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PART 2: Gabor Maté and Alan Schwarz on "The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder"
In part two of our discussion with physician Gabor Maté and New York Times reporter Alan Schwarz, we discuss how attention deficit disorder manifests in children and adults, and how past abuse of drugs used to treat its symptoms helped lead to the passage of the Controlled Substances Act. Maté notes that medication is not the solution for everyone who shows symptoms, even if they are properly diagnosed.
Click here to watch part 1 of this interview.
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. Part two of our discussion about the selling of attention deficit disorder. We're joined by Alan Schwarz, who is the award-winning New York Times reporter who has extensively written about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. His most recent article, on Sunday, front-page piece of The New York Times, looks at how the number of diagnoses soared amidst a 20-year drug marketing campaign. Yes, it's called "The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder."
And we're joined in Vancouver, Canada, by Dr. Gabor Maté. He is the physician and best-selling author who, among his books, has written Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It.
Let's start with Dr. Gabor Maté. You have been dealing with this issue for a long time. You see ADHD as a very serious issue for children, as well as adults. In fact, you were diagnosed yourself as an adult. So, how do you reconcile that with the drugging, the massive drugging of America's children? We don't even know the numbers. I think it's 3.5 million between the ages of four and 17, but it's not counted in the United States beyond that.
DR. GABOR MATÉ: As Alan Schwarz indicated, it's a genuine problem that does affect a lot of people, myself included. The question is how to understand it and how to deal with it. And the first thing to say is that not everybody who's got trouble paying attention or has impulse-control issues has ADHD. There's all kinds of other reasons why people might have various manifestations. So to put them all into the ADHD basket is to ignore the complexity of human behavior.
Secondly, to make the assumption that even if somebody has these traits, and even if they have them over a lifetime, that the significant or the only answer is medication is to ignore, again, the complexity of the human brain and human behavior. So, what we have here is a vast oversimplification of what is a fairly sophisticated problem. And it's that oversimplification then that the pharmaceutical companies exploit to their great advantage, as Alan has documented.
AMY GOODMAN: Alan Schwarz, how did you get interested in doing this investigative series? I mean, you were the sports guy at The New York Times. You were writing, actually, about concussions.
ALAN SCHWARZ: Yeah, I was a sports guy at the Times. I was lucky enough to be able to cover the concussion issue from the beginning and get to break a lot of stories in that realm. And then, when I was a little tired of that, when I heard that high school kids were snorting Adderall before the SATs, I questioned: How much pressure are we putting on these kids? I don't think they want to do this. And so the first story that I did was in the context of academic pressure and what some kids will do in order to deal with it.
And after doctors—doctor upon doctor upon doctor—told me that, "Oh, this is not an overdiagnosed condition; this is underdiagnosed," and I looked at the numbers, and it was—it's a preposterous assertion. I said, "Wait a minute. What are the doctors doing here? What are their motivations? What are their biases? How do they misunderstand probability and statistics?" And so, I looked into it further, and there were so many issues at play here, with regard to why doctors prescribe, how often doctors prescribe.
I think one of my regrets is that I haven't been able to do a story on the good that Adderall can do. I try to acknowledge it in my stories. But, of course, it's a good drug. What we have to be careful of is, how do we use it?
AMY GOODMAN: Explain its origins, Alan Schwarz.
ALAN SCHWARZ: Sure. Well, Dexedrine, an amphetamine, were around for a very long time. Benzedrine used to be an inhaler in the 1930s and '40s, straight amphetamine, and people abused it then. They would take out the little soaked gauze pad and put it in their mouths in order to abuse amphetamine. And then Dexedrine became on the market in the '50s and '60s. So did Ritalin, by the way. And it was so abused among college students and adults in the late '60s that that's why we now have the Controlled Substances Act, was because of the Dexedrine epidemic. Now, cocaine took over in the '70s and '80s. But then, of course, that became—you know, it's obviously illegal, and other issues.
But then, attention deficit disorder became so well known and so accepted among parents, and perhaps even appropriate for a lot of the kids in the '80s and '90s who got diagnosed—Jamison Monroe notwithstanding—what you see is that there's now a very easy mechanism to get amphetamine if you want it. If you need it, you can get it, yes, but if you just want it, you can get it, too—free amphetamine, because it's covered by insurance. And so, when a pharmaceutical executive named Roger Griggs, who had his own little—relatively little pharma company, he heard that this diet pill named Obetrol, OK, might have an application to this relatively newly appreciated childhood condition called—what was it?—hyper—I'm sorry, I'm forgetting right now. Oh, minimal brain dysfunction, which is a—
AMY GOODMAN: That's what it was called at the time.
ALAN SCHWARZ: Yes, a charming—a charming name for it. But, OK, fine. And he said, "Gee, I wonder if this could treat that." And, lo and behold, it could. But, of course, it's been well known that amphetamines, you know, and diet pills have been abused. Hell, there was a Family Ties episode about it in 1984. And so, this has been a long-standing issue. I think now the main problem is that 15 percent of children, by the time they graduate high school, have been told that there is something basically permanently wrong with their brain chemistry, for which some of the most addictive and abusable substances known to medicine are the primary antidote. Now, a lot of people can take them just fine. It's not the devil's drug. We've seen a father talk about his son who committed suicide after, and we want to be careful that—
AMY GOODMAN: That was part one of our conversation with John Edwards.
ALAN SCHWARZ: That was, yes, part one of our conversation. But it's not as if every kid, or even 2 percent—I mean, no, that's an extremely rare, terrible disintegration of these people's minds. We have to realize, you can take it safely. Just look out for the signs that things are going wrong.
AMY GOODMAN: Gabor Maté, weigh in here.
DR. GABOR MATÉ: Yes, well, about that particular James Edwards—is that the boy's name?
AMY GOODMAN: John Edwards, Johnny Edwards.
