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Last week, Sir Merrick Cockell, the head of the Local Government Association, made some interesting comments about how the government provides public services. In an interview with the FT, he warned ministers not to assume that the private sector was necessarily best.
He said there had been a period when "public bad, private good" had "almost been a mantra", accompanied by a belief that "the right way for local authorities to do things was to outsource everything".
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I hope we've moved beyond that, because there are very good cases for outsourcing. There are even stronger cases for testing a service properly to see whether it's the right service to outsource, to see whether there's a mature market out there that may be suitable to tender against it and then properly to reach a conclusion that there is, or there isn't.


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I've actually been researching this for last couple days with my iPhone and I've found the best way to "crack" (not really a crack though) is through a MITM technique along with sslstrip.
From what I've read, sslstrip exploits a vulnerability in the PKI system by issuing self generated child digital certificates to the victim host. So there's no "cracking" or "decryption" necessary.

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SANTA MONICA, CA – Digital Music News has posted a simple yet dramatic chart that illustrates the rapid transition of U.S. music sales from physical to digital media.
DMN said the chart is based on data from the Recording Industry Association of America. The transition occurred over a decade, but the chart takes just 10 seconds to view.
According to the data, physical media still accounted for 100% of U.S. music sales as recently as 2003. But downloaded music drew even with CDs in sales volume in 2011, and then surpassed CDs as the most popular format this year.


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'Now the rest of the hockey world does too, which means Buffalo will start the new season with the kind of expectations that come from tasting success and being rewarded with big raises. In other words, the Sabres, who went through minimal personnel changes this summer, won't be sneaking up on anybody as they did much of last season.'
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this happened to me, to fix it i installed the development / sdk package
hey was just wondering if anyone could help im running a Dell XPS 420 with a Nvidia 9800 GT with BT4
ive been attempting to get CUDA support for a while but i keep hitting walls everywhere i go... so far ive been using the guide provided by pureh@te (which is very good by the way) i issue the following commands in terminal without KDE running
apt-get update
apt-get install nvidia-driver
apt-get install pyrit cpyrit-cuda
pyrit list_cores
while all the updates and package downloads work fine (KDE also runs without errors and the xorg.conf recognises the Nvidia card) pyrit on the other hand will only list the CPU cores and not the GPU...
i also read on one of the posts that "aptitude install backtrack-nvidia" is supposed so solve the problem...however it reported that the package was broken
any advice would be great
this happened to me, to fix it i installed the development / sdk package
These problems are due to the new kernel. The will be fixed with in a few days. all of the nvidia/cuda stuff is kernel dependant so make sure you are running the 2.6.34 kernel otherwise they will not work. Also the new cda SDK package is 1.4 gigs so we have removed it from our repo. You can get it from the nvidia download site if you need it.
Thats what I am saying, the new kernel went in effect with out having the new nvidia packages compiled against it so essentially all the nvidia stuff is built for the old kernel. We are not perfect so there was a small lapse in package management.
I am having the exact same problem with Pyrit not seeing my Geforce 260m. Has a fix or workaround been released?


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WATCH: Nicki Minaj releases 'Twerk Out' fitness DVD
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When Nicki Minaj visited Ellen Degeneres, she filmed a spoof infomercial for a "Twerk Out" fitness video. We have to admit that the concept of a twerking workout dvd is funny and we instantly thought of Shaun T from Rockin' Body… you know Mr. "Tilt Tuck Tighten."
But jokes aside is twerking finally over? Can this fad just go the way of songs like "Who Let the Dogs Out" and the "Chicken Noodle Soup" dance?
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Notwithstanding the provisions of section 3 of the Act of June 30, 1945 (59 Stat. 265), the Secretary of the Interior is directed to disburse the sums due to the heirs or devisees of deceased claimants who have been identified on or before June 30, 1957.
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There are more than 2.3 million Ohioans age 60 or older and two million baby boomers living in our state today. Imagine the potential when these Golden Buckeyes choose to be inspired by their age, rather than defined by it. When we choose to be respected and vital members of society and take advantage of opportunities to grow, thrive and contribute, we unleash our power for the benefit of our families, friends, communities and, ultimately, the nation.
Bonnie K. Burman, director of the Ohio Department of Aging, is often asked what Ohio is doing to address the "aging problem." Her response is profound in its simplicity: "Ohio doesn't have an aging problem; we have more than two million aging successes. Our challenge is to make sure there are opportunities for them to unleash their power."
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Melida Bockrath, 72, of Ottawa says, "I am a Golden Buckeye and I unleash my power by doing two things: One - I wrote a book of which all the proceeds will go to the Ottawa Public Library to help kids who are struggling with reading. Two - If I do not approve of what public officials are doing when they spend my tax dollars, I write them or pay them a visit. If they do not answer, I simply write a letter to the editor."
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The Australian dollar pushed higher after the central bank continued its bias towards record low interest rates.
At 1700 AEST on Tuesday, the local currency was trading at 93.29 US cents, up from 93.25 cents on Monday.
Minutes from the Reserve Bank's last meeting indicated it would keep interest rates low for the foreseeable future, and contained no comments on the currency.
Westpac chief currency strategist Robert Rennie said the central bank's silence pushed the local dollar higher.
"The RBA's minutes didn't really give us anything fresh in terms of guidance on the currency and that was quickly taken as a sign by traders to mark the Aussie higher," he said.
Little changed when BHP Billiton announced late on Tuesday a $US13.8 billion ($A14.93 billion) annual profit, and Mr Rennie expected the Australian dollar to continue its upward push overnight.
The Australian dollar's modest gains come despite disappointing property and iron ore news out of China this week.
"Despite that the Aussie hasn't been able to sell off," Mr Rennie said.
"I think what that tells you is there's continuing demand for the Aussie dollar from a carrying point of view."
At 1700 AEST, the Australian dollar was at 95.708 Japanese yen, up from Monday's close of 95.639 yen, and at 69.89 euro cents, up from 69.78 euro cents.
Meanwhile, the interest rate confirmation pushed Australian bonds slightly lower.
ANZ interest rate strategist Zoe Hughes said the bond market got off to a slow start but sell-offs picked up pace after the release of the RBA minutes.
"The minutes did recognise the easing in financial conditions that had taken place in the economy," Ms Hughes said.
"It looks as if the market has interpreted that as the RBA being comfortable with the recovery ... and the very low interest rates we've had for quite some time now are providing stimulus to the economy."
At 1630 AEST on Tuesday, the September 2014 10-year bond futures contract was trading 96.605 (implying a yield of 3.395 per cent), down from 96.665 (3.335 per cent) on Monday.
The September 2014 three-year bond futures contract was at 97.400 (2.600 per cent), down from 97.430 (2.570 per cent).


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Professor, Department of Pediatrics (Pediatric Allergy & Immunology)
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Charles Michael Chair in Autoimmune Diseases
Director, Einstein/MMC Center for AIDS Research
Generation of HIV-specific immunity using genetic engineering. Our laboratory is investigating the basis for generating an effective HIV-specific immune response and how we can use molecular engineering to reprogram T cells and B cells to increase the potency of their anti-HIV activity. For T cells, we demonstrated that functional HIV-specific CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) can be generated by delivering genes encoding the alpha and beta chain of TCRs derived from potent HIV-specific CTLs into CD8+ lymphocytes (Joseph, et. al., J. Virology 2008;82:3078–3089). To this end we characterize the in vitro and in vivo function of human HIV-specific CTLs, clone out the TCR alpha and beta chain cDNA from the most potent HIV-specific CD8+ CTL clones and insert them into novel retroviral or lentiviral vectors. We are also performing structure-function analysis of the TCR structure to rationally design TCRs with increased affinity and avidity. We then determine the capacity of these vectors to introduce the cloned TCR genes into human hematopoietic precursor cells or CD8+ lymphocytes and program them to differentiate into HIV-specific CD8+ CTLs that display the in vitro and in vivo capacity to recognize and eliminate HIV-infected cells. Delivery of cDNA encoding TCR alpha and beta chains to CD34+ HSC or CD8+ lymphocytes to program them into protective CTLs provides a modality for generating fresh precursor cells to replace those CTLs undergoing replicative senescence and to redirect the immune response by creating CTLs that recognize immunoprotective epitopes not in the initial repertoire stimulated after infection.
