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University of Washington
Reproductive, Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology Training Program
|RPPE Core Faculty and Advisory Board Members
Gayle Reiber, PhD
Daniel A. Enquobahrie, MD, MPH, PhD
Beth Mueller, DrPH, MPH
Victoria L. Holt, PhD, MPH
Susan Astley, PhD
Colleen Huebner, PhD
Melissa A. Schiff, MD, MPH
David Yanez, PhD
|RPPE Faculty Members
Reproductive Health Faculty Mentors
Pediatric Health Faculty Mentors
Jacqueline Starr, PhD, MS, MPH
Health Services Faculty Mentors
Perinatal Health Faculty Mentors
Daniel Enquobahrie, PhD, MPH, MD
Epidemiology, Genetics, Biostatistics, and Nutrition Faculty Mentors
Daniel Enquobahrie, PhD, MPH, MD
Susan Astley, PhD
Dr. Astley is Professor of Epidemiology, and PI of 4 research projects that may provide applied research training experiences for reproductive, perinatal, pediatric research fellows. Dr. Astley's major professional goals are the primary and secondary prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) through screening, diagnosis, training and research. Her past and present research activities include documentation of the lifetime profile of birth mothers of children with FAS and identification of factors that enhanced and hindered their ability to achieve sobriety; identification of neurochemical alterations associated with prenatal alcohol exposure using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS); identification of the diagnostic facial features of FAS and their corrrelation with underlying brain damage; assessment of the diagnostic utility of MRI, MRS and functional MRI in children with FASD; assessment of the efficacy of behavioral consultation intervention and social communication intervention targeted at children with FAS, their parents and teachers; documentation of significant declines in maternal drinking during pregnancy and prevalence of FAS among population-based samples in Washington State. Clinical programs and diagnostic tools developed by Astley and colleagues include the Washington State FAS Diagnostic and Prevention Network, the FAS Facial Photographic Analysis software, the Diagnostic Guide for FASD, the national FASD Interdisciplinary Diagnostic Training Program, and the Foster Care FAS Screening/Diagnostic/Surveillance Program. A brief synopsis of each research project is provided below. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Database / Registry - (The FAS DPN) Dr. Astley and others at the University of Washington maintain a comprehensive, confidential database on all patients evaluated at the FAS DPN with patient consent and University of Washington and WA State Human Subjects Review Board approval. The data allows the FAS DPN to: (1) Track regional demand for services and diagnostic outcomes over time. (2) Develop new state-of-the-art screening and diagnostic tools. And (3) Support intervention research that could directly benefit patients and their families. FASD Facial Photographic Analysis - The FAS DPN Photographic Image Analysis Laboratory provides computerized facial photographic analysis for research teams around the world. The photographic archive contains over 10,000 digital facial photographs. FASD MRI / MRS/ fMRI Research - The FAS DPN is funded by NIAAA to conduct MRI/MRS/fMRI studies on children with prenatal alcohol exposure and the full continuum of mild to severe central nervous system dysfunction. This project uses magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and functional MRI (fMRI)) to determine if prenatally alcohol-exposed children, with and without FAS, who present along the full continuum of mild to severe CNS dysfunction, have irrefutable evidence of organic brain damage in the form of chemical and structural alterations. FASD Intervention Research - The FAS DPN is currently funded by the CDC to evaluate the effectiveness of two interventions targeted to children with the full spectrum of disorders associated with prenatal alcohol exposure, and their families. The research addresses an important clinical need by refining and testing two promising intervention models for school-aged children with FAS/ARND that are built on published "clinical wisdom," nine years of FAS diagnostic clinic experience, pilot intervention studies, and selected empirically-supported child treatment techniques: (1) An individualized, supportive, behavioral consultation intervention for parents and school staff of children with FAS/ARND; and (2) A school-based social communication intervention provided directly to children with FAS/ARND that targets critical deficits in social communication and peer relations. These interventions will be assessed through two randomized control trials on a total of 128 children with FAS/ARND.Dr. Astley is lead instructor of a course entitled "Methods of Applied Community Research"Go to the top
Colleen Huebner, PhD
Dr. Huebner is Associate Professor of Health Services and Director of the MCHB-sponsored Maternal and Child Health Training Grant. As a developmental psychologist and epidemiologist, Dr. Huebner's research concerns pediatric health issues, including prevention of childhood disabilities such a language and intellectual delays and maternal health promotion. Dr. Huebner's research centers on prevention of childhood morbidities associated with social and economic disadvantage through studies designed to elucidate the social bases of language, cognitive development and emotional development in typically developing and at-risk children. The primary focus of her work is the design and evaluation of home and clinic-based interventions that promote development in the infant and preschool years, and programs to reduce the incidence of child maltreatment. A second area of research includes devising and testing epidemiological methods and measures to monitor the health and well-being of school-age children and adolescents, with and without disabilities. A pending project involves an analysis of one year of Medicaid claims data for oral health services provided to pregnant and non-pregnant female residents of the State of Oregon. Dr. Huebner is lead instructor of the required topic course in the MCH program.Go to the top
Victoria L. Holt, PhD, MPH
Dr. Holt is Professor of Epidemiology and Member at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Her research and teaching interests span the range of topics that are highly relevant to the RPPE Training Program. Dr. Holt's primary research interests are in the areas of reproductive epidemiology and intimate partner violence. Recent reproductive epidemiology research projects include the impact of oral contraceptive use on ovarian cyst formation, the epidemiology of adenomyosis and endometriosis (with emphasis on reproductive and contraceptive risk factors), and the association between body mass index and oral contraceptive failure. Dr. Holt participates in several research projects concerning intimate partner violence through the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center. Recent violence-related projects concern the associations between violence during pregnancy and adverse infant outcomes, the effect of protection orders on future intimate partner violence, and the impact of the justice system response to partner violence on the risk of subsequent violence and injury. Dr. Holt is the lead instructor for a course entitled "Reproductive Epidemiology".Go to the top
Beth Mueller, DrPH, MPH
Dr. Mueller is Professor of Epidemiology and Member at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Her research and teaching interests span the range of topics that are highly relevant to the proposed training program, including the epidemiology of perinatal and reproductive diseases; cancer; and injury research. The health of women and their offspring are uniquely linked, and this relationship has served as the focus for most of the work Dr. Mueller's work. A woman's general health status, and in particular, her exposures during pregnancy, may result in in-utero conditions that are associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes, malformations, or cancer in her offspring. This association works in both directions, however, in that a woman's own reproductive and childbearing experiences impact her future health in ways we are just beginning to understand. Dr. Mueller is currently studying risk factors for pedestrian-automobile collision injuries to children, factors associated with motor vehicle collisions, evaluating the effects of alcohol intoxication on outcome of head injury, and methods-based research evaluating some of the tools used in injury research such as data linkages, clinical protocols for diagnosis of injury, and tools used to conduct assessments of driver sobriety. Dr. Mueller is also engaged in studies evaluating pregnancy exposures and maternal characteristics and various pregnancy and birth outcomes including malformations, prematurity, and low birthweight. She teaches data analysis techniques for epidemiologic studies to graduate students as part of the core epidemiology curriculum (EPI 514) annually.Go to the top
Melissa A. Schiff, MD, MPH
Dr. Schiff is Professor of Epidemiology. Dr. Schiff has several ongoing projects primarily focusing on maternal health and injury. One project is evaluating the effects of unintentional injury on pregnancy using linked databases. The project assesses the pattern of injuries from motor vehicle crashes and falls and their effects on pregnancy outcomes. A second project is evaluating postpartum suicide risk factors including obstetric and psychiatric factors. A third project assesses risk factors for sports injuries in girls with a focus on soccer and gymnastics.Go to the top
David Yanez, PhD
Dr. Yanez is Associate Professor of Biostatistics, his research projects primarily focus on analytical methods for randomized clinical trials and longitudinal epidemiological studies. Dr. Yanez teaches several Biostatistics courses in the core curriculum for doctoral and masters degree students in the Epidemiology and Biostatisitcs. He is a committee member on thesis and doctoral dissertation committees for students in the Epidemiology Department. He is also the Director of the Graduate Program in the Department of BiostatisticsGo to the top
Melissa A. Austin, PhD
