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Influenza vaccines save millions of lives across the globe each year, but even heroes have their faults. A live attenuated flu vaccine, which contains weakened versions of the influenza virus, makes mice more prone to bacterial infections in their nasal passages. The vaccine used in the study is similar to FluMist, of which 13 million doses were distributed in the United States this year. The work helps explain why runny noses were an occasional aftereffect of FluMist in clinical trials.
"A study like this is an easy target for the antivaccine movement, but our findings shouldn't make a concerned parent less inclined to vaccinate their kid," says Michael Mina, a virologist at Emory University in Atlanta, who led the research.
Within the first few days of catching the flu, a person becomes susceptible to opportunistic bacteria. Microbes like Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus, which cause strep throat and staph infections, respectively, pounce on the exhausted immune system, causing secondary disease.
Mina wondered if attenuated flu vaccines could do the same. Some clinical trials of FluMist, for example, recorded an uptick in runny noses in children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years a week or so after they got the vaccine. But no study had attempted to figure out what might be causing the side effect by studying it in an animal model.
Mina and his colleagues mutated the H3N2 influenza virus to mimic the weakened strain included in the FluMist vaccine. Mice were then given this mock vaccine or a placebo either before or after they were exposed to S. pneumoniae or S. aureus.
Both bacteria flourished after mice were vaccinated, but only in their nasal passages and upper respiratory tracts, Mina's team reports in mBio. Although similar infections can cause runny noses in humans, they are much less dangerous than staph and strep infections in the lungs and lower respiratory tract. In fact, no infections at all transpired in the vaccinated mice's lower respiratory tracts, which explains why zero rodents experienced severe disease or died after bacterial exposure.
Even if the findings hold true in humans, a slight increase in the risk of a runny nose shouldn't prevent anyone from getting a flu shot, Mina says. Overall, getting vaccinated actually reduces your risk of bacterial infection by preventing influenza and, therefore, its host of possible secondary infections.
And at the end of the day, this is only a mouse model, says Vincent Racaniello, a microbiologist at Columbia University. Still, he says, it raises a mystifying question about this vaccine: "When you misdirect the immune response towards a virus, why do the bacteria take over?"
Next, Mina will search for human trends by heading to Bangladesh, where large-scale FluMist trials in children are ongoing. He will collect nasal swabs from vaccinated children to ascertain whether the patterns in his mouse model hold true. A city with the population density of Dhaka may witness an uptick in bacterial infections during mass vaccinations, he says.
According to Mina, some scientists in the field thought his study shouldn't be published because it casts a negative light on vaccines, but this research ultimately benefits the public, says Peter Palese, chair of microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. "Vaccines are still the best ways of combating flu and many other diseases. Mice are not men, but it's important to learn about possible complications."


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Invisible Illness Awareness & Support
Blog tours are when a person asks bloggers to post an interview on their blog, to increase awareness of a certain issue or product. I am very honored to be included in this endeavor. Her websites have sustained me, helped me grow in my relationship with the Lord, and put me in contact with very spiritual people who have learned wisdom through thier struggles, and can pass that wisdom on to others. Through them, I have learned so much that I would never have figured out alone in a lifetime alone, so I am now able to reach out to others who are quite new to the world of chronic illness, and so the circle continues. The student
soon becomes a teacher.
That is where I spend most of my time, getting counseled and offering counsel from others who are suffering, and we help each other get farther away from worldly things, and closer to eternal concepts. Through sheer necessity, we get closer to the Lord, because of our need to constantly leean on Him. We learn to not only talk to Him, but to listen for the answers. He will answer our prayers. James 1:5 says"
"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God,
who gives to all men liberally,
and does not hold back; and it shall be given him."
I believe people with physical limitations have no choice but to spend more time "Being still, knowing that He is real." That is one benefit of being slowed down, to be able to learn to listen to the answers (There are actually many blessings and benefits that come from hardships.)
I can't find the scripture I want, but one says we will be shown the mysteries of the universe if we are willing to ask and to learn to listen and recognize the voice of the Holy Spirit and the Savior and the Father.
It is a great feeling to know that even though we are limited physically, we can still be useful, we can still feel needed, by helping others online. We contineu to learn as we help others. Before the days of internet, I can't imagine how people surivived emotionally or physically for very long through serious illnesses that would make them shut-ins. How isolated and lonely they would be! I am so grateful to live in the age of Internet so the Lord can send me wise and loving friends from all over the world, and they are available at my fingertips. Now, to introduce you to a great influence in my life (and hundreds of thousands of others),
Lisa Copen.
Copen joins us today as the founder of http://www.invisibleillnessweek.com/ .
LC: Thanks for having me. I've had a great time getting to visit so many incredible blogs that cover such a variety of health and illness topics.
Even I have been surprised just how many there are, and the quality of them. Both readers and writers of blogs have made such a difference for people who live with illness.
I appreciate all of the bloggers who bring more awaremess amd familiarity, not just to illnesses and conditions, but to who the people are who live with the constant "daily-ness" of chronic pain or health issues.
Sheila: Yes, those who struggle with constant pain and fatigue seem to be a deep-thinking, quality type of spirit. Speaking of awareness, tell us about National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week. That's quite a mouthful!
LC: I know. You'll often hear it described as just Invisible Illness Week too. Our mission is to have a designated time, worldwide, in which
people who live with chronic illness, those who love them, and organizations are encouraged to educate the general public, churches, health care professionals and government officials about the affects of living with a disease that is not visually apparent.
Through programs and resources, we seek to recognize the daily challenges of more than 100 million adults and children who live with invisible illness. Its also a great chance for people with any illness to be involved in a national event to increase the under-standing of their own particular disease. They can use our event to blog about the emotions of living with their illness, for example, how they often may look perfectly fine, but are in deep pain.
Sheila: Tell us about this virtual conference.
LC: The virtual conference is a unique opportunity to attend a conference without having to get out of your pajamas! The main event of National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week is this 5-day virtual conference--which is all completely free--September 14-18. We have 20 speakers who are experts in chronic illness and their specific area and each will be giving a 40-minute seminar and then taking calls from our listeners live. The seminars are M-F, 4 times a day, and will feature a variety of topics such as going to college, the challenges of marriage, applying for disability financial assistance, cleaning and organizing, finding the right job, faith, preparing for surgery, parenting, and many more. You can listen to them all free live, or later on your computer, even download them from itunes. Or they can be purchased on a CD.
