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WUSA9 Probe: Montgomery Co. speedcam loophole | News
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- A WUSA9 investigation casts new doubt on Montgomery County's speed camera program, a system that racks up millions in revenue, because there is no evidence some sites were ever published.
Our list of unpublished sites:
Ridge Road, Damascus
8000 Midcounty Highway, Gaithersburg
8100 Midcounty Highway, Gaithersburg
West Old Baltimore Road (eastbound), Boyds
West Old Baltimore Road (westbound), Boyds
18500 block of Barnesville Road in Barnesville
In August, after our investigation began, Montgomery County published all of its speedcam locations, including the ones we identified, both on its website and in a published newspaper public notice.
WUSA9 Investigates is asking why Montgomery County isn't handing out refunds after uncovering evidence that put into question the compliance of at least five cameras prior to that new publication.
Every flash at Montgomery County's 92 speed cameras means a possible $40 fine for drivers. This fiscal year, the county's cameras brought in a record $16.9 million.
He fought the law
Last July, Damascus resident Paul Layer, an attorney, put the brakes on his ticket on Ridge Road, using the state's own statutes on "unmanned speed monitoring systems," a.k.a. speed cameras.
Maryland law requires the county to publish locations where speed monitoring systems are in use, "on its website, and in a newspaper of general circulation."
Layer's camera location was listed in a notice published in a local paper, but the county's attorneys couldn't prove that it was also included on its website at the time Layer got the ticket. When Layer took it to court, the county dropped the citation.
Not published = not legit
Two cameras identified in this WUSA9 investigation -- one at 8000 Midcounty Highway, and another at 8100 Midcounty Highway -- were listed online, but couldn't be found in any newspaper printed anywhere.
Montgomery County's spokeswoman, Lucille Baur, says that the county took a photocopy of an article in the Montgomery County Gazette which the locations of the cameras were meant to be published, but as that photocopy shows, the 8100 and 8000 Midcounty Highway locations are absent from the published list.
Baur maintains that the two missing addresses might have appeared in a different version of that newspaper, but she can't find it, and no one in the Traffic Enforcement Division of the police department recalls seeing it.
"Grandfathered" cameras
Questions abound regarding cameras at three more locations: two on West Old Baltimore Road in Boyds, and one on the 18500 block of Barnesville Road in Barnesville, that never showed up in a printed newspaper.
Montgomery County's spokeswoman, Lucille Baur, believes the three cameras are "grandfathered in," and exempt from the law.
She says that those cameras on West Old Baltimore never needed to be published in a newspaper because the locations were "authorized" to function as mobile camera sites prior to the October 1, 2009 date.
Cameras activated after that date have to adhere to the dual-publishing law in the statute.
WUSA9 has verified that all five questionable camera locations were activated after October 1, 2009.
Still, the county spokeswoman maintains that the speed camera program follows the intent of the law, and no effort was made to conceal their locations.
The county also points to news releases, speed camera signs, and other attention they've drawn to cameras to prompt motorists to comply before they're issued tickets.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars
The five speed camera locations in this report add up to a total of $376,680 in fines, but although the county admits they've made mistakes with regard to the Midcounty Highway locations, they do not plan on giving refunds at this time.
In the opinion of county attorneys, Baur says, no refunds need be issued because drivers admit guilt when they mail in their signed tickets and pay the fines. But if drivers think they were ticketed unfairly after learning of this investigation, Baur says, "We're willing to take a look at it."
Got a ticket?
We're willing to take a look at it, too. If you got a ticket prior to August 14, 2013, at any of these five locations, let us know. Email email@example.com or find him on Facebook or Twitter.


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Conservation and Environment in Fiji: Monthly Updates
Fiji Shark Conservation – Monthly Update –
October - November 2014
We are fast approaching our one year anniversary and what a year it has been. Having just been recognized as Projects Abroads' most successful Conservation Project, the huge amount of work and dedication of everybody who has been involved has been recognized.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the staff who have worked tirelessly to make this project such a success and very much look forward to taking our commitment to shark conservation to the next level.
The last months have been some of the most difficult months for the tagging project.
Since the end of August we have not been able to catch any juvenile sharks. As expected the parturition time for three different species, Bull Shark (Carcharhinus leucas), Lemon Shark (Negaprion acutidens) and Scalloped Hammerhead Shark (Sphyrna lewini), has just started, making our tagging trips much more successful.
In the last week the volunteers have been able to catch, measure, and tag: one Eagle Ray (Aetobatus narinari), two juvenile Scalloped Hammerheads, and two juvenile Lemon Sharks. All four sharks were neonates (since the umbilical scar was open in all four cases).
In addition, our collaborators from the University of South Pacific (USP) captured and tagged a juvenile Bull Shark in the last week in the Rewa River close to Suva. The next challenge for the coming months is to catch neonate Bull Sharks in the Navua River.
Mangrove Reforestation
At the beginning of the month of October, with help from the students of Pacific Harbour Multi-Cultural School - a local school where one of our Mangrove Nursery is located, we replanted more than 2000 mangroves propagules along the Navua River, the site of our tagging project.
Further exciting news is that our neighbour, the Uprising Beach Resort - one of the premier resorts in Pacific Harbour, is joining our Mangrove Reforestation Project! Over the last few weeks our volunteers have been busy planting mangrove propagules in their nursery. The total number of mangroves planted is around 2500. This will be replanted in January with the help of their staff and visitors. They also want their staff and visitors to actively take part in Mangrove Reforestation, and to be educated on the importance of Sharks and Mangal Forest Conservation.
Another exciting event we attended was the Uprising Beach Resort Music Festival. The music festival was in aid of Mangrove reforestation. We set up a stall with the volunteers which aimed at promoting our project as well as asking people to plant a mangrove. We also gave information about the benefits of planting mangals, such as offsetting their carbon emission, increasing fish habitats, etc.
We also have Mangroves propagules nearly ready for replanting in our other 3 nursery's. This will be planted around the month of January and February with local Fijian children. We have also incorporated a beach clean-up during our walk along the beach to gather mangrove propagules.
The trash collected is then sorted; we reuse the plastic bottles collected, and properly dispose of the other rubbish. We have also started minimizing our own rubbish, therefore 'practicing what we preach'!
Community Education
We have also been given an opportunity to go to a local school, Rampur Primary School, to conduct Community Education. Until recently it has been difficult to go to local schools because they have a tight schedule, and also school management are always cautious of people they let in to their classrooms. Our first time there was a resounding success and we were invited to come back anytime we want. Our volunteers educated the local school children about the importance of sharks, mangroves, and also about recycling. We also painted a mural on the wall of a classroom depicting a scene showing a healthy and an unhealthy marine environment.
We also have conducted numerous educational activities with local villagers around Pacific Harbour which has boosted our profile and signal to the local community that we are serious about our work, and that we are here to stay. We look forward to the exciting times ahead and from Fiji I would like to wish you all a 'Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year!'
Survey Dives
Survey dives continue to be a great success! We were able to carry out a total of 64 survey dives during this time period, not counting the dives we conducted which could not be used as survey data due to various reasons. During this time we recorded 124 sharks, of which 100 were White Tip Reef Sharks (Triaenodon obesus), 16 rays and 42 turtles. The excitement of this month was seeing a marbled stingray on a survey dive which had never been observed in this area before.
Fish data was also recorded on every dive on the Fiji Fish Manuals (which were created on this project) and has proven to be valuable in the process of learning the fish species for all volunteers. New Survey Dive Manuals containing the dive briefing and the various roles that volunteers are given during each trip are provided to volunteers during the survey workshop, which has shown to be of great help.
Due to weather conditions we are subjected to in the wet season, we had to cancel a few survey dives. However we were lucky enough to be able to reschedule these dives during different times in the week. During rough conditions we generally still make it out to Shark Reef Marine Reserve where there is a higher chance of seeing sharks, especially Grey Reef Nurse Sharks (Ginglymostoma Cirratum) and Bull Sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) thus is a great option for these times.
We are eager to continue survey the Beqa Lagoon and look forward to what we will find next month.
