Case Of Me Research Articles

Phencyclidine in Drivers and Decedents in Dallas County: A Five-Year Retrospective Review of Toxicological and Demographical Data.

Presented are phencyclidine (PCP)-positive cases received by the Toxicology Laboratory at the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences from local law enforcement agencies and the Office of the Medical Examiner (OME) between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2020. Of the 43,940 requests for testing received during that time, 898 (2.04%) were positive for PCP. These cases were evaluated for PCP concentration, additional/concurrently reported drug concentrations and demographics. For ME cases, the cause and manner of death were also evaluated. Although the number of requests received by the Toxicology Laboratory increased each year, the percentage positive for PCP remained consistent. Subjects ranged from 18 to 71 years old (median 48 years) and were predominantly black (94.19%) and male (78.49%). PCP concentrations for all case types ranged from 0.02 to 2.33 mg/L (median 0.05 mg/L); driving while intoxicated (DWI) cases ranged from 0.02 to 0.14 mg/L (median 0.04 mg/L) and ME cases ranged from 0.02 to 2.33 mg/L (median 0.13 mg/L). In addition to PCP, one or more drug(s) or metabolite(s) was identified concurrently in 69.49% of cases. Cannabinoids were the most frequently detected (39.8%), followed by cocaine and its metabolites (22.0%) and ethanol (18.5%). Results were similar when comparing the additional drugs reported in ME and DWI cases. PCP concentrations in ME samples were generally higher, especially for stimulant drugs. Of the 264 ME cases positive for PCP, the manner of death was determined to be an accident for the majority of cases (62.54%), and the most common cause of death was drug toxicity (35.61%). The results from this study facilitate comparison of laboratory- or region-specific data sets, help determine whether laboratory scopes meet testing needs, contribute to reference ranges and provide the foundation for well-informed policy decisions.

ANALISIS PELANGGARAN APOTEKER DI RUMAH SAKIT PADA KASUS ADMINISTRASI ERROR BERUJUNG PIDANA

Medication Error described as a sequence of events or cases that cause failure in the treatment process or therapeutic process that has the ability to threaten the patient in the treatment process. In Indonesia, there are numerous cases of Medication Errors, particularly in hospitalization, Fatal Incidences related to the use of drugs (Medication Errors) as many as twenty-six percent of incidents (26%) and of all these incidents, ME most frequently occurs in Administration phase 81.32%. The objective of this study is to determine the criminal sanctions in the case of Medication Error. The research method that is used in the research is normative method with a written rule of law approach. Primary materials include written legal rules, the secondary legal basic materials include journals or articles and tertiary materials related to the development of cases that are discussed and combined with perspectives from the researcher's point of view. ME cases can be resolved by Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number Thirty Six of 2014 concerning Health Workers, Criminal Provisions Article 84 Part A or B depending on the severity of the case.