DR. GABOR MATÉ: You know, the father—part of the issue is how the diagnosis was made. I mean, you don't make a diagnosis by asking a college kid if he's got trouble concentrating, because there's all kinds of reasons why he might. Depression could have been another reason why that kid had all of a sudden trouble concentrating. You have to take a lifelong history. You actually have to talk to the family. You have to have information from the school that he went to as an elementary and a high school student. In other words, it's a lifelong diagnosis. It doesn't come along all of a sudden in college. And you don't take somebody's word for it. You actually have to do a much more rigorous questioning of the individual and people significantly known to him, and that way you can arrive at a sort of a globally based diagnosis. So, that young man was really badly treated by the medical system. I think, as Alan demonstrates, it's not untypical. And the end was untypical, but the process was not untypical.
AMY GOODMAN: In the New York Times piece, Alan Schwarz, you write, "Dr. William W. Dodson, a psychiatrist from Denver, stood before 70 doctors at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and Spa in Pasadena, Calif., and clicked through slides that encouraged them to 'educate the patient on the lifelong nature of the disorder and the benefits of lifelong treatment.' But that assertion was not supported by science, as studies then and now have shown that perhaps half of A.D.H.D. children are not impaired as adults, and that little is known about the risks or efficacy of long-term medication use."
ALAN SCHWARZ: Well, this fellow was paid by Shire to indoctrinate doctors about their new long-acting formulation of Adderall XR. And he told them that it is a lifelong condition, and you should medicate for the rest of the person's life. And, unfortunately, it's been known, then and since, that only half, roughly—some say 30 percent, some say 70 percent, whatever, but roughly half of adults are not impaired as adults. I talked to Dr. Dodson about his assertion that day and since, and he said he does not believe that that is true, and that if you have ADHD, you have it for life, and he recommends to all of his patients—hundreds, perhaps even up to a thousand—that they do this. And I think it's up to us to decide if he's telling these people the truth.
AMY GOODMAN: Tell us about Dr. Keith Conners' change of heart.
ALAN SCHWARZ: Well, Dr. Conners was absolutely one of the—
AMY GOODMAN: At Duke.
ALAN SCHWARZ: At Duke, yes—was one of the earliest advocates for recognition of ADHD. I mean, he came along in the late '50s, early '60s, when kids were just labeled—kids with this condition, severe condition, were just labeled "bad kids" and then thrown aside. What he did is he got a lot of people to realize this is a real issue, and he was one of the primary advocates of the use of Ritalin in the '60s and '70s and '80s. I think that some of the articles—at least he's told us that the articles that we've written this year in The New York Times have really woken him up to the fact that what he had evangelized, he did an awfully good job, and now, as we've talked about, 15 percent of high school kids graduate having been diagnosed with ADHD. And when he read that, and he read some of the horror stories of young people abusing these medications, I think he decided that he—he realized that he had been part of a problem, and he now wants to be part of a solution.
AMY GOODMAN: And you talk about Dr. Joseph Biederman, the prominent child psychiatrist at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital. A Senate investigation revealed his research on many psychiatric conditions had been substantially financed by drug companies, including Shire, which owns Adderall, which sells Adderall. Those companies also paid him $1.6 million in speaking and consulting fees. He denies that the payments influenced his research.
ALAN SCHWARZ: Well, he is not really that atypical among prominent psychiatrists in the field, the degree to which he participated in pharmaceutical research and public statements about the use of medication for many psychiatric—child psychiatric diagnoses. He has been very involved with Risperdal and other antipsychotics. And, you know, he conducted a lot of studies that came in three flavors: One, ADHD is seriously underdiagnosed; two, it has devastating consequences if left untreated; and three, the medications associated with it—Ritalin, Adderall, Conserta, whatever—are basically harmless. And so, he sort of seeded a lot of the pharmaceutical messages that said, "Hey, look, we're just relying upon the science of a Harvard University professor, an eminent psychiatrist." And, yeah, they were.
I think that what some people are concerned about was just how one-sided he was. And whenever anyone would say, "Look, I think you're a little off base here," he would really shut down. And so, some people are concerned that he played such a role with giving pharma the messages that they wanted, that they now question, you know, whether that was appropriate. I certainly wanted to talk with him about the concerns that a lot of people had. And, by the way, this is not new. He is the most controversial figure in child psychiatry—by a lot. He didn't respond to my requests to talk with him. And that was not unpredictable. And so, you know, I think that one point that we made in this story is that a lot of his critics say that his primary motivation was not financial gain; he was trying to help severely impaired kids. He went to a point that many people think was way too far.
AMY GOODMAN: Gabor Maté, your response?
DR. GABOR MATÉ: [inaudible] all the research, and he was paid all that money. But it only came out afterwards. So, when a guy doesn't disclose that conflict of interest, you really wonder what's actually going on. I'm not impugning him personally, but it's just not appropriate procedure, as we all know.
AMY GOODMAN: Dr. Gabor Maté, talk about that progression from children to adults—
AMY GOODMAN: —the expression of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. And what's the difference between ADD and ADHD?
DR. GABOR MATÉ: Well, you can have hyperactive—you can have attention problems without hyperactivity, so when you add the H, it's simply to signify that a child or an adult also has difficulty regulating their body, in the sense of sitting still, not fidgeting, not interrupting, not being able to wait their turn in line, and so on. So it just adds a physical dimension to the hyperactivity that takes place in the brain itself, where too many thoughts follow one another randomly and with no rational progression. So it's a physical manifestation of the emotional and intellectual dynamics that already occur in the brain of the person with ADHD. Boys, in general, tend to be more the hyperactive kinds. Girls very often have the attention problem, if they genuinely have it, without the physical manifestation.
AMY GOODMAN: And then, adults, the whole issue of—you know, we see it backwards, with children—
DR. GABOR MATÉ: Well, yeah.
AMY GOODMAN: —with the selling of cigarettes. Adults were sold cigarettes, and then they were—the companies wanted to get the kids—I mean, people addicted younger and younger, so you have a longer span of selling cigarettes. This goes the other way: First you got the kids, and now you move on to adults, and telling them that at the time it wasn't known, and now you diagnose adults, and they take the drug.