We have made a terrific and exciting discovery! A Sub-adult Tiger Shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) on our BRUV in late November looked familiar to a Tiger Shark we observed in prior BRUV's… so the staff looked in it. We examined the sharks' tiger-like stripes (unique like finger-prints) and found out that it was the same shark in July, September and November! This beautiful 2.5+ meter female accounts for three of the five total Tiger Shark sightings on our BRUV in the BRUV projects 10 month history.
This shows residency to Beqa Lagoon and site fidelity to Yanuca MPA. The Tiger Shark has been observed twice in Yanuca MPA and once in our Small Reserve behind Beqa Island, only 20 kilometers away.
Tiger Sharks of similar size (250-300cm) have been satellite tagged and tracked in the Caribbean. These individuals all traveled over 3,500 kilometers from South Florida to the Caribbean to Bermuda and back to South Florida, annually. The behavior of this specific Tiger Shark in Beqa Lagoon is quite the opposite. In a four month period she must have stayed in the vicinity of Beqa Lagoon; it would be impossible to complete a trans-oceanic voyage in that time.
Other than the excitement of the Tiger Shark, October and November were tough months for dropping BRUV's due to foul weather. Conditions improved slightly in November but we still struggle to drop 4 BRUV's every week (1 per survey dive trip).
We look forward to the summer season, as it usually results in rainy, but calmer weather. In addition to the Tiger Shark, the BRUV captured Grey Reef, White Tip and Lemon Sharks! We hope to see more sharks, rays, turtles and indicator fish species in the coming months; especially our special resident Tiger Shark!
Recycling and Social
Fiji has great marine life, as well as an astonishing landscape. However the nature is threatened by the growing pollution. Rising consumption leads to growing waste and the need of a better national garbage system. Some people are throwing their garbage directly into the oceans. Fish and other sea animals are consuming the rubbish and it is killing them off.
As an environmental and conservation group we try to raise awareness and find alternative solutions to managing our garbage. We have already started to buy all the empty plastic bottles from the villages for our mangrove project, however we have now found another project to work on – building bricks out of rubbish.
While enjoying the Fiji-sun, all the volunteers from the Projects Abroad conservation group sat around stuffing milk cartons with their rubbish (including plastics and other paper materials). After three hours everyone had contributed with one brick each, and the most efficient – two bricks. There's no denying that building bricks from rubbish is time consuming work, but it is highly environmentally friendly.
It is incredible how much rubbish you are able to stuff into one milk carton! All the pizza cartons from Saturday's dinner, as well as other plastic and paper materials, had been turned into something useful.
Our plan is to use the bricks to build retaining walls for our veggie garden and our compost box. However there are many other things you can do with these bricks. If you wish to build bricks but are not a fan of milk – despair not; it is also possible to use plastic bottles instead of milk cartons! This was done in Lake Atitlan in Guatemala, where they built schools and homes out of the bricks.
In Ecuador they built three small food outlets. An ecological day was organized where the schools, colleges and government could come to learn. A competition encouraged everyone to bring bottles and clean up their neighborhood. This event showed how this fantastic practical low cost solution can turn rubbish into a resource. One day we might be living in houses made of milk cartons ourselves...
At the Project we produce a lot of food waste from all of the wonderful fruits and vegetables on offer. So as the aware conservationist we are; a number of the girls rolled up their sleeves and built a compost box out of scrap pieces of wood. The project is producing its own compost but what now? What are they going to do with it? WELL! In only one day the volunteers completely cleared a field of weeds and angry shrubbery to create 6 beautiful garden beds now full of beans, pumpkins, capsicum, cucumber, carrots, watermelon, pineapples and a banana tree!
To celebrate the end of a successful week of work the volunteers helped prepare a delicious Lovo feast and share Kava. On the weekends they enjoy all the fun activities Fiji has to offer like; shark diving, hiking, white water rafting, skydiving, beach going and of course Volunteers vs Staff Volleyball games and more.


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Nia Retreat with Helen Terry at Soma Ranch
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Tomato Class at the Brooklyn Brainery
There's a lot to know about tomatoes. Remember how much Scott Wiener had to say about them just in his post on the San Marzanos alone? There was lots of myth busting going on there, but if you want to hear more from him on the topic of this enigmatic fruit, then you need to get your tomato loving self to the Brooklyn Brainery tonight. Scott will be giving a talk and conducting a tasting in a class that goes from 7:00-8:30pm. Tickets are $15 at the door.
Here's a little teaser from Scott himself on what to expect in tonight's class:
The class will involve a blind tasting of both canned and fresh tomatoes of all possible distinctions. We'll find out firsthand whether or not tomato lovers can tell the difference between average canned plum tomatoes, California canned San Marzanos, NJ fresh picked San Marzanos and DOP San Marzanos. It's going to be a "put your money where your mouth is" kind of thing. We'll also compare NJ-fresh and FL-gassed beefsteaks before discussing the huge differences between the fresh can canned tomato industries. There will be some history and botany in there as well, all for the love of the tomato. I currently have a stack of cans sitting on my kitchen table waiting to be swapped into identical containers and labeled for the tasting. Besides featuring all the tomatoes mentioned in my San Marzano post last week, we'll also be tasting Paulie Gee's secretly sourced tomatoes tonight! He takes the labels off the can and is extremely mysterious about their origin. All that aside, we'll find out if they really taste that good.
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Knoxville, Tenn. - Led by junior Meighan Simmons who finished with 24 points, the Tennessee women's basketball team jumped out to an early lead and never looked back finishing with a 97-68 victory over Ole Miss (8-15, 1-9 SEC) in front of a crowd of 11,727 at Thompson-Boling Arena Sunday.
It was the ninth wire-to-wire win of the season for the Lady Vols (19-5, 10-1) and their fourth in conference play.
Five Tennessee players tallied double-digit scoring for the sixth time this season en route to a 59.4 shooting percentage, the highest of the season. The Lady Vols shot 66.7 percent from the field in the second half putting up 57 points in the frame on the scoreboard, the most in any half this season and the most since a 58-point first half against Alabama on Jan. 6, 2011, a game UT won 110-45.
With her team-leading 24 points, Simmons moved into 26th place on the all-time scoring list finishing the day with 1,319 points passing Tonya Edwards (1,309). It was the eighth time this season that Simmons registered over 20 points and the 18th time in her career.
Bashaara Graves notched her ninth double-double of the season with 19 points and 11 boards, tying Tamika Catchings for fourth-most double-doubles by a Lady Vol freshman. While fellow freshman Nia Moore notched 12 points, a career-high, in just 10 minutes of play.
Aiding Simmons was sophomore Ariel Massengale who dished out eight assists one off of her season-high (9) while Kamiko Williams added five helpers, one off of her career-high (6).
The Lady Vols began the game off on a 16-2 run and cruised the rest of the way holding Ole Miss to just one field goal in the first seven and a half minutes of play.
The Rebels briefly got back into the game closing the gap to 28-23 with six minutes left in the first half. However, the Lady Vols finished the half on a 12-4 run to earn a 13-point, 40-27 halftime lead, marking the 12th time that Tennessee tallied at least 40 points at the half this season.
In the second half, the Lady Vols grabbed a 20-point lead on a 3-pointer by Taber Spani, extending a 14-4 run with just under 13 minutes remaining in the game.
The Lady Vols extended their lead to 22-points as Simmons took a no-look pass from Cierra Burdick and drained her second three of the game with 8:21 left to play en route to the 29-point victory.
Tennessee will return to action next Sunday, February 17 when they take on Vanderbilt at Thompson-Boling Arena.
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When it comes to making seafood gumbo, just about the only thing that people can agree on is that first you make a roux. But what kind of roux? Some say a dark mahogany roux is the key to a great gumbo, while others say it should be the color of peanut butter. Should you add sausage, or simply feature fresh seafood? And the most hotly contested argument - should you add tomatoes? Some say it's a must, while others say it's sacrilege.
However you chose to make your gumbo, this recipe is a great way to feed a large crowd or a small family, as it doubles easily and freezes beautifully.
