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August 1, 2006 Greenville, Ohio
In a book-lined conference room upstairs at the courthouse in Darke County, Ohio, Tammy Fourman leafs through the police reports about her son's death. Long and lean at 31, Fourman is dressed in a T-shirt and jeans because she's on her way to work, second shift at the Whirlpool assembly plant just outside of town.
Investigator Craig Prenger
A few empty chairs away, ruddy and robust in a suit and tie, sits investigator Craig Prenger, who kept the case alive for six years while he looked for the clue that would point him to a single suspect. He winces when Fourman stops to read his notes on a talk with her brother-in-law, who'd said it was surely Tammy herself who shook her son so hard his bones broke and his brain bled.
The files are public record now. The case is closed. Daniel Crow, Jr. died of Menkes disease, a rare genetic disorder that causes brittle bones and cranial bleeding. The parents had been telling the truth all along: Neither of them had shaken their baby.
The truth cannot undo the devastation to Fourman's family, though. During the years she and her husband stood accused, Tammy Fourman lost four children: two to Menkes Disease, which is always fatal, and two to social services, which placed her other children into foster and then adoptive homes.
"If somebody had listened to us in the first place, it would have saved everybody a lot of trouble," she sighs. "But they just kept insisting we'd been beating on Daniel the whole time he was with us."
Tammy Fourman
Though I wouldn't call them lucky, Tammy and Daniel enjoyed a number of circumstances that set them apart from most families whose children have been misdiagnosed with Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS).
First, they were both home with the infant the morning Daniel Jr.'s seizures started. Even under repeated and intensive questioning, their stories matched, and neither could name a time when the other was out of earshot with the baby. Prenger insists he could find no reason to charge one parent over the other.
Not that he didn't try. He interviewed family members, neighbors, friends, co-workers, anyone who was willing to talk with him. His findings: "Nobody said they'd seen either of them being anything but caring with both children."
At the same time, though, "All these doctors were telling us it was clearly abuse," Prenger says, "People were clamoring for a conviction." The District Attorney's office was in the headlines throughout the next election, while a local attorney pressed a suit for failure to prosecute "the worst case of child abuse" in the history of the county. Daniel Jr. had arrived at the hospital with 15 broken bones and bleeding inside his skull, but no bruising or other signs of impact. It was, as the child-abuse experts reported, a classic case of SBS.
If either Tammy or Daniel had been alone with the infant that morning, Prenger confirms, the county would have charged that parent. "The doctors were telling us all along that the perpetrator had to be the person who was there when the problems started. I just couldn't pinpoint that event." He couldn't name both of them, he explains, since it seemed so unlikely they were both guilty. How could the prosecutor argue it in court?
Darke Couty Courthouse
Prenger's ethics and stubbornness kept both Tammy and Daniel out of jail despite the accusations. Tammy had another baby, who was taken from her hours after his birth. When she became pregnant again, she fled to Indiana so as not to lose custody, later followed by Daniel. Then their next son Logan developed the same symptoms that had afflicted Daniel Jr. six years earlier, and Tammy and Daniel met the men who would eventually exonerate them, the doctors who kept their minds open when faced with a case that others dismissed as obvious abuse.
When her baby boy Logan started "curling up and twitching" one afternoon, Tammy brought him to her health clinic, where he had another seizure during the examination by family physician Brandon Connerly. Connerly saw no signs of bruising or anything else that would signal abuse, and Tammy's concern for her child was clear. He can't say why he wasn't convinced by the arguments of colleagues who told him Logan was the victim of a violent shaking. Logan was in and out of the hospital for the rest of his short life, but this time Tammy and Daniel were allowed to be with their son.
As Logan's condition deteriorated, he spent more time at the children's hospital in Indianapolis, where geneticist Luis Escobar, like Connerly, didn't think he was examining a shaken baby. "Any child that has seizures, I think first of a metabolic disorder," Escobar says. But tests for the most common gene defects all came back negative, and soon Escobar was answering calls from social workers checking up on abuse reports filed by others at the hospital. No, he told them, this was not abuse, although he still couldn't say what was at the root of the child's problems.
Then Logan, bald from birth, began to grow hair, kinky-curly hair. "Kinky-hair syndrome" is an informal name for Menkes disease, which Escobar describes as "very rare but so distinctive." Logan tested positive for Menkes and Escobar contacted authorities in Darke County, suggesting they sample Daniel's blood. When Daniel was found to share the disorder, the original doctors submitted their opinion that Daniel was likely "a Menkes patient who was also abused." Skeptical of that diagnosis, the DA closed the case.
Tammy's parents at their grandsons' gravesite
Through tremendous personal resilience and unique circumstances, Tammy and Daniel are now living quietly in Indiana, near the Ohio border, raising two sons who have both tested negative for Menkes. Her older children are forever lost to her: the adoptions are final and attempted contact is forbidden. I was able to find Tammy because she'd joined an online Menkes support group, using her real name. She was not hiding from the accusations nor letting them define her: She was reaching out to the community she felt part of, parents of children with Menkes. She mourns her losses, but she chooses not to focus on the system failure that tore her children from her and for six years branded her publicly as a child-abuser.
I'm less accepting, so I've spent years now writing about it.
The book I'm writing tells the true story of Stephanie Olsa, a woman I knew only slightly before she was convicted of shaking an infant in 1997, not long before the "Boston nanny" case made SBS a national story. While researching the medical thinking behind those convictions, I came to doubt first the presumed timing and then the specificity of the symptoms that have defined SBS for the past 30 years. This book also tracks my journey, as I visited courthouses and medical libraries, attended conferences, and interviewed not only experts in the field but also scores of people whose lives have been torn apart one way or another by a diagnosis of SBS.
This tale has no villains: Child abuse, including infant abuse, is a real and agonizing problem. The professionals who try to protect children from irresponsible, sometimes sociopathic caretakers are doing vital work in an especially difficult arena. Of course they want to do right by the children. And almost always, they do.
The history of SBS in the courts, however, reveals a weak point in our adversarial justice system. Physicians and prosecutors working with a widely accepted but unproven model of SBS have blurred the distinction between medical opinion and legal fact. The different standards and practices of the two disciplines—medicine and law—have allowed a theory to become institutionalized before it was proven. The science of pediatric head injury is now catching up, to reveal that what doctors believed in the late 1970s is not necessarily true. This cycle is common in medicine, and in most other fields as well, though not always with such tragic side-effects.
My book, Shaken: A Diagnosis on Trial, illustrates how benign families are being destroyed and innocent people sent to prison despite the best intentions of everyone involved. I hope that understanding Stephanie's story can help our society offer better protection for both children and their caretakers.
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2015 update: Falsely accused families are now pulling together into an organization dedicated to reforming the way these cases are handled. For more information, please see the Protecting Innocent Families web site. To read and sign their petition asking for an objective scientific review of the evidence behind the diagnosis of child abuse, please go to http://bit.ly/InnocentFamilyPetition
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Very moving. The Fourmans' story is sad and infuriating, and the writing is outstanding. I hope "Shaken: A Diagnosis on Trial" gets published soon.
Sue Luttner
Thank you, Tony, for the kind words and encouragement.
I am so sorry your children were taken from you. You are a victim of a blind system.
Thank you, on behalf of childcare providers and family advocates. Thank you for doing this vitally needed work.
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Cheryl Rowles
My son was born with congenital heart disease / coarctation of the aorta / VSD and other defects of the heart and great arteries , also tracheo oesphegus fistula and duodenal atresia born 5 pound blue baby had surgery at 6 hours old for TOF and DA, aorta patch surgery was at 1 week old. We were told he might not survive. He had collapsed lungs and was on the machine for 3 months. After we took him home and his dad took him out of his bounce net to change his nappy, my baby was crying in pain and we didn't know what was wrong with him took him up the hospital and got told his femur was broken! I was in shock as I thought he just had chest pain or reflux. We where accused of child abuse but later told his bones where weak and he returned home. We spent much of the next 5 months back and forwards to and from hospital due to heart failure and enlarged heart, battling his life while being treated like bad parents.
Not long after we moved to another town, my baby had developed a temp so I rang doctors for a appointment, but during that hour my baby had a seizure and was unconscious when the ambulance arrived. At the hospital we where told on admission he might have meningitis …. I thought he had heart failure again, this hospital didn't know the baby. The next day we where accused of shaking him I didn't know what they where talking about ! We where both shocked that this was happening !
He recovered with oxygen as he always did on admission with heart failure . It went to court and he was givin to my mother under family services I still had my 3 year old son which was never questioned or looked at ! We got our baby back at 18 months old , at 24 months old he heart more open heart surgery , we continued his follow ups for 10 years then I moved to Melbourne with my 3 kids and visited the rch in Melbourne after seeing them I was like omg , my baby was finally in the right hands. They said the surgery he had as a baby had failed and had blocked his aorta so to much blood was going to his head. They did an MRI and had seen the scarring of a stroke ! This is what we where wrongly accused of. We did not shake our boy it is simply a rare medical condition that is still being learnt by a lot of Australian surgeons. I'm pleased I moved to Melbourne otherwise my boy would of died by time he was 15 to a stroke that should have been fixed when he was a bub instead of blaming it on him been shaken ! He is now 19 and is a very tired little man he has a tic to his head has development delay social problems and Austim
Defects in babies are still not learnt by many hospitals in Australia
Thank you so much for commenting. I am glad you found the true root of your son's health problems and that you still have him with you.
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alexis mueller
please help me if you can. i'm 17 years old with a beautiful 4 month old baby girl her name is Raychel. on her 2 month birthday she was rushed to the hospital by my husband because she was unresponsive and after a week in the hospital she was released on the 28th of January and she got placed in my mothers care who has raised three kids but me my husband and my mother were the only people with Raychel alone. they did 3 ct scans and 1 mri but tested for nothing else saying her two hemorrhages and 1 base skull fracture were the results of sbs but i know that my husband didn't do it I feel it and I can't live my life without my little girl our court date is may 16th and if my husband and I don't get her back my parents are going to possibly give her to a family. I can't live without my daughter, I just can't please help me get my baby back! Please pray for us.
I'm sorry your family has been drawn into this tragedy, Alexis.
I've taken the liberty of forwarding your comment to the Medical Based Medicine and Social Investigation group (http://evidencebasedmedicineandsocialinvestigation.org/about/), which offers help to people in your position.
Please see the Resources page of this site for information about finding a support group and the medical information you will need to fight these charges.
Best wishes. Please stay in touch. -Sue
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this is so sad.such a great article.thank you
Thank you for commenting, Kathleen. Best wishes in your own family's case.
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Christine Weigen
Wow Sue!
Your second to last paragraph on this page beautifully and succinctly summarizes the controversy (and so much other well-accepted medical dogma).
This website is a perfect forum for documenting more factual information as it is revealed.
Thank you for all you are doing in bringing clear thinking and excellent investigative reporting to this most difficult and tragic of subjects.
I am mesmerized by your articulate writing; carefully detailed, informative and compelling. You are a gifted writer and this is an account that both deserves and needs to be told for the memory of future infants who suffer due to medical misfortune and the families who love them. Thank you for your courage.
This happens all the time to so many families, and MOST of the time the hospitals and Doctors DO NOT do their job in ruling out diseases that Mimic child abuse.. and before you know if your children are gone and your life is changed forever. Mistaking child abuse has become an Epidemic at an alarming rate. CHANGES NEED TO BE MADE TO STOP THIS FROMM HAPPENING .. SIGN THIS PETITION AND PASS IT ON . Check out this Facebook site for more information:
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Very compelling writing.
Diana Wynne
Harrowing, with such high stakes. Thank you for telling such an important story.
Renee Alloy
Sad story – those parents sure went through hell – thanks for sharing – good piece of reporting.
Heather K
This is such a compelling subject. I'm swept up in the nightmare these families have experienced.
Outstanding read! Keep up the good work.
Thank you for this important work – so many stories we need to hear.
Wow, Sue, this is good stuff. I look forward to future installments!
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The Limits of Hindutva – By Udeepta Chakravarty and Rohit Sarma
January 14, 2020 Raqib Naik
The seemingly unstoppable consolidation of the Hindutva project by the Hindu Nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has entered into a deadlock. With the passing of the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill, a wave of mostly youth-led protests has gripped the country. Despite brutal and authoritarian repression by the Indian state, the demonstrations have been ongoing.
The encouraging aspects of these protests have been their spontaneity and their capacity to formulate their opposition against the Hindu-Right in broad socio-economic and political terms. There is an urgent need to take account of this rare opening and understand the significance of these developments. …
The protests have drawn links between the CAA and the overall state of the Indian society and polity. The Indian economy has seen a deteriorating trend because of stagnant consumption expenditure, reports on which have been withheld by the government.… Students in India have also been resisting university fee hikes that make education more expensive for the poor. Add to this a long running agricultural crisis, and one gets the sense that Indian society is standing on precarious ground.…
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/01/hindutva-india-citizenship-amendment-bill-muslims-modi-bjp
India Rises Against Modi's Bill – By Stephanie Van Hook (Jan 6, 2020, Metta Center)
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Not Nazis yet? – By Debraj Mitra (Jan 10, 2020, The Telegraph)
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Indian Americans disillusioned with Hindutva can still give moral oxygen to CAA protesters – By Bidisha Biswas (Jan 6, 2020, The Print)
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By amending citizenship act, government has given ideological treatment to law it believed was sick – By Tahir Mahmood (Jan 9, 2020, Scroll.in)
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About NDFV
Setareh Tais, ND
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Anatomy of an Anti-Vax Screed
Every few months, we see another prominent anti-vaccine activist circulate a document that purports to be a scientific document proving that our current administration schedule is dangerous. Every time one of these documents appears, the social media go a bit berserk, with scientists scrambling to rebut the latest accusations. Needless to say, this is a tiresome exercise, but today is a rainy day and I'm stuck inside with a sick kid, so here goes….
Who is Kelly Brogan?
Kelly Brogan, MD is likely a new name to those of you who follow vaccine policy. She is a "holistic psychiatrist" practicing in New York City. She has written a book on this subject, and has been making the rounds of the CAM talk circuit. For instance, she'll be speaking next month at the Goop Summit.
She is an interesting individual, to say the least. Clearly, she has strong anti-medication leanings when it comes to mental health management. She also appears to have some idiosyncratic beliefs about HIV treatments. She has an impressive list of publications from prior to 2009, but like so many anti-vaccine physicians, none of those publications are relevant to the field she has chosen to make her fame.
She has written a brief e-book (e-pamphlet, really) that she has made available for free through her website. It is this 23-page document that I'd like to dissect today, because it is a great example of the way that the anti-vaccine activists selectively cite data to support their beliefs.
