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State Senator Patricia A. Ritchie, R-Heuvelton, is urging Albany officials to extend next weeks listening session on the future of St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center in order to give north country community members more time to express their support for the facility.
The psychiatric center is the only full-service mental health facility north of the Thruway and employs over 500 local residents.
In a letter sent to the states acting mental health commissioner, Mrs. Ritchie objected to a two-hour time limit for next weeks listening session, to be held at the facilitys Unity Center May 15 from 10 a.m. to noon, when similar sessions were allotted more time.
With more than 100 local residents already signed up to attend, I am concerned that the compressed time frame wont be sufficient to allow state officials to fully gauge the communitys support for the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center, Mrs. Ritchie said in a news release.
The Ogdensburg listening session is the last of 12 being held across the state to collect the publics comments on a plan that could result in consolidation and reduced services at some of the states mental health facilities.
With the exception of Ogdensburgs, all of the sessions are scheduled to stretch at least 2-1/2 hours. The Orangeburg, Binghamton, Rochester, Buffalo, Long Island and New York City visits were each three hours. And the Office of Mental Health scheduled two sessions in each Albany and Syracuse.
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The tenth anniversary of the start of America's illegal and aggressive war against Iraq should not pass without recalling that the mainstream news media eagerly participated in the Bush administration's dishonest campaign for public support. It is no exaggeration to say that most news operations were little more than extensions of the White House Office of Communications. Abandoning even the pretense of an adversarial relationship with the government, the media became shameful conduits for unsubstantiated and outright false information about Saddam Hussein's alleged threat to the American people. Included among the falsehoods were reports that Saddam had a hand in the 9/11 attacks, had trained al-Qaeda fighters, and had attempted to obtain uranium ore and aluminum tubes for nuclear bombs.
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WATERVILLE (NEWS CENTER)- Despite a huge day from Colby College first-year quarterback Justin Ciero (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Wesleyan University stayed unbeaten on the season after scoring 10 points in the final 2:31 of the contest to pull out a 31-28 victory in New England Small College Athletic Conference football Saturday at Seaverns Field at Harold Alfond Stadium.
Wesleyan moves to 3-0 and will journey back up to Maine for a 1 p.m. game next Saturday at Bates College. Colby drops to 0-3 overall and will play at Amherst College next Saturday at 1 p.m.
Sebastian Aguirre (Denville, N.J.) booted a 20-yard field goal with just 34 seconds remaining for the deciding points and then the Cardinals had to hold off a wild final drive by Colby.
LaDarius Drew (Mesquite, Texas) had 112 yards rushing and two touchdowns for Wesleyan, while tight end Kevin Hughes (Boxboro, Mass.) finished with five catches for 115 yards. Cardinal quarterback Jesse Warren (Chicopee, Mass.) threw for 233 yards and one touchdown.
For the Mules, first-year quarterback Justin Ciero (Chappaqua, N.Y.) had his best game of his young career with 283 yards passing, three passing touchdowns, 102 yards rushing, one rushing touchdown and no interceptions. Senior Derrick Beasley, who plays defensive back for the Mules, made his collegiate offensive debut and did it style with two touchdown catches on three grabs for 46 yards.
Ciero gave the Mules a 28-21 lead on a 5-yard touchdown run on the first play of the fourth quarter. Ciero had a 17-yard completion to Michael Lahiff (Melrose, Mass.) and added runs himself of 8 and 13 yards on the drive.
The start of Wesleyan's comeback happened on a bad snap from center with the Mules punting from their own 43-yard line. Wesleyan recovered the ball at Colby's 38-yard line and suddenly had good field position with about five minutes to play.
Warren had five completions on the drive and Drew rushed for 12 yards, including a 5-yard touchdown run with just 2:31 to play to tie it at 28-28.
The Mules went three-and-out on their drive and a 28-yard punt into the wind gave the Cardinals the ball on their own 43-yard line. Drew had the big play of the drive, a 31-yard run to get the ball to the Colby 4-yard line. Three plays later, Aguirre kicked his field goal.
With just 34 seconds and no timeouts, Ciero hit Beasley on a huge 30-yard completion to the Wesleyan 40-yard line. With just seven seconds remaining, Ciero found Indigo Dow (Cambridge, Mass.) for a first down at the Cardinal 22-yard line. Colby argued that time was still left on the clock and it should have been stopped after Dow had the first down, but the officials ruled that time had run out.
Colby held leads of 7-0, 14-7, 21-14, and 28-21 in the game. The Mules took the opening drive 75 yards in 11 plays and converted when Ciero hit Beasley on an 8-yard scoring pass.
Wesleyan had great field position on the Mules' 32-yard line to start a drive after a punt from the end zone. Warren hit Hughes on a 21-yard pass play to set up a 2-yard touchdown run by Kyle Gibson (Ridgewood, N.J.) with 14:33 to play in the second quarter.
Beasley caught his second 8-yard scoring pass from Ciero with 5:46 to play to intermission. Ciero ran for 40 yards on the drive.
Wesleyan nearly ran out the time in making it 14-14 at the break. The Cardinals drove 77 yards on 13 plays, capped off when Warren hit Dan D'Arcy (Concord, Mass.) on a 3-yard scoring pass. Warren threw for 55 yards on the drive and Drew had 20 yards on four rushes.
Jason Buco (Methuen, Mass.) did the job defensively and offensively to get Colby's Family Homecoming Weekend crowd fired up. He intercepted a pass at Colby's 2-yard line to keep Wesleyan from taking the lead. Buco stayed on the field and caught a 94-yard scoring strike from Ciero to put the Mules up 21-14.
Wesleyan quieted the crowd, though, in a hurry. Warren connected with Hughes on a 74-yard pass play to the Colby 1-yard line on the first play of the drive. Drew smashed in from 1 yard out to tie the game again at 21-21.
Donnie Cimino (Westwood, N.J.) made nine tackles for Wesleyan, while Henry Nelson (Reeding, Conn.) had 12 stops for Colby. Buco's interception was his NESCAC-leading fourth of the season.


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Underwater photography is always a challenge, but try doing it at night. That's how David Gruber, a Museum research associate and consultant for the exhibition Creatures of Light: Nature's Bioluminescence, will be spending the next few weeks in the Solomon Islands as he searches for glowing organisms to photograph. Gruber is writing about his experiences for The New York Times's "Scientist at Work: Notes From the Field" blog along with fellow Museum research associate Vincent Pieribone.
"The scientific goals of this trip are manifold," Gruber writes in his first post, "but above all we are after elusive near-infrared fluorescent and bioluminescent molecules to aid in biomedical research." Both bioluminescent animals—creatures that generate light—and biofluorescent organisms—which absorb light and re-emit it at other wavelengths—have wide applications in medicine by allowing certain cells, such as those within cancerous tumors, to be visually tagged and tracked.