Dr. Austin is a Professor of Epidemiology, Associate Dean of the Graduate School, Adjunct Professor of Department of Medicine and Medical History & Ethics. Dr. Austin's research program focuses on the genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular disease and diabetes, and familial forms of cancer. Her current, NIH-funded projects include two large-scale family studies investigating the familial forms of hyperlipidemia and genetics of risk factors for coronary heart disease and diabetes in the Japanese American Community. Her laboratory-based collaborations involve examining lipoprotein subfractions as risk factors for these diseases. She also serves as Director of the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) core of the Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health. In her role as director of the Institute for Public Health Genetics, Dr. Austin leads a multidisciplinary team of faculty members from seven different schools and colleges that form the IPHG, funded by the University Initiative Fund at the UW. She oversees academic affairs for IPHG, including the MPH in Public Health Genetics, the new M.S. in Genetic Epidemiology, and the new Ph.D. in Public Health Genetics; and partnerships with public health agencies including the Washington State Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Austin was on a sabbatical in England during 2001 with support from the International Atherosclerosis Society and the Department of Epidemiology. During that time, she was an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge attached to the Public Health Genetics Unit, and was a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Cardiovascular Genetics at University College London. Dr. Austin teaches EPI517/PHG511, Genetic Epidemiology during Winter Quarter.Go to the top
Shirley Beresford, PhD
Dr. Beresford is co-Principal Investigator and Project Director on an active R01 grant from NIDDK. The specific aims of this project are to 1) evaluate whether an endurance exercise program is associated with lower risk of gallbladder disease in overweight pregnant women; 2) evaluate whether an endurance exercise intervention program changes leptin levels in pregnancy among overweight women; and 3) use statistical methods to examine the associations between gallbladder disease incidence and levels of leptin, HDL, insulin levels, and BMI in this prospective trial. This study builds on the previous grant by the same team, that explored the incidence, risk factors and natural history of sludge and gallstones during pregnancy. Gallbladder sludge and stones are common in pregnancy, particularly among those women with high body mass index, high leptin levels, high insulin resistance and dyslipidemia. This funded study involves a randomized trial of pregnant women recruited from Madigan Army Hospital in Tacoma early in their first trimester of pregnancy. The intervention program, given to participants randomized to that group, starts at about week 15 of pregnancy and runs through the third trimester. The participants randomized to the comparison group are provided an exercise program post-partum. Interview data include information on diet and physical activity. Sonographic evaluation of the gallbladder and biliary system is performed at 10-12 weeks, 18 weeks, and 26-28 weeks gestation. Serum glucose, lipid, insulin and leptin levels are obtained at 10-12 weeks, 26-28 weeks and 34-36 weeks. Planned extensions of this line of research include comparisons of maternal and fetal adiposity in the intervention and comparison groups, and additional exploration of the relationship between dyslipidemia in pregnancy and pre-eclampsia, obesity-metabolic syndrome and possible predictors of future obesity among children. Research opportunities for pre- and post-doctoral fellows could include evaluation of: (1) Maternal medical complications, disease prevention, and health promotion; (2) Maternal diet and physical activity in relation to maternal health and fetal outcomes; (3) Pregnancy outcomes related to maternal biological markers; and (4) Fetal and neonatal health and disease.Go to the top
Harvey Checkoway, PhD
Dr. Checkoway is Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Occupational & Environmental Medicine and Epidemiology. Dr. Checkoway is Director of the UW Superfund Basic Research Program Project. His main areas of research and teaching are occupational and environmental risk factors for chronic diseases. Recent examples of research projects for which he is principal investigator are studies of: silica, silicosis, and lung cancer among diatomaceous earth industry workers; semen quality among lead smelter workers; environmental and genetic risk factors for Parkinson's disease; parkinsonism in relation to pesticide exposures among orchardists; and cancer risks among textile workers in Shanghai. Dr. Checkoway teaches a course in Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology (ENVH/EPI 570).Go to the top
Scott Davis, PhD
Dr. Davis is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Washington and a Full Member in the Program in Epidemiology of the Division of Public Health Sciences at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. His primary research focus is radiation epidemiology. For more than a decade he has directed two major research activities investigating the effects of ionizing radiation on human health. One is a series of studies in the Russian Federation of the effects of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl Power Station. These studies have focused on the risk of thyroid cancer and leukemia among children in the Bryansk Oblast, and recently have expanded to include the molecular characterization of thyroid cancer cases. Efforts are underway to further expand these studies to investigate the occurrence of stillbirths and congenital malformations. The second is a long-term follow up study of thyroid disease in persons exposed to atmospheric releases of radiation from the Hanford Nuclear Site in eastern Washington State (the Hanford Thyroid Disease Study). He has conducted several epidemiologic studies of the possible health effects associated with exposure to power frequency magnetic fields, focusing on the risk of leukemia and breast cancer. Recently this work has expanded to include investigations of the effects of exposure to light-at-night and circadian disruption, including night shift work, on melatonin and reproductive hormones important in the etiology of breast and other hormone-related cancer.Go to the top
Karen Edwards, PhD
Dr. Edwards is Associate Professor of Epidemiology. Dr. Karen Edwards is a member of the core faculty in the Institute of Public Health Genetics. She is also the Director of the UW Center for Genomics and Public Health, one of only three Centers in the U.S. The goals of the new Center are to integrate advances in genetic technology into public health practice and to offer research and educational opportunities for public health students and professionals. Dr. Edwards also coordinates the new degree track in genetic epidemiology, as a joint effort between the Institute for Public Health Genetics and the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Her primary research interest is in the area of genetic epidemiology, particularly diabetes and the insulin resistance syndrome (IRS). Her work currently involves defining multivariate phenotypes for complex diseases and then using these phenotypes for mapping studies of diabetes and the IRS. She is also interested in interactions between environmental factors (diet) and genetic susceptibility to complex disease. Dr. Edwards currently teaches EPI518/PHG518 "Computer Applications in Genetic Epidemiology" offered in the Spring Quarter, and is a co-instructor for EPI517/PHG511 "Genetic Epidemiology" offered in the Winter Quarter.
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Daniel Enquobahrie, PHD, MPH, MD
Dr. Enquobahrie is Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Associate Director of the Center for Perinatal Studies, Swedish Medical Center. He is also an investigator with the Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington. His primary research interests are cardiovascular and perinatal epidemiology, developmental origins, genetic and molecular epidemiology (transcription and post-transcription regulation) and international research. Dr. Enquobahrie currently teaches EPI521/HSERV 542 "Epidemiology of Maternal and Child Health Problems" offered in the Winter Quarter.
Elaine Faustman, PhD
Dr. Faustman is Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences; Toxicology Program Director, Institute for Risk Analysis and Risk Communication; UW Director , Center for Child Environmental Health Risks Research, UW; UW Co-Principal Investigator, Pacific Northwest Center for Human Health and Ocean Studies; UW Principal Investigator, Center for the Study and Improvement of Regulation (CSIR). Dr. Faustman's current research projects include neurodevelopmental toxicity of metals and pesticides, pesticide exposure and toxicity in children, risk management and regulation, and risk management and risk communication. She teaches ENVH 532 Reproductive & Development Toxicology, ENVH 577 Risk Assessment for Environmental Hazards, and ENVH 593 Current Topics in Risk Assessment.Go to the top
Annette Fitzpatrick, PhD
Dr. Fitzpatrick has worked in the field of epidemiologic research for over 16 years at the University of Washington, initially as a Research Scientist for the Department of Biostatistics, and now as Research Faculty in the Epidemiology Department. Although her work has focused primarily on studies of aging, she considers Epidemiology to be a multidisciplinary field. Over the years, she has been involved in studies in the areas of cancer, health services, genetics and infectious disease as well as in reproductive health. Dr. Fitzpatrick has worked with Dr. Williams for several years as a core faculty in the Multidisciplinary International Research Training Program. She offers a seminar to fellows each year introducing them to epidemiological concepts and data analyses.Go to the top
Jacqueline Gardner , PhD
Dr. Gardner is a Professor of Pharmacy. She is currently PI of a Community Pharmacy Program that seeks to assess the feasibility of community pharmacists directly initiating and managing hormonal contraceptive methods for women through use of collaborative drug therapy agreements (CDTA)Go to the top
Christine Gleason, PhD