Sheila: Really? So are last years programs available too?
LC: They are. We used a chat room originally so we had written transcripts, but one can ALSO hear 2008's programs from a computer, itunes, or purchased on a CD.
LC: Isn't it? It's kind of ironic that we began virtual conferences years ago, but now many organizations and companies are making this a trend because of the economy and costs of a real conference
Sheila: Why did you see Invisible Illness Week as something that was needed? What made you decide to start this program?
LC: Well, a few reasons. I began Rest Ministries in 1997. It's a Christian organization
that serves those who live with chronic illness and the sponsor of Invisible Illness Week. I kept seeing many people who felt very alone, misunderstood, and frustrated, feeling that their illness, pain, and suffering were completely invalidated. Many people have a spouse who even doubts the existence of an illness.
Then I also heard from family members of those who are ill, pastors, caregivers, and even doctors who really wanted to communicate better with those who dealt with chronic pain and just didn't know what to say or how to say it. They may have tried to say the right thing, but it ended up coming out from so they would just withdraw from the relationship. The fact that illness and pain is invisible to see can make it hard for healthy people to understand. And those with illness can easily become bitter when their loved ones believe it is being exaggerated. It makes for a sad situation all the way around and I thought communication could be a helpful first step.
Sheila: This sounds familiar. I've heard many people say this.
LC: Yes, sadly it does, doesn't it? Even those of us who say we cope well on a day-to-day basis with our chronic illness can suddenly be overwhelmed with the emotions when we legally parked in a disabled parking spot and someone walking by gives us "the look" of skepticism. Or perhaps one of our dearest friends unknowingly asks, "So, you must be feeling a lot better by now, right?" There is a difference between being sick with a cold virus and being chronically ill. With a chronic illness you don't get "all better", but instead you go through the seasons of the illness. This difference is hard to grasp what you've never tell with a chronic condition.
LC: Yes, I wanted to bring people together to encourage one another. I saw people hurting when they had every reason not to and I knew they could encourage others. It really doesn't matter what illness we have, where we live, what age we are, how long ago we were diagnosed, etc. The fact that most of our illnesses are invisible and not seen by people gives us a lot more in common that most of the physical symptoms of our specific illnesses ever could.
Sheila: What illness do you have, Lisa?
LC: I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in 1993, at the age of 24. A few years after that, fibromyalgia. I've never been in remission, so I have had a difficult time of it, though I know it could have been worse. Each day is a challenge and I am on multiple medications to just try to have some quality of life and keep walking. My hands and feet are pretty deformed now and I have many surgeries in my near future. My illness has gone from being completely invisible to much more visible and it's not just the pain that bothers me now but the loss of being able to do things, or do them with ease. Driving or unloading the dishwasher is an event because of my hands. Suddenly stepping off a curb is a challenge.
Sheila: How can people get involved with Invisible Illness Week and find out more information?
LC: Thank you for asking because just by helping us spread the word, for example,
sharing about this blog post or by linking to it or posting it on Facebook, is the perfect ways to help our grassroots cause. I probably don't have to tell you that we don't have a marketing budget! When people introduce their friends or family to our virtual conference or tweet out our twitters or articles, they are making a significant difference. We also have some fun items to help spread the word like buttons, and tote bags, silicon bracelets that say "Invisible Illness, Visible Hope," awareness pins, and of course bumper stickers.
Our theme this year it is "A Little Help Gives a Lot of Hope." We are also accepting blogs from people to be featured on our site as a guest blogger. And we have a place to sign up to commit to blog on the topic of invisible illness on one's own blog. You can join our cause on Facebook and share it with others, tell people about our video, our twitter facts about illness, things like that. Tell your doctor, counselor, pastor, colleagues; we have brochures available too.
Sheila: How has blogging and twittering and other forms of social media made a difference? Has it helped in how you've been able to let people know about Invisible Illness Week?
LC: Yes! So much, it's unbelievable. It's given every person who is interested in letting people know about what is important to them (like increased awareness about an illness) a forum. We've sent out some series of tweets in the forms of lists, like 20 things to say to a chronically ill person, illness facts, 20 things not to say, etc. with the twitter hashtag #iiwk09. There have been some really deep conversations at places like Facebook, spurred on from our posts. Be sure to follow us @invisibleillwk on Twitter!
Sheila: I know there are a lot of people who feel so utterly alone, as if no one understands what they are going through. What do you tell these people?
LC: Honestly, if I could just sit beside them and give them a long gentle hug, I would do that first. I struggle with just listening myself; I always want to start solving the problem! But I know someone to listen to them is what most people really need. Secondly, I would also validate that they are right--no one can really can understand what they are going through. Illness is a unique and lonely experience. That said, there are a lot of ways to connect with people who understand more than they may expect; they just have to find them. There are lots of ways online to connect when you can't drive to a support group. Our social network is Rest Ministries Sunroom and I recently began Illness Twitters to connect people who Twitter about illness or health issues.
And lastly, since my faith is in the Lord, I couldn't let them walk away without sharing how knowing God has a plan for my life, despite my illness, has kept me going. I would want to tell them that despite any bad experiences they may have had at churches or with other Christians, God still has a "Plan A" for their life. The illness hasn't bumped them down to
"Plan B." That all may sounds cliche. I know that. But every day I hear people who say their faith in God is the only thing that gets them through it.
Sheila: You have a book out that gives people ideas about how to help a chronically ill friend, don't you?
LC: Yes, its called "Beyond Casseroles: 505 Ways to Encourage a Chronically Ill Friend." It's a helpful book that I refer to for ideas, even though I wrote it, because when someone I care about is hurting it is hard to think beyond bringing them food. We also have cute little JOY cards that stand for "Just Offering You..." that look like a gift certificate. A person can fill it out with what he or she is able to do like running an errand or doing laundry.
Sheila: That's a terrific idea! I would imagine that it would be easier to accept help from someone if it looked like a gift certificate.
LC: I think so. The cards are great for a support group, a womens ministry, or really anyone who wants a light-hearted way of saying, "I'd love to help. Here is what I am able to do."
Sheila: As a person who suffers from an invisible illness, what is the best way to react when people around me comment that I look fine, (therefore, in their mind I must be faking my illness)?