Aton and the Sacred Bird

Aton and the Sacred Bird Kama Sywor Kamanda (bio) Translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson (bio) and Catherine Maigret Kellogg (bio) Under the early morning breeze, the palm trees were swaying in the azure. The green of the foliage blended with the colors of a sunken, strange, and silent sky. At daybreak, Aton, a young peddler, set forth, despite the impending storm. The wind was cold, and he shivered with each step. His parents were poor and beat him constantly because he wasn't bringing in any money. That's why, at a very young age, he'd started going door to door selling knickknacks in order to contribute in his own way to the meager family income. One day, he was startled by an odd character crossing his path: a wizard, clad in leopard skins, who danced, sang, and chanted mysterious incantations in the pouring rain. This man coveted the sacred bird—keeper of time and protector of day and night. Aton dreamed of possessing the same powers. By making the darkness more fearful, he thought, I would push back the boundaries of night. The strange fellow called out to the passerby and said, "Catch me the bird that swallows the moon at night and gives birth to the sun at dawn and in exchange I will give you gold." Surprised, young Aton collected his thoughts. He remained puzzled for a long while. After weighing the pros and cons of the offer, he asked, "Why don't you go search for it yourself?" "Gaining access to the great mysteries is only reserved for virgins. And this is no longer the case for me, my young friend! You, on the other hand, are honest, audacious, and still innocent." "I agree to helping you out." He was about to go when he turned around, and, after a long pause, asked, suddenly suspicious, "Are you sure there's no danger?" He then insisted, "What exactly will the bird bring you?" [End Page 25] The wizard didn't reply right away. He needed a clever trick to convince the impertinent young man. He had to come up with something to sweeten the pot. But he could think of nothing. Suddenly, he burst out, "Bring back what I want, and you will be rewarded. My only satisfaction will be to own such a unique possession." The young man was very persistent, astute, and strong. He thought it over. Nothing scared him. He was less naive than the wizard might have thought and replied with authority, "I don't believe in your good faith. No one would be so generous as to offer such riches for an animal that doesn't yield anything in return. He surely is worth more than that." Then Aton suspiciously eyed the wizard and understood he was deceitful and up to no good. The cunning old man turned around. He scrutinized the impudent youth, anger and hatred easily read in the wizard's eyes. Nobody had ever been able to stand up to him. Aton hesitated. He was worried but also tempted to take a chance. He suspected a ruse on the part of his interlocutor, a trap whose game plan he would have loved to understand. Nevertheless, he accepted. The sky was filling with dark clouds, and the young man, not confident in the outcome, wandered in search of the miraculous bird. His heart throbbed in cadence with frightening visions. Filled with doubt and uncertainty, he walked along, scaling mountain slopes and hills. He went down into valleys and chasms and crossed the wild grass. Henceforth, he no longer knew borders. He was there, from sunrise to sunset, as the seasons appeared and evaporated. After a few days, he saw an old man who was contemplating the stars while reading a papyrus. He came closer and questioned him. "Sir," he said, "I would like to know the exact place where I can find the bird that gives us the day and brings the night." The astronomer looked at him in astonishment. "It all depends on the stars, my child," he replied. "I would like to catch it," the young man said. The wise man looked at him with eyes wide...

What Becomes a Senior Researcher

As we progress through life, our needs, desires, and even objectives, change. That certainly has been the case for me over the years. This article is my attempt at distilling what advice I can for someone making a transition from a junior to a senior researcher in the database field: think Associate Professor or someone 5 to 10 years post PhD.

Reflections on the tensions between openness and method in experientially oriented research and psychotherapy

ABSTRACT In this article, as a phenomenological psychologist, researcher, and professor I offer reflections on the six articles that make up this special edition of the Journal. I respond to each in some detail, addressing issues around the challenges of using phenomenological methods, understanding them adequately, and the challenge of finding ways of studying phenomena systematically while also remaining retaining an attitude of humility about our capacity to arrive at understandings that do justice to the accounts of research participants. I have found that the most productive dialogues take place when there is a mixture of agreement and disagreement allowing for a clarification of one’s own understanding and point of view as one takes into account and struggles with perspectives that that one had not previously encountered. This has very much been the case for me in this instance.

The Last Days of William Bunge:

The Last Days of William Bunge: Clark Akatiff (bio) When I first presented this account of the last years and death of the famous American communist geographer William Bunge, I asked an audience of students and their professors, "How many have heard of 'Wild' Bill Bunge?" A minority of students and all the professors raised their hands, but most, by far, had not. No surprise; who has heard of any geographer in these days? This is despite the growing importance of geography in science, in government, in business. All depend on Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and on digital maps. This formal revision of a paper given some years past is at this time being written under C-19 shutdown. The advance of the virus and the steps taken to suppress it give daily evidence of the relevance of geographical science. Yet as a pillar of learning, we stumble. The great American universities dropped geography as a Department of Learning. They kept maps and they kept geographers, often called something else, because you cannot do without geography. Geography grew in the state universities and abroad in Europe and Asia, but even there we see erosion. These days I see the term geosciences coming into use, and that is perhaps the future of the old girl. Time will tell, but let this memoir provide a brief but true insight into a man who led the field into its future state: Great Brilliance and/or Complete Obscurity. Legends and Realities You never know how well you are known or unknown. Certainly that is the case for me, more a rumor than a reality. The legendary status that some have attributed to me is all the more true of Bunge himself. As geographers we are both exceptions to the rule, on the margins, outlandish and without academic shelter, part of a larger people's movement, unknown, or forgotten. That's Bill, and even more so that's me, Clark Akatiff, his ally and friend since 1968 (Akatiff 2016). What brought Bill and me together? A love of geography, that old whore of the sciences, as well as the dreams for a world of peace, justice, and equality, [End Page 133] a world of socialism leading to perfect communism. Ours was a forty-year alliance, held at a great distance, but alive all the more so. The world of the mind takes place at a very high level. The word goes back and forth by the decades, not the moments. This bears explanation and repetition: this is a very slow-motion conversation we are having, already nearly a decade since Bill passed. And in my relationship to the man, there is also the true sense of the words mentor, guru, disciple, and aide. It speaks to the real relationship of the mind; it traces back to Socrates and Plato. I heard the man speak, and I bring his words as remembered and recorded. I love Wild Bill, though he drove me nearly to distraction with his endless rants and professorial advisories, as well as the details of his family history. One could not help but note his spoiled behavior. He was, after all, from a rich family. And he understood that. He saw it as a fault, but could not overcome it. I recall his behavior at his last AAG meeting, in Boston 2008. Driven from Montreal in a limousine, imperious, expecting people to come to him, using me as a messenger boy (which I was happy to do). He once told me, "Clark, people don't like me," then laughed about it. There was nothing not to like about this big galoot of a man. He had a good heart and a great mind. He could sit at a piano and play the blues. He was the loudest voice in the room. Yet he rubbed many people the wrong way. He had a reputation for violence. He would claim it was unearned, but it was a real reputation. There was an incident while he was at Wayne State in which it was asserted that he "roughed up a conservative student." Some said he threatened to throw a racist out the window, but the...

