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HIV Expert Answers Common HIV Questions in New Book
An Interview With Author and HIV Expert Joel Gallant, M.D., M.P.H.
September 2008
Joel Gallant, M.D., M.P.H., is not only a widely respected HIV clinician and researcher: He's also an online HIV expert, spending some of his free time answering questions about the virus. He's been doing this since the early days of the Internet. He's so good at it that he's just had a book published that pools together some of the most important questions he commonly answers. Called 100 Questions and Answers About HIV and AIDS, it's geared mainly for people with HIV who want to learn more.
Welcome, Dr. Gallant! Thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me.
My pleasure Bonnie, good to be back.
I can't remember when it all started. I just remember it was not only the dark days for HIV, but for the Internet as well. I remember being on AOL. I think I was one of their charter subscribers. There was this chat room or bulletin board about HIV with all sorts of horrible misinformation going around and I started answering questions. I said I was an HIV doctor, but I don't think I said who I was. People started depending on me to respond. Then I started getting hundreds of e-mails in my inbox every day from people who had a lot of questions about HIV. I had to stop doing it because it just became overwhelming.
Do you remember what kinds of questions were being asked at the time?
Most of these people had HIV and were asking questions about their treatment, about their symptoms and about testing -- the kinds of questions that they either weren't getting answered by their physicians or maybe they didn't have HIV expert physicians taking care of them.
Some of the questions were about fear of HIV from the "worried well" -- people who were worried that they had HIV. But mostly it was from people who had HIV. I kind of put that aside and then, while in Nantucket on vacation, I met Jamie Marks who had an idea to start a Web site for people with HIV called "The Body." He asked me if I'd be willing to write articles and stuff like that. I said, "On AOL there was this need for answering questions. What about doing an interactive, 'ask the doctor' sort of thing?"
So we did that. It was certainly the first online interactive Q & A for HIV, though I don't know if it was the first one for other diseases. Initially, I was the only one on it. Later they started adding additional faculty and I had to move my forum to the Johns Hopkins Web site when they opened that up. That was how it all got started.
Do you remember whether the questions you got at The Body were any different from the questions you were getting on AOL?
They were pretty similar, except that on The Body there was more stuff coming from people who were not necessarily HIV positive but were afraid that they were infected. So we were getting a little more of the wacky questions. The AOL bulletin board had been focused on people who were already positive. We got a broader diversity of questions from a more diverse audience.
It was a very exciting moment in the world of HIV when you started answering questions at TheBody.com.
Yes. 1996 was a real high point. At the same time, HIV suddenly became more complex. The decisions that you had to make, the impact of those decisions and the importance of making correct decisions became even more important now that there were drugs that we could use to really treat HIV effectively. It was an interesting time to be answering questions because we were all learning at the same time. Certainly people with HIV were being cared for by a diversity of doctors, some of whom were quite expert and others who were not. Of course, that's true now too. So it was a very exciting time to be doing a forum.
Wasn't it also very exciting because the prognosis for someone with HIV had quickly reversed?
Yes, exactly. It was amazing to see people go from what they thought was a terminal illness to suddenly going back to work and feeling good and returning to life. Sometimes the questions were not so much about treatment as about things like: How do you adjust to this sudden change in your prognosis?
Of course, we all think of it as a good thing, and it is, but it's pretty challenging too. If you haven't worked in years and you've planned your finances assuming you weren't going to live very long, and now all of a sudden you've got a whole life ahead of you, it presents some challenges -- even though it was a wonderful, wonderful turn of events.
Were you seeing this in your daily practice at Johns Hopkins as well as online?
Oh, yes. Absolutely. Yes. It was interesting to watch these adjustments take place. I think a lot of us physicians were so excited about the medical results that when our patients started coming to us, sometimes depressed or guilt-ridden or talking about relationships breaking up, we at first didn't understand the impact of such a huge change in prognosis.
I eventually learned that good stress is still stress. Even though this was all good news, it was presenting big challenges for a lot of people and there were all sorts of emotions that were unexpected -- both from my standpoint and also from my patients' standpoints -- that came about as a result of this good news.
What was the most surprising thing you discovered when you began answering questions online? Was there anything that surprised you that you hadn't seen in practice in your clinic?
I don't deal with very many HIV-negative people in my practice. Everybody I know has got HIV. By the time I see them, they usually already know they have HIV. I'm not dealing with all these people who think they have HIV or are afraid they have HIV. I learned a lot about the depths of paranoia, hypochondria and sexual guilt.
I also learned all sorts of things about some interesting sexual practices that I'd never even considered before! Everyone wanted to tell me what they were doing sexually in order to get them worried about HIV. The descriptions of their activities were sometimes rather graphic, and were often things that I wouldn't have thought of before.
That is an interesting kind of record that The Body and Johns Hopkins now have on their sites. We have all these interesting sexual practices occurring in the United States and in the world.
Yes, I guess it's a good thing for those people when you think about it; there's probably a Web site for every one of those behaviors. In the old days, before the Web, they probably thought they were just a solitary pervert; now they know they have company. [Laughs]
What was interesting to me too was that most of the questions that I seemed to be getting about fear of HIV were coming from straight men whose risk was actually quite low. The people who had the highest risk for HIV generally weren't obsessing about it. I wasn't getting a lot of questions from HIV-negative gay men who were worried about having HIV. Mostly, it was from people who were extremely unlikely to be getting infected.
What do you think is the reason for that? Why is that population so terrified of HIV?
I think there's a combination of reasons. Some of these people are doing things that they feel guilty about. Maybe they're having sex with men that they don't want to talk to their female partners about.
In other cases, I think there are a lot of people who are clearly obsessive compulsive who spend a lot of time on the Internet. They obsess about their worries and fears, and they'll post things on any Internet site until they can get somebody who will contribute to their fear even more, which starts a spiral.
My way of dealing with these people was generally to make fun of them. That served two purposes. One was that maybe by ridiculing their concerns I hopefully reassured them that they weren't at great risk. At the same time, it provided a sort of entertainment for the more legitimate users of the site, since we could have a little fun with them.
Not to minimize their concerns but frankly, when somebody's had 20 HIV tests in the last six months and still believes they're positive, you have to draw the line somewhere.
Do you think many of these worried well people have psychological issues, or are they just still deeply ignorant about how HIV is transmitted?
Many of these people had seen multiple doctors, all of whom had told them that their concerns were unfounded. They've read everything they could read. So it's not a matter of ignorance, it's a matter of psychopathology.
There is a lot of ignorance too. I especially see it coming from young people; I see it coming from questioners in developing countries where there may not be much discussion of this. I try to address those questions in a more straightforward fashion, if it's just pure ignorance.
Not that the information isn't out there for people to find, but if they choose to try to get answers to their questions by asking me, I do the best I can to try to educate a little bit. Again, remembering that my sites, both when I was at The Body and now at Hopkins, are really meant for people with HIV, I have to be careful not to answer too many questions from worried HIV-negative people because it ends up cluttering the site and makes it less useful for the people for whom the site is really meant -- which are people with HIV. I'm sure there's a need out there for that kind of thing, but that's not what the site is meant to do.
How many years have you been answering questions online?
I would say since '96. That thing I did on AOL only lasted for a few months and was unofficial. I've been doing it continuously since 1996. The site at Hopkins is quite similar to what I did at The Body.
