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In April 1963, seven Camp Summerlane staff members journeyed to Western North Carolina from assorted points around the country. "The dogwoods were just starting to bloom," one of them remembers, and at first, springtime in the mountains seemed to offer a welcoming setting for the new camp.
Granted, there was much work to be done to prepare the facility -- an inactive summer camp about 15 miles southwest of Brevard, near the tiny town of Rosman. Fifty-some children, along with 10 or so additional adult staffers, would be arriving in July.
And while they would need the usual amenities for a summer of hiking, swimming, roasting marshmallows and such, Summerlane was also preparing to implement an unusual social experiment: At this camp, children and adults would be given an equal say in determining most camp rules and activities. There was also a social-service component, as some of the older campers would be doing outreach work with migrant laborers. And even as civil-rights battles flared around the South that summer, children of all races were invited to attend.
George Hall, a 27-year-old engineer from southern California who was with the advance team, felt primed to try something seriously unconventional. "I was quite a liberal," he says, and his politics had led him to pick up copies of The Realist, the New York City-based monthly that financed and publicized Summerlane. After reading camp founder George von Hilsheimer's articles, Hall decided to volunteer for a staff position at the soon-to-open camp. "I was waiting for something like this to come along, and it looked like fun," he remembers.
Summerlane struck a philosophical chord with Hall, but his handyman skills were as welcome as his sentiments. Along with the rest of the advance staff, he spent the next two months "just trying to rehabilitate the camp," he remembers.
"There were some foundation things [for buildings] that needed to be replaced. The safety people had written us up because there were no release valves on the water heaters, so we plumbed those in. There were some rotten steps, and we had to build a new counter in a kitchen. ... I even ordered some bees and set up a couple of hives."
During breaks from the work, Hall enjoyed the occasional visit to nearby Rosman, where the camp bought its supplies. "It was the first time I'd seen a real general store in full swing, with the old, board floors with gaps in them, and the piles of cordage and the stacks of flour," he says. "I liked it and hung around there a bit."
Rosman native Brenda Morgan, who was 18 at the time and lived on Main Street next to the store, remembers seeing the Summerlane staff there and sensing that they were somehow different from the buttoned-down locals. "They were my first recollection of the hippie culture," she says today. "Some of the men had a little bit longer hair and bandanas, and the women had longer skirts, down around their ankles, and were barefoot, most often. They looked a little unkempt, you know. It was not like what I was used to."
But that wasn't all, she says -- there were also abundant rumors about various forms of wrongdoing at Summerlane. It was "a nudist camp," she heard, or a "communist training school." And it was said that black campers would be there, too, in defiance of local segregation.
Mutual curiosity
Despite their differences, the camp's staff and its neighbors got along fine at first. "I talked to a bunch of them," Hall says of his early interactions with locals, and he got to know a few residents pretty well.
They told him about the area's finer points, touting the fact that parts of Thunder Road, a late-1950s moonshine-running movie, had been filmed on the winding mountain roads around Rosman. "Everybody was talking about it," says Hall. "The locals were very proud."
One man who lived right up the road seemed to take a special interest in Summerlane. He was "a lovely guy" at first, says Hall, and he visited often. "He introduced me to moonshine," Hall recalls with a laugh. (Yet this same man, Hall and others say, later helped lead a push to drive Summerlane out of the area.)
Tomm Friend, a 15-year-old from Long Island, N.Y. -- the first camper to arrive at Summerlane -- also had a good feeling at first. He came a month before the camp opened to help the staff prepare the place. "I was out in the country, and it was beautiful," he remembers; and like Hall, he got to mingle with some the neighbors who visited. "A lot of young men came out. Everybody'd have a drink around sunset. There seemed to be quite a few locals there. Everyone actually thought we were getting along rather well."
Another camper, who arrived later, has similar memories of how mutual curiosity initially helped Rosman-area residents and the outsiders who came to Summerlane find some common ground. "As far as getting along with the folks in the area, the young people of the area were very curious -- the guys anyway," remembers Peter Orris, then a 17-year-old from New York City. The locals, he says, "were very interested in our culture, which was pretty alien to them. And we were very interested in them for really the same sort of thing."