DR. GABOR MATÉ: Well, interesting that you mention cigarettes, because cigarettes contain nicotine, and nicotine is a stimulant. And so, actually, a lot of people hooked on cigarettes are self-medicating ADHD, whether they know it or not. But the psychiatrist who Alan Schwarz quoted, who said that you don't grow out of it, has it completely wrong, because he's just not aware of the factor of neuroplasticity—neuroplasticity meaning the brain has capacity to develop new circuits even later on in life. So a lot of people actually do grow out of the deficit—that's the first point—because their brains develop, number one.
Number two, there's a lot of other reasons why kids might have difficulty paying attention. And the question very often is: Do they grow out of ADHD, or do they grow out of school? In other words, do they just grow out of an artificial environment, where human beings were never meant to sit for eight hours and behind a desk, and not be able to run around and play and not be able to create and express themselves and do art and be noisy? All the things that the human child naturally wants to be, and is, are suppressed, and very often in the school setting. So, we're creating an artificially induced problem by the environments that kids are reared in. And so, when kids leave those environments, naturally they don't have those symptoms anymore.
So, there's all kinds of reasons why that psychiatrist who stands in front of a group of doctors and asserts that once you're diagnosed, you have it for the rest of your life, is completely scientifically inappropriate.
And finally, not to mention that this isn't unique. You know, I went to dinners—or one dinner, at least, 15, 20 years ago, a medical dinner, where a high-priced expert, flown in from Australia, was telling physicians that every woman, post-menopausal, should be on hormonal replacement therapy. And, boy, did they rake in the money. Well, of course, then it turned out that in fact those same hormones can cause heart disease and increase the risk of cancer and so on, so that this pharmaceutical propaganda that bewitches the medical profession—and they always find the experts; you can always find an expert to support whatever point of view—it's unfortunately not unique to the problem that Alan has depicted in his recent article.
AMY GOODMAN: Alan Schwarz, what kind of response have you gotten to this series of articles? You did the piece on Johnny Edwards committing suicide at Harvard after being prescribed Adderall. His family is suing Harvard University. You've done this front-page piece, "The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder." I mean, you were a sportswriter. You certainly get a lot of response for that. How does that compare to this?
ALAN SCHWARZ: I think it's not dissimilar, because the concussion work that I did in football—football is very good in a lot of settings. It's very important to people. And so, it's a real balance between what good can we get from this, while minimizing the bad, the risk. Here, it's not that dissimilar. In fact, it's probably accentuated. These medications have done a lot of good for a lot of people. And frankly, they do a lot of good for kids who don't have ADHD. Who are we kidding? I mean, it does help you perform. I mean, it would help you and me, quite possibly—I've never tried it, but I'd probably be hooked in a second. So—
AMY GOODMAN: What about that issue of addiction? Can you get off it?
ALAN SCHWARZ: Well, that was flip, OK. I, by no means, do even more than 10 percent of people who try it.
AMY GOODMAN: Yes.
ALAN SCHWARZ: You know, but—I just—I think I'd like it a lot. The point is, is we have to look at the process, the process through which these diagnoses are made, the process through which we allow pharmaceutical companies to prey upon the fears and needs of, typically, mothers. And it's pretty adjustable. We can make things better if we just pay a little attention. And I think that people have picked up on that in the stories. They've tried not to be hysterical. They've tried to just point out, hey, if—perhaps you want to take this into account so that we can do a better job for kids and adults. It doesn't mean stop doing good by prescribing the medications when necessary. I mean, look, a chainsaw is a really helpful tool, you know? But sometimes, you've got to—or, usually, you've got to just be really careful with it. No one bans chainsaws. No one should ban Adderall. There's just a way to handle it a lot better. And we, as human beings, are responsible for that.
AMY GOODMAN: We want to thank you both for being with us. Alan Schwarz, we'll link to your articles in The New York Times, "The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder" and the ones before, at democracynow.org. And Gabor Maté, author of Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It. This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report . If you missed part one of this conversation, go to democracynow.org. I'm Amy Goodman. Thanks for joining us.
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The University of Hawaii System provided access to more than 340 community anchor institutions through June 2013 as part of the Ke Ala 'Ike, "pathway to knowledge," project. Additionally, University of Hawaii System has deployed more than 400 new network miles and upgraded approximately 650 network miles. Once complete, the statewide network will provide high-speed Internet access to every public school, higher education facility, and public library statewide.
One K-12 school, Blanche Pope Elementary, received upgraded services, at speeds of up to 1 GB, in time to begin the 2012-2013 school year. In November 2012, Blanche Pope Elementary was selected as one of Hawaii's nominees for the Blue Ribbon Schools program in recognition of academic achievement. In addition, the Ke Ala 'Ike project is working with the Hawaii Department of Education to help struggling schools in areas that have many economically-disadvantaged and native Hawaiian students. The project has already connected four high schools in these zones.
The University of Massachusetts – Lowell is boosting sustainable broadband adoption among low-income youth, the unemployed, adults without college degrees, and senior citizens leveraging an intergenerational approach and diverse set of nonprofit partners. Through the Lowell Internet, Networking and Knowledge: Sustaining Broadband Access Across the Generations project, UMass Lowell has 10 program sites and provided digital literacy and workforce development classes for more than 238,000 seniors, unemployed young adults, and at-risk teens. Participants have received more than 15,300 hours of training in basic computer skills, video game development and digital media editing, and Internet entrepreneurship.
For example, at the Amesbury, Lawrence, and Salisbury senior centers, the university conducts basic computer skills classes, teaching residents Internet fundamentals. At the United Teen Equality Center, young adult trainers provide video game development and digital media editing classes, preparing teenagers for possible careers in broadcasting or Internet entrepreneurship. In addition, UMass Lowell partners with Community Teamwork, Inc., a no-profit organization that is integrating digital literacy training into job readiness programs to help low-income individuals become self-sufficient. As of June 2013, the program has recorded 7,500 new broadband subscribers.