How do you still have the energy to answer questions?
Some of my readers tell me I'm not as good as I used to be, or let me put it this way: I'm not as funny as I used to be. I used to spend a lot of time trying to come up with creative and entertaining answers to the crazy people.
The archives at the Hopkins site contain, and you probably have them too, hundreds of entertaining questions. They're not always entertaining because of what I write; sometimes they're just entertaining because of what the questioner writes.
I have to say I've cut down on that because, as fun as it was, it got repetitive and it also encouraged a lot more crazy people to write in to me. I do a little less of that and as result I know my site now is informational, but it's a little drier and probably not as amusing.
I tell people who complain to go back and read the favorites again and they'll find stuff that'll make them laugh. But it is a time-consuming job if I try to respond to all those types of questions.
How many questions do you answer every day?
It's come down a little bit. I would say maybe I answer five or six a day on average, maybe a little less. The reason I think it's less now is in part because people are doing so well.
A lot of the questions I used to get were from people who were either having horrible side effects from drugs or their viral load wasn't suppressed and they were trying to get information. Probably people are having fewer side effects and they're less likely to be failing their therapy and they've got better things to do than to send me questions. I think that's a good thing; the need for the site is a little less than it used to be.
Let's turn to your new book called 100 Questions and Answers About HIV and AIDS. What made you want to put this book together and who's it geared for?
My original idea had been to go through the archives from the Web site and pick a mixture of educational and informative questions and answers as well as entertaining ones and have a book that was full of both types -- you could look up what you needed to get information, but then you could always have a laugh reading some of the entertaining stuff.
I proposed that to some publishers, but they either wanted me to write a textbook or they wanted me to change things. One publisher said, "Well, we really like your book, but we don't want you to talk about sex." I said, "You can't really talk about HIV and not talk about sex." They said, "Could you take out the word 'blow job?'" I said, "We could argue about that."
Anyway, the bottom line was that none of those worked out. I got approached by a publisher that has this series of books called 100 Questions and Answers About "x", about whatever disease. I was stunned to learn that, after all these years of publishing these books, they didn't have one about HIV and AIDS. Since this was similar to what I had had in mind, I agreed to write the book.
The hard part was finding exactly 100 questions and not more and not less. Even though I couldn't include the really wacky stuff in there, I did try to keep the tone light and entertaining so that people weren't going to feel too bogged down with a heavy, overly serious book about this disease.
I see that the book is geared for people with HIV, who have questions.
Yes. It's really meant for people who have HIV. When I was writing it, I had in mind the person who just found out they're positive and really doesn't know anything. I wanted to write a book for that person. The first few chapters are really, "What do you need to know right now?" Then it goes into more detail about things, after you've learned the basic things you need to know.
It has real basic information: "What does HIV do? What's a CD4 count? What's a viral load? What's the difference between HIV and AIDS? Why isn't there a cure?" That kind of thing.
We also go into issues about medical care: "How do you deal with your doctor? How do you find a doctor? What kinds of tests should you be getting? What kinds of vaccinations? When do you start treatment? What kind of treatment? Why do you need to be adherent? Why can't you stop treatment?"
We go into side effects, toxicity and the opportunistic infections. Then, also, I have sections about women, pregnancy, coinfection with hepatitis C, depression and things like that. There are basic sections about how you live with HIV: "Can you travel? Can you have pets? What can you eat? What can you drink? How do you have sex? How do you deal with HIV-negative partners?"
I think of it as pretty comprehensive. When I was done with it, it was hard for me to come up with any questions that I was missing, although I'm sure somebody could think of some.
I thought it was interesting that you included questions such as, "How do we know that HIV wasn't created in a lab?"
[Laughs] I got to the end and I had a chapter called, "Questions for Those Who Still Have Questions." I dealt with a lot of these conspiracy theories. "How do we know that HIV causes AIDS? How do we know it wasn't created in a lab? How do we know the drug companies haven't developed a cure that they're just keeping secret?" People who believe those types of theories are not the types of people who are going to read my book.
I wanted to try to dispel some of those myths because we've got more important things to do than get bogged down in things that are clearly not true. But I didn't want to ignore those sentiments or those concerns, because I know there are a lot of people who still believe in those theories.
Do you find, either on the Web or in practice, that there are still theories that the drug companies are withholding a cure?
I don't see that so much in my own patients because, after all, by coming to see me you could say they've accepted the establishment view about HIV and they're voting with their feet. But when I talk to patient groups or lay audiences I still hear some of those concerns. I certainly get it on my Web site.
There are still a dwindling number of HIV denialists out there who think that HIV doesn't cause AIDS. It's sad because what I see is that the belief in these theories can really be damaging. It causes a lot of people to avoid the health care system, to avoid medical care. I've seen people die as a result of a belief in these theories. I think it's not just a curiosity to talk about them. I think in a book like this we really have to deal with anything that could get in the way of people's willingness to accept medical care that is life saving.
How do we know that the drug companies aren't withholding the cure to make money?
A lot of people think, "My God, the epidemic's been going on now since 1981, shouldn't we have a cure by now?" I point out that we really don't have a cure for any viral disease, with the possible exception of hepatitis C and we don't cure that very often. All other viral diseases get better by themselves, or stay latent like HIV does and remain chronic, or they kill you. There's no surprise there.
I point out that people who develop therapies at drug companies are not the executives, they're the scientists. While they may be motivated by profit, they are also still motivated by the things that motivate scientists: Nobel Prizes, the respect of colleagues, getting published in journals, being interviewed on Oprah or getting more funding. I can't imagine that a scientist would obey an order by a drug company CEO to keep a cure quiet, since that would be such an amazing accomplishment.
Drug companies are really competitive. They want to be the first and if you're going to develop a cure, you're going to want to be the first one out with it. Remember, if you've got a cure, probably some scientist at another drug company is pretty close behind you. You're not going to just sit on it, waiting for that other company to put the cure out first! You're going to want to be the first one out. In the end that's going to increase your profits because a cure is probably going to be expensive. Whoever comes out with it first would make the most money.
I would also point out that one of the arguments that people make for this idea that drug companies actually have a cure is that if you cured HIV it would be cheaper and instead of getting lifelong profits, people would get better and they wouldn't have to take drugs anymore.
That might be true, but you have to remember that for an individual drug, the drug companies make profits for a few years, then the drug either becomes unpopular, or gets replaced by something else, or goes off patent and becomes generic. Drug companies are not looking forward to endless profits from these drugs. They know that they'll get some profit and then their time will have come.
If they could actually come out with a cure, it could actually be more profitable for them than just treating the virus chronically.
What question on your online forum is most asked in 2008? Is it about women who want to have a child with a negative partner? Is it about treatment-experienced people looking for a good regimen?
Right now the most important questions, and often the most asked questions, have to do with how we can best use these new drugs that have come out in the last year. We talked about 1996 being a really exciting time in HIV history, but actually 2007 and early 2008 are also very exciting years. We've had three new drugs in the last year, all of which are important drugs for people with drug resistance.
We now can, for the first time in the history of the epidemic, treat virtually everybody effectively and get them to an undetectable viral load.
A question I often get from both doctors and patients is: "How do I best use these new drugs to make sure that they work and that they last?" I get a lot of that from the HIV-positive users of the forum. Of course I still get my usual questions from the "worried well." Those don't change very much over the years.
