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Yesterday's reports about the disappointing results of screening and early detection, especially for breast and prostate cancers, have been confusing and distressing for many people. Part of the problem, I think, is that we all have been lulled into thinking that "finding it early" always translates to cure. This has never been true although, certainly, many small cancers have been successfully treated and never return. One of our senior breast cancer oncologists has often said something like: "Most breast cancers, if treated appropriately, will be fine--no matter which treatment we choose. There are a few, however, that will be lethal no matter what we do." The problem has been trying to identify which are the potentially lethal ones.
Recent advances in genetic mapping of tumors and targeted therapies have begun to move us in this direction. We know, for example, that her2positive breast cancers respond to Herceptin. The introduction of the Oncotype DX test has helped many women and their doctors make a more informed decision about the value of adjuvant chemotherapy. We do have a long way still to go.
My own take on the recent discussion is that screening is still important even though we are reminded that it is not a panacea. In my own life, my first breast cancer never showed on a mammogram (even though I could feel it), but my second breast cancer was identified during an annual mammogram. I am glad I had that yearly test.
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ABC News contacted a wide array of clinical experts who were asked to put the research discussed in this MedPage Today report into clinical context. Here are the responses.
Freya Schnabel, MD Director of Breast Surgery, Medical Director of Women at Risk, NYU
It is always important for us to be thoughtful and challenge assumptions and update approaches in medicine, as in other areas. However, I think the message in the Times article is confusing, and somewhat off the point. And this article may discourage women and men from screening for breast and prostate cancer, and by extension, other diseases.
We have improved the survival from breast cancer in the modern era of screening. The recently released ACS statistics confirm this. Early detection is a big part of this effect. Clearly, there are always outliers -- cancers that are detected when small in size, but the patients have a poor outcome because the disease is biologically aggressive. These outliers should not be used to argue that early detection is worthless. Early detection gives better prognosis, and, specifically in breast cancer, early detection affords women the opportunity for less difficult treatment (unlike prostate cancer, where impotence and incontinence can result from treatment of early stage disease). Also, in the modern era, false positive results from screening exams are frequently resolved with minimally invasive needle biopsies, not invasive surgery.
I agree that our approach to early stage breast cancer could use some refinement. Specifically, we need to look carefully at the issue of overtreatment, particularly as many of our treatments are costly and carry the potential for significant side effects. The oncology community can continue to work towards understanding which women do not need chemotherapy, biologic therapy, and the like, because the benefits do not outweigh the risks (including costs). We need to continue to refine the surgical and other approaches to local treatment for early stage disease as well. And we need to be especially careful about recommending advanced screening such as MRI to patients whose risk of disease does not justify the disadvantages of that screening method. I hope that with the integration of new science, including genomic profiling of tumors, we will be able to refine our treatments -- "right-size" them based on a more clear understanding of the tumor biology.
I hope we do not see a return to the situation before screening, when most women came to breast cancer diagnoses with palpable, extensive disease. Patients with early stage disease are more likely to continue their busy, productive lives during treatment and for all the years beyond -- and our entire society benefits.
Susan Love, MD Dr. Susan Love Research
This is a great story and one that many of us having been saying for years. Breast self-exam was shown not to work and analysis on mammography show that 25% of cancers will go away by themselves if you do nothing! What did not seem to come out clearly in the Times piece is the fact that it is not that imaging is not good enough but the biology of cancer. Over the past decade it has become very clear that cancer is not just the problem with one cell going bad and gradually multiplying and then spreading. It is a combination of a mutated cell in a local environment that is egging it on. There is cross talk and influences of the local cells around the tumor (i.e. the stroma that are as important at the cells themselves).
Secondly not all cancers are the same, there are at least five or six different cancers that probably have different risk factors and different etiologies and they all do not behave the same. Screening is best at finding the "good" cancers and not the bad ones. It is as if you had a robber who took five minutes to get in and out of a building, a security guard that could get around the building in an hour would probably miss him while finding the robbers who takes an hour and a half.
This recent paper points out the fact that we need to go beyond screening for cancers that are already there, to finding the cause and prevention of breast cancer once and for all! Not all cancers are alike. We have focused on the risk factors, chemoprevention, and screening for the "good" cancers" that are hormonally sensitive and generally postmenopausal and have not done as much for the more aggressive premenopausal cancers. The Love/Avon Army of Women is an effort to recruit one million women willing to participate in research to find the cause and prevention of this disease once and for all!
Clifford Hudis, MD Chief, Breast Cancer Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
It has always been the case that screening for any disease finds more cases than not screening and that the survival impact of the screening is less, numerically, than the detection rate. The fact is that nobody can say which cancers are bad - potentially lethal - and which ones can be ignored. But overall, deaths are reduced in a screened population.
<>You are used to this dilemma in other settings: Do we screen 95 year-old men for prostate cancer? No. Do they have it? Almost 100%. Is it lethal at that point? No. Would the same disease in a younger person potentially shorten their lifespan? Yes.
So all what is added here is something that screening experts already know well: The real goal of an ideal screening program is to find the "bad" cancers and ignore the "good" ones. But we have to add that we don't yet have that ability and no or reduced screening would result in inferior survival for society as a whole.
