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Quinnipiac Healthbeat Newsletter
The Quinnipiac Healthbeat Newsletter is published twice per year and features news from Quinnipiac University's School of Health Sciences.
HealthBeat From the Dean Donna Montesi of Cheshire, Conn., graduated from Quinnipiac's nursing master's program in 2002, but is eager to continue her education. She was thrilled to learn that Quinnipiac University is set to offer a doctor of nursing practice degree beginning in Fall 2011. Health science fields are growing fast to meet the medical needs of our communities. It's not surprising Quinnipiac's health sciences programs are quickly changing as well. The University's goal is to make its programs even stronger to prepare our graduates for the demands they will face once they enter their respective fields. To that end, we are welcoming a new School of Nursing on July 1. Jean Lange, formerly a professor at Fairfield University, has been selected to be the school's dean. The School of Nursing will have the independence to grow and evolve as nurses continue to play an increasingly important role in the health care team, and in particular in primary care medicine. The nursing administration will work closely with the School of Health Sciences and the Quinnipiac School of Medicine, headed by Dr. Bruce Koeppen, dean. His team now includes Dr. Anthony Ardolino, senior associate dean for academic and student affairs, David C. Gillon, senior associate dean for administration and finance, and Stephen Wikel, chair of the Department of Basic Medical Science and senior associate dean for research. Another example of growth is the establishment of the Department of Athletic Training/Sports Medicine, which was previously a program in the physical therapy department. To encourage collaborative teaching, the School of Health Sciences held a faculty development day in January with speaker Charlotte Royeen, a health sciences dean at Saint Louis University and an expert in interprofessional education. For the first time, the School of Health Sciences hosted an interdisciplinary poster session on May 6. Students showcased their work, and the event provided an opportunity to highlight the common threads that connect different areas of the health sciences. People say change is good. Seeing the exciting direction we are heading in science and medicine, I would say change is great. News from Quinnipiac University School of Health Sciences | spring 2011 Nurses can advance with new DNP "It's a way to make me more marketable in my current practice," said Montesi, who works as an adult nurse practitioner at West Haven Medical Group. She would like to teach one day, and an advanced degree would give her that opportunity. To better prepare nurses to excel in today's increasingly challenging health care environment, the current two-year nurse practitioner master's level program will transition to a three-year, clinical doctorate program. The DNP program will offer five tracks, including two post-master's degree tracks. The program will be part of the new School of Nursing, which the University will formally establish on July 1. Jean Lange of Woodbridge, Conn., will head the school as dean. Donna Montesi MSN '02, working with a fellow nurse, is excited to see Quinnipiac offer a doctor of nursing practice. "Primary health care has become more complex, and primary care clinicians now are responsible for so much more than what was required 20 years ago," said Lynn Price, chair of the nursing department. The pressure to increase access to health care for more people has also placed more responsibilities on nurses and other health professionals, as has the decline in the numbers of practicing primary care physicians, she said. The DNP would offer nurses an opportunity for career advancement, preparation to serve as muchneeded clinical faculty and a higher salary. Nurses with DNP degrees earn nearly $7,700 more than master'sprepared nurse practitioners, according to a 2009 survey by ADVANCE for Nurse Practitioners magazine. Unlike doctorate programs that focus on original research, the DNP is a clinical degree. The program provides more intensive education in areas such as diagnostic testing and health assessments, and allows postmaster's students the opportunity to deepen their existing clinical practice. "We've designed this program to give students additional time to gain fluency in the depth and breadth of care they must provide," Price explained. Nurses with a bachelor's degree may choose from three DNP tracks: adult practice, family practice or women's health. Quinnipiac is the only University in the state to offer a women's health track. Graduates are eligible for national certification as nurse practitioners in their specialty area. Advanced practice registered nurses with master's degrees may select either the "care of the individual" track, which offers advanced clinical education to deepen or broaden an existing APRN practice, or the "care of populations" track, which prepares graduates for positions that focus on health care for populations working within systems at the local, regional, national or global level. Other health fields, such as physical therapy and pharmacology, now expect professionals to earn a doctorate degree. "Nursing also needs to be competitive with other health professions," Montesi explains. For more information on the doctor of nursing practice, visit www.quinnipiac.edu/x793.xml. Edward R. O'Connor Dean, School of Health Sciences Promoting literacy for better health In March, 50 physician assistant students read to children as part of the second annual Health and Literacy Fair at the Hospital of Saint Raphael in New Haven. More than 270 people from the hospital and the community attended the event, which coincides with Read Across America week and Dr. Seuss's birthday. At the Health and Literacy Fair, PA students set up hands-on activity stations on health issues, such as healthy eating, exercise and hand-washing. Literacy helps people be better prepared to make decisions about their health, from evaluating information for credibility and quality to reading and assessing medication labels, said PA student Todd Bruss. "These young children will someday be patients faced with complex information and treatment decisions," he said. IN THE CommuNITy Each SHS program organizes service events to encourage healthy living and support underserved populations. o In April, the Physical Therapy Club celebrated its 30th year hosting its "Special Athletics" event. Students invite members of the special needs community to campus for activities and games. o