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Below is an article I wrote in 2004 for the Hollywood Stock Exchange. If I were to rewrite this piece today, I'd have to include Invincible in the list.
The Heisman trophy is being awarded on Saturday night in New York City. Amongst the outstanding finalists are two players from my alma mater. So, in the spirit of Troy, we'll take a look at Sports movies this week. Much like the Heisman, we have five finalists. I sent a ballot out to a number of trusted colleagues, family and friends and asked them to rank these five films from 1 to 5. I tallied the votes, and my friends, HSX's Heisman for Outstanding Sports Movie goes to…
You didn't think I was going to give it up that easily, did you? Like the real Heisman judges, I had certain criteria in choosing my five finalists. They had to have heart. They had to have character. They had to feature a triumph over the odds Four of the five move me to tears every time. One of those four makes me sob uncontrollably. And then there's the dark horse candidate, the classic comedy.
It was a tight race. We had a three-way tie for first until the last ballot arrived in my inbox this morning. We had dissension and debate in the ranks at HSX - would it be Rocky or Caddyshack? The Natural or Hoosiers? Or, would it be the saddest tale ever told, Brian's Song? And what about… well, the list of honorable mentions could go on for pages. It seems that everyone has an opinion on what the greatest sports movie of all time is, and they can defend their position vehemently. What I don't understand is several voters' assertions that The Bad News Bears must be on the list. OK, The Bad News Bears was a cute little film. But is it Rocky? Is it Redford's The Natural? Is it the story of Gale Sayers and Brian Piccolo? Absolutely not.
Each film received 5 points for each first place vote, four points for second place, three points for third place, two points for fourth place, and one point for last place.
So, without further ado, I present you with the five HSX Heisman for Sports Movies Finalists.
Director: David Anspaugh
Screenwriter: Angelo Pizzo
A small town high school hires a coach with a checkered past plus the local drunk to coach its basketball team. The set up is a recipe for disaster, which of course means this is a story of grit, determination and heart. Gene Hackman, Dennis Hopper and Barbara Hershey star in this film. Set in the 1950's, the story is a classic David vs. Goliath tale, with the small town basketball team battling it out for the state championship against teams from bigger schools who are perennial powers on the court. Based on a true story, Hackman plays the volatile coach. His portrayal drew comparisons to real life volatile University of Indiana coach Bobby Knight. I've known a few guys who consider this the best movie ever made. None of them were consulted for this polling. Hoosiers received no first place votes.
Director: Harold Ramis
Screenwriters: Harold Ramis, Brian Doyle-Murray, and Douglas Kenney
Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, and Bill Murray starred in this classic comedy about an exclusive golf club and the cast of characters that work and golf there. Though the other four films on this list are dramas, I did not feel my Heisman Sports Movie list would be complete without this gem. In high school, we watched this film so many times that each of my friends could do a dead on impersonation of Bill Murray's "Its in the hole" and we were often telling people we had "happy feet." A comedy that stands the test of time as this one has deserves to be a finalist. Its theme of rich vs. poor, real estate development, politics, and of course, the crazy groundskeeper are as applicable to today's society, and therefore as amusing, as they were in 1980. Caddyshack received one first place vote.
Director: Buzz Kulik
Screenwriters: Gale Sayers, Alan Silverman (book) and William Blinn
This film about the life and death of Chicago Bear Brian Piccolo ranks right up there with Old Yeller as one of the saddest of all time. Even typing this paragraph has me on the verge of tears, so strong is the emotional pull of this film. James Caan and Billy Dee Williams starred as Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers. Piccolo was the leading rusher in all of college football in his senior year at Wake Forest University. Considered too small for the NFL, he did not get drafted. Legendary Bears owner and coach George Hallas picked "Pic" up as a free agent. The two were the first interracial roommates in the NFL. They were also best friends. During his physical in training camp in 1969, Pic's chest x-ray showed nothing amiss. Four months later he had a grapefruit sized tumor in his chest cavity and had to undergo emergency surgery. It was a fast moving and rare type of cancer. Eight months later, on June 16, 1970, at the age of 26, Brian Piccolo died. A month earlier, Piccolo's best friend Gale Sayers was awarded the NFL's most courageous player award. He uttered the now famous quote that follows: "I love Brian Piccolo, and I'd like all of you to love him. When you hit your knees to pray tonight, please ask God to love him, too." Sayers would only accept the award on Piccolo's behalf. Brian's Song received two first place votes.
