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But CBS 2's Paul Moniz reports that an experimental surgery is allowing some to put their specs away.

Ophthalmologist Barrie Soloway performs the surgery, which was part of a Food and Drug Administration trial. He considers it a breakthrough.

"This procedure is basically used to bring people back to a younger age when they weren't required to use reading glasses for their near vision," he explains.

The surgery may be just what baby boomers are looking for: many are shocked when they suddenly can't read newspapers and menus as they enter their forties..

To make matters worse, there is no laser surgery to correct presbyopia, the inability to focus up-close. It eventually affects everyone in middle age, even if you've never worn glasses.

The 20-minute procedure, called scleral expansion surgery, involves implanting four tiny plastic discs in the whites of one eye.

The discs, slightly larger than the tip of a pen and virtually undetectable, allow the lens room to expand, https://www.cvkr27dw.online - https://www.cvkr27dw.online restoring its focal ability.

The surgery is controversial not only because it's experimental but because it bucks conventional theories on why presbyopia occurs in the first place.

Further, it's hardly a sure thing: results on 30 patients in the nationwide study vary widely, from 10 percent effectiveness to 90 percent.

If the FDA approves the surgery, it could become a gold mine for doctors. Experimental patients are shelling out $5,000 for the procedure.

About 1,000 of these procedures have been performed in France, South America and Korea.

But because this surgery is still in its experimental - http://www.fool.com/search/solr.aspx?q=experimental stages, its long-term - http://www.cbsnews.com/search/?q=long-term results have yet to be proven.

The longest anyone has had the discs is four years.

The good news is that if they don't work, they can be removed without injuring the eye.

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BAGHDAD -- Islamic militants overran parts of Iraq's second-largest city of Mosul on Tuesday, driving security forces from their posts and seizing the provincial government headquarters, security bases and other key buildings. Gunmen cruised through neighborhoods, waving black banners while residents fled.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki pressed parliament to declare a state of emergency.

The fight for Mosul was a heavy defeat in Baghdad's battle against a widening insurgency by a breakaway al Qaeda group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which has been trying - with some success - to seize territory both in Iraq and neighboring Syria.

Earlier this year, the group captured another Iraqi city, Fallujah, in the west of the country, and government forces have been unable to take it back after months of fighting. The far larger Mosul is an even more strategic prize. The city and surrounding Ninevah province are a major export route for Iraqi oil and a gateway to Syria.

Regaining Mosul poses a daunting challenge for al-Maliki. The city has a Sunni Muslim majority and many in the community are already deeply embittered against his Shiite-led government. During the nearly nine-year American presence in the country, Mosul was a major stronghold for al Qaeda and U.S. and Iraqi forces carried out repeated offensives there, regaining a semblance of control but never routing the insurgents entirely.

Islamic militants and Iraqi troops have been fighting for days in Mosul. But Monday night and into early Tuesday, the government forces in the city appeared to collapse.

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Insurgents overran the Ninevah provincial government building in the city - a key symbol of state control - in the evening, and security forces fled many of their posts. The fighters stormed police stations, bases and prisons, capturing weapons and freeing prisoners.

On Tuesday, Mosul residents said the militants appeared to be in control of several parts of the city, raising the black banners that are the emblem of the Islamic State. The residents spoke to The Associated Press by telephone on condition of anonymity, fearing for their safety.

The fighters also seized helicopters at Mosul airport and seized heavy equipment and weapons depots, parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi - a Sunni from Mosul - said in a televised address. South of Mosul, several villages and a military air base around the town of Shurqat, in Salahuddin province, also fell to militants, al-Nujaifi said.

"What happened is a disaster by any standard," he said. "The presence of these terrorist groups in this vast province ... threatens not just the security and the unity of Iraq, but the whole Middle East."

Al-Nujaifi said the terrorists are now setting their sights on Salahuddin, a province just north of Baghdad.

Al-Nujaifi blamed the fall of Mosul on "negligence" on the part of army forces and their withdrawal from the city.

Al-Nujaifi said he spoke to U.S. Ambassador Robert Beecroft, requesting U.S. support to repel the terrorists' attack by virtue of the Joint Cooperation agreement between the two countries. Ambassador Faily promised to promptly convey our request to the U.S. administration, al-Nujaifi said.

In a nationally televised press conference Tuesday, al-Maliki asked parliament to declare a state of emergency, acknowledging that militants had taken control of "vital areas in Mosul." He said the public and government must unite "to confront this vicious attack, which will spare no Iraqi."

State TV said parliament would convene Thursday. Under the constitution, parliament can declare a 30-day state of emergency on a two-thirds vote by its members, granting the prime minister the necessary powers to run the country. Legal experts said that could include powers to impose curfews, restrict public movements and censor the media.

"What happened is a disaster by any standard," al-Nujaifi - a Sunni from Mosul - said in a televised address. "The presence of these terrorist groups in this vast province ... threatens not just the security and the unity of Iraq, but the whole Middle East," he said.

He said militants had seized helicopters at Mosul airport and captured weapons depots, and captured several villages and a military airbase further south in Salahuddin province, he said.

Residents began fleeing Mosul - though the size of the flight was not yet clear. A government employee who lives about a mile from the provincial government building, Umm Karam, said she left with her family Tuesday morning.

"The situation is chaotic inside the city and there is nobody to help us," she said, speaking on condition she be identified by a nickname for fear of her safety. "We are afraid ... There is no police or army in Mosul."

The assault in Mosul is also a sign of Iraq's reversals - http://www.purevolume.com/search?keyword=Iraq%27s%20reversals since American forces left the country in late 2011. Militants ramped their insurgency back up over the past two years. The Islamic State has presented itself as the Sunni community's champion against al-Maliki's Shiite-led government as the group fights on both sides of the border in what Iraqi officials have said is an attempt to carve out an enclave for itself in western Iraq and eastern Syria.