Heat a medium sauté pan over medium-high heat; add 2 tablespoons of the oil and heat through. Add the chopped okra and sauté until just starting to turn light golden brown, about 10 minutes. (Note: This will help prevent the okra from having a slimy texture.) Using a slotted spoon, transfer the okra to a paper-towel lined platter; set aside until needed. Wipe the pan clean with paper towel.
Place a large sauce pot or Dutch oven over medium heat; add the remaining oil, then whisk in the flour until smooth. Cook over medium to medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until the roux is the color of peanut butter, about 15 minutes. If you see black specks in the roux, dump it out and start over; the roux must remain evenly colored throughout the cooking process. (Note: Cooking the roux slowly over low to moderate heat while stirring constantly
is the key to perfect dark roux. Resist the temptation to stop cooking the roux before it is the desired color. It's worth the wait!)
Just as soon as the roux achieves the desired color, add the Creole seasoning, salt, onions, celery, bell pepper, garlic, bay leaves, thyme and hot pepper sauce; cook, stirring constantly, until the vegetables are soft, about 8 to 10 minutes.
Add the stock all at one time, whisking vigorously to remove any lumps that have formed.
Add the tomatoes, and bring to the boil; immediately reduce the heat and simmer, uncovered, for 1 hour. (Note: It is very important to skim off any foam (scum) or oil that rises to the top of the pot during cooking. Otherwise, your gumbo will have an oily texture.)
Add the shrimp, oysters and sautéed okra to the pot, and cook just until the shrimp turn pink and the edges of the oysters curl, about 2 to 3 minutes. Continue skimming off any foam (scum) or oil that rises to the top of the pot during cooking. Add the crabmeat, parsley and green onions, and cook just until the crab is warmed through, about 1 minute more. If the gumbo is too thick, add a little bit of water to thin.
Stir in the lemon juice, then taste and adjust the seasoning as needed with Creole seasoning, hot pepper sauce and lemon juice; remove and discard the bay leaves.
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New Mexico Lobos beat Wyoming Cowboys in MWC tourney
- New Mexico beat Wyoming%2C 59-46
- The Lobos will face either Boise State or San Diego State in the semifinals
LAS VEGAS (AP) — New Mexico won its quarterfinal matchup in the Mountain West Conference tournament despite a sluggish stretch in what seemed like a home game.
Tony Snell scored 15 points and the No. 14 Lobos led from start to finish, beating Wyoming 59-46 on Wednesday night.
Cameron Bairstow added 14 and eight rebounds for top-seeded New Mexico (27-5), which will play either Boise State or San Diego State in the semifinals Friday.
"I guess in the eyes of the beholder of what's pretty and ugly," said New Mexico coach Alford. "In March, when you win by 13 — to me — it's pretty."
The Lobos traveled well, bringing about 4,000 fans to the Thomas & Mack Center, home of third-seeded UNLV. At times Wednesday night, the Rebels' home court felt like The Pit in Albuquerque.
The teams could meet in the final Saturday after the No. 3 Rebels won their quarterfinal game against Air Force earlier Wednesday. UNLV plays No. 2 seed Colorado State on Friday.
"(Our) fans are definitely a big part of how we play," Snell said. "They give us energy to play better and pick each other up. We tried to be aggressive from the start, and try to be a threat out there. But we can never win games without having defensive stops."
Derrious Gilmore hit four 3-pointers and had 14 points, and Larry Nance Jr. also scored 14 for No. 8 seed Wyoming (19-13). Josh Adams added 12 points for the Cowboys.
New Mexico led 34-24 at halftime before Wyoming opened the second half on a 9-2 run, but the Cowboys came no closer.
Wyoming held Kendall Williams, the conference player of the year, to six points but the Lobos' reserves picked up the slack, outscoring the Cowboys' bench 12-0.
Even though the Lobos did not have a field goal for the first 10:23 of the second half, the Cowboys could not take advantage, pulling no closer than three after their run.
"I thought our guys were terrific tonight," said Alford, the conference coach of the year. "We really guarded the way we've been guarding all year. I think we made things hard on them. It became a physical game, which our guys have proven they don't mind physicality."
Wyoming's Leonard Washington and Nance Jr. both played with foul trouble, Washington picking up his fourth with 14:50 left in the game, and Nance Jr. with 11:59 remaining.
"(We) played with a sense of urgency," Wyoming coach Larry Shyatt said. "(We) played with a level of toughness. Coming out in the second half down 10, to make their staff call timeout, is an example of what (my players) have been to me personally."
New Mexico kept extending the advantage throughout the second half and had its largest lead at 59-44 lead with 1:15 to go. The Lobos were strong at the free throw line, converting 21 of 29, while the Cowboys made only eight of their 13 shots from the line.
Now Wyoming awaits an invitation from a postseason tournament outside the NCAAs.
"When we came to Wyoming a few years ago, (we) were 280 on the RPI," Shyatt said. "You fill in the blank. Last year, we were 90, this year we're a 67, and maybe after tonight, we went forward after we played No. 2 in the computer."
The Lobos swept the regular season series, including a 53-42 win in Albuquerque on March 2.
Both teams were coming off losses. The Lobos lost at Air Force in the final seconds, 89-88, last Saturday, and the Cowboys came in riding a five-game skid.
All five Lobos starters made all-conference teams. Williams was a first-team selection, Alex Kirk a second-team and Snell a third-teamer, while Bairstow and Hugh Greenwood earned honorable mentions.
New Mexico hit eight of its first ten shots, including a trio of 3-pointers, and all five free throws in the first nine-plus minutes, giving the Lobos a 25-15 lead. The Lobos' largest lead of the first half was 11 with 6:37 left.
"We have faith in one another," Bairstow said. "Guys are going to step up, which they have the whole year. So even when we're not playing well at a particular point, I think we did a good job of being patient tonight."
But the Cowboys defense tightened and New Mexico made only 4 of 17 from the field the rest of the half.
This was only the second time the teams met in the Mountain West tournament. Wyoming upset then-No. 3 seed New Mexico in the 2009 quarterfinal round.


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Dr. Crow is Physician-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Medicine at Hospital for Special Surgery and is Chief of the Division of Rheumatology at HSS and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. She is also Director of the Autoimmunity and Inflammation Research Program and Co-Director of the Mary Kirkland Center for Lupus Research at HSS. Dr. Crow holds the Benjamin M. Rosen Chair in Immunology and Inflammation Research at HSS and is the Joseph P. Routh Professor of Rheumatic Diseases in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College.
Dr. Crow leads 66 full-time physicians, including 30 adult and 3 pediatric rheumatologists, who provide outstanding care to patients across the full spectrum of autoimmune and inflammatory rheumatic diseases and deliver perioperative medical care to patients undergoing surgical procedures at HSS. Dr. Crow has established disease-specific Centers of Excellence focused on innovative initiatives in clinical and translational research, patient and professional education, and quality of care.
Dr. Crow's academic and research career has focused on unraveling the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie the systemic autoimmune diseases, with a particular focus on systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis. She has identified interferon-alpha, an immune system protein typically expressed in the setting of virus infection, as the key pathogenic mediator in lupus. Her laboratory continues to study the molecular pathways that are associated with the clinical manifestations of lupus and the mechanisms that result in disease flares.
In addition to her leadership roles at HSS and NYPH/WCMC, Dr. Crow has served as President of the American College of Rheumatology and as President of the Henry Kunkel Society. She has been honored as an "Arthritis Hero" of the Arthritis Foundation, and in 2010 she received the Margaret D. Smith Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthritis Foundation, New York Chapter.
Physician-in-Chief, Hospital for Special Surgery
Chair, Department of Medicine, Hospital for Special Surgery
Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College
Senior Research Scientist, Hospital for Special Surgery
Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Attending Physician, Hospital for Special Surgery and New York Presbyterian Hospital
Systemic lupus erythematosus
Rheumatoid arthritis
Arthritis Hero, Arthritis Foundation, 2001
Benjamin M. Rosen Chair in Immunology and Inflammation Research, 2002
Joseph P. Routh Professor of Rheumatic Diseases in Medicine, 2010
Margaret D. Smith Lifetime Achievement Award, Arthritis Foundation, New York Chapter, 2010
American College of Rheumatology, President-Elect
Member, Medical Advisory Committee, The S.L.E. Foundation, Inc.
