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By William H. Bentley, Associate Commissioner of the Family and Youth Services Bureau
Forty years ago this year, Congress passed the landmark Runaway and Homeless Youth Act. Jim Pearce remembers the days before the Act, when young people who had run away or been found on the streets were routinely locked up—simply for not being where adults thought they should be.
Now CEO of CDS Family and Behavioral Health Services, the Gainesville, Florida, social services organization where he started working in 1970, Jim says young people sent to juvenile detention for running away came out involved in gangs or drugs or other crimes. They didn't get the services they needed—things like stable housing, family and individual counseling, education and career training—and often spiraled into even greater trouble than before.
Keeping Young People out of 'The System'
Then along came the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, part of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 and a broader movement to keep so-called status offenders out of the juvenile justice system. (Status offenses include running away and truancy and other actions that are considered crimes only because of a young person's age.)
The Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, which is administered by ACF's Family and Youth Services Bureau, authorized a system of emergency shelters for runaway and homeless youth. More important, it enabled organizations like Jim's to "deal with young folks in a much more appropriate way," he says, "to deal with them in a way that does not push them deeper in the system."
Because of the Act, instead of jail time young people could get food, shelter and support from basic center programs funded by the Act. Instead of becoming further disconnected and risk falling victim to trafficking, youth were reunified with their families, whenever doing so was safe and appropriate, and reintegrated into their schools and society.
Expanding Services
Over the years, the services made possible by the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act have expanded.
Today, the Runaway and Homeless Youth Program includes transitional living programs that prepare unaccompanied youth—those who cannot return to their families because of abuse, conflic, or poverty—to live independently and contribute to society.
Community-based street outreach programs, also funded by the Act, locate youth who are living on the streets or in other unstable situations and are highly vulnerable to human trafficking. They connect them to basic needs—socks, sandwiches, shelter—and, eventually, not-so-basic needs like mental health services, substance abuse treatment, and education and job-training opportunities.
Runaway and homeless youth programs also provide preventive services, working with families and youth in crisis and helping them to mend conflicts and stay together. Keeping young people off the streets is critical to preventing sexual exploitation and trafficking.
Over the decades, hundreds of thousands of young people and their families have gotten help from programs funded via the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act. The programs have been good for kids and for their communities, Jim says.
"They become adults who give back, rather than a person in prison who requires services from the system," he says.
Need Continues
We've made a lot of progress in four decades, but there is still an urgent need for runaway and homeless youth programs and the intensive array of services they provide. Here's why:
"We have good policy, we have good practice," Jim says. "It all comes down to: Do we have enough resources to deal with all the families and youth that we would like to?"
Looking to the Future
Jim's is a tough question. But I'm optimistic because the federal government is marshalling efforts around two strategic plans.
Opening Doors, the federal strategic plan to end homelessness, is well on its way to eradicating youth homelessness by 2020. And the Federal Strategic Action Plan on Services for Victims of Human Trafficking will, among other goals, expand victims' access to services and improve outcomes, by promoting effective, culturally appropriate, trauma-informed services that improve the short- and long-term health, safety, and well-being outcomes of victims.
It's appropriate that as the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act turns 40, FYSB and our federal partners are renewing our commitment to keep every young person safe. But of course, the true hard work happens, and will continue to happen, every day at community-based programs like Jim's.
And the true heroes of the next 40 years—as of the last 40—will be our nation's young people, every last one of whom has the potential to become that "adult who gives back."
William H. Bentley is Associate Commissioner of the Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB), where he oversees programs that work to prevent teen pregnancy, youth homelessness and family violence. Bentley has more than four decades' experience advocating for youth and families and promoting volunteerism and public service.


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Dear Colleagues:
Town Hall Meeting Regarding MUSC Physicians Revised Non-Compete Agreement
All MUSC Physicians (MUSCP) Members are reminded of the Town Hall Meeting scheduled for next Monday, December 9, at 5:00 p.m. in the Drug Discovery Auditorium regarding the MUSCP revised non-compete agreement. The purpose of this meeting is to ensure all MUSCP Members have a clear understanding of the revisions and an opportunity to ask questions.
An email was sent last month to all current MUSC Physicians (MUSCP) Members regarding the revised non-compete agreement; a copy of that email can be found at https://sp.musc.edu/com/discuss/clinical/default.aspx and the attachment can be found at https://sp.musc.edu/com/discuss/clinical/Documents/Sample%20Agreement%20%28Current%20Member%29%20-11-12-13.pdf. As noted in that email, no current MUSCP Members are required to sign the revised non-compete agreement. Those MUSCP Members who are currently under a non-compete agreement may elect to remain under their current non-compete agreement or switch to the revised non-compete; MUSCP Members who are currently not under a non-compete may elect to sign the revised non-compete if they so choose. Department Chairs have been asked to share information with their clinical faculty regarding the revised non-compete agreement.
The members of the MUSCP Non-Compete Task Force, led by Dr. Scott Reeves, put a great deal of effort into the creation of the new non-compete, and we are appreciative of their efforts. We also appreciate the feedback received from MUSCP Members on this important issue. We are glad we took the time to hear from everyone on this important matter, and hope you will agree that the Task Force delivered an agreement that serves the interests of both MUSCP Members and our organization.
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Faculty Bridge Funding Program
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Applications Being Accepted for K12 Training Program
Applications are now being accepted for the NCI-funded K12 Paul Calabresi Clinical & Translational Oncology Training Program. The goal of the program is to train successful, patient-oriented, clinical- and laboratory-based investigators who can work effectively in a collaborative, translational research setting. Each trainee participant will be provided salary support and an expert mentoring team along with the resources to complete tailored course work, clinical and laboratory research rotations and projects. These Scholars will bridge the knowledge derived from both the laboratory and clinic and apply that knowledge directly to establishing new, effective cancer interventions. The application deadline is December 31, 2013; to apply, please visit http://hcc.musc.edu/research/training/K12.htm.