Dr. Gleason's research focuses on the effects of drugs on the developing brain. She is currently using a fetal sheep model to study the effects of fetal alcohol exposure on regulation of brain blood flow. Most research on fetal alcohol syndrome has focused on alcohol's many neurotoxic effects. However, heavy alcohol use in adults increases the risk for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases (such as stroke). Gleason theorizes that alcohol may affect developing brain blood vessels as well. The goal of her research is to provide a better understanding of the mechanisms for alcohol's detrimental effects on the developing brain. She has also embarked on a new series of studies, using developing rats, on the cerebrovascular effects of chronic neonatal narcotic exposure later in life. Critically ill newborn infants are often treated with narcotics such as morphine for pain management and sedation. While the short-term benefits of this therapy may be clear, the potential long-term side effects are not known. The overall goal of these new studies is to provide a better rationale for neonatal therapeutics-weighing both the risks and the benefits, short- and long-term-in order to optimize neonatal outcomes.Go to the top
Therese Grant, PhD
Dr. Grant is principal investigator of the Parent-Child Assistance Program (P-CAP), an award-winning intervention model working with high-risk mothers who abuse alcohol and drugs during pregnancy. The Parent-Child Assistance Program (PCAP), originally known as the Seattle Birth to 3 Project, began in 1991 as a 5-year federally funded research demonstration project designed to test the efficacy of a model of intensive, long-term paraprofessional advocacy with high-risk mothers who abuse alcohol or drugs heavily during pregnancy and are estranged from community service providers. The primary goal of the program is a straightforward one -- to prevent alcohol and drug exposure among the future children of these mothers. Dr. Grant's research focuses on perinatal substance abuse and the effects of prenatal exposure to drugs and alcohol, fetal alcohol syndrome, development of assessment instruments and intervention strategies, as well as the challenges of community intervention and prevention with high-risk mothers and their children.Go to the top
Nancy L. Haigwood, PhD
Dr. Haigwood has been and continues to be an important faculty for Epidemiology students seeking to increase their knowledge in the areas of immunology and pathobiology. The research in the Haigwood laboratory aims to understand the role of antiviral immunity in controlling and ultimately preventing infection and disease. Her focus in recent years has shifted to infants and the role that maternal neutralizing antibodies, acquired transplacentally and via breastmilk, could play in limiting infection in the newborns. In all of the three grants listed below, the emphasis is on developing novel approaches to limit infection by vaccination or therapy. The R01 is most applicable to projects that seek to understand the role of infectious diseases (HIV in particular) on maternal and child health disease prevention and health promotion and on determinants of pregnancy outcomes. The R01 and R21 are both applicable to novel vaccine approaches that can be used in adolescents, pregnancy, and newborns and infants.Go to the top
Patrick Heagerty, PhD
Dr. Heagerty is Professor of Biostatistics with research interests in regression techniques for dependent data, including marginal models and random effects models for longitudinal data, methods for categorical time series, and hierarchical models for categorical spatial data, statistical computing and applications in epidemiology and ecology. His teaching interests include longitudinal data, introductory biostatistics, and advanced methods.Go to the top
Dick Hoskins, PhD, MPH
Dr. Hoskins is Senior Epidemiologist, Washington, State Department of Health and Clinical Associate Professor in Epidemiology, UWSPHCM. He is currently pursuing a geographic distribution and cluster study of infant death, low birth weight, and fetal death throughout Washington State between 1989 through 2003. He is characterizing neighborhoods with the aim of assessing what socioeconomic factors in neighborhoods may contribute to untoward birth and perinatal outcomes. Additionally, he is conducting a statewide study of clustering and geographic distribution of childhood cancers. Dr. Hoskins has been an important resource to those students and faculty who have worked to integrate GIS methodologies in their research. He is currently teaching a course on the basic principles of GIS that would be of interest to RPPE trainees.Go to the top
Catherine Karr, MD, PhD, MS
Catherine Karr is a board certified pediatrician with a doctorate degree in Epidemiology and Masters in Environmental Health/Toxicology. Her research activities address environmental contaminants and pediatric respiratory health including asthma, farmworker child health, and health of children in lower resourced countries. She is a co-investigator with the Pacific Northwest Center of the National Children's Study and the UW based Center for Children's Environmental Health Research. She leads a global children's environmental health training initiative with trainees in South East Asia. As Director of the UW based NW Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, she sets the direction of the Unit for outreach and education as well as responding to queries from health care providers, government officials and families regarding health risks associated with environmental exposures. She also continues to practice primary care pediatrics in the UW Medicine system.Go to the top
Ann Marie Kimball, MD, MPH
Dr. Kimball is Professor of Epidemiology and Health Services. Dr. Kimball also directs the APEC Emerging Infections Network, and the Fogarty International Scholars program in Health Informatics. She serves on the International Faculty Council of the University. Her research interests include Epidemiology; HIV/AIDS; Emerging Infections, Maternal and Child Health; County and local public health; Surveillance and control of emerging infections; International Trade and Public Health Policy; and Global Health. Dr. Kimball teaches HSERV 536 Emerging Infections of International Public Health Importance and HSERV 536 (Extended MPH Program) Emerging Infections of International Public Health Importance.Go to the top
Irena King, PhD
Dr. King is Staff Scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Lecturer of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Nutritional Sciences. Her research interests include fatty acids, antioxidants, DNA damage, and biomarkers.Go to the top
Jane Koenig , PhD
Dr. Koenig's main research interest is the respiratory and cardiac health effects of air pollution and especially the responses of individuals judged to be susceptible, such as persons with asthma or other chronic respiratory diseases. She has studied associations between wood smoke and lung function in young children and associations between emergency room visits for asthma and particulate matter air pollution in Seattle. Dr. Koenig is the director of a new EPA Northwest Research Center for Particulate Air Pollution and Health as of June 1999. The objective for the Center is to evaluate unique components of particulate matter in Western States and to test for association with health outcomes. Dr. Koenig's current research activities fall into three general areas which are designed to address the respiratory risks of air pollutants: (1) Controlled laboratory studies using human subjects; (2) Field or epidemiological studies evaluating respiratory health in populations exposed to fine particulate matter from wood smoke or other sources in their neighborhoods; and (3) assessment of physiologic, biochemical or morphological changes in cultured human epithelial cells after air pollutant exposure.Go to the top
Thomas Koepsell, MD, MPH
Dr. Koepsell is Professor of Epidemiology and Health Services, and Adjunct Professor of the Department of Medicine. Dr. Koepsell's research interests include the epidemiology of non-infectious diseases, principally those of the nervous, cardiovascular, and musculoskeletal systems; injury epidemiology; applications of epidemiologic study designs in health services and clinical research; and epidemiologic methods. Research currently in progress includes studies on the prevention of firearm injuries in rural Alaska, risk factors for narcolepsy, etiology and prognosis of Alzheimer' disease, developing the VA health care system as a resource for epidemiologic research, prevention of falls in older adults. Dr. Koepsell is a reviewer for a number of professional journals including Epidemiology, JAMA, American Journal of Epidemiology, New England Journal of Medicine, Injury Prevention, and Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. His teaching interests include epidemiologic methods (EPI 512, Epidemiologic Methods I and EPI 513, Epidemiologic Methods II), and thesis and dissertation advising.Go to the top
Andrea LaCroix, PhD, MPH
Dr. LaCroix's principal research interests are in older women's health focusing specifically on prevention of osteoporosis, fractures, disability, falls, and cardiovascular disease. Areas of current emphasis include randomized trials testing the ability of several medications (thiazide diuretics, alendronate, HRT) to reduce risk of osteoporosis and fractures, and designing and evaluating state-of-the-art preventive services programs for older women in managed care settings. In addition, she is Co-Project Director of the Clinical Coordinating Center for the Women's Health Initiative and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
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Charlotte W. Lewis, MD, MPH
Dr. Lewis is attending physician at Seattle Children's Hospital, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine and adjunct faculty of the Division of Craniofacial Medicine. Her primary research interest is disparities in health and health care access, with a specific focus on oral health and access to dental care. Her research has involved documenting disparities in access to oral health services for low-income and special needs children as well as developing and evaluating strategies to improve pediatric oral health through expanded pediatrician and family physician involvement in these areas.
