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Speaking at the Oxford Literary Festival this week, Atonement writer Ian McEwan criticised parents who refused treatment for their children on religious grounds.
But Worcestershire Royal Hospital chaplain Rev David Southall said he felt the writer's opinions were "somewhat overstated".
Speaking about his forthcoming novella The Children's Act – the story of a Family Court judge forced to make a decision on the future of conjoined twins whose Catholic parents refuse to allow them to be separated – the Booker Prize-winning writer said: "I found generally that religion was distinctly unhelpful in making reasonable judgments.
"In the whole, the secular mind seems far superior in making reasonable judgments."
But Rev Southall said he did not entirely agree with the author's opinions.
"I think he perhaps needs to take the historical long view on the compassionate and caring traditions which faith groups have embedded in society over centuries," he said.
"I note that he is talking about situations at the edge of people's common experience – the illness of a child, the abuses and neglects which are commonplace and the perceived selfishness of modern parents.
"It seems that he takes exception to religious doctrine imposing practices which to him seem to be 'inhumane' and many, including myself, might find some resonances in what he has said."
Rev Southall said it was more important to understand the contexts in which people facing tragedies make rational decisions, saying: "Isn't that what we all do in the end, whether secular or religious?"
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Ex-Friend: Loughner Wanted Eyes of Public, Media
Says Alleged Shooter Was Once "Just a Regular Kid" Who Became Increasingly Isolated, Nihilistic
January 11, 2011
CBS) TUCSON - In the hours before Jared Lee Loughner allegedly opened fire outside a Tucson supermarket, killing six people, he reached out to an old friend.
Early Saturday morning about 2 a.m., Bryce Tierney's phone lit up. He didnt pick up - it displayed "restricted number" - but shortly afterwards Tierney listened to the voice mail and heard a quick, chilling message:
"Hey, it's Jared, we've had some good times and peace out."
Tierney, who was an old friend from high school and college, said he had not had contact with Loughner for almost a year, when he was receiving "really weird" text messages - "sort of like the weird, strange, under-the-radar sort of comments that he would make publicly, around people, that would make people feel real uncomfortable," Tierney said.
He described them as "nihilistic comments that make absolutely no sense."
As news of the deadly shooting spread through Tucson, his fears grew, thinking that the shooter may have been his old friend: "I'm not very sure who else would shoot Gabrielle Giffords, you know?"
On CBS' "Early Show" Tuesday, Tierney recalled Loughner's obsession with Giffords goes back to a 2007 event where Loughner posed a question which he didn't feel she answered, and became angry. Tierney said Loughner asked Giffords: "What is government if words have no meaning?"
"I was like, 'Wow, Jared, I can't believe they actually asked your question, because that's sort of ridiculous!'" Tierney said. "He seemed to dwell on the fact that she wouldn't answer his question. I think that was just like the start of it."
When asked if Loughner was the kind of person who wanted attention, Tierney said, "Attention? I would say more just the reaction, more of trolling for a reaction, and the eye of the public, and the eyes of the media, and stuff like that."
Tierney said his friend wasn't political, but he was increasingly frustrated with government.
"I knew Jared Loughner as just a regular kid," Tierney said. "I never thought I'd, you know, know him as a mass murderer."
Loughner stopped talking to his friends last March. In fact, he had no contact with Tierney in the ten months leading up to Saturday's voice mail. Tierney said, "He just seemed sort of down."
He said it's "a very strange, uncomfortable spot to be in, to know that you were possibly, like, one of the last people that he might have attempted to contact, you know, before doing this. It's pretty uncomfortable."
Tierney said he would have picked up the phone Saturday morning if he'd known it was Loughner - and that maybe things would have turned out differently.
"If I knew he was on the other line, I probably would have picked up the phone, I mean, purely based on the fact that I hadn't heard from him in a long, long time," Tierney told anchor Erica Hill. "It's hard to say, like, what I'd say to him because I'm really not sure what he was going to say to me, you know? But if I had the chance, I probably would have answered the phone just because it was a friend that I hadn't talked to in a long time trying, you know, to get back in contact."
"Do you think anything would have been different?" Hill asked.
"I think that's hard to say. But, you know, possibly," Tierney said.
When asked his reaction to Loughner's mug shot, Tierney said, "I think it's what everyone else's reaction was: It's a pretty creepy picture. I mean, it's very disturbing."
"Did you see anything in that face or in those eyes that was the Jared Loughner that you knew, who was a friend of yours?" Hill asked.
"Absolutely not, no. No."
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Jared Lee Loughner's parents alone with their anguish, neighbor says
January 10, 2011
Reporting from Tucson The parents of Jared Lee Loughner, accused of shooting Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 other people, were huddled in seclusion in their Tucson home Monday night, his father crying and his mother so shaken she could not get out of bed, a neighbor told The Times.
As the sun was beginning to set Monday, Randy Loughner called his neighbor, retired gasoline truck driver Wayne Smith, 70, to ask him to get their mail. Smith, who is not particularly close to the Loughners, grabbed the mail and was invited inside.
"They're in there now," Smith said in a subsequent interview with The Times. "They're both in there crying. He's crying and hanging on to me and she's not even out of bed."
Smith described the Loughners as very private and said they knew few people on their street, although they had lived in the neighborhood since before Jared, 22, was born. He said Jared was their only child. Smith said Loughner's mother, Amy, had a good job with good retirement and pay, and Randy was a stay-at-home dad who liked to work on cars.
"He worshipped the boy," Smith said.
Smith said that on Saturday morning just after 11, their quiet neighborhood suddenly filled with sheriff's patrol cars and FBI agents who cordoned off the Loughners' home. Smith said he saw the Loughners come home, with brown plastic grocery bags and bottles of water in the back of their old white pickup truck. The couple parked across the street from their house.
Then Smith saw a TV news report identifying Jared Lee Loughner as the suspect.
"I didn't even know their last name until Saturday," Smith said. But he knew their son's name was Jared.
He approached the Loughners. "I said, 'Guys, I hate to be the one to tell you, but he shot a bunch of people,'" Smith said. Amy Loughner, he said, "just come unglued."