Director: Barry Levinson
Screenwriter: Bernard Malamud (book) and Roger Towne & Phil Dusenberry
I've always found this film to be haunting. Robert Redford starred as Roy Hobbs, an unknown middle-aged baseball player in the 1930s that appears seemingly out of nowhere to take a losing baseball team to the championship. In flashback we learn that Hobbs' earlier career was tragically cut short when he is shot by a mysterious woman that continues to float in and out of his life. His bat is his lucky charm, hewn from the trunk of a tree felled by lightning. His aura is one of legend. And the theme music, who can forget that? Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger and Barbara Hershey co-star. The Natural received two first place votes.
And the HSX Heisman for Sports Movies goes to:
Director: John G. Avildsen
Screenwriter: Sylvester Stallone
Rocky fulfills all the criteria set forth by the HSX Heisman committee (um, Me). It has heart and soul, its intelligent, its got moments of humor, it has a triumph over the odds, and its central character is beloved. Rocky Balboa, our loveable lump of a guy with raw boxing talent manages to string together a rag tag bunch of trainers and managers and boxes his way into the big time. But Rocky is sweet and tender as well as we see in his courtship of Adrian. And anyway, come on, its Rocky, of course he gets the trophy. And like the other films on the list, Rocky stands the test of time. If you are one of the few people in this country that have not seen this film, your assignment it to go rent it. Or, turn on your cable box; it can usually be found playing somewhere. AMC, ESPN and TBS are the most likely sources for it. This is truly a story of what the human will can achieve when it is inspired. Rocky won the Best Picture award at the 1977 Academy Awards Ceremony. Talia Shire, Burt Young, Burgess Meredith and Carl Weathers co-star.
Honorable Mentions: Field of Dreams (1989), Knute Rockne All American (1940), The Bad News Bears (1976), Endless Summer (1966), North Dallas Forty (1979), Bull Durham (1988), Remember the Titans (2000)
And so, we conclude the first HSX Heisman for Sports Movie presentation. Congratulations go out to all of our finalists. Good luck to all of the real Heisman contenders, but especially University of Southern California players Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush. Fight on Gentlemen!
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I've made several purchases over the years, and I used to be able to see those purchaces in my purchase history, also all my old ebay communication was in my ebay inbox. Both are "cleared out" this is very upsetting to me as I wanted to check on the specs/description of one of my purchases, and Now it is "MISSING"... Where did my email and history go? Am I the only one that this has happened to?
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Ebay is chock full of glitches these days. For your purchase history, you can click on Archived at the top and see if the items are there. Or in the recent purchases, there is a period box at the top and you can change the time period to last 60 days.
As for the messages, I'm not sure about that. You can look in trash on the left or archive - but don't know if that would help.
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Prep 15 mins
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Prepare this ahead of time, then when your guests arrive, pop the pan in the oven and spend time with your guests! Also works great with almost any kind of pasta: layered like lasagna, stuffed in manicotti or big seashells, mixed willy-nilly with linguine or elbow macaroni. So many choices! Double the recipe, make two pans, freeze one and cook the other right away.
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- 1 (8 ounce) package pasta
- 16 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 2⁄3 cup milk
- 2 teaspoons minced onions (dried or fresh)
- 2 teaspoons chives (fresh or dried)
- 1⁄4 cup parmesan cheese, grated
- 2 cups chicken meat, cooked & cubed
- 2 cups frozen broccoli, chopped, drained (thawed)
- 1 (4 ounce) jar pimientos, diced, drained
- 1⁄4 teaspoon pepper
- 1⁄4 teaspoon paprika
- Preheat oven to 350; grease a 13x9 pan; cook pasta according to package directions; drain; set aside.
- On stove or in microwave, heat cream cheese briefly to soften; stir until smooth; add onions, chives and Parmesan cheese; stir to blend well.
- Reserve 1 cup of cream cheese mixture; set aside.
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No mention of the milk in the dfirections. A no brainer but still...it should be included . My family & I didn't like this at all, we ended up picking out the brocolli & chicken pieces & eating that part & dumping the rest out. The only flavor to the recipe was cream cheese. I'm really glad I tried it out on family first. Will not be making it again.
This was great! I used a low fat cream cheese and skim milk and it was still very flavorful. Also, since I didn't have pimientos on hand, I used fire roasted red peppers. I'll make this again and again. Thank you!
Creamy goodness! I used fresh chopped broccoli instead of frozen and added some extra onions. My cream cheese was reduced fat and it was still wonderful. I'm quite confident that this recipe would work very well with tuna or leftover cubed ham in place of chicken. Very verstile! I'll make thsi again..... so many possibilities. Thanx!


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Last year's inaugural event, won by California pavement sprint car ace and two-time Must See Racing Xtreme Sprint Series champion JoJo Helberg, drew a record crowd in excess of 30,000 people for fifty action-packed laps under the lights and on the biggest stage ever for paved 360 sprint car racing. The race was well-received and no more the first one was over, there was already buzz about a second one.
