The Hindu | Bathini to start annual fish medicine distribution The Hindu Hyderabad: The yearly 'fish medicine' distribution, organised at Nampally Exhibition Grounds will commence at 8.30 am on Thursday. This year Bathini Mrigasira Karthi Fish Prasadam trust is ready with 3.5 kilo grams of fish made to satisfy four lakh ... |
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In the second half of its 46th season, the Vail Symposium presents a diverse lineup of more than 20 thought-provoking events, starting today with Integrative Approaches to Patient Care.
Dr. Donese Worden, N.M.D, kicks off the program's Consciousness Series with a lecture today and a workshop on Friday.
As an Arizona-based clinician, Worden has been recognized for her intelligence, experience, compassion, cutting-edge research and quality of care.
At her lecture, Worden will talk about treating the patient as whole, sometimes by prescribing medication and other times by using botanical medicine most times using both.
At Four Seasons Resort in Vail, Worden will discuss how her integrative approach empowers her patients and contributes to their healing.
Worden has been featured on the cover of the National Speakers Association's magazine and as one of Phoenix magazine's Top Docs. She is also an adjunct professor at Arizona State University, where she teaches integrative medicine.
WORKSHOP, Friday
The day following the lecture, Worden will lead a workshop, Transformational "Ah-ha" Moments in Medicine, working with patients to identify core issues that cause most of their health problems.
Worden will also present natural and holistic options for addressing those problems. The transformational workshop will present scientific information in a fun and exploratory setting.
The Symposium's Consciousness Workshop takes place Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Four Seasons Resort in Vail. Cost is $40.
For more information about Worden's lecture or workshop, or upcoming Vail Symposium events, visit http://www.vailsymposium.org.
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Hearing the word precision in healthcare typically conjures ideas of cutting edge technologies and treatments like targeted genetic therapy. But it has another meaning in primary care: leveraging data from a variety of sources to deliver personalized, preventive care.
Its a way to bring the big data whether that is on the population level, from digital health devices like wearables, or additional insights from omics diagnostic tests into the clinical practice, Dr. Megan Mahoney, who is chief of general primary care at Stanford Universitys division of Primary Care and Population Health, told MobiHealthNews. Then we ask, how do we synthesize data to identify a patient out of a large population who can be managed and treated to prevent an adverse outcome, disease worsening, or hospitalization?
Its exactly that question that Mahoney and her colleagues are trying to answer, and she will share details about a new program underway at Stanford during HIMSS Precision Medicine Summit in Boston next week.
While the core goal of precision medicine is to determine which specific disease or health indicators can guide tailored interventions, much of that promise is focused on people who are actively in treatment for disease. Stanford Health Care wants to move that process upstream and redesign primary care practice.
Precision medicine, as we hear about it, is more focused on crafting a tailored treatment once a diagnosis is made. What is interesting to me right now is less about how to tailor sophisticated treatment to specific diseases and more about upstream strategies to prevent disease worsening, Mahoney said. Focusing on prevention is where the country needs to go right now in order to rectify the healthcare crisis we are facing now."
First off, that means getting more hands on deck in care delivery.
Historically, the physician has preferred to provide very individual care to very individual patients, and we have to start moving towards team-based care, Mahoney said. A more team-based care means providers and physicians can practice at the top of their license, focusing on assessment, diagnosis and treatment rather than administrative tasks or other protocol requirements that could be passed on to another care team member, like a health coach or physical therapist.
To do that, they will begin a yearlong pilot with 50 to 100 patients from demographically and socioeconomically diverse backgrounds, and will identify ways to reach them to offer preventive care and engagement opportunities based on electronic health records dashboards. From there, they can identify patients who could benefit from genetics counseling or sequencing as well as discern which outreach and educational methods have the best engagement outcomes. Chief Medical Information Officer Christopher Sharp (who will co-present with Mahoney at the Summit), will be responsible for leading the team in building out technological interfaces to create registries and data analytics capabilities.
Well be able to see which patients are most likely to benefit from precision healthcare, such as those with multiple chronic conditions or those who could benefit from pharmacogenomics testing, and we will be reaching out to them in several ways, Mahoney said. The pilot will primarily aim to assess the feasibility and acceptability of such a model, Mahoney said. They will work to provide interventions in a mode that is preferred by the patient, taking care not to overload them with a barrage of new technology. The pilot will intentionally recruit some patients who are already using wearables, and the only new tool introduced will be the HealthPals platform.
Ultimately, Mahoney said, the pilot will seek to demonstrate that healthcare teams can respond efficiently and effectively to big data and reduce costs through methods that are scalable.
Everyone is facing economic pressures to reduce costs, and we are really looking at the future at Stanford to demonstrate how we can give better care when physicians are solely focused on practicing at the top of their license rather than being used as a secretary to document notes through Epic when they could be using devices or tools to generate that data, said Mahoney. We need to get away from this situation we have now where patients are generally unhappy they only interact with their doctors for 15 minutes. They get to know their dogs veterinarian better.