Second Annual Women's Health Research Day
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April 07, 1999
NATHAN V. HARRIS, PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE,v.WENDEL ADKINS D/B/A TENNESSEE RIDERS, INC., VALIANT INSURANCE COMPANY AND STEPHEN N. CIANCIO, DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS
DAVIDSON CIRCUIT No. Below 96C-1819
(January 19, 1999 Session)
Hon. Hamilton V. Gayden Jr., Judge.
Members of Panel: Adolpho A. Birch, Jr., Associate Justice James L. Weatherford, Senior Judge Joe C. Loser, Jr., Special Judge
This workers' compensation appeal has been referred to the Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel of the Supreme Court in accordance with Tenn. Code Ann. section 50-6-225(e)(3) for hearing and reporting of findings of fact and Conclusions of law. The employer and its insurer contend in this appeal that the trial court erred in awarding the medical expenses of a nonauthorized provider and that the award of permanent partial disability benefits is excessive. As discussed below, the panel has concluded the judgment should be affirmed.
The employee or claimant initiated this civil action to recover medical and disability benefits for injuries resulting from a work related accident which occurred on May 23, 1995. After a benefit review conference and trial, the trial court awarded, inter alia, medical expenses and disability benefits based on sixty percent to the body as a whole. Our review is de novo upon the record of the trial court, accompanied by a presumption of correctness of the findings of fact, unless the preponderance of the evidence is otherwise. Tenn. Code Ann. section 50-6-225(e)(2).
At the time of the trial, the claimant was thirty years old with a high school education and vocational training in automobile repair. He was in good health before the accident.
On the date of the accident, the claimant was working for the employer, Tennessee Riders, operating a mower next to I-40 when his tractor was struck from the rear by a speeding pick-up truck. The truck's bumper struck him in the back and its hood struck him in the head. He was soon transported to the emergency room at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville, where he was treated and released.*fn1 When the accident occurred, his supervisor, Wendell Adkins, was operating a mower about one hundred yards ahead of him, but did not talk to him at the scene. However, two co-workers visited the claimant to inquire about his condition soon after the accident. He has not returned to work for Tennessee Riders.
When his condition worsened, he contacted Dr. Melvin Law, who diagnosed S1 radiculopathy and two bulging discs with nerve root impingement. The doctor provided conservative care, including a back brace, and referred the claimant to a neurologist. Dr. Law assessed his permanent impairment at ten percent to the whole body and restricted him from lifting more than twenty pounds, thirty minutes of continuous standing and walking and thirty minutes of continuous sitting.
The neurologist, Dr. Morgan, advised him not to return to work as a mower operator. This doctor diagnosed disequilibrium, post-concussive syndrome and intermittent paresthesias of the hands, possibly resulting from a mild spinal cord contusion or brachial plexus stretch type injury and assessed his permanent medical impairment at fourteen percent to the whole body, of which nine percent was from persistent labyrinthine vertigo. Dr. Morgan restricted the claimant from repetitive bending or prolonged standing of more than two hours and from lifting more than twenty-five pounds; and he referred the claimant to a clinical psychologist for therapy.
The claimant was examined and evaluated by Dr. Alan F. Bachrach, a neurologist, at the request of the employer. He assigned a permanent impairment rating of two percent to the whole body. The claimant was examined and evaluated further at the employer's request by Dr. Robert Weiss, a neurological surgeon. Dr. Weiss assessed his permanent whole body impairment at five percent.
The employer contends it should not be required to pay the nonauthorized medical expenses because the claimant did not insist on being provided with a list from which he could have chosen a treating physician. We find nothing, however, in the statutory scheme or body of workers' compensation cases which permits an employer to withhold medical benefits until they are demanded by the injured worker. Moreover, as to the emergency room expense, the statute expressly requires payment of those expenses up to $300.00, where the employer fails to provide emergency care. Tenn. Code Ann. section 50-6- 204(g)(1).
When a covered employee suffers an injury by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment, his employer is required to provide, free of charge to the injured employee, all medical and hospital care which is reasonably necessary on account of the injury. Such care includes medical and surgical treatment, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, crutches, artificial members and other apparatus, nursing services ordered by the attending physician, dental care, and hospitalization. The only limit as to the amount of the employer's liability for such care is such charges as prevail for similar treatment in the community where the injured employee resides. Tenn. Code Ann. section 50-6-204(a)(1). City of Bolivar v. Jarrett, 751 S.W.2d 137 (Tenn. 1988).
The employer is required to designate a group of three or more reputable physicians or surgeons not associated together in practice, if available in that community, from which the injured employee has the privilege of selecting the treating physician or operating surgeon, which list may include chiropractors. Tenn. Code Ann. section 50-6- 204(a)(4); Forest Prods. v. Collins, 534 S.W.2d 306 (Tenn. 1976). Where the employer fails or refuses to provide such a list, the employee may be justified in selecting his or her own treating physician and once an employee justifiably engages a doctor on his own initiative, any belated attempt by the employer to offer a doctor chosen by the employer will not cut off the right of the employee to continue with the employee's own doctor. Lambert v. Famous Hospitality, Inc., 947 S.W.2d 852, 854 (Tenn. 1997).