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Going into Friday's pavement finale, Turpen leads Gray by 16 points – eight finishing positions on the race track. With a total of 60 points (50 for the feature and 10 more for winning the Hoosier Speed Dash) up for grabs once both drivers pull into the track and receive their 100 show up points, it's not over by any stretch, but Turpen still has to be on her game if she wants to become the first female champion in any USCS division.
The scenario is as complex as it is simple – both drivers will be in the dash, so their finishing positions there will impact how the gap shakes out for feature time – but if Gray wins the dash and Turpen were to finish sixth (which would result in Gray cutting the gap by five points, down to 11) and then Gray goes on to win the feature, Turpen can still finish sixth and claim the asphalt title by one point.
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Need advice lounge. My brother is the biggest loser I've ever seen.
I just don't know what to do about this fool anymore. He's going to be 28 years old and all he does is smoke weed and play XBOX. He's completely ruining my parents lives and is a serious strain on everyone in our family. Anyone else have a family member like this?
He's just the textbook definition of a **** up. I let him get an apartment with me after my fiance and I split over the summer, so he could move out of my parents house (!) and I could kinda take him off their hands for a while. He has a job that I got him, but they don't give him more than 10 days of work a month so he's always broke. He has no motivation to accomplish anything in life.
The thing is, he should! He's really intelligent and not bad looking. He's just so smug and thinks he's so much better than everyone that he needs to prove nothing. Case in point: I'm hitting the dating scene really hard and bring girls back to our place a lot. He has a girlfriend that he's referred to as "fat, stupid, obnoxious personality, hates talking to" ect. She filthy and gross. They've been dating like 2 years, but I've only seen her twice because he's obviously ashamed to bring her around. He always talks of breaking up with her, but he's too much of a coward to.
I try to tell him that he's not bad looking, but you cant attract a woman by wearing old dirty clothes that are way too big and playing video games. But he won't confront any problems. He just makes up all these stories about "hot *****es" he ****ed, when in reality she's probably the first girl he'd ****ed in 3-4 years. When it comes to admitting shortcomings he always lays the blame on my parents. We had plenty of eat, nice clothes, and love and support of two parents who worked hard. That's better than 99% of the children in this world.
His life is completely passing him by. It's ruining my parents lives. They're immigrants and don't have a lot of education, but work really hard and don't know what to do about their eldest son. Everytime my mom, dad, sister, and I get together with one another, he is the main subject of discussion. We don't know what to do, because honestly if he wasn't living with one of us he would probably become a homeless person. My mother told me one day that if she didn't love him so much, she'd have the courage to tell him that she's been all over the world and in 58 years she'd never seen as big a loser as him in her entire life.
I am moving to Chicago or Minneapolis in November, and I'm trying to force some sort of solution on him. I hate to leave him back on my parents shoulders, who say they cannot support him at all financially anymore, but I have a college degree and have to go further my career and get my masters. Just this month he borrowed his half of the rent from my mother, and told her it was money we "both" needed for expenses. He has no shame and accepts none of his faults.
Anyone have any thoughts, stories, or suggestions? I hate to think that he will always be this way, but he doesn't have much time left and hasn't shown any signs he wants to turn his life around.
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dont hold up your life for him...move to Chicago and finish your schooling...
tell your folks to be strong and not let him back in the house...he's 28...its time to sink or swim
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Diogenes Syndrome at 28.
Seems like he's always had someone to fall back on all his life. You need to find some way to convince your parents not to take pity on him, whilst you move on with your own life.
Once all his support networks are gone, he'll have no choice – either he uses his brain and pulls himself out of the gutter or works at McDonalds.
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It's a hard situation but you say he has got a job so he should be able to support himself? I don't think your parents should let him loan money. He has no interests at all except weed and xbox? Make him pay you more fore living with you so he can't afford xbox games and weed then he will also have to work more and become more engaged in his situation. How old is he and how long has he been behaving like this? If it's just a shorter period maybe he will change by himself?
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Well things are bad at the moment work wise even if you are motivated.
A girl I know handed out 176 CV's and never heard nothing back.
If he doesn't like his girlfriend tell him to get rid of her.
Make him go the gym instread of playing xbox. Maybe you could join a gym with him and go out a bit more.
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Like prior comments, you need to focus solely on your life and your education. There is only so much you can do for a person before you have to say enough is enough. It'll be harder for you parents to do, but everybody has to let him get a taste of reality and how hard it is out there in the real world without depending on your family. I know you and your family might worry that he'll end up "homeless", but it's the best thing for him to let him become an adult on his own.
