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Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip set to die for 1997 killing
OKLAHOMA CITY Attorneys for an Oklahoma death row inmate are making a last minute effort to spare their client's life just hours before his scheduled execution, arguing they hermes bracelets replica have new evidence to support his claim that he was framed.
Richard Eugene Glossip's attorneys asked the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals late Tuesday to stop his lethal injection, saying they uncovered new details in the case, including a signed affidavit from an inmate who served time with Justin Sneed, who also was convicted of the killing and is serving a life sentence.
"We're asking for a stay of execution to give the court more time to review this new evidence, which we think casts grave doubt on Richard's guilt," said Mark Henricksen, one of Glossip's attorneys.
Glossip, 52, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday afternoon at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. He was convicted of ordering the 1997 beating death of Barry Van Treese, who owned the motel where Glossip worked.
Sneed was the prosecution's key witness and testified that Glossip masterminded the killing because he was afraid Van Treese was about to fire him for embezzling money and poorly managing the motel. "I'll hope for the best. I won't let it bring me down. If you've got to go out. you don't want to be bitter and angry about it."
Glossip's case has drawn attention from death penalty opponents, and his family and supporters rallied Tuesday at the Oklahoma Capitol. They want Republican Gov.
Among his supporters is Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon, who played a nun in the movie "Dead Man Walking." The woman Sarandon portrayed, anti death penalty advocate Sister Helen Prejean, serves as Glossip's spiritual adviser and plans to attend his execution Wednesday. Wednesday.
The protocol maintains that Glossip will be moved to a special cell as he awaits execution at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. He is allowed to have a pen and paper, religious items, a book hermes clic clac h bracelet replica or magazine, and toiletries including soap, toothpaste, a toothbrush and a comb.
Department of Corrections spokeswoman Terri Watkins says Glossip received a special last meal on Tuesday, but that he'll hermes bracelet fake have his normal breakfast and lunch Wednesday. Watkins says Glossip's last meal was chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and a hermes clic clac replica dinner roll from Chili's; two orders of fish and chips from Long John Silver's; and a strawberry malt and Baconator cheeseburger from Wendy's.
OKLAHOMA CITY Attorneys for an Oklahoma death row inmate are making a last minute effort to spare their client's life just hours before his scheduled execution, arguing they hermes bracelets replica have new evidence to support his claim that he was framed.
Richard Eugene Glossip's attorneys asked the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals late Tuesday to stop his lethal injection, saying they uncovered new details in the case, including a signed affidavit from an inmate who served time with Justin Sneed, who also was convicted of the killing and is serving a life sentence.
"We're asking for a stay of execution to give the court more time to review this new evidence, which we think casts grave doubt on Richard's guilt," said Mark Henricksen, one of Glossip's attorneys.
Glossip, 52, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday afternoon at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. He was convicted of ordering the 1997 beating death of Barry Van Treese, who owned the motel where Glossip worked.
Sneed was the prosecution's key witness and testified that Glossip masterminded the killing because he was afraid Van Treese was about to fire him for embezzling money and poorly managing the motel. "I'll hope for the best. I won't let it bring me down. If you've got to go out. you don't want to be bitter and angry about it."
Glossip's case has drawn attention from death penalty opponents, and his family and supporters rallied Tuesday at the Oklahoma Capitol. They want Republican Gov.
Among his supporters is Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon, who played a nun in the movie "Dead Man Walking." The woman Sarandon portrayed, anti death penalty advocate Sister Helen Prejean, serves as Glossip's spiritual adviser and plans to attend his execution Wednesday. Wednesday.
The protocol maintains that Glossip will be moved to a special cell as he awaits execution at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. He is allowed to have a pen and paper, religious items, a book hermes clic clac h bracelet replica or magazine, and toiletries including soap, toothpaste, a toothbrush and a comb.
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Nobel for microscopy that reveals inner world of cells
Ever since the seventeenth century, when the early microbiologist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek focused light through lenses and marvelled at the cells that swam before his eyes, microscopes have opened up new vistas of discovery. This year, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to three scientists who defied the limits of light microscopes to reveal sharp images of molecular scale structures in living cells.
The advances made by Stefan Hell, William Moerner and Eric Betzig in the 1990s and 2000s mean that biologists can now see, in real time, how proteins are distributed and move inside cells at the junctions between neurons, for example, or in fertilized eggs dividing into embryos.
"It is really a revolution for the life sciences, because we can see structures that we could never see before," says Stefan Jakobs, who works with super resolution techniques at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Gttingen. Or as the Nobel committee put it: "Microscopy has become nanoscopy."
No matter how clean their lenses, optical microscopes inevitably provide a blurry view of the molecules inside cells, as German physicist Ernst Abbe realized in 1873. The laws of physics dictate that visible light cannot distinguish between objects closer to each other than around 200 nanometres (around half the wavelength replica van cleef jewelry of visible light) they will appear as one blob. Such resolution, known as Abbe's diffraction limit, is good enough to reveal the organelles inside cells but not to see their detailed structures. Microscopes that use beams of electrons, rather than light, have finer resolution, but they can be used only in a vacuum, limiting their use to dead tissue.
Abbe's limit cannot be overcome, van cleef arpels necklace replica but the 2014 Nobel prizewinners pioneered ways to work around it using fluorophores, or fluorescent molecules. Now routinely used in biological imaging, fluorophores emit light when hit by lasers of a certain wavelength.
Beating the blur
In 1989, William Moerner, now at Stanford University in California, but then at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, detected the faint fluorescence of a single molecule. In 1997, while working at the University of California in San Diego, he found a way to control the fluorescence and switch the molecules on and off like lamps. Still, these single molecules could be distinguished only if they were more than 200 nanometres apart.