While broadly neutralizing HIV-specific antibodies have the capacity to prevent or suppress HIV infection, they are rarely produced by infected individuals, due to the inherent immune evasion properties of the HIV envelope, This markedly compromises the ability of infected individuals to harness the humoral response to control HIV infection. We postulated that we could use genetic engineering to circumvent the restricted capacity of individuals to endogenously produce broadly neutralizing HIV-specific antibodies. We demonstrated that we could construct a single lentiviral vector that encoded the heavy and light chains of 2G12, a broadly neutralizing anti-HIV human antibody, and reprogram human hematopoietic stem cells to differentiate into 2G12-secreting B cells that protected humanized NOD/SCID/gcnull mice from in vivo HIV infection (Joseph et. al., J.Virology 2010;84:6645-53). These modalities have the capacity be new therapeutic approaches designed to augment the immune response of individuals infected with HIV-1 and other pathogens.
Examination of the pathogenesis of NeuroAIDS. We are also examining the pathogenesis of HIV-mediated CNS dysfunction using an HIV transgenic model. Many HIV-1-infected patients develop severe neurological complications including HIV-1-associated dementia (HAD). It has been postulated that HIV-1 infection initiates a neuroinflammatory cascade involving the production of cytokines, chemokines, neuromodulators and neurotoxic factors that leads to neural dysfunction and HAD. We have recently developed the JR-CSF/huCycT1 mouse line that is transgenic for two transgenes: HIV-1JR-CSF, a full-length, R5 HIV-1 provirus regulated by the endogenous HIV-1 LTR and human cyclin T1 controlled by a murine CD4 expression cassette that targets transgene expression to CD4 T lymphocytes and myeloid lineage cells including microglia (Sun et. al., J. Virology 2006;80:1850-62). Monocytes from these mice produced markedly higher levels of HIV-1 than monocytes from mice transgenic for the JR-CSF transgene alone. In addition, monocytes from the JR-CSF/huCycT1 mice produced significantly higher levels of MCP-1 after LPS stimulation when compared to monocytes from wild-type mice and JR-CSF mice. We are using these mice to generate a model for studying the mechanism by which HIV-1 induces neuroinflammation and induces neuronal dysfunction which ultimately could be used to test the efficacy of therapeutic interventions (Sun et. al., J. Virology 2008;82:5562-5572). We are also using these mice to investigate the effect of HIV-1 infection on the integrity of the blood brain barrier (BBB). We demonstrated that the JR-CSF mouse BBB was more susceptible to disruption by systemic LPS as compared to the control wild-type mouse BBB (Wang et. al., J. Virology 2008;82:7591-600). These results demonstrated that HIV-1 infection increased the ability of monocytes to enter the brain, and increased the sensitivity of the BBB to disruption by systemic LPS, which is elevated in HIV-1-infected individuals. We are using these mice using proteomics and microarray analysis as a new in vivo system to study the mechanism by which HIV-1-infected monocytes migrate into brain and to test therapies that reverse HIV-mediated compromise of the BBB.
Identification of the molecular basis of HIV-TB synergism. Our lab is also analyzing HIV-TB molecular interaction during in vitro and in vivo infection to investigate the co-pathogenesis of HIV and M. tuberculosis (with Dr. Bill Jacobs). Little is known about the effects of HIV infection on the initiation and spread of primary M. tuberculosis infection and the intracellular interactions between HIV and M. tuberculosis that promote reactivation of M. tuberculosis infection and increased M. tuberculosis and HIV replication. We are utilizing microarray analysis to identify cellular genes are induced by HIV infection of monocyte/macrophages that facilitate their productive infection with M. tuberculosis and the subsequent dissemination of M. tuberculosis. To evaluate the in vivo impact of HIV-1 replication on pulmonary infection with M. tuberculosis, we are using our unique in vivo model, JR-CSF/hu-cycT1 mice. Results of these studies should greatly increase our understanding of the effects of HIV and M. tuberculosis co-infection on macrophage function that could be applied to prevent dissemination of the looming HIV-XDR-TB outbreak that is nearly universally fatal (98% mortality) in HIV-infected individuals.
M. S. Bennett, A. Joseph, H. L. Ng, H. Goldstein, O. O. Yang. Fine Tuning of T Cell Receptor Avidity to Increase HIV Epitope Variant Recognition by Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes. AIDS 2010;24:2619-28..
K. Sango, A. Joseph, M. Patel, K. Osiecki, M. Dutta, H. Goldstein. Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Potently Suppresses HIV Infection in Humanized Rag2-/-gc-/- Mice. AIDS Res. Hum. Retro. 2010;26:735-46.
K. L. Schaubert, D. A. Price, J. R. Salkowitz, A. K. Sewell, J. Sidney, T. E. Asher, S. E. Blondelle, S. Adams, F. M. Marincola, A. Joseph, A. Sette, D. C. Douek, V. Ayyavoo, W. Storkus, L. M. Yeung, H. L. Ng, O. O. Yang, H. Goldstein, D. B. Wilson, J. Kan-Mitchell. Generation of robust CD8(+) T-cell responses against subdominant epitopes in conserved regions of HIV-1 by repertoire mining with mimotopes. Eur J Immunol. 2010;40:1950-1962.
A. Joseph, J. H. Zheng, K. Chen, M. Dutta, C. Chen, G. Stiegler, R. Kunert, A.Follenzi, and H. Goldstein. Inhibition of in vivo HIV Infection in humanized mice by gene therapy of human hematopoietic stem cells with a lentiviral vector encoding a broadly neutralizing anti-HIV antibody. J.Virology 2010;84:6645-53. PMCID: 2903239
S. S. Toussi, A. Joseph, J. H. Zheng, M. Dutta, L. Santambrogio and H. Goldstein. Methamphetamine treatment increases in vitro and in vivo HIV replication. AIDS Res. Hum. Retro. 2009;25:1117-21. PMCID: 2828189
S.G. Kitchen, M. Bennett, Z. Galiæ, J. Kim, Q. Xu, A. Young, A. Lieberman, A. Joseph, H. Goldstein, H. Ng, O. Yang, J.A. Zack. Engineering antigen-specific T cells from genetically modified human hematopoietic stem cells in immunodeficient mice. PLoS One 2009 7:4:e8208. PMCID: 2785433
T. Kojaoghlanian, A. Joseph, A. Follenzi, J. H. Zheng, M. Leiser, N. Fleischer, M. S. Horwitz, T. P. DiLorenzo, and H. Goldstein. Lentivectors encoding immunosuppressive proteins genetically engineer pancreatic β cells to correct diabetes in allogeneic mice. Gene Therapy 2009:16(3):340-348. PMCID: 2901156.
A. Joseph, K. Sango, and H. Goldstein. Novel mouse models for understanding HIV-1 pathogenesis. Methods Mol Biol. 2009;485:311-27.
H. Wang, J. Sun and H. Goldstein. HIV-1 infection increases the in vivo capacity of peripheral monocytes to cross the blood brain barrier into the brain and the in vivo sensitivity of the blood brain barrier to disruption by LPS. J.Virology 2008;82:7591-7600. PMCID: 2493310
J. Sun, J. H. Zheng, M. Zhao, Sunhee Lee and H. Goldstein. Increased in vivo activation of microglia and astrocytes in the brains of mice transgenic for an infectious R5 HIV-1 provirus and for CD4-specific expression of human cyclin T1 in response to LPS stimulation. J.Virology, 2008;82:5562–5572. PMCID:2395169
A. Joseph, J. Zheng, A. Follenzi, T. DiLorenzo, K. Sango, J. Hyman, K. Chen ,E. Hooijberg, D. A. Vignali,, B. D. Walker and H. Goldstein. Lentiviral vectors encoding human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-specific T-cell receptor genes efficiently convert peripheral blood CD8 T lymphocytes into cytotoxic T lymphocytes with potent in vitro and in vivo HIV-1-specific inhibitory activity.. J. Virology 2008;82: 3078–3089. PMCID: 2258988
H. Goldstein, NIH/NIAID New Humanized Rodent Models 2007 Workshop, AIDS Research and Therapy, 2008 ;5:3. PMCID: 2276217
J. Sun, K. Osiecki, J. Zheng, L. Falkin, L. Santambrogio, D. R. Littman, and H. Goldstein. CD4-specific transgenic expression of human cyclin T1 markedly increases HIV-1 production by CD4+ T lymphocytes and myeloid committed cells in mice transgenic for a provirus encoding a monocyte-tropic HIV-1 isolate. J. Virology 2006;80:1850-62. PMCID: 1367149
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Science Daily and BBC report on a technique developed by Einstein researchers that could influence the way type 1 diabetes is treated in the future, using transplanted insulin-producing pancreatic cells.