Daniel Hayes, MD Clinical Director, Breast Oncology Program, University of Michigan
It's a story that keeps percolating, and most of us in academics agree: Screening (at least for breast, cervical, probably colon; maybe but probably not prostate and not lung) probably does save lives, but it is not a panacea. It highlights the difference between an understanding of biology and science versus public perception that everything is black or white: or put another way, public health (do we improve the health of the general public by doing more good than harm) vs. individual patient care (this either works or doesn't work for me).
Interesting, the best note of caution in which it is stated that this story will lead to headlines like "Screening doesn't work" was, indeed, buried back in the later pages of the story-exactly as predicted. It needs to be handled carefully. There is no question that screening mammography reduces mortality when applied to patients likely to get the disease and die from it, but it isn't perfect and it probably only reduces mortality by 20-50% (see Berry, NEJM, 2005). There is no question screening mammography is has been over-hyped, both in terms of applying it to women who are very unlikely to die of breast cancer (women in their early 40s) and it's relative contribution to reduction in mortality. The hype over other methods of screening, such as use of MRIs, is even worse. But we don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater-it should be emphasized that, on a public health basis, thoughtful screening recommendations should be followed. …
I thought Otis Brawley's comments were very courageous and thoughtful. This is a sea-change for ACS, which has always promoted screening, with or without supporting data. Otis has induced a new culture into ACS, and he will take heat for it-so he needs to be quoted accurately and his intent (to induce evidence-based medicine into ACS guidelines) needs to be understood, without seriously diluting the beneficial effects that screening does have.
Fran Visco President, National Breast Cancer Coalition
The National Breast Cancer Coalition has said for over a decade that mammography has serious limitations, has not been shown to reduce mortality in women under 50 and should be a personal decision, not a public health message. There have been other very well designed studies and analyses over the years that led us to this position, including studies by the Cochrane Collaboration and Don Berry's group. The American Cancer Society largely helped create the public's unwarranted obsession with screening, they will have to work very hard to help fix the current situation which, again, they caused. It is long overdue that we recognize that we should not be pushing for more mammography, should accept that breast self examinations do not save lives and can result in harm and, rather than try to expand screening into younger and younger ages, we should focus on figuring out which breast cancers will be harmful and how to deal with those.
October is all about pink and early detection. Breast cancer is anything but "pink and pretty" and it's time women understood the reality about screening. The National Breast Cancer Coalition has said for over a decade that mammography has serious limitations, has not been shown to reduce mortality in women under 50 and should be a personal decision, not a public health message. There have been other very well designed studies and analyses over the years that led us to this position, including studies by the Cochrane Collaboration and Don Berry's group. The American Cancer Society largely helped create >the public's unwarranted obsession with screening, they will have to work very hard to help fix the current situation which, again, they caused. It is long overdue that we recognize that we should not be pushing for more mammography, should accept that breast self examinations do not save lives and can result in harm and, rather than try to expand screening into younger and younger ages, we should focus on figuring out which breast cancers will be harmful and how to deal with those.
October is all about pink and early detection. Breast cancer is anything but "pink and pretty" and it's time women understood the reality about screening. It will be close to impossible to move the public away from the "Early Detection Saves Lives" mantra that ACS ingrained in many of us. There is a huge infrastructure built up around mammography screening, hundreds of organizations have been formed around that issue and hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars feed this area of breast cancer year after year. Breast cancer awareness campaigns and the >millions of dollars behind them mostly focus on screening. The truth about these issues threatens the groups behind the messages and the very real economic benefit that comes from screening healthy populations. This is the perfect case study for never releasing public health messages unless there is an extremely high level of evidence behind them and true consensus.
Larry Norton, MD Deputy Physician-in-Chief for Breast Cancer Programs, Head, Solid Tumor Division, Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center
The study on which the article is based, and which may have influenced the ACS statement, found that the ratio of early to advanced breast cancers at diagnosis has changed since screening (more early cancers), but that the decline in advanced cancers found--while real--is not as large as one would expect if most of those early cancers detected< would have become advanced cancers if left untreated. This shouldn't be turned into a "screening is bad" message, even if it is a "screening isn't perfect" message.
Moreover, if the true incidence rates have risen over the past decade and a half (which is certainly possible given changes in obesity rates among other factors), then the decline in advanced cancers may be much more impressive than it might seem from a first view of these data. These are points that need to be discussed among experts. The simple fact is that if a woman wants to reduce her chances of dying of breast cancer, she should choose mammography.
Christine Laronga, MD, FACS Chief of the Don and Erika Wallace Comprehensive Breast Program, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
The American Cancer Society has always led the way with respect to its message of prevention and early detection of cancer. So this news comes as a shock. Thanks to their efforts and others, the compliance with screening mammography guidelines has increased over the last 2 decades. However it still isn't 100%, explaining why there isn't as large a decline in women presenting with advanced disease. As a result of this increased screening the incidence of breast cancer has increased accordingly, largely from detection of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ, a noninvasive type of breast cancer, and small invasive cancers.
The question of the natural history of these identities if left untreated is largely unknown. Perhaps they would not progress and spread to other sites or perhaps they will regress. However there has been no evidenced-based large clinical trial randomizing these women to standard treatment versus observation alone. Why? Because the majority of women diagnosed with cancer don't opt for observation alone and physicians / researchers aren't at the point yet where they can differentiate between those that will regress from those that will progress and spread.