I would consider this work to be a canonical example of pseudoscience, or the use of the trappings of science to make a non-science argument. In seventh grade, we all learned that science was a way to ask questions about the world in a way to help to eliminate our biases and beliefs from the assessment. In pseudoscience, however, we start with an answer, and selectively access the work of others to build an argument. She offers us a textbook example of pseudoscience in action.
Citing Retracted Research
The first obvious clue to the level of the science we will see here is the first research discussion, found on pages 4-5. This is the Mawson study of vaccinated versus non-vaccinated kids. This was a laughable study that recruited homeschooled kids by email and used methodology that no real research would consider valid. Oh, and you'll note that the original study is hosted on a private server, because it has been retracted by the publishing journal.
In addition to citing fake research, she also fails to cite the much more definitive statement on the subject. This 2010 article from the journal Pediatrics shows pretty conclusively that on-time vaccine delivery is not associated with any deficits in neurodevelopment.
Philosophy Disguised as Science
Anti-vaccine activists often betray their level of bias through the heavy-handed statements that they make. My favorite one here is on page 5, where Dr. Brogan states "I've questioned the fundamental logic of the us versus them anti-germ premise that underlies vaccine design." This is, of course, factually correct. Our vaccine design is (for the most part) aimed at helping our immune systems fight off infection.
But think about this statement from the opposite direction. Is Dr. Brogan suggesting with a straight-face that our problem is really that we have not made sufficient peace with Neisseria meningitidis or Corynebacterium diphtheriae? Many of the most important advances in the life span of humans, from clean water and indoor plumbing through to septic technique in childbirth and universal vaccination policies have essentially been anti-germ. I will humbly argue that any doctor who is arguing for more germs is not spending much time treating C. diff patients.
Baffle with Bullshit
On page 7, Dr. Brogan makes the alarmist point that vaccinations mess up our exosomes. Once the momentary sense of panic subsides, you might think, what are exosomes? Read more here or here. As the second link makes clear, the biology of exosomes is in its infancy, so we know very little about the function of exosomes or how they respond to the environment.
So, in a sense, Dr. Brogan is not wrong that vaccinations could affect exosomes. Just like she wouldn't be wrong if she said that there might be a small Hello Kitty teacup orbiting 6 feet over the surface of Mars. But her argument is completely fabricated, and has no basis in science.
Incomplete Research
On page 11, Dr. Brogan cites a preliminary study in macaques as evidence that the CDC vaccination schedule (at least the mid-90s version) could lead to changes in neuroanatomy. She then makes the assertion that it is the only such study ever done in primates.
Well, as you've probably guessed by now, it is not. In fact, the same researcher followed up her preliminary data with another trial, published in 2015. Spoiler alert: there were no significant differences in the two treatment groups at the end of the study.
TOXINS!!!!
Every anti-vaccine writer worth his or her salt eventually comes back around to the adjuncts in vaccines. And, true, some of them sound scary. Particularly, formaldehye and aluminum could potentially be problematic at high doses.
But that is the catch. The amounts of exposure to these items from the vaccine schedule is miniscule, and each has been extensively studied before going into the CDC schedule. For more on aluminum in vaccines, refer back to this post.
Vaccines Aren't that Important Anyway
Pages 16-21 are devoted to another favorite anti-vaccine argument – that vaccines are not all that effective anyway. The presented charts are evergreen in the anti-vax literature. They are also completely misleading. Sure, infant mortality declined precipitously in the early 20th century as medicine and public health evolved from a primitive state. But this is not an argument about vaccines.
In fact, our vaccination schedule very clearly does work, especially when we stick to it. We have clear evidence that reductions in disease incidence and mortality are real. Here is a more balanced view of the subject.
Oh, and By the Way….
For my money, the most egregious anti-vaccine propaganda tacks a sales pitch on to the end of the alarmist pseudoscience. Why, it just so happens that Dr. Brogan has a program to help undo the (fake) damage that she claims is done by vaccines. This should tell you all you need to know about her motivations and credibility.
I don't know Dr. Brogan, and probably never will. I can't claim to have any insight into her reasons for putting out this document. But I find it necessary to call her on the carpet for the way this document gives a misleading picture of vaccine science and, by extension, slanders nearly every vaccine scientist and pediatrician in the world.
Often, the job of a vaccine advocate is to play defense. As Winston Churchill said, a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. I'd like to see this stop. I'd like to see us do a better job of holding these anti-vaccine (or pro-disease, if you will) folks accountable. For example, what would Dr. Brogan say to the 20 some Minnesota families whose infant children were hospitalized from measles last year? Would she help out at the hospital? Help those immigrant families pay their bills?
If I tell a person that I believe in the Gerson program, and it (predictably) fails, my license is understandably in jeopardy. Whether I made that recommendation because I am ill informed, crazy, or a knowing fraud is immaterial. But, if I write an article or give a talk opposing vaccination policy, to date, there has been no repercussion from state medical boards to date. I expect this will change soon.
While I hope this is the last one of these anti-vaccine screeds that I see, I know it won't be. I bet somebody is sitting at a computer much like mine working an a selectively cited and overly dramatic version at this very minute. I also fear that, like Dr. Brogan's article, the next one will bounce around the internet, convince a few more vaccine-skeptical individuals to opt out, and make us even more likely to see more kids die. It is time for this to stop.
Matthew Brignall
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Matthew Brignall, ND is a contributor to NDsforvaccines.com. He has a private practice in Tacoma, WA, and works part-time for the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department investigating COVID-19 outbreaks in congregate care settings. He is also a contributing member of the Pierce County Immunization Coalition. His hobbies include record collecting, jazz guitar, and exposing medical fraud. His interest in vaccination policy is at least in part to protect his daughter, an adult with developmental disability.
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Dr Brignall, you cannot afford Dr Brogan anyway. She doesn't take insurance and she is, apparently, thousands of dollars just to get in the door.
Well done. Great job taking down this shyster. She drives me bonkers. I cannot stand people who try to talk women out of taking antidepressants when they need them.
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[A] lot of what lets the NSA spy on this stuff in bulk, rather than kind of picking their targets and going for them […] is things like the advert tracking cookies or bad security from the Internet firms or that kind of stuff. So, yes, by all means, we—we are, in America, having a debate about the limits of surveillance law, and it's looking, hopefully, like there might be some reforms, maybe a lot more limited than people want. But in the meantime, the tech companies and the app makers can do a lot to protect us. And I think, as people who use those, we have to make it clear that if you want change, you've got to let your phone maker know, your app makers know, because a lot of this [privacy violating behavior on the part of the NSA] is just piggybacking on either [tech firms'] bad security or them tracking you to try and sell you stuff. There's kind of a bit of a relationship going on between these big companies and the spy agencies, even if it wasn't a deliberate one.
Guardian journalist James Ball discussing his exposé on "Optic Nerve," the NSA and GCHQ collaboration that stored sexually explicit images of Yahoo! webcam video chat users.
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.club, .link and .london appear in the Top 10 for every month so far this year while .work and .website have both appeared in the Top 10 for 3 out of 4 months.
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Maria Ibanez
Assistant Professor of Operations
maria.ibanez@kellogg.northwestern.edu
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Maria Ibanez is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She received her doctorate in Technology and Operations Management from Harvard Business School.
Operations management research typically prescribes policies (such as schedules) for managers to implement. Yet, in practice, workers often have discretion—freedom to decide which tasks to work on, when, and how. As a result, they often deviate from their prescribed assignments. Her research investigates how to "manage" discretion by creating the conditions that promote desirable deviations and mitigate undesirable ones.
From a practical perspective, her research focuses on improving performance by designing data-driven systems that lead individuals to exercise discretion in ways that increase their productivity and work quality. Her work spans archival big data and field experiments in contexts ranging from radiology to restaurant inspections and emergency departments. With a primary focus on healthcare, she collaborates with organizations to understand their work and develop implementable solutions for relevant challenges. Combining operations management with economic theory and the psychology of decision-making, she analyzes large-scale field data to identify causal relationships that generate new insights regarding the connections between operational factors, decision-making, and performance.
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DBA, 2018, Technology and Operations Management, Harvard Business School
Assistant Professor of Operations, Operations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2018-present
Empirical Methods in Operations Management (OPNS-524-0)
This course examines: (1) how to critically read empirical studies, (2) how to ask questions that are interesting and worthwhile studying empirically, (3) what each method of causal inference (e.g. instrumental variables, panel data methods, regression discontinuity, etc.) does and why, when, and how to use each method, and (4) how an empirical researcher goes from an idea to a finished paper.
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Operations Management (OPNS-430-0)
1Ys: This course is typically waived through the admissions process or the equivalent course Operations Management (Turbo) (OPNS-438A) was completed during the Summer term. MMMs: This course is equivalent to the MMM core course Designing and Managing Business Processes (OPNS-440) Operations management is the management of business processes--that is, the management of the recurring activities of a firm. This course aims to familiarize students with the problems and issues confronting operations managers, and to provide the language, concepts, insights and tools to deal with these issues to gain competitive advantage through operations. We examine how different business strategies require different business processes and how different operational capabilities allow and support different strategies to gain competitive advantage. A process view of operations is used to analyze different key operational dimensions such as capacity management, cycle time management, supply chain and logistics management, and quality management. Finally, we connect to recent developments such as lean or world-class manufacturing, just-in-time operations, time-based competition and business re-engineering.
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Breast Cancer and Cervical Cancer Survivor: Against Cancer with Beauty and Wisdom, I'm Healthier, Thank You, Cancer!
Getting cancer is like a drain full of sludge.
Born with a poor health, without a concept of keeping healthy well-being. Since the day I was born, I have been a weak person who easily gets sick and allergy. My immune system was terribly poor and always faint if I stand too long at school morning meeting. I used to regard myself as a person with a bad health, indulged myself to act like this, and never thought about changing it.
After the surgery, I thought I was alright and didn't think about adjusting and improving my life. Who knew that nightmare would happen so soon. The following year I was found to have breast cancer and this time I noticed the look of the doctor. His pitiful eyes made me realize that I was indeed a cancer patient. I can't neglect myself anymore because curing cancer is not difficult, but the difficult parts were the recurrence and transfer afterwards. That second time I got cancer was the time I truly thought about changing my body condition to avoid the third, even the fourth cancer happen to me. That was the first time I decided to change my lifestyle.
I refused to take chemotherapy for prevention while I was in the US. The doctor suggested me to have my entire right breast cut off (or partially) and to undergo chemo and radiation therapy. But I chose to cut partially (only the tumor) and take radiotherapy instead of chemotherapy, and they were painful. The environment made me uncomfortable, so I asked the doctor why I should take chemotherapy and the doctor answered me with two words, "for prevention". I don't want to be in agony just for preventive cure. The doctor disapproved of my decision, therefore, I had to sign a waiver of not undergoing chemotherapy. The female surgical doctor of San Francisco Medical Center said, "If my family gets cancer, I might think about surgery. But I won't think about chemotherapy nor radiotherapy." I can deeply understand the doctor's consideration. If I was to take prevention, I want it in my own way.
During the period of radiotherapy, I exercised everyday to increase immunity and living a routine life – I woke up at seven in the morning and walked around the neighborhood. I had never exercised nor sweat, but now I do it everyday. Taking a hot bath after exercise accelerates my blood circulation and makes me fresh. Then, I drove myself to the hospital for radiotherapy. Maybe it's because I kept walking, exercising, taking a hot bath and taking TXL, that my body is strong with good immunity. At about the third week, some of the patients came in on a wheelchair and the young were even pushed in on a sickbed. During the therapy, people who cure and nurse all segregate and protect themselves, so I think "Healthy people are afraid, what about us, the sick ones?" That is why I keep doing all those things during the therapy instead of nourishing my body after the whole therapy because that would be too late. Until the late week, I drove myself to the hospital and walked like a normal person. The doctor was very surprised at my physical strength and gave me a prize medal for my courage after seven weeks of therapy.
Keep the habit of caring for my health after the therapy. Getting cancer is like a drain full of sludge. Sludge must be cleaned first and them fill the drain with clean water; keeping water filling in so that the drain will be clean forever. Don't think that the drain full of sludge is hopeless! Actually, there is still a chance. So, even my therapy was over, still I keep this habit of caring for my health in order to keep this drain clean forever. Of course, the past bad habits were accumulated for decades, and I spent seven years adjusting myself. There is no hurry in such a case. Now, I eat vegetables, tofu, five cereals and nuts every day and live a normal and simple life. I don't have to live in the mountain or change a lot in my life; I can live an anti-cancer life in the current environment. Some US organic groups to convalesce establish camps to keep in good health in the remote highlands with beautiful scenery. People live there and eat "rare" food. I wonder if that is good and whether I can keep living like that after I return home. Would it recur? A friend of mine who also got cancer believed in drinking rare potato juice can cure cancer and he drank nothing but rare potato juice every day, still he died.
Change constitution and listen to the voice from your body. Everyone has different constitution. You should have known better than the doctor about the body you have used for thirty or forty years. So, I insist on "listening to the voice of your body" My constitution is a bit of acidity, so I started to eat less meat and quit delicate desserts. I once read a medical article which says the delicate white sugar rejects all the good vitamins out of the human body, so I have eaten brown sugar or black sugar since then. And I quit all the sweet drinks. The wonderful thing is after you change your constitution, the body naturally rejects all harmful food by itself. Once I ate with my friend who ordered a soup of soft-shelled turtle and persuaded me of drinking one bowl. My body began swelled after twenty minutes and I was terrified. My body was telling me not to touch the food. Beside the body rejects harmful food naturally, my self-healing power gets stronger and activate my defending system. I used to be allergic to a lot of food and sleep lightly and easily woke up, now I eat more, sleep well, and defecate smoothly.
Thank you, cancer, now I become healthier! Except for the change on life and diet, I started introspection on my personality. I used to be an excessively strong person who wouldn't let others find out that I got sick twice. Of course, family and doctors were there to support me, but they couldn't help me with my pain. I was the one that made my body this way and I should be the only to take responsibility. During the process of self-criticism, I realized that I was too competitive and irascible. Asking for perfection give me too much pressure and this is exactly what I should change myself about. According to my personal experience, taking CAM is not just a simple treatment on symptoms but getting at root of it. Taking good care of oneself from the body, the heart and the soul and taking advantages of the Chinese and Western medication make you listen to the voice of your own body so that you can choose your body with exercise, qigong (a system of deep breathing exercises), yoga, organic diet and Chinese medicine etc. Thank you, cancer! Now my body is better, and healthier than I used to be before I got cancer!
You will find the stage that belongs to you.


