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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina Before he became Pope Francis, Argentina's Catholic leader took the first steps toward granting sainthood status to priests and other Catholics who were murdered in July 1976 as Argentina's dictatorship was killing thousands of so-called "subversives."
The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, confirmed Tuesday that it was Jorge Bergoglio who approved the beatification cause of Carlos de Dios Murias, a Franciscan priest killed in Argentina's La Rioja province, where his mission had challenged the interests of powerful local leaders.
A fellow Franciscan priest, a Frenchman named Gabriel Longueville, was found alongside Murias. Both had their eyes gouged out and hands cut off, allegedly after being kidnapped by a military death squad. A Catholic lay worker who collaborated with them, Wenceslao Pedernera, was found beaten to death days later. The diocese of La Rioja province has been working on a sainthood case for all three since 2011. Only now has Argentina's justice system put the alleged suspects on trial.
Lombardi said that as leader of Argentina's bishops, Bergoglio also approved a sainthood investigation for five Pallotine churchmen killed at St. Patrick's Church in Buenos Aires. Fathers Alfredo Kelly, Alfredo Leaden and Pedro Dufau and their seminarians Salvador Berbeito and Emilio Barletti were shot to death by a right-wing hit squad. The killers left graffiti saying the deaths were in revenge for a leftist guerrilla bombing of a police station two days earlier that had killed 18 people.
Both sets of killings were among a wave of kidnappings and deaths targeting church representatives who ran social missions at a time when the highest church authorities in Argentina were publicly silent about the junta's use of kidnapping, torture and murder to eliminate people they considered to be subversives.
The Franciscan priests' bishop, Enrique Angelelli, had gathered evidence about their deaths when he, too, was killed in a suspicious traffic accident. Church leaders didn't acknowledge that Angelelli was probably murdered until 2006, when President Nestor Kirchner announced a national day of mourning in his honor. Bergoglio said Mass in La Rioja that day, calling Angelelli a "martyr" during the first official church homage to him.
The so-called "Saint Patricks' Massacre" was another notorious case, happening on church property in one of the Argentine capital's most exclusive neighborhoods, Belgrano. But it drew only a tepid public response from the Argentine church hierarchy. Days later, they wrote the junta saying "We wonder, or rather, the people wonder, what kind of forces are so powerful that they can act at their own discretion in our society with total impunity and anonymity. ... We have made this statement sure of Your Excellencies' understanding, knowing your high ideals and your generous attitude toward the fatherland, its institutions and its citizens."
These cases surfaced again Tuesday during Francis' installation as pope because the leader of the Franciscan order in Argentina and Uruguay, Carlos Trovarelli, told the Italian paper La Stampa that Bergoglio's wisdom about church politics was what enabled the canonization process to prosper.
Trovarelli said Bergoglio approved the La Rioja diocese's work in May 2011, when nobody thought he would be pope. He said Bergoglio asked those involved to act with great discretion, saying "many Argentine bishops, especially the oldest ones, are opposed to judgments based on social commitments."
"Thanks to his caution, the process was able to advance," Trovarelli told La Stampa.
Trovarelli later denied in a phone call with The Associated Press that he had told La Stampa anything about other Argentine bishops.
La Stampa also interviewed another priest, Miguel La Civita, who was close to Angelelli, and credits Bergoglio for saving him and other priests by hiding them inside the Colegio Maximo, a church university in suburban Buenos Aires where Bergoglio was the rector.


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After more than a quarter century of debate, Yale faculty members are now barred from sexual relationships with undergraduates—not just their own students, but any Yale undergrads.More madness here.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Yet Another Reason Not to Take a Job at Yale...
53 comments:
Still waiting to regret that decision, huh Spiros?
- April 6, 2010 at 12:39 AM
I'm confused (and ambiguous). Is the reason that one ought not to take a job at Yale that they only recently prohibited sexual relations between faculty and undergraduate student or that they prohibited sexual relations between faculty and undergraduates simpliciter?
- April 6, 2010 at 3:10 AM
I'm pretty sure it's the latter, but isn't meant seriously. But what do I know?
- April 6, 2010 at 8:04 AM
My sig oth went back to school to get a second ba at the place I took my first job. glad it wasn't yale.
- April 6, 2010 at 8:38 AM
Hey, from what I hear, profs can still date even their own, current students at GW. So there's that.
- April 6, 2010 at 9:22 AM
We don't tolerate doctors who sleep with their patients or lawyers who sleep with their clients or supervisors who sleep with their subordinate workers. Why do so many look the other way at professors who sleep with their students?
This is a huge problem in higher education. Many schools have policies designating this "unprofessional conduct" (and worse). Why don't they all?
- April 6, 2010 at 5:11 PM
Any data on how "huge a problem" this is in higher ed?
- April 6, 2010 at 8:24 PM
Its only a problem if it causes harm. More than that, it must cause more harm than is caused by interfering in the emotional and sexual lives of others via regimented social policy.
When I was in grad school, the policy was no relationships with students while they were in your class. I don't see how this is an irrational policy. I can see how there might be complications if we are talking grad students and profs in their department, but cannot reasonable adults figure out how to live out their lives without college administrators intervening?
- April 6, 2010 at 8:58 PM
If we open the possibility of relationships with students who are not in our classes, then we are de facto limiting those students' educational opportunities by restricting them from taking our classes in the future because of the conflict of interest involved (which I think anyone would allow in that case). And it may well be that they need our classes for their educational goals. Given the age/social power differences involved as well, it's usually the student potentially placed at disadvantage here--not the professor. Is it paternalistic on the part of Yale? Yes. Unreasonable? No. I usually agree with Spiros; not here--unless I am missing really subtle sarcasm on his part. Which would be more likely if it's actually *her* part.
- April 6, 2010 at 11:23 PM
I know a professor who began dating someone who went on to become an undergraduate at her institution. Since the two interacted like peers, it would have been ridiculous if the two had been separated by a policy forbidding such relationships. Somewhat luckily, her institution allowed such relationships.
- April 7, 2010 at 6:52 PM
- April 7, 2010 at 9:12 PM
Yale's are policies based on aggregate benefits and harms--e.g., the fact that there is one demonstrable case that neglect of seat-belt use resulted in saving one life can't in and of itself count against the general wisdom of seat-belt laws to save lives across the board. Of course one could appeal to injustice against individuals in an attempt to thwart all prohibitions based on societal/utilitarian considerations: but would that be desirable? Maybe Randians or forms of egoism would approve.
About the example of the professor and student cited above--the fact that they "luckily" were not prohibited from their relationship was a form of luck that extended only to their particular circumstance; it does not generalize to undermine the basis of policy used to justify Yale's position. The lucky non-seat-belter above was indeed lucky in a restricted sense--but still not in any generalized sense wise.
- April 7, 2010 at 9:30 PM
I think Yale should remove all soda and snack machines from their campus-- they're harmful too. They shouldn't allow pizza on campus, either. And I wonder if it's not the case that intimate relationships among college students are per se harmful (mine tended to be).
