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Guest Scribe Nadia Bonenfant: Your Breath is a Wave
I love the North Shore. I get to lead some amazing surf and SUP yoga retreats on the coast of Haleiwa and am consistently amazed at the power of the ocean, the land and it's traditions.
One of my favorite practices in Hawaii is SUP yoga. I find myself wanting to be on my floating mat because I love that we can pick a spectacular spot, drop anchor and flow into practice. Oahu and its ocean have a humbling and powerful energy that radiate strongly all around us.
Being out on a board is the best way to feel connected and immersed into this energy, into the vibration of Hawaii, into Mana.
Mana – the breath of the land and the sea. A strong and magical place to connect into and a place that I feel is also part of our energetical ecosystem, our Chakras. I think that anyone who's been on the North Shore can attest to having felt this subtle energy, like a soft tidal current or an offshore breeze. Much like O'ahu being one complex Chakra itself.
Chakras are subtle centers of energy located within the cerebrospinal system. Specific sounds given to each Chakra energize each of the specific centers. Much like a wave, your breath rises, peaks and dissolves. Why not deepen your experience and add a sound, a bija mantra, a sound that flows with breath and energizes you from the inside out while on your SUP?
Bija is the Sanskrit word used to speak of the sound essence of the Chakra (bija = seed). Like the natural elements around us, Chakras vibrate at different frequencies. Sound is vibration and so tapping into the sound of the waves or the wind in the river valley where we practice SUP yoga, allows us to become part of the vibrational environment. Eventually the practice of chanting bija mantras, give us the opportunity of amplifying our connection to the surroundings we immerse ourselves into, while we practice on water.
Next time you are out for a SUP Yoga practice, explore with the following bijas to enrich your connection to your inner self and to the natural beauty around you. Focus on only two Chakras at the beginning to make sure you keep a relaxed flow when on your board. As your SUP yoga practice deepens, start to add bijas for other Chakras until you chant all seven sounds through your SUP yoga session.
HEART- Bring your awareness to the heart chakra – color green – color of life, nature and fertility and filled with compassion and self-love. Connecting to the heart – Anahata, bring the sound YAM into your exhale and notice change or what this experience is bringing forth. From the heart, feel your fears slowly melt away and your confidence grow. The heart Chakra, green in color, also connects to the heartbeat of the Hawaiian land. Abundant and lush and in consistent growth. Repeat the bija YAM three times and then keep on flowing from the space of your opened heart.
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The SAD Walgreen story
December 19, 1999 at 17:29:08 PT
By John Carpenter Staff Reporter
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
It was Nov. 26, 1996, and Loren Walgreen had just won a shocking legal victory, stopping her in-laws from adopting her two children. She went out that night and got high on cocaine. It's yet another sad detail in the even sadder story of the troubled ex-drugstore heiress, who was found dead at age 31 in a West Side drug house Tuesday.
The man who shared the story is Dennis Clinton, a former truck driver and Walgreen's longtime boyfriend.
The world knows the Loren Walgreen who lost custody of her two children to their grandparents because of her drug problems. People who follow the news know that she had been arrested many times since she lost contact with the children.
What the world doesn't know, Clinton insists, is that Walgreen was a good mother to a third child–a bright, happy 4-year-old named David, Clinton's son with her.
"She had a drug problem, a serious drug problem," he said. "But it wasn't all the time."
"We have a son. He's 4 1/2 years old, and he can work a computer," he said. "He's smart. He's happy. So did she destroy his life? Did someone need to take him away from her to save him? No."
Charles and Kathleen Walgreen, who are now raising the two children Loren had with Tad Walgreen–who died of a drug overdose in 1996–believe they did have to step in to save the children. And, according to an interview Kathleen gave to the Sun-Times last week, they tried to help the children's mother.
Clinton does not agree. And his bitterness toward the billionaire couple is unbridled. He said his girlfriend's drug problems became much more severe after she lost custody of the children. Mostly, though, he wants people to know that the story is not so simple.
Walgreen had been off illegal drugs for more than a year at the time of the highly publicized adoption trial, Clinton said.
During the trial, doctors testified about Walgreen's mental illness and drug problems. She had suffered from depression and been in and out of psychiatric hospitals since age 14. One doctor testified that he was surprised she could get up each day, Clinton recalled.
"She was getting up every morning, feeding our son and getting him dressed, driving him to a baby-sitter, getting on the L downtown to sit at the trial for eight hours, taking the train back, picking him up and coming home and cooking dinner," Clinton said.
Then came the verdict, which declared that the adoption of Walgreen's two children with Tad by their grandparents would have violated Loren's constitutional rights.
She had won, but the victory didn't win her custody. "Even after she won, she still couldn't get custody," Clinton said. "She went out that night with a girlfriend and came home and told me she had used cocaine.
"Things got worse from that time on."
Walgreen's brushes with the law since losing custody of her two children are well-documented–more than a dozen arrests, mostly for drug possession but also including prostitution. After many probation violations she was jailed for several months and was released in September.
Clinton said her drug problem was serious but not an everyday problem. "She'd be fine for a week or two, maybe a month, then she'd go off for two or three days and get totally wasted. She'd disappear," he said.
"When it got to where she was thinking about the kids [the two she lost custody of] then she would go off. When she went off like that, she would go off to the maximum."
Clinton said Walgreen eventually came around to the idea that her two children with Tad were better off with their grandparents. But he said she wanted to be part of their lives, at least through visits.
Kathleen Walgreen said she would have granted Loren visitation rights if she could have stayed clean and sober for a year. She could not.
Neighbors of Clinton's in unincorporated Melrose Park said police were often called there, mostly for arguments. Clinton acknowledged this and said any fights they had were over her drugs.