Still, the potential for discord began to mount, as von Hilsheimer, the camp's director, noted in an update on Summerlane published in The Realist. "We anticipate a few problems," he wrote shortly before the camp opened. "One of our spies informs us that the local school board has already been sent a San Francisco newspaper clipping" that sharply criticized Summerlane's science instructor -- Leo Koch, the controversial former University of Illinois biology professor who'd been fired for suggesting that premarital sex could be of some benefit to the school's undergrads.
The clipping in question was an article, headlined "'Free-Love' Prof Carolina-Bound," that appeared in a right-wing newsletter called Tocsin. The article quoted Koch as saying that Summerlane would be a "relatively free and liberal institution," and, citing the camp's promotional literature, asserted that Summerlane would be an "integrationist project" that "permits children complete freedom."
Regarding the fact that the Tocsin article had surfaced in Rosman, von Hilsheimer wrote: "So that has to be dealt with. As will the reaction to our pathetic 'integration.'" (It would emerge later that, with the exception of two mixed-race sisters -- "a couple of tall, thin, girls who didn't look much different than some of the Jewish girls who were in the group," a counselor remembers -- everyone at Summerlane was as white as Rosman's residents.)
Nonetheless, von Hilsheimer added, "We feel confident to cope."
But the list of things to cope with grew fast. "In May, a direct threat to the life of any Negro at Summerlane was made by two of the local toughs," von Hilsheimer wrote in a Realist update. By late June, he was so worried that he started scouting alternate camp locations up north; meanwhile, he instructed George Hall to alert the state's top elected official.
In a letter to Gov. Terry Sanford's office, Hall wrote that, at first, "We were not inclined to take [the threats] seriously," since they seemed to be coming from "members of a hoodlum minority."
But then, local government and civic leaders began offering cautions as well. Transylvania County Sheriff Carter McCall gave the "first official warning," as Hall put it. In the event that the camp was attacked, McCall said, "he would do all he could to protect us," but because he had just a couple of deputies to cover a big county, "There was a very strong likelihood that he would only be able to arrive to investigate what had already happened."
Then, on June 11, the Rosman Chamber of Commerce formed a committee of local leaders to study just what was going on at the soon-to-open Camp Summerlane. The Rev. Dan Wallen of Brevard, president of the Transylvania Ministerial Association, was selected as chair. (State police investigators reported to the governor that "Wallen's sympathy is definitely against the [camp] being conducted in the Rosman area.")
In a carefully worded statement to the Chamber, the camp leadership tried to head off any criticism, asserting that they were up to something good that could help both the campers and the community. They stressed that both von Hilsheimer (who was raised in Florida) and his wife, Dian (a North Carolina native), had Southern roots, and that von Hilsheimer had long been a Baptist minister.
As for Summerlane -- both the camp and the planned school -- the statement emphasized the enterprise's upstanding character and positive goals. Describing the venture as "a nonprofit school chartered under the laws of the state of North Carolina," the document continued: "Summerlane Camp is primarily a work camp. Teenagers from all over America will come to Summerlane to spend the summer learning work skills and contributing their summer efforts to the improvement of the life of the country around them." It went on to explain the camp's roots in A.S. Neill's Summerhill School, "where children take responsibility for their decisions from the earliest grades."
The camp planners, they said, had chosen Western North Carolina after carefully weighing the options and deciding that it was a good fit: "We are here because we like this area the way it is. ... Our goal is first firmly to establish our own school and then to aid in the conservative development of more schools, deeply committed to protecting the character of this area."
None of this, however, changed the local leaders' minds, as Hall recounted in his subsequent letter to the governor's office. In mid-June, Summerlane staff attended a Rosman Town Council meeting, where, Hall wrote, "We were told quite strongly by the County Clerk and Austin Hogsed, the Mayor of Rosman, that it was strongly against local custom for Negroes to even be in the area and that it would be an extremely dangerous situation for both us and the children" if the plan to open an integrated camp went forward.