The University of Utah connected more than 140 anchor institutions, including elementary schools, public libraries, and charter schools, to the Utah Education Network (UEN) through June 2013. The connections allowed these facilities to move from slower Internet connections to fiber-based broadband connections capable of speeds up to 100 megabits per second (Mbps). The university also plans to enhance broadband services at a Head Start center on the Ute Indian Reservation, promoting school readiness and cognitive development of young tribal members.
The Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation has connected more than 40 community anchor institutions to its network as part of the Ute Indian Tribe Fiber Optic Infrastructure Project. The Tribe has deployed nine miles of fiber-optic cable and connected 10 Wi-Fi hotspots on the reservation. Service provided throughout the reservation is substantially upgrading services to community anchor institutions, including two schools, one library, three healthcare institutions, 27 government facilities, and five public safety entities. The Tribe currently provides Internet service to approximately 150 underserved households in the Fort Duchesne Tribal community. The grant also allows the Ute Indian Tribe to implement technology that will provide its people with resources necessary for education, jobs, and citizen engagement.
On December 21, 2010, the Vermont Council on Rural Development announced that it would expand its e-Vermont Community Broadband Project to 12 new communities, including Bridgewater, Calais, Castleton, Dover, Fairfield, Hardwick, Jay/Westfield, Middletown Springs, Moretown, Morristown, Richford, and Vergennes. Building on the previous success of 12 first round communities, e-Vermont began rolling out a broad range of digital literacy training and tools through its "e-Partners" and Community Directors to these new communities.
For example, one partner, the Small Business Development Center is offering workshops for local community members and small rural businesses with an introduction to how online resources can help improve their businesses. In addition, staff from the Vermont State Colleges are conducting workshops to build digital literacy skills in all 24 communities. The Vermont State Colleges also provide webinars on key topics such as Internet Safety for Parents and "train the trainer" programs for community members who want to learn to teach basic Internet skills.
Through Digital Wish, the e-Vermont project will help schools implement computer learning initiatives by leading digital literacy courses, offering sample curricula, recommending acceptable usage policies, providing basic technical support, and deploying laptops in fourth through sixth grade classes. As of December 2010, Digital Wish and the e-Vermont project had reached 665 students and 42 educators in 24 schools, and deployed more than 600 computers into the 12 first round communities.
The project also has a page on Facebook and Twitter with the latest news.
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By October 2011, WinstonNet opened two new computer centers and upgraded 32 other centers at various community and educational institutions throughout Forsyth County, N.C. These centers were created as part of a countywide initiative to provide new computer resources and educational opportunities.
BTOP funds have allowed WinstonNet to deploy more than 296 new workstations, serving more than 12,665 users per week. Along with these computers, WinstonNet also provides classes on a range of subjects including computer basics, keyboarding skills, email and social media techniques, Microsoft® Office, web design, and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). Additionally, some of the computer labs are providing career development assistance. For example, the Forsyth Technical Community College centers provide classes devoted to resume creation, job searches, and interview skills.
WinstonNet's goal is to offer affordable broadband and digital literacy training to the entire community. The project offers training classes in English and Spanish, as well as provides special software and customized furniture to help residents with physical disabilities use the new computer resources. These extra steps are helping Forsyth County train residents who will possess the digital skills needed for today's economy.
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WorkForce West Virginia (WorkForce) is improving access to job information, career counseling, and skills training by upgrading and expanding career centers statewide. Through June 30, 2013 WorkForce has installed more than 450 workstations and served, on average, more than 6,700 users per week. Of these users, 75 percent are unemployed and a majority do not have affordable home broadband access, so these workstations provide them with the ability to search for jobs, fill
out job applications and write resumes. For example, one patron who previously filed for unemployment used the Logan Workforce Center's career services and new workstations to
find a position with a local medical practice.
During the past quarter, WorkForce offered more than 10,700 training hours in courses on interview skills, improving resumes, and training older workers to use computers. WorkForce also continues to work with its partners, the West Virginia National Guard and Army Reserve, to serve veterans and transitioning armed service members to civilian jobs. WorkForce has deployed a total of 30 workstations in armories, reserve centers, and veterans' centers.
The Youth Policy Institute (YPI) opened its first public computer center on October 18, 2010. The Time Warner Cable Technology Center is one of 80 new computer centers YPI will open in the Los Angeles area. California State Assembly member Felipe Fuentes joined YPI staff at an opening ceremony that showcased the facility and the 24 refurbished desktops donated by Time Warner Cable. Besides accessing computers and broadband Internet, visitors to the center can attend a variety of digital literacy and educational classes supported by BTOP funds, including computer basics, Internet fundamentals, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), SAT preparation, Federal and state tax e-filing, and resume and cover letter techniques.
The center's main focus is to provide classes that meet the interests of the area's low-income, Hispanic population. In response to poor literacy rates in the community, the center created the Leamos Spanish Literacy Program, which utilizes educational software to teach Latino immigrants basic computer skills as well as how to read and write in Spanish. A survey of local middle school students led to the creation of the Game Development Workshop, which teaches participants simple video game coding and design techniques. As of April 2011, more than 1,821 community members have participated in the center's training classes. The center also houses a YPI workforce development program that is training clients for health careers funded by an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) program through the U.S. Department of Labor.
The project is also using BTOP funds to create a total of 20 new jobs to help facilitate training and maintain the computer labs. As of April 2011, the Youth Policy Institute has filled ten of these positions. The project also has a page on Facebook with the latest news.
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ZeroDivide's Generation ZD Literacy (GenZD) Program held digital literacy workshops for more than 2,546 participants in six states with BTOP funds. These workshops were created to boost sustainable broadband adoption and enhance educational achievements among low-income youth. ZeroDivide partners with seven youth media organizations in California, Hawaii, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Washington to provide each participant with approximately 60 hours of training on a variety of topics, including computer basics, digital media production, and workforce skills development.
