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The Honorable Orrin HatchJuly 23, 2002 I want to welcome all the nominees today, as well as the Members of Congress who have come to testify on their behalf, and I ask that I be able to put statements for Misters Timothy Corrigan and Jose Martinez into the record. I look forward to your testimony and final vote by the Senate. I would like especially to welcome Justice Priscilla Owen of Texas, our lone Circuit Court nominee. I intend today to comment on Justice Owen's qualifications, and to address some of the deceptions, distortions and demagoguery orchestrated against her nomination, that we have all read in the national and local papers. I have long looked forward to this hearing, as I expect has she. I would like first to comment on the two jingos that are being used about her record as if they had substance: namely, that Justice Owen is "conservative" and that she is "out of the mainstream." Of course, this comes from the Washington interest groups, in many cases, who think that mainstream thought is more likely found in Paris, France, than Paris, Texas. I must admit that it's curious to hear it argued that a nominee twice elected by the people of the most populous state in the Circuit for which she is now nominated is "out of the mainstream." Texans will no doubt be entertained by whoever says that. Listening to some of my the commentary on judges, I sometimes think that main-stream for them is a northeastern river of thought that travels through New Hampshire early and often, widens in Massachusetts, swells in Vermont, and deposits at New York City. Well, the mainstream that I know, and that most Americans can relate to, runs much broader and further than that. The other mantra repeated by Justice Owen's detractors is that she is "conservative." I believe that the use of political or ideological labels to distinguish judicial philosophies has become highly misleading and does a disservice to the public's confidence in the independent judiciary, of which this Committee is the steward. I endorse the words of my friend, and former Chairman, Senator Biden when he said some years ago that: "[Judicial confirmation] is not about pro-life or pro-choice, conservative or liberal, it is not about Democrat or Republican. It is about intellectual and professional competence to serve as a member of the third co-equal branch of the Government." I believe it is our duty to confirm judges who stand by the Constitution and the law as written, not as they would want to rewrite them. That was George Washington's first criterion for the federal bench, and it is mine. I also want common sense judges who respect American culture. I believe that is what the American people want. I believe we do a disservice to the independence of the Judiciary by using partisan or ideological terms in referring to judges. My reason was well stated by Senator Biden when he said that: "it is imperative [not to] compromise the public perception that judges and courts are a forum for the fair, unbiased, and impartial adjudication of disputes." We compromise that perception, I believe, when we play partisan or ideological tricks with the judiciary. Surely, we can find other ways to raise money for campaigns and otherwise play at politics, without dragging this nation's trust in the judiciary through the mud, as some of the outside groups continue to do. All you have to do to see my point is read two or three of the fund-raising letters that have become public over the past couple of weeks that spread mistruths and drag the judiciary branch into the mud, as many recent political campaigns increasingly find themselves. On a lighter note, while on ideology, let me pause to point out that one of the groups deployed against Justice Owen is the Communist Party of America, but then I don't know that they have come out in favor of any of President Bush's nominees. I suspect after the fall of the Berlin Wall, they must have a lot of time on their hands these days. Today I wish to address just why a nominee with such a stellar record, a respected judicial temperament, and as fine an intellect as Justice Owen has, -- who graduated third in her class from Baylor's law school, a great Baptist institution, when few women attended law school, let alone in the South, -- who obtained the highest score in the Texas Bar examination, -- and who has twice been elected by the people of Texas to serve on their Supreme Court, the last time with 83% of the votes and the support of every major newspaper of every political stripe, - I would like to address just why such a nominee could be here today with as much organized and untruthful opposition from the usual leftist, Washington special interest groups that we see. I will peel through what is at play for those groups. We need to expose and repel what is at play for the benefit and independence of this Committee. And I would like to address also the reasons why I am confident that she will be confirmed notwithstanding. Not least of which is that this Committee has never voted against a Circuit nominee with the American Bar Association's unanimous rating of Awell qualified." Justice Owen has that highest of ratings. The first reason for the organized opposition, of course, is plain. Justice Owen is from Texas, and Washington's well-paid reputation destroyers could not help but attempt to attack the widely popular President of the United States, at this particular time in an election year, by attacking the judicial nominee most familiar to him. Justice Owen, welcome to Washington. But as I prepared more deeply for this