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that post sucked.
people are the result of ONLY 2 things:
1. genetics
2. environment
genetics + environment = your brother. is his genetics his fault? no. is the environment he was raised in his fault? no. therefore, your brother is just doing his sh1t to stay the fvck out of it.
and i did fvck all those hot b1tches.
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I have a cousin who is the exact same.. except for the intelligent and good looking parts lmao. He has no drive and like you say he fuks up the family but, you've got to give them a horrible experience. Throw him out, let him live on the streets for a few days. Peoples minds learn by experience.
Another method is just flat out tell him the hurt he is causing the family, any normal person would change. Then again people like your brother (no disrespect) and my cousisn minds may work in different ways.
P.S - Don't let it interrupt your life, it'll only increase your dislike for him.
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They didn't score from the field in the first 10½ minutes, never led in the first half, didn't have an upperclassman score in double digits and in the fourth quarter missed five of eight free throws.
It added up to a District 3-4A victory for the Canyon Lady Eagles.
In a game Canyon coach Joe Lombard won't consider a landmark in his storied career, the Lady Eagles survived a poor start and shaky finish to nip Randall 36-33 on Tuesday at the Canyon High gym. The victory may explain why the Lady Eagles stayed unbeaten in 3-4A with a two-game lead over the rest of the district.
For a good chunk of the game, Canyon (23-4, 6-0 in district) didn't look like a No. 5 team in the state. Lombard credits that more to what Randall (18-8, 3-3), coached by one of his former players, Brooke Walthall, did than what his team didn't do.
"Randall really took it to us from the get-go," Lombard said. "They played with a lot more sense of urgency than us at the beginning. We made enough plays there in the second half to pull out the win.
"It wasn't a pretty game for us."
The teams combined for only 28 points in the first half. Canyon particularly struggled offensively, scoring the first six points from the free throw line and not chalking up a score from the floor until Madison Parker converted a three-point play early in the second quarter.
Randall led 15-13 at halftime, but the Lady Eagles got a spark coming out of the lockerroom from freshman guard Angel Hayden. She stole the ball on Randall's first possession of the second half, took it the length of the floor, scored on a layup, was fouled and converted a three-point play to give the Lady Eagles their first lead at 16-15.
That foreshadowed things to come, as Hayden scored eight of her team-high 10 points in the second half, including a pair of free throws with 32 seconds left in the game to give the Lady Eagles their final margin.
"Angel was real big for us the entire game," Lombard said. "She was a huge difference maker for us."
She needed to be, since Parker, the team's leading scorer, wasn't playing at full strength due to the flu.
"A few of our girls are hurt or sick, but Lombard said that was no excuse and that we needed to play as a team," Hayden said. "We all made our mistakes but we still worked hard for each other."
Canyon took the lead for good late in the third quarter on Bailey Byrd's layup to make it 26-24. Parker, who had nine points, hit a short jumper to put the Lady Eagles up 34-27 in the fourth quarter, but the Lady Raiders wouldn't go away.
Randall's Olivia Williams converted a three-point play and Keslee Dunavin scored a layup with 2:21 left to cut it to 34-33, but those were the last points for the Lady Raiders.
"I don't know what (the Lady Eagles) did there at the end but they came away with it," Walthall said. "Our effort was better but we've got to continue to play like that every game."
Randall never reclaimed the lead but still had a shot after Hayden's free throws. Canyon's Caitlyn Cunyus missed two free throws with 9.7 seconds left, but Addy O'Neal threw up a 3-point airball as Canyon held on.
Randall's Kameron Johnston scored a game-high 11 points, but fouled out in the final seconds.
Canyon 36, Randall 33
RANDALL (18-8, 3-3): MacKenzie Johnston 0 1-4 1, Olivia Williams 3 1-1 7, Jacey Bryant 1 1-2 3, Addy O'Neal 2 1-2 7, Kameron Johnston 4 3-4 11, Keslee Dunavin 1 0-0 2, Krystal Oakley 1 0-0 2. Totals: 12 7-13 33.
CANYON (23-4, 6-0): Taylor Jones 0 0-0 0, Angel Hayden 2 6-8 10, Caitlyn Cunyus 3 1-5 7, Brittany Morgan 1 0-0 3, Madison Parker 2 5-5 9, Shelby Bartley 1 0-0 2, Bailey Byrd 2 1-2 5, Brianne McDowell 0 0-2 0, Savannah Bartlett 0 0-0 0, Alyx Cordell 0 0-0 0, Lauren Hiner 0 0-0 0. Totals: 11 13-22 36.
Randall 8 15 24 33
Canyon 4 13 27 36
3-point goals: Randall 2 (O'Neal 2), Canyon 1 (Morgan 1). Total fouls: Randall 16, Canyon 14. Fouled out: K. Johnston. Technicals: None.