LC: That is a hot topic isn't it? We have a few posts on our web page where people have addressed this question too. I think that it depends on your relationship with the person. Is this someone close to you who you feel comfortable being a bit vulnerable? If so, consider sharing, "I know it may sound silly, but for some reason when you say that, even though I know you mean it as a compliment, it FEELS like no one understands the actual pain I am in. Rather than saying that, if you said [fill in the blank] I would feel a sense of relief that you are one of the few people who actually 'get it.'
If it's someone who is an acquaintance, it's not really necessary to explain. Or if you want to, though it's natural to want to throw out a sarcastic remark, I think the gentler we are in our response, the more likely people will try to understand. Even though you may not be close to the person, she may have a relative who is very ill. Your response may open her eyes to what her loved one is going through. So laugh with your ill friends about what you could say, but offer grace when it comes to the words you actually do say.
LC: My quick response would be "how deep is the bottom?" because there are bad days and then there is BOTTOM. On a bad day it's good to pamper yourself a bit. If I can I love to go see a movie that will make me sob all by myself and splurge on popcorn. My son and husband recently went to visit his family and because of my health I really couldn't travel. But the morning they left I went and saw "My Sister's Keeper." Very emotional movie, but it was just the "fix" I needed.
It's also helpful to call a friend. Just go for it and call some people who you know would make you feel better and ask them to stop and get you your favorite snack and come over for an hour. It's okay to ask for help (I am learning this… I still struggle with it too.)
Since my faith in Christ is my foundation, I also will blast some worship music. I love "Mary, Mary" or CeCe Winans or Mandisa--something with some soul! I also will turn to the Psalms and for some reason, I'm always surprised each time just how God seems to have written certain scriptures just for me at that moment.
Then there are those very dark moments. Those are the "get in the shower and sob" till no tears are left moments. Recognizing the difference and knowing it is time to talk to a pastor, counselor, doctor, etc. are essential. Don't ever be ashamed or embarrassed when you have to ask for help or counsel.
LC: No, thankfully not. Although they can also be life-altering when you do. One of the best books on this that I've read that is very comforting is Don Piper's "90 Minutes in Heaven." If someone you love has passed away, the first chapter in this book can be very comforting. And then read the rest of the book to be encouraged. Don was in a car accident and continues to live with severe daily chronic pain but has gone on to have quite an amazing ministry reaching out to people and sharing his experiences.
Sheila: Thank you again so much for joining us today, Lisa. And thank you for starting National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week. I know that you have your own health struggles and that you are also a wife and mother, so I know by experience it can't be easy to do it all.
LC: Its not, and yet it keeps me going too. And I have a wonderfully supportive spouse. Thanks for hosting me at your blog today. I hope everyone will visit us at National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week and let your friends know about our free virtual conference! We're going to have a fun time!
One of my favorite scriptures I hope encourages you is "My comfort in my suffering is this: [God's] promise preserves my life." Psalm 119:50
Lisa Copen
Rest Ministries, Director
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It's hard to know where to begin.
Our sweet, loyal, lovable black Labrador, Harley, died of cancer a couple weeks ago. We're not sure exactly how old he was, but we're guessing around 13.
Harley arrived at our family already named and all grown up, having spent his puppy years with a great family who trained him with military precision. When that family got re-stationed, they gave us Harley with the understanding that we would give him a great life doing the things he loved – being outside, playing with other dogs and, most of all, being smothered by children.
I'm proud to report that we gave him all those things.
And in return, Harley gave me another watchful eye over the kids. He gave the kids his protective presence at night, when he would lie at the foot of their beds and keep the bad dreams away. He gave my husband a buddy who was always up for a hike through the woods or a weekend camping trip. And he gave us all what all the best dogs do: constant love and affection.
It's hard not to feel the absence of that.
I still expect to see his smiling face and wildly wagging tail whenever I come home. I haven't been able to bring myself to put his food bowl away. But hardest of all is watching my kids grieve his absence.
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The problem isn't convex, but I'm hoping there's an efficient way to solve it, perhaps in quadratic time by evaluating midpoints. (Just a thought...it's not clear to me how to do this unless $d=1$.)
I've tried constructing the (bounded) Voronoi diagram. I thought that if I could construct the Voronoi diagram, then I could just evaluate the objective function at each of its vertices, and return the maximum. But generating a Voronoi diagram doesn't seem tractable for $d>8$, at least with the qhull library. Might there be some fast way to generate just the positive Veronoi poles, without generating the whole Voronoi diagram?
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I like to use whole chicken or chicken parts to roast or bb-qing or bake in oven.I adapted this recipe from one of my Malaysia cookbook which I bought many many years ago from Amazon.This recipe is simple and easy to managed.Enjoy!!
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1 tbsp pepper
1:Combine all the seasoning in a large container,mix well.Clean whole chicken,use a sharp knife to cut deep into the center of the breast:butterfly
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In 2004, ABC called on producer J.J. Abrams to create a prime-time drama that capitalized on the success of Survivor: something tropical, Cast Away-ish, and closer to Lord of the Flies than Gilligan's Island. Oh, they asked, and could you make it a towering, mainstream megahit, please? What executives got from the guy best known for a brainy college soap (Felicity) and an even brainier spy soap (Alias) was Lost, a fiendishly obscure, cast-of-thousands epic about … well … to say it's about people on a magic island is selling it short. To say it's about Everything — which its adherents swear it is — is a bit grandiose. So let's just say it's about destiny. And metaphysics. And quantum physics. And leadership, torture, time travel, synchronicity, Skinner boxes, geodesic domes, polar bears, doomsday equations, comic books, the Casimir effect, and the no-less-potent Cass Elliot effect. It was weird. Even weirder: It was a hit. A towering, mainstream megahit. You'd think a show like this could happen only in some alternate television universe. Maybe so. Maybe for the past six years we've been living in that universe. That would be so Lost.
The series endured thanks to the power of faith (coincidentally, a theme of the show) and a more modern expression of devotion — fandom. More to the point, faith in fandom: Lost's producers never stopped trusting their viewers' intelligence. Pressed for answers (which, let's be frank, they probably didn't have), the high priests of Lost instead delivered deeper mysteries. Queried about the flashbacks, they responded by flashing forward and even sideways into a parallel world. They sowed the Web with the show's sprawling mythology. They borrowed liberally and respectfully from science fiction and comic books. They understood that Lost, like God, would live in the cloud, kept alive by the theorizing and communing of its acolytes.