"Her drug use was our biggest problem," he said. "It was our only problem."
Clinton maintains that Walgreen's drug use was a form of drawn-out suicide over the loss of her first two children. He argued the same was true of Tad, whose death was ruled an accidental drug overdose.
"Neither one of them died of drug overdoses," Clinton said. "They died of broken hearts and suicide."
Clinton and Walgreen talked over breakfast Monday morning.
She had been off drugs since September.
"Prison scared her," he said. "She was determined never to go back to prison again."
But she was despondent at the prospects of not being able to see the two children over the holiday season, he said.
"She said she couldn't stand to go through another holiday season without being able to see or even talk to those children," he said. "I told her she had to stay strong, stay off the stuff."
About 3:30 p.m. Clinton got a call from Walgreen at the tavern he owns. Police say she already had been at the West Side drug house for several hours. But she told him she was still shopping in Evanston and asked him to pick up their son from school.
"She sounded as straight as an arrow, but I knew there might be a problem," Clinton said.
That was the last time she talked to him.
Police said she spent several hours in a basement apartment at 43 N. Menard, a house where she and others had been arrested for drugs before.
During the evening, she slumped over in her chair; others thought she had passed out. By 1:45 a.m. Tuesday, they could not wake her and an ambulance was called. She was pronounced dead shortly thereafter.
"She never hurt anybody but herself," Clinton said.
"Granted, she was her own worst enemy."
Published: Decenber 19, 1999
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Penthouse to basement
Chicago Sun-Times, Dec 15, 1999 by JOHN CARPENTER
Three years after she strode defiantly into a Cook County courtroom to fight – clean and sober – for custody of her two children, Loren Walgreen slumped over a table in a seamy West Side drug house and died.
A life headed for the fast lane with her 1988 marriage to an heir of the $18 billion drugstore fortune had long since plunged into society's dim-lit alleys when Walgreen, 31, apparently got high for the last time Monday afternoon. She was pronounced dead early Tuesday morning.
Found in a known drug house where she had been arrested on drug charges before, police say they believe her death was drug related, though they are awaiting toxicology tests from the Cook County medical examiner.
If those tests show Walgreen overdosed on drugs, it would be an unsurprising end to a life spent in and out of jails, prison, drug rehab centers and the public eye.
"Drugs and depression is a very nasty combination," said Alan Toback, her former lawyer.
"I loved my daughter," said Walgreen's mother, Patricia Goldbortin. "I didn't always agree with what she did, but I loved her . . . My heart is broken."
Loren Goldbortin grew up in Lincolnwood where her mother said she loved sports and was "a normal girl." She was 10 and riding inside her father's car when he died of a heart attack behind the wheel, Goldbortin said.
Walgreen was hospitalized for psychiatric problems for the first time at age 14, according to Toback. Goldbortin said her daughter went on to graduate from Niles West High School and studied briefly at Kendall College in Evanston.
She wanted to be a social worker," Goldbortin said.
Loren Goldbortin was 20 years old and already in drug rehab in 1988, when she met a fellow patient named Tad Walgreen. He was the wayward son of a drugstore mogul and they began dating. They were married Nov. 5 that year, after she became pregnant, according to John Pasulka, Tad Walgreen's former attorney.
Though they had two children, neither could lick their drug problems. And by 1993 Tad was in prison and Loren once again was in rehab.
At first Loren's mother cared for the children, with financial help from Charles and Kathleen Walgreen, the children's grandparents. When the wealthy Lake Forest couple became concerned about the care the children were receiving, they gained custody of them after a nanny testified the situation was unhealthy.
By May 1996, Loren was proclaiming herself clean and sober for more than a year, and a highly publicized court fight over the children was under way.
In the middle of the trial, Tad Walgreen – who had divorced Loren and already agreed to give up custody of the children – died of a drug overdose.
Loren, however, won the first round of her legal fight with her former in-laws, after a Cook County judge ruled the adoption would have violated her constitutional rights. The grandparents retained custody during the legal appeals, however, and Walgreen appeared to slip back into her drug-using ways.
She was arrested in May 1997 after she left her 2-year-old son – not one of her children with Tad Walgreen – unattended while she tried to buy heroin from an undercover Chicago Police officer. She was sentenced to 18 months probation, 180 days of home confinement and ordered to seek counseling.
Walgreen was arrested 13 times between 1993 and her death, including arrests for possession of cocaine and heroin, and a case in which she offered sex to two undercover police officers in return for $40.
By March of this year, after several probation violations, she was sentenced to one year in prison. She was released in September.
For most of this time Walgreen lived in unincorporated Melrose Park with a boyfriend, with whom she had a child. Ray Blaha, who lives across the street, said there often were domestic disputes.
Toback said Walgreen's boyfriend, a former truck driver, was "straight as an arrow."
Walgreen settled her legal dispute with her former in-laws in May of last year, accepting a settlement of about $750,000 to give up her parental rights.
Almost immediately after she relinquished control, however, she filed suit to regain custody, Toback said.
The cash windfall didn't keep Walgreen out of trouble.
Police say Walgreen showed up at the basement apartment at 43 N. Menard at about 2 p.m. Monday, a house where she'd been arrested on drug charges before, on a street lined with boarded buildings.
Residents of the house who called police when they couldn't awaken Walgreen said the last time they saw her awake was at 8 p.m., playing cards. They thought she fell asleep and didn't call police until 1:45 a.m.
After an ambulance and police arrived, police Cmdr. Gerard Mahnke said Walgreen had "been dead for quite some time."