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Thomas Lumley, PhD
Dr. Lumley is Associate Professor of Biostatistics. His research interests include correlated data regression, clinical trials, statistical computing and graphics, while his teaching interests are data analysis, regression methods, data visualization, design-based analysis, and mathematical statistics.Go to the top
Lisa E. Manhart, PhD, MPH
Dr. Manhart is Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology. Currently she is collaborating with the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. She has a contract for data management and analysis for Waves I, I, and III of this nationally representative sample of adolescents and young adults in the United States. The Add Health data represent a wealth of epidemiologic information on reproductive and adolescent health, and could serve as the basis for several analytic training experiences for Reproductive, Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology Fellows.Go to the top
Diane P. Martin, PhD
Dr. Martin is a Professor of Health Services and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology. Her research interests are health insurance and delivery systems, changing behavior of patients and providers to improve quality of care and outcomes, research methods, and health services organization and financing. She teaches research methods in health services and dissemination of research results.Go to the top
Mary Anne Mercer, DrPH, MPH
Dr. Mercer is a Senior Lecturer of Health Services and has been a member of the faculty since 1996 and is affiliated with the International Health Track, (MPH program) and the Maternal and Child Health Track, (MPH program). She specializes in maternal and child health in developing countries. Dr. Mercer was on the faculty of the International Health Department at Johns Hopkins University from 1981- 1994 where she directed a technical support program for HIV/AIDS prevention in Africa, and later was Deputy Director of the PVO Child Survival NGO Support Program. Dr. Mercer is also Deputy Director of Health Alliance International, an international health non-profit organization based in Seattle. She is involved in projects in Mozambique and East Timor. Dr. Mercer teaches Maternal and Child Health in Developing Countries at the University of Washington.Go to the top
Katherine Newton, PhD
Dr. Newton is Affiliate Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Associate Scientific Investigator of Group Health Cooperative, Center for Health Studies. Dr. Newton is a chronic disease epidemiologist, whose research program is focused on mid-life women's health issues, including menopause, hormone replacement therapy, cardiovascular disease in women, and diabetes.Go to the top
Bruce Psaty, MD, PhD
Dr. Psaty is a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, and Adjunct Professor of Health Services. His research interests include cardiovascular epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology epidemiologic methods, patient-physician interaction, and pharmacogenetics. Dr. Psaty currently co-teaches EPI 519 Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease.Go to the top
Gayle Reiber, PhD, MPH
Dr. Reiber is Professor of Epidemiology and Health Services. Her research includes prevention and treatment of diabetes and lower extremity complications and diabetes self-care and enhancement programs. Dr. Reiber is a VA Career Scientist and is active in VA pre and postdoctoral training programs. The two courses taught by Dr. Reiber are Health Services Research Methods and Grantwriting. Dr. Reiber actively mentors students in epidemiology and health services, and has also been involved in State, National and International Diabetes Program Planning initiatives.Go to the top
Jane Rees, PhD, RD, CD
Dr. Rees is a Lecturer in Pediatrics and Adjunct Lecturer in Health Services. Her research interests include nutrition in maternal and child health, adolescent health, eating disorders and pregnancy in adolescents. Dr. Rees teaches courses in nutrition health.Go to the top
Frederick Rivara, MD, MPH
Dr. Rivara is Director of the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center (HIPRC). Dr. Rivara's research is currently focused on childhood precursors to adult disease and prevention of the major causes of death in the United States through interventions in childhood and adolescence. These include problems of smoking, violence, alcohol related mortality, obesity and physical inactivity. There are many opportunities for trainees interested in pediatric epidemiological research to work with Dr. Rivera and colleagues at the HIPRC.Go to the top
Delia Scholes, PhD, MS
Dr. Scholes is a Senior Investigator at the Group Health Cooperative, Center for Health Studies and Affiliate Professor of Epidemiology. Her research interests focus principally on the health issues of young women, including STD/HIV prevention and contraceptive options. She is currently the principal investigator for an NIH-funded prospective study of the effects of Depo-provera and other risk factors on bone density in adolescent and young adult women.Go to the top
Kirkwood Shy, MD,MPH
Dr. Shy is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology. His research interests include women's health care, general obstetrics and gynecology and gynecologic surgery.Go to the top
David Siscovick, MD,MPH
Dr. Siscovick is Professor of Epidemiology and Co-Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Research Unit. He is also Director of the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Training Program. His research, although primarily focused on cardiovascular disorder in adults, dove-tails well with epidemiological, endocrinological and immunological disciplines that are pertinent to understanding vascular and other metabolic disorders of pregnancy. Drs. Siscovick has been working with Dr. Williams and others in reproductive epidemiology (e.g., Susan Harlap and Matthew Gillman) to expand the Jerusalem Cohort for study of perinatal antecedents to adult disorders including metabolic syndrome and atherosclerotic disease. Dr. Siscovick and Psaty are instructors of the Cardiovascular Epidemiology course which all RPPE trainees with an interest in maternal medical complications of pregnancy (e.g., preeclampsia and gestational diabetes) will be encouraged to take.Go to the top
Jacqueline R. Starr, PhD, MS, MPH
Dr. Starr is a Research Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology. Her research interests include craniofacial malformations, maternal genetics in relation to offspring disease risk, molecular epidemiology, epidemiologic methods, testicular cancer.Go to the top
Andreas Stergachis, PhD
Dr. Stergachis is Professor of Epidemiology and Adjunct Professor of Pharmacy. His research interests are pharmacoepidemiology and the epidemiology of biological and chemical hazards. Through his affiliation with the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice, he focuses on education, training and research in emergency preparedness with the public health and clinical practice community. He is also affiliated with the Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy program. His current research includes studies of adverse events associated with biologics and other types of pharmaceuticals. He has served on NIH's Epidemiology and Disease Control Study Section, AHRQ Health Systems Research Study Section and the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Poison Prevention and Control. Dr. Stergachis teaches courses in pharmacoepidemiology and the epidemiology of biological and chemical hazardsGo to the top
Ann Vander Stoep, PhD, MS
Dr. Stoep is a child psychiatric epidemiologist and is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and of Epidemiology. Her research interests include: developmental epidemiology of adolescent depression, mental health status of children in the juvenile justice system, transition to adulthood for adolescents with psychiatric disorders, development of children's mental health interventions, and participatory action research. Dr. Vander Stoep, is PI on the Developmental Pathways Program, a collaborative effort with the Seattle Public Schools, whose goals are to understand the etiology of childhood depression and to develop effective strategies for preventing this prevalent and debilitating illness and its sequelea. Dr. Vander Stoep teaches a course in Psychosocial Epidemiology in the School of Public Health each spring and provides research mentorship to epidemiology graduate students and junior scientists in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.Go to the top
Noel Weiss, MD, DrPH
Dr. Weiss is Professor of Epidemiology. His research interest is primarily in the area of cancer epidemiology. Part of his time is devoted to the study of epidemiologic methods and of the application of these methods to the understanding of the determinants of the outcome of illness. Dr. Weiss currently co-teaches the introductory series EPI 512 Epidemiologic Methods I in Autumn Quarter and EPI 513 Epidemiologic Methods II in Winter Quarter, and teaches EPI 542 Clinical Epidemiology offered in Summer Quarter.Go to the top
Marcia Williams, PhD, MPH
Dr. Williams is Senior Lecturer of Epidemiology and Adjunct Senior Lecturer of Rehabilitation Medicine. She is a pediatric physical therapist. Her research focuses on early identification of neuromotor abnormalities in preterm infants, as well as the developmental consequences of in utero cocaine exposure. Specific projects include etiology of cerebral palsy in low birth weight infants, effects of prenatal exposure to methamphetamine on the developmental outcome of children, and risk factors for clubfoot deformity in infants. Dr. Williams has been a guest lecturer in both the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and the Department of Epidemiology. She has taught Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology and co-teaches Epidemiology 592C (Maternal and Child Health Research Seminar) and Epidemiology 521S (Epidemiology of Material and Child Health Problems).Go to the top
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For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
Table of Contents:
- Baptism 1234
- Scripture
- Five Reasons Baptists Don't Sprinkle Infants
- Sharing Our Testimony
- Sermons
- "I Baptize You With Water"
- "Buried and Raised in Baptism Through Faith"
- "What Is Baptism and Does It Save?"
- What Baptism Portrays"
- "How Do Circumcision and Baptism Correspond?"
Baptism is dipping a person under water in the name of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, in order to symbolize on the outside a spiritual change on the inside.
- Circle the key words or phrases in the following Scriptures.
"Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all who the Lord our God will call" (Acts 2:38-39).
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely, I am with you always, to the very end of the age" (Matthew 28:19-20).
"Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life" (Romans 6:3-4).
"Having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead" (Colossians 2:12).
"You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ has clothed yourselves with Christ" (Galatians 3:26-27).
- In the above Scriptures, what do we learn about baptism (answer briefly): Spiritual change (Acts 2:38-39), outward sign (Matthew 28:19-20), union with Jesus (Romans 6:3-4), Jesus' example (Mark 1:9), importance of faith (Colossians 2:12; Galatians 3:26-27).
- Do a verse study using the form on the back of this page.
- Memorize Matthew 28:19-20.
Verse Study Form
Using the verse(s) you selected from the previous page, complete this verse study form.
- Verse Reference:
- List two key words and definte them:
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- What does the verse say (paraphrase it in your own words)?
- How can I apply the truth of this verse to my life today?
1. John the Baptist
2. Jesus Baptized & Baptizing
3. Baptism in Acts
4. New Testament Letters
- Prophet
- Why did he get baptized?
- The Holy Spirit & baptism
- Baptism of the Spirit
- Prepares for the
- Why didn't he actually do
- Baptisms are accompanied
- Baptism in water
- Preached "repentance"
- Practiced a baptism of repentance
- Mark 1:4 (NASB) John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
- Luke 3:3 (NASB) And he came into all the district around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
- Romans 6:4 (NASB) Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
- Ephesians 4:5 (NASB) One Lord, one faith, one baptism.
- Colossians 2:12 (NASB) Having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
- 1 Peter 3:21 (NASB) And corresponding to that, baptism now saves you—not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
- Matthew 3:6 (NASB) And they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins.
- Matthew 3:16 (NASB) And after being baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon Him.
- Mark 1:5 (NASB) And all the country of Judea was going out to him, and all the people of Jerusalem; and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.
- Mark 1:8 (NASB) I baptized you with water; but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.
- Mark 1:9 (NASB) And it came about in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
- Mark 16:16 (NASB) He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.
- Luke 3:21 (NASB) Now it came about when all the people were baptized, that Jesus also was baptized, and while He was praying, heaven was opened.
- Luke 7:30 (NASB) But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected God's purpose for themselves, not having been baptized by John.
- John 3:23 (NASB) And John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there; and they were coming and were being baptized.
- Acts 1:5 (NASB) For John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.
- Acts 2:38 (NASB) And Peter said to them, "Repent, and let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
- Acts 2:41 (NASB) So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
- Acts 8:12 (NASB) But when they believed Philip preaching the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were being baptized, men and women alike.
- Acts 8:13 (NASB) And even Simon himself believed; and after being baptized, he continued on with Philip; and as he observed signs and great miracles taking place, he was constantly amazed.
- Acts 8:36 (NASB) And as they went along the road they came to some water; and the eunuch said, "Look! Water! What prevents me from being baptized?"