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The road to becoming a doctor is a long and difficult one. For students trying to become doctors, the road can be even more difficult as it is among the most competitive of professions with some of the best and brightest students applying, making acceptance to medical school even more difficult.
The financial burden is enormous and students have to learn how to tighten their belts and make sacrifices. This difficulty does not deter many people from going to medical school. Being a doctor is the best profession you can obtain, where people use their talents for the betterment of humankind and to be given an opportunity to ease the pain of the patient is very rewarding.
Millions of people would like to be in that position, but they cannot. I am thankful for the opportunity to make an impact on the lives of the patients and students, what a wonderful feeling.
I received this letter from one of my research assistants, John Cooper, who is currently a junior at Kenyon College majoring in biochemistry. His desire is to continue on to medical school after completely his undergraduate coursework.
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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered
I first came across this quote when reading Nelson Mandelas, A Long Walk to Freedom in the winter of my senior year of high school, and returning to the orthopedic center this summer reminded me of it. The quote is a strong statement on realizing the self-improvement that can be so difficult to see in ourselves. When you set long-term goals, it is encouraging to take time to see the progress you have made towards achieving those goals, especially when you still have a long road ahead of yourself. My goal is to gain acceptance to medical school because I aspire to be a doctor. It is a tough path and I sometimes have doubts that I can go the distance. However, I am encouraged because returning to work at the orthopedic center at UTMC this summer has given me a chance to reflect and see the progress I have made on my journey to achieving that goal.
I am a much better student today than when I began work last summer. That point is emphasized by comparing the A average I achieved this year versus the B average I had last year. Some people might say that I was bound to do better in school this year because I was a sophomore with an extra year of experience taking college classes, because I am a year older, or even because I must have worked harder. They all seem reasonable and I think they all account for some of my improvement but I think that a mindset change caused by my work last summer accounts for most of the improvement I saw this year. My mindset towards school and work has changed from that of an average student working to get by in my classes to one that I think most resembles the professionals I worked with last summer, striving to know all I can and produce the best quality work possible. My experience working in a hospital was a catalyst for change and I would like to share exactly what I learned and how it has benefitted me.
Doing research in a hospital has been beneficial in two major ways. First, as a college student majoring in the natural sciences, I found that working in research is useful in finding ways to improve as a student. One of the first projects I worked on last summer was a paper regarding acute compartment syndrome of the thigh. I was sent a folder containing 27 papers detailing the topic. It took over a week but I carefully read each paper along with textbook chapters on the anatomy of the thigh and compartment syndrome. That experience taught me the value of approaching a topic from many different angles and carefully reading primary literature to gain understanding of a topic.
Long projects can be intimidating, especially if you are used to work taking only a day or two to complete. I collaborated on a 30-page booklet that took three weeks to complete. I learned the benefits of proper planning and diligence when confronting a major assignment. Planning how you want the end product to look and then being diligent throughout the process is important for doing your best work and staying on schedule. I used that strategy when studying for tests and working on school projects this year which is a reason why they typically went very well for me this past year.
Seeing the attitude, the professionals I worked with had towards their careers and their research projects was also inspiring. Their work was always polished and informative, and their attitudes toward work were positive. I learned that the most successful people are the ones who can rise above childish office gossip, do their work to the best of their ability, and solve more problems than they create. I try to follow their example and do my work professionally while keeping a positive attitude. I also learned to be confident about my commitment to personal growth. Dr. Ebraheim says we must become gladiators, people that face the toughest of challenges every day and succeed. Working with people who have been on the same journey that Im on, who have faced similar challenges and succeeded is inspiring. It renews my belief that I can succeed in my goal of gaining acceptance to medical school.
I challenge all college students to find opportunities to volunteer or work with people who work in the fields they aspire to work in. You can learn a lot from people who have gone on the same journey you are on, who have encountered similar challenges and succeeded.
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A group of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School are hoping to make Lyme disease in humans a thing of the past. They are working on an antibody drug that would prevent people from contracting the tick-borne disease.
The drug is called Lyme PReP, which stands for "pre-exposure prophylaxis."
"What that means basically is that we want to give you a medicine that will prevent you from acquiring Lyme disease before you're actually exposed," explained Dr. Mark Klempner, a professor of medicine at UMass Medical School, to Vermont Edition on Wednesday.
Lyme PReP is not a vaccine, and as such works differently. Klempner says his research team has determined the specific antibody to protect a person from Lyme disease, which then can be isolated and administered.
As long as that antibody is in a person's system, Klempner explains, it would provide the desired protection. But since it wouldn't stay in someone's system permanently, the treatment would need to be re-administered periodically.
"We're trying to match the period of protection with the period of risk," Klempner says. "And we know that most of the risk is for that period from say, March or April into November ... We would design this so that the antibody would reach and maintain a therapeutic or preventative level for six months, then it would disappear, and then the next season you would get a new shot."