Sure, prof/student relationships are problematic. But as a student I dated a prof from another school in my university, and we've been happily married for 18 years. Perhaps my case is uncommon. But maybe not every kind of harm is such that the University has the authority to protect from.
- April 7, 2010 at 9:44 PM
It is then an empirical question: is the lucky couple the exception, or does the lack of formal policies against faculty/student relationships lead to greater tragedy?
I know of two married couples who met in a classroom. I know of a few other cases of romantic relationships between people who met as teacher student. As far as I know none of these people thought they would have been helped by Yale type policy.
One would have to also look at the effect on other students, colleagues etc., but its not like there are all these profs going out with students. Though that, too is an empirical question
But it really is an empirical question. I wonder if there is data somewhere?
- April 7, 2010 at 9:48 PM
I'm that dissenter here. For the record, I not only dated a student in my very first full-responsible TA class--which fortunately did not work out because I was a clueless idiot--I also unfortunately eventually married the wife of a professor whom I met while I was in that professor's class (Want irony? I got the only A in that class--because I deserved it.) Messy indeed. And maybe our marriage would have worked out if we were simply better people. But it didn't--because we were the awful people we were and are--and a policy like Yale's would not have prevented my own self-made misery. But you know what? My own particular joys, sorrows, and stupidities cannot drive the overall argument. Yale's policy is overall sound, despite the vicissitudes of life that can tip anecdotal evidence to the plus and minus side.
BTW--my word verification is "fated".
- April 7, 2010 at 10:14 PM
It is only an empirical question if you adopt a utilitarian/consequentialist approach and want to know what policies maximize overall welfare.
If you favour individual liberty, then things look very different. Mature human beings should be free to conduct themselves as they choose. Although people are talking about disparities of power, does it really often happen that professors use their power to cajole students into bed? In this day and age I just don't see it happening.
The problem is rather certain students being attracted to professors because they are (relatively) powerful. Then the relationship goes wrong because there is no basis for a serious relationship. With the result that people suffer. But that certain students are stupid enough to be attracted to powerful individuals is not a reason to forbid mature human beings (and yes many students fall into that category) conducting their relationships as they see fit.
- April 7, 2010 at 10:36 PM
FYI I'd take the Yale job in a heartbeat regardless of their amorous relations policy.
- April 8, 2010 at 1:14 AM
I think a good utilitarian case can be made that policies like this are a bad idea. As Mill would say, human beings grow and develop best when they are left as unfettered as possible.
I really think the policy is a case of a solution looking for a problem.
- April 8, 2010 at 3:40 AM
The biggest mistake I made in graduate school was sleeping with one of my fellow graduate students, which caused huge amounts of pain and suffering. Can't we prohibit that as well, since we're banning stuff?
Verification word: sorest.
Damn straight.
- April 8, 2010 at 6:33 AM
On the grad student issue, a grad student who's in a relationship with a prof is much less likely to have his/her work evaluated in a fair way. She'll (probably) be in the same social circle as prof's and be regarded more as a peer by them. At least, that's how it went in my grad program.
- April 8, 2010 at 8:01 AM
What about a non-tenured faculty member having a relationship with a tenured faculty member.
These issues are complex when viewed from a personal, moral perspective.
Obviously, routinely seeing your students as prospective dates is not a good rule of practical reason.
The question is: should the ban be an official policy (unofficial shuning is probably a good idea)
What if a prof and a student fall in love? Are we going to make the student drop out, or the prof resign? I guess the relationship could be held back until graduation, but passion unconsumated creates all the same issues as passion consumated. What will likely happen is that the relationship will be secret.
And do we need Plato to teach us that love is strong, really a kind of madness? In the midst of passionate feeling few of us are going to just give up on it becasue of some administrative rule.
- April 8, 2010 at 9:22 AM
I'd like to see statistics on how many undergrads are mature under various definitions. Too many middle-aged people are very immature (e.g. materialistic, selfish, impatient, thoughtless).
To me freedom is not about being allowed to do whatever you want (which is mostly due to conditioning and chance), but about having the opportunity to improve yourself and free yourself from detrimental influences.
I take it you don't think it's right to forbid the mature ones, however few they are, to protect the others. But if they're really mature, they'll understand that they're not the center of the universe and that it's a worthy sacrifice.
- April 8, 2010 at 9:48 AM
Does not freedom include the ability to determine for yourself what counts as a "detrimental influence"
- April 8, 2010 at 10:43 AM
An empirical study. I wonder if there are any more recent ones.
- April 8, 2010 at 11:15 AM
I can't believe you jerks are still talking about sex with students after the DOOM linked in my post of 9:12 PM.
- April 8, 2010 at 1:13 PM
Everything worked out fine for Heidegger and Arendt right?
- April 8, 2010 at 1:47 PM
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- April 8, 2010 at 2:05 PM
Chairephon, I thought the point of your link was that relationships between students and faculty were miracles. Or did I miss something...
- April 8, 2010 at 2:15 PM
I thought the DOOM point was that you could sleep with your students as long as you were wearing clown make up ... which, to follow up on Tod's point, would make relationships between faculty and students miracles.
- April 8, 2010 at 5:39 PM
Does maturity consist in sacrificing yourself for stupid people; or in realising that others are not entitled to sacrifice you to stupid people?
If someone has to bear the cost of a person's stupidity should it not be the stupid person rather than the non-stupid person?
Perhaps making the stupid person bear the cost of his stupidity will lead him to learn and grow in a way that mollycoddling him will not...
- April 8, 2010 at 6:53 PM
Considering the examples I listed of immaturity (selfishness, materialism, impatience, thoughtlessness), the answer should be pretty obvious. As support, I would point out how selfish very young children are and that as they mature they (hopefully) learn about sharing.
You seem to think the proper attitude towards stupid people is contempt and indifference. But stupidity is one of the worst disadvantages there are, so the rational response is compassion and beneficence.
If you think maturity is 'realizing' you don't have to care about other people you're in a sorrier predicament than most people you refer to as stupid.
As for the thought about mollycoddling, that's just an excuse to not care. Because the fact is that no matter how much you try to help a stupid person, you can't shield them entirely, and their stupidity will hurt them very often all the same.
- April 8, 2010 at 9:43 PM
Not 6:53
But caring about people involves letting them make their decisions.
Imagine that you thought you were in love, and some adminstrator told you that the relationship cannot happen.
Of course it could be silly and stupid. But the intrusion!!!!
yes I am drunk. pardon.
- April 8, 2010 at 10:42 PM
You wouldn't say that caring about your 5 year-old means you should let them make all their own decisions. The reason is that they're not mature enough. Imagine if you were that 5 year-old and you really wanted something but your parents told you you can't have it. The intrusion!
Why are children not entitled to liberty? The only answer I can think of is that they're not mature enough to know what's good for them. But the same is true of many adults (e.g. Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Tiger Woods... just to focus on one type of immature action).