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In 1950, as part of a publicity campaign, the Hayden Planetarium began accepting reservations for what was billed as the first trip into space. After ads appeared in newspapers and the story was picked up by BBC broadcaster Alistair Cooke, letters poured in from as near as Newark and as far as Northumberland, with requests to book trips to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Some were accompanied by elaborate drawings of spacecraft, others by offers to serve as crewmembers on the flight. All came from applicants who wrote passionately about becoming the first to experience a trip to outer space, and the result is a treasure trove of letters that capture the public fascination with space exploration, a selection of which are now available for viewing on the Museum's Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration site.
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Much like the sunscreen-toting crowds hitting the beaches this summer, coral reefs may be carrying some protection from the sun's strong rays.
In the case of corals, however, the "sunscreen" may come in the form of fluorescent proteins—and the protection is not from sunburn but from a fatal phenomenon known as bleaching.
Bleaching occurs when coral polyps, the animals that make coral reefs, expel photosynthetic algae under environmental stress, including too much sunlight. Under normal conditions, the algae, which give coral its brown color, are important symbiotic partners: embedded under the polyps' skin, they produce carbohydrates that the polyps depend on for most of their energy.
Corals, in turn, need sunlight to fuel the algae's photosynthesis. But too much sunlight can damage the algae's photosynthetic machinery, leading them to produce damaging free radicals. This stress, combined with stress from warming seawater, can lead to bleaching.
Training Colleagues Around the World to Collect Scorpions
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For the last two months, scorpion expert Lorenzo Prendini has been criss-crossing the globe to train others in finding, collecting, and preserving scorpion specimens for study.
In May, Dr. Prendini, an associate curator in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology, traveled to Pakistan as a guest of the country's Higher Education Commission to present a lecture at the University of Sargodha and to train a team of local scientists. One of these researchers, Dr. Muhammad Tahir, was recently awarded a grant by Pakistan's Higher Education Commission to carry out a survey of local scorpion species, which include species of interest to medical research, and he will travel to the U.S. this fall to spend nine months working with Prendini at the Museum.
Podcast: Forgetting Fear with Daniela Schiller
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Fear can take many forms, from minor phobias to life-altering conditions such as PTSD. Now, new research is shedding light on how these so-called fear memories could be changed. In this podcast, neuroscientist Daniela Schiller discusses the neural mechanisms of emotional control and potential ways to modify or "erase" fear memories.
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1 Any pirate worth his salt knows that the stars can be used to tell North and find his way. 2 But t'while they were doing all their skyward gazin', the pirates didn'a realize they weren't sailin' solo, as the old relationship status say. 3 Fer far off inna 'nother galaxy, a band o' Aliens set out inna yacht crafted o' metal with solar panel sails ta' explarrgh new planets and star systems. 4 Their mission — to explore the cosmos for signs of pasta.
5 The Aliens not be little gray men, but praying mantises the size of dogs. 6 Though giant bugs, they were still shorter 'an a human, and cuddly as any midget. 7 Being mantises, they did have a voracious appetite, and would feast heartily upon many bowls of Noodles from Beyond the Stars. 8 And their noodles were all sci-fi like and kewl, bein' all shades of blue, green, and black, and they did give off 7-Gray worth o' nutritious ionizin' radiation. 9 And verily this won the favor of the Noodly One as he watched them load their ship with noodles at spaceport.
10 After many months or was it weeks I don't remember, the Aliens' starscruiser did come across a sight most bizarre. 11 It be two stars o' scarlet colorin', orbittin' around one another, a curious web o' yellow stardust surroundin' them. 12 The Aliens did agree that it looked really cool, and proceeded to make macaroni art of it. 13 Just as they sat there on the floor, a transmission did come in. The signal came from within the binary star system itself, and its message be coordinates. 14 Curious and a little bored, the Aliens plugged the numbers into their ship's onboard computer and followed the coordinates off into unknown space.
15 After days of star-sailing, the Aliens happened upon their mystery destination. It be another world, one of water and plants and... lo and behold... PASTA! 16 And so with great joy the Aliens dropped anchor. They were flying in a starcruiser in outer space so the anchor just sorta trailed below the hull and didn't do anything. Then one of them suggested they actually land first. 17 And with a mouthful of pasta, the Aliens' Captain did plunge the starcruisin' yacht down into the atmosphere o' Earth.
Transmission 2
1 The aliens hid on a remote island. There, they built for themselves a home base that would allow them to research, experiment on, and cook all the pasta they would ever need. 2 And soon sleek & shiny building complexes rose out of the trees. 3 To celebrate the start of their operations, they harvested and ground up palm trees and invented the Pasta Colada, served in a coconut bowl. 4 Yay, and with full tummies, the aliens did begin their information gathering on the bizarre Hoomin race.
5 They poured over all means of communication their ship's sensor array could detect, and decided it would be most efficient to study the #1 most widely broadcast transmissions that the Hoomins uploaded. 6 And so the aliens watched porn. And they cheered and made left jabs and right hook motions, for they thought they were watching wrestling. 7 But soon they looked to alternate sources of information, for there was no Pasta on the Playboy Channel.
8 The aliens watched hours and hours of the Cookin' Network, takin' notes and writin' up mathematical formulae to explain them. 9 The aliens collected many new recipes and were happy, but many of them still wondered of the transmission that brought them here. 10 Then one of the little aliens came across The Loose Canon. Apparently this alien could read and understand English. 11 The alien noticed the star cluster they had encountered matched the description of the Flying Spaghetti Monster the text described. 12 After translating it for the rest of the crew, they saw that not only were they not alone in their mission of Noodly Knowledge, but that others had met a giant entity o' spaghetti and meat. 13 And so with parameters to narrow their search, the aliens did head out to find for themselves... a Hoomin envoy.
Transmission 3
1 A humble pasta strainer ship was idly sailing just away from harbor, taking in seawater and cranking out fresh strands o' spaghetti from its modified aftcastle. 2 Ravioli, a cabin boy aboard the ship, be out late one night arbitrarily tyin' knots in random places because that's what sailors did in all the movies and no one had corrected him yet. 3 As he duct-taped a seagull to the mizzenmast, a low humming did catch his ear.
4 Loomin' overhead, a mass o' metal and light did lower from the clouds, its engines lettin' out a reverberatin' hum. 5 Ravioli looked up at the rumbling airborne vessel and promptly required a change of pants. 6 The alien craft halted directly over the wooden boat. 7 A strand of metallic spaghetti slithered down from the craft, and constricted itself around the lad before whisking him off his humble wooden station and into the air, like a chameleon licking up a tasty moth.
8 Ravioli awoke to find himself strapped to a table, a noisy machine over him. A vacuum-sealed door slid open, and insectoid silhouettes entered the room. 9 Approaching their taste subject (haha it's a pun) they started their research. 10 And so the aliens proceeded to probe Ravioli in the name o' Noodly Science, and so inserted a cold metal spoon with alien pasta into his mouth. 11 And as the starbone flavor particles hit his tastebuds, Ravioli's arms and legs ceased their flailin' . . . for he be awestruck by their tastiness!
