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Kwara Governor Approves Immediate Rehabilitation of Three Major Water Works Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq at the weekend approved immediate rehabilitation of three major works across the state’s senatorial districts. “The three are the Lafiagi Waterworks (Kwara North); Igbaja Waterworks (Kwara South); and Asa Dam Waterworks (Kwara Central),” according to a statement on Saturday by Rafiu Ajakaye, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor. The statement said the three water works are either in bad condition or not working at optimal capacity, and have been recommended for rehabilitation by the Ministry of Water Resources in line with the administration’s commitment to tackle water scarcity in the state. “Consequently, the Governor has approved the release of N48,548,720 for their rehabilitation,” the statement added. The Lafiagi Waterworks is currently running skeletal services owing to the damage to four of its five boreholes, the intake and transfer pumps, the statement said. It said the facilities in Igbaja had since broken down as a result of poor electricity supply and the lack of proper rehabilitation.. The statement said the Asa Dam, which services the entire Ilorin, works at half its design capacity, adding that the intervention would boost its working capacity. “The Governor remains committed to his desire to have water running in the state. This has started happening in certain areas, thanks to his interventions, but the idea is that every part of the state should have access to potable water,” it said. Kwara to rehabilitate three major water works

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Diesel Saving System Gives Fast ROI at Port of Felixstowe At Felixstowe, the UK’s largest container port, the search for greater energy efficiency has led to investment in Control Techniques’ RIS.GA. system for diesel saving on 12 rubber tire gantry cranes (RTGs). The dedicated container terminal at the Port of Felixstowe handles over 3 million TEUs (twenty foot equivalent units) per year and over 40% of the UK’s import and export trade passes through the port. The container storage area is served by a fleet of 74 RTGs and is currently undergoing further development, hence the need for the new cranes. Diesel generators onboard RTGs and mobile harbor cranes (MHCs) usually run at constant speed to provide the drive system and auxiliaries with a constant supply voltage regardless of whether the crane is in operation or stand-by. RIS.GA. from Control Techniques is a drive-based system that manages the diesel generator, allowing its speed to be reduced during stand-by, whilst maintaining essential power for auxiliary and safety equipment. With a recent assessment of diesel usage confirming savings of up to 25% per crane, this investment in the RIS.GA. system is expected to give a return on investment (ROI) of well under three years! Ever increasing diesel prices, and the new carbon tax, combine to make the savings very significant. The Port of Felixstowe provides customers with a continuous quay of over 2.3 km, is equipped with 27 ship-to-shore (STS) gantry cranes, and has a further 730 m of quay and five more STS gantry cranes coming on line this year. When completed, the reconfiguration of the southern part of the port will further enhance Felixstowe’s position as one of the leading container ports in the world. Control Techniques has almost 30 years’ experience in supplying complete automation systems for port and factory cranes. The company’s automation systems are proven in ports around the world and are supported by a global engineering network of specialist Drive Centers. RIS.GA. has been applied successfully on RTGs and MHCs throughout the world and is saving fuel on cranes manufactured by ZPMC, Kalmar, MGM-OMG, Doosan and Fantuzzi Reggiane. In many cases, savings can be as much as 50% with ROI as short as one to two years, depending on local oil costs. Proven reduced wear and stress extends the working life of the diesel engine, generator and electrical auxiliaries. The RIS.GA. system is very compact, and all twelve were supplied fully wired and assembled, and ready to connect in an IP65 protected stainless steel cubicle. Each is fitted above the electrical house of its crane. Control Techniques delivered each one when it was convenient to the Port of Felixstowe’s Engineering Department and carried out all of the electrical installation and programming. As it is a static electronic system, it requires little or no maintenance. Analysis of the RTG oil samples indicates that periods of idling have not been a problem and that savings have been very substantial, varying with duty up to around 30%, though generally averaging at about 25%. The RIS.GA. software, pre-loaded onto a 37kVA Unidrive SP AC drive, is set to allow the diesel generators to run on for a minute before initiating run down to tick-over speed. At tick-over, the diesel generators produce 300 v, which is boosted by the drive with RIS.GA. up to the 415 v required for operation of the auxiliary equipment. When required, the diesel generator will run up to operational speed in 5 s. Control Techniques was already quoting the Port of Felixstowe authorities for drive retrofits, and was able to present a convincing case for installing their RIS.GA. system, estimating an ROI of two to three years. The 12 RTGs fitted with the RIS.GA. system are rated at 40 tons under the spreader, have a hoist speed of 50 m/min, a trolley speed of 70 m/min, a gantry speed of 140 m/min and each is fitted with a 670 kVA diesel generator. Each RTG will complete around 100,000 moves per year.

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REUTERS | Jumana El Heloueh The DIFC Courts’ conduit jurisdiction: time for a post mortem? by Dr Gordon Blanke Founding Partner at Blanke Arbitration LLC This year so far has dealt a severe (some may say mortal) blow to the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts’ status as a conduit jurisdiction. The case law of the Joint Judicial Tribunal (the JT) – a judicial body composed of both onshore Dubai and offshore DIFC Court judges and formed by the Ruler of Dubai to oversee conflicts of jurisdiction between the onshore Dubai and offshore DIFC Courts (see Decree No. (19) of 2016 establishing the Dubai-DIFC Judicial Tribunal) – has been unashamedly critical of the DIFC Courts’ creeping expansion of their own jurisdiction to encompass actions without a tangible link (whether geographic or otherwise) to the DIFC. The example par excellence of such actions have been the ratification and enforcement of both domestic (non-DIFC) and foreign arbitral awards for onward execution against assets of an award debtor in onshore Dubai (absent assets offshore). The case in favour of service as a conduit has been compelling, allowing international award creditors to circumvent the often erratic application by the onshore United Arab Emirates (UAE) courts of Article 216 of the UAE Civil Procedure Code, which accords comparatively wide discretion for the challenge of awards in the enforcement process. Regular readers of this blog will recall the recent ruling of the Dubai Court of First Instance that has essentially called for an end to the DIFC Courts’ role as a conduit, setting aside the Banyan Tree line of cases, which are routinely cited as the locus classicus of the DIFC Courts’ conduit jurisdiction (see Commercial Case No. 1619/2016, ruling of the Dubai Court of First Instance of 15 February 2017, reported in G. Blanke, Dubai courts v DIFC courts: just a jurisdictional stand-off or an outright declaration of war?). Taking a closer look at the JT’s decisions of earlier this year (see Cassation No. 1/2017 – Gulf Navigation Holding PJSC v Jinhai Heavy Industry Co Ltd and Cassation No. 3/2017 – Ramadan Mousa Mishmish v Sweet Homes Real Estate), jurisdiction in favour of the onshore Dubai courts has been founded on a common theme: The “general jurisdiction […] [of the] Dubai courts […] [in] accord[ance] [with] the general principles of laws embodied in the procedural laws”. Importantly, whereas Gulf Navigation dealt with the recognition and enforcement of a New York Convention award rendered in London under the London Maritime Arbitration Association (LMAA) Rules through the DIFC Courts, Mishmish concerned the recognition and enforcement of a domestic award rendered under the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) Rules in Dubai, both for onward execution against the award debtor’s assets in onshore Dubai. In both instances, the DIFC Courts found themselves competent to hear the enforcement actions despite the absence of any geographic link to the DIFC (other than the application for ratification and enforcement itself). In Gulf Navigation, the JT also disavowed the importance of the application of the New York Convention to the question of the conflict of jurisdiction between the onshore and offshore courts. The dissenting minority, led by Michael Hwang SC, the Chief Justice of the DIFC Courts, correctly countered that there was no principle of general jurisdiction according precedence to the onshore Dubai courts in the event of a jurisdictional conflict between the onshore and offshore courts in matters of enforcement of arbitration awards, nor was it correct to disregard the importance of the New York Convention: to the contrary, a combined reading of Articles 5(A)(1) and 5(A)(1)(e) of the Judicial Authority Law (see Dubai Law No. (12) of 2004 as amended), which defines areas of exclusive jurisdiction of the DIFC Courts, including in particular the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards in the terms of Article 42(1) of the DIFC Arbitration Law, militate in favour of the DIFC Courts’ exclusive jurisdiction in the present circumstances. Further, disregarding the New York Convention would place the DIFC Courts in their capacity as UAE courts in violation of their enforcement obligations under an international enforcement instrument to which the UAE are a party and which is consequently binding upon them as an emanation of the (UAE) state. Similar conclusions must be drawn with respect to analogical cases rehearsed before the JT in 2016, dealing with related issues of recognition and enforcement of domestic and foreign awards in onshore Dubai through the offshore conduit (see Cassation No. 1/2016 (JT) – Daman Real Capital Partners Company LLC v Oger Dubai LLC and Cassation No. 2/2016 (JT) – Dubai Water Front LLC v Chenshan Liu). This body of JT case law precedent appears to ring the death knell for the DIFC Courts’ acquired status as a conduit jurisdiction for the recognition and enforcement of domestic (non-DIFC) and foreign arbitral awards by the DIFC Courts for onward execution in onshore Dubai. That said, there is still some hope for the JT’s approach to change for the better. To start, the decisions of the JT are not binding upon future JT, there being no principle of stare decisis in the Dubai court system (of which the JT forms an integral part): future JTs are, therefore, at liberty to review, modify and even change the reasoning of past JTs in an attempt to rectify errors in reasoning committed by past JTs. No doubt, the JT’s reliance on the general jurisdiction of the Dubai courts taking precedence over the DIFC Courts challenges a natural reading of the distribution of competence between the onshore Dubai and offshore DIFC Courts pursuant to the existing laws and regulations. The Dubai courts are simply not hierarchically superior in jurisdiction to the DIFC Courts; both courts qualify, constitutionally speaking, as UAE courts with their respective jurisdictional limits defined in the prevailing legislation. Pursuant to that legislation, the DIFC Courts are clearly competent to hear applications for ratification and enforcement of both domestic and foreign arbitral awards, even absent any assets of the award debtor in the DIFC. The onward execution of DIFC Court orders for the ratification and enforcement of those awards in onshore Dubai, in turn, is sanctioned and facilitated by the regime of mutual recognition in place between the Dubai and DIFC Courts by virtue of Article 7 of the Judicial Authority Law, which establishes an area of free movement of judgments, orders and ratified awards between onshore Dubai and the offshore DIFC. In relation to foreign awards, the enforcement obligations under the New York Convention add further weight to this position, requiring the DIFC Courts to comply with the terms of the Convention in their capacity as a UAE court. Further, one common streak of the majority of JT decisions to date is that jurisdiction has invariably been accorded to the court seized first. A first-seized rule does not presently form part of the regime of mutual recognition or free movement under Article 7 of the Judicial Authority Law as amended, but could easily be incorporated into it. In addition, any criticism that the DIFC Courts are seized of an action for recognition and enforcement of a domestic award first, thereby depriving an award debtor of its entitlement to have the award scrutinised in a nullification action before the local, onshore Dubai Courts, could be met by requiring the expiry of a fixed period of, for example, 30 days, to allow an action of nullification to be brought at the seat. During this time no action for enforcement should be brought before any other court, whether onshore or offshore. In this way, any award debtor would have sufficient time to explore local nullification opportunities without running the risk of being outpaced by an award creditor that succeeds in filing an action for recognition and enforcement before the DIFC Courts first. Taking the above developments in the round, the time for a post mortem has not quite yet arrived, but it may do… sooner than you think! That said, there is a chance that, going forward, the general jurisdiction assumption which presently forms the basis of the JT’s support for the attribution of preferential jurisdiction onshore may be substituted with a first-seized rule. Such a rule could accord jurisdictional precedence to the court first seized, whether onshore or offshore. Such an approach would be compatible with the existing regime of mutual recognition in place between the Dubai and DIFC Courts under Article 7 of the Judicial Authority Law and mark a promising way forward in the cooperation between the onshore and offshore Dubai courts. DWF LLP Dr Gordon Blanke http://arbitrationblog.practicallaw.com/the-difc-courts-conduit-jurisdiction-time-for-a-post-mortem">

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Eric A. Weldy appointed IUPUI vice chancellor for student affairs INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Chancellor Nasser H. Paydar has appointed Eric A. Weldy as IUPUI's vice chancellor for student affairs. Weldy, vice president for student affairs and enrollment management at Northern Illinois University, will assume his new position at IUPUI on Jan. 2, 2017. As vice chancellor for student affairs, Weldy will be the chief student affairs officer and a member of the chancellor's cabinet. He will collaborate with other leaders across campus to advance the mission of IUPUI to provide quality co-curricular programs and services that facilitate intellectual growth and personal development, creating pathways to success for all students. Weldy will lead the Division of Student Affairs, which consists of nine units: Campus Center and Student Experiences, Campus Recreation, Counseling and Psychological Services, Educational Partnerships and Student Success, Health and Wellness Promotion, Housing and Residence Life, Student Advocacy and Support, Student Health Services, and Student Conduct. "Dr. Weldy comes to IUPUI with an extensive background in student affairs and a proven record as a strong and effective collaborator," said Paydar. "His commitment to student success will further enhance IUPUI's strategic focus in that area and promises to enhance students' educational experiences both within and outside of the classroom." Weldy succeeds Tralicia Powell Lewis, who has been serving in an interim capacity since March 2016. Lewis, who has held many positions on campus since 1995, will return to her permanent post as assistant vice chancellor for student affairs. "As we welcome Dr. Weldy to our leadership team, I would also like to express my deep appreciation to Tralicia Lewis for her exemplary service as interim vice chancellor for student affairs," said Paydar. "Her deep knowledge of our campus combined with her leadership skills have proven invaluable during this time of transition." Weldy's experience in student affairs spans 25 years. In his role at Northern Illinois University, he reorganized enrollment management, including undergraduate admissions and financial aid and scholarship functions, to improve overall business operations and address the university's decade-long enrollment decline. He worked to increase student retention, boosted staff training and instituted that university's first two-day summer orientation program. His background also includes positions in residence hall management, minority recruiting and support, fundraising, and admissions. Other administrative roles held by Weldy include associate vice president for student affairs at Florida State University, associate vice chancellor for academic support and student life at University of Minnesota Duluth, and assistant dean of students at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "I am honored to have been selected for this position," Weldy said. "So many exciting things are happening at IUPUI. I look forward to applying my own skills and experiences to assist the university community in reaching its strategic goals in the coming years." Weldy received his bachelor's degree from Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois; his master's degree from Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois; and his doctorate of education with a concentration in higher education administration from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Eric A. Weldy Liz Joss ljoss@iupui.edu Web version: http://news.medicine.iu.edu/releases/2016/12/weldy-appointed-vice-chancellor.shtml

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Eighteenth-century philosophy Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment Part of Modern European Philosophy Author: Charles L. Griswold, Jr, Boston University Although Adam Smith is often thought of today as an economist, he was in fact (as his great contemporaries Hume, Burke, Kant, and Hegel recognized) an original and insightful thinker whose work covers an immense territory including moral philosophy, political economy, rhetorical theory, aesthetics, and jurisprudence. Charles Griswold has written the first comprehensive philosophical study of Smith's moral and political thought. Griswold sets Smith's work in the context of the continuing debate about the nature and survival of the Enlightenment, and relates it to current discussions in moral and political philosophy. Smith's appropriation as well as criticism of ancient philosophy, and his carefully balanced defense of a liberal and humane moral and political outlook, are also explored. This is a major reassessment of a key figure in modernity that will be of particular interest to philosophers and political and legal theorists, as well as historians of ideas, rhetoric, and political economy. A comprehensive account of Adam Smith as a philosopher Explores the historical context of Smith's work Broad interest to philosophers, intellectual historians, political and legal theorists, historians of economics "In a rich and detailed examination of The Theory of Moral Sentiments Griswold presents Smith as a rhetorically sophisticated dialectical thinker, defending Enlightenment values while aware of their profound costs, seeking a philosophical system while distrustful of the system, and aiming to guard ordinary moral life against excessive reflection. This is a major study, resting on a thorough rethinking of all of Smith's work. Griswold shows Smith to be a more complex moral thinker than he has been taken to be, and one far more pertinent to current issues." Jerome B. Schneewind, The Johns Hopkins University "With one eye on the eighteenth century and the other on our current predicament, Charles Griswold's Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment is wonderfully interesting and informative, philosophically stimulating and acute, and beautifully written." Stephen Darwall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor "...written for an audience of professional philosophers. But it is also exemplary in spelling out many of Smith's arguments and subjecting them to analytic scrutiny." Jerry Z. Muller, The Wall Street Journal "...rewarding for economists seeking a deeper understanding of Smith's ideas." Choice "...it is perhaps not surprising that Smith has sen something of a renaissance, with numerous studies published that help to restore him to his rightful place in the Western tradition. At the top of this list is Charles Griswold's excellent new book, Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment. Griswold Performs a valuable service by showing us that one of the Enlightenment's most important founding thinkers believed that liberal commercial societies were dependent on, productive of, and ultimately legitimated not by wealth or freedom but by virtue. Griswold walks us through Smith's highly complex account...." The Public Interest "...pathbreaking..." Charles Larmore, The New Republic "Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment is written by and largely for philosophers...Yet it should be studied by all who are interested in Adam Smith; it may fundamentally change the way they view Smith...Griswold's work merits a careful, deep reading by a large part of the contemporary literati." The Annals of the American Academy "...brilliant study...Griswold's book illuminates a wide range of themes in Smith's moral philosophy..." Journal of the History of Philosophy Texts and acknowledgements 1. Rhetoric, method, and system in The Theory of Moral Sentiments 2. Sympathy and selfishness, imagination and self 3. The passions, pleasure, and the impartial spectator 4. Philosophy and skepticism 5. The theory of virtue 6. Justice 7. The moral sentiments and The Wealth of Nations 8. Philosophy, imagination, and the fragility of beauty: on reconciliation with nature Charles L. Griswold, Jr, Boston University Adam Smith's Marketplace of Life The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment Kant's Moral and Legal Philosophy The Pragmatic Enlightenment Recovering the Liberalism of Hume, Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire Hegel Bulletin Hegel Bulletin is a leading English language journal for anyone interested in Hegel’s thought, its context, legacy… Ancient Forgiveness Classical, Judaic, and Christian Early modern philosophy Epistemology and metaphysics Legal philosophy Medieval philosophy Nineteenth-century philosophy Philosophy: general interest Philosophy of mind and language Philosophy texts Renaissance philosophy Twentieth-century philosophy