And with regard to college students dating faculty members... might as well let high school teachers date students if they're not in that class (in many places the age of consent is pretty low so it'd be legal in that sense)... after all, some high school students are kind of mature.
- April 8, 2010 at 11:05 PM
This is the key issue, I think. Are college students adults, or children, or something in between.
And of course an 18 year old just out of highschool is more child-like than a 21 year old student.
Maybe we should have kept the age of majority at 21?
I think we have started to treat older and older kids as if they were younger kids. This has nothing to do with sex, but with our culture. My ex is always wanting to supervise.. I always want to let roam and be free.
The more freedom we give our children (I mean the freedom a typical 60s parent would have given) the more mature they will be when 18.
- April 9, 2010 at 10:42 AM
I'm 6.53.
Reply to 9.43
You misread me. I do not say that we should not care about others, be beneficent and so on. I agree with you that we should be.
The issue is whether you and I should be harmed by others (e.g. the authorities) in order to benefit the immature/stupid. I do not think we should.
Thus I may choose to help the immature/stupid person, perhaps by giving advice, help etc., and of course not taking advantage of him/her. That's fine, and I have a responsibility to do such things. But should the authorities introduce rules which harm me – or potentially harm me – merely to benefit the immature/stupid? I do not see why they should. Surely if the authorities have to choose to either make me suffer a harmful constraint of liberty, or allow the immature/stupid person to suffer from his/her own behaviour, then they should choose the latter.
Obviously a line has to be drawn somewhere, regarding when you give people responsibility to live their own lives. But given that 18 year olds can vote and go to war, it does seem reasonable to think that by that time we should treat them as adults rather than as 5 year olds.
- April 9, 2010 at 8:42 PM
I don't think I misunderstood. What you just said is pretty much what I thought you meant.
You have a minimalist concept of 'caring', which does not include sacrifice, even in the form of being deprived of things you might get and like, much less in the form of putting up with things you don't like or giving up things you have and like.
Some college students are pretty mature. The vast majority are very immature. If it was the other way around, it _might_ be reasonable not to protect the few immature ones at the inconvenience of the mature ones. But given what it actually is like, Yale's policy is right on. And, no, I don't think very many 18 year-olds are mature enough to understand what joining the military means either. As for voting, look at various opinion polls and the mess California is in through their ballot initiative system and the people they elected, and it should be clear that even older people are for the most part not mature enough to vote.
- April 9, 2010 at 11:47 PM
I'm that same old dissenter--right on 11:47!
Besides those good points on maturity, to me it's mainly a function of professionalism--the fact that we are placed in a position to educate our charges. May we press their received beliefs? Of course. Make them feel intellectually uncomfortable? We'd better. Insult them? Not in a personal way at least. Seduce them above and beyond the beauty of our presented ideas? We'd better draw that line pretty sharply. We can be friends of mutual inquiry with students at best--but if we cross the line into lurid affection, lust, or even love--we aren't educators any more. We're allowing our role as educators to benefit us in ways that has nothing to do with that professional position--and we are indulging ourselves selfishly. I have served for many years in a state Supreme Court committee that oversees lawyer conduct, and by far the formal complaints are about two things: laziness (lack of due diligence) and taking advantage of clients financially or sexually. I don't think our own profession is much different in its main failures, except we can't directly filch cash (though some do sell grades I guess). I see Yale as proactively addessing a pervasive and unfortunate tendency in all human nature. And as I've said, my feet are as much clay as anyone's.
Teaching is a position of power. Like Spidey's uncle Stan Lee said--with great power comes great responsibility. Nuff said.
- April 10, 2010 at 12:55 AM
I'm 6.53 & 8.42
Reply to 11.47
You say of me: 'You have a minimalist concept of 'caring', which does not include sacrifice, even in the form of being deprived of things you might get and like, much less in the form of putting up with things you don't like or giving up things you have and like.'
No I do not. I do not say that you as an individual should not choose to make sacrifices in order to help others – I think that you should.
What I say is different. It is that *others* do not have the right to sacrifice you & me, in order to help others. It is that we should not give a third party ('the authorities') the power to harm you & me *when they see fit* (e.g. when they think that by harming you & me they can benefit the immature).
Furthermore, you seem to think
1) That the majority of people are immature. And
2) that immature people should not have the responsibility to live their own lives, but rather that the 'mature elite/authorities' should have the authority to live their lives for them (and least in certain crucial respects). And
3) furthermore, what you say implies that you think that the 'mature elite/authorities' are entitled to produce rules that harm those who are not immature, provided that the immature benefit.
4) This suggests that you are happy for there to be rules which remove from the mature the ability to live their life, if doing so benefits the immature. This just sounds like a recipe for an authoritarian state.
Finally, I certainly agree that the general population do need to be far better educated, not least in ethics, so that they will live their lives better, make better decisions when they vote and so on.
- April 10, 2010 at 12:54 PM
I don't get it. Students who are truly mature (i.e. including not being selfish) would be willing to forsake fucking faculty members in order to protect the large number of immature peers they have. It's as simple as that. Being mature isn't just being able to look out for yourself, it's also looking out for others (see 9:43). I'm sure lots of people who think of themselves as mature and have read Ayn Rand would dispute this, but thinking you're mature doesn't make you mature. Students who are immature and want to fuck faculty members are the reason (together with unscrupulous faculty) rules such as this are needed in the first place. So who here is being harmed? Are mature people being harmed by being forbidden from doing something that they would willingly abstain from anyway because they see how it benefits their peers?
And I do not equate with having rules prescribed to you with 'not living your life'. Are you 'not living your life' because there are rules against stealing? You're free to steal if you want, just know there are consequences for it.
- April 10, 2010 at 1:42 PM
It's interesting how everyone went anonymous on this one whether for or against.
My word verification is hersheng. The verb that wasn't.
- April 10, 2010 at 3:08 PM
For the record, I'm currently both a faculty member fucking five of my undergrads and an undergrad fucking three of my teachers (two of whom are married and one of whom has great-grandchildren). If you don't believe me, it's just because you're jealous.
- April 10, 2010 at 3:30 PM
I guess I thought that if you are prevented from having a love relationship, you are being harmed.
I posted this before, but my former colleague met her very serious partner in her class, another old colleague met her husband in her class. When I was a graduate student, I had an undergraduate girlfriend and no one thought it was strange (There was maybe a three year difference in age?)
I don't know of a case where someone was harmed by being involved with a faculty member. I do know of one extremely obnxious prof who through sexual harassment and just general assholeness/immaturity/ psychological problems/ made it impossible for many students to take his classes.
I am glad that nowadays such an individual would be not be shrugged off as a "difficult personality"
But the harassment cases are different in kind from consensual relationships between one person who happens to be a student and another who happens to be prof.
- April 10, 2010 at 4:08 PM
Suppose x and y are people who have a strong physical and psychological attraction to each other.
