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That's why they sat next to each other, he said.
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"I'm not saying it's extortion or bribery. But it's pay to play, and it's an ugly business," Fitton said today. "I think Gov. Shumlin shoud explain why it is he thinks it's appropriate to offer access to special intersts in exchange for donations, and what policies, if any, were discussed at these meetings."
Lofy says they've picked the wrong target. Shumlin's record against the pharmaceutical lobby in particular, Lofy said today, is unassailable.
"No governor in the country has a stronger or more consistent record of standing up to the pharmaceutical industry than Gov. Shumlin," he said. "From fighting for fair drug pricing to standing up to predatory data mining, Gov. Shumlin has time and again fought Pharma on behalf ofVermont consumers. This attack illustrates just how little this extreme right wing Washington group knows about the governor's record andVermont's history of opposing the pharmaceutical industry."
It's worth noting that the Judicial Watch story stemmed from a March 7 records request relating to a totally different story the organization was working on. All the Democratic governors were FOIAed. Shumlin's office just happened to be the first to respond, and the documents they produced included an itinerary documenting the DGA donor dinners.
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|By the way of Herne Bay (a biographical note)
|by Harvey, Glenn
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|Glenn, A fascinating article (and thanks for the name-check at the end!). I continue filming this month (8 August is when MD arrived in Herne Bay) and would like to talk with you some more about the project as a whole. The film will be shown in Folkestone next April, when I'll also be launching the chess tables to commemorate MD's participation in the Olympiad there in 1933. Is your previous email address still working? Or perhaps you could mail me? It'd be good to meet you again before too long. I think I may have discovered some more interesting connections... With best wishes, Jeremy
|By Jeremy Millar
Some time ago, during the early weeks of summer, my partner and I borrowed a friend's Volkswagen camper van and set off from north London to spend a weekend in the north Kent coastal resort of Herne Bay (Fig. 1). The VW was rather tired and neither of us wanted to tempt fate by travelling too far or too fast. Besides, we had just the weekend to ourselves and had to be back at work the following Monday. I was aware Duchamp had spent some part of the summer of 1913 in Herne Bay, but beyond that well, there were other parts of his life and work that were more interesting to me. His time in Herne Bay was worth little more than a short passage, a piece of ephemera, or a wrong date in a 'Complete Works'.(1) So that Friday afternoon, as the sun shone down on London's Stoke Newington, Herne Bay had its attractions as an easy destination, giving my partner and I the opportunity to spend a quiet couple of days by the sea-side, soaking up the Victorian ambience in one of Marcel's temporary abodes.
A few hours later, we found a camp-site in Herne village, dumped our gear and set off for the sea-front. I was interested in what had become of the pier. I had been told by a locally connected friend that the pier was no more - victim to corporate penury, gale-force winds, wild seas and fires - and that Herne Bay was now, the 'pretty dull' relation to its more fashionable near-neighbour, Whitstable. On this particular evening the main car park on the Herne Bay sea-front was a playground for local youth displaying their car-handling skills before their girlfriends. We parked up in the middle of all this mobile testosterone and, with some anxious, backward-looking regard for the well-being of our borrowed vehicle, took a walk along the promenade in the warm evening sun.
Out to sea, isolated some three quarters of a mile from the beach, were the spidery remains of the former pier end. Above the foreshore, squatting like some glorified Wal-Mart shed, a charmless piece of 1970's brutalist architecture - the 'new' Pavilion. In these circumstances I often get a slight feeling of being on a ghost hunt; longing to become not so much the corporeal self - but to put on the cloak, the mantle - in order to summon up a history that if not completely lost, is recorded somewhere.
We walked to the new pavilion and I took some photographs. Not sure why really. Nothing to remind me of Note 78 any more. Perhaps the elegant pale trace of the old Pavilion would appear on the negatives. I wondered where Lynton College might be. The building was probably long gone. Nevertheless, I had an image of some Victorian gothic edifice in my mind - it was after all a 'college'. It had to look like one.
As the sun continued its descent beyond the horizon and a big moon appeared from behind the rows of houses on the sea-front, we made our way back to the camper van. It was still there, intact - amidst the sporadic melee of screeching tyres and shouting engines. It started first time, even. Typical.
The architectural elegance of the Herne Bay sea front was largely preserved - apart from the dreadful new pavilion. But still, I felt short-changed in some way. There seemed hardly any recognisable clue to Marcel's sojourn in this place. No traces. But then, what in earth was I expecting? A sign somewhere, perhaps - 'Herne Bay twinned with Blainville-Crevon'? Despite all my selfish wishes to the contrary, the impact of Duchamp's physical surroundings was hardly that of a realist. And this was just a short weekend break. However this logic was somehow escapable. In London there was a play being performed - 'Vincent in Brixton' I think it was called. It was an imaginary essay on Van Gogh's early development. And yet, here, perhaps Marcel passed lightly through these particular surroundings. No painful existential crises, no creative agonising - just 'as much tennis as possible'. The only traces here seemed to be of my own invention.
'I am very down at the moment and doing absolutely nothing. It's very irritating when it's like this. I am going away in August to spend some time in England.' (2)
Everything was out of reach or simply wasn't available. As we walked back to the VW, I resolved to come back to this place and attempt some 'serious research'.
Herne Bay, around this time, I was to discover, drew many French students to the town to learn English. The town was teaming with visitors at the beginning of August 1913. It was the last public holiday before Christmas and the last of the summer (The English August 'bank holiday' was at the start of the month. Nowadays it falls at the end of August).
A few weeks later I took the train from London's Victoria station; this time alone. It was another fine summer's day, a late Friday morning. The train wend its way out through the crushed suburbs of south-east London towards the north Kent coast. The carriage was virtually empty. I couldn't help but wonder if Marcel and Yvonne had come this way. Or had they travelled to Herne Bay from the channel coast? I made a mental note to check the train timetables for August 1913. The countryside was lush and green. Kent is known in the tourist literature as 'The Garden of England' and indeed, in the postcard to Bergmann, Marcel remarks, uncharacteristically, on the beauty of the countryside.
