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While I'm not discouraged, I'm reminded of the adage "you get what you pay for".Hide replies
I guess the Marlins and other low budget teams got what they paid for the. And the Yankess who I hate got what they paid for. Doesn't always work that way in baseball.
Understand. While you're philosophically correct ...
taking a huge chance on younger, unproved players might prove to be "penny wise and dollar foolish.
might be foolish with barely adequate talent. But with the group coming up from the minors, its a solid baseball decision. Will not be popular with the ESPN crowd tho because the names are not familiar.
after paying Suppan and Wolf over $10/year for ERA's over 5, I don't mind trying a new approach. The young guys may stink, but at least they'll stink for cheap
As we have found out over and over, throwing money at players will not guarantee them having success.
and the guys that stink for cheap at least are young enough that they have a chance to improve and be good.unlike Wolf or Suppan who are past prime and will get worse as time goes much more then likely
Payroll going down 20% but my Brewer tickets went up a few bucks. Whats going on here??
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Simple solution. You don't like the prices of tickets don't buy them, go to games or watch the games on TV which helps increase ad revenue on the broadcasts. Why do people still but the tickets? Because they are true fans who support their team win or lose, high payroll or low payroll, and simply enjoy the game of baseball and the fun of going to Miller Park.
They have lost alot of money the last few years with a huge payroll ( huge as far as Brewer standards go)
Milm... everything that is out there said the Brewers lost 3-4M last year after making three times that the year before.
Nice and respectful way of putting it Inside Pitch. I just hope the Brewers are competitive this year coming up with the youngsters! Which they should be,but, if not, will we be unloading a few contracts at the trade deadline?
( unless we were not competitive because of injuries.example if Gallardo,Rogers,Axford and Braun got hurt,of course we would suffer) but if we play healthy for the most part and arent in it, is it time to unload a vet or 2? if so, who can we get rid of? Weeks or Hart are the only 2 i can think of. Braun,Lucroy Gallardo, i would think are almost 100 % to stay i would think
I agree that Hart and Weeks are expendable at the trade deadline if we are not competitive. Maybe Axford and Carlos Gomez who is in a contract year. maybe A-Ramirez as well as he is getting up there.
Gomez may be an option to trade at the deadline, but Aramis's $16 MM in 2014 would make him hard to trade at the 2013 deadline.
question is,who takes over at 3rd then?
I see other teams signing guys with solid MLB production but struggles / injuries in recent years to minor league contracts i.e. today Erik Bedard and nate Robertson signing. Why aren't the Brewers signing more of these types with an invite to spring training? Cheap contract laced with incentives and if they suck it up in ST simply cut them.Hide replies
This is a guess,but, i think its the fact that they have a ton of young guys coming up and being invited and by bringing in vets who were injured ect would be taking pitches away from the youngsters
Exactly. They are giving these young pitchers that will be in their future every chance to succeed. If something happens they can go down and get another.
I would rather they spend less money then spend more of it poorly.
Part that makes the most sense to me is that we need to give the homegrown pitchers a chance. In this market you simply have to do that. It might bring some growing pains and a tough season or two. But I would rather see them take that approach then making another bad free agent signing with some starting pitcher.
If the young guys come through. The flexibility left money wise will be a nice thing to have.
I appreciate everything Mark has done. But we are at the point where it's time to pull back a bit and see what's under our own roof instead of spending money that we'll regret again.Hide replies
The problem with "a tough season of two" is that your older players get even older and you lose some of your top talent to FA. With small market teams they have to strike in a short window of time. Waiting a year or two gets you 4th place in the division and a 75-87 team.
Does anyone know if parking went up?Hide replies
walking in or taking a bar bus is still free.
No as far as I can see, no parking garage has been erected. Hehe
It sucks,but, better to spend a decent amount and being smart,then blow the cash just to have a higher payroll and have it go to somewhat waste ( Marcum,Wolf,KRod,Parra,Loe)
Alot of younger players who may just be better then the older vets they replace and we lower payroll to 80M or so and have cash to spend if we are in it and or we can make some profit and keep the team profitable and here.
NO matter what happens,Mark A has been a great owner and we are all damn lucky to have him!!
a special kudos to Bud Selig,,if not for him who knows where the Seattle pilots would have moved to or became? We may not have ever had baseball in Milwaukee after the Braves left for Atlanta.
Lets play the youngsters, if they kick and play well and end up good players,try to sign them a bit early ( ala Lucroy,Gallardo ect) pay them more up front and save in the long runHide replies
If some of these players pan put they will sign them to an extension, but not this soon! Plenty of time for that. We have to look past the freshman success, the sophomore slump, and what they do in the 3rd year.
Of course,I agree with you 100% and didnt mean right now as we have some years on control on many of these guys,,I was merely looking Long term..we can play them for a few seasons,Give them a Lucroy type if they are good enough and save L.T.
years of control on many of these guys...Sorry for the Typo
If we had nobody ready for their opportunity then I'm sure some FA pitcher would have been signed by now. But we're simply at the point this year where several guys are ready for their shot. With more to follow.
As fans of our team and it's great owner we need to always see the big picture. Like it or not there will always be some years like this one when the whole fan base needs to understand it's time to evaluate what we have as opposed to spending money because the shelf is empty.Hide replies
On the spot....
Right on; and thank goodness MA bot the Brewers - committed to Milwaukee.....rare guy......I go along w anything he says/does as alternative would be 'outta here'.
Tom's math doesn't check out. He says that last year's payroll was $101M, then $51M came off the books, and salaries for arbitration-eligible players went up by $9M. The Brewers also signed two free agents that I believe are making in the $2-3M range. So, how is the 2013 payroll $80M? Based on the reporting in the story, it seems to me like the 2013 payroll is in the mid-$60M range. What am I missing?Hide replies
"some of the savings would be spent on salary raises for returning players, including those eligible for arbitration" and some (not listed) not in arbitration.
Braun, Gallardo, Ramirez, and Hart all getting raises adds almost $10 million more.
Braun $11 M ($8.5 M salary $2.5 M signing bonus)
Weeks $10 M
Hart $10 M
Ramirez $10 M
Gallardo $7.75 M
Axford $5 M
Gomez $4.3 M
Gorzelanny $2.6 M
Gonzalez $2.25 M
Aoki ~$2 M (information about the incentives he earned is unclear)
Estrada $1.955 M
Badenhop $1.55 M
Narveson $.84 M
Lucroy $.75 M
26 players at or around league minimum. (~$.5 M/per player) $13 M
Total ~$83 M (Braun's signing bonus likely doesn't count against the payroll, and the available information hasn't made it clear on what incentives Aoki earned/the effect on his base salary in 2013)
That's about where I thought we were at, too. That means no more adding players except maybe at the deadline. The fringe players that don't make the team will be happy to know they could be called up at any time if needed.
Um, 26 players at $0.5M? Wouldn't it be 11 plus the 14 players listed (25 players on the major league roster)? That would put the payroll in the low $70M range.