Computational Psycholinguistics

Computational Psycholinguistics

Automatic Planning of Whole Breast Radiation Therapy Using Machine Learning Models.

Purpose: To develop an automatic treatment planning system for whole breast radiation therapy (WBRT) based on two intensity-modulated tangential fields, enabling near-real-time planning.Methods and Materials: A total of 40 WBRT plans from a single institution were included in this study under IRB approval. Twenty WBRT plans, 10 with single energy (SE, 6MV) and 10 with mixed energy (ME, 6/15MV), were randomly selected as training dataset to develop the methodology for automatic planning. The rest 10 SE cases and 10 ME cases served as validation. The auto-planning process consists of three steps. First, an energy prediction model was developed to automate energy selection. This model establishes an anatomy-energy relationship based on principle component analysis (PCA) of the gray level histograms from training cases' digitally reconstructed radiographs (DRRs). Second, a random forest (RF) model generates an initial fluence map using the selected energies. Third, the balance of overall dose contribution throughout the breast tissue is realized by automatically selecting anchor points and applying centrality correction. The proposed method was tested on the validation dataset. Non-parametric equivalence test was performed for plan quality metrics using one-sided Wilcoxon Signed-Rank test.Results: For validation, the auto-planning system suggested same energy choices as clinical-plans in 19 out of 20 cases. The mean (standard deviation, SD) of percent target volume covered by 100% prescription dose was 82.5% (4.2%) for auto-plans, and 79.3% (4.8%) for clinical-plans (p > 0.999). Mean (SD) volume receiving 105% Rx were 95.2 cc (90.7 cc) for auto-plans and 83.9 cc (87.2 cc) for clinical-plans (p = 0.108). Optimization time for auto-plan was <20 s while clinical manual planning takes between 30 min and 4 h.Conclusions: We developed an automatic treatment planning system that generates WBRT plans with optimal energy selection, clinically comparable plan quality, and significant reduction in planning time, allowing for near-real-time planning.

Response to 2019 Barringer Medal award

Response to 2019 Barringer Medal award

I thought it would never happen to me

“Don’t worry, that would never happen to me” was a common refrain I used with friends and family in the wake of Sheri Sangji’s death. Although the Sangji case rightfully sparked much-needed discussion and action on academic laboratory safety at the national level, in many cases we were (are) much slower to embrace change as individuals. This was certainly the case for me. When she died, I was a third-year graduate student. I’d been working with pyrophorics for several years. I was young and felt invincible. It was difficult to comprehend the potential severe consequences of a lab accident. As a result, Sangji’s death was for me not an instant paradigm shift but rather the start of a gradual awakening to the importance of laboratory safety. In my graduate lab at the California Institute of Technology, one of the most noticeable and important changes after Sangji’s death was that we,

Precarious Romanticism: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies in Germany