I leave the train at Herne Bay station- the Victorian station frontage largely unchanged from the time of Marcel and Yvonne's visit. I walk from the station on the outskirts of the town down 'Station Road'. Earlier that week I had stumbled across a web-site on Herne Bay, put together by a local man. Part of the web-site was composed of photographic, 'virtual' journeys along prominent Herne Bay byways. Station Road was one of them. It would otherwise have been so easy to have missed the black gas lamp standards (Fig. 5 & 6), manufactured by 'Beck and Co. Ltd London', and now long disused - that mark progress down this road towards the town centre.
A few more photographs - and I head straight for the Herne Bay Museum and Art Gallery. Here things take a turn. 'Marcel Duchamp? In Herne Bay? You interested in him as well.' One of the museum's staff turns out to be somebody who was considering doing their PhD dissertation on the Duchamp -Herne Bay connection. Christine Ramsay puts me in touch - there and then - with a prominent local historian by the name of Harold Gough. I was looking for Lynton College, I say over the 'phone. 'It was in Downs Park, No 2', Harold informs me. We talk about Duchamp's postcard to Dumouchel and Duchamp's reference to playing lots of tennis. There used to be tennis courts on the land to the rear of the college Harold tells me. My first real on-site 'lead' and I'm starting to feel like a detective on the trail of a heinous crime. I didn't have a town map but Christine gives me directions.
Well, Lynton College in Downs Park road has long gone. But the buildings survive - for there is more than one. In fact a bright yellow estate agent's sign-board outside number sixteen betrays the fact that this part of the old college building has just been sold (Fig. 7, 8 & 9). I ruminate on the lost opportunity to pose as a potential buyer and have a look around the place. More photographs and at last I feel as though I'm getting somewhere.
And in the town's street index of the time, the college is registered as a 'school for young ladies' (Principals - Mrs. And Miss Wilson). Nearby in the same street was L'école Internationale, run by another Wilson. Obviously a family affair
In the 19th century Herne Bay had developed quite rapidly as a coastal satellite community to the medieval village of Herne, just a mile or two inland. Typically, in the early years of the community, smuggling was a significant local 'industry'. But later in the nineteenth century, as well as a steamer staging post for maritime coastal travellers between London and Margate, it was a fashionable destination in its own right for the Victorian and later still, Edwardian city dwellers seeking to escape the growing bustle and noise of London. 19th century Herne Bay - in part - developed around its successive piers.(6) By 1913 an imposing structure - essentially a third replacement of earlier structures - stretched out from the north Kent coast for 3,636 feet. Its length made it the second longest pier in England after the pier at Southend - its northerly cousin which survives to this day on the north side of the Thames Estuary.####PAGES####
The importance of this Pavilion for the town can be judged from the fact that some of the design drawings were reproduced on the front page of the local newspaper, the Herne Bay Press. (Fig. 12)
This surviving Duchamp note (Note 78, above right) (Fig. 13) indicates a different sort of significance. Gough-Cooper and Caumont, in their 'Ephemerides ' write, quoting Duchamp's notes, "As 'a magical (distant) backdrop' for his Large Glass, Marcel is impressed by the Pier Pavilion and envisages 'garlands of lights against a black background (or a background of the sea, Prussian blue and sepia) Arc lights - figuratively fireworks."(7) The accompanying scrap of surrounding text to the image of the Grand Pier Pavilion has been 'completed' by Harold Gough, who by now, I have come to know as the honorary curator of the 'Herne Bay Historical Records Society' (8)
'The Pier was operated by a Private Company until 1909, when it was purchased and improved by the local authority The Grand Pier Pavilion was erected by the Council in 1910, and was opened on the 3rd August by the Lord Mayor of London (Sir John Knill) '
I initially had my doubts whether Duchamp had obtained this scrap of paper during his 1913 visit, but was put right Harold Gough writes to me,
'There is no reason to think that Marcel Duchamp did not acquire this [Note 78] during his 1913 visit. It happens that in July 1913, just before he arrived another feature of the town was opened with great éclat.
On the East Cliff, not far from Downs Park, in fact, there had been a bandstand erected over a small shelter and deck-chair store, which could also serve as a band auditorium in wet weather. This was a gift to the town in 1904, by the developer of the roads on the East Cliff area, Thomas Dence. When King Edward VII died there was much discussion of a suitable memorial in the town, and it was decided to add to the bandstand building by excavating a Hall under the Downs to which the lower story would become the vestibule.
This theatre/concert hall/dance hall would be called the King Edward VII Memorial Hall, and while the King's widow, Queen Alexandra, was unlikely to perform the opening ceremony, it was found that the late King's sister, Princess Beatrice, formally known as Princess Henry of Battenberg would be willing to do so. Edward Fuchs, who had made the effigy for the Edward coinage, was commissioned to carve a large marble plaque to front the box-office; so you can imagine the actual Day was a big one for Herne Bay. Bronze medals were provided for all and sundry, especially the school children, and July 13 was when it all came together.
Fred C. Palmer [the photographer credited with the image on Note 78 - GH] was a prominent local photographer with premises on the sea front, and he really went to town on producing postcard souvenirs of the event something on local history would have been a popular handout or souvenir. Copies might well have been distributed to hotels, boarding houses, and even schools, so that M.D. could well have found one at 14 Downs Park '
Although Note 78 is not from any newspaper, Fred C. Palmer was a regular contributor to the Herne Bay Press: (Fig. 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18)
In the Gough Cooper and Jaques Caumont 'Ephemerides', there are several references to Marcel and Yvonne's visit to Herne Bay. These meticulous recorders of duchampiana note but a very small selection of the wide variety of entertainments that were available to Marcel and Yvonne;(9) among them, an English version of a French farce, 'Oh I Say' which played to packed houses for three nights from August 11th (Fig. 19), and a film show at the Bijou Theatre, 'East Lynne' and 'Trilby' ('Pictures and Varieties Twice Nightly').(Fig. 20)
'Oh I Say' played at the Grand Pier Pavilion
Theatre to nightly audiences of over a thousand so the Ephemerides places
emphasis on this French farce, not perhaps without good reason (the original
had previously played to full houses in Paris enjoying 800 nights at the
Palais Royal). But there were other exciting events occurring that month
that might have drawn the attention of Marcel and Yvonne - again, from,
The Herne Bay Press: (Fig. 25)
It was a mere five-minute walk from 14 Downs Park to the Kings Hall theatre - where there was also an open-air bandstand. The Duchamps would have heard the music carried by the brisk north-easterly winds that prevailed at the start of August. Attendances were reaching 1500 for some concerts at the Kings Hall. And at the Grand Pier Pavilion theatre there was also a 'French Composers Night' which, according to the Herne Bay Press, ' proved very popular.' In the town's Victoria Park, the Herne Bay Lawn Tennis Club four-day tournament attracted over 400 entries 'from all parts' and had 'large attendances of the public each day '
Through a Herne Bay local history website, I get in touch with artist-witer-curator, Jeremy Millar. Living in near-by Whitstable, Jeremy was also looking for the site of Lynton College and is preparing to make a film based on Marcel's stay in Herne Bay.
