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- Understand internally generated toxins, like thoughts, emotions and behaviors
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- Focus on breakthrough solutions to gain more energy and vitality
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"Dr. Wahls Answers and Questions about The Wahls Protocol" Q&A Audio from Dr. Terry Wahls Value: $29.95
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offering a well-rounded, credible approach to a much-debated issue. Learn to navigate your way through today's toxic terrain by recognizing toxins, what to do about them and how to change your life into a healthier you!
Jeffrey Bland, PhD Father of Functional Medicine, Author
The Biochemistry and History of Detoxification
- History of detoxification
- Detailed description of how the body eliminates toxins, especially through the liver
- How nutrients improve detoxification processes
Mark Hyman, MD Best-selling Author, Functional Medicine Expert
Metabolic Disturbances and Detox
- Relationship between chronic disease and toxicity: "Diabesity"
- Health effects of toxins like sugar and food chemicals
- Power of a detox to promote health and healing
David Perlmutter, MD, FACN, ABIHM Best-selling Author, Renowned Neurologist Brain Health Expert
Toxicity and Brain Function
- Relationship between diet and brain health
- Why carbohydrates, especially sugars, are toxic to the brain
- Why the type of fat you eat is so important for health and detox
Alejandro Junger, MD Best-selling Author and Founder of the Clean Program
The Many Approaches to Detox and Coming Clean
- The necessity of detox for health
- Why detox needs to be personalized to the individual
- Juicing vs. food vs. supplements for detox
Martha Herbert, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, Pediatric Neurologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston
Autism and Detox
- Toxic exposures of all types and their effect on the brain
- The emerging connection between autism and toxicity in pregnancy
- Overcoming chemical burden in the unborn and children
Elson Haas, MD Practicing Physician of Integrated Family Medicine, "Father of Clinical Detoxification", Author
Staying Healthy With Nutrition and Detox
- Incorporating traditional medicine approaches into a nutritional, biochemical detoxification
- The importance of following the cycles of nature, seasons and the body's rhythm in detox and healing
- How to personalize a detoxification by becoming aware of the body's needs
Soram Khalsa, MD Board Certified in Internal Medicine
The Environment is Toxic and It's Making Us Toxic: Epigenetic Influences
- Sources of toxicity in our daily environment: Focus on the home and food
- Importance of detox before conception and pregnancy
- Keeping our children free of toxins by taking everyday precautions in our environment
Kelly Brogan, MD Boarded in Psychiatry/Psychosomatic Medicine/Reproductive Psychiatry and Integrative Holistic Medicine
Toxicity and Impact in Women and Children's Health
- How women can take precautions to become less toxic
- Dangers of inflammation to mother, fetus and child
- Top recommendations for cleaning up the womb
Kara Fitzgerald, ND Faculty at the Institute for Functional Medicine; Private practice in Sandy Hook, Connecticut
Labs to Assess Toxin Load
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- Tests you can ask your doctor to run to see if you are toxic
- Compelling clinical pearls on how to address heavy metal and environmental toxicity
Aristo Vojdani, PhD, MSc, CLS Professor of Neuroimmunology at the Carrick Institute for Graduate Studies; Chief Scientific Advisor for Cyrex Labs, LLC
Cutting-Edge Diagnostics for Toxicity
- Environmental triggers and the effect on the immune system
- Understanding how the immune system responds to toxins
- Labs to detect the presence of autoimmune reaction
Michael Stone, MD, MS Family Physician, Faculty for the Institute for Functional Medicine
Methylation and Toxicity
- Importance of methylation in detoxification
- How to assess with lab tests whether you are methylating properly
- Physical signs that your body is toxic
Sayer Ji Author; Educator; Founder, GreenMedInfo.com
Transcending the Detox/Retox Cycle through Radical Nourishment
- Simple yet potent diet and lifestyle detox tweaks to get you clean
- Health myths that lead to toxic overload
- Why we're in a post-organic era, and what to do about it
David Wolfe Masters in Nutrition, Health, Eco, Nutrition; Natural Beauty Expert
Nature's Solution to Toxicity is Food
- Epigenetics of eating and connection to health
- Super foods for detox
- Impact your immune system through medicinal mushrooms
Jeffrey Smith Author, Filmmaker, Executive Director
GMOs as Food Toxins
- Why GMOs are toxic to the body
- How to avoid GMOs in your food choices
- How to eat a low-GMO diet
Tom O'Bryan, DC
Gluten as a Toxin
- Why gluten is a toxin in the current food supply
- What is leaky gut and how does it relate to toxicity and gluten
- Eating intolerant foods and inflammation
JJ Virgin, CNS, CHFS Author, Fitness Expert
The Virgin Diet: Lose Weight and Feel Better Fast When You Drop Toxic Foods
- How food intolerance is the real cause of weight gain and poor health
- Toxic foods and which ones are holding your health hostage
- Connect the dots between what you eat and how you feel
Marci Shimoff Best-selling Author
Detoxing and Happiness: How to Raise Your Current Happiness Level
- A powerful process to open your heart and dissolve pain, heartache and emptiness
- Take a fresh approach to deal with negativity in your mind, relationships and environment
- Take away tips on essential happiness habits to live a life of freedom, joy and ease
Thomas Moore, PhD Best-selling Author
Detoxing the Soul
- Is there a role of toxins for the health of our body and soul?