12 The straps released and withdrew into the table, and Ravioli sat up to find himself not in a hideous laboratory, but a kitchen, far beyond any on Earth. 13 He looked over at the Aliens, who stood waiting with bowls of all sorts of different noodles for his sampling. 14 Ravioli's heart lept and his stomach gurgled, for he knew that he be among fellow Noodle-Lovers.
Transmission 4
1 And so Ravioli's life as a research subject began.The Aliens gave him a tour o' their island base, the native name o' which sounded a bit like chiptune or dubstep and so couldn't be pronounced by Hoomin tongues. 2 Ravioli saw that all of their hi-tech machinery and tools were calibrated to study pasta of all kinds. 3 Skin grafts of linguine sat pinned to plaques, various sauces applied to them. Petri dishes filled with Orzo lined one bookcase. Large test tubes filled with vermicelli, fusilli, and capellini sat on a rack. And also there was clamped to the edge of a table a manual spaghetti crank apparently used to shred paper for amusement. 4 The boy walked the halls of the base, and found it interesting how the Aliens had managed to take the Darks Arts o' Science and use them for Noodly Good. 5 It was Noodly Science, the Aliens explained to him, and like Christian Science, the first word strips the second of all former connotations.
6 The Aliens allowed Ravioli to accompany them on their harvesting missions. 7 They flew their ship over fields of wheat and corn, and used the tractor beam to vacuum up whole stalks straight outta the ground. 8 They Aliens were also morons and so they thought it cool to draw patterns in the crops as they did so. And with this they had a limitless supply of raw materials to make pasta. 9 Occasionally they would also fly down to the ground with their insectoid wings, and give cows a taste of alien pasta as well. 10 One time one o' the Aliens flew into one o' the second floor windows, only to dart back out accompanied by a high-pitched scream as a partially-undressed girl swung at him with a broom. And at more than one time they were shot at by hysterical farmers. 11 Yay. Noodly Science.
12 Over the course of their research, the Aliens did interview Ravioli about the meaning of the Loose Canon. 13 Ravioli did not know too much, for he was not a pirate himself, but a lowly assistant cook. Nonetheless he explained all he did happen to know. 14 He told them of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, who cooked all of the Cosmos (the universe, not the blasphemous Carl Sagan television series) into existence from nothin', and whose Noodly Appendage could be found in all of nature. 15 He also told them of Dark Lord Darwin, and how Hoomins had been blinded to the awesomeness of the FSM by his facts and reason. 16 The aliens had already read the Pastafarian Scriptures so why they be askin' these questions be a mystery. 17 Nonetheless, the aliens wanted to observe the Hoomins under Darwin's control, and so sent Ravioli out into the field to provoke them firsthand.
Transmission 5
1 Ravioli had a belly full of delicious capellini with spinach, garlic, and beans, and so was totally energized and psyched for his first attempt at Holy Propaganda. 2 Unfortunately, he had landed in a heathen land. The town he had come into was a liberal university campus inhabited by worshippers of Athe, the goddess of science, reason, and evolution.
3 Athe was portrayed as a brunette female scientist in a white lab coat, a beaker filled with an aqueous green solution in one hand and a platinum-iridium meter bar in the other. 4 Her black-rimmed glasses allowed her to see any wavelength of light at any magnification level. 5 And Her skirt be short to show off her legs, for being the goddess of evolution, she was smokin' hot in order to attract mates. 6 Her followers, those called Atheists, pleased their patron goddess by concluding there simply wasn't any evidence that She existed. 7 For their blind faith (for Atheism is a religion and there is much faith in it), Athe rewarded them with successful laboratory experiments and consistent data collection.
8 Ravioli approached a pack of Atheists playing ultimate frisbee on the Quad, decked out in full piratical regalia. 9 He told them of the many kinds of pasta, of fusilli, and vermicelli, and linguine, and capellini, and radiatori. The lost and foolish Atheists, however, asked him what his point was, and Ravioli didn't know how he was going to convince them. 10 He told them of stoves, and pots, and boiling water, and forks laid upon napkins, but the Atheists once again displayed their blatant hatred for irrational and stupid things, and questioned his motives once more.
11 "Me hearties! We be not adrift in this cosmic ocean! There be others out there who cook and eat pasta too! Forsake yer idol Athe, for she be a false goddess that will lead you to Scholarship!" Ravioli exclaimed.
12 The Atheists countered, "What goddess?! What are you talking about? We don't believe in goddesses either!"
13 Ravioli heard this and knew that their devotion to Athe ran deep. He told them of the Midgets, of the Lumberjacks, and of the Pirates. 14The Atheists explained that they would rather study genetics, statistics, astronomy, and biology, and all the other arcane and blasphemous Darwinian tomes than read of pirates and pasta.
15 Ravioli had ammo for this. "Yer very textbooks unknowin'ly give ye signs o' the Flying Spaghetti Monster! Do you not see that all alphabets, symbols, and written codes are just noodles made out of ink?" Ravioli argued.
16 Still the Atheists ignored his insane babbling, preferring instead their wicked facts and logic. However Ravioli did not lose hope, for a lot the Atheists did admit they loved Ramen. He would continue his delivery of ridiculous and unsubstantiated claims.
17 "Aliens!" Ravioli stated aloud, his hands held out in front of himself as though ready to catch a basketball. "Pirates from beyond space and stuff, whose love of pasta led them to build the pyramids aeons ago to record recipes and store their ingredients! Ye too can know the Pirate Aliens! Craft around yer head a tri-corner hat o' aluminum foil, so that their transmissions may fill yer head with thoughts o' pasta and space!"
18 The Aliens had never said or done any of that, but Ravioli had been Touched by His Noodly Appendage, and all things were believable to him now. 19 Or he was just an idiot. 20 The Atheists were not swayed from their belief in the Vixen of Verification and Her Scientific Method, and Ravioli could not convince them that a magical blob of pasta authored the world around them. 21 Watching from above however, hidden among the clouds, the Aliens' sensors did start to detect a most unusual energy signatures surrounding the Atheists. . . .
Transmission 6
1 Back at the island, the Aliens did gobble up ramen by the bowlful and leisurely compiled their data. 2 Ravioli contently slurped up Space Noodles while the soda jerk at the base's bar poured him another Alien Fizzy Drink. 3 This is actually what they called this stuff. I know. 4 The soda jerk told him of their own adventures, both on Earth and on their homeplanet. 5 Then without warning, all the lights on the base did go black.
6 Ravioli found himself lost in total darkness (like foolish Atheists and their rejection of magical pasta beings!) 7 He bumped into one of the soft-serve pasta machines, and horror betook him as he felt healthy agar cubes dispense instead. 8 The Aliens, who could tap their long antennae about and find their way around in the dark sought out the emergency flashlights. 9 Creepy-crawling their way to the base's Radiatori Reactor, they managed to activate the back up generators.
10 Once at the computer terminals, they soon realized the problem was bigger than they could have expected. 11 All of the computer monitors displayed the same image — a ghostly form of an old man with a bushy beard and the body of a chimpanzee. Ravioli walked over to the screen and jumped back.