The first effort to provide medical benefits occurred a few days before trial and more than two years after the injurious accident. Under such circumstance, we cannot say the employee acted unreasonably or in bad faith by choosing his own treating physician. The first issue is resolved in favor of the employee.
As to the next issue, the employer and its insurer contend the award of permanent partial disability benefits issue should be limited to one based on two and one-half times the medical impairment rating because the claimant returned to his pre-injury part-time employment as a deliverer for Pizza Hut. In support of this argument, the employer submitted in evidence a videotape of the claimant delivering pizzas. The videotape does not reflect that his part-time work requires him to exceed his prescribed limitations.
For injuries arising after August 1, 1992, in cases where an injured worker is entitled to permanent partial disability benefits to the body as a whole and the pre-injury employer returns the employee to employment at a wage equal to or greater than the wage the employee was receiving at the time of the injury, the maximum permanent partial disability award that the employee may receive is two and one-half times the medical impairment rating pursuant to the provisions of the American Medical Association Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, the Manual for Orthopedic Surgeons in Evaluating Permanent Physical Impairment, or, in cases where an impairment rating by any appropriate method is used and accepted by the medical community. Tenn. Code Ann. section 50-6-241(a)(1). That limitation does not apply to this case because the employee has not returned to work for the pre-injury employer for whom he was working when injured, a prerequisite for the imposition of it, as we understand the law. The employer insists that because the claimant was working part-time for Pizza Hut before his on- the-job injury while working for it, the above two and one-half multiplier applies. We do not so construe the statute.
The employer and its insurer further contend the award is excessive because "the plaintiff was misleading his doctors regarding his abilities and symptoms and able to carry on activities that are inconsistent with his complaints and symptoms." The record does not support that contention. Moreover, the trial Judge implicitly found the claimant to be a credible witness and expressly accredited the medical experts who testified in his behalf.
In making determinations as to the extent of an injured worker's permanent industrial disability, the courts are to consider all pertinent factors, including lay and expert testimony, the employee's age, education, skills and training, local job opportunities for the disabled, and capacity to work at types of employment available in the claimant's disabled condition; Tenn. Code Ann. section 50-6-241(a)(1); and where the trial Judge has seen and heard the witnesses, especially if issues of credibility and weight to be given oral testimony are involved, considerable deference must be accorded those circumstances on review. Collins v. Howmet Corp., 970 S.W.2d 941 (Tenn. 1998).
Upon a consideration of the above principles and authorities, we cannot say the evidence preponderates against the findings of the trial Judge. The judgment of the trial court is affirmed and the cause remanded to the Circuit Court for Davidson County for enforcement of the judgment and such further proceedings, if any, as may be necessary. Costs on appeal are taxed to the defendants-appellants.
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hot air anyway!
Aw, c'mon, CapK. You know I can make hot air out of bout anythang.
Give my love to SWMBO
#49098 - 12/04/01 09:16 PM Re: Rocks in our heads
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Rocks in my "new" labels, apparently: stales, until a friend mentioned your post today, I hadn't even seen yours--and here I said I would specially watch for it. Didn't see several surrounding it till just now, either. Thank you. Very nice, Sweetie--d'you know, I had a hard time deciding between quartz and mica, on account of what you say in your last two sentences.
Well, now, milum--you posted, - Chert, which rymes with dirt, that stands for...Pool? I like that, but for you, I think I might change it to "Chert, which rhymes with dirt, and that stands for trouble..." And, it just so happens that I like chert.
#49099 - 12/06/01 01:00 PM Re: Letter to TEd (II)
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Your sense of humus is something else, particularly when you have a buhr under your saddle. Keeps you aventurine instead of sitting, I expect. I'll granulite puns as much as I do but as geode is my witness I won't take a loess sitting down, only till I'm able to stand up and compost another note here, even if it means resorting to amphibole. But asphalt is not something we cast here perhaps we can tripoli stakes without becoming sardonyx about it.
Mercuryiosity is getting the better of me, so I'll find the grit to ask you straight up: do you want to diabase death or pinchbeck a little bit on your lithium? Why are uranium on MY parade, particularly when you have the potassium turgite yourself out of this mispickel?
I orthoclase this now, but I feel olivine you a clear feldspartner.
Maltha force be with you! Or you can cesium the day yourself while your citrine here pondering a response.
Ted, your demantoid friend
#49100 - 12/09/01 08:26 AM Re: Letter to TEd (II)
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Ted, opal o' mine
Whilst you may cinnabar to this thread continuing, I'm afraid I feel an epoch ending. To be frank, you have lead the race from the start and arsenolite for stales at the end of the tunnel. I feel orthoclase to calling it quits - you've won the nickel.
Illite to say however, your posts stilbite, they are pure gold and obviously the product of a very erdite person. They float like ice upon the water of my hackley attempts. You take punning to alluvial that's not been seen before and seen fit to liberite this poor writer's creative juices from their previous minium.
Ironic as it may seem, uvite to call yourself the master of geological threads - and you're not even a geologist! Nobody would dare call you a pussy - you're nepheline.
I fervanite hope that this is not to be continued but natron would understand it if you felt forsterite.
I am now jaded and would like to call a holtite here. I'm that tired I don't even have the energy to fornacite.
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We had budgeted eight days to get from our remote base camp back to Kathmandu, which seems like a safe allowance as we set off on a 4,000-foot climb to begin the hike out. However, when we arrive a day early in Chainpur, some curious news awaits. The road we'd taken in from civilization a month prior was destroyed by 11 serious landslides two days after we passed through in brilliant sunshine. Obviously the 30 years it took to build the road was not enough to contend with four days of rain.
