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"The HeartMate II really changed everything," says Robert Adamson, M.D., medical director of the Cardiac Transplant Program at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego. Unlike previous pumps, this device, approved by the Food and Drug Administration for long-term use in 2010, doesn't pump like the heart, squeezing blood out of a chamber. Instead, it spins like a tiny jet engine, pushing a steady flow of blood through the body. The pump is much smaller — roughly the size of a flashlight battery — so it can be implanted even in very small patients. And it has only one moving part, so it's also far more durable, lasting for 10 years or more in laboratory tests.

When damage to the heart is irreversible, the pump can buy time until a donor organ is available for a heart transplant.

Studies show that the risk of infection and other complications has dropped dramatically with the new pump. In one analysis, two out of three patients were alive two years after implantation — an impressive number given that recipients are almost always in the end stages of heart failure. The stronger the patients are, the better their odds. "Most of the deaths occurred within the first few months among patients who were too sick to get through the surgery and recovery," says Boyle. "After those first few months, the curve flattens out, meaning if patients are strong enough to make it through the surgery and recovery, they're alive and doing very well."

Boyle's first patient to receive the device was a 79-year-old man with congestive heart failure who received it as part of a clinical trial in 2005. "A lot of people at the time might have said he was too old," says Boyle. "Six and a half years later, at 86, he's still going strong." Indeed, a recent study that compared results for patients under 70 and those over 70 found almost no difference in survival or quality of life.

Because the device restores normal blood flow to organs throughout the body, in many patients kidney and liver function improves. In some cases, the heart may even repair itself, especially in younger patients whose heart failure was caused by a virus that infected heart muscles, a condition called viral cardiomyopathy. Once the heart is strong enough, the pump can be removed.

When damage to the heart is irreversible, as in most cases of congestive heart failure, the pump can buy time until a donor organ is available for a heart transplant. Before he suffered a heart attack at age 47, Michael-Joshua Morris, of New York City, was exceptionally active. After his heart attack, he couldn't walk more than 10 steps without gasping for breath and leaning on his wife, Anne Marie. Two years ago he had the device implanted. "What the heart attack took away from me, the LVAD gave back to me," says Morris, who still hopes to undergo a heart transplant.

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July 02, 2008

Most people today can go wherever they want, work wherever they want, shop and eat wherever they like, or date and marry whomever they choose. Struggles to attain these and other basic rights are thought by some to be stories for a U.S. history class or old films. Even while I was growing up in the late 70s and early 80s, I experienced only the remnants of this kind of overt discrimination in my daily life. But it is because of groundbreaking legislation that so many of these rights are protected and can now be taken for granted.

Today marks the 44th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the legislation outlawing discrimination in public accommodations, public schools, health care facilities, government, and employment. During his signing of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (United Press International/ File 1964) Originally introduced by President John F. Kennedy in 1963 as a means to combat racial injustice and indignity, the legislation was amended to include protections for women. One of its best-known features, Title VII, prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religion, and national origin and created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to enforce this law.

Rather than being a historical footnote, the Civil Rights Act is at the core of civil rights legislation and judicial decisions to this day. AAUW supports the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (H.R. 2831), an attempt to correct the Supreme Court’s decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company that severely limits the ability of victims of pay discrimination to exercise their rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The legislation passed the House but failed to pass a test vote in the Senate earlier this year. And just last week, the Supreme Court agreed to review a case involving pregnancy leave taken before the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, an amendment to Title VII, was enacted.

I realize that discrimination in pay, disparities in educational achievement for minorities and low-income children, and other inequities were not eradicated with the passage of this law. There is still much to be done, but it gives me hope that my child will always know a world where he can can go wherever he wants, work wherever he wants, shop and eat wherever he likes, or date and marry whomever he chooses.

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  1. Great post- thank you. We owe a debt to those who came before us as defenders of inclusion in society and education regardless of race, gender, religion, and national origin. The rights and privileges that those of us in the academy enjoy as a result of their committment provides us with a chance to create the stepping stones that young academics and students need to reach the ideal world that we hope for for our children. As you mention, this is a world with salary and achievement equity, equal rates of tenure and promotion for faculty, university faculties, students, and adminstrations with numbers of women, lesbians, gays, races, ethnic groups, different physical abilities, and nationalities that represent our population. As a Mom, I, too have hope that my kids will be part of this world, and as a Professor, I have a chance to work in and beyond my U to to develop a culture, in and out fo the classroom, of broad and deep inclusion. Thanks again for a thoughtful piece.

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NBA owner Donald Sterling suspended for life, and experts say his legal options are limited

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling was banned for life from the National Basketball Association and fined $2.5 million after a recording surfaced over the weekend of him making racist and sexist statements.

In a press conference in New York City on Tuesday, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced that Sterling would not be allowed to have any further association with the Clippers or the NBA. Silver also stated that he would ask the NBA Board of Governors to force a sale of the Clippers. Sterling has owned the team since 1981, when it was based in San Diego. Sterling is the longest-tenured owner in the NBA.

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“As part of the lifetime ban, Mr. Sterling may not attend any NBA games or practices, be present at any Clippers office or facility, or participate in any business or player personnel decisions involving the team,” said Silver during the press conference. “He will also be barred from attending NBA Board of Governors meetings and participating in any other league activity.” Silver also said that the fine, which was maximum allowed, will be donated to anti-discrimination groups.

Sterling, meanwhile, isn’t going away quietly. According to Fox News, Sterling told Jim Gray moments before the press conference started that his team was not for sale. Sterling’s attorney, Robert Platt of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, declined comment when ESPN contacted him.