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Troubled Walgreen in-law dies
Chicago Sun-Times, Dec 14, 1999 by FRANK MAIN
Loren Walgreen, the former daughter-in-law of the retired Walgreens drugstore chairman, was found dead early today in a West Side apartment of an apparent drug overdose, police said.
Ms. Walgreen, 31, of unincorporated Melrose Park, was discovered at 1:45 a.m. sitting in a chair at the dining room table of the apartment at 43 N. Menard in the Austin neighborhood, Area 5 police Cmdr. Gerard Mahnke said. "She had been dead for some time," Mahnke said, adding that foul play was not suspected.
A resident of the apartment had called police about Ms. Walgreen. "She goes there to do drugs," said Mahnke, who described her death as drug related.
The death of Ms. Walgreen – the former daughter-in-law of retired Walgreen chief executive Charles Walgreen III and his wife, Kathleen – was the final chapter of a tragic life, said her former attorney, Alan J. Toback.
"Her drug problem and her depression got the best of her," Toback said.
In 1998, Ms. Walgreen relinquished custody of her two children from her marriage with Tad Walgreen, who had died of a drug overdose in 1996. Charles and Kathleen Walgreen adopted the children.
Loren Walgreen recently was living in Melrose Park with her boyfriend and their son, officials say.
In May 1997, she left that boy, then 2, unattended to buy heroin from an undercover Chicago police officer. She was convicted of child endangerment and drug charges and placed on 18 months' probation.
After a string of other drug arrests, she served six months behind bars this year for possession of a controlled substance and was paroled Sept. 30, a prison spokesman said.
"She did not have any problem with being in the penitentiary," said Toback, who talked to her after she was freed. "When someone is institutionalized a good portion of their life, sometimes they find comfort in the routine (of prison) . . . It's just the tragic end to a tragic story."
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In re Adoption of Walgreen (Ill. S.Ct.)
Docket Nos. 82545, 82546, 82665 cons.-Agenda 10-November 1998.
In re ADOPTION OF TAD ALEXANDER WALGREEN II et al.
(Charles Walgreen III et al., Appellants, v. Loren Walgreen, Appellee).
Opinion filed March 18, 1999.
JUSTICE HARRISON delivered the opinion of the court:
Charles Walgreen III and his wife, Kathleen, filed a petition in the circuit court of Cook County to adopt two of their grandchildren, Tad Alexander Walgreen II and Brooke Julia Walgreen. The Walgreens' petition, as amended, was premised on the claim that Loren, the children's biological mother, was unfit within the meaning of sections 1(D)(k) and 1(D)(p) of the Adoption Act (750 ILCS 50/1(D)(k), (D)(p) (West 1992)).
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) sought leave to intervene and was allowed to do so. Following extensive proceedings, the circuit court entered judgment denying the Walgreens' petition. As grounds for its decision, the court held that sections 1(D)(k) and 1(D)(p) of the Adoption Act were unconstitutional. Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 302(a)(1) (134 Ill. 2d R. 302(a)(1)), the Walgreens and DCFS appealed directly to this court. We allowed the Cook County Public Guardian to appear as amicus curiae in support of the Walgreens. We also allowed the Mental Health Project of the Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic to appear as amicus curiae in support of Loren.
After the appeal was filed, the Walgreens advised this court that Loren had consented to the adoption of Tad and Brooke and that new adoption proceedings had been initiated in the circuit court. Those proceedings are now concluded. A final judgment of adoption was entered on April 30, 1998. The Walgreens have become Tad and Brooke's parents.
Because the Walgreens have succeeded in adopting the children, the issue of whether the circuit court acted correctly in denying the adoption petition at issue here is no longer of any consequence. Even if the circuit court was wrong, a decision by our court could not grant the Walgreens any relief that they have not already received. The case has therefore become moot. See, e.g., Dixon v. Chicago & North Western Transportation Co., 151 Ill. 2d 108, 116-17 (1992).
Both the Walgreens and Loren have consented to dismissal of the case based on mootness. The only party to oppose dismissal is the intervenor, DCFS, which argues that we should address the legal issues in the case in order to provide guidance in future cases. This we decline to do. Our court has held that when an opinion on a question of law cannot affect the result as to the parties or controversy in the case before it, a court should not resolve the question merely for the sake of setting a precedent to govern potential future cases. Bluthardt v. Breslin, 74 Ill. 2d 246, 251 (1979); see also First National Bank v. Kusper, 98 Ill. 2d 226, 235 (1983) (court will not review cases merely to establish a precedent or guide future litigation). This limitation is no mere technicality. The existence of a real controversy is a prerequisite to the exercise of our jurisdiction. In re Estate of Wellman, 174 Ill. 2d 335, 353 (1996).
Our court has recognized an exception to the mootness doctrine when the question involved is of a public nature, the circumstances are likely to recur, and an authoritative determination for the future guidance of public officers is desirable. Lucas v. Lakin, 175 Ill. 2d 166, 170 (1997). The exception is construed narrowly (see Edwardsville School Service Personnel Ass'n v. Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board, 235 Ill. App. 3d 954, 959 (1992)), and a clear showing of each criterion is required to bring a case within its terms (Bonaguro v. County Officers Electoral Board, 158 Ill. 2d 391, 395 (1994)).
The case before us today does not meet this exacting standard. Although the constitutionality of the fitness provisions challenged here does present a question of substantial public interest, the need to make an authoritative determination for future guidance of public officers is questionable. This case does not present a situation where the law is in disarray or there is conflicting precedent. Various panels of the appellate court have considered similar constitutional challenges to the fitness provisions of the Adoption Act and consistently found them to be valid. See In re A.S.B., 293 Ill. App. 3d 836 (1997); In re J.S., 213 Ill. App. 3d 126 (1991); In re I.D., 205 Ill. App. 3d 543 (1990). The circuit court's decision here is the only one to hold otherwise, and it has no precedential value. See Forest Preserve District v. Estes, 222 Ill. App. 3d 167, 177 (1991); Kennedy Brothers, Inc. v. Property Tax Appeal Board, 158 Ill. App. 3d 154, 165 (1987). It is binding only with respect to the adoption of these two particular children.