- Acts 8:38 (NASB) And he ordered the chariot to stop; and they both went down into the water, Philip as well as the eunuch; and he baptized him.
- Acts 9:18 (NASB) And immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he regained his sight, and he arose and was baptized.
- Acts 10:47 (NASB) Surely no one can refuse the water for these to be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he?
- Acts 10:48 (NASB) And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay on for a few days.
- Acts 16:15 (NASB) And when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay." And she prevailed upon us.
- Acts 16:33 (NASB) And he took them that very hour of the night and washed their wounds, and immediately he was baptized, he and all his household.
- Acts 18:8 (NASB) And Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his household, and many of the Corinthians when they heard were believing and being baptized.
- Acts 19:5 (NASB) And when they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
- Acts 22:16 (NASB) And now why do you delay? Arise, and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.
- Romans 6:3 (NASB) Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?
- 1 Corinthians 1:13 (NASB) Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you, was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
- 1 Corinthians 1:14 (NASB) I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius.
- 1 Corinthians 1:15 (NASB) That no man should say you were baptized in my name.
- 1 Corinthians 1:16 (NASB) Now I did baptize also the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized any other.
- 1 Corinthians 10:2 (NASB) And all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
- 1 Corinthians 12:13 (NASB) For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves of free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 15:29 (NASB) Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them?
- Galatians 3:27 (NASB) For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
- John 1:33 (NASB) And I did not recognize Him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, "He upon whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining upon Him, this is the one who baptizes in the Holy Spirit."
- Matthew 3:11 (NASB) As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
- 1 Corinthians 1:17 (NASB) For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in cleverness of speech, that the cross of Christ should not be made void.
- Romans 6:4 (NASB) Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
- Ezekiel 36:25 (NASB) Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
- Hebrews 9:13 (NASB) For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh,
- Hebrews 11:28 (NASB) By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that he who destroyed the first-born might not touch them.
- Acts 22:16 (NASB) And now why do you delay? Arise, and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.
- Ephesians 5:26 (NASB) That He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word.
- Titus 3:5 (NASB) He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit.
Five Reasons Baptists Don't Sprinkle Infants
Text: 1 Peter 3:13-16
Theme: What is God doing right now in my life that I am responsible to tell others?
Think of your life experience according to the diagram below, and write out the most significant matters in each part.
(Diagram available only on the attached PDF)
- "I Baptize You with Water", May 4, 1997, John Piper
- "Buried and Raised in Baptism Through Faith", May 11, 1997, John Piper
- "What Is Baptism and Does It Save?", May 18, 1997, John Piper
- "What Baptism Portrays", May 25, 1997, John Piper
- "How Do Circumcision and Baptism Correspond?", August 29, 1999, John Piper

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Corn Tortillas
Wrapping the corn tortillas in a clean kitchen towel after they've cooked keeps them soft and pliable, which makes them easier to shape.
- Yield: Makes about 16 tortillas
Source: Mad Hungry, April 2011
- 2 cups instant corn masa flour
- 1 1/4 cups water, plus more if needed
Combine masa and water in a large bowl and stir thoroughly to form a soft dough. If dough feels dry, add more a little bit at a time.
Cover the dough with a damp towel.
Heat a cast-iron griddle or nonstick skillet. Line a tortilla press with plastic wrap.
Roll the dough into small balls and press each one in the tortilla press. Peel each tortilla off the plastic and add to heated pan. Cook each tortilla for about 60 seconds on each side until slightly puffed up and toasted.
Keep cooked tortillas on a plate, covered with a clean kitchen towel to keep warm.


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Kardashian Ladies Talk New Fashion Brand
They're always looking for ways to expand their empire, and the Kardashians teamed up with an Australian designer for a new adventure in merchandising.
The "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" babes have joined forces with Bruno Schiavi's Jupi Corp for a ready-to-wear collection of lingerie, shoes, swimwear, and accessories.
Kim explained, "We obviously waited on a big partnership like this for a long time because we've had so many different offers and we wanted to make sure that we had a huge say in the design and that our personalities would come through."
Khloe added, "All three of us have similar bones, but we have different shapes and sizes — I'm tall, Kim is curvy and Kourtney is petite — and we know how to dress up our best assets. We wanted everything to be no-fuss, buy it and wear it. These are pieces that you could wear the next season or forever."
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Extremely supportive of the jesuits and Roman Catholic church (until his death in 6/2008):
Article: The secret of Russert's success? His Catholic education, the NBC News host told students at an inner-city school he supports.
Tim Russert of NBC was the Master of Ceremonies at The Catholic University of America Twelfth American Cardinals Dinner New York Friday, April 27, 2001. He also was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by Br. Liguori of The Congregation of Christian Brother's Iona College. ~Link
The Russert Family receives the papal blessing. Luke's T-shirt says "Totus Tuus", the Pope's personal motto of "all yours" affirming his devotion to the Blessed Virgin.
Political analyst James Carville and Tim Russert
Catholic Politicians in the U.S.: Their Faith and Public Policy
Tim Russert with his good friend Father John Sturm, S.J. -
These pictures are from Iona College which is owned and operated by The Congregation of Christian Brothers (a catholic organization)
The Congregation of Christian Brothers is a world-wide community of religious brothers of the Catholic church, founded by Edmund Rice, considered Blessed by the Catholic Church. The first school was opened in Waterford, Ireland, in 1802. The Christian Brothers, as they are commonly known, chiefly work for the evangelization and education of youth.
"Br." Liguori with other people:


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50 things every PC owner should know
So you've just unwrapped a shiny new laptop or PC? Maybe you want to teach your existing machine some new tricks. Here is a list of tweaks, tricks and power user tips that frankly, should be on every PC owner's desk. We cover tips for novices up to more advanced tricks, from increasing your battery life to speeding up boot times. Beyond the desktop, there's tips for faster wireless, backing up and audio. Buy it, stick it on the bookshelf, or buy a friend a copy so you don't have to point out all this stuff.
Amazon's Kindle has been at the top of the bestsellers list for over a year, but with new stores and eReaders on the market, can it hold onto the top spot? If you've been thinking about taking the plunge and getting your first eReader, or upgrading, grab this issue for reviews of 10 eBook readers, including Kindle and Kindle Keyboard, Sony Reader Wi Fi, Kobo Wi Fi, BeBook, iRiver and more.
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For archiving, disc images are more convenient than keeping physical discs, since you can store hundreds of DVD images on a single hard disk. It's also more convenient for distribution: rather than waiting for a colleague or company to send you a disc, you can download an ISO file and recreate the disc in minutes, using either a burning tool such as ImgBurn or Windows 7's built-in burner. This issue includes or four page breakdown of imaging tips and a step-by-step walkthrough.
Reviews, reviews, reviews
So, what's been through our test lab for this issue? Heading up the list is our big eBook Reader Group Test - the definitive comparison of 10 devices on the market. In this issue you also get our review of a laptop that should be on every laptop buyer's radar: Dell's XPS 14Z. Gamers, feast your eyes on the ASUS ROG TYTAN, truly a mammoth PC that managed to crank out 81 frames per second in our Very High Detail tests. Yep, very high detail. Plus we've tested cameras, external hard drives with "cloud " capabilities, Samsung's controversial lawyer-fee generating Galaxy Tab 10.1, a $10.49 version of Photoshop on the iPad (yes, $10.49), phone apps and more.
Introducing the MakerBot Thing-O-Matic
It's a printer that prints...well, actuall objects. Read the feature and discover the fasincating, emerging technology called 3D printing.
Workshop: Batch files for power users
Never used batch files? Roll up your sleeves and learn how to make these scripts do things for you automatically.
Face-off: Office 365 vs Google Apps
So you've heard about Office 365, and you've heard about Google Apps. What are they? Which is best?
Demo: LEGO Harry Potter
The little guy's LEGO. Do we need to say more? For anyone who's played the LEGO Star Wars, take a look at how the wizard world looks in LEGO. If you've never played the LEGO games, see what the fuss is about.
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1. We use only 10 percent of our brains.
2. "Flashbulb memories" are precise, detailed and persistent.
3. It's all downhill after 40 (or 50 or 60 or 70).
4. We have five senses.
By the way, have you seen the taste map of the tongue, the diagram showing that different regions are sensitive to salty, sweet, sour or bitter flavors? Also a myth.
5. Brains are like computers.
6. The brain is hard-wired.
7. A conk on the head can cause amnesia.
8. We know what will make us happy.
9. We see the world as it is.
10. Men are from Mars, women are from Venus.


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5:00-7:50pm Mon, GFS116; 2:00pm-3:20pm Tue, Thu GFS116
Name: Shawn Shamsian
Email: sshamsia(at)usc(dot)edu
Office: SAL 318
Office Hours:
Mondays from 12:30pm to 5pm
Tuesdays from 12:30pm to 2pm
This course covers the essential concepts, principles, techniques, and mechanisms for the design, analysis, use, and implementation of computerized database systems. Key information management concepts and techniques are examined: information modeling and representation; information interfaces - access, query, and manipulation, implementation structures, and issues of distribution. The database and information management system technology examined in this course represents the state-of-the-art, including traditional approaches as well as recent research developments. By providing an imbalanced view of "theory" and "practice," the course should allow the student to understand, use, and build practical database and information management systems. The course is intended to provide a basic understanding of the issues and problems involved in database systems, a knowledge of currently practical techniques for satisfying the needs of such a system, and an indication of the current research approaches that are likely to provide a basis for tomorrow's solutions.