All three wept together outside on Saturday. "We stood right out there and cried for an hour. I'm a softie," Smith said. "A man needs compassion. He's broken up about his son, but also about all those people who died."
Smith said the family is intensely private. "The best way I can describe it, they're like a mountain man," he said. "They want to be alone."
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January 11, 2011, 11:15:21 AM »
I believe that the parents saw a lot of red flags, I also believe that they didn't think he was capable of what he did, how many parents would? Also, we don't know if the parents tried to get Jared help, but since he was well over the age of 18, and if he didn't want help there isn't a whole lot you can do. I suppose you could have had him committed, but again, the parents probably didn't think he was that bad. If I am wrong I will gladly say I am. He sure appeared to be obsessed with the Congresswoman Giffords, and only he knows why that is. Also on all the ramblings going on, both on the internet and TV about all the vitriol statements and comments made by talk show hosts and politicians. Well no doubt there has been a lot of disgusting comments, actually for me disturbing, but in this case, I really don't think that is what pushed him over the edge IMO
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January 11, 2011, 11:29:21 AM »
Portrait of an isolated family Looks like I was wrong perhaps about the parents, interesting article.
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January 11, 2011, 11:44:56 AM »
Picture shows shrine in back of Jared Loughner's backyard
Updated: Jan 11, 2011 7:00 AM PST
Tucson, AZ (KGUN9) - Jared Lee Loughner made his first court appearance Monday afternoon in Phoenix. Loughner is the man accused of shooting more than a dozen people Saturday January 8th at a Safeway in Northwest Tucson.
Authorities searched Loughner's Tucson home. KGUN9 licensed this picture from Getty Images of a shrine in the back of Loughner's home. You can see a skull placed next to some candles. It's not known who took this picture and how they gained access to Loughner's home.
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Quote from: no rose colored glasses on January 11, 2011, 11:29:21 AM
Portrait of an isolated family Looks like I was wrong perhaps about the parents, interesting article.
From the article above:
But around 15 years ago the dynamic abruptly changed, Dahlstrom said.
So when Jared was around 7 something changed.
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That is a great question how someone got in that yard and took pictures. I really don't know what to think about the so called shrine, strange yes.
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Quote from: klaasend on January 11, 2011, 11:52:49 AM
Quote from: no rose colored glasses on January 11, 2011, 11:29:21 AM
Portrait of an isolated family Looks like I was wrong perhaps about the parents, interesting article.
From the article above:
But around 15 years ago the dynamic abruptly changed, Dahlstrom said.
So when Jared was around 7 something changed.
After reading the article, my mind was centered on that, Klaas. With varied comments from neighbors or parents of a kid who may have been a friend of Jared, it's hard to figure out what really was going on there.
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Arizonans Rally to Prevent Westboro Church Disruption of Shooting Victims' Funerals
January 11, 2011
Disgusted Arizona residents are locking arms to stop the Westboro Baptist Church from disrupting the funerals for victims of Saturday's shooting in Tucson, with bikers and others organizing a massive counter-protest and state lawmakers fast-tracking a bill to hamstring the so-called church.
The Kansas-based Westboro church is notorious for showing up at the funerals of dead soldiers and other high-profile gatherings wielding inflammatory anti-gay signs.
But when the church announced it would picket the funeral Thursday for the 9-year-old girl fatally shot over the weekend by a gunman at a Tucson grocery story who killed five others and injured 14 attending a town-hall session by Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Tucson- and Phoenix-area residents started organizing immediately.
They may not be able to stop them, but they plan on giving the grieving family as much of a buffer as possible between the protesters and the service.
"It makes me sick to my stomach," said Glen Littell, who's bringing a pack of bikers from the Phoenix Motorcycle Rider Group to Tucson on Thursday. "They're a stench from a slaughterhouse. We're just going to block the stench so the family can catch their breath."
Arizona state lawmakers are also scrambling -- to pass a bill that would order protesters to stay 300 feet away from the funeral. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the lead sponsor on the bill, said in an e-mail to colleagues that the plan is to suspend the rules Tuesday and fast-track the bill to protect the victims' families from the "hateful protest" from the Westboro Baptist Church.
She said she has the support of the Senate president and Gov. Jan Brewer, and the bill will go into effect "immediately" once it's signed.
"It's gonna happen," Sinema said. The senator said she was "real upset" after learning that the Westboro church planned on protesting but had a visceral reaction after reading their press release and sprung into action.
"It is the most disgusting thing I ever read in my entire life," she told FoxNews.com. "I literally threw up after I read it. I'm like, 'I'm gonna fix this.'"
Littell said his riders are not looking for any violent confrontations. But he told FoxNews.com that Arizona bikers are going to do "whatever we have to do" to cordon off the family from the protests. A group called the Patriot Guard Riders often does this when the Westboro church pickets military funerals, but Littell said that group is not traveling to Tucson, so "we're stepping in."
"Our sole purpose will be to allow that family some dignity and respect without having to worry about the a--holes," he said.
It's not clear whether the Westboro church intends to picket the funerals of all the victims of Saturday's attack. One press release from the group declared, "Thank God for the shooter," and said the group would picket the "funerals." Another release announced plans only for the protest on Thursday.
"God sent the shooter to deal with idolatrous America," the group said in a statement.
The Westboro church, led by Fred Phelps, believes that tragic events like the deaths of soldiers are punishment for tolerance of homosexuality.
The Supreme Court last fall heard arguments in a case brought against Phelps by the father of a soldier killed in Iraq whose funeral was protested by the group in 2006. The father, Albert Snyder, had won a multi-million dollar verdict against the church, claiming invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The court is expected to issue a ruling soon on whether free speech can be curbed at specific locations and events.
Sinema said the bill she was introducing is modeled on an Ohio law that has withstood court challenge. It would technically apply to protesters at any Arizona funeral, though Sinema was clear that it's directed at Westboro.
She said she hopes the protesters and counter-protesters avoid any violence at the service. Meanwhile, several grassroots groups have popped up on Facebook calling on Tucson residents to intervene.