The group, which was once al Qaeda's branch in Iraq, was thrown out of the terrorist network after it expanded its operations in Syria against the orders of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri. It is considered one of the most ruthless rebel forces fighting to topple President Bashar Assad in Syria, where it has in seized a major city in the east and other territory.

In Iraq, the group rose up earlier this year to take over Fallujah and parts of the nearby city of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province. It has also been carrying out a campaign of bombings and other violence in Baghdad and other parts of the country.

In the Mosul fighting, insurgents armed with machineguns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers stormed the provincial headquarters building late Monday, https://www.uzplxb5ac.online - https://www.uzplxb5ac.online overpowering guards in a short firefight, according to Ali Mahmoud, the media official for Ninevah province.

He confirmed accounts by Mosul residents that many of the police and army forces that had been stationed in the city had disappeared by Tuesday.

Provincial governor Atheel al-Nujaifi, the parliament speaker's brother, was in a nearby guest house. He managed to escape the area and left the city, though he continues to monitor the situation, Mahmoud said.

On Monday, the governor had urged residents to fend off the attackers.

"I call upon the men of Mosul to stand firm in their areas and to defend them against the strangers and to form public committees in their districts to help their people and to protect their areas," he said in a transcript of a speech posted online.

MONCTON, 무료 카지노 게임 - http://store.swingscience.net/2019/07/08/%eb%a3%b0%eb%a0%9b-%ed%95%84%ec... New Brunswick -- Three police officers were shot dead and two others injured in a rare case of gun violence in the east coast Canadian province of New Brunswick, officials said. Authorities were searching for a suspect.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Damien Theriault said police responded to a call Wednesday about an armed man in the north end of the city of Moncton at 7:30 p.m. Three of the responding officers were killed and two sustained non-life threatening injuries and were in stable condition.

"We are still actively looking for the shooter," Theriault said. "He is believed to still be in the Pinehurst subdivision area of Moncton. We are urging people in that area to stay inside and lock their doors and for people to stay away from that area."

Asked how he was dealing with his grief, Theriault said he personally knew the officers - then broke down and excusing himself because he couldn't complete his sentence.

Police said they were looking for 24-year-old Justin Bourque of Moncton - a city of about 69,000 people about 95 miles northeast of the capital of St. John, New Brunswick. The police force tweeted an image of a suspect wearing military camouflage and wielding two guns.

Danny Leblanc, 42, said he saw the shooter in the distance Wednesday evening, wearing a camouflage outfit and standing in the middle of the street with his gun pointed at police cars.

The construction worker said he believed it was an RCMP officer he was looking at until he heard a burst of automatic gunfire coming from the man's gun.

He said he quickly retreated - http://www.ourmidland.com/search/?q=retreated into his home and remained there with his family. At one point, a neighbor posted on social media that their kitchen window was shattered by gunfire.

Leblanc said few people on his normally quiet street were sleeping as they awaited word at midnight on whether arrests had been made.

Word that police had been killed shocked the city, Leblanc said.

"It's devastating. I don't know if he was on a hunt for them, or what," he said.

Police had a number of roads in the city blocked and traffic was backed up on major arteries across the city. Drivers were also asked to stay out of the area.

Moncton Mayor George LeBlanc urged all residents to pay strict attention to the RCMP warnings.

"It is a terrible tragedy," he said. "We as a city must pull together as a family to support those who have suffered losses."

Such violence is rare in Canada, particularly on Canada's East Coast. Theriault said the city of Moncton didn't have a homicide last year or this year until Wednesday evening.

"We have been blessed until this point," he told The Associated Press.

He said other RCMP officers from around Atlantic Canada are in Moncton assisting with the search.

The shootings brought back memories - http://ccmixter.org/api/query?datasource=uploads&search_type=all&sort=ra... of when four Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers were shot and killed in the western Canadian province of Alberta in 2005 in the deadliest attack on Canadian police officers in 120 years. They had been investigating a farm in Mayerthrope, a small hamlet in Alberta when a man shot them before he was killed.

The Horizon Health Network, a provincial health authority, said two patients were taken to Moncton Hospital with gunshot wounds. Horizon Health said the two shooting victims are in stable condition.

Sean Gallacher, who lives near the area where police were concentrating their search, said he heard what he now believes were gunshots but initially thought his daughter had dropped some toys on the floor above him.

"I was downstairs and heard a few bangs," said Gallacher, 35.

Canadian Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney tweeted that he was "shocked by the tragedy" and that his thoughts and prayers were with frontline RCMP officers.

"Learn To Fly" has been a hit Summer Song for 삼척출장만남 - https://www.samcheokopanma.club/ the Foo Fighters for almost 20 years now ... not that their long run has always been easy going, as Anthony Mason can tell us:

Under the San Bernardino sun last fall, 30,000 fans came out for an old-school rock festival.  If rock 'n' roll is supposed to be dead, then Cal Jam was a resurrection. The headliners were America's biggest rock band, the Foo Fighters, whose 49-year-old frontman, Dave Grohl, will go to any extreme to keep rock's flame burning.

Case in point: during a gig in Sweden two years ago, he fell from the stage, broke his leg and dislocated his ankle.

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When Mason asked the other band members what they thought when that happened, keyboardist Rami Jaffi replied, "That there was gonna be a lotta time off!"

But Jaffi, drummer Taylor Hawkins, and rest of the band kept going while Grohl was treated backstage, until he was carried back out on a stretcher.

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Mason asked, "Did they give you painkillers? How did you do that?"

"No, I mean, the adrenaline of the stadium, and also the obligation," he replied. "I broke it in the second song. And I felt like all those people had come all that way."

The tour was interrupted for Grohl's surgery, but he returned in a custom-built throne of his own design, which was the star attraction last  fall at the Cal Jam Museum, a tent filled with memorabilia from the Foos' nearly 25-year history, including their Grammy collection. 

They've won Best Rock Album four times and won this year for Best Rock Song off their latest record, "Concrete & Gold."