One of the goals of HSS is to advance the science of orthopedic surgery, rheumatology, and related disciplines for the benefit of patients. Physicians at HSS may collaborate with outside companies for education, research and medical advances. HSS supports this collaboration in order to foster medical breakthroughs; however HSS also believes that these collaborations must be disclosed.
As part of the disclosure process, this website lists physician collaborations with outside companies. The disclosures are provided by information provided by the physician and other sources and are updated regularly. Further information may be available on individual company websites.
Below are the healthcare industry relationships reported by Dr. Crow as of September 19, 2019.
By disclosing the collaborations of HSS physicians with industry on this website, HSS and its physicians make this information available to their patients and the public, thus creating a transparent environment for those who are interested in this information. Further, the HSS Conflicts of Interest Policy does not permit physicians to collect royalties on products developed by him/her that are used on patients at HSS.
Patients should feel free to ask their HSS physicians questions about these relationships.
MD, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, 1978
New York Hospital, Internal Medicine, New York, 1978-1979
New York Hospital, Internal Medicine, New York, 1979-1981
Post-doctoral Research Fellowship: Rockefeller University, Immunology Research, New York, 1981-1984
Clinical Fellowship: Hospital for Special Surgery, Rheumatology, New York, 1981-1984
Internal Medicine
New York
Crow MK. Interferon-alpha: A new target for therapy in systemic lupus erythematosus? Arthritis Rheum 2003; 48:2396-401.
Crow MK, Wohlgemuth J. Microarray analysis of gene expression in lupus. Arthritis Res Ther 2003; 5:279-87.
Crow MK, Kirou KA, Wohlgemuth J. Microarray analysis of interferon-regulated genes in SLE. Autoimmunity 2003; 36:481-90.
Kirou KA, Lee C, George S, Louca K, Papagiannis IG, Peterson MGE, Ly N, Woodward RN, Fry KE, Lau A Y-H, Prentice JG, Wohlgemuth JG, Crow MK. Coordinate overexpression of interferon-alpha-induced genes in systemic lupus erythematosus. Arthritis Rheum 2004; 50:3958-67.
Kirou KA, Lee C, George S, Louca K, Peterson, Crow MK. Interferon-alpha pathway activation identifies a subgroup of systemic lupus erythematosus patients with distinct serologic features and active disease. Arthritis Rheum 2005; 52:1491-503.
Hua J, Kirou K, Lee C, Crow MK. Functional assay of type I interferon in systemic lupus erythematosus plasma and association with anti-RNA binding protein autoantibodies. Arthritis Rheum 2006; 54:1906-16.
Niewold TB, Hua J, Lehman TJA, Harley JB, Crow MK. High serum interferon alpha activity is a heritable risk factor for systemic lupus erythematosus. Genes Immun 2007; 8:492-502.
Niewold TB, Kelly JA, Flesch MH, Espinoza LR, Harley JB, Crow MK. Association of the IRF5 risk haplotype with high serum interferon-alpha activity in systemic lupus erythematosus patients. Arthritis Rheum 2008; 58:2481-7.
Crow MK. Collaboration, genetic associations, and lupus erythematosus. New Engl J Med 2008; 358:956-61.
Mavragani CP, La DT, Stohl W, Crow MK. Association of the response to TNF antagonists with plasma type I interferon activity and interferon-beta/alpha ratios in rheumatoid arthritis patients: a post-hoc analysis of a predominantly Hispanic Cohort. Arthritis Rheum, 2010; 62:392-401.
Crow MK. Developments in the clinical understanding of lupus. Arthritis Res Ther, 2009; 11:245.
Crow MK. Long Interspersed Nuclear Elements (LINE-1): potential triggers of systemic autoimmune disease. Autoimmunity, 2010; 43:7-16.
Crow MK. Interferon-alpha: a therapeutic target in systemic lupus erythematosus. Rheum Dis Clin North Am, 2010; 36:173-86.
Crow MK. Interferon-alpha in systemic lupus erythematosus. In: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Fifth Edition. Edited by Robert G. Lahita. Elsevier 2011; 307-320.
Crow MK. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. In: Cecil's Textbook of Medicine. 24rd Edition. Edited by Goldman and Schafer. Elsevier 2011; 1697-1705.
For more publications, please see the PubMed listing.
The immune system has evolved to maintain the integrity of the organism in an environment rich in infectious microbes. When the immune system becomes misdirected toward components of one's own tissue, autoimmune disease and chronic inflammation can result. The hypothesis that forms the basis of Dr. Crow's research program is that in systemic autoimmune disease, with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) the prototype, endogenous nucleic acids that are similar to viral or bacterial nucleic acids induce chronic immune system activation and clinical disease that mimics a chronic and poorly controlled viral infection.
In SLE, activation of the innate immune system by viral-like nucleic acids results in production of type I interferon (IFN), with IFN-alpha the major component of the response. IFN-alpha primes the immune system to become reactive to self-proteins, and when self-reactive antibodies are formed, immune complexes containing RNA or DNA and the proteins bound by those nucleic acids can amplify immune system activation and augment production of IFN-alpha. Dr. Crow's laboratory studies molecular pathways that involve nucleic acid receptors present in the cytoplasm as well as those mediated by endosomal Toll-like receptors. The nature of the nucleic acids that stimulate those pathways is a particular interest. It is proposed that persistent production of IFN-alpha is a feature of many lupus patients and can contribute to immune dysregulation, inflammation and widespread tissue damage. The laboratory's studies, along with those of other investigators, provide the strong rationale for development of therapeutics that target the nucleic acid triggers, receptors and protein products that result from innate immune system activation. IFN-alpha and the Toll-like receptor pathways that amplify IFN production are rational therapeutic targets supported by Dr. Crow's research.
Close collaboration among investigators in the laboratory and clinical rheumatologists at HSS has permitted generation of longitudinal data from lupus patients and collection of associated blood samples. Detailed clinical characterization of patient disease activity, along with analysis of gene expression and plasma proteins in relation to clinical disease flares, has allowed identification of molecular pathways that are associated with clinical manifestations of disease, disease activity and disease flares. A goal of the laboratory is to identify the molecular precursors of future disease flares, permitting timely institution of disease-modifying therapy.
Mechanisms of autoimmune disease
Genomic triggers of autoimmunity
Type I interferon
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School of Engineering wins $113,000 research grant
Liberty University's School of Engineering and Computational Sciences (SECS) has been awarded a $113,000 contract by the Center for Advanced Engineering Research (CAER) to investigate vulnerabilities of certain communications systems in an unfriendly electromagnetic environment.
The work was awarded in support of a local high-technology engineering company, in part to help stimulate the local Lynchburg economy. The research is expected to last one year and, if successful, could result in several new jobs in the area. The work will also help contribute to national security, a particular emphasis of research at LU's SECS.
Professor Michael Maiuzzo will lead the project, which involves predicting the relative merits or deficiencies of various jamming waveforms on high-technology communications signals. Maiuzzo has extensive experience in successful Matlab Simulink modeling of cellular phones, radios and other communications and electronics systems.
SECS Dean Dr. Ron Sones and SECS electrical engineering students will also contribute support on this funded research.


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Lesson 25: The Spiritual Guidance of the Imam
The life of the Prophet (S), as well as his deeds, are a perfect manifestation of the Islamic culture and ideology. He was both the political leader and the legislative authority for the Muslims. He was the messenger of God who received revelations from God and delivered the commands and laws from Allah to people.
He implemented them in the field of Islamic government. His actions were the manifestation of the law, his behaviour pure virtue, and his instructions the guidance and leadership of a strong and wise man. He was not content merely to counsel and advise but rather proceeded to establish a model society founded on true justice.
In dealing with crime the Islamic system gives mundane sanction to the security and satisfaction within the society. It does not defer the punishment of those who damage social happiness to another time. It carries out the prescribed punishment for these people in this world also. Government and leadership together formed the work of this great man.
