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does one begin
to explain this paradox, this sophisticated country lawyer, this
defender of the poor and downtrodden, this honest, devious man,
Seward Darrow? It isn't easy. I can, however, offer a series of
Kinsman, Ohio, 1860's: Young Clarence, son of the village undertaker and coffin maker never visits the corner of his father's shop where the coffins are stacked; never enters his father's shop after dark....In his autobiographical novel, Farmington, Darrow describes a ten-year-old Midwestern boy who watches a smiling young man march off to fight for the Union, then months later attends his funeral. The boy's mind fills with terror as he sees the soldier's body being lowered into a grave. Darrow feared death. Does that fear explain his lifelong crusade against capital punishment? No client of Darrow's ever was executed. If it happened, he says, it would have killed him. Kinsman, Ohio, early 1870's: As a son of the village infidel, Clarence is bequethed "a nonconforming spirit, a skeptical mind, and freelance politics that drifted toward cynicism." His oratorical skills are already in evidence. He participates in town debates on the issues of the day-- always argues the negative, always wins. Ashtabula, Ohio, 1880's: Now a young lawyer, Darrow accepts the case of a boy was given a $15 harness by a rich drunk whom the boy took care of during his illness. The harness was never paid for, and the creditor seeks to repossess the harness. Darrow, earning $5 for his work, takes the boy's case through two trials and three appellate court decisions before achieving final victory in the Ohio Supreme Court's decision in Jewell vs. Brockway. The small stakes seem not to matter to Darrow, poker player that he is. "What is the difference whether one plays with a blue chip or with a white one?", he asks. "The important thing is to play." Chicago, 1896: Two years after having given up a lucrative job as corporation counsel for the Chicago and Northwestern Railway to represent Eugene Debs, head of the railroad union, Darrow attends the 1896 Democratic National Convention as a member of the Illinois delegation. He listens as a young congressman from Nebraska and champion of silver coinage, William Jennings Bryan, sweeps delegates to their feet, warning of crucifixion upon "a cross of gold." Although Darrow finds the speech simplistic, he later writes that he never heard a speech move an audience the way Bryan's speech did. Bryan becomes the party's nominee, but loses to McKinley. Further down the ticket, Clarence Darrow loses his race for the U. S. Congress by only 100 votes. Chicago, near the century's end: Darrow is now well-known in Chicago's intellectual circles. His Chicago apartment is the site of frequent gatherings. "Darrow reads from Nietzsche, Tolstoy, and Voltaire as his guests spread out on the Oriental carpet before him. Tears roll down his cheeks as he reads Robert Burns poetry or bellows the powerful chants of Walt Whitman." He joins with his guests in a rousing rendition of "The Road to Mandalay".... By now, Darrow is a committed determinist. If men are not free agents, he asks, how can we hold them morally responsible for their acts? Chicago, 1908: The best known defense lawyer in the land returns to Chicago after his successful defense of Bill Haywood and other leaders of the Western Federation of Miners, accused in the bombing-assassination of the former governor of Idaho....William Jennings Bryan personally appeals to Darrow for help in his third run at the Presidency, but Darrow refuses. Los Angeles, 1912: Darrow is himself on trial, charged with arranging an attempted bribe of a juror in a case involving a bombing of the Los Angeles Times building that killed 21 people. In his defense Darrow tells the jury, "I have committed one crime: I have stood for the weak and the poor." The jury acquits Darrow, though he most likely is guilty. The country lawyer has some big city-fixer in him; the deck, he thinks, is stacked against defendants, prosecutors cheat, neither death nor prison is a proper punishment. Ends matter more than means to Darrow. Chicago, 1924: Fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks is kidnapped and murdered while on his way home from school. The murderers, it turns out, are two teenagers, wealthy with lives that had been full of promise: Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold. Richard Loeb, 18, is the youngest graduate in the history of the University of Michigan, the handsome and popular son of a Sears Roebuck vice president. Nathan Leopold is 19 and already a nationally renown ornithologist and University of Chicago graduate. He is enrolled for classes starting the next fall at the Harvard Law School. Loeb and Leopold, disciples of the German philosopher Nietzsche and entangled their own bizarre relationship, had hoped to pull off the perfect crime, involving ransom demands, phone signals, and packages thrown off moving trains. But Providence, according to State's Attorney Robert Crowe, intervened: Leopold's glasses with a rare patented hinge are discovered along with young Bobby Franks' body in a South Chicago swamp. The net closes, the boys confess, and all in Chicago, it seems, are determined to have them hang. Enter Clarence Darrow. He waives the defendants' right to a jury trial and tries their case directly to Judge John Caverly. What stands out about Darrow's summation in the Leopold-Loeb trial? A partial list: 1. Darrow's determinism.
Critics complain about
the tendency of defense lawyers today to blame others for their
crimes. They should have seen Darrow. He blames for their crime the
youth, their parents, their nannies, their wealth, their hormones,
novels, a dead German philosopher, college professors, and even World
I. Not for money, not for spite; not for hate. They killed him as they might kill a spider or a fly, for the experience. They killed him because they were made that way. Because somewhere in the infinite processes that go to the making up of the boy or the man something slipped, and those unfortunate lads sit here hated, despised, outcasts, with the community shouting for their blood. Or this one: I know, Your Honor, that every atom of life in all this universe is bound up together. I know that a pebble cannot be thrown into the ocean without disturbing every drop of water in the sea. I know that every life is inextricably mixed and woven with every other life. I know that every influence, conscious and unconscious, acts and reacts on every living organism, and that no one can fix the blame. I know that all life is a series of infinite chances, which sometimes result one way and sometimes another. I have not the infinite wisdom that can fathom it, neither has any other human brain.... Why should this boy's life be bound up with Frederick Nietzsche, who died thirty years ago, insane, in Germany? I don't know. I only know it is. Or this one: The whole life of childhood is a dream and an illusion, and whether they take one shape or another shape depends not upon the dreamy boy but on what surrounds him. As well might I have dreamed of burglars and wished to be one as to dream of policemen and wished to be one. Perhaps I was lucky, too, that I had no money. We have grown to think that the misfortune is in not having it . The great misfortune in this terrible case is the money. That has destroyed their lives. That has fostered these illusions. That has promoted this mad act. And, if your honor shall doom them to die, it will be because they are the sons of the rich. Or, finally, this passage: What had this boy to do with it? He was not his own father; he was not his own mother; he was not his own grandparents. All of this was handed to him. He did not surround himself with governesses and wealth. He did not make himself. And yet he is to be compelled to pay. 2. Darrow's understanding that
the judge would
have to satify the public's demand for severe punishment. Consider:
I can
hardly understand
myself pleading to a court to visit mercy on two boys by shutting them
into a prison for life. I do not know
how much salvage
there is in these two boys. I hate to say it in their presence, but
is there to look forward to? I do not know but what your Honor would be
merciful if you tied a rope around their necks and let them die;
to them, but not merciful to civilization, and not merciful to those
would be left behind. To spend the balance of their days in prison is
little to look forward to, if anything. Is it anything? They may have
hope that as the years roll around they might be released. I do not
I do not know. I will be honest with this court as I have tried to be
the beginning. I know that these boys are not fit to be at large. I
they will not be until they pass through the next stage of life, at
or fifty. Whether they will be then, I cannot tell. I am sure of this;
that I will not be here to help them. So far as I am concerned, it is
over. I care not, your Honor, whether the march begins at the gallows or when the gates of Joliet close upon them, there is nothing but the night, and that is little for any human being to expect."Now hollow fires burn out to black, 3. Darrow loved to use poetry in his summations. Consider how he chose to end his lengthy summation. I might add that as he did so, tears were streaming down the cheeks of the trial judge, John Caverly. Not a bad sign, perhaps. I am
pleading for the
future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not
the hearts of men. When we can learn by reason and judgement and
and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest
attribute of man.