12 "It's . . . it's . . . DARWIN!!! The Dark Lord has followed us from the college!!! The Monkey Man is here!!!" Ravioli panicked. 13 The Aliens did what they could to get their computers to display their normal glitchy patterns, but the Devil of Descent With Modification had cleaned out the machine's circuits and replaced all of their corrupted files with logical, executable computer code. 14 The Aliens tried to hurry Ravioli to a safer place, but he refused to run when it would be reasonable to do so.
15 "No! It not be a normal virus! It be a spiritual virus! We need to battle Darwin spiritually!" Ravioli explained in a voice louder than was necessary. 16 Really, there wasn't any noise to shout over. The automated alerts were actually rather quiet. 17 The Aliens looked amongst other and nodded. 18 Buzzing (they be mantises and have pairs o' wings to fly with, remember?) their way down the halls to the clothery, or whatever you call a room for storing clothes, oh yeah a closet, they donned all the piratical attire and paraphernalia they had.
19 Ravioli and the Aliens stood in the main lounge, lookin' as a true crew o' swashbucklers, aluminum foil tri-corner hats adornin' their heads. 20 Posters of DNA, the taxonomic hierarchy of life, and ape evolving into man had eerily appeared all over the room. The hooting of monkeys could be heard in the air ducts above. 21 Together, Ravioli and the Aliens drew out their flick-locks o' fettuccine and unsheathed their cutlasses o' capellini.
22 "Now!" Ravioli shouted.
23 The Aliens and Ravioli then did proceed to shoot the hell out of the whole room. They hacked lamps to pieces and filled couch cushions with lead. 24 "For Pasta!!!" Ravioi cried. And they did lay waste to all the furniture in the lounge. 25 One o' the Aliens did give Ravioli a most confused look of WTF, like, why on Earth were they attacking the furniture instead of Darwin? Ravioli smiled and the Alien understood.
26 "Ye cannot fight brain with logic and reason, but with brimming idiocy and total moronity!" Ravioli declared as he sat one of the broken lamps down upon his head.
27 And so they fought against all reasonable mode of behavior. 28 They attacked everything but Darwin, for to do so would have made sense. 29 As innocent things broke, a blanket of stupidness covered the area. 30 The room shook and the simian hooting grew in intensity. 31 Ravioli seized the battle's victory and proceeded to paint a pirate ship on the radiator by the wall. 32 That made absolutely no sense whatsoever. 33 And with that, a powerful quake did tremble throughout the island. The roars of a thousand gorillas in pain sounded out, and all fell silent.
34 The lights came back on, the computers displayed their rightful glitchy symbols, and the soft-serve pasta machines yielded pasta once again. 35 The battle was won. Darwin had been exorcized.
Transmission 7
1 After repairing the base and nursing their injured psyches, the Aliens realized that Darwin was far more dangerous than previously thought. 2 It was no longer safe to rely on procure-on-site acquisitions. 3 The Aliens would have to return to their homeplanet and "borrow" a few things that would better handle any future Darwinian threat. 4 They did not know the way back, but they knew that if the Noodly One had guided them to Earth, It would guide them back home too.
5 After a great deal o' ceremonial BS-ing, the Aliens got aboard their starcruiser. 6 Before leaving, they promoted Ravioli to Head Chef, and gave him the assignment to stay and manage the island base and all its tools. 7 He was to continue their Noodly Research while they were gone, for there was much Noodly Mystery left to be Unsolved.
8 The yacht o' metal soared off into the stratosphere. 9 Left alone on his island, Ravioli put his aptly-renamed Star Kitchen Outpost to work. 10 He fashioned a new dish, a form of pasta that was blob-shaped and hollow, with meat or cheese stuffed inside. It was designed after the Aliens' eyes, which were large and oogly, like the eyes of the FSM Himself. 11 He named this new food the ravioli. Ravioli happily ate his creations, and decided that they were they best combination of meat and pasta since spaghetti & meatballs.
12 Ravioli dutifully performed the silly pirate rituals that kept rational Darwin and his foul temptress Athe at bay. 13 He would go on faux treasure hunts, and sword fight palm trees, and bark orders to a pirate crew that not be there. 14 And yay, the island did become a most holy site, and rumors started to circulate o' an island that stretched noodles into the sky at sunset.
15 Sitting out on the deck of his luxurious new home, a tray full of raviolis at his side, the boy chef relaxed and waited contently for the day he'd hear the reverberating hum of the starcruiser's engine once more.
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What is Oracle?
The Oracle Honor Society is a historic Ithaca College honors society that recognizes academic excellence. First-year students who maintain a GPA that puts them in the top 10% of all students in their school throughout their first full academic year are invited accept membership into the society. During the fall semester, there is a recognition ceremony to honor these students. Oracle members believe that these able first-year students will indeed contribute leadership, loyalty, and service to Ithaca College during their subsequent years here.
The Oracle Honor Society is founded upon the symbol of the star. The five points represent the attributes of excellence for which members of Oracle aspire: Scholarship, Leadership, Loyalty, Service, and Character. The laurel wreath around the star represents the achievements of Oracle members. The wall represents the courage and fortitude shown in order to achieve the ideals of the society, and the light is a beacon for Oracle members in the future. The olive branch is the emblem of peace -- the talisman for all Oracle members.
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In March 1928, the faculty of Ithaca College, at the suggestion of Phyllis Spencer, Dean of Women, voted to establish a scholastic Senior Honor Society. Mrs. Spencer was named faculty sponsor and a committee of the faculty was appointed by President George C. Williams to choose students to become charter members of the new organization. Three seniors from each department who had achieved the highest scholastic standing and who were prominent in extra-curricular activities were chosen to be charter members.
April of the same year, these charter members initiated three juniors from each department to become members for the year 1928-29. In 1930, and again in 1933, the constitution was revised and the basis for membership was expanded to include consideration of the factors of leadership, loyalty, service, and character, in addition to scholarship.
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During the early years, Oracle was the only interdisciplinary honorary at Ithaca College. The organization recognized seniors for their academic achievement and for their contribution to the College. In addition, members of the faculty and alumni, who were outstanding in their profession, were inducted into the Society.
A major activity of the organization for many years was raising money for a student loan fund since the College's resources for this purpose were very limited. "Scampers," a student written, directed, and produced variety or musical show was sponsored by Oracle every year. The proceeds of the shows were awarded as loans, and helped many students maintain themselves at the College during critical periods in their lives. The last Scamper production took place in 1969.
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With the establishment of the Phi Kappa Phi chapter at Ithaca College in 1978, a significant change took place in Oracle. Phi Kappa Phi is an interdisciplinary, national honor society that recognizes senior students with outstanding academic and personal characteristics. Oracle had been a part of the tradition and heritage of Ithaca College for fifty years and it was felt to be important to maintain that tradition on the campus.
To prevent Phi Kappa Phi and Oracle from competing for the same students during their senior year, Oracle members, both faculty and students, determined to make Oracle a first-year academic honor society, recognizing students who had excelled academically during their first year at Ithaca College. Through membership in Oracle, first-year students could come in contact with and recognize other students who had achieved excellence and perhaps be encouraged in their academic endeavors.