Tomorrow, December 2018 begins, and with it comes blogmas year 3. It's crazy that once again there will be 34 posting days in a row… but I'm hoping to make it work!
So while I know we're on the last day of November, I just wanted to recap on the last month. November started with me submitting my first TMA for the Open University. The next week, Mum and Dad headed to Edinburgh to visit Rachel, leaving me home alone for a couple of days. Wednesday morning I drove them to the airport in the torrential rain, flooding, and heavy fog – great fun on country roads! That night had me at choir, and the next day I was in to work. I then had Weight Watchers followed by Granny over for dinner. Friday I finished work and went to get my hair done, before collapsing on the sofa for the rest of the night. It felt so good to have some me time! Saturday I took Granny to the hairdressers, had coffee with my aunt, and then got everything done around the house for Mum and Dad to come home. Sunday then saw me get on with some OU work and head out shopping. The following week passed quite quickly, and before I knew it I was on the plane to Glasgow! After a busy 48 hours, I was home again before rushing out to buy myself a new TV for my bedroom. I still had birthday money I hadn't spent, so I'm classing it as a Christmas present to myself. Plus, now I can watch Netflix in bed from the other side of the room, and still be able to see the screen! By the end of the week, I was shattered. Another busy week of work followed, and then Mum went away for the weekend. Of course, Dad and I took this as an opportunity to watch all the films we wanted to see that Mum has no interest in – Bohemian Rhapsody, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and Fantastic Beasts The Crimes of Grindelwald. If I'm honest, I adored Bohemian Rhapsody that much that I was actually let down by Fantastic Beasts… my own mistake! The next day involved a brilliantly festive NI Blogger Brunch, where we heard from Array Aesthetics, Jamm & Co Cosmetics, and finished off with some wreath making! I went home in the mood to put up the Christmas decorations but was out-voted. Not happy… But then Monday night saw me get even more festive with the Lisburn Light Festival and a night of shopping. Choir changed to Tuesday night, and Wednesday had me submitting my 2nd assignment for the Open University. Finally, yesterday I went to Weight Watchers (or WW as it's now branded) and was told I'm only 2lbs away from goal! Eeeeeek! And now today it's the last day of the month and I am shattered. And this is all before the busy month even begins!
So as you know, I'm going to be busy blogging this month. But I'm also busy outside the blogosphere. Tomorrow is what I will always refer to as "Christmas Tree Day" – I may even get up early! Sunday is then a meal out for my granny's birthday, which itself is on Monday. So I suppose I'd better get thinking about what I'll be wearing! The working week will end on Friday, and I'll be rushing off to get ready for the choir's Christmas concert. Saturday I have a tutorial for the Open University, and then I'm hoping to go to Fermanagh for the night to visit family. Home on Sunday, and into work Monday. The following Friday is our Christmas night out with work, and it's a planned pub crawl. Wish me luck… Then that Monday is Mum's birthday, so I have no doubt we'll be doing something for her birthday. We finish for Christmas on the Thursday, so on Friday I'll be getting my hair done, dropping the cat off for her Christmas holiday, and packing for our journey. Oh, did I not mention? We're in Scotland for Christmas this year! Leaving on the Saturday. We'll be back well before the New Year though, and before you know it we'll be back into work on the 2nd January 2019. It's a scary thought!
It took a long time to think up my goals for November, so shall we have a look and see what we managed to achieve?
Well, I think we can agree I managed to post at least once a week! In fact, I believe it was actually 3 times a week, but who's counting? I also managed to keep up with my coursework, so that's a bonus! And while I haven't written all my blogmas posts, I have a lot of them planned and/or drafted just needing the finishing touches! So can we count that as a success?
I do want to keep it somewhat simple for December, especially with it being such a busy month.
Blog every day of the month.
Watch a Christmas film each week.
Set up my 2019 bullet journal.
Do you set yourself any monthly goals? Or do you have any specific goals for December? Let me know in the comments below! And remember to call back tomorrow to read the start of my blogmas posts!