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Anne Marquess Garrott, 98, of Langhorne, who helped save the Southwest Belmont YWCA, where she had taught since she was a teenager, died Monday, Aug. 12, at Chandler Hall in Newtown, Bucks County.
Ms. Garrott worked with the YWCA in the Philadelphia region for 65 years, including serving as the first African American executive director of the Bucks County YWCA.
When Ms. Garrott was chair of the board of directors of the Southwest Belmont YWCA, she helped rescue the center from financial collapse.


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Pen Drawing Of A Girl by oomizuaoWatch
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myep. I drew this with a pen, no sketch whatsoever. Just plain old freehand pen-on-paper stuff...
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To examine attitudes toward evidence-based medicine and evidence-based dermatology and to assess evidence-based training in US internal medicine and dermatology residency programs.
A 1-page self-administered questionnaire was mailed to residency training directors and chief residents at 104 dermatology and 103 internal medicine residency programs from the same or affiliated medical centers.
Questionnaires were returned by respondents from 70 (68%) of 103 internal medicine programs and 86 (83%) of 104 dermatology programs. Most respondents (91% internal medicine and 70% dermatology) strongly agreed or agreed that evidence-based internal medicine/dermatology is valuable and should be included in residency training (93% internal medicine and 70% dermatology). Respondents from internal medicine programs agreed more strongly with both statements than respondents from dermatology programs (P = .001). Dedicated evidence-based curricula were in place at significantly more internal medicine programs (50 [71%] of 70) than dermatology programs (20 [23%] of 86) (P<.001). Curricula at internal medicine programs offered significantly more evidence-based medicine training sessions (24 vs 6; P<.001) and biostatistics sessions (10 vs 2.3; P = .03), and internal medicine programs more frequently evaluated the curricula using clinical question applications (56% vs 30%; P = .04).
Despite favorable attitudes toward evidence-based dermatology, compared with internal medicine programs, dedicated evidence-based training is underdeveloped in dermatology programs.
IN MEDICAL practice, clinical decisions require the integration of clinical expertise, individual patient needs, and the best available information. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the Association of American Medical Colleges have recently called for the increased integration of epidemiology, biostatistics, critical appraisal, and medical informatics into the curriculum of both medical schools and graduate medical education programs to increase clinician information skills.1- 5 Increased training in evidence-based medicine (EBM), defined as the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of the current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients, may begin to answer this call.6,7
Despite its promise, EBM remains a contentious topic. Critics have argued that EBM does not reflect the art of medicine, inadequately addresses certain clinical concerns, requires too much time, or is inadequately evaluated.8- 11 The attitudes toward EBM and prevalence of evidence-based training in dermatology has never been assessed or compared with those in other medical specialties. The purpose of this article is to assess these attitudes and the prevalence of dedicated evidence-based training curriculum in dermatology and internal medicine residency programs.
All 104 US dermatology residency training programs and 103 corresponding internal medicine programs at the same or affiliated institution were surveyed.12 One dermatology program (National Institutes of Health Clinical Center Program) was not paired with an internal medicine program.
A 1-page self-administered questionnaire asked respondents to rate their level of agreement on a Likert 5-point scale13 (1 = strongly agree to 5 = strongly disagree) with statements about the value of evidence-based training and the importance of incorporating evidence-based training into all dermatology and internal medicine residency programs (Figure 1). Surveys sent to respondents at internal medicine programs were identical except that the words "evidence-based dermatology (EBD)" were replaced with "evidence-based medicine (EBM)." The survey contained additional questions assessing dedicated curriculum time for evidence-based training; EBM textbook use; the number of EBM sessions; the number of sessions focusing on epidemiology, biostatistics, or informatics; leaders of the training sessions, faculty attendance, outside training for session leaders, and evaluation of the EBM curriculum. The study was approved by the Colorado Multiple Institution Review Board, Denver.
Evidence-based dermatology survey. Asterisk denotes publication by Sackett et al.14
The questionnaire was modified following pilot testing. Average completion time for the final survey was 6 minutes. The survey was mailed in October 2001 to all program directors. Program directors not responding to the initial mailing were sent questionnaires via regular mail or electronic mail in December 2001. The questionnaire was also mailed to the "chief resident" of all the programs in December 2001. Responses were received through February 2002.
Results represent the responses of all program directors returning surveys and the responses of chief residents when program directors failed to respond. A computer database was compiled and entered by 1 author (D.L.S.) and verified by 3 other authors (A.M.D, M.H.M., and R.P.D.).