Legal experts were not surprised by Silver’s actions. Gary Roberts, dean emeritus at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law and a prominent sports lawyer told the ABA Journal that Silver really had no choice. “For obvious reasons, Silver unsurprisingly handed out the most severe penalties he believes he could legally get away with,” Roberts said in an email. “It was a pure business decision to distance the league as far as it could from a team owner who had made it impossible for him to continue to own a viable NBA franchise.”

Marc Edelman, a professor of sports law at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business told the ABA Journal that he was impressed with Silver for bringing down the hammer on Sterling. “[Former NBA commissioner] David Stern and [NFL commissioner] Roger Goodell have shown a repeated pattern of holding athletes to the highest level of conduct but accepting that their owners sometimes behave far below that bar,” Edelman said. “This was an impressive move by Silver.”

The potential effects of Silver’s move are less clear. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban had called Sterling’s views “abhorrent,” but had also expressed doubt about the wisdom of forcing Sterling out permanently, the Dallas Morning News’ Dallas Mavericks Blog reported. Cuban argued Monday that the NBA faced a slippery slope if they forced out people for statements made in private (Cuban then sent out a Tweet on Tuesday saying he supported Silver’s decision). While Edelman agreed that Silver’s decision could set a precedent and could, conceivably, be used against another owner that steps out of line, Roberts was less convinced, calling the Sterling episode “sui generis.”

“This doesn’t set any precedent at all unless another owner someday expresses an equally stupid sentiment that renders him incapable of owning and operating a viable NBA franchise,” said Roberts.

Experts agree, however, that Sterling’s legal options are limited. “I’m not sure it’s the right decision to challenge the ban,” Edelman says. “But there are some contract and antitrust claims he could bring.” Edelman, who said he did not have a chance to review the NBA’s constitution, says that Sterling could try and argue that other teams lack power to order the sale of a team by a particular owner. However, according to the NBA’s constitution and bylaws (PDF), Article 13(a) explicitly gives the NBA the power to terminate an owner’s interest with a three-fourth’s majority vote of the owners. During the press conference, Silver said he had the full support of the owners and indicated that he expected to successfully force a sale of the team.

Edelman believes that Sterling’s best bet would be to bring antitrust claims against the NBA. “Sterling could argue the other owners have colluded against him by refusing to do business with him,” Edelman said. “Generally, it’s illegal for a collection of businesses to reach a concerted effort to refuse to deal with a competitor.” However, Edelman says the NBA could defeat an antitrust suit if it proved that its association with Sterling was hurting the league’s image, as well as damaging its monetary value.

Roberts, meanwhile, was more resolute and stated categorically that Sterling would lose if he challenged his ban in court. “His chances of winning in court are zero,” Roberts said. “To what end would it serve? So that he can continue to own and operate a business that will be bankrupt with no players willing to play for him? He may be a belligerent, but he is not insane.” His best bet, according to Roberts, might be to argue that under the NBA’s constitution he can’t be forced to sell his team. “Unless the NBA constitution has been recently amended, the other owners cannot take his franchise from him with a three-fourths vote unless he does one of a specified list of things related to the team or the league, and this clearly is not the type of thing that is on that list,” Roberts said. “When Silver said the owners would force him to sell, he had to mean they would make him so unwelcome and miserable that he would have no choice but to sell.”

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Two people have been arrested after allegedly stealing a front-end loader near Bunbury.

Police were called to a Dalyellup beach about 11:30pm (AWST) last night, after a fisherman spotted the machine on the beach.

The loader had been taken from a nearby work site.

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BRENDAN TREMBATH: Marine pilots responsible for navigating big ships through the Great Barrier Reef have revealed a number of near-miss groundings and collisions were not reported to authorities.

The pilots also disclosed in anonymous questionnaires that they earn more money if they move ships faster across the reef and have minimal rest between voyages. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says there's been a lack of accountability for managing safety risks in marine pilotage. It's recommending new regulations.

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ANNIE GUEST: The Australian Transport Safety Bureau's commissioner Martin Dolan says marine pilots on the Great Barrier Reef carry special responsibilities.

MARTIN DOLAN: This is the only place where coastal pilotage is mandatory and where the safety consequences and environmental consequences of getting it wrong are so severe.

ANNIE GUEST: The Transport Safety Bureau has done a special investigation into pilotage after human error was blamed for the grounding of the tanker Atlantic Blue in the Torres Strait in 2010.

There have been other accidents in Queensland waters since, but they've been outside the reef's compulsory pilotage zone. Almost 5,000 ships are guided by marine pilots through the reef every year. The reef pilots are accountable to their employer and the cargo owner and insurers, but less so to regulators.

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MARTIN DOLAN: Our particular concern was the lack of any overall standard approach and supervision of the pilotage task, that the responsibility for the safe conduct of the pilotage was left principally with the pilots.

ANNIE GUEST: Yet, in an anonymous survey of 82 licensed coastal pilots, it was revealed pilots feel they're offered incentives at odds with upholding safety standards. They earn more money if they move ships faster across the reef and have minimal rest between voyages. Some pilots also revealed that there's been a number of near-miss groundings and collisions which not reported to authorities.

So the Transport Safety Bureau has released a report today recommending regulations to assign responsibility for the safe management of pilotage operations to the providers or another organisation.

MARTIN DOLAN: And if all pilots are clear as to what the system is, what the rules and limits are, then they've got a clear basis where they think they're inappropriately being asked to do something, declining to do so.

