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The Explainer: Are supplements worth the risk?
January 12, 2013 by Charles Pelkey
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Dear Explainer,
You've written a lot about doping rules, but I am still a little unclear about the term "strict liability," when it comes to one kind of violation.
The reason I ask is that I am resuming training after a two-year layoff (because of a new baby) and part of my program includes a lot of food supplements and occasional energy drinks. I know that riders in the past have been convicted of doping even when they make the case that their violation was a result of an accident. I am not sure that it's even possible to avoid the risk of consuming a contaminated supplement, when you consider the places that make these things.
What bothers me is that I risk two years off the bike again – this time because of suspension – through no fault of my own. Is that fair?
– Aimee
Dear Aimee,
I have stirred this hornets' nest before, so what the heck. My first advice is to avoid using those "food supplements and energy drinks" and speak with a qualified coach, or more precisely, a nutritionist who can guide you through a maze of questions about how you can achieve the same results with actual food.
I think it was two or three years ago when I wrote about "tainted" supplements and the "unregulated" industry that produces them. A representative of that industry did set me straight in pointing out that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does hold regulatory authority over the supplement industry, particularly under the provisions of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA). The DSHEA authorizes the FDA to take action "against any unsafe dietary supplement product after it reaches the market."
Food supplement manufacturers are also responsible for compliance with Dietary Supplement Current Good Manufacturing Practices, comply with labeling requirements and report to the FDA any "adverse events" that are associated with use of the product.
What manufacturers do not need to do, however, is register products with the FDA or get FDA approval for those products before bringing them to market.
In other words, it's a regulatory framework that, in my mind at least, conjures images of barn doors and long-gone horses.
It's for those reasons that I continue to hold the opinion that taking dietary supplements – especially if you are an athlete subject to the provisions of the World Anti-Doping Code – is a risky proposition.
As you mentioned, there are several cases involving athletes who apparently unknowingly consumed banned substances while under the impression they were merely taking supplements or perfectly legal energy products.
The three that come to mind right away are USADA v. Moninger, USADA v. Neben and the CAS appeal, Oliveira v. USADA.
Now retired, Scott Moninger tested positive for norandrosterone in 2002. Upon learning of the result, Moninger forwarded his opened bottle of "Doctor's Brand L-Tyrosine," – an amino acid supplement – to an independent laboratory, which found that 19-norandosterone was present in the bottle. Tests on other, sealed, bottles showed no sign of contamination.
While the panel did not fully accept the argument that the supplement was the cause of the positive test, they did consider that and other evidence – Moninger's unsullied 21-year cycling career and character testimony from other riders – as mitigating factors and imposed a one-year, as opposed to two-year, suspension.
The following year, Amber Neben tested positive for 19-norandosterone – although at significantly lower levels – and was suspended for six months.
In 2009, Brazilian rider Flavia Oliveira tested positive for Oxilofrine and was suspended for two years. Oliveira appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and was able to show that an energy supplement she used to counter the fatiguing effects of prescription allergy medications was mislabeled and did not mention that it contained the aforementioned banned substance. Nonetheless, she was still suspended for a total of 18 months.
I believe Oliveira has a lawsuit pending against the manufacturer for its failure to list all ingredients on its label.
It's important to note that all three of these decisions were based on critical language in World Anti-Doping Code:
"It is each athlete's personal duty to ensure that no prohibited substance enters his/her body. Athletes are responsible for any prohibited substance or its metabolites or markers found to be present in their bodily specimens."
That is the "strict liability" language of the Code, since it eliminates the "intent" element of the violation. In other words, an anti-doping agency does not need to show that you intended to consume a banned substance, only that it is present in your body.
To varying degrees, the arbitration and appeals panels are allowed to view a lack of intent as a mitigating factor when considering a penalty, but not when determining whether or not a violation occurred.
So, as to your question, Aimee, I would suggest you do your best to avoid supplements and consult with a nutritionist to determine how your dietary needs can be met with actual food. Yes, I recognize that the FDA has authority over the industry, but all three of the cases I mentioned occurred after the agency was granted that authority.
