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I cover science and medicine, and believe this is biology's century.
In the current issue of The New Yorker, Michael Specter, journalism's great chronicler of how we know what we know, profiles Mehmet Oz, the surgeon and TV star who Oprah herself sainted as "America's doctor." (Go read it now, then come back.) In the piece, Specter finds Oz both saving lives and promoting bunkum. Here are seven people, products, and ideas Specter catches Oz promoting that are absolutely, positively, wrong:
And that's not counting some other kooky but probably harmless stuff, from using Reiki, a Japanese mystic idea that you can move the body's force fields with one's hands, in the operating room to the notion that having 200 orgasms, give or take, will extend your life six years. (Reiki was discredited, Specter tells us, in a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association conducted by a nine-year old girl. Orgasms, on the other hand, actually are good for you, but the exact numbers? A stretch.)
To Specter, and to all of us who believe that medicine should be based on science and on data, Oz's statement that medicine is "a very religious experience. I have my religion and you have yours" is, in a word, chilling. (That is Specter's word.) But Specter also shows us Mehmet Oz, the gifted surgeon who is the most talented communicator of medical ideas of his generation:
Oz explains complex medical issues in ways that almost anyone can understand, and he knows how to work an audience. In an early appearance on "Oprah," he showed up in scrubs, carrying a suitcase full of human organs. Wearing purple latex gloves, which became a trademark, he brought out a red, robust-looking heart. It was about the size of a softball, well-preserved and healthy, having come from a woman who had died recently in an accident. "The heart's a very spiritual organ," he told Winfrey. "It's supple, and it's firm, and it's poetic. You want to feel the soul?" Winfrey said, "Sure," and gave it a poke. Then Oz moved on to a badly damaged heart—bloated, white, and marbled with fat. The audience gasped as he cut into it with a scalpel; it looked like something that had been floating in water for weeks. He turned his attention to a pair of aortas. The first was pristine: smooth and clear, it had the texture of a clam. The other aorta was solid—it looked like gristle that had been discarded at a barbecue. "So that's literally the hardening of the arteries?" Winfrey asked. She had summoned an overweight man to the stage. He asked Oz how he would know if plaque was building up in his heart and turning the aorta into an inflexible tube. Oz replied, "One of the ways that you'd know this is happening is from impotence. The fact that the blood vessels are not going correctly to the penis means they're not going correctly to the heart, to the brain, to the kidneys. It's a warning sign. It's your dipstick."
The big question, to me, is whether that man, the surgeon who, after years of cracking people's chests, gives it to the audience straight and gross and gory and scares them with the reality of their biological selves, whether that guy could have succeeded on TV without all the appeals to energy fields and homeopathy and a new "miracle" supplement every week. Because that guy is still on Oz's show, telling people that they need to lose weight and lower their blood pressure, and we need that guy in people's living rooms. But I fear he wouldn't be succeeding without his evil twin, in the same way that Specter, one of my favorite science writers, is not as famous as the far more flighty Malcolm Gladwell. It strikes me that Scripps' Eric Topol, who Specter quotes calling Oz's health advice "lunacy," has some of the same dreams about changing medicine as Oz, dreams of escaping the constraints of medicine and the culture that walls off patients and doctors and bosses the patients around even when the doctor really has no idea what's best. But Topol's savior is digital, a blur of apps and mobile devices and genetic knowledge and Moore's law. If we need a savior, Topol's digital revolution is a far better bet than a bottle of red palm oil, but the desire comes from the same place. And it's what's making Topol very popular among the digital health crowd.
One of Specter's last New Yorker stories was about Ted Kaptchuk, the Harvard professor who has studied the placebo effect using fake and real acupuncture. His research hints that there might be big benefits to bedside manner in relieving our pain. When Oz dreams of returning to the age of the village healer, this is what he's missing, and it's also what causes his audience members to respond to them as they don't respond to their own physicians. There has got to be a way for medicine to appeal to people without detaching itself from reality. One gets the feeling that Oz is trying to find it. Right now, he is succeeding at being appealing, but not always at remaining connected to what is real and true.
Let's not forget Dr. Oz's horrific cover story in Time Magazine that may have unnecessarily scared untold numbers of people away from life-saving colonoscopies.
There is a plethora of research done on acupuncture, and an overwhelming majority find some benefit, but not within statistical significance. Higher significance in statistics means lower probability of 'chance' values. In acupuncture, practitioners excite larger diameter fiber nerves to block impulses generated by smaller diameter fiber, pain carrying nerves. It deadens the pain for about half a day. It might be that belief and needles both have something to do with acupuncture's acceptance, but for temporary relief without much side effects, it still remains an option for many people.