We are in the molecular assay era where we can investigate many genes within a person's tumor to personalize / tailor treatment accordingly. The horizon looks promising for having a gene chip on everyone's tumor to know what works, what doesn't; who needs treatment, who doesn't. But we aren't there yet. For now, every physician would prefer to tell a woman that her cancer was caught early (stage 0 or 1), then answer her question of whether or not her cancer would have been detected at an earlier stage if she had her mammogram last year on schedule with current screening guidelines.
Emanuela Taioli, MD, PhD Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, SUNY
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First of all, it is important to spread the message to the public that screenings are still the best tool for cancer early detection. It would be a disastrous public health message to let people believe that cancer screenings are useless. Having said that, both prostate and breast cancer share a common factor, i.e. hormones (both estrogens and androgens) are strong promoters, therefore a cancer that have been silent for years could suddenly become clinically relevant if the person's hormone balance undergoes a suddent change, for example during menopause.
Therefore breast and prostate cancers, being hormone dependent cancers, are a changing dinamic reality during a person lifetime. This factor is one of the contributing elements to the fact that many small cancers detected by screening would probably never become aggressive, deadly cancers, or would become so much later in life, when hormone balance changes.
This introduces overtreatment or un-necessary treatment. What is important to note, however, is that now there are very many biomarkers available that can distinguish between sub-categories of cancers, identifying those that are more aggressive from those that are less so. The widespread use of clinical biomarkers of cancer aggressiveness together with regular screening procedures may be one of the ways to optimize the results of conventional screening practices, by allowing the identification of those sub-categories of cancer that are very likely to become clinically evident and deadly over a person's lifetime.
Ben Park, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Oncology, Associate Director, Medical Oncology Fellowship Training Program, Johns Hopkins Medical
There a few things about this article that merit discussion. First, similar to what was said in the article, I worry that this will be construed incorrectly and send the wrong message. In particular, women who are receiving screening mammography may read this and think that they should no longer continue with their screening.
Clearly screening mammography can save lives, and although the reduction may not be enormous, even 5% to 10% of women who would otherwise die from breast cancer translates into thousands of lives that are saved each year in this country alone. One cannot ignore that absolute number.
Second, I agree that often times screening for cancer is overstated as we have long known that PSA screening for prostate cancer has been challenging. Yet very little attention has been given to successful screening interventions such as the ones mentioned for colorectal and cervical cancer screening. The issue with cancers such as breast and prostate, I feel, is that they are a much more heterogeneous group than other types of cancers.
While the notion of cancers going away is indeed "hard to swallow", the idea that some cancers will have a much more indolent course and may not require active or aggressive therapy is not new and has clearly been demonstrated in some adult cancers.
Thus, the real challenge for screening in my view, is to adopt what we are trying to do with treating cancers at an individual level; so called "personalized medicine". Who needs to be screened for these types of cancers, who is at risk, and what are the predictive biomarkers that will allow us to identify those individuals who will benefit from such screening and those who will not are the next big questions to be answered. We have embraced this concept for the treatment of cancers, and are only now moving towards this concept for cancer screening and prevention. Thus it may be in the future that we will not recommend that all women receive screening mammography, but only those with identifiable risks.
Anne Wallace, MD Director of Breast Care Unit, University of California
I fully agree with this message. The message of screening has been important so as to detect earlier those cancers that biologically may behave differently if found smaller. But there are still cancers that no matter when we find them have biologic aggressiveness. The small aggressive tumor can sometimes have much more potential to spread than a much larger less aggressive tumor. In addition, women with breast cancer are mislead into thinking they need more and more advanced imaging to "prevent" them from ever getting or dying of breast cancer. That has led to more wide spread unnecessary imaging and biopsing of things that we don't even know are biologically significant. I applaud the ACS for this message.
Tomasz Beer, MD Assistant Professor in Medicine, Oregon Health & Sciences University
I applaud Dr. Brawley for his honest and forthright approach to these very tough issues. It is important that we recognize that the principle of early detection and treatment is sound. The challenges we face today reflect the limitations of our screening tests, which can both detect insignificant cancers and miss potentially lethal ones. We must develop more robust tests and that ability to better understand the lethal potential of small tumors.
Patricia Ganz Director of cancer prevention and control research, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA
I think the American Cancer Society is definitely on target. I think what we really need to understand when we see pre-cancers and very early cancers in screening is which have a lethal trajectory and which do not. Once we do a screening and see something, it puts us on a path to treatment because most people cannot live with knowing they< have something like that inside of them.
The way to avoid this is to not screen so early and not screen so many people. It's tough for the American Cancer Society to have a simple message on screening because pap smears and colonoscopies do work. However, the evidence is not there for mammograms and prostate cancer screening.
I don't mean to be provocative, but maybe we shouldn't start screening women until they're post-menopausal. Most of the non-serious pre-cancers and very early, small cancers would probably disappear as hormone levels drop. It is a difficult situation for me because I see many young women with breast cancers that were found on their first mammograms and they say that screening saved their lives. But I think there are too many women with pre-cancers and very early cancers that are being overtreated.
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Good movie or not, her public approval comments is the best advertisment the film can get with the Obama adoring hollywood crowd. Of course, the principles in any of the other films must be livid!