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Thinking of You Too (Red edition)
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Note: This is the Red (Heart disease awareness) edition of Thinking of You Too. The same pattern instructions are also available in the Pink (Cancer awareness) edition.
A portion of sales is donated to heart disease research.
Say "I'm thinking of you" with a hand-knit hat of lace hearts. Thinking of You Too Hat reflects the bonds of friendship symbolized in HeartString's signature stitch design of cascading interlocked lace hearts.
Thinking of You Too hat incorporates symbolic elements similar to those in the Thinking of You scarf published 7 years ago and still hugely popular.
This hat pattern is the result of several requests to design a coordinating hat. Whether making as a coordinating set, or making just the hat by itself, you can let someone know they are special.
Thank you to my fans and friends as they continue to encourage me in spreading the heart-felt love of knitting through HeartStrings designs.
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Samsung Taking on Google Glass
Google's Project Glass has generated a lot of press for the company, and the high-tech glasses are considered to be on the cutting edge of wearable technology — a market pegged for explosive growth.
With thousands of "Explorer Edition" glasses now in use and a 2014 release pegged for Google Glass, Samsung may be planning to play a spoiler role. The Wall Street Journal picked up the news that Samsung has patented "sports glasses" with smartphone connectivity, integrated headphones, heads-up display for alerts, as well as the ability to take voice calls.


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Southern Oregon University Youth Programs has been recognized on two occasions with international awards for our ACADEMIA LATINA residential program for Latino youth. This rapidly expanding program will be entering its seventeenth year in 2017.
ACADEMIA LATINA was awarded the Western Association of Summer Session Administrators "Exemplary Program Award 2004" for non-credit programs. WASSA is an organization that represents the western United States, western Canada, and Mexico.
In addition, we received the North American Association of Summer Sessions "Creative and Innovative Program Award for the Most Outstanding Non-Credit Program 2004." NAASS is an association of deans and directors of college and university summer programs located throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico.


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Theres been a big debate lately about college-educated housewives, and if were wasting our brains and baccalaureates by abandoning good jobs to wipe little noses and butts all day. It started with Linda Hirshmans Homeward Bound article in The American Prospect, wherein she decried homemaking as a detrimental road leading to a demonstrable future loss of income, power, and security for the woman who quits.
Are Smart Stay-at-Home Moms Wasting Their Brains? - Associated Content - Associated Content
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Summer is quickly drawing to a close. Before you know it, we're going to have actual on-the-court happenings to talk about. Until then, though, we've got a Friday tradition to uphold. I'll kick it off after the jump.
- The first question is simple: Take a look at the picture atop this post, who will be the fifth man to belong on it?
- By hiring Doug Collins as their head coach and Rod Thorn as their president of basketball operations, the Sixers have taken a definitive step away from youth in the management of their organization, yet they seem to be moving toward youth as far as personnel is concerned. Does this apparent contradiction bother you? Are you worried the older guys in the front office/on the bench could be stodgy, set in their ways as the league moves into advanced scouting and analytics? Or do you think a steady hand at the controls is exactly what you need to keep (or get, as the case may be) a young roster headed in the right direction?
Have at it in the comments.
by Brian on Sep 3 2010
Tags: Basketball | Offseason | Pressing Questions | Sixers |
Tags: Basketball | Offseason | Pressing Questions | Sixers |


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The International Human Rights Clinic at the Washington College of Law (WCL) recently filed an appeal before the United States Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) on behalf of a young Togolese woman fleeing forced polygamous marriage and imminent infliction of female genital mutilation (FGM). The case may establish a precedent in U.S. asylum law, which heretofore has not recognized fear of infliction of FGM as grounds for a grant of asylum.
Fauziya Kasinga fled Togo at the age of 17 to escape certain infliction of FGM as the result of her forced polygamous marriage to a man nearly 20 years her senior. She came to the U.S. to seek protection and, upon entering this country, immediately applied for asylum. Since her arrival in the U.S., however, Fauziya has been held in various detention centers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, often enduring horrible and humiliating conditions. Her case will be heard by the BIA on May 2, 1996.
Fauziya enjoyed a privileged childhood. Her father was educated and wealthy. Due to his wealth, he was able to defy tribal norms. Fauziya was sent to boarding school to be educated, which was very unusual for women in her tribe. Mr. Kasinga opposed the tribal customs of polygamous marriage and FGM. He looked outside of his tribe in order to marry a woman who had not been mutilated. Because of Mr. Kasinga's beliefs and standing in his community, Fauziya's four older sisters were enter into marry into monogamous marriages and avoid mutilation.
Fauziya's life changed when her father suddenly died of an asthma attack when Fauziya was only 16. As is common within the Tchamba-Kunsuntu tribe, Mr. Kasinga's sister, Haja-Mammud, took over the family finances and moved into the family home. She banished Fauziya's mother from the home and pulled Fauziya out of boarding school.
The next year, Fauziya's aunt explained that she had arranged for Fauziya to marry a 45-year- old man who already had three wives. Fauziya was horrified. On October 17, 1994, Fauziya's aunt called her into a room. Lying on the bed were the customary marriage clothes. Fauziya's aunt explained to her that this would be Fauziya's wedding day. Fauziya was married that day, even though she refused to sign the marriage certificate. Under Togolese law, her marriage is legal even without this signature.
A few days after the marriage, a tribal elder was to come to the home to perform the mutilation. Fauziya would be held down by four men while the elder woman would remove her clitoris and labia minora with a knife that is normally used to cut hair. No anesthesia would be used. After the mutilation, Fauziya would be bound for 40 days to ensure that the wound would heal. After the 40 day respite, the marriage would be consummated. Luckily, Fauziya was able to escape and did not have to endure this painful and sometimes deadly practice.
One day after the marriage, Fauziya's oldest sister, Ayisha, helped Fauziya escape from the house and drove her to the airport in neighboring Ghana. Ayisha gave Fauziya $3,000 and put Fauziya on the first plane out of the country, which happened to go to Germany.
Upon arrival in Germany, Fauziya wandered around the airport trying to figure out what to do. She struck up a conversation with a woman at the airport named Rudina Gergs. After hearing Fauziya's story, Rudina suggested that Fauziya stay with her until she decided what to do. In exchange for accommodations, Fauziya cooked and cleaned for Ms. Gergs.
Fauziya was very uncomfortable in Germany. She had no family there and did not know anyone. She did not speak any German. Fortunately, Fauziya met a man on a bus who, after hearing Fauziya's story, gave her his sister's passport so that she could come to the United States where she had family and where she believed she could gain protection by applying for asylum.
Upon arrival in Newark, New Jersey, Fauziya turned over her false passport and explained that she wanted to apply for asylum. To Fauziya's surprise, she was sent to the Esmor Immigration Detention Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey. At Esmor, Fauziya was put in a cold dark cell where she was told to strip naked. She was menstruating and asked if she could keep her underwear. The guard refused and Fauziya sat over the toilet, waiting for whatever was to happen next. Later that evening, a guard gave Fauziya some clothes, including two sandals to wear, both of which were for the right foot, and underwear which were stained and so big for her that she had to tuck them into her belt to keep them from falling down. Once while at Esmor, Fauziya was kept in isolation for five days because she washed her hands and face before sunrise in a ritual before her morning prayers. She was told she was breaking a rule prohibiting detainees from using the showers before 6 am. Fauziya was still incarcerated at Esmor in June 1995, when prisoners rioted due to the intolerable living conditions at the prison. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) admitted abuses of the immigrants, and Fauziya has stated that she was beaten by guards during the riots.
Since the riots, Fauziya has been shifted to various prisons. At each prison, she has endured horrible conditions. At Lehigh County Prison in Pennsylvania, Fauziya was kept in isolation for almost three weeks without ever being told why. While in isolation, she was not permitted to shower, and guards slid her food under the door to her cell.
Fauziya has never committed any crime. She came to the U.S. to seek protection, but instead, has passed her 17th and 18th birthdays in jail.
Fauziya's Asulum Case
On August 25, Fauziya's case was heard by Donald V. Ferlise, an immigration judge in Philadelphia. Judge Ferlise denied Fauziya's asylum claim based on his assumptions about the cultural norms and practices in Togo. The judge found it beyond belief and incredible that Fauziya had met both Rudina Gergs and the man who gave Fauziya the passport by chance. In addition, Judge Ferlise found it "inconsistent" that FGM is the norm in her tribe, yet she and her sisters had managed to escape it. The judge's finding came in spite of testimony by Professor Posnansky, an expert on Togo who testified for Ms. Kasinga, which verified the pervasiveness of the practice. Professor Posnansky stated under oath that it was very probable... that [Fauziya] was able to avoid FGM while her father was still alive.