If you test positive, that "adverse event" may (or may not) warrant the attention of the FDA, but that's after the fact. You, on the other hand, are stuck with a positive test result, possible grounds for a lawsuit and the job of showing an arbitration panel that there are mitigating circumstances worth considering when they suspend you.
Speaking of mitigating circumstances, as I mentioned, the Code allows for an arbitration panel to consider those when handing out a penalty. Conversely, the panel can also consider aggravating factors and hand down an even harsher penalty, like USADA requested in a high profile case this past summer.
Now why do I mention that? Well, because it brings us to the first-ever edition of the The RKP TV Guide!
Yes, ladies and germs', the story that will not die is still out there. So, for the television event of the … uhhh … moment, check out the anticipated confessional on a special broadcast of Oprah, this coming Thursday at 9:00 p.m. Eastern time in the U.S.
Are you going to watch? I would like to say I won't … but, like a train wreck happening right in front of you, it may be hard to turn your head.
As for the content of this television spectacular, your guess is as good as mine.
As one friend and colleague recently posted on her Facebook page, "Please make it stop."
– Charles


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Luke Bryan tickets for his concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, outside of Boston, and Xfinity Theatre Hartford, Connecticut become available for the public to buy today. Fans may also buy these and all other Luke Bryan tickets at Financial Firebird Corporation's LukeBryanConcerts.com or Tickets-Cheapest.com where they will pay less than at other resale sites after the box office has sold out for a range of seats from cheap areas to premium seats or a field ticket.
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The Luke Bryan Boston area concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts August 10, 2014 and Xfinity Theatre Hartford, Connecticut September 13, 2014 kick off this weekend's ticket releases following a recent stadium show going on sale by Luke Bryan in Chicago at Soldier Field last week. The 2014 Luke Bryan Concerts, called the That's My Kind Of Night Tour, started already and continues with a show tonight in Lexington Kentucky.
Luke Bryans notoriety as a country music artist seems to just keep on rising. After hits such as I Dont Want This Night To End, Drunk On You and The Only Way I Know, Luke Bryan hopes to launch more singles to the top of the charts from his new album called Crash My Party. The new Luke Bryan song, also called Crash My Party, already has fans excited. While the Luke Bryan tour 2014 will surely feature many of his new songs, those attending will likely hear some old favorites too.
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A Permeant Ion Binding Site Located between Two Gates of the Shaker K Channel Biophysical Journal, Volume 74, Issue 4, 1 April 1998, Pages 1808-1820 R.E. Harris, H.P. Larsson and E.Y. Isacoff Abstract K+ channels can be occupied by multiple permeant ions that appear to bind at discrete locations in the conduction pathway. Neither the molecular nature of the binding sites nor their relation to the activation or inactivation gates that control ion flow are well understood. We used the permeant ion Ba2+ as a K+ analog to probe for K+ ion binding sites and their relationship to the activation and inactivation gates. Our data are consistent with the existence of three single-file permeant-ion binding sites: one deep site, which binds Ba2+ with high affinity, and two more external sites whose occupancy influences Ba2+ movement to and from the deep site. All three sites are accessible to the external solution in channels with a closed activation gate, and the deep site lies between the activation gate and the C-type inactivation gate. We identify mutations in the P-region that disrupt two of the binding sites, as well as an energy barrier between the sites that may be part of the selectivity filter. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (264 kb) |
The Binding of κ-Conotoxin PVIIA and Fast C-Type Inactivation of Shaker K Channels are Mutually Exclusive Biophysical Journal, Volume 86, Issue 1, 1 January 2004, Pages 191-209 E. Dietlind Koch, Baldomero M. Olivera, Heinrich Terlau and Franco Conti Abstract κ-Conotoxin PVIIA (κ-PVIIA), a 27-amino acid peptide identified from the venom of Conus purpurascens, inhibits the Shaker K+ channel by blocking its outer pore. The toxin appears as a gating modifier because its binding affinity decreases with relatively fast kinetics upon channel opening, but there is no indication that it interferes with the gating transitions of the wild-type channels (WT), including the structural changes of the outer pore that underlie its slow C-type inactivation. In this report we demonstrate that in two outer pore mutants of Shaker-IR (M448K and T449S), that have high toxin sensitivity and fast C-type inactivation, the latter process is instead antagonized by and