and is currently on administrative leave from PEP.
Robert Holpuch, 57, of Valley View, a volleyball official for the Ohio High School Athletic Association, was charged in a four count indictment that includes attempted rape, attempted kidnapping, attempted compelling prostitution and possessing criminal tools. On October 29, 2012, undercover ICAC investigators posted an advertisement on the Internet. Holpuch immediately responded to the ad by e-mail. After additional conversation via e-mail and text, Holpuch agreed to pay $100 to the undercover investigator to engage in sexual activity with a 12-year-old girl.
The following adult defendants were indicted in the operation:
David Chmielewski, 45, of Bay Village
Jason Duhamel, 28, of Cleveland
Peter Hale, Jr., 56, of Cleveland
Clayton Holler, Jr., 30, of Parma
Robert Holpuch, 57, of Valley View
Robert Humphrey, 64, of Shaker Heights
Walter Jacobsen, 46, of North Olmsted
Michael Kleinschmidt, 51, of Cleveland
Maher Lababidi, 33, of Lakewood
Bruce Mazur, 63, of Strongsville
Keith Marks, 56, of Cleveland
Erik Miller, 29, of Seven Hills
Robert Palmerio, 72, of Lyndhurst
Jared Recob, 24, of Cleveland
Gregory Ross, 49, of Parma
John Snider, 68, of Lakewood
Alpher Torres, 38, of Cleveland
Chad Wain, 29, of Berea
Ronald Waynerka, 55, of Parma
Patrick Ziska, 22, of Strongsville


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