Hearing, the second reason became apparent to me. In my [26] years on this Committee I have seen no group of judicial nominees as superb as those that President Bush has sent to us, and he has sent both Democrats and Republicans, men women, Hispanics, African Americans, and Caucasians. In reading Justice Owen's decisions, one sees a judge working hard to get it right, -- to get at the legislature's intent and to apply binding authority and rules of judicial construction. It is apparent to me that of all the sitting judges the President has nominated, Justice Owen is the most outstanding nominee. She is, in my estimation, the best that every American, every consumer and every parent could hope for. Her opinions, whether majority, concurrences or dissents, could be used as a law school text book that illustrates exactly how - and not what -- an appellate judge should think, how she should write, and just how she should do the people justice by effecting their will through the laws adopted by their elected legislatures. Justice Owen clearly approaches these tasks with both scholarship and mainstream American common sense. She does not substitute her views for the legislature's, which is precisely the type of judge that the Washington groups who oppose her want. She is precisely the kind of judge that our first two presidents, George Washington and John Adams, had in mind when they agreed that the justices of the state supreme courts would provide the most learned candidates for the federal bench. So in studying her record, the second reason for the militant and deceptive opposition to Justice Owen became quite plain to me. In this world turned upside down, simply put, she is that good. Another reason for the opposition against Justice Owen is the most demagogic - the issue of campaign contributions and campaign finance reform. Some of her critics are even eager to tie her to the current trouble with Enron. Well, she clearly has nothing to do with that. Neither Enron nor any other corporation has donated to her campaigns -- in fact, they are forbidden by Texas law to make campaign contributions in judicial elections. Despite the politics, I am certain that Justice Owen is quite eager to address this issue fully, and being a Texas woman, I trust she will not embarrass the questioner too badly. Not that there is a need for more questions. The Enron and campaign contributions questions were amply clarified in a letter to Chairman Leahy and the Committee dated April 5th by Alberto Gonzales. I ask, Madam Chairman, to place this and other related letters into the record. And I would place into the record a retraction from The New York Times saying that they got their facts wrong on this Enron story. Such retractions don't come often, although the misstatement of facts by the destroyer groups do. I also hope that Justice Owen will get a chance to address her views on election reform and judicial reform, of which she is a leading advocate in Texas. She is also a leader in Gender Bias Reform in the courts and a reformer on divorce and child support proceedings. I hope she will have an opportunity to address these matters and about her acclaimed advocacy to improve legal services and funding for the poor. All of these are aspects of her record her detractors would have us ignore - I don't know about my other colleagues, but I certainly did not read these positive attributes in those fancy documents, or should I say booklets, released over the past several weeks by the People for the American Way and their co-conspirators in the Washington special interest lobby. I ask, Madam Chairman, to place into the record letters from leaders of the Legal Society and 14 past presidents of the Texas Bar Association, many of whom are Democrats. The fourth reason for the opposition to Justice Owen is the most disturbing to me. For some months now, a few of my Democrat colleagues have strained to point out when they believe they are voting for judicial nominees that they believe to be pro-life. I have disputed this when they have said it because the record contains no such information of personal views from the judges we have confirmed. Each time they assert it, my staff has scoured the transcripts of hearings and turned up nothing. What does turn up is that each time my colleagues have asserted this, they have done so only for nominees who are men. I am afraid that the main reason Justice Owen is being opposed, is not that personal views - namely on the issue of abortion -- are being falsely ascribed to her -- they are -- but rather because she is a woman in public life who is believed to have personal views that some maintain should be unacceptable for a woman in public life to have. Such penalization is a matter of the greatest concern to me because it represents a new glass ceiling for women jurists. And they have come too far to suffer now having their feet bound up just as they approach the tables of our high courts after long-struggling careers. I am deeply concerned that such treatment will have a chilling effect on women jurists that will keep them from weighing in on exactly the sorts of cases that most invite their participation and their perspectives as women. Ironically, the truth is that the cases that her detractors point to as proof of apparently unacceptable personal views are a series of fictions. This is what I mean about exposing the misstatements of the left-wing activist groups in Washington. I will illustrate just three of these fictions. The first sample fiction is the now often-cited comment attributed to then Texas Supreme Court Justice Alberto Gonzales, written