"Run," from the Foo Fighters album "Concrete & Gold":

"Yeah, it's weird," Grohl said.

What's weird about it? "Ages ago, when I was a kid, my Dad said, 'You know, this isn't gonna last, right? Savor every check like it's the last one you're ever gonna make.' And every time we make a Foo Fighters record, I think, 'Well, if this were the last one, then we had a good run,' it would have been great."

Grohl came up through the punk scene in Washington, D.C., and its sleepy Virginia suburbs.

At 17, he dropped out of the high school where his mom, Virginia, taught English.

She assured Mason she was okay with that: "I was. He just didn't like it. And he was a really great writer and such a great spirit. He said, 'I'm going to Europe to tour with Scream.' 'Go, great. Can I go, too?'"

A few years later, Grohl was invited to join an up-and-coming Seattle grunge band, after its frontman, Kurt Cobain, caught his act. 

"When most people think about Nirvana, they think about a video or a song on the radio, but to me it was a really personal experience with some friends that went from sleeping on floors to then being the number one band on the charts," Grohl said.

"Smells Like Teen Spirit," written by Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, from Nirvana's 1991 album "Nevermind":

Grohl's first-ever platinum record now resides in his mother's house.

"Still, to this day, whenever I see a new artist that's young that blows up and becomes gigantic overnight, I kind of get worried for them," he said. "I don't think anybody's cut out for it."

"How did you do up there?"

"I was the kid with long hair in my face behind drums that looked like washing machines, and I could walk in the front door of a Nirvana gig and not really get noticed. So, I didn't have to suffer a lot of the pressures that Kurt did as the frontman."

It was a four-year rocketship ride aboard what became one of the biggest bands in rock history. At the height of it all, in 1994, Cobain took his own life.

Mason asked, "Where are you right after Kurt dies?"

"Just lost," Grohl said. "I went through a really dark period where I couldn't really even listen to the radio because it broke my heart just to hear music."

But quietly, the 25-year-old Grohl began to write and record songs of his own, playing all the instruments.

"I went to the cassette place down the street, [and] said, 'Could you make 100 of these,' and made a little card to go in it. And I just started giving it out to people. And I called it 'Foo Fighters' 'cause I wanted people to think it was a group."

He took the name from the military term for UFOs. "I've always been kind of a UFO nut, but also, it almost sounded like a gang, you know, like a karate gang or something. Foo Fighters! So yeah, it worked!"

In 1995 Grohl's songs were released as the first Foos album.

Along the way, Grohl recruited Hawkins and Jaffe, Chris Shifflett on lead guitar, Nate Mendel on bass, and guitarist Pat Smear, who was a touring member of Nirvana:

To watch the music video for "I'll Stick Around," from the debut Foo Fighters album, click on the video player below:

Mason asked Hawkins, "How would you describe the dynamic of this band?"

"Dave's the leader. And our job as a band is to make sure whatever is in his head gets on tape," he responded.

"Has the Nirvana experience, you think, informed Dave's approach to the band?"

"I think it did a lot," said Smear. "He was smart enough to pull out the good and say, 'I'm gonna do things like this,' and to look at the bad and say, 'I'm not gonna do this kind of stuff.'"

When asked if there were times when the band was in trouble Grohl said yes, in 2001 – the year Taylor Hawkins nearly died after a heroin overdose. He spent two weeks in coma; Grohl did not leave his side.

Hawklins said he was aware Grohl was there every day: "That was a heavy time. But he was always there. And he's always been there."

Grohl said, "That's when you forget about the band."

"Doesn't matter anymore?"

"No, that's when it gets real."

Dave Grohl himself gave up drugs when he was 20. It's one reason the Foo Fighters fight on.

"When I tell people I've never done cocaine in my life, they think I'm lying!" Grohl said. "But I love music, and I love life. And to me, survival is the game – that's the hardest part. I just wanna play music."

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And throughout the neonatal intensive care unit, he heard doctors promise to try. Even if it meant cramming tubes down the children's throats, cutting open their chests or bombarding their frail bodies with radiation. Even when they knew the treatments couldn't save them, and would only fill their final days with pain.

"Some of the parents were waiting for a miracle. How do you deal with that?" said Clark, a Jesuit priest and professor at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. "In some cases, you have to give the family a little more time. But where do you draw the line?"

Clark spent a year observing medical ethics at the Washington, D.C. hospital. The dilemma he witnessed occurs daily in hospitals nationwide, and a growing number have crafted policies allowing doctors to cease aggressive treatments of terminally ill patients, even when relatives want them to keep fighting.

Within a year, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania plans to adopt ethics guidelines under which doctors could decline to admit patients to an intensive care unit if they have been in a persistent vegetative state for at least three to six months.

In such cases, the hospital would continue to offer care to ease a patients' pain, but wouldn't take invasive steps like putting the patient on a breathing machine or performing surgery, said Dr. Horace DeLisser, who co-chairs the ethics committee implementing the guidelines.

"There are certain types of injuries people suffer where one should acknowledge the tragedy that has occurred, and realize that the chances of recovery are negligible, and really redirect care toward making sure the person is as comfortable as possible," DeLisser said.

But some advocates and religious groups have argued that only patients themselves are qualified to decide whether doctors should try to save them.

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"It is a slippery slope they are going down," he said. "If we have a way to provide a medical treatment for people that will keep them alive, we should always provide it, unless they have a living will saying we shouldn't."

Hospitals, however, have pressed ahead. The American Medical Association recommended in 1997 that all hospitals develop a "medical futility" policy allowing for an end to aggressive lifesaving measures if doctors determine a patient cannot be cured.

Since then, most hospitals have developed some sort of guidelines, said Amy Lee, a spokeswoman for the American Hospital Association.

"But there isn't a lot of uniformity, and the standards tend to vary from region to region," she said.

Mercy Health System, which operates three community hospitals near Philadelphia, drafted guidelines two years ago that are becoming typical of hospitals nationwide.