Precarious Romanticism: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies in Germany Clemens Spahr (bio) I should not talk so much about myself if there were any body else whom I knew as well. —Henry David Thoreau1 For this essay, and in keeping with this Forum’s intent, I will heed Henry David Thoreau’s advice. Such a focus allows me to address some of the general issues associated with the field of American studies in Germany from a particular subject position, one linked to a specific research field and shaped by my career stage. While I don’t think that topically or theoretically there is something inherently “German” about American studies in Germany—there is a Heideggerian Emersonian tradition in the United States, just as there is a pragmatist romanticist tradition in Germany—the question about the specificity of German American studies can productively be asked institutionally: How do local institutional conditions affect scholarly exchange? How is it possible to reconcile the expectations of the German university system with the often different time lines of academic discourse and publications in the United States? The latter question is, of course, of particular relevance for those on the job market, and it importantly shapes what it means to work in American studies in Germany. I will try to link the “narrowness of my experience,” as Thoreau has it in the same passage from Walden, to a few general observations.2 But, first, some further details: I am an assistant professor of American [End Page 357] studies at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. My major research fields are American transcendentalism and modern American poetry. My interest in the links among idealism, materialism, and modernity developed at the University of Tübingen, both in the American studies department and the philosophy department, with its strong focus on German idealism. As I read widely in romanticism and, more particularly, transcendentalism, I also turned to neo-Marxist theory from Theodor W. Adorno and Ernst Block to Fredric Jameson, later including Immanuel Wallerstein’s historical sociology. As Marx himself was heavily influenced by romanticism, the move from romantic idealism to materialism could be considered theoretically imperative.3 As I showed in my first book—Radical Beauty: American Transcendentalism and the Aesthetic Critique of Modernity (2011)—the transcendentalists dwelled on this relationship more than is usually appreciated. They recognized that a universalist aesthetic utopianism ultimately has to overcome social injustice and class division. Although not all of the transcendentalists embraced the radical politics of Orestes Brownson and Margaret Fuller in her socialist years, all of them understood aesthetic experience as having a potential for resisting capitalist commodification. My institutional position comes with a number of complexities and complications, which affect the ways I approach the field. Thoreau is still one of the best critics of the nature of liberal capitalism, but when he exclaims, “Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth,” I respectfully disagree.4 In Germany, assistant professors are usually nontenured: this is the case for me and, at least at my university, the norm. But the German academic system is undergoing fundamental changes, and as a result the parameters for a permanent position are shifting. While the Habilitation used to be the most important criterion to apply for full professorships, this criterion has been replaced by “Habilitation or habilitation-equivalent achievements,” which can mean anything from a second book to a book manuscript, essays, or research grants. The lack of clarity in this phrase reflects a larger shift in academic structure: there are nontenured assistant professors, nontenured junior professors, and tenure-track junior professors. The intricacies of this system are beyond the scope of this essay, in particular since these positions also vary according to state. Generally, however, tenure-track positions remain the exception, so that most midcareer academics find themselves in a precarious job situation. Academic employment law, a complicated statute that essentially limits academic employment at the PhD and postdoc level to a combined twelve years, adds to this insecurity. As an [End Page 358] assistant professor, then, I occupy a particular place within the university system, hoping to enjoy the kind of “true wealth” Thoreau celebrates but limited every day by a precarious job...

A film of the moment: Bad Timing

When Bad Timing was finished in 1980 its distributor, Rank, distanced itself, calling it “a sick film made by sick people for sick people.” It was given an X rating in the USA. Roger Ebert awarded it just one and a half stars. A positive review from the likes of Playboy magazine, who predictably hailed the film's “eroticism,” was understandably not enough to lift director Nick Roeg's spirits in the face of reactions like this one, recounted in a 2000 Guardian interview: “At the first test screening in America, I was going to meet a friend, a quite well-known actor. Afterwards, he got into his car, drove it at me, and swerved off. He wouldn't speak to me for 3 years.” Bad Timing has gone on to accrue a kind of queasy cult status since 1980. If (as I confess was the case for me) all you know about it is that it stars Art Garfunkel and features a scene of near necrophilia, you need to watch it. It will repay your time, and, as our politics struggles to find the correct approach to historical sexual assault allegations and issues of consent on university campuses, it now feels eerily prescient. Playboy and Rank were wrong, albeit in very different ways. Bad Timing deals in eroticism but it isn't remotely erotic. It deals in sickness, but isn't itself sick. The psychology of suicidal behaviourThe causes of suicidal behaviour are not fully understood; however, this behaviour clearly results from the complex interaction of many factors. Although many risk factors have been identified, they mostly do not account for why people try to end their lives. In this Review, we describe key recent developments in theoretical, clinical, and empirical psychological science about the emergence of suicidal thoughts and behaviours, and emphasise the central importance of psychological factors. Personality and individual differences, cognitive factors, social aspects, and negative life events are key contributors to suicidal behaviour. Full-Text PDF