When Lost leaves the airwaves on May 23, its creators have pledged never to speak of it again. It's for the best. That's why we're stopping time here and making that fidgety, spatiotemporally promiscuous island sit still long enough for us to plumb and pay tribute to its mysteries. Once more into the hatch!
— Scott Brown
The Island Paradox
How will the series end? What do the numbers mean? And what's the deal with Libby? Lost executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof aren't telling. They were, however, happy to sit down with theoretical physicist (and Lost fan) Sean Carroll, author of From Eternity to Here, to talk time travel and the universe — and to reveal the link between Lost and Chuck E. Cheese.
Wired: I turned on the first episode of Lost thinking, OK, there's an island, a plane crash, some pretty people, and J.J. Abrams. Six years later I'm addicted to a full-blown science fiction show. How the hell did that happen?
Carlton Cuse: At the beginning the secret was that the show didn't announce itself as a genre show, so it could be about the characters. The audience got invested in the characters first and the mythology second. We were criticized for not having the characters talk about the mythology, and we were like, "That's right, that's our dirty little secret." By not having the audience talk about the mythology, then people are engaged in: "Is Kate going to end up with Sawyer?" and "I'm really compelled by the complexities of Benjamin Linus." Those are the things we wanted the audience to obsess about, not whether the Valenzetti equation had any relevance to the functioning of the island's magical time travel properties.
Sean Carroll: The science fiction allowed you to raise the stakes gradually over a period of time. It would have been hard to have a six-year show about people marooned on an island without science fiction elements.
Damon Lindelof: Impossible.
Cuse: It would have been a very boring show in our estimation.
Carroll: How much of what we're learning now in season six was figured out in the first season, versus, say, a month ago?
Lindelof: There's no empirical answer to that question. The way we got through the first season was, if we introduced a mystery, like a polar bear running through the jungle, or a hatch that was discovered in the ground, we had to know what the resolution of that specific mystery was. And in the episode-to-episode writing of the show there's an enormous amount of discovery. I think one of the most profound lessons I've learned over time as a show runner is that the more you listen to the show, the better your show. We watched our characters interact, and that would influence how we put them together.
Cuse: It probably bears some similarity to your work in physics, where you have a hypothesis and you start testing it.
Carroll: It's one thing to have a hypothesis and even figure out what the predictions of that theory are, but then it's going to be shaped by what you observe in the universe.
Lindelof: We have to have the answers to the mysteries so that there is something to work towards, but what we don't have are the stories. J.K. Rowling can sit down and say, here's how Harry Potter's parents were killed, and here's who killed them, but how am I going to reveal that information to the audience in the most emotionally impactful way? So we know what we want to do, but we have very little idea of how and when we're going to do it.
Carroll: In physics there's an explanation of how the past affects things in the future, in terms of entropy and thermodynamics. But part of the fun in narrative is you don't need to go from the present to the future — you can go back and forth. You've used every narrative direction to go in — flashback, flash forward, flash sideways. How did you conceptualize cause and effect, questions of destiny and free will, and the narrative impact of using real time travel as opposed to just flashbacks?
Cuse: We really wanted to tell some more stories about the history of the island. We became more and more fascinated with the Dharma Initiative, and the audience seemed really engaged by it. And we thought, how do we tell those stories? We certainly don't want to go back and just meet a bunch of new characters in the Dharma Initiative. We thought the best way to tell that story was to put our characters into that world. So the narrative device is selected by figuring out, what is the best way to tell this story we want to tell? Along with that, it felt like there's this incredible theme that we want to explore on the show, the question of destiny versus free will. And it felt like this was this tremendous opportunity to use literal time travel both as an effective narrative tool and also dig into this thematic construct, which as you get to the end of the show feels more and more relevant.
Carroll: You now have two timelines: life after the hydrogen bomb is detonated and life as if the plane had never crashed. Will season six end up making sense of how these two timelines fit together?
Lindelof: In previous seasons it was very clear that this happened before, and this happened after. Now you watch, and you go, "I don't know when this happened, because things are different." It's not just what would have happened if the plane landed; now Jack has a son and there are these changes. The audience is saying, "I hope they explain the relationship between these two stories," and that, to us, is the only answer we owe. Because at this point, the characters are not aware that there's any timeline other than the one they are in. But if they were to become aware of the parallel worlds, what might they do about it? That becomes a fundamental question.
Carroll: At times you've made nods to science-y-sounding concepts —wormholes, the Casimir effect. How are these scientific concepts useful to you?
Cuse: It's inspirational. We try to connect the show with a plausible sense of scientific concepts, recognizing that of course we're ultimately telling a fictional narrative that is implausible. It has to make some kind of elemental scientific sense to us. It helps us as storytellers to say, OK, a massive amount of electromagnetism could create a wormhole that could allow someone to travel from the island, but that wormhole is unstable and sometimes they might pop up in Tunisia and it's 10 months earlier than they thought it was. Those kind of things help us.
Carroll: I always say that without physics, there's no drama. Because there are rules. I think scientists don't always understand that in a science fiction context the rules may not be the rules of our world, but there are still rules.
Cuse: As we draw into the final season, the mystical quotient rises. But it was really important to us to stay rooted in empiricism. It allowed us to establish Jack as an empiricist and Locke as a man of faith, and to have these characters debate the essence of what they were experiencing. Was it a mystical experience, or was it just a really, really weird place that has incredible physical anomalies?
Wired: Do you still see that as the central issue, man of faith versus man of science?
Lindelof: The paradigm has shifted from that to, were we brought here for a very specific reason, and what is that reason? Locke is now the voice of a very large subset of the audience who believes that when Lost is all said and done, we will have wasted six years of our lives, that we were making it up as we went along, and that there's really no purpose. And Jack is now saying, "the only thing I have left to cling to is that there's got to be something really cool that's going to happen, because I have really, really fucking suffered."
Carroll: It's like purposefulness versus randomness.
Lindelof:. That's right. It's order versus chaos, which is what it always was. But first it had to start as science versus faith, because Jack is a doctor and Locke is a guy who got up from his wheelchair and walked. Now the question has been boiled down to its essential root—is there a God or is there nothingness?
Carroll: Presumably, if it is order versus chaos or purpose versus randomness, there is no right answer. It's not as if in the finale you're going to say, "Yup, it was order."
Cuse: I don't think there's a right answer.