Here is the strange thing; analgesic effects of NSAIDs, and Tylenol also wear out. But with prolonged use, both can have serious side effects.
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Author of "Knee Deep in Pain".
Acupuncture while good is temporary. Pot on the other hand no only lasts longer, takes away the pain longer and is (for sure) the more enjoyable script. Medically speaking, of course! :)
Brilliant perspective Matthew – thanks for this.
As a heart attack survivor, I'm very sad that Dr. Oz has become so cringe-worthy. His wooden delivery and quasi-game show format, fueled by the screams of his enraptured audience members, is downright embarrassing to watch. But buried among the "Four Libido-Boosting Super Foods That Will Save Your Marriage!!!" time-wasters are indeed some reliable gems of medical advice – but how does the average schmuck watching him know the difference when both come from the great and powerful Oz?
As you rightly ask: could the guy succeed on TV without all the appeals to energy fields and homeopathy and a new "miracle" supplement every week? I suspect that the answer is YES, of course he could. Back when his show launched, his white-hot popularity, pre-blessed by Oprah, would have made his show a hit even if it contained (just imagine!) credible medical information only. One only hopes that his reputation management advisors are now warning him to back off, even as the growing firestorm of serious criticism of his credibility continues unabated.
Dr. Tom Linden, a professor of medical and science journalism at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill teaches that today's celebrity doctors can be divided into two broad categories: medical journalists and medical showmen. (More on this at: http://ethicalnag.org/2010/09/01/celebrity-doctors/ ) Dr. Linden writes:
"Journalists operate under journalistic principles. The showmen operate outside the sphere of journalism and are in the world of informational entertainment."
Dr. Oz has become the showman. And it's about ratings now, not science.
In my own blog (http://www.michaelwosnick.com/dr-oz-a-case-of-celebrity-run-amok/) a few months ago I wrote about Dr. Oz in a similar fashion. In par5t I said:
"I was initially very impressed by the way he explained things, by the models and hands-on approaches he used. He lets his guests get their hands dirty, and no subject is taboo. I thought as an adult educator, he has a very good style and a very good model – he know how to get a point across and how to punch home a message. At one time, I really admired that.
But being good at explaining things, while necessary, is not sufficient – you also have to know what you are talking about!
And the more I watched snippets of Dr. Oz, the more I became skeptical that this guy is just too full of himself, cuts too many corners, espouses too many things where I believed the science to be doubtful, if true at all. And so I soured on him."
I have not changed my opinions and I will not watch him no matter how good an educator he is.
I've been a New Yorker subscriber for decades, a publication which I consider pretty fair and balanced, but I was horrified last night by the hit piece on Dr. Oz perpetrated by Michael Specter. I will say that I am not a regular viewer of his TV program except by serendipity, but from what I've learned about him, he's a knowledgeable doctor, albeit (by my standards as a vegan) nutritionally conservative. But this article was anything but an unbiased account of Dr. Oz. For example, the section on Dr. Oz's distrust of GMOs, and the viewpoint of the author that they're perfectly safe because few scientific studies have deemed them unsafe, made me want to tear my hair out. Here's a link to an article from Scientific American on just WHY there are so few studies that conclude with a serious questioning of the safety of GMOs.
Sound familiar? When in doubt, suppress information, and nobody will suspect that you're trying to pull one over on them.
Unlike Mr. Specter, who has made a career out of standing up for science, I am not one of those who believe scientists are gods who can do no wrong. Animal experimentation is, in my view, bad science, but so many researchers continue to use this antiquated research method because that's what they get the funding for. There's a lot of politics mixed up in science that most laymen are not aware of. Biomedical research is like any other industry. Money talks louder than truth. So the fact that Dr. Oz may endorse substances or methods for which there may not be a lot of scientific research attached does not mean these substances or methods are invalid.
Without getting into the complicated GMO controversy (this is about Dr. Oz, after all), I will say that there certainly have been experiments pointing to the negative health effects of GMO's. But there need to be many more–ideally on humans, not animals–including long-term clinical studies. And as a reasonable person, you've got to ask yourself why Monsanto and other companies are actively preventing adequate testing if they're not trying to hide something. Another issue is that adverse health effects may not immediately show up–it may take years or decades. Think x-ray or microwave radiation, think cigarette smoking, think junk food consumption. The unsavory political issue of Indian farmers killing themselves as a result of being forced to use GMO seeds needs to be addressed. I don't know about you, but I tend to be skeptical about companies that stand to make gazillions off of new and largely untested techniques. Money corrupts the best of intentions. I'm with Dr. Oz on this.