Guys on the 40 man roster make the legue minimum, and the Brewers' roster is full.
Maybe Tom isn't counting that in his story, though.
Guys on the 40 man roster and not in the major leagues do not make the MLB league minimum. I think they make something like $60-70k, unless they have an MLB contract (I don't think the Brewers have anybody like that). If they get called up, they get the MLB minimum pro-rated.
Typically I would have an adverse disposition to this type of headline....BUT with this years roster, and "going young" with the starting staff I'm ok with it. I still re-upped for my 20 pack this year and am very excited about this rosters' potential. Stacked on offense, solid defense (very underrated aspect of last year's team), and upgrades/new faces in the pen (clearly the weak link of last year's team). The differnce in payroll can be accounted for shelling Wolf's 13m per, Marcum's 7m per, and K-Rod's 11m per (I don't know if those $$$ amounts are prescise -- but they are ballpark, pardon the pun). For that roughly 30m, I'm ok not reaching in a subpar SP market, and seeing what Peralta, Fiers, and Estrada can do over the long haul. If I were a gambling man which I am not, I would bet on 1 of those guys having a major breakout season (most likely Peralta) and the other 2 replicating last year. I'm thinking 88-92 wins and a shot at the Postseason. I say reasonable.Hide replies
Marcum is still out there. If you wanted to risk $5M for a one-year deal for a veteran, you could do worse.
The headline makes it sound worse than it is...most of the reduction was simply garbage players getting off the books. I'm glad we didn't overpay for Dempster like Boston did...that had Suppan and/or Wolf written all over it. There wasn't much else we could get starting pitching-wise, so as disappointing as it may be, we just have to give our young guys a shot.Hide replies
Basically after cleaning out the weeds, throwing out the trash, and bringing in new players, we shed a lot a payroll for the players that haven't been helping the team, anyway. This youth movement with the pitchers will shoot a new burst of energy into competition in spring training.
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ATHENS, Greece — Greece's private creditors agreed Friday to take cents on the euro in the biggest debt writedown in history, paving the way for an enormous second bailout for the country to keep Europe's economy from being dragged further into chaos.
Greece would have risked defaulting on its debts in two weeks without the agreement, sparking turmoil in the financial markets and sending shock waves through the other 16 countries that use the euro.
Prime Minister Lucas Papademos called the deal — which shaves some €105 billion ($138 billion) off Greece's €368 billion ($487 billion) debt load — an important "historic success" in a televised address to the nation Friday night. "For the first time, Greece is not adding but taking debt off the backs of its citizens."
The country said 83.5 percent of private investors holding its government debt had agreed to a bond swap, taking a cut of more than half the face value of their investments as well as accepting softer repayment terms for Greece.
The radical swap aimed to put the country's debt-ridden economy on the road to recovery, and was a key condition to secure a €130 billion ($172 billion) rescue package from other eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund.
Charles Dallara, the managing director of the Institute of International Finance, which negotiated the deal with the Greek government on large investors' behalf, described the bond swap as "the largest ever" restructuring.
"This has been painful and the pain is not over yet. But I now can see light at the end of the tunnel for the Greek economy," Dallara told Greece's Mega television. He estimated Greece could return to the markets "within a few years" and said that if recovery continues, "I think the risk for Greece and the risk on the eurozone will be very manageable."
Of the investors holding the €177 billion ($234 billion) in bonds governed by Greek law, 85.8 percent joined. The deadline for those owning foreign-law bonds was extended to March 23.
Creditors holding Greek-law bonds who refused to sign up will be forced into the deal — breaking a taboo that the eurozone had upheld until just weeks ago.
The decision to force losses on some bondholders means that the debt relief will trigger payouts of so-called credit default swaps, a type of insurance on bonds.
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the private organization that rules on such cases, said its committee "resolved unanimously that a Restructuring Credit Event has occurred."
When the debt relief plan was first announced last year, eurozone leaders and the European Central Bank worked hard to avoid a credit event because they feared the payout of credit default swaps could destabilize big financial institutions that sold them.
But since then, that prospect has started to look less threatening. The ISDA said that if triggered, overall payouts will be significantly below the $3.2 billion in net outstanding CDS contracts linked to Greece. The exact level of payouts will be determined on March 19.
"We do not foresee a significant impact of the Greek credit event on financial markets," ISDA CEO Robert Pickel said.
The Fitch ratings agency downgraded Greece to "restricted default" over the bond swap — a move that had been expected. Fitch was the third agency to downgrade Greece into default, after Moody's and Standard & Poor's. The agencies are expected to raise the country's credit rating after the completion of the swap.
Earlier Friday, finance ministers from the 17-nation eurozone said Greece had fulfilled the conditions to get approval for the bailout next week. The IMF has set a tentative date of March 15 to discuss the size of its own participation.
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With the good citizens of New York City distracted by the other politician in town today, it seems that Rick Perry thought he could just slip into Inwood's Papasito Mexican Grill largely unnoticed. Not on Charlie Rangel's watch! The fifteenth district's Democratic representative took it upon himself to pay a visit to the restaurant — the site of "what was supposed to be a quiet fundraiser" with local Hispanic businessmen — to make sure the Texas governor knew whose turf he was on:
Rangel stayed for several minutes, telling reporters on his way out that he had shown up to make Perry "feel more comfortable."
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Rangel left the event before Perry addressed the crowd, leaving organizer Fernando Mateo to issue a terse response to the drop-in: "He's a statesman in New York, and we were always taught by our parents to respect the elder." That Rick Perry really brings out the cowboy in everyone.
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Heilemann's piece surely went to press before Perry published his op-ed chastising Obama on Israel; and before Perry announced a $2500-a-head kosher fund-raiser in New York; and before (yikes) Perry announced he would be holding a press conference Tuesday in New York with MK Danny Danon, the politician most closely associated with the plan to annex Jewish settlements in the West Bank; and before (yikes!) Netanyahu's people mentioned the prime minister might make a side trip to New York's ninth congressional district, site of last week's Israel-heavy special election. ... Israel's relevance in the United States is going to embolden the right on both sides; they are feeding off of each other at this point, and the thing is going to take on a momentum all its own.
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This was Kylie Minogue's first big role as Char Kernow, her popularity was the reason channel four bought it and the only reason I started watching it, this soon changed however when the role of Tamara Henderson stood out a mile, played by Nadine Garner one of the leads of the series, she was in her first role ever, this was stated by the introducing above her name in the credits, the emotion she puts across at the death of her mother could make even the toughest person cry and her chilling scream at the end of episode 2 still makes me shudder, she rightly won a young actors penguin award for this series and it was well deserved, I soon forgot Kylie was even in it, until she was given her own central storyline.
The thing with the Henderson Kids was, yes it was about Tam and Steve but the other kids got a central story too, starting with Ted (Ben Mendleson) and the emotional and financial struggles he had with his family, his bullying of Steve over the life he had, after a few near misses with both Ted and Steve's lives they became firm friends.