Two years earlier, Eric Betzig, who was at that time working at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, had proposed that if different molecules inside a cell could be made to glow with different colours, researchers should be able to increase the resolution by taking a series of snapshots first the red molecules, then the green, then the blue. Any fluorophores of the same colour would have to be more than 200 nanometres apart, but the superimposed images would produce a much finer resolution structure. Moerner went on to show that identical molecules could be made to fluoresce at different times, a discovery that ultimately made Betzig's vision a reality.
It would take a decade before Betzig demonstrated his idea in practice. He left academic science to work in his father's machine tool business in Michigan. In 2006, working at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm research campus in Ashburn, Virginia, he used the technique to take a super resolution picture of a lysosome protein dotted with green fluorescent molecules as labels. The technique can now get down to a resolution of 20 nanometres, says Markus Sauer, who studies super resolution microscopy at the University of Wrzburg, Germany.
Meanwhile Stefan Hell, working at the University of Turku in Finland, had found a way around Abbe's limit by a different technique, which also relies on switching fluorescent molecules on and off. In 1994 he proposed using one laser to make a cluster of dye molecules fluoresce, and a second beam, of a different wavelength, to switch some of those fluorophores off through a process described by Einstein in 1917.
Hell's trick is to use the second beam to outline the cluster illuminated by the first, so that only the molecules in a very narrow spot fluoresce. The final image remains blurred, as light still cannot beat Abbe's limit, but it is clear that light can have come only from the narrow central spot defined by the second beam, enabling researchers to pinpoint the light source.
Building up a series of these tiny fluorescent spots creates a fine resolution picture. In theory, the central spot can be made as small as a few nanometres across, but in living cells, the limit is around 30 nanometres, Sauer says, because it is at this stage that fluorophores are usually destroyed by the intensity of replica vca necklace the second beam."It was my view, at least, that so much physics happened in the twentieth century that it was impossible there was no phenomenon that would allow you to overcome the diffraction barrier," Hell, who now works at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Gttingen, told the Nobel committee, on learning that he had won the prize.
The call from the Nobel committee caught Hell while he was reading a scientific paper. Afterwards, he said, "I read the paragraph that I wanted to read to the end, then I called up my wife and tried to reach some of the people who are close to me."
The techniques devised by this year's prizewinners are not yet routine but are used by many biologists to take remarkable pictures of structures inside cells. Hell has published videos of vesicles 40 nanometres across moving in a nerve cell. Xiaowei Zhuang, a chemist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has invented her own variation, called stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy, and used it to show how actin filaments wrap around the circumference of axons in a ring like pattern. "There will be many new versions of super resolution microscopes in future," Hell says.
Ever since the seventeenth century, when the early microbiologist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek focused light through lenses and marvelled at the cells that swam before his eyes, microscopes have opened up new vistas of discovery. This year, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to three scientists who defied the limits of light microscopes to reveal sharp images of molecular scale structures in living cells.
The advances made by Stefan Hell, William Moerner and Eric Betzig in the 1990s and 2000s mean that biologists can now see, in real time, how proteins are distributed and move inside cells at the junctions between neurons, for example, or in fertilized eggs dividing into embryos.
"It is really a revolution for the life sciences, because we can see structures that we could never see before," says Stefan Jakobs, who works with super resolution techniques at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Gttingen. Or as the Nobel committee put it: "Microscopy has become nanoscopy."
No matter how clean their lenses, optical microscopes inevitably provide a blurry view of the molecules inside cells, as German physicist Ernst Abbe realized in 1873. The laws of physics dictate that visible light cannot distinguish between objects closer to each other than around 200 nanometres (around half the wavelength replica van cleef jewelry of visible light) they will appear as one blob. Such resolution, known as Abbe's diffraction limit, is good enough to reveal the organelles inside cells but not to see their detailed structures. Microscopes that use beams of electrons, rather than light, have finer resolution, but they can be used only in a vacuum, limiting their use to dead tissue.
Abbe's limit cannot be overcome, van cleef arpels necklace replica but the 2014 Nobel prizewinners pioneered ways to work around it using fluorophores, or fluorescent molecules. Now routinely used in biological imaging, fluorophores emit light when hit by lasers of a certain wavelength.
Beating the blur
In 1989, William Moerner, now at Stanford University in California, but then at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, detected the faint fluorescence of a single molecule. In 1997, while working at the University of California in San Diego, he found a way to control the fluorescence and switch the molecules on and off like lamps. Still, these single molecules could be distinguished only if they were more than 200 nanometres apart.
Two years earlier, Eric Betzig, who was at that time working at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, had proposed that if different molecules inside a cell could be made to glow with different colours, researchers should be able to increase the resolution by taking a series of snapshots first the red molecules, then the green, then the blue. Any fluorophores of the same colour would have to be more than 200 nanometres apart, but the superimposed images would produce a much finer resolution structure. Moerner went on to show that identical molecules could be made to fluoresce at different times, a discovery that ultimately made Betzig's vision a reality.
It would take a decade before Betzig demonstrated his idea in practice. He left academic science to work in his father's machine tool business in Michigan. In 2006, working at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm research campus in Ashburn, Virginia, he used the technique to take a super resolution picture of a lysosome protein dotted with green fluorescent molecules as labels. The technique can now get down to a resolution of 20 nanometres, says Markus Sauer, who studies super resolution microscopy at the University of Wrzburg, Germany.
Meanwhile Stefan Hell, working at the University of Turku in Finland, had found a way around Abbe's limit by a different technique, which also relies on switching fluorescent molecules on and off. In 1994 he proposed using one laser to make a cluster of dye molecules fluoresce, and a second beam, of a different wavelength, to switch some of those fluorophores off through a process described by Einstein in 1917.
Hell's trick is to use the second beam to outline the cluster illuminated by the first, so that only the molecules in a very narrow spot fluoresce. The final image remains blurred, as light still cannot beat Abbe's limit, but it is clear that light can have come only from the narrow central spot defined by the second beam, enabling researchers to pinpoint the light source.
