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Washington, D.C. – As states, school districts, and teachers nationwide continue to integrate the Common Core State Standards, or CCSS, into their classrooms, a new report released today by the Center for American Progress recommends new ways to give teachers opportunities to ensure that student work is meeting the new standards, while giving them ideas for improving their own teaching. When teachers set standards for the quality of student work on performance assessments and score the work themselves, they learn the Common Core State Standards, while seeing how their own teaching connects to the standards and to student learning. Many high-performing nations have turned to teacher scoring of formative assessments as a way to support and improve teacher learning.
The Common Core State Standards—which are currently used in 45 states, the District of Columbia, and four U.S. territories—were developed to raise achievement in the United States and to better-equip students with the high-order skills needed to compete in a 21st-century global economy. The effectiveness of these rigorous standards, however, is dependent on teachers' ability to translate their understanding of them into enhanced student learning. In their report, authors Linda Darling-Hammond and Beverly Falk recommend involving teachers in the design, use, and scoring of student-performance assessments—a strategy that links instructions, assessment, student learning, and teacher professional development.
"The coming implementation of Common Core State Standards will certainly challenge students, but teachers will be faced with the special task of knowing them deeply, understanding what students need to know, and then being able to teach to the standards, said Cynthia G. Brown, Vice President of Education Policy at the Center for American Progress. "This report offers a unique and potentially powerful way to make sure that happens."
The report, which includes an analysis of teacher engagement in assessment in high-performing countries, finds that these activities give teachers a clearer sense of standard expectations and how instruction can be developed around these expectations. Similarly, studies of the implementation of performance assessments in several U.S. states—including California, Kentucky, Maryland, and Ohio—found that the results of performance assessments were most positive when teachers were included in the design, scoring, and evaluation of the assessments.
As part of teachers' continued professional development, the report also recommends that teachers participate in opportunities to learn how to apply common criteria when scoring student work and to engage with other teaching professionals to facilitate more coherent instruction across classrooms and districts. It calls for creating communities of practice in which teachers can converse about standards, explore methods of assessment, and clarify their own teaching goals while developing clearer expectations for students.
The report also illustrates that the use of common standards-based performance assessments—specifically those that are designed and evaluated by teachers—can produce many benefits, including:
- Providing teachers with more direct and valid information about student progress than is offered by traditional assessments, especially on the deeper learning skills that characterize the CCSS
- Enabling teachers to engage in evidence-based work that reflects more clearly and analytically on student work to inform teachers' instructional decisions
- Yielding information that enhances teachers' knowledge of students, standards, curriculum, and teaching, especially when scoring is combined with debriefing and discussing next steps with other teachers
By linking teacher involvement in performance assessments to both teachers' and students' learning, our nation's education system has the potential to address multiple important goals—including the quality of student outcomes and preparedness for future education—through one concentrated investment.
"If teachers are going to be able to help students meet the new Common Core standards, they must themselves have opportunities to see what the Standards look like in action, as they are being assessed, understand what quality student work looks like, and learn how to support that kind of work in their teaching," said Linda Darling-Hammond, co-author of the report and Professor at Stanford University Graduate School of Education. "Involving teachers in scoring student performance assessments can help them deepen their understanding of student needs and improve their classroom practice."
Read the report: Teacher Learning Through Assessment: How Student-Performance Assessments Can Support Teacher Learning by Linda Darling-Hammond and Beverly Falk
Related resources:
- High-Quality Professional Development for Teachers by Jenny DeMonte
- Improving the Effectiveness of Our Teachers Will Help Student Achievement by Cynthia Brown and Jenny DeMonte
- Using Teacher Evaluation Reform and Professional Development to Support Common Core Assessments by Peter Youngs
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- No. 25
Tale of Two Sons
A Switch of Babies Nine Years Ago Leads to a Bitter Fight for Custody—and Charges of Child Abuse
Despite the Supreme Court setback, which left Melvin legally in the custody of the Radeliff, Ky., couple who adopted him when he was 6 months old, the boy celebrated Thanksgiving in the same place this year as last year—in Griffin with Paul, her new husband and the two boys he now calls "my brothers." (They are Paul's 12-year-old stepson, Robert, and Cameron—the 9-year-old she was mistakenly given at the hospital and has since adopted.) "Melvin says that he is old enough to know what he wants," says Paul, 28. "He's happy with us, and he doesn't want to go back with them.... I didn't want to disrupt Melvin's life. But something just told me that something ain't right. I knew I was his mother, and I never gave him up."
The reason Paul says Melvin doesn't want to return to Kentucky—and that she has kept him since November 1991, despite a Georgia court ruling—is because, she alleges, he was being emotionally and physically abused in his adoptive home. Citing affidavits from 10 neighbors of the Kentucky couple. Paul charges Melvin's adoptive mother, Edith Moore, with severely mistreating the boy. Through their attorney, Moore and her husband. Eugene, deny the allegations.
Paul says she knew something was wrong last year when Melvin came for his first visit, at Thanksgiving. "Melvin would drop something, and he would flinch," Paul says. "He looked at me real scared, like I was fixing to do something." During the past year, she says, the once fearful boy has blossomed into a feisty third grader who enjoys playing baseball, football and Nintendo with his "brothers."
Paul vows to keep her son as long as she legally can. But his adoptive parents, the Moores, want him back. When Paul refused to turn over Melvin last year, the couple filed motions in Georgia courts for his return. But those courts would not act while Paul's appeal of the custody order was pending, explains the Moores' lawyer, David Gray, and so there was no way the Monies could get Melvin back. (The couple declined to be interviewed for this story.) Now that the Supreme Court has refused to hear the case, he says, "We don't know exactly when we re going to do the next step." But, he adds, "[the Moores] miss him."
About the only sure thing is that, at least for a while, there will be no comfortable resolution to this tangled tale that has ensnarled two families, unraveled a marriage and disrupted the lives of two boys.
In the beginning it seemed so simple. Back in the fall of 1983, Jodie Pope, a 19-year-old housewife, and her then husband, Walter, 20, an auto mechanic, were looking forward to the birth of their first child. Meanwhile the Moores, a mixed-race couple living in Fort Stewart, Ca., were looking for a biracial child to adopt. (Edith, a 43-year-old housekeeper born in Germany, is white. Eugene, 37, an Army staff sergeant, is black.) On Oct. 7 at Griffin-Spalding County Hospital, Jodie gave birth to a boy the couple called Cameron. That same day Jodie remembers just one other baby being born there, to single mother Tina Williams. 20. She named the mixed-race boy whom she planned to put up for adoption Melvin, after his father, a black construction worker.