I tend to not think too much of anyone sponsored by Oprah so forgive me when I say I wouldn't trust Dr Oz even if he were the Wiz. Mostly because he is a front man for every pharm company on the block and that's where he gets his kickbacks, dinners, vacations and other perks. In my opinion, Drs Phil & Oz are shills for these medical companies and in truth I believe they have lost all their credibility (if they ever had it) through the magic of TV.
I do agree with the author in part. Science has discovered many wonderful things through research. But I also agree with many of the alternatives Dr. Oz espouses. Not the unproven weird cultish stuff. If people took responsibility for their health they wouldn't need pharmeceuticals. I am speaking from experience. You don't take everyone's advice, but doing my own research, I have found great alterntives to the dangerous, pharmeceuticals on the market. I believe your should consult with your doctor or other medical professional, but their word doesn't rule the day. Depends on your health and serious of your condition. A lot of illnesses are caused by bad habits and neglect so end up having to depend on doctors and dangerous meds.


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Wednesday we'll see temperatures approach 100 degrees in many areas north of town.
"Over the next three days, temperatures will be in the mid- to upper-90s, with partly cloudy to mostly sunny skies," said KHOU 11 News Meteorologist Chita Johnson.
The heat index will hover between 103 and 108 with no chance of rain until early next week.
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Cherokee County District 2 Commissioner Jim Hubbard, 67, will retire from eight years serving southeastern Cherokee County on Dec. 31.
Hubbard grew up in Decatur and moved to Hickory Flat in 1963 where he still lives with wife Peggy.
Hubbard is an Eagle Scout and served in Vietnam between 1966 and 1968 while in the United States Army.
He is the founding member of the Hickory Flat Volunteer Fire Department and has been a member of Hickory Flat United Methodist Church since 1963.
He's also the treasurer of the Cherokee SALT/TRIAD, which he's also the founding member, and is the founding member of the Hickory Flat Township Committee.
Other organizations Hubbard has been involved in are Cherokee Outdoor YMCA, Bethesda Community Clinic, Anna Crawford Children's Center and Safe Kids Cherokee.
Hubbard has two sons and one grandson and is the owner of Hubbard Telecom.
The commissioner looked back on his political career with Patch:
1. How are you all feeling now in these last days of your tenure?
The summer election took a mental and physical toll, but now that I'm winding down, I (am) beginning to look forward to the freedom.
2. Are residents reaching out to you to wish you good luck?
It's been amazing. Businessmen and citizens from all over the county are expressing their sorrow that I did not get reelected and wishing me good luck on my new endeavors.
3. What are some of the proudest moments you all have during your terms?
The meeting I presided over when we approved the aquatic center. I allowed the kids to participate and even vote. That's government at it's best. When Commissioner Bosch and myself got involved in the mold situation in the fire stations, we able to start the remediation process. Many groundbreakings and ribbon cuttings, especially the (Cherokee County Regional) Airport and the Anna Crawford Children's Center, and I hope to participate in the opening of the aquatic center. Overall I am proud that I was able to participate in the community and not be just a stuffy old politician.
4. What do you think you could have done differently on any particular issue?
Of course the (Jimmy) Bobo situation turned out badly, but I don't know of any other way to solve the ongoing problems he was causing with his two grinding operations. I would hope that an alternate solution could have been found, but none was available to us at the time.
5. Were there any moments that would be considered "trying times?"
Our Board has worked very well together. We had some disagreements, but we worked them out together. Working together with the staff we were able to solve the counties problems. Then we had the failure of Ball Ground Recycling. That has been very challenging, but solvable until the (Canton) Tea Party (and Citizens) Committee began spreading false and misrepresented information. It has been very trying that these people assume we are corrupt and wrong in all aspects of the situation, and they refuse to believe the truth. Another trying time was the HOST tax. It was a certain benefit for our residents overall, but the false and misleading information saying we were just trying to fill our own pockets caused the defeat, and certainly stressed us all.
6. What were some of the hardest decisions you all have had to make?
Most of our decisions have been worked out into an obvious choice, but any vote on a real or pseudo tax increase was difficult, more so when the committee would spread false information saying that all our tax rate changes were increases, yet they would not call our 'roll backs' a tax decrease.
7. How do you feel about the future direction of the county now?
If the economy doesn't begin recovery soon, the county is going to be forced to actually increase operating taxes in order to maintain our services, or decide which services to cut back. We are in a wonderful position to attract new business with our services and our quality of life features, and I would hate to see that change.