'And, by the way', Jeremy asks, 'Do you know about the colony of rare wasps in the cliffs not far from Downs Park?'
1. Calvin Tomkins, in his biography of Duchamp, covers Marcel's and Yvonne's sojourn in Herne Bay thus: In August 1913, Duchamp went to England with his eighteen-year-old sister, Yvonne, who needed a chaperone while she took a three-week course in English at Lynton College in Herne Bay, on the north coast of Kent. Writing from there to his old friend Raymond Dumouchel in Paris, he makes the trip sound like a carefree vacation: "Superb weather. As much tennis as possible. A few Frenchmen for me to avoid learning English, a sister who is enjoying herself a lot." Even on holiday, though, Duchamp continued to work on the Glass. Several detailed notes and sketches done at Herne Bay that summer deal with the workings of the bride's sex cylinder , or wasp, and with the arcane concept of the pendu femelle. / From Herne Bay, Marcel and Yvonne travelled to London, where they spent four days exploring the city - Yvonne acting as translator for her indulgent older brother. And Alice Goldfarb Marquis in 'Marcel Duchamp - The Bachelor Stripped Bare': 'Duchamp had indulged his newfound taste for travel during the summer of 1913 with a trip to England. He worked on more notes for the Large Glass while spending several weeks in Herne Bay, Kent, chaperoning his sister, Yvonne, who was taking a course in English.' Arturo Schwarz in his 'Complete Works', wrongly dates the Herne Bay notes and studies to July, 1913.
2. Marcel Duchamp to Walter Pach, Wednesday, 2nd July 1913, Neuilly, 'Affect/Marcel - The Selected Correspondence of Marcel Duchamp', Eds. Francis M. Naumann and Hector Obalk, trans. Jill Taylor, Thames and Hudson, London 200, p28.
3. On Saturday 30th August, having received his 600 francs, Duchamp sends an acknowledgement note from Herne Bay to the Association of American Painters and Sculptors. See Jennifer Gough-Cooper and Jacques Caumont, 'Ephemerides on and about Marcel Duchamp and Rrose Selavy 1887-1968' in Marcel Duchamp - Work and Life, The MIT Press, 1993.
4. Marcel Duchamp to Walter Pach, Wednesday, 2nd April 1915, Paris, 'Affect/Marcel - The Selected Correspondence of Marcel Duchamp', Eds. Francis M. Naumann and Hector Obalk, trans. Jill Taylor, Thames and Hudson, London 200, p34. Indeed, for two years Duchamp did work in New York as a librarian at the French Institute. See: Calvin Tomkins, Duchamp - a biography, Chatto and Windus, London, pp154-155.
5. Thanks to Francis Naumann for kindly providing me with a photocopy of this postcard.
6. Harold Gough, 'Herne Bay's Piers', Herne Bay Historical Records Society, Pierhead Publications, 2002.
7. Jennifer Gough-Cooper and Jacques Caumont, 'Ephemerides on and about Marcel Duchamp and Rrose Selavy 1887-1968' in Marcel Duchamp - Work and Life, The MIT Press, 1993. Entry for 8th August.
8. Letter to the writer from Harold Gough, 9th September 2003.
Just in terms of cinemas alone, there was the 'Grand Cinema', opened the previous
year (famous locally then for having its name spelt out in no less than 292
electric lights); the 'Paragon Cinema' (first opened in August 1911 as the 'Cinema
De Luxe') further along the High Street from the 'Bijou Theatre' (opened 19th
August 1912). The Paragon was also decorated at night with electric amber, ruby,
green and blue fairy lights. Films were also shown at the Pier Pavilion and
the 'St. Georges Hall' - from 1910. All in all, Herne Bay was extremely well
catered for when it came to cinemas. In the pre-television days of 1913, the
town had more cinema theatres than it does now.


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The rejected resolution also contained a 30-cent an hour raise for part-time employees and $750 pay raises for the current fiscal year for the jail administrator, a legal assistant at the public defenders office and one clerical position apiece at the county clerk and probation office.
Labor's Union representative Joe Hill told the board it was unfair to exclude union members from the $500 payment. "At the table we had agreed that due to the fact that the county was having financial difficulties and everything else, we agreed that if everybody in the county would go a year without a pay increase, the same with what we already had, then we would accept the proposal that was on the table. We bargained this in good faith", said Hill.
Board member Louie Fogleman agreed and presented an amended motion. "As far as I'm concerned, everyone at the courthouse deserves more money than what they are making. They're all underpaid and overworked. We have a lot of quality people working all through the courthouse and in Marion County. Unfortunately we can't pay them what they're worth, but we should keep everybody on a fair and equal basis", said Fogleman.
When asked where the money would come from, Fogleman said if they could afford to go over budget to pay the attorney that helped the county with negotiations they could afford to pay their employees out of the contingency fund. Board member Dr. Creighton Engel wasn't so quick to dismiss the budget concerns.
"If we've got an expanding deficit, and we haven't reduced the deficit yet, you've got to get your deficit down first before you do anything else, and to me, I think you have to look at the budget as a whole, see if you can cut areas there, and then you can come back and afford to give raises. But if you don't have the money, all you're doing is keep digging a hole. That's what the state and the federal government has done, and we're no different", said Engel.
Fogleman's amendment to provide the $500 back pay to all employees failed on an 8-6 vote with one member passing. A vote on the original resolution that included the back pay and salary increases for non-union employees was rejected on a nine to six vote. While the employees in the circuit clerk's office are non-union, they already received a raise for the current year through money Circuit Clerk Ronda Yates had in her budget.
Yates reported to the board Tuesday night her employees have been placed into different classifications that will result in some getting additional pay raises through fees collected in her office.