Lindelof: But the show can't have its cake and eat it, too. At the end of the day, if Locke and Jack were to sit down and say, "Well, we were kind of both right," that would not be satisfying. It has to come down one way or another.
Cuse: But there's still going to be plenty of room for debate when the show is over. We are going to take a stab at providing a conclusion, and one that we hope will be satisfying on a character level. The bigger questions, we recognize, are not answerable. We feel that demystifying some of the things we do on Lost is like the magician showing you how the trick is done, and we don't want to do that.
Carroll: Is there a worry that there exists questions for which any possible answer is not as interesting as the question would be before you knew the answer?
Lindelof: Absolutely. I assume that as a physicist, you say, "Force equals mass times acceleration," and you can explain why. But when you spend time with a 3-year-old, you quickly find out that one question just begets another—there's a "why" in the wake of every "why"—and the only way to end the conversation is to say, "Oh look, a Chuck E. Cheese!" The show is doing its best to say, "Oh look, Chuck E. Cheese!" For example, we've now given the viewers as much as we're willing to say about the numbers, and we're moving on. The characters are going to ask "What is the island", and "Why are we here", but more importantly, "How is it relevant to me." They're not sitting around in smoking jackets talking about the theoretical notions that we are, as audience members.
Cuse: I think there's this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. Everyone is like, "I want to unlock the single secret to Lost." There isn't any one secret. There is not a unified field theory for Lost, nor do we think there should be, because philosophically we don't buy into that as a conceit.
Lindelof: As much confidence as we have in the story we're telling, we are also comfortable saying, "But what do we know?" This is our best version of the story of Lost, and it's the definitive one. The worst thing we could ever do is not end it, or go with some bullshitty ending like a snowglobe or a cut to black. That was genius on The Sopranos, but The Sopranos isn't a mystery show. For us, we owe our best version of a resolution here.
Cuse: These heady questions are ultimately unanswerable, and we know the audience is hoping that those things are going to be answered. The great mysteries of life fundamentally can't be addressed. We just have to tell a good story and let the chips fall where they may. We don't know whether the resolution between the two timelines is going to make people say, "Oh, that's cool" or "Oh, fuck those guys, they belly-flopped at the end." But the fact that we're nervous about it and that we're actually attempting it—that is what we had to do. We had to try to make the dive.
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The Art of Devotion
The Man Behind the Sound
Who can claim the most screen time on Lost? No, not Jack or Kate or Locke — it's a player you never even see. For more than 100 episodes, composer Michael Giacchino has supplied about 35 minutes of music for each 43-minute episode.
It's been a dream (and Emmy-winning) assignment for a guy who once made a living scoring Medal of Honor videogames. Lost creator J.J. Abrams loved Giacchino's game music and hired him to add a frenetic, electronic tempo to his ABC series, Alias. So when it came time to choose a composer for Lost, Giacchino was first on the list. His assignment: Help the audience interpret the show's mystifying action. Would Boone survive? Not if those mournful piano chords were any indication. And what was Smokey doing to Jacob's gun-toting foot soldiers? Nothing good, according to that bombastic brass.
All was rendered clear (OK, clear-ish) thanks to the aural showmanship of the composer who also became Pixar's music man, scoring The Incredibles, Ratatouille, and last year's Up, which earned him an Oscar. Lost's twists and turns may be complex, but Giacchino's process isn't: "I just let the story tell me what to do," he says. "I watch and react emotionally, then turn that reaction into music." Cue the triumphal trumpet blast. — E.M.
The Real Fake Band
How creating Geronimo Jackson brought one staff writer's fantasy to life.
If there's any group of devotees more loyal and obsessed than Lost fans, it's Deadheads. And long before Eddy Kitsis was hired as a writer for Lost, he dreamed of being the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia. So when he became a Hollywood scribe instead of a guitar-plucking warbler, he decided to create a fictional Grateful Dead-style band for his own amusement — and then became fixated on making the world believe it was real.
The result was Geronimo Jackson — named after Barry Hannah's award-winning novel Geronimo Rex — a 1970s band that occasionally pops up on Lost, whether on a hitchhiker's T-shirt in a Locke flashback (above) or blasting from a Dharma Initiative van on the island. Kitsis crafted the band's initial "image" by borrowing heavily from the Dead's Steal Your Face album art and vintage typefaces from Creem magazine. But having fictional followers on Lost wasn't enough for Kitsis, and the writer soon finagled $20,000 from ABC execs to bring the bogus band to life. Childhood friend Craig Finn, lead singer for the Hold Steady, suggested he check out a San Diego-based indie quartet called the Donkeys. Kitsis liked what he heard and hired the group to rerecord its tune "Excelsior Lady" as a show-referencing track called "Dharma Lady." The song, which aired for 11 seconds in a February 2009 episode, was then discreetly planted on iTunes.
"Dharma Lady" immediately gave the Donkeys — er, Geronimo Jackson — a loyal following among Lost viewers and gave Kitsis a taste of rock stardom by proxy. But true success came when Kitsis met one of his musical heroes, Dead bassist Phil Lesh, and learned he was a fan of the show. "How do you tell him, 'You inspired me so much, I created a fake band after you!'" Kitsis says. If Lesh does tune in every week, there's no need to tell him. — Erik Malinowski
The Web of Intrigue
Identifying the characters' connections leading up to the fateful plane crash is essential to untangling Lost's plotlines. Here's a map of key links, rendered by bioinformatics scientist Martin Krzywinski with the genome-mapping software Circos. — Holly Haynes
The Puzzling Science Project
When Oceanic flight 815 crashes, its survivors find intriguing remnants (polar bears!) of the Dharma Initiative, a 1970s-era research project with roots in Taoism. The group's logo shows up on hatch covers and beer cans — even on a Rubik's Cube on executive producer Carlton Cuse's desk.
Previously On Lost
Some Lost lovers are more obsessive than others. Two musicians-turned-fans even managed to transform the series' complicated plotlines into catchy pop songs. Check out Previously On Lost — the band.
The Fact-Checker
Continuity czar Gregg Nations keeps Lost's characters — and chronology — from getting lost.
For its first season, the producers of Lost were flying blind. That's right, the people running a show with interwoven narratives — backstories, future stories, alternate-reality stories, and stories that even a savant couldn't keep track of — weren't keeping track of all that stuff. Once it became clear that season one wouldn't be Lost's last, executive producer Carlton Cuse realized he needed a continuity czar. His pick: Gregg Nations, a former Nash Bridges colleague. Nations had only one question: "How did you make it out of the first season alive?"
