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A Life of Service: Lawrence Williams (Larry) Berkley

The JACMP has lost a dear friend, Larry Berkley. Among his many other services to the medical physics community, Larry was the Chair of the JACMP Journal Business Management Committee for almost ten years, first under the ACMP, and then under the AAPM. He leaves a heritage of knowledge, integrity, and passion for open-access publishing. Larry and I go back to the 1969 summer “Rat Camp” at Georg...

Occupy Wall Street, Bay Street and the street nearest you.

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a study in early January highlighting the growing income disparities between the richest and poorest Canadians. Income tax files from 2007 show that the average income of the top 1% of income earners was over $400,000 compared to about $44,000 for the average Canadian, almost a tenfold difference. Those who laboured at the minimum wage earned...

Street Crime and Street Culture

A model of social interactions shows why and when reputation concerns may support an ‘underclass’ culture of street crime where the incentives for such behavior are otherwise weak. Those who do not gain from street crime directly nevertheless find it optimal to invest in violence and thereby build a reputation that will earn them deference from the rest of the community. Even when the fraction ...

A reaction to the article „The Lost Archive“, The Wall Street Journal 12

Frederick Street

IT is always salutary and oft(en inspiring to look back onl our origins, and to a generation-which has been brought up in the Royal Victoria Hospital, one of the most modertn and best-equipped hospitals in the world, it may be of interest to learn something of what the "o0l(Royal" was like. The building still stands, but greatly altered in appearance. Those who, like myself, first approache(d i...