Building up a series of these tiny fluorescent spots creates a fine resolution picture. In theory, the central spot can be made as small as a few nanometres across, but in living cells, the limit is around 30 nanometres, Sauer says, because it is at this stage that fluorophores are usually destroyed by the intensity of replica vca necklace the second beam."It was my view, at least, that so much physics happened in the twentieth century that it was impossible there was no phenomenon that would allow you to overcome the diffraction barrier," Hell, who now works at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Gttingen, told the Nobel committee, on learning that he had won the prize.
The call from the Nobel committee caught Hell while he was reading a scientific paper. Afterwards, he said, "I read the paragraph that I wanted to read to the end, then I called up my wife and tried to reach some of the people who are close to me."
The techniques devised by this year's prizewinners are not yet routine but are used by many biologists to take remarkable pictures of structures inside cells. Hell has published videos of vesicles 40 nanometres across moving in a nerve cell. Xiaowei Zhuang, a chemist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has invented her own variation, called stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy, and used it to show how actin filaments wrap around the circumference of axons in a ring like pattern. "There will be many new versions of super resolution microscopes in future," Hell says.
Henry Cavill and girlfriend Tara King attend Vanity Fair Oscars 2016 Party
It must have been intimidating for Tara King to attend the Oscars and the Vanity Fair after party on Sunday night.
At only 19 she probably hasn experienced anything quite so high octane in terms of glamour and celebrity, but then she did have a Superman to hold onto in boyfriend Henry Cavill.
For such a huge event we think the teenager looked lovely and it was nice to see her make a statement with a bold orange dress rather than sticking to safe but boring black. The draping at the waist helps to accentuate her figure and we love the asymmetric straps.
Fancy giving her citrus inspired look a go? Then head to our edit below where we found one shouldered dresses necklace van cleef arpels knock off in bright orange that do the trick.
Henry recently opened up about how he fell head over heels for the 'mature' teen.
In a candid interview with Elle Magazine, he revealed: 'People say age is just a number. It's actually real and true sign of someone's maturity. But in this case, she's fantastic.'
'When I met my girlfriend, I was super intimidated. I wanted to impress her,' the Man Of Steel star continued. 'I was thinking, Don't mess this up, man.'
And although the British heartthrob feels at ease with the teenage University student, Henry confessed he understands 'natural reaction' to the couple's age difference.
The Tudors actor went on to confide that he has dated older women in the past, by adding: 'When I was 19, I was going out with a 32 year old.'
The Mail on Sunday revealed in October that Henry and Tara were an item after they were pictured together at a rugby match at Twickenham.
They have since been on three holidays together, the most recent break being New Zealand during Tara's reading week at university.
'A lot of people wondered if the relationship would last, but this shows it's serious, despite the age difference,' a friend of the actor told the publication.
The New Zealand adventure came two weeks after the pretty blonde joined Henry to meet his family at home in Jersey, and two months before that they travelled to China.
Henry, who is gearing up for the highly anticipated Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice movie, has previously dated a string of famous women in his quest to find his real life Lois Lane.
He was in an on/off relationship with American actress fake van cleef gold necklace Gina Carano, 33, and was briefly linked to Big Bang Theory star Kaley Cuoco, 30, three years ago.
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It must have been intimidating for Tara King to attend the Oscars and the Vanity Fair after party on Sunday night.
At only 19 she probably hasn experienced anything quite so high octane in terms of glamour and celebrity, but then she did have a Superman to hold onto in boyfriend Henry Cavill.
For such a huge event we think the teenager looked lovely and it was nice to see her make a statement with a bold orange dress rather than sticking to safe but boring black. The draping at the waist helps to accentuate her figure and we love the asymmetric straps.
Fancy giving her citrus inspired look a go? Then head to our edit below where we found one shouldered dresses necklace van cleef arpels knock off in bright orange that do the trick.
Henry recently opened up about how he fell head over heels for the 'mature' teen.
In a candid interview with Elle Magazine, he revealed: 'People say age is just a number. It's actually real and true sign of someone's maturity. But in this case, she's fantastic.'
'When I met my girlfriend, I was super intimidated. I wanted to impress her,' the Man Of Steel star continued. 'I was thinking, Don't mess this up, man.'
And although the British heartthrob feels at ease with the teenage University student, Henry confessed he understands 'natural reaction' to the couple's age difference.
The Tudors actor went on to confide that he has dated older women in the past, by adding: 'When I was 19, I was going out with a 32 year old.'
The Mail on Sunday revealed in October that Henry and Tara were an item after they were pictured together at a rugby match at Twickenham.
They have since been on three holidays together, the most recent break being New Zealand during Tara's reading week at university.
'A lot of people wondered if the relationship would last, but this shows it's serious, despite the age difference,' a friend of the actor told the publication.
The New Zealand adventure came two weeks after the pretty blonde joined Henry to meet his family at home in Jersey, and two months before that they travelled to China.
Henry, who is gearing up for the highly anticipated Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice movie, has previously dated a string of famous women in his quest to find his real life Lois Lane.
He was in an on/off relationship with American actress fake van cleef gold necklace Gina Carano, 33, and was briefly linked to Big Bang Theory star Kaley Cuoco, 30, three years ago.
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Proceeds from the auction, touted as one of the largest ever, will be returned to the agencies that made the arrests and the federal Bureau of Prisons.
To whet public appetite for Saturday's expected six hour auction, Meacham on Tuesday displayed part of the take in 15 black velvet trays loaded with $300,000 worth of the gaudy stuff. government because of apartheid, were piled next to Canadian Maple Leaf gold coins that sat next to a solid silver bar.
A six carat diamond ring valued at $25,000 was plunked down next to a plastic bag containing gold earrings valued at a couple of hundred dollars.