- A call to look at toxins as a messenger of greater personal growth
- The toxicity of beliefs we choose
Char Sundust Teacher, Healer and Speaker in the Native American Tradition, Founder, Sundust Oracle Institute
Living in Harmony with Nature as the Ultimate Detox
- Mentoring your mind by uniting with nature's rhythms
- Importance of recognizing the whole within the sum of its parts and within each other
- Ways to come into union with the spectrum of nature for greater happiness and soul satisfaction
Rainbeau Mars Actor; Author; Health, Fitness and Beauty Expert
The Full-Spectrum of a SuperStar Cleanse
- How to do yoga without stretching: The importance of "being on the mat"
- Physical and mental ingestion is the key to living properly: Beauty and food tips
- Tips to unleashing the SuperStar within to break through toxic habits
Mary Ellen Chalmers, DMD Functional Medicine Dentist; Faculty for the Institute for Functional Medicine
Functional Dentistry: Recognizing the Signs and Symptoms of Oral Inflammation and Toxicity
- Your mouth is a telltale of your toxic burden and health
- Dental materials, disease and root canals can contribute to patient inflammation and toxic load
- Controversies around mercury amalgam and safe removal/replacement
Joseph Pizzorno, ND Founding President of Bastyr University, the Leading Naturopathic University, Author of 10 Books
A Naturopathic and Functional Medicine Approach to Detoxification
- Detoxification is a foundational principle of natural and functional medicine
- Sources of toxic mercury in the environment
- A complete protocol for removing mercury
Garry Gordon, MD, DO, MD(H) Co-Founder of the American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM); President of Gordon Research Institute (GRI), Father of Oral Chelation
Survive and Thrive in a Toxic World
- Toxins are the single, most common, underlying factors contributing to ALL diseases
- The impact of the depletion of the earth's electromagnetic field
- Energy medicine therapies, daily oral chelation and detoxification protocols
Joel Kahn, MD Clinical Professor of Cardiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine; Founding Member of the International Society of Functional and Metabolic Cardiovascular Medicine
Get Heart Smart Before Your Ticker Gets Sicker
- Heavy metal is for music not your heart: Role of toxins in hypertension and cardiovascular disease
- How toxins make your heart unhealthy
- Tips to protecting your heart from the buildup of toxins
Kristi Hughes, ND Associate Director of Education at the Institute for Functional Medicine
Sequencing a Detox
- How to do a detox safely
- Doing detox in a functional medicine way: what does that mean and how to do it
- Using dietary supplements during a detox: which ones and how to take them
Aviva Romm, MD Board Certified Family Physician, Certified Midwife, Herbalist, Author
Toxic Shock: How to Minimize the Risks of Living in a Chemical Stew
- Getting over your fear of herbs and how to use them safely in a detox
- Learn about key herbs that positively influence detoxification
- Minimize risks and repair the damage from environmental exposures with herbs
Lise Alschuler, ND Board Certification in Naturopathic Oncology
Cancer Processes and Detoxification: Focus on Glutathione
- The start of cancer and disease can come from oxidative stress
- Toxins and cancer: the connection
- How to increase better energy by boosting glutathione, the master antioxidant, in the body
Frank Lipman, MD Founder, Eleven Eleven Wellness Center; Author
Building a Better Microbiome: Gut Bacteria and Detox
- Optimizing your microbiome to prevent obesity and chronic diseases
- How to make the gut inhospitable to intruders
- Using a detox protocol to strengthen your digestion and boost your microbiome
Amy Myers, MD Practicing Functional Medicine Physician and Founder of The Myers Way
Thyroid Dysfunction, Autoimmunity, and Toxins
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- Signs that the thyroid is sick and what you can do to help thyroid health
- How toxin load can lead to autoimmune conditions
Terry Wahls, MD Board Certified in Internal Medicine; Physician and Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Iowa
Dietary Approaches for Autoimmune Toxicity
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- Foods that can help lessen toxin burden in autoimmunity
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Dr. David Sowell of Juniata College will deliver this year's History Colloquium talk, "Riots, Schools and Clinics: Writing the History of Medicine in Latin America," on Tuesday 11/19 at 4:00 pm in Olin 110.
Using examples from Bogotá, Colombia, and Yucatán Mexico, this lecture in the history of Latin American medicine will illustrate the powerful relationship between scientific medicine and modern state structures.The introduction of scientific medicine in Latin America in the nineteenth century caused considerable discomfort, challenging the deeply held belief in the connection between the Catholic faith and healing. By the time of the Depression, scientific medicine had been granted exclusive healing authority by Latin American states.
Please join the History department, International Studies, Latin American Studies, and the Global Health Paideia Cluster in welcoming Dr. Sowell to our campus!


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Hood River Juice owner and company pleaded guilty to a total of 5 counts.
Hood River County District Attorney John Sewell and Attorney General John Kroger today announced guilty pleas that successfully resolved a criminal pollution case.
"Protecting the environment is a top priority of the Department of Justice," said Deputy Attorney General Mary Williams, "and we are happy that our new Environmental Crimes Unit has successfully prosecuted this case."
David Ryan, owner of Hood River Juice Co., pleaded guilty late Wednesday to Supplying False Information to an Agency and Water Pollution in the Second Degree, both misdemeanors. Hood River Juice pleaded guilty to Supplying False Information to an Agency and two counts of Water Pollution in the Second Degree.
A plea agreement requires Ryan to serve three years probation and serve 48 hours in jail or perform 80 hours of community service. Hood River Juice must hire a certified operator approved by the Department of Environmental Quality to monitor operations and conduct weekly inspections of the company's wastewater disposal system. Both defendants must pay a total of $12,500 to the Western States Project, a multi-agency organization that provides training on enforcement techniques, strategies and methodologies to enforcement agencies in the western United States.
The defendants must cease operations at the current Hood River Juice facility by Dec. 15 and move to a new location that is adequately equipped to handle wastewater disposal.
"This is a good resolution for us," said Hood River Deputy District Attorney Kate Stebbins, who prosecuted the case with the assistance of Senior Assistant Attorney General Patrick A. Flanagan, head of the Department of Justice Environmental Crimes Unit, and Senior Assistant Attorney General Karen Moynahan. "It holds Mr. Ryan and Hood River Juice responsible for their actions and sets up safeguards for future protection of public resources. At the same time, it will allow the business to operate down at the Port, which is set up for industrial use."
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A Freeway Transformed (Almost): I-5 North Construction in High Gear
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If you've driven the Golden State Freeway (I-5) in north Los Angeles County anytime in the past two years, no doubt you've noticed there's a LOT of work underway. The I-5 Corridor in District 7 is in the midst of a major makeover, specifically the portions in north and south Los Angeles County. On the segment between the Ventura Freeway (SR-134) and the Kern County Line, aka "I-5 North," a few of the smaller projects that are part of the makeover are already finished, several are in construction, and a couple more are getting ready to start.
Why all the attention to I-5? For years, motorists on the Golden State Freeway have contended with heavy congestion during peak periods, and forecasts indicate that conditions will further deteriorate in the coming years due to increased demand. So, to improve mobility and achieve acceptable levels of traffic operation, District 7 has made the I-5 corridor a priority. When all the projects are complete in 2016, I-5 will be much more driver-friendly.
I-5 North construction — 11 projects total — includes everything from relatively simple pavement rehab jobs and soundwall construction to carpool lanes, grade separations, interchange improvements, new connectors, and truck lanes. No section of I-5 North (a distance of about 62 miles) will go unimproved.
Taken together, I-5 North projects cost about $1.4 billion, an infrastructure investment that underscores the importance of I-5 to the state's transportation system, particularly when you consider the additional six projects (cost: $1.6 billion) that make up the I-5 South construction program. (See the I-5 South update in this issue for details.)
Of the 11 projects that make up I-5 North, two are now complete: the paving project between Vista Del Lago Road and Lake Hughes Road has just wrapped up, and the paving project between the Foothill Freeway (I-210) and the Antelope Valley Freeway (SR-14) completed last October. So, two down, nine to go!