Because the children have now been adopted with their biological mother's consent, the mother's fitness, and the standards by which that fitness is determined, will not be at issue again. The constitutionality of the fitness provisions may still arise in other adoption cases. There is no reason to believe, however, that the question cannot be fully litigated by the affected parties there. The long and complex history of this case demonstrates that this is not the sort of dispute which is, by its nature, too short in duration to be fully litigated prior to its cessation.
Having concluded that the case is moot and that it does not fall within the public interest exception to mootness, we must still address how this litigation should be resolved. Normally when an issue presented on appeal becomes moot, the appeal will be dismissed. To dismiss the appeal here would be inappropriate, however, because it would leave standing the circuit court's unreviewed judgment that sections 1(D)(k) and 1(D)(p) of the Adoption Act are unconstitutional. First National Bank, 98 Ill. 2d at 236. Because we do not determine the correctness of that judgment, the proper course is to vacate the judgment and remand the cause to the circuit court with directions to dismiss the complaint. In re Special Prosecutor, 126 Ill. 2d 208 (1988); Bluthardt, 74 Ill. 2d at 251.
For the foregoing reasons, the judgment is vacated, and the cause is remanded to the circuit court of Cook County with directions to dismiss the Walgreens' petition for adoption.
Vacated and remanded with directions.
Tad Walgreen (1960-1996) Loren Walgreen (1968-1999)
They say there's no such thing as bad publicity, but the sad chronicle of Tad Walgreen and his estranged wife Loren may represent an exception. Before the scion of the Walgreen drugstore chain and his wife died from apparent drug overdoses, the two were tangled in a high-profile custody battle with Tad's father and stepmother, retired Walgreen CEO Charles "Cork" Walgreen III and his wife Kathleen.
Tad, who had served prison time for a felony drunk driving conviction and was facing charges for illegally obtaining prescription drugs from a Walgreen store, had agreed to give up his parental rights to his and Loren's two children, provided his wife was deemed an unfit parent. But Loren wasn't willing to give up her rights easily and fought to prevent Charles Walgreen and his wife from adopting the children, who were already in their care.
The courts ruled in Loren's favor, saying the state law allowing parents to be declared unfit because of a history of drug abuse or mental illness was unconstitutional as worded. Despite the victory, Loren consented to the adoption in 1998 when the family agreed to pay her $750,000. She later changed her mind and continued to pursue the case, despite continued run-ins with the law.
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Charles R. Walgreen Jr., 99, son of Walgreen Co.'s founder, lives on his yacht about half the year
Charles R. "Cork" Walgreen III, 69, ran Walgreen from 1969 to 1998; retired and lives in Lake Forest (son)
Kevin Walgreen, 45, executive vice-president of store operations, last remaining Walgreen to work at the company on a day-to-day basis
Charles "Rick" Walgreen, 48, lives in Lake Forest, an entrepreneur
Les Walgreen, 37, president of his own real estate firm
Chris Walgreen, 32, investor, on the board of the Adventurers Club of Chicago; spends a large portion of the year traveling
Rx for wealth: Charles Rudolph Walgreen, son of Swedish immigrants, came to Chicago from Dixon, borrowed some money from his father and, in 1901, purchased his first store at 4134 S. Cottage Grove Ave. Today, Walgreen has more than 4,800 U.S. stores with $42 billion in sales, ranking 38th on the Fortune 500 list.
Charles Walgreen Jr. took over the operations in 1939, following his father's death. He retired in 1969, handing the reins to Charles III.
In 1998, Charles III stepped down as CEO and, for the first time, the company went outside for a CEO, recruiting L. Daniel Jorndt to the top job. He retired in 2003; David Bernauer is now CEO.
Money: Only Chris Walgreen was willing to be interviewed. When asked about his wealth, he responds, "That's nobody's business but my own."
He concedes there are perks to having a little name recognition, such as occasionally getting a good table at a restaurant. Yet he also contends that having a well-known name is not always easy. "It's a blessing and a curse at the same time," he says. "A lot of times you wonder when you meet people, `Do they like me because I am Chris, or because my last name is Walgreen?' There is always that suspicion."
His father, Charles Walgreen III, holds nearly 3.6 million shares of Walgreen stock, or less than 1% of the 1.02 billion shares outstanding, according to recent federal filings. Walgreen shares have been trading in the $44 range recently, which would put the value of Mr. Walgreen's stake at roughly $150 million.
The next generation: Kevin Walgreen is the only family member who remains active in the day-to-day running of the company. Charles "Rick" Walgreen is involved in organizations such as Chicago Bauhaus and Beyond and the Lake Forest Open Lands Association.
Chris Walgreen, meanwhile, is sometimes mentioned as a potential political candidate. When asked, he doesn't deny he has political ambitions.
Whether or not he decides to take the plunge into politics, the success of Walgreen will likely keep the family name in the public eye for some time. "Some of my family members (will be influential). Some of my family members will be private and do their own thing; some are more into the spotlight than others," he says.