Meacham casually fingered the larger, custom made pieces. Many bore names "Morris," "Ray" and "Young Tom" the diamond studded remnants of fleeting drug day glory.
"Whoever 'Stan' is, he's history. This now belongs to us," Meacham said proudly as cartier replica pinky ring he hefted one such necklace. "Hopefully, we'll find a buyer named Stan who's impressed with this."
Or maybe not.
"Well, it just goes to show you, money doesn't buy taste," one onlooker muttered as she stared at a three inch wide gold slave bracelet and a cookie sized gold and diamond pendant with the words "Mercedes Benz" surrounding the distinctive three point car logo.
Although the gold rope chains and big flashy watches would suit the muscular Mr. T to a T, more sedate buyers will probably go for the watches bearing such brand names as Piaget, Cartier, Omega, Rolex, Baume Mercier and Gerald Perregaux.
Some may fake cartier love ring 18K gold buy the glitzier pieces just to pop out the diamonds and melt down the gold, said Armando Camarena, an executive with The Nationwide Cos., a 10 year old firm that handles auctions for 80% of city and county law enforcement agencies statewide.
"Believe it or not, we have millionaires come here," he said. "They cartier replica ring mens want to pick up a nice Rolex and it's cheaper than retail."
PHOTOS of the month
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011.
Seated, from left, are: Brigadier General Marshall B 'Brad' Webb, Assistant Commanding General, Joint Special Operations Command; Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
Standing, from left, are: Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; National Security Advisor Tom Donilon; Chief of Staff Bill Daley; Tony Blinken, National Security Advisor to the Vice President; Audrey Tomason Director for Counterterrorism; John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism; and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
A home is seen protected from encroaching floodwaters by a levee near Yazoo City, Mississippi on May 18. Floodwater from a key Mississippi River spillway surged through the Louisiana bayou, and levees protecting the state's two biggest cities held as river flows neared their peak.
Weeks of heavy rains and runoff from an unusually snowy winter caused the Mississippi River to rise, flooding thousands of homes and buy Hermes bags replica 3 million acres (1.2 million hectares) of farmland in Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas and evoking comparisons to historic floods in 1927 and 1937.
Full face transplant patient Dallas Wiens (Right) is seen with his four year old daughter Scarlette in this undated handout image.
The 25 year old Texas man has received the first full face transplant done in the United States, Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital said on May 9.
More than 30 physicians, nurses, anesthesiologists and residents worked for more than 15 hours to replace the nose, lips, facial skin, muscles of facial animation and nerves of Dallas Wiens, disfigured in an electrical accident in 2008
A US Army soldier with the 10th hermes bag black replica Special Forces Group and his military working dog jump off the ramp of a CH 47 Chinook helicopter from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment during water training over the Gulf of Mexico as part of exercise Emerald Warrior 2011 in this US military handout image from March copy hermes bag blue 1.
The New York Times and other United States media have reported that a military canine accompanied Navy SEAL Team Six commandos into a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan in a raid that killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden
Ivan Stoiljkovic (Right) carries an iron stuck to his chest in front of his home in Heresin near Koprivnica, some hermes bag replica 100 km (62 miles) north of the capital Zagreb May 12.
Ivan, 6, has an extraordinary talent: the ability to attract metallic objects from spoons to heavy frying pans to his body.
He is said to be able to carry up to 25 kg of metal stuck to his torso. Ivan's family also claims that his hands can emit heat and his mysterious ability has also given him healing powers. Medical checkups so far have reaped inconclusive results.
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011.
Seated, from left, are: Brigadier General Marshall B 'Brad' Webb, Assistant Commanding General, Joint Special Operations Command; Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
Standing, from left, are: Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; National Security Advisor Tom Donilon; Chief of Staff Bill Daley; Tony Blinken, National Security Advisor to the Vice President; Audrey Tomason Director for Counterterrorism; John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism; and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
A home is seen protected from encroaching floodwaters by a levee near Yazoo City, Mississippi on May 18. Floodwater from a key Mississippi River spillway surged through the Louisiana bayou, and levees protecting the state's two biggest cities held as river flows neared their peak.
Weeks of heavy rains and runoff from an unusually snowy winter caused the Mississippi River to rise, flooding thousands of homes and buy Hermes bags replica 3 million acres (1.2 million hectares) of farmland in Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas and evoking comparisons to historic floods in 1927 and 1937.
Full face transplant patient Dallas Wiens (Right) is seen with his four year old daughter Scarlette in this undated handout image.
The 25 year old Texas man has received the first full face transplant done in the United States, Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital said on May 9.
More than 30 physicians, nurses, anesthesiologists and residents worked for more than 15 hours to replace the nose, lips, facial skin, muscles of facial animation and nerves of Dallas Wiens, disfigured in an electrical accident in 2008
A US Army soldier with the 10th hermes bag black replica Special Forces Group and his military working dog jump off the ramp of a CH 47 Chinook helicopter from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment during water training over the Gulf of Mexico as part of exercise Emerald Warrior 2011 in this US military handout image from March copy hermes bag blue 1.
The New York Times and other United States media have reported that a military canine accompanied Navy SEAL Team Six commandos into a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan in a raid that killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden
Ivan Stoiljkovic (Right) carries an iron stuck to his chest in front of his home in Heresin near Koprivnica, some hermes bag replica 100 km (62 miles) north of the capital Zagreb May 12.
Ivan, 6, has an extraordinary talent: the ability to attract metallic objects from spoons to heavy frying pans to his body.
He is said to be able to carry up to 25 kg of metal stuck to his torso. Ivan's family also claims that his hands can emit heat and his mysterious ability has also given him healing powers. Medical checkups so far have reaped inconclusive results.
Physicians' evaluations of patients' decisions to refuse oncological treatment
Objective: To gain insight into the standards of rationality that physicians use when evaluating patients' treatment refusals.