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The next I-5 projects to begin construction are a pavement replacement project between Vista Del Lago Road and the Kern County Line and a highly anticipated truck lanes project between SR-14 and Pico Canyon Road/Lyons Avenue in the Santa Clarita area, both of which will begin construction in a month or two. And then, early next year, District 7 will break ground on the biggest project of them all: the massive Empire Avenue project in Burbank.
"Empire Avenue" is actually a misnomer — it doesn't begin to capture the full scope of work included in this $452 million project. The project will build carpool lanes between Magnolia Boulevard and Buena Vista Street, modify the Empire Avenue interchange, reconstruct the Burbank Boulevard interchange, and relocate the railroad to create grade separations. Utility relocation will likely begin this fall.
In the meantime, construction on the other I-5 North projects continues at full throttle.
"So far, the I-5 North projects have finished on time and on budget, and in some cases they finished early," said Deputy Director of Construction Roy Fisher. "Many of our people have worked long days to keep these projects running smoothly. I appreciate the dedication our construction team has shown and the support provided by other divisions. It's already paying off."
For more information on I-5 projects, visit District 7's I-5 website: www.I-5info.com.


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Participant observation and change of perspectives: Medical Anthropology and the encounter with socially marginalised groups. First experiences with a new teaching concept
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This paper examines the new teaching concept "Providing medical care on the fringe of society: Participant observation and change in perspectives" in the context of the interdisciplinary field of Querschnittsbereich 2/Q 2 (the transdisciplinary section under AOÄ, the German Regulations for licensed physicians) that explores the history, theory and ethics of medicine. The disciplinary approach usually adopted in Q 2 is supplemented with concepts from medical anthropology; in addition students will be exposed to people in extreme social situations. The aim is to make students aware of and invite them to reflect upon:
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- the importance of participant observation in the specific on-site setting of medical thinking and acting;
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- the importance of the subjectivity of all those involved in doctor/patient interaction; and
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- the fact that key medical terms (such as the "need" as seen by the physician vs. the need as seen by the patient) are essentially context-dependent in their interpretation.
At a more general level students will learn how to put themselves in the position of different protagonists in a range of medical settings, and practice the skill of reflecting critically upon putative conceptual/theoretical and normative-ethical assumptions in medicine.
We all have a very different understanding of how we define a "need for help". This is most clearly felt when encountering individuals who, despite outside temperatures below zero, prefer sleeping rough in the street over the warm place in an overnight homeless shelter that a social worker or other care worker has offered them. If they additionally show no response to medical diagnoses such as open ulcers, flu infections or severe breathing difficulties, we can safely say that this person's behaviour deviates fundamentally from the expectations and understanding that health professionals would normally associate with "need for action".
Being exposed to people who reject such support services, which seem well-motivated and necessary from a medical point of view, is only one of several fruitful challenges that are deliberately provoked as part of the new teaching concept in the Institute for the History of Medicine at Giessen University. The objectives are as follows:
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- to get students to reflect systematically and critically upon conventional and thus familiar ways of thinking and acting, expectations and beliefs in medicine;
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- to get students to reflect upon central concepts such as "Bedarf/Bedürfnis" (needs in "objective" vs. "subjective" terms) that are normative in character and have a structuring and guiding effect on medical care services;
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- to advance and refine students' "soft skills", including the ability to put themselves in the position of other people, in particular those using medical services;
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- to employ the method of participant observation in order to gain awareness of patients' concrete social and environmental living conditions, in this case people on the fringe of society; and
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- to raise students' awareness of what can be deemed suitable support services for people whose behaviour is not consistent with the conventional expectations of health professionals.
These teaching objectives are implemented and pursued, among others, in the interdisciplinary field Querschnittsbereich 2 / Q 2 "History, Ethics and Theory of Medicine" [17], [21] that is part of the Approbationsordnung für Ärzte/(AOÄ: regulations for licensing doctors) (AOÄ, 2002). As a matter of fact, some of the objectives are also presented and discussed in some medical school-curricula in medical sociology and psychology, as well as in community medicine/public health, however, in these contexts, the primary emphasis here is on the methodological and conceptual repertoire from their related disciplines, sociology and psychology. - Similar teaching concepts as those presented in Q 2 can also be found at an international level, where they tend to be associated with the concept of "Medical Humanities" ("Kulturwissenschaften in der Medizin") [2], [16]. Medical faculties vary in their interpretation and weighting of these teaching concepts; however, in the context of research and debate in medical education, the main focus is on the relationship between the three approaches (history, ethics, theory: additive or integrative; weighting of individual components), which are specified explicitly in the AOÄ and which intend to introduce a reflective perspective on current medicine [17], [21].
This paper sets out to discuss the possibility of supplementing the above-described methods with methodological approaches and concepts from another discipline based in cultural studies, namely medical anthropology (or medical ethnology), and to apply these in the context of a specifically designed form of experience to which students are exposed. Outside of Germany, medical anthropology is an established discipline in university departments, degree courses and associations. The seminar "Medical Care on the Fringes of Society: Participant Observation and Change in Perspectives" has been designed with these approaches and experiences in mind. It has been offered as a seminar option in Q 2 at the Medical School of Giessen University since the 2010-11 winter semester.
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The new teaching concept was developed on the basis of the following findings and considerations:
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- In the standard degree courses required by the regulations for licensing doctors medical students will get to experience doctor-patient interaction almost exclusively in a hospital setting or in doctors' surgeries, in other words, in institutional environments which in terms of their organisation and management of internal procedures are driven by the rationality of medical thinking (in addition to political and economic requirements). As a result, the focus is on "problems" as defined by physicians as well as related activities (diagnosis, therapy, consulting). The doctors and other medical staff working in such contexts are naturally familiar with the environment, but those who come to these institutions complaining of being unwell or suffering from acute illness ("patients" from a doctor's point of view) will often be new to this environment. This in itself can indeed become a source of additional stress, leading to feelings of, among others, uncertainty, anxiety and reluctance in doctor/patient interaction. The asymmetrical relationship between doctors and patients that is predefined by polar concepts such as ailing/healthy, laypeople/experts, those seeking help/those providing help is further exacerbated by the lack of familiarity/familiarity in the actual setting.