in a case opinion, that Justice Owen's dissent signified "an unconscionable act of judicial activism." Someone should do a story about how often this little shibboleth has been repeated in the press and in several websites of the professional smear groups. I would venture that some of my colleagues have it on the first page of their briefing memos even now. The problem with it is that it isn't true. Justice Gonzales was not referring to Justice Owen's dissent, but rather to the dissent of another colleague in the same case. The second sample fiction is the smear group's misrepresented portrayal of a case involving buffer zones and abortion clinics. In that case, the majority of the Texas Supreme Court ruled for Planned Parenthood and affirmed a lower court's injunction that protected abortion clinics and doctor's homes and imposed 1.2 million dollars in damages against pro-life protestors. In only a few instances, the court tightened the buffer zones against protestors. Justice Owen joined the majority opinion and was excoriated by dissenting colleagues -- who were admittedly pro-life, by the way. When describing that decision then, abortion rights leaders hailed the result as a victory for abortion rights in Texas. Planned Parenthood's lawyer said the decision "isn't a home run, it's a grand slam." Of course, that result hasn't changed, but the characterization of it has. This is how Planned Parenthood describes this same case in their fact sheet on Justice Owen: "[Owen] supports eliminating buffer zones around reproductive health care clinics..." In fact, her decision did exactly the opposite. And I think this Committee deserves and should demand a formal apology and full explanation. The third and most pervasive sample fiction concerns Justice Owen's rulings in a series of Jane Doe cases which first interpreted Texas' then-new parental involvement law. The law - which I think is important to emphasize was passed by the Texas legislature (NOT Justice Owen) with bi-partisan support -- requires that an abortion clinic give notice to just one parent 48 hours prior to a minor's abortion. Unlike states with more restrictive laws such as Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and North Carolina, consent of the parent is not required in Texas. A minor may be exempted from giving such notice if they get court permission. Since the law went into effect, over 650 notice bypasses have been requested from the courts. Of these 650 cases, only 10 have had facts so difficult that two lower courts denied a notice bypass, -- only 10 have risen to the Texas Supreme Court. Justice Owen's detractors would have us believe that in these cases, she would have applied standards of her own choosing. Ironically, in each and every example they cite, whether concurring with the majority or dissenting, Justice Owen was applying not her own standards but the standards enunciated in the Roe v. Wade line of decisions of the United States Supreme Court, which she followed and recognized as authority. For example, detractors take pains to tell us that Justice Owen would require that to be sufficiently informed to get an abortion without a parent's knowledge, that the minor show that they are being counseled on religious considerations. They appear to think this is nothing more than opposition to abortion rights. They are so bothered with this religious language that various documents produced by the abortion industry lobby italicize the word religious. But this standard is not Justice Owen's invention, but rather the words of the Supreme Court's pro-choice decision in Casey. Should she not follow one Supreme Court decision, but be required to follow another? Is that we want our judges to do - pick and choose which decisions to follow? That appears to be the type of activist judge these groups want, and this Committee should resist all such attempts. The truth is that rather than altering the Texas law, Justice Owen was trying to effect the legislator's intent. No better evidence of this is the letter of the pro-choice woman Texas Senator stating her "unequivocal" support of Justice Owen. Senator Shapiro says of Justice Owen: "Her opinions interpreting the Texas [parental involvement law] serve as prime example of her judicial restraint." I understand why the Washington left-wing groups don't like that in a judge, but this Committee should applaud and commend such restraint and temperament. The truth is that, rather than being an activist foe of Roe, Justice Owen repeatedly cites and follows Roe and its progeny as authority. Compare this to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who wrote in 1985 that the Roe v. Wade decision represented "heavy handed judicial intervention" that was "difficult to justify." In relation to this, I would like briefly to comment on the mounting offensive of some to change the rules of judicial confirmation by asking nominees to share personal views or to ensure that nominees share the personal views of the Senator on certain cases. To illustrate my view, I'll tell you that many people have recently called on this Committee to question nominees as to their views on the pledge of allegiance case. My full-throated answer to this is no, -- as much as I think that that case was wrongly decided. I also happen to think that the recent School Voucher case is the most important civil rights decision since Brown but I am not going to ask people what they think about that case either. Such questions threaten the heart of the independent judiciary and attempt to accomplish by hidden indirection what Senators cannot do openly by constitutional