Design of the study: Qualitative design with indepth interviews.
: The study sample included 30 patients with cancer and 16 physicians (oncologists and general practitioners). All patients had refused a recommended oncological treatment.
Results: Patients base their treatment refusals mainly on personal values and/or experience. Physicians mainly emphasise the medical perspective when evaluating patients' treatment refusals. From a medical perspective, a patient's treatment refusal based on personal values and experience is generally evaluated as irrational and difficult to accept, especially when it concerns a curative treatment. Physicians have a different attitude towards non curative treatments and have less difficulty accepting a patient's refusal of these treatments. Thus, an important factor in the physician's evaluation of a treatment refusal is whether the treatment refused is curative or non curative.
Conclusion: Physicians mainly use goal oriented and patients mainly value oriented rationality, but in the case of non curative treatment refusal, physicians give more emphasis to value oriented rationality. A consensus between the value oriented approaches of patient and physician may then emerge, leading to the patient's decision being understood and accepted by the physician. The physician's acceptance is crucial to his or her attitude towards the patient. The physician has to evaluate the patient's decision: Is it sensible, responsible, and judicious? Often the evaluation is then directed to the question: Is the patient's decision rational or not?1,2 The actual standards of rationality in these cases, however, are not clear. The question therefore arises: On what basis do physicians distinguish between their patients' rational and irrational arguments?
In medical ethical literature, rationality is described in various ways. Rational choice has for example, been described as the choice that maximises expected utility or that satisfies the patient's aims and values most.1 In other cases, having "good reasons" is at the centre of the evaluation of rationality.2 4 Savulescu and Momeyer state that "It is rational for a person to perform some act if there would be a good reason to perform that act if the facts were as he/she believes them to be."2 A pilot study revealed that a physician's evaluation of the rationality of the patient's decision is crucial to their attitude towards the patient: if a physician thinks the patient's refusal is not based on good reasons, he or she is often inclined to consider the decision as irrational and will keep trying to convince the patient to accept the treatment.4 The evaluation of "good reasons", however, raises another question: What makes a reason a good reason "good" in a medical context, "good" in a patient context, or "good" in both?
The purpose of this article is to gain insight into the standards of rationality used by physicians. We focus on two aspects of this issue. Firstly, we describe what is meant in daily medical practice by rational decision making and discuss what physicians understand by "good reasons" to refuse recommended oncological treatment. All patients had refused a recommended oncological treatment. In this study refusal meant the patient did not start treatment at all; or stopped during treatment; or refused a part of a recommended treatment but accepted another (for example, accepted surgery but refused chemotherapy). A qualitative research method was adopted to explore patients' deliberations that led to refusal of a recommended oncological treatment and to determine physicians' evaluations of the treatment refusals. The study was approved by the medical ethics committees at the study sites. Another reason may be that after their withdrawal, patients no longer want to be involved in medical research, either because they do not want to be confronted by hospitals or doctors again or because they are too ill to be interviewed. The patients included in this study form a rather unique hermes bag replica sample and deserve our gratitude.
A total of 30 patients (mean age 58 years, range 23 91) were interviewed. The inclusion criteria were: (a) age more than 18 years; (b) able to speak and understand Dutch: (c) having cancer; (d) life expectancy of more than three months; and (e) having refused a recommended oncological treatment. The patients were asked to participate by general practitioners (n=5) and by specialists in a university hospital (n=6) or in general hospitals (n=2) in the Netherlands. Dutch associations for patients with cancer were willing to spread information about the study. Patient members of these associations (n=17) responded themselves to the call to participate. All patients recruited by the physicians or those who responded themselves between January 2001 and April 2002 were included in the study if they met the inclusion criteria. We included both patients who had refused a recommended treatment imitation hermes Birkin bag price with higher potential benefit (curative treatment, n=10) and patients who had refused a recommended treatment with lower potential benefit (non curative treatment, n=20). Demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients are given in table 1.
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A total of 16 physicians were interviewed from among the physicians who recruited the patients. Eight general practitioners (50%) and eight (general) oncologists (50%) were selected, including younger and older (mean age 49 years, range 29 60), male (n=11, 69%) and female (n=5, 31%) physicians with few to many years of working experience (mean 18 years, range 2 29), and from different settings (general practice, university hospital, and general hospital). We used indepth interview techniques that is, the interviews contained some general topics and no close ended questions.5 The interview topics covered demographic and clinical characteristics of the patient; the course of the disease; communication with physicians about the recommended treatment; the patient's attitude to the recommended treatment; and the patient's perspectives of the future. The interview topics were formulated after examining the relevant literature and undertaking preliminary observational studies. In these studies, 72 patients were observed during their visits to five different oncologists at an oncological outpatient clinic in the Netherlands. From the transcripts, various aspects of the discussions between physicians and patients about recommendations for treatment were noted and converted into interview topics.
Each physician was interviewed at their office. The interview lasted between 30 and 60 minutes. The indepth interview topics covered the characteristics of the physician; working experience; curative versus non curative treatment and palliative care in oncology; the physician patient relationship, especially concerning treatment decisions; patient autonomy; physician's beneficence; and treatment refusals and their rationality. At the end of the interview, the medical history of one patient who participated in the study was presented as a case (see box 1), and the physicians were asked to give their opinion about the rationality of the patient's decision.
The case of Mrs S
Mrs S is 54 years old. After a period of fever and pneumonia, she was diagnosed as having bronchial carcinoma (non small cell lung cancer in the upper right pulmonary lobe). The attending physician recommended surgery in which part of the lung would be removed (lobectomy). Mrs S decided to refuse the recommended surgery.