But due to an error at the hospital, the Popes took home Williams's biracial infant. Williams left with their while child, who was later placed with the Moores. Even at the time, Edith Moore had doubts about the fair-skinned baby. "You sure that's a mixed child?" she recalled asking the adoption agency. "That looks like a little white boy."
Walter Pope, too, was troubled, wondering whether the olive-skinned baby with dark hair was really his. But Jodie, whose father was mostly Cherokee, insisted the boy favored that side of her family.
The truth didn't begin to emerge until five years later. Partly due to Waller's suspicions of infidelity, the Popes split up. Waller didn't want to support a child that wasn't his and demanded blood tests. That's when he learned the youngster wasn't related to him—or to Jodie either.
After her divorce, Jodie kept Cameron, without child support (since the boy wasn't his, Walter was not legally obligated to pay). She began waitressing and moved in with her mother and stepfather until her marriage in November 1991 to auto parts dealer Billy Paul, 36. In 1988 she started what turned mil to be a three-year quest to find her natural son. Jodie also says she explained to Cameron that although she was not his biological mother, "I was not sorry I had him as my son, and I loved him." (After the acrimonious divorce, Walter, who remarried and has a 3-year-old son, had no contact with Cameron and so far has not seen his biological son, Melvin Moore.)
Finally, Jodie won a court order to open the adoption papers of the boy Tina Williams had given away. In February 1989 the Moores wore contacted—and stunned by the news that the child they had raised from infancy was never meant to be adopted. They had no intention of turning him over to Jodie Pope. "I'm more of a mother to Melvin than she is," Edith declared at the time.
Jodie, likewise, had no intention of relinquishing Cameron, the boy she had raised and loved and whom she then adopted legally. She pursued her claim to Melvin in the courts. Superior Court Judge Frank Eldridge struggled to find a fair solution to a case with no obvious precedents. In October 1991 he ruled that while Jodie "is the biological, natural and lawful mother of the child." there existed between Melvin and his adoptive parents "a bonding and familial relationship that no court ruling can undo." In what was widely hailed as a Solomonlike decision, he awarded the Moores full custody of Melvin and granted Jodie liberal visitation. (In a 1991 settlement of a suit brought by both families, Griffin-Spalding Counts Hospital paid $900,000 to Jodie, the Moores and, via trusts, the two boys.)
The case might have been closed then had it not been for an appearance Jodie and the Moore's made on Oprah Winfrey's TV show a month after Judge Eldridge's decision. No sooner had the show aired in late November than Jodie and her lawyer, Tommy) Malone, say they began receiving calls from neighbors of the Moores who told them that Melvin had been abused. Jodie says she asked Melvin, who was with her for Thanksgiving, if the stories were true. "He said, 'Yes,' " says Paul. "Right then I told him, 'Now, Melvin, I'm your momma, and I have the right to protect you.... It's best if you stay with us, because I don't want these things to happen to you.' "
With the backing of her new husband, whom she had supported during his own court battle for custody of his son the previous year, Jodie filed a special custody motion based on the abuse allegations. (Her lawyer notified the Moores' lawyer that Melvin wouldn't be returning as planned.) Her motion contained 10 affidavits from neighbors of the Moores at Port Knox—including some of Eugene's Army colleagues—who said they had seen and heard Edith Moore abusing the boy physically and verbally and had complained to base authorities. (The base personnel who investigated did not find sufficient evidence to pursue the charges. No one testified that Eugene Moore, who was also moonlighting at a civilian job, had abused Melvin, and in only one instance was there testimony that he had been present when it look place.)
Among the numerous, detailed charges was the statement by Staff Sgt. Randall Kuchera, a neighbor, that he had seen Edith Moore beating Melvin with a broom in their front yard, hitting him so hard that Kuchera could hear each blow. Brenda I,. McKinney. a sergeant's wife, claimed she had heard Edith Moore "cursing like a sailor...at Melvin Moore every single day." Another neighbor, Sandra Marie Cline, said Moore told Melvin she was going to "trade him in for the little boy she was supposed to have gotten."
"Edith would probably say in court, yes, she did curse at him," concedes the Moores' attorney David Gray. But, he maintains, "the child was the total opposite of abused. He was basically about the most spoiled boy around." Gray says that while the Moores deny all charges of abuse. "they would rather be discussing them in court."
That is likely to happen as soon as the Moores decide what their next move will be. Although Jodie Paul's custody motion, with the affidavits, was included in the Supreme Court petition, her attorney explains that in rejecting the petition the court declined "to consider any aspect of the case." Now with the end of the appeal process, the hands of lower courts are untied and they are free to rule on the custody issue. This could happen if and when the Moores' lawyers renew a petition challenging the legality of Paul's "detention of the child."
Meanwhile it looks like a lonely Christmas for the Moores, whose presents for Melvin last year weren't delivered by Jodie. "I personally knew how Melvin felt about those people," Jodie explains. "I knew he was trying to forget that life."
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Guard at center of Pa. inmate abuse gets probation
PITTSBURGH -- A fired guard at the center of an investigation into the alleged sexual and physical abuse of inmates at the state prison in Pittsburgh has been sentenced to five years' probation, including six months on house arrest.
"I'm sparing you from the danger that you imposed on the individuals you were in charge of," Allegheny County Judge David Cashman told the former guard, Harry Nicoletti, 61, of Coraopolis, at his sentencing Thursday.
The sentence was a tiny fraction of the potential decades in prison Nicoletti faced when he was first charged with 117 counts involving 31 alleged victims. The charges included several dozen related to rape or unwanted sexual contact with inmates, mostly gays or those convicted of molesting children, at the century-old lockup once known as Western Pen.
Nicoletti was accused of systematically abusing those inmates when he oversaw an intake pod at the prison in 2009 and 2010. The investigation also resulted in the firing of the prison superintendent and other top supervisors, and charges against six other guards who allegedly helped Nicoletti abuse the inmates.


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>This works...