amendment. It is an attempt to make the courts a mere extension of the Congress. I speak against this practice in the strongest terms, and, in my view, any nominee who answers such questions would not be fit for judicial office and would not have my vote. The truth is that there are many who, like Justice Ginsburg, think that cases like Griswold or Roe were wrongly decided as a constitutional matter even if they agree with the policy result, -- just as the great liberal Justice Hugo Black did in his dissent in Griswold. A few weeks ago we heard testimony that Chief Justice Warren thought Brown v. Board of Education was his worst ruling as matter of constitutional law, but not his least necessary. Again, I welcome Justice Priscilla Owen. Considering the opposition mounted so unfairly against you, I have to tell you that today you may be the bravest woman in America. I hope that there are young women watching you right now - you are an excellent role model for anyone and especially young women. Now, some of Justice Owen's detractors have made much about the fact that she is not afraid to dissent. Of course, they fail to mention dissents like her opinion in Hyundai Motor v Alvarado, in which Justice Owen's reasoning was later adopted by the United States Supreme Court on the same difficult issue of law. They also overlooked her dissent in a repressed memory/sexual abuse case where she took the majority to task with these words: "This is reminiscent of the days when the crime of rape went unpunished unless corroborating evidence was available. The Court's opinion reflects the attitudes reflected in that era." Perhaps, Madam Chairman, they thought that dissent reflected too well the perspective of a woman to point out to Senators like you. Despite deceptive opposition I think that Justice Owen should be confirmed. First, because I believe that colleagues like you, Madam Chairman will be fair. You often remind us, in your modesty, that you are not a lawyer, but I think that is among the reasons that your common sense often shines through on this Committee. I also believe my Democrat colleagues will be led by the time-tested standards well-stated by Senator Biden, and look again to qualifications and judicial temperament, not base politics. Whether the Biden standard will survive past our time, will be tested now. If we fail the test we will breach our responsibility as auditors of the Washington special interest groups and the Judiciary's stewards on behalf of all the people, and not just some. Thank you, Madam Chairman. 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You wave a brightly colored handkerchief in your right hand. Your left hand is shown to be empty. In full view of your audience you make a fist with your left hand and poke the handkerchief into your fist.
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This trick is certainly a classic trick, but.. I have sensed from the audiences I have performed
for, that it is really fading out of popularity. Either people have seen it before, and even though
it would be impressive, they are bored with it, or else they find it too juvenile to be pleased. I'm
not sure, but I have always gotten unsatisfying results with this one. Can't say I recommend it.
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There are several tricks every magician should learn whether they like or use them, Ambitious Card,
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Here is a classic trick that has been around for a long time. The best part about this trick is that
there are no pull or reels involved so you can perform this in short sleeves. To start, you can
actually show your hands empty. Just push the cloth into your hand and it vanishes. The best part
is, that unlike the traditional way, you can made the silk re-appear. Hand the silk out, show your
hands empty and you're good to go. Just be sure you practice in front of a mirror so you can make it
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This is a classic effect that every beginner should have in their starting arsenal. I'm not a big fan of this particular effect, but it is an intro in the use of a very versatile and useful gimmick. For that reason, the trick is worth it. There are many miracle-status uses for the supplied gimmick. It's something that most new magicians will use for quite sometime. B_Magic Did this review help you?
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If you're just starting in magic, then this is probably the first trick you need to buy. This is
basic magic at it's best. I only gave it 4 stars because the silk that came with mine was way too
big, and I had to buy a smaller silk to perform the trick, as it barely fit in my gimmick.
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I just got this in the mail. I'm a beginner and the video gives a great explanation. Comes with
easy instructions.
Make sure to read the forum after u buy...there are great tips! VERY AWESOME!!! ^_^ Did this review help you?
A great introduction to a very important gimmick. If you watched the video and don't know how its
done then go ahead and add to cart now- you will not regret it and you will receive a very important
and versatile gimmick!
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The gimmick included will allow you to perform hundreds of different miracles, and is a valuable
asset to ANY magician, if you do not own some form of this trick, add to cart now! it is an amazing
gimmick, the vanishing silk is a bit overdone, and revealed constantly, so many people know how it
is done, but you should buy this anyway!