Doctors are authorized to stop aggressive treatment for a patient against a family's wishes, but only after a lengthy appeals process. Relatives can ask for a second opinion, appeal to an ethics panel, and then file a second appeal with an interdisciplinary panel.

So far, the policy has only been invoked twice, said Clark, who serves as an ethics adviser to the hospital system. In both cases, the families initially appealed, but later changed their minds.

"We want the family to be involved in the decision," Clark said. "It's about how to balance the patient's autonomy, while protecting a physician's integrity."

Both doctors and patients report, however, that fights over end-of-life decisions often go unresolved.

Courts have struggled with the issue as well.

In the landmark 1994 "Baby K" case, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a Virginia hospital must provide artificial resuscitation for a child with anencephaly, a rare malformation in which almost all the brain is missing at birth.

Scientists believe children with anencephaly are incapable of thought or emotion and doctors almost universally advise parents to withhold life support. Baby K's mother insisted, over the objection of doctors, that her child be kept alive. With the court-mandated breathing assistance, the child lived for 2 1/2 years.

"Not everyone agrees on what constitutes a life worth living," said Gold. "I had a client with cerebral palsy once who was asked to sign a (Do Not Resuscitate) order when they went in to be treated for appendicitis," he said.

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(CBS News) What would Academy Awards Sunday be without our own Oscar prognosticator - http://www.modernmom.com/?s=Oscar%20prognosticator David Edelstein?

Last year, I sat here and predicted every Oscar winner. Had I gabbed with Academy members? Nope. Can I foretell the future? Sorry. Did I just love the big winner, "The Artist"? Definitely not.

I'd simply read certain columnists who'd been spun by certain publicists who'd been hired by certain studios that had squired certain nominees around Hollywood to screenings and cocktail parties to influence the votes of a few thousand people -- most over 55, white, well-off and liberal.

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This year it's even busier. Harvey Weinstein, all-mighty poobah of Oscar buzz, got Dr. Mehmet Oz to extol "Silver Linings Playbook" for its insights into mental illness.

Look, I like the movie. It's a good, dark rom-com about a couple of cute depressives. Maybe it's even therapeutic to see people crazier than WE are. I'm just not certain of its medical efficacy.

Meanwhile, Steven Spielberg brought in a master to spin for "Lincoln": Bill Clinton! You hire awards consultants like political consultants. You stay ahead of the message.

Or you end up like Kathryn Bigelow, whose phenomenal "Zero Dark Thirty" was an early favorite, but maybe a tad fast-and-loose with facts in saying torture led to the courier who led to bin Laden. True or false, the controversy hasn't played well -- proof in one way torture doesn't work. Reportedly. I've read this, from columnists spun by publicists working for "Zero Dark Thirty" rivals.

They also say it's "Argo" for Best Picture because people feel bad that Ben Affleck wasn't nominated for Best Director -- his loss the movie's gain. And it doesn't hurt that the film makes Hollywood types look heroic.

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Clinton might help Spielberg win Best Director. I'm guessing Dr. Oz fave Jennifer Lawrence for Best Actress, though there's a dark horse in "Amour"'s Emmanuelle Riva.

Anne Hathaway has been on the campaign trail for "Les Miserables" and she'll get it, not in spite of looking like a chicken - http://www.twitpic.com/tag/chicken when she sings but BECAUSE of it. Flamboyant anti-vanity: It sells.

I'm betting Tommy Lee Jones for "Lincoln," but some are predicting Robert De Niro for "Silver Linings Playbook" if people find Jones too much of a sourpuss, which he kind of is.

The lock, of course, is Daniel Day-Lewis, who as Shakespeare would say "doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus."

Now, none of this has much to do with what I laughingly call "artistic merit." And except for Day-Lewis, none are my choices.

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"Learn To Fly" has been a hit Summer Song for the Foo Fighters for almost 20 years now ... not that their long run has always been easy going, as Anthony Mason can tell us:

Under the San Bernardino sun last fall, 30,000 fans came out for 논산출장안마 - https://www.nonsananma.top/ an old-school rock festival.  If rock 'n' roll is supposed to be dead, then Cal Jam was a resurrection. The headliners were America's biggest rock band, the Foo Fighters, whose 49-year-old frontman, Dave Grohl, will go to any extreme to keep rock's flame burning.

Case in point: during a gig in Sweden two years ago, he fell from the stage, broke his leg and dislocated his ankle.

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When Mason asked the other band members what they thought when that happened, keyboardist Rami Jaffi replied, "That there was gonna be a lotta time off!"

But Jaffi, drummer Taylor Hawkins, and rest of the band kept going while Grohl was treated backstage, until he was carried back out on a stretcher.

For two hours, Grohl played on from a chair while a medic tended to his leg.

Mason asked, "Did they give you painkillers? How did you do that?"

"No, I mean, the adrenaline of the stadium, and also the obligation," he replied. "I broke it in the second song. And I felt like all those people had come all that way."

The tour was interrupted for Grohl's surgery, but he returned in a custom-built throne of his own design, which was the star attraction last  fall at the Cal Jam Museum, a tent filled with memorabilia from the Foos' nearly 25-year history, including their Grammy collection. 

They've won Best Rock Album four times and won this year for Best Rock Song off their latest record, "Concrete & Gold."

"Run," from the Foo Fighters album "Concrete & Gold":

"Yeah, it's weird," Grohl said.

What's weird about it? "Ages ago, when I was a kid, my Dad said, 'You know, this isn't gonna last, right? Savor every check like it's the last one you're ever gonna make.' And every time we make a Foo Fighters record, I think, 'Well, if this were the last one, then we had a good run,' it would have been great."

Grohl came up through the punk scene in Washington, D.C., and its sleepy Virginia suburbs.

At 17, he dropped out of the high school where his mom, Virginia, taught English.

She assured Mason she was okay with that: "I was. He just didn't like it. And he was a really great writer and such a great spirit. He said, 'I'm going to Europe to tour with Scream.' 'Go, great. Can I go, too?'"