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Conference of Boston Teaching Hospitals Releases Impact Report
Leading the Way - the Impact of Greater Boston's Teaching Hospitals
BOSTON – A report released by the Conference of Boston Teaching Hospitals (COBTH) - Leading the Way - the Impact of Greater Boston's Teaching Hospitals, highlights the impact member hospitals have on the Commonwealth and region and the critical role they play in the healthcare system. Collectively, greater Boston's teaching hospitals have direct economic impact of over $12 billion in Massachusetts and a combined direct and indirect impact of more than $28b.
The report found that COBTH member hospitals:
- provide over 75,000 jobs for Massachusetts residents
- contribute $12.43b in annual direct economic impact for Massachusetts,
- attract more than $1.2b in National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF) and Veterans Administration (VA) research funding, and
- provide more than $186m in community benefit program funding and more than $139m in charity care
"The teaching hospitals in greater Boston are national leaders in providing quality patient care, expert medical training and pioneering new ways to deliver care," said John Fernandez, COBTH chair and President and Chief Executive Office of Massachusetts Eye and Ear. "As state and national leaders work to develop new ways of paying for and delivering healthcare, the role of teaching hospitals has never been more important and care must be taken to ensure that their ability to deliver on their mission is not compromised, but enhanced."
In 2011 COBTH hospitals received more than $1.2 billion in NIH, NSF, and VA research funding which supported nearly 20,000 resulting in an economic impact of more than $2 billion. "The high concentration of research funding that Massachusetts academic medical centers attract and the research they conduct is key to the entire life sciences industry here in the Commonwealth," said Bob Coughlin of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council. "That funding and the work it supports attracts new life science businesses and jobs to the state and was a factor in being able to bring the International BIO Convention back to Boston last month."
Despite greater Boston teaching hospitals' world-renowned reputations, their roots are grounded in service to local communities in and around Boston. COBTH hospitals partner with more than 300 local agencies to help meet the unmet social and health care needs of vulnerable populations and provided more than $186 million in community benefit funding in FY2011.
"Even during these difficult economic times, greater Boston's teaching hospitals have remained the driving force in the regional economy, but we face uncertain times with significant cuts to medical education and research funding we must be careful to ensure that the many critical services provided by out hospitals are preserved and strengthen and help lead the transformation of our healthcare system," said John Erwin, COBTH's Executive Director.
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The European Union's ban on carbon credit imports linked to some industrial gases will boost demand for Clean Development Mechanism projects in Africa, a United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change official said.
"The huge new demand as a result of removing industrial gas credits from the supply will increase the attractiveness of CDM in Africa," David Abbass, public information officer for the UNFCCC, said in a Johannesburg speech yesterday. That means "Africa is of growing interest to carbon market investors."
The EU ban targets energy and manufacturing companies' use of United Nations-sponsored offsets linked to hydrofluorocarbon- 23 and some nitrous oxide credits. Two-thirds of carbon credits issued under the CDM derive from industrial gas projects in China, India, South Korea and Brazil, according to the UNFCCC.
"The HFC-23 ban should realign focus on channelling efforts elsewhere," Paul Curnow, a partner at Baker & McKenzie, said in a speech at the Carbon Markets & Climate Finance Africa conference yesterday.
The ban will result in a "dramatic loss of supply to the market," Michael Rumberg, director of technical assurance for Noble Carbon Credits, said in Johannesburg yesterday. "The big question is what is going to replace these."
Africa will hopefully be one of the beneficiaries, Lenny Hochschild, managing director of Evolution Markets Ltd., the world's largest environmental brokerage company, said yesterday in Johannesburg. "If the supply starts to get generated from Africa, the demand will be there, certainly from Europe.
CDMs in Africa
Currently only 25 CDM projects are registered in Africa, two-thirds of them in South Africa, the United Nations Development Program said. There is the potential for as many as 3,200 clean-energy projects in Africa, Abbass said, citing a 2008 World Bank study.
"I think there's a lot of low-hanging fruit in terms of CDM in Africa. It's just been lack of awareness and over concentration on Southeast Asia," Robert Kelly, regional technical adviser for North Africa at the UNDP, said in an interview yesterday.
As the CDM market evolves and matures, opportunities naturally diminish in places like China and India, Kelly said. "Africa, both in compliance markets and voluntary markets, is going to see a real revival."
The key barrier for most CDM projects in Africa is access to finance to get the project started, Kelly said.
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A 51-year-old anti-abortion activist is in custody in Wichita, KS, after he allegedly shot and killed Dr. George Tiller, 67. Tiller, who had provided abortions to women for over 30 years, was gunned down in the foyer of his church while he passed out the church bulletin. [NY Times]
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On the off chance you don't already have enough on your plate, here's another hot-button topic to worry about: conflict diamonds. The upcoming Leonardo DiCaprio thriller, Blood Diamond, tackles the issue of raw gems that were mined at gunpoint (or worse) to fuel the decimating guerrilla wars of Sierra Leone. Directed by Edward Zwick, the film, set in 1999, is a lavish big-scale production, with scenes of eye-opening carnage young men getting their hands chopped off as well as world-jewel-market lessons that tick across the screen with grim intrigue. And there is DiCaprio as a cucumber-cool South African mercenary who befriends a fisherman-turned-forced diamond worker (the enthralling Djimon Hounsou), plus Jennifer Connelly as a Vanity Fair reporter. ''You think you're going to change the outcome?'' barks DiCaprio to the swank, do-gooder journalist. ''You sell blood diamonds too!'' An accusation she quickly dodges by declaring ''Not all American girls want a storybook wedding!''
