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Oliver Secures Match-Winning Point as Women's Tennis Sneaks Past Catawba 5-4
February 21, 2012
MISENHEIMER, N.C. - Briana Oliver registered the match-winning point at #4 singles as Pfeiffer University claimed a narrow 5-4 victory over Catawba College in women's tennis action on Tuesday afternoon. The Lady Falcons even to 3-3 on the year while the Indians drop to 5-3.
The match came down to Oliver and Steffi Cook of Catawba after Maggie McKee scored 11-straight games to roar back from a 1-6, 7-5, 6-0 win at #3 singles over Chelsi Haefele. McKee was down 5-2 in the second set before her comeback. Other singles victories saw Alena Krutkina and Taylor Lindsay win convincingly in straight-sets at #1 and #2. Krutkina won 6-1, 6-0 while Lindsay went one and two.
Doubles action saw Pfeiffer score two early points as Krutkina/Lindsay rolled 8-1 at number one while Oliver/Haefele won 8-2.
Pfeiffer returns to the courts on Thursday hosting Meredith at the Knapp Tennis Center.


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Schizophrenia from the Greek roots schizein (σχίζειν, "to split") and phrēn, phren- (φρήν, φρεν-, "mind") is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental disorder characterized by abnormalities in the perception or expression of reality. It most commonly manifests as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking with significant social or occupational dysfunction. Onset of symptoms typically occurs in young adulthood, with approximately 0.4–0.6% of the population affected. Diagnosis is based on the patient's self-reported experiences and observed behavior. No laboratory test for schizophrenia currently exists.
Studies suggest that genetics, early environment, neurobiology, psychological and social processes are important contributory factors; some recreational and prescription drugs appear to cause or worsen symptoms. Current psychiatric research is focused on the role of neurobiology, but no single organic cause has been found. Due to the many possible combinations of symptoms, there is debate about whether the diagnosis represents a single disorder or a number of discrete syndromes. For this reason, Eugen Bleuler termed the disease the schizophrenias (plural) when he coined the name. Despite its etymology, schizophrenia is not the same as dissociative identity disorder, previously known as multiple personality disorder or split personality; in popular culture the two are often confused.
Increased dopamine activity in the mesolimbic pathway of the brain is consistently found in schizophrenic individuals. The mainstay of treatment is antipsychotic medication; this type of drug primarily works by suppressing dopamine activity. Dosages of antipsychotics are generally lower than in the early decades of their use. Psychotherapy, vocational and social rehabilitation are also important. In more serious cases—where there is risk to self and others—involuntary hospitalization may be necessary, although hospital stays are less frequent and for shorter periods than they were in previous years.
The disorder is thought to mainly affect cognition, but it also usually contributes to chronic problems with behavior and emotion. People with schizophrenia are likely to have additional (comorbid) conditions, including major depression and anxiety disorders; the lifetime occurrence of substance abuse is around 40%. Social problems, such as long-term unemployment, poverty and homelessness, are common. Furthermore, the average life expectancy of people with the disorder is 10 to 12 years less than those without, due to increased physical health problems and a higher suicide rate.
Late adolescence and early adulthood are peak years for the onset of schizophrenia. These are critical periods in a young adult's social and vocational development, and they can be severely disrupted. To minimize the effect of schizophrenia, much work has recently been done to identify and treat the prodromal (pre-onset) phase of the illness, which has been detected up to 30 months before the onset of symptoms, but may be present longer. Those who go on to develop schizophrenia may experience the non-specific symptoms of social withdrawal, irritability and dysphoria in the prodromal period, and transient or self-limiting psychotic symptoms in the prodromal phase before psychosis becomes apparent.
The psychiatrist Kurt Schneider (1887–1967) listed the forms of psychotic symptoms that he thought distinguished schizophrenia from other psychotic disorders. These are called first-rank symptoms or Schneider's first-rank symptoms, and they include delusions of being controlled by an external force; the belief that thoughts are being inserted into or withdrawn from one's conscious mind; the belief that one's thoughts are being broadcast to other people; and hearing hallucinatory voices that comment on one's thoughts or actions or that have a conversation with other hallucinated voices. The reliability of first-rank symptoms has been questioned, although they have contributed to the current diagnostic criteria.
Diagnosis is based on the self-reported experiences of the person, and abnormalities in behavior reported by family members, friends or co-workers, followed by a clinical assessment by a psychiatrist, social worker, clinical psychologist or other mental health professional. Psychiatric assessment includes a psychiatric history and some form of mental status examination.
The most widely used standardized criteria for diagnosing schizophrenia come from the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the current version being DSM-IV-TR, and the World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, currently the ICD-10. The latter criteria are typically used in European countries while the DSM criteria are used in the United States and the rest of the world, as well as prevailing in research studies. The ICD-10 criteria put more emphasis on Schneiderian first rank symptoms although, in practice, agreement between the two systems is high. The WHO has developed the tool SCAN (Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry) which can be used for diagnosing a number of psychiatric conditions, including schizophrenia.
According to the DSM-IV, to be diagnosed with schizophrenia, three diagnostic criteria must be met.
Note that schizophrenia cannot be diagnosed if symptoms of mood disorder or pervasive developmental disorder are present, or the symptoms are the direct result of a general medical condition or a substance, such as abuse of a drug or medication.
The ICD-10 defines two additional subtypes.
The definitions used for criteria have been criticized as lacking consistency; this is particularly relevant to the evaluation of delusions and thought disorder. More recently, it has been argued that psychotic symptoms are not a good basis for making a diagnosis of schizophrenia as "psychosis is the 'fever' of mental illness—a serious but nonspecific indicator".
Perhaps because of these factors, studies examining the diagnosis of schizophrenia have typically shown relatively low or inconsistent levels of diagnostic reliability. Most famously, David Rosenhan's 1972 study, published as On being sane in insane places, demonstrated that the diagnosis of schizophrenia was (at least at the time) often subjective and unreliable. More recent studies have found agreement between any two psychiatrists when diagnosing schizophrenia tends to reach about 65% at best. This, and the results of earlier studies of diagnostic reliability (which typically reported even lower levels of agreement) have led some critics to argue that the diagnosis of schizophrenia should be abandoned.