A few years later, Grohl was invited to join an up-and-coming Seattle grunge band, after its frontman, Kurt Cobain, caught his act. 

"When most people think about Nirvana, they think about a video or a song on the radio, but to me it was a really personal experience with some friends that went from sleeping on floors to then being the number one band on the charts," Grohl said.

"Smells Like Teen Spirit," written by Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, from Nirvana's 1991 album "Nevermind":

Grohl's first-ever platinum record now resides in his mother's house.

"Still, to this day, whenever I see a new artist that's young that blows up and becomes gigantic overnight, I kind of get worried for them," he said. "I don't think anybody's cut out for it."

"How did you do up there?"

"I was the kid with long hair in my face behind drums that looked like washing machines, and I could walk in the front door of a Nirvana gig and not really get noticed. So, I didn't have to suffer a lot of the pressures that Kurt did as the frontman."

It was a four-year rocketship ride aboard what became one of the biggest bands in rock history. At the height of it all, in 1994, Cobain took his own life.

Mason asked, "Where are you right after Kurt dies?"

"Just lost," Grohl said. "I went through a really dark period where I couldn't really even listen to the radio because it broke my heart just to hear music."

But quietly, the 25-year-old Grohl began to write and record songs of his own, playing all the instruments.

"I went to the cassette place down the street, [and] said, 'Could you make 100 of these,' and made a little card to go in it. And I just started giving it out to people. And I called it 'Foo Fighters' 'cause I wanted people to think it was a group."

He took the name from the military term for UFOs. "I've always been kind of a UFO nut, but also, it almost sounded like a gang, you know, like a karate gang or something. Foo Fighters! So yeah, it worked!"

In 1995 Grohl's songs were released as the first Foos album.

Along the way, Grohl recruited Hawkins and Jaffe, Chris Shifflett - http://www.gameinformer.com/search/searchresults.aspx?q=Chris%20Shifflett on lead guitar, Nate Mendel on bass, and guitarist Pat Smear, who was a touring member of Nirvana:

To watch the music video for "I'll Stick Around," from the debut Foo Fighters album, click on the video player below:

Mason asked Hawkins, "How would you describe the dynamic of this band?"

"Dave's the leader. And our job as a band is to make sure whatever is in his head gets on tape," he responded.

"Has the Nirvana experience, you think, informed Dave's approach to the band?"

"I think it did a lot," said Smear. "He was smart enough to pull out the good and say, 'I'm gonna do things like this,' and to look at the bad and say, 'I'm not gonna do this kind of stuff.'"

When asked if there were times when the band was in trouble Grohl said yes, in 2001 – the year Taylor Hawkins nearly died after a heroin overdose. He spent two weeks in coma; Grohl did not leave his side.

Hawklins said he was aware Grohl was there every day: "That was a heavy time. But he was always there. And he's always been there."

Grohl said, "That's when you forget about the band."

"Doesn't matter anymore?"

"No, that's when it gets real."

Dave Grohl himself gave up drugs when he was 20. It's one reason the Foo Fighters fight on.

"When I tell people I've never done cocaine in my life, they think I'm lying!" Grohl said. "But I love music, and I love life. And to me, survival is the game – that's the hardest part. I just wanna play music."

"The Sky Is a Neighborhood," from the Foo Fighters album "Concrete & Gold":

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And throughout the neonatal intensive care unit, he heard doctors promise to try. Even if it meant cramming tubes down the children's throats, cutting open their chests or bombarding their frail bodies with radiation. Even when they knew the treatments couldn't save them, and would only fill their final days with pain.

"Some of the parents were waiting for a miracle. How do you deal with that?" said Clark, a Jesuit priest and professor at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. "In some cases, you have to give the family a little more time. But where do you draw the line?"

Clark spent a year observing medical ethics at the Washington, D.C. hospital. The dilemma he witnessed occurs - https://www.herfeed.com/?s=witnessed%20occurs daily in hospitals nationwide, and a growing number have crafted policies allowing doctors to cease aggressive treatments of terminally ill patients, even when relatives want them to keep fighting.

Within a year, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania plans to adopt ethics guidelines under which doctors could decline to admit patients to an intensive care unit if they have been in a persistent vegetative state for at least three to six months.

In such cases, the hospital would continue to offer care to ease a patients' pain, but wouldn't take invasive steps like putting the patient on a breathing machine or performing surgery, said Dr. Horace DeLisser, who co-chairs the ethics committee implementing the guidelines.

"There are certain types of injuries people suffer where one should acknowledge the tragedy that has occurred, and realize that the chances of recovery are negligible, and really redirect care toward making sure the person is as comfortable as possible," DeLisser said.

But some advocates and religious groups have argued that only patients themselves are qualified to decide whether doctors should try to save them.

Stephen Gold, a Philadelphia lawyer who represents people with disabilities, said hospitals might be tempted to cut off expensive care to people who lack health insurance or are handicapped - http://www.sharkbayte.com/keyword/handicapped .

"It is a slippery slope they are going down," he said. "If we have a way to provide a medical treatment for people that will keep them alive, we should always provide it, unless they have a living will saying we shouldn't."

Hospitals, however, have pressed ahead. The American Medical Association recommended in 1997 that all hospitals develop a "medical futility" policy allowing for an end to aggressive lifesaving measures if doctors determine a patient cannot be cured.

Since then, most hospitals have developed some sort of guidelines, said Amy Lee, a spokeswoman for the American Hospital Association.

"But there isn't a lot of uniformity, and the standards tend to vary from region to region," she said.

Mercy Health System, which operates three community hospitals near Philadelphia, drafted guidelines two years ago that are becoming typical of hospitals nationwide.

Doctors are authorized to stop aggressive treatment for a patient against a family's wishes, but only after a lengthy appeals process. Relatives can ask for a second opinion, https://www.hxwbrap6a.online - https://www.hxwbrap6a.online appeal to an ethics panel, and then file a second appeal with an interdisciplinary panel.