"We would design this so that the antibody would reach and maintain a therapeutic or preventative level for six months, then it would disappear, and then the next season you would get a new shot." UMass Medical School professor Dr. Mark Klempner
A Lyme disease vaccine did actually exist around the early 2000s, Klempner explains, but it was then removed from the market over concerns about side effects. Klempner says such concerns weren't substantiated, but the aftermath from that situation did play into the strategy of developing Lyme PReP.
"There's been some resistance to bringing that vaccine back or developing another vaccine, and that is precisely the reason why we've gone to this method of giving the antibody itself," Klempner says.
Lyme PReP isn't available yet, but Klempner says the planned next steps would bring them closer to that goal.
"It takes time and resources to be able to develop a medicine and we're right at that point of being able to manufacture it for human use and then to test it initially for safety in people," Klempner says. "So that's our hope. We need some partners to be able to do that, to fund that ... Really our job now is to find collaborators to help us push this forward and get it out to the public."
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"My life was grunt work. In that sense, it was pretty humbling," said Pope, 44. "If I didn't love it so much, there would have been moments like, 'Really? I left medical school for this?' "
The career alteration was agonizing, because of everything Pope invested to reach that stage. He took pre-med courses at schools in NBA cities, excelled on the medical school entrance exam, received his choice of top-ranked programs and showed signs of thriving in the profession. Yet he couldn't picture himself being fully satisfied with the job for 20 or 30 years just because practicing medicine couldn't duplicate coaching basketball, in his mind.
"I wish I was wired that way," he said, "because it's a much more normal job."
Mark Fox, who hired Pope as Georgia's director of basketball operations, good-naturedly deflects the suggestion that he may have cost the world an outstanding physician. "He would disagree with that," Fox said.
That's all part of Pope's humble approach that plays well in interviews and speeches as he discusses his career arc. His go-to lines include how he would rather have the Columbia med students he associated with being the doctors treating his four daughters of ages 8 to 16, and how "I would have killed more patients than I saved."
"The truth is," said his wife, Lee Anne, "Mark would have been a great doctor."
She's the daughter of the late Lynn Archibald, who was fired as the basketball coach at Idaho State and Utah in the 1980s. Her two brothers also have had adventurous coaching careers. "She knows the pain and uncertainty that come with coaching," Pope said. "We really, really knew what we were getting into."
Her mother, Anne, figured she would have a doctor for a son-in-law until Pope went into coaching, after all. "I get it," she told her daughter, upon receiving that news.
Pope's pursuit of medicine began early in his NBA career, once he realized he was unlikely to stay in the league forever. As a second-round draft choice of Indiana in 1996, the 6-foot-10 forward from the University of Kentucky played in 153 games for three NBA teams over seven seasons. He scored a total of 285 points during a career he frames as "every day, hanging on by your fingernails."
He later would consider operating Subway franchises, owing to his love of turkey sandwiches and being around people. Pope also was fascinated by science and eager to learn, so he enrolled in a chemistry class at Marquette University while playing for the Milwaukee Bucks and continued his pre-med studies in New York and Denver.
Pope filled the downtime of the NBA schedule in ways that few, if any, players ever have done. He claims to be "the first student in the history of the world to read a chemistry book cover to cover, every single word on the page."
And by the time Denver cut him in training camp in 2005, ending his NBA career, he was qualified for medical school. He chose Columbia, a highly ranked program with about a 5-percent acceptance rate. The school is so prestigious that even fictional physicians chose it Patrick Dempsey's character and other "Grey's Anatomy" doctors were Columbia alumni.
The real-life figures were "an unbelievably beautiful group of students and instructors," Pope said.
He thrived in two years of classroom work and moved into rotations. Doctors marveled about his demeanor with children in the pediatric ER, telling him, "This is in your blood."
The moment that may have soured him, though, came during his psychiatric rotation in the famed 9 Garden North ward. He walked down the hallway, greeting patients and high-fiving them, only to have a supervisor tell him that was unacceptable behavior, perhaps adversely affecting their minds. "That part was really sobering," he said, making him wonder if he could remain professionally detached from patients.
During an agonizing month as Pope and his wife weighed their options, he dealt with what he labeled "the stigma of quitting Popes don't do that." That's when Fox re-entered the picture. Their ties stemmed from the University of Washington, where Pope was a hometown player (before transferring to Kentucky) and Fox was a graduate assistant. Fox eventually became Nevada's head coach, and Pope had kept in touch with him, expressing interest in coaching someday. "You need to go to medical school," Fox would tell him.
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For those looking to learn more about Jewish history in St. Louis, the Bernard Becker Medical Library at the Washington University medical school can help.
Last week, the library opened "Skill, tenderly applied, works wonders A History of The Jewish Hospital of St. Louis.
The exhibit traces the hospital's opening in 1902, in a three-story building on Delmar Boulevard. The hospital originally was intended to aid Jewish refugees and immigrants in the St. Louis area, but actually served patients of all religions.