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Cuban Law
The evolution of both home and transnational administrative regulation will permit for brand spanking new heterarchical types of accountability and legitimation once the focus on a hierarchical concept of delegation is given up. For each domestic and world administrative law the adoption of new approaches to ex submit monitoring of administrative motion and studying appears to be extra promising than the traditional focus on the binding drive of legal rules ex ante. Ghana has been a big player on the international scene with regard to human rights. After a chequered political historic, its democratic evolution since 1993 has been on track. Its current human rights document, although in need of great improvements, is among the many best in Africa. In addition, Ghana is presently a member of the newly-created UN Human Rights Council.
While it's noted that significant cases on human rights have been litigated before the courts since independence, the Ghanaian courts have had a scanty report of invoking worldwide and regional human rights norms in deciding human rights cases. As a end result, the courts' human rights jurisprudence has not been enriched by international human rights requirements. The chapter undertakes a historic evaluation of the function of the courts in counting on worldwide human rights norms in litigation instances involving human rights from 1957 thus far. It also examines the factors accounting for the dearth of commitment by each the bench and the bar to resort to international human rights norms. The chapter then takes the subsequent step of discussing the relevance of, and the justification for, resort to worldwide human rights regulation. A physician's consent to aid a patient to commit suicide implies to the affected person that the act is ethical and acceptable. This affirmation of such an act by a person in power can be overwhelming for terminally ill sufferers, and make them consent to such a process with out adequate reflection and understanding.
First Recognized Use Of Legality
While the Constitutional Court made it clear greater than a decade ago that the PAJA can't legitimately be averted by direct reliance on part 33 or on the common law, it was unhelpfully silent about sidestepping the PAJA in favour of the precept of legality. Then, in its breathtaking judgment in the Albutt case , the court docket held that there was no must resort to the PAJA at all where the legality precept was able to resolving a dispute.
Definition Of Regulation
In this sense, figuring out the content of our constitutional law requires a reciprocal relationship between the legislature and the citizen. Indeed, the democratic imaginative and prescient of constitutional interpretive authority promotes not solely the viability of the role of legislation in our society, however the future legitimacy of the Canadian administrative state. This article critiques a number of functional explanations which have been given to the dramatic unfold of proportionality and suggests an intrinsic one. Proportionality, we consider, is essentially a requirement for justification, which represents a profound shift in constitutional regulation on a world degree. We characterize this, following South African scholar Etienne Mureinik, as a shift from a culture of authority to a tradition of justification. We identify a number of features of Western constitutional techniques that have evolved after World War II, and that support the culture of justification.
She had roughly a twenty-five percent probability of surviving if she had submitted to painful and extended treatment. Doctor Quill, as well as Diane's family, had reservations about Diane's refusal to accept remedy, and they attempted to steer her in any other case. However, Diane was determined to commit suicide within the least painful way potential. Thus, Quill prescribed her barbiturates and knowledgeable her the dosage she would wish to take to commit suicide. He implicitly or explicitly was informing Diane and her family that Diane's determination was ethical, rational, and justifiable under the circumstances, despite the fact that she had a twenty-five p.c chance of survival.