Due to her talent for netball Tam got friends with the popular Regina Powell, together they featured in one of the most controversial storylines of the show, seeing them both run away to the city and Regina (Jane Hall) being almost sold into teen prostitution when she trusts the wrong people and finds herslf abducted by Terry (Steffan Dennis) and Stan, (strangely enough Jane now plays Steffan's love interest in Neighbours) Tam eventually goes to the police when Regina doesn't return, luckily she helps find Regina and she is saved, but they both realise what a close call they had, and Tam realises the city is no longer her home.
These episodes warned against the dangers of going with strangers and put it across in a very effective way.
Theft was also dealt with, with a surprising culprit revealed.
The Henderson Kids never failed to get you hooked, with each episode ending on a cliffhanger I was always waiting for the next one.
It also dealt with the pressures of growing up, for Cowboy (Mark Hennesey) he had to get a job droving and deal with the bully Suds (Peter O Brien), learn what he was good at and break away from his gang he had built up, while dealing with their devastation at him abandoning them.
Char (Kylie Minogue) also had to grow up pretty fast, her fathers debts caused her to leave school and get a job to help out with the finances, only to find herself being sued when she accidently died the spiteful Glynis Wheelers hair green.
The rest of the story focused on Mr Wheeler trying to get his hands on Henderson's Point by any means neccesary, and Tam and Steve refusing to sell due to the aboriginal markings found inside a cave, Wheeler use's daughter Glynis to try and talk uncle Mike (Nicholas Edie) into selling the land, luckily the kids work this out and she is shown up for who she really is.
So when Wheeler's other daughter Sylvia (Annie Jones) and Steve start getting along, Tam is wondering if Wheeler is up to his old tricks, but it seems this is true love, its just a shame that when Wheeler realises Steve will not sell him the land,he bans them from seeing eachother, eventually they work out together what her dad is up to, but her father will always be an issue and despite everything she still loves him.
Just as Tam and Steve are settling down in Haven Bay, their estranged father turns up and throws a spanner in the works, as decisions have to be made as what will happen to them now, and can their father really be trusted when he starts suggesting they sell Henderson's Point?
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Erin Aakhus, MD (Hematology and Oncology) completed her undergraduate education in biology and French at Indiana University in Bloomington. She graduated from IU School of Medicine, where she also completed a residency in internal medicine. She is currently a hematology and oncology fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. She is interested in assessing barriers to discussion of cost and cost-effectiveness between patients and providers. Her research endeavors aim to define the impact of cost transparency on the patient-doctor relationship. Dr. Aakhus is in the HPR track.
|Elizabeth Bailey, MD (General Surgery) Dr. Bailey is in the HPR track.
|Dominique Bayard (Pulmonary and Critical Care) Dr. Bayard is in the HPR track.
|Whitney Cabey, MD (Pediatric and General Emergency Medicine) completed her undergraduate degrees in Biochemistry and Women's Studies at Spelman College. After undergrad, she worked for a year as a women's rights organizer on college campuses. She obtained a medical degree from the University of Michigan, followed by residency at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC. She enjoys caring for both children and adults equally, leading her to pursue a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine, again at the University of Michigan. Prior to starting the Robert Wood Johnson fellowship, she spent a year as staff physician and Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at MedStar Washington Hospital Center and Children's National Medical Center, respectively, in Washington, DC. Dr. Cabey plans to bring social justice concepts and care for the underserved into research and business frameworks. Her goal is to add to the body of literature demonstrating attention to health equity creates better and more cost-effective outcomes. Dr. Cabey is in the RWJ Track.
Krisda Chaiyachati, MD, MPH (Internal Medicine) received his Bachelors in Human Rights Studies and Microbiology from the University of Georgia and his MD from the University of Michigan Medical School. During medical school he was a Doris Duke Fellow in Tugela Ferry, South Africa as a coordinator for a community-based treatment program for drug-resistant TB and HIV co-infected individuals. He received his MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health as a Zuckerman Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership. He completed his internal medicine residency training in the Yale Primary Care Program and continued on as a chief resident. He hopes to continue practicing primary care and simultaneously create clinical and policy innovations that address the interface between health and the social needs of patients. His long-term career interests involve translating policy and clinical research into improved public health on the state and national level. Dr. Chaiyachati is in the RWJ track.
Manik Chhabra, MD (Internal Medicine) is an internal medicine physician who grew up in Minnesota. He earned his undergraduate degree in Biomechanical engineering from Stanford University, and went to medical school at the University of Minnesota. He completed his residency and chief residency at the Yale Internal Medicine-Primary Care Program. He plans to pursue a career in academic internal medicine and health policy. Dr. Chhabra is in the RWJ track.
|Katherine Courtright, MD (Pulmonary and Critical Care) Dr. Courtright is in the HPR track.
Stephanie Doupnik, MD (Pediatrics) is an academic general pediatrics fellow and pediatric hospitalist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She received her undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature at the University of Virginia. She went on to attend medical school at Drexel University, and she completed her pediatrics residency in the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Children's Hospital and Boston Medical Center. Her research interest is in effective resource utilization in the inpatient pediatric setting, particularly around the transition to home. Dr. Doupnik is in the HPR track.
Nadia Dowshen, MD (Adolescent Medicine, Pediatrics) was born and raised in Philadelphia and trained in Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She is Director of Adolescent HIV Services and Co-Founder of the Gender and Sexuality Development Clinic in the Craig-Dalsimer Division of Adolescent Medicine at CHOP. She is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Penn School of Medicine and a Community Scholar-in-Residence for community-engaged research. Her research focuses on improving health outcomes for youth living with HIV through mHealth interventions and addressing health disparities for gender non-conforming and transgender children and adolescents. Dr. Dowshen is in the HPR track.
Suratha Elango, MD (Pediatrics) grew up in San Antonio, TX. She earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard University followed by a medical degree from UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. She has always been interested in community health and there she developed a community-based childhood obesity program. She then completed her residency and chief residency in pediatrics at UC San Francisco where she became interested in the larger health system and delivery of primary care. She plans a career combining general academic pediatrics, administration, community partnerships, and teaching medical students and residents. Dr. Elango is in the RWJ Track.
Elizabeth Enlow, MD (Pediatrics) received her undergraduate degree in History at Arizona State University and completed medical school at the University of Arizona. She then completed her pediatrics residency at Stanford University where she participated in the Stanford Advocacy Track (StAT) and completed a study measuring parent and pediatrician perceptions of barriers to care around NICU discharge. After residency, she moved to Philadelphia to begin her Neonatology fellowship at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where she is now a third year fellow. Her research interests include the transition from NICU to the medical home and how socioeconomic disparities influence outcomes after discharge. She is currently conducting a study examining the association between caregiver health literacy and infant outcomes after NICU discharge as well as a needs assessment of outpatient pediatricians who treat NICU graduates. She is interested in further elucidating the barriers parents face after NICU discharge and the role of community health workers in this transition. Dr. Enlow is in the HPR track.