>consolecommand "ssh -XY username@P2"
>then in the P2/SSH console
>consolecommand "firefox"
>This doesn't...
>consolecommand "ssh -XY username@P2 firefox"
>ERROR "bash: firefox: command not found"
I have no idea what "consolecommand" might be, but anyway this is due to
your $PATH being set up differently when you do an actual login as in 1)
vs when you just request execution of a command as in 2) - this should
really be in a SSH FAQ somewhere, but I couldn't find it...
With a shell in the "/bin/sh family" such as bash, $HOME/.profile is
sourced in 1) but not in 2), so if you set a "custom" $PATH there, it
has no effect in 2). For [t]csh it's the same thing with $HOME/.login,
but the solution there is to set your $path in $HOME/.[t]cshrc instead,
which I've been doing since 'rsh' was the only thing that could do 2). I
believe there is a way to make at least some /bin/sh-family shells do
the right thing too, but someone else will have to say what it is, I
keep forgetting...
>However, this works...
>consolecommand "ssh -XY username@P2 dillo"
Presumably "dillo" is in the "standard" $PATH hardwired in sshd (tends
to be /bin:/usr/bin or so).
>but this doesn't...
>consolecommand "ssh username@P2 mc"
>ERROR "Cannot get terminal settings: Invalid argument (22)"
> "TERM environment variable needs set"
It needs a (pseudo-)tty, which you can give it by using the -t option to
ssh - see the man page. This should fix the TERM problem too.
>But this does...
>consolecommand "ssh username@P2"
>then in the P2/SSH console
>consolecommand "mc"
You always get a (pseudo-)tty when doing a full login.
>Then there is the question of introducing a working command like "ssh
>-XY username@P2 dillo" into an IceWM application menu file. No
>visible response, as if nothing happened.
No idea about that. Well, there's some probability that it fails to
authenticate - if your ssh commands above prompt for a password or
passphrase, there's no obvious way to do that in the X11 session -
generally you need to install an "askpass" program (there are multiple
to choose from), that the ssh client can invoke to prompt for the
password/phrase via a X11 window popup.
>Q: What is missing with regard to some apps working and some
> not? Why does Dillo fire up but Firefox fail? (And only
> with a direct command?)
>Q: Why does MC fail as a direct command, but work ok in an
> established SSH console?
See above.
>I suspect something is not finishing it's initialisation
>before the command is issued. So, how to add a "wait until..."
>into the login-command sequence? (Assuming it might be required?)
>Q: As a parent terminal for an X11 application is just residual
> screen junk, how to initiate an X11 application command without
> using a terminal?
In your window manager's "application menu file"?:-) It *should* work
when you have things set up correctly.
>Q: And last but not least, is there an option to avoid using
> the -Y flag as there are reasons the default was changed
> to "ForwardX11Trusted no" ?
You can set 'ForwardX11Trusted yes' in your $HOME/.ssh/config, but you
should think hard about it, since the requirement was added for a
reason. You should probably combine it with 'Host' entries such that it
is only applied for connections to hosts that you trust.
(It's also a bit of a pain if your home directory is NFS-mounted and you
occasionally use ssh on hosts that have a version that is old enough to
not know about -Y/ForwardX11Trusted (getting rare, but I recently had
reason to work on QNX, and the most recent pre-built version was
3.7.1p1...) - in that case any use of ssh will fail.)
>Damn! But SSH is an untidy tool!
>(Or, I'm making a real hash of using it.)
Neither really - none of the above are actual issues with ssh as such,
it's just that the things you can do with it put somewhat "advanced"
requirements on your environment - at least if you aren't previously
used to "rsh", and (thankfully enough I guess) few people are these
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F.H. "Slitsy" and Joyce Slagle of White Deer will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with a reception Saturday at White Deer Community Center.
Hosts for the event will be the couple's children and their spouses.
Slagle married the former Joyce Wiley on Feb. 12, 1949, in Panhandle. The couple previously resided in Panhandle. They have lived in White Deer for 37 years.
Slagle is a retired farmer/rancher. Mrs. Slagle is a retired tax appraiser. The couple belong to United Methodist Church and are charter members of White Deer Senior Citizens. Slagle is a charter member of the James McCaskey Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 6972 in Panhandle and is a former member of White Deer Lions Club. He served as a board member for numerous farm/ranch associations. Mrs. Slagle is a member of Daughters of Pioneers Club.
Children of the couple and their spouses are Johnny and Rebecca Slagle of Wimberly, Wiley Kim and Dobbie Slagle of Bandera and John and Fran Slagle Leiss of Austin.
The couple have nine grandchildren.
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Mythology for Teens: Classic Myths for Today's Worldby Zachary Hamby
Mythology for Teens: Classic Myths in Today's World takes classical mythology to a new level by relating ancient stories to the culture, history, art, and literature of today. By looking at topics instrumental to both mythology and modern culture, teens are encouraged to question topics such as the repercussions of war, vanity and greed, the workings of fate, the nature of love, the roles of women in society, revenge and forgiveness, the meaning of life, and national identity. The majority of high school humanities and Advanced Placement courses teach classical mythology by simply retelling myths. By using teen-friendly reader?s theater scripts to tell the legends, in combination with activities, discussion questions, and exercises that help students apply what they've learned to real life, Mythology for Teens takes the classic myths taught in school and turns them into an engaging, interesting, and fresh way of looking at old material.
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SEJ's 14th annual conference, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University, took place October 20-24.
The 15th annual conference, hosted by The University of Texas at Austin, brought hundreds of SEJ'ers together September 28-October 2 for a mix of entertainment, education, soul-searching and tributes.
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An item in Phantasy Star Online that gives a +# to the end of your weapon's name, increasing it's ATP by 2. Most commonly in Mono-, Di-, or Tri-
Grinders are very hard to find.
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describing a girl that you would grind your dick into like putting meat into a grinder.
She is such a grinder!
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A girl who grinds her teeth alone the shaft of a man's penis.
That chick was a grinder, so I gave her a purple mushroom...see purple mushroom for details.
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After pink socking someone (see pink sock), whip out the sander and grind away at thier rectum.
I will give you a grinder if you dont stop twitching.