So far, the policy has only been invoked twice, said Clark, who serves as an ethics adviser to the hospital system. In both cases, the families initially appealed, but later changed their minds.

"We want the family to be involved in the decision," Clark said. "It's about how to balance the patient's autonomy, while protecting a physician's integrity."

Both doctors and patients report, however, that fights over end-of-life decisions often go unresolved.

Courts have struggled with the issue as well.

In the landmark 1994 "Baby K" case, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a Virginia hospital must provide artificial resuscitation for a child with anencephaly, a rare malformation in which almost all the brain is missing at birth.

Scientists believe children with anencephaly are incapable of thought or emotion and doctors almost universally advise parents to withhold life support. Baby K's mother insisted, over the objection of doctors, that her child be kept alive. With the court-mandated breathing assistance, the child lived for 2 1/2 years.

"Not everyone agrees on what constitutes a life worth living," said Gold. "I had a client with cerebral palsy once who was asked to sign a (Do Not Resuscitate) order when they went in to be treated for appendicitis," he said.

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Pollster Michael Perry attributed the heightened concern about smallpox to the increased attention it has received in the media as President Bush nears a decision about offering the smallpox vaccine to the public for the first time in three decades

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On smallpox, the poll found that 65 percent of people are willing to be vaccinated although it "may produce serious side effects in a small number of cases." Twenty-two percent said they would not get the vaccine, and 14 percent said they didn't know

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People were not given details about the vaccine's risks: Fifteen of every million people being vaccinated for the first time will face life-threatening complications, and one or two will die

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Smallpox shots involve a number of jabs with a needle containing some live virus. This triggers serious side effects in people with deficient immune systems or skin conditions, like eczema. People who are vaccinated can transmit the disease to others if the vaccinated area is left exposed, and this adds danger to any widespread vaccinations

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CBS News Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reported recently that the president was considering a plan that would vaccinate one million people

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On Tuesday, states submitted their own smallpox vaccination plans to the federal government. These displayed a variety of approaches, from Georgia— planning shots for just 300 to 500 people — to California, which has requested 70,000 doses of the vaccine.

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SUDBURY — Inside of the serene, sprawling property, around the finish of an vacant hallway, driving a shut door, a teenager identified as Jordan Herzog sat by yourself at a personal computer.

It was early afternoon on a desirable weekday this spring, though drawn colours blocked out the shining sunlight. Mild from the monitor solid his confront inside a pale glow. The lone good arrived towards the one clack-clack-clack of hands across a keyboard.

Throughout metropolis, his friends sat inside high college or university classrooms, counting down the minutes right until the day’s very last bell.

But Jordan doesn’t go toward faculty. Maximum days, together with nowadays, he spends his year below, guiding a virtual identity throughout the digital environment of "Fortnite," the explosively outstanding video sport.

For a lot of the over and above handful of weeks, his existence consists of been contained in just this additional bed room. It’s where by he eats all of his food stuff, exactly where he operates through the handful of several hours of day-to-day on the net courses that provide as his education. And exactly where he spends eight toward Ten hours a day — though once in a while as lots of as 14 — working out toward become one of the perfect aggressive movie activity gamers in just the earth.

All of it beneath the watchful eye of his father.

As mom and dad across the state fear previously mentioned the quantity of time their youngsters pay out enjoying video clip game titles — restricting screen-time and once in a while banning gaming altogether — Jordan’s father, Dave Herzog, consists of absent the other path.

The 49-year-old includes used additional than $30,000 on innovative gaming tools — the most straightforward pcs, displays, and keyboards revenue can purchase. He consists of suspended loved ones holidays for the foreseeable future, consequently as not towards interfere with his son’s training.

Past yr, he took the extraordinary action of withdrawing his son from Lincoln-Sudbury Neighborhood Significant Faculty — over the to start with protests of Jordan’s mom — hence that his son would incorporate a lot more period toward invest in the direction of online video game titles.

play friv games - https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/99540255-gladys-letellier It incorporates the feel of a type of teenage heaven, still Jordan, a soft-spoken 16-year-old who rises about noon and spends utmost days within just T-shirts and sweats, talks of it far more occasionally inside terms of a vocation.

"I variety of accurately have to have to produce sufficient funds in direction of not comprise toward perform for greatest of my lifetime," he says.

Within just his father’s intellect, it’s a lot far more than that. Towards pay attention Dave convey to it, he is paving the direction for nearly anything further more for Jordan: fame, status, earnings that, he believes, could one day achieve into the millions.

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As Dave places it, "I’ve been breeding him for this."

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Small and stocky, with a fondness for Nike footwear and flashy automobiles and the restless disposition of another person not comfortable with downtime, Dave Herzog consists of prolonged fancied himself a visionary.

A long time in the past, he states, he turned 1 of the world’s maximum prolific eBay suppliers by scouring mom-and-pop stores for economical online video online games and other merchandise and advertising and marketing them on-line for Ten days as significantly as he paid ("I was a top-15 eBay supplier within the planet," he says). He was 1 of the 1st people in america in the place, he adds, in direction of commitment an electric car or truck ("I’ve experienced, including, 10 Teslas considering that 2010"). And his current business office, a business enterprise that manufactures and sells video clip game-themed items and outfits, took off, he says, following he thoroughly envisioned Americans’ demand from customers in the direction of put on socks and sweat shirts embellished with shots versus games which includes "Pokemon" and "Fallout."

Still inside his belief, probably his major little bit of prescience was foreseeing the meteoric increase of eSports, or competitive online video gaming.

"I saw this coming ahead of any one," he reported upon a current afternoon, as he wheeled his Tesla SUV last the well-manicured lawns and quaint retail stores of this well-to-do suburb.