incompatible with κ-PVIIA binding. Inactivation is slowed by the necessary preliminary unbinding of κ-PVIIA, whereas toxin rebinding must await recovery from inactivation causing a double-exponential relaxation of the second response to double-pulse stimulations. Compared with the lack of similar effects in WT, these results demonstrate the ability of peptide toxins like κ-PVIIA to reveal possibly subtle differences in structural changes of the outer pore of K+ channels; however, they also warn against a naive use of fast inactivating mutants as models for C-type inactivation. Unfolded from the antagonistic effect of inactivation, toxin binding to mutant noninactivated channels shows state- and voltage-dependencies similar to WT: slow and high affinity for closed channels; relatively fast dissociation from open channels at rate increasing with voltage. This supports the idea that these properties depend mainly on interactions with pore-permeation processes that are not affected by the mutations. In mutant channels the state-dependence also greatly enhances the protection of toxin binding against steady-state inactivation at low depolarizations while still allowing large responses to depolarizing pulses that relieve toxin block. Although not obviously applicable to any known combination of natural channel and outer-pore blocker, our biophysical characterization of such highly efficient mechanism of protection from steady-state outer-pore inactivation may be of general interest. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (346 kb) |
Trans-Channel Interactions in Batrachotoxin-Modified Rat Skeletal Muscle Sodium Channels: Kinetic Analysis of Mutual Inhibition between μ-Conotoxin GIIIA Derivatives and Amine Blockers Biophysical Journal, Volume 95, Issue 9, 1 November 2008, Pages 4266-4276 Quanli Ma, Evgeny Pavlov, Tatiana Britvina, Gerald W. Zamponi and Robert J. French Abstract R13X derivatives of μ-conotoxin GIIIA bind externally to single sodium channels and block current incompletely with mean "blocked" durations of several seconds. We studied interactions between two classes of blockers (μ-conotoxins and amines) by steady state, kinetic analysis of block of BTX-modified Na channels in planar bilayers. The amines cause all-or-none block at a site internal to the selectivity filter. TPrA and DEA block single Na channels with very different kinetics. TPrA induces discrete, all-or-none, blocked events (mean blocked durations, ∼100ms), whereas DEA produces a concentration-dependent reduction of the apparent single channel amplitude ("fast" block). These distinct modes of action allow simultaneous evaluation of block by TPrA and DEA, showing a classical, competitive interaction between them. The apparent affinity of TPrA decreases with increasing [DEA], based on a decrease in the association rate for TPrA. When an R13X μ-conotoxin derivative and one of the amines are applied simultaneously on opposite sides of the membrane, a mutually inhibitory interaction is observed. Dissociation constants, at +50mV, for TPrA (∼4mM) and DEA (∼30mM) increase by ∼20%–50% when R13E (nominal net charge, +4) or R13Q (+5) is bound. Analysis of the slow blocking kinetics for the two toxin derivatives showed comparable decreases in affinity of the μ-conotoxins in the presence of an amine. Although this mutual inhibition seems to be qualitatively consistent with an electrostatic interaction across the selectivity filter, quantitative considerations raise questions about the mechanistic details of the interaction. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (240 kb) |
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Biophysical Journal, Volume 79, Issue 2, 776-787, 1 August 2000
Vladimir Avdonin*, Brian Nolan*, Jean-Marc Sabatier†, Michel De Waard‡ and Toshinori Hoshi*, ,
* Department of Physiology and Biophysics, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242 USA
‡ Laboratoire de Neurobiologie des Canaux Ioniques, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U464, 13916 Marseille Cedex 20, France
† Laboratoire de Biochimie, UMR 6560, Faculté de Médecine Nord, Institut Fédératif Jean Roche, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U464, 13916 Marseille Cedex 20, France
Maurotoxin (α-KTx6.2) is a toxin derived from the Tunisian chactoid scorpion Scorpio maurus palmatus, and it is a member of a new family of toxins that contain four disulfide bridges (Selisko et al., 1998, Eur. J. Biochem. 254:468–479). We investigated the mechanism of the maurotoxin action on voltage-gated K+ channels expressed in Xenopus oocytes. Maurotoxin blocks the channels in a voltage-dependent manner, with its efficacy increasing with greater hyperpolarization. We show that an amino acid residue in the external mouth of the channel pore segment that is known to be involved in the actions of other peptide toxins is also involved in maurotoxin's interaction with the channel. We conclude that, despite the unusual disulfide bridge pattern, the mechanism of the maurotoxin action is similar to those of other K+ channel toxins with only three disulfide bridges.