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Southeastern Louisiana walks past Islanders baseball
Teams combine for 24 walks
CORPUS CHRISTI - It was a fitting way for Texas A&M-Corpus Christi to surrender the lead for the first time — and for good — Friday night.
Southeastern Louisiana's baseball team took its first advantage of the game — that coming in the 12th inning — without the benefit of a hit to set up the scoring.
The Lions pushed across a couple of runs in the top of the 12th on a pair of walks and a pair of errors. In a 4 hour, 42 minute contest that featured the monotony of 24 walks total by both teams, SLU managed to endure, overcoming a six-run deficit for a 13-11 victory in the opener of the three-game Southland Conference series at Chapman Field.
The Islanders (9-9, 2-2) issued 13 walks and committed four errors. While the free passes — and two hit batsmen — were issues, A&M-Corpus Christi coach Scott Malone was more downcast about the fielding woes, which allowed the Lions (14-5, 2-2) to bring across five unearned runs.
"I told the guys I've been around baseball for 16 years. I'm not going to stomp my foot or throw a bucket of balls. I've seen some crazy stuff," Malone said. "I'm disappointed in the things we can control.
"I've said we're a pitching-first team, and we didn't pitch very well. For us to make four errors and Southeastern one — we started four seniors in the infield, guys who I think are some of the best defenders in the league — that's what I'm disappointed about."
Both teams finally came across the right pitchers to find the strike zone. Islanders closer Philly Garcia (0-1) came on in the seventh inning, but didn't leave until the 12th, tossing 68 pitches.
But the 12th was his undoing. After Brock Hebert singled and stole second — A&M-Corpus Christi catcher Santiago Ruiz had thrown out three runners trying to steal second from the eighth inning through the 11th — Garcia continued the trend of catching the runner, picking Hebert off second.
But Garcia's control finally deserted him, and he issued two walks. Then, as baserunner Cody Gougler broke for second, Jonathan Pace, at that base, broke back to the bag. Instead of running toward the baserunners, Ruiz threw to second baseman Jeramie Marek. Pace took off for third and Marek's throw was into the runner. Both runners were safe and now at second and third with one out.
Ladd Rhodes then hit a chopper to Marek that caromed off the fielder's shoulder. The winning run scored and a little insurance came home as well.
A good sign of what was to come — and what had transpired — occurred in the Lions' sixth. With the Islanders holding a 9-3 lead, SLU put up a five spot without getting a hit, scoring on five walks, a hit batsman and an error.
The teams at last regained their pitching. SLU's Jason Greenleaf (1-0) brought the A&M-Corpus Christi offense back down to Earth. The team, which scored in double figures for the first time this season after averaging at least 10 runs every five games last year, was checked by Greenleaf.
Like Garcia, he adjusted to not getting the outside call and going for the inside pitch, as favored by the home-plate umpire.
"I just knew how to throw strikes and trusted my defense," said Greenleaf, who now has an 0.38 earned-run average. "If I see them in, I'm going in with it. If I can live on the outside half, that's where I'm going."
Greenleaf said he likely never has topped 50 pitches in a game, but threw 108 Friday night, allowing only five hits and two walks in six innings.
"My head was into the game," he said. "I wasn't even thinking pitch count."
Lions closer Stefan Lopez threw an almost perfect 12th — marred, of course, only by a walk — preventing the Islanders from scoring during the final six innings of the game.
W – Greenleaf (1-0). L – Garcia (0-1). Sv – Lopez (7). 2B – SLU: Hebert, Rhodes, Gougler 2. A&M-CC: Weiss. 3B – A&M-CC: Porras, Weiss.
W — Greenleaf (1-0). L — Garcia (0-1). Sv — Lopez (7). 2B — SLU: Hebert, Rhodes, Gougler 2. A&M-CC: Weiss. 3B — A&M-CC: Porras, Weiss.
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It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. In 2008, historian Tony Judt learnt that he was suffering from a disease that would eventually trap his extraordinary mind in a declining and immobile body. At night, sleepless in his motionless state, he revisited the past in an effort to keep himself sane, and his dictated essays form a memoir unlike any you have read before. Each one charts some experience or remembrance of the past through the sieve of Tony Judt's prodigious mind. His youthful love of a particular London bus route evolves into a reflection on public civility and interwar urban planning. Memories of the 1968 student riots of Paris meander through the sexual politics of Europe, a series of roadtrips across America lead not just to an appreciation of American history, but to an eventual acquisition of citizenship. And everything is as simply and beautifully arranged as a Swiss chalet - a reassuring refuge deep in the mountains of memory.
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Tony Judt was educated at King's College, Cambridge and the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, and taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and Berkeley. He was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New York University; in addition to Director of the Remarque Institute, which is dedicated to the study of Europe and which he founded in 1995. The author or editor of fourteen books, Professor Judt was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Republic, the New York Times and many other journals in Europe and the US. Professor Judt is the author of Ill Fares the Land, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, and Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, which was one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2005, the winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He died in August, 2010 at the age of sixty-two.
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"Witty, profound, controversial... Wonderfully written... A wellspring of enlightenment you need to spend time with" -- Peter Preston Observer "Tony Judt, had a wonderful prose style, and his little book The Memory Chalet, a collection of autobiographical essays, is beautiful and moving. Although Judt, who suffered from motor neurone disease, died earlier this year, this late work is more sustaining than sad" -- John Banville Guardian, Books of the Year "Quintessentail Judt: humane, fearless, unsparingly honest" Financial Times "The book is simultaneously awe-inspiring and almost too painful to bear... His head, that of a great historian, political writer and charismatic intellectual, was a treasure house" -- Diana Athill Literary Review "A book to treasure... Witty, profound, contraversial" Observer
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There have been many changes over the years, but one thing remains the same — Willamette continues to provide an outstanding educational experience to high-quality students. A strong tradition of alumni support made your Willamette experience possible. Today, we ask you to pay it forward. Then and now, alumni support has enriched the lives of Bearcats. Help today's students and faculty with their life stories by making your gift today.
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I was driving down a San Diego freeway with my brother Rodney. We were in my wife's bright red Mustang convertible, with the top down.
I'd just picked him up from the airport. Over the noise of the air whistling by us—at 80 MPH—we were catching up on lives, careers and kids.