The exhibit also highlights the Goldfarb School of Nursing, which opened the same year, and the hospital merger with Barnes Hospital in 1996.
The exhibit is located in the librarys Glaser Gallery, 660 South Euclid Avenue. It is free and open to the public, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays.
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As construction continues on the new IU medical school downtown, university officials announced Tuesday that two new developments could be in the works. Thanks to a donation from IU Trustee and Evansville native Pat Shoulders and his wife, Lisa, a capital campaign has begun in an effort to bring a large courtyard and community plaza directly in front of the medical school campus.
The rest of the funding for the estimated $1 million project will come from private philanthropy and money built into the budget of the overall medical school project, according to Tom Morrison, the vice president of capital planning and facilities for Indiana University.
Shoulders, a longtime champion of all things Evansville, came up with the idea while visiting Europe.
"Dancing water [fountains], places to sit, trees, squirrels, life, fields, football, frisbee, those kinds of things," Shoulders said. "Remember we're studying medical science, the humanities. There's no reason to do it if its not attached to people and making their life better. Let's be constantly reminded of the patients, the people, the life, the happiness, the energy, the reason we're all down there."
Morrison told the Evansville Rotary Club on Tuesday afternoon that construction remains on time and on budget. Construction on the $61 million project. Medical students from Indiana University, the University of Southern Indiana and University of Evansville will study at the new campus.
"Sometimes college students and medical students get all wrapped up in their studies and they forget about the world around them," Morrison said. "We think this (plaza) will be a good opportunity for them to see that."
Morrison and Shoulders also briefly mentioned a possible new research development that could be built on the land currently occupied by Townsquare Media. Such a project would be separate from the medical school. However, it would work hand-in-hand with the campus, Morrison said.
"We're excited about it because that's the kind of development that our building and our center can catalyze within the community," Morrison said.
Once the medical school campus is up an running, two major research components will be featured. The campus will feature geriatric and mental health research, Morrison said.
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With Kentucky leading the nation in rates for cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other chronic conditions, officials hope a new four-year medical school under construction in Bowling Green will help close a critical shortage of physicians.
Kentucky needs more physicians, University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto said during a groundbreaking ceremony for the project Tuesday.
Earthmoving equipment has already mobilized on the site for the Bowling Green campus of the UK College of Medicine adjacent to The Medical Center, and construction is expected to be completed by the summer of 2018.
The project to build the regional medical school campus is a partnership between UK, The Medical Center and Western Kentucky University.
The UK College of Medicine-Bowling Green will accept 30 students annually. It will be located in a multi-purpose building attached to a five-story parking garage located on The Medical Centers campus.
Jean Cherry, executive vice president of The Medical Center, is overseeing the project and said the medical school will be housed in the buildings second floor.
UK will lease the building for two-year terms that can be renewed three additional times for a total lifetime lease of eight years. The facilities are being built to fit UKs needs, Cherry added.
The medical school will follow an identical curriculum taught at UKs Lexington campus and use the same assessments. Faculty will have UK College of Medicine positions and teach in small groups through simulated patient experiences with lectures provided from the Lexington campus through educational technology.
WKU faculty will also provide instruction on site and remotely.
Dr. Don Brown of Bowling Green, a vascular surgeon, serves as director of medical education at The Medical Center and has been appointed assistant dean for the new medical school.
Speaking at the groundbreaking, Capilouto stressed the importance of the new regional location in expanding UKs ability to produce physicians.
Our UK College of Medicine in Lexington is at its capacity, he said. Although we have a deep applicant pool, we cant expand without the partnership that we engage in here today. ...
This collaboration allows us to effectively and efficiently utilize existing resources throughout the state to meet a very, very important need. Through partnership we can do more and we can be more than is ever possible alone.
Currently, UKs medical college enrolls almost 550 students. As UK expands, Capilouto said, it will add 30 percent more students.
As we add these satellite programs, well be able to increase our class size less costly than if we tried to do it on our own campus, he said. Those folks who are educated and trained close to home have a 60 to 70 percent greater likelihood of staying in their community or in nearby communities.
Connie Smith, president and CEO of Med Center Health, said some rural communities in Kentucky have no primary care physicians.
No primary care, no specialists, no physicians at all, she said. This medical school will be a key component in turning those numbers around. We want our brightest students to have the opportunity to stay in Kentucky to study medicine.
WKU President Gary Ransdell described the project as a momentous opportunity for the community, region and state.
Were dedicating something thats going to be important to all of us in our future, in our health care and certainly for those who need it the most in this region of Kentucky, he said.
Superintendent Rob Clayton of Warren County Public Schools called the project a tremendous benefit to the entire community, including future medical students.
It serves as inspiration for current K-12 students that they can reach their dreams in the medical profession, without leaving home, he said.
Superintendent Gary Fields of the Bowling Green Independent School District agreed. Bowling Green High School is planning its own health care career academy.