"We will create a wall of humanity to allow the families who've lost their love ones to hold their funerals in peace, held with dignity, and surrounded in love," one of the Facebook groups says in a statement.
Another calls for a "peaceful protest" of the church at the funeral Thursday for 9-year-old Christina Green.
Littell has notified the Pima County Sheriff's Department and has reached out to several other biker groups notifying them of their planned presence at Green's funeral. He crossed his fingers that the Hells Angels would join them.
"Nothing says stand back and be silent like a Hells Angels presence," he said.
Littell added that if the church moves on to picket other funerals, his riders will follow.
"We're getting word there's gonna be a pretty large presence of bikers," he said. "Word's spreading. And spreading quickly."
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To make a family all of a sudden become so isolated, something very bad must have happened, how you go from friendly and nice to avoiding and not letting your child play with the other kids any longer, is just weird. We will probably find out more, and am curious what the prepared statement from dad is going to say?
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I sure hope the parents and family are buffered the best they can be from the Westboro Baptist Church
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Arizona lawmakers plan to block protesters within 300 feet of funerals
January 11, 2011
Tucson, Arizona (CNN) -- The Arizona State Legislature is expected to pass legislation Tuesday that will bar protesters at funerals from getting within 300 feet of services, a spokesman for the state Senate said.
The action, according to Senate spokesman Daniel Scarpinato, is in direct response to a controversial church's announcement that it will picket the funeral of Christina Green, the 9-year-old who was one of six people killed Saturday during the attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, has made its name by staging protests at funerals of people who died of AIDS, gay people, soldiers and even Coretta Scott King.
Tucson just isn't that kind of town, says Christin Gilmer.
"For something like this to happen in Tucson was a really big shock to us all," she said. "Our nightmare happened when we saw Westboro Baptist Church was going to picket the funerals."
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In addition to the expected legislation, some Tucson residents are planning an "angel action" -- with 8-by-10-foot "angel wings" worn by participants to shield mourners from picketers. Angel actions were created by Coloradan Romaine Patterson, who was shocked to find the Topeka church and its neon signs outside the 1999 funeral of Matthew Shepherd, a young gay man beaten and left on a fence to die in Laramie, Wyoming.
"We want to surround them, in a non-violent way, to say that our community is united," Gilmer said. "We're a peaceful haven."
"You don't mess with Tucson," said Gilmer, 26, who described it as "a little dot of blue in a sea of red."
But political persuasions don't matter, she said. Republicans, Democrats, independents, right, left and center -- they've all offered their support. Forty-two people have signed up on a Facebook page called "Build Angel Wings for the Westboro Funeral Counter-Protest and Meeting" and more than 4,500 have signed up on another page to "Show Support for the Families of the Tucson Shooting Victims."
Jeff Rogers, the chairman of the Pima County Democratic Party, said Tuesday that his organization as well as the local Republican Party also will ask people to line the funeral routes to form a barricade if the church follows through on its planned protest.
"People, businesses, they're all donating material and money to build the angel wings," said Gilmer, who is helping organize the action. And, she added, they're donating to a fund created to help pay for services for the victims of the shooting.
Chelsea Cohen, a 20-year-old senior at the University of Arizona who launched the "Show Support" Facebook page, said she never expected such a response.
"Once I heard that the Westboro Baptist Church was coming, I felt like something should be done to show support for the families," she said. "I don't have any experience in organizing these things. I thought I might get 50 to 100 people."
Cohen said she thinks many of the 4,500 people who've signed up on the Facebook page will be there "in spirit" on Thursday, when mourners gather for the funeral of Christina Taylor Green, who was born on September 11, 2001. But she added, Tucson is an active town, and the response isn't likely to be small.
"This isn't a counter-protest," she said. "We wanted it to show support for the families and to show that Tucson is there with love and support."
They don't want to interfere with the funeral in any way, Cohen said.
"We plan on being completely silent, and we're asking people not to bring signs or make comments about the Westboro Baptist Church," she said.
The angels will be doing the same thing.
"We're going to silently stand there so people can mourn the death of a 9-year-old girl who died in a senseless tragedy," Gilmer said.
Cohen said several groups are planning to be at the funeral to show their support, and there is an effort afoot to bring them all together "into one group so we can all be on the same page."
"I hope that everyone there can convey the peaceful message that we want to convey, she said
And if the church picketers persist, the silent supporters will be on hand for the funerals of U.S. District Judge John Roll, Gabriel Zimmerman, Dorothy Morris, Dorwin Stoddard and Phyllis Schneck, the other five victims of Saturday's shooting. Giffords, who was shot in the head and is in critical condition, and 13 other people were wounded.
Westboro Baptist Church, founded by its spiritual leader, Fred Phelps, and run mostly by family members, did not respond to a request for an interview in time for this article. But a flier released by the church about the picket targets the Roman Catholic Church because Christina and her family were members.
"God hates Catholics!" the flier, posted on the church's "God Hates Fags" website, says. "God calls your religion 'vain,' as it's empty of His truth; you worship idols!"
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Doctor: Giffords breathing on her own
Ariz. congresswoman remains on a breathing tube to protect against complications
January 11, 2011
NEW YORK Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is breathing on her own, one of the doctors treating her said Tuesday.
Dr. Michael Lemole, the chief of neurosurgery at University Medical Center in Tucson, said at a news conference that the congresswoman is still following simple commands, although she remains on a breathing tube to protect against complications such as pneumonia. She's alert and responding to doctors.
Earlier Tuesday Lemole told TODAY there were no significant changes in her condition overnight. "As frustrating as that may sound, that's a good thing," Lemole said.
When asked about swelling in her brain on the third day, Lemole said a CAT scan early Tuesday showed no increase in swelling, although he cautioned that it can sometimes take longer for the condition to peak. Nearly half of Giffords' skull was removed to alleviate any swelling.
She has given a thumbs-up sign and tried to grab at the breathing tube, an encouraging sign of the level of consciousness and her reaction to pain.