Shortly thereafter, Hall, Leo Koch and Dian von Hilsheimer drove to Brevard to plead Summerlane's case with the local committee, whose members included the Rev. Wallen, Mayor Hogsed, the Transylvania County superintendent of schools, a Junior Chamber of Commerce representative and two local businessmen.
"These men are of the group that was able to peacefully integrate the Brevard school system" the previous year, Hall explained in his letter. But they thought the area around Summerlane was far from being ready for integration. "We were told that Rosman is practically a different country and that they felt that the only response to an integrated camp or even to a single Negro in the area would be violence. They offered their advice, which was to abandon our plans. Their interests lay primarily in their belief that there is no way to avoid injury or possibly death on one side or the other. They are also concerned about the effect that violence would have on their efforts to attract industry to Transylvania County and on the very profitable summer camp industry in the area. These gentlemen pledged their help in averting trouble. However, they felt that their efforts would not be effective."
Based on that counsel, the Summerlane staff decided to drop the idea of setting up a permanent, integrated school in Rosman. Von Hilsheimer informed the local authorities that Summerlane would operate there for only one summer and would have no black staff or campers (though the two mixed-raced girls would remain).
Hall closed his letter with a plea for state protection, noting that Sanford had offered assurances of safety during a late-1962 meeting with von Hilsheimer. "Governor Sanford said that he would do all in his power to help us. This is a situation in which any help you could provide would forestall violent and illegal action, and avoid nasty publicity for the state of North Carolina, besides being of great benefit to ourselves."
One of Sanford's aides, Ray Farris, promptly replied. "Needless to say, local authorities will provide whatever protection is possible so long as no illegal activities are taking place," he wrote in a letter to Summerlane staff. "If local authorities are unable to handle any trouble which may arise, the State will also help. ... The State Highway Patrol is following closely this situation in Rosman and is keeping this office informed in the event the State need act."
Farris sounded hopeful about the situation, noting that a Brevard-based attorney had informed the governor that because "Summerlane Camp would be held in Rosman this summer on a one time non-integrated basis," the "people of the Rosman community could accept the idea of having the camp under these circumstances and that there would be no trouble."
Fighting words
As the tensions around Summerlane continued to brew, the camp officially opened in the first week of July. "We had expected that any trouble would occur the night of the fourth" -- the Independence Day holiday -- "but that was peaceful as could be," von Hilsheimer later wrote.
That very week, however, another right-wing publication appeared in Rosman and probably sealed Summerlane's fate. The Herald of Freedom was published twice a month by Frank Capell of Staten Island, N.Y., whose stated mission was "combating Communism, Socialism, and un-American activities by printing the whole truth in detail." On July 3, Capell published a special issue devoted entirely to Summerlane and "dedicated to the decent citizens of Rosman, North Carolina, a quiet respectable community which suddenly finds itself confronted by a frightening situation." The truth about Summerlane, he wrote, "would shock and disgust decent people, white or colored."
Capell sent an estimated 1,000 copies to the Rosman Chamber of Commerce, and at a July 9 meeting, Chamber leaders gave out stacks of the publication. The next day, they were "passed out all over the community," remembers resident Brenda Morgan. "Almost everybody had access to it."
For locals already wary of what might be going on, The Herald of Freedom served up reasons to get downright hysterical. Summerlane, Capell asserted, was "widely advertised as an integrationist camp." It was supported by The Realist -- a "pornographic, atheistic and subversive publication." It was rife with associates of the Highlander Folk School in eastern Tennessee: "Photographs taken at this school show Negro men and white women dancing close together, identified Communists in the groups, and known racial agitators taking a prominent part in the activities," he wrote.
Capell saved his strongest salvos for von Hilsheimer. "Summerlane is directed and operated by a former minister who admittedly has engaged in acts of sexual degeneracy, who is a radical and a nihilist." What's more, Capell charged, the camp leader "admits to having had a considerable number of homosexual relationships, himself playing the passive role."