Do you think that the current newly diagnosed people need to learn as much as patients did 10 years ago? Most positive people go to their doctor, get treatment, then go back to their daily life.
Actually, they need to know even more now. The reason for that is, because treatment is so effective, it's so important that it be done right. In the old days, we argued about, "Should AZT [Retrovir, zidovudine] be used when your T cells are below 200 or below 350 or below 500?" In the end, AZT had a very modest benefit and it didn't last that long. If you got that wrong, it wasn't going to make a huge difference.
But today, because the drugs are so effective, anything you do right is going to make a huge difference and if you do things wrong, you risk the issue of drug resistance and of using up really good options. I think the more effective a treatment is, the more important it is that it be done right and for patients to educate themselves before entering into that very important first step.
Fortunately, there's less that you have to know now about things like opportunistic infections and the symptoms of HIV because, hopefully, we treat people before those things happen. That's not as important, but the issues about treatment, adherence, how to put together a good combination and resistance -- those are more important than they ever were.
It's simpler for people with HIV now because they don't have to take as many pills and there are fewer side effects. However, in some ways you could argue that it's more complicated for the clinicians prescribing the medication because there are so many more choices than there used to be. How do you make those choices correctly?
I'm always glad to see people with HIV writing to me -- not that they don't trust their doctors, but they want to be equal partners with their doctors. They want to know what questions to ask. They want to know enough information to have an intelligent conversation with the clinician about their treatment. Educating yourself in that way can only help.
Have you also been surprised in your role as an online expert by the lack of knowledge a lot of health care providers demonstrate? We've had people say things such as, "My doctor's giving me Truvada [tenofovir/FTC] and Viread [tenofovir]."
Yes, I have seen that and that has not changed, it continues to be an issue. In some cases, it's just a matter of opinion, or difference in style. The doctor's not necessarily wrong but it's not something that I would do, or maybe they're using a drug that is still a legitimate drug but not designated as "preferred" [by the U.S. treatment guidelines; for a list of "preferred" regimens, click here] anymore -- that kind of thing.
That's OK, but every once in a while, I come across somebody who is getting really horrendous care -- people who are on Combivir [AZT, 3TC] by itself. All sorts of things -- relics from decades ago.
In some cases, I actually have to be pretty blunt and say, "You need a new doctor." So far, I haven't been sued for saying that, but some mistakes are just too extreme to ignore. With the less extreme mistakes, I try to be a little more diplomatic and say, "You might want to consider another opinion." Or, "You might want to print this out and show it to your doctor and see what he has to say."
Do you think that this is happening because HIV is such a fast-changing field and it's very, very hard to keep up with the changes?
It is very hard. I wouldn't expect a primary care physician to keep up with all these changes, just like I wouldn't expect a primary care physician to know how to treat leukemia. Our goal should not be to get primary care doctors to know more about how to treat HIV, but to get primary care doctors to make sure that they're referring their HIV-positive patients to experts. Not to say that they have to give up their patients, but to co-manage them to make sure that there's an expert involved in the decision making. We don't have enough HIV experts in this country to do primary care and HIV therapy for everybody with HIV. It is important that people with HIV have the input of an expert, even if it's infrequent.
How do you define an expert?
That's an issue. How do you define it? There's currently no official specialty for HIV medicine, although the HIV Medical Association, which is a branch of Infectious Disease Society of America, is thinking about establishing a credential with a special test. There is also the American Academy of HIV Medicine that has had an expert certification process. [To search through their list of HIV specialists, click here.] There are arguments about whether this is the right way to go. But at least it's a start to try to establish what kind of knowledge base doctors should have to be qualified as HIV experts. At least it selects out those clinicians who really want to be devoting themselves to HIV enough to take these tests or to apply for their certification. It doesn't mean that somebody who is on the list is necessarily an expert, but it's a step.
Have you done a book tour or been on T.V. as a result of the book?
No, no movie contracts, nothing like that. No Oprah, yet. I'm just waiting by my phone.
Do you think people aren't picking up your book so readily because HIV is still not being focused on in mainstream U.S. society? A book about diabetes, or something where you wouldn't talk about sex, wouldn't be as interesting.
I think my book is much more interesting than diabetes because we talk about sex. I mean, they already have one chapter about sex in a diabetes book. We've got all sorts of chapters about it in this book. I think it would provide hours of entertainment for somebody who didn't have HIV, but I'm biased about that.
According to the publishers, although they haven't told me how much it's sold, they have told me that more of this book has sold than the other books in the series, for what that's worth. I'm pleased to hear that. My patients bring it in to get it autographed; I don't know if they've read it or not. I guess maybe they'll tell me once a year whether it's selling or not.
I've done some patient forums locally, in Baltimore, and the audience is financially disadvantaged, inner-city minorities. Even though the book is $13 to $15 on Amazon, it's way more than they can afford to spend. I wish we had a way of distributing the book, because so many people in this country who have HIV don't have good access to the Internet and don't have the money to spend on books like this, even cheap ones. They get short-changed when it comes to information.
If somebody out there knows somebody who is willing to provide a grant to distribute this great book, so that people can become more knowledgeable about HIV and really be able to take care of themselves, that would be great.
That would be great.
Do you think you're going to do a second book?
I think, at least for this book, my hope is that we can continue to update it. Obviously, when you write about something like HIV, the information can become obsolete pretty fast. My hope is that it will sell enough to be able to justify having it updated frequently. Still, someday, my hope is to be able to write a book with some of those crazy questions from the forum, just because some of them are so priceless and I'd hate to see them disappear into the Ethernet. So far there is no big demand for that.
Can you remember any, so we can close with a funny question? Do you remember any good ones?
Somebody had written to me that he had very soft skin. He was worried that that must be a sign of HIV. I wrote back a very lengthy discussion [on the Hopkins site] of how the history of soft skin is a symptom of HIV and I cited articles that I made up out of my head -- how the tragedy of soft skin started out in San Francisco. I wrote this long thing and I thought it was pretty clear that I was joking.
Apparently this person didn't think so. He was terrified that I had confirmed that he had HIV and then wrote to people at The Body. They wrote to me saying, "What is this that you're saying that people with soft skin have HIV?" It really snowballed. But anybody normal who read my answer would know that I was joking. It's still there in the "Favorites" of our Web site.
[Laughs] Thank you so much, Dr. Gallant. I'm sure that people will be going to Amazon.
Yes. Just type "Joel Gallant." It's easier than typing "100 Questions and Answers About HIV and AIDS."
It's a great work and I think it's really needed. I hope it gets well distributed.
Thanks so much, Bonnie.
Thank you.
This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.
To view an excerpt of Dr. Gallant's book, click here. To find out more about this book, click here.
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ALBANY, New York (Reuters) - It took New York's state Senate two days and a marathon seven-hour "vampire" session that ended two hours before dawn on Wednesday to pass the state's $135 billion budget. Now the Assembly wants to do the same amount of work in a day as it aims to produce New York's third on-time budget in a row.
Starting the state's 2013-2014 fiscal year without a functioning budget on April 1 is not going to bring the trains to a grinding halt but getting it in on time is an important goal for lawmakers who are eager to show that years of dysfunction in the state capital Albany are a thing of the past.