Only two of the 11 slides have been fixed when we arrive, which explains the seven buses and five large trucks sitting idle for a fourth week. Our options: Spend at least three more weeks (and likely much more) waiting for the road to be repaired or find an alternate means of escape.
Some haggling over the phone gets us a fixed-wing plane the next day —a 25-minute flight that costs $2,200. Not exactly attractive numbers at this stage of a trip, but better than three more weeks in Neverland. The moment we line this up, word starts to spread through the surrounding villages that four white guys and their Nepali cooks are chartering a plane with seats to spare. It doesn't take long for stranded villagers to wander down to the grass airstrip and feel out our price.
We decide to leave those details until tomorrow. In the meantime, we secure the local army general's permission to set up camp at the airport. "The airport," as it's defined in this area, means "small concrete building that had its head blown off and insides ripped out by Maoist bombs four years ago."
Our cook, Padam, celebrates the colorful shelter and outstanding dinner he and his boys whip up (if you've never had goat momos, look into trying some) by getting drunk again on raksi—a liquor that tastes like tiger piss. We gringos enjoy a warm beer that tastes better than ice water in a desert.
Shortly after we duck into the tents for bed, a freaky racket awakes me. I peek outside just in time to see a horse gallop through the bombed-out airport followed by a man with a headlamp and a machine gun. Four weeks ago this would've scared the dehydrated urine out of me. Now it seems just weird enough to end on.
The next morning, half the village shows up to watch our plane land on the cricket pitch. We pile all our gear into the cabin and sell six seats for $40 apiece. Two little kids ride for free. We plug our ears with cotton and take off from the bumpy earth, elevating above the raw land we have spent the past month exploring.
To help offset our additional costs when we get back to the city, I wander the streets of Kathmandu in an attempt to sell my old skis, which will cost $150 to take home but were given to me by a friend. The Nepali snickers sound like a pack of hyenas. "What are those?" a man asks. After 10 dead ends, I lower my price and sell them to an outdoor gear shop for $33. I later get $3 for my old pair of poles, just enough to cover a straight-razor shave the day we leave. —Devon O'Neil
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Iditarod Musher Reports Missing Dog
Sometimes it breaks our hearts to say, "We told you so." It's less than a week into the 1,150-mile-long doggie death march known as the Iditarod, and
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They should put this to a end! This is mutiny torwards those poor lovable dogs. Please don't suppoer the iditorod
So glad you updated this article to indicate that the dog was found live and well but that would work against your agenda of misinformation. If the author of this article had ever been around sled dogs they would know you can never make one run if they don't want to. This article is full of misdirection and information based on an individuals emotions and contains little or no fact very poor journalism. In fact it's a bit like listening to Glen Beck or Sarah Palin. Shame on you all. I know this comment won't pass the moderators but hopefully it will sink in to someone.
The following text is an extract taken from a website of one of the mushers who ran the 2010 Iditarod it speaks for itself. His team had less than 70 miles to go..but his dogs were very weak and he had less than half his team left.John had gone into this race and made it very clear he was not there to make up the numbers…he was racing for rookie award.His racing mate Tom Thurston scrathed early on the trail due to sickness in his team..soon johns dogs started falling sick causing john to start dropping dogs..at White Mt john + vets called it a day..
i TOTALLY agree with you even though husky's love to run they should NOT have to be forced to run whilst pulling anything Whitey probably ran away because he had enough of the stupid event
When oh when will man kind??? wake up??????? It's all about greed money and their huge damn egos. Sick. Leave the animals alone already. I am so tired of humans using and abusing every single animal that they can get their slimy little finters on. The humans race is in for a brutal awakening!!!!!!!
I absolutely detest this socalled event and am sickened by it more and more each year. But I wanted to bring you all good news Whitey was found!! The link above to the race blog has a post saying he was ok. I really hope that is the truth. But clearly this has got to stop!!!
The Iditarod is very cruel to run a dog to exhaustion is akin to a blood sport. Why don't the owners race on foot or are they too unfit and scared?
It's quite sad that this is a form of animal cruelty yet no one see this. They see it as a sport..
THis is cruelty to the max. The dosg love and trust us and do their best for us.. In return these inhuman beasts the mushers who rea heartless and cruel cause them to die. I'm not a cruel person far from it..by I'm sick of so much cruelty in the world and we wonder why the next generation is so immune to any compassionate feelings for life.
Agreed! How is this a sport when the dogs are doing all of the work? It's horribly cruel. Leave the dogs alone and change the race to snowmobiles or something.
what Samantha said. this race is sickening and an unbelievably cruel bloodsport.
This is disgusting. I went on the Iditarod official site and they had photos of dogs giving urine samples so does that mean there pumping these poor dogs with drugs too???! And there was the most heart breaking photo of a 'dropped dog' i found out that means a dog that is to sick or tired to continuing running or worse case scenario is dead. This race is horrid.
I'm probably not the only one thinking it should be called IDIOTrod. Right?
T i second that how much suffering could be avoided if it weren't for human greed and selfishness! my heart prayers goes out to all these animals. i mean we have a husky dog she is just a big baby. i would not in my wildest dreams subject her to that kind of treatment.
How many more dogs are to die before this sport is stopped.
These dogs are really beautiful. They don't deserve to be exploited this way. Greed sure is ugly.
this makes me sad
The official beginning of the death toll.