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- As has been repeatedly demonstrated, the problem definitions employed in medical settings revolve around specific illnesses, perceptions of the body und self-images that have been defined by doctors and through medical research. However, they do not necessarily reflect how those attending medical care institutions would themselves define their problems and concerns. The priorities for action that result from the individual "illness" of the patient not seldom deviate from the priorities that are deduced from a scientifically based perception of disease in medicine [18], [20]. In recent years, the debate has become increasingly systematic, for instance in relation to the treatment of patients suffering from chronic illness, e.g., acute pain syndromes, or advanced stages of cancer: It became clear that procedures that are primarily rooted in medical rationality (maximum diagnosis and therapy including all available possibilities afforded by science and technology) not seldom contradict the need of the patient, which is to live their remaining life as fully and comfortably as possibly given the circumstances – according to their own subjective criteria [20], [19]. However, the issue of systematically considering and ultimately prioritising the patient's perspective still continues to be on the periphery in medical training. The same applies to medico-ethical considerations and evaluations, which too will yield different conclusions if, for example, the "risks" of therapeutic or research interventions are systematically understood not as predefined medical entities (e.g., by way of morbidity and mortality rates for specific medical complications), but viewed and evaluated instead from the point of view of the patient [20]. The above-outlined problem becomes clear if we consider the different aspects of meaning inherent in the conceptual pair "Bedarf"/"Bedürfnis", terms referring to needs in the perspective of the physician, or the patient respectively: While the use of the term "Bedarf" presupposes (scientific) objectivity and is therefore widely employed in the sense of measurable and essentially quantifiable entities in medical and political debates on medical care, the term "Bedürfnis" is far more closely linked to the subjective perception of an individual or a particular predefined group.
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- Empirical research on medical care for people with migratory backgrounds in a number of different health care systems strongly points to the fact that the issues and "problems" as regards medical or health care services that become apparent with socially marginalised groups are by no means exclusively limited to these. On the contrary, these "problems" tend to be phenomena of a ubiquitous nature that apply universally in the context of medical care and doctor/patient interaction, which become strikingly apparent when dealing with socially marginalised groups. If looked upon closely, in the German health care system such phenomena, including, for example, that patients do not fully understand the medical information that is given them, or that patients' perceptions of their body, and the way in which they describe illness or pain is considered inadequate by medical staff, are by no means limited to people of exotic or migratory backgrounds, but can equally be observed with native users [1], [14]. Moreover, there is evidence that medical staff tends to de-individualise, standardise and in part stigmatise behaviour of people with a migrant background. Such behaviour is frequently perceived as "exotic" and therefore attributed to the "culture" or supposed biological disposition. Upon closer inspection, such stereotyping and stigmatising perceptions and evaluation may also be observed in relation to certain patients from within the own society: Ample evidence in support of this is provided by patients suffering from chronic pain or obesity. Another striking example are socially marginalised groups such as black Americans in the United States (e.g., [3], [9], [19]); but this too happens in the German health care system [1], [7], [15]. Medical workers' attitudes can even lead to changes in therapy. Stereotypical ways of thinking and acting as well as implicit normative assumptions, which act as a potential source of misunderstandings, conflict or problems in medicine, can therefore be illustrated and reflected upon using the example of socially marginalised groups.
The three findings outlined above provided the basis for a teaching concept that incorporates the educational potential provided by concepts and procedures used in medical anthropology. Moreover, it draws on the specific experience that students gathered working with people from socially marginalised groups, or more precisely: without a permanent address. The aim was to systematically draw students' attention to the following aspects and dimensions:
- The significance of each particular life situation, experience of suffering and particular ways of patients' interaction in order to design (medical) support services that will pick up on their specific needs; in this context the concept and method of field research and participant observation from (medical) anthropology is taught;
- The unsettling impact an unfamiliar setting can have in the context of doctor/patient interaction, and as a consequence gaining awareness of the importance of one's own subjectivity (i.e., of the medical staff) in one's dealing with persons requiring help; in this context the modified concept of counter-transference from Ethno-Psychoanalysis (following Devereux) is addressed;
- Getting to know and "immersing" themselves in the living environments, health problems and specific needs of people living on "the fringe" of society following the model of "cultural immersion" approaches [4], [6]: Aside from more general phenomena such as poverty and physical neglect, we are dealing here with precarious conditions in terms of hygiene and nutrition, multimorbidity, often coinciding with psychiatric comorbidity, along with the effect of stigmatisation and shame over the (non-)use of available (medical) support services. The aim is to "look closely" at that which is (supposedly) exotic and bewildering, and to overcome the fear of entering unfamiliar territory;
- Exposing the problems of the concept "need for help" in the context of the concrete state of a concrete individual (using the conceptual pair Bedarf/Bedürfnis): On the one hand, the focus here is on analysing central guiding concepts in medicine that bear relevance in relation to medical theory; on the other, the intention is to draw students' attention to the fact that the medical perspective on the discomfort presented (on scientific grounds, "objective") needs to be meaningfully and systematically complemented by including the patient's perspective ("subjective", in the context of their biography and life situation, partly ambivalence/rejection of support services).
In achieving these objectives, as briefly outlined above, in addition to the medical body of knowledge, concepts and methods from (medical) anthropology were introduced as central components of the seminar. This essentially involves the method of field research including participant observation [8], [11]: Central to this method is that those at the focus of medical attention will be visited in their everyday living settings. An additional effort is made to find out about their physical and social environment and their daily routines in order to comprehend the importance of these factors in relation to the patients' perceptions of their body and state of mind, and in relation their help-seeking behaviour. In addition to visiting the living environment of those affected, systematic monitoring and – as far as possible – participating in their everyday lives, interviewing informers from the group in focus, together with the systematic documentation of experiences and reflections, form essential elements of this method [8], [11]. This will enable students to get a better grasp, for example, of the behaviour displayed by the strangers they encounter (which at first glance may often seem obscure and inadequate) within the logic and conditionality of the particular contextual setting.
Students will also be introduced to the central concept and methodological approach of counter-transference (as modified by the ethnologist and psychoanalyst George Devereux): According to this concept – contrary to a widely shared assumption – researchers and other professionals working with people too respond emotionally to these persons and the conditions or behaviours observed in connection with them. Such emotional responses range from sympathy to various feelings of ambivalence to fear or aggression, which can impact upon professional interaction as well as prolong or shorten it, or even lead to selective perception and specific interpretation of observed behaviours and even persons. Following Devereux, researchers or doctors are asked to systematically observe and reflect upon their own subjectivity and employ their findings, as it were, as an examination tool in its own right that will – in addition to other methods – yield a more holistic and rounded image of the other [5]. Encounters with homeless people can – as a result of their often radically different way of living and occasionally extreme physical neglect etc. – trigger particularly striking responses from those providing help; a situation that serves well as an introduction to systematic self-reflection, among other things, on behavioural patterns that are likely to result from such emotional responses.