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a type of boot most often worn by punks, skinheads, goths, and sometimes hippies. they are infinitely superior to dr. martens because they are actually approved as safety footwear and they don't sprout holes in the heels after you've only been wearing them for six months. the price is slightly higher than that of docs but they're worth every penny.
hot pocket: 'omg! look! i have new docs! they're made by nike now so i know they're great!'
subcultural girl: 'it's a good thing you can get mommy to drive you everywhere otherwise you'd need grinders like the other people who walk wear.'
subcultural girl: 'it's a good thing you can get mommy to drive you everywhere otherwise you'd need grinders like the other people who walk wear.'
Beküldő: kitschbunni 2007. szeptember 19.
a person related to a grender, like a brother or a friend. a person who grinds ED
your a grender grinder or a grinder grender. either way your a grinder
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Pamlab, a medical foods company located in Covington, recently hosted the 14th annual Chick-fil-Leadercast. The one-day event broadcast from Atlanta, Ga., featured leaders from the business, sports and faith communities.
Guests at the event held at Trinity Church were privy to leadership advice from speakers including Sanya Richards-Ross, 2012 London Olympic gold medalist, track and field; to Jack Welch, Former Chairman and CEO of General Electric; and Mike Krzyzewski, "Coach K", Head Men's Basketball Coach, Duke University and Team USA. Speakers also included Andy Stanley, founder of North Point Ministries who has pioneered the use of technology to reach hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world.
Sponsors treated attendees to Chick-fil-A breakfast and lunch sandwiches during breaks. The day was configured to include networking as well as learning opportunities with professionals from throughout the Northshore. The simulcast hosted by Pamlab was one of hundreds in the United States and Canada.
Also sponsoring the event was Gilsbar, a human capital management, benefits and risk mitigation company, and the Highway 190 Chick-fil-A, both located in Covington.
Leadership St. Tammany was selected to receive a portion of the proceeds from the event. Leadership St. Tammany has graduated more than 400 business professionals and community leaders since 1993, enhancing the growth and development of north shore organizations while building a base of experienced leaders. Participants for this program are selected regardless of their ability to pay the required fees with the scholarship fund underwriting the costs for these individuals.
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King's College London, Friday, November 9th, 2012
Keynote Speaker: Stephen Cheeke (University of Bristol)
Ekphrasis is a literary mode that spans the entire breadth of literature, from Achille's shield to Auden's 'Musée des Beaux Arts'. Defined by James Heffernan as "the verbal representation of graphic representation," the referential scope of ekphrasis has expanded and contracted according to critical taste. In the light of the increasingly complex way contemporary scholars have come to view visual literacy and culture, ekphrasis once again demands reconsideration. The "visual turn" in criticism, alongside the upsurge of interest in digital and material cultures, has enlarged the boundaries of what representation entails, and has questioned its stability. In an age of interdisciplinarity, ekphrasis could provide a model for comparison that moves beyond binary encounters between discrete categories, such as national literature, art history, and the classics? Rather than sublating image to word, might we resituate ekphrasis as a multi-media negotiation of meaning and form?
In this conference, we are interested in questioning not only the nature of ekphrasis, but also the supposedly essential nature of representation. What dualisms, such as literature/visual arts, subject/authority, are implicit in traditional modes of ekphrasis, and how might other creative forms, like music, subvert this? What kinds of power structures or hierarchies are embedded in ekphrasis, and how might we negotiate these, especially in the light of post-colonial and transnational theory? What type of gaze does ekphrasis entail, and is this related to anxieties about the form? What other art forms might be included in ekphrastic poetics that would contribute to interdisciplinary modes of thinking, such as architecture, performance art, or digital media? How far can ekphrasis provide a self-reflexive model for comparison?
Potential topics for papers might include, but are not limited, to:
- Literature as a translation of the visual
- Ekphrasis and the Modern Languages
- Ekphrastic hierarchies: word/image, dominant/submissive, etc.
- Taste and aesthetics
- Stasis and movement
- Ekphrasis in the digital age reproduction
- New media and ekphrasis
- Icononology and iconoclasm
- Metapictures
- Architecture and ekphrasis
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers exploring any aspect of ekphrasis as an inherently comparative mode. Please send 300 word abstracts plus a short biography to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Deadline for abstracts is 31st July 2012. We will inform participants of acceptance by 15th August 2012. A selection of papers will be published in an edited collection of essays.
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"Looking back on it all, it has become clear to me that we didn't handle the situation with Susan as well as we could have," Cowell wrote in a telling editorial that appeared in Britain's Daily Mail this weekend. "She seemed fine with all the attention. … I thought perhaps naively that she was in control."
As the May 30 finale approached, however, Cowell was getting calls from the show's production team telling him the 48-year-old Scottish singer was anything but.
"It had become clear that Susan was finding the experience difficult to cope with," writes Cowell, who insisted that Boyle always have a close friend or relative with her at all times for support.
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By: Stephen Phelan
Good luck catching Katie Couric talking about the "staunch Baptist" who finally came around to supporting sex education for third-graders. Only slightly more common are mainstream media types who talk about how this or that political leader, "a devout Jew," finally saw the light and came around to the Left's position on some social policy issue.
Yet there are flocks of sincere-looking talking heads willing to assure us that the congressman who just passionately endorsed "gay marriage" is a "staunch" or "devout" Catholic.
Why is this? Why is it that only Catholics' supposed sincerity about their faith is worthy of comment when the media reports said Catholic's position on some issue?
There are probably several reasons for this odd phenomenon, but one in particular calls for special attention in today's social and political climate: The marauding secularists of the media and the rest of the Left actually crave the moral authority of the very institution they are trying to destroy.
This is why President Obama and others of the secular Left, with the help of far too many fake Catholics, now openly strive to divide the Church in America. Besides democracy itself, the one institution that stands between them and far left utopia is the Catholic Church. This is why the Church must be turned against itself, confused, and brought to heel. Sadly, they are doing so with great efficiency and success as of late.
Case in point: No serious person, Right or Left, believes Nancy Pelosi when she claims devotion to her faith as her reasoning for supporting liberal policies and legislation. But everyone knows why she says it.
One of the many ironies here is that the very Magisterium that Pelosi and other fake Catholics find so inconvenient to their worldview is positively tepid in cracking down on heretics compared to the Magisterium of the Left. When Joe Lieberman, a staunch progressive from Connecticut, dared to oppose his party on the Iraq War, he was mercilessly attacked from the Left, and even had to leave the party to run for reelection. He was essentially excommunicated.