In 2006, that's a startling statement for a political drama to hang its case on. I mean, really, how many American girls don't want a storybook wedding? (Enough to make this movie a hit?) Even prior to its release on Dec. 8, Blood Diamond has touched a nerve at De Beers, the international diamond conglomerate, which launched a PR campaign renouncing, and denying, the purchase of all conflict diamonds. Yet in today's frazzled, fraught, nervously consumerist environment, it's worth asking how much attention any moviegoer, overwhelmed by health care, the housing market, the techno-toys they have to buy their kids, not to mention such trivialities as the war in Iraq, is going to have left to devote to yet another issue: making sure they buy $10,000 jewels, if they can afford them, from enlightened mining zones.
I didn't used to have these thoughts, this testy skepticism, about topical liberal message movies. Like a lot of people, I went to such high-minded and urgently timely rabble-rousers as Z or Norma Rae or All the President's Men or Silkwood or Salvador or Erin Brockovich and got riled up, inspired, or simply entertained by them, taking in the gutbucket nobility of what they were saying the protests against intolerance, greed, corporate malfeasance, political corruption, and so forth. Of course, many of these movies (like, say, The Killing Fields) deal with events that have already passed, and so they can scarcely be expected to change things. More and more, though, the films that arrive with a timely message at least, the ones that aren't documentaries often seem to be released into a cultural vacuum of indifference.
Unless I'm forgetting something, I don't recall The Interpreter, that Nicole Kidman United Nations thriller, stirring up a lot of overheated coffee-bar conversation about the role of the U.N. in the post-9/11 world, and ditto for North Country and the issue of sexual harassment. (I'm not even counting a camp fiasco like Beyond Borders, which was like a promo for Angelina Jolie's Third World adoption campaign.) True, neither of those films was particularly good, but I'd pose the same question of effectiveness, of zeitgeist heat, in relation to The Constant Gardener, a splendidly made conspiracy thriller that did a scrupulous job of dramatizing the willingness of pharmaceutical companies to exploit AIDS in Africa for profit. Did it stimulate dialogue about, or alter the actions of, Big Pharma by one-tenth of a degree? And if not, did its message really mean anything? Was it all just hot air in a prestige Oscar bottle?
The question seems relevant as we enter another holiday movie season, with big-message pictures an inevitable part of the awards smorgasbord. The funny thing is, these movies now arrive with a wary, almost daunted sense of their potential irrelevance. In Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation, a brow-wrinkled muckraker adapted from Eric Schlosser's nonfiction exposé of burger-world scandals (what's next Quentin Tarantino's Consumer Reports?), a group of young folks, fed up with the corruption underlying the American fast-food industry, decide to get off their duffs and do something. One suggests writing a letter of protest, at which point the cool rebel guy, the one with the long hair and wool cap out of Dazed and Confused, steps forward. A letter, he scoffs? What's needed, he says, is action. So the kids devise a plan to hit the corporation where it lives. Yet an overtone of awkwardness ripples through this mad-as-hell moment, since it raises an important question about the movie we're watching. Is Fast Food Nation going to rouse anyone to action? Or is it just the cinematic equivalent of that woebegone letter, the one destined to have no effect at all?
You can see what the makers of these movies are going for, in their messianic Hollywood zeal. They must figure that if a book or a magazine article or a page-10 news story can spotlight an issue, how much more power might be derived from transforming that reportage into a vast ''important'' drama with major marquee names. Yet it's the transformation that may be the problem. It implies that the issues at stake are castor oil, that they need to be taken with a screenful of colorful-global-thriller sugar to make the medicine go down. Audiences, by now, are too aware of the clichés: the selfish heroes who wake up and learn how to care, the cover-ups that tilt into violence, the last-act triumph over the System.
Ironically, the Hollywood message movie may have revealed its weary bones in Erin Brockovich (2000), a good and popular film. In that toxic-waste corporate rouser, director Steven Soderbergh treated the message movie as a genre, pure and simple, as formatted as a Western. You could root for Julia Roberts, in her bustiers, to fight the power without worrying about what the power was. Tellingly, that same year, Soderbergh also made the brilliant Traffic, the rare topical film that spins the texture of an issue into drama, though in hindsight the question of whether that movie had even a ripple effect upon American drug-war policy remains in serious doubt.
To be fair, only a handful of topical dramas have ever had much resonant effect. The overlapping slew of cover-up thrillers that dotted the mid-1970s (Three Days of the Condor, The Parallax View, The Conversation) helped the public connect to the revelations of Watergate. The China Syndrome (1979), that nuclear hot potato, was the ironic beneficiary of the Three Mile Island disaster (it was released 12 days before the accident), and JFK generated headlines and more: Oliver Stone's electric tapestry of conspiracy provoked dozens of articles in The New York Times, and the curiosity about the Kennedy assassination it rekindled was instrumental in getting Congress to open sealed files on the event. It's worth noting that the first blockbuster, The Birth of a Nation (1915), was an incendiary message movie, and so, in its cornball-storybook way, was Casablanca (1942), released at the height of World War II, in which Humphrey Bogart's Rick, conquering his apathy in the face of the war, learned that the problems of two people ''don't amount to a hill of beans.''
Woodrow Wilson said The Birth of a Nation was ''writing history with lightning,'' but has any scripted drama from the last three decades had as lightning an effect upon the national discourse as Fahrenheit 9/11? Whatever one's opinion of Michael Moore, he has proven in a way that Borat oddly echoes that American moviegoers are hungry for confrontation, information, an immediate mirror of their times far more than they are for tidy liberal homilies served up in melodramatic form. Super Size Me proved that too and so did Al Gore with the bracing, dialogue-in-coffee-bar-provoking An Inconvenient Truth. In general, the rise of documentaries as a mainstream entertainment form may turn out to be the single biggest nail in the topical-message-movie coffin.