8. Do you have any advice for the incoming commissioners?
Move slowly, and be careful who you listen to. There are grossly uninformed people who delight in advising you what needs to be done. Listen to your staff.
9. What are your plans for the near future?
I want to spend more time with my family and my church. I need to revive my home business as it's been neglected for a while. I want to get more active in my Volunteer Fire Department. It's a very satisfying activity. I was just appointed treasurer of the Cherokee SALT/TRIAD Council, and several other charitable organizations have contacted me about getting active. I also have quite a 'honey-do' list. It has also been neglected, so it's time for me to get to work.
10. Is there any possibility of you getting back into politics?
In spite of the accusations in the nasty campaign, I am proud of my service to the people of Cherokee County, and I would not rule out some form of service in the future.
11. What do you want to tell residents who have elected and supported you over the last eight years?
Thank you for your trust in me, and for your active support. As a Boy Scout I was taught to leave a place a little better than I found it, and with your help over the last 8 years I think we have done this. It has been a pleasure to serve you.


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Crazy Sock collections from Palo Pinto County – and all over the nation – last year totaled over 1,200 pairs of wild and colorful socks. Santo's Megan Gulliford started the program, primarily to provide children hospitalized over the holidays with something colorful to put on their feet.
"One group in Alabama took over 300 pair to their local children's hospital," said Megan's mother, Michelle Gulliford.
Again this year, Megan is collecting Crazy Socks for Sick Children and asks citizens to join her in this effort by liking the "Crazy Socks for Sick Children" Facebook page or by challenging a civic group, class, club or office to help collect socks for children with chronic health issues or accidents.
Gulliford collects new crazy socks for boys and girls, from infant to adult sizes. To contribute to the cause, purchase a new pair of crazy socks and drop them off at any of the following locations by Dec. 4:
• Mineral Wells – Mineral Wells Index, at 300 S.E. 1st Ave.; Countryside Therapy Group at 315 S.E. 6th Ave.; or Cowboy Church of Mineral Wells, which meets Sundays at the Palo Pinto County Livestock Association Expo Center.
• Millsap – Millsap Middle School (attention Beta Club), at 201 West Brazos St.
• Santo – Santo ISD, at 406 S. Farm-to-Market Road 2201; Coffee Creek RV Resort, at 13429 South U.S. Highway 281; or Palo Pinto County Cowboy Church, at 2731 S. FM Road 129 Santo.
• Weatherford – Parker County Flooring, at 708 Palo Pinto St. in Weatherford.
• Lipan – Patillo Baptist Church, at 4791 FM 2803 and U.S. 281.


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The Washington, D.C., and Baltimore areas are home to many start-up firms and organizations, and they are looking for talented, diverse and creative people like you. Do not miss your opportunity to network with these cutting-edge employers!
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Our two-party system is in trouble.
On many important issues, the Democrats and Republicans are unable to pass legislation supported by a majority of the electorate on issues such as health care, gun control and full employment.
Therefore, we no longer have a true democracy of the people and by the people.
Part of the problem is that unlimited money can be spent on lobbying and buying votes, compromising both parties and giving us a government by and for the corporations or moneyed interests.
Unless these interests are controlled, either by a constitutional amendment or by a grass roots uprising, the current political morass will continue to grow, and we will continue to suffer.
Barry Freeman
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Porsche one of three cars stolen in Kidderminster burglaries
5:01pm Thursday 11th October 2012 in News
A DISTINCTIVE blue Porsche 911 Carrera was one of three vehicles stolen in two car key burglaries in Kidderminster.
The Porsche, registration VNP78, is a convertible with a black roof as was taken from the driveway of a home in Sutton Park Rise between 11pm last night and 6.30am today.
The £20,000 car was stolen after thieves got into the house through a window and took the keys.
Police are warning it is the third car key burglary in Kidderminster this week.
Burglars also entered a house in St John's Street through a back door between midnight last night and 6am today and took the keys to a blue, five-door Fiesta Zetec, registration E4EMO and a silver coloured Vauxhall Vivaro panel van, registered VO12 YLH, which they drove away.
Other property stolen from the house included a Sony TV, Apple Mac laptop and cigarettes and tobacco.
In the early hours of Tuesday a white VW Golf GTD, registration VK60 XYJ, was stolen from a driveway in Connaught Avenue in another car key burglary.
Det Sgt Duncan Lloyd of Kidderminster CID said: "The Porsche, in particular, is a very distinctive vehicle so someone may have witnessed it being driven away or has seen it since then.