State governor Andrew Cuomo inked a deal with lawmakers a week ago after days of closed door wrangling. His aim was to get the Senate and the Assembly to sign off on it last weekend in what he was touting as the earliest budget since 1976. But delays in printing bills and then religious holidays this week have turned it into another race against the clock.
Still, the Assembly seems confident it can pass the 10 separate bills that make up the budget when it reconvenes on Thursday, although it may turn into another marathon session. The state Assembly recessed before the weekend for Palm Sunday and the Jewish Passover holiday. Lawmakers will be out again for Good Friday at the end of the week.
"Our plan is to pass the budget on Thursday," said Michael Whyland, the spokesman for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
The Senate ended its session at 4.32 a.m. on Wednesday morning. Senator Terry Gipson referred repeatedly to a bill he is sponsoring that would ban "vampire voting" between 9 p.m. and 9 a.m.
As a package, the budget adheres to a self-imposed 2 percent cap on increased spending, raises the minimum wage incrementally to $9 an hour by the end of 2015; extends higher tax rates for millionaires and lower rates for the middle class that were to expire next year.
It also increases state funding for schools by $1 billion and creates a tax rebate program that will deliver $350 checks to a million middle-income families with children right before state elections in 2014.
Elizabeth Lynam, who follows New York's budget process for the Citizens Budget Commission, a budget watchdog, said she expects the Assembly to pass the budget on Thursday, even if it does go down to the wire.
"The late budget had become such a symbol of dysfunction that they got very sensitized to it, so it's important in terms of showing that there's a functional process," said Lynam.
Lynam recalls more than a decade of late budgets that often dragged on well into August. In 2001, the September 11 attacks on New York interrupted the process and meant the state went without a budget for the whole year, she said.
(Writing by Edward Krudy and Cheryl Clark; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)

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For over 30 years, from the mythic men's basketball teams that slayed the UNLV powerhouses of the late 80's and 90's; to women's Gaucho hoops teams that excited a community and a campus, owned a conference, and produced WNBA players; to a volleyball program that for 26 years was one of just three teams in the nation to make the NCAA Tournament every year, the Thunderdome has housed some of the best players and teams to ever make their imprint at UCSB.
The name is also legendary - the Thunderdome. The loud, passionate fans, clad in gold t-shirts, scared the competition away and baptized it as such. The Thunderdome is not a place of sanction.
To immortalize the Gaucho athletes that consistently turned in legendary performances inside of a legendary building, UCSB Athletics implemented its Legends of the 'Dome program in 2009. Each year, fans will be asked to vote for the next Legend or Legends to be raised in tribute.
In 2009-10 the inaugural Legends class was introduced: Mark French and Barb Beainy (women's basketball), Brian Shaw and Carrick DeHart (men's basketball), and Roberta Gehlke (women's volleyball).
In 2010-11, three more Legends were added to the list.
Kathy Gregory, UCSB's only head women's volleyball coach, led the charge as her banner was raised on Oct. 1. To cap off the night, the Gauchos came back from two sets down to defeat 21st-ranked Long Beach State in five sets! Men's basketball legend Eric "Freeze" McArthur was introduced February 16 and women's basketball great Kristen Mann's banner was unveiled February 24.
|Barb Beainy
Sport: Women's Basketball
Position: Guard/Forward
Years: 1988-92
Hometown: Hillsborough, Calif.
Unveiled: February 27, 2010
- A member of the UCSB Athletics Hall of Fame
- Led the Gauchos to their first Big West title as a senior
- Guided UCSB to its first two NCAA Tournament appearances
- Named UCSB's first Big West Player of the Year in 1992
- A two-time All-Big West Conference selection
- Her 1,519 career points ranked second in school history when she graduated
- Found on UCSB career top tens lists for points, assists, free throws made, free throw percentage, and scoring average
|Carrick DeHart
Sport: Men's Basketball
Position: Guard
Years: 1986-90
Hometown: Inglewood, Calif.
Unveiled: January 23, 2010
- Scored 1,687 career points, a record that stood for 18 years, still ranks second in UCSB history
- Ranks among the school's top-10 in 10 statistical categories
- Named Big West Freshman of the Year in 1987
- A three-time All-Big West selection
- Named an All-American in 1990
- Led the 1988 and 1990 Gauchos into the NCAA Tournament
- In 1990, after helping UCSB to an NCAA first round victory over Houston, led the team with 23 points in the second round against Big 10 Champion Michigan State.
- In 1990, scored a game-high 24 points with an injured ankle against top-ranked UNLV. The Gauchos beat the eventual national champions 78-70, the Runnin' Rebels' only loss over a 55-game stretch.
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Sport: Women's Basketball Coach
Years: 1987-2008
Hometown: Bakersfield, Calif.
Unveiled: February 11, 2010
- Retired in 2008 after leading the Gauchos for 21 seasons • Compiled a 438-200 overall record while at UCSB
- His 438 wins are more than all other UCSB women's basketball coaches had combined
- His .687 winning percentage is the highest in the program's coaching history
- A seven-time Big West Coach of the Year selection
- UCSB posted a winning record in each of French's last 18 seasons
- Directed the Gauchos to 13 straight postseason appearances prior to retiring
- Led the team to 12 Big West Conference titles
- UCSB advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16 in 2004
- Gauchos posted seven wins in NCAA Tournament games under French
- Coached four All-Americans, seven Big West Players of the Year, and 58 All-Big West honorees
- Of UCSB's 22 1,000-point scorers, French coached 19 of them
|Roberta Gehlke
Sport: Women's Volleyball
Position: Outside Hitter
Years: 1996-99
Hometown: Huntington Beach, Calif.
Unveiled: October 17, 2009
- Three-time All-American
- Four-time All-Big West First Team selection
- AVCA All-District pick all four years
- Named the 1999 Big West Player of the Year (first Gaucho to earn that title)
- UCSB's all-time leader in career kills (2,153)
- UCSB's all-time leader in career attack attempts (5,535)
- UCSB's all-time leader in career kill average (4.67 per set)
- Second on UCSB's career digs list (1,619)
- Holds UCSB's single season record for kill average (5.35 in 1999)
- Holds UCSB's single match record for kills (38 v. Long Beach State, 9/30/99)
- Holds UCSB's single match record for attack attempts (98 v. Long Beach State, 9/30/99)
- Propelled the Gauchos to four straight NCAA Tournament berths
- Helped UCSB advance to the Elite 8 in 1997 and again in 1998
- Led the Gauchos to a Sweet 16 appearance in 1999
- UCSB went 112-26 during Gehlke's career
|Kathy Gregory
Sport: Women's Volleyball Coach
Years: 1975-present
Hometown: Santa Monica, Calif.
Unveiled: Oct. 1, 2010
- Just the third woman enshrined into the Volleyball Hall of Fame on October 21, 1989 • Became the 12th woman inducted into the USVBA's Hall of Fame in 1997
- Currently in her 36th season as the only head coach UCSB women's volleyball has known
- The fourth-winningest active coach in the NCAA
- One of just five coaches to amass over 800 wins and coach in over 1,200 matches
- Has led the Gauchos to 27 NCAA Tournament appearances in the 29 seasons it has existed
- The 1993 NCAA National Coach of the Year
- A four-time AVCA West Region Coach of the Year
- A seven-time Big West Coach of the Year
- Her teams have finished in the top-25 on 27 different occasions
- As a player, was named Women's Beach Tournament Player of the Year five times
- The "Queen of the Beach" captured two world championships
- Named to the USVBA's All-Era Team from 1949-79
|Brian Shaw
Sport: Men's Basketball
Position: Guard
Years: 1986-88
Hometown: Richmond, Calif.