Evaluation of four clinical laboratory parameters for the diagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis

BackgroundMyalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) is a complex and debilitating disease that often initially presents with flu-like symptoms, accompanied by incapacitating fatigue. Currently, there are no objective biomarkers or laboratory tests that can be used to unequivocally diagnosis ME; therefore, a diagnosis is made when a patient meets series of a costly and subjective inclusion and exclusion criteria. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the utility of four clinical parameters in diagnosing ME.MethodsIn the present study, we utilized logistic regression and classification and regression tree analysis to conduct a retrospective investigation of four clinical laboratory in 140 ME cases and 140 healthy controls.ResultsCorrelations between the covariates ranged between [− 0.26, 0.61]. The best model included the serum levels of the soluble form of CD14 (sCD14), serum levels of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), and serum levels of interleukin 8, with coefficients 0.002, 0.249, and 0.005, respectively, and p-values of 3 × 10−7, 1 × 10−5, and 3 × 10−3, respectively.ConclusionsOur findings show that these parameters may help physicians in their diagnosis of ME and may additionally shed light on the pathophysiology of this disease.

Overcoming Isolation as a Form of Leadership

Working in the technical services department of a small academic library is a bit of an isolation double-whammy: not only are you more removed from the patrons you serve than are your public-facing counterparts, you may also be a department of one and solely responsible for discharging a highly specialized set of duties. This has been the case for me since 2015 when I moved to Oregon after accepting the position of Acquisitions Specialist at Pacific University, a small, private, liberal arts college in Forest Grove. I am primarily responsible for tracking the library’s resource funds; overseeing the ordering, receiving, and invoicing process for all newly acquired materials; and aiming for the ever-moving target that is continuations budgeting. Prior to this position, I had mainly worked for larger institutions with more staff members who had the same or overlapping responsibilities. Over the past few years at Pacific, I have had to train myself in conquering the inherent isolation associated with my work. I’ve found that this has brought out leadership qualities I did not know I possessed, and I have identified a few ways in which I have been able to harness and hone these newfound skills.

Reaction of allyl bromide with cyclometallated platinum(II) complexes: Unusual kinetic behavior and a novel case of methyl and allyl C-C bond reductive elimination

Reaction of the known cyclometallated platinum(II) complexes [PtMe(CˆN)(PPh2Me)], in which CˆN is either 2-phenylpyridinate (abbreviated as ppy-H), 1a, or benzo-h-quinolate (abbreviated as bhq-H), 1b, with excess allyl bromide, CH2=CH-CH2Br, in acetone gave the thermodynamic Pt(IV) product complex cis-[PtMe(CH2-CH=CH2)Br(ppy-H)(PPh2Me)], 2a, or cis-[PtMe(CH2-CH=CH2)Br(bhq-H)(PPh2Me)], 2b, respectively, in which the phosphine and the allyl ligands are situated trans to each other. Although these Pt(IV) complexes may possibly take up other isomeric forms such as one in that allyl ligand being situated trans to N atom or one that allyl ligand is located trans to Br atom, our full characterization of the complexes using 1H, 13C and 31P NMR spectroscopy, completely ruled out the latter possibilities. Our attempt to grow crystals of the Pt(IV) complex 2a was ended up to give crystals of the Pt(II) complex [PtBr(ppy-H)(PPh2Me)], 3a, resulting from reductive elimination of Me and allyl from 2a. Also the solution of the Pt(IV) bhq-H analogous complex 2b in acetone at 60 °C gradually gave the Pt(II) complex [PtBr(bhq-H)(PPh2Me)], 3b; these two new complexes 3a and 3b were also prepared directly and fully characterized and their NMR spectra were used to confirm the occurred reductive eliminations. These observations show that during the time a novel case of Me and allyl C-C bond reductive elimination, as determined by 1H, 13C and 31P NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography, is happening. Kinetics of reaction of the Pt(II) complexes 1 with excess ally bromide were investigated by UV–vis spectroscopy and found that while the bhq-H complex 1b reacts by usual second order SN2 mechanism, first order in both the complex and the reagent, the analogous ppy-H complex 1a reacts almost completely by an unusual third order kinetics, first order on 1a and second order on allyl bromide reagent. Suggestions are made for these behaviors and DFT calculations were obtained to support the experimental observations.