In addition to concepts and methods based in anthropology/ethnology and ethno-psychoanalysis, the seminar also teaches the basic principles about the general social, economic and legal conditions affecting the life of people without a permanent address. Cooperation with relevant institutions plays a major role in this: Our main partner is Frankfurter Verein für soziale Heimstätten e.V. (FV), in the summer semester we additionally have Elisabeth Strassenambulanz (ESA) (backed by: Caritasverband Frankfurt/M.) on board. The FV is an institution that has close ties with the City and offers an extensive range of services to different groups of homeless in Frankfurt/Main. During the winter months FV social workers drive the Kälte-Bus to those spots where the homeless are known to congregate and, if required, supply them with tea, blankets and sleeping pads. The social workers are the first points of contact for the homeless and, if required, will arrange placements offering follow-on support services, including transport organisation. The ESA provides services aimed at improving the health of women and men in housing difficulties, bearing in mind the unusual living conditions of these people. That a profound knowledge of the particular needs of homeless people as well as of institutional and legal possibilities in dealing with homeless people plays a central role in designing and implementing meaningful teaching concepts has been widely discussed in Anglo-American literature [11]. However, the focus there was on teaching concepts that concentrate mainly on providing medical treatment for socially marginalised groups, and less on the meta-level of systematic self-reflection and the ability to take on a different perspective, which is the focal point of the project presented here.
The seminar is structured into a preparatory theoretical-methodological module, a practical module, namely the field work (in the winter semester with the Kälte-Bus, in the summer semester visiting social work in the context of the ESA), and a follow-up module. The seminar groups consist of around 10 students; this figure is based upon the limited number of individuals when accompanying the Kälte-Bus and in the context of the ESA (one student per appointment).
The first part of the preparatory sessions (2 hours) takes place in the classrooms at Giessen University. Here students are informed about the legal, social and medical situation of people "on the fringe of society"; previous experience and expectations from students are likewise discussed. In addition, students are familiarised with the experience of patients rejecting their offer of support, which can often be disconcerting; this includes introducing them to the different perceptions people have of "illness", and to the concept of "counter-transference". The structure of the responsible social institutions, particularly those based in Frankfurt (FV, ESA; among others) is presented and practical information on the planned field trip given. Students are invited to pay particular attention to "people on the fringe of society": "The field work starts now."
The second part of the preparatory session (2 hours) takes place on site in the rooms of the FV in Frankfurt – a preliminary stage of the field trip: The students leave their familiar environment in order to gain new and unfamiliar impressions. In the rooms of the overnight shelter, amidst the homeless persons staying there, FV social workers provide in-depth information interspersed with specialist and personal contributions. They also shed light on the medical and social situation of the individuals in the shelter and discuss expectations and particularities as regards the organisation of this part of the field work with the students.
The "field work" proper does not take place in the group setting, but students go out invidudually: One student at a time accompanies the FV or ESA social workers on their on-site visits to homeless people. A 6-hour period is scheduled for this hands-on experience; in the winter months it includes a trip on the Kälte-Bus between 8 p.m. and 2 a.m.; in summer the field trip lasts just as long but takes place during the day or in the evening. Students accompany the social workers on their visits on foot or by bike or in the car; some students get to attend call-outs on the ESA's medical bus.
During the feed-back sessions (2x2 hours) students relate the different impressions they have had, contextualise them and explain how they felt, thus creating a wide spectrum of different impressions, evaluations and responses, which provide ample opportunities to reflect upon ways of action and potential changes in perception when dealing with patients. Possible essay topics (the seminar is assessed by essay) begin to take shape; these are discussed in-depth and in relation to how individual students approach their work, as well as formal specifications. In the essay students are asked to present their own personal observations and experiences during the field trip (e.g., feeling insecure in the unfamiliar environment, personal responses to coming face to face with the living environment, the appearance and behaviour of homeless people); in a second step the aim is to reflect upon these observations and their significance for medical thinking and acting.
Given the limited number of participants (ten students per semester) and the relative short period for which the seminar has been available (since the 2010-11 winter semester; only three seminar groups have fully completed the class) we are thus far only able to qualitatively comment on the course; the total number of participants is still too low to allow for any meaningful quantitative-statistical analysis.
To date, 31 students overall have participated in the seminar: 16 women and 15 men. The anonymous written evaluation contained three open questions ("Positive aspects include …"; "Negative aspects include …"; "What do you take out of this experience for your further studies?") and nine questions to be answered by way of a graded scale (school grades A to F). Among these, three questions were of a general nature ("Please assess how much you have learned"; "Relevance for training as a medical doctor"; "Overall school grade"), six related to specific aspects of the seminar, such as design and structure of the teaching concept, preparation of the lecturer, availability and comprehensibility of relevant information/literature or learning environment.
The overall feedback on the structure of the course, on the preparation of the lecturer (B.M.) and on the learning environment was between positive and very positive (grade B or A in analogy to the school grading system). The questions "Was the seminar interesting?" and "The seminar encouraged reflection" received the top grade ("A"). Somewhat in contrast – likewise an unanimous perception – the relevance for hands-on practical application ("… relevant for my training as a doctor") was recognised but felt to be less positive (grades B and C). In answering the open questions, the "on-site" experience with social workers and (in a different response) the "individual tuition" as a result of this was perceived to be particularly worthwhile. Another positive comment was that attention was drawn to how a person's concrete living environment affected their health. Finally, "the opportunity to "look outside the box" was felt to be a "profound experience" that would shape the students' further course of studies. The essays too contained statements that reflected the intensity of the seminar and the potential inherent in the anthropological approach complemented by field work and participant observation. The following statement has been taken from the discussion section of one of the essays: "Never before did I look at Frankfurt's Bahnhofsviertel in this way […]. It's a completely different world." Another participant in the seminar felt that the field research method "opened up an exotic world [for him]. The human being that crosses our daily horizon as a penniless and neglected figure on the periphery suddenly gets to be at the heart of our attention." Both in the evaluation and occasionally also in the essays the wish was expressed to actually extend the practical part of the seminar.
Arrangements for receiving written feedback from seminar participants at predefined intervals (one, two and five years) have been made, and interviews about the long-term effects of learning and reflection processes are planned with focus groups. The findings will potentially be presented and debated by way of future publications.
The preliminary experiences we gained with the teaching concept "Providing medical care on the fringe of society: Participant observation and change in perspective" illustrate that the spectrum of methodological approaches in Q 2 (AOÄ) can indeed be complemented by concepts from medical anthropology, in combination with exposing students to people in extreme social situations. The objective of getting students to reflect systematically upon historical, ethical-normative and theoretical foundations in medicine can therefore be extended and intensified in particular as regards the following three aspects:
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- making students aware of the importance of the specific local setting in medical thinking and acting (aided by the concept of participant observation and field research from ethnology),
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- the importance of the subjectivity of all those involved in doctor/patient interaction, including medical staff (aided by the modified concept of counter-transference from ethno-psychoanalysis), and
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- the fact that key medical terms (such as medically defined need vs. individual needs of the patient) are essentially context-dependent.