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MARTIN DOLAN: There are fatigue risk management systems in place. We think more can be done, in particularly travel to and from a job and better incorporating that into the thinking about fatigue.

ANNIE GUEST: The bureau also wants a new industry body to address the 16 to 20 hour shift some pilots do on the inner passage through the Great Barrier Reef.

The report has been welcomed by the president of the Australian Marine Pilots Association, Captain Peter Liley.

PETER LILEY: We've long known of the problems that beset pilotage in the Barrier Reef, and we've been, up until now, ignored as we've tried to put our case to the bureaucrats who were sticking with economic ideology.

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PETER LILEY: There isn't a proper management structure surrounding pilots. There is no safety management system in place for pilots, and that the, we're concerned that the training is not adequate.

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Sydney scientists have completed a successful trial of cartilage transplants, giving new hope for the repair of aging and injured knees.

The team of researchers from the University of New South Wales conducted a series of transplants in sheep. They compared removal and replacement of the sheep's own knee tissue with donation of tissue from another sheep.

The transplanted cartilage created no rejection problems, suggesting transplants may be a viable treatment option. Experimental cartilage transplants have been tried in people in the United States, but have undergone little scientific evaluation.

The results of the study are reported in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.

The focus for knee repair is the meniscus, a C-shaped disc of cartilage that acts as a shock absorber between the tibia (shin bone) and the femur (thigh bone). Each knee has two menisci, one on each side.

"Usually what happens is people have an injury, often a twisting injury, meaning the meniscus has to be removed," said co-author of the study, Associate Professor George Murrell.

Surgeons try to remove as little of the cartilage as possible, but the tissue does not heal well because it is poorly supplied with blood. This also means it degenerates with age, causing arthritis.

For those with damaged knees, the options are to put up with the pain or to have a complete knee replacement.

"Knee replacement is not ideal because it is replacing normal biological structures with metal and plastic," said Associate Professor Murrell. "Eventually you get problems with loosening and wear."

The University of New South Wales team artificially removed the meniscus from the sheep in the trial, and then replaced it, either directly or with donor tissue from another sheep.

Some arthritis still developed, but only about half as much as if the meniscus had been removed completely.

Importantly, the sheep that were implanted with donor cartilage showed no sign of tissue rejection. The reason for this, said A/Professor Murrell, may be that the meniscus is made up mainly of non-cellular, fibrous material such as collagen, which is less likely to provoke an immune response.

The team is developing a similar technique for use in humans.

Another future possibility is the implantation of an artificial meniscus, which is being trialed by other researchers.

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The super-slim, stylish LG Sentio makes keeping in touch easier than ever before. With a 3” full touch screen, a fast 3G connection, and T-Mobile Social Buzz for social networking, you’ll be in the know when you’re on the go.

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Canadian Classic Concord Grape Pie

Who has tasted a Traditional Concord Grape Pie? Put up your hand!