On the face of it, preventing x and y from having a sexual relationship is harming both. It is being like the parents of Romeo and Juliet.
Therefore, when x and y are strongly attracted physically and psychologically, the presumption should be, let them see how it goes.
The presumption can be overidden, of course. But blanket rules such as this one in the end will just cause people to have underground affairs etc.
Its like banning marijuana. Passion can take over even the most Aristotelian members of our species.
- April 10, 2010 at 4:26 PM
Two words: Soon Yi
- April 10, 2010 at 5:09 PM
It seems like those in favor of the Yale type policy think of it as this:
I am this cool prof, this hot chick thinks I am cool. WOW boy am I going to have some fun fucking her.
Whereas I, naively perhaps, think its more like the following
This chick is really cook. likes to talk philosophy. I like her a lot!
What am I to do? We both like each other, we both relate on all sorts of levels
The prudent thing, I always thought, was wait until the class was over, have coffee and lunch. see how it goes..
But the Yale policy is : NO NEVER!
if you are prof, you cannot ever really love a student
But that is, excuse me, Bullshit.
Love happens all sorts of times, in all sorts of circumstances.
If we agree that love is agood, then we should agree there should be no blanket policy about it.
Again, this is not to say that in general a prof should not look on students as possible dates. Its just an argument against some administrative policy that tries to force people to act against the dictates of their heart.
- April 10, 2010 at 5:38 PM
This argument probably looks different if you are in a big city with lots of opportunities to find love, to if you are in a small town, where your chances are largely restricted to students and faculty.
Though come to think of it, even if they are in a big city, most philosophy faculty work so hard that they do not have much time to meet people outside of the university.
- April 10, 2010 at 8:08 PM
Love almost NEVER just happens.
You pursue spending time with someone, eventually, it happens.
But if someone is off-limits, you have ways of making it not happen.
You know, like when the person is married to someone else? Or if the person is just a wee bit too young? Easy: don't go there.
The power differential is extreme, and when bad shit goes down, it can be impossible to sort out. So here's an easy way: mutual consent is so excuse.
- April 10, 2010 at 9:02 PM
Yes you can avoid love if it is inappropriate (if someone is married or clearly too young). But what if it is not? Most of us do not have lots of shots at love. If we meet someone with whom love may be a possibility, then we pursue it. It is the most important thing in life. Why should authorities outlaw it?
- April 10, 2010 at 10:17 PM
If students are suffering b/c of consensual relationships with faculty then there is a strong case for banning it.
But what is required is not ideological talk of "power" but some actual data.
Maybe I am just blind and naive but
(1) I don't see all these relationships happening. How many old codger profs are dating 20 year old students?
(2) The cases I know about from years back lead to happiness, not unhappiness.
- April 11, 2010 at 3:37 AM
I imagine that the situation is more commonly young professors dating older students, in which case the age difference is not extreme, or even that much more unusual than in a normal relationship.
If such a situation is the case, then the focus is primarily on the power difference, as has been noted, rather than the age difference. What is particularly strange is situations in which the student is older than the professor. Say, a 30 year old student dating a 28 year old professor. Very strange indeed.
- April 11, 2010 at 3:29 PM
Of course it might be that the student and the professor address each other as normal human beings - and all this stuff about power is irrelevant...
- April 11, 2010 at 7:04 PM
But you're forgetting that people involved in academia aren't normal humans, so that option is a non-starter.
- April 11, 2010 at 8:33 PM
This thread convinces me that blogging has absolutely no use. Those of a certain blush of conviction will use universals and particulars to one use, and those of the reverse, the reverse. I can't think of a better instance to say this: stay within your mind-set. It's safe. It's good. Fuck your students with impunity of conscience. Or--don't. It's all good. I'm done with this stupid exercise of self-indulgence. If you cannot extend your own experience beyond the perimeter of your prejudices, then the blogging life apparently is for you. And with this I'm done with the waste of time that is otherwise called blogging.
Wisdom at last. Life without the keyboard.
- April 14, 2010 at 11:50 PM


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Its a anti -estrogen product from swanson's would it help with hair loss?
Its a anti -estrogen product from swanson's would it help with hair loss?
Lowering estrogen? How would that help with hair loss?
How about this stuff: http://www.surthrival.com/portfolios/pine-pollen/
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Thanks Jacob,so no real benefits to hair?
Well the first link mentions "Enhance metabolic function of the skin and nourish the hair at its roots" ..I've asked them to get into a bit more detail if they could..we'll see.
On estrogen...the testosterone & dht debate...let's get ready to rumble!
I personally think such products can help. Of course I'm not so anti-dht as most seem to be. And too much estrogen is NOT good...and there is a too low testosterone problem going on out there..it seems.
Nah..it doesn't take much time. It's just being able to use the search engines right
I'm tempted to try the pine pollen for awhile btw. The Surthrival is 15% off..or at least was..but I'd like to see what else is out there. The link with the quotes/info above also sells the stuff.
Where is your evidence too much estrogen is bad for hair? Estrogen is good for hair. Androgens are bad. Period.Originally Posted by Jacob
M-T-F transexuals regrow hair because they lower androgens and raise estrogens.
Originally Posted by blaze
Well I wasn't necessarily talking about hair there..but there's a reason why I said "let's get ready to rumble!"
Too much of either isn't good it seems...a balance seems more appropriate. Which, in some cases..could mean increasing estrogen. But if it works so well by increasing estrogen(for hair)...why isn't anyone doing that big-time? But then you might as well get castrated at the same time


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Rebecca is close friends with her boss and Christy is hesitant to confront or intervening the situation.
Slacker thinks shes doomed and is unable to do anything in this situation, he hopes the listeners will give her some advice....it looks like he actually had Christys co-worker on the phone. That escalated quickly! Rebecca had a few things to say to Christy and is now unsure whats going to happen come monday for work.
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A memorial motorcycle ride will be held Sunday in honor of two Florida National Guard members who were killed in the early months of the Iraq War.
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The Black Sheep Memorial Ride — Black Sheep was the platoon name — starts at 10 a.m. at the Paul V Hudson Armory, 605 S. Bay St., Eustis, and goes to the VFW Post in Reddick, 19241 N. U.S. 441.
A $15 donation per rider ($20 per couple) is requested but not mandatory.
The ride honors Gainesville residents Cpl. John "Travis" Rivero, who was killed in April 2003, and SPC Jeffrey Wershow, who died three months later.
Rivero and Wershow were the first Florida National Guard soldiers to be killed in combat since World War II.
The men were "two real good friends of mine," said Mike Partain, a fellow National Guard member who is organizing the ride along with another member, Bobby Garrison.
Partain works for Homeland Security in Miami these days. The 10th anniversary of the war he served in sneaked up a bit, and he said it's important to him and Garrison to remember their fallen comrades and to tell those men's stories.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. | The Seahawks erupted for seven runs on 10 hits and freshman Peyton Jordan recorded a four-hit shutout in her collegiate debut as UNCW defeated Maryland-Eastern Shore 7-0 Friday in the Charleston Southern Softball Tournament at Buccaneer Field.