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By Bob Temple, M.D.
In recent months, drug developers have succeeded in bringing important drugs to market for cystic fibrosis, cancer and other conditions by employing strategies for achieving greater clinical trial success.
Today FDA is issuing a draft guidance that spells out how drug developers can use such strategies, known as clinical trial enrichment, to greatly increase the likelihood that data collected during a clinical trial will demonstrate that an effective drug is effective. These are potentially powerful strategies for the pharmaceutical industry because appropriate use of enrichment could result in smaller studies, shortened drug development times, and lower development costs.
Here's how it works. Before any promising drug can come to market in the United States, drug developers must provide sufficient evidence that the product is safe to use on patients (that is, that the benefits of the drug outweigh its known risks), and is effective in treating a specific disease or medical condition.
Evidence is typically collected by enrolling patients in a clinical trial and then randomly assigning them to two groups: one group that will receive the drug and the other group that doesn't.
Those who employ an enrichment strategy enroll patients who are likely to demonstrate an effect, based on their demographics, clinical histories or other characteristics.
Anyone familiar with clinical trial selection knows that rudimentary enrichment strategies have long been common. After all, investigators don't simply study a random sample of the overall population. Instead they try to find a population most suitable for studying the drug.
One way to do this is to decrease what might be called "noise." For example, including people who don't really have the disease being studied, or including people who won't take the medicine or complete the study, will make an effect harder to show.
There are two other kinds of enrichment: prognostic enrichment and predictive enrichment. Prognostic enrichment involves choosing patients for a study who will have the disease manifestations the drug is intended to prevent. For example, a study of a lipid-lowering drug intended to decrease the rate of heart attacks might choose a population likely to have an increased risk of heart attacks, such as being diabetic. Choosing patients of that kind makes it more possible to see an effect if there is one.
Predictive enrichment is particularly exciting and involves use of some aspect of the patient's physiology, genetics or past responses to identify patients who can respond to the treatment.
Conducting a clinical study in a patient population that has a larger than average response to treatment can greatly reduce the number of patients needed in the study and can direct the treatment to the patients in whom the drug actually works.
The cystic fibrosis drug Kalydeco (ivacaftor) is an example of this successful strategy. The drug works only in the 4 percent of CF patients with a specific genetic abnormality. If the drug had been studied on the entire CF population, it would have been impossible to detect the drug's effect.
An enrichment strategy was also used successfully in studies of of Xalkori (crizontinib) for patients with a late-stage form of lung cancer.
While enrichment won't save a drug that doesn't work, it will help find one that will.
Bob Temple, M.D., is Deputy Director for Clinical Science in FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research


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Owning vs. Renting.
There are plenty of great reasons why owning might be better than renting. Especially when you can own for about the same monthly payment.
Do you feel like owning your own home is just out of reach? Truth is, owning your own home is much more affordable and easier than you might think. You can own a brand-new home with the plan, homesite and customized finishing touches of your choice, for about the same as what you spend on rent.
You're closer to owning than you think.
Are you a could-be owner stuck in a renter's way of thinking? We'd like to put an end to your thoughts of not being able to own your own home. It's time to believe that owning is truly possible, and can be just as affordable as renting. And, you can own a home that offers everything you want and look forward to having. That's because the cost of living in a Meritage home is significantly less compared to existing homes, or even other new-homes. Meritage is the first national homebuilder to provide 100% ENERGY STAR®-certified homes at no additional cost.
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description: The largest living structure, the Great Barrier Reef spans more than 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) of islands and submerged reefs. A plethora of coral thrives here, along with a sweep of parrotfish, surgeonfish, barracuda, and sharks. Narrated by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle.

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From space, the east coast of Australia appears to be in the embrace of a giant opal.
The largest living structure on earth, the Great Barrier Reef is a lacy, living wall spanning more than two thousand kilometers of islands and submerged reefs, between the Queensland coast and the western edge of the Pacific Ocean.
Diving in, the opal seems to splinter into millions of pieces, whirlpools of small metallic-blue fish, barracuda gliding like silver submarines, and occasionally, a lone, predatory shark.
The Great Barrier Reef is like an underwater city whose buildings are alive, with millions of small creatures whose lives are intimately – and intricately – connected.
It is as diverse as a rainforest, a mosaic of more than 70 types of habitats hosting thousands of species of marine life.
As many as 100 different kinds of coral may occupy a single acre of ocean.
Molecule by molecule, coral animals gradually extract calcium carbonate from the surrounding water to form minute stony cups around each animal’s soft crown of tentacles.
Some coral live in solitary splendor, but most are built with hundreds, sometimes thousands of individual animals, linked together to form a single coral mound, plate or cluster of branches.
Some are like little pink trees and shrubs. They provide food and shelter for thousands of other forms of life.
Corals get the credit for most of the reef structure, but much of the construction is done by fast-growing encrusting red algae. They act like pink glue, cementing fragments of shell, sand and coral with sheets of calcium carbonate.
The reef is home to more than 4000 kinds of mollusks, from tiny sea slugs – nudibranchs -- to giant clams.
Green sea turtles travel thousands of miles in the open sea to reach the sandy beaches of some of the Barrier Reef’s islands, and there, to lay their eggs. Hatchings head straight for the sea. They will travel thousands of miles over the years, and eventually, return to lay their own eggs.
Established as a national park in 1975, the Great Barrier Reef was designated as a World Heritage Site six years later. Today 33 per cent of it is fully protected, and efforts are underway to deal with pollution, over-fishing, and the consequences of climate change.
The Great Barrier Reef appears to be about 20,000 years old, but geologists using deep coring techniques have found evidence of ancient corals there that are half a million years old. With care, the future of Australia’s living treasure will be at least as enduring as its magnificent past.


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Newdow v. The Congress of the United States
Nonbelievers seek to take God off currency
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, along with 19 other plaintiffs, is suing the U.S. Treasury for stamping "In God We Trust" on currency. Honorary FFRF board member Mike Newdow is acting as legal counsel in the suit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Feb. 1.
The complaint alleges that the religious verbiage is proselytizing, discriminatory and a per se establishment of monotheism in violation of the Establishment Clause.
The complaint, a tour de force of historical research, unequivocally shows that there was a purely religious purpose and intent behind putting God on our coinage. Newdow quotes representatives who voted for the addition as seeking to use the money to proselytize around the world. Rep. Herman P. Eberharter (PA) said: "[T]he American dollar travels all over the world, into every country of the world, and frequently gets behind the Iron Curtain, and if it carries this message in that way I think it would be very good. I think that is one of the most compelling reasons why we should put it on our currency. ... the principles laid down by God and the teachings of our way of life should be kept alive in the hearts and minds of our friends enslaved behind the Iron Curtain."
Plaintiffs are forced to proselytize — by an Act of Congress — for a deity they don't believe in whenever they handle money.
"Our government is prohibited from endorsing one religion over another but also prohibited from endorsing religion over nonreligion. The placement of a monotheistic ideal on our nation's currency violates this stricture and is therefore unconstitutional," said FFRF Co-President Dan Barker.
The plaintiffs also point out that "In God We Trust" is discriminatory. The motto necessarily excludes atheists and others who don't believe in one god or a god. Because it appears on national currency and states "in God we trust," the phrase necessarily makes full citizenship contingent on the belief provided. In the words of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, this sends the "message to members of the audience who are nonadherents 'that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community.'" Santa Fe, 530 U.S. v. Doe, 530 U.S. 290, 309-10 (quoting Lynch v. Donnelly, 465 U.S. 668)(O'Connor, J., concurring).
