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Third Saturday Seminar 2015-2016
Return of the Elders, Unleash your Wisdom
Session 01
“Medical Civic Action”
Robert W. Butner, MD, FACS
Saturday, 19 September 2015 (Third Saturday)
9:30AM – Noon
Room B-102, Lone Star College – Montgomery
3200 College Park Drive – Conroe, TX – 77384 – 936.273.7000
�My talk will be a discussion of international humanitarian medical activities and will be based on my experiences in general medicine, ophthalmology, and vitreo-retinal surgery. I will discuss the topic from the point of view of Army Special Forces “foreign internal defense,” war relief, disaster relief, and medical education. The countries involved will be Colombia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, and Texas during Hurricane Katrina. I will try to discuss the pros and the cons of the different approaches to international medical relief.�
Bob Butner is a friend of mine and fellow member of the Special Forces Association Chapter in Houston. I am really looking forward to hearing what he has to say. You will note that many of the places Bob has been are still �in the news!�
He served in the Army Special Forces (Active/Reserve) 1967-2000. He has been Group Surgeon of two Special Forces Groups (1st & 20th), Flight Surgeon and Master Parachutist, Retired as a Colonel, Medical Corps, He is still active with the Texas State Guard . He was deployed to the Philipines, So Korea, China, Europe, South America, and Texas for Gustave and Katrina.
He is an Eye Surgeon specializing in Vitreo-retinal Surgery, Cizek Eye Clinic (UT) & Clinical Assistant Professor at UT Medical School and is an attending at three Houston hospitals.
At SFA Chapter meetings, Bob would tell me the latest part of the world he had visited as a civilian �Visiting Professor� and as you can see in the introductory paragraph, he has been many �interesting� places, 24 in all actually, not counting numerous deployments while in the Service.
As usual we will start out with Current Events (Distractions)
Iran Deal � Mistrust and Verify (You may not agree)
2106 Election � “The face of leadership.” Got any ideas?
Watch the Republican debates tomorrow night on CNN � see the �PSA� below.
China and Russia are using hacked data to target U.S. spies
Putin Making overtures to US and Saudi?
If you have an hour, watch the video attached: Juan Cole will teach many things most of us don�t realize about Arabs & Islam
�Juan Cole: Syria, Yemen Conflicts only seem to be about Sunni-Shiite from 30,000 Feet�
If you have 2 Hours and 16 minutes, you can watch the Adam Curtis/BBC 2015 film, �Bitter Lake� about the complexities of Afghanistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Great Britain (and us)
And, whatever else leaps out of my computer before show time
PSA (Public Service Announcements)(2)
Tomorrow Night�s Republican Debate(s) on CNN
One, composed of five lower-ranking candidates, will begin at 5 p.m. Central while the top 11 candidates are scheduled to take the stage at 7 p.m. Central.
The 11 candidates who will appear on the main stage are, in order of their finish in CNN’s polling average: Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul, John Kasich, Chris Christie and Carli Fiorina.
Upcoming Speaker at LSC-Kingwood
Date: September 10, 2015 at 7:35:55 AM CDT
I wanted to alert everyone to great event on the LSC-Kingwood Campus. We will have Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell�s Chief of Staff, will be speaking in the Student Conference Center (SCC) at 7:00 pm on September 24th. The title of his talk is �The Travails of Empire�. It promises to be an interesting evening and as always the event is free. Please invite anyone you want to.
Dr. John J. Theis, Director, Center For Civic Engagement, LSC
20000 Kingwood Drive
Kingwood, Texas 77339
281-312-1741 (voice)
Third Saturday Seminars � Fall 2015
3 Sessions
To refer to an ancient Chinese saying, �our world is in interesting times� and individual citizens are assaulted with a blinding array of propaganda from every conceivable source. The Third Saturday Seminar is about demystification of what is going on around us. Time will also be spent on current events. Meets 9/19, 10/17, and 11/21. Meets on Montgomery Campus in B102.
16843 S 9/19-11/21 9:30 a.m.-Noon B102 Gibby
LSC-Montgomery
3200 College Park Drive, Conroe, TX 77384
For more information, call 936.273.7446
ALL- Montgomery Links:
Academy for Lifelong Learning: LSC-Montgomery
Steven Gorman
Program Manager, Academy for Lifelong Learning,
LSC-Montgomery 936.273.7259
Registration
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LSC-Montgomery
3200 College Park Dr.
Conroe, TX 77384
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936.273.7446
Fax: 936.273.7262
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“Some part of our being knows this (the universe) is where we came from. We long to return. And we can. Because the cosmos is also within us. We’re made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.” Carl Sagan
Curt Gibby
Director