We have become a nation of test-givers, assessing student performance and knowledge in a way that is largely exempt from any kind of real-life application. As important as standard assessments are, relevant and authentic assessments are even more vital. Educators must give assignments that engage students' curiosity and imagination instead of those that hold little authenticity and are simply to satisfy answers to a test; when they do, students will rise. They will lean into the issues they face in literature and current issues in the world if given the chance, and it is inspiring to see that, when given an opportunity to voice their opinions and share experiences, they can do just that.
In this kind of atmosphere, compliancy gives way to engagement and it is here where students find their own voices, where they uncover the seeds of their own stories and where they discover themselves.
I really enjoyed your comments here about testing and imagination.
I don't think we acknowledge the central role imagination plays in ALL learning. All topics, K-12. Human beings are emotional and imaginative beings. Do we teach accordingly? Not always!
Are you familiar with the work of Dr. Kieran Egan? Imaginative Education? I am trying to get more people talking here: imaginED (blog–http://gillianjudson.edublogs.org). I would welcome your comments on those pieces dealing with the need for more imaginative and engaging teaching for all kids!


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Display as much as five gadgets each account.
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ReaderCart Website: The Project ReaderCart is E-Commerce solution for online bookshop.
We have implemented Magento template and lots of customizations have been performed in order to meet project needs and to make it unique.
From the website Users can search and purchase books available in different categories on the website. Users can also share the Product with social media or add to Wishlist.
We have also developed custom extension for "Product out of the stock subscription". Also we have created functionality to login with third party websites like Facebook & Google.