(The latter allegation about von Hilsheimer, a lifelong heterosexual, was rooted in a misreading -- or a misrepresentation -- of part of one of his early Realist columns. In it, he'd written a metaphorical bit about how his background and naiveté had, at times, led him to get screwed, so to speak: Although von Hilsheimer remained a true believer, this, he said, "does not mean that this little boy has never been had. Oh, no. More times than the little red anus likes to remember. A lower class intellectual in a middle class world that ain't got no upper class is ripe for royal screwing. Particularly if he gets seduced, for however short a time, by middle class values.")
"To the average American in a small community," Capell wrote, "it is hard to believe such things are possible. Yet what is developing in Rosman ... could happen anywhere in the United States unless the citizens of the community take an interest and insist on bringing such activities to an end by lawful methods."
While Capell's scandal sheet made the rounds, George Hall took a group of older campers on a supply run to Rosman, where it became evident that they were no longer welcome. Walking through town, the campers were approached by a group of young local men. "They were stiff-legged, with clenched fists and squinty-eyed looks," Hall recalls. "One of them said, 'You've got niggers out there!' -- and I was thinking they were going to go at me right then and there. But I was pretty good-sized, in good shape in those days, and I was very soft-spoken with them, so they eventually walked off."
While they were shopping, someone tossed a stack of the Herald of Freedom special issue through an open window of their bus. Reading Capell's rant on the way back to camp, the gravity of the situation began to set in, Hall says. Back at Summerlane, there was another bad sign: "We had a couple of geese, and somebody drove by and ran them both down," he remembers. "That worried us."
Meanwhile, the parents of some campers got word of the situation and also grew worried. Houston Wade of San Marcos, Texas, was the father of 8-year-old camper Susan Wade. On July 5, he, too, wrote to Gov. Sanford requesting that the camp be afforded extra protection.
"I learned that the camp program which had been planned was being abridged because certain citizens of Transylvania County had visited the camp several times threatening violence 'if niggers are brought in,'" Wade wrote. "This type of visit apparently occurred several times in the last several weeks. ... Needless to say, I have been a bit uneasy this week.
"It might be said that the personnel at the camp were unduly frightened by hollow threats," he added, "but given the fact that they had no phone, that it is many miles to Rosman by a single road from other cities in the area, and given the fact that their charges are children, I think the staff has just cause for worry."
Wade praised the governor for his progressive stance on racial matters, but concluded the letter on a grim note. "We left our daughter in North Carolina when many other parents would not have," he wrote. "We did so for several reasons, not the least of which is our knowledge that she must face the reality of vicious people in the world."
Sanford replied to the concerned father himself. State authorities had investigated the situation, the governor wrote, and "The findings indicated that the people of the Rosman community were concerned not only that the camp would be integrated in a community which has had no Negro for sixty years, but also that the camp would be staffed and directed by individuals, who in their opinion, had questionable character." Given the circumstances, his staff had advised von Hilsheimer "to consider moving the camp to another location"; regardless, the governor pledged that "this office is much concerned with the situation and will continue to follow its developments so that law and order will be upheld."
By the time Sanford's letter reached Wade, however, North Carolina newspapers were already carrying headlines about Summerlane like the one that appeared on the front page of the July 13, 1963, News & Observer of Raleigh: "Mountain Wrath Falls on Camp."
Next week, Cruel Summer part three: "Showdown: Camp Summerlane's Trial by Fire." To view key documents, photos and other materials as the story unfolds, visit http://mountainx.com/article/35433/Cruel-Summer-The-attack-on-Camp-Summerlane-a-four-part-story
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In ch 30-7 of the Lectures, Feynman explains that the field of a plane of oscillating charges at a point P is proportional to the velocity of the charges, considered at the appropriate retarded time (retarded by the vertical distance from the point P).