Who cares what she does ?Why waste space writing.I stopped at the Headline.Never read about or watcheither of them. Learned along time ago what they were.and they are not worth my time.even writing this comment iswasteful.
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In the Steinbeck novel, sex was the text, not the subtext. "There's a wonderful quote somewhere from Oscar Hammerstein," Chapin says, "that says if sex isn't at the core of the story, it's probably not worth writing. And of course here sex is right on the surface. For these characters, their trade is sex. And that's kind of not what Rodgers and Hammerstein do. [In Sound of Music], there's a nun who feels something stirring within her for a guy; [in The King and I], there's a very prim and proper Welsh school lady who falls in love with the King of Siam. There's inner emotional and sexual fire within all these stories. But it's not people who trade in it."
Chapin said that the producer Billy Rose "once said to Rodgers and Hammerstein that the problem with Pipe Dream is you guys have never been to a whorehouse. Which is interesting, whether it was a fact or just a conjecture on Rose's part."
When through the years there has been interest in the show, Chapin says, "a lot of people have wanted to do an adaptation and put more Steinbeck grit in it, because one complaint people have had was that Rodgers and Hammerstein tried to turn it into something more user-friendly." But, he says, "I've always had a fear that you can't ask characters to say 'F**k you' and then sing something like 'Some Enchanted Evening' — that putting grit back into the book and keeping the score the way it is may not be a good mix. What would be great is if somebody finds a middle ground that allows the show to have a life that it doesn't have today."
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Another important reason for the musical's lack of success, Chapin says, was that Rodgers was ill with cancer. "Rodgers was at the first rehearsal reading of the show and then he went into Sloan Kettering and had surgery for cancer of the jaw. Elaine Steinbeck, who had been stage manager in the original production of Oklahoma! and then married Steinbeck, said that nobody could hold a candle to the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein — from the minute the show went into rehearsal until opening night in New York, they were focused. They knew exactly how to edit their shows, how to change them. They were brilliant. But now the team was vulnerable. She said that Hammerstein kind of panicked, because Rodgers wasn't there. No matter what they may have felt about each other, they were smart enough to know that it was a really important and good team."
Viertel agrees. Rodgers' illness, he says, "restricted their ability to fix the show on the road, which was how they worked. Back in those days they went out of town, found out what they had and then they fixed it."
Chapin says he has a feeling that what Pipe Dream "will seem like at Encores! is a little unfinished, because things that might have been changed out of town never were because the team was not operating at full tilt. The team was still able to do 'Cinderella,' Flower Drum Song and Sound of Music, so they could still do it. But this one didn't quite make it."
Rodgers and Hammerstein hadn't been involved in the original plans to musicalize "Sweet Thursday." Steinbeck was thinking of having it adapted for the stage, and [producers] Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin had the rights, "and everybody wanted Frank Loesser," Chapin says. "Doesn't it seem like a logical follow-up to the Damon Runyon characters of Guys and Dolls" (which Feuer and Martin had produced)? "But Loesser wanted to write an opera. He was writing The Most Happy Fella, and he didn't want to do it. Rodgers and Hammerstein became attracted to it, and Feuer and Martin assigned them all their rights. It was a stretch for them. But they wanted to do it. They thought, what an interesting idea."
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Among those considered for the lead role of Suzy was Julie Andrews. "For years she's told a beautiful story," Chapin says. "She auditioned for Rodgers and Hammerstein and Rodgers asked her if she was auditioning for anything else. She had already done The Boy Friend," in which she had been a huge success. "She told Rodgers she had been auditioning for a musical version of [George Bernard Shaw's] Pygmalion. Rodgers said that if that comes to pass it sounds like something you should do, but if it doesn't, we'd really love to have you. And the rest is history."
Instead of Suzy in Pipe Dream, Julie Andrews got Eliza Doolittle in Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's My Fair Lady.
Pipe Dream actually got nine Tony nominations, including one for Best Musical. It won only one — Alvin Colt's, for costume design. And it lost out as Best Musical to Damn Yankees, which was the only other show to be nominated in that category that season. Pipe Dream's two main stars had sadly truncated careers. William Johnson died of a heart attack in 1957 at age 40. And that same year, Judy Tyler, after going to Hollywood to appear with Elvis Presley in "Jailhouse Rock," died in a car crash with her husband. She was 24.
In the end, Chapin says, Atkinson of The Times was right. Pipe Dream "is Rodgers and Hammerstein in a minor key. It's not terrible. It's not brilliant. It just is what it is."