At a more general level students will learn how to put themselves in the position of different protagonists in a range of medical settings, and practice the skill of reflecting critically upon putative conceptual/theoretical and normative-ethical assumptions in medicine.
The teaching project therefore ties in with international models that likewise seek to integrate these teaching objectives in their medical training. The method of field research (or inspired by this in the context of medical training that of "cultural immersion") has proven to be very helpful for understanding the perceptions and needs of socially or ethically marginalised groups, and in principle all other groups in health care [4], [6], [10], [12], [13][. In relation to this in the context of the new teaching concept the attention on "social determinants of health" and how they impact on the pathogenesis and course of health conditions yield synergies with other teaching concepts, for example in medical sociology, community medicine/public health or general medicine [10], [22], which focus on similar matters. Collaborations with community medicine practitioners working for example at technical colleges/Fachhochschulen or other institutions outside universities could likewise bear relevance.
The teaching concept is essentially transferrable. In order to do so, it will be necessary to know and familiarise oneself with the central (medical) anthropological concepts and methods. Further, opportunities will have to be created that will enable cooperation with such institutions that are willing to set up the organisational framework and make available their expertise to enable the direct contact of students with people on the fringe of society in their everyday living environments.
The new curricular option described here could only be realized through the co-operation and engagement of many members of staff at the Frankfurter Verein für soziale Heimstätten e.V. as well as the Elisabeth-Straßen-Ambulanz Frankfurt/M. (ESA). We want to express special thanks to Heiko Ewald and Christine Heinrichs, together with the staff of the "Kältebus"-Project, the Ostpark-Project, the Beratungszentrum für Aufsuchende Sozialarbeit, as well as Dr. Maria Goetzens and her team at the ESA.
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The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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The heat between North Carolina and North Carolina State has gotten a whole lot hotter this week.
With the team set to meet Saturday, Tar Heels interim coach Everett Withers threw a log on the fire, and Tom O'Brien responded by adding some gasoline.
Reacting to comments made by Withers about North Carolina being the "flagship" university and having a higher graduation rate than N.C. State, O'Brien brought up the Tar Heels' troubles with the NCAA.
"Here is a guy that's on a football staff that ends up in Indianapolis," O'Brien said Wednesday. "… If you take three things that you can't do in college football, you have an agent on your staff. You're paying your players. And you have academic fraud. That's a triple play as far as the NCAA goes. So I don't know that he has anything to talk about or they have anything to talk about. If that's what people want in their flagship university in North Carolina, then so be it."
O'Brien later clarified his comments about North Carolina paying its players. Greg Little, Robert Quinn and Marvin Austin were among the players punished for receiving impermissible benefits from an agent.
"They had players accepting money from somebody," O'Brien said. "I mean, money is being given from someone to somebody, that's been documented, right? I don't know how it got there. Maybe I'm wrong saying that. But those are no-nos as far as the NCAA goes."
Withers, who is serving as the interim coach of the Tar Heels, is correct that North Carolina is graduating its players at a higher rate than N.C. State. The NCAA reported that 75% of its freshman that entered school in 2004 graduated, compared to 56% for the Wolfpack.
"You'll see a difference," Withers said. "…If you look at the educational environment here, I think you'll see a difference."
O'Brien said he was proud of his team's performance in the classroom.
"At our school, A number one, all classes have a syllabus," O'Brien said. "Our guys go to school. They're not given grades, and they graduate. It's a little tougher here, if you have to go to school and you're expected to have a syllabus and go to class."
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Author: Joshua V. Rosenberg
In this paper, I derive and implement a nonparametric, arbitrage-free technique for multivariate contingent claim (MVCC) pricing. Using results from the method of copulas, I show that the multivariate risk-neutral density can be written as a product of marginal risk-neutral densities and a risk-neutral dependence function. I then develop a pricing technique using nonparametrically estimated marginal risk-neutral densities (based on options data) and a nonparametric dependence function (based on historical return data). By using nonparametric estimation, I avoid the pricing biases that result from incorrect parametric assumptions such as lognormality.


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Here in a state dominated by Democrats, pundits said it was Republican Romney's race to lose. And so far, the evidence suggests he may be doing exactly that.
The polls have Romney 6 to 12 percentage points behind his Democratic opponent, state Treasurer Shannon O'Brien. He's farther behind in the gender race: Women prefer O'Brien by 18 percentage points. That gap could prove fatal to Romney's chances and end the Republican Party's unlikely 12-year rule in the governor's office.
The Republican gubernatorial victories are considered anomalies in a state where Democrats hold every other statewide office, every seat in Congress and wide majorities in the state Legislature. "It's an exaggeration to think of Massachusetts as an open state for Republicans," Romney says.
An O'Brien victory would mark the first time a woman has been elected governor in Massachusetts. It also would add to what's expected to be a record number of female governors next year. Two of the current five female governors will remain in office; 10 more women are running for governor as major-party candidates in other states, including both candidates in Hawaii.
It's no mystery why Romney, 55, seemed at first to be the candidate to beat. He won international acclaim earlier this year for turning the scandal-ridden, financially troubled Olympics into a virtually flawless pageant. He had shown his potential as a candidate in 1994, when he briefly led venerable Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy in the polls before losing.
Massachusetts Republicans were so enamored with Romney that they eagerly abandoned acting Gov. Jane Swift, whose election prospects were poor. Elected as lieutenant governor in 1998, Swift became the state's first female governor in 2001, when Paul Cellucci resigned to become U.S. ambassador to Canada. A failing state economy and a scandal over her use of a state police helicopter to commute home to western Massachusetts hurt her chances.
Romney dismisses the heady enthusiasm for his candidacy as hype. "Not in a state where it is a burden if you have an R next to your name," he says. "For me to win requires a very strong message that resonates with voters, and I expect to be in the battle until the last days of the campaign."
Romney lists his business expertise as an antidote for economic hard times and a looming $1 billion state budget deficit. He has proposed reorganizing state government as a way to cut costs and has offered a plan to lure businesses and jobs to the state. O'Brien, he says, will simply raise taxes.
Polls say that message has caught on with many male voters. "He's not a politician, but he offers solutions," says Aaron Sherman, a sales manager from Winthrop, a suburb of Boston.
Romney's woes are blamed on his own miscues. He was labeled a carpetbagger by Democrats, who failed in a challenge to prove he was legally a resident of Utah. In their first two debates, Romney came off as a stiff foil for O'Brien's barbed attacks.