The Physician Assistant Student Society sponsored its 13th annual 5K Road Race and Cow Chip Bingo in April. o Four faculty members accompanied 15 physical therapy and occupational therapy students to Le�n, Nicaragua, in January to volunteer in areas with limited health care. Physician assistant student Sarah Blank, right, reads to a child at the Health and Literacy Fair at the Hospital of Saint Raphael. News Briefs Fulbright Specialist grant awarded Juan garbalosa, clinical associate professor of physical therapy, received a prestigious Fulbright Specialist Grant. In June, he will spend six weeks researching and training staff in a biomechanics lab at the University of Hyago near Kobe, Japan. He will investigate the intersegmental dynamics and coordination of the foot joints in individuals with and without overuse injuries of the lower leg and foot. Finding clues to curb obesity Despite the colorful cartoon character on the cereal box touting that it's chock-full of vitamin D, the third-grade students at Pond Hill School in Wallingford, Conn., knew it was not a healthy choice. "Leave it," exclaimed one third-grader to occupational therapy graduate student Kate LeFebvre. She was one of four OT students teaching the Nutrition DetectivesTM program. The children have become nutrition detectives, thanks to a $60,287 grant from Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Martha Sanders reviews the ingredients listed on a cereal box with a student. Foundation. The grant funds the implementation of the nutrition program and the ABC for FitnessTM program as part of a research study to determine the effectiveness of these two programs. Dr. David Katz, founder of the Yale Prevention Research Center, created the innovative programs with his wife, Dr. Catherine Katz. On this afternoon, the children were smacking sticky notes with the words "keep it" or "leave it" on pasta, crackers, granola bars and other foods based on clues in nutritional labels. It wasn't just that sugar was the second item on the cereal box ingredients list, which meant the box had a lot of it, one child explained. The list also was very long. "In a long list, they can sneak things inside," said LeFebvre. Small heads bobbed up and down in agreement. This spring, Martha Sanders, associate professor of occupational therapy, will find out how much children gain from the programs. Sanders is working with four graduate OT students--LeFebvre, Chelsea Benard, Katherine Whitehouse and Dina DeSanctis--to survey 100 third-graders in Hamden and 100 in Wallingford. "Their understanding of healthy and unhealthy has been pretty black and white. Now they are looking at labels to determine the healthier choice," said Leigh Grande, a third-grade Pond Hill teacher. Her father, Vin Jankowski '68, is a QU alumnus. She plans to incorporate the programs and what the QU group has shared. "What they are showing me now will be passed on for many years to come," Grande said. Instilling good nutritional habits at a young age is critical in preventing obesity and related problems that could overwhelm the health care system in the future, Quinnipiac students say. "We can help a whole generation," said Benard, who has studied childhood obesity. The ABC for FitnessTM program shows teachers how to increase activity throughout the day and incorporates hourly 5- or 10-minute activity bursts based on the curriculum, such as moving like a bear or an insect during a science lesson. Teachers have found that these focused activities are a good way for students to release pent-up energy after a long stretch at their desks. Every week, two occupational therapy and two physical therapy graduate students, led by Nancy Bagatell and Michelle Broggi, visit the Pond Hill classes to provide ideas and support for the teachers. SHS nursing students, led by Mary Helming, as well as physician assistant students also joined the initiative to provide training in the two programs for all third-grade classrooms in Wallingford. Everyone involved has been impressed with the programs, Sanders said. "We are looking for lifestyle changes, thus both aspects of the grant are important," Sanders said. Professional accolades Alicia giaimo '97, mHS '07, clinical assistant professor of diagnostic imaging, received the Gail Pitkin Memorial Lecturer Award for her presentation, "New Mammography Guidelines," at the annual conference of the Connecticut Society of Radiological Technologists in Waterbury in October 2010. In addition, Giaimo was elected a senior board member for 2011. Bill Hennessy, mHS '99, clinical associate professor and director of the diagnostic imaging program, received the John Archer Memorial Award at the October conference. Tara glennon '85, professor of occupational therapy, and Tracy Van oss, clinical assistant professor of occupational therapy, received the Jeannette Bair Writer's Award at the AOTA national conference in April for their recent publication on professionalism. Nursing programs awarded holistic certification Quinnipiac's nursing programs have received an endorsement from the American Holistic Nurses' Certification Corporation. The distinction puts Quinnipiac in an elite group of just three schools that have received this endorsement for both graduate and undergraduate nursing programs. The mission and philosophy of the nursing programs follow a holistic model that encourages students to think of the "mind, spirit and body components for each person," said mary Helming, associate professor of nursing. Professor Cindy Barrere and Helming are certified by the American Holistic Nurses' Association. Educational partnership celebrated A Diagnostic Imaging Conference was held for the first time on the North Haven Campus in November. The event highlighted Quinnipiac's transformative educational partnership with Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. The Department of Diagnostic Imaging and the Bioanthropology Research Institute at Quinnipiac offered a series of mini-workshops, and Professor gerald Conlogue, mHS '77 and Professor Emeritus Ronald Beckett presented. SHS touts medical careers Leslie White, adjunct professor (center), shows students from Stratford's Frank Scott Bunnell High School the features of a patient simulator during Medical Career Pathway Day at Quinnipiac in December. About 40 students got a glimpse into the world of health sciences rotating through "mini-college" presentations featuring the school's academic programs and its high-tech, health care equipment. "The goal is to expose students from diverse and underrepresented populations to careers in health care," said Cindy Lord, MHS '97, PA