The new medical school, he said, says that Bowling Green has grown to a point that we deserve to have this.
Claci Ayers-Walls, a 2011 Gatton Academy graduate and third-year medical student at UK, said she would have enjoyed being able to attend medical school in her hometown of Bowling Green.
Im excited to see how its going to change the climate of Bowling Green, she said.
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JOPLIN, MISSOURI -
Tuesday was a proud one for the city of Joplin.
"This is a great day. We've been at this process of developing the school for nearly a decade," said Assistant Regional Dean Dr. Larry McIntire.
The KCUFarber-McIntire campus in Joplinaims to lead the nationin teaching the next generation of doctors.
"If you go around the United States, you won't find a finer center for medical education in the country," said school President Marc Hahn.
And the school's president can back up that claim, with a state-of-the-art facilitythat features clinical training rooms that simulate patient experiences, a state-of-the-art anatomy lab, and more.
150 students will make up next year's class, with the school handling 600 students once it's full.
Lauren Hill is one of the lucky 150, who will experience the inaugural year.
"All of the other student's I've spoken to... We are so excited! They have thought of everything in this building," said Hill.
School leaders saythis campus will change Joplin for the better, associating the city with the latest in medical education. They're also confidentthe school will improve the quality of medical coveragethroughout the 4-State area.
"Sometimes the challenge is recruiting and retaining excellent young physicians. One of the best ways to do that, is to train them right here at home, and that's what this facility will do," said President Marc Hahn.
"This Joplin campus will be very attractive to high quality students, and there will be more of a rural influence, and it will relate to areas that really need physicians," said Dean McIntire.
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The San Luis Obispo Tribune | Charles scores 18, leads Liberty to 76-61 win over Dream The San Luis Obispo Tribune Tina Charles had 18 points and 15 rebounds to help the New York Liberty beat the Atlanta Dream 76-61 Wednesday in the annual school day matinee game. Sugar Rodgers added 16 points for the Liberty (5-3), who have won three straight games. New York ... Liberty vs. Dream Liberty Rides Kid Power To Win Over Atlanta Dream |
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LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) -- Big traffic changes are coming to Liberty University by way of a new exit and entrance ramp.
They're calling the project the "Liberty Mountain Drive 460 Connection" because it will do just that - to the tune of $5 million.
The Campbell County Board of Supervisors approved the project Tuesday night. Liberty will be splitting the cost with VDOT, absorbing what the community would normally pay for.
The hope is that the ramp will help alleviate traffic around Candler's Mountain, which LU's planning coordinator says is a win for everyone.
"The need has been here for many years since the college started to bloom in the late 80s, there was a number of traffic issues," said Brad Butler. "But it's not just movement on and off campus, it's local traffic coming through the community."
The next step is to start advertising bids for construction.
Butler says they aim to have construction start later this year; and they hope to have it completed by winter of 2019.
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Catholics who gathered bright and early on Tuesday for the 13th National Catholic Prayer Breakfast praised Donald Trumps administration for its commitment to religious freedom.
Trump, they told The Daily Caller, is delivering a welcome change from former President Barack Obamas policies, which they said penalized Christians for living out their faith in the public realm.
At the breakfast, more than 1,000 Catholics heard from from Mother Olga of the Sacred Heart, the archbishop who oversees the Archdiocese for the Military Services and Vice President Mike Pence about the importance of Catholicism, service and prayer for the future of the America. They also addressed concerns like religious liberty, unborn life and Christian persecution.
[Vice President] Pences speech really set the tone for how the Trump administration has and will continue to stand for Christian values, college student and business owner Grant Calderon told TheDC. Today was the first time since 2008 that the White House has been represented at the prayer breakfast, which speaks volumes about how much the Obama administration valued not only the Catholic community but the church as a whole.
Arlington, Va., resident Bernadette Michael agreed. Sadly, the Obama administration promoted policies that threatened to drive people of faith from their own businesses, and force the shutdown of vital services faith organizations provide, unless they agreed to actions that violated their faith, she said. While much remains to be done, I am pleased that the Trump administration has taken important steps to end these policies by recognizing the right of people and organizations faced with severe penalties to seek redress on the basis of their First Amendment rights.
The Obama administration was heavily criticized by Catholic leaders for many policies, such as threatening to pull funding from schools that did not allow gender-dysphoric teens to use the restroom and locker room of their choice. Likewise, the administration said that federal contractors must treat same-sex couples the same as married couples with hiring policies, and attempted to expand direct federal funding of abortion through the Affordable Care Acts insurance exchanges.
But perhaps no policy was more excoriated than a 2012 mandate requiring many non-profit and for-profit organizations to be involved with insuring contraceptives and abortifacients. That mandate first lost in the 2014 Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision that said closely held corporations would not have to follow the mandate, and then again in 2016 when the court ordered the administration to negotiate a resolution with religiously-affiliated non-profits, such as the Little Sisters of the Poor, Thomas Aquinas College and 35 other groups that challenged the mandate.