On May 2, the BIA, the highest administrative court in the U.S. immigration system, will hear Fauziya's asylum claim. The BIA's decision will likely set important precedent that would be binding on the nation's 179 immigration judges.
Professor Karen Musalo, Supervising Attorney at WCL's International Human Rights Clinic, which is currently representing Ms. Kasinga, believes that Fauziya qualifies for asylum because she has a well-founded fear of persecution on account of her membership in the social group of young women of her tribe who are opposed to the tribal practices of FGM and forced polygamous marriages and have no protection against it. Professor Musalo also points out that there are no adverse discretionary factors which would justify a denial of relief. The INS has stated in its brief to the BIA that FGM can be a basis for asylum and it is not directly contesting Fauziya's credibility.
While her asylum case is pending, Fauziya remains in detention. A request for Fauziya's release on humanitarian grounds was denied in November. The International Human Rights Clinic currently is challenging detention and prison conditions through a petition for writ of habeas corpus in U.S. District Court. Twenty-five members of Congress have written a letter to the Attorney General requesting Fauziya's release and expressing their belief that FGM should be a basis for asylum. A press conference is scheduled for April 26 in support of Fauziya's release from detention.
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Unobtrusive measures such as physical traces and archival data are important alternatives to direct observation and surveys. Physical traces are the remnants, fragments, and products of past behavior. Physical-use traces are based on the accumulation of evidence (accretion measures) or are the result of selective wear (erosion measures). Furthermore, use traces can either result naturally, without any intervention by the investigator, or be planned by the investigator. Physical traces may provide important nonreactive (unobtrusive) measures of behavior and can be used as the sole dependent variable or in combination with other measures of behavior. Multimethod approaches to the study of behavior are particularly recommended because they reduce the chance that results are due to some artifact of the measurement process. In obtaining physical traces, an investigator must be aware of possible biases in the way in which traces accumulate or survive over time.
Archival data are found in records and documents that recount the activities of individuals, institutions, governments, and other groups. These sources of information are valuable because they provide a way of investigating the external validity of laboratory findings, assessing the effect of a "natural treatment" (such as a political assassination), analyzing the content of communications, and describing trends. Archival records are nonreactive measures of behavior and, like physical traces, can be used in multimethod approaches to hypothesis testing. The analysis of archival data typically requires some form of content analysis, a process that can involve problems of sampling and coding that are not unlike those that arise in the analysis of narrative records (see Chapter 3). Problems of selective deposit and selective survival must be investigated when archival data are used, and evidence should be presented showing that observed relationships are not spurious.
Unobtrusive measures can be an important alternative to more intrusive methodologies, permitting psychologists to do research on important issues with minimal risk to the participants.


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"Just A Goddamned Piece of Paper"
Billmon on why the "Trust him! He's the President!" approach to evaluating the constitutionality of government actions now favored by conservertarians may be suboptimal.
Billmon on why the "Trust him! He's the President!" approach to evaluating the constitutionality of government actions now favored by conservertarians may be suboptimal.
It is, of course, not surprising to see the bullshit-libertarian blogosphere taking a dive for Bush's illegal searches (although some principled conservatives and actual libertarians are clear about what's going on.) The ultimate example has to be Jeff Goldstein, who argues that the warrantless searches must not have violated the law because…Condi Rice and George Bush said so. Well, I'm convinced! (This is a unique theory of legal interpretation: if Republican political officials say that their actions are constitutional, the inquiry is over.) Particularly remarkable is his outrage over the fact that the President's warrantless searches continue to be criticized "even as the President stands firm and defends the practice." Yes, what is this country coming to where people will disagree with the President even when he asserts that he's right? You'd think we lived in a liberal democracy or something. (The word "lickspittle" seems grossly inadequate.) But, anyway, the fact that alleged libertarians who are enthusiastic supporters of Sam Alito despite their (less than nominal) support of abortion rights and civil liberties are rolling over again isn't exactly news, but a couple points should be emphasized.
The first is that the legal question here is unambiguous. Several conservative hacks have tried to use a distortion of FISA to argue otherwise, but the statute clearly forbids what Bush has openly admitted to having done. And then, of course, there's the Fourth Amendment, which is also clearly violated by these warrantless searches. King of the fake libertarians Glenn Reynolds tries to dance around the latter question, with distinctly unpersuasive results:
The wiretapping is not so clear: Most people fail to appreciate how limited their protection against government surveillance is, both under statutes and under constitutional law. And that's doubly so where international communications are concerned. (And, except for the small possibility of a constitutional-tort action, the main remedy for unconstitutional surveillance can be found in the exclusionary rule, which only comes into play if someone is prosecuted and the government tries to introduce the surveillance into evidence — meaning that, as with the exclusionary rule in general, the remedy is worthless if you're never charged with anything, say because you're innocent.)
Indeed, our Fourth Amendment protections are less than they should be (partly because people like the Reynolds-approved Alito keep getting appointed to the federal courts by the Republican Presidents and Senators he supports), but they certainly aren't so limited as to permit a systematic policy of warrantless searches ordered by the executive, and Reynolds carefully avoids saying that they are. Instead, he goes into a whole bunch of diversionary rambling about the exclusionary rule, all of which is beside the point. Again, yes, as everyone knows one problem with the exclusionary rule is that it provides a much more effective remedy to the guilty than to the innocent, and most people won't bother to file a civil claim when their Fourth Amendment rights are violated. But the question of whether there is an effective remedy is separate from the question of whether there was a constitutional violation. The violation doesn't suddenly vanish just because the innocent people whose rights were violated (most of whom, in this case, would seem to have no way of knowing that their rights were violated) don't sue. So Reynolds' only specific argument here is a non-sequitur. And unless one endorses John Yoo's Schmittian tautologies, there's simply no question that this policy violated the Fourth Amendment as well as FISA. And this is why, rather than explaining how , specifically, these warrantless searches could be constitutional in the face of the clear commands of the Fourth Amendment, Goldstein just babbles about his well-worn "Chimpy McHaliburton" strawman rather than making an argument.
The second point that's worth making here is that there is also no remotely credible national security justification for these plainly illegal searches. Is there reason to believe that the communications of terrorists couldn't be effectively monitored via the existing legal framework? Of course not. It's worth highlighting this passage from the original NYT article:
The standard of proof required to obtain a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is generally considered lower than that required for a criminal warrant; intelligence officials only have to show probable cause that someone may be "an agent of a foreign power," which includes international terrorist groups, and the secret court has turned down only a small number of requests over the years. In 2004, according to the Justice Department, 1,754 warrants were approved. And the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court can grant emergency approval for wiretaps within hours, officials say. Administration officials counter that they sometimes need to move more urgently, the officials said. Those involved in the program also said that the N.S.A.'s eavesdroppers might need to start monitoring large batches of numbers all at once, and that it would be impractical to seek permission from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court first, according to the officials.
As Josh Marshall points out, "in a quarter century, the FISA Court has rejected four government applications for warrants." And, moreover, the government is permitted to seek retrospective warrants in emergencies. It's obvious that if there is any reason to believe that terrorist communications (as opposed to, say, domestic political opponents) are being monitored obtaining a warrant is about as hard as finding wineries in the Napa Valley. Other than to simply assert his arbitrary wartime power, there's no good reason for this illegal policy.
And this is what's so chilling about Bush's defenders, which is a common feature of wartime violations of civil liberties: their fundamentally authoritarian mindset. Essentially, defending this policy depends on the assumption of a zero-sum game between civil liberties and national security. Defenders of the policy simply assume, without any independent logic, that because this policy violated civil liberties it must, somehow, contribute to protecting national security. But there's simply no reason to believe that it does. Even if you believe that formally illegal measures may be defensible in emergency situations, the national security justifications in this case don't come remotely close to meeting the necessary burden. This policy is simply transparent illegality in the service of nothing but the power aggrandizement of the Bush Administration.
The South American dreadnought race of the 1910s began with the Brazilian order of Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo from British yards. Not to be outdone, Argentina and Chile soon ordered battleships of their own. Chile ordered two battleships from British yards, while Argentina decided to go with and American supplier. This turned out to be an excellent choice. At the beginning of World War I, Great Britain seized both Chilean battleships and two Turkish battleships for incorporation into the Royal Navy. A Greek dreadnought, Salamis, under construction in Germany was never completed as the Germans decided to work on their own ships. It is unclear why the Germans did not follow British practice and simply seize the half-complete Salamis, although I suspect that they may have been motivated by a fear of offending Greece. An accident of timing allowed the British to escape what would have been a more troubling dilemma. The battlecruiser Kongo, built in a British yard to Japanese specifications, had been turned over to the Imperial Japanese Navy in late 1913. Kongo was, at the time of her construction, the largest and most powerful capital ship in the world. Although Japan was a British ally, and would eventually join the war against Germany, I suspect it would have been VERY difficult for the British to give her up.