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Geschichte der altkirchlichen Literatur Volume 4. Das fünfte Jahrhundert mit Einschluss der syrischen Literatur des vierten Jahrhunderts $57.00 (R) Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Religion Author: Otto Bardenhewer $ 57.00 (R) Otto Bardenhewer (1851–1935) was Professor of New Testament Exegesis at Munich from 1886 to 1924. Following the success of his 1894 Patrologie (the 1908 English edition of which is also reissued), Bardenhewer went on to write this monumental five-volume history, in German, of early Christian literature from its beginnings to the seventh century. Published between 1902 and 1932, it was acclaimed for its thoroughness, clarity and sound judgment, and remains a standard work of reference. Volume 4 covers Greek and Latin texts from the fifth century, and Syriac works of the fourth and fifth centuries. Bardenhewer introduces each author and work, and outlines their critical reception and interpretation. The coverage includes Cyril of Alexandria, ascetic writings from Egypt, Pseudo-Dionysius, Ephraim the Syrian, and Augustine and his friends and adversaries. The westward spread of Christian scholarship is represented by figures such as John Cassian, Peter Chrysologus, Paulinus of Périgueux and St Patrick. Das fünfte Jahrhundert mit Einschluss der syrischen Literatur des vierten Jahrhunderts Register. Otto Bardenhewer The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's “Confessions” The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature The Orations of St Athanasius Against the Arians According to the Benedictine Text Theology in the Russian Diaspora Church, Fathers, Eucharist in Nikolai Afanas'ev (1893–1966) Journal of Anglican Studies "I am delighted to commend the Journal of Anglican Studies as an important initiative in building conversation and… Scottish Journal of Theology Scottish Journal of Theology is an international journal of systematic, historical and biblical theology. Since its… Harvard Theological Review Harvard Theological Review has been a central forum for scholars of religion since its founding in 1908. It continues… Horizons publishes award-winning peer-reviewed articles, roundtables, and book reviews across a wide range of topics… Biblical studies - New Testament Biblical studies - Old Testament, Hebrew bible Buddhism and Eastern religions Religion: general interest Religious ethics

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Preventing Black Market Trade in Nuclear Technology Matthew Bunn, Harvard University, Massachusetts Martin B. Malin, Harvard University, Massachusetts William C. Potter, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey Leonard S. Spector, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey Matthew Bunn, William C. Potter, David Albright, Andrea Stricker, Thomas Fingar, Leonard Spector, Mark Fitzpatrick, Ian Anthony, Robert Shaw, Justine Walker, Olli Heinonen, Vladimir Orlov, Aleksandr Cheban, John S. Park, Ian J. Stewart, Martin B. Malin Date Published: May 2018 availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party. format: Adobe eBook Reader Find out more about Cambridge eBooks Adobe eBook Reader You will be taken to ebooks.com for this purchase Buy eBook Add to wishlist Every nuclear weapons program for decades has relied extensively on illicit imports of nuclear-related technologies. This book offers the most detailed public account of how states procure what they need to build nuclear weapons, what is currently being done to stop them, and how global efforts to prevent such trade could be strengthened. While illicit nuclear trade can never be stopped completely, effective steps to block illicit purchases of nuclear technology have sometimes succeeded in slowing nuclear weapons programs and increasing their costs, giving diplomacy more chance to work. Hence, this book argues, preventing illicit transfers wherever possible is a key element of an effective global non-proliferation strategy. Provides a brief review of recent proliferation cases, focusing in particular on strategies that states like North Korea and Iran pursued to procure key technologies for their nuclear programs through illicit means Provides overviews of the broad range of global efforts to restrict illicit trade in nuclear technology - from intelligence gathering, to sanctions and interdiction, to export controls, to finance and banking measures, to law enforcement, to internal compliance programs in the private sector, and more Identifies gaps within and between existing areas of focused effort and proposes measures for filling gaps in existing efforts and strengthening controls on illicit trade 'A compelling analysis of the failures of policy, intelligence, law enforcement and private sector governance in the past, and the continuing challenges facing the control of illicit nuclear technology transfers. This book is a sharply focused and intensely practical contribution to solving one of the world's most dangerous problems, and policymakers will ignore it at their peril.' Gareth Evans, Former Australian Foreign Minister, Co-chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament and co-author of Nuclear Weapons: The State of Play 'Avoiding nuclear apocalypse is humanity's top priority. [Here is] a book by leading experts in the field on what needs to be done to combat the ominous danger of illicit trafficking in nuclear technology. A must read for anyone interested in how to shore up our precarious global security system.' Mohamed ElBaradei, Former Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency 'A secret nuclear technology smuggling network lurks in the shadows behind virtually every recent nuclear weapons acquisition program. The expert authors of this volume both shine a bright light on these illicit networks, exposing the states and companies involved, and present creative ideas on how to reduce the risks of future nuclear proliferation. This book should guide new international efforts to shut down these nuclear black markets.' Scott D. Sagan, Caroline S. G. Munro Professor of Political Science, Stanford University 'The world needs bold steps to surmount the nuclear dangers that we confront. This book is essential reading for its role in outlining the steps needed for a crucial part of that effort - controlling the spread of the technologies needed to build nuclear weapons to countries seeking nuclear arsenals. Top experts look at the dangers that lie ahead and recommend new tools to counter them. This book is must reading for policymakers striving for a safer world.' Sam Nunn, Former Senator, co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative 'The future of global nuclear nonproliferation efforts will depend heavily on the high-stakes competition between increasingly resourceful nuclear black marketers and governments determined to thwart them. This volume brings together highly knowledgeable experts to shed light on the shadowy world of illicit nuclear procurement and to propose a promising strategy for impeding it. It is the most comprehensive treatment of the subject publicly available and an indispensable resource to both government policymakers and outsiders interested in avoiding a world of many nuclear-armed states.' Robert Einhorn, The Brookings Institution 'This book is a sophisticated and urgent call for global action to prevent the next AQ Khan and avoid nuclear Armageddon. By distilling the lessons of the recent past, these world-class experts provide the blueprint for a safer, saner future. Essential reading for policy makers and the public.' Douglas Frantz, Deputy Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development contains: 5 b/w illus. 2 tables 1. Introduction: the problem of black-market nuclear technology networks Matthew Bunn and William C. Potter 2. The world of illicit nuclear trade: present and future David Albright and Andrea Stricker 3. The role of intelligence in countering illicit nuclear-related procurement Thomas Fingar 4. Strengthening the global law enforcement response Leonard Spector 5. Strengthening sanctions and interdiction Mark Fitzpatrick 6. Strengthening global nuclear export controls Ian Anthony 7. The private sector's role in stopping black market nuclear technology networks Robert Shaw 8. Strengthening global non-proliferation financial controls Justine Walker 9. Strengthening the role of international organizations in dealing with illicit nuclear technology networks Olli Heinonen 10. Countering nuclear black markets by strengthening nonproliferation culture Matthew Bunn 11. Stopping black-market nuclear technology networks: a view from Russia Vladimir Orlov and Aleksandr Cheban 12. Out-of-the box initiatives to combat illicit nuclear technology procurement networks John S. Park, Leonard Spector and Ian J. Stewart 13. Conclusion: stopping illicit trade in nuclear technology: progress, gaps, and next steps Martin B. Malin, Matthew Bunn, Leonard Spector and William C. Potter. Front Matter (98 KB) Matthew Bunn is a Professor of Practice at the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Massachusetts. His research interests include nuclear theft and terrorism; nuclear proliferation and measures to control it; the future of nuclear energy and its fuel cycle; and innovation in energy technologies. Before coming to Harvard, Bunn served as an adviser to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, as a study director at the National Academy of Sciences, and as editor of Arms Control Today. He is the author or co-author of more than twenty books or major technical reports (most recently Insider Threats (2016)), and over a hundred articles in publications ranging from Science to The Washington Post. Martin B. Malin is the Executive Director of the Project on Managing the Atom at the Belfer Center, for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. His research focuses on arms control and nonproliferation in the Middle East, US nonproliferation and counter-proliferation strategies, and the security consequences of the growth and spread of nuclear energy. His recent work includes a review of strategies for preventing illicit trade in nuclear-related technology, an examination of Israeli leaders' perception of the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, and an analysis of the regional conditions conducive to the creation of a WMD-free zone in the Middle East. Prior to coming to the Kennedy School, Malin taught courses on international relations, American foreign policy, and Middle East politics at Columbia University, Barnard College, New York and Rutgers University, New Jersey. He also served as Director of the Program on Science and Global Security at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. William C. Potter is Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar Professor of Nonproliferation Studies and Founding Director of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. He is the author or editor of over twenty books, including two volumes on Forecasting Nuclear Proliferation in the 21st Century (2010), The Global Politics of Combating Nuclear Terrorism (2010), and Nuclear Politics and the Non-Aligned Movement (2012). Dr Potter has served on numerous committees of the US National Academy of Sciences and for five years he was a member of the UN Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters. He has been an advisor to the delegation of Kyrgyzstan at every NPT Review Conference and Preparatory Committee meeting since 1995. Leonard S. Spector is Executive Director of the Washington, DC office of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies' James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. In his many years as a specialist on nuclear affairs, he has served as Assistant Deputy Administrator for Arms Control and Nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration, founding director of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Chief Counsel of the Senate Energy and Nonproliferation Subcommittee, and Special Counsel at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Mr Spector is the author or co-author of eight books and numerous articles on nonproliferation and comments frequently on this subject in the media. The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation Identity, Emotions and Foreign Policy International Organization is a leading peer-reviewed journal that covers the entire field of international affairs.… Ethics & International Affairs The aim of Ethics & International Affairs, the journal of the Carnegie Council, is to help close the gap between… Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica NEW TO CAMBRIDGE IN 2015 - Established in 1971 by Giovanni Sartori, Italian Political Science Review is acknowledged… European Journal of International Security NEW IN 2016 - The European Journal of International Security (EJIS) publishes theoretical, methodological and empirical…

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Aftermath by Nir Rosen An extraordinary feat of reporting, Aftermath follows the contagious spread of radicalism and sectarian violence that the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the ensuing civil war have unleashed in the Muslim world. Nir Rosen has spent nearly a decade among warriors and militants who have been challenging American power in the Muslim world. In Aftermath, he tells their story, showing the other side of the U.S. war on terror, traveling from the battle-scarred streets of Baghdad to the alleys, villages, refugee camps, mosques, and killing grounds of Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, and finally Afghanistan, where Rosen has a terrifying encounter with the Taliban as their “guest,” and witnesses the new Obama surge fizzling in southern Afghanistan. Rosen was one of the few Westerners to venture inside the mosques of Baghdad to witness the first stirrings of sectarian hatred in the months after the U.S. invasion. He shows how weapons, tactics, and sectarian ideas from the civil war in Iraq penetrated neighboring countries and threatened their stability, especially Lebanon and Jordan, where new jihadist groups mushroomed. Moreover, he shows that the spread of violence at the street level is often the consequence of specific policies hatched in Washington, D.C. Rosen offers a seminal and provocative account of the surge, told from the perspective of U.S. troops on the ground, the Iraqi security forces, Shiite militias and Sunni insurgents that were both allies and adversaries. He also tells the story of what happened to these militias once they outlived their usefulness to the Americans. Aftermath is both a unique personal history and an unsparing account of what America has wrought in Iraq and the region. The result is a hair- raising, 360-degree view of the modern battlefield its consequent humanitarian catastrophe, and the reality of counterinsurgency. Copyright © 2010 by Nation Books

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Nobody is a show based on the life of Alvie Morris. A few years ago I painted a mural in Atlanta. I used a portrait of a random image I found on the internet as a reference. Months later I received an email from a man biting the original photo. This was Alvie, the person I had painted. The wall had been published in a magazine and his sister recognized the photo. Alvie and I kept in touch and thought of the idea of making a film about him. This show takes place in Oakland, California. Alvie Morris was born on October 2, 1970 in Tulare, Calfornia. His father was a farmer, alcoholic, and non-religious. His mother was a devout Jehovah’s Witness housewife. He started playing music at a young age and moved to San Francisco when he was 24. He struggled with alcoholism and has been sober for 6 years. He plays music, does photography, works at a butcher shop, and takes care of his niece, Zoe, the center of his world. This show is composed of the film “Nobody”, a documentary, a bust and a series of paintings based on Alvie’s memories. Portraying the life of Alvie Morris as a precedent in paying homage to mundanity and quotidian life. A tribute to everyday people.

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Home/2014/May N. Texas Opportunity Fund Sues Hammerman & Gainer © 2014 The Texas Lawbook. By Jeff Bounds Staff Writer for The Texas Lawbook (April 24) – A Dallas private equity fund is taking officials of a Louisiana company to task over allegations that they secretly set up a “shell” company to funnel money out of the business when the fund owned a piece of that company, court records show. The North Texas Opportunity Fund LP alleges in a petition filed April 9 in state district court in Dallas that officials of Hammerman & Gainer International Inc. surreptitiously set up the shell business partly so they could enrich themselves. Hammerman & Gainer previously was based in Irving, and shifted its headquarters to New Orleans in late 2008, court documents say. Additionally, the petition alleges, Hammerman & Gainer officials wanted to reduce the value of their company in anticipation of buying back the private equity fund’s 3 million preferred shares, for which it paid a total of $3 million between 2004 and 2005. “The fund was alerted by government authorities that Hammerman & Gainer and its related entities and principals were being investigated and hid revenue and profits from the fund. We believe they did hide revenue and profits, and we intend to aggressively pursue all of our claims,” said Arthur Hollingsworth, a partner at the fund, which has in excess of $25 million in capital under management. The fund previously sued the defendants over this same set of issues in 2012. North Texas Opportunity and the defendants agreed to postpone that litigation because of an on-going criminal investigation by the Internal Revenue Service, court documents show. North Texas Opportunity officials said in their petition this week that they received a grand jury subpoena from the May 12th, 2014|Categories: Cases, News|

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Gábor Kristóf Gábor Kristóf, Melting Point, installation view, 2016–17. Courtesy the artist. Jun 25, 2017–Sep 15, 2017 Artist-In-Residence: June 25–September 15 2017 Art in General, New York Gábor Kristóf’s practice examines the overlap between traditional image-making techniques and the possibilities of industrial production. He is interested in a rethinking of the changing nature, role, context and notion of the image. He studied at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest and Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. Kristóf is a member of the Studio of Young Artists Association and his work has been shown widely across Europe. Kristóf is in residence at Art in General from June–September 2017 through the support of FUTURA and the International Visegrad Fund. Art in General was founded in 1981 and supports the production of new work by local and international artists primarily through its New Commissions Program and its International Collaborations program. Art in General also produces an annual symposium What Now? on critical and timely issues in artistic and curatorial practice. Art in General’s Residency Program, presented as part of the International Collaborations Program, provides artists and curators from abroad with the opportunity to conduct research and create work in a new context and to meet and interact with art communities and audiences in New York City. This national and international Residency Program is uniquely focused in exposing artistic and creative processes, in initiating and promoting the dialogue between artists and the public, and in generating a better informed and recurring audience for contemporary art.