Mrs S: "I was afraid, and this fear was based on the mediastinoscopy [a diagnostic procedure carried out behind the sternum in the upper part of the chest cavity, which she recently had undergone; TvK]. I awoke when I was still in the operating room. I think something was not timed very well. A tube was still in my throat. I don't know if the tube was in my trachea or in my throat. I don't know, but I heard someone say that the surgery had been successful. And I was choking, I pulled out the tube and immediately afterwards I was transferred to the recovery room and there, for one and a half hours, I had terrible shortness of breath. I really thought I would suffocate."
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The medical perspective
Mrs S's case (see box 1) was presented to all the physicians in the study. They were asked whether they would judge her decision as rational or as irrational.
Physician 1: If it is related to previous communication breakdown combined with an enormous amount of fear thus preventing the patient from forming a good idea of what that cancer can do if it is not treated, and no good decisions are made, then I find it irrational. But when I have the feeling that it is not based on facts, I find it very irrational.
Objective: To gain insight into the standards of rationality that physicians use when evaluating patients' treatment refusals.
Design of the study: Qualitative design with indepth interviews.
: The study sample included 30 patients with cancer and 16 physicians (oncologists and general practitioners). All patients had refused a recommended oncological treatment.
Results: Patients base their treatment refusals mainly on personal values and/or experience. Physicians mainly emphasise the medical perspective when evaluating patients' treatment refusals. From a medical perspective, a patient's treatment refusal based on personal values and experience is generally evaluated as irrational and difficult to accept, especially when it concerns a curative treatment. Physicians have a different attitude towards non curative treatments and have less difficulty accepting a patient's refusal of these treatments. Thus, an important factor in the physician's evaluation of a treatment refusal is whether the treatment refused is curative or non curative.
Conclusion: Physicians mainly use goal oriented and patients mainly value oriented rationality, but in the case of non curative treatment refusal, physicians give more emphasis to value oriented rationality. A consensus between the value oriented approaches of patient and physician may then emerge, leading to the patient's decision being understood and accepted by the physician. The physician's acceptance is crucial to his or her attitude towards the patient. The physician has to evaluate the patient's decision: Is it sensible, responsible, and judicious? Often the evaluation is then directed to the question: Is the patient's decision rational or not?1,2 The actual standards of rationality in these cases, however, are not clear. The question therefore arises: On what basis do physicians distinguish between their patients' rational and irrational arguments?
In medical ethical literature, rationality is described in various ways. Rational choice has for example, been described as the choice that maximises expected utility or that satisfies the patient's aims and values most.1 In other cases, having "good reasons" is at the centre of the evaluation of rationality.2 4 Savulescu and Momeyer state that "It is rational for a person to perform some act if there would be a good reason to perform that act if the facts were as he/she believes them to be."2 A pilot study revealed that a physician's evaluation of the rationality of the patient's decision is crucial to their attitude towards the patient: if a physician thinks the patient's refusal is not based on good reasons, he or she is often inclined to consider the decision as irrational and will keep trying to convince the patient to accept the treatment.4 The evaluation of "good reasons", however, raises another question: What makes a reason a good reason "good" in a medical context, "good" in a patient context, or "good" in both?
The purpose of this article is to gain insight into the standards of rationality used by physicians. We focus on two aspects of this issue. Firstly, we describe what is meant in daily medical practice by rational decision making and discuss what physicians understand by "good reasons" to refuse recommended oncological treatment. All patients had refused a recommended oncological treatment. In this study refusal meant the patient did not start treatment at all; or stopped during treatment; or refused a part of a recommended treatment but accepted another (for example, accepted surgery but refused chemotherapy). A qualitative research method was adopted to explore patients' deliberations that led to refusal of a recommended oncological treatment and to determine physicians' evaluations of the treatment refusals. The study was approved by the medical ethics committees at the study sites. Another reason may be that after their withdrawal, patients no longer want to be involved in medical research, either because they do not want to be confronted by hospitals or doctors again or because they are too ill to be interviewed. The patients included in this study form a rather unique hermes bag replica sample and deserve our gratitude.
A total of 30 patients (mean age 58 years, range 23 91) were interviewed. The inclusion criteria were: (a) age more than 18 years; (b) able to speak and understand Dutch: (c) having cancer; (d) life expectancy of more than three months; and (e) having refused a recommended oncological treatment. The patients were asked to participate by general practitioners (n=5) and by specialists in a university hospital (n=6) or in general hospitals (n=2) in the Netherlands. Dutch associations for patients with cancer were willing to spread information about the study. Patient members of these associations (n=17) responded themselves to the call to participate. All patients recruited by the physicians or those who responded themselves between January 2001 and April 2002 were included in the study if they met the inclusion criteria. We included both patients who had refused a recommended treatment imitation hermes Birkin bag price with higher potential benefit (curative treatment, n=10) and patients who had refused a recommended treatment with lower potential benefit (non curative treatment, n=20). Demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients are given in table 1.
View this table:View inline
View popup
A total of 16 physicians were interviewed from among the physicians who recruited the patients. Eight general practitioners (50%) and eight (general) oncologists (50%) were selected, including younger and older (mean age 49 years, range 29 60), male (n=11, 69%) and female (n=5, 31%) physicians with few to many years of working experience (mean 18 years, range 2 29), and from different settings (general practice, university hospital, and general hospital). We used indepth interview techniques that is, the interviews contained some general topics and no close ended questions.5 The interview topics covered demographic and clinical characteristics of the patient; the course of the disease; communication with physicians about the recommended treatment; the patient's attitude to the recommended treatment; and the patient's perspectives of the future. The interview topics were formulated after examining the relevant literature and undertaking preliminary observational studies. In these studies, 72 patients were observed during their visits to five different oncologists at an oncological outpatient clinic in the Netherlands. From the transcripts, various aspects of the discussions between physicians and patients about recommendations for treatment were noted and converted into interview topics.