"So I be written in the Book of Love 4. Darrow understood the power of using the second person. Consider: 5. Finally, Darrow had a
novelist's understanding
of the power of specificity. Listen to this word picture he creates in
this excerpt: I can think, and only think, your Honor, of taking two boys, one eighteen and the other nineteen, irresponsible, weak, diseased, penning them in a cell, checking off the days and the hours and the minutes, until they will be taken out and hanged. Wouldn't it be a glorious day for Chicago? Wouldn't it be a glorious triumph for the State's Attorney? Wouldn't it be a glorious triumph for justice in this land? Wouldn't it be a glorious illustration of Christianity and kindness and charity ? I can picture them, wakened in the gray light of morning, furnished a suit of clothes by the state, led to the scaffold, their feet tied, black caps drawn over their heads, stood on a trap door, the hangman pressing a spring, so that it gives way under them; I can see them fall through space--and--stopped by the rope around their necks. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, needless to say, are spared the rope. Dayton, Tennessee, 1925: Tennessee enacts legislation making it a crime to teach the theory of evolution in public school classrooms. A Dayton, Tennessee coal company manager, George Rappalyea, sees an ACLU advertisement offering to defend any teacher charged with violating the new law. Rappalyea convinces other town leaders that an evolution trial would be a way of putting Dayton, which is rapidly losing population, on the map and might even attract new residents and businesses to their fair city. John Scopes, a young science teacher and part-time football coach, agrees to become the defendant in a test case challenging the law. William Jennings Bryan, who has not practiced law in thirty years and had remade himself into "a sort of Fundamentalist Pope", volunteers to prosecute the case. Clarence Darrow, for the first time in his career, also volunteers his services-- for the defense, of course. The ACLU is worried; its leaders fear that Darrow's zealous agnosticism will turn the trial into a broadside attack on religion, but the call belongs to Scopes, and he takes Darrow, along with two additional ACLU lawyers dispatched from New York. Banners decorate the streets of Dayton, chimpanzees perform in a sideshow on Main Street, members of the Anti-Evolution League sell copies of Bryan's book, Hell and the High School, while in the surrounding hills, holly rollers roll. Nearly a thousand people jam the Rhea County Courthouse on a hot July day for the first day of the trial. In opening statements, the trial is characterized grandly. Bryan says, "If evolution wins, Christianity goes." Darrow says, "Scopes isn't on trial, civilization is on trial." The defense strategy is to challenge the constitutionality of the law. On the second day of the trial, Darrow argues that a ruling upholding the law threatens not just the education of Tennessee school children, but the Enlightenment: If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers. Soon you may set Catholic against Protestant and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the minds of men. If you can do one you can do the other. Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers, tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lectures, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After while, your honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. Three days later, Judge Raulston bars the defense from presenting eight scientific experts that had been brought to Dayton to support Darwin's theory. Their prepared statements are published widely in the press, however, and Darrow's effort to turn the trial into a national biology lesson is successful. Darrow says in response to the Court's ruling excluding his experts: "I cannot understand why a bare suggestion of anything that is perfectly competent on our part should be immediately overruled." Judge Raulston asks Darrow, "I hope you do not mean to reflect upon the court?" Darrow's reply, which earns him the first contempt citation of his career, "Well, your honor has the right to hope." On the seventh day of trial, Raulston asks the defense if it had any more evidence. What follows is probably the most amazing court scene on Anglo-Saxon history. Williams Jennings Bryan is called to the stand as an expert on the Bible. Bryan assents, stipulating only that he should have a chance to interrogate the defense lawyers. He takes a seat on the witness stand, and begins fanning himself. Darrow begins his interrogation of Bryan with a quiet question: "You have given considerable study to the Bible, haven't you, Mr. Bryan?" Bryan replies, "Yes, I have. I have studied the Bible for about fifty years." Thus begins a series of questions designed to undermine a literalist interpretation of the Bible. Bryan is asked about a whale swallowing Jonah, Joshua making the sun stand still, Noah and the great flood, the temptation of Adam in the garden of Eden, and the creation according to Genesis. After initially contending that "everything in the Bible should be accepted as it is given there," Bryan finally concedes that the words of the Bible should not always be taken literally. In response to Darrow's relentless questions as to whether the six days of creation, as described in Genesis, were twenty-four hour days, Bryan says "My impression is that they were periods." Bryan, who began his testimony calmly, stumbles badly under Darrow's persistent prodding. At one point the exasperated Bryan says, "I do not think about things I don't think about." Darrow asks, "Do you think about the things you do think about?" Bryan responds, to the derisive laughter of spectators, "Well, sometimes." Both old warriors grow testy as the examination continues. Bryan accuses Darrow of attempting to "slur at the Bible." He says that he will continue to answer Darrow's impertinent questions because "I want the world to know that this man, who does not believe in God, is trying to use a court in Tennessee--." Darrow interrupts, "I object to your statement" and to "your fool ideas that no intelligent Christian on earth believes." Raulston orders the court adjourned and the next day strikes Bryan's testimony from evidence. The confrontation between Bryan and Darrow is reported by the press as a defeat for Bryan. His performance is described as that of "a pitiable, punch drunk warrior." The trial is nearly over. Darrow asks the jury to return a verdict of guilty in order that the case might be appealed to the Tennessee Supreme Court. The jury complies with Darrow's request, and Judge Raulston fines him $100. Six days after the trial, William Jennings Bryan is still in Dayton. After eating an enormous dinner, he dies in his sleep. Clarence Darrow is hiking in the Smoky Mountains when word of Bryan's death reached him. When reporters suggested to him that Bryan died of a broken heart, Darrow says, "Broken heart nothing; he died of a busted belly." There will never be another Darrow. He was, like us all, a product of his times. For him, it was a time of class conflict so intense as to border on class warfare. It was a time during which the Radical Left-- anarchists, socialists, communists-- were at the peak of their influence. It was a time of Jim Crow, of lynchings, a time during which the Klu Klux Klan called the shots in parts of our country. It was a time of unprecedented xenophobia. It was a time of whirl and social change-- a time when the modernist notion of asking whether a behavior pleased one's own intellect began to challenge the Victorian way of asking whether the behavior was approved of by society. Mechanistic thinking was in the air: Darwin, Herbert Spencer, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud. Darrow was shaped, in both positive and negative ways, by these forces. Invariably, he saw his client's cases as inextricably linked to these large philosophical and social issues. He fought his battles not just for his clients, but also for the hearts and minds of the American people. There will never be another Darrow. Power has shifted in the American courtroom since he ended his career. It's shifted away from attorneys and juries and to judges. There are more constraints operating on trial lawyers today; trials are more scripted. Few modern judges would let a defense attorney call a prosecutor as a witness; few judges today let attorneys depict their client's cause as bound up in the mechanistic workings of the ambivalent universe; the personal stories, the biting sarcasm, and the everpresent poetry that we find in Darrow's summations would likely be met today with judicial disapprobation. There will never be another Darrow. In the pre-television, newspaper world of Darrow, words mattered more than images. Oratorical skills were valued; whole speeches were heard and were read-- not just sound bites. The ability to use words well could make one a hero in Darrow's time, a time that was the Age of Heroes (Ruth, Lindbergh). Clarence Darrow was at the same time one of the best loved and most hated men of his time-- it is hard to imagine a trial attorney achieving that status today. There will never be another Darrow. In his time, there was a general belief that intellectual battles could be won, not just fought. That Science could beat Fundamentalism or that Fundamentalism could beat Science. That Trade Unionism would win, or Trade Unionism would be routed-- there seemed no middle way. There will never be another Darrow. The would-be Darrows of our time move to New York City to become struggling poets or philosophers, they don't go to law schools. With his big brain and restless heart, with his love of Voltaire and Tolstoy, and most of all with his lazy streak, it is hard to envision Darrow cramming for a Tax or UCC final. There never will be another Darrow. Darrow once said, "Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet." Darrow also had a poet in his law firm. He was joined in his practice by Edgar Lee Masters, who later authored the Spoon River Anthology. Their relationship was often strained, but Masters was moved to write an empathetic poem about his old law partner. Here is Masters' poem, Clarence Darrow: This is Darrow, Inadequately scrawled, |


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Health Canada is issuing a recall notice for thousands of dishwashers that it says could be a potential fire hazard.
The agency says about 61,000 dishwashers sold between January 2013 and May 2015 are being recalled because the power cords can overheat and possibly spark a fire.
It says the affected brands are Bosch, Thermador, Gaggenau, Kenmore and Jenn-Air.
There have been no injuries reported, but Health Canada says there are five reports of property damage in the United States, where 408,000 affected dishwashers have been sold.
No damage has been reported in Canada.
A full list of the models included in the recall can be seen on Health Canada's website.
To check to see if your machine is recalled, you can find model and serial numbers printed on either the top of its inner door panel or on the right side of the dishwasher panel.
Anyone who owns one of these dishwashers is advised to stop using it immediately and call the Safety Recall Hotline at 1-888-965-5813 for a free inspection and repair.
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In November last year, I had this idea that each month I'd have a post recommending stuff. Different stuff. In November it was free e-books. Then in December… nothing. Yes indeed, a continuous series of one. Well, now, after that December hiatus, here are January's recommendations: simple recipes. These aren't high brow items to keep you in the kitchen for hours, just nice, simple, tasty dishes. Spend some time on each website too – good food likes company.
Tomatoes stuffed with guacamole – More of a spring or summer side dish, but I really liked these, perhaps because I love guacamole (though apparently many of my friends don't – it's always left over at pot luck gatherings). They make a good addition to a salad or baked potato or such.
High Protein Mashed Potatoes – If you're looking for something too add to basic mash, or balance those carbs, give this a try – just remember you'll need fewer potatoes for the whole dish. This was another simple one, using ingredients you likely have around anyway.
Houjicha Cheesecake -I have a real liking for cheesecake, and so when I saw this recipe I thought I'd give it a try. Houjicha is basically roasted green tea leaves, and this recipe uses them to get a nice smooth flavour. I went with a basic, thin pastry.