Nations set about documenting every detail of Lost's amorphous, time-shifting, mind-bending universe — Sawyer's swindles, Kate's hair colors and aliases, Shannon's addresses — in sprawling Word documents. He became the go-to source for all prop, art, and script questions. "I tell the writers, you guys are writing that Kate has a rifle," Nations says. "She doesn't have a rifle; she has a handgun." If Jack gets punched in the face during a fight, Nations makes sure that makeup artists show the bruise healing realistically. Where is Jack's wound? How many days has it been since the fight? Plus, "the island makes you heal faster," he says. "So factor that in, too."
But fight scenes are nothing compared with flight scenes. The plane, Nations says, "is the bane of my existence." The task of keeping, say, row numbers straight in a hectic production on a cramped set makes his stomach turn, especially as they've filmed essentially the same scene over multiple seasons. His solution: Scrub the plane of identifying details. Nations convinced the production crew that the passengers' general placement (midsection versus tail) and proximity (Rose and Jack speak on the plane) is what matters most. "Oh, my God, that stupid plane," Nations says. "Perhaps I was naive when I thought, 'Oh, this isn't going to be that difficult.'" — Rachel Swaby
The Hidden Clues
Lost demands constant focus: Blink and you'll miss a clue to the big WTF. Fans have cracked the Easter eggs — or have they? Here are four of our favorite secret messages and four that might be nothing at all. (Two more might be concealed in this feature.) — Angela Watercutter
4 Easter Eggs We Loved
4 (Probable) Red Herrings
Hurley dreams of raiding the stash in the hatch. As he takes a swig of milk, we see Walt's missing-person photo on the carton, though Hurley doesn't know yet that the boy has been kidnapped.
Locke is bitten by his father in a fight. When he examines the wound, viewers said, they saw the name Alex on his arm. More likely: random arm-hair pattern.
The funeral parlor handling Locke's corpse is named Hoffs/Drawlar, an anagram for "flash forward" — and a clue to the imminent plot shift.
Fans swore they spotted a faint Dharma Initiative logo emblazoned on the wreckage of Oceanic 815. Just a trick of the light.
The trippy film Karl is forced to watch in Room 23 is teaser heaven. The highlight? Played backward, the dialog says, "Only fools are enslaved by time and space" — referencing the time travel yet to come.
Before season six began, eagle-eyed frequent flyers noticed that Oceanic Airlines flights from Sydney to LA were available on the travel site Kayak.com. Well played, Kayak.
Richard Alpert visits a young John Locke to give him a test. Check out little Locke's drawing of the smoke monster he will one day (sort of) become.
As Kate enters a courtroom in a flashback scene, a man yells … something. Played backward, it sounds like "We hate you!" Or not. Nothing to hear here.
Keeper of the Fans' Holy Writ
Lostpedia is a sprawling font of all things Lost.
By day, Kevin Croy is a 33-year-old data center strategist for Expedia in Bellevue, Washington. By night (and in his other free time), he is the guardian of Lostpedia — the sprawling online compendium that millions of devotees consult to seek knowledge and share their Lost-fu. Wired asked Croy about being the keeper of the unofficial canon and what it means to be a fan in the age of Internet-enabled obsession. — Angela Watercutter
Wired: Did Lostpedia change the relationship between the show's followers and its creators?
Kevin Croy: Definitely. I think the TV networks have realized how important these communities are to the success of their shows. I don't have proof, but I'm fairly certain the writers and producers of Lost use Lostpedia as a way to instantly gauge audience reaction and comprehension.
Wired: Is it hard to keep a wiki like this from getting out of control?
Croy: The community does a great job keeping it free of spoilers, spam, and vandalism. My job is to make sure the sandbox is big enough and that there's enough sand for everyone. The community's job is to build castles and play together nicely.
Wired: What are your readers' biggest questions?
Croy: There's an article on Lostpedia that's got a list of the unsolved mysteries. There are 26 right now. I still really want to know what the deal is with the smoke monster.
Wired: Are the show runners aware of the site?
Croy: Continuity czar Gregg Nations emailed me once and said there was a mistake in the title of one of the upcoming episodes. I asked him if he would like to get drinks one of these days, and he said, "Yeah, absolutely." A part of me wants to run down there and have some beers with these guys and ask them questions. But I know they wouldn't say anything anyway.
Wired: Any predictions on how Lost will end?
Croy: I don't know. But I think it would be great if the people on the island really did save the planet from catastrophe. I would like there to be a reason all this stuff is happening.
Wired: Once the show ends, what happens to the fans?
Croy: I'll be around as long as they're around. One of the things I'd be interested in seeing is whether Lost becomes like Star Trek and spawns a community that brings in new disciples. And maybe there could be a Lost Con or a Lostpedia Con. I actually registered Lostpediacon.com.
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Loads of improvements have happened on the backend and many thanks have to go out to Forrest for his hard work! While in our transition phase we have had two truly dedicated manglers (Thanks Sullo and Owentl). Many others have helped when they have had time and we are thankful and are also hoping for more support.
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Motorola finally launched the much-awaited Google Nexus 6 smartphone in India at the Great Online Shopping Festival (GOSF) 2014. It is the first smartphone which runs on the latest Android 5.0 (Lollipop) Operating System. This handset comes with a 6 inch Quad HD display, 2.7 GHz Snapdragon 805 quad-core processor, 13 megapixel rear camera with dual LED ring flash and 4K UHD video recording capabilities, 3 GB RAM and much more.
Google Nexus 6 comes with a price tag of INR 43,999 for the 32 GB variant and INR 48,999 for the 64 GB variant. This handset is exclusively available at Flipkart in Midnight Blue and Cloud White colors. Nexus 6 owners in India will get 3 month subscription of Flipkart First and pre-selected Flipkart eBooks worth Rs 2100 for free. You can even exchange your old smartphone and get up to INR 10,000 discount while purchasing this device.
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A bunch of journalists booked seats on the same flight from Moscow to Havana.
Snowden didn't show.
— max seddon (@maxseddon) June 24, 2013
The Guardian put it this way: "Edward Snowden not on Aeroflot flight to Havana. But a bunch of reporters are. (Bad news for them: it's dry)."