In 2004 in Japan, the Japanese term for schizophrenia was changed from Seishin-Bunretsu-Byo (mind-split-disease) to Tōgō-shitchō-shō (integration disorder). In 2006, campaigners in the UK, under the banner of Campaign for Abolition of the Schizophrenia Label, argued for a similar rejection of the diagnosis of schizophrenia and a different approach to the treatment and understanding of the symptoms currently associated with it.
Alternatively, other proponents have put forward using the presence of specific neurocognitive deficits to make a diagnosis. These take the form of a reduction or impairment in basic psychological functions such as memory, attention, executive function and problem solving. It is these sorts of difficulties, rather than the psychotic symptoms (which can in many cases be controlled by antipsychotic medication), which seem to be the cause of most disability in schizophrenia. However, this argument is relatively new and it is unlikely that the method of diagnosing schizophrenia will change radically in the near future.
The diagnosis of schizophrenia has been used for political rather than therapeutic purposes; in the Soviet Union an additional sub-classification of sluggishly progressing schizophrenia was created. Particularly in the RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic), this diagnosis was used for the purpose of silencing political dissidents or forcing them to recant their ideas by the use of forcible confinement and treatment. In 2000 there were similar concerns regarding detention and 'treatment' of practitioners of the Falun Gong movement by the Chinese government. This led the American Psychiatric Association's Committee on the Abuse of Psychiatry and Psychiatrists to pass a resolution to urge the World Psychiatric Association to investigate the situation in China.
While the reliability of the diagnosis introduces difficulties in measuring the relative effect of genes and environment (for example, symptoms overlap to some extent with severe bipolar disorder or major depression), evidence suggests that genetic and environmental factors can act in combination to result in schizophrenia. Evidence suggests that the diagnosis of schizophrenia has a significant heritable component but that onset is significantly influenced by environmental factors or stressors. The idea of an inherent vulnerability (or diathesis) in some people, which can be unmasked by biological, psychological or environmental stressors, is known as the stress-diathesis model. The idea that biological, psychological and social factors are all important is known as the "biopsychosocial" model.
Particular focus has been placed upon the function of dopamine in the mesolimbic pathway of the brain. This focus largely resulted from the accidental finding that a drug group which blocks dopamine function, known as the phenothiazines, could reduce psychotic symptoms. It is also supported by the fact that amphetamines, which triggers the release of dopamine may exacerbate the psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia. An influential theory, known as the Dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia, proposed that a malfunction involving dopamine pathways was the cause of (the positive symptoms of) schizophrenia. This theory is now thought to be overly simplistic as a complete explanation, partly because newer antipsychotic medication (called atypical antipsychotic medication) can be equally effective as older medication (called typical antipsychotic medication), but also affects serotonin function and may have slightly less of a dopamine blocking effect.
Interest has also focused on the neurotransmitter glutamate and the reduced function of the NMDA glutamate receptor in schizophrenia. This has largely been suggested by abnormally low levels of glutamate receptors found in postmortem brains of people previously diagnosed with schizophrenia and the discovery that the glutamate blocking drugs such as phencyclidine and ketamine can mimic the symptoms and cognitive problems associated with the condition. The fact that reduced glutamate function is linked to poor performance on tests requiring frontal lobe and hippocampal function and that glutamate can affect dopamine function, all of which have been implicated in schizophrenia, have suggested an important mediating (and possibly causal) role of glutamate pathways in schizophrenia. Further support of this theory has come from preliminary trials suggesting the efficacy of coagonists at the NMDA receptor complex in reducing some of the positive symptoms of schizophrenia.
There have also been findings of differences in the size and structure of certain brain areas in schizophrenia, starting with the discovery of ventricular enlargement in those for whom negative symptoms were most prominent. However, this has not proven particularly reliable on the level of the individual person, with considerable variation between patients. More recent studies have shown various differences in brain structure between people with and without diagnoses of schizophrenia. While brain structure changes have been found in people diagnosed with schizophrenia who have never been treated with antipsychotic drugs there is evidence that the medication itself might cause additional changes in the brain's structure. However, as with earlier studies, many of these differences are only reliably detected when comparing groups of people, and are unlikely to predict any differences in brain structure of an individual person with schizophrenia.
The concept of a cure as such remains controversial, as there is no consensus on the definition, although some criteria for the remission of symptoms have recently been suggested. The effectiveness of schizophrenia treatment is often assessed using standardized methods, one of the most common being the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS). Management of symptoms and improving function is thought to be more achievable than a cure. Treatment was revolutionized in the mid 1950s with the development and introduction of chlorpromazine. A recovery model is increasingly adopted, emphasizing hope, empowerment and social inclusion.
Hospitalization may occur with severe episodes of schizophrenia. This can be voluntary or (if mental health legislation allows it) involuntary (called civil or involuntary commitment). Long-term inpatient stays are now less common due to deinstitutionalization, although can still occur. Following (or in lieu of) a hospital admission, support services available can include drop-in centers, visits from members of a community mental health team or Assertive Community Treatment team, supported employment and patient-led support groups.
In many non-Western societies, schizophrenia may only be treated with more informal, community-led methods. Multiple international surveys by the World Health Organization over several decades have indicated that the outcome for people diagnosed with schizophrenia in non-Western countries is on average better there than for people in the West. Many clinicians and researchers suspect the relative levels of social connectedness and acceptance are the difference, although further cross-cultural studies are seeking to clarify the findings.
Although expensive, the newer atypical antipsychotic drugs are usually preferred for initial treatment over the older typical antipsychotics; they are often better tolerated and associated with lower rates of tardive dyskinesia, although they are more likely to induce weight gain and obesity-related diseases. Prolactin elevations have been reported in women with schizophrenia taking atypical antipsychotics. It remains unclear whether the newer antipsychotics reduce the chances of developing neuroleptic malignant syndrome, a rare but serious and potentially fatal neurological disorder most often caused by an adverse reaction to neuroleptic or antipsychotic drugs.