The Islam system is distinct from other worldly systems of government. Together with this side of the coin, it always looks to the being of each individual, and it always recommends the keeping pace of Islamic laws with the pursuit of spiritual and human virtues.
This latter it is which today civilizations is left to oblivion, and gradually the festering and putrefying results of this are seen. It is because spirituality and moral values are forgotten. The Islamic system has placed special emphasis onto this important point, and the leadership has always established the basis of its philosophy on the spiritual training of mankind.
The majority of men are unaware of the reality of their own exalted human essence, since it is so subtle and delicate that it is only seen by the clear-sighted. In the understanding of the ordinary man, this verdant land of the existence of each human being is situated in an area far from his cogitation and ideation, and he cannot conceive of this land, let alone be a leader towards.
How can man, who, after the passing of centuries and centuries, has still not come to understand even half of the physical actions and reactions that govern his body, expect to know its metaphysical side? Or give guidance and a way to reach that far objective?
Without any dispute, the leader to this land must be someone the essence of whose existence is in union with the supernatural world and who is in relation with and knows this terrain from being a traveller in its known and unknown valleys. If one has not travelled how can he be a guide?
Is it right to give up spiritual destiny? Should the spiritual genius and sublime essence of man be considered unnoticed and take him to be the equal of a beast and leave him in the world of appetites and the libido?
This is not the true status of man's greatness.
Man, with his spiritual and celestial needs, and with the special genius which God has placed in his character, is the masterpiece of creation, and the sun of the world of created things. This is why he takes his place like the world-illuminating sun in heights beyond reach, and sheds his warmth and heat on all quarters of the world like the rays of the sun.
Since it has been determined thus, man is no mere wanderer in the order of creation: he is a small speck, but the great Divine Sun shines on him, and regards him with his special favour out of all creation.
We can see the results of this favour from God to man along the length of human history in His sending of the prophets God sent the prophets on the basis of this love and favour so that they might lead men and take their great but turbulent spirit to the shore of that great salvation and eminence.
The great Qur'an refers to this reality in numerous verses, as for instance, when Ibrahim (a.s.) asks God:
"And, our Lord, do Thou send among them a Messenger, one of them, who shall recite to them Thy signs, and teach them the Book and the Wisdom, and purify them; Thou art the All-mighty the All-wise" (2: 129)
In this verse we clearly see that apart from knowledge and wisdom and guidance, the purification of the soul, which is the same as spiritual training, is counted as one of the essentials of the calling of the prophets.
In the school of the illustrious Prophet, his followers benefit from this special training, and participate in the following of a dazzling and wondrous path of perfection. Salman Farsi, Abu Dhar, Miqdad, Ammar, Uways and many others are among this distinguished group.
Their beings were pure and righteous springs; they were purified from all badness; they wished for nothing apart from Allah, and saw nothing apart from Him. Only Allah ruled in their beings, throughout their souls, hearts, spirits and bodies.
Similarly, virtue and the refining of the spirit is not a superfluous matter of mere formality, that we should be indifferent to, and set apart from all other matters of life, to be attended to only when we feel like it, or at our leisure. No, virtue is the builder of life and a part of it, even, much more important than it. For, according to the testimony of wisdom and the senses, the great qualities of spiritual virtue and purity are so immense and so fathomless that man can with its protection leave his form and mould and reach to the spiritual life, and realise the high reality of his humanness; till he sees that which is beyond sight.
Indications of Spiritual Life in Islam
"And whosoever does a righteous deed, be it male or female, a believer, We shall surely give him to live a goodly life." (16: 97)
"O believers, respond to Allah and the Messenger when He calls you to that which will give you life." (8: 24)
It is obvious that the life, which is mentioned in the above verses, is not the ordinary life. It is nothing but the spiritual life, virtuous human existence, which can only be obtained from the way of righteous action and refinement of the soul.
How is the Spiritual life Found?
As with other phenomena, the finding of the spiritual life requires the fulfilment of certain conditions. The spiritual life is the fruit of man's behaviour and deeds; naturally, that behaviour and those deeds, which are formed by true and righteous training which are taught by celestial teachings.
The command and prohibition of God, which we call the shari'ah, stand in exact correspondence with the truths and realities of the world of creation and the realm of existence, that is to say, creation and genesis. Since we are unaware of the truths of the universe, its workings, its ins and outs and its happenings for our intellects ate insufficient, we are ignorant of the behaviour which builds our spiritual lives. But the Imam (a.s.) reveals these high truths and superior workings to man like a wise and loving teacher, with many clear explanations so that we may become filled with bliss and reach to the spiritual life.
So, the way of Islam (din) is the sum total of realities and instructions which are greater than our ordinary understanding and which Allah has explained by means of the Prophet and his pure, unsullied representatives, so that the spiritual life may take root within us, and assure us of eternal bliss.
Now, if we obey the command, salvation will be ours; if not, it is our loss. Just like a child who is placed under instruction, who hears only command and prohibition from his instructor, and who does what is required of him without asking why. Although he does not understand in the depths of the matter what it means, he will, after the passing of the days of his education, live a life of contentment, because of the virtue and praiseworthy ways of action, which were brought into action within him. However, if he revolts against carrying out the orders of his instructors, it will result in inestimable loss to him.
Life Guidance
Now let us see who is the guarantee for this spiritual life and its perfection, which surely needs a guide?
Will he be found among ordinary men? Or will he be someone who speaks with sureness and dependability, who is in his behaviour from error, immaculate, and who himself stand on the pinnacle of the spiritual life?
Until God guides someone completely Himself, He does not entrust to him the duty of guiding others.
"Allah - He guides to the truth; and which is worthier to be followed - He who guides to the truth, or he who guides not unless he is guided? What the ails you, how you act?" (10: 35)
More particularly, the Imamate is not leadership in the ordinary sense, for this is the duty of every Muslim, and not confined to the Imam. The meaning of guidance here is esoteric guidance; and those who have not found the spiritual life, to whom the realities of the universe have not been revealed, cannot take on this kind of leadership.
By looking into the ayahs of the Qur'an, which speak of Imamate and guidance, we can see that everywhere that Imamate is mentioned; the subject of guidance is also mentioned in commentary and explanation.
What is Spiritual Guidance?
The Imam, besides being an educator in the commands of Islam, the exotic side, is also the leader m the esoteric of Islam; he is the wall. That is to say, he takes man through the inner way, the man who has the predisposition and the worthiness, and leads him towards perfection.
This guidance, because it is carried out on the basis of spiritual blessing and inner stations, is called esoteric guidance.
Esoteric guidance is a superior station which the great prophets reached after the station of prophethood. Thus, Ibrahim (a.s.), after he had been made a prophet, was raised by God to the station of esoteric guidance.
"Verily, I make you an Imam for mankind." ( 2:12-4)
When he had reached the station of walayat and esoteric guidance, the Imam (a.s.) can apply himself to great works, which seem miraculous or impossible from the point of view of ordinary people. The Qur'an tells how Asif ibn Barkhya, one of the counsellors of Sulayman (a.s.) could cause the throne of the Queen of Saba to come before Sulayman (a.s.) ahead of her own arrival, in a time shorter than the blinking of an eye, since he had a certain dominance over the supernatural world and could take away the shutters covering the facts and realities of this world.
Our sinless leaders and Imams - may peace be upon them are situated on a level greater and higher than Asif. The proof of this is the authoritative and documented histories of the narrators, where we find many stories of the spiritual guidance and inner walayat of our Imams.
Therefore, the Imam, since he is in the highest stage of spiritual life, has a kind of spiritual guidance and charisma, which can have an effect on the hearts of worthy and cause a in them, attracting them towards perfection. We can read in histories about the states and conditions of groups of followers of the Imams and how they illuminated their times with their brilliance.
The Man from Damascus
'Ali ibn Khalid was a Zaydi i.e. he did not accept any of the Imam after the fourth Imam, Zayn al-Abidin (a.s.), and he lived in the time of the ninth Imam, Hazrat Muhammad Taqi - may Allah praise him.
He related that he had been in Samarra and he was informed that a man had been brought from Damascus to that place in captivity as a prisoner, who claimed to be a prophet. 'Ali ibn Khalid went to see him, and asked him to relate his story.