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THIS WEEK IOWA IN THE RANKINGS SCOUTING INDIANA SCOUTING PACIFIC HAWKEYES DOWN MISSOURI STATE, 7-1 HAWKEYES FALL TO NO. 19 MICHIGAN CAFONE NETS HAT TRICK CAFONE NAMED B1G PLAYER OF THE WEEK NORLANDER WINS BIG TEN HONOR 3 HAWKEYES COMPETE IN PAN AMERICAN CUP HAWKEYES DANCING AGAIN HAWKEYES ON BTN IOWA IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT IOWA NEWCOMERS LOOKING AHEAD HAWKEYES ON WATCH LIST Johansen, a senior from North Vancouver, Canada, has played in 57 career games and made 52 starts for the Hawkeyes. She was named to the Big Ten All-Tournament team as a sophomore and junior. Johansen was selected to the Canadian Women's National Team in April. Johansen, who served as captain of the Canadian Junior World Cup Team in July, is one of eight Big Ten field hockey standouts also named to the list last season. Schultheis, a senior from Hamburg, Germany, enters her fourth year as a starter for the Hawkeyes. Schultheis started all 21 games and posted a career-high 10 assists in 2012. The 10 assists marked the second-highest total on the team and ranked 10th in the Big Ten. Schultheis is a two-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree and a three-time NFHCA National Academic Squad member. Stribos, a senior from Brussels, Belgium, has played in 62 career games for the Hawkeyes with 61 career starts. Last season as a junior, Stribos was named a Longstreth/NFHCA First Team West Region All-American, in addition to being a second team All-Big Ten selection. She is a two-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree and a three-time NFHCA National Academic Squad member. DR. GRANT SELECTED TO NFHCA HALL OF FAME A pioneer in intercollegiate athletics in the United States, Grant became the first women's athletics director at the University of Iowa in 1973. In her 27 years at the helm of a separate Women's Athletic Department, Grant helped coaches develop highly competitive teams at the national level and at the conference level where they won 27 Big Ten Conference titles. A native of Scotland, Grant has earned national acclaim for her dedication to gender equity in athletics. She has testified on Title IX and Gender Equity before several U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittees and has served as an expert witness in many Title IX lawsuits. She served as President of both the AIAW and the NACWAA. She was given an Honorary Doctorate of Humane letters by Luther College and also by the University of Northern Iowa and named one of the 100 Most Influential Sports Educators in America by the Institute of International Sport. Iowa's home facility -- Grant Field -- is named in honor of Grant, the founder of Iowa field hockey. FOLLOW THE HAWKEYES ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER


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A baseball fan got the steal of a lifetime. Someone selling a ticket to game 1 of the World Series at Fenway Park accidentally sold a ticket on StubHub for $3 dollars. Not $300, not $3,000 but 3 bucks!
The receipt of the sale was posted on Deadspin. With the service fee the lucky fan named Eric was able to wrap up the whole sale for $6 dollars.