Laura Johnson Faherty, MD, MPH (Pediatrics) completed her undergraduate training at Princeton University with a degree in the History of Medicine. She received her MD and MPH in Global Epidemiology from Emory University in Atlanta, where she conducted research on travel-associated salmonella infections with the Centers for Disease Control and held an internship with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. She then completed her pediatrics residency at the Boston Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics as part of the Urban Health and Advocacy Track, and served as Chief Resident. In residency, her research focused on telemedicine, specifically teledermatology, as a form of care delivery to improve subspecialty access for underserved children. She is Affiliated Faculty at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Johnson is interested in Leveraging technology to improve patient engagement and address barriers to access; improving chronic disease management in vulnerable pediatric populations; and reducing variations in care to improve quality and value. Dr. Johnson is in the RWJ track.
Abiola Fasina MD (Emergency Medicine) was born in Washington D.C. but grew up in Lagos, Nigeria. She received her undergraduate degree in Cell Biology and Neuroscience from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey followed by a medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. She completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai with a specialty track in global health. Abiola is currently completing a combined global ultrasound and research fellowship through the department of emergency medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include access and utilization of bedside ultrasound in resource poor settings and road safety and injury prevention in African developing countries. Dr. Fasina hopes to have a career in public health policy in African developing countries. Dr. Fasina is in the HPR track.
Alhambra Frarey, MD (Family Planning) completed her undergraduate degree, medical school and residency at the University of Kansas. After residency she spent three years on faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is currently a fellow in the division of Family Planning. Dr. Frarey's research interests include health policy surrounding women's reproductive care. She plans to pursue a career in academic medicine with a focus on health policy. Dr. Frarey is in the HPR track.
Kymberly Gonzalez, M.D. (Pediatrics) is a pediatrician who grew up in Dallas, TX. She earned her undergraduate degree with a Bachelor's in Business Administration from Southern Methodist University. While there she planned and oversaw educational and mentorship programming for Latino youth. In addition, she founded Health n' Motion, a community-based healthy lifestyles program targeting Latino families. She received her doctorate in medicine from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. She furthered her interest in community health and community partnerships by developing a community-based childhood obesity prevention program, Fit For Health. She then completed her residency in pediatrics at Children's Health-Dallas/UT Southwestern. While there, she developed a healthy lifestyles program centering on nutrition and parenting for at risk teen parents. In addition, she spent a couple of months in Peru learning about the barriers to the delivery of health in developing countries. Through that experience, she developed a pediatric preventative care model training model that has been incorporated in a health system in Peru. She plans a career combining general academic pediatrics, administration, community partnerships, and teaching medical students and residents. Dr. Gonzalez is in the RWJ track.
|Chloe Hill, MD (Neurology) Dr. Hill is in the HPR track.
Noah Hoffman, MD (Pediatric Gastroenterology) received his undergraduate degree in biology from Colby College. He then went on to medical school at Dartmouth where developed an interest in the cost and cost-effectiveness of medical care. He completed residency in general pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia where he is now a fellow in pediatric gastroenterology. He is interested in variation and value of care in pediatric GI. Dr. Hoffman is in the HPR track.
Jeffrey Hom, MD, MPH (Internal Medicine) completed his residency at the University of California, San Francisco. There he was a member of the medical center's "Health Systems and Leadership" track, in which his quality improvement efforts were focused on the care of patients with alcohol use disorder at San Francisco General Hospital. Previously he worked as a volunteer coordinator at St. Anthony Foundation, a multiservice non-profit in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. Jeff completed his undergraduate education with a degree in Art History at Bowdoin College. He received his MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health as a Zuckerman Fellow and his MD from Harvard Medical School. Jeff is interested in the challenges of expanding primary care under the ACA, including access to and quality of care, workforce issues and financing. He is also interested in identifying ways to improve the availability of preventative health services in underserved communities. Having contributed to health care and public health efforts in San Francisco, Boston, and Shiprock, New Mexico, Jeff remains committed to public service and primary care. He hopes to have a career in city government or a philanthropic non-governmental organization, developing programs and applying research to advance public health. Dr. Hom is in the RWJ Track.
Brian Jenssen, MD (Pediatrics) completed his undergraduate training at Davidson College in North Carolina with a degree in history. He received his medical degree from University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in NY. During medical school, he completed a fellowship with the National Institutes of Health as a Clinical and Translational Science Institute Student Fellow, conducting research in tobacco policy, smoking cessation, and adolescent use of social media. He completed his pediatrics residency training and a chief resident year at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Jenssen is interested in Tobacco policy and smoking cessation, health literacy, use of technologies, for example RSS, in dissemination of best practices, and healthcare utilization in primary care. He plans to pursue a career in academic primary care and public health policy. Dr. Jenssen is in the RWJ track.
|Aditi Kamdar, MD (Pediatric Hematology/Oncology) is currently in her fellowship in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Aditi grew up in Sugar Land, TX and is a proud Texan! She completed her undergraduate degree at Penn State and earned her MD from Jefferson Medical College here in Philadelphia. She underwent her residency training in Pediatrics at Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine. After residency, she worked as a both a general pediatrician in Houston and then abroad in Ethiopia practicing rural medicine with her husband Mudit. Aditi has always been interested in health care disparities and access to care both here and abroad as her work in India and Africa has opened her eyes to a variety of active population health issues. She hopes to focus her research on the implementation of quality and efficient healthcare in both Pediatric Hematology and Oncology both here and abroad. Aditi is in the HPR track.
Elinore Kaufman (General Surgery) grew up in New York City and majored in History at Swarthmore College. She worked in early childhood literacy before completing the post-baccalaureate pre-medical program at Penn. She attended Harvard Medical School and is currently a general surgery resident at Cornell. Her research interests include strengthening trauma care systems and reducing the frequency and impact of traumatic injury. Dr. Kaufman is in the HPR track.
Vinay Kini, MD (Cardiology) is a cardiology fellow specializing in multimodality cardiac imaging at the University of Pennsylvania. He received undergraduate degrees in chemistry and history at Rice University, attended medical school at Temple University, and completed his residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. His research interest is in studying variation in utilization of cardiac tests and procedures in order to increase the value and efficiency of cardiac care. Dr. Kini is in the HPR track.
Michael G. Knight, MD (Internal Medicine) completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the NewYork-Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, NY. Originally from New York City, he completed undergraduate studies at Oakwood University, and attended the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, where he obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree with Special Qualifications in Biomedical Research. He served as the 48th national president of the Student National Medical Association, where he focused on diversifying the face of medicine, achieving health equity, and increasing HIV/AIDS awareness in minority communities. He currently serves as the president of the Renewing Health Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization working to educate, equip, and empower urban communities to improve their wellbeing, and to eliminate ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in health. Knight has served on various boards and committees of organizations such as the National Medical Association and the American Medical Association Residents and Fellows Section. He has been an invited speaker on health care disparities at events across the country, including the National Minority Quality Forum and the Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust. He has received numerous awards including the AMA Foundation Leadership Award, and was selected as one of the Top 30 under 30 Alumni of Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Knight plans to pursue a multifaceted career combining a clinical career in Obesity medicine, administrative roles in health system quality improvement, and non-profit leadership in minority health promotion. Dr. Knight is in the RWJ track.