The two classes of antipsychotics are generally thought equally effective for the treatment of the positive symptoms. Some researchers have suggested that the atypicals offer additional benefit for the negative symptoms and cognitive deficits associated with schizophrenia, although the clinical significance of these effects has yet to be established. Recent reviews have refuted the claim that atypical antipsychotics have fewer extrapyramidal side effects than typical antipsychotics, especially when the latter are used in low doses or when low potency antipsychotics are chosen.
Response of symptoms to medication is variable; Treatment-resistant schizophrenia is a term used for the failure of symptoms to respond satisfactorily to at least two different antipsychotics. Patients in this category may be prescribed clozapine, a medication of superior effectiveness but several potentially lethal side effects including agranulocytosis and myocarditis. Clozapine may have the additional benefit of reducing propensity for substance abuse in schizophrenic patients. For other patients who are unwilling or unable to take medication regularly, long-acting depot preparations of antipsychotics may be given every two weeks to achieve control. The United States of America and Australia are two countries with laws allowing the forced administration of this type of medication on those who refuse but are otherwise stable and living in the community. Some findings have found that in the longer-term some individuals may do better not taking antipsychotics. Despite the promising results of early pilot trials, omega-3 fatty acids failed to improve schizophrenic symptoms, according to the most recent meta-analysis.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is used to reduce symptoms and improve related issues such as self-esteem, social functioning, and insight. Although the results of early trials were inconclusive, more recent reviews suggest that CBT can be an effective treatment for the psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia. Another approach is cognitive remediation therapy, a technique aimed at remediating the neurocognitive deficits sometimes present in schizophrenia. Based on techniques of neuropsychological rehabilitation, early evidence has shown it to be cognitively effective, with some improvements related to measurable changes in brain activation as measured by fMRI. A similar approach known as cognitive enhancement therapy, which focuses on social cognition as well as neurocognition, has shown efficacy.
Family therapy or education, which addresses the whole family system of an individual with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, has been consistently found to be beneficial, at least if the duration of intervention is longer-term. Aside from therapy, the impact of schizophrenia on families and the burden on carers has been recognized, with the increasing availability of self-help books on the subject. There is also some evidence for benefits from social skills training, although there have also been significant negative findings. Some studies have explored the possible benefits of music therapy and other creative therapies.
The Soteria model is alternative to inpatient hospital treatment using a minimal medication approach. It is described as a milieu-therapeutic recovery method, characterized by its founder as "the 24 hour a day application of interpersonal phenomenologic interventions by a nonprofessional staff, usually without neuroleptic drug treatment, in the context of a small, homelike, quiet, supportive, protective, and tolerant social environment." Although research evidence is limited, a 2008 systematic review found the programme equally as effective as treatment with medication in people diagnosed with first and second episode schizophrenia.
Service-user led movements have become integral to the recovery process in Europe and the United States; groups such as the Hearing Voices Network and the Paranoia Network have developed a self-help approach that aims to provide support and assistance outside the traditional medical model adopted by mainstream psychiatry. By avoiding framing personal experience in terms of criteria for mental illness or mental health, they aim to destigmatize the experience and encourage individual responsibility and a positive self-image. Partnerships between hospitals and consumer-run groups are becoming more common, with services working toward remediating social withdrawal, building social skills and reducing rehospitalization.
Coordinated by the World Health Organization and published in 2001, The International Study of Schizophrenia (ISoS) was a long-term follow-up study of 1633 individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia around the world. The striking difference in course and outcomes was noted; a half of those available for follow-up had a favourable outcome and 16% had a delayed recovery after an early unremitting course. More usually, the course in the first two years predicted the long-term course. Early social intervention was also related to a better outcome. The findings were held as important in moving patients, carers and clinicians away from the prevalent belief of the chronic nature of the condition. A review of major longitudinal studies in North America also noted this large variation in outcomes, although outcome was on average worse than for other psychotic and psychiatric disorders. A moderate number of patients with schizophrenia were seen to remit and remain well; the review raised the question that some may not require maintenance medication.
A clinical study using strict recovery criteria (concurrent remission of positive and negative symptoms and adequate social and vocational functioning continuously for two years) found a recovery rate of 14% within the first five years. A 5-year community study found that 62% showed overall improvement on a composite measure of clinical and functional outcomes.
World Health Organization studies have noted that individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia have much better long-term outcomes in developing countries (India, Colombia and Nigeria) than in developed countries (USA, UK, Ireland, Denmark, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Japan, and Russia), despite antipsychotic drugs not being widely available.
Several factors have been associated with a better overall prognosis: Being female, rapid (vs. insidious) onset of symptoms, older age of first episode, predominantly positive (rather than negative) symptoms, presence of mood symptoms, and good pre-illness functioning. The strengths and internal resources of the individual concerned, such as determination or psychological resilience, have also been associated with better prognosis. The attitude and level of support from people in the individual's life can have a significant impact; research framed in terms of the negative aspects of this—the level of critical comments, hostility, and intrusive or controlling attitudes, termed high 'Expressed emotion'—has consistently indicated links to relapse. Most research on predictive factors is correlational in nature, however, and a clear cause-and-effect relationship is often difficult to establish.
There is a higher than average suicide rate associated with schizophrenia. This has been cited at 10%, but a more recent analysis of studies and statistics revises the estimate at 4.9%, most often occurring in the period following onset or first hospital admission. Several times more attempt suicide. There are a variety of reasons and risk factors.
The occurrence of psychosis in schizophrenia has sometimes been linked to a higher risk of violent acts. Findings on the specific role of delusions or hallucinations have been inconsistent, but have focused on delusional jealousy, perception of threat and command hallucinations. It has been proposed that a certain type of individual with schizophrenia may be most likely to offend, characterized by a history of educational difficulties, low IQ, conduct disorder, early-onset substance misuse and offending prior to diagnosis.
Individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia are often the victims of violent crime—at least 14 times more often than they are perpetrators. Another consistent finding is a link to substance misuse, particularly alcohol, among the minority who commit violent acts. Violence by or against individuals with schizophrenia typically occurs in the context of complex social interactions within a family setting, and is also an issue in clinical services and in the wider community.