For example, Access Humboldt, a non-profit public service media organization in northern California, provides community journalism and digital media editing classes, preparing students for a career in broadcasting. Reel Grrls, an organization seeking to empower young women through media production, provides a variety of hands-on workshops for teenage girls including stop-motion animation and documentary filmmaking. SpyHop, a non-profit youth media arts and education center in Utah, offers an apprenticeship in animation and 3D training. Students who participate in the apprenticeship create personal portfolios of their work and develop workforce skills through a real-life client project.
ZeroDivide has also initiated outreach and awareness-building activities to demonstrate how GenZD is creating a new generation of broadband users and technology leaders. In May 2011, ZeroDivide hosted a two-day summit in San Francisco, where all seven partner organizations exchanged strategies and success stories on how they were increasing broadband adoption and improving youth digital literacy curriculum. The workshops helped the partners develop new strategies to sustain and increase their efforts in improving digital literacy among their community members.
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ZeroDivide is leapfrogging the digital divide in 19 tribal communities across rural southeastern California, using a unique community-driven approach to provide broadband access and increase sustainable broadband adoption. Known as the Tribal Digital Village (TDV) project, ZeroDivide is partnering with the Southern California Tribal Chairmen's Association (SCTCA) to provide approximately 8,900 tribal residents with digital literacy training. The TDV project is also working to provide 2,000 tribal homes with affordable wireless broadband services. As of June 2011, BTOP funding has helped the project provide training to more than 650 people and deploy broadband service to 955 tribal households.
Historically, geographic isolation and cultural barriers have resulted in Native Americans' broadband adoption rates being among the lowest of any ethnic group within the continental United States. To improve these rates, ZeroDivide is offering broadband awareness and digital literacy trainings on a variety of topics, including computer basics, Internet fundamentals, and using online communication tools. The project is also utilizing its newly installed digital media production equipment to enhance its curriculum and allow participants to learn through a mix of live classroom instruction and interactive software.
TDV is also expanding a high-speed wireless Internet network to bridge the digital gap to these reservations. BTOP funds are helping the project expand the reservations' network into more than 2,000 homes on 15 of the 19 tribal communities in San Diego County.
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Hey Jeremy. My address is 10208 afton road Lou ky 40223. Can you get the shipping cost from you to me so I can paypal you for two condors and get those and the ce roc for the dye job?
Jeremy, I sold all 10 Condors. Will you be out at Meade-Olin today at lunch, I could ride out a play a little with you or give the $$ to Eddie at RTS.
sorry I didn't make it saturday had a bad tooth side of head all swelled hope all went well
Yep i have texted emailed facebooked and called Feldberg with no reply. Im fixing to call him out on his lack of payment I have waited patiently long enough
if you get a minute call me
jeremy - scoreport/scorecards - you got?
want to have one for saturday
or does nate or...?
Jeremy - hope this doesnt cause too much of a problem
I'm not gonna be able to play in the KY doubles - I have to work that saturday
Messages back from Martin and James. They say they don't have them. Do you think all of them sold?
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There's no denying, Thunderbird is getting a lot of love and attention this fall. It's the new coaster on the block, and there's lots of interest in how construction is coming along. (Spoiler alert: it's coming along really, really well – stay tuned for more next week. Maybe even watch the Thunderbird ConstructionCams. On Monday.)…Read More »
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Are you a 'middle child'?
Paula's note: as a fellow "middle child," I just had to take a few minutes on my day off to post Leah's musings. My middle child, John, started laughing when I told him what I was up to: You should wait till tomorrow, Mom. That fits the Middle Child Syndrome perfectly – "Um, I really…Read More »
Summer Saturdays = Night Rides!
What's your favorite night ride? From today through August 16, every Saturday we're open 9am – 9:30pm CDT. #NightRides pic.twitter.com/ArZHuOAJRl — Holiday World (@HolidayWorld) June 7, 2014Read More »
Scaredy Cat confidential
Take a moment with me, and try to think of the most ironic things that could happen to the child of a theme park president. What if you hated funnel cake or soft pretzels? It'd be a total waste of being born into such a cool circumstance, right? Now imagine you were afraid of rides….Read More »
Teasy riders
No fair! Why do they get to ride – again?! Some dummies get all the fun …Read More »
Rain by the half-foot
Did you get a lot of rain this week? Mother Nature power-washed the park for us! We're dubbed this Raven Creek. Lots of rain yesterday! #tristatewx pic.twitter.com/qW5AX7sEjQ — Holiday World (@HolidayWorld) April 4, 2014 No flooding here – despite six inches of rain yesterday; just a few swollen creek banks. Here's a view of the…Read More »
Hoosier dummy?