As the complaint points out, a "provision discriminating in a similar manner against Jews, Catholics, women, blacks, Latinos, Asians, or any other minority group would... [n]ever be tolerated."
So help me Zeus! – O'Reilly v. FFRF
Staff Attorney Andrew Seidel, carrying on a long FFRF tradition of protesting the use of the bible and an oath to God at presidential swearings-in, sent an appeal to President Barack Obama immediately after he was reelected, asking him to "go by the book" (the Constitution, not the bible).
FFRF has asked every president since its founding, starting with Jimmy Carter, to eschew the bible and "So help you God" at presidential inaugurations. The U.S. Constitution, in Article II, Section 1, Clause 8, specifies:
"Before he enters on the execution of his office he shall take the following oath or affirmation: 'I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.' "
Missing from those instructions is any reference to the bible or God. In response to Andrew's letter, Fox TV invited him to debate archconservative pundit Bill O'Reilly. Andrew clearly won, but you be the judge by viewing it at bit.ly/VkzMcl.
Andrew said (amid numerous interruptions by the host) in response to O'Reilly's claim that the "overwhelming majority" of Americans want the bible in the inauguration: "That's actually not accurate. The Freedom From Religion Foundation's membership has exploded over the past five years. We have 19,000 members now; 19% of this country now consider themselves nonreligious; 35% of this country under the age of 30 consider themselves nonreligious. The demographics are shifting."
He also pointed out that the will of the majority is irrelevant and the bible is barbaric: "The Bill of Rights exists to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority. We are a nation of laws and neither our laws nor our morality are founded upon the bible. Religion gets its morality from us, not the other way around. . . . The bible exhibits a Bronze Age morality that treats women as chattel, human beings as property and punishes innocent children for the crimes of their parents to the third and fourth generations, and that's just the first set of Ten Commandments!"
The subject of Martin Luther King Jr. came up briefly, since Obama swore on one of his bibles, giving Andrew an opening to quote from King's famous letter from the Birmingham jail criticizing the "pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities" of many white churches.
Read Andrew's letter (Nov. 9, 2012) and FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor's statement about the Inaugural (Jan. 20, 2013) at ffrf.org/news-releases/.
Sharing the Crank Mail
Below, a representative sampling of recent emails from "loving Christians," usually in response to news coverage of FFRF's state/church work. Grammmar and spelling are uncorrected. Warning: Some language and suggestions are X-rated.
Jackson Middle School: LEAVE THE SCHOOL ALONE OR YOU CAN JUST PLAIN LEAVE THE COUNTRY!! GOD BLESS AMERICA you are not American. — Laura Chastain, Riviera Beach, Fla.
Jesus: Jesus said to kiss his ass!!! And burn in hell!! — C.R., Hickory, N.C.
Your the reason: Your group is one of the rason United States Of America is in the moral decay that is is!!! You take the foundation that we were founded on out of my Country! Take your leftest lawsuits and go hug your bulshivik president! — "Michigan"
Communists: Yes,you all are a pawn of the Communists and the Socialist Obama administration. — Guy Melton, Okla.
Really?: You people are all a bunch of a$$holes, and are exactly what is wrong with this country. Hope you all end up in hell, like the rest of the heathens. — Mike Dufala, Easley, S.C.
A Disgusting Bunch of Bastards: Maybe the time has come for the country to have Freedom from you "Freedom From Religion" bunch of warped bastards. — David Marcontell, Midlothian, Texas
Happy Solstice: MERRY CHRISTMAS AND GOD BLESS....YOU WORTHLESS MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!
From Seattle: Merry Christmas pinheads.
Merry CHRISTmas: Your group is useless. — Erik Czarnik
rights: you crackpots make me sick the U S constitution says freedom OF religion not from religion.I find you crackpots very offencive so GORW UP — Rick Marsh, Kan.
worthless: your group is as unAmerican as you can get and bent on the destruction of America. Do you remember One Nation Under God, if you don't like it GET OUT.
Chambersburg Glee Club: If this is such a bad place THEN GET THE FUCK OUT ASSHOLES and leave high school kids out of it! GET A LIFE AND LEAVE THE REST OF US ALONE!!! TAKE YOUR UNHAPPINESS SOMEWHERE ELSE AND STOP TRYING TO WRECK EVERYTHING THAT IS GOOD AND WHIOLESOME IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY! — Geoff Ackley, Hartland, Wis.
read this: do everyone a favor and just kill yourselves . Would be no great loss to anyone . you are a bunch of self-centered narrow-minded assholes that force your beliefs on everyone else . who gives a fuck what you think — Joe Public, Texas
Who cares: u people have got to be the biggest bunch of fucking losers that I have ever encountered. There are no negative effects of a society that has a moral religious base. Go to a gov't funded housing project and you will see lazy immoral bums that today's society thinks it is fair to takeuchi money to support these lazy bums. It would be my guess that you and your kind support an incompetent idiot lik — James Eck
fuck off: you fucking people need to mind your own fucking back yard not any one elces i have photos of you people defacing others property and im sending them to world news — "Shit Head"
Information: You do realize you work for Satan right? You think you are a free thinker, but he has you right where he wants you. Repent, before it's too late. — Brian Jones
Nativity Scene Athens,Tx: Why don't you keep your Yankee bullshit outta TEXAS. Nobody here gives a damn about what you think. — Ryan Ragsdale
hell: hope you have fun in hell my granny is the devil and she is gonna make you pay for not minding your own damn business if you don't like it don't go around it what the hell if I want to go to the capitol and see the ten commandments you are violating my civil rights because I cant and will sue your ass in court so its a never ending battle hurry up and die so the us native americans can have our land back and our rights. — Steven Flowers
freedom from religion: You now have yourselves to blame for what happened in Connecticut.....you want more freedom from religion, or freedom from God I should say? You are to blame. — David Hess
Stay out of our schools business: YOU AITHEST LIBERALS ARE THE REASON WHY THE SHOOTING AT BOTH SANDY HOOK ELMENTERY AND COLUMBINE HAPPENED AND IF YOU KEEP IT UP WITY WANTING TO TAKE CHRIST OUT OF SCHOOLS AND EVERYTHING ELSE YOU ALL ARE GOING TO BE CONDAMNED TO AN ETERNITY IN HELL WITH THE DIEVL YE GENERATION OF VIPERS! — Colin Stanley
Jackson county ohio: Stay out of jackson county with your anti Christian views. We don't respect you. And I don't know one person in this county that has any use for you or your opinions. God bless you and have a nice day. — Carl Detty, Oak Hill, Ohio
Jackson Ohio: Keep your nose out of our schools leave up the picture of Jesus. If we had more pictures of him in schools maybe we would have less shootings in schools. How dare you but in.
Jackson, Ohio: I am going to start off by saying this organization needs to stay out of Southern Ohio, especially schools. So mind your own damn business, which should be at the very least in Wisconsin not all the way down here in Southern Ohio. — Eric Castle, Ohio
Staying out of Ohio: TO WHOM IT CONCERNS, YOU ARE A WISCONSIN BASED, NOT FOR PROFIT(BUT GETTING MY TAX DOLLARS)BUSINESS. IF YOU DO NOT APPROVE OF A PICTURE OF MY SAVIOR, I HAVE AN IDEA,KEEP YOUR ASSES IN WISCONSIN AND DON'T WORRY ABOUT WHAT WE ARE DOING IN OHIO! — Bobby McKenzie, Ohio
Religion: If a picture of Jesus bothers your group so much, then don't go where it is. I think that is what is wrong with our younger generations today, some idiots, like your group don't have anything better to do than remove GOD from the classrooms. — Anna Brown, South Shore, Ky.
Hipocrits: Not having a picture of Christ is an illegal endorsement of atheism. I want separation of your church from my state. Such Hypocrits — Spencer Mason, Salt Lake City, Utah
'Do good on Good Friday'
In the spirit of 19th century freethinker Robert Green Ingersoll, who wrote, "Hands that help are better far than lips that pray," FFRF annually challenges freethinkers to set an example for religionists by 'doing good on Good Friday.'