Juan Lado, MD (Pediatric Endocrinology) is currently in his fellowship in Pediatric Endocrinology at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He completed his undergraduate degree in Biological Science at the University of Chicago. He earned his MD from New York University School of Medicine. He obtained his residency training in Social Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore in Bronx, NY. Dr. Lado is interested in type 1 diabetes and its management in schools. He is also interested in policy and has been involved in policy change efforts regarding the management of type 1 diabetes in NY public schools. Dr. Lado is in the HPR track.
Joshua M. Liao, MD (Internal Medicine) completed his undergraduate training at Rice University with degrees in English Literature and Biochemistry, and his medical school training at Baylor College of Medicine. He completed his residency training at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, MA, where he was a clinical fellow in medicine at Harvard Medical School. There, he also chaired the hospital's Housestaff Quality Improvement Council and completed the "Medical Leadership Track" with a focus on innovations in care delivery and population health. Josh is interested in innovations in organizational management and financing, as well as the dissemination and translation of information and research. Dr. Liao is in the HPR Track.
|Ilona Lorincz, MD (Endocrinology) is a fellow in endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism and a fellow of the Center for Health Care Improvement and Patient Safety (CHIPS) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her undergraduate training at Dartmouth College in 2003, where she earned a degree in Psychology and the Brain Sciences and Neuroscience. Dr. Lorincz graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 2008. She completed her internal medicine residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 2011, and was a member of the Healthcare Leadership in Quality track. Her research interest is in improving healthcare delivery for patients with diabetes, particularly improving patient-physician communication and patient education and the use of technology to promote diabetes self-care behaviors. She is also interested in issues of quality of care for diabetic inpatients, particularly in improving glycemic control during hospital transitions of care and the prevention of readmissions. Dr. Lorincz is in the HPR track.
|Laura Medford-Davis, MD (Emergency Medicine) grew up in Houston, TX. She received dual summa cum laude undergraduate degrees in Spanish and Psychology from the University of Oklahoma, followed by a medical degree from Harvard Medical School. She completed emergency training at Baylor College of Medicine where she served as Chief Resident. During her undergraduate career she was a summer fellow at the National Institutes of Health. While in medical school, she led education and health engagement programs in several Native American and Latin American communities. Prior to residency she worked with the World Health Organization in Geneva improving WHO communications practices for international crisis response. As a resident, Dr Medford-Davis has served as a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians National Emergency Medicine Practice Committee, as an associate with McKinsey & Co, as a Leadership and Advocacy Fellow with the Texas College of Emergency Physicians, asa writer on healthcare affordability for Policy Prescriptions, and as an executive committee member of the Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine. Dr Medford-Davis is interested in preventing avoidable return visits to the Emergency Department, in making healthcare more affordable, and in improving access to care for underserved populations through equitable distribution of health resources. She plans to pursue a multidisciplinary career combining clinical medicine, research, and advocacy to improve the healthcare delivery system. Dr. Medford-Davis is in the RWJ track.
Anna Uma Morgan, MD, MSc (Internal Medicine) is a general internist from southern California. She completed her undergraduate degree in Political Science at Swarthmore College. After completing her undergraduate studies she worked for an NGO at the United Nations in New York, focusing on the trafficking of small arms and light weapons. Dr. Morgan also holds an MSc in Health, Population and Society from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where her dissertation focused on the attitudes of Members of Parliament regarding severe mental illness. She received her MD from the University of California, Irvine, and completed residency in Internal Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, where she spent an additional year serving as Outpatient Chief Resident. Dr. Morgan is committed to enhancing both the quality and efficiency of primary care delivery, particularly in underserved populations. Dr. Morgan is in the RWJ track.
|Chileshe Nkonde-Price (Cardiology) is originally from Zambia but grew up in the United Kingdom. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge and her medical school degree from University College London. Following medical school she worked in the National Health Service (NHS) for three years at both University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust where she received her Membership to the Royal College of Physicians of London (MRCP). She then moved to the United States and completed her internal medicine residency at Drexel University where she served as an Administrative Chief Resident in her final year. She then went on to Yale University to pursue her cardiology fellowship. Dr Nkonde-Price is interested in cardiovascular disease in women and specifically how cardiovascular technologies and drug therapies predict outcomes in women. She is especially interested in disparities in cardiovascular care including the factors that are driving the rising prevalence of cardiovascular disease in minority women. She is also passionate about promoting awareness and exploring the impact of mobile technology and social media as a means to promote heart healthy behaviors. Dr. Nkonde-Price is in the RWJ track.
Megan Oberle, MD (Pediatric Endocrinology) completed her undergraduate education in biology at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, NY. She graduated from SUNY Upstate Medical University, and completed her pediatric residency at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital/Case Medical Center in Cleveland, OH. She is currently a pediatric endocrinology fellow at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Her research interests are focused on food policy and its impact on chronic disease, mainly childhood obesity. Dr. Oberle is in the HPR track.
|Deepak Palakshappa (Internal Medicine/Pediatrics) received his undergraduate degree in Biology/Psychology for Birmingham-Southern College. Prior to attending medical school, he worked for a non-profit teaching seventh and ninth grade math. He then graduated from medical school at the University of Alabama School of Medicine. He completed his residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital in the combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics program where he then served as a Chief Resident in Pediatrics. After the completion of his Chief Residency, he served as an Instructor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He also worked on research projects at the MGH Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy and Research related to the association of food insecurity on development in adolescents and the long term impact of participation in physical education classes during adolescence on physical activity in adulthood. Dr. Palakshappa is currently an Academic General Pediatrics Fellows and his research interests include policy and population based interventions for obesity and food insecurity. Dr. Palakshappa is in the HPR track.
|Benjamin Ranard is an MD/MSHP student at the University of Pennsylvania. He received an AB in Biological Sciences from Cornell University. His recent research examined and classified how crowdsourcing can be utilized for health research. He is interested in exploring causes for variations in the quality and price of health care. He is in the HPR track.
|Anita Ravi, MD, MPH (Family Medicine) completed her undergraduate studies at Washington University in St.Louis, and received a Masters in Public Health from Yale University. She was selected as a Reproductive Health Epidemiology Fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she worked in conjunction with the World Health Organization (WHO) to update the WHO's Medical Eligibility Criteria in Contraceptive Use Guidelines. She completed medical school at the University of Michigan and her residency at Beth Israel's Residency in Urban Family Medicine in New York City where she received training in women's health procedures and in medical asylum evaluations for Physicians for Human Rights. During this time she was also elected as a Chief Resident and served as a Delegate to the New York State Academy of Family Physicians. She is interested in health and human rights of incarcerated and trafficked populations, gender-based violence and health, family planning in underserved settings, family medicine workforce expansion. Dr. Ravi is in the RWJ track.