Each physician was interviewed at their office. The interview lasted between 30 and 60 minutes. The indepth interview topics covered the characteristics of the physician; working experience; curative versus non curative treatment and palliative care in oncology; the physician patient relationship, especially concerning treatment decisions; patient autonomy; physician's beneficence; and treatment refusals and their rationality. At the end of the interview, the medical history of one patient who participated in the study was presented as a case (see box 1), and the physicians were asked to give their opinion about the rationality of the patient's decision.
The case of Mrs S
Mrs S is 54 years old. After a period of fever and pneumonia, she was diagnosed as having bronchial carcinoma (non small cell lung cancer in the upper right pulmonary lobe). The attending physician recommended surgery in which part of the lung would be removed (lobectomy). Mrs S decided to refuse the recommended surgery.
Mrs S: "I was afraid, and this fear was based on the mediastinoscopy [a diagnostic procedure carried out behind the sternum in the upper part of the chest cavity, which she recently had undergone; TvK]. I awoke when I was still in the operating room. I think something was not timed very well. A tube was still in my throat. I don't know if the tube was in my trachea or in my throat. I don't know, but I heard someone say that the surgery had been successful. And I was choking, I pulled out the tube and immediately afterwards I was transferred to the recovery room and there, for one and a half hours, I had terrible shortness of breath. I really thought I would suffocate."
"At that moment I thought: What if Hermes classic Kelly bag replica I had to undergo such a lobectomy? Then I would be in intensive care for three or four days. What if I keep getting that suffocating feeling. I know that they may make it technically possible for me not to really suffocate, but the feeling is terrible. I took three days to reflect on that, and then I decided for myself, no surgery. I am afraid. It is fear, fear of the surgery, and what may come afterwards."All the patient and physician interviews were audiotaped and transcribed. A descriptive qualitative approach was used to analyse the interviews.6 During the analysis, we used computer software (Kwalitan hermes bag black replica 5.0; VAM Peters, Radboud University, Nijmegen) for multiple text management, including coding, locating, and retrieving key materials, phrases, and words. Each interview was divided into several segments. The segments were coded and the codes were organised into categories and put into a tree structure. A second independent researcher supervised the process of data management.
The medical perspective
Mrs S's case (see box 1) was presented to all the physicians in the study. They were asked whether they would judge her decision as rational or as irrational.
Physician 1: If it is related to previous communication breakdown combined with an enormous amount of fear thus preventing the patient from forming a good idea of what that cancer can do if it is not treated, and no good decisions are made, then I find it irrational. But when I have the feeling that it is not based on facts, I find it very irrational.
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They've been hunkered down all winter, but now Pacific great blue herons have returned to Stanley Park looking for love.
"The males are out there claiming nests and they're doing all kinds of awesome visual displays," urban wildlife specialist Greg Hart said Tuesday. "They're holding their beaks up, showing off their long chest plumes."
The Mick Jagger with feathers act fake hermes bag blue is all in the interest of breedingthe next generation of herons. Herons were first documented breeding in the park in 1921 near Brockton Point. They later moved to a spot near the old zoo, and have been nesting in a stand of trees near the park's Beach Avenue tennis courts since 2001.
Hart, who works with the Stanley Park Ecological Society, said heron colonies change their nesting spots every 20 or 30 years.
The population of these herons has declined steadily since the 1980s. Disruptions by bald eagles and by human development takes a toll during breeding season. Last year, Stanley Park had 83 active nests and an estimated 138 fledglings were raised.
As many as 5,000 Pacific great blue herons call Canada home, of which 3,300 live around theSalish Sea. The global populations stands at between 9,500 and 11,000 adults.
Hart said the birds are fun to watch at this time of year, but he cautioned spectators against feeding the birds.
The birds don't fly south for the winter, instead feeding on fish in the shallow intertidal eel grass beds along the Fraser River and the mudflats of Boundary Bay. Females bulk up on fish to give them the energy to lay eggs.
The birds were spotted in the Stanley Park trees at the beginning of March, but headed back to their fishing grounds when the snows returned. They didn't come back for good this year until March 11. music festival bubble burst?The 2017 Pemberton Music Festival was cancelled this week after organizers went bankrupt, leavingthousands.
Indigenous families, without answers for so many years, frustrated by slow start at federal inquiryAlong the Island Highway just outsideCampbell River, 16 year old Helena Howard and her sister Christine.
Burn Fund Centre provides much needed support for trauma victims and their familiesStasi Manser was just a child when, in 1969, she woke up early to the sound of her baby sister wanting.
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They've been hunkered down all winter, but now Pacific great blue herons have returned to Stanley Park looking for love.
"The males are out there claiming nests and they're doing all kinds of awesome visual displays," urban wildlife specialist Greg Hart said Tuesday. "They're holding their beaks up, showing off their long chest plumes."
The Mick Jagger with feathers act fake hermes bag blue is all in the interest of breedingthe next generation of herons. Herons were first documented breeding in the park in 1921 near Brockton Point. They later moved to a spot near the old zoo, and have been nesting in a stand of trees near the park's Beach Avenue tennis courts since 2001.
Hart, who works with the Stanley Park Ecological Society, said heron colonies change their nesting spots every 20 or 30 years.
The population of these herons has declined steadily since the 1980s. Disruptions by bald eagles and by human development takes a toll during breeding season. Last year, Stanley Park had 83 active nests and an estimated 138 fledglings were raised.
As many as 5,000 Pacific great blue herons call Canada home, of which 3,300 live around theSalish Sea. The global populations stands at between 9,500 and 11,000 adults.
Hart said the birds are fun to watch at this time of year, but he cautioned spectators against feeding the birds.
The birds don't fly south for the winter, instead feeding on fish in the shallow intertidal eel grass beds along the Fraser River and the mudflats of Boundary Bay. Females bulk up on fish to give them the energy to lay eggs.