Chicken Skewers and Cashew Nut Satay – this is on the Hairy Biker's website, which is one I recommend everyone have a click around on. This made a great BBQ dish as well as on a grill; the satay sauce was particularly nice.
I could also plug a couple of my own simple recipes – miso shiru or tsukune – and why not. Also, take a look at CookingInJapan for some other tasty dishes – all very healthy.


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Over the weekend the tiny town of Fancy Farm, Kentucky was the scene of a political brawl worthy of the Hatfields and McCoys. No one was run out of town, but Mitch O'Connell, the Senate Republican leader, who is asking Kentuckians for a sixth term, did get pretty roughed up - verbally. You'd hardly guess it all began as a church picnic.
NPR's David Welna was there.
DAVID WELNA, BYLINE: Nine tons of mutton and pork barbecue get devoured by the thousands who descend every August on the Fancy Farm Picnic, a benefit for Saint Jerome's, the local Catholic Church. But they also come for that other kind of meat - raw, tough and thoroughly political. The picnic features a two hour bout of shouting and speechmaking in an open-air shed kicked off this year by public TV host Ferrell Wellman.
FERRELL WELLMAN: So I assume everybody is ready to have the time.
WELLMAN: Are you going to be on your best behavior?
CROWD: No.
WELLMAN: That's what I thought.
WELNA: It was a crowd as divided as Congress but a good deal rowdier. To the right were Mitch McConnell supporters - many bused in by the 71-year-old senator for this formal launch of his campaign for a sixth term. To the left sat backers of Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes. She's the 34-year-old Democrat who's running neck-and-neck in recent polls with McConnell. Scattered throughout were Matt Bevin supporters. He's the wealthy Tea Party-backed businessman challenging McConnell in next spring's GOP primary. So McConnell began casting himself as the guy standing up to Barack Obama.
SENATOR MITCH MCCONNELL: You know, I've brought Kentucky's voice to Washington and the Obama crowd doesn't like it. You see, Kentucky's voice is often the voice of opposition to the Obama agenda and I'm proud of that. That's why every liberal in America, every liberal in America is out to beat us next year.
WELNA: Not once did McConnell mention either rival sitting right behind him. Instead, he cast this as a race against Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid and President Obama, who twice lost Kentucky by wide margins.
MCCONNELL: It's really quite simple. Here's the choice. Obama's Nevada yes man or a Kentuckian to run the Senate. Thanks for all you're doing. It's going to be a great campaign. We're going to have a lot of fun.
WELNA: Among those listening is Annie Zachary(ph), a registered Republican wondering how worried the Republican leader ought to be.
ANNE ZACHARY: I am very seriously thinking that if certain things align, he may not have his job.
WELNA: Next was Democratic challenger Grimes, who opened with a snub of McConnell.
ALISON GRIMES: It's not every Fancy Farm that the Republican nominee for United States Senate actually shows up, so please join me in giving a big rousing to welcome to Matt Bevin.
WELNA: While McConnell sat behind her wearing a mirthless smile, Grimes portrayed him as the culprit behind Washington's dysfunction.
GRIMES: Let's just tell it like it is. If the doctors told Senator McConnell that he had a kidney stone, he'd refuse to pass it.
WELNA: Grimes' performance left GOP state representative and McConnell ally Richard Heath fretful.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE RICHARD HEATH: Alison Grimes is a really good candidate and a really good campaigner. She'll be tough to beat. I've got to put 100 percent of my effort behind the senator and believe with all my heart that he will get reelected.
WELNA: Last to speak was 46-year-old Tea Party Republican Bevin. His supporters rang white Salvation Army bells made in a Connecticut foundry his family owns.
MATT BEVIN: The bells - the bells that have been ringing, Mitch McConnell seemed to wonder what was up with that. I saw him kind of looking around. And let me tell you something, Senator, if you haven't scurried away yet, ask not for whom the bells toll, Senator, they toll for you.
WELNA: McConnell had, in fact, already left, along with most of his supporters. Bevin, nonetheless, confronted him.
BEVIN: I don't intend to run to the right of Mitch McConnell. I don't intend to run to the left of Mitch McConnell. I intend to run straight over the top of Mitch McConnell and right into the U.S. Senate, and with your help we're going to do that.
WELNA: Long time Kentucky political analyst Al Cross says McConnell does have a huge campaign war chest, but still...
AL CROSS: Matt Bevin is a proximate threat to Mitch McConnell, the most proximate threat, because McConnell's never had to deal with a primary, never had to deal with an insurgency, never had to defend himself among Republicans, most of whom are more conservative than he is or was. He's moving to the right.
WELNA: Which may make McConnell even less inclined to bless any of the deals Congress likely will soon have to make now that he's got double trouble to deal with back home. David Welna, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The June 2016 issue of History of Psychiatry is now online. Articles in this issue explore psychiatric semiology, the German Research Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, madness in novelist Muriel Spark's work, LSD as treatment in Denmark, the DSM and learning disabilities, Joseph Mason's madhouse, and the work of Max Scheler. Full titles, authors, and abstracts follow below.
"The emergence of psychiatric semiology during the Age of Revolution: evolving concepts of 'normal' and 'pathological'," by Diego Enrique Londoño and Professor Tom Dening. The abstract reads,
This article addresses some important questions in psychiatric semiology. The concept of a sign is crucial in psychiatry. How do signs emerge, and what gives them validity and legitimacy? What are the boundaries of 'normal' and 'pathological' behaviour and mental experiences? To address these issues, we analyse the characteristics and rules that govern semiological signs and clinical elements. We examine 'normality' from the perspective of Georges Canguilehm and compare the differences of 'normal' in physiology and psychiatry. We then examine the history and the philosophical, linguistic and medical-psychiatric origins of semiology during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (the Age of Revolution). The field of rhetoric and oratory has emphasized the importance of passions, emotions and language as applied to signs of madness. Another perspective on semiology, provided by Michel Foucault, lays stress on the concept of 'instinct' and the axis of voluntary-involuntary behaviour. Finally, we analyse how statistics and eugenics have played an important role in our current conceptualization of the norm and therefore the scientific discourse behind the established clinical signs.
"Psychiatric governance, völkisch corporatism, and the German Research Institute of Psychiatry in Munich (1912–26). Part 2," by Eric J Engstrom, Wolfgang Burgmair, and Matthias M Weber. The abstract reads, Continue reading New History of Psychiatry: LSD, Madhouses, Psychiatric Semiology…


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Terminator Armour
Energy Fields: Conversion field - Refractor field - Displacer field - Stasis field | Armour: Flak - Carapace - Powered - Artificer - Terminator |
Terminator Armour or Tactical Dreadnought Armour is the toughest and most powerful form of personal armour humanity has ever developed, used by Terminator units. The scarcity and expense to maintain Terminator suits means they are available only to the elite troops from the veteran companies of the Space Marine Chapters.
Like power armour, Terminator suits have an outer shell of ceramite-bonded plates powered by electrically-motivated fibre bundles. Plates of heavy plasteel further armour the ceramite sections, especially on the front of the suit. This extra armouring provides a level of protection that is far superior to normal Marine armor; not even a Krak missile will penetrate the suit's breastplate.[7] It has even been noted to allow its wearer to survive being stood on by a Titan.[1] It also contributes to the immense weight of the suit, making the wearer less maneuverable and slower. External adamantium ribs help support this weight, while the inclusion of suspensors help the suit carry heavier support weapons.[3]
On the left shoulder of every Terminator suit is displayed the Crux Terminatus badge - those worn by Terminator captains are said to contain a piece of the Terminator Armour the Emperor wore when he fought Horus during the final battle of the Horus Heresy.[2]
Like power armor, Terminator armour is fully enclosed with life-support functions, and includes an array of sensors including radiation monitors, biological detectors and self-diagnostic scanners. Terminator Armour also incorporates many more auxiliary systems than normal Marine power armour, including motion sensors and threat detectors.[3] The armour's sensorium, based upon tendril sensors, links directly into the wearer's own awareness. The sensorium allows the wearer to use a vast number of scanners and detectors without conscious thought. Sensoriums can also be linked together, allowing every squad member to see exactly the same view of the battle as his comrades, though often only the Sergeant's suit will broadcast pict-signals.[3]
Terminator armour is also notable for incorporating a Teleport homer in each suit. This technology allows the squad to overcome their suits' lack of maneuverability by placing them directly in the enemy's midst, though the process is dangerous and sometimes inaccurate. In other cases, Terminator squads will be transported into battle by Drop Pods or Land Raiders.
Due to the massive strength its fibre bundles and advanced servo-motors afford the wearer, weapons normally too heavy to be considered man-portable can be used without impeding performance. Heavy flamers and assault cannons can be wielded as easily as a normal man would a handle a lasgun or boltgun.