The annual challenge was inaugurated in the early 1990s by Pat Cleveland, a founder of the Alabama Freethought Society, FFRF's longest-running existing chapter.
"It's not that freethinkers aren't good every day," says active volunteer Pat. "But this will be a way to make it a truly good day, if all freethinkers in the country would be visibly helping."
FFRF overturned a statute making Good Friday a state holiday in Wisconsin. But in all too many regions, there are still government-fostered holidays for Good Friday. FFRF encourages you to take advantage to donate blood, donate a free afternoon to the needy or other worthy causes.
You may want to advertise your "good deeds" on FFRF's online members-only forum or on our Facebook page.


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Feminism | Posted by Beatrice M on 04/9/2014
Women have made great strides towards social, political and economic equality in the past decades, but where do we stand in terms of sexual equality? Humans are sexual creatures who all want to explore our sexuality, but society undeniably still influences many women and men to view sex differently.
While medical advancements, like the invention of the pill, have radically transformed women's sexual autonomy, there are still a number of cultural forces that suppress women's sexuality. Women are still sexually exploited in the media and there are still societal pressures that encourage us to think of men as overly sexual creatures and women as demure and untouchable. Rigid purity standards and sexual double standards continue to demonize women for having sex and women also still face greater repercussions for sexual …


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A Little Death
Three elderly recluses are found dead in a locked house, obviously murder and suicide, but who killed whom? And more importantly, why? The household is comprised of Georgina Gresham, tried and acquitted of the poisoning death of her husband years ago; her brother, Edmund and long-suffering housekeeper, Ada. The story covers the first fifty years of the 20th century, vividly evoking English country life, WWI, the roaring 20's, and WWII. Told in altern...
Dying Voices
Dodie Blackstock's mother was kidnapped when she was eight and later declared dead. Twenty years later, Dodie gets a call from the police saying her mother's body has turned up-and she has only been dead for 48 hours. Dodie's search for what has happened in those 20 years, and why her rich father refused to pay ransom takes her on a journey of self-discovery and turns up some pretty awful family secrets, as well as someone from her mother's past who no...
My Best Friend
My Best Friend is an absorbing story of the effects of family violence and secrets reaching from WWII England to tthe present day. The main character, Gerald, is the son of a much loved author of children's books, but his family life was far from the fantasy presented in the books. His older sister was murdered,his twin died at birth,and Gerald grew up to be a very lonely, sad person whose only pleasure is seeing Andrew Lloyd Weber musicals hundreds of t...
Telling Lies To Alice
Dell, March 2004, 22.95, 304 pp. ISBN 0385335806 They met when they were both racing their expensive sports cars out on the open road, a ride that ended in them making love in an abandoned barn. When he left she didn't know his name but he got in touch with her a few weeks later and they started dating. Lenny Maxted was a famous comic who teamed up with Jack Flowers and their act was in demand by an adoring public but Alice loved all of him tho...


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TGIW and Interfaith Forum with Amir Akrami and Mark Nation
When Wednesday April 3, 2013 @ 4:30 PM (1577 days ago)
Where Seminary, Martin Chapel
Duration 1 hour 30 minutes
Amir Akrami and Mark Thiessen Nation – Pluralism, Particularity & the Way to Peace: A Muslim and a Mennonite in Dialogue. Thiessen Nation is Professor of Theology at Eastern Mennonite Seminary and Akrami is Visiting Muslim Scholar at EMU's Center for Interfaith Engagement. They will each speak from their respective approaches followed by opportunity to engage the audience in discussion.
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Empathic processes and intrapersonal outcomes (blue, boldface) and paths
linking them (blue, thick lines) play an essential role in deep acting. They
tend to be weaker or distorted when surface acting is the dominant method
used to meet the requirements of display rules. Advanced cognition, increased
reactive emotions, such as empathic concern and distress, greater interpersonal
accuracy and better attributional judgments about patients as well as the
paths they travel through to affect interpersonal outcomes are all defining
aspects of deep acting. The Figure is based on an organizational model proposed
by Davis.18
Larson EB, Yao X. Clinical Empathy as Emotional Labor in the Patient-Physician Relationship. JAMA. 2005;293(9):1100-1106. doi:10.1001/jama.293.9.1100
© 2017
The Patient-Physician Relationship Section Editor: Richard M. Glass, MD, Deputy Editor.
Author Affiliations: Group Health Cooperative,
Center for Health Studies (Dr Larson) and Business School (Ms Yao), University
of Washington, Seattle.
Empathy should characterize all health care professions. Despite advancement
in medical technology, the healing relationship between physicians and patients
remains essential to quality care. We propose that physicians consider empathy
as emotional labor (ie, management of experienced and displayed emotions to
present a certain image). Since the publication of Hochschild's The Managed Heart in 1983, researchers in management and
organization behavior have been studying emotional labor by service workers,
such as flight attendants and bill collectors. In this article, we focus on
physicians as professionals who are expected to be empathic caregivers. They
engage in such emotional labor through deep acting (ie, generating empathy-consistent
emotional and cognitive reactions before and during empathic interactions
with the patient, similar to the method-acting tradition used by some stage
and screen actors), surface acting (ie, forging empathic behaviors toward
the patient, absent of consistent emotional and cognitive reactions), or both.
Although deep acting is preferred, physicians may rely on surface acting when
immediate emotional and cognitive understanding of patients is impossible.
Overall, we contend that physicians are more effective healers—and enjoy
more professional satisfaction—when they engage in the process of empathy.
We urge physicians first to recognize that their work has an element of emotional
labor and, second, to consciously practice deep and surface acting to empathize
with their patients. Medical students and residents can benefit from long-term
regular training that includes conscious efforts to develop their empathic
abilities. This will be valuable for both physicians and patients facing the
increasingly fragmented and technological world of modern medicine.
Interest in the relationship between physicians and patients is as old
as the practice of medicine. Over the past 20 years, scholarly interest has
increased as educators and practicing professionals have realized that a therapeutic
relationship, along with integration of knowledge and skills, content of care,
information management, teamwork, and health systems1- 3 is
an integral part of healing and effective medical care.4,5 The context effect, better known as the placebo effect, addresses
in greatest detail the impact of the patient-physician relationship on a patient's
The published literature suggests that physicians who display a warm,
friendly, and reassuring manner with their patients are more effective.7 In addition, Halpern8 wrote
that empathy (1) makes patients more forthcoming about their symptoms and
concerns, thus, facilitating medical information gathering, which, in turn,
yields more accurate diagnosis and better care; (2) helps patients regain
autonomy and participate in their therapy by increasing their self-efficacy;
and (3) leads to therapeutic interactions that directly affect patient recovery.8 In sum, "making connexions"9 and
developing empathy are fundamental to caring and enhance the therapeutic potential
of patient-clinician relationships.10,11
Given the need for empathy as part of effective treatment, physicians
have to learn to empathize with their patients. To cultivate an acute ability
to empathize with others, one needs patience, curiosity, and willingness to
subject one's mind to the patient's world.8 However,
there are many obstacles that contemporary physicians face as they aspire
to develop empathy. These include a demanding work environment with heavy
workloads,12 little importance attached to
empathy,13 and cynicism.14 In
addition, research indicates insufficient training and education in compassion
and emotional aspects of health care for various health professionals.15,16 We believe that better understanding
of empathy—and more importantly, framing the psychological and behavioral
activities in this process as acting methods used in emotional labor—would
help physicians successfully incorporate empathy in their daily practice.
Although the concept of emotional labor, the "act of expressing
organizationally desired emotions during service transactions,"17 is well-known in organizational management, it is
not widely appreciated in medicine. In this article, we explore the parallel
between the psychological processes of empathy and emotional labor. Because
our goal is to articulate the physician's mental processes and behaviors,
we adopt a psychological approach in considering clinical empathy that occurs
on the physician's part, emphasizing the patient-physician relationship.
The Figure, taken from Davis'
Theory,18 summarizes the process of empathy
and outcomes that patients and physicians are likely to experience. We suggest
treating the process of empathy as that of emotional labor, and we propose
the use of acting methods in training physicians about empathy. We believe
that adopting such a framework will help physicians better grasp and use empathy
in their practice.