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Chairman Feingold, it's a pleasure to be speaking to you. Please excuse my absence, we're in the middle of a special session at our state capitol, and I could not get away. Because of the importance of this issue and your leadership, I am delighted that we were able to connect through technology from Springfield, Illinois. Springfield, by the way, is the home of your colleague, Illinois' senior senator and my friend Senator Dick Durbin. I want to thank the distinguished members of this committee for indulging me.Thank you for inviting me to testify on the Illinois death penalty moratorium. Throughout my career, I believed only the guilty could be sent to Death Row.I never questioned the system. Mr. Chairman, you may have heard me tell this story before. Though it was 25 years ago, I vividly remember voting to put the death penalty back on the Illinois books.During the debate, an opponent of the death penalty asked if any of us who supported it would be willing to "throw the switch."It was a sobering question.It wasn't my responsibility and for that I was relieved. Administering the death penalty was up to the criminal justice system, and surely the system would never make a mistake. So, I voted for the death penalty. The fact is now, as governor, I learned the responsibility is mine, I do "throw the switch." That's the toughest part of being Governor.Since those days as a legislator, a lot has happened to shake my faith in the death penalty system-- and the more I learn, the more troubled I've become. The state executing an innocent man or woman is the ultimate nightmare. The fact is, we've come too close to that prospect 13 times in Illinois. Anthony Porter's case is a shocking example of that. Back in the fall of 1998, when I was still campaigning for Governor, Anthony Porter was scheduled to be executed on September 23 of that year.He had ordered his last meal and been fitted for his burial clothes.Mr. Porter had been convicted in the 1982 shooting death of a man and woman in a South Side Chicago park.Two days before he was to die, his lawyers won a last minute, temporary reprieve based on his IQ which was, they believed, about 51.With that delay, some of the great journalism students from Northwestern University, and their professor, David Protess, a powerful champion for justice, had the time to start their own investigation into the then 16-year-old case.With the help of a private detective, the students picked apart the prosecution of Anthony Porter.Key witnesses, like one who claimed he saw Porter at the crime scene, recanted their testimony - they now said Porter was framed.The students then followed their leads to Milwaukee, where the private detective obtained a videotaped confession from a man named Alstory Simon.Simon told the private detective that he shot the two victims in an argument over drug money.With that new evidence, charges were dropped and the innocent Mr. Porter was freed in February 1999.The charges against him were wrong, and he nearly went to his death for them - after spending nearly 17 years on death row!I met with Mr. Porter last week. He told me how he was kept in his dark cell for 23 hours a day. His eyes don't tolerate the sunlight well anymore. That's tough punishment for a guilty man, let alone an innocent one. Imagine enduring that pain, all the while knowing you are innocent.I was caught off guard by Mr. Porter's case. I had just taken office. I didn't know how bad our system was.And shortly after Anthony Porter's case, while I was still reeling, the Andrew Kokoraleis case came to my desk.Andrew Kokoraleis was a serial killer and had been charged with the brutal rape and mutilation murder of a 21-year-old woman.After the mistakes the system made in the Porter case, I agonized.I thoroughly reviewed the case files, consulted with staff, and with veteran prosecutors and defense attorneys.I requested additional information from the Prisoner Review Board.I double-checked and then I triple-checked.I wanted to be absolutely sure.And in the end, I was -- sure beyond any doubt that Kokoraleis was guilty of a monstrous unspeakable crime. I allowed his execution to proceed. But it was an emotional, exhausting experience - one I would not wish on anybody. It all came down to me: a pharmacist from Kankakee, Illinois, who had the good fortune to be elected by the people of Illinois to be their Governor. I now had to "throw the switch."Quite frankly, that might be too much to ask of one person to decide.But, that experience was not the end of the journey.Journalists Steve Mills and Ken Armstrong of the Chicago Tribune conducted an in-depth investigation of the death penalty cases in Illinois in 1999 that was startling.Half of the nearly 300 capital cases in Illinois had been reversed for a new trial or sentencing hearing.33 of the death row inmates were represented, at trial, by an attorney who had later been disbarred or at some point suspended from practicing law.35 African-American death row inmates had been convicted or condemned by an all-white jury.In fact, two out of three of our approximately 160 Illinois death row inmates are African-American.Prosecutors used jailhouse informants to convict or condemn 46 death row inmates.It was clear there were major questions about the system - questions that I alone could not answer.In January of 2000, the 13th death row inmate was found wrongfully convicted of the murder for which he had been sentenced to die.At that point, I was looking at our shameful scorecard: since the death penalty had been reinstated in 1977, 12 inmates had been executed and13 were exonerated.To put it simply, we had a better than a fifty-fifty chance of executing an innocent person in Illinois.The odds of justice being done were as arbitrary as the flip of a coin.Up until then, I had resisted calls by some to declare a moratorium on executions. But then I had to ask myself, how could I go forward with so many unanswerable questions about the fairness of the administration of the death penalty in Illinois.How on earth could we have come so close --- again, and again, and again - to putting fatal doses of poison into the bodies of innocent people strapped to gurneys in our state's death chamber?It was clear to me that when it came to the death penalty in Illinois, there was no justice in the justice system.I declared the moratorium on January 31, 2000 because it was the only thing I could do.That was the easy part. The hard part was to find out what had gone so terribly wrong.The hard part was to try to answer how our system of justice became so fraught with error, especially when it came to imposing the ultimate, irreversible penalty.So I appointed some of the smartest, most dedicated citizens I could find to a commission to study what had gone so terribly wrong.It was chaired by former Federal Judge Frank McGarr and co-chaired by former Senator Paul Simon and former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Thomas Sullivan. They led a panel which included former prosecutors, defense lawyers, and non-lawyers. Accomplished attorney Scott Turow, a best-selling author and commission member, will also testify before