"While we don't know if these offences are linked it is very unusual to get three car key burglaries like this so close together in Wyre Forest and people need to be aware of this and take whatever precautions they can to ensure their homes are secure."
Anyone with information should call Det Sgt LLoyd on 101, quoting incident 32-N-111012, or ring Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.
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Cynical Sid says...
Citadel is a forcewide initiative aimed at driving down the number of burglaries committed in the force area.
Burglary of people's homes and catching the criminals who commit these offences is a high priority for the Chief Constable and the force. In conjunction with the Police Authority, we have set ourselves stringent targets to ensure that no more than 10 burglaries a day are committed across Herefordshire, Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and Worcestershire.
In Kidderminster over the last day or two (from the Shuttle only)
Laptop and credit cards stolen in Kidderminster burglary
Car stolen during Kidderminster burglary
Daytime burglary in Kidderminster
Jewellery stolen in daylight burglary
Porsche one of three cars stolen in Kidderminster burglaries
9:08pm Thu 11 Oct 12
Shibdrift says...
If anyone gets caught it's a slap on the wrist and "Don't be naughty again"!!!
Still, the do-gooders can sleep sound in their beds knowing they've done a good days work, stopping another thieving thug from any real punishment.
Well done!
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The cold, brilliant, and utterly strange stars are a source of power for a select and rare breed of individuals: star pact warlocks. They reach out to the lightless space between the stars -- some say to the Far Realm beyond -- seeking power where few dare to dream. "Wish Upon a Star" presents new options for these daring warlocks, including several feats, powers, a paragon path, and even an epic destiny.
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This course provides students with methods and materials for infusing career education for the mildly disabled (K-12).
This comprehensive survey course will examine characteristics, current theories, advanced strategies, and teaching methods developed for planning and implementing individualized program interventions for children who exhibit learning and behavior problems. Students will design, implement, evaluate and summarize a single-subject research plan suitable for presentation. Four separate major areas of study will be offered: A. Low Incidence Disorders and Conditions: B. Developmental Delay and Intellectual Disabilities; C. Behavioral and Emotional Disturbance and Mental Illness; and D. Autism Spectrum Disorders, Communication, and Language Disorders. One of four course topics may be taken per semester.
This course will help students learn and apply assessment procedures for children with learning disorders in academic and social behavior areas. Emphasis will be placed on the use of various informal and formal assessment methods. Prerequisites: SPED 501 and SPED 503.
This course is designed to help students study educational procedures designed to develop skills in diagnosing and prescribing educational strategies for children with learning and behavioral problems. Prerequisite: SPED 511.
This course will present an overview of instructional strategies and teaching methods in addition to providing experiences in planning and implementing individualized programs for children who exhibit learning and behavioral problems.
(F, S) This course is an introduction to the helping professions, with a particular emphasis on the nature of generalist social work practice. Content includes professional values and ethics, theoretical orientations, social and economic justice, diverse populations, and human services delivery philosophies and settings. A 15 hour service-learning experience in a human service organization is required of all students. Prerequisite: Open to all students. Counts toward the Liberal Education Core, Social & Behavioral Sciences' Paradigms and Individuals Disciplines.
This course will provide an introduction to the methods and tools of qualitative analysis and writing. Course material will include training in qualitative research, emphasizing interviewing, oral history collection, and historiography. Students will also have the opportunity to examine ethical issues related to historical writing, research, and presentation of materials. In additiion, the course will cover the basic skills needed to conduct historical research, including locating, using, and evaluating sources, and will explore how such work can shape and inform community development initiatives at the local level. Readings will be assigned regarding qualitative methods as well as community development. Students will also be trained in oral history collection. Each student will be required to collect at least one oral history for this course.
(F) This course provides an overview of contemporary social work practice by examining its history, philosophy, knowledge base, values and ethics, skills, and fields of practice with diverse populations; it examines the historical development and contemporary issues of the nation's social welfare system within a global context; and introduces the generalist model of social work practice, which serves as a base for subsequent social work courses. The course also contains an agency service learning experience of 20 clock hours.
(F) This course will provide students with an in-depth examination of the theoretical perspectives of the social work profession focusing on systems theory, the ecological perspective, the empowerment perspective, strentghs-based perspective, and the resiliency model. Individual growth and development (physical, psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual) across the lifespan will be examined, along with the impact of diversity, such as age, gender, race, culture, upon individual and family functioning. Family will be explored from a functional, structural, and lifespan perspective, as well as the interactional processes and communication patterns within the family. Prerequisite: open to any student with junior standing, or permission of instructor.