We first present a model of clinical empathy and describe the mechanisms
involved. Then we review the research on emotional labor and acting methods.
We also discuss the value of learning about emotional labor and acting methods
in creating an empathic treatment relationship. Last, we discuss future research
and implications for the medical community.
The word empathy is routinely used in discussions of patient-physician
relationships. Irving and Dickson19 recently
proposed treating empathy as an attitude. They pointed out that there should
be a skill (behavioral) dimension to empathy in addition to the cognitive
and affective dimensions. They further pointed out that the skill dimension
reflects the interpersonal process that happens between people in the expression
of empathy while the cognitive and affective dimensions are part of an intrapersonal
process that happens within a single person who is experiencing empathy for
another. Although such conceptualization echoes the writing of other researchers,8,20 empathy is not just an attitude. Rather,
empathy is a process that encompasses affective, cognitive, and behavioral
activities. A dictionary defines empathy as "the
action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously
experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another . . . without
having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively
explicit manner." According to Rogers,21 empathy
involves "being sensitive, moment-to-moment, to the changing felt meanings
which flow in this other person." This description indicates that empathy
is an unfolding process in response to the changing target and situation.
We adapted the conceptualization of empathy suggested by Davis22,23 to define empathy as a psychological
process that encompasses a collection of affective, cognitive, and behavioral
mechanisms and outcomes in reaction to the observed experiences of another.
The Figure shows mechanisms that are most relevant to the clinical situation.
It also indicates that intrapersonal and interpersonal outcomes have immediate
and longitudinal effects on patient and physician outcomes.
The core of the process model is the empathic processes and their intrapersonal
and interpersonal outcomes. The empathic process includes different psychological
activities that take place within a person. The Figure illustrates that empathic processes lead to cognitive, affective,
and behavioral changes. Antecedent factors such as characteristics of the
physician, the patient, and the clinical setting affect the physician's
internal and external activities directly and indirectly. Because empathy
usually involves ongoing interpretation, interpersonal outcomes (social behavior)
will in turn affect intrapersonal outcomes and antecedents, and intrapersonal
outcomes can change the empathic processes (indicated by gray in the Figure).
In a naturally occurring situation (eg, witnessing the struggles of
a patient), the observer first engages in empathic processes. Empathic processes
can be grouped according to cognitive complexity involved. At the most basic
level, noncognitive processes such as motor mimicry and primary circular reaction
are responsible in generating similar affective outcomes.24 For
example, profoundly depressed patients may elicit a reflex depressed feeling
in physicians. The next level of empathic processes involves rudimentary cognition.
Classical conditioning and direct association are both based on the idea that
the observer has in the past experienced similar affect, which is regenerated
at cues found on the target person or in the situation. For example, the patient
may show facial expressions that remind the physician of similar emotions
he or she experienced in the past. The more advanced level of empathic processes
include language-mediated association,24 elaborated
cognitive networks, and role taking.24 The
first 2 processes are said to be functioning as the observer responds empathically
and forms inferences from verbal cues. For example, the physician can understand
a patient better if the patient expresses more about his or her situation.
Role taking is the most advanced process in which the observer actively imagines
the target's perspective and responds accordingly. Cognitive role taking
involves inferring about thoughts, motives, or intentions; affective role
taking involves inference about emotions.23 For
example, the physician imagines being in the patient's situation or
imagines what the patient feels or thinks.
Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Outcomes. Empathic
processes affect how the physician (observer) thinks, feels (intrapersonal
outcomes), and behaves (interpersonal outcomes) with the patient (target).
The intrapersonal outcomes can be affective or nonaffective. Affective outcomes
include parallel and reactive emotions. Parallel emotions are usually reproductions
of a patient's affect. Reactive emotions, on the other hand, are the
observer's responses and are not usually experienced by the target.
For example, anxiety in the physician at the sight of an anxious patient is
a parallel emotion. On the other hand, a physician's anger when observing
a patient unfairly treated is a reactive emotion. Personal distress and empathic
concern (a feeling of compassion for others) are 2 other common reactive emotions.23 In general, the generation of reactive emotions requires
more advanced cognitive processing (eg, role taking). Nonaffective outcomes
are forms of judgment, evaluation, or belief about other people. In a clinical
setting, nonaffective outcomes are typically physicians' estimation
of patients' thoughts, feelings, and characteristics as well as attributions
about patients' behaviors and decisions.
Interpersonal outcomes exemplify the behavioral aspect of empathy, including
helping behaviors, aggression, and social behaviors. In the patient-physician
relationship, social behaviors such as communication and a considerate social
style (eg, warmth, sensitivity, positive outlook, and even temper) are the
main concern.23 Empathic processes and intrapersonal
outcomes increase helping behavior and reduce aggressive behavior, encourage
conflict avoidance and improve conflict management, promote good communication
and a considerate social style. In addition, empathic processes can affect
interpersonal outcomes directly such that understanding a patient's
situation (eg, through role taking) leads to habitual helping behaviors.
Antecedents and Feedback Loops. Antecedent
factors include characteristics of the person and the situation that increase
or decrease the likelihood that certain empathic processes and outcomes will
occur. For example, physicians' dispositional empathy or personal history
determines how easy it is for them to engage in role taking, or how likely
they react with certain emotions and make certain attributions. Most people
find it easier to be empathic to persons who are like themselves. Sometimes
a situation can be so powerful that such individual characteristics do not
In the Figure gray arrows connecting
intrapersonal outcomes and empathic processes indicate that intrapersonal
outcomes can subsequently initiate empathic processes.25 For
example, a physician feeling anxious (parallel emotional reaction) about a
patient's situation may start affective and cognitive role taking, which,
in turn, would enhance his or her understanding (interpersonal accuracy).
Interpersonal outcomes also affect intrapersonal outcomes and the antecedents
(as shown by the feedback loop in the Figure).
For example, good communication that calms a patient also helpsphysicians
reduce their own distress (ie, reactive emotions) and changes the situation
(ie, patient is not as worried).
Patient and Physician Outcomes. Davis and colleagues26- 28 proposed that specific
social behaviors have an impact on both the observer and the target's
social outcomes (eg, loneliness, anxiety) through perception. Similarly, in
our model, a physician's communication skills and social style have
a direct impact on patient satisfaction and health outcomes. This is consistent
with the findings that empathy results in enhanced treatment outcomes.6
Social behavior also affects how physicians feel about their job. Suchman
and Matthews29 pointed out in their discussion
of the "connexional" dimension of care that patients are not the
only ones who benefit from a meaningful therapeutic relationship; physicians
also benefit from such relationships. This is because physicians, like other
humans, seek meaning and purpose in life, which can be found in spiritual
connections made with patients. In addition, physicians often bear the emotional
burden of life and death that needs to be released. Some seek to be needed
and seek the attention and authority that people grant them,29 both
of which can be met in transpersonal relationships
with patients. This clearly indicates the positive influence empathic social
behaviors can have on physicians' satisfaction. However, engaging in
the process of empathy has perils: the emotional reactions, particularly personal
distress, as well as effort in controlling communication can contribute to
The effects of intrapersonal and interpersonal outcomes on patient-physician
outcomes are both immediate and cumulative. In other words, for the patient,
social behaviors demonstrated by the same physician have effects within and
across visits; for physicians, their own behaviors and intrapersonal reactions
within and across visits or patients influence their satisfaction and likelihood
of burnout.
Research on the influence of dispositional empathy on communication
consistently supports the concept that individuals with a greater cognitive
role taking capacity30 or higher dispositional
empathic concern31- 33 can
communicate better than those with decreased capacity. Similarly, dispositional
empathic concern and perspective taking were found to be positively related
to self-reported considerate behaviors27,28,34 and
attribution of positive results to the other person in marriage.35
Overall, although more work is needed to validate the model, it provides
a platform for discussion of clinical empathy and is consistent with analyses
by medical scholars. According to Halpern,8 empathy
between physician and patient is neither just "detached insight"
nor only "affective merging." Attribution, perception accuracy,
or parallel emotions are not empathy by themselves but are part of the whole
process. Empathy is "an emotion-guided activity of imagination, making
use of such distinctive emotional processes as associating, resonance, and
moods that provide context."8 This reinforces
the effortful nature of the role-taking process.