Mical Raz, MD, PhD (Internal Medicine) completed her medical training at Tel Aviv University, from where she also received a PhD in history of medicine. Before moving to the US for a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale, she worked at the Tel Aviv Medical Center and volunteered with Physicians for Human Rights. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital in 2015. She is the author of The Lobotomy Letters: The Making of American Psychosurgery (U of Rochester 2013), which was awarded the Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Career Development Award. Her second book, What's Wrong with the Poor? Race, Psychiatry and the War on Poverty (UNC 2013), has been reviewed in medical, historical and public policy venues. A historian of American psychiatry, Raz is interested in the intersection of psychiatry, poverty and politics, and in disparities in health care access and delivery in twentieth century US history. Her new project will examine the interrelations of drug policy and mental health theory from a historical perspective. Dr. Raz is in the RWJ track.
|Loren Robinson, MD (Internal Medicine/Pediatrics) completed the Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics program at UNC Chapel Hill. As both an Internist and Pediatrician, she feels that she has developed a skill set that will allow her to care for patients across generations, with a special emphasis on transition of care of the difficult adolescent patient. For her undergraduate training, Loren attended Spelman College where she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in French/Pre-Medical Studies. Dr. Robinson then proceeded to complete her medical studies at Duke University School of Medicine. She spent her years at Duke working to engage and give back to both the local and global communities, spending a year abroad in Cape Town, South Africa conducting a project geared toward empowering community health workers. While at Duke, she was very active in the community, from mentoring on the undergraduate campus to implementing a healthy behaviors program at a local middle school. She continued this tradition of activism at UNC. Dr. Robinson's ultimate goal is to practice comprehensive care in an underserved community. Dr. Robinson is in the RWJ track.
|Emily Rubin, MD (Pulmonary/Critical Care) Dr. Rubin is in the HPR track.
Mina Sedrak, MD (Hematology/Oncology) is a fellow in the division of hematology. He received his bachelor's degree in Biological Science from the University of Chicago, graduated from Rush Medical College in Chicago and completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania. His clinical interests are head/neck and thoracic cancers. Dr. Sedrak's research interests include understandingtrends and factors responsible for aggressive cancer care near the end of life, and the effects of variations and value in oncology care on the economics, efficiency, and patient-centeredness of healthcare. He is also a fellow in the Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Safety Program, and co-chair of the Housestaff Quality and Safety Leadership Council at Penn. Dr. Sedrak is in the HPR track.
David Shalowitz, MD (Gynecologic Oncology) is a bioethicist and fellow in gynecologic oncology. He completed medical school at the University of Michigan, residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Brigham & Women's and Massachusetts General Hospitals and a fellowship in clinical bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. His current research focuses on the cognitive psychology of physicians' decisions regarding medical and surgical care of their patients. Also of interest are risk communication within gynecologic oncology, patient preferences regarding regionalization of cancer care and implementation of best practices guidelines. He received his bachelor's degree in Religious Studies from Brown University. Dr. Shalowitz is in the HPR track.
Navin Vij, MD (Internal Medicine/Pediatrics) is an Internal Medicine/Pediatric trained physician who grew up in Bloomington, MN. He completed his undergraduate studies at Rice University, where he majored in Political Science and was a co-founder of the Baker Institute Student Forum at the Baker Institute for Public Policy. He also spent time working on health policy issues while interning in British Parliament, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and also with the Texas Program for Society and Health. He subsequently completed an International Health Track during medical school at Baylor College of Medicine. After completing an Internal Medicine/Pediatric Residency and Chief Residency at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, he has worked as an Internal Medicine Hospitalist and continued his involvement with education as an Assistant Program Director for the Med-Peds Residency Program at Case Western. Beyond his interest in academics, Dr. Vij has also been involved with advocacy and outreach efforts related to Hepatitis C. He has served as a Member of the National Patient Advisory Committee for the American Liver Foundation and is involved with the Caring Ambassadors Program as a Board Member. He plans on pursuing an inter-disciplinary career that combines clinical medicine with an active role in shaping the delivery of healthcare from a policy perspective. Dr. Vij is in the RWJ track.
Nikhil Waingankar, MD (Urology) is from Shawnee, Oklahoma. He completed his undergraduate degree in Psychology at Northwestern University and medical school at the University of Oklahoma. He moved to Baltimore, MD for his internship in general surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and then to New York for his residency in urology at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. He is currently in his second year of a Urologic Oncology fellowship at Fox Chase Cancer Center. His interests are in cancer outcomes research using large datasets, and physician-led collaborative groups for quality improvement. Dr. Waingankar is in the HPR track.
Gary Weissman, MD (Pulmonary and Critical Care) is a Fellow in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his undergraduate degree in Physics at Dartmouth College, received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College, and completed a residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. During his residency he trained in both the Primary Care and Global Health Tracks, which included clinical work at the Penn Refugee Clinic and Puentes de Salud in Philadelphia, and at the Princess Marina Hospital in Gaborone, Botswana. Prior to attending medical school he worked as a technology strategy consultant for non-profit organizations in Philadelphia, as the founder of a rural internet cafe in El Salvador, and as a research consultant at the Perelman School of Medicine developing computer models of screening decisions in women at high risk for breast cancer. His current research interests include the longitudinal pathways of critically ill patients, use of real-time technology solutions to improve care in the ICU, and the practice of low-resource critical care. His methodological interests include network analysis, natural language processing, and machine learning. Dr. Weissman is in the HPR track.
Lena Winestone, MD, MS (Pediatric Hematology and Oncology) is currently in her fellowship in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She completed her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and her Master's degree in Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her MD from Stanford School of Medicine. She obtained her residency training in Pediatrics at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. After residency she worked as a bone marrow transplant hospitalist for a year before starting fellowship. Lena has long been interested in disparities and access to care both here and abroad and has previously worked in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Lesotho, Switzerland, and Nepal. She hopes to focus her research on disparities in access and outcome for childhood leukemia and bone marrow transplant . Lena is in the HPR track.
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The Unity Walk Story
Why do we Walk each year at the 9/11 Unity Walk?
"We walk because we have not yet arrived." Imam Mohamed Magid, of All Dulles Area Muslims Society.
All houses of worship on Embassy Row, Massachusetts Avenue open their doors to each other and to you.
People of different faiths, philosophies, cultures, and those who claim no faith, are invited to experience a world of traditions through music, art, architecture, service, and food.
Thank You
After ten fulfilling years, the 9/11 Unity Walk non-profit corporation is announcing its end.
Concerned citizens organized the first Unity Walk event in 2005 in the wake of 9/11 to offer people of different faiths and traditions a chance to come together and build bridges of respect. All the houses of worship on Embassy Row opened their doors to each other and symbolically the world – offering hospitality and inviting strangers into their sanctuaries.