Our test dummies are ready to roll! They look like a rowdy bunch, don't they? Here's a video of our water-filled dummies from a few years ago: We open for the season on May 3 – these dummies get the run of the park until then!Read More »
Keeping track of the coaster crazies
When we started building The Raven back in 1994, we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into … … and how many friendships would be forged. The roller coaster enthusiasts are like one big, happy, enthusiastic family. And last weekend was their family reunion. Just as with any family reunion, they take lots…Read More »
It's beginning to look a lot like …
… yes, Christmas! While most folks are putting away their Easter decor, we're awakening the elves. And here's Cheryl, fastening a big bow on one of the light poles in our Christmas Plaza. It's so nice to see our beautiful trees greening up. Do you think Cheryl is noticing that a certain roller coaster in…Read More »
A light dusting of snow
Wednesday morning, we had a surprise snowstorm. By 8:30, I was tweeting about it: I've never seen such HUGE snowflakes! Watch it snow live: holidayworld.com/visit/construc… #HWSS twitter.com/HolidayWorld/s… — Holiday World (@HolidayWorld) February 13, 2013 A bit later, Nathan grabbed a camera and headed out to take these flakey photos. "Go toward the light!" Heading up…Read More »
Our tie-in with this year's Super Bowl
Did you enter our "A sporting contest" brain teaser? It was a tough one. To find the answer, you had to go back to the year 1996, when two members of the Indianapolis Colts football team rode The Raven. That's Jim Harbaugh on the left and Ken Dilger (a local boy who did quite well…Read More »
Flagging down some help
The other morning, we noticed the Coaster Cats were on top of The Raven's lift hill. They were performing the annual ritual of removing that year's flags. And in the spring, they put up a lovely new set. So what happens to the old, tattered flags? We auction them! Just about everyone seems to know…Read More »


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Address Place Rouppe 10 (Grand Place)
EuroCheapo Review: The Cristea family has run the two-star Hotel A La Grand Cloche Hotel, smack in the center of Brussels, since 1966. This 36-room property is a good value.... read review
Address 23 rue Damier,1000 Brussels (Near Gare du Nord)
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Address Rue du Rouleau 15,B-1000 Brussels (Ste. Catherine)
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Address Rue de la Sablonnière 30, (Near Gare du Nord)
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Address Rue Berckmans 124 (St. Gilles)
EuroCheapo Review: The three-star Les Bluets Hotel is more of a friendly guesthouse than it is a hotel. With its rustic charm, amiable proprietor and floral prints, Les Bluets is an ideal hotel for vacationers looking for a piece of old European charm. (It's kind of like staying with the Belgian aunt you never had.)... read review
Address Rue d'Angleterre 2 - 20 (Near Gare du Midi)
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Address Rue de la Montagne 4B (Grand Place)
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Address Rue De La Fourche 17-19 (Grand Place)
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Address Quai Au Bois A Bruler 23 (Ste. Catherine)
EuroCheapo Review: The Brussels Welcome Home is a 17-room three-star splurge with an unusual theme.... read review
Address Des Grands Carmes 29 (Grand Place)
EuroCheapo Review: One block south of the Grand Place—and facing Mannekin Pis, La Vielle Lanterne is a small, family-run budget hotel offering six rooms in a pretty four-story brick building.... read review
Address Grand Place 15 (Grand Place)
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Address 19 Rue de Londres (Ixelles)
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Address Rue de la Concorde 42 (Ixelles)
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Address Rue Du Lombard 35 (Grand Place)
EuroCheapo Review: Combining two-star comfort with the hospitality of a family-run establishment, the Hotel La Legende is a sparkling gem in the heart of the city. Within a 10 minutes' walk from major tourist attractions and train stations, it provides a good base for both tourists and business traveler.... read review
Address Rue Des Commercants 32 (Ste. Catherine)
EuroCheapo Review: The Brussels@Heart Guesthouse is a deliciously renovated townhouse located in the outer boundaries of St. Catherine.... read review
Address Place Du Jeu De Balle, 15/16 (Marolles)
EuroCheapo Review: Located smack in the heart of the up-and-coming district of Marolles, the Galia Hotel is a compact two-star property that's made for the urban hipster.... read review
Address Rue de la Montagne 22 (Grand Place)
EuroCheapo Review: Housed in a historic building on the handsome Rue de la Montagne, the two-star La Madeleine hotel is a fine base for the urban traveler.... read review
Address Rue Marché aux Poulets 32 (Grand Place)
EuroCheapo Review: Close to both the Grand Place and the business district, the St. Nicolas Hotel is a two-star property that provides a good value for the buck.... read review
Address Bd. Adolphe Max 107 (Near Gare du Nord)
EuroCheapo Review: The Max Hotel, situated on a busy shopping street in central Brussels, is a cool, modern and unapologetically basic budget hotel. Though technically a one-star hotel (quote the Web site: "who cares?"), its uncluttered design easily exceeds those of most two- and three-star establishments. It's also super-clean and comfortable—not to mention conveniently located.... read review
Address Du Béguinage 38 (Ste. Catherine)
EuroCheapo Review: The eclectic Hotel Noga is a family-run, three-star hotel situated on a quiet side street in fashionable Sainte Catherine. Just a few minutes' walk away from the Grand Place, the hotel brims with character.... read review


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The Bink will be displaying art from its owner Carrie Suggs on April 13, along with artists Christi Duboise, Claire Houston and Leslie Turner. West Point native Layna Sackelford will also be entertaining Art Walk guests on guitar. Pictured above are Suggs, Tori Mathis, Lee Davis, Angie Tyler, Amanda Hathcock and Shirley Smith. Find out more about these artists on page 5. Photo by Donna Summerall
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Nationality: LATBorn : 24.04.1989Place of birth: Riga
Height: 1.76mPosition: PG
Club Team 2012-13: ZVVZ USK Prague (Czech Republic-ZBL)
Career: TTT Riga (Latvia-LSBL, 2004-08), SK Cesis (Latvia-LSBL, 2008-09), Challes-les-Eaux (France-LFB, 2009-10), Lotos Gdynia (Poland-PLKK, 210-11), Fenerbahce (Turkey-TKBL, 2011-12), Municipal Targoviste (Romania-A1, 2012), ZVVZ USK Prague (Czech Republic-ZBL, 2013)
Having missed the qualification round last year, Babkina is expected to be back to lead the team at EuroBasket Women this summer, like she did with a team-high 14.4 points-per-game two years ago in Poland. It turned out to be a roller-coaster first major tournament for Babkina, finishing top of both the assists and turnover categories. She has been a recognised talent since her youth, representing her country at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing whilst still a teenager. She can score, pass and generally pull the strings, making her one of the leaders of this young team. Energetic and sometimes exuberant in her decision-making, she's usually great fun to watch. At club level she has won plaudits and championships in Poland; played in the EuroLeague Women Final Eight with Fenerbahce; and taken on a key role at Targoviste. However, last season she struggled for court time with USK Prague.


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Of course they do. While you might not be literally partying with Bobby (or even really encouraged to refer to him as Bobby, for that matter) there's no question the Greenwich is an establishment that values privacy and discretion, two values many of today's publicity-hungry boutique hotels lack. The location, in a neighborhood that's become indelibly associated with DeNiro, places you roughly where hip and upscale intersect, minutes from more shopping and nightlife than any one neighborhood could reasonably need.
And of course the building isn't bad either. Grayling may not yet be a household name, but they're well-known already for downtown hotspots like Schiller's and Balthazar. Here their incredibly detailed work projects a sense of care and confidence that's far more satisfying than the shock-and-awe flim-flam that until recently has dominated hotel design.