Canadian Classic Concord Grape PieOh me, oh me, oh my, oh my. This is one delectable pie! Thank you, Charmian Christie, for the inspiration!Canadian Classic Concord Grape PieRaisin Pie is a traditional Canadian prairie pie, but I have never made it as I don’t like it. It makes my teeth ache, it is so sweet. Grandma Maude made it and so did my mom. Dad loves it, as do so many “old folks” that remember those heritage recipes “everyone” used to make and enjoy together over a cup of steaming coffee around someone’s kitchen table. Raisins are dried grapes. Don’t laugh, those of you that know this. I have taught “Foods” classes to many students over a few years and not only did most of them not know this, most of our young teachers and parents do not know this. Knowing that raisins are dried grapes, I was curious as to why I have not ever even heard of a grape pie in my entire life until just this year when Charmian submitted her Grape Pie with Crumb Topping as her Cherished Canadian Food Recipe for The Canadian Food Experience Project.Canadian Classic Concord Grape PieI wrote about my love for the mighty Concord Grape and the quintessential grape flavour in the their skins. Concord Grape Juice is decadent and delicious and expensive. I couldn’t imagine a pie with that flavour. I could not imagine the texture of a grape pie, seeds removed. My research was more than a little embarrassing. Many people have been enjoying grape pies for many years, as Charmian has. It is a famous local delicacy from Naples, New York, known as the Grape Pie Capital of the World as Irene Bouchard apparently launched the grape pie industry there in 1965. Al Hodges, owner of the Redwood Restaurant across the street from her house, started baking grape pies for his guests in 1960 every fall when they were in season. The demand was so great that he could not keep up with it as his customers soon we asking for an entire pie to take home with them. That is when he asked her to make them to sell for his customers. No one else was making grape pies. She originally acquired her filling recipe from a friend of her mother’s, but altered it to achieve a greater clarity of colour and texture. She changed the addition of flour as a thickener to that of tapioca and was very pleased with the results. In her busiest season, she hand prepared two and a quarter tons of grapes.Canadian Classic Concord Grape PieI chose to make this pie first. “While Bouchard no longer handles orders in the thousands per season, she still fulfills custom orders and will most definitely have pies available at her home at 9 Cohocton Street during the Naples Grape Festival. Just look for the large grape flag and the bunch of “grape” balloons across from the Redwood. Bouchard charges $9 per pie. For individual orders, call Bouchard two days in advance of when the pies are needed. She may be reached at (585) 374-2068.” This was written in 2004 when Bouchard was 86 years old in an article titled The Queen of Grape Pies on page 50 in The Naples Record. The recipe I have used is identical to Irene’s with one exception. I added 2 more tablespoons of tapioca.Canadian Classic Concord Grape PieI was over the moon when I pulled this beauty out of the oven and place it on the bench outside of my back door. Irene always donned her Classic Grape Pies with a circle to let the gorgeous Concord Grape colour surround the top crust and celebrate this seasonal jewel.Canadian Classic Concord Grape PieI was sniffing and ogling the intoxicating amethystine hue. Imbued with awe as the glossy plump spherules suffused in a wonderland of grapey goodness appeared almost surreal. How could the grapes in the filling look so full and juicy, appearing whole. Once would never imagine, looking at this pie, that every skin was popped off every grape, pulps strained and added back to the skins. Who thinks like this? I could barely contain myself.Canadian Classic Concord Grape PieThe texture is alluring and requires a healthy chew. The essence of the mighty Concord permeates as the skins deliver their elixir, yet the flavour is not bold. It is a delicate, addictive and hypnotic spell that captivates from first bite to last. In the midst of it all, I realized my tail was wagging wildly.Canadian Classic Concord Grape PieThe prepared concord grapes after 5 hours of combining the skins with the pulp. I prepared 3 kilos at once for several recipes. The tapioca and sugar was added an hour before filling the pie shell. The recipe called for one tablespoon of tapioca, yet was too soupy. I added two more tablespoons to ensure the filling would hold together when sliced. Pie filling should not be gelatinous, nor should it be so loose that it cannot hold the shape of a slice when cut. I was delighted with the texture of this filling. Canadian Classic Concord Grape PieNo one else flutes pie this way, yet it is gorgeous to me. This is the way my family has always fluted our pies. I prefer it to anyone else’s fluting technique, yet no one has lined up for a lesson on fluting from me. What do you think? Are we on to something? Canadian Classic Concord Grape PieAfter preparing the grapes, this pie is about as straight forward as any pie I have ever made: prepare the pastry, pour in the filling, top with pastry. Canadian Classic Concord Grape PieBrushing the top crust with an egg wash and sprinkling with Demerara sugar creates a delicious, crunchy crystalline crust. The hole in the centre allows steam to escape.Canadian Classic Concord Grape PieHappy Day! Oh, Happy, Happy Day! Cooling on the bench outside, I just sat and watched.Canadian Classic Concord Grape PieCanadian Classic Concord Grape PieCanadian Classic Concord Grape PieCanadian Classic Concord Grape PieEventually, it was cool enough to slice, which I did slowly, with the most careful interest prudently lifting the first slice out of the pie. The visual pleasure of each slice was almost as appealing to me as eating my piece.Concord Grape Pie 2 Slices 1I didn’t remember the Concord Grape Sorbet in the freezer until I had only one bite left. Canadian Classic Concord Grape PieLucky me. There was an entire pie left and the sorbet called for that second slice. Blush. Cheeks flushed in rosy Concord hued circles, I forged on to discover that the sorbet was mighty tasty with this Classic Canadian Concord Grape Pie. Irene Bouchard deserves to be the Queen of the Grape Pie. I know I will be making the Concord Grape Pie at least once each season. I am still confused about why no one in my Canadian prairie world, all of these years, has every heard of a grape pie. Do tell.

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Concord Grapes are grown in Ontario and British Columbia in Canada and are a rare delicacy enjoyed in season. This pie is a once a year treat and the labour of love separating the pulp from the skin is worth every bite!
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Canadian
Serves: 8
  • 5½ cups or 2 pounds or I kilo of Concord grapes, washed, or
  • 500g prepared Concord Grapes
  • 1 cup sugar, depending on the sweetness of the grapes
  • 3 tablespoons tapioca
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • Pastry for a 9-inch pie, fluted
  • egg wash (i egg)
  • 2-3 tablespoons Demerara sugar
Instructions for Preparing the Grapes:
  1. The instructions for preparing the grapes can be found here.
Instructions for the Pie Filling:
  1. Add sugar and tapioca during the 4th hour of the grapes sitting for 5 hours
  2. Prepare pie crust
  3. Pre-heat oven to 400F
  4. Pour mixture into pie crust; dot with butter
  5. Top with round cut out for crust; brush with egg and sprinkle with Demerara sugar
  6. Bake at 400F for 15 minutes; lower temperature to 350F cook 20 minutes more, or until crust is brown and juice bubbles
Cover the crust with foil once it reaches the desired brown colour.

I also made Charmian’s recipe for Concord Grape Pie with Crumb Topping which will be published next.

Classic Canadian Concord Grape Pie

    • Valerie Lugonja says

      Hey, Lizzy…
      Is a grape pie a “new” idea for you like it was for me? Are you familiar with them in Australia?

  1. says

    Nope, never heard of concord grape pie (or any type of grape pie) but definitely recognize that flute – it’s exactly how I flute my pies! Hello, flute sister.
    Your pie REALLY makes me want to make one too, the next time I see Concord grapes in the store. Your description of the taste is what did it for me.

    • Valerie Lugonja says

      Wonderful, Margaret!
      I cannot wait to read about you making a Concord Grape Pie – but don’t wait for them to come into the stores! Visit your local farmer’s market – or any of the one’s in Edmonton. I buy mine from Steve and Dan’s booth. They will have their home grown British Columbia “local” Concord Grapes at all of their booths until December.

  2. Brendi says

    Is it an Alberta flute? My family’s always look exactly like that and I will definately be making this pie. Hugs, Brendi

    • Valerie Lugonja says

      Maybe it IS an Alberta flute and I just don’t know anyone who makes homemade pies anymore – except my friend, Karlynn… and she doesn’t flute like this.

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

On Monday, stand tall for the rights of all!