For 10 years, the Unity Walk has been a hallmark of interfaith togetherness and testimonies and feedback from participants demonstrate that, together, we have achieved the mission. Thus, Board of Directors of 9/11 Unity Walk has determined that the day has come to dissolve the organization.
One could be sad, but we should focus on all the wonderful things accomplished and memories created. And, the most important thing of all, for all those who cared enough to put aside their differences, walk together, volunteer or tell someone about the Walk: A BIG THANK YOU.
Just imagine: 1,000 people coming together to build friendships, to learn, to serve, to celebrate and to remember. What a statement for unity. And what an authentic moving experience we had, whether it was the solemnity of the first 9/11 memorial Walks or in later years the camaraderie of working side by side on a service project with someone of a different faith. Our Unity Walk memories include hearing the Muslim call to prayer at Washington Hebrew Congregation, singing "Amazing Grace" at the Islamic Center, being greeted by nuns with cookies at the Vatican Embassy and hearing Desmond Tutu's rich baritone say to us "the walls of suspicion and injustice will fall." Most of all, you probably remember meeting someone of a different faith and thinking that the world will be a better place if we come together.
We are proud of the groups that have emerged from the Unity Walk, including CAIF (Capital Area Interfaith Friends), which engages middle and high school youth, and the DC Interfaith Network, a group of young professionals working within interfaith contexts.
The most telling feature of the Walk's success is that we have created family – people of all faiths or no faith, philosophies and culture who now consider themselves friends. As family, we should strive to keep the Unity Walk spirit alive, and we encourage you to seek out interfaith and service opportunities in future. The 9/11 Unity Walk website will remain up as a resource and record.
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A trio of local ladies, known as "The Unforgettables," performed swing and jazz numbers from the 1930s to the 1960s at Mrs. Stock's Park in Hillsdale Tuesday night. The group has been together five years and performs regularly for functions year- round.
Before starting their repertoire, they were asked to sing a poem written by an anonymous person associated with the park committee. "Please Fence Me In" was sung by the ladies to the tune of "Don't Fence Me In." Without prior warning, the trio pleasantly surprised the audience with their blending of voices and ear for music.
Starting off with "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B," the ladies followed with several tunes made favorites by the Andrews Sisters, as well as other stars like Nat King Cole and Neil Sedaka.
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If that's your plan...you may...
Stay armed...stay alive...stay safe!
This is a discussion on I'd rather die than shoot anyone! within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Oh dear me - once more I heard this, today. I have a hard job rationalizing such a statement. I was in discussion with someone ...
Oh dear me - once more I heard this, today. I have a hard job rationalizing such a statement.
I was in discussion with someone on the subject of self defence - brought on by a reference to some newspaper article they had read. I made the point that bad guys can be armed, have sometimes little respect for the lives of others and, will also have guns pretty much regardless of any gun controls.
When challenged, I said that I was simply going to work on the basis of - ''him or me'' .. seeing as I had at least some life left and family responsibilities etc. Why indeed should I sacrifice my life to some thug.!!!
They insisted however that they could never shoot or hurt anyone else - and would rather just ''take it''. Even my challenges to their family responsibilities - yielded nothing positive
So yes folks - these people exist ... and pretty obviously are NOT candidates for concealed carry!.
It's amazing ....... truly. <still shaking head in disbelief>
Chris - P95
NRA Certified Instructor & NRA Life Member.
"To own a gun and assume that you are armed
is like owning a piano and assuming that you are a musician!."
http://www.rkba-2a.com/ - a portal for 2A links, articles and some videos.
If that's your plan...you may...
Stay armed...stay alive...stay safe!
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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Darwin at work, or survival of the fittest.
If you don't protect your self, who will?
Wow, that is taking, "Turn the other cheek" to the extreme. I don't understand how people can feel this way.
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It is better to have your gun and not need it, than to need it and not have it!
You cannot choose the conditions for a gunfight, so train in all conditions!
It is sad people feel that way. I bet they carry insurance on their cars and homes for protection. Wear their seat belts to say safe. Yet protecting themselves from violence seems wrong to them. I also don't get it.
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson
I was suprised how many people feel that way in northern Az.! As for me, I will defend myself, let natural selection take it's course. I like P95's signature, it sums it up nicely!
"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier
and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the
service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the
love and thanks of man and woman."
-- Thomas Paine (The American Crisis, No. 1, 19 December 1776)
It makes you wonder....wonder what they would really do in a VERY BAD situation. I bet some would rise to the ocassion and protect the gift of life...even if it is with something other than a firearm.
I wonder what life insurance companies would do it they found our that their policy holders had that mindset. Those people might want to read their insurance policy. In the casualty insurance field you are required to take necessary steps to prevent more damage. I wonder if a life insurance company could get away with not paying a claim by making the case that the insured did not take the proper steps to remain alive. Interesting concept.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. Albert Einstein
If they decide not to defend themselves... send flowers!
Be safe.
That is the definition of a true sheep! It is really sad that people think so little of themselves and their loved ones that they would roll over and let the BG have his way! I fully intend to introduce him to any of a number of fast moving friends to ruin his day...
Assault is a behavior, not a device.
"Don't never take no shortcuts." Patty Reed, Donner Party
Lifetime NRA member
It'll never change. Thats what makes the world go round and keeps life interesting. Not a one of us on this forum would have an "easy go" of having to shoot anyone. We've just made the choice that its either them or us.
I believe the answer to change their way of thinking is to watch a family member or a friend be hurt, molested, tortured or killed. Its a denial thing "it wont happen to me".
Ive always believed in preventative medicine.
"Natural Selection" selects the one with traits better suited for survival. Are people who choose to carry therefore genetically superior?


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Happily, Townsend's account was reinstated this week after intervention from the Electronic Frontier Foundation convinced YouTube and the petitioners to reconsider their positions.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has updated its popular web browser security tool to guard against attacks waged by the Firesheep script-kiddie snoop kit.
EMI says the brief filed last week by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other groups supporting MP3tunes's argument that it's not responsible for what music its users store on its servers should be barred because it is "a pure advocacy piece, not a 'friend of the court.'" Amicus curiae briefs are often filed by interest groups and the government in cases that could set major precedents, in order to illustrate the broader ramifications of the case.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation called the law "a reckless scheme that will undermine global Internet infrastructure and censor legitimate online speech."
"The DMCA safe harbors were designed to encourage the growth of new internet innovations and expression by helping service providers manage their legal exposure, and they've been an extraordinary success," said EFF senior staff attorney Corynne McSherry. "Without the safe harbor provisions, companies like YouTube, Facebook, and many others could have been shut down before they got off the ground. That's not what Congress intended."
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) of San Francisco, an online freedom of speech and privacy organization, as a public service is representing the Democratic Underground in the suit pending in federal court in Las Vegas.
But when you use a wireless network, or many wired ones, your communications are sent to every computer on the network, said Seth Schoen, senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit that defends digital civil rights.