On Sunday the 30-year-old ex-Booz Allen employee requested asylum in Ecuador and CNN reported that the U.S. revoked Snowden's passport at some point.
Now it looks like Russia, or Snowden (or WikiLeaks), pulled a fast one on everybody.
Before Snowden's no-show, Russian President Vladimir Putin's press secretary told Reuters: "Overall, we have no information about him."
Now Russia's Interfax news agency is reporting that former CIA technician is likely outside of Russia.
So almost no one knows where he is.
Journalists from around world embark on Moscow-Havana flight to "photograph an empty seat" via @caosnews pic.twitter.com/TL6BGR3NmF #Snowden— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) June 24, 2013
"The journalists stare at the message on their phones: 'I'm sorry, the princess is in another castle'" - pg. 82, of my Snowden screenplay— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) June 24, 2013
The most famous empty chair since Eastwood's. #Snowden pic.twitter.com/wrPjAKdbHz— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) June 24, 2013
Snowden leaked the first concrete evidence of the NSA's domestic surveillance apparatus when he gave Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald "thousands" of documents. The documents have corroborated claims made by other whistleblowers.
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Tom Cruise was born Thomas Cruise Mapother on July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, New York. Interested in drama since the fourth grade, Cruise got his big acting break with a small role in 1981's "Endless Love." That led to a major supporting role in "Taps" later that year. In the years to follow, he nabbed memorable roles in movies such as "The Outsiders," "All the Right Moves" and "Risky Business." Cruise's superstar status was cemented with 1986's "Top Gun." He has since gone on to become one of the biggest movie stars in the world. Some of Cruise's most notable films include "Rain Man," "A Few Good Men," "Interview with the Vampire," "Jerry Maguire," "Minority Report" and the "Mission: Impossible" franchise.
Cruise has been married three times. He first wed actress Mimi Rogers in 1987, but the marriage only lasted two years. He then met second wife Nicole Kidman on the set of their movie "Days of Thunder." They got married in 1990, and later adopted two children, Isabella and Connor. In 2001, Cruise filed for divorce from Kidman. Shortly after, he began dating Penelope Cruz, but their relationship ended in 2004. In April 2005, he started seeing Katie Holmes, and in October of that year the couple announced they were expecting a child. Their daughter Suri was born in 2006, and Cruise and Holmes wed not long afterwards. In 2012, Holmes filed for divorce from Cruise.
Cruise is a well-known member and advocate of the Church of Scientology. In 2013, Cruise reportedly admitted that his split from Holmes was due in part to her not fully embracing the religion to Scientology.
Cruise has won three Golden Globe Awards and been nominated for three Oscars. Among the highest paid actors in Hollywood, Cruise has one of the best box office records of all time, with 15 of his films having grossed more than $100 million domestically, and 21 of them having grossed more than $200 million worldwide.
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Lake Erie is part of the Great Lakes System which contains 20 percent of all the freshwater in the world. Numerous Federal and State reports have identified Lake Erie as impaired due to excessive loadings of sediment and nutrients. Long-term water quality monitoring has identified the Maumee River as being the largest single contributor of nonpoint source pollution to the Lake.
Western Lake Erie Basin Initiative Strategy, Years 2016-2018. March 2016 (PDF, 830 KB)
Effects of Conservation Practice Adoption on Cultivated Cropland Acres in Western Lake Erie Basin, 2003-06 and 2012, March 2016 (PDF, 2.0 MB)
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Western Lake Erie Basin Partnership Website
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The University of Toledo and Ohio Sea Grant recently sponsored two free workshops addressing the issue of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie. Harmful algal blooms (HABs, excessive growths of toxin-producing algae that form in Lake Erie during the summer, adversely impact aquatic life and human health as well as recreation, tourism, fishing, and property values. Triggered primarily by excess phosphorus, HABs in Lake Erie have reached crisis proportions in recent years. Experts from science, government and law addressed best practices and legal tools for reducing phosphorus entering Lake Erie and its tributaries from key sources in Ohio.
Presentations given at the workshops are available at: http://law.utoledo.edu/ligl/HABS/habs_workshops.htm
Lake Erie is part of the Great Lakes System which contains 20 percent of all the freshwater in the world. Numerous Federal and State reports have identified Lake Erie as impaired due to excessive loadings of sediment and nutrients. Long-term water quality monitoring has identified the Maumee River as being the largest single contributor of nonpoint source pollution to the Lake.
Reports and modeling done in the basin by U.S. Geological Survey, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Heidelberg College, and NRCS have identified the erosion control practices of conservation tillage and conservation buffers as effective in reducing both soil erosion and sediment transport from the watershed. Nutrient management, manure management plans, wetland restorations, and controlled drainage have been shown to effectively reduce nutrient transport from the watershed to the lake. Current USDA Farm Bill programs are a proven means of facilitating installation of these practices by farmers.
NRCS has developed a plan to use Rapid Resource Assessments, Area Wide Planning, and acceleration of USDA Farm Bill programs to address the resource concerns for the Western Basin of Lake Erie, and the contributing watersheds including the Maumee, the Portage, and the Ottawa Rivers as well as other smaller direct discharge streams between Toledo and Sandusky Bay. The project area encompasses 4.2 million acres in the Maumee River watershed and another 714,000 acres in the Ottawa River, Portage River, and the Lake Erie direct tributaries combined, for a total project area of 4,914,000 acres.
Rapid Resource Assessments in each of the eight different 8-digit hydrologic units in the project area will be combined into a basin wide plan. This data will be used through an Adaptive Management approach to fine tune and guide the acceleration of the USDA Farm Bill programs.
The plan estimates the acres of filter strips, riparian buffers, grassed waterways, conservation tillage and nutrient management as well as the number of Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plans (manure management), waste storage structures, and pasture systems that will be needed to address resource concerns.
This 10-year plan for accelerating the participation in USDA Farm Bill programs will involve financial assistance to farmers in the form of cost sharing and practice payments, and technical assistance to assist farmers in planning and applying these practices.
Progress will be measured by a combination of means, including the NRCS Progress Reporting System (PRS), annual tracking of land use/cover changes, conservation tillage transects, and water quality monitoring data.