you today. My commission put together a tremendous document.They developed 85 recommendations to improve the caliber of justice in our state system. It does not single anyone out, but it calls for reforms in the way police, prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges and elected officials do business.I have taken that entire report and introduced everything that requires legislation to the Illinois General Assembly.My bill proposes barring the execution of the mentally retarded; mandating that natural life is given as a sentencing option to juries; reducing death penalty eligibility factors from 20 to 5; and barring the death penalty when a conviction is based solely on a jailhouse "snitch." This summer, the Illinois General Assembly will hold hearings. I hope they'll hear from all of the key parties - the prosecutors, defense attorneys, victims, and the wrongfully convicted. My commission reviewed, at some level, every capital case that we have ever had in Illinois, but it took a closer look at the 13 inmates freed from Death Row and exonerated.Most did not have solid evidence. We had cases where jailhouse snitches were the key witnesses. Another case where a drug addicted witness sent a man to death row. DNA freed several inmates. Some were convicted because of overzealous police and prosecutors. Some had inadequate representation at trial. My commission concluded that its recommendations will significantly improve the fairness and accuracy of the Illinois death penalty system. But it also concluded, and I quote:"No system, given human nature and frailties, could ever be devised or constructed that would work perfectly and guarantee absolutely that no... innocent person is ever again sentenced to death." That's a powerful statement. It is one that I will ponder. In the meantime, I do know this:I said two years ago, and I say now, until I can be sure that everyone sentenced to death in Illinois is truly guilty until I can be sure with moral certainty that no innocent man or woman is facing a lethal injection, no one will meet that fate. We all want to punish the guilty. But in so doing, we must never punish the innocent. And with our mistake prone system in Illinois, we were doing just that. Chairman Feingold, I know you are proposing a federal moratorium. We've had the pleasure of discussing our mutual concerns about capital punishment a number of times in the past couple of years. I want to commend you for your passion for truth and justice.I have not studied the federal system, but I do know, especially after September 11th, that the United States of America must be a model for the rest of the world. And that means our justice system should be the glowing example for the pursuit of truth and justice. It must be fair and compassionate. We must safeguard individual liberties while keeping our communities safe.And we must protect the innocent. It is fundamental to the American system of justice. Thank you.


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Because roboticists hold nothing sacred (not even baby Jesus!), a team has managed to program a quadrocopter to play 'Jingle Bells' on the keyboard with its little dangling peener. Hey that's how I play too! aside, it's pretty disturbing to see. Also, painful to listen to. I had to watch the damn thing twice just to figure out what song it was trying to perform (if he'd played any slower you'd swear his parents were brother/sisterbots!). And speaking of performing -- what's the secret to being able to get it up at night when you're feeling amorous? NOT drinking a liter of bourbon? Yeaaaaaaah, that's not gonna work for me.
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4.5 out of 5
11 Reviews
Great shoes for trails and mud!
September 06, 2012
This is the first time I ever bought Salomon and I love these shoes! I have run multiple mud races such as Toughmudder, Spartan, and Warrior Dash in them and they have terrific grip, good cushioning, they drain well, and thus far I have not had a blister from them (be sure to get a good pair of socks). The break-in period was very fast, they clean up well with a garden hose and they are ready to go for the next trail run or race. I'm 6" tall, 185-190lbs and my feet have neutral arches. I ordered 10.5 and these were true to size as I wear a 10.5 in Asics, New Balance, Mizuno, and Merrell. I will definitely buy Salomon again!
Pros: comfortable, drain well, good grip, easy to cleanNo slip shoe
February 03, 2012
You will not slip in these runners. This is the only pair I use for off pavement runs, because once you are used to this level of grip, it is unsettling to go back to a standard shoe. I've slipped once wearing these, on a smooth sheet of ice. They grab everything else. The fit is perfect too. They wrap right around your foot and the speed laces are the best I've ever used.
Great Kicks!
February 02, 2013
The shoes have been excellent - both on and off the mountain. They fit true to size (but are just a bit narrow). The lacing system is easy, durable and provides for an all-around secure feel. The cleats are very durable. I've been wearing these for a few months and haven't noticed much wear on the cleats at all. I wore these things during a 5 day backpacking trip and never had any complaints- however the weight of my pack made my feet a little sore by the end of the day, and they don't have the best ankle support. They got extremely dirty during that trip, but cleaned off easily and now look good as new. They breath well and dry quickly. They also make for good mountain biking shoes if you're using regular, non-click in pedals. Overall great shoes.
Not for the long haul
February 26, 2012
I bought the pop green/ bright red / black solomon Speedcross as I am in need of a great trail running shoe for several trail endurance races this year. Initially the Solomon's were great but as distance and time has increased they have transitioned from pleasure to pure pain. I am accustomed to a mid-sole strike and the speed cross don't appear willing to mesh up with my running stride or gait. The final straw came when I was nearly stranded 6 miles from my car as I could barely walk let alone run in the Solomon's. Each step felt as though the shoes were attempting to chip off my outer ankle bones. I attempted to loosen the laces, tighten the laces to no avail. The change in walking/running stride lead to VERY, VERY sore knees and ankles. Runners used to a lighter, more minimal style of shoe might have a lot of difficulties utilizing these shoes. I really wanted to like and keep these as the colors made me want to put them on and run. To Long Did Not Read (TLDR); --painful after 5 miles of difficult trail running (mud, packed dirt, rocks, creeks) --mid-sole strike difficult --stiff at ankle "cups" --not for endurance lengths
Pros: colors, Cons: painful after 5 miles, mid-sole strike difficultA perfect trail shoe
April 05, 2012
The Saloman Speedcross 3 Trail Running Shoe is the best trail shoe I own. The construction is outstanding and the shoes look great. I especially like the wild bright colors. Mud and dirt wash off easily. I own several pairs and look foward to getting back on the trails. A perfect trail shoe!