Growing up on Lengthy Island inside the Seventies, Dave had arrive of age through gaming’s earliest times. His personal dad experienced stocked the Place with the suitable and newest gaming applications — alongside with the flexibility toward engage in as much as he ideal — and as soon as his personal son was born, in 2003, Dave squandered little season getting him began.

"I spot a video match controller within just his arms once he was A few several years outdated," Dave suggests.

Jordan looked, in opposition to the start out, towards consist of a reward. Through age Seven, he was knowledgeable within "Halo," a complicated first-person shooting recreation meant for much more mature gamers.

Via 10, he was dominating the gaming playdates his father organized with neighborhood kids he realized toward be avid avid gamers.

And at 12, Though Jordan received his first gaming match — outperforming a slew of older competitors to get $2,000 worth of gaming components at a dwell occasion inside of Boston — Dave begun towards receive tips.

"The gentle bulb went off," he?says.

His son’s increase coincided with an explosion in just acceptance of aggressive gaming. The days of "Super Mario Bros." within just a friend’s basement had blossomed into a near-billion-greenback sector, extensive with complicated games, many leagues, and dwell gatherings that marketed out venues against Brooklyn’s Barclays Middle towards the Staples Center within Los Angeles. Even educational institutions have been getting to be provided, with some marketing eSports scholarships as a course to draw in prospective college students.

As venture capitalists began pouring cash into gaming — viewing big upcoming in just leagues and massive online audiences — the inflow of funds created adequate chance for gifted players.

Today, weekly on line tournaments produce 1000's of revenue within just payouts. Knowledgeable eSports corporations, sponsored as a result of billionaire property owners in opposition to Mark Cuban to Robert Kraft, dole out heavy contracts toward the country’s greatest gamers. And this is in direction of say almost nothing of streaming profits, within which the world’s least difficult — or utmost charismatic — gamers can make enormous sums quickly as a result of participating in on the net and allowing other individuals in direction of view live by websites which include YouTube and Twitch.

Very last yr, the world’s utmost renowned gamer, a pink-haired 28-year-old towards Illinois who goes via the tag "Ninja," explained to ESPN that he earns close towards seven statistics a month against gaming.

So via the time Jordan skilled this spring for the Fortnite Worldwide Cup — a three-day reside competitiveness in just Refreshing York City inside of which Two hundred of the world’s greatest players will contend for a prize pool of extra than $30 million, reportedly the biggest inside gaming historical past — Dave experienced seen ample.

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"Once he commenced profitable," he claims now, "it was easy toward transfer all-in."

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Jordan sometimes remains at his mother’s apartment across metropolis, still any time he’s at his father’s household, his routine is fairly demanding. Soon after becoming out of bed above midday, he trudges throughout the corridor in direction of the gaming place and starts off working throughout 3 or four hours of on the internet college function — science classes upon the respiration process, stats quizzes. Above Four o’clock, he fires up "Fortnite," investing an hour warming up on your own prior to devoting the upcoming eight or so hours towards level of competition. Higher than and yet again, he books an avatar misplaced into a person of the game’s cartoonish worlds alongside with up in the direction of 100 other avid gamers, just about every collecting weapons and producing forts in direction of deal with themselves despite the fact that moreover on the lookout and killing off the other players. Video games end at the time simply just a single survives.

The match wants a combine of tactic, deftness with the controls, and experience of the game’s considerable earth, been given basically soon after brute hours of actively playing, which can consider a toll.

"I’m genuinely opinion inspired toward retain going, irrespective of viewpoint a little little bit burned out," Jordan reported just lately. "If you’re basically executing a person detail for a long period of year for days within just a row, weeks inside a row, you’re possibly relocating towards attain burned out if you’re not doing other aspects."

Even as a result, Jordan’s exercising routine allows little year for a little something nonetheless gaming, which is how his father likes it. Inside of the weeks top up to this month’s Fortnite Worldwide Cup, Dave contains worked cautiously in direction of strip away each long run distraction. His son is exempt towards family members chores. Although Jordan’s more youthful sister, Rachel, eats with Dave and his contemporary spouse, Jordan eats alone inside entrance of the computer system display, versus a plate Dave sites beside him 2 times a working day.

Previous this yr, While Jordan’s mom tried out toward timetable a tennis outing with her son, Dave quickly nixed the notion.

"I won’t permit it," he states. "Maybe following the Environment Cup. Nevertheless he could possibly buy destruction, slide, injure his wrist?. . ."

Dave suggests that all of this is Jordan’s decision, that he’s simply performing what he can in direction of facilitate his son’s dream. And Jordan, within just his individual relaxed away, agrees, if not with rather the exact verve.

"I precisely have to have toward check out in the direction of do my perfect," he suggests. "I’m not always hoping toward be the best within the globe."

Nonetheless there’s no denying the father’s involvement.

He retains tabs on the hrs Jordan spends playing. He is familiar with the names of his son’s top challengers, and can vividly recall his greatest memorable moments of participate in. In the course of an on the internet tournament this spring, Dave suggests proudly, his son performed all through ailment and nerves — throwing up twice, the moment all around his keyboard — and continue to qualified for the Fortnite Environment Cup.

"Remember the Jordan flu video game?" Dave asks via way of comparison, referring in direction of the 1997 NBA Finals match within just which Michael Jordan overcame sickness towards contribute the Bulls in the direction of victory.

Whilst Jordan remains even-keeled through online competitions, Dave is a spoil, pacing and fretting.

"When he’s in competitors, stay away towards me," Dave claims. "I’m in all probability staying an ass toward another person or just Pretty pressured out. It accurately completely turns me into somebody else — since it indicates as a result considerably."

Recently, within just recounting the pleasure of seeing Jordan point to start with inside of a high-profile tournament this spring, Dave in comparison it in direction of the birth of a kid.

This preoccupation incorporates once in a while led in direction of conditions. As information of Jordan’s gaming timetable is made up of distribute, the family’s options contain been derided on the net. And past 12 months, the two Dave and Jordan’s mother say, their choice towards eliminate Jordan versus college or university within just want of on line classes was fulfilled with superior pushback. (Citing privateness issues, the district declined toward remark.)