Coming around a curve, I spotted a highway patrol motorcycle cop with a radar gun. Before the cop had even got his bike started, I was slowing down and pulling over…
I fully expected to see the Officer in my rearview mirror with lights flashing. But to our surprise, he passed us, making a "follow me" motion with his hand.
Then He Sped Up
In fact, we were almost back to our original speed as we tried to keep up with him. Rodney joked that it might be best to take one of the exits that were whipping by us.
Finally, the motorcycle caught up with a black SUV. The cop flipped on his lights, and the SUV pulled over at the next exit, parking on the shoulder.
There we were, the three of us lined up: SUV with what looked like a young mother at the wheel, the cop's Harley, red and blue lights still flashing, and then my wife's red sports car with two middle-aged guys.
The policeman walked back to our car first. Taking off his shiny sunglasses he asked, "Ever heard of that show, Let's make a deal?"
"Yes," I said, "but you don't look like Monty Hall."
Without smiling he said, "Here's the deal: I'm going to go write that woman a ticket, and I'm going to give you a warning. But, if I give you the warning first she's going to be all upset. So, if you'll sit here patiently while I write her a ticket, I'll let you off with a warning. How's that deal sound?"
"Ah… OK!"
Sure enough, he walked up to the lead car. After an animated conversation, he handed the woman a ticket and she drove off.
At this point I was pretty sure I wasn't getting a ticket, but Rodney didn't share my confidence (as he commented later, I was the one driving so he wasn't worried anyway). The policeman returned to our car and said, "Do you know why I'm not giving you a ticket?"
I Did Understand—That's Why I Pulled Over
I didn't say anything and let him continue.
"Because you didn't make me chase you. You were going to pull over. You knew that you'd done wrong. That woman was right next to you on the freeway and she kept going. She made me chase her down. Have a nice day."
I was relieved that my instincts and experience helped me make a split-second decision, but Rodney was dumbfounded.
Even after thinking on it for several weeks, Rodney still couldn't figure out why. I'll let him pick up the narrative.
Rodney's Story
A cop sees two cars speeding. He gives the SUV-driving soccer mom a ticket, but allows the two middle-aged guys in the candy-apple-red convertible off with a warning?
I couldn't get what happened out of mind. Fast-forward a few months, and I'm driving through Lehi, a small town in Utah. I've picked up a member of my team and we're headed to pick up another member who lives nearby.
While driving down Frontage Road, next to the freeway, my friend says, "That's a cop up there."
I ask, "What's the speed limit on this road?"
"Uh, 25."
I'd thought it was 40. I immediately slowed down, but if we could see him, he easily would have gotten us on radar. As we got closer I could see that there was a patrolman sitting in the car.
I pulled in front of his car and stopped. My friend gave me a strange look—like, "Do you want to get a ticket?"
The policeman got out of his car as I rolled down my window.
"Do you know how fast you were going?"
"No, Officer Boss, honestly I don't. But it was certainly more than 25." (Yes, his name really was "Officer Boss"—it was on his name tag.)
"I clocked you going 49."
"Well, I thought the speed limit was 40, so I guess I was speeding even by my estimate."
After asking us about who we were and where we going, he went back to his car to run my license. My friend, belatedly told me about the number of people who drive too fast on this road. After a few minutes, Boss was back at my window.
"I'll bet if I give you a warning, you'll NEVER go 49 on this road again."
"Officer Boss, if you give me a warning, I'll never go 26 on this road again!"
"Have a nice day."
That's when I finally figured out why my brother didn't get a ticket for doing 80 on a San Diego freeway. And I figured out why I didn't get a ticket for going nearly double the limit on a residential street in Utah.
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It's all about exceeding expectations. This is the instinct I acted on when Rodney and I were in the convertible.
Those officers were used to dealing with a certain sort of driver: People who forced the police to chase them down, and then forced the police to prove that they'd been speeding. Basically, most people make the police work really hard.
But Rodney and I didn't. I knew I was speeding, and my brother knew he was speeding. By being willing to own up to our mistakes, we exceeded the officers' expectations.
We made their job easy. And in return, they made our lives easy.
The Moral Of The Story
In business, it's important to own up to the fact that you've made a mistake. Owning your mistakes will achieve three important things:
1. You'll be able to learn from them—in a way that you can't if you're trying to avoid them or find someone to pin the blame on.
2. You'll surprise those around you: No one owns their mistakes! Are you kidding?
3. Your reputation will precede you: If your team is falsely accused of a mistake, people will believe you when you explain that your team didn't screw up. When you own your mistakes, you build credibility.
None of us want to make mistakes, but we all know we all will.
So when it happens, own it. Learn from it. And then move on.
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Wolfpack Volleyball Sweeps Kent State, 3-0
Sept. 1, 2012
RALEIGH, N.C. - NC State's volleyball team took care of business early on Saturday, with its second home victory of the season.
The Wolfpack (5-0), behind the strong play of sophomores Dariyan Hopper and Alesha Wilson, cruised to 3-0 victory over Kent State in its first of two matches on Saturday in the Courtyard Midtown Classic.
The Pack plays Virginia Commonwealth Saturday at 7 p.m. in the final match of the two-day tournament. Earlier on Saturday, South Florida defeated VCU, 3-0.
"We spread the ball around a lot today, which was what we were looking forward," said third-year head coach Bryan Bunn. "I thought Dariyan and Alesha played very well."
Hopper, an outside hitter who was a member of the All-ACC Freshman team last season, had 10 kills on .381 hitting for the Wolfpack, with only two errors in her 21 attacks. Wilson came off the bench to record nine kills, with two errors on 15 attacks for a .467 hitting average.
As a team, the Pack hit a season-high .337.
Senior Megan Cyr had a match-high 31 assists and senior Alexa Micek had 10 digs. The Pack finished the match with five aces, led by Micek with two.
"Megan is a fifth-year senior setter, so she is comfortable running the team," Bunn said. "And they are comfortable playing with her."
The five straight wins to start the season matches 2010 for the Pack's best start since 1995, when NC State opened with seven consecutive victories.
The Pack is now 11-0 in tournament matches played at Reynolds Coliseum under third-year head coach Bryan Bunn and 27-3 overall in all tournament matches in his tenure.