For those of you who have never stumbled over the site or have been to a private view in Liverpool over the past seven years this news will be like water off a duck's back. But if you have, chances are you have bumped into Ian Jackson and his wife Minako.
The team behind the award-winning arts blog and website artinliverpool.com have just announced they are taking a backseat and while the site will remain as an archive and artist's directory from 1 September there will be no more listings, exhibitions, events, news or classifieds. The site won't be updated as frequently with only the occasional mailshot being sent out.
Comprehensive barely begins to adequately describe Art in Liverpool. From the city's major arts venues, to underground spaces, classified adverts for artists, news on upcoming shows along with reviews and picture stories on any given day since 2004 when you have looked at the site it's given you a snapshot on what's happening on the cultural cobbles of Liverpool.
Art in Liverpool launched during the city's 2004 Biennial. In web-savvy 2011 where the likelihood is your private view invite list contains as many bloggers as stakeholders it may be difficult to imagine the impact this site had, becoming as it describes itself the primary online resource for Liverpool's art scene.
Fiercely independent, non-partisan, eloquent and impishly dry and witty the blog had enough of the facts but also great opinion pieces providing a glimpse of the daily sights and delights of the city. It launched just a year after it had been announced Liverpool would be the European Capital of Culture in 2008. Many thought that was a nonsensical decision (some probably still do, more fool them). Quite easily the artworld in Liverpool could have become defensive, turned itself into a closed shop while it prepared for its showcase year. It didn't. Instead it embraced new visitors, demystified the arts, encouraged participation and showed as many people as it possibly could that art was for everyone. You might not get all of it, but at least you could have a go.
At the heart of that sea-change was Art in Liverpool. The walls came tumbling down. With all the fervour of excited teenagers Liverpool's artists, galleries and its inhabitants fell in love all over again. Every man and his cat has a blog nowadays. Back in 2004 this online resource that could be updated within the hour, illustrated with snaps taken on Ian Jackson's camera, fitted snugly with Liverpool's sense that we were embarking on something new. The city had won the bid, the city would be ready to enjoy it. And having your say on an exhibition wasn't just for critics and arty types, it was for everyone. The wonder of having a one-stop-shop listing every single exhibition and arts event in Liverpool truly was something that felt a bit special. It gave the arts their own voice.
Awarded the moniker of 'Britain's Best Arts blog' by The Times in 2005 undoubtedly Art in Liverpool was a trailblazer for the city. It wasn't the first but it undoubtedly had the biggest impact.
Time for the rest of us to up our game.