UNCW's nightcap against Charleston Southern was postponed after seven innings with the score tied at 1 due to darkness. The two teams will resume their game in the top of the eighth at 8 a.m. Saturday before the Seahawks close out their appearance in the Charleston Southern Softball Tournament on Saturday with a 9 a.m. contest against future CAA foe Elon.
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The UNCW women's tennis team won its second straight match without losing a point after blanking Western Carolina 7-0 at the UNCW courts. ... Matthew Foster, Cameron Shaw and Meena Reid all scored points for the UNCW track team with top-eight finishes at the Sykes-Sabock Challenge Cup at the Ashenfelter Track on the campus of Penn State. The meet concludes on Saturday beginning with the men's vault at 11 a.m.
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AMES, Iowa – Iowa State student-athletes Jamie Straube (volleyball) and Charlie Paul (track and field/cross country) have been selected to receive 2012-13 Dr. Prentice Gautt Postgraduate Scholarships. Straube and Paul are two of the 20 Big 12 student-athletes to be selected to receive the prestigious $9,000 grants.
The scholarships are named in honor of the late Dr. Prentice Gautt. Gautt, a former Big 12 Conference staff member and student services' pioneer, passed away in March 2005. These individual grants have been awarded to 313 deserving post-graduate student-athletes in the Big 12 since 1996.
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Paul, a distance runner under Iowa State head track and field and cross country coach Corey Ihmels, is a two-time first team Academic All-Big 12 honoree. The LeClaire, Iowa, native competed in the 5,000 and 10,000-meter runs at the Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field Championships for the Cyclones. Paul also finished 61st at the NCAA Midwest Regional cross country meet.


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Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, I rise to introduce a resolution that expresses deep concern about ongoing violations of human rights in Kazakhstan. President Nursultan Nazarbaev, the authoritarian leader of this energy-rich country, has been flagrantly flouting his OSCE commitments on democratization, human rights, and the rule of law, and thumbing his nose at Washington as well.
In the 106th Congress, there was a near unanimous vote in the House for a resolution I introduced voicing dismay about general trends in Central Asia. We sent a strong signal to leaders and opposition groups alike in the region about where we stand.
Since then, the overall situation has not gotten better--throughout the region, super presidents continue to dominate their political systems. But their drive to monopolize wealth and power while most people languish in poverty is finally producing a backlash. Today in Central Asia, things are stirring for the first time in a decade.
Even in quasi-Stalinist Turkmenistan, an opposition movement-in-exile led by former high ranking government officials has emerged which openly proclaims its intention of getting rid of dictator Saparmurat Niyazov. In Kyrgyzstan, disturbances in March, when police killed six protesters calling for the release of a jailed parliamentarian, were followed by larger demonstrations that forced President Akaev in May to dismiss his government. The iron-fisted Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan, under considerable pressure from Washington, has made some limited concessions to domestic and international public opinion, sentencing policemen to prison terms for torturing detainees and formally lifting censorship.
In Kazakhstan, however, President Nursultan Nazarbaev has reacted differently to domestic pressure and to Washington's calls for reforms to keep repression from breeding terrorism. Since last fall, Nazarbaev has cracked down hard, when his position became a little shakier. First we saw squabbles within the ruling--or should I say, ``royal''?--family burst out into the open when Nazarbaev demoted his powerful son-in-law. Then a new opposition movement emerged, headed by former officials who called for urgent reforms. Two of the leaders of that movement are now in prison. Subsequently, Kazakhstan's prime minister had to acknowledge the existence of $1 billion stashed in a Swiss bank account under Nazarbaev's name. Some of the few opposition legislators allowed into parliament have demanded more information about the money and about any other possible hoards in foreign banks.
This would be a scandal in any country. But with a consistency worthy of a nobler goal, Nazarbaev's regime has for years stifled the opposition and independent media. And as detailed in a recent Washington Post story, which I ask to be inserted for the Record, Kazakh authorities have recently intensified their assault on those few remaining outlets, employing methods that can only be described as grotesque and revolting. In one case, the editor of an opposition newspaper found a decapitated dog hanging outside her office. Attached to a screwdriver stuck into its body was a message that read ``there won't be a next time.'' On May 23, the State Department issued a statement expressing ``deep concern'' that these assaults ``suggest an effort to intimidate political opposition leaders in Kazakhstan and the independent media and raise serious questions about the safety of the independent media in Kazakhstan.'' That statement did not have the desired effect--last week, someone left a human skull on a staircase in the building where the editorial office of another newspaper is located.
Mr. Speaker, after September 11, the U.S. Government moved to consolidate relationships with Central Asian states, seeking cooperation in the battle with terrorism. But Washington also made plain that we expected to see some reform in these entrenched dictatorships, or we would all have to deal with consequences in the future. Nursultan Nazarbaev has ignored this call. Increasingly nervous about revelations of high-level corruption, he is obviously determined to do anything necessary to remain in power and to squelch efforts to inform Kazakhstan's public of his misdeeds. But even worse, he seems convinced that he can continue with impunity as his goons brutally threaten and assault the brave men and women who risk being journalists in a country so hostile to free speech.
Mr. Speaker, against this backdrop, I am introducing this resolution, which expresses concern about these trends, calls on Kazakhstan's leadership to observe its OSCE commitments and urges the U.S. Government to press Kazakhstan more seriously. I hope my colleagues will support this resolution and I look forward to their response.
[Washington Post Foreign Service, Mon., June 10, 2002]
(By Peter Baker)
``There won't be a next time.''
The dog's missing head was left along with a similar note at Petrushova's house. Three nights later, someone threw three molotov cocktails into her office and burned it to the ground.
The political climate in this oil-rich former Soviet republic has taken a decidedly ominous turn in recent weeks, ever since the revelation that the country's president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, secretly stashed $1 billion of state money in a Swiss bank account 6 years ago. As the scandal blossomed, opposition leaders were suddenly arrested, newspapers and television stations shut down, and critical journalists beaten in what foes of the government consider a new wave of repression.
What inspectors and regulators have not accomplished, mysterious vandals have. One of the country's leading television stations was knocked off the air when its cable was sliced in the middle of the night. Shortly after it was repaired, the cable was rendered useless again when someone shot through it.
``Everything that's been achieved over the last 10 years, it's been wiped out,'' Petrushova lamented.
``This political system we have is still Soviet,'' said Yevgeny Zhovits, director of the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and the Rule of Law. ``By its spirit, by its nature, by its attitude toward personal freedom, it's still Soviet.''
The tale of intrigue emerging in Kazakhstan, while familiar across the former Soviet Union, takes on special significance in Central Asia, a region that has become far more important to the United States as it fights a war in nearby Afghanistan. The case also sheds some light on the tangled world of oil, money and politics in a country with massive energy reserves.