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Poll: Would you prefer Crysis with less prevalent Stealth/Invisibility? (67 votes)
I love Crysis. I did enjoy Crysis 2 as well, even if it was a whole lot less impactful, and clearly a step down ambitions-wise. Crysis 3 seems like it will refine what Crytek has done with Crysis 2 - to the point of perfection. It's the second game in the Crysis 2 series. Take that for what it's worth - to you. Crysis 1 still awaits its first true successor.
Anyways. Stealth was super-restricitive in Crysis 1. Less so in Crysis 2. In Crysis 3 it feels non-restrictive and natural. Full-on predator mode. A great powertrip for sure. That said, it got me thinking - I'd much prefer Crysis gameplay without stealth. I love the movement. I love the Halo-like tough-to-kill survivabilty, and the combat puzzle encounters that come from that.
I think I'd much prefer a Crysis without stealth. Especially in MP. All about in your face hulking-out action. The kind of game where being out-of-cover and exposed feels natural. Giving players larger windows of opportunity for meaningful action. I'm tired of the split-second gameplay of the Call of Duties and Battlefields of the world.
Crysis is the missing link between those games and Halo. If only the extreme reliance of stealth gameplay wouldn't move it away from that, to a more somber and slow pace. I think Crysis would be better being about all-out in-your-face action, which just doesn't mesh with invisibility and stealth.
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The prosthesis as replacement for an amputated breast consists of a shell modelled to the shape of the breast made of elastic material, in which, apart from a filled, slowly flowing mass, at least one elastically deformable, porous molding is provided. The slowly flowing mass advantageously consists of a gel-like or partially vulcanized silicone rubber, due to which the porous molding is substantially fixed in its position in the shell.
1. A breast prosthesis, consisting of a closed envelope of elastic material imitating the natural breast form, containing a molded body of elastically deformable, porous synthetic material occupying a substantial portion of the internal volume defined by said envelope, and a quantity of flowing, only partly vulcanized silicone rubber in direct fludic communication with said body of porous synthetic material, so that the weight of the prosthesis is reduced for a given displacement of volume over the eight which a similarly shaped prosthesis envelope containing only fluid would have.
2. A breast prosthesis according to claim 1, wherein the molding consists of a porous, grid-like filament skeleton.
3. Breast prosthesis according to claim 1, wherein the elastically deformed molding body is arranged in an outer portion of the envelope.
4. Breast prosthesis according to claim 1, wherein the elastically deformable molding body is arranged in a portion of the envelope facing the breast.
5. Breast prosthesis according to claim 1, wherein a free space is provided between the molding body and the only partly vulcanized silicone rubber.
6. Breast prosthesis according to claim 1, wherein the envelope is provided to the arm side with a flap-type continuation, the envelope with its contents and with the continuation is a form-stable, arcuately curved, elastically deformable structure, the surface of the envelope lying on the thorax being essentially concave.
7. Breast prosthesis according to claim 4, wherein the molding body has, in its middle portion, a free passage which aligns with a closable passage of the envelope wall.
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a prosthesis as replacement for an amputated breast, consisting of a shell modelled to the shape of the breast, made of elastic material with a filling of a slowly flowing mass.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Known prostheses of the previously mentioned type which are generally supported by a brassiere and are matched to the thorax have the advantage that the prosthesis can move swingingly like a normal breast with body movements due to the slowly flowing mass, in particular gel-like silicone rubber, and the elastic shell. However, the shell filling makes the prosthesis relatively heavy and it is therefore felt to be uncomfortable by the women.
The object of the invention consists in improving the known prostheses such that their weight is substantially reduced, but that the swinging movements of the prosthesis as with a natural breast continue to be ensured.
This object is achieved according to the invention by at least one elastically deformable, porous molding being provided in the shell of such known prosthesis.
By using the porous molding, which advantageously either has an open-cell, sponge-like structure or consists of a grid-like filament skeleton or filament web, the weight of the prosthesis is substantially reduced as the molding has a relatively low weight due to its porous structure. Due to the structure of the molding, when there are body movements the slowly flowing mass, which consists in particular of gelled or partially vulcanized silicone rubber, can move in and out of the pores or cells of the molding to a partial depth and the molding can deform elastically due to the movement of the gel-like mass so that the prosthesis behaves like a natural breast.
The swinging movement can be promoted by a cavity being provided between the gel-like mass and the molding, promoting the free movement of the mass.
The porous molding can also consist of two or more elements or of several parts, e.g. be laminated or composite. The only partially vulcanized or gelled mass, in particular of silicone rubber, makes the mass penetrate into the pores on the periphery of the molding and, depending the formulation of the composition, gel or vulcanize to a greater or lesser extent from the original liquid state, so that this mass is practically jointed to the molding and substantially fixes this molding in its position fitted in the shell.
In the case of a particularly advantageous embodiment, the molding is arranged in the region of the wall of the shell facing the thorax, so that the other part can remain movable and can swing upon deformation of the molding.
The invention is explained, by way of example, with reference to two exemplary embodiments in the drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 shows a vertical section through a breast prosthesis according to a first example,
FIG. 2 shows a section along the line II--II of FIG. 1,
FIG. 3 shows a vertical section through a breast prosthesis, according to a further exemplary embodiment, and
FIG. 4 shows a horizontal section through the upper region of the prosthesis according to FIG. 1.
According to FIGS. 1 and 2, the prosthesis consists of a closed shell 1, modelled on the natural breast, which is made for example in a known way of elastic, fully vulcanized silicone rubber or of an identically acting, elastic material. This shell 1 is partially filled with a slowly flowing, gel-like mass, in particular with an only partially vulcanized or gelled, and therefore flowing, gel-like silicone rubber 2, this slowly flowing filling part 2 taking up the bottom part of the shell interior when the prosthesis is worn on the body 3. The remaining upper interior of the shell 1 is taken up by an elastically deformable molding 4 of open-cell or continuously open-pore structure, which corresponds to that of a natural or artificial sponge and consists of a suitable plastic or rubber.
This molding 4 advantageously has the structure of a grid-like filament skeleton or of a filament web of rubber, silicone rubber or a plastic, such as for example PVC, polyamide, polyurethane or the like.
Due to the open-cell molding 4, the weight of the prosthesis can be kept extremely low, so that the prosthesis is no longer felt as troublesome by the women and, in particular, with body movements the movement of the flowly flowing mas 2 is not hindered as the mass can elastically deform the molding 4 with movements of the woman's body and penetrate and flow back into and out of the molding 4 at least to a partial depth, so that the prosthesis behaves like a natual breast upon movement of the woman. This movement of the filling mass 2 can be promoted by a cavity 5 being provided between the gel-like mass 2 and the molding 4, into which cavity the mass 2 can flow in and then flow out again.