It boils down to this: We now live in a reality-based media culture that bombards us with advocacy. Book-length exposés. Cable news. Talk radio. The 24/7 information stream that is the Internet. When something occurs like, say, the Enron scandal, it is reported on and dissected from every angle. But let's imagine Hollywood decided to make a movie about Enron, embedding that scandal in a story, giving us a hero with a newly awakened conscience, a romance to make us ''care.'' In doing so, a movie about the consequences of lying would itself be based on a lie: that those things matter as much as the scandal. And that they amount to more than a hill of beans.


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Did you know that 15 to 20 million people every year have to visit a dermatologist because they have a skin rash? That rash is called atopic dermatitis, or eczema. This is what happens when your body an allergic reaction to something you eat, inhale or touch. Many people think that an allergic reaction is always caused by your skin coming in contact with something like poison ivy (boy do I have a nasty reaction). Actually this is probably the least of the causes. In most cases atopic dermatitis or eczema is caused by a reaction to some sort of internal trigger, like food. Some people will call this a food allergy. Unlike a bee sting, eczema is not life threatening but it can be life altering. Maybe you have seen the commercials on TV where the woman wears a long sleeve sweater in the summer because the skin on her arm is all dry and scaly. That is not too far off. People who suffer for eczema are very self conscious of the way they look. Unlike asthma, the signs and symptoms of eczema are out in the open, visible to all. A person with eczema will wear long sleeved shirts and pants to hide their skin because they have scratched it to the point it is red, swollen and cracked. In sever cases it may even be "weeping" a clear fluid. It can be quite painful physically and mentally. Just like any other allergy, doctors are not sure what causes it. Stress and food seem to be two common factors. For many their symptoms seem to get worse when they are under a lot of stress and get better when they are not. Foods or food allergies also play a major role. Your eczema may flare up if you eat something that you were unaware that you are allergic to. Atopic dermatitis or eczema usually appears in children 4 to 6 years old. For some it can disappear as they get older, for others it is a lifelong condition. Wishing you the best of health
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[597] Morphologic Findings in a Novel Familial Polyposis Syndrome.
Phyu P Aung, Langan Russell, Douglas Weinstein, Theo Heller, David Kleiner, Udai Kammula, Udo Rudloff, Itzhak Avital, Martha Quezado. National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; NIDDK, Bethesda, MD
Background: Familial Polyposis Syndromes (FPS) are gastrointestinal disorders characterized by diffuse and regional polyposis and are often associated with systemic manifestations including skin lesions and non-GI malignancies. Known syndromes include Familial Adenomatous Polyposis, Juvenile polyposis, and the harmatomatous polyposes. Specific genetic changes associated with FPS include APC and MYH gene mutations. We now describe the morphologic findings of polyps encountered in family members of an as yet unidentified gastric FPS.
Design: Specimens from patients with gastric polyposis enrolled in an NIH IRB approved protocol were evaluated. Multiple HE sections were reviewed along with p53, MIB-1, and E-cadherin immunostains when available. Six family members have undergone genetic testing using 1x106 SNP array.
Results: Specimens were available in 10 patients (2 male, 8 female), ranging in age from 18 to 64. None had systemic manifestations. 8 had biopsies performed and 2 had total gastrectomy. On endoscopy, 1 had colonic polyps and 6 had gastric polyps and in 3, there were no lesions. Biopsy findings included: fundic gland polyps (1), colonic tubular adenoma (1), colonic hyperplastic polyp (1) and no lesions (5). Gastrctomy specimens from the 2 patients showed similar findings: multiple (>100) fundic gland like polyps with and without dysplasia (low and high grade) and flat mucosa with dysplasia (tubular adenoma like). Dysplastic lesions showed a high proliferative index with MIB-1 and scattered p53 positive cells. E-cadherin stains showed normal staining. Genetic testing using 1x106 SNP array was negative for known genetic abnormalities.
Conclusions: We suggest that fundic gland like polyps with dysplasia and flat gastric mucosal dysplasia are the hallmark of an as yet unidentified novel gastric FPS.
Category: Gastrointestinal
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Germany and Scandinavia, for example, pursue social-democratic industrial policies to keep high-wage jobs at home. Corporate tax policies encourage in-country rather than off-shore production. Government invests in promising new industries like biotech and green energy, recognizing that occasional Solyndra-type failures will come with the territory. Firms are subsidized to keep workers on during downturns, with robust unemployment insurance and extensive job retraining to soften layoffs. Health care is covered by government instead of burdening employers.
Doing all that requires two things that America currently lacks: the will and the means. The means takes the form of taxes high enough and progressive enough to fund a decently functioning government and pay for those investments. The will come from a strong labor movement. America has the lowest union membership as a share of the workforce in the industrialized world. We also have one of the lowest tax rates, considering all taxes (federal, state, property, corporate, payroll), as a share of GDP. Lacking both the will and the means to do better, it's no surprise that we have one of smallest manufacturing sectors and the second most unequal income distribution profiles. It makes for an angry, volatile, unstable electorate.
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DUI offenders ignore orders to add breath tester to cars
Some 28,000 Washington drivers, all convicted of driving under the influence, aren't supposed to start their cars without first breathing...
Seattle Times Eastside bureau
Some 28,000 Washington drivers, all convicted of driving under the influence, aren't supposed to start their cars without first breathing into an alcohol-detection device.
Yet just over 4,400 ignition-interlock devices have been installed on cars in the state, said Brad Benfield, state Department of Licensing (DOL) spokesman.
The gap illustrates a frustrating hole in the system: No public agency confirms the device is installed once the court or DOL orders it. In addition, when the devices are installed, drivers find ways to cheat them, officials say.
While it is possible many offenders ordered to use the devices stopped driving, many simply ignore the order, state and local officials say.