program director. Quinnipiac plans to make Medical Career Pathway Day an annual event. Sigma Theta Tau Research Day held In March, Quinnipiac hosted for the first time the annual Sigma Theta Tau International Connecticut Collaborative Research Day, which drew 160 attendees from the state's seven chapters. Quinnipiac's chapter, Tau Rho, is the youngest chapter in the state. Margaret Flinter, clinical director and senior vice president of the Community Health Centers Inc., gave the keynote address for the conference, which focused on nursing and primary care. New leadership roles Cynthia Lord, mHS '97, clinical associate professor and director of the physician assistant program, is serving on the search task force for the new American Academy of Physician Assistants executive vice president and chief executive officer. Dean Ed o'Connor is serving a three-year term on the Board of Governors of MidState Medical Center of Meriden. Susan Daddio of North Haven has joined Quinnipiac as a development officer. She is working closely with the School of Health Sciences and will be sharing news about the school with donors, alumni, parents and community members. PT alumni reconnect Alumni, faculty and students mingled at the QU alumni reception at the APTA combined sections meeting in New Orleans in February. Pictured from left, Kelly Masterson, a sixth-year PT student; Todd Cacopardo, DPT '10; Professor Donald Kowalsky '77; and Gene Giamarino '77. SPoTLIgHT oN ALumNI Department News A complete list of research and news is online at www.quinnipiac.edu/x5404.xml Biomedical Sciences michael J. Smith, director of the cardiovascular perfusion program, Ed Delaney, adjunct professor, and six students wrote "Extracorporeal Life Support for Pandemic Influenza: The Role of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Pandemic Management" in the December 2010 issue of The Journal of Extracorporeal Technology. � In February, Smith and eight graduate students participated in a simulation using the Orpheus Cardiopulmonary Bypass Simulation System at Upstate University � Cardiovascular perfusion student Brian Harvey won best student presentation for "International Pediatric Perfusion Practice: 2011 Survey" at the American Society of Extracorporeal Technology's International Conference in April. � Courtney Hyland, a pathologist assistant student, won a Siemens-ASCP scholarship. Diagnostic Imaging Tania Blyth '97, mHS'08, clinical assistant professor, and gerald Conlogue, mHS '77, professor, co-authored the chapter, "Imaging in the Medical Examiner's Facility," in "Brogdon's Forensic Radiology." Conlogue also wrote the chapters, "Imaging in the Field" and "Radiology of Special Objects, Antiquities and Mummies." Nursing Lisa o'Connor, associate professor, and Celeste yanni, assistant professor, presented two peer-reviewed posters -- "Tools for Navigating the Track Toward Promotion and Tenure" and "Speaking and Synthesizing across the Specialty Silos: An Innovative Approach to Bridge the Community Health/ Acute Care Continuum" -- at the Mosby Faculty Development Institute in January. � Student Katherine Alessi '11 received the 2011 Nightingale Award for Excellence in Nursing. occupational Therapy Professor Catherine meriano '86, mHS '91, and Jennifer Rafferty, associate director for instructional design at Quinnipiac, led the workshop, "Using Web 2.0 in Everyday Practice," at the annual Connecticut Occupational Therapy Association Conference in Cromwell in April. � Associate Professor martha Sanders co-authored the article, "Does Work Contribute to Successful Aging in Older Workers?" in The International Journal of Aging and Human Development. � Professor Tara glennon '85 and Kim Hartmann '76, mHS '82, OT chair, published chapters in "Autism: a Comprehensive Ocupational Therapy Approach." � Several faculty presented at the AOTA national conference in April. Presenters included: glennon; Hartmann; Sanders; Tracy Van oss, clinical assistant professor; Nancy Bagatell, assistant professor; Salvador Bondoc, associate professor; Pamela Hewitt '86, visiting clinical assistant professor; Donna Latella, professor; Roseanna Tufano '80, clinical assistant professor; and Associate Dean Betsey Smith '79, as well as 19 students. � marilyn B. Cole, professor emerita, was guest editor of a special edition of OT International published in March, and she published an article in Occupational Therapy International in October. � Hartmann gave a presentation on assistive technologies for the classroom to graduate education students in December. Physical Therapy Professor Russell Woodman co-authored, "Application of the Mulligan Approach for Lumbar Mechanical Derangement," in PhysioTimes (January 2011). � Four physical therapy professors and two recent graduates presented at the APTA's Combined Sections Meeting in New Orleans, La., in February. michelle Broggi '88 and Tracy Wall '93, mS '99, both clinical assistant professors, and Kelly masterson '08, DPT '10, presented, "The Effects of Body-Weight-Supported Locomotor Training and Aquatic Therapy on Post-Stroke Ambulation: Two Case Studies." � Katherine Harris, associate professor, presented, "Investigating the Efficacy of Weighting the Subscales of the Braden Scale for Predicting Pressure Sore Risk to Enhance its Predictive Validity." � Wall, Harris and Todd Cacopardo '08, mPT '10, presented, "The Effects of the Nintendo Wii on Dynamic Balance and Functional Gait in an Individual with GuillainBarre Syndrome." Collaboration boosts quality Denise Fiore '79, MBA '91, sprints over the glass bridge that connects the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven to the new clinical laboratory building--55 Park St.