Terminator Armour has its own integrated weaponry: a storm bolter and a power fist. The Storm Bolter is a multi-chambered, short-barrelled development of the trusty standard bolter already used by the Astartes. It shoots at a faster rate than the original weapon, allowing it to lay down a curtain of fire. It is also quite short, partly because it is built into the exo-armour, making it an ideal close combat weapon. Such a combination in a single weapon has proven useful, to say the least. The power fist is already standard issue in many Chapters, and needs little work to adapt it to exo-armour.[2]
Heavier weapons include the heavy flamer, the assault cannon, Grenade Harness, and the cyclone missile launcher. Normally one squad member will be designated as fire support and carry one of these weapons.[3]
Some Terminator squads, designated specifically for close-quarter combat, while eschew any ranged weapons in favor of either Lightning Claws or a combination of Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield.[3]
Tactical use
Most Marine chapters maintain some Terminator suits in their armouries, and train some squads in their use. However, Terminator armour is not used by these Marines as a matter of course, but issued as and when required. Conventionally armoured Marines, for example, would not be expected to clear the densely-packed corridors of a hive world. Their task would be to form a cordon while Terminator-armoured squads carried out the clearance.[3]
By the 41st millennium, Terminator armour is so prized that its use is reserved for when it will be at its most effective. Terminators may be used in boarding actions, where the cramped conditions and long corridors mean that the Terminator's strength and firepower can be brought to bear without the risk of flanking manoeuvres. Terminator armour may also be deployed on the open battlefield, either to wield devastating long-range fire with their heavy weapons, or deep-strike teleporting to attack the enemy's command structure.[3]
Terminator armour was developed during the Great Crusade [6] by the Adeptus Mechanicus Tech Adepts of Mars. Its design is a blend of Dreadnought armour, standard Marine power armour and heavy suits used by engineers working in the most hostile environments (such as micro-debris-plagued orbits or the radioactive engine cores of stellar frigates). It was first intended to provide heavy armour and firepower to troops fighting in cramped battle zones, such as the claustrophobic tunnels of hive worlds and Space Hulks, which are too confined for Dreadnoughts and vehicles.
Several designs of Terminator armour evolved in parallel from the forge worlds of the Adeptus Mechanicus and the armouries of the Marines. Often bearing little physical resemblance to each other, these different exo-armour suits in fact have much in common. Massively armoured, sealed against any external conditions and incorporating their own armament, Terminator armour designs proved their worth from the first. Like power armour, the suits were equipped with fibre-bundle muscles and imposed few movement restrictions upon the wearer, despite their immense weight.[2]
Terminator armor was originally meant to replace normal power armor, however the destruction wrought by the Horus Heresy destroyed many of these suits, and the limited resources left after the war ended combined with the complexity of building and maintaining Terminator suits contributed to their increase rarity.[3]
Today Terminator suits are highly prized by their Chapters and kept in a constant state of repair and renewal. Although the Adeptus Mechanicus still maintains limited production of Terminator suits,[3] the rate is so slow that often a "new" suit is cobbled together from refurbished parts salvaged from the battlefield. This explains the sometimes disparate and ragged look of Terminator squads. Indeed, as time marches onward the knowledge of how to fabricate some of the more complex pieces becomes an increasingly faded memory in the decrepit minds of the Adeptus Mechanicus, and "reverse engineering" is an all-too-common science in the 41st millennium.[5]
Cataphractii Pattern
This pattern was among the first issued to the Space Marine Legions, and was used during the late Great Crusade and Horus Heresy by both the Space Marines [11] and the Legio Custodes[13]. Although it was rare before the Horus Heresy, some Legions, such as the Iron Hands, possessed a large number of suits.[9] In addition to being distinguished by its large, layered pauldrons, and the pteruges protecting the elbow and thigh joints[9], it was functionally distinct from other patterns, bearing additional plating and shield generators installed within the shoulder pads.[8] This resulted in severe straining of the suit's exoskeleton and reduced the wearer's movement speed, leading to its decline among some Space Marine Legions during the early battles of the Heresy.[11] In the M42 Cataphractii Armour is still used but as a relic rare armour and used only under the important circumstances.[23]
Some Cataphractii Armour suits are equipped with a Grenade Harness.[23]
Tartaros Pattern
This pattern is issued to the Veterans of a Chapter's 1st Company and is possibly considered the most advanced form of Tactical Dreadnought Armour. It shared many systems with the Mk IV Maximus-pattern power armour whilst providing greater mobility for the wearer compared to the Indomitus with no loss in durability.[4] This pattern was mostly used during the last years of the Great Crusade and during the Horus Heresy. In the M41 such a Armour are incredibly rare. Even so some of the Space Marine Chapters which have this suits in possession deploys these venerable relics, given them to the most able members of the 1st Company.[17]
Indomitus Pattern
Though they first appeared during the Horus Heresy[8] the Indomitus Pattern Terminator Armour is noted for being the most widespread pattern as of M41, due to its template being held by key Forge Worlds such as Mars.[4] It features large rounded pauldrons and an iconic helmet design that resembles the face of a long-extinct species of Terran canid. On each suit's left shoulder sits the revered Crux Terminatus. These sacred icons are said to incorporate a shard of the golden armour that the Emperor wore in His fateful duel with Horus, and serves a reminder of His noble sacrifice.[10]
Gorgon Pattern
A variant of the Indomitus Pattern devised by the Primarch Ferrus Manus and the Iron Fathers, this advanced prototype suit was just going into production at the onset of the Horus Heresy. The design replaced field generators embedded in the armour with experimental systems that converted incoming electromagnetic and kinetic energy into bursts of blinding light, able to incapacitate nearby foes. The heat and electrochemical toxins bleeding from the suit limited the armour's agility, and its effects required a high level of cybernetic modifications for its wearer to endure.[12]
Salamanders prototype Terminators
These prototypes were designed by Vulkan himself, and used by the Salamanders in the aftermath of the Drop Site Massacre. They were much wider and taller than standard legionary power armour, and featured an additional exoskeleton frame to which slanted reinforced armor plates were attached. Left hands carried Power fists, claws and Chainblades for close combat, opening armour and cutting through bulkheads, while right hands wielded a variety of small arms ranging from simple combi-bolters to triple-barreled autocannons, Plasma Launchers, Rocket Launchers and long-barrelled Volkite Culverin.[20]
Saturnine Pattern
Saturnine pattern was made available after the MKVI Power Armour, during the latter stages of the Horus Heresy.[21] Its pattern is described as being functionally identical to the Tartaros and Indomitus designs[11], and it is believed that any divergence in design was largely aesthetic. Little is known about the origins of these Terminator suits, and few examples of this pattern are known to still exist.[10]
Arkonak Pattern
The Minotaurs Chapter are noted as having widespread access to this rare pattern.[14]
Aegis Pattern
Used by Grey Knights Terminators, this pattern of Terminator Armour is equipped with the protective Aegis system.[15]
Aquilon Pattern
This pattern of Terminator Armour was used by the Adeptus Custodes during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. Its origins lie with the Cataphractii suits of the Space Marine Legions, but with far greater power capacity and customized neuro-fibre uplinks, it is said, redesigned by the mind of the Emperor himself. Aquilon Pattern Terminator Armour was said to have adjusted for the enhanced physique of the Custodes, who were capable of bearing more weight and strain than even Space Marines. This allowed it to be fitted with additional power systems and capacitors, increasing its durability and maneuverability.[16b] Aquilon Pattern Terminators were given more advanced weaponry than their Astartes counterparts, wielding weapons such as Lastrum Storm Bolters, Solerite Power Gauntlets and Power Talons, and Power Talon, Infernus Firepikes, and twin-linked Adrathic Destructor.[16a] Within the ranks of the Custodes, Aquilon Pattern Terminator Armour was deployed by the Tharanatoi Caste.[16b]
Allarus Pattern
The Allarus Pattern Terminator Armour is used by the Adeptus Custodes of the Allarus Terminators in the present setting. Driven by magnatomic generator-shrines, articulated with leonus-class actuators, and fashioned from layered auramite and adamantium, Allarus armour is a marvel of craftsmanship. It provides its wearer with an exceptional range of movement and near-unencumbered speed, augmented strength and resilience, and the survivability to stride unharmed from the blast of a macro-cannon shell. Coupled with the protective blessings of the Emperor, Allarus Terminator plate is arguably the most effective man-portable combat armour in the entire Imperium.[19] These expertly crafted suits are each individually worth entire worlds.[18]
Unique Suits
- The Armour of Antilochus: an Ultramarines relic, worn exclusively by Chapter Master Marneus Augustus Calgar.
- The Serpent's Scales: Ornate suit worn by the traitorous Warmaster Horus.