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Raffles as operator and Zeta with 50-50 interests in Suceava will study feasibility of either connecting the wells to an existing pipeline or installing gas-to-power technology. The 2005 SE-1 discovery peaked at 1.16 MMcfd and stabilized at 900 Mcfd, and the 2007 Dornesti Sud at 848 Mcfd of gas.
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On Thursday, for only the third time in its history, the International Energy Agency decided to release 60 million barrels of oil from global strategic petroleum reserves. They did so in order to "ensure a soft landing for the world economy."
As readers are aware, I suggested that investors "take profits" on oil as it soared past $100 a barrel almost two months ago. I argued that the clearing price on oil should be closer to $85 a barrel, given the slow growth of world economies. I was early in my recommendation, since oil subsequently climbed as high as $112 a barrel before plummeting to its present level of around $90 a barrel. I fully expect my price target will be reached in the coming weeks.
However, while oil dropped 5 percent Thursday, generating an annualized benefit of $36 billion to American consumers, the stock market fell by over a percent equating to a $200 billion loss. To me, that is a major contradiction. Here's why.
In energy, the rule of thumb economists often site is for every $10 increase in the price of oil, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) drops by one half of one percent. By March of this year, we had experienced a $25 hike in a barrel of oil in a very short time period. Economists were predicting that when (not if) oil reached $120 a barrel, the U.S. economy could easily fall back into recession.
Consumers bear the brunt of higher energy prices. Every one cent increase in the price of gasoline takes $1 billion out of our pockets. And actually it is much more than that (almost double) when you include things like home heating, electricity and price rises in alternative sources of fuel such as propane.
The real tipping point in impacting our consumption behavior occurs when energy prices reach 6 percent of average consumer spending, which occurred in March 2011 at 6.27 percent of spending. At that point, the top 20 percent of income earning Americans were spending 7.9 percent of their disposable income on food and energy. That may be a manageable hit for the rich, but not so for the bottom 20 percent of income-generating Americans. For them, energy and food account for a whopping 44.1 percent of after tax income. No wonder consumer spending and employment fell off a cliff.
As a result of higher energy and food prices, together with the fallout from the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, our economy has hit a soft patch which triggered the present decline in the stock markets. But circumstances have changed and in my opinion it won't be long before market players begin to realize that.
We can't have it both ways. The steep decline in oil and other commodity prices will boost consumer spending and economic growth while reducing unemployment. For consumers, it should be a matter of days before we begin to see this decline reflected in the price at the pump, in electric bills and in other areas. It is an instant and fairly hefty equivalent to a tax cut. Corporations will feel it too, but consumers benefit from that as well in the form of lower prices for products.
Right now, investors can't see the forest for the trees. With Greece threatening to collapse, unemployment rising a bit and the economy still slowing, it is hard to focus on what is just around the corner. But that, my dear reader, is exactly why I write this column — to help you focus on the horizon because there are better days are ahead.
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Trashed by environmentalist, near and far, it is the bad boy of the energy arena. Environmentally hazardous, its producers and consumers are notoriously lax in even attempting to do something to control the pollution they spill into our atmosphere. You know these boys. Their industry usually hides under the proverbial wood pile minting money, only reluctantly revealing themselves in daylight when called to explain yet another mine disaster or ruined river. So why is the demand for coal and those that produce it gaining popularity on Wall Street?
Coal, for those who don't know, is divided into two categories: metallurgical or coking coal, which is used for steel making and thermal or steam coal, which is used for heating and electrical generation. "Met" coal is a high-priced, low-volume product that boasts a high heating value. Here in the U.S., we only consume about 15 million tons of Met and the rest (30-40 million tons) we export to places like China.
Met coal is used in 70 percent of global steel production and accounts for 10 percent of world coal production. It is steel's primary energy source and takes 1,300 pounds of coal (called coke) to produce one ton of steel. The demand for this kind of coal has been rising steadily for some time as country after country in the emerging markets produce more and more steel for building infrastructure and export.
The recent earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan has opened up an enormous new market for steel and the coal to produce it. Japan has already embarked on the expensive and necessary task of rebuilding. Investors figure Japan is going to need a lot of steel (and therefore coking coal) to accomplish that. Together with the already robust demand from emerging markets, the stocks of these coal producers are in demand.
But that is only one side of the coal market. Thermal or steam coal production dwarfs that of its pricier cousin. Thermal's primary use is in power generation. Worldwide, over 7 billion tons of this stuff is consumed each year. The U.S. uses about a billion tons a year, but because it's heavy and expensive to ship, not much (about 22 million tons) of it is exported.
The fact that over 40 percent of the world's electricity is derived from coal-fired power plants explains why in an era of solar, wind, natural gas and other green alternative energy sources, old King Coal keeps rolling along. It took many years and trillions of dollars to build this coal-based system of power generation. It will take a lot more time, effort and money to convert that system to alternative fuels.
Here in the U.S., 48 percent of our electricity comes from steam coal. Once again, thanks to the ongoing crisis in containing and preventing a radioactive melt down in Japan's Fukushima plant that percentage of use could increase if nuclear power generation is derailed in this country. Worldwide, politicians and voters appear to want at least a moratorium on building new nuclear plants until further studies are done analyzing their safety and other factors. Since we all know how long studies take, this delay can take time and any energy gaps will be filled by additional coal consumption. Investors are quick to realize that this presents further opportunities for additional coal consumption.
Coupled with these developments is China's new status as a net importer of coal beginning in 2009. Most of the 126 metric tons of new imports have come from Australia, but there is some discussion on whether the U.S., which some call the "Saudi Arabia of coal" with 238 billion tons of proven reserves, could figure out a way of exporting our coal cheaply to Asia. That would translate into a big jump in the price of coal stocks.
Does all this new coal demand mean that we will have to settle for coal and its residual pollution as a major source of energy in this country forever?
Not necessarily. It is true, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, that 44 percent of the coal-fired plants in this country currently have no pollution control equipment. There are 400 coal-fired plants spread across 46 states. Their emissions result in about 380,000 tons of black garbage that is spewed into our air each year. Mercury emissions alone around these plants are killing 17,000 people each year and causing 11,000 hear attacks, not to mention the impact on children, whose health is affected most by these poisons.
Even the billions in bribes the industry has paid to Washington for decades to overlook these "minor nuisances" no longer work. Americans have demanded and government has finally agreed to take action. As a result, the industry has been warned that they either retrofit existing facilities with counter measures or close them entirely over the next few years. The EPA's new emission restrictions require a removal of 90 percent of mercury emissions by 2015, along with 80 percent of sulfurous oxides and 52 percent of nitrous oxides by 2018. These new standards will apply to 31 states and the District of Columbia.
It will mean an enormous expense and effort on the part of power generators. Of course, much of the expense will be passed on to consumers in the form of higher monthly energy bills, but even then I suspect that some plants just won't be able to continue to functions. As a result, I expect to see cheaper (and cleaner) natural gas replace coal in the generation of electricity over the next few years. That's good news for all of us and for natural gas producers. Did I mention that I like that sector as well? I guess that will have to wait for a future column.