--a project she helped bring to fruition. On the way, several people greet her. They are just a few of the 850 health professionals she oversees as the new vice president of clinical support services at YaleNew Haven Hospital. She is responsible for the departments of rehabilitation services and respiratory care, as well as diagnostic radiology, Denise Fiore (back, far right) works with many QU alumni at Yale-New Haven Hospital, laboratory medicine and including (back, l-r): Deb Flanagan '01, a nurse, and Cheryl Granucci '91, director of patient transport at Yale-New radiology, as well as (seated) Kathleen Zimmermann '97, a nurse, and Jacquelyn Haven. Her team includes Crenshaw '01, manager of diagnostic radiology. medical technologists, nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and diagnostic imaging technologists and others. Today, Fiore continues to build new bridges--this time, between the different divisions to make her staff successful. "Collaboration among health professionals is so important in today's team approach to the delivery of care to patients," says Fiore, who is a Six Sigma Black Belt, certified in Six Sigma quality management methods. She also leads a hospital-wide effort to use these methods to improve patient care and effectively use hospital resources. Teamwork has been key to producing successful ideas. The departments of nursing and patient transport, for example, worked together to develop a "ticket to ride" program. It streamlined the paperwork required to move patients, leaving nurses more time with patients. Fiore would like to develop similar initiatives that eliminate waste, increase safety and improve a patient's experience. Communication is even more critical today as health care becomes increasingly complex, Fiore says. As an example, she cites the growth of point-of-care testing, in which tests are done at bedside. It requires nurses who perform the tests and lab professionals who provide the oversight to work together. Fiore was pleased to learn of the School of Health Science's emphasis on interdisciplinary learning. She earned her bachelor's degree in medical technology and her MBA from Quinnipiac, and now serves on the School of Health Sciences Advisory Board. For her contributions to the industry and leadership, she received the University's Outstanding Business Alumni Award in 2008. Everyone benefits when recent graduates value the expertise each health professional brings to the table and is willing to work as part of a team, she explains. Fiore's staff members are on board with her vision. "Everything we do centers around the patient," says Cheryl Granucci, '91, director of radiology in Fiore's division. "It takes the whole team to understand what's going on with the patient to provide the proper care." Building success in rehabilitation For Eileen Khan '75, her career has always been a family affair. When Khan attended Quinnipiac to become a nurse, her sister, Gena Tannoia '75, followed. After graduation, they both worked at the same rehabilitation facility in New Haven, Conn. In 1982, Khan, her sister and her husband, Farooq, purchased the facility and founded Montowese Health and Rehabilitation Center. "It was my husband's idea. He wanted us to at least make a good salary," Khan explains. "We did much more than that." The family turned Montowese into a leading provider of subacute Eileen '75 and Farooq Khan, owners of Montowese Health and Rehabilitation Center care in the region. Khan earned her long-term care administration certificate from QU and became the vice president of nursing services at the center. Her sister was director of nursing and her husband was the center's administrator. Tapping into family members' strengths helped Montowese succeed. Gena Tannioa passed away in 2005, but not before her daughter joined the business. The Khans' son, Saleem '93, a QU business alumnus, became president of Connecticut Handivan, a transportation service in North Haven that works with Montowese. One of the Khans' smartest decisions was to move away from long-term care to focus on rehabilitation. Over time, hospital stays shortened. Montowese was fortuitously positioned to provide short-term, rehabilitative care. "I get joy out of seeing people go home healthier than when they arrived," Khan says. In 1988, the Khans built their current 60,000-square-foot facility in North Haven, which doubled the number of beds to 120. They added modern rehabilitative equipment, new administrative technologies and built a pool. Having been a nurse, Eileen always made sure her staff had the necessary tools and resources, but being frugal helped the business survive during lean economic times. For nearly two decades, the Khans didn't invest in advertising, but instead relied only on word-of-mouth marketing. Last fall, given the growing competition, they added a marketing administrator to their staff of more than 200. At Montowese, nurses serve as case managers who, along with other health professionals, meet regularly to discuss patients' progress. Khan says, "In this family, we all work together to treat the patient." 275 Mount Carmel Avenue Hamden, CT 06518-1908 Nonprofit Org. U.S. Postage PAID New Haven, CT Permit No. 615 School of Health Sciences ATTEND PLAN To 2011 Reunion �26 June 24 nipiac www.quin .edu/reun ion2011.x ml FPO Career Corner | Cindy Christie STuDENT SPoTLIgHT Smart social networking According to a study by the University of Dayton, 97 percent of all students at four-year schools have a Facebook profile. What might be surprising is 28 percent of those students say they have joined groups that may not accurately reflect "the real me." Even so, 34 percent of employers believe these profiles are accurate reflections of the students. This discrepancy could cost students job opportunities. The study also found that of the students with Facebook accounts: � 48 percent have profanity or "inappropriate" comments on their page � 36 percent are shown in pictures with alcohol � 24 percent don't use privacy settings Information spreads quickly online. Even if you use privacy settings, your information and photos might still find their way into the public sphere. Be careful what you post. At the 2009 National Association of Colleges and Employers conference, 59 percent of employers reported using Facebook to research candidates. Of the employers who said they use Facebook in their hiring decisions, 23 percent said they didn't interview a candidate based on what they saw and 26 percent said they didn't hire someone after an interview. Consider "cleaning up" your Facebook account now, as well as accounts on other social networking sites, such as Twitter and LinkedIn. This being said, social networking sites are great ways to connect with current employees, research company information, and show your interest in an organization. Once you have removed any questionable content from your profiles, join the Facebook "fan pages" or "groups" of companies you are applying to, as well as professional groups in your industry. Cynthia Christie Assistant Dean for Career Services, School of Health Sciences firstname.lastname@example.com 203-582-3656 Aspiring physician studies MRSA Joelle Jacobsen '11 has never been one to shy away from a challenge. A biomedical sciences major, she has set her sights on medical school and plans to become a pediatrician. During her junior year at Quinnipiac, she volunteered in the pediatrics department at Yale-New Haven Hospital, where she helped to administer a children's developmental screening program. From Fall 2009 through Summer 