The concept of schizophrenia as a result of civilization has been developed further by psychologist Julian Jaynes in his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind; he proposed that until the beginning of historic times, schizophrenia or a similar condition was the normal state of human consciousness. This would take the form of a "bicameral mind" where a normal state of low affect, suitable for routine activities, would be interrupted in moments of crisis by "mysterious voices" giving instructions, which early people characterized as interventions from the gods. Researchers into shamanism have speculated that in some cultures schizophrenia or related conditions may predispose an individual to becoming a shaman; the experience of having access to multiple realities is not uncommon in schizophrenia, and is a core experience in many shamanic traditions. Equally, the shaman may have the skill to bring on and direct some of the altered states of consciousness psychiatrists label as illness. Psychohistorians, on the other hand, accept the psychiatric diagnoses. However, unlike the current medical model of mental disorders they may argue that poor parenting in tribal societies causes the shaman's schizoid personalities. Commentators such as Paul Kurtz and others have endorsed the idea that major religious figures experienced psychosis, heard voices and displayed delusions of grandeur.
Psychiatrist Tim Crow has argued that schizophrenia may be the evolutionary price we pay for a left brain hemisphere specialization for language. Since psychosis is associated with greater levels of right brain hemisphere activation and a reduction in the usual left brain hemisphere dominance, our language abilities may have evolved at the cost of causing schizophrenia when this system breaks down. Other approaches have linked schizophrenia to psychological dissociation or states of awareness and identity understood from phenomenological and other perspectives.
Accounts of a schizophrenia-like syndrome are thought to be rare in the historical record prior to the 1800s, although reports of irrational, unintelligible, or uncontrolled behavior were common. There has been an interpretation that brief notes in the Ancient Egyptian Ebers papyrus may imply schizophrenia, but other reviews have not suggested any connection. A review of ancient Greek and Roman literature indicated that although psychosis was described, there was no account of a condition meeting the criteria for schizophrenia. Bizarre psychotic beliefs and behaviors similar to some of the symptoms of schizophrenia were reported in Arabic medical and psychological literature during the Middle Ages, but no condition resembling schizophrenia was reported in a major Islamic textbook of the 15th Century. Given limited historical evidence, schizophrenia (as prevalent as it is today) may be a modern phenomenon, or alternatively it may have been obscured in historical writings by related concepts such as melancholia or mania.
A detailed case report in 1797 concerning James Tilly Matthews, and accounts by Phillipe Pinel published in 1809, are often regarded as the earliest cases of schizophrenia in the medical and psychiatric literature. Schizophrenia was first described as a distinct syndrome affecting teenagers and young adults by Bénédict Morel in 1853, termed démence précoce (literally 'early dementia'). The term dementia praecox was used in 1891 by Arnold Pick to in a case report of a psychotic disorder. In 1893 Emil Kraepelin introduced a broad new distinction in the classification of mental disorders between dementia praecox and mood disorder (termed manic depression and including both unipolar and bipolar depression). Kraepelin believed that dementia praecox was primarily a disease of the brain, and particularly a form of dementia, distinguished from other forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer's disease, which typically occur later in life. Kraepelin's classification slowly gained acceptance. There were objections to the use of the term "dementia" despite cases of recovery, and some defence of diagnoses it replaced such as adolescent insanity.
The word schizophrenia—which translates roughly as "splitting of the mind" and comes from the Greek roots schizein (σχίζειν, "to split") and phrēn, phren- (φρήν, φρεν-, "mind")—was coined by Eugen Bleuler in 1908 and was intended to describe the separation of function between personality, thinking, memory, and perception. Bleuler described the main symptoms as 4 A's: flattened Affect, Autism, impaired Association of ideas and Ambivalence. Bleuler realized that the illness was not a dementia as some of his patients improved rather than deteriorated and hence proposed the term schizophrenia instead.
The term schizophrenia is commonly misunderstood to mean that affected persons have a "split personality". Although some people diagnosed with schizophrenia may hear voices and may experience the voices as distinct personalities, schizophrenia does not involve a person changing among distinct multiple personalities. The confusion arises in part due to the meaning of Bleuler's term schizophrenia (literally "split" or "shattered mind"). The first known misuse of the term to mean "split personality" was in an article by the poet T. S. Eliot in 1933.
In the first half of the twentieth century schizophrenia was considered to be a hereditary defect, and sufferers were subject to eugenics in many countries. Hundreds of thousands were sterilized, with or without consent—the majority in Nazi Germany, the United States, and Scandinavian countries. Along with other people labeled "mentally unfit", many diagnosed with schizophrenia were murdered in the Nazi "Action T4" program.
The diagnostic description of schizophrenia has changed over time. It became clear after the 1971 US-UK Diagnostic Study that schizophrenia was diagnosed to a far greater extent in America than in Europe. This was partly due to looser diagnostic criteria in the US, which used the DSM-II manual, contrasting with Europe and its ICD-9. This was one of the factors in leading to the revision not only of the diagnosis of schizophrenia, but the revision of the whole DSM manual, resulting in the publication of the DSM-III.
Social stigma has been identified as a major obstacle in the recovery of patients with schizophrenia. In a large, representative sample from a 1999 study, 12.8% of Americans believed that individuals with schizophrenia were "very likely" to do something violent against others, and 48.1% said that they were "somewhat likely" to. Over 74% said that people with schizophrenia were either "not very able" or "not able at all" to make decisions concerning their treatment, and 70.2% said the same of money management decisions. The perception of individuals with psychosis as violent has more than doubled in prevalence since the 1950s, according to one meta-analysis.
The book and film A Beautiful Mind chronicled the life of John Forbes Nash, a Nobel Prize-winning mathematician who was diagnosed with schizophrenia. The Marathi film Devrai (featuring Atul Kulkarni) is a presentation of a patient with schizophrenia. The film, set in the Konkan region of Maharashtra in Western India, shows the behavior, mentality, and struggle of the patient as well as his loved-ones. It also portrays the treatment of this mental illness using medication, dedication and plenty of patience by the close relatives of the patient. Other factual books have been written by relatives on family members; Australian journalist Anne Deveson told the story of her son's battle with schizophrenia in Tell me I'm Here, later made into a movie.
In Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita the poet Ivan Bezdomnyj is institutionalized and diagnosed with schizophrenia after witnessing the devil (Woland) predict Berlioz's death. The book The Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut recounts his struggle with schizophrenia and his recovering journey.


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With all the recent rain in Cleveland County, 90-degree weather might not be on your radar.
But it's exactly what's coming the middle of this week.
The county's forecast includes temperatures in the high 80s, with temperatures forecast to hit a high of 90 degrees on Wednesday and Thursday.
"We haven't had any 90-degree days (this year), so it's going to be a surprise," said James Oh of the National Weather Service in Greenville, S.C.
Oh said the warm weather is the result of a cold front moving to the east and high pressure coming in from the west. The air will be compressed, causing warmer daytime temperatures for the N.C. Piedmont.
"For Wednesday, it will reach 90, and then it will cool off a few degrees on Thursday and Friday," said Oh. "It'll cool down to below normal on Friday and Saturday. So this weekend it'll be a few degrees below normal."
With the hot temperatures in the forecast, remember children, pets and the elderly often need special care to stay safe. Here are some tips for each.
Keeping kids safe
According to Safe Kids Worldwide, the leading cause of non-crash, vehicle-related deaths for children is heatstroke or hyperthermia. These deaths increase during the summer when parents leave their children in hot cars.
"We've been receiving a lot of emails and information, because 10 kids have died already (nationwide) and it's not even summer yet," said Joan Mabry of Safe Kids Cleveland County, a local branch of the organization.
Mabry said parents should take precautions to keep their kids safe.
"There's not too many parents that leave their children in the car. But a lot of kids die because the parents get distracted and they leave them in the backseat. They just forget," she said. "I think the thing that people don't understand is that this could happen to anybody."
Mabry offered tips for parents from the Safe Kids website.
-Never leave a child alone in a car, even for a short amount of time.
-Keep cars locked when you're not in them.
-Create reminders by putting something in the back of your car next to your child, such as a briefcase, purse or cell phone that is needed at your final destination.
-If you see a child alone in a car, call 911.
-Parents can find more information at http://www.safekids.org/nlyca or www.safekidsclevelandcounty.org .
Source: Safe Kids Worldwide
Tips for the elderly:
-Drink plenty of water or fluids like fruit or vegetable juice.
-Stay in cool places and limit physical activity.
-Wear cool clothing that is loose-fitting and light in color. If possible, wear cotton or other natural fabrics.
-Use hats and umbrellas outside.
-Use air conditioning or room fans to circulate air.
-Pull the curtains on windows that are in direct sunlight.
-Avoid direct sun and stay inside during the hottest hours of the day, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Source: Patrick Senior Center, The Family Caregiver Alliance
Protecting your pets:
-Don't take animals for rides in the car and leave them in the car.
-If your pet is an outside pet, make sure the area they stay in is cool and sheltered. Be sure your pet has a doghouse and is in a shaded area.
-If your pet is in direct sunlight, move their environment to the shade.
-Provide your pet with plenty of cool water. Change the water several times throughout the day. You can also add ice cubes to cool it down.
-Give your dog a kiddie pool with fresh water in it, and change the water when it gets too hot.
-Use the hose as a way to play with your pet and cool it off.
-If you see an animal outside in direct sunlight with no shade or shelter, call Animal Control at 704-481-9884.
Source: Marguerite Mebane, president of Cleveland County Humane Society.
How you can stay cool:
-Visit the city pool. The Shelby Aquatics Center's pool is open Monday through Thursday from 1-5:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday from noon to 6 p.m.; and Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m. Admission fees are $2 for children younger than 12 and for seniors older than 55, and $3 for those older than 13.
-Use air conditioning. It is the No. 1 way to protect against heat-related illness or death, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
-If you don't have air conditioning, visit a library, mall, restaurant, theater or other public place to cool off.
-Drink plenty of fluids.
-Wear loose, lightweight, light-colored clothing and sunscreen.
-Take cool showers or baths to cool down.
Source: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Five-day forecast
Tuesday - 87/66
Wednesday - 90/70
Thursday - 90/65
Friday - 82/62
Saturday - 83/64
Source: National Weather Service
Reach Molly Phipps at 704-669-3339, at firstname.lastname@example.com or on Twitter @mpsilversurfer.


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|The Bachelor of Arts in Geography consists of three concentrations: Environmental Geography, Geographic Information, Social Geography.
Environmental Geography provides learning opportunities that exceed the 23-credit-hour geography core requirements. In addition to required upper-division courses (two in geographic information science and one in social geography), students may choose among course offerings in atmospheric science, Climatology, environmental change, polar and glacial environments, natural resources and soils geography. Students who choose this concentration can pursue careers in environmental science and planning, disaster management, conservation of natural resources and environmental education, or they may choose to study these and related fields on a graduate level.
Geographic Information provides students with a comprehensive background in the field of geospatial technology. This involves the study and application of theory, method, technology and data knowledge to processes, relationships and patterns in both human and physical geography. This rapidly growing field can be divided into three areas: geographic information sciences (capturing, checking, integrating, analyzing and displaying spatially referenced data); remote sensing (analyzing and interpreting aerial data and satellite imagery); and global positioning systems. Students in this concentration gain quantitative and technical skills to prepare them for jobs in both the public and private sectors, or for further study in graduate school.
Social Geography includes courses that involve the social sciences and humanistic aspects of geography. Students choose from a variety of upper-level courses in urban (including planning), economic, political and historical geography. In addition to at least four courses in this concentration, students take three distributional requirements: two in geographic information sciences and one in environmental geography. Potential careers include urban planning, transportation, government at all scales, business, international relations, mapping and geography education. Students may choose to pursue graduate studies in these or related fields.
|Geographers can find work in the government or private sector. All levels of government hire geographers as development or planning officers, researchers, mappers, and GIS or satellite image analysts. The private sector hires geographers to apply their ideas, skills and technologies to complex real-world systems. This can include conducting marketing studies, planning transportation routes, understanding international markets, and determining environmental risks associated with landuse change. Currently geospatial technology is the third fastest growing industry in the USA.