Pros: construction and fitsaloman trail shoe
June 01, 2012
A great looking shoe that I use for most all my workout - indoors or out. Fits true to size - comfy with strong support. Did a trail run after a rain - a true mudder trail shoe. Very satisfied!
Speedcross 3 Trail
January 04, 2013
I have had these shoes for a while now and they are great. They fit true to size and are durable. The shoes are great for trial running and provide the needed traction. The shoes are made from quality material, are very comfortable and hold up to even the toughest runs. I would strongly recommend purchasing the Salomon Speedcross 3.
Pros: lightweight, quality shoe, true to sizePerfect on muddy trails
August 22, 2012
The Saloman Speedcross 3 Trail Running Shoe is one of the best trail shoe I ever own. Very light weight, comfortable and with strong support. I was worry about the "soft looking" sole, but after a few runs the tread looks like new. In any case, keep these shoes just for trail running to not wear off the shoe lugs. In addition, the water-resistant textile seems pretty effective to me. Salomon made another great shoes.
Perfect on mud and snow
December 29, 2011
After trying these on in the store, I was sold. The fit is superbe. The heel cup is narrow enough to hug my heels and ankle. They really seal off the ankle area. The toe box is just big enough that i can wiggle my toes but not cut off circulation. On the trails, they are so nimble and the outsole is so sticky that they gave me the confidence to go fast. They have a small footprint so i can land my feet in narrow spaces between rocks. I can make fast turns in them which really helps running on technical downhill trails. On uphill these are just as nice due to the light weight. The soft lugs are perfectly spaced to keep traction in mud but not collect it on the bottom. I've been running these in the snow, and due to the spiky lugs on the outsole (the shoes are marked "M+S"), they don't slide at all - and that's when my other half was wearing his fancy La Sportiva trail runners and complained that he takes one step forward and slide half a step back. Even though these are supposed to be racing shoes, the ride is cushy enough on trails. I can't really tell them apart from my Brooks Cascadia 6 in terms of cush (btw, these Salomons provide much more traction in mud and loose rocks than the Brooks). Supposedly they don't have cushioned midsole at the forefoot, but the soft lugs on the outsole make up for that. Make sure you don't use them on pavement too much - the soft lugs will wear off in no time.
Just like I had hoped
September 16, 2011
I have always found Salomon shoes to meet if not exceed what I expect out of a pair of shoes. The Speedcross 3s do not disappoint. The tread is gnarly, they fit great, super comfortable, and they look good too. The speedcross shoes will take anything you throw at them as long as it's on the trail. The one problem I had with my last pair (Speedcross 2's) was that the tread wore out pretty quick but I'm pretty sure that's my fault seeing as I started wearing them off the trail on sidewalks and casually which the tread was not designed for. But I came back for second pair and plan on keeping them a trail shoe and that's it. As or size I wear a 13 in the Salomons, a 13 in Nike, a 12.5 in Merrel, and a 13 in Asics so I would say they fit pretty true to size. Overall it's the best trail shoe I've ever worn just keep them off the sidewalks.
Pros: comfort, fit, Cons: wear and tearSuper Fantastic
July 03, 2012
These shoes are now my favorite! They dethroned my Merrell Chameleon stretch 2's. Very light weight and super comfortable best purchase I have made in a long time. I cannot say enough good things about these are shoes!
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Available sizes, while supplies last, include size 7, size 7.5, size 8, size 8.5, size 9, size 9.5, size 10, size 10.5, size 11, size 11.5, size 12, size 12.5, size 13 and size 14: 7, 7.5, 8, 8.5, 9, 9.5, 10, 10.5, 11, 11.5, 12, 12.5, 13, 14.


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Eat Gluten-Free For Le$$
Eight ways to cut gluten-free grocery costs and boost your nutritional intake
Does your special diet give you sticker shock? No wonder. Many products that are gluten free and allergy friendly are downright expensive. The tight economy has many of us tightening our belts and that makes stretching the grocery budget to accommodate special-diet items more daunting than ever. If you're feeling the pinch, try these suggestions to get more nutritional bang for your buck.
1 Consider nutrient count.
Before you purchase a product, think about its ability to actually nourish. How many nutrients does it provide per calorie? Choosing processed foods that contain high fructose corn syrup, trans fats, sodium, chemical preservatives and artificial additives fill you up quickly and feel satisfying in the short term—but where's the value? They provide little real sustenance and do not bolster overall health. Often, just the opposite! You may pay a bit more for nutritionally dense food but you get more nutrient oomph per pound.
Here's the way to look at it: Think future medical bills. The fact that you're on a special diet points to absorption, digestion and related health issues. It's critically important for you to obtain proper nourishment. Feeding your body nutrient-dense meals every single day will save you money in healthcare costs down the road. It's that simple.
2 Choose single-ingredient foods.
Focus on a variety of fruits and vegetables, seeds, legumes, gluten-free whole grains, lean meats and poultry. These simple, wholesome foods, most of which are naturally gluten free and allergy friendly, are rich sources of protein, fiber, vitamins, minerals, healthy fatty acids and trace nutrients. They're also low in calories and easy on the waistline.