Trump promised to reverse the mandate and to stand with social conservatives on most issues. Leaked information last week indicated that the administration is beginning that process. Trump has also signed an expanded ban on federal funding of international groups that promote abortion. Trump has let the Obama contractor regulations stand.
Self-described cradle Catholic and pro-life and religious liberty advocate Michele Tennery told TheDC that Trumps administration has taken a strong stance in defense of our God-given right of religious liberty on which our great Nation was founded. President Trump has shown bold leadershipby signing an Executive Order in the Rose Garden to restore religious liberty in the public square.
She praised Trump for the Department of Justices recent move to draftrules regarding our religious liberties and our rights of conscience in the public square.
President Trump wants all Americans to follow the dictates of their conscience and their values as they live out their lives in America, continued Tennery. The president believes that our freedom to practice our faith is the birthright of every American. Conversely, the Obama Administration and itsHHS Mandate within Obamacare, violated Americansfundamental rights of consciencewith its HHS Mandate regarding birth control and abortifacients being offered and paid for within health care insurance policies.
A spokesperson for the Military Archdiocese said, Certainly, the Trump Administration has made clear that it supports the free exercise of religion, as we heard from Vice President Pence this morning, and thats a welcome change of pace. We just hope the Administration can turn words to action. There is certainly a better climate and less urgency about pushing an agenda neutralizing religion.
Area pro-life leader Will Waldron, the Executive Director of Divine Mercy Care, said that the Trump administration is showing a complete 180-degree turn in the policies relating to abortion.
The previous administration wanted to make abortion easily accessible, culturally acceptable, and even free, he explained. The strategy was right in line with Planned Parenthoods culture-of-death agenda.By contrast, the current administration is collaborating with the pro-life movement to make abortion at least much less frequent, if not soon eliminated entirely.
Attendees also praised Pence, who spoke about being raised Catholic before he became an Evangelical Christian. I really enjoyed Pences speech, said Calderon, not only because of the way he delivered it but also the content. The agenda of the administration on hot issues such as abortion and foreign policy was made very transparent. Pence did not use any weasel words, he stood his ground on issues that even the church remains divided on, which says a lot about his character.
Michael had no criticism of Pence, whom she said spoke movingly of the continuing importance to him of his Catholic upbringing and the positive role that Catholics, individually and in lay and religious organizations, have played in improving the lives of so many Americans.He emphasized that he and President Trump stand with Catholicsand those of other faiths, in working for the protection of the poorand vulnerable, and in educating young people to be citizens who serve others.
I cant think of anything more positive, concluded Michael.
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Before the federal government compels an automaker to issue a recall, it will first investigate the issue. That's what's going on right now with one specific Jeep model.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating a potential issue that could affect approximately 105,000 examples of the 2012 Jeep Liberty SUV. Since it's just an investigation, there are no specifics available for the cars, whether it's certain trim levels or build dates.
NHTSA investigations aren't the only way to spur a recall. Automakers can issue them voluntarily, as well.
The investigation began after the NHTSA received 44 complaints regarding the airbag system. The reports allege that the airbag warning light stayed illuminated after the occupant restraint controller, which controls airbag deployment, apparently failed. If this controller fails, it could prevent the airbags from deploying in the event of a crash, which is a massive safety issue, if true.
According to NHTSA documents, some owners were able to remedy the issue by having the controller replaced, while others opted to forego a fix, even after being advised that the controller needed replacing. The investigation is limited to the 2012 model, because "reports involving earlier model years appear to be less frequent."
The NHTSA's investigation will look at the "scope, frequency and safety-related consequence" of the purported defect. If the feds determine that this issue is widespread and occupant safety is at risk, it can compel the automaker to recall the vehicle to remedy the issue. Were that to happen, the solution would likely be the same simple parts replacement that remedied the warning light as mentioned above.
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URBANA - A Champaign County juvenile-court judge set bond for the first time today for the student accused of the Jan. 20 shooting at West Liberty-Salem High School.
Judge Lori L. Reisinger set 17-year-old Eli Serna's bond at $1 million, as she weighs now whether the case against Serna qualifies for an automatic transfer to adult court.
She said that if Serna, who is currently in custody in juvenile detention, is released he must wear a GPS ankle monitor and be with a responsible adult 24 hours a day.
She also ordered that he have no contact with any of the named victims in the case, or any student or teacher in the school district.
Serna faces 13 charges in connection with the shooting, the most serious among them two counts of attempted murder and three counts of felonious assault.
Authorities say he sneaked his own disassembled 12-gauge, pump-action Mossberg shotgun into the school in his backpack that morning and then reassembled it in a bathroom stall.
He then put on a homemade mask and left the stall as the first bell rang and the hallways had presumably emptied, only to be surprised when Logan Cole, who was a 16-year-old junior then, entered the bathroom.
Serna shot Cole twice, once in the back and once in the chest. He then fired the gun into the hallway and into two classrooms, before retreating back into the bathroom and surrendering to two administrators.