Surveyors, cartographers, photogrammetrists, and surveying technicians held about 147,000 jobs in 2008. Employment was distributed by occupational specialty as follows:
Surveying and mapping technicians 77,000
Surveyors 57,600
Cartographers and photogrammetrists 12,300
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|ACH Welcomes Rachelle Schwartz, D.O.
Rachelle Schwartz, D.O., joined All Children's Perinatology Specialists in July after completing a fellowship in maternal fetal medicine at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. Dr. Schwartz is a graduate of Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Bayfront Medical Center, where she served as chief academic resident. While at Bayfront she received the Laparoscopic Surgeon of the Year Award, Resident Academic Achievement Award, and Academic Excellence Award.
During her fellowship Dr. Schwartz was first author for numerous poster presentations for the annual meetings of the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine and Society for Gynecologic Investigation. She also authored a paper entitled "Can Third Trimester Ultrasound Predict the Presentation of the First Twin at Delivery" (Schwartz R, Fuchs A, Rosenn B) which was published in the Journal of Maternal Fetal Medicine (Jun 28 EPub).


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Section of busy Broadway will be closed for up to year
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Pedestrians and vehicles cross the bridge spanning the train tracks along Broadway in downtown Everett on Tuesday evening.
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Vehicles cross the bridge spanning the train tracks along Broadway Avenue in downtown Everett on Tuesday evening.
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A truck crosses the bridge spanning the train tracks along Broadway in downtown Everett on Tuesday evening.
Then they considered a complete shutdown.
Turns out, the city stands to save $1 million and a full year of construction time by closing a block on one of the main drags through Everett until the work is done.
Drivers can expect to find a massive roadblock there about six months from now, when the $9 million project is expected to begin.
"It's the pain calculus," Everett city engineer Ryan Sass said. "Do you want 100 percent pain for one year or 90 percent pain for two years? When you look at it that way, it's an easy choice."
The planned closure will prevent people from driving Broadway between Hewitt Avenue and California Street for up to a year. The city has planned extensive detours and intends to warn drivers well in advance, through signs along I-5 and Highway 529. A city public awareness campaign is in the works for later this year.
Drivers can be forgiven for not noticing the 101-year-old bridge, which looks like a hump in the road.
The bridge carries traffic over the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad tracks, with about 30,000 vehicles traveling it every day. The only major renovation occurred in 1931.
The city for years as listed the bridge replacement among its top infrastructure needs.
In the meantime, city engineers took precautions. Load restrictions were placed on the span in 2008. Parking isn't allowed on the bridge either. The structure is weaker toward the edges than in the middle, so trucks are asked to stay in the middle lanes.
The current schedule is to put the work out to bid in October. Prep work is expected to begin late this year and demolition in early 2014.
Construction should be complete by fall of next year, leaving only cleanup before it reopens.
The finished product will look similar, but not identical, to the arched Pacific Avenue bridge near Everett Station, Sass said.
"I hope we get another 100 years out of this one," he said.
Construction should have no impact on rail operations, BNSF spokesman Gus Melonas said. The railroad expects to expand freight operations with the approximate foot or so of extra clearance city engineers have said the new bridge would provide.
About $8 million of the cost is being paid for with a federal grant. The remaining $1 million will be split between Everett and BNSF.
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|TIGERVILLE, SC- Pfeiffer University took both games of an afternoon doubleheader at North Greenville University. The Falcons won game one 6-4 and game two 6-3. Pfeiffer improves to 16-17 on the season. North Greenville falls to 5-23 on the season.
Game One: PU 6 NGU 4Chelsea Morton picked up the win for the Falcons, pitching three and two third innings, giving up two hits and striking out two. Ashley Warlick took the loss for NGU.
Morton also led the Falcons from the plate, going 2 for 4 with 2 RBI. Sarah Moore went 2 for 2 with an RBI and a run scored for Pfeiffer.
Amanda McElveen led the Crusaders, batting 3 for 3 with two RBI and a run scored. Hope Brewer, Lindsey Eargle, and Brandy Jackson each had two hits apiece.
The Falcons scored three runs in the second inning, one in the fourth, and two in the seventh. North Greenville scored two runs in each of the third and fourth innings.
Dacia Ijames pitched six innings, striking out seven to pick up the win for the Falcons. Katie Eargle took the loss for NGU.
Jessica Culler led Pfeiffer, going 2 for 3 with three RBI. Sarah Moore and Stephanie Bethea each batted in a run.
Lindsey Eargle led the Crusaders, batting 1 for 3 with 2 RBI. McElveen had the other RBI for NGU.
North Greenville scored all three of its runs in the fourth inning. Pfeiffer cut the lead to 3-1 in the fifth inning and scored five runs in the sixth inning.
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SALZBURG, Austria—After the first day at the Mozart Cup, Miami University's senior synchronized skating team sits in fourth place among the 14-team field. One of two teams representing the United States at the international event, the RedHawks posted a score of 59.02 for their short program to the music "Let It Be." It was the second-highest score the Miami has received for its short program this season.
The Red and White had a clean skate with no deductions and recorded a technical element score of 28.14 and a program component score of 30.88. The RedHawks are just 4.44 points out of third place and hold a 6.94 advantage over fifth place.
Finland's Marigold Ice Unity leads the senior division after the short program with a score of 73.08, while Rockettes (Finland) sit in second place with a score of 67.46. Canada's NEXXICE—the 2013 World silver medalist--is in third place with a score of 63.46.
Germany's Team Berlin 1 sits behind Miami in fifth place with a score of 52.08 followed by Russia's Team Crystal (45.98), Italy's Hot Shivers (45.90), Japan's Tokyo Synchronized Skating Club (42.16), Switzerland's Cool Dreams (40.42), USA's California Gold (40.04), German's Skating Graces (37.80), Czech Republic's Olympia (30.84), Croatia's Zagreb Snowflakes (29.94) and Switzerland's Starlight Team (29.78).