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The stock market continues to be buffeted by bad news. Energy prices are climbing, war rages in Libya, Japan's nuclear crisis continues to radiate and Portugal's government resigned after failing to push through austerity measures intended to avert a financial crisis. The stock market simply shrugs it off and moves higher.
Pay attention readers. When markets continue to absorb negative news, the tea leaves tell me stocks are going higher. Last week, I wondered if the correction was over. The answer is yes. Some arcane variables I follow are flashing green. For example, market breath (the number of advancing stocks versus decliners) has made a sharp reversal over the last 10 days, which is a good sign. In addition, the percentage of stocks that are now above their 50-day moving average stands at 57 percent. If history is any guide that indicates we will enjoy a strong multimonth rally.
"But how can the very same worries that sank the market as recently as a week ago now no longer matter?" protested a snowbird with a summer house in Becket, who was convinced the world was coming to an end just a few days ago.
Markets tend to discount bad news and price in numerous "what if" scenarios over time. The European banking crisis has been with us for well over a year, so Portugal's problems no longer have the power to ratchet up risk on a worldwide basis. It would take serious financial problems in a really large country such as Italy or Spain to roil world markets down the road.
In the Middle East, the protests in Tunisia began in December of last year. Four months later, investors, who initially feared this unrest might spread to Saudi Arabia, now believe that if it were going to happen, it would have done so by now. Sure, oil will still remain at the $100 to $110 a barrel level until hostilities in Libya subside, but the rest of the market is already focusing on other things.
Finally, Japan, the world's most recent crisis, is far from over, but the inflated fears of a nuclear holocaust that drove the markets lower two weeks ago have been punctured leaving a mess (see this week's column "Who Pays for Japan?") but not one that will sink the world's markets. And in the meantime, U.S. GDP was revised upward for the last quarter of 2010 to 3.1 percent. Interest rates remain at historically low levels, and the economy appears to be gaining strength.
What we have had is a good old correction. Now it is over. Valuations are considerably lower (on average 7 percent) which has reduced the premiums in the equity market to a reasonable level. I believe the markets are poised to move substantially higher from here as I have written several times in the past. It appears the same cast of characters — materials, food, technology, industrials and energy — will lead the markets higher. Invest accordingly.
Bill Schmick is an independent investor with Berkshire Money Management. (See "About" for more information.) None of the information presented in any of these articles is intended to be and should not be construed as an endorsement of BMM or a solicitation to become a client of BMM. The reader should not assume that any strategies, or specific investments discussed are employed, bought, sold or held by BMM. Direct your inquiries to Bill at 1-888-232-6072 (toll free) or e-mail him at email@example.com. Visit www.afewdollarsmore.com for more of Bill's insights.
In last week's market column, I warned readers of an impending decline of as much as 5 percent in the stock markets. I realize that not everyone receives both my columns each week. The important thing to know is that 4 percent of that drop has occurred but we may still have a re-test of the lows.
Over the last few days I have been making a lot of what I call "hand holding" calls. These conversations are meant to summarize the events in both Japan and the Middle East, explain how we are dealing with this crisis, and answer any questions people may have. I soon discovered that my clients (and people in general) have been subjected to a lot of misconceptions, misinformation and still have many unanswered questions surrounding these crises. So let's try to set the record straight.
"What's going to happen in the Middle East?" asked a local business owner from Pittsfield.
By now you know that the United Nations declared a no-fly zone over Libya on Friday. In response, Libya's foreign minister quickly declared a cease fire, but as of this writing, battles still rage within the country. On the news, both oil and precious metals declined from overnight highs. All three of those commodities have gyrated wildly all week in response to global events.
At the crux of this controversy, investors fear that while Libya is a small player in the oil markets, unrest in the region, whether in Gaddafi land, Bahrain or elsewhere, could spread to Saudi Arabia. Unrest within the Kingdom would jeopardize a much larger piece of the world's energy pie and could cripple global economic growth.
The ruler of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah, has decided to short circuit any political unrest in his kingdom by buying off the people who count. Friday he announced a multibillion dollar boost in welfare benefits, bonuses for public-sector workers (including the army) and a massive program of new housing. This follows last month's $37 billion giveaway. Some of the money will also be spent on hiring, ahem, 60,000 new "security guards" at the interior ministry just in case this bribe does not appease all of the populace.
My belief is that tensions in the Middle East may continue, but their power to impact world equity markets is diminishing and as they do, the price of oil will slowly sink back to my target of $80-$90 a barrel, which seems a reasonable price for oil, given world economic growth.
Japan's crisis around the Fukushima nuclear plant, on the other hand, is still a wild card. No one knows what will happen in the days ahead. I maintain that, if the worst should occur, it will not have a substantial impact on the United States. The uncertainty, however, will keep world markets volatile for a bit longer.
If I measure this pullback from top to bottom, we have had a 7.01 percent decline. Over the last few days we have been experiencing a relief rally that has reclaimed about 3 percent of that fall. I am not certain that we have seen the lows yet on the S&P 500 Index. We could still test the 1,225-1,235 level if there were to be a nuclear meltdown at Fukushima or an air war with Libyan forces.
None of that changes my strategy and hopefully yours. This is a pull back to be bought. Don't try to catch the very bottom, simply add to your positions on down days. You should have been doing just that this week. I know I have.
Like hucksters selling hot dogs in the ball park, the media is having a field day with the Japanese nuclear crisis. Americans, fearing for their safety, immediately bought out the nation's supply of potassium iodide tablets. Investors are panicking worldwide, dumping trillions in equities, commodity and currency investments indiscriminately. There are so many rumors, falsehoods and downright lies flying around the airways that I am astounded we continue to tune into this drivel. I believe we all need to calm down and turn our TVs off.
As a former Fulbright Fellow to Japan, who has lived and spent a great deal of time in that wonderful country, I pray for a successful end to this nuclear crisis and a speedy economic and social recovery for the Japanese people, as I'm sure we all do. Events around the Fukushima reactor in Japan are precarious as I write this. Yet the knee-jerk response of the world's governments, citizens and investors, as illustrated by the volatility in the financial markets, once again proves my point — the markets are not efficient, never will be and there, my reader, provides the opportunity for you to prosper.
The Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), a theory concocted by academicians and followed stringently by those on Wall Street, maintains the current prices of securities reflect all information known about the security. They argue that investors cannot expect to outperform the overall market consistently on a risk-adjusted basis. Day-to-day changes in the market prices of securities cannot be predicted with any reliable degree of accuracy. Therefore any trading, security analysis or buy and sell strategies are of no value.
If these same market participants took the time to analyze the information coming out of Japan this week, I can't see how even a countrywide nuclear disaster in Japan will impact stocks in the U.S. or Europe or numerous other countries throughout the world.
Assurances that the fallout from these reactors, in a worst-case scenario would not create a Chernobyl-type calamity, have fallen on deaf ears. Dire predictions that this catastrophe will set back economic growth in Japan for years do not square with history, nor do forecasts that Japan's problems will put an end to our own recovery.