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We Must Teach Our Youth the Legacy of Mickey Leland Today in Texas History: Mickey Leland dies in plane crash Democratic Congressman George Thomas "Mickey" Leland (printed in The Houston Chronicle, August 7, 2009) On this date, August 7th, in 1989 -- Democratic Congressman George Thomas "Mickey" Leland, the son of a short order cook raised in a poor section of Houston who rose to become one of just five African Americans since Reconstruction to serve Texas in the United States capital -- died in a plane crash in Ethiopia. The crash occurred over the mountainous region of Gambela, killing all 15 passengers aboard, including three of Leland's congressional aides. Leland was elected to Congress in 1978 after a contentious race against fellow Democrat Anthony Hall to fill retiring three-term Houston Rep. Barbara Jordan's historic seat. The election required a runoff in a campaign in which Jordan declined to endorse either candidate. In January of 1979, Leland arrived in Washington, having won 57 percent of the vote in the runoff and without having faced official opposition in the general election, eager to prove himself. The young, 33-year-old Lone Star State lawmaker used his connections in D.C. to further his humanitarian goals. After Leland won a powerful and highly sought-after seat on the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee (later called Energy and Commerce), he used his assignment to establish corporate and industry contacts that might help his national and international crusade against poverty and hunger. Leland quickly gained the respect of his colleagues, though he was relegated to two committee's historical assigned to black lawmakers: the Post Office and Civil Service Committee and the Committee on the District of Columbia. The young Houstonian quickly became an active member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), which he later chaired (1985-1987). In various leadership positions, Leland successfully lobbied Congress to create the House Select Committee on Hunger. He served as chair of that committee when his fateful trip to Ethiopia was organized. Leland was visiting Ethiopia on a working vacation during the congressional recess, a time when most lawmakers return to their districts or enjoy family time in some exotic holiday hotspot. But not Leland, a man known for his frequent appearances at soup kitchens and for visiting with his black and Hispanic constituents in some of the more violent and less alluring sections of Houston. Congressman Leland even hired some of his Mexican American constituents to help him learn Spanish. He was a good student: Leland spoke Spanish on the House floor as he argued to retain bilingual clauses in the Voting Rights Act. On his August 1989 trip to Ethiopia, Leland had organized a humanitarian mission to carry supplies to refugee camps on the Ethiopia-Sudan border and to monitor human rights issues within the refugee camps. In the mid- to late-1980s, famine had devastated Ethiopia, following a series of major droughts that began in the mid-1970s. In 1984, several human rights organizations estimated that nearly 1 million people had died and 8 million people had been identified as victims of the food shortages. By 1986, the death toll was rising due in part to a locust plague that only intensified the crop shortages. The Ethiopian food crisis created a political and economic crisis for the Communist regime. For years the international community had ignored the plight of the Ethiopians and many within the Ethiopian government were either unwilling or unequipped to respond. Leland's trip to Ethiopia in 1989 was not the first time the Texas lawmaker had traveled to the East African country. He first became aware of and passionate about the political and social situation on the African continent during a three-month stay in Tanzania, after extending a trip he had taken while serving as a Texas state legislator. Congressman Leland functioned as a strong but lonely voice, calling attention to the issues plaguing the continent of Africa and drawing on his personal experience both on the beleaguered continent and at home in Texas. He was a persuasive voice on the interconnected issues of hunger, poverty and injustice. Leland was born in Lubbock, Texas, on November 27, 1944 in impoverished circumstances in a town recognized for its strong racial conflict and few opportunities for black advancement. Leland's mother escaped the midsize West Texas city for the metropolis of Houston, taking Leland and his brother with him. Houston provided Leland with more opportunities but he was not immune to the racism of the Jim Crow South. He attended segregated schools and lived in a segregated neighborhood within the city's limits. Leland political consciousness came of age in the civil rights era, in which he was both a student of the movement and an activist in his own right. As older black residents in his neighborhood and across the county, took active roles in the sits in, protests and letter writing campaigns, Leland observed the history making before him and consumed the literature that inspired a generation. Leland's self education made him an avowed leftist. He became committed to fighting injustice and inequality at all stages. By the late 1960s, following the murders of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X and the birth of the Black Panthers and Black Power Movement, Leland joined the evolving black civil rights movement as it transformed from a mainly Christian, Southern and middle-class origins -- taking it on a more revolutionary, Marxist journey. He also was about building bridges. Upon arriving in Congress, Leland developed a six-week program that sent poor African American kids from Houston to Israel to learn about Jewish culture and encourage the celebrated black-Jewish alliance and the struggles that united both groups. A disproportionate number of white civil rights activists were Jewish and leftists in American history. After police arrested the young activist in an anti police brutality protest, Leland decided to enter electoral politics, finding limits to his bottom-up activism. Elected to the Texas House of Representative in 1972, the youthful Leland was initially labeled a militant. He once appeared at work on the state House floor rocking an Afro and decked out in platform shoes with the customary tie-dye T-shirt of the era. Leland's choice of work attire definitely supported his opponents' views and fed inaccurate perceptions about what was, in reality, a serious politician. Furthermore, many white politicos and white Texans alike were unfamiliar with black street culture and the depth of the social and cultural changes happening in black neighborhoods. Leland was in many ways an unlikely politician for his era and for Texas. Still, among his constituents and many other groups, Leland died a hero. His untimely death caused great sadness among his constituents and without a doubt for his family. Leland's wife Alison gave birth to their twins five months after Leland's tragic plane crash. Today, many foundations wisely recognize the Texas firebrand, and institutions both in D.C. and in Texas have recognized the forever-young Leland with scholarships for education and anti-poverty programs and awards. But Congress canceled his lifetime project, the House Select Committee for Hunger, after the Republican revolution led by Newt Gingrich and fellow Texans Tom DeLay and Dick Armey brought Republicans to power in 1995. Posted by JUST-US at 7:31 PM Labels: mickey leland Deric Muhammad is a Houston-based community organizer who believes that man is given power, but for 1 reason...and that is to serve others. Mychal Bell of the Jena 6 Stay Focused. Stay Prepared. The Movement coming to your television soon! "Raising Boys" Behind the Scenes On the Grounds in Paris, Texas

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Android Game Review: Man of Steel The new Superman flick recently soared into theaters, and last week the Man of Steel game hit Google Play. After swiping myself silly for the better part of the weekend, I’m back with my take on the Man of Steel game. Swipe-based fighting games are all the rage these days, and the Man of Steel games controls will feel familiar if you’ve ever played Infinity Blade or Blood & Glory. You swipe to throw punches, and you’ll be able to do a few other simple moves like grapple, dodge, and block. The only other moves you’ll really need to know are super speed & heat vision which can be used once their respective gauges fill up. As far as fighting games go it’s nothing we haven’t seen before, simple but effective. The villains feel a little generic, and the fighting is pretty straightforward, but the effects of your punches can be fun to watch. You can knock opponents into (and through) buildings and cars or launch enemies into the air with a vicious uppercut. The damage doesn’t feel quite as quite as drastic as it should be at times, although Superman will become more powerful as you progress through the game and level up his abilities. Everyone knows Superman’s costume was changed a bit for the new flick, and the Man of Steel game reflects those changes with its suits. There are 6 unlockable suits, each has its own boosts and unfortunately, the classic suit is missing. Four of the suits are classified as “armor” while the other is a solid green guards uniform. I understand they want to promote the movie, but you should always throw a few classics in. Your character can be upgraded using XP, and Keys are used to buy suits or power-ups for survival mode. As for the extras, Man of Steel has a nicely done comic style storyline that’s tied to the movie, and you’ll get pieces of it as you fight bosses in the game. It’s a nice touch, even if the enemy placement feels a little odd at times. There are no high scores or achievements to strive for, but there are around 16 stages – some with multiple enemies. Survival mode adds a bit more depth to things and helps you earn a few extra Keys which will come in handy if you’re looking to pick up a suit. Man of Steel isn’t the worst movie tie-in game we’ve seen this year, and it certainly isn’t the best. It’s easy on the eyes just like the film, but it just feels average where the film is awesome. If it was cheaper, I’d say give it a shot, but device compatibility issues and price drag the game down. I didn’t have any trouble running it, but the controls weren’t responsive at times and they have to be in a swipe-based fighter. If you want to check it out for yourself, you can pick up Warner Brothers Man of Steel game for $4.99 on Google Play. Quick Review: CRUSH from Radian Games Quick Review: Treasure Tower Sprint from Sava Transmedia

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atomicsoda // crystal palace / one place for all the interviews, quotes, news, blogs injury and suspension news roy hodgson quotes - transfer rumours - all news sources - top news sources - blogs - interviews Roberto regrets it so much now it annoys him just to hear those two words, says Hodgson. CNN - 12:47 PM I've answered that question [whether Palace can retain their star players] so many times, Hodgson told a press conference. There's nobody at the club who is anxious to see any of those players leave the club, in fact it's the reverse. We've committed them to long-term contracts. Goal.com - 8:23 PM He (Zaha) probably gets a bit more freedom (away from home) as there is no doubt that it is harder for teams to sit in and to double up all the time, said Palace manager Roy Hodgson. Daily Mail - 11:32 PM I'm not ruling out the fact that something like that could come up, said Hodgson. No one at the club has really got any interest in selling Wilf, so we're rather hoping that we won't get those offers. But I'm realistic and it would be a club issue. Mirror - 10:30 PM More roy hodgson quotes >> Jump to: June 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

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You are at:Home»Posts Tagged "Medal of Honor" Browsing: Medal of Honor By John Bretschneider on May 23, 2014 Afghanistan, Iraq, Medal of Honor, World War II Since the first military burial on May 13, 1864, Arlington National Cemetery has become the final resting place for more than 400,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and their families. Those who on Sept. 11, 2001, died only a few hundred yards away at the Pentagon are buried here, as are the Challenger astronauts. Fifteen thousand soldiers from the Civil War — Union and Confederate — rest in Section 27 and Section 13, known as the Field of the Dead. Four thousand freed slaves, many identified only as “Citizen,” and two presidents also are buried at Arlington. Section 60 is the… Video: Late Medal of Honor recipient John McGinty discusses nightmare mission in Vietnam By James Sanborn on January 21, 2014 Awards, Battle Rattle, Marines, Veterans [HTML1] We’ve uncovered a 2011 interview with Medal of Honor recipient Capt. John J. McGinty, III who recently passed away at age 73 in Beaufort, S.C. In the video by the publishers of ‘Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty’ McGinty recounts the harrowing 1966 battle for which he earned the medal. On July 15 of that year, his company was in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam, when they were assaulted by wave after wave of a North Vietnamese Army battalion. He and his men narrowly survived the hours-long fight after calling in danger-close air support and… Medal of Honor recipient Staff Sgt. Ty Carter overcame painful past as Marine By Dan Lamothe on August 26, 2013 Afghanistan, Awards, Medal of Honor Army Staff Sgt. Ty Carter received the Medal of Honor this afternoon, a fitting tribute to a man who repeatedly braved enemy fire in Afghanistan while defending Combat Outpost Keating from a fierce Taliban attack in 2009. Before serving in the Army, however, Carter served as a Marine — and overcame a significant family tragedy. According to Carter’s hometown newspaper in Spokane, Wash., the newest Medal of Honor recipient’s brother was killed by a drunken friend playing with a shotgun at a party in 2000. Carter was a 20-year-old Marine serving in Okinawa, Japan, at the time: The brothers grew… Behind the cover: Smaller raises, fewer troops By Gina Harkins on August 6, 2013 Battle Rattle, Behind the Cover Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel for the first time detailed the hard choices his department will face if impacted by decade-long budget cuts — and it could include a historically low end strength for the Corps of just 150,000 Marines. This week’s issue of Marine Corps Times examines the true effects the the across-the-board spending cuts — set to continue unless Congress stops them — will have on the Defense Department. Smaller pay raises for troops, major cuts to personnel and reductions in housing allowances are all areas at risk, Hagel said. For Marines, the most jarring news out of Hagel’s… Behind the Cover: muscular Marines vs. the tape test By Gina Cavallaro on May 29, 2012 Battle Rattle, Behind the Cover, Fitness, Marines, Military appearance The tape test is the only DOD-approved method of measuring body fat for members of the military. But some say it is inexact (which the Marine Corps acknowledges) and that it is unfair to large Marines who have an excellent appearance but run the risk of ending up in the body composition program for exceeding height and weight standards for their age groups. This week’s cover discusses this issue through the case of Sgt. Joshua Legier, 28, who at 6-feet 3-inches tall and 246 pounds exceeds his weight limit for his height. He got even bigger when he was on… Marine Sgt Rafael Peralta and the Medal of Honor By Gina Cavallaro on May 18, 2012 Awards, Capitol Hill, Marines, Medal of Honor California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter continues to feverishly pursue the Medal of Honor for fallen Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta, who scooped a grenade under his body to save other Marines in Fallujah, Iraq on Nov. 15, 2004, according to Marines who saw him do it. He was awarded the Navy Cross – even though the Marine Corps recommended him for the Medal of Honor – after the Defense Department convened its own panel which concluded the evidence for the nation’s highest award for combat valor was not sufficient. Peralta’s family rejected the Navy Cross. Hunter has doggedly pursued the higher… Behind the Cover: ‘Kyle covered that grenade’ — Marines weigh in on grenade blast survivor’s heroism By Dan Lamothe on January 23, 2012 Afghanistan, Awards, Infantry, Marjah, Medal of Honor It’s rare indeed that Marine Corps Times will publish back-to-back cover stories on the same subject. Lance Cpl. William Kyle Carpenter’s story is exceptional, though. As I reported last week, the Marine Corps is investigating what happened in the moments before he and Lance Cpl. Nick Eufrazio were hit with grenade explosion in a guard post near Marjah, Afghanistan, on Nov. 21, 2010. Carpenter took the brunt of the blast, and the service is researching whether he deliberately attempted to protect Eufrazio. The story prompted a strong response from our readers — and for several of Carpenter’s fellow Marines present… Behind the Cover: Did Lance Cpl. Kyle Carpenter cover a grenade to shield his buddy? By Andrew deGrandpre on January 16, 2012 Afghanistan, Awards, Behind the Cover, Marjah UPDATE: An updated version of this story has now been posted online here. You may recognize this face. That’s Lance Cpl. Kyle Carpenter, who was severely wounded in Afghanistan in 2010 when insurgents chucked a hand grenade onto the roof where he and another Marine, Lance Cpl. Nick Eufrazio, were posting security. In the months since the attack, as Carpenter has undergone numerous surgeries to address his injuries, he has become an ambassador, of sorts, for the Marine Corps and its wounded warriors, inspiring family, friends and fellow Marines with his undying optimism in the face of a difficult recovery.… More on Dakota Meyer’s beer summit with Obama By Dan Lamothe on September 15, 2011 Awards, Ganjgal, Washington UPDATED: A White House spokesman tells Marine Corps Times that the beer shared by Obama and Meyer was home-brewed there. It’s called White House Honey Blonde Ale. That’s pretty sweet. By now, you’ve seen the photo above. It’s President Obama having a beer yesterday with Dakota Meyer, who will become today the first living Marine in 38 years to receive the Medal of Honor. The idea was reportedly Dakota’s. When the president’s staff called Meyer over the weekend in advance of today’s ceremony, the Marine asked if he could have a beer with Obama, White House press secretary Jay Carney… Dakota Meyer: The first Medal of Honor social networker? By Dan Lamothe on September 14, 2011 Awards, Ganjgal President Obama will award the Medal of Honor tomorrow afternoon to Dakota Meyer, the first living Marine in 38 years to receive the nation’s top valor award. For many, the ceremony is heavily anticipated. There are many people still recovering from the scars created in Ganjgal, Afghanistan, on Sept. 8, 2009, when the heroism of Meyer and others prevented an awful situation from becoming even worse. As it was, the battle led to the death of five U.S. service members and at least eight Afghan troops. Meyer already is in Washington, and appeared Tuesday night at the Marine Corps Scholarship…