Means and frequencies were calculated on a univariate level to describe the data. For bivariate comparisons, contingency table analysis was performed assuming a type I error of α = .05. Comparisons of internal medicine and dermatology responses were performed using the Wilcoxon rank sum test for Likert scale variables, χ2 test for categorical variables, and t test for continuous variables. Intrarater reliability tests comparing responses from the same residency programs were performed using a κ statistic. Analysis was performed using SPSS statistical software (SPSS Inc, Chicago, Ill; http://www.SPSS.com).
Surveys were received from 86 dermatology (83%) and 70 internal medicine (68%) residency programs (Table 1). Responses from 75 dermatology residency directors, 11 dermatology chief residents, 56 internal medicine residency directors, and 14 internal medicine chief residents comprised the analyzed pool. Despite favorable attitudes in both disciplines, attitudes were significantly more positive at internal medicine programs for the value of EBM (2.2 vs 1.5; P<.001) and toward the integration of EBM into training (2.1 vs 1.4; P<.001).
Significantly more internal medicine programs (71% vs 23%; P<.001) reported having a dedicated evidence-based curriculum. Responses from both program directors and residents were obtained from 38 dermatology programs and 17 internal medicine programs. Overall agreement between director and resident responses on whether the program had a dedicated evidence-based curriculum (yes or no) was 84% for dermatology programs and 76% for internal medicine programs (dermatology, κ = 0.77; internal medicine, κ = 0.55).
Of the dermatology programs with dedicated EBD curricula, an average of 6 EBD sessions per year were held. Only 1 dermatology program reported using a specific textbook for the training. Evidence-based dermatology sessions were most frequently led by faculty (70%) and lasted approximately 1.3 hours. More than 2 annual EBD sessions focused on epidemiology, 3.6 on biostatistics, and 2.3 on informatics. Of session leaders, 40% received training in EBD.
Internal medicine programs held an average of 24 EBM sessions per year. Sessions averaged 1.5 hours long and were led primarily by faculty (52%). Of session leaders, 58% received training in EBM. Nearly 9 annual EBM sessions focused on epidemiology, 10.3 on biostatistics, and 9.2 on informatics. The most frequent teaching text used was Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM14 followed by the Users' Guides to the Medical Literature series published by The Journal of the American Medical Association.
Given that medical residents generate 2 clinical questions for every 3 patient encounters and more than 50% of these questions go unanswered,15 it is not surprising that evidence-based training is considered valuable by most respondents from the dermatology and internal medicine programs surveyed. Evidence-based training may provide a more efficient way to address patient-driven questions and better utilize adult learning principles: efficient adult learners (1) understand why they need to learn something, (2) take responsibility for their learning, (3) exploit experience as a resource, and (4) link learning with real-world requirements.16
Compared with dermatology residency programs, internal medicine programs are more dedicated to formal evidence-based training: internal medicine programs had more favorable attitudes toward EBM, were more likely to have a dedicated EBM curriculum, and, compared with dermatology programs with EBD curricula, had more evidence-based training sessions. These findings are consistent with EBM originating in the field of internal medicine and may reflect increased familiarity with the paradigm of EBM in internal medicine.6 Still, despite the long history of EBM within the field of internal medicine, this survey reflects that only recently have most internal medicine programs within the United States adopted formal EBM training. The last national survey of internal medicine programs in 1998 found that 37% offered a freestanding EBM curriculum compared with 71% surveyed in the present study.17
While evidence-based training has not been analyzed in dermatology, journal club training has.18 A survey of 89 dermatology programs in 2001 reported that most dermatology journal clubs have 1 to 3 faculty members in attendance, which correlates well with the average dermatology faculty attendance of 2 at EBD sessions reported in this study.
A 1-page survey format with most questions requiring yes/no or numeric answers helped this project obtain response rates relatively high for a physician survey.19,20 Moreover, comparison of responses from residents and faculty within the same program yielded strong agreement.21 The limited disagreement found might be explained by multiple factors, such as (1) change in curricula during the survey period, (2) lack of knowledge about the full components of the residency programs curriculum, and/or (3) disagreement on what constitutes evidence-based curriculum.
Study limitations include the following: (1) not all US internal medicine programs were surveyed, and the surveyed subsets were not randomly selected from all programs; (2) the brevity and format of this survey may have constrained a fuller description of some respondents' attitudes and curricula; (3) the survey did not address the specific objectives of EBM curricula; and (4) since residency programs have traditionally incorporated evidence-based teaching into journal clubs, it is possible that journal clubs alone may account for programs reporting dedicated EBM curricula.17 The last limitation would lead to overestimation of EBM curricula because typically the objectives of journal clubs are aimed toward critical appraisal of medical literature, only 1 aspect of the 4-step EBM practice,22 which includes (1) asking a patient-driven structured question, (2) searching for relevant information, (3) critically appraising the information, and (4) applying this information to the patient.