Feynman derives this formula only for large distance but says that it also works for any other distance. This implies that directly at the plane of the charges, the electrical field is in phase with the (negative) velocity of the charges (and the same is true at a distance of one, two, three... wavelengths). What is puzzling me is that this does not seem to allow for correct reflection of light. If I have an incident em wave, this wave accelerates the charges. The acceleration is in phase with the wave (if the charges are sufficiently free as in a metal), so the vleocity of the charges is shifted by 90° in phase (when the acceleration is maximal, the velocity is zero - at the turning point of the oscillation). If the electrical field is in phase with the velocity, then the electrical field created by the plane of charges is phase-shifted by 90°, not by 180° as it should be to cancel the incoming wave. Probably I'm making a stupid mistake somewhere, just cannot figure out where. |
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1) I plan to set the computer up with 3 user accounts running in Fast User Switching mode. Only light usage on each account such as Safari, iTunes, Mail, Messages and then the odd program like iPhoto or Pages. I plan to install 3rd party RAM to cope with the number of open applications but will this usage benefit from the quad core vs dual core. 2) My parents don't upgrade often so I want the machine to last as long as possible - in the future is the HD 4000 likely to become a bottle neck before the dual core processor? What I mean is, there's no point upgrading the processor if the graphics are going to be the bottleneck, right? Thanks in advance! |
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Thanks for the advice! I had myself convinced that the quad core was a necessary upgrade so I'm glad I asked here first.
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Lindamood rushed for 259 yards and four touchdowns, including 217 yards and three scores on just five second half carries.
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Lindamood had just 268 yards and four touchdowns through the Big Reds' first four games.
"Our line did a fantastic job opening holes for us in the second half," said Lindamood. "The holes were big enough for a train to go through. I just happened to hit the hole and make a good cut and get up the field.
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Junior running back Chandler Hamilton also had a big evening for Parkersburg, finishing with 107 yards and touchdown on 18 carries.
"We know that we're young and a little inexperienced up front, but we also feel we have two of the better backs in the state with Chandler Hamilton and Adam Lindamood so we just wanted to put the ball in their hands," said Parkersburg Coach Don Reeves. "We found out that we couldn't move them very much up front and also we knew with our formations we could get them where we wanted them and actually run the backside or weakside.
"Once you get Lindamood and Chandler outside, they're really dangerous."
St. Albans, which was coming off of an emotional, last second home loss to cross-river rival Nitro last weekend, started the scoring when Drew Kirby barreled in for a score from two yards out to give the Red Dragons a 6-0 lead with 2:32 left in the first quarter.
A 79-yard pass from Noah Reed to Dakota Kelly was the key play in the four play, 83-yard drive.
In the second quarter Hamilton scored from four yards out and Lindamood scored his first touchdown on a 16-yard jaunt to give Parkersburg its halftime lead.
Kirby scored his second TD of the evening with a 29-yard run sandwiched between Lindamood's two long scoring runs to keep the Red Dragons in the contest.
SA's Michael Cain trimmed the lead to 28-22 on a four-yard TD run with 9:54 left in the fourth quarter, but the Big Reds answered with a one-yard run by Aaron Roberts and Lindamood's fourth TD, this one from 30 yard out, to close the scoring.
Kirby led the Red Dragons with 89 yards on 22 carries, while Cain finished with 59 bruising yards on 13 tries.
Reed tallied 203 passing yards on 16-of-30 passing and a pair of interceptions by the Big Reds' Kwante Johnson.
For SA Coach Steve Stoffel, Jr., the loss was another disappointing setback, but the first-year coach is also seeing his team make steady progress.
"We're trying to change a philosophy and an attitude here and we're getting closer," said Stoffel, Jr. "Our kids haven't given up and we're not giving up on them. We're going to get ready and go again next week."
The biggest struggle for the Red Dragons so far is finding consistency for four quarters.
"If we could ever play four quarters like we played two to two and half quarters tonight we can be a pretty good football team," said Stoffel, Jr. "I'm excited to see us play as a real football team for four quarters.
"It's a slow process and we're trying to bring some success back here. Slowly but surely we're starting to change these kids a little bit and they're starting to believe in themselves.
"We're going to be in here Sunday getting ourselves ready to play another football next week and I sure as heck hope next Friday night is our night. If it's not, we'll be back in there the following week to go at it again."