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Tag Archive | "Cuomo" The Bronx loves Obama… still Posted on 02 November 2010. Tags: Bronx, Cuomo, Election 2010, obama, Paladino, Politics, Senate Video by David Patrick Alexander and Elettra Fiumi. Bronx voters bucked the national trend at the polling booths during Tuesday’s midterm elections, rallying behind President Barack Obama even as they expressed concerns about rising unemployment and the faltering economy. The majority of 300 voters interviewed by Bronx Ink reporters at 29 polling stations Nov. 2 said they voted for the Democrats on the ballot in large part because they wanted to show their support for the president. Many believed that the halfway point was too early to judge his presidency. “I think he’s doing good,” said Maritza Rivera, who voted in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx. “There’s too much pressure on him; somebody else would have just passed out already.” An engineer at St. Joseph’s School of Yorkville in Manhattan said he sympathized with the heavy burden born by the nation’s first black president. “He has resolved a little bit of the problems created by Bush,” said Jose Quinonez, as he voted in Belmont. “His hair is white now.” Nationally, the Republican Party took control of the House of Representatives and is expected win a number of state gubernatorial races previously held by Democrats. Control of the seats in the U.S. Senate, as of 10 p.m. Tuesday, was still in the balance. In New York State, 13 Congressional seats are being contested. State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo beat Republican Tea Party candidate Carl Paladino in a tighter than expected race for governor. But in the Bronx, where nearly 90 percent of the population is non-white, many continued to vote Democratic down the line and hoped the party would keep the momentum it gained in 2008, when 89 percent of borough voters cast ballots for Obama. “I’m concerned about Republicans gaining control over the House,” said Barbara Curran, who voted in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. “They’re going to make getting President Obama out of office their mission.” For some supporters, the rising national dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party and the Obama administration added extra incentive to get to a polling booth early in the morning. One Fordham voter said Obama needs confidence from his supporters to implement the changes he promised in the 2008 campaign. “There’s a lot of excess baggage he walked into,” said Perneter McClary. “A lot of times when he tries to get something done, nobody wants to help him. And he can’t do it alone.” But for others, the President still had a long way to go. “I still support him,” said Floyd Sykes of Highbridge, “but not as enthusiastically. Like a lot of people, I wish he’d show some emotion, get mad.” The staggering unemployment rate in Bronx County also prompted many Bronxites to head to the polls. With the latest unemployment figures putting the number of jobless in the borough at 12.5 percent – almost 5 percent higher than Manhattan, according to the State Department of Labor – the economy was an issue for many voters. “I’ve been unemployed for two years,” said Darlene Cruz who voted today in Soundview. “I voted Democrat down the line.” Other issues raised by voters included health care, education, mayoral term limits, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, immigration and gay rights. “I care about maternal health and getting money for schools,” said Carmen Mojica outside St. Brendan School in the Norwood section of The Bronx. “I really didn’t care about the propositions. I honestly couldn’t care less about arguing over term limits. We could be voting for more important things.” Beverly Scriven, a Jamaican immigrant who turned up to vote in Soundview just as the polls opened at 6 a.m., said health care was on her mind. “I care about the economy and Medicare. We’re seniors, so it affects us more than the youngsters. Regardless of the issues, we’ll come out and vote. It’s a privilege.” On the State level, gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo was popular in the Bronx – even among the Bronx Ink survey’s few staunch Republicans. Williamsbridge resident and Republican Anna Presume said she voted for Cuomo because she liked his stance on crime. “I like Cuomo … I didn’t vote for him just because he’s good looking,” she laughed. Carl Paladino, the Republican candidate for governor, was vilified for his offensive statements about gay people during his campaign, words that may cost him votes. When asked if he had voted for Paladino, East Crotona Park resident Winston Collymore, who does not vote along party lines, replied, “Do you think I am crazy? Do I look crazy?” Bronx Voters Sound Off: Why I came out to vote? “Right now the city never takes care of us,” said Iqbal Chowdhury, 55, from Norwood. “Robberies are way up. We don’t have enough police support.” “I woke up at 5 a.m., and thought I should make history,” said Chevonne F. Johnson, 43, from East Tremont. “United we stand, divided we fall. That’s why I’m voting today.” “I’m 53 and I’ve never seen it this bad,” said Lisa from Prospect Avenue, who did not want to reveal her last name. “I got laid off from Department of Homeless Services and now I can’t find a job in this economy.” “I came to vote so I can help keep Republicans from ruining the country,” said William Byne, 56. “Trickle down doesn’t work.” “I always vote,” said Ousmane Bah, 49, from Grand Concourse. “People get killed for the right to vote, you have to come use it.” Do I think Obama is doing a good job? “I think that instead of a bag of gold, he got a bag of dirty laundry,” said Adam King, 36, a Board of Elections coordinator in Castle Hill but lives in Throgs Neck. “We can’t blame Obama for our problems since they came before him. And they’ll probably be here after him.” “It may take more than ten years to fix all this mess,” said Sidney Ellis, 73, from East Tremont. “I want him to take his time and do everything right,” said Natasha Williams, 25, from Tiebout Avenue. “I don’t want him to rush because of what other people said…He’s got eight years to clean up.” “He has no experience. He’s not fit to be president,” said Robert Healy, 49, from Fordham. “A painter doesn’t paint a house unless he’s got experience. I didn’t vote for him before, and I won’t vote for him in 2012.” “I think he’s doing a good job… There’s always going to be crises coming up,” said Luis Padilla, 45. “There’s more eyes on him because he’s the first black president.” What party did I vote for? “I never voted Republican in my life, and I’ve been voting a very long time,” said Kitty Lerin, 63, from Riverdale. “I think the tea party is like a wolf in sheep’s clothing for the Republicans,” said Luis Agostini, 38, from Fordham. “I’m for Cuomo, not Paladino,” said Ziph Hedrington, 43, from Melrose. “Paladino is somebody who I just didn’t trust. He seemed ‘gangsterish’ to me.” “For me, I don’t need to know the candidates,” said Jennifer Clery, 50, from Mott Haven. “I want a Democratic House, a Democratic Senate, a Democratic everything.” What do I think about gay rights? “It’s getting a little crazy out there,” said Anthony McDonald, 56, from Grand Concourse. “I do what I have to do. I’m from the old school. Whatever you do is your private business, but it shouldn’t be on TV.” “I think gay rights are being used to get more votes,” said Anthony Neal, 50. “I don’t think any politician cares whether a person is gay or not.” “You should allow people to be who they are,” said Chevone F. Johnson, 43, from East Tremont. “It’s not our job to judge each other. That’s God’s job to judge.” “Friends of mine are suffering those problems due to the restrictions and the violence,” said Yvonne Long. “It affects everyone, it affects all of us.” “I don’t care about gays,” said Bertram Ferrer, 69, from Fordham. “I retired from the military and I believe in ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’.” Additional reporting by David Alexander, Elisabeth Anderson, Alexander Besant, Elettra Fiumi, Amara Grautski, Nick Pandolfo, Catherine Pearson, Connie Preti, Irasema Romero, Zach Schonbrun, Yardena Schwartz, Yiting Sun and Caitlin Tremblay. Posted in Bronx Neighborhoods, Election 2010, Politics, Special ReportsComments (1)