2010, Jacobsen worked with Professor Lisa Cuchara, researching the epidemiology of Methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA, a bacterial infection that is highly resistant to some antibiotics. During the project, Jacobsen helped collect 1,100 samples and nasal swabs from members of the Quinnipiac community. She tested the bacteria with various antibiotics to determine resistance. Joelle Jacobsen '11 "I learned a lot of laboratory techniques, as well as the difficulties that come with research," Jacobsen said. "Things don't always go the way you want, and it requires a lot of effort, work and time to be successful." Jacobsen was instrumental in starting a student chapter of the Microbiology Club at Quinnipiac. The club, which is recognized by the American Society of Microbiology, is open to any health science student, but is geared toward those who are doing research. A well-rounded student, Jacobsen also was captain of the Quinnipiac women's softball team, which finished in third place during the 2010 season and made it to the first round of the NEC Tournament. As a freshman, she joined the team as a walk-on, earning a regular spot at either first or second base. Jacobsen, who is originally from Canada, moved to the U.S. with her family when she was 5. An athlete and an honors student throughout high school, she earned First-Team All-Conference honors three of her four years in softball and her senior year in field hockey. Much of her inspiration comes from her parents. "Even with softball, my mom and dad encouraged me to take my bat, glove and ball bag to school. They said, `This is something you can do,'" Jacobsen said. "My parents have always been supportive of me. That's what made me have such big aspirations." CATCH UP WITH Join the Quinnipiac university community at the following conferences and events: June 3, 2011 American Academy of Physician Assistants Annual Conference and Alumni Reception, Las Vegas, NV. Nearly 50 employers attended the second annual Health Professions Career Fair in March on the North Haven Campus and spoke to students about opportunities in the industry. June 20, 2011 HealthBeat is published twice a year for alumni and friends of the School of Health Sciences by the Quinnipiac University Office of Public Affairs. To submit information, contact email@example.com. Quinnipiac University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, gender, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, or disability status in the administration of its educational and admissions policies, employment policies, scholarship and loan programs, athletic programs, or other University-administered programs. Photographers: John Hassett, Robert Lisak, Mark Stanczak and Gayle Zucker. Writers: Alejandra Navarro, Karen Guzman and Donna Pintek. National Athletic Trainers' Association Annual meeting and Symposia and Alumni Reception, New Orleans, LA. 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GWEN IFILL: Can police arrest everyone riding in a car if they discover drugs are concealed there? The Supreme Court heard arguments today about the constitutional limits of suspicion, the first of three cases that will be argued this week about crime, punishment, and the Fourth Amendment. Inside the court today, and here to tell us more about it, is Jan Crawford Greenburg from The Chicago Tribune. Jan, welcome.
Now, tell us about this case before the court today. What brought it there?
JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG: Well, it all started when a police officer saw a car about 3:15 in the morning, speeding and noticing that the driver didn't have a seatbelt on. So he pulls the car over, asks to see the driver's registration and license. The driver reaches into the glove compartment. The officer notices a big roll of cash but didn't see anything that he could arrest them on, so started to give an oral warning.In the meantime, another officer pulls up, and both officers eventually conduct a search of this car.
Now, keep in mind the car had the driver, a passenger in the front seat and a passenger in the back. While they're doing the search, the officers come across drugs stashed in the back seat behind an arm rest. The occupants of the vehicle all refused to say who the drugs belonged to, so the police arrest all three of them. So that's how… I mean that's the issue, were the police justified in arresting all of the occupants of the vehicle?
GWEN IFILL: Now, part of what happened is that, after they got to the police station, one of these occupants, the guy in the front seat, in the passenger's seat says, "okay, it was mine, really it was mine." And proceeds to say other incriminating things.
JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG: He confessed, went to trial, was convicted, sentenced to ten years in prison.
GWEN IFILL: So doesn't what he said afterward, at the police station, then justify the suspicion?
JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG: No, not at all. And in fact on appeal, he argued that police had no business arresting him in the first place. And since the arrest was illegal he argued, under the Fourth Amendment, then his confession also was illegal, had to be thrown out. And as a result, his conviction needed to be thrown out. And the Maryland, Maryland's highest court of appeals where this incident took place, agreed with him and threw out his conviction because it said police had no business arresting him in the first place because here he was a passenger in a car sitting in the front seat…
GWEN IFILL: If he had been driving the car, would that have been different?
JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG: That would have been different because the driver could have had control over the vehicle. He just happened to be the passenger.
GWEN IFILL: Go with me on this. If he had been sitting in the back seat next to the place where they found the drugs concealed, would he have been… would that have been more reasonable?
JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG: That possibly could have been a different scenario, and a lawyer for the defendant said today, she conceded that, okay, the police could have arrested the driver here and possibly the passenger in the back seat because that's where the drugs had been found but not her client.
GWEN IFILL: So the wider implications here, I presume is that if you're giving me a ride home from a party on a Saturday night and you have something in the car that you're not supposed to have and we both get pulled over, I can be, even though I knew nothing about the drugs in the car, be arrested and charged with it?
JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG: Right, arrested, taken downtown just because you happened to get a ride with the wrong person and unbeknownst to you, that person has stashed drugs in his vehicle. And that concerned the justices today. Justice O'Connor and Justice Kennedy both seemed very troubled by the potential impact of a ruling that gave police the discretion to arrest all the occupants of a vehicle.
Justice O'Connor really went to the real life implications of this case and asked, "what about a mother who is getting a ride to the grocery store with her son who she doesn't know happens to be a drug dealer, or a boy who is getting a ride to school with some older relatives perhaps and he doesn't realize of course there are drugs in the car? Could the boy be arrested? Could the mother be arrested? And lawyers for the state of Maryland and for the bush administration, which argued that police should have this authority today, they said, "no, those cases are different; police in this case looked at all the circumstances surrounding this arrest.
They looked at the time of night it was 3:15 in the morning, that there were three men all about the same age apparently friends, that there was a wad of cash in the glove compartment. All that, they said, created an inference of wrongdoing, an inference that a crime had occurred and justified the arrest. That wouldn't be the case with the mother or the boy.
GWEN IFILL: Which of the justices appeared to show some sympathy for that argument today?
JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG: Well, very few. I thought at the beginning when Justice O'Connor and Justice Kennedy started down this line of questioning, that maybe they were sympathetic to the defendant. Justice Stevens also appeared to be sympathetic to the defendant and concerned about giving police this broad authority to arrest passengers in a vehicle. But by the end of the argument, it appeared that most of the Justices, even the more liberal Justices like Justice Souter and Justice Ginsburg and Justice Breyer, that they thought that perhaps the police had acted reasonably in this case.
And keep in mind, that's what's at issue here because the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures. And if the police are going to make an arrest without a warrant as was true in this case, they have to reasonably believe that a crime has been committed. And these Justices today seemed to suggest that maybe the police weren't acting so unreasonably.
GWEN IFILL: Now, on these other two cases which are being argued this week, it's also about unreasonable search and seizure, in one case about search warrants.
JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG: That's right. It's a big week for criminal cases. Tomorrow we're going to hear arguments in a case in which federal agents executed a defective search warrant. It didn't properly list all the items that they were looking for or the places that they were going to search at a ranch in Montana. So that issue is a technical issue about whether or not the police officer, or the federal agent could be held liable for executing that defective warrant. Then on Wednesday, we get to a case that has extraordinary importance for drivers and gets to the scope of when police can set up roadblocks to detect wrongdoing. That case comes…
GWEN IFILL: Now, describe that case a little more for me because this is a guy who's driving along and he is stopped at a roadblock but he is eventually arrested not for what the roadblock was set up to find.
JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG: That's right. It comes from Illinois. The Illinois Supreme Court ruled that the roadblock was unconstitutional and that this man's arrest also was illegal. The case came about because there had been a fatal hit-and-run of an elderly bicyclist at this intersection the week before. So police had set up a roadblock to stop drivers, pass out flyers ask if they had seen anything, any… this vehicle they had the description of. And along came Robert Lidster into this checkpoint.
Now, Mr. Lidster when he pulled up, the police officer noticed his breath smelled like alcohol. They subsequently did some so bright tests, you know, he had to do this, you know, field test. And he ended up getting arrested for drunk driving. He challenged his conviction saying that the roadblock was unconstitutional, that police couldn't just set up these checkpoints to look for general evidence of wrongdoing or crimes being committed. And the Illinois Supreme Court agreed. So that case will give the Supreme Court a chance to define and give police guidance on when they can set up those kind of roadblocks.
GWEN IFILL: And finally and quickly, the court decided today they were not going to take up the Ten Commandments case, which we talked so much about from Alabama.
JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG: That's right.
GWEN IFLL: And we don't know of course why the court decides not to do things, but the could court has spoken to this issue in the past.
JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG: Well, this issue, no one really expected the court to take this issue up today, again, because it has been pretty clear and given pretty clear guidance to the lower courts that these monumental displays of religion that could create confusion on whether or not it's a government endorsement of religion, that those violate the Constitution's First Amendment, which requires that the church and state be kept separate. So they ended that battle. The chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Roy Moore, his quest to have that granite monument now is over. And it will have to be permanently removed from the state courthouse.
GWEN IFILL: All right, Jan Crawford Greenburg, thanks a lot.
JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG: Oh, you're welcome.


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There is a brewing disagreement between the Federal Government, through its parastatal, the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC), and the Lagos State government through the Ministry of Tourism and Inter-governmental Relations over the issue of registration of hotels and other tourism establishments. Despite the NTDC's warning to practitioners that it was ready to enforce its constitutional mandate to register hotels, Disun Holloway, the Lagos State Commissioner for Tourism and Intergovernmental Relations says the NTDC has no such mandate, insisting that the Nigerian constitution mandates the state to carry out this responsibility. He spoke with Okorie Uguru on the issue.
The NTDC came up with an an advertisement saying that all tourism establishments should register with them. What is your comment on the issue?
We do not dispute that. The decree that set them up in 1992 did allude to that, but, within Lagos State, the marketing and development of tourism is a function of the Ministry of Tourism.Second, you said that this is not a new situation, that is the apparent issue of who regulates and registers tourism establishments in Lagos State. Yes I am aware that my predecessor did make statements on that. What we know and what I intend to push is that there is a valid law in Lagos State, that is the law of 2003 amended that empowers this ministry to perform this function. We should perform this function as enabled by the law.