Romney's early TV ads drew public ridicule. One showed him working different jobs, from garbageman to lobsterman, to show he understood the working man. Talk-radio callers and local comedians had a field day; some called it the "Village People ad."
Response was even worse to an ad in which Romney and his wife, Ann, offered an earnest description of their first date — interspersed with beefcake shots of Romney in a bathing suit cavorting with his sons on a lake. The spot was quickly pulled from the air.
Political analysts say the damage remains. A Boston Globe poll this month found that O'Brien led Romney 48% to 30% among female voters.
O'Brien, 43, won the admiration of many female voters for defeating four well-known male candidates in a bruising Democratic primary, including former U.S. Labor secretary Robert Reich and Thomas Birmingham, president of the state Senate. She talks tough about the state's financial troubles, telling audiences at a series of town meetings that there is little chance the state will have more money for schools, Medicaid and other social services. She belittles Romney's claims that he could cut waste in the budget.
"There is scant little that can be cut from the budget," she says. "People are smart, and they can see that."
O'Brien doesn't consider her lead a sure thing. She has raised one-third less money than Romney, who also has his own wealth in reserve. But with solid support from the state's labor unions, she is expected to have a better chance of getting supporters to the polls.
To female voters, the mother and former state legislator resembles the suburban working mothers whose votes are crucial to her campaign.
"I like the way she talks honestly and straightforward about the issues," says Madeline LaFarge, 61, of Boston. "Romney just turns me off with all those ads about his personal life."


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Social Risk & Corporate Value
This workshop provides a framework for analyzing the social risk of the firm and tries to find any links that may exist to corporate value. We will examine various attempts to measure social risk and work with social risk data from a leading data provider (Risk Metrics). The costs of adhering to high environmental and social standards can translate to higher operating costs that in turn may place the firm at a competitive disadvantage and lead to lower profitability. On the other hand strong social policies can confer a competitive advantage on the firm by stimulating technological innovations, improving the efficiency of resource use and thereby cutting costs, strengthening a firm's reputation and brand, and reducing the firm's operational risk. The workshop will be conducted using both lecture and cases and active student participation is both encouraged and required.
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A young Cora approaches the mill where she and her father work. She finds him sleeping and wakes him up, reminding him that they need to work so that they have money for food. She delivers bags of flour to the castle of King Xavier, and the visiting Princess Eva trips her. When Cora spills the flour, Xavier and his son, Henry, ignore her and make sure that Eva is all right. They refuse to pay Cora for the flour despite the fact that she blames Eva, and Xavier orders the miller's daughter to kneel and apologize to the visiting princess. She refuses until Xavier threatens to withdraw his business, and only reluctantly does so.
Neal pilots Hook's ship back to Storybrooke with Henry at his side, while Emma checks on the dying Gold. She wonders why Cora and Regina want the Dark One's dagger and gold reluctantly admits that they can use it to force him to do their bidding and kill them all. Gold suspects that Emma would be happier if he died of Hook's poisoning but Emma tells him that he's part of their family now and she'll do what she can to save him.
After Emma calls to tell David what's going on, he calls Mary Margaret with the news... unaware that Regina is using a phone tap to listen in from her office. Cora listens as well and knocks over the speaker box when Mary Margaret says that she's wicked. The sorceress insists that she's only doing what she needs to for her family, and worries that Gold can work out a way to stop them now that he's been forewarned. As they talk, Cora notices Rumplestiltskin's name fading from the dagger one letter at the time and tells Regina that if he dies, his magic will be lost. When Cora proposes to use the dagger to kill Gold and take his power, Regina wonders if that was her mother's plan all along. She reminds Cora that the plan was to secretly use Gold to kill Emma, David, and Mary Margaret so that Henry would turn to her, and that the plan won't work if he knows they can control Gold. Cora insists that she only wants the Dark One's power to protect her daughter and step-grandson, and warns that if they fail then they'll spend the rest of their lives on their knees in front of the others.
Later, Cora slips into a palace masquerade, wearing an expensive dress and a borrowed mask. She approaches Henry and, pretending not to recognize him, dismisses Xavier's efforts to marry off his son as foolish. Impressed by her daring, Henry tells her who she is and invites her to dance. Xavier quickly cuts in and tells Cora that he can recognize her despite her disguise by the straw on her dress. Cora isn't impressed by his airs, pointing out that he's invited women there so he can marry Henry off and gain a dowry for his kingdom, but Xavier insists that he's still much more than she can ever be. The king asks what Cora can possibly offer him and she hastily claims that she can spin straw into gold. When Cora says that she won't do it because he insulted her, Xavier drags her before the entire party and announces that Cora has claimed to have magical powers. He orders her to prove it and Cora says that it will take time. Xavier gives her until morning to spin the gold. If she succeeds, she can marry Henry. If she fails, he'll have her executed.
David, Mary Margaret, and Ruby meet the group at the dock and Neal introduces himself. Mary Margaret talks about killing Cora to protect her family and David objects, warning that she couldn't live with herself if she did. Ruby takes Henry to safety while the others take Gold to his pawnshop where he says he has magic that will protect them.
Cora tries to find a way out of the locked tower but realizes that the only window leads to the sea hundreds of feet below. Rumplestiltskin appears behind her and offers to spin the gold for her. He demonstrates his power but then warns her that there will be a price: her firstborn child. Cora agrees with one provision: he teach her how to do it. Rumplestiltskin agrees and gives her the contract.
Gold has Emma bring him invisible chalk and tells her how to use her recently-developed magical abilities to create a barrier. As the others go to secure the shop, Gold asks Mary Margaret to get him a blanket. She opens the cabinet and finds the candle that Cora gave her years ago to save her mother at the cost of another's life. Mary Margaret wonders why Gold has it and he explains that he saved it for an emergency.
Neal watches as Emma draws a chalk line in front of the door, and admits that he's surprised that she can do magic. Emma doesn't want to talk to him and Neal figures that she's mad at him for becoming engaged to Tamra. Before she can respond, David checks on them and they tell him that everything is okay.
Gold explains that only the candle will save him, and that they can both come out ahead if Mary Margaret uses it to kill Cora. When she says that there's no coming back from murder, Gold warns her that none of them will come back if Cora murders them. When she wonders how she can light it and speak Cora's name with Cora nearby, Gold tells her to use it on Cora's heart, separated from her body. Once Mary Margaret does so, she'll have to make sure that Cora's heart is placed back into its owner's body. Mary Margaret considers using the heart to force Cora to kill Gold, and the pawnbroker says that Henry might not appreciate that when he inevitably learns what had happened.