"I was busy in worship," he began, "at the place which they say is the resting place of the pure head of the noble martyr Imam Husayn (a.s.). One night, a man suddenly appeared in front of me, and told me to stand up. I stood up despite myself and went a short way with him when I found myself in the mosque at Kufah He asked me if I knew the mosque, and I said that I did, it was the mosque of Kufah He prayed, and I prayed with him, and then we set out again We had gone no distance at all when I noticed the mosque of Medina He asked for blessings on the Prophet of Allah, and we both prayed there. Then we left and set out once more. Then I noticed we were in Mecca. We circumambulated the Ka'abah left it, and then arrived at our original place, Damascus, after no time at all. Then that person vanished from my sight. A slight breeze came and brushed my face and went....
"A year after that adventure, I saw the very same man. I became greatly gladdened; he took me on the same journey, and like the first time we visited all those places, fully aware. But when he wanted to leave me, I said to him: 'I beseech you, who have such a great power as I see in you, tell me your name.' He said: 'I am Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Musa ibn Ja'far.' He was the ninth Imam.
"Now I proceeded to tell everyone I met of this extraordinary event, till news reached Muhammad ibn Abdil-Malik Zayyat He ordered that I be arrested and accused of posing as a prophet. And now, as you see, I am in prison."
'Ali ibn Khalid asked him if he wanted him to write to Muhammad ibn Abdil Malik about his case. The man told him to write. So he wrote, but in his answer Ibn Abdil Malik wrote:
"Tell him that he can escape from his prison, if he wants, in the same way as he went in the night from Damascus to Kufah and from there to Medinah and Mecca, and then back again to Damascus."
Ibn Khalid was most depressed by this answer. In the morning, he went to the prison to give the man the answer. But he saw there were many soldiers and a crowd of people coming and going around the prison, so he asked what had happened.
They told him that the prisoner who had claimed to be a prophet had escaped from the prison. No one knew how he had escaped, by going through the ground or by flying!
'Ali ibn Khalid said: "When I saw this, I left my own Zaydi creed and became a follower of Hazrat Javad (a.s.), the ninth Imam."1
Maytham at-Tammar
Hazrat 'Ali (a.s.), chief among those who forbear, bought and freed Maytham. He asked him what his name was.
"Salim," replied.
"But I heard from the Prophet that your name, your true name, is Maytham."
"He spoke correctly, and you speak correctly; my name, my true name is Maytham."
"Then stay with the name the Prophet called you by, and leave the other name."
In this way Hazrat 'Ali (a.s.) bought and freed the slave, but he caste the noose of love around his neck so that he remained with him up to the last moment of his life - even death could not break this link.
Maytham was a free man who had amazing ability, and he gradually attained great honour in the school of 'Ali (a.s.), and took his place among the group of the friends of 'Ali.
He became aware of the subtleties and discovered the realities. He had great love for 'Ali (a.s.); like a thirsty plant in the rain, he was inspired by him. For him he grew; he was totally absorbed in him. With him the light of his heart and the rejoicing of his soul increased He never sold this happiness to the world of affluence.
One day, Hazrat 'Ali (a.s.) said to him: "When I am gone, you will be hanged; they will scar your body with weapons, and on the third day your beard will be stained with the blood of your eyes and mouth. They will hang you beside the house of 'Amr ibn Harith, together with nine others. The tree they hang you from will be the smallest; come, I will show you the date-palm from whose branch you will be hung."
And then he showed Maytham the tree.
The years passed and Hazrat 'Ali (a.s.) was martyred.
The Umayyids gained power over the people.
Maytham occasionally went out to look at the tree, prayed there, and spoke to it: "O tree! May Allah bless you! I have been created for you, and you grew for me."
In the year of his martyrdom, Maytham went into the precincts of the Ka'abah and met Umm Salmah.
"I have heard your name from the Prophet," she said, "that he recommended you to 'Ali (a.s.)."
Maytham asked her about Imam Husayn (a.s.), and learnt that he had left the city.
"Convey my salam to him," he said, "and tell him it will not be long before I and he will see each other again in the next world before the Lord."
Umm Salmah ordered that perfume should be brought to scent Maytham's beard, and then said to him: "Soon your beard win be coloured by your blood, in the true way of the Prophet and his family."
Maytham then went to Kufah, where two of Ibn Ziyed's agents arrested him, and took him before the latter. This exchange took place 'where is your God?"
"Lying in wait among the oppressors, and you are one of them."
"What did your master, 'Ali say about you and I?"
"He said you would hang me together with nine other martyrs, and that my gallows would be the shortest."
"I want to go against the word of your lord, and I shall kill you in another way."
"How can you? He learnt from the Prophet, and the Prophet learnt from Allah. Can you go against Allah? I also know the place of my martyrdom, and I am the first Muslim in whose mouth they will put a bridle Abdullah ibn Ziyad, his eyes wide open, gave the order to take him immediately to prison. In that prison Maytham gave Mukhtar Thaqafi the good news of his liberty:
"You will kill Ibn Ziyad' he told him, "in revenge for the prince of martyrs, Hazrat Hussyn (as)."
And so it was Maytham was taken to the place of his sacrifice, to the place of his spiritual departure, the place from which his spirit was to soar to the highest and greatest heights of human spirituality. They hung him beside the house of 'Amr ibn Harith, from that very tree that he had been shown.
The people gathered round him, and on the gallows he took the opportunity to tell them of the virtues of Hazrat 'Ali (a.s.) He spoke and unlocked the hearts of the people and they under stood.
Ibn Ziyad was informed that Maytham had defamed him, so he ordered him to be gagged so that he should be unable to speak. Then they attacked him with weapons as Hazrat 'Ali (a.s.), had foretold.
"Allahu Akbar!" he cried.
At the end of the third day, the blood from his eyes and mouth flowed down and stained his beard - may the peace of Allah be with him.2
Uways al-Qarni
The Prophet said: "The scent of heaven is wafting over from Qami. O Uways al- Qami, I am eager to see you. Anyone who sees you should give you my salam!"3
When everyone swore allegiance to Hazrat 'Ali (a.s.) at Dhi Qar, he said: "From Kufah a thousand soldiers, no more no less will come and swear their allegiance to me."
Then they arrived and Ibn 'Abbes counted them, but found only 999 persons. He was puzzled why there was one person missing.
After a moment, a man came near with armour a sword and a shield, and the other accoutrements of war; he went up to Hazrat 'Ali (a.s.) and said: "I want to swear allegiance to you up to death and self-sacrifice."
"What is your name?" said 'Ali.
"Are you Uways al-Qami?"
"Allahu Akbar! My beloved Prophet, the Prophet of Allah may Allah praise him - told me that I would meet one of his followers caned Uways al-Qarni who was one of the party of Allah and His messenger, and who would die a martyr. A numberless group would intercede for him."
Thus it was that he was martyred in the service of Hazrat 'Ali (as.)4
Uways is well known for his spirituality as having a high position. His pleasure was worship, and he had no interest in the things of this world. We can learn from the sayings of Uways the extraordinary nature of the spiritual life of this man.
"I swear by Allah, the thought of death and the fear and trembling at the last days, leaves no place for happiness in this world for the man of faith."
"When we bid to good and forbid from evil they abuse us but with all that we stand up for the Truth of Allah."
Qanbar also was one of those brave people who reached high station by the rays of the spiritual power of the Prophet (S) and 'Ali (a.s.).
He did not fear to tell the truth and to seek the way of righteousness. Although in the eyes of the people of this world he was no more than a slave, in the path of spiritual stations he was intimate to the secrets of 'Ali (a.s.).
The live, powerful, hard-hitting words with which this iron man replied to Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, the bloodthirsty executioner who had the cruelty of a murderer and a criminal, have become well known.
Hajjaj asked him: "What was your work in the service of 'Ali?"
"I made ready his water for wudu "
"When he had finished wudu what did he used to say?"
"He used to recite this ayah: 'So when they forgot what they were reminded of, We opened unto them the gates of everything until, when they rejoiced in what they were doing, We seized them suddenly, and behold, they were sore confounded. So the last remnant of the people who did evil was cut off. Praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the worlds."5
"I presume that ayah speaks about me?"