The U.S. Embassy and the State Department have issued statements condemning the pattern of events and fretting about the state of democracy in a country still run by its last Communist boss. But many reformers in Kazakhstan worry that the West has effectively turned its eyes away from human rights abuses to maintain the international coalition against terrorism.
``All this is happening with the silent consent of the West,'' said Assylbeck Kozhakhmetov, a leading figure in Democratic Choice for Kazakhstan, an opposition party founded last year. Until Sept. 11, Nazarbayev's government worried about offending the West, he noted, but not anymore. ``The ostrich party of Western democracies actually unties the hands of dictators.''
Nazarbayev, a burly, 61-year-old former steel mill blast-furnace operator, has run this giant, dusty country of 17 million people with an authoritarian style. Nazarbayev was a former member of the Soviet Politburo who took over as head of the republic in 1990, became president after independence in 1991, and continued to dominate Kazakhstan through uncompetitive elections and a referendum extending his term.
His relationship with oil companies has prompted investigations in Switzerland and the United States as prosecutors in both countries probe whether an American lobbyist helped steer millions of dollars in oil commissions to him and other Kazakh leaders.
The long-brewing questions about such transfers and rumors of foreign bank accounts erupted into a full-blown scandal in April when Nazarbayev's prime minister admitted to parliament that the president diverted $1 billion to a secret Swiss bank account in 1996. The money came from the sale that year of a 20 percent stake in the valuable Tengiz offshore oil fields to Chevron.
The prime minister, Imangali Tasmagambetov, said that Nazarbayev had sent the money abroad because he worried that such a large infusion of cash into Kazakhstan would throw the currency into a tailspin. Although he never disclosed the secret fund to parliament, Nazarbayev used it twice to help stabilize the country during subsequent financial crises, Tasmagambetov said.
In an inter-view last week, a top government official dismissed the significance of the revelation and the resulting furor.
``The so-called Kazakh-gate, the government officially explained this,'' said Ardak Doszham, the deputy minister of information. ``There was a special reserve account set up by the government. It's a normal account that can be managed by officials appointed by the government. It's not managed by individuals. The money that goes into it is state money, and it's supposed to be used to meet the needs of the state.''
Asked who knew about it, Doszham could identify only three men, Nazarbayev, the prime minister and the chairman of the national bank. Asked why lawmakers were never informed, he said, ``It was impossible to raise this issue before parliament because it would have elicited many questions.''
But opposition leaders and journalists said Nazarbayev finally revealed the account this spring only after they pushed Swiss prosecutors for information. The opposition and journalists said they believe the president announced the $1 billion fund only as a smoke screen to obscure other matters still under investigation by the Swiss and U.S. prosecutors.
``All around there is bribe-taking and stealing and mafia,'' said Serikbolsyn Abdildin, the head of the Communist Party and one of two parliament deputies whose information request to prosecutors preceded the announcement. ``There's corruption in the top echelon of power.'' The disclosure of the $1 billion Swiss fund was designed to ``fool public opinion,'' he said.
The disclosures have coincided with an escalating series of troublesome incidents for those who do not defer to the government.
Just days before Tasmagambetov's speech to parliament, Kazakh authorities arrested opposition politician Mukhtar Abilyazov, while his colleague, Ghalymzhan Zhaqiyanov, avoided a similar fate only by fleeing into the French Embassy here in Almaty, the former capital, two days later.
After assurances from Kazakh authorities, he left the embassy, and promptly was also taken into custody. The government insisted it was pursuing embezzlement charges against the two, both founding members of Democratic Choice. The opposition called it blatant harassment.
Other opposition figures began to feel the heat as well. While independent media in Kazakhstan have often experienced difficulty in the decade since independence, a string of frightening episodes convinced many journalists that they were being targeted.
The government began enforcing a five-year-old law requiring television stations to ensure that 50 percent of their broadcasts were aired in the native Kazakh tongue, a language that in practice remains secondary to Russian here. Most television stations cannot afford to develop such programming and prefer to buy off-the-shelf material from Russia, including dubbed Western television shows and movies. As government agents swarmed in and began monitoring channels this spring, they began seizing licenses of those stations that did not comply.
Similarly, inspectors showed up at newspaper offices demanding to see registration papers and suspending those publications that did not have everything in order. Some that did not list their addresses properly were abruptly shut down. Printing houses began refusing to publish other papers, and one printing house was burned down in unclear circumstances.
Tamara Kaleyeva, president of the International Foundation for Protection of Speech here, said about 20 newspapers have been forced to stop publishing and about 20 television stations have been shut down or face closure.
``It appears the Swiss accounts are the reason for a terrible persecution against free speech,'' she said. Added Rozlana Taukina, president of the Central Asia Independent Mass Media Association, ``The country is turning into an authoritarian regime.''
Doszham, the deputy minister, denied any political motivations behind the recent actions. Television stations had been flouting the language law, he said, and the government has suspended about seven or eight, and gone to court to recall the licenses of another six or seven. Similarly, he said, newspapers had been violating requirements. ``The law is harsh,'' he said, ``but the law is the law.''
Even more harsh, however, has been an unofficial but often violent crackdown. It is not known who is orchestrating it. Bakbytzhan Ketebayev, president of Tan Broadcasting Co., whose Tan TV station was among the best known in Kazakhstan, has been off the air for two months following repeated attacks on his cable. Even after it was repaired following the gunshots, it was damaged yet again when someone drove three nails in it. ``Once it's an accident, twice it may be an accident,'' he said. ``But three times is a trend.''
At the newspaper Soldat, which means soldier in Russian but is also a play on words in Kazakh meaning ``that one demands to speak,'' the assault was more personal. One day in late May, four young men burst into the newspaper office and beat two workers there, bashing one woman's head so hard she remains in the hospital. They also took the computer equipment.
Ermuram Bali, the editor, said the attack came the day before the weekly was to run the second of two installments reprinting a Seymour Hersh piece from the New Yorker about oil and corruption in Kazakhstan. ``This is the last warning against you,'' he said the assailants told his staff. Other journalists have been physically attacked as well.
And then there was Petrushova and the headless dog. Like Soldat, her newspaper, the Republic Business Review, had written about the scandal. Then the mutilated animal was found May 19, and finally the newspaper office was set aflame on May 22.
Petrushova suspects state security agencies were behind the incidents but cannot prove it. ``The throne started to waver, and in order to hold it in place, all sorts of measures are being used,'' she said. Now she works out of borrowed offices at Tan TV headquarters, putting out the newspaper on her own typographical machine and stapling each issue. ``It's just like it was in the time of the Soviet Union.''