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This is a classic of magic, that needs to be known by all magic. Just like everyone needs to know
the basic in life such as 2 and 2 = 4. This is where most magicians start and this is also where I
started out as well along with scotch and soda. It takes bit of practice but you'll be able to show
your family and friends with some confidence within a few hours, possibly even just a few minutes.
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Man oh man does this get the audience going! I know to magicians this seems obvious, but real people
have no idea what is going on! This trick is a must buy and will fool your audience time and time
again with practice. Great quality items and superb teaching! Buy it.
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What do you think of my names?
Just looking for comments, critiques and suggestions! Thanks!
The Boys:
Elijah Grey
Caleb Finn
Dakota Reid
Jonah Malcolm or Jonah Cree
William Otto - I'd just call him Otto. It's a family name. One of my great great grandfathers had this name and he was a dutch pirate assassin. Gotta love it!
Names I love but can't use:
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Finn - Cousin
Marshall - Love, but not sure if I have the guts!
Vada - Pronounced Vay-Duh, my absolute favorite girls name.
Penelope Rae - "Penny"
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I love Vada, but spelled Vaida.
Teenberry, name loving girl.
Lucy, Madeline, Caroline, Kylie, Bryn, Audrey/Aubrey, & Sierra
Eli, Caden, Camden, Riley and Caleb
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Elijah Grey - Really like it.
Liev - Not sure.
Caleb Finn - I like Finn, not really Caleb.
Dakota Reid - Like it.
Jonah Malcolm -Though I love both Jonah and Malcolm, something sounds off with the two of them being paired.
Dominic - No.
Harry - Love it!
Jamie - Ehhh..no.
Logan - Okay.
Jackson - Sounds dated to me. I'm not a fan.
William Otto "Otto" - That's a funny connection, but I kinda like it. :
Vada - Sounds pretty. I like it.
Drew - Reminds me of Drew Barrymore, which I love.
Olivia - Prefer Livia or Olive, or even Olivine. Though Olivia is pretty and elegant, its too popular for my tastes.
Penelope Rae "Penny" - Because if the Kardashian's its becoming a little too popular for me, but I do still love it very much. I love its quirky, vintage feel. But I also will say that I prefer diferent nicknames for it.Seventeen. Ravenclaw. Passions include: expression of self, art, theatre, music, reading, and eccentric bohemian 'hippie' fashion.(Changing it to Zoie Willow/Hope?)
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If you were dismissed or suspended from another institution within the past two years for academic reasons you may apply for admission as a provisional student. Once admitted, there are restrictions on the number of credits you may take during a semester. You must contact a counselor on the Undergraduate Advising Team during your first semester at UMUC, and you must submit official transcripts of all previous college-level work by the end of your first semester. If you were dismissed from UMUC for academic reasons, see the Undergraduate Catalog for information on the reinstatement process.
If you are on disciplinary suspension or dismissal from any institution, you may not be admitted (or reinstated, if dismissed from UMUC) until we have reviewed the circumstances. Be sure to complete a new application or, if previously dismissed, write a letter requesting reinstatement early so that we can complete our review in time for you to register, if approved.
If you were dismissed from UMUC and you would like to be readmitted, you must first petition for reinstatement, then reapply.
Reinstatement Procedures
- Wait at least one semester before petitioning for reinstatement.
- Such an appeal should be made in writing to the Associate Provost, Student Affairs.
- Have all official transcripts from previously attended colleges and universities sent to UMUC, preferably before meeting with an admissions counselor.
- Meet with an advisor before petitioning for reinstatement to plan courses that you would take if reinstated and to firm up a plan for overcoming academic difficulties.
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Students must complete all requirements for the major. If any of these requirements were satisfied in the previous degree, the remainder necessary to complete the minimum 30 credits of new courses should be satisfied with courses related to the major. For purposes of determining what major requirements apply to a given student, the applicable date is the date the student started coursework at UMUC after being admitted into the second undergraduate degree program. As with other degrees, continuous enrollment at UMUC is required. A minimum grade point average of 2.0 in all courses taken through UMUC is required for graduation.