3 Buy in season.
Fresh produce in season is less expensive and probably travels shorter distances to your table. This increases flavor. (There's a better chance your child will eat his veggies if they're tasty. )
When fresh isn't available, frozen works. Freeze extra during growing season when choices are plentiful. If you buy frozen products, avoid those with added sweetening and sodium. Read labels carefully as some companies add wheat flour or wheat starch to certain foods, like frozen sweet potatoes.
Make smoothies with frozen fruit, like berries, peaches and melons. Create stir-fries with frozen vegetables, like broccoli, and use frozen spinach as a quick side.
4 Purchase meat and poultry on sale.
Grocery stores cycle sales on these items so you can pick up protein-rich foods at bargain prices to keep in the freezer until you're ready to eat them. If you can tolerate seafood, keep an eye out for seasonal specials of locally caught fish and shellfish. These foods add important nutrients, like protein, vitamin A and omega-3 fatty acids to your special diet.
5 Cook more dishes from scratch.
Use gluten-free whole grains and starches rather than commercial mixes and other prepared products. Whole brown rice, amaranth, quinoa, millet, teff, sorghum and buckwheat are less expensive than processed counterparts and offer valuable nutrition, including B-complex vitamins so often lacking in special diets. They're simple to prepare and easy to doctor into tasty sides for breakfast, lunch and dinner. These grains, legumes and seeds are also available as gluten-free flours that add flavor, fiber and protein to gluten-free recipes for baked goods.
6 Buy in bulk.
Many supermarkets and natural food stores offer a bulk section where you can purchase grains, seeds, legumes and nuts at reasonable prices, making it easy to stock up. Store these items in solid containers with tight-fitting lids. They'll last for months in your refrigerator and longer in the freezer. Note that scoops and bins can become cross-contaminated. When possible, choose from the highest bins and look for those with hand levers that release the product.
Don't forget to network with local support groups. Many members partner up to purchase standard baking items, like xanthan gum, saving by buying larger quantities and sharing shipping costs.
Keep an eye out for sales. Since it's best to be prepared with a snack, buy nutrition bars in bulk at a discount. A case priced $30 to $40 may not seem reasonable but the cost of bars purchased individually quickly adds up.
7 Expand Your Choices.
Eat ethnic foods that tend to be naturally gluten free. For example, use rice noodles (a staple ingredient in Thai cooking) in soups and corn tortillas (Mexican cooking) or teff tortillas for wraps. These products are often less expensive than their specially marketed gluten-free counterparts. And don't forget about ethnic grocers. You can stock up on ingredients like rice and gluten-free flours at Asian markets.
8 Use Coupons.
Write or call the manufacturers of your favorite products and ask for coupons. You get money off and you let these companies know that there's growing demand for their items. Utilize companies like Mambo Sprouts (mambosprouts.com), where membership is free and you can access coupons for health-conscious foods. When buying online, take care to use only companies you trust.
Melinda Dennis, RD, is nutrition coordinator and research investigator at the Celiac Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Kristin Voorhees completed her graduate degree at Emerson College in December 2009.
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Comments (6)
As a celiac, I can't buy bulk foods from open bins because of cross-contamination issues. My best recommendation for others when worrying about the high cost of GF foods is to avoid the pre-processed foods. Fresh fruits, veggies, dry beans, fish, poultry, meats are all also GF, but for some reason people tend to forget this. If you don't know how to cook, learn! You'll then not have to worry about the high cost of pre-processed fancy GF foods, and you'll also know exactly what is and isn't in your food----most important for people with food allergies. (Besides celiac, I also have several other food allergies.) I do appreciate the idea of stocking up on kosher non-perishables during Jewish holidays for DF; will pass this onto my diary-allergic niece. Thanks!
Posted by: JEANNE A | February 27, 2013 3:07 PM Report this comment
We have been thru the job loss thing too. I have 6 allergies, so bulk bin buying is out. Plan your meals around fruits and veggies in season, use store points cards to get discounts and coupons. Get help if you can't make it from local or federal programs. It may seem like you are out of a job forever, but it will change!
Posted by: Peg | February 26, 2013 8:58 AM Report this comment
Appreciated the article. Knew most of it, but great reminders (ie all the varieties of gluten-free grains and seeds). Chia and flax seed (ground) should have been added as well. Also oats, but read label carefully (gluten-free and organic oats are out there). Does anyone know of a source to receive coupons on gluten-free grains, seeds, and products? How about coupons for organic? The article suggested contacting individual companies, but I find little success (if any) going that route. Mambo Sprouts is good, but would like more sources.
Posted by: CAROLYN P | August 30, 2012 6:35 AM Report this comment
It may be fine for gluten intolerant people to buy foods in bulk in open bins but this is not advisable for celiacs due to the likelihood of cross contact with wheat and gluten grains in these situations. Otherwise I thought it was an excellent and useful article
Posted by: lauradwight | August 28, 2012 8:14 PM Report this comment
Thank you so much for your suggestions about how to eat gluten free for less. Very helpful info.
Posted by: Ruby P. | August 28, 2012 11:07 AM Report this comment
Thank you so much for your suggestions about how to eat gluten free for less. Very helpful info.
Posted by: Ruby P. | August 28, 2012 11:07 AM Report this comment