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Posts Tagged 'Michael Bowen'
Levitating the Pentagon
On October 21, 1967, over fifty thousand activists marched on the Pentagon to protest the war in Vietnam. The participants included Abbie Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg, Jerry Rubin, Ed Sanders, and Norman Mailer, who describes one of the day's most memorable episodes in The Armies of the Night:
This was the beginning of the exorcism of the Pentagon, yes the papers had made much of the permit requested by a hippie leader named Abbie Hoffman to encircle the Pentagon with twelve hundred men in order to form a ring of exorcism sufficiently powerful to raise the Pentagon three hundred feet. In the air the Pentagon would then, went the presumption, turn orange and vibrate until all evil emissions had fled this levitation. At that point the war in Vietnam would end.
The notion of levitating the Pentagon—an occult symbol that had been corrupted into an emblem of war—was the brainchild of Michael Bowen, a San Francisco artist and political organizer whose friends included Timothy Leary and Gary Snyder. As the ceremony proceeded, a flyer was circulated that encouraged the attendees to concentrate their minds on casting out evil: "A billion stars in a billion galaxies of space and time is the form of your power, and limitless is your name." Rubin and Ginsberg led the crowd in invocations and mantras, and Bowen distributed flowers to the protesters, who inserted daisies into the gun barrels of the military police. Watching the scene unfold, Mailer marveled: "On which acidic journeys had the hippies met the witches and the devils and the cutting edge of all primitive awe?"
It was a rhetorical question, but the real answer is genuinely surprising. Bowen credited the basic idea for the ceremony to his guru, an occultist living in Mexico named John Starr Cooke. As a recent article in Smithsonian recounts:
Cooke had sent his protégé as a missionary of sorts in search of fellow travelers in New York, London, and most recently San Francisco, where he had found his greatest success rallying people to the cause…Following the Be-In [in January 1967]…Bowen returned to Mexico to be with his teacher. They worked on extrasensory perception, ancient Mayan shamanic rituals, and the metaphysical symbology that informed the artist's paintings. Then the guru dispatched his student back to the United States—arming him this time with an outlandish idea that found a surprisingly receptive audience.
Attentive readers of this blog might remember that Cooke was also an associate of L. Ron Hubbard, an early proponent of dianetics, and allegedly the first "clear" in America. As I've noted here before, Cooke spent time with Hubbard in London and Tangier, and it was through him that Byron Gysin and William S. Burroughs were introduced to Scientology. But if the idea of levitating the Pentagon truly came from Cooke, it may well have been influenced in turn by Hubbard, who described the individual who has reached the stage beyond clear: "A thetan who is completely rehabilitated and can do everything a thetan should do, such as move MEST [matter, energy, space, and time] and control others from a distance, or create his own universe; a person who is able to create his own universe or, living in the MEST universe is able to create illusions perceivable by others at will, to handle MEST universe objects without mechanical means." And Hubbard himself was rumored to be able to move objects with his mind, as one of his former followers later recalled: "People thought he could levitate things."
In my original post on the subject, I wrote of Cooke: "It may have been through him that aspects of dianetics entered the counterculture—another important story that has yet to be told." When I wrote those words, I didn't know the half of it. For now, though, I'd like to focus on the mysterious way in which one of Hubbard's wild promises was transmuted, as in a game of telephone, into something genuinely moving and memorable. It didn't succeed in levitating the Pentagon, but only in the sense that Sgt. Pepper didn't end the Vietnam War. As none other than Daniel Ellsberg notes in an oral history of the event by Arthur magazine:
I was working on the Pentagon Papers that fall in a room which happened to be right next to MacNamara's office. I'd come back from Vietnam very anxious to see the war end and to do whatever I could to help that. So I was very sympathetic to the anti-war movement, what I knew of it. The idea of levitating the Pentagon struck me as a great idea because the idea of removing deference from any of these institutions is very, very important, and this is of course the kind of thing that Abbie understood very instinctively. It was not just a matter of clowning and a way to get the attention of the media, or to make people smile. And the idea that you would jointly piss on the Pentagon as part of a pagan ceremony raises so many associations. One might think of the Pentagon as pagan in itself, but that's a slander of pagan religion.
Or as Ginsberg says in the same article: "The levitation of the Pentagon was a happening that demystified the authority of the military. The Pentagon was symbolically levitated in people's minds in the sense that it lost its authority which had been unquestioned and unchallenged until then…Once the kid put his flower in the barrel of the kid looking just like himself but tense and nervous, the authority of the Pentagon psychologically was dissolved."
And this kind of demystification is exactly the kind of thing that the confidence trickster is born to do. It's a vital form of protest, and the fact that it may have indirectly drawn inspiration from Hubbard, of all people, is revealing in itself. These impulses can go in any number of directions. Abbie Hoffman himself had a lot in common with the denizens of the pool halls that also filled David Mamet with nostalgia, as John Escow told Arthur: "Abbie's political program was just a hastily thrown together amalgamation of some things he had read, certain life lessons that he had picked up in pool halls and on the street." Writing in his introduction to Hoffman's autobiography, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, Mailer intuitively makes the connection to an even older archetype:
Abbie was one of the most incredible-looking people I ever met. In fact, he wasn't twentieth century, but nineteenth. Might just as well have emerged out of Oliver Twist. You could say he used to look like a chimney sweep. In fact, I don't know what chimney sweeps looked like, but I always imagined them as having a manic integrity that glared out of their eyes through all the soot and darked-up skin. It was the knowledge that they were doing an essential job that no one else would do. Without them, everybody in the house would slowly, over the years, suffocate from the smoke.
These skills are far older than modern politics, and they're ideologically neutral, which can frustrate more "serious" activists—but which also makes them even more effective at certain kinds of mobilization. (As Paul Krassner recalls in the same oral history: "[Abbie] saw that people who could be organized to go to a smoke-in, could be organized to go to an antiwar rally.) Jerry Rubin once pointed out in the Berkeley Barb: "The worst thing you can say about a demonstration is that it is boring, and one of the reasons that the peace movement has not grown into a mass movement is that the peace movement—its literature and its events—is a bore. Good theatre is needed to communicate revolutionary content." That's as true today as it ever was. And the show is just getting started.
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The Magic People
As I wrap up work on Astounding, I'm more aware than ever of the book that I didn't write, and all the great stories that I was forced to leave out of the finished version for reasons of time or space. One figure whom I wasn't able to mention was John Cooke, an occultist whose fascinating life brought him into contact with many of the players about whom I've written here in the past. Cooke, who was born into an affluent family in Hawaii in 1920, developed an interest at an early age in tarot cards and the Ouija board. His first wife, Millen Cooke, wrote for such magazines as Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, and Other Worlds Science Stories, and along with many other authors and fans in the early fifties, she was fascinated by dianetics, to the extent that she impulsively flew from California to New York to visit the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation. (This was evidently in 1951, when the foundation relocated from New Jersey to a new headquarters on 55 East 82nd Street in Manhattan to head off potential legal trouble, as early collaborator Don Rogers reveals in the letters that were recently posted on Tony Ortega's blog.) Cooke was annoyed by her abrupt departure, but after driving across the country, he became equally involved. In the book Acid Dreams, the authors Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain claim that Cooke became "the first 'clear' in America," which seems unlikely—although it speaks to the intensity of his connection to Hubbard's ideas, as well as the way in which dianetics tended to take root in existing communities where science fiction and the occult intersected.
After his divorce from Millen, Cooke married a woman named Mary Oser, whom he met through their mutual interest in dianetics. In One Nation, Under Gods, Peter Manseau writes of the couple, who settled in England:
While in London, they were known to wear flowing African robes they had acquired throughout their travels, and passed the days often in the company of L. Ron Hubbard himself. During their meetings, they discussed John's magical abilities and memories of past life experiences, and Hubbard's "science of the mind" began to take on a cosmic dimension.
From there, they moved to Morocco, where they served, in Manseu's account, as "missionaries of Hubbard's increasingly supernatural notions." What happened next is a matter of dispute. According to an article by Mark Walker, who hopes to write a biography of Cooke in collaboration with the occultist's son Chamba:
L. Ron Hubbard reportedly tracked down Cooke in Tangier. Hubbard made a trip to London in 1952 to set up a dianetics center, and it may have been on this trip that he met with Cooke. The meeting was not propitious and in the space of a single afternoon, Cooke grew disillusioned with Hubbard and his teachings. According to Michael Bowen, Hubbard came to Cooke with a tale of woe at how the dianetics business had failed, and Cooke advised him to relaunch it as a religion. This was precisely what Hubbard did after moving to Phoenix, Arizona in March 1952.
The notion that Cooke advised Hubbard to convert Scientology into a religion is undoubtedly apocryphal—John W. Campbell, among others, also took credit for the idea, which was really the product of a complex confluence of factors. And there are competing accounts of Cooke's "disillusionment." In Tangier, after the alleged meeting with Hubbard took place, Cooke developed a case of polio that cost him the use of his legs, which he claimed was the result of a magical attack. Manseau writes:
When news of the diagnosis—paralytic poliomyelitis—reached London, L. Ron Hubbard likely supposed that an engram must have been the true cause of Cooke's affliction…The Cookes hoped the top Scientologist himself would materialize in Tangier to tend to his friend, but Hubbard instead dispatched one of his highest-ranking auditors to see what "the process" could do for one of its earliest adherents.
The auditor was an Australian named Jim Skelton, who, according to Chamba Cooke, "was able to push the polio paralysis back down John's trunk from his heart, but was unable to make it go any further. Skelton told Hubbard that the method Hubbard taught him was not fully effective; Hubbard countered that Skelton was not performing the method correctly. This contributed to Skelton splitting from Hubbard." Manseau states that this incident was the real reason that Cooke fell out with Hubbard, although he continued to practice certain aspects of dianetics on his own.
So far, this story resembles many other anecdotes from this period, with unusual personalities—like A.E. van Vogt—being drawn into Hubbard's circle and then becoming disillusioned or worse. Yet it's the sequel that intrigues me the most. While in Morocco, the Cookes met Brion Gysin, who was running a restaurant in Tangier. In the biography Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted, John Geiger writes of their first meeting:
[John and Mary Cooke] were early adherents of the science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard…Cooke had shaved his head and wore a closely cropped beard. His first words to Gysin were "Guess where we came from and guess who we are?" Gysin could not possibly have guessed. The couple had traveled from Algeria, and claimed they were directed to him by their Ouija board. "They just came flooding in giving me the impression that they were really Magic People, and they had all of these things at their fingertips…most particularly money."
Through Gysin, they met William S. Burroughs, whom the Cookes introduced to Scientology. In Rub Out the Words, a collection of the author's correspondence, there are several fascinating letters between Burroughs and Cooke, including one in which the latter writes: "It would seem that Hubbard is putting down his third-rate science fiction as the one and only cosmos." (This is the same letter that reveals that Burroughs was familiar with the OT III material, complete with a reference to "galactic federations and Zmus [sic].") After Cooke returned to America, he became involved with such countercultural icons as Bowen and Timothy Leary, who referred to him as "the great crippled wizard." Cooke was one of those indispensable connectors who pass ideas between communities of outsiders, and it may have been through him that aspects of dianetics entered the counterculture—another important story that has yet to be told. As Cooke allegedly once said to Burroughs: "I hope I am there to help [Hubbard] over the hump, even though he failed me when I needed him."
Tagged with Acid Dreams, Brion Gysin, Bruce Shlain, John Cooke, John Geiger, John Starr Cooke, L. Ron Hubbard, Martin A. Lee, Mary Cooke, Michael Bowen, Millen Cooke, Nothing is True Everything is Permitted, One Nation Under Gods, Peter Manseau, Rub Out the Words, William S. Burroughs