- The Logos: Highly advanced suit worn by Perturabo
- The Medusan Carapace: Worn by Ferrus Manus
Space Hulk (1st Edition) Terminators (1989)
Grey Knights Terminator (2011)
Cataphractii Terminator Sergeant with grenade-harness[8]
See also
- 1: Index Astartes IV, pg. 47
- 2: White Dwarf 109 (UK), pgs. 32-33 — Terminator Squads
- 3: White Dwarf 304 (UK), pgs. 30-35 — Index Astartes: Tactical Dreadnought Armour
- 4: Tartaros Pattern Terminator Armour (last accessed 7 June 2015)
- 5: TERMI-NATION The definitive on-line guide to terminator armour, by John Blanche
- 6: Horus Rising (Novel), Part One, [Needs Citation], pg. 161
- 7: Wolf's Honour (Novel) – Space Wolf: The Second Omnibus: Chapter One, pg. 519
- 8: White Dwarf 128 (2016), pg. 7 — Cataphractii Terminators
- 9: Feat of Iron (Novella) — The Primarchs (Anthology), pgs. 119–120
- 10: Warhammer Community Grim Dark Corners: Tactical Dreadnought Armour (29/03/19) saved archive, last accessed 09/03/23)
- 11: Horus Heresy Book One - Betrayal, pg. 237
- 12: The Horus Heresy Book Two - Massacre, pg. 232
- 13: Hands of the Emperor (Short Story) — The Imperial Truth (Anthology)
- 14: Imperial Armour Volume Twelve - The Fall of Orpheus, pg. 133
- 15: Codex: Grey Knights (5th Edition), pg. 27
- 16: The Horus Heresy Book Seven - Inferno:
- 17: Warhammer Community - Tartaros Terminators (last accessed 31 May 2017)
- 18: Games Workshop
- 19: Codex: Adeptus Custodes (8th Edition), pg. 39
- 20: Deeds Endure (Short Story) — Shattered Legions (Anthology)
- 21: Horus Heresy: Age Of Darkness 2nd Edition Rulebook, pg. 32
- 22: Forge World webstore : Iron Hands Legion Gorgon Terminators (saved archive, last accessed 09/03/23)
- 23: Codex: Space Marines (9th Edition), pg. 161 Relic Terminator Squad
- Warhammer 40,000 Compendium, pg. 11
- Codex: Space Marines (4th Edition), [Needs Citation]
- Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), [Needs Citation]


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A week of links
Links this week:
There have been some strong reactions to the Edge piece on Napoleon Chagnon (I pointed it out last week, and if you haven't yet, give it a look). Some are entertaining, although most are not particularly enlightening. Jason Anstrosio goes the epigenetics maneuver and Stephen Corry pins death rates among ancient hunters on hunting accidents.
If you're risk averse, don't do science - become an actuary.
The Faroe Islands Health Ministry plans to genetically sequence everyone on the island who wants it.
Overview of the Flynn effect (unfortunately gated if you don't have journal access).
George Monbiot on rewilding (audio download)


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Chopra strike enough for Town
Michael Chopra struck the only goal of the game as Ipswich gave their npower Championship survival hopes a boost by clinching their second win of the year against managerless Blackpool.
The Town striker turned home his fifth goal of the season after good work by Senegalese midfielder Guirane N'Daw early in the second half to lift his team four points clear of the relegation zone and condemn Blackpool caretaker manager Steve Thompson to a third defeat in his sixth game in charge.
Mick McCarthy's Ipswich, who had won only one of their previous six league games, secured back-to-back victories at Portman Road while the Seasiders, for whom Spanish midfielder Tiago Gomes hit the post in the first half, remain six points clear of the bottom three having now tasted success in only two of their last 10 in the Championship.
Ipswich midfielder Anthony Wordsworth made his first start since arriving from Colchester for #100,000 on transfer deadline day, but his work was cut short by injury 10 minutes before half-time and he was replaced by Chopra.
Blackpool's own recent signing Matt Derbyshire, on loan from Nottingham Forest, made his first start and goalkeeper Matt Gilks returned from suspension.
Ipswich's Carlos Edwards and Blackpool's Chris Basham both fired off target in the opening exchanges and home strikers David McGoldrick and Daryl Murphy were both wayward with angled drives soon after.
Edwards and McGoldrick threatened again, with Gilks doing well to hold the latter's effort from the edge of the area in the 24th minute, but Blackpool went closest to taking the lead two minutes later.
Gomes was denied his first goal for the Seasiders by the width of the post with a right-footed shot from inside the area and Ipswich goalkeeper Stephen Henderson was then at full stretch to turn away Alex Baptiste's goalbound cross.
Blackpool defender Kirk Broadfoot headed the subsequent corner narrowly wide.
Derbyshire and Broadfoot again went close with headers, both from Gomes corners, while Murphy tested Gilks at the other end with a rasping drive but the score remained goalless at half-time.
Broadfoot limped out of the action shortly after the restart and was replaced in defence by Reece Wabara.
And Ipswich cashed in on uncertainty at the back when Guirane N'Daw cut the ball back from the byline and Chopra steered a shot, left-footed, into the bottom corner from 12 yards.
Thompson sent on substitute Tom Ince for Gomes just after the hour mark and opposite number Mick McCarthy responded by replacing McGoldrick with Frank Nouble.
Seasiders forward Nathan Delfouneso, on loan from Aston Villa, was next to step off the bench in a bid to salvage a point for the visitors in place of Gary Taylor-Fletcher, but in contrast to the first period both sides found goalscoring chances much harder to come by.
N'Daw cleared Baptiste's goalbound header and visiting defender Basham saw two shots blocked as Blackpool pressed for the equaliser in the closing stages, but Ipswich's defence held firm.
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WEST OCEAN CITY – An Ocean City man was arrested on assault and disorderly conduct charges last weekend after allegedly striking his girlfriend after a dispute in a West Ocean City bar.
Shortly after midnight last Sunday, Maryland State Police troopers responded to a residence on Old Bridge Rd. in West Ocean City for a reported assault in progress. Upon arrival, officers found the alleged victim sitting at her kitchen table in the residence. The victim told police the father of her children, identified as Adrian Ricardo Reinoso, 35, of Ocean City, had assaulted her after the couple had left the bar.
The victim sustained injuries to her face and left arm and was taken by Ocean City EMS to Atlantic General Hospital for treatment. Reinoso was arrested and charged with second-degree assault and disorderly conduct. He was taken before a District Court Commissioner and ordered held on an $8,000 bond. He was later released after posting bond.
Shoplifters Busted
WEST OCEAN CITY – A pair of Salisbury residents were arrested on felony theft charges last week after allegedly swiping over $2,000 in merchandize from several stores in the Ocean City Factory Outlets and the adjacent White Marlin Mall.
Shortly before 1:30 p.m. last Wednesday, Maryland State Police troopers from the Berlin barrack responded to the White Marlin Mall in West Ocean City for a reported theft. Upon arrival, the troopers met with a witness who had observed a male suspect stealing items from the Dollar General store. The witness said the suspect left the area in a green mini-van driven by a female and provided a tag number for the vehicle.
Troopers than observed the suspect vehicle in the area of Routes 50 and 589 and initiated a traffic stop. The driver of the vehicle, identified as Terri Lynn Bivans, 29, of Salisbury, told police she had dropped the male suspect off at a nearby gas station. The male suspect, later identified as Dexter Alfonso Kess, Sr., 55, of Salisbury, was located a short time later. Witnesses identified both Bivans and Kess as the suspects in the alleged thefts at the Dollar General.
Both Bivans and Kess were arrested and charged with theft over $500 and theft scheme over $500. They were taken to the Berlin barrack where they admitted conducting thefts at various stores in the White Marlin Mall and the Ocean City Factory Outlets including the Gap Outlet, Bass Outlet, Bath and Body Works, Radio Shack and Dollar General. The stolen items were valued at roughly $2,200.
Bivans and Kess were taken before a District Court Commissioner who ordered them held on $5,000 bonds. They were later released.
Hooded Suspects Burglarize Vehicles
WEST OCEAN CITY – Maryland State Police this week are looking for two suspects in connection with a theft from a vehicle in a West Ocean City neighborhood last Saturday.
Around 12:15 a.m. last Saturday, MSP troopers responded to a residence on Queen's Circle in West Ocean City for a reported theft from a vehicle. The investigation revealed two male juveniles wearing dark hooded sweatshirts had gained access to the victim's unlocked vehicle and stole a lap-top computer and an Ipod. The victim yelled at the two suspects and they fled the scene, dropping the lap-top in the process.
Both suspects are described as juvenile males wearing hooded dark sweatshirts and blue jeans. One of the suspects was carrying a backpack. The two suspects fled on foot in the direction of the Oyster Harbor community. The MSP is urging all residents of the Queen's Circle area to properly secure their vehicles overnight. Anyone with information about the theft is encouraged to call the MSP Berlin Barrack at 410-641-3101.
Traffic Stop Yields Pot Bust
BERLIN – A traffic stop for a routine equipment violation last week ended in an arrest for marijuana possession.