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Liberia's Last Ebola Patient Leaves Clinic Fri, Mar 06, 2015 @ 11:22 AM Liberia released its last Ebola patient, a 58-year old English teacher, from a treatment center in the capital Thursday, beginning its countdown to being Ebola-free. "I am one of the happiest human beings today on earth because it was not easy going through this situation and coming out alive," Beatrice Yardolo said after her release. She says she became infected while caring for a sick child. "I was bathing her. I used to carry her from the bathroom alone because nobody wanted to take any risk. That is how I got in contact," she said. Yardolo, a mother of five, said she had been admitted to the Chinese-run Ebola treatment center in Monrovia on Feb. 18. "I am so overwhelmed because my family has been through a very difficult period from January to now. And to know that it's all coming to an end is a very delightful news. I'm so happy," Yardolo's son, Joel Yardolo, told reporters. Tolbert Nyenswah, assistant health minister and head of the country's Ebola response, says there are no other confirmed cases of Ebola. "For the past 13 days the entire Republic of Liberia has gone without a confirmed Ebola virus disease," Nyenswah told reporters. "This doesn't mean that Ebola is all over in Liberia." After a 42-day countdown - two full incubation periods for the virus to cause an infection - the country can be declared Ebola-free. Officials are monitoring 102 people who have been in recent contact with an Ebola patient. Since the epidemic started a year ago, Liberia has recorded 9,265 cases of Ebola, with 4,057 deaths. But the World Health Organization says there are almost certainly more cases than that. WHO says close to 24,000 cases have been recorded, and close to 10,000 deaths, in the entire West African epidemic. -- The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this story Source: www.nbcnews.com Topics: virus, Ebola, health, healthcare, nurse, nurses, doctors, medicine, patient, treatment, Liberia Ebola Survivor Nina Pham Suing Hospital to Be 'Voice for Other Nurses' Mon, Mar 02, 2015 @ 02:10 PM EMILY SHAPIRO A nurse who contracted Ebola at the Dallas hospital where she worked plans to sue the hospital's parent company, Texas Health Resources, hoping to be a "voice for other nurses," her lawyer said today. In the suit, which Nina Pham plans to file Monday, the 26-year-old nurse alleges that Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital didn't train the staff to treat Ebola and didn't give them proper protective gear, which left parts of their skin exposed, her lawyer Charla Aldous said. "One of the most concerning things about the way [the hospital] handled this entire process is you've got a young lady who has this disease which she should not have. And if they properly trained her and given her the proper personal protective equipment to wear, she would not have gotten the disease," Aldous said. Aldous said Pham hopes the suit will "help make sure that hospitals and big corporations properly train their nurses and healthcare providers." "This is not something that Nina chose," Aldous said, but "She's hoping that through this lawsuit she can make it a change for the better for all nurses." Pham is still coping with Ebola's after-effects, including nightmares and body aches, her lawyer said. "She has not gone back to work yet and she is working on recovering," Aldous said. "I don't know if she'll ever be a nurse again." Texas Health Resources spokesperson Wendell Watson said in a statement: "Nina Pham bravely served Texas Health Dallas during a most difficult time. We continue to support and wish the best for her, and we remain optimistic that constructive dialogue can resolve this matter." Last fall, Pham cared for Liberian native Thomas Eric Duncan, who flew to the U.S. and was diagnosed with Ebola at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Pham took care of Duncan when he was especially contagious, and on Oct. 8, Duncan died from the virus. Pham tested positive for Ebola on Oct. 11, marking the first Ebola transmission on U.S. soil. On Oct. 16, Pham was transferred to the National Institutes of Health's hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. She was discharged on Oct. 24. At the news conference announcing Pham's discharge, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the NIH, said she tested negative for Ebola five times, and that it wasn't clear which treatment saved her because they were all experimental. "I want to first tell you what a great pleasure and in many respects, a privilege ... to have the opportunity to treat and care for and get to know such an extremely courageous and lovely person," Fauci said, adding that she represents the health care workers who "put themselves on the line." Pham's dog, Bentley, was also quarantined for several weeks, over fears that he, too, would develop Ebola. Source: http://abcnews.go.com Topics: virus, Ebola, nursing, health, healthcare, nurse, nurses, hospital, NIH, survivor Study That Paid Patients to Take H.I.V. Drugs Fails Wed, Feb 25, 2015 @ 11:51 AM DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. A major study testing whether Americans would take their H.I.V. drugs every day if they were paid to do so has essentially failed, the scientists running it announced Tuesday at an AIDS conference here. Paying patients in the Bronx and in Washington — where infection rates are high among poor blacks and Hispanics — up to $280 a year to take their pills daily improved overall adherence rates very little, the study’s authors said. The hope was that the drugs would not only improve the health of the people taking them, but help slow the spread of H.I.V. infections. H.I.V. patients who take their medicine regularly are about 95 percent less likely to infect others than patients who do not. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that only a quarter of all 1.1 million Americans with H.I.V. are taking their drugs regularly enough to not be infectious. Paying patients $25 to take H.I.V. tests, and then $100 to return for the results and meet a doctor, also failed, the study found. “We did not see a significant effect of financial incentives,” said Dr. Wafaa M. El-Sadr, an AIDS expert at Columbia University and the lead investigator. But, she said, there is “promise for using such incentives in a targeted manner.” Cash payments might still work for some patients and some poor-performing clinics, she said. Other H.I.V.-prevention research released here Tuesday offered good news for gay men but disappointing results for African women. Two studies — both of gay men, one in Britain and the other in France — confirmed earlier research showing that pills to prevent infection can be extremely effective if taken daily or before and after sex. Both were stopped early because they were working so well that it would have been unethical to let them continue with men in control groups who were not given the medicine. But a large trial involving African women of a vaginal gel containing an antiviral drug failed — apparently because 87 percent of the women in the trial were unable to use the gel regularly. The failure of the cash-incentives trial was a surprise and a disappointment to scientists and advocates. It had paid out $2.8 million to 9,000 patients in 39 clinics over three years, but the clinics where money was distributed did only 5 percent better than those that did not — a statistically insignificant difference. Some small clinics and those where patients had been doing poorly at the start of the study did improve as much as 13 percent, however. People in other countries have been successfully paid to stop smoking while pregnant and to get their children to school. In Africa, paying poor teenage girls to attend school lowered their H.I.V. rates; scientists concluded that it eased the pressure on them to succumb to “sugar daddies” — older men who gave them money for food, clothes and school fees in return for sex. One study presented here at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections estimated that every prevented H.I.V. infection saved $230,000 to $338,000. Much of that cost is borne by taxpayers. Mathematical modeling suggested that paying people up to $5,000 a year could be cost effective, Dr. El-Sadr said, but $280 was settled on after a long, difficult debate. Paying more than $280 at some clinics was not an option, she said; achieving statistical relevance would have meant signing up even more clinics. The study had already involved almost every H.I.V. patient in the Bronx and Washington. “I don’t think anyone has an answer to what amount would be sufficient without being excessive,” Dr. El-Sadr said. One advocate suggested that more money could work — in the right setting. “In South Africa, $280 is a lot of money,” said Mitchell Warren, the executive director of AVAC, an organization that lobbies for AIDS prevention. “For that much, you’d definitely get some behavior change.” The two studies among gay men looked at different ways to take pills. A 2010 American study, known as iPrEx, showed that taking Truvada — a combination of two antiretroviral drugs — worked if taken daily. The British study, known as PROUD, used that dosing schedule, and men who took the pill daily were protected 86 percent of the time. In the French trial, known as Ipergay, men were advised to take two pills in the two days before they anticipated having sex and two in the 24 hours afterward. Those who took them correctly also got 86 percent protection. “The problem,” Dr. Susan P. Buchbinder, director of H.I.V. prevention research for the San Francisco health department, said in a speech here commenting on the study, “is that studies have shown that men are very good at predicting when they will not have sex and not good at predicting when they will.” The African study, known as FACTS 001, was a follow-up to the smaller trial from 2010, which showed that South African women who used a vaginal gel containing tenofovir, an antiviral drug, before and after sex were 39 percent better protected than women who did not. But it also found that many women failed to use the gel because it was messy or inconvenient or because partners objected. In this trial, there was virtually no effect. One problem, said Dr. Helen Rees, the chief investigator, was that the women were very young — the median age was 23, and most lived with their parents or siblings. “They had no privacy for sex,” she said. “They had to go outside to use the product.” Mr. Warren, of AVAC, said: “The women wanted a product they could use. But this particular product didn’t fit into the realities of their daily lives.” The development means that advocates are hoping even more that other interventions for women now in trials will work. They include long-lasting injections of antiretroviral drugs and vaginal rings that can be inserted once a month and leach the drugs slowly into the vaginal wall. Another trial in Africa, the Partners Demonstration Project, conducted among couples in which one partner had H.I.V. and the other did not, found it was extremely effective to simultaneously offer treatment to the infected partner and preventive drugs to the uninfected one until the other’s drugs took full effect. In the group getting the treatment, there were zero infections that could be traced to partners who were in the study. Topics: drugs, virus, AIDS, study, health, research, health care, patients, medicine, treatment, infection, Money, HIV, cure Are we on the road to an HIV vaccine? Mon, Dec 01, 2014 @ 01:16 PM "It only takes one virus to get through for a person to be infected," explained Dr. John Mascola. This is true of any viral infection, but in this instance, Mascola is referring to HIV and his ongoing efforts to develop a vaccine against the virus. "It's been so difficult to make an HIV/AIDS vaccine." Those were the words of many working in HIV vaccine development until the results of a 2009 trial in Thailand surprised everyone. "The field is energized," said Mascola, director of the Vaccine Research Center at the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, describing the change in atmosphere in the vaccine community. The trial included over 16,000 volunteers and was the largest clinical trial ever conducted for a vaccine against HIV. It was also the first to show any protection at all against infection. Two previously developed vaccines, known as ALVAC-HIV and AIDSVAX, were used in combination, with the first priming an immune response against HIV and the second used as a booster once the immunity waned. The duo reduced the risk of contracting HIV by 31.2% -- a modest reduction, but it was a start. To date, only four vaccines have made it as far as testing for efficacy to identify their levels of protection against HIV. Only this one showed any protection. "That trial was pivotal," Mascola said. "Prior to that, it wasn't known whether a vaccine could be possible." In recent years, there have been parallel findings of an equally pivotal nature in the field of HIV prevention, including the discovery that people regularly taking their antiretroviral treatment reduce their chances of spreading HIV by 96% and that men who are circumcised reduce their risk of becoming infected heterosexually by approximately 60%. Both improved access to antiretrovirals and campaigns to increase male circumcision in high-risk populations have taken place since the discoveries, and although numbers of new infections are falling, they're not falling fast enough. In 2013, there were 35 million people estimated to be living with HIV globally. There were still 2.1 million new infections in 2013, and for every person who began treatment for HIV last year, 1.3 people were newly infected with the lifelong virus, according to UNAIDS. A vaccine remains essential to control the epidemic. A complex beast Scientists like Mascola have dedicated their careers to finding a vaccine, and their road has been tough due to the inherently complicated nature of the virus, its aptitude for mutating and changing constantly to evade immune attack, and its ability attack the very immune cells that should block it. There are nine subtypes of HIV circulating in different populations around the world, according to the World Health Organization, and once inside the body, the virus can change continuously. "Within an individual, you have millions of variants," explained Dr. Wayne Koff, chief scientific officer for the International AIDS Vaccine Alliance. HIV invades the body by attaching to, and killing, CD4 cells in the immune system. These cells are needed to send signals for other cells to generate antibodies against viruses such as HIV, and destroying those enables HIV to cause chronic lifelong infections in those affected. Measles, polio, tetanus, whooping cough -- to name a few -- all have vaccines readily available to protect from their potentially fatal infections. But their biology is seemingly simple in comparison with HIV. "For the older ones, you identify the virus, either inactivate it or weaken it, and inject it," Koff said. "You trick the body into thinking it is infected with the actual virus, and when you're exposed, you mount a robust immune response." This is the premise of all vaccines, but the changeability of HIV means the target is constantly changing. A new route is needed, and the true biology of the virus needs to be understood. "In the case of HIV, the old empirical approach isn't going to work," Koff said. Scientists have identified conserved regions of the virus that don't change as readily, making them prime targets for attack by antibodies. When the success of the Thai trial was studied deep down at the molecular level, the protection seemed to come down to attacking some of these conserved regions. Now it's time to step it up. In January, the mild success in Thailand will be applied in South Africa, where over 19% of the adult population is living with HIV. The country is second only to bordering Swaziland for having the highest rates of HIV in the world. "The Thai vaccine was made for strains (of HIV) circulating in Thailand," said Dr. Larry Corey, principal investigator for the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, which is leading the next trial in South Africa. The strain, or subtype, in this case was subtype B. "For South Africa, we've formed a strain with common features to (that) circulating in the population." This region of the world has subtype C. An additional component, known as an adjuvant, is being added to the mix to stimulate a stronger and hopefully longer-lasting level of immunity. "We know durability in the Thai trial waned," Corey said. If safety trials go well in 2015, larger trials for the protective effect will take place the following year. An ideal vaccine would provide lifelong protection, or at least for a decade, as with the yellow fever vaccine. A broad attack The excitement now reinvigorating researchers stems not only from a modestly successful trial but from recent successes in the lab and even from HIV patients themselves. Some people with HIV naturally produce antibodies that are effective in attacking the HIV virus in many of its forms. Given the great variability of HIV, any means of attacking these conserved parts of the virus will be treasured and the new found gold comes in the form of these antibodies -- known as "broadly neutralizing antibodies." Scientists including Koff set out to identify these antibodies and discover whether they bind to the outer coat of the virus. The outer envelope, or protein coat, of HIV is what the virus uses to attach to, and enter, cells inside the body. These same coat proteins are what vaccine developers would like our antibodies to attack, in order to prevent the virus from entering our cells. "Broadly neutralizing antibodies" could hold the key because, as their name suggests, they have a broad remit and can attack many subtypes of HIV. "We will have found the Achilles heel of HIV," Koff said. Out of 1,800 people infected with HIV, Koff and his team found that 10% formed any of these antibodies and just 1% had extremely broad and potent antibodies against HIV. "We called them the elite neutralizers," he said of the latter group. The problem, however, is that these antibodies form too late, when people are already infected. In fact, they usually only form a while after infection. The goal for vaccine teams is to get the body making these ahead of infection. "We want the antibodies in advance of exposure to HIV," explained Koff. The way to do this goes back to basics: tricking the body into thinking it is infected. "We can start to make vaccines that are very close mimics of the virus itself," Mascola said. Teams at his research center have gained detailed insight into the structure of HIV in recent years, particularly the outer coat, where all the action takes place. Synthesizing just the outer coat of a virus in the lab and injecting this into humans as a vaccine could "cause enough of an immune response against a range of types of HIV," Mascola said. The vaccine would not contain the virus itself, or any of its genetic material, meaning those receiving it have no risk of contracting HIV. But for now, this new area remains just that: new. "We need results in humans," Mascola said. Rounds of development, safety testing and then formal testing in high-risk populations are needed, but if it goes well, "in 10 years, there could be a first-generation vaccine." If improved protection is seen in South Africa, a first-generation vaccine could be with us sooner. When creating vaccines, the desired level of protection is usually 80% to 90%. But the high burden of HIV and potentially beneficial impact of lower levels of protection warrant licensing at a lower percentage. "Over 50% is worth licensing from a public health perspective," Koff said, meaning that despite less shielding from any contact with the HIV virus, even a partially effective vaccine would save many lives over time. The next generations will incorporate further advancements, such as inducing neutralizing antibodies, to try to increase protection up to the 80% or 90% desired. "That's the history of vaccine research; you develop it over time," Corey said. He has worked in the field for over 25 years and has felt the struggle. "I didn't think it would be this long or this hard ... but it's been interesting," he ponders. But there is light at the end of tunnel. Just. "There has been no virus controlled without a vaccine," he concluded when explaining why, despite antiretrovirals, circumcision and increased awareness, the need for a one-off intervention like a vaccine remains strong. "Most people that transmit it don't even know they have it," he said. "To get that epidemic, to say you've controlled it, requires vaccination." Topics: virus, AIDS, public, health, healthcare, research, nurses, doctors, vaccine, medicine, testing, infection, HIV, cure Virus hitting Midwest could be 'tip of iceberg,' CDC official says Mon, Sep 08, 2014 @ 11:50 AM By Michael Martinez A respiratory virus is sending hundreds of children to hospitals in Missouri and possibly throughout the Midwest and beyond, officials say. The unusually high number of hospitalizations reported now could be "just the tip of the iceberg in terms of severe cases," said Mark Pallansch, a virologist and director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Viral Diseases. "We're in the middle of looking into this," he told CNN on Sunday. "We don't have all the answers yet." Ten states have contacted the CDC for assistance in investigating clusters of enterovirus: Colorado, North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Kentucky. What is Enterovirus EV-D68? Enteroviruses, which bring on symptoms like a very intense cold, aren't unusual. They're actually common. When you have a bad summer cold, often what you have is an enterovirus, he said. The season often hits its peak in September. The unusual situation now is that there have been so many hospitalizations. The virus has sent more than 30 children a day to a Kansas City, Missouri, hospital, where about 15% of the youngsters were placed in intensive care, officials said. In a sign of a possible regional outbreak, Colorado, Illinois and Ohio are reporting cases with similar symptoms and are awaiting testing results, according to officials and CNN affiliates in those states. In Kansas City, about 475 children were recently treated at Children's Mercy Hospital, and at least 60 of them received intensive hospitalization, spokesman Jake Jacobson said. "It's worse in terms of scope of critically ill children who require intensive care. I would call it unprecedented. I've practiced for 30 years in pediatrics, and I've never seen anything quite like this," said Dr. Mary Anne Jackson, the hospital's division director for infectious diseases. "We've had to mobilize other providers, doctors, nurses. It's big," she said. The Kansas City hospital treats 90% of that area's ill children. Staff members noticed an initial spike on August 15, Jackson said. "It could have taken off right after school started. Our students start back around August 17, and I think it blew up at that point," Jackson said. "Our peak appears to be between the 21st and the 30th of August. We've seen some leveling of cases at this point." What parents should know about EV-D68 No vaccine for virus This particular type of enterovirus -- EV-D68 -- is uncommon but not new. It was identified in the 1960s, and there have been fewer than 100 reported cases since that time. But it's possible, Pallansch said, that the relatively low number of reports might be because EV-D68 is hard to identify. EV-D68 was seen last year in the United States and this year in various parts of the world. Over the years, clusters have been reported in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona and various countries including the Philippines, Japan and the Netherlands. An analysis by the CDC showed at least 30 of the Kansas City children tested positive for EV-D68, according to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. Vaccines for EV-D68 aren't currently available, and there is no specific treatment for infections, the Missouri agency said. "Many infections will be mild and self-limited, requiring only symptomatic treatment," it said. "Some people with several respiratory illness caused by EV-D68 may need to be hospitalized and receive intensive supportive therapy." Some cases of the virus might contribute to death, but none of the Missouri cases resulted in death, and no data are available for overall morbidity and mortality from the virus in the United States, the agency said. Symptoms include coughing, difficulty breathing and rash. Sometimes they can be accompanied by fever or wheezing. Jackson said physicians in other Midwest states reported cases with similar symptoms. "The full scope is yet to be known, but it would appear it's in the Midwest. In our community, meticulous hand-washing is not happening. It's just the nature of kids," Jackson said. 'Worst I've seen' Denver also is seeing a spike in respiratory illnesses resembling the virus, and hospitals have sent specimens for testing to confirm whether it's the same virus, CNN affiliate KUSA said. More than 900 children have gone to Children's Hospital Colorado emergency and urgent care locations since August 18 for treatment of severe respiratory illnesses, including enterovirus and viral infections, hospital spokeswoman Melissa Vizcarra said. Of those, 86 have been sick enough to be admitted to the Aurora facility. And Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children had five children in intensive care and 20 more in the pediatric unit, KUSA said last week. "This is the worst I've seen in my time here at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children," Dr. Raju Meyeppan told the outlet. "We're going to have a pretty busy winter at this institution and throughout the hospitals of Denver." Will Cornejo, 13, was among the children in intensive care at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children after he came down with a cold last weekend and then woke up Tuesday night with an asthma attack that couldn't be controlled with his medicine albuterol. His mother, Jennifer, called 911 when her son's breathing became shallow, and her son was airlifted to the Denver hospital, she told KUSA. Her son was put on a breathing tube for 24 hours. "It was like nothing we've ever seen," Jennifer Cornejo told KUSA. "He was unresponsive. He was laying on the couch. He couldn't speak to me. He was turning white, and his lips turned blue. "We're having a hard time believing that it really happened," she added. "We're much better now because he is breathing on his own. We're on the mend." Restricting kids' visits with patients In East Columbus, Ohio, Nationwide Children's Hospital saw a 20% increase in patients with respiratory illnesses last weekend, and Dr. Dennis Cunningham said patient samples are being tested to determine whether EV-D68 is behind the spike, CNN affiliate WTTE reported. Elsewhere, Hannibal Regional Hospital in Hannibal, Missouri, reported "recent outbreaks of enterovirus infections in Missouri and Illinois," the facility said this week on its Facebook page. Blessing Hospital in Quincy, Illinois, saw more than 70 children with respiratory issues last weekend, and seven of them were admitted, CNN affiliate WGEM reported. The hospital's Dr. Robert Merrick believes that the same virus that hit Kansas City is causing the rash of illnesses seen at the Quincy and Hannibal hospitals, which both imposed restrictions this week on children visiting patients, the affiliate said. "Mostly we're concerned about them bringing it in to a vulnerable patient. We don't feel that the hospital is more dangerous to any other person at this time," Merrick told WGEM. Blessing Hospital is working with Illinois health officials to identify the virus, the hospital said in a statement. While there are more than 100 types of enteroviruses causing up to 15 million U.S. infections annually, EV-D68 infections occur less commonly, the Missouri health agency said. Like other enteroviruses, the respiratory illness appears to spread through close contact with infected people, the agency said. "Unlike the majority of enteroviruses that cause a clinical disease manifesting as a mild upper respiratory illness, febrile rash illness, or neurologic illness (such as aseptic meningitis and encephalitis), EV-D68 has been associated almost exclusively with respiratory disease," the agency said. Clusters of the virus have struck Asia, Europe and the United States from 2008 to 2010, and the infection caused relatively mild to severe illness, with some intensive care and mechanical ventilation, the health agency said. To reduce the risk of infection, individuals should wash hands often with soap and water for 20 seconds, especially after changing diapers; avoid touching eyes, nose and mouth with unwashed hands; avoid kissing, hugging and sharing cups or eating utensils with people who are sick; disinfect frequently touched surfaces such as toys and doorknobs; and stay home when feeling sick, the Missouri agency said. Source: http://www.cnn.com Topics: virus, respiratory, enterovirus, children, hospital Ebola outbreak: Are hazmat suits necessary or counterproductive? Tue, Sep 02, 2014 @ 02:35 PM By LAURA GEGGEL For health care workers and researchers, wearing pressurized, full-body suits around Ebola patients may be counterproductive to treating the disease, say three Spanish researchers in a new letter published in the journal The Lancet. But other health experts, wary of wearing less protective gear, disagree. Health agencies often require that health care workers caring for Ebola patients wear hazardous material (hazmat) suits that protect against airborne diseases. But the Ebola virus rarely spreads through the air, according to the researchers at the University of Valencia and Hospital La Paz-Carlos III, in Madrid. Ebola is transmitted through contact with infected patients' secretions (such as blood, vomit or feces), and such contact can be prevented by wearing gloves and masks, the researchers wrote. Wearing full-body protection gear is "expensive, uncomfortable, and unaffordable for countries that are the most affected," they said. It may also send the message that such protection against the virus is being preferentially given to health care workers and is out of reach to the general public, they wrote in their article. [Ebola Virus: 5 Things You Should Know]. Moreover, the image of health care workers in hazmat suits could lead to panic, causing people to flee the area and possibly spread the virus elsewhere, they added. Instead, protective gear such as gloves, waterproof smocks, goggles, masks and isolated rooms may be enough to manage infected patients, so long as they are not hemorrhaging or vomiting, the letter said. "In control of infectious diseases, more is not necessarily better and, very often, the simplest answer is the best," the researchers wrote. The current Ebola virus outbreak is the worst in history. It began in February 2014 in Guinea and has since infected people in Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, killing more than 1,500 people. Just 47 percent of infected patients have survived. But other experts disagree with the researchers, saying a high level of protection against the virus is needed in places with struggling health care systems, including the countries in West Africa where the outbreak is raging. "The authors have a point, but I don't think a very strong one," said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, who was not involved with the letter. "It must indeed be unsettling for people to see folks in hazmat suits come into their communities," Schaffner told Live Science. "It's very foreign, and often increases their anxiety about events." But it's better to err on the side of safety, he said. Because the Ebola virus does spread through contact with infected bodily fluids, if health care workers don't immediately clean up such excretions, it's possible these fluids could infect others not wearing appropriate protective gear. Patients may also start vomiting or bleeding at any time, increasing the risk of infection for health care workers who are not wearing protective suits, he said. "I would remind us that there are any number of health care workers, including Dr. [Kent] Brantly and Ms. [Nancy] Writebol, were using elaborate equipment in Africa and nonetheless became infected," Schaffner said. (Brantly and Writebol have both since recovered.) In hospitals with cutting-edge technologies, such as Emory University Hospital, health care workers may not have to wear full-body suits for all Ebola patients, if the patients are on the mend, he said. If they are not displaying symptoms such as vomiting or bleeding, health care workers may be able to scale down their uniforms and use goggles and gloves in lieu of wearing hazmat suits, Schaffner said. But "when you have a circumstance as hazardous as Ebola, it's important to be secure," Schaffner said. Source: http://www.cbsnews.com Topics: virus, Ebola, health care, patients, hazmat suits, safety gear, health aids, experts A Nurse's Story: On The Front Lines Of Ebola Outbreak Wed, Aug 13, 2014 @ 11:42 AM By NAOMI CHOY SMITH When Doctors Without Borders nurse Monia Sayah first arrived in Guinea in March, she couldn't have known she would witness the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Back then, there were 59 confirmed deaths from Ebola, a virus which can be fatal in up to 90 percent of cases. The death toll in West Africa has since soared to 932, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. In Guinea, where the first cases were reported in March, Ebola has killed 363 people. "The fear is palpable," Sayah said, speaking to CBS News in New York after returning from her latest assignment. "People are very afraid because they never know if Ebola's going to hit their family or their village." Because of the fear and stigma associated with the virus, Sayah said many infected people are choosing to hide their illness and often don't check in to treatment centers until it is too late. By that point, there is very little Sayah and her colleagues can do. They try to rehydrate the patients and administer antibiotics. But there is no proven treatment for Ebola, though an experimental drug is currently being tested. Concerns have also been growing for the safety of medical workers in the field. A leading doctor died in Sierra Leone last week. A Nigerian nurse who treated that country's first Ebola victim died from the virus, Nigerian health officials said Wednesday, and two American medical missionaries infected with Ebola in Liberia are still battling the virus at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. But Sayah, who has spent a total of 11 weeks in Guinea, said she is not afraid. She and her colleagues take strict precautions to limit their risk of exposure. Before entering a high-risk zone, they suit up in head-to-toe protective clothing including gloves and goggles. "You do have to follow the rules," she said, "but accidents do happen." She has to limit the amount of time she spends in the infected area. It's hot under the protective clothing, and exhaustion and dehydration are serious concerns. "The risk is you could faint, you could fall. You do not want to fall in a high-risk area," she said. "Maybe your goggles will move up and your eye will be infected." Working so closely with patients at death's door has taken a personal toll. Sayah described the anguish of stepping outside a treatment facility to take a quick break from the intense heat, only to find that her patient had died in those ten minutes she was away. "It was really hard for me to know that they had died alone," she said, "not with someone holding their hands and reassuring them." Sayah recalled the "hectic" challenges of setting up some of the first international treatment facilities for Ebola patients. By the end of May, she said, the medical community thought they had almost contained the virus. But soon after she left Guinea, another cluster of infected patients was found in another village. The virus was spreading like wildfire. Several factors are contributing to the spread. The virus has an incubation period of up to 21 days, according to the WHO, and in West Africa the population is highly mobile, moving easily across porous cross-country borders. Traditional burial ceremonies in which relatives have direct contact with the body can also play a role in the transmission of Ebola. Sayah found that many local communities distrust the healthcare system and foreigners. "Some have said we brought the Ebola to them," she said. "It's very difficult to contain the outbreak when communities are not cooperating." There were instances of infectious patients leaving the facility, she said, and many weren't receptive to the idea of isolation -- a crucial step in containing the virus. During her breaks from the field, Sayah stays in touch with her colleagues on the front lines, hoping for the slightest bit of good news. Just this past week, she heard some. One of the patients who'd been under her care was discharged from hospital, apparently free of the virus. But the situation on the ground remains dire, and Sayah hopes to see a greater response from the international community. Despite the challenges, Sayah said she will return to West Africa to fight the outbreak. "When you're there and you see how much needs to be done," she said, "there is not a question of 'should I go back or not?'" Source: www.cbsnews.com Topics: virus, Ebola, outbreak, infected, nursing, deaths Second American Infected With Ebola Mon, Jul 28, 2014 @ 12:28 PM By Joe Sutton and Holly Yan A second American aid worker in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola, according to the Christian humanitarian group she works for. Nancy Writebol is employed by Serving in Mission, or SIM, in Liberia and was helping the joint SIM/Samaritan's Purse team that is treating Ebola patients in Monrovia, according to a Samaritan's Purse statement. Writebol, who serves as SIM's personnel coordinator, has been living in Monrovia with her husband, David, according to SIM's website. The Charlotte, North Carolina, residents have been in Liberia since August 2013, according to the blog Writebols2Liberia. They have two adult children. On Saturday, Samaritan's Purse announced that American doctor Kent Brantly had become infected. The 33-year-old former Indianapolis resident had been treating Ebola patients in Monrovia and started feeling ill, spokeswoman Melissa Strickland said. Once he started noticing the symptoms last week, Brantly isolated himself. Brantly, the medical director for Samaritan Purse's Ebola Consolidated Case Management Center in Monrovia, has been in the country since October, Strickland said. "When the Ebola outbreak hit, he took on responsibilities with our Ebola direct clinical treatment response, but he was serving in a missionary hospital in Liberia prior to his work with Ebola patients," she said. Deadliest Ebola outbreak Health officials say the Ebola outbreak, centered in West Africa, is the deadliest ever. As of July 20, some 1,093 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia are thought to have been infected by Ebola since its symptoms were first observed four months ago, according to the World Health Organization. Testing confirmed the Ebola virus in 786 of those cases; 442 of those people died. Of the 1,093 confirmed, probable and suspected cases, 660 people have died. There also are fears the virus could spread to Africa's most populous country, Nigeria. Last week, a Liberian man hospitalized with Ebola in Lagos died, Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said. Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria, has a population of more than 20 million. The man arrived at Lagos airport on July 20 and was isolated in a local hospital after showing symptoms associated with the virus. He told officials he had no direct contact with anyone with the virus nor had he attended the burial of anyone who died of Ebola. Another doctor infected Confirmation of the death in Lagos came after news that a doctor who has played a key role in fighting the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone is infected with the disease, according to that country's Ministry of Health. Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan is being treated by the French aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres -- also known as Doctors Without Borders -- in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, agency spokesman Tim Shenk said. Before falling ill, Khan had been overseeing Ebola treatment and isolation units at Kenema Government Hospital, about 185 miles east of the capital, Freetown. Ebola typically kills 90% of those infected, but the death rate in this outbreak has dropped to roughly 60% because of early treatment. Spread by bodily fluids Officials believe the Ebola outbreak has taken such a strong hold in West Africa because of the proximity of the jungle -- where the virus originated -- to Conakry, Guinea, which has a population of 2 million. Because symptoms don't immediately appear, the virus can easily spread as people travel around the region. Once infected with the virus, many people die in an average of 10 days as the blood fails to clot and hemorrhaging occurs. The disease isn't contagious until symptoms appear. Symptoms include fever, headache and fatigue. At that point, the Ebola virus is spread via bodily fluids. Health workers are at especially high risk, because they are in close contact with infected people and their bodily fluids. Adding to the danger, doctors may mistake the initial stages of an Ebola infection for another, milder illness. Topics: virus, World Health Organization, Ebola, outbreak, West Africa, deadly, infected, doctor Debilitating Case of Mosquito-borne Chikungunya Reported in U.S. By Val Willingham and Miriam Falco (CNN) -- Chikungunya -- a tropical disease with a funny name that packs a wallop like having your bones crushed -- has finally taken up residence in the United States. Ever since the first local transmission of chikungunya was reported in the Americas late last year, health officials have been bracing for the arrival of the debilitating, mosquito-borne virus in the United States. Just seven months after the first cases were found in the Caribbean, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionreported the first locally acquired case of chikungunya in Florida. Even though chikungunya is not on the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System list, 31 states and two U.S. territories have reported cases of the disease since the beginning of the year. But only Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands reported locally acquired cases. All the other cases were travelers who were infected in countries where the virus was endemic and were diagnosed upon returning to the United States. That ended Thursday, when the CDC reported a man in Florida, who had not recently traveled outside the country, came down with the illness. As of right now, the Florida Department of Health confirmed there are at least two cases. One case is in Miami Dade County and the other is in Palm Beach County. Its arrival did not surprise the chair of the Florida Keys Mosquito Control Board. "It was just a matter of when. We are prepared in the Keys and have been prepared for some time to deal with chikungunya," Steve Smith said. "From what I am seeing, I'm sure there are more cases out there that we don't know about. It's really a matter of time." The CDC is working closely with the Florida Department of Health to investigate how the patient came down with the virus. The CDC will also monitor for additional locally acquired U.S. cases in the coming weeks and months. The virus, which can cause joint pain and arthritis-like symptoms, has been on the U.S. public health radar for some time. Usually about 25 to 28 infected travelers bring it to the United States each year. But this new case represents the first time that mosquitoes themselves are thought to have transferred the disease within the continental United States "The arrival of chikungunya virus, first in the tropical Americas and now in the United States, underscores the risks posed by this and other exotic pathogens," said Roger Nasci, chief of CDC's Arboviral Diseases Branch. "This emphasizes the importance of CDC's health security initiatives designed to maintain effective surveillance networks, diagnostic laboratories and mosquito control programs both in the United States and around the world." The virus is not deadly, but it can be extremely painful, with symptoms lasting for weeks. Those with weak immune systems, such as the elderly, are more likely to suffer from the virus' side effects than those who are healthier. About 60% to 90% of those infected will have symptoms, says Nasci. People infected with chikungunya will often have severe joint pain, particularly in their hands and feet, and can also quickly get very high fevers. The good news, said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious diseases expert with Vanderbilt University in Nashville, is that the United States is more sophisticated when it comes to controlling mosquitoes than many other nations and should be able to keep the problem under control. "We live in a largely air-conditioned environment, and we have a lot of screening (window screens, porch screens)," Shaffner said. "So we can separate the humans from the mosquito population, but we cannot be completely be isolated." Mosquito-borne virus worries CDC Chikungunya was originally identified in East Africa in the 1950s. Then about 10 years ago, chikungunya spread to the Indian Ocean and India, and a few years later an outbreak in northern Italy sickened about 200 people. Now at least 74 countries plus the United States are reporting local transmission of the virus. The ecological makeup of the United States supports the spread of an illness such as this, especially in the tropical areas of Florida and other Southern states, according to the CDC. The other concern is the type of mosquito that carries the illness. Unlike most mosquitoes that breed and prosper outside from dusk to dawn, the chikungunya virus is most often spread to people byAedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes, which are most active during the day, which makes it difficult to use the same chemical mosquito control measures. These are the same mosquitoes that transmit the virus that causes dengue fever. The disease is transmitted from mosquito to human, human to mosquito and so forth. A female mosquito of this type lives three to four weeks and can bite someone every three to four days. Shaffner and other health experts recommend people remember the mosquito-control basics: -- Use bug spray if you are going out, especially in tropical or wooded areas near water. -- Get rid of standing water in empty plastic pools, flower pots, pet dishes and gutters to eliminate mosquito breeding grounds. -- Wear long sleeves and pants. Topics: US, virus, illness, mosquito, Chikungunya, spread, health, disease, CDC Girl 'Cured' of HIV at Birth Now Has Virus, Doctors Say By GILLIAN MOHNEY A girl believed to be “cured” of HIV at birth now has detectable levels of the virus, health officials said today. The unnamed girl, dubbed the “Mississippi baby” after being born to an HIV-positive mother in 2010 and quickly treated with an intense dose of antiretroviral medication, showed no signs of the virus for roughly four years, according to the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease. But a recent round of tests revealed detectable levels of HIV in her blood as well as antibodies to the virus and a decreased T-cell count -- all signs of the infection. “Certainly, this is a disappointing turn of events for this young child, the medical staff involved in the child’s care, and the HIV/AIDS research community,” NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a statement. “Scientifically, this development reminds us that we still have much more to learn about the intricacies of HIV infection and where the virus hides in the body.” The case of the Mississippi baby made headlines across the globe after being published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Hannah Gay, the University of Mississippi Medical Center pediatrician who treated the infant at birth, was listed as one of Time magazine’s most influential people of 2013. Gay's decision to give the newborn antiretroviral medication in the days before it was confirmed that she was in fact HIV-positive was controversial, since there was only a 25 percent chance that the girl would contract the virus from her mother. The girl continued treatment for 18 months before her mother stopped taking her to her clinic appointments. Five months later, when she went back for a check-up, she surprised doctors with undetectable levels of the virus. At first, Gay and her colleagues said the baby had been “functionally cured” of the virus, but later revised their language to “remission” to better convey that there was a chance the virus could rebound, they said at the time. Although the girl's positive test results have been described as a disappointment, experts say her case still shows tremendous progress in treating the virus that causes AIDS. “The fact that this child was able to remain off antiretroviral treatment for two years and maintain quiescent virus for that length of time is unprecedented,” Dr. Deborah Persaud, professor of infectious diseases at the John Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, said in a statement released by NIAID. “Typically, when treatment is stopped, HIV levels rebound within weeks, not years.” Persaud is one of the two pediatric HIV experts involved in the ongoing analysis of the case. “This virus is amazingly recalcitrant,” said Fauci. “It’s in reservoirs, except we don’t know every place in the body where the reservoir is going to be.” NIAID and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development announced today that they would provide funding to analyze the unique case and will take the new findings into account during a new clinical trial. 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You are at:Home»Articles from Our Contributors»Movie Spotlight: Where the Wild Things Are by Sarah Reinhard Movie Spotlight: Where the Wild Things Are by Sarah Reinhard By Sarah Reinhard on March 26, 2010 Articles from Our Contributors Though Where the Wild Things Are, the Maurice Sendak children’s classic, remains one of my husband’s favorite books, we don’t have a copy in the house. We’ve borrowed it quite a few times from the library, though, and my girls do a passable impression of being wild things most nights. So I was delighted, to say the least, to host a family movie night in my home with a review copy of the Warner Brothers newly released DVD of “Where the Wild Things Are.” Here’s the synopsis of the movie before I tell you my thoughts: “Let the wild rumpus start!” Nine-year-old Max runs away from home and sails across the sea to become king of the land Where the Wild Things Are. King Max rules a wondrous realm of gigantic fuzzy monsters – but being king may not be as carefree as it looks! Filmmaker Spike Jonze directs a magical, visually astonishing film version of Maurice Sendak’s celebrated children’s classic, starring an amazing cast of screen veterans and featuring young Max Records in a fierce and sensitive performance as Max. Explore the joyous, complicated, and wildly imaginative wild rumpus of time and place we call childhood. http://wherethewildthingsare.com We couldn’t help but be impressed with the graphics and acting in this movie. The main monster looks exactly like the book’s. It’s like the illustration just walked off the page and started talking. The soundtrack also captivated me, and one of the main songs was in my head for at least two days afterward, which wasn’t an altogether bad thing. My five-year-old was enamored with the film, but she didn’t understand much of the monster drama (there is plenty) – we had a “yikes!” moment when we saw the PG rating after sitting down for our family movie night. (A rookie family movie night mistake, to be sure, and one we won’t make again.) If you have older children, this movie may be just fine. We have a two-year-old who was scared of the monsters and a five-year-old who seemed fine with it. (We put the two-year-old to bed and she’s been fine since.) We were disappointed with the “heaviness” of the story. There might well be a thread running through the book that inspires others to think of darkness and drama, but to us it has always been much lighter in tone: a lesson in orneriness (but never violence or mean-spiritedness) and a snapshot of unconditional love through the turmoil of life. Maybe it was bound to happen. Sendak’s story is 48 pages – 491 words in only 49 sentences; translating that 101 minutes involves adding to the original storyline. If you watch or have watched this movie, I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m still a little unsure about it, and maybe it will take rewatching it to win us over completely. Copyright 2010 Sarah Reinhard When she’s not chasing kids, chugging coffee, or juggling work, Sarah Reinhard’s usually trying to stay up read just one…more…chapter. She writes and works in the midst of rural farm life with little ones underfoot. She is part of the team for the award-winning Catholic Mom’s Prayer Companion, as well as the author of a number of books. You can join her for a weekday take on Catholic life by subscribing to Triple Take, from Our Sunday Visitor. sfo mom on March 26, 2010 12:42 My 18-year-old son went to see this movie with his friends. He came home and reported that he didn't think his 8-year-old brother was “ready” for this movie. I trust his judgment on that one. He said he thought the movie was much “darker” in tone than the book, and really not for little kids. jennifer on March 27, 2010 16:20 My six year old and I tried to watch this together and turned it off about 20 minutes in due to an agreement that it was too “scary”. I was concerned with the family dynamics and the dark nature of the film so it did prompt some discussion but definitely not a young child's movie.