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The Open Door The Real Cost of Green Manufacturing
Eric Urruti
Beginning in 1992 with the Energy Star designation, manufacturers were required to reduce new appliance energy use by 20-30%. Energy-efficient refrigerators, air conditioners, and computers began replacing older models. Bright stickers flagged household appliances that promised to save significant amounts in energy costs.
By transitioning to increasingly efficient appliances, Americans last year saved the equivalent of $16 billion in electric costs—equaling 27 million cars' worth of greenhouse emissions, according to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
A key goal of appliance manufacturers is to more efficiently utilize the energy required to run the appliance. For example, in ovens and cooktops, wasted heat translates to lost energy. Induction technology, one of the most efficient ways to reduce heat loss, uses a full 90% of the energy produced. This compares with 75% for electric ranges and 40% for gas burners, according to DOE.
Energy-efficient appliance manufacturing begins with a thorough review of materials, processes, energy, and waste. Each one of these areas can offer significant opportunities for higher energy efficiency. Many companies have developed their own environmental initiatives that best match their unique manufacturing requirements, in addition to such international standards as environmental management systems (EMS) and ISO certifications.
Manufacturers that use eco-friendly materials or reduce the use of harmful materials in their processes can establish the kind of "eco-friendly" products consumers want. For example, in producing Ceran glass-ceramic cooktop panels, Schott eliminated antimony and arsenic, two heavy metals typically used to remove bubbles created during the manufacturing process for cooling the cooktop. Just by cutting the use of toxic metals, we were able to remove 180 tons of toxic heavy metals from production lines this year.
Companies can spend plenty on consultants that advise them how to decrease the environmental impact of their production and help identify where inefficiencies exist. Experience has shown that the best consultants of all can be found right on the production lines. These employees are not only able to pinpoint where improvements can be made, but also show you which materials are being wasted, and which processes can be tweaked to make them better, safer, and faster.
In addition to changing production processes to reduce energy consumption, many companies are exploring ways to offset their energy requirements by utilizing renewable energy sources. Many of these, such as photovoltaic panels and solar thermal water heaters, represent fixed-cost energy solutions that hedge against rising energy costs from the grid. Solar may not provide all the power, but at our technology center in Mainz, Germany, photovoltaics produce enough energy to offset the annual power requirements of 25 homes. In addition, solar power is an effective hedge against possible carbon offset legislation.
All too often, manufacturing results in significant waste. For instance, wastewater is frequently just disposed of—along with its reusable contents. Manufacturers have begun to recycle, but many do not yet treat minimizing waste as a means to minimizing costs. The cost of disposing of scrap, hazardous chemicals, and heavy metals has increased tremendously and will continue to in the years ahead.
Traditionally, manufacturing facilities are located in energy inefficient buildings that are erected with minimal initial capital investment. Retrofitting to improve insulation, provide natural daylight, and stabilize airflow will yield long-term savings. Additionally, sites with natural daylight and clean air provide a better work environment, resulting in improved employee morale.
Packaging represents one of the largest areas for waste reduction. There are many alternatives to traditional solutions that can reduce waste, and, in the long run, reduce costs. Switching to plastic pallets from wood, for instance, extends their usable life. And by using banding materials, instead of shrink-wrap, a manufacturer can minimize the use of plastics. Companies can also maximize reusable or recyclable packaging, like cardboard, that have a minimal environmental impact, and allow the end-consumer to be a part of the chain of reduce, reuse, recycle.
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The floodgates opened after Fox's goal with Catholic freshman Anthony Cipollone and senior William Scriptunas adding scores 36 seconds apart for a 4-0 advantage with 22:21 to go.
"[Williamstown] came out with a game plan to really play defensive on us,'' said Catholic coach Sam Fox, whose team ran its unbeaten streak to 53 matches. "We sneaked one in on them and man, they played good defense in the first half. In the second half we made some adjustments.
"We started playing the ball out a little bit wider and spreading their defense out a little bit and opened up the center and we got some additional goals. Then when we got that second goal, Williamstown had to press up in an attempt to get a goal of their own and that opened up the back even more.''