The backlash, even so, incorporates performed very little towards dissuade the father.

play friv games If Jordan’s all-consuming attention was on nearly a little something else, he claims — piano, tennis, acting — he’d be applauded for pushing his son in the direction of mastery.

"Because it’s video clip games," he says, "it’s baby abuse."

His son’s recent good results, then, includes served as a style of validation, a improvement he is made up of been joyful toward toss into the faces of everyone who doubts him.

In the direction of the mom and dad who think it’s bad towards permit his youngster enjoy 10 several hours of online video online games a working day: "I imagine it’s poor to enable your child engage in football."

Toward the teachers who pushed his son to Deliver up recreation controllers in like of reading: "My son learns extra towards movie video games than us residents understand towards publications."

And in the direction of a faculty that, he says, felt improved ready than him in direction of come to a decision his son’s future, he as well incorporates a little something in the direction of say.

Soon as soon as Jordan properly trained for the Fortnite International Cup former this spring, Dave says, he fired off an emails in direction of a counselor at his son’s prior higher education, informing her of the success despite the fact that marketing an accounting of the income his son stood in the direction of deliver in the coming weeks.

Actually take pleasure in your concern for my son’s well-being, he recalls producing. nonetheless Jordan’s undertaking merely high-quality.

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Towards date, Jordan has received some $60,000, funds that Dave claims he will commit upon his son’s behalf. Inside the family’s garage is a Maserati, a reward against his dad, who excess a vanity plate with his son’s gaming tag, CRIMZ.

Yet Jordan consists of under no circumstances been toward a school dance or worked a summer season job, and inspite of the enviable motor vehicle, he consists of in no way genuinely been powering the wheel. He speaks fondly in excess of his gaming friends, a local community of little ones in close proximity to his age who spend their nights enjoying "Fortnite" collectively from their respective properties, chatting in the course of headsets. Still whenever asked how sometimes they take alongside one another within personal, he seems momentarily thrown by means of the surprise.

"I’ve under no circumstances achieved any of them," he says, "in legitimate existence."

Jordan’s mom — who spoke with the Earth on predicament her reputation not be penned because of in the direction of privateness things to consider — is made up of watched it all participate in out with conflicting inner thoughts.

On one hand, she incorporates slowly and gradually come in direction of settle for her son’s gaming agreement. Jordan’s achievement, she claims, has introduced him joy, and provided a really feel of motive. The recent introduction of a gaming good friend — a 17-year-old from Texas identified as Zach Gifford who is temporarily becoming with Jordan and his father forward of this month’s Fortnite Entire world Cup — incorporates been a welcome improvement, she claims.

However she difficulties, way too, concerning the serious prices of therefore much year used within front of a pc, near off against the loosen up of the worldwide.

Even Dave admits, throughout a minute of reflection, that there are some existence reports his son will basically never ever comprise.

"I’m not an idiot," he says. "I realize there’s social associations that you, me, highest people had that he’s likely towards pass up out upon."

Nonetheless "he’s acquired a weighty second right presently, and we’ve got toward take comfort of it."

Still, it’s a chance. Regardless of the existing popularity of eSports, the industry’s persistent security stays a ponder. Games arrive and go. Educated teams fold. And while it’s accurate that the industry contains discovered an influx of investment, the ability in direction of carve out a residing, gurus say, continues to be exceedingly rare.

"In the identical path as regular athletics, there’s a slender layer at the final who tends to make a residing at it," suggests T.L. Taylor, a professor at MIT who is made up of penned extensively in excess of eSports. "But there’s a mass of people who are aspirational and need toward generate it and never will."

In spite of the demands on him, Jordan doesn’t seem burdened or overwhelmed. He’s lucky toward contain a father, he claims, who includes put in in him so fully. And while he admits that there are elements of his previous lifetime that he misses — sitting above a higher education lunch table with good friends, for illustration — he incorporates arrive towards see these kinds of factors as a critical sacrifice.

"Friends come and shift and things," he points out a person night time, his father seated up coming towards him. "But this might be my career and my complete potential."

Inside Ten several years, if aspects go as prepared, he sees himself dwelling inside of a so-called workers Area, inside of which a neighborhood of linked avid gamers consume, sleep, and educate alongside one another, 24 several hours a working day, seven days a 7 days.

1 afternoon, Jordan was questioned no matter whether he principle other small children have been jealous of his daily life — currently being home against college, sleeping late, shelling out all evening participating in online video games.

"Not really—" he started out in direction of say.

Suddenly, Dave appeared inside of the doorway.

"I can answer that," he stated. "They’re totally jealous.

"How could your self not be?"

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It was nearing Ten o’clock again in just the gaming house. Jordan’s meal — sushi and miso soup versus a regional Jap restaurant — experienced extended back been provided and inhaled.

Out within the dwelling space, his spouse and children was finishing a video clip. Yet in just below, Jordan was missing in the world of a activity. Throughout a microphone, he strategized intermittently with a gaming close friend, and within just the vacant area, it sounded a very little including he was talking to himself.

"Careful, americans northwest."

"These males won’t even push."

"Do on your own need to have to shadow?"

Upon the show, his persona roamed the animated landscape — designing structures, collecting bounty, swinging an ax — ahead of instantly locating himself less than siege. A barrage of unanticipated gunfire still left his onscreen self hurt, then useless, and his sport drew in the direction of an unceremonious end.

In his chair, Jordan leaned back, yawning.

Previously at present, he’d been in the house for approximately Ten hrs specifically, his lone split coming a couple of several hours previous, any time he’d taken the spouse and children doggy, Jax, on a shorter walk down the driveway.

Yet there was even more perform toward be completed.

And therefore, inside of the delicate glow of the computer system show, Jordan changed his headset, queued up a refreshing activity, and disappeared the moment even more into yet another planet.