Most studies of similar disasters throughout the last few decades indicate Japan may suffer a quarter or two of slower economic growth followed by a pickup in GDP as reconstruction spending takes hold. In addition, the disaster occurred in Sendai, in northern Japan, which accounts for less than 2 percent of Japanese output.
The risk of nuclear fallout floating to this side of the Pacific has such a low probability that buying up iodine tablets on eBay for over $200 (more than 10 times the usual price) may make sense if you lived 25 miles from the Fukushima reactors, but here in the U.S. it makes no sense.
It also makes little sense to talk of abandoning nuclear energy as an alternative fuel source. I find nothing wrong with checking the 104 reactors in this country for possible weaknesses. I think that should be done on a regular basis anyway. America has not built a new nuclear energy unit since the Three Mile Island disaster. It would be a shame to once again abandon this strategic energy source because of events in Japan.
So what are my recommendations in dealing with this debacle?
This sell-off has created so many buying opportunities in so many sectors that this should be called the great global giveaway in equities. In my opinion we are very close to a bottom. In last weekend's column I wrote that I expected no more than a 5 percent decline in the S&P 500. We have already dropped 3 percent of that total. Some obvious places where the selling appears to be overdone are the nuclear energy sector and, of course, Japan. For long term investors, I wish you happy hunting.
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If you're reading this blog, then chances are you're a cool enough person to know that doppelganger-mania has taken over Facebook. Like most trends, only the coolest of Facebookers started doing it – uploading a picture of their supposed look-a-like-celebrity as their profile shot, that is – and then everyone else followed suit within a matter of a single week, just as the established conformity literature would predict. That's not what is interesting here, however.
Have you taken a minute to consider which celebrities your Facebook friends are uploading as their look-a-likes? Do it now. Open a new window if you must, and browse through their recently updated profile pictures. You should soon notice that you are hard-pressed to find a single unattractive look-a-like celebrity posing as even your ugliest friend's doppelganger. No one uploads Janet Reno, or Pee-wee Herman, or that cat lady who's had one too many facelifts – unless of course they are trying to be ironic. In short, your friends are affiliating themselves with good-looking celebrities so that they can ultimately become grouped with higher status people and take on their attributes – perhaps even the non-physical ones. And although their intentions are pure and admittedly self-aggrandizing – in the end, they just want to be liked – this doppelganger trend might inevitably backfire, according to the social psychological research.
According to Sherif and Hovland (1961), changing other people's perceptions of you can be compared to the act of stretching a rubber band – you can stretch the rubber band only so far so as to climb up the social ladder. Eventually, however, if you overstretch the rubber band, the ties will become too tenuous and the band will snap back – rendering contrast rather than assimilation with the intended target. In brief, if your doppelganger is too attractive, you will appear even less attractive than you already are. Therefore, so as to compel your friends to assimilate you with your celebrity "look-a-like" without hitting a point where they start to contrast you away from him or her, your strategy should be to stretch the rubber band as far as possible without breaking it. So if you think you look like Angelina Jolie, opt for Sarah Silverman; men, if you think you're a dead-ringer for George Clooney, stay safe and upload Simon Cowell.
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Sherif, M. & Hovland, C. I. (1961). Social judgment: Assimilation and contrast effects in communication and attitude change. New Haven: Yale University Press.


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This study will determine if the interdisciplinary team low vision rehabilitation program is more effective than basic low vision care provided by an optometrist working alone in improving visual reading ability in veterans with macular diseases and best corrected visual acuity of 20/50 to 20/200.
Central Vision Loss From Macular Diseases
Other: Interdisciplinary Low Vision Service
Other: Basic Low Vision Service
Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|VA Low Vision Intervention Trial (LOVIT) II
- Comparison of changes in visual reading ability from baseline to three months later measured with 48 item VA Low Vision Visual Functioning Questionnaire [ Time Frame: changes from baseline to 4 months later ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Study Start Date:
|August 2010
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|September 2015
|Primary Completion Date:
|January 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Arm 1
Interdisciplinary Low Vision Rehabilitation: Low vision examination, prescription and dispensing of low vision devices, low vision therapy and homework.
Other: Interdisciplinary Low Vision Service
Services are provided by optometrist(s) and low vision therapist(s), and include low vision therapy to improve use of remaining vision and low vision devices, and structured homework to practice use of low vision devices that are prescribed and dispensed.
Other Name: Interdisciplinary Low Vision Rehabilitation
Active Comparator: Arm 2
Basic Low Vision Care: Low vision examination, prescription and dispensing of low vision devices without low vision therapy or assigned homework.
Other: Basic Low Vision Service
Service is provided by the optometrist alone and includes demonstration of low vision device use and maintenance of prescribed low vision devices, without low vision therapy or homework and with less contact time.
Other Name: Basic Low Vision Rehabilitation
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Key Questions: The purpose of our proposed single-masked multicenter randomized controlled trial is to determine if the Interdisciplinary Team approach to low vision service delivery is more effective than the Basic Low Vision Service in improving visual reading ability for 330 veterans with macular diseases and best corrected visual acuity of 20/50-20/200. Effectiveness will be measured with the Veterans Affairs Low Vision Visual Functioning Questionnaire (VA LV VFQ-48), a valid and reliable questionnaire that is administered by telephone to capture changes in patients' self-report of their difficulty reading and performing other daily living activities affected by visual impairment before and after rehabilitation. The primary outcome measure is the comparison of changes in patients' visual reading ability on the VA LV VFQ-48 after they receive low vision care from the Interdisciplinary Team or Basic Low Vision Care program. The secondary outcome measures are comparisons of changes in other VA LV VFQ-48 visual ability scores (overall, mobility, visual information processing, visual motor skills). Hypothesis: The improvement in visual reading ability measured with the VA LV VFQ-48 will be larger for patients who received low vision services from the Interdisciplinary Team than for patients who received the Basic Low Vision Service. Specific Aims:(1) Compare the mean changes in patients' visual reading ability (estimated from patients' difficulty ratings of reading items on the VA LV VFQ-48 before and after low vision service delivery) in the Interdisciplinary Team and Basic Low Vision Care Programs.(2) Compare the mean changes in visual ability [patients' difficulty ratings of other items on the VA LV VFQ-48 (mobility, visual information processing, visual motor skills) before and after low vision service delivery] in the Interdisciplinary Team and Basic Low Vision Care programs.(3). Identify the characteristics of patients who benefit from the Interdisciplinary Team and Basic Low Vision Service. (4). Conduct an economic evaluation to compare the costs and cost effectiveness of the Interdisciplinary Team and Basic Low Vision Service.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Primary eye diagnosis (better seeing Eye) macular disease
- Best-corrected visual acuity (better seeing eye) 20/50-20/200
Exclusion Criteria:
- Does not have a telephone
- Does not speak English
- Has received interdisciplinary low vision services
- English literacy less that 5th grade reading level
- Failed TICS
- Unable or unwilling to attend required clinic visits
- Severe hearing impairment preventing administration of telephone questionnaires
- Planned cataract extraction in next 4 months
- Visual fields contracted to diameter of 20 degrees in better-seeing eye
- Vitreous hemorrhage or serous hemorrhagic detachment of macula
- CNVM treated with fewer than 3 anti-VEGF injections
- Diabetic macular edema (DME) treated with focal/grid laser within the last two months
- DME treated with intravitreal injections of anti-VEGF or intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide (IVTA) within the last two months
- Cystoid macular edema (CME) treated with topical (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) NSAIDS, topical steroids or IVTA within the last three months
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00958360
|United States, Illinois
|Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, Hines, IL
|Hines, Illinois, United States, 60141-5000
|United States, Maryland
|VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21201
|United States, Ohio
|VA Medical Center, Cincinnati
|Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45220
|VA Medical Center, Dayton
|Dayton, Ohio, United States, 45428
|United States, Pennsylvania
|VA Medical Center, Philadelphia
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
|United States, Wisconsin
|Wlliam S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison
|Madison, Wisconsin, United States, 53705
|Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee
|Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53295-1000
|Principal Investigator:
|Joan Stelmack, OD MPH
|Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, Hines, IL
|Responsible Party:
|VA Office of Research and Development
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00958360 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|August 11, 2009
|Last Updated:
|June 16, 2015
|Health Authority:
|United States: Federal Government
Keywords provided by VA Office of Research and Development:
vision, low
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The Last American Manby Elizabeth Gilbert
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Elizabeth Gilbert first met Eustace Conway in New York City, on the sidewalk in front of her apartment. He'd traveled from North Carolina, dressed in handmade buckskin clothing and "carrying an impressive knife on his belt."