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|Dr. Ellen Visits ACH Outpatient Care Centers
Over the past two months, All Children's President Dr. Jonathan Ellen has made the rounds on a grand scale, visiting virtually all the hospital's 10 outpatient centers in the region. The first-hand look at the diverse operations has been illuminating and gratifying both to Dr. Ellen and the staff at each location.
"As we move into a population health approach and think about continuing care, it's important to understand the opportunity we have as an organization that is not apparent when you look at a piece of paper or a bunch of pictures on a wall," he said. "I think you need to get out and see the centers - see the clients, the families, the staff that is working - and get a sense of how they function. What's been very helpful to me is physically seeing how spread out we are, and how embedded the centers are in the communities."
Like the traditional Grand Rounds - the Friday presentations on topical issues for staff at All Children's - the visits showcased how each outpatient center connects with the area it serves. That was the ultimate take-away for Dr. Ellen after recently visiting the bustling East Lake facility, housed in a large, modern building beside a pastoral pond.
"These centers have actually have been established to put roots in the community, and continue to spread our mission in a very fundamental way, not just in a narrowly focused way," he continued.
At each stop, Dr. Ellen's presence provided a wave of enthusiasm, with staff members savoring the opportunity to meet him in person and demonstrate how their programs work. That was certainly the case at East Lake.
"The staff was really excited," said Phyllis Montali, director at the East Lake center. "We've seen him on screen and read about him in e-Scope but it's so nice to meet him in person. And everyone here was commenting on how personable he is - how he talked to them and really connected. They were really proud."
Dr. Ellen was given an in-depth look at the center, which owns a latest-generation ultrasound machine - the only one in the All Children's network other than on the main campus.
"I mentioned to Dr. Ellen that the piece of equipment that we have we were able to get through a grant with the help of Congressman Gus Bilirakis," Montali said. It's a demo unit that is state of the art, and we're really excited that we have that equipment here. We have area physicians who refer kids over for all kinds of views. And what's nice about our unit is that it can produce two views - both transverse and sagittal - at the same time and with one shot. So it's less time and less scary for the patient."
Dr. Ellen also saw how all of East Lake's rehabilitation services are self-contained on the second floor, and all the clinics are on the first floor. "It's a nice flow for us because it enhances the interdisciplinary treatment program we have in rehab," Montali explained.
The group, which also included Vice President of Marketing and Community Relations Cindy Rose, Vice President of Human Resources Jay Kuhns and Vice President of Operations John Harding, gained an appreciation of the center's serene setting. It overlooks a pond inhabited by all manner of birds, a family of Mallards that visited for the winter - and even gators. The wildlife scenery not only provides a great view for all, but has been integrated into some rehab work on site.
"We love our building and we love being on the pond," Montali said. "We talked about all the language opportunities that speech therapists and occupational therapists have, being able to discuss the ducks and egrets and alligators with the patients. And for the sports rehab room, we've got the treadmill facing the window. So when the kids are in the middle of their long session, they have a lot of things they can see out there. We love that part of it."
The pride at East Lake is apparent in another way, too. Three staffers from the center have been named ACH Employee of the Month in the past six months, the latest being physical therapist Terri Graffeo, who received her award in Dr. Ellen's presence. She joins office supervisor Shauna Miller and occupational therapist Lee Ann Tripepi in the most recent group. But East Lake also has another three past winners on its 21-person staff: physical therapist Marijcke van der Merwe, speech therapist Sarah Wilson, and office assistant Carmen Cespedes.
"Everyone here goes above and beyond," said Montali. "They all ought to be Employee of the Month."
Such feelings abound at each center, and Dr. Ellen was able to see it all for himself during the many visits to the centers: for the record, also including Brandon, Fort Myers, Lakeland, Lakewood Ranch, Pasco, Sertoma/Citrus County, Sarasota, South Tampa and Tampa.
"He appeared very humbled and proud of the work that his Outreach Centers do for their communities every day," said Robin Riley, director of the Brandon center. "Dr. Ellen toured the facility and spoke with many staff members. Everyone was delighted and proud to have him experience our busy day here."
Patra Bates, Outpatient Care Center Director for Pasco, echoed the statement. Dr. Ellen had previously visited her center, but spent his second visit talking in depth to the medical staff. Bates had spoken ahead of time with members of her team and felt it would be important for them to express to him what the community needs are in the area.
"It was very nice of Dr. Ellen to spend the time fact-finding and asking my RN questions about what exactly she feels those needs are," Bates said. "I'd say that this visit was more up close and personal with a few staff members and I think it meant a lot to them. It made them feel like, 'Gee, he's listening to us.' And I also felt that he had a better picture of all that goes on up here. So I appreciated that."
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Luis Suarez heaped misery on the Welsh club with two goals and an assist for Raheem Sterling at Anfield on Saturday, but Mackay was defiant.
"I reiterate 100 per cent that I won't be resigning from the football club," he told BT Sport.
"I'm a proud and passionate man to lead this football club, to lead this team. I have done for two and a half years and I won't be leaving."
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Jordon Mutch reduced the deficit for the visitors in a greatly improved second-half display for Cardiff and Mackay was proud of his side's efforts as well as the support given to them by the travelling fans, who stayed long after full-time to show their backing for the manager.
"The crowd were our 12th man," Mackay added.
"You see the fans, how much they're backing the team, showing how much we should be enjoying the Premier League this season. They've been like that all season.
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BUIES CREEK, N.C. The Pfeiffer University mens and womens swim teams dove into division one competition on Friday afternoon taking on Campbell and Gardner-Webb in the Fighting Camels Johnson Natatorium. The Lady Falcons fell 140-49 to Campbell while the men dropped a 131.5-60.5 decision to Gardner-Webb. Charlie Melesh scored the only individual win of the afternoon.
Melesh scored his win in event four, the 1,000 yard freestyle, with a time of 10:01.58 to finish more than 11 seconds better than his Bulldog opponents. Two events later, Edwin Torres just missed a personal victory in the 200 freestyle falling a half-second short of the top spot at 1:48.27.
On the womens side, Haley Carter represented Pfeiffer concluded the 50 yard free two seconds behind the victor from Campbell. A rare half point came one event later in the mens 50 free as George Moreno and GWUs Cole Hickey hit the pad at exactly 22.44 tying for second, just .20 seconds off the top spot.