It is known to provide a prosthesis modelled on the breast with a lateral, lug-like extension which is generally forcibly brought into contact with the side of the thorax by a brassiere, for example to cover the axillary lymph gland region.
In contrast, the approach according to the invention is for the shell 1 of the prosthesis to form on one side the lap-like extension 6 which is filled out by an extension 4a of the molding 4. According to the invention, the molding 4 with the extension 4a and the shaped shell 1 bring the prosthesis into a position in which the prosthesis is an arcuately curved, dimensionally stable, elastic structure, the surface of which in contact with the thorax 3 is substantially concave. Thus, a matching of the prosthesis to the shape of the thorax is achieved from the outset and it is no longer necessary for a brassiere to enforce this fitting shape. The associated embodiment is shown in FIG. 4.
According to the particularly advantageous example of FIG. 3, in which the same reference symbols as FIGS. 1 and 2 are used for the same parts, an elastically deformable, porous molding 4, or several moldings, are fitted into the elastic shell. The molding 4, which may also be made up of several parts or layers, is advantageously located in the region of the shell wall 1a facing the thorax, so that the movable gel-type mass 2 takes up the outer interior of the shell 1, the swinging movement of the breast when the wearer walks simulating particularly well the swinging movement of a natural breast.
In this case, after filling in the shell 1, the flowing mass 2 is intended, depending on the composition, to penetrate to a greater or lesser extent into the pores on the periphery of the molding 4 and assume a gel-like or partially vulcanized state, so that this makes the mass 2 fix the molding 4 substantially in its position in the shell.
In this case, the molding 4 is provided with a channel-shaped passage 7 for filling of the slowly flowing mass 2, and the shell wall 1a must have a passage 1b aligning with the channel, so that filling of the gel-like mass 2 into the shell 1 can take place through these passages. The shell passage 1b is subsequently closed again.
Instead of a gel-like mass of silicone rubber, other masses, such as oils, pastes and the like, may also be used as filling material. Thus, the term "slowly flowing mass" is not necessarily to be understood as a liquid mass. For example, gel-like masses or partially cold-vulcanized masses are in this sense "slowly flowing" if, although they allow themselves to be flowingly elastically deformed under the effect of a force, after the force has been removed they substantially revert to their original shape.
Whilst the invention and many of its attendant advantages will be understood from the foregoing, it will be apparent that various changes may be made in the form, construction and arrangement of the parts, or in the nature of the materials used without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention or sacrificing all of its material advantages, the forms hereinbefore described merely being preferred embodiments thereof.
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Posted: December 20, 2012|
Bath and North East Somerset Council is to receive an extra £1 million for essential road repairs, the Government has announced.
The cash is the district's share of a £215 million transport fund for highway maintenance.
It forms part of the additional £333 million earmarked for roads in the Chancellor's Autumn Statement.
The Government says this is on top of the £3 billion funding already allocated for highways maintenance up to 2015, although the Local Government Association point out this is £442 million less than councils would have received over the same period based on 2010/11 funding levels.
From the additional money, B&NES will get £663,000 in the coming year and £353,000 in 2014/15.
The extra cash can be used for improvements such as road resurfacing, maintenance to bridges or repairing damage caused by severe weather.
However, given the maintenance backlog faced by many local authorities and funding cuts, critics point out it represents a fraction of the total amount needed.


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FIG. 2 is a front elevational view of the left ear muff;
FIG. 3 is a rear elevational view of FIG. 2;
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FIG. 5 is a left side elevational view of FIG. 2;
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FIG. 7 is a top plan view of FIG. 2.
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With all my heart I have loved one man
Wild my heart would beat for him
But he is gone now and I am not sure I will ever understand
My mama told me never fall in love with cowboy
Their hearts are as broken as the soles of their cowboy boots
And their eyes are as cold as the barrels they shoot
But it is a cowboy's love that speak to my heart
The smell of country air
And the gentle touch of a strong hand
But he is gone now I am not sure I will ever understand
Sunsets and cold mountain mornings are all he cares for now
He travels the lonely roads in Tennessee
And I am not sure if he will ever love me
But I will always thee
My mama said dry your eyes
she has always been so wise
For when one love flys south on the wings of a dove
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New Progressive Sipe Technology on New Scooter Tyres
There was good news for scooter enthusiasts yesterday as Michelin announced the launch of their first ever 'Progressive Sipe Technology' (PST) Siped Scooter Tyre – the 'City Grip'. This is the first tyre to feature Michelin's PST, which has been designed to primarily enhance the safety when travelling in wet conditions.
Progressive Sipe Technology's main characteristic is a set of sipes that run the full depth of the tread. Their purpose is to slice through any film of water that is present on wet road surfaces – maintaining the maximum contact possible with the road. Tyres with PST also have a larger number of sipes along their shoulders so that when a scooter leans the grip is greatly increased therefore improving the safety of the rider.
The new scooter range is said to balance the need for good grip and longevity with its specially designed tread pattern which boasts a slick centre and heavily grooved shoulders. This also means that customers can be assured that they are receiving good value for their money as well as a high level of safety from their tyres.
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Clark Reinke, Superintendent for the Plymouth School District, was visited on July 31, 2012. Also present in the meeting were Carrie Dassow, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum & Instruction, and Anne Gamoke, Director of Pupil Services & Special Education. The discussion focused on the four areas concerning district policy; district expectations of new teachers; TPA and producing a student teacher video; and the following programs:
- The Plymouth based Special Education Program and how to gain enrollment in the program.
- A new Principal Licensure Program is now available and is being offered in site-based cohorts or on-campus.
- The Reading Teacher License (316) and Reading Specialist License (317) are both licenses that can aid teachers in the development of programs that focus on the Literacy Common Core Standard that involves all curriculum areas.
- The Educational Leadership Program has the flexibility for districts to choose course work that focuses on their district goals and initiatives. This course work could be made part of an individual Master's of Science Degree for teachers in the district
The following key points were also discussed during the visit:
- New teachers need a strong background in assessment. They must be able to build relationships with students to help them in assessment of the students. They also need to know the Common Core Standards that will be used in their teaching and how to change their instructional approach to implement the standards in their teaching. These areas will be focused on during district interviews for new teachers.