Williamstown, which was unbeaten in it last 13 games, advanced to only its second regional in school history and first since 2008. Yellowjackets senior keeper Garrett Butler turned in 10 saves, including four in the first half to keep his team within striking distance.
"Charleston Catholic is just an exceptional team,'' said Williamstown coach Mike Albertson, who saw his squad outshot 16-1. "They're just so strong and they controlled the play.
"I thought we did a good job in the first half kind of containing them and slowing them down, but in the second half too many defensive breakdowns. They're the kind of team that just takes advantage of those opportunities.''
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Congress Approves Prescription Drug Disposal Legislation to Curb Abuse, Encourage Programs Like NCPA's Dispose My Meds
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The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives yesterday cleared for the President's signature The Secure and Responsible Drug Disposal Act (S. 3397), legislation backed by the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) that could improve and encourage voluntary prescription drug disposal programs like NCPA's Dispose My Meds.
Most notably, the legislation authorizes the U.S. Attorney General to issue new regulations (under the Controlled Substances Act) that could allow community pharmacies offering disposal programs to accept controlled substances, which presently can only be turned into law enforcement officials. According to the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy, for young people ages 12-17, prescription drugs have become the second most abused illegal drug (behind marijuana) with controlled substances playing a major role. Passing the legislation took years of effort, especially on the part of U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) and U.S. Representatives Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), Jim Moran (D-Va.), Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Bart Stupak (D-Mich.). NCPA supported lawmakers throughout the process by providing the community pharmacists' perspective.
"Prescription drug abuse is at epic proportions in many parts of the country and community pharmacists are uniquely positioned to help Americans properly dispose of their expired and unused prescription drugs," said NCPA Acting Executive Vice President and CEO Douglas Hoey, RPh. "We commend members of Congress from both parties for coming together to approve this important legislation.
"Just this past weekend, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration held a national 'Take-Back' Day, which had the support of NCPA," Hoey added. "We commend the DEA for its efforts, but believe consumers need continued, ongoing access to convenient disposal locations. Programs like Dispose My Meds also offer another avenue to allow community pharmacists to promote proper adherence to the patient's prescription medication regimen."
Leftover prescription drugs from family medicine cabinets create the potential for misuse or accidental ingestion by children or pets. In addition, traces of prescription drugs have been found in America's drinking water when they were discarded in environmentally unfriendly ways.
NCPA has been at the forefront of voluntary efforts to help patients dispose of expired and unused prescription drug programs for years. Most recently, NCPA partnered with Sharps Compliance, Inc., a nationally recognized leader in drug disposal, to launch the Dispose My Meds campaign to make voluntary disposal programs easier for community pharmacies. More than 1,000 pharmacies are participating and can be found at www.disposemymeds.org.
The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA®) represents America's community pharmacists, including the owners of more than 22,700 independent community pharmacies, pharmacy franchises, and chains. Together they represent an $88 billion health-care marketplace, employ over 65,000 pharmacists, and dispense over 40% of all retail prescriptions. To learn more go to www.ncpanet.org or read NCPA's blog, The Dose, at http://ncpanet.wordpress.com.
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For this New Sounds, hear some music by electric guitarists (and multi-instrumentalist MacArthur Genius John Zorn ) for other instruments…like saxophone quartet! The Swiss sax ensemble ARTE Quartett plays music by John Zorn from their brilliant record, Different Worlds, which also includes music by Terry Riley, Lebanese composer Rabih Abou-Khalil, and arrangements of Swiss folk songs.
Plus, the Prism Quartet plays Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, for saxophone quartet and (optional) orchestra by Steven Mackey, the American composer and electric guitarist. We'll also hear brand new music from Scott Johnson, who was among the influential composers bringing amplified sounds of rock into traditionally scored compositions, from his record "Americans." AND, an arrangement of Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" featuring Maya Beiser.
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Steidl C, Lee T, Shah SP, et al. Tumor-associated macrophages and survival in classic HL. N Engl J Med. 2010;362:875-885.