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Merriweather named GLVC POW Raven Merriweather is a Sacred Heart alum / photo provided by Bellarmine INDIANAPOLIS — Bellarmine University's Raven Merriweather garnered Great Lakes Valley Conference Player of the Week recognition for women's basketball, the league announced Monday. The Knights senior guard averaged 25.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 3.0 steals over the team's two games. In addition, Merriweather shot 54.1 percent (20 for 37) from the floor and 87.5 percent (7 of 8) from the free throw line. In Bellarmine's 93-79 victory over GLVC rival Wisconsin-Parkside on Thursday, Merriweather registered a game-high 24 points on 11-for-17 shooting and added four rebounds, three steals and two assists. The Louisville native followed on Saturday with a game-best and season-high 27 points with five rebounds, four assists and three steals in a 71-58 win over Kentucky State. The product of Sacred Heart Academy scored her 51 points over the two games in 60 minutes of action. This is Merriweather's first career weekly award and the first for Bellarmine since Sarah Galvin was honored in February of 2016. Merriweather is leading the Knights in scoring (19.8) and rebounding (6.9) this season. Bellarmine women roll past McKendree - Feb 9th, 2018

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Christiane Amanpour Christiane Amanpour is a British-Iranian journalist and television host. Amanpour is the Chief International Correspondent for CNN and host of CNN International’s nightly interview program Amanpour. Amanpour is also a Global Affairs Anchor of ABC News. In 2013, she moved from New York City to live permanently in London, England, with her husband, former US Assistant Secretary of State James Rubin, and their teenage son. "Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don’t trust or like journalists anymore and that’s sad." ― Christiane Amanpour Topic(s): Trust "Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it’s time to invest in talent, in people." Topic(s): Technology "In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies." Topic(s): Society "I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished." Topic(s): Respect "If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?" "I’m not an American but I have always had the outsiders’ respect for the American people and the American way." "And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story." Topic(s): Relationship "We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership." Topic(s): Leadership "I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it’ll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by." "What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I’m a numbers guy, that’s my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I’m in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That’s exactly what I should be doing." ― Paul Ryan "Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary – it is a really attractive quality." ― Alanis Morissette "As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you’re relying on the business." ― Mia Wasikowska "I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings." ― Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it." ― Carl Rogers

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Board index Classical Music Guide Online Films & Movies & Their Music Jerry Lewis's lost Holocaust film Here's the place to talk about DVDs (or VHS) films and movies you have seen on television and recommend or don't recommend. Discuss actors and scores, too. jserraglio Post by jserraglio » Fri Dec 28, 2018 4:23 pm NYT — Jerry Lewis’s unlikeliest project was also his unluckiest — so unlucky that it might never be finished. For a certain kind of movie buff, it is one of the last White Whales of lost cinema. In 1972, Lewis, best known at the time for mainstream comedies like “The Nutty Professor,” traveled to Paris and Stockholm to make a different kind of movie: a Holocaust drama called “The Day the Clown Cried,” in which Lewis, who was Jewish, plays a disreputable clown who winds up in a prison camp. There, the clown provides entertainment to Jewish children — and is maneuvered into shepherding them into a gas chamber. “It was something that was very close to his heart,” said Chris Lewis, 61, the fourth of the six sons of Jerry Lewis, who died last year at 91. Like Orson Welles’s long-unfinished film “The Other Side of the Wind,” which for decades sat in a bizarre legal, financial and political purgatory, Lewis’s would-be opus remained unfinished when he died, his original vision buried with him. But recent rumors, along with Lewis’s death and the release last month of Welles’s film, gave fans reason to hope that “Clown” might soon be rescued, too. For now, however, they will have to keep hoping. The troubles of what may be the world’s most famous unfinished film began right away. First scripted by Joan O’Brien and Charles Denton, the film was in production when, according to a 1993 biography by Shawn Levy, Lewis learned that O’Brien was never paid. The story rights hadn’t been secured. [Read The Times’s obituary on Jerry Lewis.] “My dad, thinking he had full artistic license, then rewrote the script the way he thought it should be, began shooting it, got about halfway through the production, then realized people hadn’t been paid,” Chris Lewis said. In a 2005 memoir, Jerry Lewis said his producer had “skipped town” without paying for the rights and other expenses. Checks bounced and Lewis struggled to close the gaps. According to the memoir, he personally lost $2 million. “I know my mom was unhappy that he sold our beachfront property on Vancouver Island,” Chris Lewis recalled. “Our house in Palm Springs, his boat — those things all went away to be able to put that money into the film.” But a completed film never emerged, and its legend grew. Lawsuits and debts had apparently doomed it to perpetual limbo. Lewis seems to have retained only partial negatives, telling his son Chris that the remainder might be somewhere in France and Sweden. Nonetheless, Jerry Lewis made a rough cut early on, and every so often, reports of a screening surface. In a 1992 article in Spy magazine, the comedian Harry Shearer said he saw a cut in 1979. “This movie is so drastically wrong,” Shearer said, “its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is.” In 2016, a 30-minute sample was leaked online. The next year, Vanity Fair published an interview with a French film critic, Jean-Michel Frodon, who said he saw a cut in the early 2000s. (He admired it.) Chris Lewis said he saw it in the early 1970s but does not know what happened to it. “I can’t say I remember it being really great,” he said. Jerry Lewis gave mixed signals about his desires for “Clown” throughout his life. In a 1982 autobiography, he wrote that “the picture must be seen.” In 2013, he told an audience at Cannes that “no one will ever see it, because I am embarrassed at the poor work.” Still, rumors have kept fans optimistic. When the Library of Congress acquired Lewis’s personal archive in 2015, an article in the Los Angeles Times, citing the library’s moving-image curator, Rob Stone, indicated that the library had whole negatives but had agreed not to release them until 2024. The embargo part was true. The rest, less so. Stone clarified in an email that the library has only partial negatives: 13 cans (almost 90 minutes) of unedited camera rushes without sound. (It also has behind-the-scenes footage.) “It’s kind of like nowadays when you go to a museum and they have this whole dinosaur and you find out that, well, no, really all you’ve got is the kneecap,” Stone said in a phone interview. And copyright concerns persist: Stone said he had been contacted by someone describing himself as a rights holder, and he plans to consult with lawyers before deciding whether material can be viewed. Despite the legal murkiness, outside interest abides. About 10 years ago, Bob Murawski, who edited “The Other Side of the Wind” (he shares credit with Welles), began writing to Jerry Lewis about the project. Early inquiries with foreign studios dead-ended in a thicket of legal fears and uncertainty over who — if anyone — possessed the missing material. In 2010, Murawski’s lawyer finally heard back from Lewis, who, in apparent contradiction with earlier statements, insisted that he alone was preventing the release. If that were true, Lewis’s death might have opened some possibilities. But Chris Lewis said he had no idea what the copyright situation actually was, or whether the missing material still existed. Anyway, the Lewis family has no opinions now on whether the film should ever be completed, he said. Murawski, though, still has hope — and a good track record. “It wouldn’t be the same without Jerry being involved,” he said. “But, I mean, Orson Welles wasn’t around on ‘Other Side of the Wind,’ either, and it was definitely a worthy project.” Jerry Lewis, a Jester Both Silly and Stormy, Dies at 91 Aug. 20, 2017 Why France Understood Jerry Lewis as America Never Did Aug. 21, 2017 For Jerry Lewis, Few Statuettes but Lots of Influence Aug. 20, 2017 Get recommendations on the best TV shows and films to stream and watch. Sign up for the Watching newsletter. Return to “Films & Movies & Their Music”