Around 2:20 a.m. last Wednesday, MSP troopers pulled over a white Lexus passenger car on Route 113 at Bays End Lane in Berlin for not having operational taillights. Upon contact with the driver, identified as Mary Elizabeth Stewart, 22, of Pocomoke, and detected an odor of marijuana. The trooper also observed marijuana seeds in the vehicle.
A search of the vehicle turned up nearly 18 grams of marijuana as well as two marijuana smoking devices. Stewart was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and paraphernalia.
Vending Machine Vandals Sought
BERLIN – Maryland State Police this week are seeking the suspect or suspects who damaged a Coca-Cola vending machine and stole money from it at a Berlin business sometime last Friday.
Around 7:30 a.m. last Friday, MSP troopers responded to Rayne's Sand and Gravel in Berlin for a reported malicious destruction of property and theft. Upon arrival, the troopers located the damaged Coke machine and learned an undetermined amount of money had been stolen. The crime occurred sometime between 5 p.m. on Thursday and 6 a.m. on Friday.
Increased patrols in the area will be conducted. Anyone with information about the incident is encouraged to contact the MSP Berlin barrack at 410-641-3101.
Head Basher Gets Jail Time
SNOW HILL – A Pennsylvania man arrested in February on drunk driving and other serious charges after bashing the hood of a state police cruiser with his head was found guilty this week in District Court of driving under the influence and malicious destruction of property and was sentenced to two years in jail.
Keith Stewart Reeves, 47, of New Tripoli, Pa., was in District Court in Snow Hill on Tuesday facing serious charges including threatening and assaulting an officer, disorderly conduct, malicious destruction of property and numerous traffic citations including driving under the influence all stemming from an incident near Ocean Pines on Feb. 25. Reeves was found guilty of malicious destruction of property and driving under the influence and was sentenced to two concurrent two-year jail terms and fined $500.
Shortly after 5 a.m. on Feb. 25, a Maryland State Police trooper responded to the area of Cathell Rd. and Racetrack Rd. for a citizen report about a suspected drunk driver. The trooper located the suspect vehicle heading east on Cathell Rd. The trooper got behind the vehicle, which stopped on the side of the road. When the driver, identified as Reeves, got out of the driver's side door, he fell to the ground.
He was then arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. According to police reports, Reeves was extremely belligerent and combative at the time of his arrest and at one point threw his head onto the hood of the trooper's police cruiser, causing a dent. Reeves was offered medical treatment but refused. He continued to be very disruptive and belligerent throughout his arrest.
Probation For Shoplifter
SNOW HILL – An Easton woman arrested in January after getting caught stealing items from the Wal-Mart in Berlin was placed on probation for two years and fined $200 last week in District Court in Snow Hill.
Around 6:40 p.m. on Jan. 26, a Maryland State Police trooper responded to the Wal-Mart for a reported shoplifting. Upon arrival, the trooper made contact with the store manager, who told him the suspect, later identified as Barbara Suzanne Meier, of Easton, had left the store with $123 in merchandise.
Meier allegedly stole miscellaneous items including cosmetics, socks and a belt. She did pay $33 for some merchandize before leaving the store. Last week in District Court in Snow Hill, Meier pleaded not guilty to the charge of theft under $500 but was found guilty and placed on probation for two years. She was also fined $200.
Alleged Cop Assaulter Not Prosecuted
SNOW HILL – A Pennsylvania man who allegedly assaulted an OCPD officer after getting pulled over for a routine equipment repair order last December appeared in Circuit Court last week and had the charged against him dropped.
On Dec. 30, OCPD Officer Aaron Morgan stopped a vehicle at 68th Street and Coastal Highway for a safety equipment violation. During Morgan's initial contact with the driver, later identified as Robert John Schefter, 38, of Glenrock, Pa., the officer noticed a strong odor of alcohol emanating from the interior of the vehicle. The officer also noted Schefter to be exhibiting the behavior of a person who may be intoxicated, according to his report.
During the traffic stop, Schefter admitted to having consumed some alcoholic beverages and the officer asked him if he would perform some roadside sobriety tests. Schefter declined, stating he was a designated driver. He also stated he was an attorney and that the roadside tests were "bogus."
At that point, Morgan asked Schefter to step out of his vehicle. While Schefter was getting out of his vehicle, the officer noted he was having obvious balance problems as he tried to walk, according to the report. As a result of his observations, the officer, joined now by Officer Patrick Flynn, attempted to place Schefter under arrest for suspicion of driving while under the influence.
During the arrest process, Schefter resisted and attempted to get back into his vehicle. After a brief scuffle with the officers, Schefter was subdued and arrested. He refused medical treatment at the scene by Ocean City EMS, while the officers were not injured in the scuffle.
Schefter was charged with resisting arrest, second-degree assault on an officer, DUI, willfully disobeying a lawful order and driving on a highway without adequate rear registration plate illumination. In Circuit Court last week, Schefter had the charges against him "nolle prossed," or not prosecuted.
Charges Dropped Against Birthday Boy
SNOW HILL – A Virginia man arrested last December on disorderly conduct and resisting arrest charges after allegedly refusing to go quietly from a mid-town Ocean City bar on his birthday after being asked to leave by security staff had the charges against him dropped last week in Circuit Court.
Shortly after 2 a.m. on Dec. 16, an OCPD officer on routine patrol observed the security staff at Fager's Island physically removing an intoxicated man, later identified as Joshua Kevin Wanamaker, 22, of Temperanceville, Va., who was apparently getting an early start on celebrating his birthday. Wanamaker was escorted to the bottom of the ramp at the main entrance to the establishment where he was informed he was no longer welcome due to his level of intoxication.
Wanamaker, who was allegedly visibly intoxicated with slurred speech and poor balance, began to voice his displeasure with being removed from the bar. He made one attempt to go back up the ramp but was stopped by bar staff. The OCPD officer then told Wanamaker to stand quietly under the awning over the ramp or leave the premises by going out in the pouring rain. Wanamaker told the officer he did nothing wrong and also said he was going to sue the bar staff. As he made his case, he became louder and louder and used more and more vulgar language, according to police reports.
A short time later, two of Wanamaker's friends came out and peacefully tried to get him to leave, but he fought with them and began to shout obscenities at the police officer. He also tried to fight his way past his friends in an effort to get at the police officer. Wanamaker then launched into an expletive-filled tirade on the officer and the Fager's security staff while his friends tried to restrain him.
The OCPD officer finally interceded and attempted to place Wanamaker under arrest for disorderly conduct, but he did not go quietly. He continued his string of obscenities as he refused to be handcuffed. He was finally restrained by the officer with the help of the bar security staff. Wanamaker was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Last week in Circuit Court, the charges against Wanamaker were dropped.
Suspended Sentence For Fighting, Pot
SNOW HILL – A Berlin man arrested in Ocean City last May on assault and marijuana possession charges last week pleaded guilty to both and was sentenced to 75 days in jail with all but 44 suspended with credit given for time already served.
On May 28, Ocean City Police responded to 4th Street and Wilmington Lane for a reported fight in progress. OCPD bicycle cops arrived on the scene just in time to observe a man pick up a lawn chair and throw it at a female victim, striking her in the head and arms. Before they could intercede, the officers observed another man, identified as Ashalom Johnson, 19, of Berlin, do the same thing to the same victim.
The officers dismounted their bikes, drew their weapons and ordered everybody involved to get down on the ground. The first suspect fled on foot and the officers gave chase, eventually subduing the man with a police baton after a brief struggle, During the struggle, one of the officers observed Johnson throw a baggie of an unidentified substance that landed a few feet away from him. A check of the baggie revealed it contained four individually wrapped bags of marijuana.
Johnson was arrested and charged with second-degree assault and possession of marijuana. Last week, he pleaded guilty to both counts and was sentenced to 75 days in jail with all but 44, which he has already served, suspended.
Shoplifting, Pot Arrests
WEST OCEAN CITY – One local woman was arrested for theft and another was arrested for possession of marijuana this week after the duo was caught shoplifting at a West Ocean City grocery store.
Maryland State Police troopers on Monday responded to the Super Fresh in West Ocean City for a reported shoplifting incident. By the time police arrive, the suspects had fled in a car, but through the investigation, officers were able to identify the suspects and their vehicle. The MSP troopers alerted Ocean City Police to be on the lookout for the vehicle and a short time later, resort police located and detained the vehicle in the area of 4th Street in Ocean City.
The passenger, identified as Krystyna Marie Strobel, 18, of Ocean City, was questioned and later arrested for the theft of merchandize from the grocery store. The various stolen items totaling around $155 were found in the 2003 Dodge Durango. Meanwhile, a search incident to the theft investigation turned up a plastic bag of marijuana and two glass-smoking devices in a purse belonging to the driver and owner of the vehicle, identified as Sarah Elizabeth Trattner, 18, of Berlin.
Strobel was charged with theft under $500 and Trattner was charged with possession of marijuana and paraphernalia. Both were taken before a District Court Commissioner and released on their own recognizance.