Unveiled: February 13, 2010
- An All-American selection in 1988
- An All-District pick in 1988
- Named the 1988 Big West Player of the Year
- A two-time All-Big West player
- Helped the Gauchos to a school-record 22 victories in 1988
- UCSB earned its first at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament in 1988
- The only player in Big West history to lead the league in rebounding and assists in the same season
- In 1988, he led UCSB to two wins over UNLV. The Gauchos' win in Las Vegas ended the Runnin' Rebels' home winning streak at 28 games.
- The only player in school history to record a triple-double, doing so five times
- In a 96-78 win over 5th-ranked North Carolina State in 1987, he had 22 points, 20 rebounds, 10 assists, and three steals
- Won a World Championship gold medal with Team USA in 1986
- A first round draft pick of the Boston Celtics
- As a member of the Miami Heat, he made a then-NBA record 10 three-pointers in a game
- His final four seasons as an active NBA player were spent with the Los Angeles Lakers, with whom he won three NBA Championships
- Currently a member of the Lakers' coaching staff
|Eric "Freeze" McArthur
Sport: Men's Basketball
Position: Forward
Years: 1986-90
Hometown: South Pasadena, CA
Unveiled: February 16, 2011
- School's all-time leader in rebounds with 904
- At just 6-6, he is the all-time leader in blocked shots with 249 -- 95 more than next closest player
- Named All-America in 1990
- Set a school-record with 28 rebounds against New Mexico State on Jan. 11, 1990.
- Helped the Gauchos to a school-record 22 victories in 1988
- Led UCSB to NCAA Tournament in 1988 and 1990.
- In an NCAA first round game against Houston in 1990, McArthur led his team to a 70-66 win when he had 20 points, 11 rebounds, four blocked shots and four steals.
- In 1988, he led UCSB to two wins over UNLV. The Gauchos' win in Las Vegas ended the Runnin' Rebels' home winning streak at 28 games.
|Kristen Mann
Sport: Women's Basketball
Position: Forward
Years: 1986-88
Hometown: Santa Ana, Calif.
Unveiled: February 24, 2011
- Three-time All-America selection
- Led Gauchos to Sweet 16 appearance in 2004.
- Three-time First Team All-Big West pick.
- 2005 Big West Player of the Year.
- 2005 Big West Tournament MVP.
- 2001 Big West Freshman of the Year
- Ranks third in school history with 1700 career points.
- Played five seasons in WNBA (Minnesota Lynx, Washington Mystics) before continuing her professional career in France.


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(Plymouth, IN) – Swan Lake Resort invites all area golfers to its Inaugural Patriot Golf Day Outing on July 6, 2013. All proceeds of this 18-hole outing will benefit the Folds of Honor Foundation, which provides post-secondary educational scholarships for children and spouses of military servicemen and women killed or disabled while serving our great nation. Enter as an individual or get a foursome together! For $100 per player, participants get a day of great golf on the Silver Course at Swan Lake, followed by dinner and live entertainment in the Gallery. Raffles and silent auction items will also be available, and a color guard ceremony and a special tribute to veterans will celebrate their service. Event sponsors are also encouraged to participate. Suggested sponsorship opportunities begin at the $75 Patriot level and top off at the $600 Medal of Honor level. "This is a great way for the golf industry to help the families of those who have lost their lives or have been injured so that we may have our freedom," said Chad Hutsell, Head Golf Professional at Swan Lake Resort. "It's a wonderful opportunity for golfers in our community to give back to those who have given everything." Major Dan Rooney, an F-16 Fighter Pilot, PGA Professional and USGA member, founded Folds of Honor in 2007. A decorated military pilot in the Oklahoma Air National Guard, Major Rooney served 3 combat tours in Iraq. After his 2nd tour, while a passenger on a commercial flight, Major Rooney witnessed an event that changed his life. When the plane had reached its destination, the pilot announced, "Ladies and gentlemen, we have an American hero on board – Corporal Brock Bucklin. And his twin brother, Corporal Brad Bucklin, is accompanying him home from Iraq. As a sign of respect, please remain seated while Corporal Bucklin's family receives him in his final homecoming." Major Rooney watched through the window of the plane as the flag-draped casket was lowered. He saw a family waiting for Brock, and a little four-year old boy waiting for his father. This tragic homecoming inspired Major Rooney to create the Folds of Honor Foundation. The Folds of Honor Foundation provides post-secondary educational scholarships for children and spouses of military service men and women killed or disabled in the line of duty. Patriot Golf Day is the flagship fundraiser for the Folds of Honor Foundation and is jointly supported by PGA of America and the United States Golf Association. In the last 6 years, PGA Professionals have helped raise more than $8.6 million by hosting Patriot Golf Day events at their facilities. Individuals and companies interested in contributing to the Folds of Honor Foundation and those applying for scholarships should visit FoldsofHonor.com. Patriot Day is just one of many fun golf events happening at Swan Lake Resort this summer. Other upcoming events include: Golf Equipment Demo Day (June 8), Family Golf Nights on Wednesdays (June 5 – September 23), Couple's 9 Wine & Dine Events (June 29th and September 14th), Couple's Stay and Play Event (June 30th through July 2), and Swan Lake Night Golf (August 17th). Get Ready Golf Clinics are offered periodically through July 21st: call the Pro Shop for more information at 574-936-9098. Swan Lake Resort is located just off State Road 30 with easy access from U. S. 31. Swan Lake. The Ultimate Experience. Resort with Golf, Conference, Restaurant, Hotel, Villas, Cabins and Cottages.


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Metallica's Kirk Hammett Takes on 100-Year-Old Track for Unique Compilation
Metallica have covered their fair share of songs over the years, but guitarist Kirk Hammett is taking on a track that most fans would never expect. The rocker is set to cover 'Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)' for a new compilation.
Never heard the song? That's not a big surprise as the track is over 100-years-old. The compilation its included on is titled 'The Gay Nineties Old Tyme Music: Daisy Bell' in which a number of modern acts perform the classic cut.
Joining Hammett on the compilation are such acts as Katy Perry, Nick Cave, Tyler the Creator and Weird Al Yankovic. The concept album is tied to a new art exhibit staged by pop art painter Mark Ryden, which opened May 3 at the Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh, Wall of Voodoo's Stan Ridgeway and Oingo Boingo's Danny Elfman also contributed to the collection.
'Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)' was originally written in 1892 and was a big hit at the time of its release. It regained some attention in 1968 when the song was used in the film '2001: A Space Odyssey.'
The new album will be pressed on 180-gram red vinyl and will be limited to a run of 999 copies. Ryden will personally hand-number and sign each of the copies, which will sell for $99. But don't worry if you can't make it to Los Angeles, as half of the copies have been held back to be sold on Ryden's website beginning May 13. Proceeds from sales of the record will benefit the Little Kids Rock organization.


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At that time, De Hoogh, an Iowa native, was young and looking for an exciting career. A hunter since age 9, De Hoogh wanted to turn one of his greatest passions into an occupation. He attended guide school and was hired to be an elk hunting guide in Montana. Wright was one of his clients that season.