Working with the Victims and Perpetrators of Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation

Working with the Victims and Perpetrators of Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation

Treatment and management of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis: all roads lead to Rome.

This review explores the current evidence on benefits and harms of therapeutic interventions in chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) and makes recommendations. CFS/ME is a complex, multi-system, chronic medical condition whose pathophysiology remains unknown. No established diagnostic tests exist nor are any FDA-approved drugs available for treatment. Because of the range of symptoms of CFS/ME, treatment approaches vary widely. Studies undertaken have heterogeneous designs and are limited by sample size, length of follow-up, applicability and methodological quality. The use of rintatolimod and rituximab as well as counselling, behavioural and rehabilitation therapy programs may be of benefit for CFS/ME, but the evidence of their effectiveness is still limited. Similarly, adaptive pacing appears to offer some benefits, but the results are debatable: so is the use of nutritional supplements, which may be of value to CFS/ME patients with biochemically proven deficiencies. To summarize, the recommended treatment strategies should include proper administration of nutritional supplements in CFS/ME patients with demonstrated deficiencies and personalized pacing programs to relieve symptoms and improve performance of daily activities, but a larger randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluation is required to confirm these preliminary observations. At present, no firm conclusions can be drawn because the few RCTs undertaken to date have been small-scale, with a high risk of bias, and have used different case definitions. Further, RCTs are now urgently needed with rigorous experimental designs and appropriate data analysis, focusing particularly on the comparison of outcomes measures according to clinical presentation, patient characteristics, case criteria and degree of disability (i.e. severely ill ME cases or bedridden).

Interview

Interview David Yezzi, Aaron Henkin (bio), and Wendel Patrick (bio) On February 1, 2017, Aaron Henkin and Wendel Patrick spoke with David Yezzi of The Hopkins Review, in the studios of WYPR, Baltimore. Henkin and Patrick talked about Out of the Blocks, their hour-long radio program and podcast, which focuses on the people and neighborhoods of Baltimore. James Joyce claimed that one could, by reading Ulysses, reconstruct the city of Dublin. Listening to Out of the Blocks, one feels that Henkin's and Patrick's audio portrait of Baltimore is becoming similarly comprehensive with each new installment. Hopkins Review: How did you both get interested in Baltimore? Aaron Henkin: Well, we both came here from elsewhere. Neither of us is a native Baltimorean. I came from the Midwest about 15 years ago. Wendel Patrick: Actually, I came from the Midwest, too, though I was there for less time than Aaron. I'm from Chicago. AH: So we have the interesting status of being born outsiders but living here long enough to have a pretty good idea of what's what in the city. HR: How long have you each been here? WP: This is my twentieth year. And I've lived here far longer than anywhere I've ever lived. More than double. AH: Sixteen years, for me. [End Page 511] HR: What gave you the idea that Baltimore might be your subject? AH: It's interesting to come to a city as an outsider. It's maybe more interesting to you, than to the people who were born and raised here. That certainly was the case for me. When I showed up, I fell in love in with this town. I sort of fell into public radio, first as a volunteer here at WYPR, and I eventually started making original programming for the station. I always liked the idea of trying to find stories that I didn't know existed. HR: First, you developed a show called The Signal, is that right? AH: So The Signal was a weekly arts and culture program, magazine format, lots of different segments during the hour. The premise was, essentially, that we would talk with artists, musicians, poets, and so on. We'd have them come into the studio, or we would take our recorders to them. As things went along, I got most interested in talking to characters whom I never would have known existed if it wasn't, frankly, for the Yellow Pages. The Yellow Pages were essentially my first Rolodex of story ideas in Baltimore City. When you open the Yellow Pages, everyone's listed in there by occupation, alphabetically, and so you run across things like "Artificial Limbs," "Auctioneers," "Automobile Wreckers." You think to yourself, "There's great potential here." I found a guy who builds and restores pipe organs! HR: So Out of the Blocks grew out of what was previously a focus on the arts into something broader? AH: Yeah, it really became a fascination with everyday people like you and me. HR: Wendel, at what point did you become involved as a partner and collaborator? WP: We were actually talking about my first solo album on The Signal. [End Page 512] I was a fan of the show, and I would hear it pretty often. I reached out to Aaron and asked if he would be interested in having me on to talk about my work. HR: Aaron, your background, as I understand it, is as a broadcast journalist, is that right? How would you characterize what you do? AH: Well, that's a generous description of my background! A BA in English Literature is the extent of my training, that and a long career waiting tables and playing in bands. As I said, I started here as a volunteer and have learned everything by trial and error. But, you know, I've done a lot of different jobs here at the radio station: I've produced the daily public affairs talk program, I helped start the local news department, I helped create original shows like The Signal. I've been at this radio story-making thing for a while. HR: And Wendel, you are...