I just sent this message to everyone I could think of. If you are within a day's drive of Harrisburg, you should be at The Rally for All Families at the state capitol rotunda at 1pm, a rally in opposition to Senate Bill 1250, the marriage amendment.
Dear friends,

Yesterday's Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Senate Bill 1250, the marriage amendment, left me angry, amused, and mystified. It was a raucous affair with one witness claiming that marriage came "up from the ground" and supporters of the bill hooting and hollering and chattering throughout most of the hearing. Opponents of this ridiculous idea were there, and we’re thankful for that. Unfortunately, supporters of the bill outnumbered us.

The hearing was a reminder of this simple fact:

The Pennsylvania Senate needs to feel the pushback. They need to know that we’re not going to stand quietly by while they waste the people’s time on this divisive legislation.

Will you join us at 1pm on Monday at the state capitol rotunda? And bring friends!

Your senator needs to hear from you, and to that end, there will also be a lobbying training at 11am on Monday. We'll let you know where it will be by the end of the week.

I find it offensive that a renegade band of senators would use our state constitution to restrict rights and turn an entire community into second-class citizens, even though 65 percent of Pennsylvanians support civil unions for same-sex couples while just 27 percent oppose. Constitutions are for protecting and expanding rights, not restricting them.

See you Monday in Harrisburg!

Andy Hoover

Community Organizer/Legislative Assistant
American Civil Liberties Union of PA
Don't mourn. Organize.

The Value All Families Coalition presents…

State Capitol Rotunda
Harrisburg, PA

May 5, 2008 at 1:00 P.M.

Lobby Training at 11am
Training Location: TBA

For more information, including transportation, contact:
Equality Advocates Pennsylvania
(215) 731-1447 x 10
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Andy in Harrisburg

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Who is abstaining anyway?

The first year of college is kind of like a geography and sociology lessons, mixed into one.

“Tennessee borders Georgia?” incredulous Californians ask me.

“You’ve never been to a mall?!” We exclaim at the girl from New York City.

Soon, we become each other’s reference. I am the one who knows everything about barbeque, but the girl from Buffalo is the one to go to if you need to find out about winter weather.

But there was one place where I didn’t expect to become the expert.

We were sitting around one day at lunch, when the subject of sex ed came up.

“Yeah,” I say casually, “In my high school it was all pretty bad, but the guy who talked about the Diamond Zone was the worst.”

“The Diamond Zone?”

“He told us that ‘too far’ was anything that was in our Diamond Zone - the area from your chest to your hips. And if a boy touched you there, he was stealing from your husband.” I assumed that while my friends may have not ever met Diamond Zone guy, they had surely been exposed to similar speeches.

“WHAT?!” I looked up from the cafeteria’s excuse for meat loaf into the shocked stares of kids from California, New Jersey, New York, and Colorado.

“Oh… yeah. We never actually learned about condoms.”

I quickly found myself in the minority.

Suddenly, I became the girl with the abstinence-only stories. Later that week, I sat down at the table and a girl looked at me and said, as if asking for a particularly horrific ghost story, “Tell me more about the Diamond Zone.”

Apparently, in some parts of the country there aren't abstinence speakers talking about saving your carnal treasures. Kids don’t get in trouble for handing out condoms before prom. And it’s down-right weird to be asked to sign a virginity pledge when you’re in the eighth grade.

But at my all-girls private school, this was all normal. And if the well-funded groups fighting for abstinence-only prgrams were to be believed, it is also necessary.

Indeed, these groups can produce evidence to show its effectiveness. Recently, a group of health experts testified on sex ed before congress. Also on the panel? Two experts arguing against comprehensive sex education and for abstinence-only until-marriage programs. One oft-cited study used to combat the facts about comprehensive sex education comes from the right-wing Heritage Foundation. The report claims that abstinence-only sex ed was working, due to the evidence that abstinent teens are more successful in life than non-abstinent teens.

One of the sources for the Heritage Foundation report was this study about abstinent teens being better students and generally more successful. To believe abstinence groups, abstinent teens come from abstinence programs, because, after all, “sex education programs… focus, almost exclusively, in encouraging youth to use condoms.” This fact is simply untrue.

So wither the abstinent teens? I cannot turn to my own studies, being an under-funded eighteen years old and an abysmal math student, but I can turn to my own experiences.

You see, I realized a funny thing when I was forced to rehash my high school sex “ed” horror stories. A lot of these kids, from Berkeley, California to New York City, were virgins. Never forced to make an abstinence pledge or told to protect carnal treasures, they were healthy, happy students in a good college, pursuing business, law, or health, blissfully unaware that groups such as the Heritage Foundation would see students given condoms, as they were, as sexually deviant high-school drop-outs.

In contrast, whykNOw abstinence, the delightful panderer of fear and misinformation at my school, produced a graduating class of 100 girls that, by the end of the summer, had already yielded three pregnancies. Safe sex, to many of my classmates, meant “pulling out.” In addition, girls often clingingly protected their virginity, while giving “blow jobs” to casual crushes, not realizing that oral sex carries risks as well.

In fact, the only thing I knew about oral sex in high school was that, according to my horrified health teacher, “that boy will want you to put his penis in your mouth.” That was it. I don’t even remember being told that you could catch an STD from oral sex.

The preachy fear of my high school’s abstinence program did little more than keep the ignorant in the dark and temporarily fuel promises of “purity,” the majority of which will later be broke, without contraception and with huge guilt.

When abstinence groups quote statistics, they might want to think about where their abstinent teens come from.