De Hoogh describes Wright as a genuinely nice guy who would do anything for a friend. Their personalities instantly meshed, and when the two men learned they shared a common home state, the bond strengthened. The trip ended in an invite for De Hoogh to join his new friend for a whitetail hunt in southeastern Iowa.
De Hoogh contacted Wright later that fall to accept the offer. And, although he gave up elk-guiding after just one season because he hated being away from his family, he has been deer hunting on Wright's land ever since.
De Hoogh has seen some impressive bucks at Wright's place. He has enjoyed success, too, killing four deer. But none of the previous hunts were quite like the one he experienced on opening day of Iowa's 2007 second shotgun season.
The day before the season started, De Hoogh and his father, Gary, made the long cross-state trip to scout Wright's place near Eddyville, Iowa.
Wright's property consists of corn and soybean fields, thick ravines, ditches, brushy areas and big timber along the Des Moines River bottoms. De Hoogh planned to sit in a permanent tree stand along a ravine, while his father would sit in a stand along the river.
Opening morning dawned and the De Hooghs headed for their stands toting scoped, inline muzzleloaders.
At first light, Gered watched a forkhorn buck and a doe leave the river bottoms and work their way up a draw. About 20 minutes later, he saw four or five more deer where the doe and buck had disappeared. Even as it trotted through the brush, Gered could tell the largest deer sported antlers.
"When I put up the scope, all I could see was long tines," De Hoogh said.
The deer was about 80 yards away and heading for a narrow shooting lane. De Hoogh knew he'd be lucky to get the buck to stop where he could get a clear shot.
"I let out a loud grunt, and he stopped in his tracks and looked right at me," De Hoogh said.
De Hoogh steadied the frontstuffer, lined up the cross-hairs and fired. The bullet hit both front shoulders and the spine, dropping the buck instantly. De Hoogh took no chances and immediately reloaded. But when he saw the buck was still, he took out his primer, climbed out of the stand and eagerly walked to the deer.
He was shocked when he finally saw the buck up close.
"I'd never seen a rack that size," he said. "I called my dad on my cell phone and told him that I'd just shot the buck of a lifetime."
Although the duo had seen some large bucks on the property, this buck was in a class by itself. Yet, even amid all the excitement, the hunters had the presence of mind to spend nearly 45 minutes taking more than 70 photos of the deer, the area and the stands so they would always vividly remember the hunt.
Wright, who was hunting with his son in a different part of the property got to see the buck a while later. Neither Wright nor the De Hooghs had known the deer existed. Later, they learned a neighbor had captured a few photos of the buck on a scouting camera.
The buck carried a 15-point rack. It gross-scored 2003/8 inches and netted 1855/8 inches. It was eight years old.
Obviously, killing the buck was a thrill Gered will never forget, but the people that joined him on the hunt were just as important.
"This was the hunt of a lifetime for me," he said. "I'm glad my dad was there with me."


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Expedition Uncovers Three Never-before Identified Coral Reefs Off Florida's Coast
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Released: 12-Dec-2008 8:00 AM EST
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Newswise — The team efforts of scientists and crew from the Waitt Institute for Discovery, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute have paid off with the recent discovery of three never-before identified Lophelia coral reefs which were located 35 miles off the coast of Florida and 450 meters deep. The CATALYST ONE expedition which kicked-off on December 4 combined the scientific expertise of Harbor Branch's senior research professor, John Reed, with Waitt Institute's cutting edge autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and Woods Hole's high-tech operations skills. The discovery of the first two deep coral reefs occurred during the first dive of the expedition on December 5. The third Lophelia coral reef was discovered by the AUVs on December 7 after the re-positioning of Harbor Branch's research vessel Seward Johnson to the expedition's third survey site.
"Lophelia corals are found in the deeper ranges of the Straits of Florida, but it is still not clear how extensive these reefs are," said Reed.
Vulnerable to bottom trawling fishing equipment that can turn a healthy reef into lifeless rubble, the CATALYST ONE expedition accomplished its objective to survey, map and identify areas that contain deep coral reefs. With this newly acquired information, Reed will submit these findings to the South Atlantic Fisheries Management Council to provide further data for their proposed Deep Coral Habitat Area of Particular Concern (HAPC) to protect these fragile reefs. Reed has studied the deep coral reefs off Florida's coast for more than 30 years, and he is largely responsible for gathering supporting data to make the case for the marine protected areas that now exist to protect the shallower Oculina coral reefs that are found 15 to 20 miles off Florida's east coast.
The state-of-the-art REMUS 6000 AUV vehicles, developed by Woods Hole and operated in partnership with the Waitt Institute, provided the essential tools necessary to survey large areas of the ocean bottom in order to locate these reefs. The REMUS vehicles are capable of carrying two kinds of sonar and a camera to map the ocean floor by tracking back and forth over the bottom. Following along a pre-programmed track, these vehicles move in a manner similar to mowing a lawn. At the end of a mission, which can last up to 18 hours, the vehicles are recovered on the RV Seward Johnson and all data are downloaded, processed and analyzed to produce a mosaic of pictures of the bottom. When pieced together, the mosaics form the most detailed, high-definition pictures of the ocean bottom that exist today.
"This brief, seven day mission revealed spectacular data about the relatively unknown deep water reefs just off our coast," said Reed. "It was exciting to see these two new AUV vehicles work under some very difficult conditions, and there is no doubt that the combined efforts of the Waitt Institute, the AUV crew from Woods Hole, the sonar team, and our ship and crew from Harbor Branch made this expedition a success."
At times during the expedition, scientists and crew experienced 30 knot winds, eight foot seas and two knot currents on the ocean bottom but were still able to follow their planned tracks flawlessly over the these rugged reefs.
"Rarely do scientific expeditions produce solid results this quickly," said Dr. Shirley Pomponi, executive director of Harbor Branch. "This is a big win for the resource managers tasked with protecting these reefs and proof that cutting edge technology combined with the seamless teamwork of the three organizations involved in CATALYST ONE can accelerate the pace of discovery."
For more information:
The Waitt Institute CATALYST Programhttp://waittinstitute.org/
HBOI @Sea " CATALYST ONE Expedition Updateshttp://at-sea.org
WHOI Oceanographic Systems Labhttp://remus.whoi.edu/
About the Waitt Institute: The Waitt Institute for Discovery is a non-profit research organization that serves as an exploration catalyst, enabling scientific pioneers to transform the ways in which discoveries are made. The Waitt Institute for Discovery implements innovative technologies in the field through collaborations with world-renowned scientific institutions, synthesizing global expertise and accelerating groundbreaking research. Founded in 2005 by Ted Waitt <http://waittinstitute.org/WID/aboutus/ted.htm>, The Waitt Institute for Discovery seeks to advance human understanding of the past and secure promise of a better future through exploration and discovery. For more information about The Waitt Institute for Discovery, please visit: http://waittinstitute.org/WID
About Harbor Branch:Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University is a research institute dedicated to exploration, innovation, conservation and education related to the oceans. Harbor Branch was founded in 1971 as a private non-profit organization, http://www.hboi.fau.edu. In December 2007, Harbor Branch joined Florida Atlantic University.