This is very sad but not at all surprising. It is ridiculous that this is even considered a sport when the dogs are the only athletes involved.The same thing goes for dog racing and horse racing. I work at an animal shelter and because very few if any well organized shelters exist up north we get many huskytype dogs.It is not uncommon to hear of "weak" or "unsuitable" husky puppies being left to die on the ice that they were born on.We have picked up escaped dogs ravenously gorging on deer at the side of the highway. The dogs are kept in tiny cages and given no affection by their handlers.Some are not even named by their humans.You can guess what happens to old or injured dogs.These "athletes" are not fond of vet visits. I was even more ashamed of my country when a large group of sled dogs were thankfully found and rescued in Quebec. People need to stop visiting sled dog parks in Alberta around Banff and other tourist areas.
i don't think enough bad things can be said about this foolish and inhumane display of macho arrogance and darkages cruelty.


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HONOLULU - December 11, 2011 - Hawaiian Airlines, which this week will become the only carrier to operate daily flights on the Sydney-Honolulu route, today announced a further upgrade to its service with the introduction of its new and larger Airbus A330-200 aircraft in May 2012.
As previously announced, Hawaiian will increase from five flights per week to daily service on the Sydney-Honolulu route starting this Wednesday, December 14, using its current wide-body, twin-aisle Boeing 767-300ER aircraft, immediately boosting its available seats by 40 percent and adding approximately 12,000 seats on the route between now and the transition to new A330 aircraft.
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Subject: Animal Crossing Life all over again....
comment of you played AC:WW or AC:CF and you have awesome memories with your friends this game.... :')
i remember my friends Jessica, Poppy Tom, Neo And MarioNO :') i will never forget the sleep over party xD
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Date: Sep 25, 12 at 9:47pm (PST)
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I don't exactly get the thread. /is stupid
Buut, I have lots of memories from AC:WW when going on wifi with people. Sadly when I got AC:WW no one really used it anymore, so it was actually hard to see people. Or the people just disappeared. :O I'm really looking forward to this game in general and I'm expecting a larger community which, will be really cool. ^___^ It will be fun to go on wifi with peoples! :3
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Ok, I did not relactate, as I never really dried up. . .but this question has been bugging me and I am very curious about the science behind it.
We know that a woman's milk changes depending on the age of her baby. When a woman relactates, does her body think it has a newborn, or does it still fit the age of her baby? If so, how would her body "know" that?
Same question applies to wet nurses from the olden days. . .did babies with wet nurses not get colostrum at all?
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Back in September, I received a plain envelope at my work address. In it was an invitation to attend an event in Whitehall, London. This invitation from Lord Mackay of Clashfern, was for an'"Evening lecture and supper with Dr Stephen Meyer", which would feature a "careful presentation of the 'fiendishly difficult' problem of the origin of life and the evidence for intelligent design", and was held on 17th November. I've obscured my name from the image below (click the image for a larger version).
Interestingly, the front of the invitation was a little coy about the organisers. It did surprise me that Lord Mackay, one of the more outstanding lawyers of the 20th Century (according to Wikipedia) would take an interest in intelligent design creationism. But Lord Mackay was a member of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland until a rumpus developed following his attendance at a Roman Catholic colleague's funeral. From Wikipedia:
Lord Mackay of Clashfern is also remembered for an incident when he, an elder of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, attended the funeral Masses of two close Roman Catholic friends. On one of these occasions, Lord Mackay attended in his role as Lord Advocate as the deceased was a member of the judiciary. This was considered a grave offence by the Free Presbyterian Church authorities and he was suspended from church office, bringing about a split and the formation of Associated Presbyterian Church in 1989, which supported greater "liberty of conscience".
Notably, the triumvirate behind C4ID hold strongly religious views, and at least one is a lay preacher.
All is made clear on the reverse of the invitation, where the Centre for Intelligent Design logo is prominently displayed. And indeed the accompanying letter is headed with the C4ID logo. All attendees are to be blessed with a copy of Meyer's book 'Signature in the Cell'.
Bizarrely (as you can see), the reverse of the invitation uses a piece of puffery from Thomas Nagel, Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at New York University. This, rather than being derived from an actual review of the book (which, it might be suggested, a Professor of Law and of Philosophy might not be best equipped to deliver) was actually Nagel's submission to the Times Literary Supplement 2009 Books of the Year.
I haven't read Meyer's book, so receiving a copy would have been interesting. I have, however, read a number of articles about the book, both supportive and dismissive (particularly those who take issue with Meyer's (mis)use of information theory), together with a number of Meyer's articles. Most of these are un-refereed book chapters, though a recent review paper has appeared in the Biologic Institute house 'journal' BIO-Complexity (of which, more later in this article). As an aside, the Discovery Institute has released a brief publication entitled 'Signature of Controversy', which is a response to the many criticisms of Signature in the Cell and very largely figures the rather abusive and puerile writing of one David Klinghoffer.
It would seem that the topic of the lecture (entitled "Is there a signature in the cell?") principally relates to the origins of life, and in particular, it would seem to relate to the difficulty Meyer has in understanding how the genetic code was able to arise in the first place. Of course, once organisms with heritable genetic material were present on Earth, normal and well understood evolutionary processes would have given rise to the diversity of life on the planet. I don't suppose that is something Meyer subscribes to, since he is one of the principal architects (and an author) of the Wedge Strategy– the duplicitous strategy that aimed to supplant evolution with creationism by an extensive rebranding exercise. The scheme came a little unstuck when the Dover school board in Pennsylvania, which was at the time influenced by creationists, attempted to force Intelligent Design into science classrooms. The subsequent trial (Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District) ruled that Intelligent Design was a rebranding of creationism, that it was not a scientific approach and that teaching it in American schools was unconstitutiomal. This judgement forced the Discovery Institute onto the back foot. More recently, the Centre for Intelligent Design was established in the UK, based in Glasgow, apparently to regurgitate the DI line.