Traffic Stop Yields Two Arrests
BERLIN – Two men wanted in St. Mary's County were taken into custody this week getting pulled over for speeding on Route 50 at Route 90 near Ocean Pines.
Around 7:10 p.m. on Monday, a Maryland State Police trooper pulled over a vehicle for going 74 miles per hour in a 55 mph zone on Route 50 at Route 90. A license and wanted check on the driver, identified as Thomas Erik Pinkenstein, 29, of California, Md. revealed his license was suspended for driving under the influence and he was wanted on two failure-to-appear warrants from St. Mary's County.
A wanted check was also conducted on the passenger, identified as John Michael Chrismond, 32, of no fixed address, and revealed he was wanted on a District Court warrant and a Circuit Court warrant for theft in St. Mary's County. Both men were arrested and taken before the District Court Commissioner in Ocean City. Pinkenstein was ordered held on a $5,000 bond for each warrant and Chrismond was ordered held on a $10,000 bond for one of his warrants. Both were held at the Worcester County Jail.
Five Injured In Route 113 Accident
NEWARK – Five people were taken to PRMC this week after a domino collision on Route 113 in Newark at the entrance to the Worcester County Board of Education headquarters.
Around 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Maryland State Police responded to a three-car accident on Route 113 near Newark. The investigation revealed a 2005 Isuzu SUV and a 1995 Mazda truck were facing southbound and attempting to turn left in the Worcester Board of Education complex. A third vehicle, a 1998 Chevy Blazer, came up on the vehicles attempting to turn and swerved to the right to avoid a collision, but did not avoid striking the Isuzu SUV.
The SUV was pushed into the Mazda truck in front of it, while the Chevy Blazer rolled over into a ditch, striking a light pole before coming to a rest. The driver of the Blazer, Rose Alexander Fooks, and her passenger, Delano A. Harmon, were taken to PRMC in Salisbury where they were treated for minor injuries.
Also injured and transported to PRMC was the driver of the Isuzu SUV, Peggy Annise Straight, and her passenger, Sandra Linthicum Schiffer, along with the driver of the Mazda truck, William Irving Warren. Fooks, the operator of the vehicle that triggered the accident, was charged with negligent driving.
Trial Date Set For Attempted Murder Suspect
SNOW HILL – A trial date has been set for the Salisbury man charged with attempted first-degree murder and other felonies following a shooting on a parking lot in West Ocean City last November.
James Labronk Brumskin, 17, of Salisbury was scheduled to appear for a motions hearing in Circuit Court last Friday but the hearing was postponed and a May 1 trial date has been laid in on the docket. Brumskin, who is being tried as an adult, is being held on attempted first-degree murder charges after police connected him to a shooting on the parking lot of Salvatore's in West Ocean City last November.
Brumskin was arrested by WCBI detectives after the investigation connected him to the shooting.
On Nov. 10, both Brumskin and his victim, Eric Jamar Purnell, 19, of Berlin, were attending a party when the restaurant was shut down due to a minor altercation inside. The guests were leaving when Brumskin allegedly fired three shots from a small caliber handgun at Purnell as he walked across the parking lot. One of the bullets struck Purnell in the buttocks and became lodged in his groin area.
The victim was taken first to Atlantic General Hospital and later transferred to Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury for surgery. The investigation pointed to Brumskin as a suspect and he was arrested at his residence in Salisbury on Wednesday. Brumskin has since admitted being involved in the shooting of Purnell, according to police reports.


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"I don't care if I had to sign a contract that I had to go up against
this guy 100 times to prove to everyone that I can beat this guy 100
times then I would have done that." - Gray Maynard
The main event of UFC 136 on October 8th is Frankie Edgar vs. Gray Maynard for the UFC lightweight championship. From purely a fight perspective, I think this is the most important fight the UFC has to offer.
It might not be the flashiest, it might not be receiving the most media attention, it might not be filled with the best trash-talk sound bites, but, bar none, there are no two fighters who deserve to battle each other for a belt in the Octagon more than these two, if for no other reason than the first time they squared off with a title on the line they put on a "Fight of the Night" that could very well be "Fight of the Year". And at the end of that memorable match, there was no clear winner.
On New Year's Day in Las Vegas at UFC 125, Maynard challenged Edgar for the UFC lightweight championship and the two fought a five round war from bell to bell. It was an emotional fight with highs and lows for both competitors. It was a grueling contest where without a doubt both fighters left everything they had in the cage that night and they were both standing ready for more. When time expired, the final decision was laid in the hands of the judges.
The verdict: a draw.
"I know it's easy to have that quote, 'don't leave it up to the judges', but you're in a championship fight and you're going up against the top in the world, so more than likely it's going to be a close one," says Maynard. "That's the way the sport is headed. I don't care who you talk to, if they know the sport, with two top athletes it's going to be a close one. I wasn't pissed off at the judges. Whatever, it happens. At that time, I felt like I wanted to do it again. Over and over. I don't care if I had to sign a contract that I had to go up against this guy 100 times to prove to everyone that I can beat this guy 100 times then I would have done that. I still feel that way. I want to fight him. I'm not tired of fighting him. I want to fight him. I want to prove to everyone that I can beat him."
At 32 years old and about to enter the Octagon for the 11th time, Maynard's determination is unparalleled in preparing to challenge Edgar for the belt for the second time this year. There are dozens of reasons to push "The Bully" to train harder than ever to win this fight: the title, stay undefeated as a pro, it's what Maynard's been working for these past four years in the UFC, and on and on. But the beauty of this particular matchup is the untainted simplicity of the competition.
Maynard wants to beat Edgar to settle any doubts in any person's mind that he is better.
"I'm not tired of it because there's a question and I hate questions," asserts Maynard. "There's a question of who can beat who and that's what I want to prove. That's what drives me. I want him. I want to fight him. I want to prove it."
The three-time NCAA Division I All-American wrestler from Michigan State University specifically knows he can defeat Edgar because he did it. Back in 2008, well before either were within sniffing distance of the weight class' gold, Maynard scored a unanimous decision victory over Edgar, which handed the New Jersey native his first and only loss. It was a great matchup then between two burgeoning stars with wrestling backgrounds in a clash of "speed" (Edgar) vs. "power" (Maynard). Three years later, it is an even better matchup because they are undeniably the best in their division and have marched their way to the top since that meeting in 2008.
"We both have obviously grown and evolved," explains Maynard. "When you are going up against the top in the world one after the other you are going to get better. For me, after him I had Rich Clementi, Jim Miller, Roger Huerta, Nate Diaz, Kenny Florian. For him, Sean Sherk, Hermes Franca, and BJ Penn twice. You have to evolve and have to change. For me, I'm not trying to hold onto the fact that I beat him before. I forget about that stuff. You can ask me who I beat and I will tell you to check for yourself because I don't remember. But if you ask me who beat me - I'll tell you when, the date, the time, who it was, his background - I'll tell you everything about it. I just hate to lose. I hate draws. I hate everything but a win."
"The Bully" knows winning. UFC fans have watched Maynard win and win and win, from his nine second knockout of Joe Veres on September 19, 2007 until the dominant decision victory over Kenny Florian at UFC 118 on August 28, 2010. In between, Maynard has faced and defeated notable lightweight after notable lightweight on his way to the much deserved title shot at UFC 125.
Before the belt had even been put up for grabs, a number one contender had already been named in WEC lightweight champion Anthony "Showtime" Pettis. After the murky pseudo-conclusion of the bout, it was up in the air whether Edgar's next challenger would be Pettis or a "rubber match" with Maynard for a decisive ending. From the perspective of "The Bully", title shots are hard to come by in the UFC and he got one and it ended in a draw. First, the fight's fate lay with judges; now the rematch's fate lay with UFC President Dana White.
"It was heart-wrenching," admits Maynard. "I feel like I've earned this. I didn't try to back door it. I didn't drop to my knees. I didn't think this marketing plan will have me at 300,000 Twitter followers and that's going to get me a title shot. I just asked for the best guys every fight until I had the opportunity. I felt like I won that. The judges say it was a draw - ok. But this dude hasn't beat me and he's the champ. I don't understand how I don't get another shot at that. I don't understand how it's a question. Thank God they did. I think it was Dana who called and said it was mine and I think I told him I loved him and cried a little bit because that was awesome. He could have chose whoever he wanted to because that's his job and he chose me and I appreciate that more than anything - it's unreal."
The rematch for the UFC lightweight championship is set, a date is picked, a venue is picked, so everything is going great. What could possibly go wrong? Injuries. Originally, Maynard and Edgar were supposed to square off on the Memorial Day card in Las Vegas at UFC 130. Less than a month out, the fight was called off due to injuries to both fighters. It was a blow emotionally to Maynard with another hiccup in his journey to his first UFC belt, but it was a blessing in disguise for Maynard physically because he will be entering the rematch healthy.