Martin intends to use the $3,000 prize to purchase equipment for additional hardware hacking. In addition to handing over $3,000 to the winner, Adafruit has also donated an additional $2,000 to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), citing the important role that the EFF plays in defending hardware hackers.
If you use the Firefox browser, you could also install the "HTTPS Everywhere" extension developed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Tor Project, dedicated to improving Web privacy. That automatically directs you to the encrypted version of every site that offers one.
Aligned against the watchmaker are retailers and free-flow-of-information types like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who say Omega is using a law designed to control creative works to control the U.S. prices of manufactured products.


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LONDON—Banking stocks remained under pressure, sending European indexes lower, as concerns about a global economic slowdown and the ongoing euro-zone debt crisis continued to spook investors.
Several investment banks have cut their forecasts for growth in recent days. Friday, J.P. Morgan Chased warned that U.S. recession risks are "clearly elevated."
The pan-European Stoxx 600 index fell 1.6% to end the week at 223.13. It dropped 6% over the five sessions.
German shares continued to be hit particularly hard. The DAX 30 index dropped 2.2% Friday to 5480.00. Losses reached 8.6% for the week and 23% for August.
"One of the reasons [for these steep losses] is that German stocks have the most to lose," said Markus Huber, head of German sales trading at ETX Capital in London. "They outperformed over the last two years, especially car makers."
Also driving down the DAX over the week is its heavy weighting of financial stocks. Insurer Allianz was the index's biggest loser on Friday, falling 4.1%. Deutsche Bank declined 2.7%.
Moreover, utility firms E.On and RWE RWEOY 1.31 % are no longer seen as defensive plays because their earnings are declining. E.On dropped 1.1% Friday, and RWE lost 1.6%.
Among other stocks, Volkswagen VLKAY 1.20 % declined 2.6%, although it said Friday it remained on track with vehicle deliveries. High-end car maker BMW BMW 1.42 % fell 3.4%.
"The expectations had been so high [for German car makers]," Mr. Huber said. "Maybe people were overweight too much in those stocks."
Financial shares fell elsewhere in Europe on worries about the cost the euro-zone debt crisis could have on the sector. UniCredit UNCFF 9.21 % declined 5.8% in Milan and Banco Santander fell 3.1% in Madrid. BNP Paribas BNPQY 3.81 % fell 4.3% in Paris, pressuring the CAC 40 index, which finished down 1.9% at 3016.99.
In London, shares of Lloyds Banking Group dropped 4.8% and those of Royal Bank of Scotland Group RBS 2.82 % sank 4.4%. The losses weighed on the FTSE 100 index, which fell 1% to 5040.76.
"We think that the chances of a genuine liquidity crisis as experienced in 2008 are reasonably remote," wrote Matt Spick, research analyst at Deutsche Bank, in a note about European banks. "But we do see a slower-moving, but still toxic, funding crisis."
Among the few gainers, Autonomy surged 72% to £24.52 in London in response to a bid from Hewlett-Packard HPQ 0.50 % at £25.50 a share.
Essar Energy sank 8.7% and was the biggest decliner in the Stoxx 600 after Morgan Stanley MS -0.45 % downgraded the stock to underweight from equalweight, citing earnings risks.
BP dropped 2.5% after the firm said late Thursday that it and other oil operators were asked by the U.S. Coast Guard to investigate a sheen that had been seen in the Gulf of Mexico. BP said its Macondo well is sealed and secure.
In the currency markets, the euro rose to $1.4406, from $1.4333 late Thursday in New York. The dollar set a new record low again the yen before recovering some losses. It was fetching ¥76.39 from ¥76.58. The euro was at 1.1331 Swiss francs from 1.1380 francs.
Elsewhere, September Nymex crude-oil futures reversed early losses and was up 77 cents, or 0.9%, at $83.15 a barrel, while spot gold was up $31.50 at $1,850.40 a troy ounce. The contract earlier touched an intraday record of $1,874.40.


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Deputies have yet to interview witness in shooting
Published: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 6:32 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 6:32 p.m.
SARASOTA - Detectives have been trying for a week to interview the 16-year-old boy who rode in an SUV that was fired upon by sheriff's deputies.
The boy's testimony is one of the missing threads as deputies try to wrap up the investigation of the fatal shooting. According to the sheriff's office, a routine traffic stop for a seatbelt violation escalated when 23-year-old Rodney Mitchell hit the gas and drove the Jeep SUV at a deputy.
Two deputies fired at the SUV. Mitchell crashed after crossing six lanes of U.S. 301 and died at the scene.
The boy, a cousin of Mitchell's, was unharmed and ran away after the SUV stopped. He is considered a key witness.
While sheriff's officials and prosecutors issued a subpoena to force him to testify, an attorney for the boy's family says the 16-year-old and his mother were at the sheriff's office hours after the June 11 shooting, trying to cooperate and getting nowhere.
"He ran to a relative's home nearby," said Daphney Branham, the family attorney. "His mother picked him up and took him to two separate police stations that evening to try to give a statement.
"They waited thirty minutes for somebody to talk to them, but nobody showed up and they left."
Now the boy's family is hiring an attorney and promising to make him available for questioning.
"They just want to make sure that he's protected," Branham said. "He has not been eluding anyone."
Sheriff's officials said Tuesday they could not confirm the boy and his mother showed up at headquarters that night.
Prosecutors and the sheriff's office served the boy's parents with a subpoena Friday, but as of Tuesday he had still not been interviewed, spokeswoman Wendy Rose said.
The sheriff's office is gathering facts and testimony for review by the state attorney's office, which will decide whether the shooting was justified.
As is customary, the deputies are on paid administrative leave pending the outcome.
"We hope to have our portion concluded shortly," Rose said. "I know that's the goal, for everyone's benefit. We know the community wants answers and we want to provide those answers as quickly as possible, but without rushing."
Mitchell's car was stopped just after 9:30 p.m. on a night when both the sheriff's office and city police were doing extra patrols in north Sarasota.
Rose said that deputy Adam Shaw activated the siren and flashing lights to stop Mitchell's SUV, but that Mitchell "continued driving for quite some time."
When the SUV stopped and the deputy approached him, Mitchell refused to make eye contact, Rose said, staring straight ahead with the vehicle still in gear as Shaw tried to talk to him.
"The deputy even reached in to try to put it in park," Rose said.
Sgt. Troy Sasse arrived and stopped his car ahead of Mitchell's vehicle on the other side of the street.
Mitchell eventually put the SUV into park, Rose said, but just for a second.
Then he put it in gear and drove at Sasse, Rose said.
Both deputies fired two shots.
Family members have not publicly disputed the sheriff's account of the shooting, saying they are awaiting the results of the investigation.
But in the meantime, friends of Mitchell doubt he would have tried to hurt anyone.
Mitchell, a 2007 graduate of Palmetto High School, played college football at Eastern New Mexico University and had a degree in physical education.
Court records show that Mitchell's license had been suspended in March for a DUI charge; he was also facing a charge of driving without a license after being stopped by Sarasota police in May.
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