(S) This course provides knowledge and understanding of macro theories, research, and issues of human interactions in, between, and among groups, institutions, organizations, and communities. Emphasis is placed on understanding how diversity in age, class, color, disability, ethnicity, family structure, gender, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and socio-economic circumstances contribute to and influence human behavior within the macro environment; specific attention will be given to the patterns and consequences of discrimination and oppression. Prerequisites: SWRK 318, or permission of instructor.
(F) This course is designed to present basic knowledge and skills for social work practice with individuals utilizing the problem-solving method, systems and strengths perspectives. Emphasis will be on developing interviewing skills and the knowledge and skills necessary to employ the planned change steps in the helping process (problem identification/assessment, contracting, intervention, evaluation, and termination). Prerequisite: limited to students designated as pre-social work majors, completion of cognate courses, or permission of instructor. Pre- or co-requisite: SWRK 318.
(F) This course is designed to increase social workers' and human service workers' awareness of losses that affects individuals, families and communities and how to supportively respond to those who are experiencing loss. Also students will be given an opportunity to examine their own feelings regarding loss and ways to more effectively deal with personal losses. Theoretical perspectives of loss and grief will be explored, emphasizing integration of theory with "real" experiences. Prerequisite: open to any student with junior or senior standing or permission of instructor.
(F) This course will focus on professionalism through written and oral discourse. Students will learn how to conduct interviews across client systems (individuals, families, small groups, organizations, and communities), in order to aid in problem identification and selection of interventions, how to present informatin (both oral and written) in professional settings, and how to communicate with various constituents. Prerequisite: SWRK 233, or permission of instructor.
(S) This course presents the basic elements of research design and methodology. Students learn how to formulate problems and hypothesis, draw samples, use standardized instruments, develop questionnaires and scales for data collection, and understand how statistics aid in data analysis; evaluating one's own practice, particularly through single-subject design. Respect for diversity, multicultural biases, and social and economic justice will be emphasized. Prerequisite: BHSC 245 , or permission of instructor.
(S) This course is designed to present basic knowledge and skills for social work practice with families and small groups utilizing the problem solving method, systems and strengths perspectives. Emphais will be on problem identification/assessment, contracting, intervention, evaluation, and termination. Prerequisite: Swrk 325, Admission to Social Work Major, or permission of instructor.
(F) This course provides the content and format for students to explore and develop an understanding of the social service needs in rural health care. Special attention to enhance student learning will be given to the needs of culturally diverse groups, ethinic groups, and populations-at-risk in a variety of health care situations in rural Central Appalachia. Prerequisite: open to any student with junior or senior standing, or permission of instructor.
(S) This course provides the content and format for students to develop an understanding of the needs, concerns, issues, and service programs in a variety of rural areas for aging adults and their families, with rural Central Appalachia as the living laboratory. Prerequisite: open to any student with junior or senior standing, or permission of instructor.
(S) This course examines the social welfare system as it affects the needs of children and families in contemporary American society and specifically in Central Appalachia. Various topics will be explored such as: family preservation, family violence, services and programs to address family social needs, and financial and public health programs that address child and family needs in rural Appalachia. Prerequisite: junior or senior standing or permission of instructor.
(F) This course is designed to provide entry-level theory, knowledge, research, values, and skills for generalist social work practice with organizations and communities. Foundation practice knowledge, values, and skills are expanded to include: community assessment; program planning, implementation and evaluation; community organizing; advocacy; agency management; and grant writing. Prerequisite: SWRK 337, or permission of instructor.
(F) This course examines historical and contemporary social welfare issues relative to social work practice. Students will be presented a range of policy practice skills that can be used to influence policy development in legislative, administrative, community, political, and economic arenas. The course has an experiential component in which students will use policy practice skills, focusing on how to utilize social and economic principles, to benefit populations-at-risk. Prerequisite: SWRK 337 or permission of instructor.
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Good news about Buffalo's summer school program: 94 percent of eighth-graders did well enough in it this year to get promoted to ninth grade.
The results were good, but not quite as good, among the seventh-graders who attended the Extended Learning Opportunity Program: 80 percent were promoted to eighth grade.
Associate Superintendent Will Keresztes was pleased to present the results to the School Board at a recent committee meeting. Good news, board members agreed.
Here's what nobody really talked about much, though: The reason hundreds of kids found themselves in summer school is because they did not do well enough during the year to get promoted to the next grade.
And certainly, nobody talked about exactly how big this problem is.
How many kids are we talking about?
Quite a lot.
Nearly one out of three students -- 31.5 percent, to be exact -- failed eighth grade last year. That's 764 students.