Emma comes back to inform Gold that she's drawn the line, and Gold tells her that she has to charge it. When she says that she doesn't know her, Gold tells him that it's a matter of emotion, not concentration. He coaches her in feeling why she's casting the spell and who she's protecting. Emma relaxes and taps into the emotions, and the barrier goes up.
Rumplestiltskin tells Cora that to spin gold, she will have to summon up the anger that she felt, anger strong enough to make her kill. When she wonders what emotion Rumplestiltskin uses to cast his magic, he describes how a man once made him kiss his boots in front of Bae. He envisions ripping the man's throat out with his teeth and drinking his blood, and smiles in pleasure. Cora starts trundling the loom and talks about how Xavier humiliated her in front of the court by making her apologize to Eva. That was when she realized that she could never be anything greater than a miller's daughter. As Cora unleashes her emotions and says that she wants them all to bow to her, the straw turns to gold Smiling, Rumplestiltskin tells her that she can do so much gold and fulfill her fondest wish.
The next morning, Cora demonstrates her ability before Xavier and his court. Xavier is impressed despite himself and fulfills his end of the bargain. Henry kneels to Cora and proposes, and Cora accepts.
David and Mary Margaret wait for Regina and her mother, and David realizes that his wife is upset. He asks what Gold told her but Mary Margaret avoids the question and worries that Cora will hurt her. David assures his wife that he'll do whatever it takes to protect his family, and Mary Margaret agrees. Cora and Regina arrive and combine their magic to blast through the barrier. The group waits for them and Emma tries to remind Regina that she vowed to give up evil. As they talk, Mary Margaret slips out the side door. Meanwhile, Regina throws David out of the shop, sealing the door behind him. Cora knocks Emma down and teleports away to avoid Neal's sword thrust. Emma manages to grab Regina and hold a knife to her throat, and Cora teleports back in. Regina wonders if her mother will let her die to kill Gold, but Cora knocks Emma down. Neal and Emma retreat into the back room, drawing another barrier to cover their retreat. As Cora prepares to blast through it, she clutches at her chest and realizes that someone is after it. She tells Regina to go to the vault and stop the intruder, and then prepares to blast through the barrier while her daughter leaves.
As Cora tries on her wedding dress the day before the ceremony, Rumplestiltskin teleports into her chamber and kisses her. He congratulates her on getting everything that she wanted, but Cora admits that she's fifth in line to be queen. She asks if Rumplestiltskin can give her love and he says that he can, but only if she alters the contract so that she gives him his child by her. Cora agrees but says that she wants her revenge by removing his heart and showing it to him as he dies. She asks Rumplestiltskin to teach her how to do it and he agrees, saying that's why he loves her.
Mary Margaret goes to the vault and realizes that Cora's heart is stored somewhere among the dozens of others that she's gathered.
David recovers consciousness and calls Emma on his cell phone. She tells him that she's drawn another protective spell and they realize that Mary Margaret isn't with either one of them.
Mary Margaret finally locates the chest holding Cora's heart. She takes it out, lights the candle, holds it over the heart, and whispers Cora's name.
Cora goes to Xavier's chamber and finds him counting all the gold that she has made for him. She tells him that she doesn't love his son but Xavier has already realized that and tells her that love is weakness. The king figures that Cora understands that as well and asks if she plans to run off with Rumplestiltskin, having learned of the Dark One's presence. Cora puts her hand to Xavier's chest and tells him that love is a liability.
A few minutes later, Cora returns to her chambers with a chest. She opens it and looks at the heart inside.
While Neal and Emma guard Gold, the pawnbroker says that it's for the best that he die and let his power dissipate so that no one can have it. He has Emma call Belle at the hospital and takes the phone. She still doesn't remember who he is or who she is, and Gold tells her that she's a hero that helped people and loved an ugly man, encouraging him to go back to what he once was. When he hangs up, Neal admits that he's surprised that Gold could express such sentiments. His father says that he spent a lifetime trying to find Neal so that he could tell him that he loves him, and admits that he made the wrong choice. Gold asks Neal for his hand and Neal takes it despite his anger. After a moment he clasps it tight and breaks into tears.
Regina enters the vault and Mary Margaret confronts her, holding Cora's heart. When Regina tells her that she has no right to it, Mary Margaret agrees and offers it to Regina. She tells her nemesis that Cora can never love her because she removed her own heart, and tells Regina to consider how Cora would change if her heart were put back. Regina insists that her mother always wanted the best for her, but Mary Margaret assures her that Cora can love her for real when she gets her heart back. She then gives Regina the heart and tells her to choose.
Cora goes into the forest to meet Rumplestiltskin where they agreed. She kisses him but he realizes that something is wrong. Cora tells him that she chose not to take Xavier's heart, and she plans to go to her wedding. Rumplestiltskin wonders whose heart is in the chest and Cora admits that she removed her own heart. Removing her feelings was the only way she could ignore her love for The Dark One and marry Henry for power. When Rumplestiltskin threatens to take her firstborn child, Cora reminds him that he changed the deal so he can only take his child by her. She regretfully tells Rumplestiltskin that she will never have his child.
Cora realizes that time is running out as Rumplestiltskin's name continues fading from the dagger. She concentrates all of her magic on Emma's barrier, trying to break through.
David goes to the cemetery and finds Emma sitting outside the vault. He wonders what she's done and she admits that it isn't her.
Cora shatters the barrier and teleports Neal and Emma away with a wave of her hand. She then advances on Gold, who says that his visions of the future told him that this day would come. He tells Cora that his visions didn't reveal the one thing he wanted to know most, and asks if she ever loved him. Cora tells him that she had to remove her own heart because it was her only weakness, and the only thing that would make her give up power for love. She admits that Rumplestiltskin is the only man that she has ever loved and prepares to stab him with the dagger and take the Dark One's power. Before she can, Regina comes up behind her mother and shoves Cora's heart back into her chest. Cora drops the dagger and Rumplestiltskin's name appears on it, restored. Staring at her daughter, Cora hesitates and then gives a loving smile.
Sometime later, Cora steps up before Xavier's court and presents baby Regina to the court. She smiles in satisfaction as the entire court bows before the child who will one day be their queen.
Cora laughs in joy, smiling at Regina... and then clutches at her chest at Hook's wound on Gold appears there. Simultaneously the wound disappears from Gold as it transfers, and he picks up the dagger. Cora collapses and Regina holds her dying mother in her arms. With her dying breath, Cora tells her that Regina would have been enough. Regina asks Gold what happened but he warns her that Cora did her no favors. He assures her that he had nothing to do with what happened, just as Mary Margaret runs in, yelling at Regina to stop. She understands that she's too late and Regina realizes what Mary Margaret tricked her into doing.


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