Gilbert, a regular contributor to GQ, was so fascinated by this modern-day mountain man that she wrote an article about him, titled simply enough, "Eustace Conway is Not Like Any Man You've Ever Met." The profile generated a flood of mail at the magazine, but the author felt she hadn't yet done service to Eustace. He was too big a character, too full of contradictions, to adequately portray in such a small frame.
In The Last American Man, she introduces her subject:
He crossed from Georgia to San Diego in 103 days, setting a speed record in the process.
"But Gilbert is too good a writer to stop there," Heather Hewett commented, reviewing the book in the Christian Science Monitor. "She deftly dispels the fog generated by our Daniel Boone fantasies to show us what others cannot (or will not) see: Eustace Conway is not a simple mountain man leading a peaceful, nature-centered existence. Instead, he is a contradictory, driven individual who finds himself working nonstop in his attempt to single-handedly change the modern American lifestyle."
"I don't think of myself as a journalist," Gilbert explains. "I'm not a beat reporter covering Washington. I only know how to tell a story the way I know how to tell it, which is how I would tell it if we were friends sitting in a bar and I'd just come back from a week with Eustace at Turtle Island."
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In The Last American Man, acclaimed journalist and fiction writer Elizabeth Gilbert offers a fresh cultural examination of contemporary American male identity and the uniquely American desire to return to the wilderness.
Gilbert explores what pushed men to settle the frontier West in the nineteenth century and delves into the history of American utopian communities. But her primary focus is on the fascinating true story of Eustace Conway, who left his comfortable suburban home at the age of seventeen to move into the Appalachian Mountains, where for the last twenty years he has lived off the land.
Conway's romantic character challenges all our assumptions about what it means to be a man today; he is a symbol of much that we feel our men should be, but rarely are. From his example, Gilbert delivers an intriguing exploration into the meaning of American manhood and — from the point of view of a woman — refracts masculine American identity in all its conflicting elements. Like Jon Krakauer's national bestseller Into the Wild, this book will find an enthusiastic audience among women, readers of American history, and those interested in nature and the wild.
"Gilbert, a top-notch journalist and fiction writer, braids keen and provocative observations about the American frontier, the myth of the mountain man, and the peculiar state of contemporary America with its 'profound alienation' from nature into her spirited and canny portrait." Donna Seaman, Booklist
"Elizabeth Gilbert has done a marvelous job of profiling Eustace Conway — a modern-day Jim Bridger whose every hour roaming American is laden with mythological magic. The Last American Man is, in fact, the best book of New Journalism to appear since Tom Wolfe published The Right Stuff. A truly delightful, outrageous, unforgettable saga." Douglas Brinkley
?Wickedly well-written... There are two parts to The Last American Man: Conway?s personal story, which is fascinating enough, and the way it entwines with the American preoccupation with robust, can-do masculinity.? James Gorman, The New York Times Book Review (Editors? Choice)
"Gilbert has a jaunty, breathless style, and she paints a complicated portrait of American maleness that is as original as it is surprising." Publishers Weekly
Acclaimed journalist and fiction writer Gilbert focuses on the fascinating true story of Eustace Conway, who left his comfortable suburban home at the age of 17 to move into the Appalachian Mountains, where for the last 20 years he has lived off the land.
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In this rousing examination of contemporary American male identity, acclaimed author and journalist Elizabeth Gilbert explores the fascinating true story of Eustace Conway. In 1977, at the age of seventeen, Conway left his family's comfortable suburban home to move to the Appalachian Mountains. For more than two decades he has lived there, making fire with sticks, wearing skins from animals he has trapped, and trying to convince Americans to give up their materialistic lifestyles and return with him back to nature. To Gilbert, Conway's mythical character challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be a modern man in America; he is a symbol of much we feel how our men should be, but rarely are.
What does it mean to be a man in modern America? Do men somehow better themselves when they leave civilization and head into the woods? The Last American Man is a cultural examination of contemporary American male identity and the uniquely American desire to return to the wilderness.
From the frontier West to American utopian communities, Elizabeth Gilbert has produced a history of American manhood as it has never been told before.
To illustrate her story, Gilbert uses the rich and fascinating case study of Eustace Conway, a man who has lived in the Appalachian Mountains since the age of 17. Conway has worked tirelessly to try to convince his fellow Americans to give up self-destructive modern lifestyles and return with him to the primal sanctuary of the wilderness. He is a living metaphor that challenges all assumptions about what it is to be a modern man in America.
The Last American Man is at the same time an adventure saga and a thoughtful meditation on the relationship of man to the wilderness. It is also a reflection of masculine American identity in all its conflicting elements--energy, isolation, narcissism, inventiveness, audacity, and destiny.
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Our nation's founders recognized that most human abuses are the result of government. As Thomas Paine said, "government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil." Because of their fear of abuse, the Constitution's framers sought to keep the federal government limited in its power. Their distrust of Congress is seen in the governing rules and language used throughout our Constitution. The Bill of Rights is explicit in that distrust, using language such as Congress shall not abridge, shall not infringe and shall not deny and other shall-nots, such as disparage, violate and deny. If the framers did not believe that Congress would abuse our God-given, or natural, rights, they would not have provided those protections. I've always suggested that if we see anything like the Bill of Rights at our next destination after we die, we'll know that we're in hell. A perceived need for such protection in heaven would be an affront to God. It would be the same as saying we can't trust him.
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