As for the comforts, they're more than adequate as well. Even the humble courtyard rooms are luxurious, and smart-looking as well, eschewing minimalism for a detailed and lived-in look, down to the Moroccan tile in the bathrooms. As you move up the range into the bigger and bigger suites, the sheer luxury of it all becomes almost comical — book well and you might get your own private sauna. Locanda Verde is the Greenwich's cozy, rustic Italian tavern. And if that's not indulgent enough the Greenwich is home not just to a spa but a pool as well — not exactly common in New York, but then not much about the Greenwich is.
- Complimentary upgrade upon hotel check-in, based upon availability
- Spa voucher worth $50 US
- Complimentary snack plate in room (a value of US$20)
- Complimentary bottle of red wine (a value of US$35)
- **Please note that Greenwich Suites are not available for Tablet Plus upgrades.
- 88 Rooms
- Style: Modern Design
- Atmosphere: Happening
- 73 Guest Reviews
- The Greenwich Hotel
- 377 Greenwich Street
- New York City, NY, USA
- Neighborhood: Manhattan - Tribeca
Hotel amenities and services
- 100% non-smoking hotel
- 24 hour concierge
- 24 hour front desk
- 24 hour gym
- 24 hour room service
- Babysitting (on request)
- Bar
- Beauty salon
- Central air conditioning
- Free wi-fi
- Garden
- Indoor swimming pool
- Library
- Lounge
- Luggage storage
- Multi-lingual staff
- Pets allowed (charges apply)
- Restaurant
- Sauna
- Self service parking (charges apply)
- Spa
- Spa treatments (on request)
- Steam rooms
- Valet parking (charges apply)
- Wake-up service
- Yoga
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- Christopher
- Stayed May 2015
- Rating: Excellent
What I liked:
What a great ambiance - from the de Niro artwork (the dad) to the great selection of books in the rooms - fantastic courtyard and a lovely lovely place to hide away from the hustle-bustle of the city.....definitely my go to place for NYC! Oh!!! and all the free room goodies!!! What a great touch!
What the hotel could do better:
Nothing! Loved it all!!
- Linda
- Stayed March 2015
- Rating: Excellent
What I liked:
Excellent staff. Amazing spa. Food=incredible
What the hotel could do better:
Nothing, had a wonderful stay!
- Patrick
- Stayed November 2014
- Rating: Good
What I liked:
The size of the room, the service, food and complimentary snacks. Oh, and the huge shower
What the hotel could do better:
The lift was broken but using the stairs is good for you


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Just to let you know some of the riches and most sucessful people in the world purchase and read comic books. Some of the original art sells in the millions.
In Europe and Asia graphic novels (thick comic books) are read by everyone. In Germany and Japan mainly, graphic novels outsell standard books all the time and a single issue sells about 500,000 copies easy. New issues come out every week. An average of 50,000 of a single issue sells in the US. We may be dorks but we are way behind compared to rest of the world in considering graphic novels and comics as a legit form of art and entertainment.


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As for "barely drawing single teams"... no one is going to double someone who doesn't have the ball. The Hornets aren't running a lot of plays for Davis yet, so the ball is rarely in his hands. And maybe you should credit Davis for getting open under the rim or running the floor better than those who are guarding him. Shoot... Davis scored 17 of the team's next 20 points after he got into that altercation with BJ Mullens. That's probably been the most impressive thing he's shown so far.
But if it was as easy as you seem to imply, then more bigs should average 17+ a game, especially as they gain experience. There are plenty of players that "barely draw single teams", yet they can't score at all.
The reality is, Davis is one of the top 5 players to come out since Duncan. The only two players I could see drafted over Davis in that span are LeBron and Oden. And even then, I'm not too sure. LeBron was coming out of high school so it's hard to compare. Also, word out of Portland was that Oden was out of shape at his pre-draft workouts. We also would have likely seen an Oden vs Davis National Championship. If Davis won that matchup, he likely would have went #1.
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As the participants of the Eat Smart, Move More, Weigh Less program walked through the door of the Onslow County Health Department auditorium this week, they were met with a scale. The time had come — the first weigh-in day.
Robin Seitz, Extension Field Agent for the N.C. Cooperative Extension in Onslow County, recorded a weight loss of 55.5 pounds for the group in the first week of the 15-week program designed to promote healthy lifestyles.
Participants spoke briefly before the class began about changes they were making to help with that weight loss.
Anne Coleman, of Sneads Ferry, said that she has only eaten out once, which is a change for her. "I'm cooking at home more," she said. "I've had less sweet tea; I ate more fruit and vegetables."
Coleman said she walked this week for her exercise component of the program.
"I haven't noticed any changes yet, but I'm hoping to," she said.
Margie Bates, of Jacksonville, said she was more conscious of what she was eating.
"I didn't really exercise, but I was focusing on what I was doing wrong when it came to food," she said. "Next week, I'm focusing more on exercising."
The lesson for the week focused on preparing for success.
Seitz said setting a weight goal was important. She explained that a weight loss goal had to be attainable, realistic and timely. She said that no participant could set their weight loss goal for the 15-week program at more than 30 pounds.
"No more than two pounds a week," she said. "If you're willing to cut 500 calories a day from your diet, you'll lose a pound a week."
Seitz reminded the class that the key to healthy weight loss is planning, tracking and living mindfully.
"You have to make the plan," she said, "but sticking to the plan is as important as making it."
Seitz recommended participants plan out their meals, shop for healthy food and snacks for the whole family, encourage family members to try new things, get kids involved in fixing meals to promote healthy habits, restock the refrigerator with healthy choices and cut down on television time as means of preparing their home environment for success.
Dr. Sara Stroud, doctor of chiropractics at Freedom Chiropractic, led the class in three exercises that could be done almost anywhere — lunges, high knees and squats. Participants were told to do each exercise in three sets — exercising for 20 seconds and resting for 20 seconds. Then rest for two minutes before the next exercise.