Here's a map of where the ticket is and its not even in the upper deck! (Via CBS Sports)
The lucky fan might even be able to snag a foul ball from the seat. The cheapest ticket in the section on StubHub is listed for around $500, the average is about $800, and the most expensive is priced for more than $11,000,
"Why would anyone sell a ticket that cheap? We have no idea and I'm guessing that the seller has no idea either. I'm guessing someone didn't hit a decimal point and a couple more zeros." (Via ABC)
We don't know why anyone would sell a ticket that cheap either - but a writer for CBS Sports feels for the seller.
"Someone really, really screwed up. ... I legitimately feel bad for the seller, assuming this was a mistake and not just an act of kindness." (Via CBS Sports)
Either way -- someone is still going to the game and Eric is a very happy guy.
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Ichabod said...
I have no problem being defined as a beer snob. I have friends who will call me just to ask my input on a beer they want to try. But since I'm still in school, I dont have that much of an issue drinking American Lagers. I do have a limit when it comes to Keystone, Milwaukees Best and Busch
jshusc said...
I've been enjoying the Lagunitas Brewery lately, but I think I defer to Stone as the defacto source of beer pleasure for me. Being a hophead, I'll try almost any IPA I come across. Haven't been impressed with Terrapin's efforts yet. I do enjoy the Loose Cannon, which has a hint of raspberry (I think), but a ton of hops. The Sierra Nevado Hoptimum was good, but actually a disappointment given my affinity for the Torpedo. I love Avery's IPA as well.
For just general greatness across the board, I think it's tough to beat Bell's though. i've yet to have a beer from Bell's that wasn't above average if not excellent.
Also, for you stouties, I go with Duck Rabbit Milk Stout. Also, Founders Breakfast, if you can still find it.
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natalex85 said...
Totally agree.
living in Alabama the beer selection has been very limited until recently when the free the hops movement finally got the archaic alcohol limits loosened up. Those limits kept many brewers products out of Alabama. I think the limit was 5% or something ridiculous. In fact a couple of years after college I had essentially stopped drinking alcohol all together except for the occasional glass of wine at dinner or bourbon on special occasions. I had completely stopped drinking beer. There was nothing redeeming about any of the beers I was familiar with so they weren't worth drinking. I really wasn't into getting smashed any more so what was the point?
Over the next few years I occasionally tried a few beers that were not american lagers (piss). The ones that stood out were a Mackeson XXX, Fuller's London Porter, and Bodington's. It opened up my eyes a bit but I still rarely drank. By rare I mean 1-2 drinks every 6 months, seriously.
What changed it for me was my neighbor. He introduced me to truly premium beer. He was getting a lot of stuff from out of state, Belgians, IPAs, stouts, porters etc that I had never seen or heard of. Well as you can imagine my palate was very interested and I began to learn about on my own. Good beer is a great thing and I often thank him for introducing me to it.
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How do I use the simulator?
I'm not even a beginner app developer yet. But I want to develop something. But to get up and running, I need some help.
I've downloaded the BB Cascades Gold SDK and I'm trying to play around with some sample codes. But I'm not sure how to launch the app in the simulator.
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Do you have vmware installed and the simulator also?
If you don't go here https://developer.blackberry.com/dev...tor/index.html it will walk you through the simulator installation - 12-20-2012, 04:10 PM Thread Author #3
Yes, I have all of that installed. I have it up and running. The SDK detected the simulator's IP address. I have an example code ready to go.
But I don't know how to run the code on the simulator. I clicked "Build" for "Simulator" or something like that. Then clicked "Run". But I'm not sure if that's even it.
I heard something about doing stuff from command line. Not sure if I have to do that.
I do have a background in somewhat familiar with Eclipse and Netbeans. So I'm not a complete noob. Or I don't think anyway lol. But yeah, I've hit a road block. - 12-21-2012, 11:40 AM Thread Author #5
So I'm doing that exact same thing.
But I'm getting a Launch Error. "You are attempting to run an application built for the device on the simulator. Please rebuild your application for the simulator."
That's what I was getting first. Now I'm getting this.
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MOMETASONE (moe MET a sone) is a corticosteroid. It is used to treat skin problems that may cause itching, redness, and swelling.What should I tell my health care provider before I take this medicine?