To qualify for academic honors in a second bachelor's degree, the student must complete at least 45 new credits through UMUC with the requisite grade point average.
All students need to be aware of what is entailed in a second bachelor's degree. Before beginning work or considering nontraditional options toward a second degree, each student should consult an academic advisor. Advisors will be glad to explain the requirements for a second bachelor's degree and clarify its limitations.
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If you are a high school senior, you may take up to 7 credits per semester while finishing work toward your high school diploma. To qualify, you must present a transcript with a GPA of at least 3.5 (B+) in your high school academic subjects and the written recommendation of a guidance counselor. For more details, consult New Student Advising at least one month before you plan to enroll.
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If you wish to transfer to UMUC, you must first withdraw from your home institution. Then submit a UMUC undergraduate application and pay the application fee.
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If you are enrolled in a graduate school in another USM institution (whether or not you are seeking a degree) but want to take undergraduate courses, you should either submit a letter of permission from your department or complete a Notification of Registration with University of Maryland University College form. You will, however, be charged graduate tuition unless you resign from graduate school and are admitted to our undergraduate program. To resume graduate studies, you would then have to reapply to the graduate school.
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At late registration, participants in the Golden Identification (GID) program may register for up to 7 credits each semester—on a space-available basis-without paying tuition. The late registration fee is waived, but you must pay any other fees (e. g., EXCEL fees).
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- Be a resident of Maryland.
- Be a U.S. citizen or a legal permanent resident.
- Be 60 years old by the beginning date of the semester for which you are applying.
- Not be employed more than 20 hours a week
- Meet all requirements for admission.
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Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology Biography: Dr. Zhang is a member of ARVO, OSA, SPIE and ISER. He was a recipient of the R&D 100 Awards in 2007 for the development of the Micro-Electrical-Mechanical System (MEMS) based adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope along with the researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Rochester, Indiana University and Lawrence Livermore National Lab. |
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The eye presents a unique objective lens through which direct histologic-level observations can be possibly made of neural, glial and vascular tissue in a living human subject. Unfortunately, this special objective lens has a lot of aberrations. Consequently, imaging of retina and optic nerve in the living eye is of surprisingly poor quality. Our research focuses on developing advanced retinal imaging technology that overcomes the defects of the eye to facilitate study of the retinal structure and function in the living mammalian eye at cellular, subcellular and even molecular level, with the promise leading to improved understanding and treatment of human retinal diseases.
The major vehicle taking us to our goal is adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO), which is an advanced imaging modality of two-pronged technologies, as indicated by the name, adaptive optics (AO) and confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscope (cSLO). The cSLO is the imaging conductor, which operates with the identical principle of the confocal microscope. AO, was originally designed for compensating the wavefront aberrations caused by the atmospheric turbulence in astronomical imaging, is employed to correct for eye' aberration, allowing in-vivo images of unprecedented resolution and contrast, as shown in the figure. AO is the imaging synergizer.
The left is a single frame taken before AO correction but after the best correction of defocus and astigmatism with trial lenses; the middle is a single frame taken after AO correction, and the right is a image registered from a set of 10 AO-corrected frames. These images were taken from a retinal location about 1° from the fovea center. The field of view is 1.2°, or approximately 360 microns on one side. (Zhang, Y., Poonja, S., Roorda, A., Opt. Lett., 31, 1268-1270, 2006)
AOSLO reveals fine retinal structure characteristics in the diseased human eye such as cone coverage, cone spacing and RPE cells, etc. By control of the intensity of the scanning light beam, the AOSLO can directly project clear visual stimuli with well defined size, structure and intensity onto the retina. Further by tracking the retinal movement, the AOSLO can reliably deliver and keep the stimulus on a single foveal cone transversely in real time. This function significantly facilities microperimetry, functional retinal imaging, psychophysics and high precision electrophysiology studies at single cellular level.