In this situation where we are faced with a state ministry and a federal parastatal claiming the same function, don't you think there is a little bit of clash?
Yes, you could say that there appears to be a little bit of clash, but one should begin to look at the constitutionality and legality of the issue. A simple review of the 1999 constitution seems to answer that question fairly clearly. The second schedule of the constitution empowers the federal government and the national assembly to do certain things. Those are the items covered by the exclusive list. All other items not on the exclusive list or the concurrent list are left to the residual list. The residual list contains items which the state government and its legislators can legislate upon, and our state, through its legislators, promulgated the law. The law is very clear. So we don't have constitutional or legal confrontation on that. The law is very clear. It is not on the exclusive list; it is not on the concurrent list which means, therefore, it is on the residual list. By nature, what is not on the concurrent and the exclusive list, by definition, is on the residual list. So if that holds, that means it is the state houses of assembly that should legislate on such items. There is no conflict.
If the NTDC wishes to take and interpret Section 60D of the Constitution as empowering them to register hotels and tourism establishments not within Abuja, well I don't know. The section that I just referred to simply refers to tourist traffic. Tourist traffic, one would imagine, would mean control of immigration items and formalities at the border which are items which should correctly and are correctly on the exclusive list.
Will you comment on the ultimatum given by the NTDC as regards to when they expect every hotelier in Nigeria to comply and what would likely be the outcome at the expiration of the ultimatum?
Perhaps we should begin to grow out of using cohesion and ultimatum. This industry is a leisure one; it is a soft industry. It is not an industry that you will begin to use force. We should use legality; we should use instruments of the law. What we intend to do as we stated in the newspaper is to simply enforce the law in the legal manner, that is, we should prosecute. If the NTDC wishes to go and lock up hotels in a manner that will suggest going backward in time, well, I cannot control what they do. But we suggest that it should be done in a way that is civil.
I know one of the arguments for the registration of hotels is the issue of national security.Let me start by saying we share this concern.We will encourage everybody not to do anything that will disturb the police in prosecuting those who break the law. Let me ask you this question: Can you please give an example of where in recent times a hotel was used to launch an attack. I presume you know the answer yourself. I know I've seen it in newspapers that they were not arrested in hotels.We share the national security concern, but we do not expect persons to use it as an excuse to now try to achieve what they legally and constitutionally cannot achieve by force or coercion. That is our position.
Lagos said it was going to enforce the registration last year; what has become of it?
We have held stakeholders' meeting. Last year, we started to put certain thing together. I had to get certain approval which my ministry has now obtained from the executive council. We intend to begin to execute them. Pending this in-house approval, we held several stakeholders' meetings with the representatives of big hotels and small ones. They know what we want to do. We believe in dialogue; we do not believe in coercion or force. We've talked to them; we are carrying them along and we intend to begin to enforce the laws of Lagos State. Maybe, your question should be why this interest, go and register? Is it registration alone or are there certain things that come with the registration, for example, certain payments. Yes, there are certain payments that are made because on a yearly basis whoever registers, collects certain amount. Our main focus is not the collection of funds. It is how do we engage this industry for the promotion of our state. That is our main function. We have so many things we are going to do with the hotels and related establishments. It will even cost a whole lot more than we intend to take from them.
When the issue came up last year, the Supreme Court was asked to interpret the constitution as to who has the right to register and grade hotel establishments, what has become of it? It was supposed to be between Lagos and the Federal Government.
No, it was supposed to be between Lagos and the NTDC. The NTDC took us to court. It took all state houses of assembly to court and said they are the only one that should register and regulate the industry. The only thing I can say about that is that he who asserts is the one that should prove. They went to court. They should, therefore, prove. Having said that, the case has been in court and has not been diligently pursued by the NTDC. I have started to seek internal opinion on whether we should go ahead to the Supreme Court and have this case struck out for want of prosecution.
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In this course, professional animator and director Lee Lanier shows how to create render passes in Autodesk Maya, recombine the passes in Adobe After Effects, and motion track the passes to live-action video footage that contains a moving camera or a moving character. The course covers both the Render Layer Editor and mental ray contribution pass systems. Additionally, 1- and 2-point motion tracking and match moving, stabilization, and 4-point corner pin tracking are discussed.
We're now ready to move project 2 into After Effects, so the first thing we'll do is bring in the spaceship render from Maya. Now before I do that I want to check a few things and make sure the footage is interpreted correctly. First thing I'll do is go to Edit > Preferences > Imports and make sure the Sequence Footage is set 24 frames per second that the speed that the original live-action was shot at, so we want to match that. I also want to check the Project Settings and make sure I'm set to frames, it's a easier way to work with image sequences. All right! Let's bring the footage in, File > Import > File and have a spaceship render saved out in the Renders folder under Shot2Ship.
I want to just pick the first frame of the image sequence, make sure that Photoshop Sequence is checked--which it is--and Open that. Now just like project 1, because a render passes are stuffed into layered PSDs, what I can do is choose individual layers and bring them in one at a time, so I'm going to click Choose layer and here are all of the different layers in that file. Now I don't need the background, I don't need the MasterBeauty, but I do need all of the other passes. So I am going to start with the bottom one and working the way out, and so matte first, now I am going to go back and repeat the process.