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hi everyone! i hear you guys like maps =P.
anyhow, i lurk a lot on this site but havent put much up , well only one thing actually, my map of izul a tropical atoll. i was inspired by roba's easy gimp tutorial so i converted one of my gaming maps(THE gaming map, actually) that i had drawn up. i quite liked the results, though i have come to realize that my rivers are, well, wrong in places. ive decided to start putting more of my maps from izul up, if only to compile them and save 'em on the web.
here is my original izul map (shrunken):
this map is a composite of two maps i did, one for each half of the main island. id like to revisit this map, and do an antiquated version, like an actual parchment map of gaming "yore," as well as cleaner version of it.
here is the gimp overland map version i did (posted elswhere, much larger):
next ill be posting a series of adventure locales ive created. some are quite complicated multilevel things, so itll take some time. enjoy the sightseeing on Izul!


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I have been trying to find some information about how to upgrade my zimbra starter edition 6.0.8 to the latest version but was unable to find any good docs.
Just for you to know, I am not planning to move to more users just to upgrade to a newer version of the product.
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George H.W. Bush through the years
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Former President George H.W. Bush fell Wednesday, July 15, 2015 while at his summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine, breaking a vertebrae in his neck, but it was not a life-threatening injury, according to his spokesman. Look back at the life and career of former President George H.W. Bush.
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WOODSTOCK, Ga. -- Cherokee Sheriff's officials say alcohol and speed may have contributed to a deadly crash in Woodstock late Wednesday night.
Lt. Jay Baker said 57-year-old Lydia Bordacs of Woodstock was killed after her SUV hit a tree head on shortly before 10:20 p.m. on South Cherokee Drive.
Bordacs was behind the wheel. Her 33-year-old son Peter Kubanyi of Smyrna was a passenger and suffered non-life threatening injuries, according to Baker.
He said a Sheriff's deputy helped Kubanyi pull his mom out of the car after the wreck and attempted CPR, but she could not be resuscitated. Bordacs was pronounced dead at WellStar Kennestone Hospital, where her son was also treated.
The accident is under investigation.


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Sac-Joaquin Section moves SFL schools into Division I in several sports
The Sierra Foothill League will compete in Division I in baseball, softball, wrestling, golf and tennis beginning next school year, the Sac-Joaquin Section announced late last week.
There were two main reasons, section director of communications Will DeBoard said Saturday in multiple text messages to the Press Tribune.
The SFL dominated the Division II playoffs last school year by winning 16 of 22 section championships and is on an equal pace as this school year nears its end. DeBoard noted that Oak Ridge and Ponderosa won some of those titles before realignment moved them to the rugged Delta River League two years ago with Jesuit, Pleasant Grove, Folsom and Sheldon.
Also, Superior California Athletic League schools "grew too large" for Division III after Hogan closed. Three schools with enrollments of more than 2,000 have been competing against SCAL opponents with fewer than 1,000 students.
Granite Bay baseball coach Pat Esposito recalled competing in Division I in 2005 and 2006, when the Grizzlies went to the Metro League.
"The league wasn't very good, but when we got into the playoffs, it was great to play against those big teams," said Esposito, whose Grizzlies lead the SFL with a 9-1 record. "We can compete with the teams up there. We're a school of 2,100 students, so we're not a huge school, but we're good enough where I welcome that opportunity to go back to DI and play up there."
The change means Del Oro now can play no lower than Division II in the section football playoffs. The Golden Eagles have won the last two SFL football titles and are two-time reigning Division III section champs.
Roseville football coach Larry Cunha, the longtime league representative, said Monday the SFL's other teams would remain in the same division for the playoffs as last season with Granite Bay, Woodcreek and Nevada Union in Division I and Roseville and Rocklin in Division II.
It would be the same for basketball, Woodcreek coach Paul Hayes said.


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Darien Library's Senior Advisory Board is very excited to present a Community Bulletin Board for local events and notices. The Board can be found to the left of the Welcome Desk -- just past the desk.
In order to keep this board tidy and relevant, we've come up with a few guidelines for those wishing to post their information.
|Darien Post Office
|30 Corbin Drive
|Darien YMCA (near the locker rooms)
|2420 Post Road
|Darien YWCA
|49 Old King's Highway North
|Palmer's Market
|264 Heights Road
|Panera Bread
|1063 Post Road
|Robeks Juice
|883 Post Road
|Stop & Shop (Goodwives)
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FULTON COUNTY -- Fulton County has announced a Family Voting Day that will offer a voting opportunity on Saturday, October 27.
According to Fulton County, the Family Voting Day will offer a day to vote, prior to the General Election, that can be more convenient than weekdays for people with busy schedules.
Children can also learn about the voting process on Family Voting Day, as those who come with their parents can participate in a mock election where they cast ballots for favorite cartoon character.
Family Voting Day will take place from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m., at the following locations:
Adamsville Recreational Center
3201 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr., SW
Atlanta, GA 30311
Buckhead Library
269 Buckhead Avenue
Atlanta, GA 30305
Fulton County Government Center
130 Peachtree Street, SW, Suite 2186
Atlanta, GA 30303
North Fulton Service Center
7741 Roswell Road, Suite 232
Sandy Springs, GA 30350
Ocee Library
5090 Abbotts Bridge Road
Johns Creek, GA 30005
South Fulton Service Center
5600 Stonewall Tell Road, Room 108
College Park, GA 30349
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Evidence-Based Paradigm
This directory page includes resources that provide overviews and highlight key issues for evidence-based health care generally and maternal and newborn care in particular. Below you will also find characterizations of evidence-practice and evidence-guidelines gaps, as well as resources about the related vexing question of considerable practice variation that does not reflect needs and preferences of those who receive care.
"Online source" indicates that the resource is available online without charge. A cost-free registration may be required for access to some items with this designation.
Evidence-based health care generally
Evidence-based maternal and newborn care
Evidence-practice gaps and evidence-guidelines gaps in maternity care
Practice variation can signal evidence-practice gaps and uncertainty
Key web resources
Evidence-based health care generallyBritish Medical Journal. Comparing the old world (before evidence based practice) and the new world (with evidence based practice). BMJ. [BMJ online] 2000;320(7228):online.
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Dawes M, Davies P, Gray A, Mant J, Seers K, Snowball R. Evidence-based practice: a primer for health care professionals, 2nd ed. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 2005
Dawes M, Summerskill W, Glasziou P, Cartabellotta A, Martin J, Hopayian K, Porzsolt F, Burls A, Osborne J, for the Second International Conference of Evidence-Based Health Care Teachers and Developers. Sicily Statement on evidence-based practice. BMC Med Educ. 2005;5(1):1.
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DiCenso A, Guyatt G, Ciliska D. Evidence-based nursing: a guide to clinical practice. St. Louis: Elsevier Mosby, 2004.
Edwards A, Elwyn G, eds. Shared decision-making in health care: achieving evidence-based patient choice, 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
King JF. A short history of evidence-based obstetric care. Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol. 2005;19(1):3-14.
Muir Gray JA. Evidence-based healthcare and public health: how to make decisions about health policy and public health, 3rd ed. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 2008.