The AOSLO is an excellent platform for incorporating other imaging modalities such as OCT, fluorescence, dark field and high resolution retinal functional imaging to achieve multifunctional and multispectral in-vivo 3-D retinal imaging at the cellular level. With such a system, our basic research targets on small animal imaging for disease models. With the development of the large field of view AOSLO, our patient-oriented research aims at open angle glaucoma (OAG), age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) and other retinal degenerations. We will also study other common medical and neurologic conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, multiple sclerosis (MS), and Alzheimer's disease. Meanwhile, we explore adaptive optics synergized advanced microscopy such as confocal fluorescence imaging, structured illumination and point spread function engineering techniques in histological study of the post mortem retinal tissue, and transfer these methods in imaging of living animal retina and eventually the living human retina.
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Ulcers were believed to be caused by stress, anxiety, and/or a diet rich in spicy foods. However, research has demonstrated that most ulcers are caused by a spiral-shaped bacterium known as Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori). The other common cause of ulcers is nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
When we eat, food passes down the esophagus (throat) and into the stomach. There, hydrochloric acid and pepsin (an enzyme) continue the digestive process that started with the saliva in your mouth. Next, food passes to the duodenum (small intestine) where the digestive process continues. An ulcer is an area of stomach or duodenum that has been damaged by the digestive enzymes and stomach acid.
The story behind the discovery of the H. pylori bacteria and its relationship to ulcers is an unusual one. In 1982, two Australian researchers, Drs. Barry Marshall and Robin Warren, detected H. pylori in the stomach lining of people suffering from gastritis . When further study demonstrated the presence of H. pylori in nearly 100% of patients with duodenal ulcers and 80% of people with stomach ulcers, Drs. Marshall and Warren proposed that H. pylori might be the cause.
When their hypothesis was met with a great deal of skepticism, Dr. Marshall ingested a teaspoonful of H. pylori bacteria. Within 24 hours, he developed severe gastritis. Further research by Dr. Marshall, Dr. Warren, and others established that H. pylori does in fact cause 50% of stomach ulcers and 90% of the much more common duodenal ulcers.
Of the ulcers that are not caused by H. pylori bacteria, most are caused by NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), such as ibuprofen , aspirin , and naproxen sodium. NSAIDs block the production of mucous in the stomach that protects the lining from the damaging effects of the stomach acid.
It is important that ulcers be properly diagnosed because the symptoms common to ulcers can also be caused by a number of other conditions. In addition, ulcers caused by H. pylori and those caused by NSAID are treated somewhat differently.
A test for the presence of H. pylori is done to determine whether the ulcer is caused by H. pylori bacteria. Several methods exist for detecting H. pylori . A test for presence of H. Pylori bacteria may include a blood test to detect antibodies to the bacteria, a breath test that examines by-products of the bacteria, or a lab analysis of the biopsied tissue sample. These tests differ in sensitivity for detecting the presence of bacteria in your system.
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The Muslim Brotherhood has emerged as the big winner in Egypt's parliamentary elections. Long oppressed under the regime of Hosni Mubarak, the Islamist party is now the most important power broker in the country. Lourdes Garcia-Navarro reports that the question on everyone's lips now is what does the Brotherhood really represent and how will it govern?


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The relative benefit of an active treatment over a control is usually expressed as the relative risk, the relative risk reduction, or the odds ratio. These measures are used extensively in both clinical and epidemiological investigations. For clinical decision making, however, it is more meaningful to use the measure "number needed to treat." This measure is calculated on the inverse of the absolute risk reduction. It has the advantage that it conveys both statistical and clinical significance to the doctor. Furthermore, it can be used to extrapolate published findings to a patient at an arbitrary specified baseline risk when the relative risk reduction associated with treatment is constant for all levels of risk.
More emphasis is now being put on effective use of biomedical literature to guide clinical treatment. As a result accessing, critically appraising, and incorporating the results of clinical investigations into clinical practice are becoming higher priorities for doctors and medical students.1
A pivotal step in translating clinical research into practice is the summarisation of data from randomised trials in terms of measures of effect that can be readily appreciated by doctors and other carers. Various measures of the effect of treatment are used in analysing results. Each measure has its own interpretation and statistical properties that make it suitable for some applications but perhaps not for others. We describe here a new measure referred to as number needed to treat2 and a simple method of adopting this approach to individual patients at different levels of risk.
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Consider a parallel group study in which patients are randomised to either an active treatment or a placebo control arm, are followed for a fixed amount of time, and are observed to experience a binary response to treatment (event/no event). We assume here that the events are adverse, and …
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