- The change to a student teacher/co-teacher 18-week requirement for student teaching would be a better experience for the student teacher. The district would be interested in gaining more information concerning this new format for student teaching.
- The district will not have a problem with sending out a student teacher video to the Internet. It will also have to send out new permission forms to parents to inform them about the student video being produced in their children's classroom.


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W ith the memory of September 11 seared in our consciousness and terrorism constantly on our minds, it is not impossible to imagine a biological attack on this country. Let me describe for you a hypothetical scenario that could have followed 9/11 were a biological agent released that was transmissible. On September 12, the first case of an outbreak would be documented; a week later 6,674 cases would be recorded; in another week there would be 12,504 cases and 727 deaths. In six months, a quarter of the US population would be infected, and 4 percent would die. Regrettably, this scenario is not purely hypothetical nor is it related to terrorism: these are the precise figures of the outbreak of influenza at Camp Devens, Mass., in 1918. Within six months, 20-40 million people around the world perished from the flu, more than the number that died in the four years of World War I.
The figures described above make it clear that we have more to fear than bioterrorism
alone. In 1991, 17 cases of anthrax and five anthrax-related deaths occurred
in this country. In that same year, there were 20,000 deaths and 100,000 hospitalizations
in the US due to influenza. An additional 40,000 people succumbed to pneumonia.
Yet in contrast to anthrax and smallpox, we currently have safe and effective
vaccines against influenza and pneumococcal pneumonia, which could reduce those
figures dramatically. But what we don't have is a public health infrastructure
that is able to provide these vaccines to those who need them. Infectious diseases
do not respect national boundaries, and it is impossible to predict the natural
emergence and spread of infectious diseases any more than it is to predict infections
introduced by terrorists. Our challenge is to develop public health preparedness
that can provide protection from both.
Of all the threats to the security of this country, bioterrorism may well be the most menacing, since it requires only a few individuals with specialized scientific skills and access to a laboratory to produce lethal biological agents. In contrast to nuclear weapons, which require very large and sophisticated equipment, biological terror operations remain elusive in large part because deadly microbes can be manufactured with equipment that military experts refer to as "dual use"--ordinary commercial catalogue items like fermentors and milling machines that are legitimately used to produce pharmaceuticals, vaccines, cheese, and beer. This makes producing biological agents relatively easy (although their dissemination is not trivial) and predicting bioterrorism attacks extremely difficult.
September 11 and the subsequent anthrax attacks revealed the vulnerability to terrorism of an open society. They particularly revealed the vulnerability of a public health system caused by the long deterioration of this country's public health infrastructure. The current administration and Congress have dedicated significant new funds that would establish many important mechanisms to prepare for and respond to bioterrorism. I was privileged to serve as co-chair, with Joshua Lederberg, of the National Academy of Science's Panel on Countering Bioterrorism and as a member of the parent committee that sought to provide a roadmap of how science and technology can serve to make this nation safer.1 There is an urgent need for research to understand the pathogenesis of previously neglected microbial agents that can be exploited by terrorists and how our immune responses can protect against them. New opportunities for research afforded by the deciphering of the human genome--and the genomes of many microbial pathogens--could allow us to identify possible unique targets for drug design that could selectively disrupt vital processes in the pathogens without damaging our own cells. Unprecedented possibilities exist for developing new and sophisticated diagnostics that could permit very early detection of infections or outbreaks.
Yet too narrow a focus on bioterrorism would squander a unique opportunity to redefine the concept of "dual use" for strengthening the public health system in this country. We need a public health system capable not only of responding to terrorism and catastrophes, which we hope will be rare events, but to the continuing struggle to prevent and prepare for a multiplicity of threats to our health. Stockpiling of drugs and specific vaccines is clearly essential but of limited use if, as we hope, threats are not forthcoming. In contrast, one of the great contributions that schools of public health can make is training our public health workforce, of whom fewer than half currently have any advanced training in public health, let alone in the specialized issues associated with terrorism and health communication. The front line against bioterrorism now must include trained personnel in police and fire departments, postal workers, and teachers, as well as health professionals, which implies a continuing need to provide better and broader education and training in public health preparedness. We are most appreciative that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designated the Harvard School of Public Health as a National Preparedness Center, and we look forward to expanding the School's Internet-based training programs to develop training modules in the broad areas of preparing for and responding to terrorism. The paradigm at the basis of an effective response to any form of terrorism is the classic public health model: surveillance, prevention, response, recovery, and ascertainment.
How can this country create a more integrated and effective public health system to deliver vaccines against influenza and pneumococcal pneumonia, as well as vaccines against anthrax or smallpox if necessary--and deal with the daily mission of preventing major threats to the public's health, from HIV and cancer to obesity and diabetes? Every major city and county should have a modern computerized system to facilitate informed communication, to share the best information on health risks available with the public. Larger cities need to experiment with systems for detecting significant changes in emergency room patterns or unexpected demands for pharmaceuticals that would allow early warning not only of unusual agents, but also the beginning of the influenza season or potential outbreaks of foodborne illnesses, where early action could save many lives. We need to support promising research to explore the possibility that pathogens imprint specific "signatures," or patterns of specific gene expression, in the infected host that could discriminate true infection from terror or fear--thus freeing up health personnel in the event of a bioterrorist attack to tend to those truly in need. These signatures may even allow a good guess about the nature of the microbe long before it can be identified directly. We also need a Public Health Reserve Corps of people in local health departments, laboratories, universities, schools, and hospitals that can provide the surge capacity required in the case of a terrorist attack or any health emergency.
As a nation whose public health capabilities have been stretched to the limit with a few cases of anthrax, we need to recognize the need for investing real resources in people, professional training, communications, local public health departments and labs, and great research institutions, including our schools of public health and medicine. The "dual use" of our resources, not only to guard against the threats of bioterrorism and catastrophes, but to protect against the many other "clear and present dangers" to health as well--infectious diseases, carcinogens and environmental toxins, unnecessary use of antibiotics, unhealthy foods, tobacco, and injuries--will be the best investment we can make to protect the public's health.
Barry R. Bloom
Dean, Harvard School of Public Health
1. National Academy of Sciences. Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism. National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 2001.
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