"Yes," said Qanbar with perfect heroism.
"If I kill you, what can you do?"
"I shall become a man of bliss, and you a man of wretchedness."
"Confess that you have left 'Ali's service!"
'`If I leave his way, will I be guided to a better way?"
Hajjaj could not answer this question, so he said: "I am your killer. Whatever way you wish, let me know, and I shall kill you in this way."
"I leave that to you. '
"Because however you kill me I shall kill you in that way in the next life. 'Ali, my master, told me that I should be beheaded cruelly and unjustly."
So Hajjaj ordered that he be beheaded.6
1. What are the facts that serve as a foundation and corner stone in the project if we assume Islam to be as such?
2. What was of the major attitudes of the Holy Prophet? a) Was it giving lectures, speeches, teachings, administration, or giving judgements?
3. How does Islam deal with criminal activities?
4. Does it leave a criminal case for judgement of God in the next life?
5. If judgement is in Islam is based on worldly aspects of life alone or related to the facts of the next life?
6. Do human beings know their assents properly?
7. What steps has Islam taken to educate people spiritually?
8. What facts are ignored in modern civilization?
9. Can men who still do not know about the physical aspects of their lives pass judgement about their metaphysical needs?
10. Can one be a guide without first travelling a road?
11. Can we ignore our spiritual destiny?
12. Can we consider ourselves just like animals without any spiritual values?
13. Why is man considered the son of the world of the created things in a masterpiece that they are in?
14. Why do man receive special favours from God?
15. What is a very good favour that man has received from God?
16. What does verse 129 ch. 2 say?
17. What fact is an essential task for the Prophet?
18. Can you mention three trainees from the school of the Prophet?
19. How was the attitude of these people towards Allah?
20. What form of progress can spiritual virtue bring to man?
21. What does verse 97 ch. 16 and verse 24 ch. 8 say?
22. How are virtues spiritual progress achieved?
23. Do we know all the "ins" and "outs" of the world?
24. Why do we need the Imam and what they would do for us?
25. How can the sharia be helpful to us?
26. What is greater than our understanding and why?
27. What would obeying and disobeying of sharia do to us?
28. What does verse 35 ch. 10 say?
29. What is spiritual guidance?
30. What are some of the characteristics of an Imam?
31. What does verse 24 ch. 4 say?
32. What kind of power would a person who becomes a wali receive?
33. Why do our Imams have greater power and authority than Asif?
34. Why can the Imams better attract people to perfection?
35. Why did Ali ibn Khalib become a follower of Imam As-Sadiq?
36. What happened to the prisoner and why he was imprisoned?
37. Who bought and freed Maytham AT-Tammar and why?
38. What kind of relations did Maytham At-Tammar have with Imam Ali?
39. What kind of a tree did Imam Ali show to him and why?
40. Who did Maytham speak to in the percent of Ka'abah?
41. What did he say about Imam Hussein?
42. Why did Umm salmah offer perfumes to Maytham?
43. Why was Maytham arrested and by who?
44. Who did Maytham give good news in prison and what news was it?
45. Where was Maytham hung?
46. Why did people gather around him?
47. Why did Ibn Ziad cut off the tongue of Maytham?
48. What happened to Uwayth?
49. How many people pledged loyalty to Imam Ali?
50. What has Uwayth said about death?
52. Who was Cumber and what were some of his virtues abilities?
53. What kind of conversation took place between Cumber and Hajjaj Ibn Yusuf?
54. What did Hajjaj do to him?


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The most commonly used techniques for the determination of trace concentrations of elements in samples are based on atomic emission spectrometry (AES). To dissociate sample molecules into free atoms, thermal sources such as flames, furnaces and electrical discharges are used.
More recently, other types of electrical discharges, namely plasmas have been used as atomization/ excitation sources for AES. These techniques include inductively coupled plasma (ICP) and direct coupled plasma (DCP).
Plasma sources offers several advantages compared with flame and electrothermal methods. The advantages are that it is a multi-element technique and it has wide range. Current plasma sources (DCP) provide a much easier method of handling liquid and gaseous samples. Spectra for dozens of elements can be recorded at the same time which is important when the sample is very small. Plasma sources also permit determination of non-metals such as chlorine, bromine, iodine and sulfur.
Inductively coupled plasma
An inductively coupled plasma can be generated by directing the energy of a radio frequency generator into a suitable gas, usually ICP argon. Other plasma gases used are Helium and Nitrogen. It is important that the plasma gas is pure since contaminants in the gas might quench the torch.
Coupling is achieved by generating a magnetic field by passing a high frequency electric current through a cooled induction coil. This inductor generates a rapidly oscillating magnetic field oriented in the vertical plane of the coil. Ionization of the flowing argon is initiated by a spark from a Tesla coil. The resulting ions and their associated electrons from the Tesla coil then interact with the fluctuating magnetic field. This generates enough energy to ionize more argon atoms by collision excitation. The electrons generated in the magnetic field are accelerated perpendicularly to the torch. At high speeds, cations and electrons, known as eddy current, will collide with argon atoms to produce further ionization which causes a significant temperature raise. Within 2 ms, a steady state is created with a high electron density. A plasma is created in the top of the torch. The temperature within the plasma ranges from 6,000-10,000 K. A long, well-defined tail emerges from the top of the high temperature plasma on the top of the torch. This torch is the spectroscopic source. It contains all the analyte atoms and ions that have been excited by the heat of the plasma.
The success of ICP leans on its capability to analyze a large amount of samples in a short period with very good detection limits for most elements.
ICPs used in the market today are often connected to different detection systems, such as ICP mass spectrometry and ICP atomic emission spectrometry.
Direct coupled plasma
A direct-current plasma (DCP) is created by an electrical discharge between two electrodes. A plasma support gas, commonly ICP argon, is necessary. Samples can be deposited on one of the electrodes, or if conducting can make up one electrode. Insulating solid samples are placed near the discharge so that ionized gas atoms sputter the sample into the gas phase where the analyte atoms are excited. This sputtering process is often referred to as glow-discharge excitation.
A nebulizer converts the sample to an aerosol that is introduced into the excitation area of the plasma.
The plasma jet source is made of three electrodes formed like a tripod. In each arm there is a graphite anode and at the inverted base, a tungsten cathode is located. A high-velocity inert gas, usually ICP argon, produces a high temperature plasma and separates the excitation region from the analytical observation zone. The excitation area is situated in the crook of the tripod and it has a temperature of 6,000 K. To increase the current density and thus the plasma temperature it is necessary to squeeze the plasma in order to decrease the current cross section. This is accomplished by cooling the edges of the plasma with a high-velocity inert gas.
The analyzer is either a mono- or polychromator.
A photomultiplier converts radiant energy to measurable signals.out
Atomic Emission Spectroscopy
Inductively coupled plasma - atomic emission spectroscopy is a type of emission spectroscopy that uses the inductively coupled plasma to produce excited atoms and ions to emit electromagnetic radiation at wavelengths characteristic of a particular element. The intensity of this emission is indicative of the concentration of the element within the sample.
Examples of ICP-AES applications include the determination of small quantities of metalic compounds in wine, arsenic in food, trace elements in soil and trace elements bound to proteins. It has also be referred to as inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES), where it is widely used in minerals processing to provide the data on grades of various ore streams for the construction of mass balances.
This analytical method is also referred to as Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrophotometry and Inductively Coupled Plasma - Atomic Emission Spectrometer.


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Apr 11, 2012 (CIDRAP News) – Saying a voluntary strategy is the best way to reduce the agricultural use of antibiotics and preserve the drugs' medical usefulness, the US Food and Drug Administration today released draft guidance designed to steer animal-drug producers, veterinarians, and farmers in that direction.
The FDA outlined a plan that calls for drug companies to voluntarily change their product labels to stop growth-promotion uses and that will require farmers to consult with veterinarians to use antibiotics in their animals. The agency plans to evaluate the success of the strategy after 3 years.