Marshall Bright is an undergraduate intern at the Duvall Project

Friday, April 25, 2008

Mixed messages

While I adamantly believe it is the sole right of a woman to make the choices about her body, I have also always been able to understand how a reasonable person might object to abortion.

But the problem is there seem to be so few reasonable people whose objection is just about abortion. All too often, these are the same folks who take ridiculously strident views (One really has to wonder what's really going on in their heads) about women's sexuality.

For instance, often they're the ones behind the drug counter who want to be able to deny a woman access to her birth control - Bill Maher calls them "activist pharmacists" - due to their own personal religious objections.

And since we're already quoting Bill Maher, here's his response to those people who would deny their daughters vaccinations that could prevent a deadly form of cervical cancer because they fear it would lead to sexual promiscuity.

And of course, let's not forget those esteemed Pennsylvania lawmakers who last fall tried to stand in the way of regulations that would have guaranteed rape victims (rape victims!) access to emergency contraception at hospitals across the state.

So, it is refreshing and perhaps worth celebrating the fact that our freshman U.S. Senator supports a bill that would restore college student access to low-cost birth control.

From a Planned Parenthood news item:
After months of lobbying by Planned Parenthood staff, and a groundswell of grassroots support for affordable birth control, Senator Bob Casey, Jr. has signed on as a co-sponsor of the Prevention Through Affordable Access Act (S. 2347). Since January 2007, college health centers and safety net providers lost their ability to purchase low cost birth control as a result of a legislative oversight. This has caused birth control prices to skyrocket to up to 900% for some women! A no-cost legislative fix has been introduced in both the House and Senate to combat the problem, and there is hope that these vehicles will move in the coming weeks.

The news item encourages people to write Sen. Casey a letter of support.

Hooray for the sanity in this measure. As has been shown time after time, improved access to birth control means fewer unwanted pregnancies, which means fewer (Say it with me) abortions. After all, that's supposed to be what they're fighting for.

Lauri in York

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Harold and Kumar shout out to the ACLU

This weekend is the opening of Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. The ACLU gets a shout in the clip below.

Andy in Harrisburg

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Search for open records director held in secret

That sounds like a headline from The Onion. Pennsylvania's new open records law is a good thing. It puts the burden of proof on the government to show why a record should not be public, rather than on the person making the request to show why it should be, which is how we did it in the past. And it creates an agency for dealing with open records requests.

But this makes me laugh.
Six people interviewed for the post, but (Rendell spokesman Doug) Rohanna didn't name the candidates.

Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, R-Delaware, who sponsored the open-records legislation, said he is troubled by the closed process used to identify potential candidates for the executive director's job.

He noted he saw no advertisement for the job.

Only in Harrisburg.

Andy in The Twilight Zone, errr, Harrisburg

Friday, April 18, 2008

Kitzmiller Redux

Some folks just refuse to get it. Earlier this year, Florida's Board of Education revamped its science standards to fully include the teaching of evolution and rebuffed creationist attempts to hijack the wording to make them more intelligent-design friendly. And, for a bit, it seemed like folks down there understood that the teaching of religion has no place in public school science classes.

But after they were unable to sway the majority of BOE members, the defeated creationists turned to Florida lawmakers, many of whom have little knowledge about science or educational issues.

Now, "academic freedom" bills are being introduced in the legislature and it looks all so familiar. The Florida Citizens for Science organization is following the fight closely and offers this account of what's really going on: Politicians are once again trying to sneak religion through a backdoor, this time under the code words of "academic freedom." Also, the Sun-Sentinel has a great story on the dishonesty and evasiveness of the bill's primary sponsor:
Opponents have voiced concerns that Storms' bill will open the door to teaching religious-based theories, like intelligent design, in public school classrooms. But Storms, one of the Senate's most conservative members, repeatedly refused to answer questions on whether that could happen.

Her only reply: teachers could discuss a "full range of scientific views."

Senate Democratic Leader Steve Geller of Cooper City, frustrated at her answers, later said: "We could have stuck bamboo shoots under her fingernails and she wouldn't have answered."

On Monday, ACLUPA's legal director Witold "Vic" Walczak was in Florida at the invitation of the state's ACLU and science organizations. As someone with more than a little experience with this issue, Walczak warned lawmakers that the bill is a "litigation magnet."

According to Wes Elsberry, posting on the science blog Panda's Thumb, Walczak said not only does the bill invite religion into the classroom, it also makes it impossible to take it out. If passed into law, it would give teachers the authority and right to teach whatever what they wanted, including their personal religious views. The school district would then be caught in a no-win situation. Should they prevent the teacher from religious proselytizing to students during the school day, the teacher would be able to sue the district under this law of academic freedom.

Should the school district ignore the teacher's behavior, parents who object to the teacher's religious bullying would be within their rights to sue the district under the First Amendment's Establishment Clause. And we up here in Pennsylvania know how that would likely turn out.

Walczak said at the press conference that, just as he and others involved in the Kitzmiller case were able to convince a conservative judge that intelligent design was merely repackaged creation science, "We will be able to do the same in Florida when teachers use the same religious anti-evolution arguments in classes."

Let's hope folks listen.

Lauri in York

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

What they're saying about the marriage amendment

It ain't good. You may notice a theme.

The Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
When it comes to the continuing attempt to make the Pennsylvania Constitution explicitly say that marriage is between one man and one woman, it is hard to say what is worse -- the obsession or the waste of time.

Can we now assume that the Legislature has adequately addressed the issues important to most Pennsylvanians? For example, has it taken all the steps needed to reform itself? Has it enacted comprehensive property tax reform? How about equitable funding for education?