And consider how consistent pro-life Democrats are treated by the Left, from Pennsylvania's devoutly liberal but pro-life Bob Casey being denied even the ability to address the Democratic convention in 1992 to the few recent pro-life holdouts on Obamacare. Bart Stupak flirted with excommunication from the Left for opposing health care reform, but ultimately sided with his party against the Church. And yet, he remains a Catholic in good standing.
Faithful Catholics could only wish that their doctrine were so rigorously, if not so viciously, enforced. We know that Catholic teaching by its very nature seeks to persuade, not to impose. Taken to heart and mind, it becomes an organic expression of the Faith, a welcome guide rather than a set of laws forced upon reluctant believers. But at least we admit that we have a Magisterium, just as we admit our consternation when public figures consistently flout Church teaching and suffer no serious consequences from that same authority/Magisterium for doing so.
The secular Left, however, admits no such thing. True believers of the Left utterly lack this self-awareness. Not only would they deny that they have a Magisterium, or even a body of teachings from which the faithful may not dissent, they even deny that absolute obeisance is required to be a member of the faith, er… party.
Yet there stands the Catholic Church, in meek and peaceful opposition to the secular Leftist/fake Catholic zeitgeist. That antiquated, hegemonic, paternalistic… Church(!) dares to continue to reach out to and reason with those who only seek its acquiescence or destruction.
As the mainstream media declares yet again, and in ever more strident and frustrated tones, the irrelevance of the Catholic Church, they accidentally affirm its true relevance. The Church's teaching authority, both loathed and envied by the Left, is essential to its unity, and is the natural legacy of the Church founded by Christ upon the Rock that was Peter.
To be sure, this does not mean that the Church is somehow more at home on the political Right. Any agreement between the Church and the modern American Right is accidental, as is any apparent agreement with the Left. The Church rightly dictates no political program, even if it is often dishonestly portrayed as doing so. Further, not every position of the Left is anti-Catholic. Cap-and-Trade, for example, is terrible economics justified by specious "science," but it isn't necessarily anti-Catholic. The difference, however, between the Church's relationship with Left and Right is that there is not currently any major organized force on the Right trying to divide and conquer the Church, as there is on the Left. History tells us this could change at any moment.
Still, one might ask why the Catholic Church is singled out for such aggressive attention. Why not Christianity as a whole, or even certain Protestant denominations? After all, aren't conservative evangelicals also a thorn in the side of those who want "gay marriage," valueless sex education, and other radical policies to be realized?
The faithful Catholics I know are proud to fight next to their Protestant brethren in the culture wars, and enjoy the occasions of unity and dialogue that these battles afford. We tend to have much greater respect for those who love and live their faith consistently, even if we disagree about important things, than we have for those who only claim their faith when it is politically expedient.
But why should Obama and company seek to divide denominations that were themselves born of division? If a church is conceived in protest, then it will, as we have seen throughout the centuries, continue to divide itself. That battle has already been won by the one who wants to see Christ's children divided and fighting among themselves. If you want unity, you have to return to the source; and if you want to cause division, you attack the source.
This is why Obama enlists the help of fake Catholics, and of universities who seek communion with secular powers more than they do with the Church that created them. He does so precisely because of their claim to the Catholic Faith.
This is also why the current ambiguity of Catholic identity in the public square is, to use an overused term, unsustainable. Obama's Notre Dame speech, Pelosi's multiple idiotic affronts to Catholic teaching, the health care debacle—these and other troubling events indicate that the moment when Catholics will actually have to make a choice about where they stand is rapidly approaching.
Many more Catholics each day realize that the next Great Divorce in the Church is inevitable—the divorce between those who think their faith is essentially a "go-along-to-get-along" proposition, and those who know that, even after a period of affluence and apparent harmony, the Faith never had anything to do with merely getting along. As Deal Hudson and other Catholic writers are increasingly arguing, the state is poised to force this decision upon the massive Catholic middle who haven't yet chosen a side.
Students of Catholic history know that great expansions of the Church always follow its great oppressions, as it is purified by fire—sometimes literally. This is a time of both great instability and great hope. It's a great time to be Catholic.


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To my daughter,
The moment I found out you were YOU, a girl…..I started to think about all the things I wanted to teach and provide you. Trust me, most of these are lessons I learned the hard way. While I understand that you may have to learn some of them the hard way too……I sure hope you get to learn a few of these from the experience of your own mommy.
– Be yourself. It may not always be cool, or stylish….but being your own quirky wonderful self IS cool.
– Read. A lot.
– Dream the biggest possible dreams, and chase them with reckless abandon. Your dad and I will support you 100%. Want to be an artist? A zookeeper? An engineer? Go for it.
– That guy that breaks your heart (even though I hope your heart is never broken)? Not the one. The guy that makes you feel like the prettiest, smartest girl in the room in his own quiet way? He is the one. I sure hope he comes along first, and you never experience that OTHER guy.
– Treat EVERYONE with kindness and grace. Be a friend to those who have few. They'll end up being some of the most honest and loyal people in your life.
– Makeup is fun, but it's not a necessity.
– Who cares if someone calls you the B word? Stand up for yourself, in a classy and controlled way.
– Your body is your friend, not your enemy. Appreciate it for all it does for you, don't attack it or judge yourself as it changes throughout your life. It will take you everywhere you want to go, and that is a blessing.
– Find your faith. While I hope it will be same faith and belief system that your father and I hold…..I want you to believe because YOU believe. Not because we forced you.
– Help those less fortunate. And realize how blessed we are.
Know that you were wanted, and prayed for. When you're a teenager, and think your parents are the WORST people on earth……know that we still love you…..and want you just as badly on those days as we did on the day you were born. You are the greatest blessing, and we are thankful for you every day (even these early ones with little sleep)!
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This is it, the final episode of the first season of Botched. In the last installment for the foreseeable future, we meet Monique, the woman with 38 FFF breasts whose ears have fused to her head; Myesha, an aspiring model who's being held back by the bags under her eyes; and Kelly, a girl with a cleft palate whose nose and lips seem to get worse with every surgery.