The Centre for Intelligent Design makes much of the supposition that only intelligence can bring about 'information'. Unfortunately from their point of view, increase (and decrease) in gene number and genome size are clearly observable, not only by comparative genomics studies of a wide variety of taxa, but by direct observation of within species genome variation. What's more, those of us engaged in laboratory genetics are well aware of the kinds of genome changes that can occur even within the timescale of laboratory work.
In contrast to the ongoing efforts of science, one of the hallmarks of Intelligent Design creationism is that they don't conduct novel research aimed at proving the existence of design. How can they? – ID isn't science and makes no testable predictions. What ID creationists do is to focus on individual cases where they assert evolutionary biology cannot explain how some feature arose (usually by claiming "irreducible complexity" or some such tosh) and claim that if evolution wasn't responsible, intelligent design is the only alternative – a pretty dubious way of claiming evidence for ID. Unfortunately for the likes of Michael Behe, each time one of these assertions is made, those pesky scientists come along and knock it down. Examples include the bacterial flagellum and the vertebrate immune system. The rather wonderful Nova TV documentary about Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District I linked to the other day (US TV Documentary – Judgment Day: Intelligent Design On Trial) demolishes those two canards of intelligent design creationism in a very accessible fashion.
From what I'd read of Meyer's written output, it seemed likely that Meyer's tack would be to claim that the probability of the appearance of a genetic code that enabled life to begin is so vanishingly small that it must have been designed. What I have noted is a paper by Meyer (with his colleage Paul A. Nelson) in the Biologic Institute house 'journal' BIO-Complexity. The Biologic Institute is funded by the Discovery Institute and really fits the Wedge Strategy as an attempt to portray ID as a scientific discipline, largely by playing at science. BIO-Complexity is an example: an apparently above-board journal website with quite specific aims:
BIO-Complexity is a peer-reviewed scientific journal with a unique goal. It aims to be the leading forum for testing the scientific merit of the claim that intelligent design (ID) is a credible explanation for life. Because questions having to do with the role and origin of information in living systems are at the heart of the scientific controversy over ID, these topics—viewed from all angles and perspectives—are central to the journal's scope.
(I note that Kluwer, a respectable scientific publisher, originally planned a journal called Biocomplexity: its launch issue was cancelled due to a lack of submissions. I don't think this should be confused with the Biologic Institute creation.) BIO-Complexity's editorial board comprises a disparate collection of people who support Intelligent Design creationism or, it would seem in some cases, a more conventional young earth creationism. To date, and through two years of publishing, only a handful of publications have been made. And these are derived from members of the editorial board, and largely include members of the Discovery and Biologic Institutes (vanity publishing?).
Meyer and Nelson's recent publication in BIO-complexity is really an objection to the work of Yarus and colleagues modelling how an RNA world could have come into being. It's not really a research paper, and kind of fits the ID strategy of knocking down science with the intention of allowing an ID 'explanation' to fill the gap. This would be in keeping with Meyer and Nelson's expertise (Meyer qualified as an earth scientist and has a PhD in Philosophy of science, while Nelson similarly has a PhD in Philosophy): Nelson appears in the past to have held young earth creationist views.
My particular scientific field is not related to the origins of life, and it's always seemed to me that figuring out how life began on Earth is particularly challenging, especially as our understanding of likely pre-biotic conditions changes periodically. Nevertheless, the scientific approach is to try and figure out plausible hypotheses: if Meyer and Nelson have bona fide concerns about Yarus' hypotheses, I'd be the last to censor them. I'd be even happier if Meyer and Nelson had the science background sufficient to set up their own experimental programme.
An email communication from C4ID a week or so before the lecture said in part (the comment is mine):
At the request of some guests and to encourage open discussion, we wish to conduct the evening with a modification of the Chatham House Rule as follows: Guests are free to report, formally or informally, on the content of the lecture, the nature of the issues raised at question time, and the identities of the host, lecturer and representatives of the Centre for Intelligent Design. However the identities of all the other guests who attend and who may contribute to the debate should not be revealed unless specific permission is given by them to do so. [ It's hard to see how the planned release of video recording of the event could avoid identifying attendees if they questioned the speaker] We thank you for respecting our wishes in this matter.
Quite what significance (if any) this holds I don't know. But one interpretation might be that attendance from individuals outside the obvious ID creationism circles was looking low, and the organisers felt this statement might encourage them to come along. In the end, I chose not to attend, not because I have scientific objections to hearing Meyer's message, but because I object to the Discovery Institute's working methods, its deceptive Wedge strategy (of which Meyer is an author), and that attendance might be taken as offering support to ID creationism (despite C4ID's intention that attendee identity be kept secret). I did not want to add apparent legitimacy to ID creationism my my attendance, even though my attendance would have been as a private individual rather than as a representative of my employer. Finally, I don't believe that lectures delivered to lay audiences are the most effective way of communicating science (or, in the case of ID creationism, pseudoscience): I would much rather read the technical literature. Unfortunately, Intelligent Design creationists are unable to generate research of the kind that would find its way into the science literature.
Tags: creationism, intelligent design, origin of life, wedge strategy
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Hi Alastair, thanks for the comment.
Of course, I haven't written a critique of Signature in the Cell. I was trying to give an overview of why I chose not to attend (I only made my final decision late on Thursday): I spent a couple of weeks trying to track down an essence of Meyer's position from his published output (which in peer-reviewed terms is not huge). In my personal experience as a genetics researcher, I see organisms gaining genetic information, even in the timescale of laboratory experiments, and if one looks at the growing collection of genome data, it is clear that large-scale changes in gene number and genome size (which of course don't necessarily go hand-in-hand) have occurred during this history of life on Earth.