Rivadavia was completed in late 1914, making she and her sister rough contemporaries of the US New York class. The design of Rivadavia was, in some ways, more advanced than that of the New Yorks. Rivadavia had a similar displacement (27000 tons), was powered by steam turbines, and could make almost 23 knots, 2 knots faster than the US ships. However, Rivadavia carried 12 12″ guns to New York's 10 14″, and had somewhat lighter armor. Rivadavia's armament was arranged in two superfiring turrets each fore and aft and two wing turrets, making she and Moreno the only battleships built in the United States to carry wing turrets. Rivadavia carried a single cage mast forward, making the ARA the only navy besides the USN to operate dreadnoughts with cage masts.
Upon their delivery to the ARA, Rivadavia and Moreno became the most powerful ships in South America. Battleship technology advanced rapidly in the first twenty years of the twentieth century. Whereas Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais had been among the most poweful ships in the world upon their completion in 1910, they were completely outclassed by the Argentine ships in 1915. Rivadavio probably was not the equal of Almirante Latorre, finally delivered to Chile after World War I, but the two Argentine ships made up the most powerful squadron in the area. Rivadavio also seems to have been better taken care of than the Brazilian ships. She received oil fired boilers during a major refit in the 1920s, and remained fairly active in the 1920s and 1930s.
World War II brought some mild tensions to South America. Brazil leaned very heavily toward the Allies, eventually joining the war (and making a significant contribution both on land and at sea) in 1942. Chile and Argentina were less forthcoming, both having significant Axis sympathies. Both Argentina and Chile would eventually declare war on Germany and Japan, but neither lent any meaningful contribution to the Allied cause. Rivadavia embarked on her last long cruise in 1946, visiting a number of South American ports before being placed in reserve. By 1952 Rivadavia was disarmed, and was struck from the ARA List in 1957. Had the ARA maintained Rivadavia for just another 25 years, she would have had the opportunity to be sunk by the Royal Navy in the Falklands War…
Trivia (Last week's winner was Jackdaw):
What was the last battleship to be destroyed in combat against other battleships?
I like Washburn a little bit more than most stat-heads; three of his last five years have been genuinely good, two have been mediocre. There are reasons to be concerned about his performance last year, regardless of his 3.20 ERA. He's just really, really not the kind of pitcher you want to on the hook for 4 years and $36 million. I mean, when you've gone and spent that, how much more could Millwood cost? Or Clement, who the Red Sox are dying to get rid of?
This is a bad offseason. It will be hard for the Reds to match this; they're already pretty far behind on the Womack/Everett comparison, the Casey trade was actually a GOOD move, and there aren't that many free agents left out there to waste money on.
This really gets to the rub:
There's only one way to scare the craven apologists in Category II: remind them of the very real possibility of a Hillary Clinton presidency in 2008 with unlimited powers against perceived terrorists, foreign and domestic. You mean you believed that all of those executive orders magically expire when your anointed security sock-puppet exits the White House as the worst executive ever?
The paranoia that conservatives regularly display regarding the Clinton presidency and the potential second Clinton presidency is astounding. Recall that Bill O'Reilly, for example, believed that the IRS was auditing him at the behest of the Clintons. And who could forget the Clinton murder list? How many of those who have leapt to the defense of the Bush administration on this one would be among the first to assail Hillary Clinton as a tyrant if she tried the same thing?
It's not even that hard to construct a scenario through which these state tools might be used against conservatives. Imagine that an Oklahoma City style attack happens on a larger scale, or that several Oklahoma City style attacks occur in a short period. Then imagine that the President of the NRA says something as stupid as he said the last time a Federal Building was bombed. If I were a paranoid right-winger and a member of several legitimate (and maybe not so legitimate) right wing organizations, I would be very concerned about the ability of the executive to do just about anything it wanted with me.
Clearly, Bush supporters do not lack the imagination to come up with such a scenario. What they lack is the intellectual honesty to accept the consequences of their arguments.
In other news, Glenn Reynolds is a hack. Shorter Glenn:
The fact that elements of GWB's legislative agenda have been defeated demonstrates that he is not a tyrant. Power would be within his grasp, were it not for those weak-minded fools in the Senate. They should be crushed without mercy…
AG does some nice work on the Army's commitment to FCS, or Future Combat Systems. I remain ambivalent about FCS, much in the same way that I'm ambivalent about DD(X) and the LCS.
FCS promises a lot; dominance anywhere on the combat spectrum is a lot. Whether it can deliver is in more question. There are two things that I find very problematic about it. First, FCS is being sold as a system; all of its constituent elements need to be delivered as a brigade unit. This doesn't suggest a lot of continuity within a unit or a lot of inter-operability between units. If things don't work quite right, or if some of the technologies don't come through, there are problems. Now, this represents to some extent a marketing decision on the part of the Army, as it wants everything. It is likely that many or most of the technologies associated with FCS would find their way into the Army regardless of whether the system as a whole is pursued.
My second issue regards dominance across the combat spectrum. In short, I just don't buy it. I think there are lots of good reasons to think that some of the technologies that increase our capabilities at the high level of the spectrum (extra firepower, centralized command based on information dominance, tight air-ground cooperation) actually REDUCE our capabilities at lower levels on the combat spectrum. In other words, the tactics and the technologies that work really well at killing a lot of people in a short amount of time don't work so well when the task is to make friends and find insurgents.
Now, most worrying about the above report is that the Army is willing to sacrifice (at least) six National Guard brigades in order to save part of the money needed for FCS. For obvious reasons, this sounds like a terrible idea to me. It's a bad idea with legs; bad now, bad for the future. While there are a lot of indications that the Army specifically and the Pentagon more generally are getting serious about counter-insurgency and stability operations, this suggests that they are willing to sacrifice counter-insurgent capability now and in the future for the FCS system. That's a real problem.
Dittosfan is indispensible regarding FCS issues.
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So the state of Georgia passed an unconstitutional law forcing people to show an ID card purchased from the state in order to vote. Lest there be any question about the intention of this legislation, the bill's sponsor "told the Justice Department that if black people in her district 'are not paid to vote, they don't go to the polls,' and that if fewer blacks vote as a result of the new law, it is only because it would end such voting fraud." This law was accepted as being consistent with the Voting Rights Act by Bush's hack appointments over the objections of career lawyers at the DOJ.
So what's the next move? Easy: 1)stop even allowing professional, expert lawyers to offer recommendations, and 2)appoint the only one of five lawyers who–unlike the two levels of courts who have reviewed it–thought the Georgia poll tax was legal to (I swear I'm not making this up) the Federal Elections Commission! And the lawyer in question was also a strong advocate of the practice, famous from Florida 2000, of "regular purges" of felons, people who have the same name as felons, people who have vaguely similar names to felons, black people who once received a ticket for jaywalking, etc., from the rolls.
But in 1920, it was conservative Southern Democrats who wanted to disenfranchise African-Americans, which is far more relevant!
We done went and got us some notice from the Gray Lady. I have a warm fuzzy feeling all over.
I wonder if they noticed that the review in question is not actually about the book in question… In fairness, it does touch on many of the same themes.
There is the bad "Hollywood's revenue is declining because…" argument, perfected by Michael Medved. The argument is that Hollywood is going broke because actors were too active in the 2004 elections and the movies are too liberal. In addition to being a classic post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, it faces an additional problem when you wrote a book in 1993 claiming that Hollywood's box office revenues would collapse because actors are too politically active and the movies are too liberal, and yet before 2005 revenues went up every single year. (This reminds me; this weekend may see the debut of my long-unawaited "Medved v. Bork: can you tell the difference?" quiz.)
Then there's the good argument, which you can see at Shakes' Sis. Her post has a lot of interesting things to say, doesn't try to claim that "Middle America" uniformly shares her politics, and also has a link to her excellent post about the degradation of the filmgoing experience. (I identify with a lot of that, and much of my moviegoing consists of matinees at arthouses; I virtually never see big new releases on Friday or Saturday nights anymore.) Still, I think she errs in simply assuming that Hollywood is suffering financially. As this NYT article points out, Hollywood isn't losing money; the one-year decline in domestic box office revenues is being more than made up for from other sources. As James Surowiecki recently pointed out, it doesn't make any difference to Hollywood whether a couple pays 20 bucks to see a movie in the theater or pays 20 bucks to buy the DVD. So the Medved/Apuzzo/Reynolds thesis lacks correlation, let alone causation. (And, of course, the tendency of such people to project their own political agenda onto the film audience faces additional problems, such as the dismal box office performance of such NRO cause celebres as Cinderella Man (#38 on the box office list as of this writing) and The Great Raid (#125.) And Brokeback Mountain, playing for a week and a half in 3 cities, has already tripled the take of America's Heart and Soul.)
Not that I think, of course, the fact that Hollywood is making more money suggests anything about the political content of films. Since I don't own shares in a Hollywood studio and rarely watch expensive Hollywood product, I could care less whether studios are making money, and trying to derive political points from fluctuations in Hollywood revenue is a game for hacks and idiots. But as far as the alleged crisis in Hollywood's finances, it simply doesn't exist.