Cole was critically injured, but finished his school year on the honor roll and is recovering.
A second student, Adam Schultz, was hit by a scattering shot pellet.
Todays court hearing was expected to be to determine what is known as "probable cause" - that the events happened and that Serna committed them. That step is one of many required in juvenile court.
But the hearing never happened. Both prosecutors and the defense attorney waived their rights to it.
That's because in May, the Ohio Supreme Court apparently reversed it own decision that certain cases such as Serna's could not be automatically transferred from juvenile court to adult court.
In reaction to that, Champaign County Prosecutor Kevin Talebi renewed a request for the move to Common Pleas Court. The judge said she rule in writing and indicated she would do that soon.
Talebi objected to the request for bond in the meantime, but was overruled.
"The state has great concern for the safety of the community," Talebi said in court.
He and defense attorney Dennis Lieberman also both referenced "numerous" mental health conditions or concerns with Serna.
Reisinger said that if Serna's family posts bond, he must live with his mother and stepfather and there can be no guns in the home.
If the judge eventually decides to keep the case in juvenile court, Serna has been charged under a "serious youthful offender" designation. That means he could eventually be subject to adult penalties if he breaks the rules in juvenile detention.
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For the second consecutive year, the Arts Alliance is producing the Liberty Arts Festival at the Liberty Town Center.
We used our Fall Fair Arts Festival at Cottell Park for inspiration, said Meredith Raffel, executive director of the Arts Alliance. So we bring two arts festivals per year now. Were a highly collaborative organization that likes to partner with as many groups as we can who understand our mission. The Liberty Town Center is that kind of partner, so it was a mutual decision to bring more attention to the arts and the town center. Its a beautiful venue and has a built-in audience of shoppers.
Those who frequent the Liberty Town Center will be familiar with the green space where the festival is to be held, the little park flanked by the Kona Grill, Cobb Theatre and Marriott Hotel.
As with last year, there will be approximately 30 artists from the tri-state area, exhibiting in ceramics, digital art, drawings and pastels, fibers, glass, jewelry, metalwork, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking and graphics, sculpture, wearable art (handmade clothing and accessories), and wood.
Although those are the official categories, the festival is open to all fine arts and fine crafts media. The only difference is artists that fall into the other category would have to provide a detailed description of their process and materials, in addition to meeting the general criteria.
The items all have to be handmade, she said. We also look at originality, quality of construction, and balance. We dont want too many painters or jewelry designers.
The Liberty Arts Festival is a judged and juried show. Winners in individual mediums will receive ribbons, and the Best of Show winner will receive a $250 gift card to the Liberty Town Center. The artists will be displaying as well as selling their work, and there will be live music, as well.
How to go
What: Liberty Arts Festival
Where: Liberty Center, 7100 Foundry Row, Liberty Twp.
When: Noon-8 p.m. Saturday, June 10
Cost: Free
More info: 513-644-0900 or http://www.liberty-center.com
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As if it didnt already have enough problems, the liberty movement is now divided even more than it was before the last election cycle. This is largely a result of the campaigns of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. While most libertarians reacted in horror to both candidates, some were more concerned about one than the other.
Accordingly, some voted for Clinton to stop Trump, while others did the opposite. At the same time, many of them joined organizations that are not libertarian in nature but agreed with them on a handful of issues brought up during the election. This resulted in some libertarians aligning with right-leaning organizations and others aligning with left-leaning organizations.
The core problem with these associations is that they are based on what those from different sides oppose rather than what they support. That is, those who side with right-leaning organizations do so because those organizations oppose socialism; likewise, those standing with left-leaning organizations have allied with them because of their shared opposition to fascism. But simply opposing socialism or fascism does not a libertarian make. Its the consistent recognition and defense of individual liberty that makes one a libertarian.
Because some libertarians are joining with organizations who are merely enemies of their enemies instead of being their friends, there is great risk involved. Over time, they may adopt some decidedly un-libertarian positions and could even end up leaving libertarianism altogether. Of course, that depends on how heavily theyre involved with the organization and why theyre involved with them in the first place.
Another major drawback is that the libertarians who align with non-libertarian organizations often become divided (that is, those working with right-leaning organizations would see those aligning with left-leaning organizations as their enemies, and vice versa). Since there are also a number of libertarians who reject such alliances entirely, the liberty movement is now further split in several different directions. Some libertarians, whether theyre aligned with those on the left, those on the right, or with neither, refuse to work with those who reject their alliance or lack thereof.
While theres nothing wrong with working with an individual or organization to advance a certain goal (such as standing with a right-leaning group to protect gun rights or helping a left-leaning group push for drug decriminalization), libertarians should avoid strong partnerships with those organizations. And they absolutely shouldnt reject fellow libertarians, with whom they agree more often than not, in favor of working with those with whom they almost never agree. Doing either will only weaken the liberty movement by bringing in people who shouldnt be there in the first place and severing ties among those who are natural allies.