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Around the Big Ten: Men’s Basketball Story posted January 17, 2019 in CommRadio, Sports by Mitch Broder Nicholas Prince, David Hadar, DJ Bauer and Jeremy Ganes discucss the current landscape of Big Ten basketball: With conference play in full swing, the Big Ten has now started to take shape. It’s clear who the contenders for the conference title are and those who will be bringing up the rear. The Big Ten as a whole is off to a great start with five teams ranked in the AP Top 25 and only two teams below .500. So, let’s go around the Big Ten and review what’s going on so far. The Michigan Wolverines still stand on top of the conference and look unstoppable. They’re undefeated in both overall and conference play, but Michigan has a tough game coming up this Friday. They go on the road to face the previously ranked Wisconsin Badgers, who are not an easy win. That should be a game to keep an eye out for. Michigan State sits right below its in-state rival as the Spartans are also undefeated in conference play and have proved how to dominate they too can be. Unfortunately, the battle of the Great Lake State won’t happen until February 24. A team that has really gone under the radar in the Big Ten are the Maryland Terrapins, who find themselves third in the Big Ten. They have played at a really high level and have had two really impressive wins back-to-back recently. They beat the No. 25 Indiana Hoosiers 78-75, and then followed that up with a 64-60 win over Wisconsin in Madison. They’re playing really good basketball and are a team that nobody should overlook. Purdue, Minnesota, Wisconsin, No. 23 Iowa, Nebraska and No. 25 Indiana all round out the middle of the Big Ten and have had their impressive wins and tough losses. Most notably, Nebraska just beat Indiana in Bloomington, which was a huge win for the Cornhuskers. These teams have been mostly beating each other up, so it will be interesting to see which emerges from this group as one of the better teams in the conference. A team that has been a little disappointing so far in the early season has been the Ohio State Buckeyes. Although their overall record (12-4) is pretty strong, their conference record has taken a big hit. The Buckeyes have lost three conference games in a row, including a three-point loss to typical conference bottom feeder Rutgers. Ohio State is teetering right now and after a promising start to the season, they seem to be trending downward. Lastly, the bottom of the Big Ten has taken form and there appear to be four teams that are just a bit worse then everyone. Those teams are Northwestern, Rutgers, Illinois and Penn State. Northwestern isn’t that bad as they have had a tough schedule to start conference play, already playing three ranked Big Ten teams. Illinois is the worst in the Big Ten as they are not only winless in conference play, but only have four wins all season. Those four wins are Evansville, Missouri Valley State, UNLV, and East Tennessee State. Yeah, not very impressive at all for the Fighting Illini. So, there is an overview of what the Big Ten conference looks like right now. There is still a lot of basketball left to be played and a lot of change to come. However, the conference has begun to take shape and at this point, it’s clear who the contenders are, and who the caboose of the conference is. Mitch Broder is freshman majoring in journalism. To contact him, email him mub584@psu.edu. basketball , big ten , college , michigan , ncaa , ohio state , penn state DJ Bauer David “DJ” M. Bauer Jr. is a sophomore from Valencia, Pennsylvania majoring in broadcast journalism at Penn State. He is a writer, producer, and play-by-play announcer for the CommRadio Sports Department. His writings include the Weekly NFL Game Picks series, Bauertology, and the NCAA Bubble Watch series. He is the co-host of the CommRadio talk show 4th & Long alongside Francesco de Falco, Jeremy Ganes, and formerly Jason Marcus. He also works as a producer and on-air personality for the PSNTV show Penn State Sports Night. If you’d like to contact him, email him at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Davvid Hadar David Hadar is a sophomore from Chapel Hill, N.C., majoring in broadcast journalism and minoring in entrepreneurship. He is a member of CommRadio’s sports team and has done several broadcasts with them, providing both play-by-play and color commentary. Additionally, David served as the voice of the Penn State Women’s Volleyball team for the 2018 season, covering the radio broadcasts for all home and away matches. He hopes to one day have a career as a play-by-play announcer or a TV anchor. To contact David, you can email him at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or follow him on Twitter @djhadar. Mitchell Broder Freshman / Journalism Mitchell Broder is a freshman member of CommRadio from Rochester, New York. He currently serves as an analysts on The Under Center Podcast, which in an NFL based podcast. He has produced multiple articles and has appeared on other podcast with CommRadio. Mitchell also does play-by-play for multiple sports and is a producer for Penn State Women’s Basketball. To contact him, email him at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Penn State Falls to Iowa in Late Comeback Whiteout Weekend Preview: Ohio State vs. Penn State 2019 MLB All-Star Snubs Story posted June 30, 2019 in CommRadio, Sports by Will Desautelle Early MLB All-Star Game Predictions Story posted June 8, 2019 in CommRadio, Sports by Will Desautelle Nittany Lions Split Maryland Doubleheader posted April 27, 2019 in CommRadio, Sports by Mitch Broder Penn State Takes Big Ten Outright on Senior Day in Win Over Rutgers posted April 27, 2019 in CommRadio, Sports by Francesco de Falco

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Published by Venture Galleries, “The Shroud” tells the story of a Nobel Prize winning scientist that takes blood from the Shroud of Turin (The linen cloth that wrapped Jesus in the tomb after his crucifixion) and inseminates the DNA into several women in his in-vitro clinic in L.A. His obsession with the Second Coming produces descendants from “The Shroud” that are now in their late twenties. The doctor is murdered and a private investigator is hired to run these individuals down. Murder, miracles, and resurrection is unleashed as these descendants are found creating a battleground between evil and good. Fowler’s writing background started in the screenplay industry twenty-five plus years ago having sold or optioned properties to production companies like MGM, Prelude Pictures, Studio 54, IO Productions and LionsGate. He has been commissioned to rewrite and polish many other individual’s screenplays along the way. Fowler maintained the book rights to all his screenplays and is now writing the book version to many of these properties. Fowler resides in South Florida with his wife, Maria and has three children, Seleck, Calaine, and Sutton. THE SHROUD “Crisscross” a book about a railroad serial killer hunted by railroad bull (cop) across five states was published in 2013 by Venture Galleries. It is available on Venture Galleries, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble.​ Randy McConnell has worked for the Union Pacific for twenty plus years as a railroad cop and is used to seeing death on the rails. Rarely is the death anything but an accident that happens when hobo’s try to jump from one car to the next going sixty MPH. He finds himself face to face with a sophisticated serial killer that understands forensics and leaves a trail of deception and death that fools even the FBI. As the bodies pile up, McConnell uses his instinct and follows a different path than other law agencies that brings his worst nightmares to life. This murder mystery has many twists that turns the case upside down and leads the reader in directions never anticipated. When everything seems set in concrete, the plot line blows up in everyone’s face. Your face included. Contact Dale: A third book, "Love of My Death” about a New Orleans hell raising will be released in the spring of 2015. Dr. Royce Benders in the mid-eighties seems to have it all. A Nobel Peace Prize winner on the cutting edge of the rapidly developing DNA field for criminology and human embryogenesis. But Benders’ dream has nothing to do with fame or fortune. He is a devout Christian obsessed with the Second Coming and impatient to see it in his lifetime. The Catholic Church invites Dr. Benders to work on The Shroud of Turin to help devise a plan to save the rapidly deteriorating linen cloth that wrapped Jesus in the tomb after his crucifixion. Taking blood from the holiest of Christian artifacts, he returns to L.A. and inseminates several women in his in-vitro clinic to hasten the Second Coming. Now these descendants of The Shroud are in their late twenties. What Dr. Benders successfully created is filled with both heaven and hell.

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3-D Scaffold Provides Clean, Biodegradable Structure For Stem Cell Growth Medical researchers were shocked to discover that virtually all human embryonic stem cell lines being used in 2005 were contaminated. Animal byproducts used to line Petri dishes had left traces on the human cells. If those cells had been implanted in a human body they likely would have been rejected by the patient's immune system. Even today, with new stem cell lines approved for use in medical research, there remains a risk that these cells will be contaminated in the same way. Most research labs still use animal-based "feeder layers" because it remains the cheapest and most reliable way to get stem cells to multiply. Materials scientists at the University of Washington have now created an alternative. They built a three-dimensional scaffold out of a natural material that mimics the binding sites for stem cells, allowing the cells to reproduce on a clean, biodegradable structure. Results published in the journal Biomaterials show that human embryonic stem cells grow and multiply readily on the structure. "The major challenge for stem cell therapy today is it's very difficult to make a lot of them with high purity," said lead author Miqin Zhang, a UW professor of materials science and engineering. "So far it seems like this material is very good for stem cell renewal." Medical researchers hope to someday use stem cells to grow new tissues and organs. Key to the research is the fact that new cells maintain the property that holds medical promise the ability to differentiate into any of the more than 220 cell types in the adult human body. Growing the cells in three dimensions better resembles conditions in the human body. It also allows mass production, which will be needed for any clinical applications. "Three-dimensional scaffolds are an active area of research," said Carol Ware, a UW professor of comparative medicine and expert on stem cells. "They are not commonly used yet, but will be important to transition embryonic stem cells to the clinic. To date, nobody has found a perfect matrix." Zhang's cylindrical scaffold is made of chitosan, found in the shells of crustaceans, and alginate, a gelatinous substance found in algae. Chitosan and alginate have a structure similar to the matrix that surrounds cells in the body, to which cells can attach. Different processing techniques can make the scaffold out of interconnected pores of almost any size, Zhang said. Researchers first seeded the scaffold with 500,000 embryonic stem cells, and after 21 days the scaffold was completely saturated. The cells infiltrated the structure, Zhang added, unlike other materials where cells often grow only on the surface. "This scaffold mimics the extracellular matrix at the atomic level, and so the cells are able to grow in this environment," Zhang said. To retrieve the cells, researchers immersed the scaffold in a mild solution. The structure is biodegradable and so dissolved to release the stem cells. One also could implant the stem cell-covered scaffold directly into the body. Analysis of gene activity and testing in the lab and in mice showed that the new stem cells retained the same properties as their predecessors. Other researcher groups are also looking for alternatives to feeder layers. The leading contenders are scaffolds coated with custom proteins designed to mimic the key properties of the animal cells in the feeder layer. Such products are expensive and difficult to produce in a consistent manner, Zhang said. The proteins also get used up in a few days and have to be replaced, making them costly and time-consuming for everyday use. "Our scaffold is made of natural materials that are already FDA-approved for food and biomedical applications. Also, these materials are unlimited, and the cost is cheap," she said. Zhang's group is now working to build a scaffold larger than the current dime-sized prototype, and is collaborating with the UW's Institute for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine and UW School of Medicine to try growing different types of stem cells, including those from umbilical cord blood and bone marrow, in the material. They will try to get the resulting cells to differentiate into bone, neuron, muscle and liver cells. Co-authors are Zhensheng Li and Matthew Leung, UW doctoral students in materials science and engineering; Dr. Richard Hopper, an associate professor at the UW School of Medicine; and Dr. Richard Ellenbogen, professor and chair of neurological surgery at the UW School of Medicine.