Now, the main issue in Meyer's publications (that I've looked at, anyway) seems to revolve around the origin of life, and in particular the origin of heritable characteristics – correct me if I'm wrong. This is indeed a thorny problem, but at least there are researchers around the world prepared to have a go at looking into possible solutions, rather than invoking a supernatural entity.
If you send me a copy of SitC, I will review it. Promise.
Actually the PBS / NOVA documentary badly misrepresented the Dover trial and contained lots of errors. The details are at:
or http://www.judgingpbs.com
I don't think an item at the deceptively named evolution news website is particularly useful in this regard. I doubt the Discovery Institute people are going to give a balanced view of the Dover trial, since it was their devious and duplicitous strategy that was taken apart at the trial.
I have read the trial papers and a number of reviews – I think the Nova documentary is fair.
A few questions arising from your post.
1. In the first paragraph you say you received an "invite." Although you don't expressly say so, can I take it you accepted this invitation?
2. Assuming the answer to 1 is yes, did you at any stage notify the organisers that you would not, in fact, be attending? I see in your reply to Alistair Noble's comment that you say you made your final decision 'late on Thursday' (presumably this is the day of the event). I'm assuming that as a matter of basic common courtesy you did, but as your blog is silent in this I just wanted to check.
3. As to the C4ID email re Chatham House Rules, are you able to shed any light on whether C4ID have said anything about the video recording? I know you added a comment of your own in square brackets, but another reading of the email would be that the lecture would be released on video but the Q&A bit would not be.
I received an invitation. As I recall I said I would see if I would come.
I don't know much about what use C4ID will make of the video recording, or whether they will release it (possibly depends on how good a recording it is). And if they do, I suppose whether or not they choose to release questions might relate to the Chatham House rule and/or whether they felt the questioning added anything.
4. Have you any evidence for your interpretation in respect of low attendance levels? Clearly there is any number of possible interpretations or reasons for the email, the least flattering of which, so far as C4ID is concerned, would be the one you put forward. I was just wondering whether you had any specific reason for suggesting this interpretation or if it is just a case of the default position being that which is least flattering to C4ID.
5. I am a little puzzled about the reasons you give for choosing not attend. If I understand you correctly there were 4 reasons. i) objection to Discovery Institute's working methods; ii) the deceptive Wedge strategy; iii) the possibility of your attendance adding apparent legitimacy to ID; and iv) objection to lectures being delivered to lay audiences as being the most effective way of communicating science (or pseudoscience).
Nope, mere supposition, as I said in the blog article.
As to reasons, I guess (iii) is the most pressing, but bolstered by my low opinion of DI and their working methods. (iv) just reflects my opinion that the take-up of Intelligent Design creationism by the scientific establishment will not be via public lectures.
Taking each in turn
i) Surely you knew about this before you accepted your invitation to attend? (I am assuming you accepted). If so, why didn't you just refuse the invitation? If this reason is correct, I am struggling to understand what changed on this point between you accepting the invitation and then deciding, apparently just before the event started, not to attend.
ii) The same point as i) above.
iii) Please don't take this the wrong way, but do you really think your standing in the academic/scientific community is such that your attendance at a free lecture would be seen by others as giving legitimacy to the subject matter of the lecture? Even if you do, couldn't you have made it clear to C4ID that you were attending as a private individual – as you state in your final paragraph above? And why didn't the Chatham House Rule allay your fears? If it is because you thought the video might show people asking questions couldn't you have i) not asked a question; or ii) sought clarification from C4ID in advance?
Actually my biggest issue with the Chatham House thing was that it would limit discussion later.
And, yes, I would not like it said that attendees included a number from UK HEIs.
(all this in addition to same point as i) and ii) above re knowing all this before you accepted the invitation).
iv) Again, in addition to the fact you presumably held this view before you accepted the invitation, is this a view you hold to strictly? Have you not been to any public lectures where 'lay people' might be in attendance? Does it also follow that you do not support and would not attend lectures by Eugenie Scott or P Z Myers (both of which have in the last year been hosted by the Glasgow Skeptics and were lectures open to 'lay people')?
I appreciate these questions may give the impression I am being critical of you. However, for the record I have no problem whatsoever with you saying you think Steve Meyer is a complete idiot and that you would rather repeatedly poke yourself in the eye with a fork than have to sit through one of his lectures. My reason for asking the questions is because I am trying to establish whether you really mean what you have said, or whether the truth is that you just couldn't be bothered to attend but for whatever reason don't want to say so.
You are pumping comments too quickly. As I say in my response above to your point (iv) this was not a reason why I chose not to attend. In fact I enjoy communicating with the lay public, and on those occasions when I have been the lay audience I've found talks sometimes very informative.
I don't actually think that Meyer is an idiot (and I certainly made no comment about eyes and forks!). I think Meyer is misguided, and from reading some of the literature seems to be a bit outside his expertise area.
The principal reason I initially thought of going was to meet some of the C4ID people – and I'm particularly pleased Alastair Noble (I assume it really was him) left a comment here, and would welcome further communication.
Apart from the scientific misinformation available at the C4ID website, one of the problems there is the unwillingness to encourage any form of discussion via comments or discussion fora.
Can I ask whether you are associated with C4ID?
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It is often said that school shooters are white males. Of course, they usually are males. After all, violent crime in general is overwhelmingly a male phenomenon, and school shootings are no different. The perpetrators of large-scale school violence, however, are not always male, and in the interests of understanding and preventing these attacks, we need to recognize that sometimes females go on rampages.