"The fact that she's able to register that discomfort and then react to it, again, it means the brain is working on a higher level," Lemole said.
Without speculating on the congresswoman's long-term prognosis, Lemole said she has the "full range" of recovery ahead of her.
"I've seen people in this scenario make very little improvement and require constant care, and I've seen other people ... who have made remarkable recoveries -- functional recoveries -- and gone back to work," Lemole said. People who suffer penetrating traumatic brain injuries often develop paralysis and cognitive problems.
Usually with a penetrating injury through the skull, survival and recovery is "abysmal," said Lemole at the news conference. "She has no right to look this good."
Giffords is expected to remain in the ICU for at least another week.
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Wednesday's mass memorial opens doors at 4 p.m.
Posted: Jan 11, 2011 10:23 AM
TUCSON - The mass memorial service scheduled for Wednesday will open to the public at 4 p.m. at the McKale Center on the UA campus.
Together We Thrive: Tucson and America," is free and open to the campus and greater Tucson community, according to a UA press release.
President Obama and the First Lady are planning on attending the service, which will begin a 6 p.m.
Attendees are encourages to show up early, as a capacity crows is expected, and there will be heavy security as part of the President's visit.
The event will include remarks by President Obama, UA President Robert Shelton, state and federal officials and members of the Associated Students of the UA.
The event will also include a Native-American blessing, a moment a silence, a poetry reading, and presentation of messages from the public.
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Giffords in key period after brain injury
By Elizabeth Landau, CNN
(CNN) -- After surviving a gunshot wound to the head at a political event Saturday, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords remains in critical condition, and Tuesday was seen as significant in her recovery.
The brain tends to swell the most on the third day after a traumatic injury, and it's a very good sign if she makes it past the third and fourth day, said Dr. Keith Black, chairman of the Cedars-Sinai Hospital Department of Neurosurgery in Los Angeles, who is not involved in treating Giffords.
She has a breathing tube to protect her lungs, but is generating her own breaths, said Dr. Michael Lemole, chief of neurosurgery at University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona, at a news conference Tuesday. Doctors say Giffords has been responsive to commands.
"It's simply asking her to raise fingers, to squeeze on their fingers. It's not at a point yet where they can ask her to talk, because she's still on a respirator. But the signs that she is conscious are manifesting and we're very excited," Mike McNulty, Giffords' campaign chairman and close friend, told CNN's John King on Monday.
The first week or two is considered the acute and critical care stage, said Dr. M. Sean Grady, chief of neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, who is not involved in Giffords' care. After that, the degree and duration of recovery depend on how much tissue was damaged, and what the consequences of that damage are. Knowing the extent of impairment is impossible before Giffords wakes up, he said.
Recovery will take several months, even up to a year and a half, experts say.
Gunshot wounds to the head are fatal in more than 90% of cases, and many patients die before arriving at a hospital, according to neurosurgery experts at the University of California, Los Angeles.
About 1.7 million people experience traumatic brain injuries each year; of them, 52,000 die, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Women are less likely than men to suffer them. About 80% of patients with traumatic brain injuries receive treatment and are released from an emergency department.
ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, who nearly died five years ago from an IED explosion in Iraq, is such a survivor. He wrote Monday that in a way, Giffords' case seems more hopeful than his own, because she has responded to simple commands at a stage when he did not, and interventions have improved even since his injury.
"Medicine has never been so advanced as it is today. If I was hit five years earlier I really don't believe I would have survived. I know in my heart that she will recover as well," Woodruff wrote.
"Still it takes so much longer to regain what we once had. There is no medicine or science or facts that can prove the power of the family. I was surrounded by my wife, parents, children and friends and that made this trip much faster."
James Brady, who was President Reagan's press secretary, suffered a brain injury during an assassination attempt on Reagan in 1981. He is partially paralyzed, and has impairments in speech and memory.
"The brain is just as treatable as any other organ in the body; it's just that yes, it's a lot more delicate," said Dr. Stephan Mayer, director of the Neurological Intensive Care Unit at Columbia University Medical Center, who is not involved in Giffords' care.
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have actually helped U.S. surgeons advance their techniques in treating traumatic brain injuries, Mayer said. Brain injury is the signature of modern warfare, and surgeons faced with a plethora of patients from missiles, blasts and explosions have developed a better understanding of how to help the brain heal.
Dr. Peter Rhee, Giffords' surgeon at University Medical Center in Tucson, told the Los Angeles Times his years of experience doing battlefield casualty care in the Navy prepared him for situations like treating Giffords and other victims of Saturday's shooting. But it also put things in perspective: "When we have a mass casualty of 11 people here, it's really not as bad as it can get," he told the Times.
The craniectomy, the procedure that Giffords underwent -- which involves removing portions of the skull to allow the injured brain room to swell -- is one of those advances that had success in Iraq, and have subsequently become more common in the U.S., Mayer said. U.S. doctors feared this procedure would leave patients as vegetables, or with a lifetime of misery and suffering. They didn't understand the point of leaving the skull bone off. But the brain is "more resilient and plastic than we thought," Mayer said.
Neurosurgeons distinguish between "penetrating" injuries, such as bullets that go through the brain, and "blunt" injuries, which refer to the trauma of hitting one's head against an object or the floor, for example. A bullet creates a focused wound to the brain, concentrated in one area, while a concussion or other blunt injury creates more diffuse harm, said Grady.
Because it's easier to know which tissue is damaged, a focused wound can be better from the surgeon's point of view, Grady said. However, in some cases, the blast wave of a bullet can spread through brain tissue, impacting multiple areas.
Both of these forms of brain injury have significant neurological consequences, and can cause spinal fluid leaks and infection, Grady said.
"It's a little bit like Humpty Dumpty, we're not able to put brains back together again," Grady said. Still, "the brain is capable of remarkable recovery," he said.
In Giffords' case, the bullet entered and exited only the left hemisphere of the brain. If Giffords was lucky enough to not have certain areas critically damaged, she has a good chance to make a substantial recovery, Grady said.