"There is no way to check it," said Amy Freedheim, senior King County deputy prosecuting attorney. She has prosecuted hundreds of drunken-driving cases and for seven years has headed the felony DUI unit.
"Some people blatantly disregard the order; some people say they can't afford them," she said. "You don't know if they're on the car unless they get caught."
Freedheim, the lone prosecutor assigned full time to prosecute DUI deaths, has a wall in her office filled with photographs of drunken-driving victims involved in cases she's prosecuted.
How interlocks work
Ignition-interlock devices are cellphone-size boxes connected to the ignition and fitted with a mouthpiece. The driver blows into the mouthpiece. If the interlock detects alcohol, the car won't start. The test takes about five seconds. Courts can order drivers to have the interlocks installed for a period of one to 10 years. The interlock records the time, date and test results every time the car is started and asks for a retest every 10 to 30 minutes. The retest can be done while driving. The devices are typically rented for $50 to $70 per month.
"For me, it's inspiring," she said. "It's why I do the job."
While a national push is under way to order the devices for first-time offenders, Washington has required ignition interlocks since 2004.
First-time offenders in the state ordered to have ignition interlocks must show proof the devices were installed in order to get their suspended driver's licenses reinstated. But clearly "the bulk of those people haven't come in to get a license," Benfield said.
When interlock offenders are caught, it is mostly through stops for other offenses, Freedheim said. The State Patrol said it does not track how many tickets are written for interlock violations. A violation is a gross misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail and a $5,000 fine. Those caught driving with a suspended license face the same penalty.
Judy Groezinger, DOL assistant administrator for driver responsibility, said the state agency "is not required to keep tabs on whether it is installed or not installed."
Licensed installers do keep records of drivers who come in for installations, which are then reported to the DOL.
In November, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) announced a nationwide effort to require ignition-interlock devices for all people convicted of DUI, and to push for technology that would eventually put sensors in all cars.
The MADD initiative doesn't say how states would make sure installation is enforced, nor does it mention ways to prevent cheating.
Devices aren't foolproof
The Governors Highway Safety Association and MADD estimate about 100,000 interlocks are in use nationally, while about 1.4 million DUI convictions are recorded annually nationwide.
The interlocks work by requiring the driver to blow into a testing device before starting a car. If the driver has been drinking, the device prevents the vehicle from starting.
But even when installed, the devices aren't foolproof.
People try to bypass the interlocks by borrowing or buying other cars. Some have a sober friend or even a child breathe into the device, though a retest feature every few minutes can defeat that ploy, according to court officials, police and interlock installers.
Most manufacturers take steps to try to counteract such shortcuts.
Interlocks are supposed to include cheat-proof features, such as a "hum tone" where the driver is required to make a humming sound to activate the interlock. The intent is to make it impossible to start the car with something like air from a balloon.
The State Patrol doesn't prescribe any particular technology to prevent cheating but says federal law requires some technology to prevent tampering and circumvention.
A check of seven providers certified by the State Patrol to install interlocks showed varying methods are used to comply, including a suck test that requires a person to blow into the device and then suck air back out, as well as a temperature sensor to detect a person's body heat.
One company said it has no such standard because it has concluded that people who are determined to circumvent the devices will do so.
"You could be drunk as a skunk and have your child blow into it," said Amari Rooney, an administrator at the Lakewood branch of Alco-Lock.
One installation company, Smart Start of Washington, contacted the State Patrol to report some installers are disabling the hum-tone feature. But no incidents were verified, according to the Patrol.
Results reported
Proponents of the devices believe they cut down on drunken-driving deaths.
New Mexico, which began a year ago to require ignition interlocks after a first conviction, has reported a 12 percent drop in alcohol-related drunken-driving fatalities. Maryland, which passed a similar law in 1996, reported a 17.8 percent drop.
Washington state's DUI fatality numbers dropped from 310 in 1998 to a low of 235 in 2004 but rose to 288 in 2005, according to the state Traffic Safety Commission.
Law-enforcement officials say other factors could influence drops in DUI-related deaths, including more DUI patrols, safer cars and improved emergency care.
Part of the New Mexico approach includes having special interlock-enforcement units, said S.U. Mahesh of the New Mexico Department of Transportation. In one of the state's most populous counties, six officers are assigned to monitor interlock installations.
No one is advocating stronger interlock-enforcement steps in this state. And Freedheim said there aren't enough police officers in the state to arrest fugitives wanted on outstanding warrants, let alone to check vehicles for interlocks.
A new report by the Washington Traffic Safety Commission on state impaired-driving laws makes several recommendations for improving DUI laws but does not specifically discuss interlock use.
Origin of interlocks
The push for interlocks in Washington began in 1997 at the urging of legislators and Keith Johnsen, whose wife, Mary, was struck and killed on the Sammamish Plateau that year. The driver, Susan L. West, registered a 0.34 percent blood-alcohol level. Drivers in Washington state are considered intoxicated if their blood alcohol is 0.08 or higher.
West was convicted of vehicular homicide and served six years in prison. She was arrested again last summer in Bellevue on a DUI charge. She pleaded guilty and received a jail sentence.
The West case and others have left people frustrated and searching for solutions.
"My dream is to have a system where a card slips in the dashboard," said Groezinger of the DOL. The system would check everything, including whether someone had insurance and a license, whether the car was stolen — and whether the person had been drinking, she said.
Freedheim, of the prosecutor's office, said the idea is intriguing, but for now catching the drivers who forgo the ignition interlocks remains a problem.
And always on her mind are the victims.
"I never get to meet them," she said. "I want them and their families to know they didn't die in vain."
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