Monique, Pixie Ears
Monique is a former male who transitioned to female in her teens. As a kid, she attended a Catholic boys school, where she discovered she was "too feminine" for her fellow classmates. When she told her parents she wanted gender reassignment surgery, "They weren't surprised," she said. She's had over 200 procedures in her life, a number of them in Tijuana. What she's looking to take care of are her fused earlobes, known as pixie ears, as well as get a bunch of free silicone taken out of her hips.
"The first thing that walked into the exam room was Monique's breasts," says Dr. Dubrow. And indeed, the 38 FFFs are impressive. The doctors elect to operate on Monique despite the fact that all the free silicone will make it difficult. The surgery on both her abdomen and her ears goes well, and soon Monique is shooting a music video aptly called, "38 Triple F." We recommend you don't Google this video.
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Last up is Myesha, or as she affectionately refers to herself, "Bag Lady." She's an aspiring model who went down to Mexico to take care of the bags under her eyes, only to end up with permanently puffy skin. "I paid someone $150 to mess me up," she declares.
When the day of her surgery rolls around, Myesha is so excited, she can barely contain herself. She had a consult with the agency that discovered Tyra Banks and they told her to come back after she had her little problem taken care of. The doctors cut into her and discover that the Mexican surgeon actually injected fat into her bottom lids. Disgusting and not at all what Myesha wanted, but easily fixed.
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Kelly was born with a cleft palate, and like most kids born different, she didn't know it until she got to school. "Kids would ask, what's wrong with your nose?" She's had five or six surgeries to correct the cleft, but now her nose is crooked and her lips are deflated. Now married with a child, she crops herself out of photos. Her life, such as it is, is barely a life at all. "I want her in the photos," her husband says desperately. "I want her in our lives."
Drs. Nassif and Dubrow take her on, and with their help, Kelly gets a straight nose and plump, but natural-looking lips. With her new-found self-confidence, she renews her vows with her husband and together they ride off into the sunset, taking plenty of glorious photos.
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Jury says councilman is guilty of selling drugs
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Just before noon last Friday a King County Superior Court jury delivered guilty verdicts in the trial of Duvall City Councilman Ernie Zumwalt who had been charged with one count of selling cocaine and one count of possession of cocaine with intent to deliver. Prosecutor Cindi Port had told the jury that Zumwalt had sold cocaine to an undercover informant July 25, and that when he was arrested August 1, police found more cocaine in a traffic vest and canvas bank bag that were in his van.
Zumwalt was in his seat at the regular council meeting last week, the evening before the verdict was delivered. No comments were made at the meeting about the charges or the trial. Duvall Mayor Glen Kuntz said last Friday he was still waiting for confirmation of the verdict, but added if Zumwalt was pronounced guilty he would be immediately off the council. "We will be advertising for someone to fill his council seat," Kuntz said.
Zumwalt was arrested during a drug sting last summer by the Eastside Narcotics Task Force and Duvall police. The jury apparently didn't believe the councilman when he testified last week that he didn't take $40 from the informant for drugs or confess to police that he had done so. He told the jury under questioning from his attorney Anthony Savage, that he had given up using cocaine when he decided to run for the city council, over two years ago. "I needed to get my life and my priorities squared away," he said.
But two police detectives had testified earlier, that when Zumwalt was questioned after his arrest, he initially denied knowing anything about selling drugs, then broke down, admitting to them he used and sold drugs, but "only to a few close friends," naming his friend Randy Trombley as his supplier. Police said when they searched Zumwalt's van during the August 1 arrest, they found cocaine in paper wrappers in a traffic vest with his initials on it and a canvas bank bag.
The informant told the jury he offered to work with police because he saw too many local kids getting hooked on drugs. He said he had been riding through town with Duvall Police Chief Glenn Merryman July 25, when he saw Zumwalt's van parked at the Duvall Tavern. He said he mentioned to Merryman he could possibly make a "buy" from Zumwalt at the tavern, because it appeared the tavern was empty. That was when the Eastside Narcotics Task Force detectives set up the buy, giving the informant $40 for the drugs. Merryman also gave him $5 for a beer. He said he went in the tavern through the side door, observed by Duvall police who were stationed in a patrol car across the street.
He testified he approached Zumwalt, asked for a half-gram, slipping him $40, but Zumwalt told him to wait, since they were being observed by police. But when the informant told him he was buying for a friend who was in a hurry, Zumwalt went out in his van, came back in and they both went into the restroom where he passed the drugs to the informant. Zumwalt contradicted that testimony though, saying that he had told the informant when he asked for the half-gram that he didn't have any, adding "You know better than that." He explained that he went out to his van,but only to get his own pool cue for the pool game he and the informant were playing.
Zumwalt said he obtained the bank bag at a garage sale in Monroe about two weeks before he was arrested. He then left it with Trombley until picking it up about two hours before he was arrested, he said. Zumwalt said he had looked inside the bag when he got it and there was nothing in it. Zumwalt also told the jury he had loaned the informant money, "about $2,000, to buy a car." But the informant testified earlier that Zumwalt had never loaned him money. "I do owe him some money though, since he fronted me cocaine many times," the informant said. The informant told the jury that Zumwalt continued to use cocaine over the past year "almost daily."
Zumwalt also said in court that he worked for the city of Bellevue, but a Bellevue city official who was observing the trial said he had been fired several months ago. Denny Vidmar, assistant director for the utilities department, said the dismissal was related to the drug charges, but added that he couldn't discuss details of the termination because personnel issues were confidential.
In closing arguments, Savage told the jury they don't need to believe everything the police officers said, asking rhetorically, "Do police officers always tell the truth? No, they do not. Do police informants always tell the truth? No, they do not." After the verdict, Zumwalt, who faces three to four years in prison, told reporters that he was not guilty. A sentencing date has not yet been set.


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ecember 18, 2000
Annual contest seeks National Park images
by Deborah Stone
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Eastman Kodak Company, in conjunction with the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation, is sponsoring the National Parks Pass "Experience Your America" Photo Contest.
The annual contest, officially launched on Dec. 5, is open to amateur photographers and the winning image will be featured on the face of the National Parks Pass.
Any photo taken by an amateur photographer in one of the 383 National Parks on or after Jan. 1, 2000, is eligible. Entries must be received by March 15, 2001.