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As Azerbaijan prepared to assume the 2014 chairmanship of the Council of Europe—the largest European intergovernmental human rights and democracy organization—the authoritarian regime of President Ilham Aliyev shamelessly trampled on press freedom at home. The authorities continued to stifle critical voices, target free expression on the Web, and sentence reporters to lengthy prison terms. A local journalist was barred from leaving the country to pick up his journalism prize in Norway, while dozens of foreign media personnel were declared persona non grata in Azerbaijan. The harassment, including by the government-affiliated press, of investigative journalist Khadija Ismailova went unpunished. Aliyev extended criminal defamation laws to the Internet and tightened funding restrictions for domestic NGOs, including press freedom organizations, despite a domestic and international outcry. In June, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso offered Aliyev public support instead of holding the leader responsible for human rights and press freedom violations in his country. In October, the authoritarian leader was re-elected to his third term after the Central Elections Commission denied registration to opposition candidate Rustam Ibragimbekov.
Azerbaijan continues to censor critical journalists and editors by fabricating charges against them and sentencing them to lengthy jail terms. According to CPJ's annual prison census, conducted on December 1, 2013, at least eight journalists were being held in retaliation for their reporting.
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After a June travel ban on photojournalist Mehman Huseynov, which prevented him from accepting an international journalism award in Norway, Azerbaijan's foreign ministry issued a list of foreign nationals—among them 67 journalists and media workers—who are barred from entering the country. News accounts reported that the individuals had previously visited Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed region over which Azerbaijan fought a deadly war with neighboring Armenia in the 1990s.
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In late April, Radio Azadlyg, the Azerbaijani service of the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, reported that the authorities had jammed their programming. RFE/RL said that its satellite signals had been interrupted "with jittery images, distorted sound, and static." Authorities have a history of interfering with RFE/RL broadcasts around the region.
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Quinnipiac/St. Vincent's medical school wins approval
Decision a boost for St. Vincent's
In a move that should help address the state's doctor shortage, Quinnipiac University soon will have a medical school. And it will have significant ramifications in this area.
The new medical school, which will have St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport as its primary clinical partner, received unanimous approval from the state Board of Education on Wednesday. Coupled with the announcement that the school also received preliminary accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, Quinnipiac can start recruiting future doctors immediately.
Quinnipiac's Frank H. Netter M.D. School of Medicine is expected to enroll a charter class of 60 students in August 2013 and grow to 275 students by 2017. Dr. Bruce Koeppen, founding dean of the new medical school, told the state board that the doctors Quinnipiac will create won't bury themselves in research labs, but rather be primary care physicians.
"Not only will it help address the current physician shortage, but it will provide long-term benefits to the state," said Elizabeth Beaudin, director of nursing and workforce initiatives for the Connecticut Hospital Association. "Because of health reform, more people will be receiving coverage. As such, we need more primary care physicians who will be involved in prevention and health promotion, as well as chronic disease management. This will ultimately result in healthier communities and fewer avoidable hospital visits."
Although clinical rotations are two years away, Koeppen said students would start getting clinical experiences at St. Vincent's in year one. "I expect eventually our medical students will set up free screening clinics for people in Bridgeport who don't have access to medical care or who can't afford it," said Koeppen.
Dr. Stuart G. Marcus, president of St. Vincent's Medical Center, said the alliance would change the culture of St. Vincent's and raise the bar for everybody. "Faculty members at St. Vincent's are looking forward to educating students in the clinical sciences and teaching them the principles of safe, reliable patient care of the highest quality," Marcus said.
In their third year of training, medical students will spend the majority of their time rotating through various departments at the hospital, including surgery, medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry and family medicine. In year four, students will rotate through the intensive care and the emergency departments. The students will also have a presence in St. Vincent's outpatient sites, as well as two secondary training sites: MidState Medical Center in Meriden and Middlesex Hospital in Middletown.
The school will be located on Quinnipiac's North Haven campus. Koeppen anticipates the initial class will be selected from a pool of 2,000 to 3,000 applicants. The university is nearing completion of a new medical school classroom building and has hired 19 of 20 new faculty members. So far, Quinnipiac has spent $100 million on the effort.
This is the first time St. Vincent's has taken a lead clinical role with a medical school. Koeppen said he visited 16 hospitals in the state and invited them to become clinical partners. Five applied. All submitted position papers to outline what their partnership would look like.
That Bridgeport had a medically underserved population and didn't have a medical school affiliation attached to one of its hospitals played into the decision to select St. Vincent's, Koeppen said.
Now all three major cities in the state will have a medical school at its service: Hartford has the University of Connecticut and New Haven has Yale.
Terry Jones, a state Board of Education member from Shelton, asked whether Quinnipiac also would work with smaller hospitals in the state, such as Griffin in Derby. Koeppen said he has had discussions with Griffin and that some Quinnipiac students could do rotations there.
Quinnipiac is one of 18 new medical schools in the nation being developed to help address an anticipated doctor shortage. In 2010, there was a shortage of 13,700 physicians nationwide, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.
The gap is expected to get wider in 2014, when the biggest piece of the health care reform package goes into effect, giving 32 million more Americans access to health insurance. The Association of American Medical Colleges' Center for Workforce Studies predicts that the shortage will grow to 62,900 doctors by 2015 and to 91,500 by 2020.
Koeppen said the number of baby boomers reaching Medicare age will exacerbate the shortage. In addition, nearly 40 percent of the 770,000 physicians in the country are baby boomers headed toward retirement.
Though an additional medical school could theoretically help curb shortages in Connecticut, it's not a certainty said John Foley, president of the Connecticut State Medical Society.
Just because there will now be more doctors trained in the state, that doesn't mean they will stay here to do residency or eventually practice here. Foley pointed out that, in 2011, less than 10 percent of Yale University Medical School stayed in Connecticut for residency training and about 30 percent of University of Connecticut medical school graduates stayed in state for their residencies.
It's unclear whether a larger percentage of those trained at Quinnipiac would stay in the state, but Foley said the new school still is a positive step.
"It would be better if we could keep them here, but just getting them here is a good thing," he said.
Koeppen said facilities would be unmatched. "I've seen lots of medical schools. Having the chance to build this from scratch, I took all of the good ideas I saw and didn't do anything that didn't work," he said of the 145,000-square-foot facility to be completed by March 1.
With the medical school, Quinnipiac will become one of fewer than 100 universities in the country to have both medical and law schools. Quinnipiac inherited a law school that had its start at the University of Bridgeport in 1992.
Staff writer Amanda Cuda contributed to this report.