Despite favorable attitudes toward EBD, dermatology programs offer dedicated evidence-based curricula much less frequently than internal medicine programs. Evidence-based medicine provides residents and clinicians the skills to address individual patient problems and to reach an answer based on clinical expertise and the best external clinical evidence. Perhaps more than any other field, the practice of medicine requires a lifetime dedication to self-directed learning. Physicians need to formulate concise clinical questions, efficiently access medical knowledge, and critically appraise advancements in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. To this end, all residency programs should consider increasing emphasis on formal evidence-based training.
Corresponding author and reprints: Robert Dellavalle, MD, PhD, Department of Dermatology University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 4200 E Ninth Ave, Box B-153, Denver, CO 80262 (e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com).
Accepted for publication October 8, 2002.
Dr Dellavalle was supported by grant K-07 CA92550-01A1 from the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Md, and Dr Hester was supported by grant T32 AR07411 from the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda.
This study was presented by Ms Deas at the American Academy of Dermatology meeting of the Dermatology Teachers Exchange Group, New Orleans, La, February 24, 2002.
We thank William Weston, MD, Kristie McNealy, BA, Patrick Diaz, BA, and David Norris, MD, for stimulating discussion and support.
A cooperative effort of the Clinical Epidemiology Unit of the Istituto Dermopatico dell'Immacolata–Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IDI-IRCCS) and the Archives of Dermatology
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TreeHugger Radio: Greenland's Bounce-back, Norway's Organic Prison, and Seattle's Goats
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Greenwash Watch: Norway Says Cars are not "Green" or "Clean"
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Strange But True: Norway Announces First "Ecological Prison"
Prisons probably aren't the first buildings that spring to mind when you think about green design and architecture. Yet one small island in Norway is set to change that perception with the recent introduction of the "world's first ecological prison" —
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The Department of Education has joined forces with Susan Small, the curriculum resources librarian, to increase the usage and coordination of services available for students. Susan met three times with the entire faculty of the Department of Education to determine the best way to integrate information literacy into the curriculum. As a result of this coordinated effort, an integrated approach to information literacy has been succeeding: twenty-one education classes visited the Janet L. Robinson Curriculum Resource Center during the fall semester. To accompany the instruction that students received, there are ten library resource guides that have been developed for the department and individual courses in education. This on-going collaboration will help students achieve the information literacy skills they need as future educators.
This year the library piloted a new orientation for freshmen students, the McKillop Maneuver. The students were asked to navigate the building by following a series of videos on Instagram. The intent of the orientation was to give all freshmen students an introduction to services available within the building, including ACE, User Support Services, the Helpdesk, and of course, the library. We had all but one of the FYT classes visit McKillop Library and received 490 survey results.
We were really pleased with the mostly positive feedback we received from students. Here are some examples:
Overall we believe McKillop Maneuver was successful at introducing students to the range of services available to them in the library building and we hope to continue to work with the First Year Transitions program to include the McKillop Maneuver.
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A survey conducted recently by Project Information Literacy [View PDF] found that employers rank the ability to find, evaluate and use information as a highly valuable skill for recent college graduates. Through a range of instructional services, McKillop Library supports and promotes the development of information literacy skills. In collaboration with faculty, librarians taught 70 information literacy classes during the 2015 fall semester, reaching 1,216 students. Information literacy and research instruction for all classes can be requested online.
Recently the Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL) presented a new document defining and describing an updated model for teaching information literacy. ACRL now defines information literacy as "the set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued, the use of information in creating new knowledge, and participating ethically in communities of learning.
ACRL's new Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education also presents six main threshold concepts. In future semesters, librarians will work collaboratively with faculty and students to incorporate these concepts into our information literacy instruction program, and we welcome your input.
Today libraries have changed a lot from how they used to look and function. However one thing remains the same, libraries are here to support education, employment, entrepreneurship, empowerment and engagement within their communities. Because librarians are committed to fostering a more knowledgeable and digitally inclusive world.
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During a four-day period earlier this month, 47% of the surface of the Greenland ice sheet melted, bringing the total melted area to 97% of the surface, according to NASA.
The melting is the worst that has been observed since researchers have been monitoring the ice sheet, the agency said in a statement posted on its website. According to records from ice cores, it is the worst melt since 1889.
But what particularly surprised scientists was the speed with which the melt occurred. When Son Nghiem of Jet Propulsion Laboratory first observed the data from the Oceansat-2 satellite on July 12, he thought there was a mistake. "This was so extraordinary that at first I questioned the result: Was this real or was it due to a data error?" he said.
It was only when researchers combined the Oceansat-2 results with data from two other satellites that they became convinced it was accurate. The data showed that, on July 8, about 40% of the surface of the ice sheet had melted. By July 12, 97% had melted.