About FAU: Florida Atlantic University opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University serves more than 26,000 undergraduate and graduate students on seven campuses strategically located along 150 miles of Florida's southeastern coastline. Building on its rich tradition as a teaching university, with a world-class faculty, FAU hosts ten colleges: College of Architecture, Urban & Public Affairs, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Biomedical Science, the Barry Kaye College of Business, the College of Education, the College of Engineering & Computer Science, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Graduate College, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science.
About Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is a private, independent organization in Falmouth, Mass., dedicated to marine research, engineering, and higher education. Established in 1930 on a recommendation from the National Academy of Sciences, its primary mission is to understand the oceans and their interaction with the earth as a whole, and to communicate a basic understanding of the oceans' role in the changing global environment. For more information, please visit: http://www.whoi.edu


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House of Representatives was poised Thursday to pass the first aid bill for Ukraine's new, pro-Western government, while both chambers of Congress looked to advance legislation imposing hard-hitting sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin's government.
The House was scheduled to vote in the afternoon on a bill providing loan guarantees to the government in Kiev that came to power last month after protesters ousted the country's pro-Russian leader. The Obama administration has promised $1 billion in such financial support.
And the House Foreign Affairs Committee planned its own vote on a resolution condemning Russia's takeover of Ukraine's Crimea and backing the Obama administration move to put in place visa, financial and trade sanctions. The White House took the first step in that direction Thursday, announcing travel bans on unidentified individuals for involvement in the military intervention or other action destabilizing Ukraine.
"The steps Russia has taken violate Ukraine's sovereignty, Ukraine's territorial integrity, and are a breach of international law," Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew told the House Ways and Means Committee, according to prepared remarks.
"We have made it clear to Russia and others that steps to undermine Ukrainian democracy and territorial integrity will result in further political and economic isolation should they continue on this path," the State Department's Eric Rubin told the House Foreign Affairs Committee, in the first congressional hearing devoted solely to Ukraine.
Efforts in the Senate, too, were advancing. Its bill is likely to most resemble the final product from Congress, combining the loan guarantees to Ukraine with measures against Russia that would include penalties on state-owned banks and companies. The bill could be introduced as early as next week.
Thus far the U.S. sanctions push has represented a rare case of broad agreement among the Obama administration and Democratic and Republican legislators. But they're also united in their concern that American economic penalties will mean little without the participation of European countries with far deeper commercial relations with Russia.
NATO's 28 nations decided Wednesday to suspend a joint mission with Russia, as well as planned civilian and military meetings. Washington has halted military and economic talks. The U.S. and the European members of the Group of Eight industrialized nations — Germany, Britain, Italy and France — all have halted preparations for a planned June summit in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi.
The Senate bill hopes to go further.
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who heads a Senate subcommittee on the region, told reporters the package would blacklist Russian individuals, banks and petrochemical companies. But he said it was vital that the United States not act alone.
"Our sanctions are pretty toothless without Europe as part of that package," said Murphy, who is spearheading the bill along with Sens. Bob Menendez and Bob Corker, the Democratic chairman and top Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee.
"Europe is not where they need to be right now," he said. "I think they are willing to give Putin a much longer leash than we are."
While EU foreign ministers have threatened Russia with "targeted measures," the rhetoric in Brussels is far more cautious than in Washington. That's because any action targeting influential Russian businessmen or major Russian companies would also harm Europe's economic interests. Russian investors hold assets worth billions in European banks, particularly in Britain and Cyprus.
Britain is protective of London's huge financial industry and is reluctant to undermine the sector as the country crawls out of recession. The British hesitance to act was seen on a government document caught on camera by a film crew when a British official carrying it was walking by the prime minister's office. The document, which was filmed, then enlarged, said Britain "should not support for now trade sanctions or close London's financial center to Russians."
Germany, which gets a third of its gas supplies from Russia, has similarly urged patience. Altogether, Russia is the European Union's third-largest trading partner, mainly because of oil and gas imports, but also due to significant Russian purchases of European machinery, cars and other exports.
EU countries sold $170 billion worth of goods to Russia in 2012; U.S. exports to Russia barely exceeded $11 billion last year.
Since last weekend, Russian troops have taken control of much of the peninsula on the Black Sea, where ethnic Russians are the majority. Moscow doesn't recognize Ukraine's new government, and Putin and other officials have cited strategic interests as well as the protection of ethnic Russians in making the case for intervention.
Economic and diplomatic measures are about the only form of pressure the U.S. is considering at the moment.
Testifying Wednesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the U.S. was stepping up joint aviation training with Polish forces and increasing American participation in NATO's air-policing mission in its Baltic countries. But neither he nor Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey mentioned any military options.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.N. treaty promoting equal rights for the disabled faced an uncertain future in the Senate Tuesday as Republicans objected to taking up an international treaty during a lame-duck session of Congress and expressed concerns about ceding authority to the United Nations.
Supporters of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which was completed in 2006, stressed that it was modeled after the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and required no changes in U.S. law.
But 36 Republicans in September signed a letter opposing any action on international treaties during the post-election session. The opposition has more than enough to defeat the treaty, which needs a two-thirds majority to be ratified.
The Senate voted 61-36 to move the treaty to the floor for debate.
The convention has been signed by 154 nations and ratified by 126 of those nations. President Barack Obama signed it in 2009.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the impact of the treaty "will echo around the world." He said the Americans with Disabilities Act is the gold standard for protecting the rights of the disabled and the treaty would "take that gold standard and extend it to countries that have never heard of disability rights." He said that it would benefit disabled American veterans who want to travel or work abroad.
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, which represents more than 210 national organizations, said ratification "will reflect U.S. commitment to disability rights and core American values such as the dignity of the individual, access to justice and the right to education."
But opponents, led by Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, say that international treaties are by their nature a threat to American sovereign authority. Lee also says treaty provisions referring to the "best interests of the child" could lead to the state, and not parents, deciding what is in a child's best interest and that language stating that the disabled should have equal rights to reproductive health services could lead to abortions.
That, said Kerry, was "absolutely, positively, factually inaccurate." He said the treaty only states that a country's laws permitting or banning health procedures should apply to the disabled as well.


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DHAKA/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Three supervisors of a Bangladeshi garment factory were arrested on Wednesday as protests over a suspected arson fire that killed more than 100 people raged on into a third day, with textile workers and police clashing in the streets of a Dhaka suburb.
The government has blamed last weekend's disaster, the country's worst-ever industrial blaze, on saboteurs and police said they had arrested two people, who were seen on CCTV footage trying to set fire to stockpiles of material in another factory.
The fire at Tazreen Fashions has put a spotlight on global retailers that source clothes from Bangladesh, where wage costs are low - as little as $37 a month for some workers. Rights groups have called on Western firms to sign on to a safety program in that country, the world's second-biggest clothes exporter.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, said one of its suppliers subcontracted work to the now burned-out factory without authorization and would no longer be used. But one of the most senior figures in the country's garment industry cast doubt on that claim.
"I won't believe Walmart entirely if they say they did not know of this at all. That is because even if I am subcontracted for a Walmart deal, those subcontracted factories still need to be certified by Walmart," Annisul Huq, former president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, told Reuters following a meeting of association members.
"You can skirt rules for one or two odd times if it is for a very small quantity, but no decent quantity of work can be done without the client's knowledge and permission," he said.
Wal-Mart, in a statement, reiterated that while it does have an audit and notification system in place, in this case a supplier subcontracted to the workshop without approval.