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Tucson shooting victim shielded wife from hail of bullets
January 11, 2011
(Reuters) - An elderly man who died using his body to shield his wife from a withering hail of bullets when a gunman sprayed a crowd in Tucson on Saturday, was remembered for his heroics on Tuesday.
Dorwan Stoddard, a 76-year-old retired construction worker, died saving his wife, Mavanelle, by covering her on the ground as the gunmen shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others at a street corner congressional outreach event.
"We are just blessed that he is walking with the Lord now, but what a way to go," Mavanelle's daughter Angela Robinson, said during a morning news conference at Tucson's University Medical Center on Tuesday, at which the relatives of the dead and wounded joined medical staff to tell their stories.
A 22-year-old college dropout, Jared Lee Loughner, made his first court appearance on Monday on five federal charges, including the attempted assassination of Giffords, who remains in critical condition.
Among the dead were a federal judge, a congressional aide to Giffords and nine-year-old student Christina Taylor-Green, who was being escorted to the event by a family friend to get a glimpse of government in action.
This was the second love match for the retired couple -- they were boyfriend and girlfriend in sixth grade. After both had 40-year marriages end in a spouse's death, they were reunited through a cousin and soon became a couple again, Robinson said.
Only after going with her husband to the emergency room did Mavanelle realize she had also been shot. She was listed in fair condition on Monday and is doing well, despite the traumatic ordeal, another daughter Penny Wilson said.
"She is doing quite well, I think," Wilson said. "She has a lot of strength."
Also at the news conference was Bill Hileman whose wife Susan was shot three times and suffered a broken hip at the store, while escorting Taylor-Green to the "Congress on the Corner" event.
Hileman said his wife was having "flashbacks" to the incident during moments of transition between sleep and waking, Bill Hileman said.
"She's calling out ... 'Christina, Christina! let's get out of here! Let's get out of here!" he said.
Hileman's voice wavered as he struggled to describe how he told his wife that the girl had died. He said that as soon as Susan had a tube removed, allowing her to talk, she asked about the girl.
"She grabbed my hand and looked in my eyes and said, 'What about Christina?'" he said.
(Writing by Tim Gaynor, editing by Greg McCune)
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As a christain and a baptist, I am thoroughly humiliated by Westboro church. They are just extremists as any other radical terrorist religion. They make a mockery of real christians. I wish I could be there to help in the wall to keep those freaks out! Lord have mercy, they are planning a protest in a childs funeral? How disgusting! God Bless all those bikers!
It is so good to hear of Gabby's improvement (though caucious), it's very encouraging. And the story of the older couple, where the husband protected his life long love. How heartbreaking, but inspirational. This is all so tragic!
I'm not sure about the parents, as we really don't know the whole story. But as a parent, I have to feel sympathy right now, as I couldn't imaging one of my children doing that. Signs or not, you just don't want to believe that. (Unlike the Anthonys, who have ALL the evidence in thier faces and remain in denial or obviously hiding something for their precious daughter)
Aaaarrgghh, these cases drive me nuts!
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Interesting article about the family, and about the day of the shooting.
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President to be nation's consoler at memorial. I hope that people will respect what he has to say, and not start ripping the speech apart right and left
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Though reps for the stars have yet to comment, sources say "they're taking it slow. They're on the road back to being together again."
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"Thanks to the person for whom this whole video was made: Jimmy Kimmel, who broke my heart – ohh, who'll always have a place in my heart," she said.
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Doctors:Pakistani girl shot by Taliban to undergo final surgery to cover hole in her skull (Malala)
Source: The Washington Post
LONDON A Pakistani girl whose defiance of the Taliban turned her into an international icon is headed toward a full recovery once she undergoes a final surgery to reconstruct her skull, doctors said Wednesday.
Dr. Dave Rosser of Birminghams Queen Elizabeth Hospital said that 15-year-old Malala Yousufzai needs the operation to replace the bone shattered when a Taliban gunman, angered at her objection to the groups restrictions on girls education, sent a bullet through her skull. Rosser said that Malala had made a remarkable recovery.
Shes very lively, shes got a great sense of humor, Rosser told journalists at the hospital. Shes not naive at all about what happened to her and the situation shes looking forward to in terms of being a high-profile person, and potentially a high-profile target. Shes not naive to any of that, but she remains incredibly determined, incredibly cheerful and incredibly determined to speak for her cause.
That cause has turned Malala into a symbol for a girls right to an education.
At the age of 11, she began writing a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC about life under the Taliban in Pakistans picturesque Swat Valley, which Taliban militants briefly overran. After the military ousted them in 2009, she began publicly speaking out about the need for girls education. She appeared frequently in the media and was given one of the countrys highest civilian honors for her bravery.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/doctors-pakistani-girl-shot-by-taliban-to-undergo-final-surgery-to-cover-hole-in-her-skull/2013/01/30/7e29b634-6ad3-11e2-9a0b-db931670f35d_story.html
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Wed Jan 30, 2013, 02:53 PM
niyad (58,398 posts)
1. k and r--thank you for posting this. I had intended to see if there was an update on her condition.
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Wed Jan 30, 2013, 03:03 PM
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2. She is very fortunate...
...and we are very fortunate...
From the article:
Asked whether Malala showed any signs of brain damage such as memory loss or hormonal changes Rosser said doctors had seen none.
The world will have strong young women like Malala to continue the struggle for women's rights.
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It's time our home made a better first impression. I'm talking about the good ole' front door. I've been holding off on painting it because it's really a larger project which involves taking it off the frame, ripping out the rotten siding, and leveling everything out. With Ryder's 1st birthday fast approaching, I realized it would only cost me a quart of paint and it could appear to be a brand new door (as long as you haven't had your V8 when staring at it).
It's a sea of fun color choices at the Benjamin Moore store. I've been dreaming of a turquoise door for awhile, but most people think I'm crazy. Am I?
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the light color matches the cushions? I think the dark are too dark – if you use the light would you use that on the entire door or use an accent in the panels or frame of the panels – and if so they it will certainly be broken up so I say "go with it!"