The birds were spotted in the Stanley Park trees at the beginning of March, but headed back to their fishing grounds when the snows returned. They didn't come back for good this year until March 11. music festival bubble burst?The 2017 Pemberton Music Festival was cancelled this week after organizers went bankrupt, leavingthousands.
Indigenous families, without answers for so many years, frustrated by slow start at federal inquiryAlong the Island Highway just outsideCampbell River, 16 year old Helena Howard and her sister Christine.
Burn Fund Centre provides much needed support for trauma victims and their familiesStasi Manser was just a child when, in 1969, she woke up early to the sound of her baby sister wanting.
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Maryland Officer Jacai Colson died from friendly fire
"They knew in advance. They had every opportunity to call 911. They had every opportunity to seek medical help. They did nothing," Prince George's County Police Chief Henry Stawinski said Monday.Instead, the chief said, Elijah and Malik Ford watched and filmed as their brother Michael Ford, 22, used a .40 caliber handgun to open fire on officers outside a police station, as well as at an ambulance and random people's cars.And as Prince George's officers responded to the assault outside their home base, one of them killed Police Officer First Class Jacai Colson, who had just arrived to meet another officer. Colson jumped out of his unmarked car, and he and three other officers returned fire."An autopsy today revealed that POFC Colson was inadvertently shot by a fellow responding officer during the gun battle," police said in a news release.They are each presently charged with 11 counts van cleef pendant copy of first degree attempted murder, first degree assault and conspiracy to commit murder, he said. A court commissioner Tuesday also considered firearms and second degree murder charges, but did not find probable cause for either, Erzen said, explaining that the decision could be amended in the future.Michael Ford, who is hospitalized, faces a charge of second degree murder, six counts of attempted first degree murder, nine counts of use of a handgun in the commission of a felony and additional charges, Prince George's County police Cpl. Harry Bond said."As the investigation progresses, additional charges will be brought against the three brothers regarding the victims in van cleef arpels necklace imitation the" ambulance and passing vehicles, the police statement said.Elijah and imitation van cleef & arpels necklace Malik Ford are scheduled to appear for a bond review in Prince George's County District Court on Wednesday afternoon, Erzen said.Colson, a 28 year old undercover narcotics detective, had no idea what he was driving into when he arrived at the station Sunday afternoon."Detective Colson was arriving in an unmarked vehicle and found himself in the middle of a gunfight," Stawinski said. "Heroically, Detective Colson reacted to a set of circumstances that, frankly, I don't think he was entirely prepared for."Michael Ford had already discussed with his brothers a plan to "engage police in a shootout," according to charging documents filed in district court. His brothers drove him in a red Honda Accord to an intersection near the police precinct, dropped him off so he could approach the precinct on foot, drove to a nearby side street and began recording the incident, the documents allege.According to the chief, Michael Ford opened fire on the first officer he saw. Other officers rushed to the scene, but quickly found themselves at a disadvantage during the shootout "because they were cognizant of the fact there were homes behind Michael as he was firing at them," Stawinski said.Soon after the shooting began, Michael Ford took cover behind a police van and police officers asked the brothers where he had gone, the complaint says. Malik Ford shouted back that he did not know, despite Michael Ford being visible, thus allowing Michael Ford to continue his attack, police say.
"They knew in advance. They had every opportunity to call 911. They had every opportunity to seek medical help. They did nothing," Prince George's County Police Chief Henry Stawinski said Monday.Instead, the chief said, Elijah and Malik Ford watched and filmed as their brother Michael Ford, 22, used a .40 caliber handgun to open fire on officers outside a police station, as well as at an ambulance and random people's cars.And as Prince George's officers responded to the assault outside their home base, one of them killed Police Officer First Class Jacai Colson, who had just arrived to meet another officer. Colson jumped out of his unmarked car, and he and three other officers returned fire."An autopsy today revealed that POFC Colson was inadvertently shot by a fellow responding officer during the gun battle," police said in a news release.They are each presently charged with 11 counts van cleef pendant copy of first degree attempted murder, first degree assault and conspiracy to commit murder, he said. A court commissioner Tuesday also considered firearms and second degree murder charges, but did not find probable cause for either, Erzen said, explaining that the decision could be amended in the future.Michael Ford, who is hospitalized, faces a charge of second degree murder, six counts of attempted first degree murder, nine counts of use of a handgun in the commission of a felony and additional charges, Prince George's County police Cpl. Harry Bond said."As the investigation progresses, additional charges will be brought against the three brothers regarding the victims in van cleef arpels necklace imitation the" ambulance and passing vehicles, the police statement said.Elijah and imitation van cleef & arpels necklace Malik Ford are scheduled to appear for a bond review in Prince George's County District Court on Wednesday afternoon, Erzen said.Colson, a 28 year old undercover narcotics detective, had no idea what he was driving into when he arrived at the station Sunday afternoon."Detective Colson was arriving in an unmarked vehicle and found himself in the middle of a gunfight," Stawinski said. "Heroically, Detective Colson reacted to a set of circumstances that, frankly, I don't think he was entirely prepared for."Michael Ford had already discussed with his brothers a plan to "engage police in a shootout," according to charging documents filed in district court. His brothers drove him in a red Honda Accord to an intersection near the police precinct, dropped him off so he could approach the precinct on foot, drove to a nearby side street and began recording the incident, the documents allege.According to the chief, Michael Ford opened fire on the first officer he saw. Other officers rushed to the scene, but quickly found themselves at a disadvantage during the shootout "because they were cognizant of the fact there were homes behind Michael as he was firing at them," Stawinski said.Soon after the shooting began, Michael Ford took cover behind a police van and police officers asked the brothers where he had gone, the complaint says. Malik Ford shouted back that he did not know, despite Michael Ford being visible, thus allowing Michael Ford to continue his attack, police say.