The answer, of course, is "no."

The Beaver County Times.
We know, we know. Despite soaring gasoline prices, skyrocketing home heating oil costs, escalating grocery bills, a tanking economy, Wall Street gyrations, home foreclosures, the fifth year of the Iraq occupation and a fascinating presidential Democratic primary, gay marriages and civil unions are what everybody has been talking about.

The Morning Call of Allentown.
The committee's hasty decision also was a waste of time. Regardless of the personal feelings or religious training of Judiciary Committee members, the Senate has more pressing issues before it. There are unfunded repair and maintenance needs for the state's roads and bridges, the unresolved pursuit of a more equitable way to adequately fund the public schools and a series of problems with the law regulating casino gambling that ought to have higher priority, to mention just a few. But the Judiciary Committee would move gay marriage to the top of the list.

The Lancaster Intelligencer Journal.
To listen to some local politicians this year, the two biggest problems facing Pennsylvania are gay marriage and denying gun rights to people who want to pack heat while taking a leisurely walk through county parks. Welcome to fantasy land. In fact, Pennsylvania faces a mountain of problems, but some legislators and legislative candidates seem more interested in spreading ideology than in solving problems.

The York Dispatch.
If any timely words of wisdom could be imparted to the state Senate in this time of partisan sniping at the state and national level amid concerns over healthcare reform, highway maintenance and onerous
property taxation, they would be: Stick to important business. But as usual, such caution is wasted in the political wind. So the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, with a pile of important issues on its plate, in a 10-4 vote decided it was time to amend the state Constitution by banning gay and lesbian marriage — and halt those looming threats to civilization, civil unions, in their tracks.

(Hat tip, Equality Advocates.)

The reputation of our state legislature has taken a beating in the last three years. To recap, in 2005, the legislature gave itself a pay raise at 2am (that is not an exaggeration) the night that it went out for summer break in a bill on which the public had been given no notice. In the ensuing outcry, a state Supreme Court justice was not retained at the polls that fall because voters felt the court had worked too closely with the legislature on the pay raise. (Judges got a raise, too.) This was the first time since the start of retention votes that a justice had been ousted.

The following year nearly one-fifth of the legislature was replaced either through retirement or at the polls. The Senate majority leader and the Senate President Pro Tempore both lost.

In response, numerous reform efforts have been undertaken that have included no more late night legislative sessions and a time period in which legislation must be considered before it can receive a vote, among other things.

While the public's distrust of the legislature is no longer roaring, it still simmers just below the surface.

Which brings us to the state Senate's attempt to amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage. These guys just don't get it. People out here are hurting. You know all of the problems, so I don't need to re-articulate them. And what they see in Harrisburg is a state Senate that is hopelessly out of touch.

Andy in Harrisburg

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Two VHAC tour talks online

Two weeks ago you heard a lot about the Voices of Hope Agents of Change tour featuring death row exonerees and murder victims' families. Talks by two of our featured speakers, exoneree Juan Melendez and Rev. Walter Everett of Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights, are now available online at the website of The Verstehen Video Project. Check it out.

Andy in Harrisburg

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Monday, April 14, 2008

File this- sadly- under: No, Duh

As ACLU legislative director Caroline Fredrickson said regarding last week's revelations:
With each new revelation, it is beginning to look like the torture operation was managed and directed out of the White House. This is what we suspected all along.

Truthout links to the articles that report the hardly surprising revelations that top level Bush Administration figures, from VP Dick Cheney on down, were directly involved in policy discussions about torturn.

From Dan Froomkin's piece in The Washington Post:
Discussions were so detailed, ABC's sources said, that some interrogation sessions were virtually choreographed by a White House advisory group. In addition to Cheney, the group included then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, then-defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, then-secretary of state Colin Powell, then-CIA director George Tenet and then-attorney general John Ashcroft.

At least one member of the club had some qualms. ABC reports that Ashcroft "was troubled by the discussions. He agreed with the general policy decision to allow aggressive tactics and had repeatedly advised that they were legal. But he argued that senior White House advisers should not be involved in the grim details of interrogations, sources said.

According to a top official, Ashcroft asked aloud after one meeting: "Why are we talking about this in the White House? History will not judge this kindly."

Lauri in York

Friday, April 11, 2008

Citizens in Houston are reeling from the new of two teen pregnancies ending horribly in public restrooms.

The Houston Chronicle first reported on this story, about an eighth grader who didn’t know she was pregnant until she miscarried in an airplane, an event so frightening and horrible to consider, a sympathetic reader can understand the frightened child’s silence.

Yet in the same week, an even more chilling story made headlines: another fourteen-year-old girl gave birth, this time full-term, and allegedly tried to flush it down the toilet.

These events, so tragic and following so quickly, led to a rash of op-eds and discussion. The Houston Chronicle used the stories as a chance to call for comprehensive sex ed, and to bemoan a school district where students can escape never having learned about contraceptives.

These op-eds, however, were not always met with warm response, and one gets the feeling that people were sloughing off society’s responsibility for these events. To the conculsion that “we need to see the next one coming,” someone posted in response: “What's this ‘WE’ stuff? …. This is not society's fault. It is the fault of the girl… the male who impregnated her, and the parents who were not supervising her. That's all there is to it.”

Yet how can we say it is not society’s fault, when society ignores those maligned and mistreated? If we remove societal blame from the picture, we are saying that the happenstance of birth, the accident of parentage, will be the deciding factor in the girl’s life. If we remove societal responsibility, we continue to abandon these children, just like we abandoned these teenage girls.