The winning image will be announced in May 2001 and will appear on the 2002 National Parks Pass.
The photographer submitting the winning image will get a trip for four to any National Park, a Kodak camera kit and a personalized National Parks Pass.
Second and third place winners receive Kodak cameras, equipment and personalized National Parks Passes, while ten honorable mentions receive KODAK ADVANTIX cameras, Kodak film and a personalized National Parks Pass.
The National Park Service sees this contest as another opportunity for Americans to get involved with its National Parks.
"Each year, millions of Americans visit National Parks, whether it be with a school class, with their family or on their own," comments Robert Stanton, Director of the National Park Service. "Every visitor has a unique experience and fond memories that they will carry with them for a lifetime. This contest gives everyone the chance to share those memories with the nation."
The National Parks Pass is an annual pass that is good for unlimited entrance into National Parks that charge an entrance fee.
More than 80 percent of the proceeds from the sale of the Pass directly benefit special projects in all National Parks, such as rebuilding trails and restoring battlefields.
The 2000 Pass featured a photo of a bison at Yellowstone and the 2001 Pass features historic Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse at Acadia National Park in Maine.
In addition to sponsoring the contest, Kodak is creating and maintaining the Kodak PhotoQuilt for the National Parks and Kodak Picture This Postcard on www.NationalParks.org, home of the National Park Foundation, to allow visitors to post and share their favorite National Park pictures.
The complete contest rules and an entry form for "Experience Your America" Photo Contest are available at the above Website or by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope to: National Parks Pass Photo Contest Rules, Post Office Box 5220, Young America, MN 55558-5220.


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JERUSALEM, Israel -- Two hospitals in Switzerland have suspended infant male circumcision, following a ruling by a German district court last month banning the procedure.
"We are in the process of evaluating the legal and ethical stance in Switzerland," AFP quoted Marco Stuecheli, spokesman for the children's hospital in Zurich.
"Most Jewish patients go to specialist doctors known within their community," Stuecheli added.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel denounced the ruling, saying it would make Germany the "laughing stock" of the world community.
On Thursday, German parliamentarians adopted a motion protecting religious circumcision, saying the court's ruling damaged Germany's international image, particularly in view of its Nazi past.
"The resolution shows that we live in a tolerant and cosmopolitan country," AFP quoted German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle. "No one in the world would understand if Germany banned its Jewish citizens from having their boys circumcised."
Male Jewish babies are circumcised when they're eight days old as part of the Abrahamic covenant described in Genesis 17:10-14.
In Hebrew, the ceremony is called brit milah (the covenant of circumcision).
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Dan and Naomi Stutzman, owners of FastSigns, of Erie, have been awarded the franchise network's highest honor, the annual FastSigns Award.
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There's a new, locally owned shoe store coming to the Millcreek Mall.
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"My husband and I have traveled coast to coast looking for beautiful and affordable shoes that aren't here in Erie but should be," Jessica Fee said.
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Joe McCool isn't exaggerating when he says his house is ground zero for the debate on whether city workers should be allowed to live wherever they want.
McCool's place on Lukens Street sits firmly in Lower Southampton Township, Bucks County. But just over the fence out back and around the corner? Neighbors with Philadelphia addresses — cops, firefighters, prosecutors, judges, and Water Department employees who've chosen to reside at the absolute tip of Somerton because it's as close as they can get to suburbia.
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The retired city firefighter invited me to tour the neighborhood after reading about the slow pace of Philadelphia police officers leaving the city now that they have the right to move anywhere in Pennsylvania. We agree that the sluggish real estate market has hampered an exodus. And conventional wisdom says cops (and firefighters) would prefer to live at the Jersey Shore.


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Rick Joyner of Morning Star Ministries and The Oak Initiative just cannot decide if President Obama is a Christian or a Muslim. On the one hand, Joyner says, Obama has a dog and hosts barbeques at the White House which are "things that no devout Muslim would do." But then, on the other hand, maybe Obama is just following the "teachings in the Koran that allow for any Muslim to break the laws of Islam in order to deceive their enemies until they have gained an advantage over them." So you can see why Joyner is just so confused ... and especially concerned that... MORE
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Earlier this month, just as the right-wing anti-mosque hysteria was getting whipped up, Focus on the Family posted a video in which Stuart Shepard and Bruce Hausknecht complained about how municipalities were discriminating against churches using zoning laws: Shepard: What does this tell us about the state of religious freedom in the United States? Hausknecht: Well, we're seeing first a hostility toward religion. You would think in this day and age of tolerance that there would be tolerance for religious views, religious people. There is not. We're seeing it in the zoning cases, we're seeing... MORE
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Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission responds to the Prop 8 ruling by asserting that Judge Vaughn Walker is gay, therefore his mind is utterly warped and he is unable to reason clearly, so of course he ruled against traditional marriage ... oh, and now sodomites are going to surround your house and demand to rape your children: Let's not be shocked that Judge Walker cannot comprehend the self-evident rational basis for prohibiting homosexual marriage, after all, he is a practicing homosexual. The Bible plainly tells us that once a person has seared his conscience to... MORE
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While some Religious Right groups have made it very clear that they oppose the construction of an Islamic Center near Ground Zero in New York City despite their so-called commitments to religious freedom, other groups have remained rather silent. As far as I can tell, the only comment the Family Research Council has made on this issue came in the form of this radio commentary back in June: Muslims are gaining ground all right--Ground Zero. Hello, I'm Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C. Nine years after terrorists forever altered the New York City... MORE
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Last week we noted that a Tea Party rally scheduled for this weekend in Massachusetts collapsed after several speakers dropped out due to MassResistance's Brian Camenker scheduled participation. Needless to say, Camenker is absolutely outraged, noting that he has been a speaker at several Tea Parties rallies before and was even invited "to an exclusive Tea Party breakfast with Sen. Scott Brown." Camenker partially blames the Southern Poverty Law Center's designation of MassResistance as a hate group for the debacle, but reserves most of the blame for Christen Varley, a rival Tea... MORE