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Day 1: Arrival in Medan. Overnight stay in Hotel Deli River situated just outside Medan in the middle of a tropical garden. Here you can rest after the long journey or make a walk in the neighborhood.
Day 2: Medan - Bohorok. In the morning there is a city tour of Medan taking in the remaining original Dutch, English, Chinese and Malay architecture. Around twelve o'clock we depart for Bohorok (Bukit Lawang) via many rubber and palm oil plantations. Overnight stay in the jungle on the banks of the beautiful Bohorok River.
Day 3: Bohorok. In this impressive nature reserve you can see the orangutans feeding in their natural environment. This involves a 45 minutes walk through the jungle to reach the feeding grounds of the orangutan. The sportive hiker can take exciting jungle trips here. However walkers must be fit and have suitable, large profile shoes. Overnight stay in Bohorok.
Day 4: Bukit Lawang - Brastagi. You will make a trip along a fascinating route to the mountain village of Brastagi in the Karo Highlands. Here you can view two active volcanoes, the Sibayak and the Sinabung. In Brastagi you can visit the colorful fruit market and the Karo Batak traditional villages in Peceren. Overnight stay in Brastagi.
Day 5: Brastagi - Samosir. Via a lovely route through the Karo highlands via pineapple, clove and ginger plantations. Stops en route at the tribal kings' house of the Simalungun Batak in Pematang Purba and the Sipiso Piso falls. In the afternoon you arrive in Prapat at Lake Toba from where you cross the lake to the island of Samosir. The car goes with you. Overnight stay on Samosir island right on the lakeside.
Day 6: Samosir. During the tour over this picturesque island you visit typical Toba Batak villages: Tomok with its kings' tombs, Ambarita with its execution tables and in Simanindo you can see traditional Batak dances. Overnight stay on Samosir.
Day 7: Samosir. Today you can take nice walks or have a swim in the lake. Overnight stay on Samosir.
Day 8: Samosir - Padang Sidempuan or Sipirok. In the morning you cross the lake back to Prapat. From here you travel along the south side of Lake Toba, with beautiful rice fields and the huge Batak kings' graves, to Padang Sidempuan or Sipirok in South Tapanuli. En route you pass the hot sulphur springs at Sipoholon. Overnight stay in Padang Sidempuan or Sipirok.
Day 9: Padang Sidempuan - Sipirok - Bukittinggi. At Bonjol you cross the equator. The route to Bukittingi in the Minangkabau highlands goes straight through the Bukit Barisan mountain ridge of Sumatra. It is an impressive tour during which you drive through a wall of tropical rain forest. In the afternoon you arrive at the cool and pleasant town of Bukittingi. Overnight stay in Bukittingi.
Day 10: Bukittinggi. In the morning there is a tour to the former Fort De Kock, situated at a strategic point on a high mountain. After then you visit the market and the famous 'Karbouwengat' (Ngarai Sianok), the impressive canyon beside the city. Around noon we depart for the Minangkabau Palace in Pagaruyung where you will see various aspects of the matriarchal society of the Minangkabau. Our next destination is the Harau nature reserve, famous for its huge rock formations and delightful butterflies. En route you pass Batusangkar where you will see historic rock inscriptions in Hindu-Indian Sanscrit language. In the evening we return to Bukittinggi via Lake Singkarak. Overnight stay in Bukittingi.
Day 11: Bukittinggi - Maninjau. Today you proceed to Maninjau via the silver village of Kota Gadang on the other side of the Karbouwengat. For the sportive hiker the one hour walk through the deep Karbouwengat to Kota Gadang is a must! From Kota Gadang you will be picked up by the car for departure to the mysterious lake Maninjau, descending to the lake via the road with 44 curves. The lake is clean and still and excellent for swimming. Overnight stay in Maninjau.
Day 12: Maninjau - Padang. Today you go to Padang via the beautiful Anai valley with the Anai waterfall. The harbor city of Padang on the Indian Ocean is the economic center of West Sumatra. On arrival there is a city tour of Padang. Overnight stay in Padang.
Day 13: Padang - Sungai Penuh (Kersik Tuo). Impressive route along the western coastal route. Overnight stay in a simple accommodation in Kersik Tuo in the famous Kerinci nature reserve.
Day 14: Kersik Tuo. Excursion in the Kerinci Seblat national park. For the seasoned hiker magnificent hikes with a local guide can be arranged. Of special interest are Lake Kerinci and the volcano Kerinci. Overnight stay in Kersik Tuo.
Day 15: Kersik Tuo - Bengkulu. Bengkulu was subject to British influence in the eighteenth century of which still remnants can be seen. A famous example is Fort Malioboro (Marlborough), a former British stronghold. Overnight stay in a nice hotel with a view to the seashore.
Day 16: Bengkulu. You can make a tour in the surroundings along the beautiful coast or discover the old city of Bengkulu. Wellworth a visit is the fort of Malioboro. Overnight stay in Bengkulu.
Day 17: Bengkulu - Palembang. From the province of Bengkulu we drive east to the city of Palembang in South Sumatra. The important historic harbor city of Palembang on the shores of the Musi River is the second town of Sumatra. Overnight stay in Palembang.
Day 18: Palembang. City tour and boat excursion on the Musi River. Eight hundred years ago Palembang was the center of the Sriwijaya Empire of which there are still remnants. In the eighteenth century the city was an important trade center for the Dutch. We can see the Old Dutch fort and the former Governor house. A boat trip on the wide Musi River is highly recommended. Overnight stay in Palembang.
Day 19: Palembang - Bandar Lampung. Today is a long journey through the province of South Sumatra to Bandar Lampung. Overnight stay in a hotel with a beautiful view over the Sunda straights, between Java and Sumatra.
Day 20: Bandar Lampung - Way Kanan. At the end of your Sumatra tour you go to one of the wildlife highlights of Sumatra, the Way Kanan nature reserve. In this undiscovered area you will overnight on an open spot on the Way Kanan riverside in simple lodges of the forest rangers.