"This is called surge training," she said. "It burns sugar and fat more efficiently."
Stroud said it is important for participants to move at their own fitness level and
suggested using hand weights while doing the exercises to amp them up a little more.
Homework for the week was to find a new strategy to work on and do the 12-minute exercise routine at least three times.
"It will get your heart rate up and get you a little sweaty," Stroud said.
For more information about the ESMMWL program, visit ESMMWeighless.com or contact Robin Seitz at 910-455-5873.
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You're not beautiful if someone hasn't written poetry about you, and you will all be glad to know that New Bern is beautiful.
It isn't like Robert Frost, Walt Whitman or Langston Hughes have come to town and sat distractedly in the coffee houses as their pens scrawled euphoric couplets. It's not like you'll find New Bern's praises sung in the next Norton Anthology.
But they're there. Some are pretty awful, but others attain the dizzy heights of being readable. A few are even good.
The public library will hold a special evening of readings and discussion on New Bern's poets on Sept. 22 at 3 p.m., and Sam Love, a local poet who is involved with that event, thought it might be an idea to whet your appetite, as it were.
Most people who are obsessed enough with New Bern's history to know any of its poets, know Stephen R. Chester (d. 1836). He was a 19th century Presbyterian with a sense of humor, who described events and architecture in the form of iambic tetrameter couplets.
Take this little verse about the arrival of one of New Bern's earliest steamboats, the Norfolk:
"We could not speak nor think nor dream
of anything, but boats and steam
at length the gilded bauble gave
its beauty to the expectant wave –
had Cleopatra's barge appeared,
it had not been more gaily cheered.
It's easy to cheer a new invention over a dusty, tape-wrapped corpse, of course.
And, lest you think his humor left him incapable of the finer feelings, he even had a love poem for a New Bern bell:
The tine of your bowers is balm to the eye,
Their melody balm to the ear;
But the fiery planet of day is too night,
And the snow spirit cannot come here.
For those of you not into poet-ese: the sharp points of your shady places is medicine for my eye (I myself think sharp points would hurt), the music of her shady places is medicine to my ears. I'm guessing that fiery planet is the Southern sun, and she's splitting for somewhere north because she's a cold weather fan. Poor Stephen.
One cannot, of course, forget Judge William Gaston, who lies beneath a stone at Cedar Grove that looks like a giant, decorative trunk. He wrote our state song, "The Old North State," back in 1840, although Raleigh never got around to adopting it until 1927:
Though she envies not others their merited glory,
Say, whose name stands the foremost in Liberty's story!
Though too true to herself e'er to crouch to oppression,
Who can yield to just rule more loyal submission?
I am a huge fan of Judge Gaston, but not of his poetry. If you read that verse out loud, trying to emphasize its meter, William Shakespeare climbs out of his grave and slaps you. I believe Mr. Gaston is speaking of himself in the start of his next verse,
"Plain and artless her sons…"
We are told he was listening to a girls' choir singing outside the state building in Raleigh when he wrote that, stealing their tune. Maybe he was distracted by their pretty dresses.
Looking at Mr. Love's interesting manuscript, I see a few poems about the Neuse. Speaking of other rivers, Thomas Watson wrote in 1838,
"…And I loved their sweet murmuring voice, but I'm sure
I never as Neuse thought them love to me."
Steven Spielberg read that verse and invented Yoda.
Unlike Chester and Gaston, Watson broke from the couplet and used the ABAB rhyme scheme. He ends with a sweet bit of doggerel:
"For wander where you may, you ne'er will kiss
A shore so bright, so beautiful as this."
Robert Walser, an early New Bern fashionista, wrote about a stroll down Pollock Street in his "furry hat":
"A wag came by and quick observed
(In presence of some people)
"He thought that was too small a house
For such a lofty steeple!"
He notes that a young lady is at his elbow while he wears his furry hat:
"Some b'hoys came by, I looked behind
And heard this thundering yell
(issued from twenty throats, or more)
"That steeple's got a belle!"
I should criticize this little pun, but actually I kind of like it. "B'hoy" was slang of the period meaning a lively and lower-class fellow.
Mary Bayard Clarke was a famous poet of the Civil War era, who would live in New Bern. She was educated and stately, as we know by the title of her poem written to dedicate the Confederate Memorial in Cedar Grove Cemetery: "Dux Foemini Facti."
Dr. Joseph Patterson, a key figure in the fire of New Bern (1922), was a bit of a poet and he also wrote some free verse about that memorial – or rather a Poe-esque description of its desecration:
"But ground once hallowed now is soiled
Inside the vault the broken bones
Lie sprawled in disarray. Sockets
Stare in frantic search, in horror
And despair, from skulls split
By well-placed bullets' blast…
If you want to hear the rest, and a lot of other interesting examples of New Bern poets and their work, you will have to attend the Sunday program. Perhaps I'll see you there.
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Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine Bradenton faculty member Thomas Quinn, DO has conducted a lot of research and reading about osteopathic medical history. Now his name is part of that history. A.T. Still University and the Still National Osteopathic Museum unveiled the newly built "Quinn Reading Room", named after Dr. Quinn, during Founder's Day activities Oct. 15-16 in Kirksville, Mo.
|Sissy and Thomas Quinn, DO, in the Quinn Reading Room at A.T. Still University in Kirksville, Mo.
Dr. Quinn and his wife, Sissy, attended the dedication while in Kirksville discussing the publication of his upcoming book, The Feminine Touch: History of Women in Osteopathic Medicine.
Dr. Quinn graduated from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1966. In 1967, he was one of the first D.O.s to be commissioned as a medical officer in the United States Armed Forces (U.S. Navy).
During Dr. Quinn's 24-year military career, he served as the commander of the 103rd Medical Battalion, the 28th Infantry Division Surgeon, and the State Surgeon of the Pennsylvania National Guard.
Throughout his medical career, he has promoted the osteopathic profession in many speeches and publications.
As a Clinical Associate Professor at LECOM Bradenton, Dr. Quinn teaches the College's Osteopathic History and Heritage course.