Witnesses said that at least 20 people were injured on Wednesday in the capital's industrial suburb of Ashulia as police pushed back protesters demanding safer factories and punishment for those responsible for the blaze, which killed 111 workers and injured more than 150.
Thousands of workers poured out onto the roads, blocking traffic, as the authorities closed most of the 300 garment factories in the area. They were driven back by riot police using tear gas and batons.
Three employees of Tazreen Fashions - an administrative officer, a store manager and a security supervisor - were arrested and paraded in front of the media.
Dhaka District Police Chief Habibur Rahman told Reuters they would be investigated for suspected negligence.
He said police were investigating complaints from some survivors that factory managers had stopped workers from leaving the multi-story building after a fire alarm went off.
Representatives of the Tazreen Fashions factory, including the owner, were not available for comment.
The country's interior minister, Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, has blamed saboteurs for the fire.
Adding to the case for arson, a news channel aired CCTV footage showing two employees of another factory in the Ashulia area trying to set fire to stockpiles of material.
Police chief Rahman said a woman and a man, who were identified from the video, had been taken into custody.
The TV clip shows a lone woman wearing a mauve head scarf and traditional loose garment passing through a room with clothes piled neatly in various places on a table. She briefly disappears from view beneath the table and then is shown again walking through the room and out of camera range.
Smoke soon begins to billow, first slowly then more rapidly, from the spot where the woman was seen ducking under the table.
Workers come running in and try to douse the flames by various means. The woman in the mauve scarf reenters the room and is seen helping workers in their efforts to put out the blaze.
Two other incidents in the outskirts of Dhaka - a fire at a factory on Monday morning and an explosion and fire at a facility on Tuesday evening - have raised concerns among manufacturing leaders that the industry may be under attack.
Talk of sabotage has also spread fear.
At least 50 garment workers were injured in a stampede as they tried to flee from their factory after a faulty generator caught fire in the city of Chittagong, the fire service said. Factory workers quickly put out the flames.
Bangladesh has about 4,500 garment factories and is the world's biggest exporter of clothing after China, with garments making up 80 percent of its $24 billion annual exports.
Working conditions in Bangladeshi factories are notoriously poor, with little enforcement of safety laws. Overcrowding and locked fire doors are not uncommon.
More than 300 factories near Dhaka were shut for almost a week earlier this year as workers demanded higher wages and better conditions. At least 500 have died in garment factory accidents in Bangladesh since 2006, according to fire brigade officials.
(Additional reporting by Jessica Wohl in Chicago; Writing by John Chalmers and Ben Berkowitz; Editing by Robert Birsel and Gunna Dickson)


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The START New Student Orientation is designed for students who are new to Seattle Central College as they enter their first quarter of enrollment.
START introduces students to many of the opportunities available at Seattle Central and trains them in the use of web-based registration for future quarters. It also introduces them to the advisors and counselors that will continue to work with them throughout their college experience at Seattle Central.
Note: Running Start, International Students, Non-credit ABE, ESL, and GED® students use a separate orientation and are not required to participate in START.
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START can be taken either online or in–person (sign up in room BE1104).
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- Students will get a broader and more in-depth overview.
- College transfer students can meet directly with an advisor after the orientation is over and get assistance with first quarter planning.
- Students will be able to register immediately for classes and not have to wait two business days for their PIN to be activated.
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
I Don't Know Where Ya Been, My Lad, But I See Ya Won First Prize
Somewhere around Christmas time I finally splurged and bought Skyrim (hey, it was on sale). Sure, it's about a year or so too late to be relevant, but I figured I'd play around with the game and see if I liked it. I've heard enough about the sandbox nature of the game to make me interested, and the fact that you're not forced into FPS mode but you can zoom out a bit into a more familiar third person mode is even better.*
The game is okay so far, but nothing so engrossing that I would find myself up way past my bedtime playing. The graphics are nice, and the old style quest finding is a welcome change to the MMO style quest markers, but when I sit down to play a game I find myself skipping over Skyrim for Civ IV or an MMO. The fact that (I believe) that purchasing the DVD of the game appears to be irrelevant as the game uses Steam to download to my computer doesn't exactly help, either, since I'm not that big of a fan of the Steam ownership model: you don't purchase a copy of the game itself, you only purchase the right to play the game, just like Amazon's Kindle purchases.
However, there was one aspect of Skyrim that I was unprepared for.
Like quite a few people, I use Curse to manage my WoW addons, and once every couple of months I hop onto Curse to make sure all of my addons are up to date.** I've gotten used to having WoW as the only game in my stable with a Curse connection, so imagine my surprise when I saw Skyrim pop up as an option.
Curious, I clicked on Skyrim and loaded the database of mods, just to see what I could add. There were mods to make lockpicking easier --something Ol' Fumblefingers can definitely use-- as well as mods for tracking your mats and whatnot. But by far the most popular mod was something I didn't expect: Nude Females.
No, really.
Apparently this game isn't "Rated M for Mature" enough for some folks, and they took it upon themselves to create a few mods to "tweak" the models for the game. Making more detailed facial models is one thing, but making sure what's under a toon's clothing is anatomically accurate is quite another. I'd almost be inclined to believe that the mod's creators had altruistic intentions except that you won't find an equivalent mod for male toons.
Just like some people can't play Age of Conan without going "Oooo, boobies!"***, some people need that in-game nakedness that the nude female mods --yes, there are more than one-- provide. This is akin to people who like to zoom in and watch the female Night Elf breast bounce, I suppose.
Me, I just don't get it. If you're interested in this aspect of the game, why are you playing and not surfing the Internet instead?
*It's been a while since I mentioned it, but I find that FPS games give me headaches, and one of the reasons I suspect that MMO's don't is due to the game's viewpoint. With third person mode, I can use my character as a focal point and not have issues with the constantly changing terrain.
**If I were a raider or already into Mists content it'd be a lot more frequent updates, but I'm still about 30 levels away from needing to purchase Mists.
***Go hang around Tortage on any server, and you'll see what I mean. I suspect that some people play Demonologists in AoC just so they can have the nude Succubus hanging around. And if you thought that the Shivarra in WoW was bad, the AoC Succubus makes the Shivarra look tame. But that AoC Succubus has a very sinister look about her. Oh, and the AoC Incubus (for female Demonologist toons) has just as little clothing and the same uncomfortably malign feel to them.
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Haha, oh yes nudepatches are the shit! pretty much any game that offers the option, MMOs included, will have fanmade nude patches right away. Skyrim has some very odd mods in general - some (no doubt male players) are simply obsessed with enhancing the female models. there's oddities too like 'cleaner skin' mods....erm, right. did you know you can marry NPCs in the game? might be some guys take this very seriously!ReplyDelete
I love Skyrim to death though and the freedom is awesome. :) didn't use any mods though, just few console commands. be sure to look into buying a house sometime!Replies
I suspect the "cleaner skin mods" deal more with the details on the Elvish races, since to a non-Bethesda player (like me) the look of those Elvish races is a bit of an initial shock.Delete
I don't play Skyrim, but I knew that its modding community was a bit nuts when I saw this. :PReplyDeleteReplies
My Little Pony mod?Delete
I think I'm going to be sick.....


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Walter Allsworth
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Forename: Walter
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Degree Information: MB (1874) ; CM (1880)
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