And nearly one out of four students -- 23.5 percent, or a total of 576 students -- failed seventh grade.
To pass either of those grades, students need a final class average of at least 65 percent in three of four core subjects, including math and English. So any student failing two or more classes would be held back, unless they attended summer school.
Now, while state assessments are not counted as part of a student's grade, they are a reasonably objective outside measure of how well students are performing.
In May 2011, here's how well Buffalo's seventh- and eighth-graders performed on those tests. Those at or above proficiency (in other words, scoring a 3 or 4):
- 23.8 percent of seventh-graders on English
- 34.1 percent of seventh-graders on math
- 23 percent of eighth-graders on English
- 27.7 percent of eighth-graders on math
Let's take a minute to revisit the stats on students who did not advance to the next grade. At the end of the school year, one out of four seventh-graders and one out of three eighth-graders were to be held back.
But such a huge percentage of them attended one month of summer school and showed up enough that they were promoted to the next grade. Once summer school was over, the district had dramatically pared its numbers: 5 percent of eighth-graders and 7 percent of seventh-graders ended up getting held back this year.
What does that mean?
Well, administrators and board members seemed to see that as a success.
"The results are mixed, but there's a lot to be encouraged about," Keresztes told the board.
He noted that the summer school students were the first to receive automated wake-up calls from the district -- something he thinks improved attendance, and therefore, enabled students to complete summer school and advance to the next grade.
"I think we have some evidence that if you show up, you have a pretty good shot," he said.
But not everyone holds the same glowing view of Buffalo's summer school results.
Some say it doesn't seem too likely that students are going to learn in four weeks the material they failed to master all year long.
"Really, you get rewarded for attendance in summer school," parent leader Sam Radford said. "They can't read or write, but now they pass the grade."
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Review: Scott Reeder at the MCA Chicago
Chicago — You know the type, I bet, the otherwise intelligent person who relishes a truly terrible joke. Scott Reeder's artwork is like that. His paintings can be real groaners, works that would be annoying if they weren't also poignant and, in their way, serious.
Even the monumental work he created for the second-floor lobby of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, a mammoth 14-by-25-foot canvas that at first blush looks like a serious attempt at Abstract Expressionism, turns out to be a grand gag.
In it, crisp lines appear suspended in misty, bluish-black space, like Pick Up Sticks sinking in ocean waters or congealing in Jell-O.
After decades of my-kid-could-make-that critiques of Ab-Ex star Jackson Pollock's famous drip paintings, not to mention disdainful references to spaghetti, Reeder gets his say, too. Of course there is a long tradition of artists doing this as well. Reeder takes aim at both the mockers and the mocked, making fairly gorgeous paintings with spaghetti.
For the untitled work in the MCA lobby, Reeder spread uncooked spaghetti onto canvas and spray-painted the surface. When dry, the spaghetti was discarded and voilà — art!
Sure, Reeder is having fun with our widespread cultural values and art naysayers who liken paintings to piles of spaghetti. But he's also having words with the history of art, poking at the perceived mysteries of the art-making process, the mystique of the testosterone-fueled flinging of Pollock, for one. Who needs all of that brooding, macho emotion when noodles — raw or cooked — do a pretty good job, he seems to ask cheerfully and earnestly.
Reeder's pasta pieces, serious at first, tickle our feet after the fact. The paintings he's most known for, though, deliver the punch line on the front end and are part of the MCA show, too. Apparent one-liners, these visual puns reveal their smarter sides slowly, and some better than others.
Created in a faux-naïve style, the confection-colored paintings are populated by inanimate objects, recurring characters such as protesting pandas and cute communists (did I mention the alliterative word play?). They are "bad paintings" in the tradition of Sigmar Polke and Martin Kippenberger (who created a work titled "Painted Under the Influence of Spaghetti") that make the stupidity of the art world part of the subject — by being as stupid as possible.
In a world bursting with visual stimulus, where cat videos reign on the Internet, Reeder's use of ridiculousness is sly critique, to be sure, and effective too. But it's risky. When there aren't enough conceptual aftereffects to create humor and energy, Reeder's art can be deadly. I've wanted to stick sharp objects in my eyes a few times over the years.
In a delightful series, he created oversize "smoking" fruits that conjure traditional still lifes and iconic works of modern art.
In "Orange with Cigar," a new work in the MCA show, a luscious orange orb is painted against a more transparent orange wash, underscoring color, materiality and works by artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Adolph Gottlieb. The addition of the stogie serves to accentuate the virility associated with modern art. It's also meant to recall the quintessential image of a posing artist, Pollock on the cover of Life, standing with arms crossed and a cigarette dangling from his lips.