Furthermore, we (yes, back to “this ‘WE’ stuff”), cannot pretend that sexual activity begins in high school. Students are getting pregnant and getting STD’s earlier and earlier, and we have two responses: plug our ears, insist that it is the fault of the parent/child/rap lyrics/degrading morality of our times, or we can admit that washing our hands of our nation’s children and their well-being is perhaps the greatest immorality of all.

Marshall, Duvall Project

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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Something is rotten in the state Senate

It's an election year. It must be time to find some people the state legislature can kick around.

Yesterday the PA Senate passed a bill to restrict the forms of acceptable identification for obtaining public benefits, from unemployment compensation to medical assistance to post-secondary financial aid. It's supporters framed it as a measure to stop those illegal alien invaders from fraudulently obtaining public benefits.

One small problem. Not only did the supporters not show a systemic problem but they couldn't point to a single case of an undocumented immigrant improperly acquiring benefits.

And the people who are most likely to be affected are those who need benefits. Studies show that those most likely to not have government-issued identification are the elderly, persons with disabilities, persons of low incomes, and racial minorities.

The pricetag? 19 million dollars.
"Gas is $3.50 a gallon, there are 250,000 working people who can't afford to get sick and the Senate is more concerned that an illegal immigrant might be applying to Penn State," House Democratic spokesman Bob Caton said.

Oh, but the Senate isn't done finding groups to kick around. Today in Pittsburgh there is a hearing on SB 1250, which would amend our state constitution to ban gay marriage. Now if our senators could just find some gay immigrants, I'm sure they'd be downright gleeful.

Andy in Harrisburg

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Monday, April 07, 2008

Recognition for NOVA special on intelligent design

This is kinda cool. Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial - the Nova documentary about Kitzmiller v. Dover - has won a Peabody. The award is one of the highest awards in television.

Here are the judges' comments:
The centerpiece of this thoughtful, topical edition of NOVA was the recreation, verbatim, of key testimony and argument from a six-week trial in Pennsylvania that served as a crash course in modern evolutionary theory, the evidence for evolution and the nature of science.

Lauri in York

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Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Things that amaze me

It's late so this will be a short one. But I have a few thoughts, as we have wrapped Day IX of the VHAC tour.

The energy of Walter Everett of MVFHR is incredible. Walt is a retired Methodist minister. Well, actually, he flunked retirement and has a church part-time in Sunbury. He was with us twice last week, driving from his home in Lewisburg to Harrisburg for three events and then home in the evening, a 70 mile trip one-way. Then the next morning he drove another 70 miles or so to State College, did two events, and drove home, leaving Penn State at 9pm.

This week he traveled with us from Scranton on Monday to Bethlehem on Tuesday. After we wrapped in Bethlehem, after three events there, he drove home at 9:30pm, a 2 1/2 hour trip. Today he joined us again in Reading, another 2.5 hour trip, for an evening event at Albright College- where we were joined tonight by Ray Krone- and drove home again.

In between, he tended to one church member who is going into a nursing home and another who is dying.

I've known Walt for three years or so, but this tour has shown me a part of him I was not aware of. His energy is through the roof. Here's a 70-something guy who is telling the story of the murder of his son. He's doing it two or three times a day and then driving home at night to be with his wife and tend to his congregation. And through it all, he's cracking jokes and never shows any sign of irritation. Although, he does keep teasing me about getting lost in Bethlehem. We've done 20 events, we got lost once, and that's the one my tour mates remember.

Rolling Stone called Walt "serene and heartful, without an ounce of bombast." That is certainly true.

The other thing that amazes me is the story of Juan Melendez, and more specifically, the circumstances that led to his exoneration.

A police informant who knew Juan claimed that Juan and another friend committed the murder. The police leaned on the other friend, threatening him with the death penalty, and the guy took a plea bargain and agreed to testify against Juan. The testimony of a police informant and a coerced co-defendant- two men whom Juan said "had criminal records from here to California"- and no physical evidence landed Juan on death row.

The wheels began to turn in his favor when his new attorney discovered a taped confession from the real killer, which had been in the possession of both the prosecutor and Juan's court-appointed attorney since before the original trial. In addition, the prosecutor had 16 documents that corroborated the confession. These documents were not turned over to the defense at the original trial.

What if that tape didn't exist? Juan was sentenced to death on the basis of two questionable witnesses and no physical evidence. If that tape did not exist, Jeb Bush probably would have had Juan executed.

Juan calls the tapes and the documents two of his "miracles." It shouldn't take a miracle to free an innocent man from death row or keep him off death row in the first place.

Andy in Harrisburg

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Tuesday, April 01, 2008

On the road again

After taking the weekend off for some R&R, the VHAC tour was back on the road. We loaded up the Mystery Machine and headed to Wilkes Barre and then Scranton yesterday on Day VII. For Day VIII, we're in Bethlehem.

Juan Melendez, the 99th death row exoneree in the modern era of capital punishment, has joined us for these two days. Ray Krone of York County, the 100th exoneree, will be with us tomorrow in Reading and Thursday in Lancaster. Walter Everett is back, representing Murder Victims Families for Human Rights.

Walt Everett and Juan Melendez share a laugh at Monday's event in Scranton.

Harold Wilson and Walt Everett talk with a local television station in Harrisburg.

Lorry Post addresses the audience at Broad Street Ministry in Philadelphia.

(L to R) Ashlee Shelton of Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, Harold Wilson, Dr. Frank Baumgartner of Penn State, and Walter Everett enjoy some ice cream at the famous Creamery at Penn State.

Andy in Harrisburg

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