What Is Emotional Labor? Hochschild36 coined the expression emotional
labor in her seminal book, The Managed Heart: Commercialization
of Human Feeling, detailing the organizational control over service
workers' emotional life at work. The rationale behind emotional labor
is that, by adopting display rules that dictate the expression of certain
emotions accompanying specific situations,37 organizations
are able to direct the process of interpersonal transactions between their
workers and customers for effective service and greater profits. Management
and organizational research focuses on the service industry for which face-to-face
interaction and voice contacts are frequent. For example, Hochschild documented
flight attendants' difficulty when asked to show great hospitality to
all the passengers and to avoid displaying annoyance at unrealistic requests.36 Bill collectors, another group engaged in emotional
labor, were selected, socialized, and rewarded for their compliance with emotion-display
We take a psychological approach and define emotional labor as the process
of regulating experienced and displayed emotions to present a professionally
desired image during interpersonal transactions at work.17,36,39,40 Empathy
encompasses both internal and external emotion management. For a physician,
emotional labor uses psychological resources to engender personal cognitive
and affective changes to project an empathic image for the patient.
The majority of studies on emotional labor investigate emotional labor
of service jobs that do not require specialized skills. However, some literature
looks at emotional labor by professionals, particularly that of nurses.41- 43 Nurses are expected
to be nurturing and tolerant, not so much by their employers, but by professional
standards and customer (ie, patient) expectations. Although researchers44 have documented how nurses cope with stress from
emotional labor by distancing themselves45 and
have ascribed shortcomings in the emotional aspects of caring to a lack of
training,41 the researchers' focus seems
to be more on caring than on empathy, perhaps due to the nature of nursing:
caring rather than curing.
Overall, research on emotional labor in management has emphasized its
sociological and psychological impact on organizations and their members.
Organizational researchers uncovered a different form of organizational control,
which was previously concealed by traditional forms of labor (mental and manual),
and have articulated its positive and negative effects on individuals. Findings
from management research provide an informative perspective on the nature
of physicians' work.
Methods of Acting. Methods of acting are inherent
to emotional labor as ways in which individuals perform emotional labor. Individuals
can either fake their emotional display by forging facial expressions, voice,
or posture or they can try to alter their internal experience and act on emotions
they actually experience.36 The former is called
surface acting and the latter deep acting. Performing emotional labor can
engender either one or both of the methods at the same time, but few studies
have examined the joint process. Both deep and surface acting require emotion
regulation but with a different focus.46,47 Deep
acting focuses on changing one's internal emotional state. When deep
acting, individuals try to change their perception of the situation or alter
their emotional focus in order to modify their automatic emotional reactions
to the situation at hand and their subsequent expressions. In surface acting,
people only modify their emotion expressions without changing how they actually
feel inside. In deep acting, memory and imagination are used liberally in
an effort to renovate the actor's inner world. Surface-acting individuals
mainly engage in overriding automatic expressions that are not desired, fabricating
expressions that are desired, and enduring the dissonance of the two.
A Metaphoric Framework of Clinical Empathy.
With growing emphasis on holistic treatment,2,8 empathy
has become a critical component of today's patient-physician relationship.
Like service workers, physicians are expected to adopt certain demeanors in
interaction with patients. However, treating empathy simply as a deliverable
in physician-patient communication is insufficient. To meet the expectation
of empathic treatment, physicians need to understand patients' reactions
at both the affective and cognitive levels and channel such comprehension
in social behaviors with the patient. If we consider empathic processes as
emotional labor and treat the patients' expectations of certain social
behaviors as display rules, then surface acting is when physicians apply those
behaviors indicative of empathy and do so without the corresponding empathic
processes or intrapersonal outcomes. Deep acting, on the other hand, is when
physicians actively involve themselves in empathic processes and generate
relevant intrapersonal outcomes, which then naturally produces social behaviors
that are consistent with patient expectations of an empathic physician (See
blue highlights in the Figure). Halpern's
idea of "emotional reasoning" is in line with what we call deep
acting in empathy: "Work fundamental to empathy is imagining how it feels to experience something. . . . "8
Physicians today can draw on a large body of literature on communication
skills to guide them in their day-to-day interactions with patients. There
are excellent articles describing communication skills in the context of clinical
decision making,48,49 delivery
of bad news,12,50- 53 and
disclosure of medical errors,11,54 among
others. Some articles discuss details, such as appropriate verbal and nonverbal
signals (eg, what to say, how to say it, and use of body language), the choice
of physical setting for communication, the presence of family members and
other professionals, the extent to which information should be disclosed,
and the timing of communication. Published literature emphasizes ostensible
behaviors, giving less attention to how physicians can transform themselves
internally to be empathic. Zoppi and Epstein55 addressed
this issue by calling forth the "mindful being-in-relation" approach,
which emphasized "intangible" understanding of patients—the
intrapersonal outcomes of the empathic processes. This would suggest a need
to promote deep acting to encourage improved empathic care.
Consistent with our model, the literature on emotional labor in nursing
and studies from management research identified job satisfaction and burnout
as key outcomes of performing emotional labor.40,56 The
cognitive and emotional effort involved in empathy strain the already overextended
psychological resource physicians have, contributing to burnout57 and
even causing emotional pain for some. On the other hand, genuine emotional
understanding of patients can bring physicians deep satisfaction from their
clinical interactions and their relationships with patients.
Application of Surface and Deep Acting. The
need for empathy that goes beyond mere communication skills, however, does
not negate the value of techniques that can be used effectively without achieving
affective and cognitive understanding of the patient. Havens58 acknowledges
difficulty in engaging in the empathic processes (especially the role-taking
process) and in evoking empathic concerns. He recognized that caretakers'
feelings may not change immediately, but over time—just what we would
consider deep acting. Havens also believes that he will never truly understand
a patient. He prescribes strategies that caretakers can apply to help patients
build hope and change perspectives, even without full affective and cognitive
understanding on the caretakers' side. He also suggests forming alliances
and indirectly evoking hope and validating patients. These are strategies
that can be viewed as surface acting, effectively building a common ground
between the physician and patient by showing patients that their reactions
are reasonable. Havens' recommendations are a good example of using
behavioral tactics when no empathic or only weak reactions are available.
This idea attests to the value of surface acting for incorporating empathy
into treatment.
Surface acting and deep acting can be used simultaneously. Physicians
may try to take the patient's role while applying communication skills
that have been found to be effective in soothing patients and generating positive
treatment results. While engaging in both, each acting method can change the
dynamics of the situation, thus, reinforcing the use of the other.
Cross-sectional data suggest that surface acting results in lower job
satisfaction than deep acting.56 The long-term
effects of applying acting methods in terms of satisfaction and susceptibility
to burnout are unknown. We suspect that surface acting can be just as effective
and rewarding for some physicians as deep acting, but we think that surface
acting without value-guided commitment for care (eg, building hope in patients
through alliance) could lead to physician cynicism and burnout. Regardless
of how physicians use these 2 acting methods, the emotional labor of empathy
requires effort, dedication, and patience. As Zoppi and Epstein55 duly
commented, "Caring is a charitable act and occurs regardless of liking
a patient."
Benefits of the Emotional Labor and Acting Methods
Framework. Overall, our model serves both health care research and
organizational behavior research by connecting emotional labor and clinical
empathy. Although the importance of empathy and patient-physician communication
has been discussed extensively, the psychological underpinnings of this concept
have not been explored. Organizational behavior research, with a few exceptions,
rarely investigates professionals' emotional labor.55 Introducing
the construct of emotional labor and acting methods provides health care researchers
with a tool to explore methods that can help improve both patient and physician
outcomes, while expanding organizational behavior scholarship.
Finestone and Conter59 recommended thinking
of physician empathy in terms of acting, arguing that it was not unethical
for physicians to conceal their emotional reactions when such reactions were
not in the direction of empathy. An example would be when showing empathy
that may be against one's own value, belief, or identity. This recommendation
is reverberated in management research on service jobs as a matter of "faking
in good faith,"—that is, physicians fake empathic behaviors and
emotions against their own likes or dislikes because they believe that it's
part of their job.60 Brown and McMurtry61 commended such a perspective as a sign of commitment
to caring.