I'm not sure I would have caught that connection, though I know the picture well. The obvious gestures and subtle references are a nice mix but don't always jibe.
The show also includes several text-based prints that are revealing of Reeder's art making practice and sense of humor, pairing random ideas for inspiration.
The MCA show is Reeder's first solo museum show. If anything, I would have liked to have seen a wider range of the faux-naïve works gathered for it, since Reeder's humor comes through when the full ensemble cast takes the stage.
Reeder, who lived in Milwaukee for several years and moved to Chicago a few years ago, is best known locally for projects such as Zero TV, a web-based serial that spun out of Bluemark production studios for some time, as well as General Store, an alternative art space he ran with his brother Tyson Reeder, his wife, Elysia Borowy-Reeder and Nicholas Frank. He was also one of the organizers of the Milwaukee International, an alternative art fair that took place in the basement of the Falcon Bowl in Riverwest. Some of his other critically acclaimed curatorial projects include "Drunk vs. Stoned" at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, "The Early Show" at White Columns and the Dark Fair, an international art fair where all of the work was lit by flashlights and candles.
Reeder is currently an associate professor of painting and sculpture at the School of the Art Institute Chicago. He is represented locally by the Green Gallery, and many of the works in the MCA show were exhibited courtesy the Green Gallery.
The exhibit closes Tuesday at the MCA, 220 E. Chicago Ave. with a screening of an excerpt from "Moon Dust," a feature-length art-film by Reeder about a fading luxury hotel on the moon. The film explores a futuristic aesthetic rooted in the past and is influenced by the films of Jacques Tati and Jean Cocteau and the architecture of the Bauhaus and `70s practitioners such as Kurokawa Nakagin. The event, from 6 to 7 p.m., is free.
Images: First two images of Reeder's pasta works courtesy the MCA. Images of Reeder's "Orange with Cigar" and "Protesting Pandas" by Mary Louise Schumacher.
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Thank you, Mary Louise, for this fair and balanced review. I appreciate the healthy dose of skepticism that accompanies your overall favorable response to Reeder's artworks. It seems like yet another example of how much the art world loves art that is about itself. Although I confess to my own guilt, being part of the art world and someone who often enjoys art that references other art, I also recognize its limited appeal. I find more and more that I need as an antidote art works that reference "real world" issues and ideas.
I saw this show and rather liked it. It, like so much current art, is a warming up/mashup of recent past "isms". This can be good and bad. You mentioned as influence the German "Bad Painters" Sigmar Polke and Martin Kippenberger, (more properly labeled "neo-expressionists") but the true stars of that Genre were SF artists like Joan Brown and Judith Linhares, also warmed up here. You can also see Wegman's influence in Reeder's Lists and certainly Guston's sense of humor in his canvases. The work is smart, verging on clever... which is a negative. All of his work starts with the title/idea and proceeds to the painting, technically making them illustrations. Still, the best ones are illustrations of his clever/funny ideas that go beyond that, becoming real paintings. The best ones are funny but also sincere, like the Still Lifes with dying plants and beer cans.
The spaghetti paintings are embarrassing and fall prey to a "not ready for prime time" charge. They actually photograph well and at first glance look, um, deep. But the joke is too trivial and the depth is too shallow to justify the size of the work. The palette is inexcusably amateurish (and not is a "bad is good" way). I can't blame him for trying - what a great opportunity - but standing in front of them, they didn't win me over. One hopes he will mature a bit before he tackles that scale again. I think he's got something going on, and will be eager to watch his progress.


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July 11, 2009, was the date of the 2009 Kentucky 4-H State Communication Day.
This year, representing Pulaski County, was Caleb Hundley.
Hundley competed in the Senior Demonstration Con-test in the category of Presentation Software.
He received a Blue ribbon and Champion honors for his demonstration on "How to balance a check book."
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The Pedal Pushers Quilt Club, a group of quilters meeting at the Pulaski County Public Library, are making quilts for American veterans residing in the county's nursing homes.
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The Rev. Lloyd Sewell attended the final session of the annual Cumberland River Baptist Association meeting on September 10, 2011.
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Shopville High School classes of 1970-71 hold joint reunion
A joint reunion was held on October 8, 2011, for the 1970 and 1971 classes of Shopville High School.
The reunion was held at the Shopville Community Park across from the location of the old Shopville High School.
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Armed Forces veterans were honored at the Second Annual All Eubank High Reunion on October 8, 2011, held at the Eubank City Park.
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