The extreme melt coincided with an unusually strong ridge of warm air, or a heat dome, over Greenland. The ridge was one of a series that has dominated Greenland's weather since the end of May. "Each successive ridge has been stronger than the previous one," said climatologist Thomas Mote of the University of Georgia in Athens. The most recent one reached Greenland on July 8, then remained stationary beginning three days later. By June 16, it had begun to dissipate.
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Month: October 2013
The Legacy of Wasabi-chan Lives — in a Rescue Cat Named Ichimi
The adorable cat in the mushroom costume didn't make it, but there's a new kitten in her home.
How to Prepare Your Cat for the Arrival of a Baby Person
OMG guys! Time flies and my baby brother is almost here and all this time I have been getting used to the idea (like I have any other option!). I know many are going thru the same thing and I want to share some tips FUR prepare us. I want to be clear that every …
Will You Participate in the Blessing of the Animals?
It's World Animal Day, and I love the trend of more religions blessing animals around the world.
The 5 Places I'll Visit When I Want to Adopt My Next Cat
We recently lost our cat, Leela, so we're not ready to adopt yet, but when we do, we have a plan.
Tyrone Looks Rough, But the Rescue Cat Is Just an Old Soul Who Needs a Little Love
Squamous-cell carcinoma has disfigured this ginger tabby's face, but his soul is perfect.
John Bradshaw Explains the Mysteries of Cat Behavior — with Science!
The author of "Cat Sense" wants to help humans be better companions to their cats.
I Sounded Like a Crazy Cat Lady in My Online Dating Profile
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Sweet Video: A Shelter Cat Loses Her Kittens — Then Adopts an Orphaned Litter
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8 of My Favorite Feline Phrases in "Cat-ese"
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North Africa Humanitarian Situation
UNHCR has airlifted tonnes of aid, including tents for thousands of people at the borders and items such as kitchen sets, blankets, sleeping mats, jerry cans and tarpaulins. In August, we launched a Libya Ramadan initiative, providing hundreds of people in Benghazi with their evening meal during the Islamic month of fasting. In western Libya, we trucked in food while food packages have been distributed for 55,000 Libyans in southern Tunisia.
At the request of the Tunisian government, UNHCR and partners have set up a number of camps close to the Ras Adjir border post and in Tataouine province. At the end of August, more than 4,000 refugees and asylum-seekers were being hosted in three camps near the Ras Adjir crossing. Further south, tens of thousands of Libyans, mainly of Berber ethnicity, have fled the Western Mountains and found shelter in Tunisia. Several hundred are in two camps in Remada and Tataouine, but the vast majority are being hosted by local families. UNHCR has registered almost 60,000 Libyan refugees (11,830 families) in southern Tunisia's five main provinces. In parallel, UNHCR has distributed ration cards to Libyan refugees in urban areas throughout Tunisia.
Early in the crisis, a huge number of migrant workers fled to Tunisia and Egypt. To help these people and to decongest the border area, UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched a joint humanitarian evacuation operation in March. This initiative, together with air and sea evacuations organized by individual governments, dramatically relieved the overcrowding at the borders. As of late August, more than 144,000 people had been repatriated by UNHCR and the IOM, while hundreds of thousands more have returned home with the help of their governments.
UNHCR Hotline numbers:
In Libya
Land line:+218-21-4777503 (24 hours)
Mobile:+218-92-552-3671 (9:00 to 14:00 hours)
In Geneva
+41 22 739 8618
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Crisis in Libya
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UNHCR is working with the Tunisian and Egyptian authorities and aid groups to manage the dramatic influx of tens of thousands of people fleeing Libya. By the beginning of March, two weeks after the violence erupted in Libya, more than 140,000 people had fled to the neighbouring countries, while thousands more were waiting to cross. Most are Egyptian and Tunisian nationals, though small numbers of Libyans and other nationalities are managing to escape. UNHCR is particularly concerned about thousands of refugees and other foreigners trapped inside Libya, especially people from sub-Saharan Africa. The following photo essay gives a glimpse into what is happening at the borders.
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- UNHCR delivers aid to thousands in southern Libya as conflict flares 25 Aug 2015
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I think my reputation has gone a bit funny, because I've got a lot of friends, but I get very precious when it comes to love things, you know?
What do you think your reputation is?
I dunno, I guess everyone thinks I fall in love every five minutes, and I have nine boyfriends.
Yeah, they probably do.
It's not true.
(Interview with Björk, "Dazed&Confused", issue 16, January 1996)
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favourite music: Björk, Sigur Rós, Jeff Buckley, Röyksopp...
favourite food: Arab, Italian, French
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