In announcing the plan at a press conference, Michael Taylor, JD, the FDA's associate commissioner for foods, said the causes of antibiotic resistance are complex and include overuse in human medicine, "but we know that use of medically important drugs in food production animals is a contributing factor."
"It is critical that we take action to protect public health," FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg, MD, said in a press release. "The new strategy will ensure farmers and veterinarians can care for animals while ensuring the medicines people need remain safe and effective. We are also reaching out to animal producers who operate on a smaller scale or in remote locations to help ensure the drugs they need to protect the health of their animals are still available."
The FDA policy takes aim mainly at antibiotics that are used in farm animals to improve feed efficiency and growth, that are available without a prescription, and that were approved before October 2003, according to a fact sheet. That date was when the agency issued guidance on evaluating agricultural antibiotics in light of their possible effects on bacteria of human health concern.
Taylor was noncommittal today about the impact of a recent federal court ruling that directs the FDA to restart a process originally begun in 1977 to ban the use of penicillin and tetracycline in farm animals. The ruling was handed down in March in a lawsuit filed by several consumer and environmental groups.
"This initiative predates the litigation in that ruling," Taylor said. "The government is assessing the ruling and whether to appeal it. As we said earlier, we believe we can achieve the goal that seems to underlie that decision more expeditiously."
Three guidance documents released
The FDA announced the publication of three documents today in the Federal Register.
- A final guidance for industry, The Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobial Drugs in Food-Producing Animals, which recommends phasing out the agricultural production use of medically important drugs and phasing in veterinary oversight of therapeutic uses of the drugs.
- A draft guidance, open for public comment, to help drug companies in voluntarily removing production uses of antibiotics from their product labels and in adding, where appropriate, scientifically supported disease prevention, control, and treatment uses. The guidance is also intended to help companies change "the marketing status" of drugs to include veterinary oversight.
- A proposed Veterinary Feed Directive regulation, open for public comment, that "outlines ways that veterinarians can authorize the use of certain animal drugs in feed, which is important to make the needed veterinary oversight feasible and efficient."
FDA officials insisted that trying to simply ban the growth-promotion uses of antibiotics in animals would not work because it would require a slow legal process.
"We can make changes more quickly [with a voluntary strategy] than if we had to rely solely on a cumbersome regulatory process that would require us to seek changes drug by drug and label-use by label-use," Taylor said. "Given that there are a couple hundred products involved here, it's decades of effort and million and millions [of dollars] in resources."
He also asserted that since the FDA first laid out its voluntary strategy in 2010, there has been a "sea change" in the understanding of the need to take action on the issue and in the ability of the government, the drug industry, and agriculture to collaborate on it. He spoke of a " very productive engagement" of the various players in dialog about the problem.
What's targeted, what's not
FDA officials said their plan, while targeting production uses of animal antibiotics, does not rule out using them to prevent disease in herds.
William Flynn, DVM., deputy director for science policy in the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine, said growth-promotion and production uses of antibiotics generally means their "herd-wide or flock-wide" use on a long-term basis.
In response to questions, Taylor said there is a clear distinction between production and preventive uses of animal antibiotics. "In contrast, prevention is to prevent a specifically identified disease in animal at risk of developing that disease," he added. "Those uses are approved by the FDA and have to be shown safe and effective."
"A major shift is that in conjunction with removing production use, producers will now have to consult with a vet for use of that product," Taylor said. A veterinarian will have to assess the disease risk for the animals in question and use the appropriate drug, and not "simply put a drug in feed to cover whatever disease might come along," he explained.
FDA officials said they are sensitive to the concerns of small-scale farmers who live in remote areas with poor access to veterinary services.
Taylor said the agency's guidance provides for streamlining veterinary oversight procedures and making it "much more feasible for small-scale producers to get access to vets." The FDA is working with the veterinary groups and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to address the problem, he added.
FDA and USDA officials plan to hold some public meetings in the next few months to get input from producers and veterinarians on how to mitigate the impacts of the veterinary-oversight requirements, said Thomas J. Myers, VMD, PhD, associate deputy administrator of the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
Officials at the press conference were wary of giving any specific assessments of the magnitude of ag antibiotic as a factor in antimicrobial resistance or how much of a dent the voluntary plan might make.
For example, they declined to say whether the farm sector is a bigger contributor to the resistance problem than human medicine is. "I think the fair thing to say is they're both contributors and we need to address the problem on both fronts," said Taylor.
Flynn said it's hard to predict what degree of reduction in usage to expect from the program, "but overall we feel confident it's going to have an effect not only in reducing use over time, but also in using the drugs in as smart a way as possible."
Once the draft guidance documents are finalized, the FDA will call for the animal health industry to report within 3 months their plans for responding to the guidance, Flynn said, commenting, "That'll give us an early indication of the engagement by the industry."
In a fact sheet, the FDA said it plans to evaluate the rate of voluntary adoption of the proposed changes after 3 years and will consider further actions at that time, if warranted.
Industry, advocacy groups react
Today's announcement triggered a range of reactions from industry and advocacy groups.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), one of the groups that had sued the FDA to force it to restrict animal-antibiotic use, called the FDA's policies "tragically flawed."
"They rely too heavily on the drug industry and animal producers to act voluntarily in the best interest of consumers," the group said in a statement. "Protecting public health is an authority and a responsibility that rests squarely with the FDA." However, today's step "at least indicates that the agency recognizes a 'public health imperative' to tackle this problem," it said.
In contrast, the Animal Health Institute, which represents producers of drugs and other health products for farm animals, expressed support for the FDA plan.
"Implementation of this policy means all medically-important antibiotics used in animal agriculture will be used only for therapeutic purposes—disease treatment, control and prevention—under the supervision of a licensed veterinarian," the institute said. "This policy will assure these medically important medicines are used in animal health in much the same way they are used in human health—under the supervision of a licensed professional and only to address disease challenges at various stages."
The institute said it agrees with the FDA's collaborative process but added that some details need to be address to make the approach practical and workable.
Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., a microbiologist and veteran advocate for limiting ag antibiotic use, said the FDA is moving in the right direction, but hasn't done enough. She said the FDA is moving at a "glacial" pace.
"This is a step in the right direction, but much more must be done," Slaughter said in a statement. "Antibiotic-resistant diseases now kill more Americans than AIDS, and this issue needs to be treated with the seriousness it deserves. Of course if an animal is sick it should be treated, but the misuse of antibiotics in animal feed is destroying the effectiveness of antibiotics and limiting our ability to treat human illnesses.
"'Nonbinding recommendations' are not a strong enough antidote to the problem, particularly when we know that banned antibiotics are still being detected."
See also:
Apr 11 FDA press release with links to guidance documents
FDA questions and answers on its policy
Mar 23 CIDRAP News item on March court ruling
Nov 10, 2011, CIDRAP News story on FDA's denial of petitions to restrict animal antibiotic use
Animal Health Institute statement
Apr 11 CSPI statement


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Audi A8L W12 Featured in Audi Exclusive Showroom at Geneva 2012
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There's no doubt about it, Geneva is a pricey town. In a place there's a purveyor of expensive TAG Heuers, Breitlings and Rolex watches on nearly every corner, you can bet that many of the residents sport the necessary coin in order to live hear comfortably. Given the Franc:bank ratio of the town, is it any surprise that Audi chose the Geneva Motor Show to display one of the most extravagant specimens of the Audi A8L we've seen to date? We found the car tucked away in an Audi Exclusive showroom off the side of the Audi stand and had a chance to check it out following the Audi press conference.
Of course the car started out as the king-of-the-hill W12 long wheelbase but the special nature of the car hardly ends there. Audi Exclusive went threw plenty of custom tailoring into the interior of the car, with a terra cotta toned leather accented by a great looking grey zebra-style wood with satin finish.
Another interesting bit of equipment on this particular A8L was the wheel. This is Audi's latest generation of wheel based on the "tri-five" theme - a design that first saw light as an optional rim for the RS 5. In this particular fitment the wheel sports a 21-inch diameter and a high-polish finish. Worth mentioning, this is the first time we've seen this particular wheel in this size and for the A8 / S8.
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