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It seems that Peter LaBarbera is rather upset with me for saying that his upcoming "truth academy" was going to be "the gay-hatingest thing you have ever seen": Oftentimes when activists on the Left have no evidence that something they disagree with is actually "hateful," they just label as such anyway, and then repeat themselves ad nauseam so that we'll all get the message that said conservative activity is, well, "hateful." Here is People for the American Way (PFAW) "Senior Fellow" Kyle Mantyla's trenchant analysis of... MORE
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Every once in a while we get an insight into the rather unique views that drive the Religious Right agenda and realize that they tend to inhabit a world of their own. Take, for instance, this brief filed by the Liberty Institute on behalf to James Dobson, the Family Research Council, Focus on the Family Action, Liberty Counsel and nearly thirty other Religious Right groups in support of the National Day of Prayer in the case of Freedom from Religion Foundation v. Obama. The Religious Right has been up-in-arms for months ever since a judge ruled that the National Day of Prayer was... MORE
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Collection of two Brooklyn BBC Yearbook-style programs dating from 1889 and 1890. Perhaps it was the optimism felt by the team's strong second place showing in the 1888 season. Or maybe it was simply a matter of aesthetic sensibilities. Whatever the reason, in 1889 the Brooklyn Bridegrooms of the American Association ceased producing simple two-page fold-over scorecards for their games (the norm for nearly all other teams of that era) and instead issued 32-page "yearbook" style programs. These official scorebooks are very substantial, with interior pages featuring full-page individual portraits and brief player biographies, along with local advertising. The programs were obviously a hit with fans, as the team repeated the practice in 1890. Those two years marked championship seasons for Brooklyn as well. Offered are high-grade examples of each of these rare Brooklyn programs from 1889 and 1890. Each originates from a legendary hobby find of nineteenth-century Brooklyn programs discovered decades ago, and each was carefully chosen for condition at the time the collection originally surfaced. The 32-page 1889 American Association program (5 x 6.5 inches) features fifteen individual portrait photos including McGunnigle (manager), Foutz, Terry, Pinkney, Smith, O'Brien, Caruthers, Burns, Collins, Corkhill and Clark. The interior scorecard has preprinted lineups for both Brooklyn and Louisville and is neatly scored in pencil. The 32-page 1890 National League program (5 x 6.75 inches) features seventeen individual portrait photos including McGunnigle (manager), Foutz, Lovett, Daly, Terry, Pinkney, Smith, O'Brien, Caruthers, Burns, Collins, Corkhill and Clark. The interior scorecard has preprinted lineups for both Brooklyn and Pittsburgh (with Billy Sunday listed in the lineup for Pittsburgh) and is also neatly scored in pencil. The 1889 program is in Excellent condition. The 1890 program is in Very Good to Excellent condition with a missing a center staple and a small cover separation along the spine. Note that Brooklyn jumped from the American Association to the National League following the 1889 season. The change in Leagues did nothing to affect their strong play on the diamond, however, as the club followed up its championship AA season by winning the pennant in the National League in 1890. This is an exceptional pair of nineteenth-century Brooklyn scorebooks, distinguished by both their rarity and condition, dating from the club's only AA championship season and its first National League championship season, respectively. Total: 2 programs. Reserve $500. Estimate $1,000/$2,000. SOLD FOR $1,044.00
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Eosinophilic cellulitis is a rare condition characterized by recurrent pruritic or tender skin lesions. Biopsies usually display characteristic histologic features of dermal edema, eosinophils, and flame figures (collections of degranulated eosinophilic material). Eosinophilic cellulitis typically responds well to systemic steroids. However, oral steroids may be contraindicated in some patients. In addition, long-term use of systemic steroids can lead to steroid dependence as well as adverse effects on bone density, wound healing, and metabolism. Recent evidence in mice suggests that the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) pathway may play a role in antigen-specific IgE production and eosinophil recruitment.1 This suggests that TNF inhibitors may have some efficacy in the treatment of eosinophilic cellulitis.
Figure 1. Trunk and extremities with indurated erythematous annular plaques prior to treatment.
Figure 2. Hematoxylin-eosin–stained histopathologic specimens. A, Biopsy specimen from the right back (original magnification ×4). B, Biopsy specimen from the right back (original magnification ×40).
Figure 3. Six weeks of adalimumab therapy led to complete resolution of lesions.
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Pope Francis criticized high unemployment on Wednesday (May 1), blaming a society seeking ''selfish profits'' over ''social justice''. The leader of the Roman Catholic Church spoke as thousands rallied in Italy and across Europe against austerity measures and harsh government spending cuts. "Work is an element that is fundamental to the dignity of a person," Pope Francis said in an address to tens of thousands of people packed into St. Peter's Square for his weekly general audience. "Work, to use an image, "anoints" us with dignity, fills us with dignity, makes us similar to God, who has worked and still works, who always acts. It gives us the ability to maintain ourselves, our family, to contribute to the growth of our nation. And here I think of the difficulties which, in various countries today, afflicts the world of work and business; I think of how many, and not just yo ung people, are unemployed, often just because of a purely economic conception of society, which seeks selfish profit beyond the parameters of social justice," the pope said, speaking in Italian. Austerity measures imposed to tackle Europe's debt crisis have helped push unemployment to record levels. According to the most recent figures released by the European Central Bank, the number of jobless people in the countries sharing the euro currency, or euro zone, hit a record 12.1 percent. Italy's unemployment rate is 11.5 percent and youth unemployment is nearly 40 percent nationwide - and higher in some southern regions. In Spain, the unemployment rate stands at a record 27 percent. Francis also called for "a decisive choice to combat people-trafficking including slave labor". The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates almost 21 million people worldwide are victims of slavery or forced labor. Almost half are thought to be trafficked, either across borders or within their own countries. Video Source: Reuters
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The controversy continues regarding the use of the "clamp-and-sew" (C&S) technique vs distal aortic perfusion (DAP). While many agree in light of ample supportive data that minimization of aortic cross-clamp time reduces the risk of the disastrous complication of paraplegia, the benefit of DAP continues to be debated. Razzouk and colleagues weigh in on the side of C&S. Much of the confusion in the literature results from the taint of selection bias that results in inappropriate comparisons between the 2 techniques. The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma multi-institutional study of TAR1 was conducted prospectively to maximize complete and accurate data collection and to minimize bias. While not an ideal study, the results from the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma study of 274 aortic injuries reported during a 2½-year period clearly demonstrated a reduction in paraplegia with the use of DAP.
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