Day 21: Way Kanan. A boat trip on the silent Way Kanan jungle river will enable you to see many animals from nearby. You sail under trees with screaming apes and you experience the fascinating tropical rainforest for yourself. Way Kanan is an adventure you won't forget. Overnight stay in Way Kanan.
Day 22: Way Kanan. Excursion to the elephant training center in Way Kambas. In the past the elephants were a threat to the local farmers as they destroyed the crops. Nowadays elephants are trained to work in the woods and as a tourist attraction. In Waykambas you can see elephants playing football. In the afternoon you arrive in Bandar Lampung for overnight stay in a nice hotel with view over the Sunda straights.
Day 23: Bandar Lampung. Overnight stay in Bandar Lampung.
Day 24: Bandar Lampung. Transfer to the airport for your next destination. End of a special Sumatra tour.
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In Bertolt Brecht's play Life of Galileo, Galileo says "Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority". This certainly proved to be the case for Galileo, and is the basis for Tey's thesis in this brilliant and original detective story.
Scotland yard Inspector Alan Grant is laid up in hospital and is bored witless. He happens upon a portrait of Richard III, and is convinced that the face could not be that of a murderer as conventional history asserts.
So he sets out to prove it. In a fascinating review of the history, Tey manages to maintain tension and interest in an investigation run from a hospital bed and to deliver a satisfying finale, irrespective of the truth of the matter.
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Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world's most heinous villains u a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother's children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the usurpers of England's throne?
Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard Plantagenet really was and who killed the Princes in the Tower.
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I purchased this book shortly after the remains of Richard III were discovered and identified recently. It was written quite a long time ago and the style is a bit dated, however it presents an interesting and thought provoking alternate view regarding the much maligned king, his so called malevolence, and the fate of the young princes in the tower. It has given me a new perspective on just how much trust we should place in historical 'fact'.
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As true winter arrives in most of the country your fishing options become more limited. Limited doesn't mean they don't exist, however. You just have to look at things a little differently and develop a different mindset. Let's talk about the weather first.
It can get really nasty in late November through December. Strong winds, bitter cold and generally miserable conditions are common throughout much of the United States. Fishing can be really tough. When you're faced with those conditions flipping and pitching might be your only option. I'm not saying it'll always be a great one. I'm saying it's all you've got.
Try fishing the heaviest, nastiest cover you can find that's next to deep water. The fish often retreat back into the heavy stuff to wait out the storm. I almost always go with a 1/2-ounce, Strike King Denny Brauer Pro-Model Jig. I want something that I can work slow as I thoroughly explore every inch of the cover. The water is almost always clear, so I go with color Number 46 (green pumpkin).
Slow and thorough is key. When bass retreat from a winter storm they often hold very tight to the cover. And, they won't eat anything that doesn't fall right in front of them. Cover every inch of water from every angle.
If the weather's a little better, but the water's still really cold, an often overlooked opportunity for bigger fish is along riprap banks that drop into deep water. Almost every lake and river has one or two. I usually pitch riprap banks. You can get a better angle — I like something close to 45 degrees — on the rock that way and not lose so many jigs and still catch plenty of fish. (Fishing a riprap bank at the wrong angle with a jig can get expensive.)
It probably won't surprise you that I use my 1/2-ounce jig in Number 46 for this kind of fishing. If I want a little more bulk, I'll put a 3X chunk on my jig. The thing is, though, make sure whatever you use doesn't have much movement to it. Nothing at this time of the year is moving very fast in the water. Natural looking works. Unnatural looking doesn't work.
A third option is to look for any mats that are still living, or at least that have some green to them. I said last time to avoid any mat that's dead or dying. That advice is even more important now. Reread my last lesson for advice on how to fish them and for information on picking the right lure and color.
This is a flipping and pitching column. Nevertheless, it wouldn't be complete if I didn't point out that baitfish can be found in deep pods at this time of the year. Bass often lay under them, sometimes a lot of bass. You can't flip or pitch to them but you can catch the fire out of them with a spoon or a tube. Keep that in mind.
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When Kristjan Thorkelson was studying pharmacy at the University of Manitoba, he was so short of cash he had to borrow $250 from the dean to pay the fee to write his provincial board exam.
After graduating in 1991, Mr. Thorkelson and some fellow graduates opened a couple of pharmacies around Winnipeg but he eventually found a far more lucrative line of work – selling prescription drugs online. Today Mr. Thorkelson's CanadaDrugs.com is the largest online pharmacy in Canada, with 500 employees filling more than 3,000 prescriptions every day for customers in the United States and roughly 100 other countries. The business has done so well for Mr. Thorkelson he donated $500,000 to the U of M's pharmacy program, which named a laboratory in his honour.
But now CanadaDrugs has been caught up in an international investigation into allegations that counterfeit versions of the cancer drug Avastin recently made their way to the United States. The company denies any involvement in the allegations but the probe has shed new light on an industry created largely in Canada that has grown exponentially in recent years and become a global giant with distribution networks stretching from the Middle East to China to North America.
Experts say the network has become so vast and complex, with some drugs moving through several countries, it has become an easy target for counterfeiters to exploit. The U.S. National Association of Boards of Pharmacy has estimated that up to 5 per cent of all prescription drugs sold in the United States are fake and it said the figure is rising rapidly annually.
The probe, which includes regulators in Britain, the United States, Turkey and elsewhere, surfaced last month after drug maker Swiss-based Roche Holdings A.G. confirmed that some shipments of fake Avastin had been sold to 19 American medical practices. The Food and Drug Administration has subpoenaed several doctors for information about CanadaDrugs and one of its suppliers, Global Drug Supply Ltd., one of many Barbados-based companies controlled by Mr. Thorkelson's brother-in-law, Tom Haughton.
Mr. Thorkelson was not available for comment Wednesday. Brock Gunter-Smith, CanadaDrugs's chief business development officer, said the company has never sold Avastin. "To the best of our knowledge, the FDA is not investigating Canada Drugs," Mr. Gunter-Smith said in an e-mail. "Canada Drugs is in no way involved in the Avastin issue."