Here are a few examples of female school shooters. In 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Spencer committed a sniper attack at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego. In 1988, Laurie Dann, age 30, shot young children in Hubbard Woods Elementary School in Winnetka, Illinois. At Penn State University in 1996, 19-year-old Jillian Spencer, who was trained in the Army Reserve as a sharpshooter, opened fire on random students. Latina Williams, a 23-year-old nursing student at Louisiana Technical Institute, killed two classmates in 2008. Finally, in 2010, Professor Amy Bishop shot six colleagues in the biology department at the University of Alabama.
There are several possible reasons why these women are not more broadly recognized as school shooers. Part of the issue may be how we define school shootings. If we think of them as attacks perpetrated by middle school or high school students at the schools they are currently attending, then none of these females were school shooters. Brenda Spencer, at age 16, was a high school student, but she shot people at the elementary school she attended several years earlier. Laurie Dann gunned down children at a school she had no connection to. Jillian Spencer shot students at a college she did not attend. Amy Bishop was a professor who shot her colleagues. Latina Williams was attending the school where she committed her attack, but it was not a secondary school. Thus, the atypical nature of these attacks may keep them out of the conversation on school shooters.
A second factor may be that two of them, Spencer's and Dann's, occurred well before "school shootings" as a concept became lodged in the national consciousness. Beccause they occurred in the 1970s and 1980s, they may be far enough in the past as to be largely unknown.
Finally, the shootings by females did not result in large numbers of victims as have many of the attacks by males. Because news coverage is significantly determined by the number of fatalities, these attacks may not have had the same impact on the discourse relating to school shootings.
When it comes to non-white shooters, there is more racial/ethnic diversity than is often realized. There have been at least eight shooters of Asian heritage. Gang Lu was an international student from China at the University of Iowa, where he committed his attack in 1991. Wayne Lo immigrated with his family from China; at 18 he went on a rampage at Simon's Rock College in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1992. In 1994, Phu Cuong Ta, a Vietnamese Canadian, shot two guidance counselors at his school in Toronto. Biswanath Halder was an immigrant from India who at the age of 62 went on a rampage at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, in 2003. Kimveer Gill's parents were from India; Gill shot 20 people at Dawson College in Montreal in 2006. In 2007, Seung Hui Cho, from South Korea, committed the rampage at Virginia Tech. In 2009, Jiverly Wong, a Vietnamese immigrant, attacked the American Civic Association in Binghamton, New York, where he had studied English as a second language. Most recently, in 2012, One Goh, an immigrant from South Korea, shot ten people, killing seven, at Oikos University in Oakland, California.
Regarding Latino shooters, Alvaro Castillo's parents were from Spain and El Salvador. Castillo committed an attack in Hillsborough, North Carolina in 2006. Wellington de Oliveira was a Brazilian who committed his attack in Brazil in 2011. There are two other shooters who might have had Latino heritage, judging by last names. Jason Hoffman shot people at his school in El Cajon, California in 2001. Hoffman's mother was Denise Marquez, whose name suggests Latino descent though I have not seen this confirmed. Similarly, Robert Flores, who killed three professors at the University of Arizona in 2002, may have been at least partly Latino.
Several shooters have had African heritage. In 1984, Tyrone Mitchell, an 28-year-old African American man opened fire on a school yard in Los Angeles, shooting twelve people. Marc Lepine's father was from Algeria; Lepine conducted his rampage at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989. Peter Odighizuwa, who killed people at the Appalachian School of Law in Virginia in 2002, was Nigerian. Latina Williams, mentioned above as a female shooter, was also African American.
Three school shooters have had Native American heritage: Jeffrey Weise (Red Lake, Minnesota, 2005), Seth Trickey (Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, 1999), and Evan Ramsey (Bethel, Alaska, 1997), whose mother was a native Alaskan.
The belief that school shooters are all white is odd considering there have been at least 14 who were not white. This is even more striking considering that by far the most deadly attack was committed by Seung Hui Cho, with 32 fatalities and 49 victims overall. In addition, Jiverly Wong killed as many people as Harris and Klebold at Columbine, but whereas Columbine became the epitome of school shootings, Wong's attack is virtually unspoken of. Perhaps because it was not at a typical school? Perhaps because he killed adults, not children or teens?
As noted regarding the attacks by females, many of those by non-white males did not occur in secondary schools. Seven of the shootings by Asians, and one by an international student from Africa, occurred at colleges or universities. To the extent that we think of school shootings as occurring in secondary schools, we lose sight of those in higher education.
We may also lose sight of shootings outside the USA. Wellington de Oliveira's attack in Brazil had 32 victims. Marc Lépine's rampage in Montreal had 26 victims. Also in Montreal, Kimveer Gill shot 20 people. These were large-scale incidents by shooters who were not white, yet they seem to have had no impact on the belief that school shooters are white.
Finally, Tyrone Mitchell's shooting was atypical in that he was not a student at the school he attacked. He was an adult gunning down children. Though this makes the horror of it worse, it may result in his not being considered a school shooter as they are often thought of. In addition, his attack was in 1984, and time may have caused him to be forgotten.
This brief review has included 20 school shooters who were not white males (22, if Jason Hoffman and Robert Flores were of Latino descent). White male shooters may be more common than those who are neither white nor male, but we should not let this become a stereotype. For one thing, it is inaccurate and fails to take account of a significant percentage of school shooters. Most importantly, however, if we think that the only people who commit rampage attacks at schools are white males, we will be blind to those at risk of massive violence who do not fit the profile in our minds. And that could be tragic.
(For more examples, please see the document "School Shooters Who Were Not White Males" on my website.)


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