"There had been a lot of injuries, but I wasn't going to pull out of it," tells Maynard. "My knee was screwed up and my back and I got cut over my eye. I got a call saying he had to pull out of the fight because of his back. Obviously, it was crushing to me. I talked to my coaches and they said this is probably the best for me because I was hobbling around and my elbow had problems and I had a cut on my eye. I just jumped right back into camp after January 1st because I was pissed. For me, I just never healed up. I had to have a scope done on my elbow. Obviously, it's a tough sport and injuries happen."
Now, "The Bully" is closing in on the same opponent, the same championship and the same fight he's been training for this past year. "That draw helped me to keep on track because I want to think about him every day," states Maynard, who has had 10 months to ruminate on the January bout; meanwhile, the most talent rich division in the UFC has been jockeying for position to be the next in line. "If I start to look past him or there are some other good fights out there, then his head pops up in my mind and I think who gives a s**t about anyone else. I want Edgar. I want to fight him."
There are no secrets about who either Edgar or Maynard is as a fighter after they have dueled in the Octagon for eight rounds, 40 minutes and two close decisions. There is no mystery. They know the other is tough, is ready to fight the full 25, wants to fight on the feet, wants to fight on the floor, and will not give an inch until the referee stops it. Maynard would not want it any other way because taking that hardest road against the best competitors will make success taste even sweeter.
"For my career, for who I am, I want to be known that I'm a normal person - I'm a blue collar type, I train hard and I work hard," affirms Maynard. "I just want people to know that I really do put everything I have into this sport - into my dreams. Whether it is cash, time, I put it ahead of a lot of things - of everything. It isn't a game to me; it's my life and it's who I am. You only have a couple times to achieve your dreams and I want to make the most of it. I feel that I'm the guy who can beat him. I feel like I'm the guy who can beat everyone. I'm not trying to say I'm the best or anything, but I put a plan and camp together and I feel like I have the edge in that aspect. I believe in myself."
On October 8th at UFC 136 in Houston, Texas, Maynard and Edgar will battle for the supremacy of the UFC lightweight division. For the third time, these two will entertain UFC fans in the purest way possible: fighting each other in the Octagon. It's as if Maynard and Edgar are destined to fight each other forever in the most grueling hard fought contests assembled. There's undoubtedly a historic rivalry between Maynard and Edgar. Not built on bitter words or disrespect; its foundation is in the greatness of their competition in the cage.
Regardless, Maynard knows it's unfinished. Come fight night, hyperbole will not help "The Bully" earn that belt. It will be Maynard's pragmatism of simply beating the opponent in front of him that will get him another win and the UFC gold.
"I try not to look deep into this stuff," relates Maynard. "I try to have a goal for the day. I try to keep out of that other stuff. But there is a lot of s**t going into this fight if you look at the history. I get asked, 'this is a trilogy fight and you two have gone back and forth, how does it feel?' Well, I guess when I'm an old man and I'm having a couple beers it will be cool. But right now, I'm amidst a war."
It was a war in 2008. It was a war on January 1st. And at UFC 136, there's no reason to think it won't be another war with the belt on the line. If that doesn't make it the most important fight to everyone watching, then I don't what does.
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Researchers with the UC Davis MIND Institute and Agilent Laboratories have found that Prader-Willi syndrome — a genetic disorder best known for causing an insatiable appetite that can lead to morbid obesity — is associated with the loss of non-coding RNAs, resulting in the dysregulation of circadian and metabolic genes, accelerated energy expenditure and metabolic differences during sleep.
The research was led by Janine LaSalle, a professor in the UC Davis Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology who is affiliated with the MIND Institute. It is published online in Human Molecular Genetics.
"Prader-Willi syndrome children do not sleep as well at night and have daytime sleepiness," LaSalle said. "Parents have to lock up their pantries because the kids are rummaging for food in the middle of the night, even breaking into their neighbors' houses to eat."
The study found that these behaviors are rooted in the loss of a long non-coding RNA that functions to balance energy expenditure in the brain during sleep. The finding could have a profound effect on how clinicians treat children with Prader-Willi, as well as point the way to new, innovative therapies, LaSalle said.
The leading cause of morbid obesity among children in the United States, Prader-Willi involves a complex, and sometimes contradictory, array of symptoms. Shortly after birth children with Prader-Willi experience failure to thrive. Yet after they begin to feed themselves, they have difficulty sleeping and insatiable appetites that lead to obesity if their diets are not carefully monitored.
The current study was conducted in a mouse model of Prader-Willi syndrome. It found that mice engineered with the loss of a long non-coding RNA showed altered energy use and metabolic differences during sleep.
Prader-Willi has been traced to a specific region on chromosome 15 (SNORD116), which produces RNAs that regulate gene expression, rather than coding for proteins. When functioning normally, SNORD116 produces small nucleolar (sno) RNAs and a long non-coding RNA (116HG), as well as a third non-coding RNA implicated in a related disorder, Angelman syndrome. The 116HG long non-coding RNA forms a cloud inside neuronal nuclei that associates with proteins and genes regulating diurnal metabolism in the brain, LaSalle said.
"We thought the cloud would be activating transcription, but in fact it was doing the opposite," she said. "Most of the genes were dampened by the cloud. This long non-coding RNA was acting as a decoy, pulling the active transcription factors away from genes and keeping them from being expressed."
As a result, losing snoRNAs and 116HG causes a chain reaction, eliminating the RNA cloud and allowing circadian and metabolic genes to get turned on during sleep periods, when they should be dampened down. This underlies a complex cycle in which the RNA cloud grew during sleep periods (daytime for nocturnal mice), turning down genes associated with energy use, and receded during waking periods, allowing these genes to be expressed. Mice without the 116HG gene lacked the benefit of this neuronal cloud, causing greater energy expenditure during sleep.
The researchers said that the work provides a clearer picture of why children with Prader-Willi syndrome can't sleep or feel satiated and may change therapeutic approaches. For example, many such children have been treated with growth hormone because of short stature, but this actually may boost other aspects of the disease.
"People had thought the kids weren't sleeping at night because of the sleep apnea caused by obesity," said LaSalle. "What this study shows is that the diurnal metabolism is central to the disorder, and that the obesity may be as a result of that. If you can work with that, you could improve therapies, for example figuring out the best times to administer medications."
Notes about this neurogenetics and Prader-Willi syndrome research
The study's other study authors include Weston T. Powell, Rochelle L. Coulson, Florence K. Crary, Spencer S. Wong, Robert A. Ach and Dag H. Yasui, all of UC Davis, and Peter Tsang and N. Alice Yamada of Agilent Laboratories.
The work was funded by National Institutes of Health grants F31NS073164 and 1R01NS076263 and the Prader-Willi Foundation.
Contact: Phyllis Brown – UC Davis Medical System
Source: UC Davis Medical System press release
Image Source: The genetic map of 15q11-q13 region image is in the public domain.
Original Research: Abstract for "A Prader-Willi locus lncRNA cloud modulates diurnal genes and energy expenditure" by Weston T. Powell, Rochelle L. Coulson, Florence K. Crary, Spencer S. Wong, Robert A. Ach, Peter Tsang, N. Alice Yamad2, Dag H. Yasui and Janine M. LaSalle in Human Molecular Genetics. Published online June 13 2013 doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddt281


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Lubomir Visnovsky escapes serious injury after crashing Ferrari during race in Slovakia
It's been a wild summer for New York Islanders defenseman Lubomir Visnovsky. In June, he was dealt from the Anaheim Ducks to Long Island, then late last month came news that he was taking the Islanders to arbitration to try an void the trade, claiming his no-trade clause was still valid. (The New York Post's Larry Brooks reports that the hearing will take place on Sept. 4.)
On Saturday, Visnovsky took part in a race at the Automotodróm Slovakia Ring motor circuit and crashed his Ferrari into a barrier head on, destroying the front of the car, as you see above.
From the Slovakia Ring Facebook page (translated):
"D4 division strongest race cars with engine capacity of 2000 cm3 were terminated early. This happened after the accident Ľuba Višňovský on his Ferrari at the exit of the second bend mishandled control at high speed and crashed head-on into a barrier. Fortunately escaped without any serious injuries, but the race has been canceled and the program will continue another competition."
From Pravda (translated):
"It happened in the 1st round at high speed when coming in the second turn. Lubo mishandled management, widely and went after the collision he was taken to the medical center. Fortunately okay. Was at high speed, but these cars are safe and barrier also served its purpose."
The Islanders released this statement on Saturday:
It was reported earlier today that defenseman, Lubomir Visnovsky was in an automobile accident, taking place in Slovakia. Below is a brief statement from Islanders General Manager, Garth Snow about the situation.
"I have spoken directly with Lubomir, and am pleased to report that he did not suffer any serious injuries."
The race was part of FIA GT1 World Championship series featuring top luxury car brands such as Ferrari and Lamborghini. Visnovsky was participating in a competition with engines with a capacity higher than 2.0 L.
Stick-tap Patrik for passing that along
UPDATE: Here's amateur video, featuring the crash off-camera:
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