Mr. Haughton confirmed the probe to the Wall Street Journal but said his company had no idea the drugs were counterfeit. "We're deeply horrified by this counterfeit [product]being sold by one of my companies," Mr. Haughton told the newspaper.
The legality of selling medicine over the Internet, particularly in the United States, has always been murky. Technically it's illegal to import drugs into the United States that have not been manufactured at an FDA-approved facility. But enforcing the law has been difficult and politically unpopular. That's because these drugs are often far less expensive than similar products sold in the United States, thanks largely to Canada's drug pricing regulations.
Mr. Thorkelson took his cue years ago from Andrew Strempler, a fellow Manitoba pharmacist who launched an online drug business in 2000 after buying a box of Nicorettes and selling it online through eBay at roughly half the price the smoking-cessation gum sold for in the United States. Mr. Thorkelson started CanadaDrugs shortly afterward and by 2003 there were about 150 online pharmacies in Canada, roughly half based in Manitoba.
"I think [Mr. Thorkelson]had pretty good business sense and he made the right decisions at the right time," said Steven Sawchuk, a Winnipeg pharmacist and one of Mr. Thorkelson's former partners.
Discount prices and the low Canadian dollar translated into big profits for these companies at the time. While Mr. Strempler and some others flashed their new-found wealth with multimillion-dollar homes and expensive cars, Mr. Thorkelson kept a low profile, doggedly building his business.
The others "were guys that went out and purchased Lamborghinis and got their faces on the cover of Fortune magazine," said David Zimmer, who runs a rival business called thecanadianpharmacy.com. "I'd say it was far away from Kris's character. He's very quiet, he's very intelligent, he's very unassuming."
But the growth of the industry also raised the ire of the FDA and drug manufacturers who balked at seeing their products sold at cut-rate prices in the United States. A battle ensued with many Americans, particularly seniors, siding with the Canadian companies and pushing their legislatures to open the doors to the online pharmacies. By the time a truce came in 2006 and the drug companies backed off, the battle had taken its toll and most of the Canadian players either went under or sold their business to Mr. Thorkelson, including Mr. Strempler.
Today there are less than two dozen Canadian online drug sellers and CanadaDrugs dominates the field, boasting of having more than one million customers.
Also fuelling CanadaDrugs's expansion has been the company's foray into what is known as the "parallel trade" of drugs, experts say. Parallel trading developed in Europe years ago when drug wholesalers and pharmacies started buying low-cost drugs in one European Union country and re-selling them at a higher price in another EU country. That practice has since expanded worldwide and many drugs now follow a convoluted network of dealers around the world.
Mr. Haughton, a Canadian citizen married to Mr. Thorkelson's sister Maryanne, has set up dozens of online drug companies and distributors in Barbados and Britain and some supply CanadaDrugs. Mr. Haughton was unavailable Wednesday but he acknowledged to the Wall Street Journal that one of his companies, Montana Healthcare Solutions, inadvertently distributed counterfeit Avastin in the U.S. None of the drugs came to Canada, according to the drug's manufacturer, Switzerland-based Roche Holding AG.
Officials at Health Canada said they are not part of the investigation that includes regulators in Britain and Turkey.
Mr. Gunter-Smith said Montana Healthcare is a separate business that serves different groups. "There is no evidence that any tainted product has ever come through CanadaDrugs, but we are doing everything possible to mitigate any future concern," he added.
For now Mr. Zimmer and others still standing in the business are watching the saga closely. "At the end of the day I feel kind of bad for Kris Thorkelson. He's always been a model for our industry about how you want to build your business and your approach to business and his ethics," Mr. Zimmer said. "These things he's been involved in recently, I think they could happen to anyone. Whether you're a Canadian community pharmacy, a mail-order pharmacy, an international wholesaler, you have to depend on the entire integrity of the entire chain."
When it comes to selling pharmaceuticals in the U.S., the rules are simple: If the drugs weren't approved by the Food and Drug Administration or produced in a facility the regulatory body monitors, it's illegal to import them. In short, according to the FDA, "nearly all" drugs that are shipped to the U.S. are illegal.
But every day, with little difficulty, U.S. residents order millions of dollars worth of prescription drugs online and have them shipped across borders to their homes. While it's easy enough for consumers and investigators to trace where the online storefront is based, tracking the origin of drugs up the supply chain is no small feat.
Last year, a group of academics including Amir Attaran, Canada Research Chair in law, population health and global development policy, published a study in the Journal of International Criminal Justice arguing for the establishment of medicine counterfeiting as an international crime.
In their paper, the team explains one of the reasons there is little enforcement in the counterfeit drug trade (or, in the U.S., even the illegal import of drugs that are from the real manufacturer) is because of the complex supply chain. Drugs made in China could be shipped to several countries on several continents before finally reaching the consumer: most often a patient or a doctor. In the end, so many jurisdictions are involved that the original source is obscured. Free trade zones make the movement of these prescription drugs hassle-free for those involved in the trade.
According to a report in the New York Times, in 2007, authorities seized a large supply of counterfeit drugs in the United Arab Emirates that was halfway through a multi-stop global journey to the U.S. It was made in China, and moved on to Hong Kong, the U.A.E., the Bahamas and then Britain before reaching its final destination. It turned out U.S. residents were ordering the drug from Canadian online pharmacies (though the site's servers were set up in the Bahamas), believing it came from their neighbour to the north. In the end, authorities from all jurisdictions were involved in the investigation and the FDA zeroed-in on Andrew Strempler, the online pharmacy pioneer from Minnedosa, Man. behind the site RxNorth.com. While Manitoba's pharmacy regulator stripped him of his licence and registration for a different matter (filling orders without having prescriptions signed by a Canadian pharmacist), he was not criminally charged.
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Gerald Brom (born March 9 1965 in Albany, Georgia) is an American gothic fantasy artist and illustrator, known professionally as simply Brom. He has written and illustrated The Child Thief a reinterpretation of the story of Peter Pan, published in 2009. Born the son of a U.S. Army pilot he spent much of his early years on the move, living in many countries such as Japan and Germany. Brought up as a military dependent he was known by his last name only, and now signs his name as simply Brom.
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