So here are all our render passes from Maya. Now I also want to get the original live-action footage too. So File > Import > File, and this is saved under the Footage folder under Shot2. So first frame, make sure it's clicked to Sequence, and Open. Now because we checked our preferences, we know that these are all interpreted 24 frames per second, which is correct. So now that we have the footage imported, we can assemble a spaceship into its own composition, so there is no competition yet, in fact, it says None right here.
What I can do is pull down the first render pass and have the program automatically create a composition that has the correct resolution, duration, and frame rate. So let's start with the Diffuse layer, diffuseNoShadow, we'll pull that down, drop it in, and there it is. So let's assemble it, let's pull some more render passes down. Next thing I'll grab is shadowRaw, pull that down put it on top. Now again the shadowRaw pass creates a white shadow over a black field, and because there's no proper Alpha, it includes what's below it.
So what we have to do is invert this first, so I'm going to apply Effect > Channel > Inverts, so now we have black over white, then I need to change the blending mode. In this case for a shadow, it's great to use Multiply. Here's the blending mode menu. Now if you don't see it, you can always click Toggle Switches. There, it goes away, and here it is again, so I'm going to change the shadow layer to Multiply, and that multiplies the shadow over the spaceship, diffuse in this case and darkens a little bit, particularly around the fin.
Next thing I will do is grab the reflection, so I'm going to back to my list of footage here, we can use this little scroll bar to find it, there is the Project tab, grab the reflection, pull that down. And reflection needs a blending mode like screen, again, not proper Alpha, you want to just keep the bright areas. So I'm going to go back to the blending mode, change that to Screen, and then I want to grab the specular, same situation, pull that, put it on top, that needs a Screen also, I just want to save the bright areas. And last, incandescence, hold that down, put that on top, and these are just bright logos over a black field, so Screen works great for that also.
So there's a reassembled ship. There is one more render pass, we're going to use that later, which is the matte pass. Now all the passes are stacked together in their own composition, we can nest the composition later to move that as a single unit, but since I have all these render passes in separate layers, I can adjust them individually. For example, I can increase the intensity of the reflection in the specular highlight, so I can go to the reflection layer and apply an effect to adjust that. In this case the curves effect is great for adjusting the contrast and brightness. So I am going to go up to Effect > Color Correction > Curves, and if we want to brighten that reflection I can click to put a point here and pull this up, and there it becomes brighter.
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In honour of its 75th anniversary this year, DC Comics is doing a series called DC Universe Legacies, which retells the history of the DC Universe ; it's drawn by a host of famous artists and penned by the great Len Wein (preview of #2 here; reviews here and here). Of course, like any history there is an opportunity to throw in a few retcons. While reading DC Universe Legacies #2 (August 2010), what did my eagle eyes spy but a plot to steal the Markovian Crown Jewels.
I'm presently writing a history of the infamous character Tara Markovhere. The Markovs were only invented in the 1980s, but with this issue, their family is being inserted into Golden Age DC arcs. Golden Age stories were originally published by DC in the 1940s; the stories summarized by Wein's DC Universe Legacies have so far covered events inside the DC Universe of the 1920s and 1930s. And in this issue, a gang of 1930s thieves break into a museum (in Gotham?) to steal the Crown Jewels and a portrait of an eighteenth or nineteenth century Markovian royal - who looks suspiciously like Tara Markov, the Titan who died in a DCU story set in the 1980s. Many will say this is just a family resemblance to an ancestor. But these are comic books, where such obvious explanations will never do. Seeing that portrait, I immediately thought of the old Hammer horror film, Countess Dracula. That movie picked up on an idea in other Hammer films and in other contemporary horror films, like The Haunted Palace, starring Vincent Price and based on the story by H. P. Lovecraft. A noble family has a female member of dubious parentage who is introduced as a daughter, niece or cousin. Yet curious visitors are puzzled to see her exact likeness reappearing in a much older portrait or a statue at a gravesite. It turns out that the obscure, eternally young girl is the immortal founder of the whole family legacy. This is the kind of mystery that might suit Tara Markov, if her immortality depended on her status as an earth elemental, rather than as a vampire. There are now three Blood Countess movies out or coming out, all about a terrifying powerful woman from a noble Central East European family. The history behind the story: the Hungarian Blood Countess. For the rest of this post, see my main blog here.


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Warren Spector Paper: Early Works comprises eighteen 5.25-in floppy disks divided between two small floppy disk boxes. The disks contain files from the early-to-late-1980s. The earliest date observed was 1982 and the 1988 the latest. Due to the somewhat nebulous state of electronic records, and to the fact that exhaustive analysis of file contents has not taken place, these dates are not certain, but nevertheless provide helpful general contours to a fascinating period in Spector's life.
Based on labels and file names, it appears that these disks were created during the incipient stages of Spector's career: files ranging from academic notes such as "PhD Ideas" from the early 1980s to his novel, The Hollow Earth Affair, published in 1988. As such, the disks chronicle Spector's eschewing graduate school in favor of a career as a game developer at SJG and later TSR.
Spector has compared working at these companies as the undergraduate and graduate programs for a professional in the gaming field. Working with pencil-and-paper and board role-playing games laid the foundation for future success as he helped introduce first-person shooter and other video games based on the role-playing model. Further exploration of these files is necessary in order to flesh out a more comprehensive analysis of their contents.
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