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http://carlosquiles.com/indo-european-language-blog/2009/02/konigsberg-aka-kaliningrad-under-international-law-russian-german-polish-lithuanian-or-simply-prussian/ Königsberg (AKA Kaliningrad) under international law: Russian, German, Polish, Lithuanian, or simply Prussian? February 24, 2009 by Indo-European Translate into: English • Afrikaans • العربية • Беларуская • Български • Català • Česky • Cymraeg • Dansk • Deutsch • Eesti • Ελληνικά • Español • فارسی • Français • Gaeilge • Galego • हिन्दी • Hrvatski • Bahasa Indonesia • Íslenska • Italiano • עברית • Latviešu • Lietuvių • 한국어 • Magyar • Македонски • മലയാളം • Malti • Nederlands • 日本語 • Norsk (Bokmål) • Polski • Português • Română • Русский • Slovenčina • Slovenščina • Shqip • Srpski • Suomi • Svenska • Kiswahili • ไทย • Tagalog • Türkçe • Українська • Tiếng Việt • ייִדיש. • 中文 / 漢語. Get this Wordpress Translation Plugin. The progress of the ’star wars’ (AKA missile shield) affair, which Russia seemed willing to aggravate by talking about plans to station missiles in Kaliningrad, without any concerns whatsoever for the welfare of Kaliningraders and Europeans, should make the European Union reexamine its current policy under the Kaliningrad Strategy, of collaborating with Russia by facilitating the transit of goods and persons and helping its socio-economic development. Instead of just hearing what Russians have to claim before the international community, the EU should ask the international community by which right keeps the Russian Federation hold on Königsberg territory, and should demand from Russia a date for devolution, no matter how hard Russian media propaganda tries to avoid the question: Although disputes over the status of Russia’s westernmost exclave of Kaliningrad have practically ceased, this should be regarded as a signal that all the parties concerned are aware of the serious repercussions that instability in that region could cause. Geopolitical Stability has been by far the most repeated pro-Russian argument since the 90’s, also in official European Union forums (see Freedom to Kaliningrad thread); it is easily summed up into a “let’s maintain the statu quo to avoid destabilizing the region”. The murmuring of those plans to use Kaliningrad as missile base made by Russian military officials to the press, to escalate tensions in the missile shield affair, has shown how the Russian Federation respects the will of Europeans for stability in the region. Not to talk about Russia’s lack of respect for the lives of thousands of European citizens in this winter’s gas disputes, or its lack of respect for Estonian democratic decisions, or its support for the authoritarian Belarusian regime of Lukashenko… Other great arguments made by pro-Russians include “Nazi Germany”, “World War II” and “Mother Russia”, and are easily read elsewhere in Russian media and blogs when the Kaliningrad question is mentioned. Nevertheless, most Kaliningraders – whether ethnic Russians or not – show often an open mind about the return options. And even official Russian media like Russia Today recognize still in 2009 (only in English texts for outsiders) the Lithuanian claims to the territory and its return; East German rights are still taboo in Russian ‘free’ media, while Polish claims are probably too weak to be worth mentioning: The region became an administrative unit of Russia [sic] in 1946 after the Potsdam conference and the partition of Germany. Although it solidified as an administrative entity, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the issue of reassimilating the Kaliningrad region into its historic entity of Lithuania arose. According to a thorough study on the question (The Kaliningrad Challenge, 2003) Russia has been always concerned about the risk of separatism in Kaliningrad, which might be greater than expected if the European Report The EU and Kaliningrad (2002) is correct in assessing that Kaliningrad’s level of development is closer to Lithuania and Latvia than previously thought. In that sense, ethnic Russian Kaliningraders see Kaliningrad in the future as another Baltic Republic, either still somehow federated to Russia with great autonomy or fully independent. Moreover, There are opinion polls – now more frequently held within blogs and forums – which show that Kaliningraders occasionally imagine their future not so much as a fourth Baltic Republic, but as part of a return to Germany As it has been already argued on the situation of Königsberg/Kaliningrad region and the Northern Territories/Southern Kuril Islands under international law: In a similar way, the Soviets also refused to discuss the final peace settlement in Europe after the Second World War. It is important to emphasize that neither the United States nor Britain agreed at Potsdam or anywhere else to the transfer of East Prussia or part of the Königsberg Region to the Soviet Union. Thus, although the Kaliningrad Region is currently administered by Russia, it is not a legal part of Russia. Stalin was seeking a deal on East Prussia at the Tehran conference in 1943, drawing a line in red pencil on the map “to illustrate the fact that, if part of eastern Prussia, including the ports of Könisberg and Tilsit, were given to the Soviet Union, he would be prepared to accept the Curzon line [...] as the frontier between the Soviet Union and Poland.” This line goes roughly along the current border between the Kaliningrad Region and Poland, but Stalin’s red line on the map went virtually through the cities of Königsberg and Insterburg (see the Map). Charles E. Bolen, the interpreter for the American delegation, says in his memoirs that during their discussion, Stalin and Churchill virtually agreed on the future borders of Poland, but the official American record of the conversation says that “although nothing was stated, it was apparent that the British were going to take this suggestion back to London to the Poles.” On February 11, 1945, at the Crimea (Yalta) Conference, the Big Three agreed on the Curzon Line as the boundary between Poland and the USSR. However, the archival material clearly shows that there had not been any legally binding agreement made between the allies about the transfer of the Königsberg Region to the Soviet Union at any of the Second World War conferences. This is why Stalin attempted to secure his gains at the Potsdam conference in Berlin, which took place from July 17 to August 2, 1945. After the end of the Second World War, the Kaliningrad question began by Stalin’s personal will of revenge against Germany: Königsberg was neither appended outright to the Soviet Union nor was it to be considered part of the Soviet zone of occupation, which had been outlined earlier in the agreement. [The Soviet Union] acted decisively to completely eradicate the German presence in Königsberg and replace it with Soviet presence. This began even before the end of hostilities with the Reich: Königsberg was destroyed in the last weeks of the war when there was no real reason to assault it. When the soldiers of the Byelorussian front were dying in its streets in the first week of April, 1945, the rest of the Red Army was already besieging Berlin. Seven centuries of history went up in smoke in one week of shelling and bombing. By then, the decision to annihilate East Prussia and grant Königsberg to the Soviet Union had already been taken, so the reason for its destruction remains a mystery. Did Stalin take the decision in a fit of war revenge? Did he think that the setting of an ancient bourgeois city would hamper the development of the new Soviet city he wanted to build in its place? Or did he fear that, unless turned into a pile of ruins, Königsberg might not be conceded to him by the Allies after all? Pictures and models in the bunker-cum-museum where the capitulation of the city was signed are revealing. Most of the destruction was done after-wards, when the victors took to the task of building a new city on the ruins of the old… While the destruction of the city’s infrastructure was underway, an equally brutal purge of its population through gang rapes and indiscriminate crimes was carried out: The demography of that part of Lithuania Minor which is under direct Soviet administration, the “Oblast,” has changed in the most radical way in all its history. The original population of the area — German as well as Lithuanian — has disappeared completely. Many had fled before the Soviet armed forces invaded the area in 1945; those who remained — several hundred thousand — either perished from hunger or disease or were deported to Siberia; the others were expelled to Germany in 1949. They all — about 1,200,000 before World War II — were replaced by about 600,000 settlers from the northern and central parts of Russia. The administration and economy of the “Oblast” has been reorganized to conform with Soviet models and practices. It has been fortified to serve the strategic aims of the Soviet Union. Modern Claims in Europe After the fall of the Soviet Union, there were 4 main alternatives for the future of Kaliningrad, following Raymond A. Smith’s article The Status of The Kaliningrad Oblast Under International Law (1992), which argues in favour of the Lithuanian claim, but which also addresses some historical and political questions: From the historical [point of view] sovereignty over the territory of the Kaliningrad Oblast passed over the course of centuries from the the indigenous Old Prussian population, to the Teutonic Order, to the Kingdom of Poland, to the Kingdom of Prussia (later the German Empire) and finally, perhaps, to the USSR/RSFSR. It is not surprising, then, to find that each of these entities (with the exception, of course, of the Teutonic Order) has a conceivable claim to this territory. This section examines the legal basis, or lack thereof, of the actual or potential claim of each entity, as well as the potential claim of the indigenous population. The German Claim: Some Germans challenge the validity of both the Final Settlement and the original “dismemberment” of the German Reich. Their arguments are complex but can be reduced in essence to two claims: the Allies had no power to allow German territory to be annexed by other countries the West Germany and even the modern Federal Republic of Germany are not coextensive with the German Reich and are therefore not competent to speak for it in its entirety The first proposition is supported by numerous charges: that the guarantees of self-determination in the Atlantic Charter, the UN Charter, and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties were ignored; that the Ancient Roman principle of ex injuria non oritur jus prohibits punishing Germany by unilateral confiscation of its territory; that the powers of the Allies as occupiers were strictly curtailed by the Hague Laws of War of 1907; that use of German lands as “compensation” to Poland for lands lost to the Soviet Union has no basis in international law; and many others. The Russian Claim: As the historical overview recounted, the working premise of the Potsdam Conference was that the Soviets would receive the Oblast at the final peace conference. The Allies specifically committed themselves to supporting the Soviet claim in the Final Settlement, but when that settlement was finally signed in 1990, specific title was not transferred. Why the Final Settlement did not include a specific statement of transfer is unclear. The seemingly most probable reason is that the transfer of Kaliningrad to the Soviet Union is considered a fait accompli and that the legal niceties of including a specific mention of transfer were outweighed by potential political embarassment such a mention might have caused the Kohl government. Such a position assumes that the tranfer has already taken place, an assertion which rests on shaky ground. Similarly, the Act of Military Surrender specifically indicates that the occupation itself did not effect the annexation of Germany. Thus, although Germany surrendered unconditionally, none of its territories were automatically annexed to any other state. Such annexation would have to be made explicit in a legally binding document. Only “administration” was established by the Potsdam Agreement, however, and “administration” is definitely not the same as “annexation” under international law. Rather than present arguments based on international law, Stalin advanced the law of revenge. ‘The Russians had suffered so much and lost so much blood, they were anxious to have some small satisfaction to [sic] tens of millions of their inhabitants who had suffered in the war,” Stalin said at Potsdam. In the absence of ethnic and historical claims to shore up their questionable legal claim, then, the only argument which the Soviet Union can depend upon is the principle of prescriptive claim. This principle transfers title to land when a country has held it for a long period of time without protest by the land’s original owners or by the international community at large. No specific time frame is suggested for the acquisition of prescriptive claim. Grotius suggested 100 years, a figure which the Permanent Court of International Justice endorsed in 1933. The International Court of Justice, on the other hand, said that fifty years had been long enough for a boundary between Venezuela and British Guiana to have legal effect. The Polish Claim: Poland has no ethnic claim to the Oblast. Although the southern half of East Prussia was occupied mainly by Polish Masurians, they had almost no presence in the northern part. Poland’s historic claim is only marginally stronger. For some two centuries, Prussia was a fief of the Polish King, but during that period the area remained firmly under German control. In any case, title was decisively transferred by the Treaty of Wehlau in 1657. During World War II many Poles operated under the belief that all of East Prussia would become theirs, but they were never legally promised the territory in its entirety. Lithuanian Claim: The claim of the Lithuanian state could rely upon both ethnic and historical grounds. The Lithuanians may argue that the first peoples to hold sovereignty over the region were ethnic Lithuanians and closely related Old Prussians, and the pre-1945 population outside the cities of the Oblast was largely of Lithuanian origin. If the status of the Oblast were to be altered in the future, then, the Lithuanian state could have a strong argument for assimilating this remainder of Lithuania Minor. The idea of unifying the Oblast with the rest of Lithuania has strong historical precedents. Lithuanian assemblies met in Chicago and New York in 1914, The Hague in 1916 and Berne in 1917 to demand an independent Lithuania including all of Lithuania Minor. An assembly in Vilnius in 1917 restated the problem to define the new Lithuania within its “ethnographic borders,” a concept endorsed by a later assembly in Voronezh the same year. Finally, on November 30, 1918, the National Council of Prussian Lithuania issued the Declaration of Tilsit: Taking into account that everything that exists has a right to continue existing and that we, Lithuanians who live here in Prussian Lithuania, are the majority of the population of this land, we demand, on the basis of Wilson’s right of national self-determination, that Lithuania Minor be joined to Lithuania Major The clearest catch here is that any annexation of the Oblast by Lithuania might hinge upon the democratic decision of an indigenous Lithuanian majority to authorize such an annexation. And, as we have seen, virtually none of the indigenous Lithuanian population remains in the Oblast, having fled or been killed or exiled after World War II. This raises the final claim to be discussed — that of the indigenous population. The Claim of the Native Population: The right to national self-determination is one of the main cornerstones of the contemporary international legal order. Eight of Wilson’s Fourteen Points refer to such concerns. The Atlantic Charter’s third and fourth principles call for self-determination in matters of both boundaries and choice of government. The Charter of the United Nations calls for colonial powers to foster self-determination in “non-self governing territories”. That right might be interpreted as concerning: The Oblast’s postwar ethnic Russian settlers – as opposed to central Soviet or Russian authorities. the traditional population which was decimated or expelled en masse after World War II, which is defended on the grounds that forcible deportations of native populations is clearly in violation of international law – native Königsbergers expelled after World War II, then, have a right under international law to choose to return to their native land. On that question, there is the precedent of United Nations action regarding the settlement of Gibraltar: As in the case of the Oblast, the key issue was whether the rightful native population of the Rock should be considered to be the contemporary residents or an earlier population who had been compelled to depart in 1704. The British argued that over the centuries since 1704 a permanent and authentic population had been developed on the Rock, which now had the right to determine their own fate. The Spanish countered that the post-1704 population were “pseudo-Gibraltarians” and that the rightful rulers of Gibraltar Rock were the descendants of Spaniards who had resettled, for the most part, in the nearby city of San Roque. Under pressure from the United Nations to end its colonial occupation of Gibraltar and in an attempt to settle the status of the Rock once and for all, the British government conducted a plebiscite in 1967. The choices were stark — full political affiliation with either Great Britain or with Spain — and the result was unequivocal: 12,138 to 44 in favor of Great Britain. Nonetheless, the U.N. General Assembly once again condemned British occupation of Gibraltar, this time in the strongest language yet. It, in essence, declared the plebiscite null, accused the British of resisting decolonization, and called once again for immediate negotiations between Great Britain and Spain for a transfer of sovereignty. Whatever the merits of the Gibraltar case, the precedent for the Oblast is clear. If the rights of native populations can stretch back to 1704, then surely the postwar expellees from the Oblast would have an unambiguous right to return to their homeland and choose its political fate — be that choice in-dependence or association with another state. The current population of the Oblast would presumably have no say in the territory’s political future. The key difference between Gibraltar and the Oblast is that in the former case, there actually is a population in San Roque able and willing to resettle the Rock. No analagous “population-in-exile” exists in the case of the Oblast. Rather, much of the population of Königsberg was killed or died in exile. Those who were deported to Germany (and their descendants) in all likelihood now enjoy a standard of living which is, at least quantitatively, many times better than any which would be possible in the backward conditions of the Oblast. Further, most — although far from all — Germans seem to have accepted the loss of the prewar lands; the idea of reclaiming part of East Prussia would not necessarily resonate with much of the population. It seems extremely unlikely, then, that more than a handful of such native German Königsbergers would wish to uproot and resettle in the Oblast. Even with German and Lithuanian strong claims about the Soviet colony of Königsberg opposing the legality of Stalin’s annexation, Russia did in the 90’s what it was used to in such cases when the Soviet Union was still a Great Power: they took the easy way, and annexed the territory to Russia, expecting the international community to accept it. Which is nice, because the EU as a Great Power will therefore be entitled to follow the same principle in the future… In my personal opinion, the European Union faces today 3 alternatives, given Russia’s will to retain Stalin’s European exclave no matter how illegal or illegitimate it is from an international point of view: Support modern Kaliningraders in their demands of greater autonomy within the Russian Federation – and maybe a future separation from it -, which is the fairest position under modern international law, which demands non-belligerant positions (against Russia in this case) and respect for human rights – Russian settlers and their families. This is certainly the option of most Kaliningraders of Russian ethnicity, as well as most EU-politicians. Support Germany’s or Lithuania’s claims (or both), seeking to integrate Kaliningrad within the European Union, maybe as a sort of a Baltic territory co-administered by both Germany and Lithuania, financing the return of (families of) expellees to Königsberg, and the return of (willing) families of Russian settlers to Russia. This is the option preferred by many Germans and (I guess) most Lithuanians. Support the creation of a modern Baltic Prussian State (Prusa), which could help unite the Pro-Baltic (and Pro-European) attitude of Russian Kaliningraders, the will of native peoples and their families to return to East Prussia, as well as claims of EU member states to integrate Königsberg in Europe, by embracing Old Prussian history of the territory and its peoples. Modern organizations supporting the revival of the Old Prussian language would probably support its revitalization in Königsberg include the future Research Institute of Prussology and the Prussian language organization in Poland. The third is my preferred option, not because I am some kind of language revival freak (what I possibly am, given that I also support Old Prussian language revival), but because what many (want to) regard simply as ethnic German and ethnic Lithuanian inhabitants of East Prussia in 1945 were in fact descendants of Old Prussians who had lost their language in favour of either German or Lithuanian languages, depending on the territories they dwelled when they ceased to speak Prussian. Given that historical, cultural and linguistic background of the Königsberg (or East Prussian) territory, the European Union should take action supporting the return of those expelled peoples and their families to their ancient territory, which they were forced to leave half a century ago. There is therefore no need to support the adscription of East Prussia to modern countries or peoples, be it Russia, Germany, Poland or Lithuania. And the only alternative to modern peoples, cultures and states is to support a linguistic and cultural revival of a Prussian people and language that should have never disappeared. Posted in Europe, European Union, History, Indo-European language, Linguistics, Politics | 5 With many of the expelled self-identified Germans of East Prussia being partially genetically descendants of the area's earlier inhabitants, their return and even the re-Germanization of some of its cities names, particularly the capital city Kalingrad back to Konigsberg, need not neccessarily be steered to the idea of simply returning Kalingrad Oblast as the northern part of the easternmost province of Germany, but alternatively as a revived nation, not simply one that is mon0-nationalist insofar to ethnicity, but rather multi-ethnic, with names reflecting history. Logically, any such deal for Prussia independence could and should include keeping a permanent enclave for Russia wihin Prussia of a new waterfront city connected to Russia proper via an extra-territorial railway/highway. Labels: Amber Path, East Prussia, Prussia What a coincidence! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_von_Papen "..........Along with DNVP leader Alfred Hugenberg, Papen formed an agreement with Hitler under which the Nazi leader would become Chancellor of a coalition government with the Nationalists, and with Papen serving as Vice Chancellor of the Reich and prime minister of Prussia. For example, Hermann Göring had been appointed deputy interior minister of Prussia,....." http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freistaat_Preu%C3%9Fen ".....Während der Weimarer Republik erwies sich der größte Gliedstaat als politisch stabiler als das Reich selbst....." (during the Republic of Weimar Free state of Prussia was the biggest state of Germany and more stabile than the Reich itself) Preußenschlag http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preu%C3%9Fenschlag "....The Preußenschlag, or "Prussian coup", was one of the major steps towards the destruction of the German Weimar Republic (1919-33) and the rise of Adolf Hitler to power. On July 20, 1932, Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg issued an emergency decree which dismissed the cabinet of the Free State of Prussia, the largest German state. The pretext for this measure was violent unrest which was occurring in some areas of Prussia and the alleged inability of the Prussian government to handle the matter. The main trigger was a shootout between SA demonstrators and communists in Altona, then belonging to the Prussian Province of Schleswig-Holstein, on 17 July 1932, thenceforth known as the "Bloody Sunday of Altona" (Altonaer Blutsonntag), which claimed 18 lives. The true reason, however, was that the Prussian government, headed by Ministerpräsident Otto Braun, with authority over the powerful Prussian police force, was one of the last major republican forces against Reichskanzler Franz von Papen...." So WW2 most punishes the part of Germania that got disolved in 1934, while trateing as innnocent that (Austria) which gave forth Adolf [s]Hitler! I just found this blog: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://piusxi-deralleingelassene.blogspot.com/2009/10/die-unterschlagene-enzyklika-3_8406.html&prev=http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch%3Fq%3DLedochowski%26oe%3Dutf-8%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26um%3D1%26ie%3DUTF-8%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN%26start%3D30 Also, my new followers have jesuit related blogs... I am writing from an internet point. I can't use my PC at home. It is remote controlled. Try to open a menu, it closes immediately. Try to type something - for example the password - the characters disappear immediately! I was dealing with the new post for Amber Path: Lacota, Steinbach, Putin/Medvedev, Berlusconi, Lukashenko,... All linked together. They want to shut my mouth, with trucks and with Internet censorship.... Look at berlusconi performing the clown in the Europan (papal) parliament, you'll understand all... My laptop died on Nov 29; it started to blink, then the screen went dim, and then the whole thing went dead. Fortunately I had saved my work on a usb drive and I posted from an internet the next day. ALWAYS save on an external drive, and it is better to compose material strictly OFF LINE to minimize the amount of time one's work is not yet public, but viewable to the apostate. >The nightmare in the XIX cent. of Rome was effectively the Norddeutscher Bund http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Norddeutscher_Bund.png A revealing indication of that is the attitudes of the English language mass press towards the 2nd Reich (negative) versus that towards the 3rd Reich prior to Sept 1, 1939 (positive). Another is that there apparantly was far more political activity within the U.S. to defend the 3rd Reich, then earlier for the 2nd- something which always seemed bizare to me until I came upon the idea of the continuing counter reformation. Koenisberg is in the middle of those lines of re-joining between Rome and Schismatics. For this reason I chose with accuracy the pics in forming the sequence of five (5 - another one of their numbers), especially the two last ones (soldier of former Protestant Prussian army based German Wehrmacht indicating the name of City of Roman Catholic Stalin 13 Km near, and below Romanist pope & Schismatic patriarch joining together (= melting?)): http://avles-theamberpath.blogspot.com/2010/02/20th-february-birthday-of-yugoslavia.html 20th February, birthday of Yugoslavia Improving the sentence to render the idea: "soldier of former PROTESTANT Prussian army based German Wehrmacht indicating the name of City of ROMAN CATHOLIC Stalin 13 Km near, inside the core of the SCHISMATIC country for excellence." The below pic of course is marked by an absence and hence the right sentence: "ROMANIST pope & SCHISMATIC patriarch joining together (= melting?)" There are no more doubts.

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