Peterson, ed. Evidence: its meaning in health care and in law [special issue]. J Health Policy Politics Law. 2001;26(2):191-446.
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Straus, SE, Richardson WS, Glasziou P, Haynes RB. Evidence-based medicine, 3rd ed. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 2005.
Woolf SH, Chan ECY, Harris R, Sheridan SL, Braddock CH, Kaplan RM, Krist A, O'Connor AM, Tunis S. Promoting informed choice: transforming health care to dispense knowledge for decision making. Ann Int Med. 2005;143(4):293-300.
Evidence-based maternal and newborn careChildbirth Connection. Current resources for evidence based practice: evidence columns. [web page]
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Enkin M, Keirse MJNC, Neilson J, Crowther C, Duley L, Hodnett E, Hofmeyr J. A guide to effective care in pregnancy and childbirth, 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Fullerton JT, Thompson JB. Examining the evidence for the International Confederation of Midwives' essential competencies for midwifery practice. Midwifery. 2004;21(1):2-13.
Halpern SH, Douglass MJ, eds. Evidence-based obstetric anesthesia. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005.
Lydon-Rochelle MT, Hodnett E, Renfrew MJ, Lumley J. A systematic approach for midwifery students: how to consider evidence-based research findings. J Midwifery Womens Health. 2003;48(4):273-7.
Kalin A, Manzo E, Stolbrink M, Kennedy S, Kirtley S, Hogg S. 2010 Annual Evidence Update on Antenatal and Pregnancy Care. UK: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE); NHS Evidence-women's health specialist collection, September 2010. [webpage and pdf]
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NICHD Cochrane Neonatal Home Page, National Institutes of Health [web pages].
(Online Source, with full text of all systematic reviews prepared by Cochrane Neonatal Group)
Proctor S, Renfrew M. Linking research and practice in midwifery: a guide to evidence-based practice. Edinburgh: Ballière Tindall, 2000.
Ratcliffe SD, Baxley EG, Cline MK, Sakornbut EL. Family medicine obstetrics, 3rd ed. St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Mosby, 2008.
Sakala C, Corry MP. What is evidence-based health care? J Midwifery Womens Health. 2001;46(3):127-28.
Sakala C, Corry MP. Evidence-based maternity care: what it is and what it can achieve. New York: Milbank Memorial Fund, 2008.
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Simpson KR, Knox GE. Strategies for developing an evidence-based approach to perinatal care. MCN Am J Matern Child Nurs. 1999;24(3):122-31.
Walsh D. Evidence-based care for normal labour and birth: a guide for midwives. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007.
World Health Organization. WHO Reproductive Health Library [web pages and CD-ROM].
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Evidence-practice gaps and evidence-guidelines gaps in maternity careAmbalavanan N, Whyte RK. The mismatch between evidence and practice: common therapies in search of evidence. Clin Perinatol. 2003;30(2)305-31.
Fisk NM, Atun, R. Market failure and the poverty of new drugs in maternal health. PLoS Med. 2008;5(1):e22.
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Fisk NM, Atun R. (2009). Systematic analysis of research underfunding in maternal and perinatal health. BJOG. 2009;116(3):347-356.
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Henderson-Smart DJ, Osborn D, Evans N, Beeby P, Jeffery H. Do we practice evidence-based care in our neonatal intensive care units? Clin Perinatol. 2003;30(2):333-42.
Horbor JD, Carpenter JH, Buzas J, Soll RF, Suresh G, Bracken MB, Leviton LC, Plsek PE, Sinclair JC, for members of the Vermont Oxford Network. Timing of initial surfactant treatment for infants 23 to 29 weeks gestation: is routine practice evidence-based? Pediatrics. 2004;113(6):1593-1602.
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Hunt JM, Lumley J. Are recommendations about routine antenatal care in Australia consistent and evidence-based? Med J Aust. 2002;176(6):255-9.
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Parer JT. Obstetric technologies: what determines clinical acceptance or rejection of results of randomized controlled trials? Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2003;188(6):1622-5.
Qian X, Smith H, Zhou L, Liang J, Garner P. Evidence-based obstetrics in four hospitals in China: an observational study to explore clinical practice, women's preferences and provider's views. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2001;1:1.
Richens Y. Are midwives using research evidence in practice? Br J Midwifery. 2002;10(1):11-16.
Practice variation can signal evidence-practice gaps and uncertaintyBaicker K, Buckles KS, Chandra A. Geographic variation in the appropriate use of cesarean delivery. Health Aff. 2006; 25(5):w355-67.
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Clark SL, Belfort MA, Hankins GD, Meyers JA, Houser FM. Variation in the rates of operative delivery in the United States. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2007;196(6):536.e1-5.
Denk CE. Cesarean delivery: comparing New Jersey hospitals. [Trenton]: Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Program, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, 2010.
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Glantz JC. Labor induction rate variation in upstate New York: what is the difference? Birth. 2003;30(3):168-74.
Glantz JC, Guzick. DS. Can differences in labor induction rates be explained by case mix? J Reprod Med. 2004;49(3):175-81.
Iglehart JK, ed. Variations revisited [special online supplement]. Health Aff. 2004:VAR1-144.
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Knox GE, Simpson KR. Perinatal high reliability. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2010 Dec 30. [Epub ahead of print]
Public Advocate for the City of New York. A Mother's Right to Know: New York City Hospitals Fail to Provide Legally Mandated Maternity Information. New York: Office of Betsy Gotbaum, Public Advocate, 2005
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Public Advocate for the City of New York. Giving Birth In the Dark: City Hospitals Still Failing to Provide Legally Mandated Maternity Information. New York: Office of Betsy Gotbaum, Public Advocate, 2006
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Rogowski JA, Staiger DO, Horbar JD. Variations in the quality of care for very-low-birthweight infants: implications for policy. Health Aff. 2004;23(5):88-97.
Key web resources
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Toronto General Hospital
Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, University of Oxford.
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York.
Evidence-based health care resources, United States Cochrane Center.
Evidence-based Medicine, Johns Hopkins University.
Evidence-informed public health, National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools.
Introduction to evidence-informed decision making, National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools.
Resources for evidence-based medicine, Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education.
The section on evidence based health care, New York Academy of Medicine.
Understanding evidence-based healthcare: a foundation for action, U.S. Cochrane Center.
Note: many web pages in some of these sites have not been recently updated.
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May 25, 2016
Associated Press Release
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A federal judge has approved an agreement for BP PLC to plead guilty to manslaughter and other charges and pay a record $4 billion in criminal penalties for the company's role in the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
BP agreed in November to plead guilty to charges involving the deaths of 11 workers aboard the drilling rig that exploded and for lying to Congress.
Before ruling on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Sarah Vance heard testimony from relatives of workers who died when BP's blown-out Macondo well triggered an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in April 2010.
More than 200 million gallons of oil spewed from the well about 50 miles southeast of the Louisiana coast before it was capped three months later.
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