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TODAY, WE ARE DEVELOPING A HEALTHY SELF-ESTEEM MOVEMENT
FOR GIRLS AND BOYS (5-12+)
ORIGINALLY, the JNP brand was developed for girls, but market testing questioned: What about the boys??—so we revised the Brand to focus on both boys and girls!
Having begun as a storybook with accompanying doll and plush accessories, Jane NOT Plain® was to be a series of books on self-esteem and self-awareness for girls.
We distributed the Brand as lessons of how Jane could feel better about herself; how being kind and loving are more important than one's looks; and that friendship-building relies on the quality of a person, not exterior looks. Upon receiving the Gift of Wisdom, Jane realized that she is very special, indeed! The lesson, of course, is that Jane will be prepared to meet her peers with confidence as she grows up.
VALUE IN THE JNP BRAND
Initial audience response confirms the need for, and value of, The World of Jane NOT Plain.™ In the Brand's initial development, Jane NOT Plain™ and the accompanying toy/accessory products were a huge hit with youngsters, focus groups, library storytelling time, special appearances, parades and on TV. They also captivated large crowds at the Toy Industry Association's famous Toy Fair in New York City, landing firmly on the pages of The Wall Street Journal, headlining as the new "confidence enhancing" products for parents! The book was awarded Creative Child Magazine's Creative Toy Award's Seal of Excellence.
THE PRODUCT LINE WAS A HIT
Kids—both boys and girls—were drawn to these lovable characters: large and small versions of a long-armed, long-legged Jane doll (uniquely designed and distinctly different from any other doll in the marketplace); a clear Lucite fish bowl holding a soft, plush goldfish named Oracle along with best friend Jane; the Pearls of Wisdom™ necklace for girls (also worn by the doll); and Jaunty Mr. Sea Turtle, who led Jane and Oracle on their undersea adventures, where all the fantastic components of The World of Jane NOT Plain™ came to life.
A key developmental theme in Jane NOT Plain is our outer and inner selves. Girls were introduced to Jane as a literal "blank canvas" (her exterior is plain cotton canvas); each child was invited to create Jane's exterior image while Jane and her cast of characters taught each girl about her internal "colors" (which JNP calls "inner awesome").
We created the Pearls of Wisdom™ necklace with multi-colored pearls on a gold-chain, sized for the Jane doll, and one for mothers and daughters too. On each pearl a golden tab was engraved with different Words of Wisdom™, a playtime reminder of a girl's true value. The necklace also offered a way for a girl to bond with her mother (or other special adult woman), who would wear her own adult Pearls of Wisdom necklace as a reminder of heart-centered wisdom. A mermaid's costume was also part of the product line with mother-daughter sizes.
Close to Her Heart
The large Jane doll has a "her best self" logo printed over her heart as a special reminder to a young girl to choose to live within HER CIRCLE OF POWER all day.
Since the debut of Jane NOT Plain®, digital tablets such as the iPad, Kindle, and Nook (to name a few) are challenging printed books as the educational tools of choice for both kids and adults. Children as young as two can turn on a tablet, press the apps to play games, read books, and access the Internet to watch animations. Given the increasing tech-savviness of kids, we knew where we had to expand this brand development.
Recently, we conducted focus groups (which confirmed our target audience of kids 5 through 12 years old), and the children became immediately enamored of the storyline, characters, and plush toys. With the addition of another main character, Jake (Jane's classmate and friend), we have now developed a re-brand, The JNP (Jane Not Plain) Project, to help girls and boys, ages 5-12+—and parents, educators, and counselors too—explore their inner awesome.
Have fun and enjoy the adventure of discovering your inner awesome super-power!


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package org.apache.spark.sql.execution.stat

import scala.collection.mutable.{Map => MutableMap}

import org.apache.spark.internal.Logging
import org.apache.spark.sql.{Column, DataFrame, Dataset, Row}
import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.plans.logical.LocalRelation
import org.apache.spark.sql.types._

object FrequentItems extends Logging {

  /** A helper class wrapping `MutableMap[Any, Long]` for simplicity. */
  private class FreqItemCounter(size: Int) extends Serializable {
    val baseMap: MutableMap[Any, Long] = MutableMap.empty[Any, Long]
    /**
     * Add a new example to the counts if it exists, otherwise deduct the count
     * from existing items.
     */
    def add(key: Any, count: Long): this.type = {
      if (baseMap.contains(key))  {
        baseMap(key) += count
      } else {
        if (baseMap.size < size) {
          baseMap += key -> count
        } else {
          val minCount = if (baseMap.values.isEmpty) 0 else baseMap.values.min
          val remainder = count - minCount
          if (remainder >= 0) {
            baseMap += key -> count // something will get kicked out, so we can add this
            baseMap.retain((k, v) => v > minCount)
            baseMap.transform((k, v) => v - minCount)
          } else {
            baseMap.transform((k, v) => v - count)
          }
        }
      }
      this
    }

    /**
     * Merge two maps of counts.
     * @param other The map containing the counts for that partition
     */
    def merge(other: FreqItemCounter): this.type = {
      other.baseMap.foreach { case (k, v) =>
        add(k, v)
      }
      this
    }
  }

  /**
   * Finding frequent items for columns, possibly with false positives. Using the
   * frequent element count algorithm described in
   * here, proposed by Karp, Schenker,
   * and Papadimitriou.
   * The `support` should be greater than 1e-4.
   * For Internal use only.
   *
   * @param df The input DataFrame
   * @param cols the names of the columns to search frequent items in
   * @param support The minimum frequency for an item to be considered `frequent`. Should be greater
   *                than 1e-4.
   * @return A Local DataFrame with the Array of frequent items for each column.
   */
  def singlePassFreqItems(
      df: DataFrame,
      cols: Seq[String],
      support: Double): DataFrame = {
    require(support >= 1e-4 && support <= 1.0, s"Support must be in [1e-4, 1], but got $support.")
    val numCols = cols.length
    // number of max items to keep counts for
    val sizeOfMap = (1 / support).toInt
    val countMaps = Seq.tabulate(numCols)(i => new FreqItemCounter(sizeOfMap))
    val originalSchema = df.schema
    val colInfo: Array[(String, DataType)] = cols.map { name =>
      val index = originalSchema.fieldIndex(name)
      (name, originalSchema.fields(index).dataType)
    }.toArray

    val freqItems = df.select(cols.map(Column(_)) : _*).rdd.aggregate(countMaps)(
      seqOp = (counts, row) => {
        var i = 0
        while (i < numCols) {
          val thisMap = counts(i)
          val key = row.get(i)
          thisMap.add(key, 1L)
          i += 1
        }
        counts
      },
      combOp = (baseCounts, counts) => {
        var i = 0
        while (i < numCols) {
          baseCounts(i).merge(counts(i))
          i += 1
        }
        baseCounts
      }
    )
    val justItems = freqItems.map(m => m.baseMap.keys.toArray)
    val resultRow = Row(justItems : _*)
    // append frequent Items to the column name for easy debugging
    val outputCols = colInfo.map { v =>
      StructField(v._1 + "_freqItems", ArrayType(v._2, false))
    }
    val schema = StructType(outputCols).toAttributes
    Dataset.ofRows(df.sparkSession, LocalRelation.fromExternalRows(schema, Seq(resultRow)))
  }
}

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