The best thing to do at this point is for those libertarians who are strongly aligned with a left or right organization that doesnt respect individual liberty to break those ties. Once they do that, they should try to rebuild as many bridges between themselves and their fellow libertarians as possible. This will help strengthen the bonds between lovers of liberty as well as prevent those unfamiliar with libertarianism from thinking that its something that it isnt. There is still time to undo the damage that was done from unnatural alliances, but until a serious effort to set things right is made, the liberty movement will continue to struggle while increasingly more freedoms are lost.
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Why Statists State: Facts dont matter to the left or the right.
Ah yes, the ultimate question of libertarians to our statist friends: why do you argue for the state? Do you not believe in freedom and liberty?
The fact is, that the far left and the far right do not believe in freedom and liberty. They claim to, but they (unfortunately) dont grasp the actual concepts of the words freedom and liberty. Both of them pervert these terms into what their own ideologies are. That is the core of our problems in this country.
I hated numerous things about Barack Obama and some of the decision he made while in office. To me, he seemed to be a far left, government hand out to everyone, raise the national debt as high as humanly possible in two terms, freedom sucking douche bag.
So what did I do when it came down to Trump or Clinton? I voted for Trump, the one person who wasnt a career politician, who I hoped would bring balance to the force so to speak, and get us back on the right track.
Im slowly but surely proving to be wrong in my initial assumptions about him and his presidency. And yes, Im having some buyers remorse.
The thing is, at least Im recognizing it. Im having the personal judgement to look at things from a critical thinking standpoint despite what my initial personal beliefs were.
The far right seems to have some carnal infatuation with their dearly beloved emperor that no matter what he does, or how completely he reverts on his campaign promises, they will support him blindly. I swear to God, even if he drove us into 40 trillion dollars in debt, raised our taxes to 50%, and trashed the 4th amendment completely to make the job of cops easier to search and seize each of us, the far right would make excuse after excuse for him simply because they voted for him.
Cognitive dissonance people! Look it up! We are Americans, not peasants to worship one man. One man does not equal America. I dont care whos President.
The same can also be said for some of Trumps pics.
Look at Jeff Sessions, for example, as the Attorney General. This guy wants to push the war on drugs to full force, despite how any and all evidence points to how the contrary would benefit us as a nation; the war would only continue to make things worse.
Hes just like every far right wing friend I have. Show them the proof all day long, and just because they dont like it, and it isnt in line with their political ideology, and their political picks (through Trump), they file it faster than you can blink.
The hypocrisy of this is that conservatives (me being one of them), during the Obama administration, used to love facts.
We would throw them in far left Liberals faces all the time over their nonsense arguments.
But now, facts dont mean a thing to so called conservatives when they dont like it. They are now acting just like the left when it comes to facts! Its the same thing, just a different side of the political spectrum.
Of course, the far left are no different. Try to teach them economics, and how theres no such thing as free college, or no benefit to raising the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour, and youll be scorned to hell and back for pointing out mathematical facts. There is no escape from math since is a completely non biased universal language that you cant argue your way around.
As Libertarians, this is the nonsense we see from both sides: What about muh roads? No problem right wingers, if its that important, private individuals and corporations will offer to pay for it.
What about muh birth control? Get a job and pay for it yourself leftists! What about muh government protection? You right wingers have argued for years that you need the rights to carry a gun anywhere you want because cops cant get there on time, so whats your problem now?
But, muh abortions, what about em leftists? Im not paying for that with my tax dollars, no one should have to. But, the gay marriages what about em rightist?? Get over it.
It has nothing to do with you personally, or your religion, and getting government involved to force your personal ideologies on those who dont align with your personal and religious beliefs is none of your business. I dont see you arguing that Satanists should not be allowed to get married; I could go on and on.
We have got to break through this barrier of right and left and just get back to what is in the best interest of the American people as a whole. Whats in the best interests of the individual, and what the Constitution actually says (and no, that document is not fluid).
The only way to do that, is get government out of the decision making process for our everyday activities. No one, whether you are on the left or the right, knows how to run your personal life better than you and you alone; without the government being involved.
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Has anyone read the writing of President Grover Cleveland on his presidential statue across from the courthouse? It states "A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil."
He also was known for stating that government wasn't supposed to take care of the people, but that the people were supposed to take care of their government. Remember John F Kennedy's famous quote during his inauguration? "Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country."
What has happened in 120 years? Compare these fine Democrats with the Democratic Party we're stuck with today. The mentality seems to be "Let's see how many resources we can steal from the most productive and self-controlled households in America, so we can enable those whose lifestyle choices are 180 degrees opposite."
Sadly, our GOP choice of leadership doesn't really excite me either. There seems to be one more alternative. I wish the media could give more exposure to the Libertarian Party. I have some red flags, but like their thoughts on everyone taking responsibility for their actions, and no one should be required to subsidize me if I make wrong choices and vice versa.
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