The immediate reaction to the diagnosis and treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is the exhilaration of an 80 percent overall cure rate, which is then tempered by the anxiety of not being able to predict if your patient will be among the minority with recurrent and fatal disease. Therapy of HL is based on Ann Arbor staging to define limited- or advanced-disease groups. In advanced-disease settings, risk stratification is done using the seven prognostic factors of the International Prognostic Score (IPS). Uncertainty remains, however, regarding which patients will do poorly with conventional treatment and which patients might be cured with limited exposure to therapies that can induce late complications such as secondary malignancies and accelerated heart disease.
Steidl et al. from the British Columbia Cancer Agency report the results of a retrospective, multicenter study that utilized immunohistochemistry (IHC) and gene expression profiling to determine which cellular and microenvironmental signals within lymph node (LN) biopsy samples obtained at the time of diagnosis of classic HL correlated with treatment failure. Initial analyses of RNA isolated from 130 frozen specimens identified increased gene signatures of tumor-infiltrating macrophages, angiogenic cells, adipocytes, and Reed-Sternberg (RS) cells, along with overexpression of matrix metallopeptidases and underexpression of gene signatures for germinal center B cells as significantly associated with primary treatment failure. A validation study of 166 additional cases using IHC showed that increased numbers of CD68+ macrophages (≥ 5 percent) correlated most strongly with shortened progression-free survival (PFS) and increased likelihood of relapse after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Conversely, a 100 percent disease-specific survival rate was observed for patients with limited-stage disease (stages IA and IIA) and absence of tumor-infiltrating macrophages. Reduced background small B cells (≤ 10 percent) and overexpression of MMP11 were also associated with shorter PFS. In multivariate analyses, CD68+ macrophages remained an independent adverse prognostic factor for disease-specific survival, outperforming the IPS.
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How to use LinkedIn Endorsements
Now you can give and receive Endorsements in the Skills and Expertise section of LinkedIn, and it's important for you to take some time to understand this. Endorsements are different from Recommendations. Recommendations require more commitment and to me still carry more weight.
You must be connected to the person to give them an Endorsement or a Recommendation.
Here are several steps I suggest:
1) Go to your own Skills and Expertise section and make sure you entered your skills that you want to be endorsed on. Some people did not know what this section was and just put interests or something like "Using the Internet". That would be fine if you are just starting out, but if you are a CEO and still designate learning the Internet as a skill you are proud of, I am not sure that looks very good. When you type in a skill, you will then see LinkedIn will start auto filling it. I would first pick one of the auto fills unless none match your skill, and then enter the new skill.
2) Make sure to go and "Endorse" anyone that has already given you an Endorsement.Pick the areas you have experienced that they are good at and it is OK not to pick the ones you just don't have enough information on to rate.
3) Next reach out to important people in your network and give them an Endorsement, unless you already did so from step 2.
4) Check in from week to week on how this changes, and remember you can move your Endorsements up or down on your page by clicking the tab.
Recommendations are also still very important and keep giving them to people that have done outstanding work or provided you with outstanding value. Just remember they moved where to go to give someone a recommendation. It is now under "send a message" on their profile. Below is my friend Tom Golden's profile with the drop down box showing what to select to give him a recommendation.
If you find this useful let us know in the comments area or share a story of success. Also Greg Hyer and I are available for on-site training in LinkedIn for your team. Learn more and hear our podcast at: LinkingIntoSales.com. We are also on iTunes (make sure to leave a comment if you like a show). Greg Hyer and I offer on-site and web based training on how to get the most out of LinkedIn.
I also want to deeply thank the over 200 people that have given me Endorsements. You were my top priority to give endorsements to first!
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Thanks Martin for writing and posting this. I have done a lot of endorsing lately!
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What I'm finding interesting about endorsements is the nuance they add to my understanding of what it is my connections actually DO, in the sense of what fills their work day. Some people are all techy, with computer languages and hardware terms and stuff I recognize but wouldn't be able to use. Others are all social, with training and leadership and people-related skills. Some are bio-research. And then of course, there's the odd "politics" or "trees" or "juggler" or "fire performance" to make it really interesting.
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