The framework of emotional labor and acting methods provides a channel
through which physicians can learn skills that activate empathic processes.
There are already well-developed techniques in acting training that can be
adapted for teaching physicians to empathize. Teaching acting to physicians
also enriches their reservoir of human experience62 and
makes it easier for them to develop perspective, which, ironically, can help
them achieve detachment when they become too engaged in a patient's
Future research should focus on studies in which different parts of
the model are tested. For example, we need investigations on the relationship
between communication skills, a considerate social style, and physician outcomes—ie,
are physicians who are good communicators and who have a considerate social
style less likely to experience burnout and have more job satisfaction? Studies
are also needed to test the effectiveness of training with a distinctive acting
component to enhance physicians' empathic skills.
Implications for Training and Selection. Testerman
et al14 found that medical students developed
their cynicism as a coping mechanism to deal with the environment while more
experienced and established residents and medical faculty had lower levels
of cynicism and higher levels of optimism. On the other hand, entering medical
students usually are very idealistic when they begin medical school and may
be more in touch with their patients.63 Both
observations indicate a need for training on empathy early in physicians'
career. A set of behavior components exists and could be taught to physicians.64 However, empathy, considered by many an art, cannot
be achieved simply through explicit teaching and mimicking. Rather, it is
developed through long-term observation of other physicians and patients and
by experiencing moments involving advanced-level empathy through role taking
in literature, film, art, and life in general. This is a slow immersion process
that can be likened to the maturing of a fine wine. Medical schools and residencies
should play an active role in training and development of empathy. Emphasis
should be both on designing training programs and creating a culture that
values empathy in treatment.
In sum, we hope to establish the idea that empathy is a symbol of the
health care profession. It is not an attribute limited to those who perform
direct day-to-day care, such as nurses; it also includes, and in many ways
more importantly, those who diagnose and treat. A focus on medicine as a "healing
profession" demands attention and effort from everyone: physicians,
other health care professionals, the medical community, and even patients.
Empathy in healing is more than just deep or surface acting as conceptualized
in our model; empathy gives us a fundamental understanding of our physical
and mental being.
Corresponding Author: Eric B. Larson, MD,
MPH, Director, Group Health Cooperative Center for Health Studies, 1730 Minor
Ave, Suite 1600, Seattle, WA 98101-1448.
Previous Presentations: A working version of
this article was presented at the 64th Annual meeting of the Academy of Management
in New Orleans, La, August 2004, and published as an abstract in the proceedings
of the conference.
Acknowledgment: We thank our medical editor
colleagues, Rebecca Hughes and Joan DeClaire, for their excellent and insightful
contributions and Rita Weikal for her fine work in preparing the manuscript.
Both authors contributed equally to this project.


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When you grow up at Bear and have a nickname like Zak Hale Back Tail, you're not expected to be good at mogul racing (not that anyone is, except, strangely, for Ripcurl Canada Marketing Manager Myrosha Daley and Rampion Distribution's Travis Williams, who've proved they have a knack for it over the three years the event's been around). So it seemed unlikely that Zak would win the Mogul Duel, given the thick field of local chargers and especially after Myrosha posted the fastest time of the day on his first run. But then Zak dropped in and bettered him. Not to be outdone, Myrosha stepped up and reclaimed the top spot. And Zak bettered him again.
As it turns out, Zak has a secret to share.
"I'll give a little insight here," said Zak. "When I was 10 years old I was the Giant Slalom National Champion. My dad duct-taped my pants for speed."
Well now things make a little more sense.
Before Zak and Myrosha could conclude their rivalry in the finals though, the rest of the riders had to finish their runs to see who would compete for third and fourth. Here's how the Mogul Duel works: competitors get three runs to log the fastest times they can on the gated mogul course which has a mandatory air three-quarters of the way down. Those with the first and second fastest times go head-to-head in the Big Final where the first across the finish line wins. The same goes for the two riders with the third and fourth fastest times who move to the Small Final. The advantage goes to the rider with the fastest time, however, because he gets to pick his lane. Zak wisely chose the blue lane, which was decidedly faster than the red option and so crossed the finish line first.
"I didn't know who he was, but be seems like kind of a big deal around here," said Zak of facing off against Myrosha. "I found out that he works at Ripcurl and he sits behind a desk. I was like, 'Fuck this is going to be embarrassing if he beats me.'"
The real moment of Myrosha's defeat may have came earlier though, when instead of taking a third run to try to top Zak's time he had to proof a catalog (iPhones aren't always a good thing #digitaldetox).
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In the Small Final Matthew Turncliffe and Marcus Cluver battled for third and fourth. After throwing a backflip off the jump for extra style points Marcus crossed the finish line first.
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'"We had the lead and we were playing a team behind us in the standings," he said. "We're desperate to get the win and we did not find a way. It's real frustrating. I don't know, I really don't know what to say."'
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The television package put together for this year's Monster Energy Supercross season is huge. Never before has there been so many events broadcast live for people to view from the comfort of their own home or favorite watering hole. And adding to the extensive event coverage, CBS will be airing an exclusive inside look into the daily life of defending Supercross Champion Ryan Villopoto.
This Sunday, RV will be giving viewers a glimpse into what it takes to get to the top of the sport and stay there. The hour-long show is set to air at 12:00 PM eastern time and you won't want to miss it. "I think it's cool," Villopoto said. "It's a look into what goes on. It's not that we [racers] just show up and race on Saturday then go home. We don't have a lot of free time to chill and have fun—it's nothing like that. It's a lot of training, a lot of riding, working, appearances, and things like that. Our season is kind of never ending." Even though the show is an hour, RV says that it will truly give a one-of-a-kind look into his life behind the scenes. "I think the people that are going to watch the show only know about 10 percent of what I do, and they see that on Saturday," Villopoto said. "The other 90 percent is what gets done during the off-season and during the week. The weekends are supposed to be our easy days. I hope it's going to be an eye opener for the fans that are going to watch it."
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'"I don't think there's ever going to be another Wayne Gretzky," Crosby said. "I'm not going to put the pressure on myself to be Wayne Gretzky. It's a compliment. Any time you can get comparisons to someone like that means you're doing something right."'
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People who frequent my blog funorangecountyparks.com generally want information on which playgrounds are best for their families, which parks to visit, or where to go for outdoor fun in Orange County.
Readers come to me for free or low-cost outdoor play trips and information on parks, beaches, museums and zoos, nature centers, family nature hikes, road trips, and planning a monthly play calendar.
Besides my blog, here are a few other information sites to answer the question: "What can I do in Orange County?" Just as each writer and blogger has a different style of presenting information, each reader has a different preference for how to receive and process the information.
walksimply.com is a great complement to my site with tons of places to walk or hike with your family in Orange County.
Here are more Orange County blogs, in no particular order, with a few details about what sets them apart:
just-spotted.com is a good go-to "spot" for everything family-friendly in Orange County. It has lists galore and a comprehensive weekly calendar. I love the easy navigation buttons in the right margin.
daytrippingmom.com writes in real time with blog posts highlighting the calendar as it happens. Find out about secret or little known tours, general destinations, or stage shows.
TinyOranges.com just hired a team of writers who publish lists of family-friendly at-home activities and outings, along with product reviews.
OCMomBlog.com features "The Best of Orange County."
Sandytoesandpopsicles.com writes a Weekly OC Activities post with tons of links.
toddlertrails.com is written more as a directory and has a map similar to mine. She also spends a lot of time on her events calendar.
planadayout.com is a form where you can enter the date, the distance, and how many in your family, and it spits out activity results with how much it will cost.
These are bigger sites with multiple bloggers or writers, some of which incorporate email subscriptions.
The OC Moms page at ocregister.com
trekaroo.com – Orange County Lists
To discover the best places to play and the best playgrounds in Orange County, go to funorangecountyparks.com
Orange County mom, travel writer and play advocate Michele Whiteaker created her blog as a free online resource to help families find new places to play.