Andrew Corley got in on the action finishing second in the 400 individual medley while Zach McMichael finished the 200 fly in the runners up spot by less than a second. Pfeiffer ended the day with Jillian Kniffen finishing fifth out of a dozen competitors in the 200 breaststroke while Torres concluded second in the same event on the mens side.
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Professor Vinod Agarwal said the region would lose $1.45 billion in defense spending, which could translate into 28,700 jobs lost.
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MISENHEIMER, N.C. ľ Early scoring and late defense propelled Mars Hill College to a 10-8 victory over Pfeiffer University in non-conference menĺs lacrosse action on Saturday afternoon. The Lions benefitted from 13 saves by goalkeeper Dylan Price (York, PA) moving to 7-3 on the year. The Falcons see their four-game win streak snapped dropping to 5-6.
Mars Hill struck first on Saturday with a pair of goals at 13:12 and 9:33 to grab a 2-0 lead. Jason Messineo (Edgewater, MD) assisted on Cade Zulakĺs (Ajax, ONT) first of two on the day before Eric Benesch (Bloomingdale, ONT) notched his first from a Calvin Brien (Dameron, MD) pass. Pfeifferĺs Chad Olsen (Great Mills, MD) scored the first of his game-high five at the 6:58 mark of the first quarter as the Falcons found themselves down 2-1 after one.
T.J. Cowx (Delta, BC) pushed the Lions lead back to two with a goal three minutes into the second while Zulak and Kile Garrett (Nashville, TN) quickly made it four, 5-1, a little over halfway through the period. Messineo assisted on the first couple of strikes while Brien notched the helper on the other. Olsen would score two of the Falcons three in the period slicing the deficit down to 6-4 at the half.
Just over five minutes into period number three, Pfeiffer had come back to square the contest at six on a pair of tallies by Dan Mesler (Branchport, NY) and Olsen. The Lions would bounce back with three-straight to create their final bit of separation in the two goal victory.
Tim Burns (Downingtown, PA) found the back of the net at the six minute mark while Tyler Farmer (Calgary, ALB) registered his second of the day just two minutes later. Danny Farmer (Calgary, ALB) finished the streak with 3:51 to play in the third. Olsen would finish the period assisting on Nick Berkompasĺ (Webster, NY) goal with 82 seconds left in the third.
Mars Hillĺs defense stepped it up in the fourth, with help from Price, to hold on for the 10-8 win. Cowx slammed home his second just 52 seconds into the final stanza, while the defense limited the Falcons to one score by Olsen with just under four minutes remaining.
Pfeiffer will return to action next Saturday playing in their final home game of 2010. The Falcons will host Florida Southern on senior day beginning at 1:00 p.m.


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Michael B. Bracken PhD, MPH, FACE
Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and Professor of Neurology and of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences; Co-Director, Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology
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Office of Student ResearchSchool of Public Health: Chronic Disease Epidemiology; Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology, Yale Center forNeurology | Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences: Women's Reproductive Health Research Career Development Center
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- M.P.H., Yale University, 1970
- M.Phil., Yale University, 1972
- Ph.D., Yale University, 1974
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- Zhao L, DeWan AT, Bracken MB. Association of maternal AGTR1 polymorphisms and preeclampsia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine. In press.
- Zhao L, Triche EW, Walsh KM, Bracken MB, Saftlas AF, Hoh J, DeWan AT. Genome-wide association study identifies a maternal copy-number deletion in PSG11 enriched among preeclampsia patients. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. In press.
- Bracken MB, Baker D, Cauley JA, Chambers C, Culhane J, Dabelea D, Dearborn D, Drews-Botsch CD, Dudley DJ, Durkin M, Entwisle B, Flick L, Hale, D, Holl J, Hovell M, Hudak M, Paneth N, Specker B, Wilhelm M, Wyatt S. New models for large prospective studies: is there a risk of throwing out the baby with the bathwater? American Journal of Epidemiology. In press.


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The S-16 was the first Sikorsky fighter with a machine gun synchronized to fire through the propeller without hitting the blades and was the first Russian fighter actually built in Russia. The 4-wheeled front landing gear was intended to deal with "soggy Russian fields" and the airplane could be equipped instead with a pair of skis for when those soggy fields became frozen during the harsh Russian winters.


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Earlier this week, we told you about our support of a massive cockfighting bust that spanned three counties in New York State. At the request of the New York State Attorney General's Office, the ASPCA is still on the ground at an Ulster County farm, assisting with the removal, transport and sheltering of as many as 4,000 fighting roosters.
While our responders establish a temporary shelter, where the birds will be cared for and housed pending court disposition, law enforcement officers have arrested three individuals associated with the farm, where birds allegedly destined for cockfights, were bred and trained. The owner of the property was apprehended in south Florida, and according to investigators and an article in the New York Times, has operated an extensive cockfighting pipeline for years.
Several other arrests were made on Saturday night when investigators busted a cockfight in Queens and raided a pet shop in Brooklyn. Cockfighting is illegal in all 50 states. In New York, cockfighting and possession of a fighting bird at a cockfighting location are felonies, with each charge carrying a maximum penalty of four years in jail and a maximum fine of $25,000.
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Thank you, once again, for what you do to save and protect our beautiful animals. This is such a sickening "sport" and needs to be stopped at every opportunity.
Like Underground boxing?-- or hey, even betting on regulated boxing, right? Maybe even the completely unnecessary practice of eating any kind of meat, correct?
Dear Anonymous, Perhaps you MIGHT consider the fact that the birds, UNLIKE PEOPLE, do not have a choice in whether or not they want to fight. Duh
Did you know the chicken you eat doesn't have a choice in whether it gets shoved down your throat? Duh.
We eat for survival. They fight the birds for money, enjoyment and psychotic reasons. Sounds like you might be advocating for those who fight birds? Should we keep an eye on you?
We don't need to eat meat to survive. eating meat is just a choice we have supermarkets full of other foods.
What does this have to do with ANYTHING???


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