Eric N. Jacobsen

Eric N. Jacobsen

The Right of Reply to Professor Sheehan

In his derogatory article, published in 2015 summer issue of Philosophy Today,1 Thomas Sheehan resorted to an insult,2 a vilification, reporting conversations that only he and Emmanuel Faye were privy to (pp. 370-72), and deliberately violated privacy of correspondence.3 If he is prudent enough to keep question mark in his title and to specify in his abstract that the question of Faye is a fraud or simply incompetent is left to reader's judgment, he hardly leaves any doubts regarding his own conclusions. With term fraud, designating both in French and English cheating and thus an act subject to court, Sheehan avoids a possible defamation trial by introducing a rhetorical question mark that fools no one, especially if alternative is simple incompetence of an internationally renowned scholar-and one who is more translated than Professor Sheehan.41. HOW TO ATTRIBUTE AN ORGANIZED FRAUDIf Emmanuel Faye has a right to a polite rhetorical questioning, it is not case for me. Thomas Sheehan refers to one my articles, note 74, p. 390: See also his edited collection, where his disciples continue Deckname at 238, note 1 and 270.1. With term scam referring more casually to a rip-off or cheating, this time without rhetorical questioning but also without any justification, I have honor of defamed and insulted on pages of an academic journal-something that has become unusual in a very civilized academic life,5 but perhaps it is symptom of deterioration of academic manners. My name is cited explicitly in note 91, p. 396:Francois Rastier's essay at 298.24-27 repeats same false claims that Faye's book had made about Bauch letter. Gaetan Pegny's essay, at 238n1, reiterates same misconstrual of Deckname in letter to Bauch, while providing two additional references, both of them ludicrous: GA 36/37: 227.11 = 173.4-5; and Heidegger's letter to Jaspers, November 10, 1928, 110.3-4.But this is to reduce me, with Francois Rastier, to mechanical repetition with regard to Emmanuel Faye, thus p. 396, where F. Rastier and myself are transformed into parrots, although it is true that all that's lacking is animalization after whether Faye is a fraud:When we search through that collection for further elucidations ofDeckname, we find that in his edited collection Faye merely repeats-without any further development-the same false rewriting as in his earlier book, namely, 'etre' comme d'un mot couvert ou prete-nom (Deckname). And when he refers reader to two essays by other contributors in collection, we find that they merely parrot same mistranslation that Faye himself advanced nine years earlier in his book. Does Faye think that if he and his acolytes repeat same misreadings enough times, someone might come to believe them?However, on page 71 of Beauchesne collection that Sheehan mentions in note 90, p. 396, Emmanuel Faye speaks of Heideggerian description of as a or concealed word in letters to Kurt Bauch, which came out in 2010. If Faye was able to cite excerpts from these letters in a 2007 lecture, published as an article in 2009,6 it is because they had been published in catalogue of antiquarian Stargardt in March 2004 (p. 194),7 and because I gave him a copy upon request in 2005, when Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy was already in print. From where does Mr. Sheehan get notion that Mr. Faye merely reformulated thesis of his 2005 book using a new source? On page 71, which Sheehan cites explicitly, Faye says rather clearly:Drawing, for first time, on an unpublished letter to Kurt Bauch, I indicated necessity of taking seriously Heidegger's use of word being as a code-word or concealed word (Deckname), and, furthermore, showed that Heidegger's critique of global technology understood as en-framing (Ge-stell) does not call into question his glowing approval, stated three times in publications after 1945, of satisfying relationship, instituted, in his view, by National Socialism, between human and the essence of technology. …