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HAPPINESS by WILFRED OWEN
Ever again to breathe pure happiness, So happy that we gave away our toy? We smiled at nothings, needing no caress? Have we not laughed too often since with Joy? Have we not stolen too strange and sorrowful wrongs For her hands' pardoning? The sun may cleanse, And time, and starlight. Life will sing great songs, And gods will show us pleasures more than men's.
Yet heaven looks smaller than the old doll's-home, No nestling place is left in bluebell bloom, And the wide arms of trees have lost their scope. The former happiness is unreturning: Boys' griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning, Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.
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Item Date | 1983 |
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First line | Ever again to breathe pure happiness, |
Publication source | The Complete Poems and Fragments of Wilfred Owen |
Publication editor | Stallworthy, Jon |
Publishers | Chatto Windus |
Publication place | London |
Digital repository | The First World War Poetry Digital Archive |
Reference URL | http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/3310 |


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This place is fine. Be aware it is not a 'hostel'. It is fine for a place to sleep. It is safe and secure with clean showers etc. I stayed here after walking the Camino, and it was pretty stark and quiet in comparison to the lively albergues. Thanks
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We stayed at Charo II after walking the "Camino de Fisterra" and just needed a calm (and cheap) place to relax The place was good, however, you should note that it is not a hostel but a "hotel" (according to the owner ;-) which means there is no kitchen. Something else that was a bit annoying was that after the first night I woke up with nasty bug bites all over my body. I assume it was bed bugs as, after changing the room, I had no further bites..
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Lovely welcome, very friendly & helpful, offering a map & asking if we needed anything. Very clean in all hostel, bedroom & bathroom, very comfortable beds & clean towels. Extremely good value for money, thank you to the hosts.
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[JURIST] Georgia's latest attempt to implement photo identification cards for voters was challenged Wednesday by the ACLU and other voting rights advocates, who filed a motion [PDF text] in federal district court seeking a preliminary injunction, arguing that the bill [SB 84 materials] authorizing the cards violates the Equal Protection Clause of the US Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment [text] as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 [text], and that it constitutes a poll tax in violation of the Twenty-fourth Amendment [text]. Unlike the original law, which was blocked [JURIST report] last year by a federal judge, SB 84 would provide free voter ID cards, but the motion challenges the statute as imposing burdens on Georgia citizens without increasing protections against voter fraud. The motion reads, in part:
The 2006 Act imposes a severe burden on the poor, the elderly, the infirm, and the less literate who either cannot afford a car, or are no longer able to drive, and who are, therefore, the least mobile of our citizens and least able to make a special trip to the county registrar's office to obtain a "Georgia identification card" or to navigate the requirements of voting absentee.


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Professor Ketu H. Katrak, Drama Department, UCI
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Abstract: This talk delineates the hybrid form--movement, voice, theatrical tools, multimedia--of Contemporary Indian Dance and representations of gender and sexuality by selected performing artists. Contemporary Indian dancers in India and the diaspora (within global flows of increased travel, border crossings, the internet) challenge stereotypes of sexual identities, and engage critically in their creative choreography with rigid female roles—women are often regarded under patriarchy as the "guardians of tradition" however oppressive; scenarios of domestic violence, and other situations where the body is on the line. My theoretical frame is guided by notions of the in-between, rasa, and heteroglossia. I situate the notion of sexuality within India's philosophical and aesthetic traditions where it coalesces with sensuality and at times with spirituality. The selected artists whose works I discuss believe that arts play a role in raising social awareness and inspire change for a better future for women, men, and communities.
Bio: KETU KATRAK, Professor in the Drama Department, University of California, Irvine, specializes in Dance, Drama, Performance and Feminist Theory. She is the author of Contemporary Indian Dance: New Creative Choreography in India and the Diaspora (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), and Politics of the Female Body: Postcolonial Women Writers (Rutgers UP, 2006), Her essays on South Asian American Literature and expressive arts (mainly on Indian dance) appear in journals such as Amerasia, South Asian Popular Culture among others. Katrak is the recipient of a Fulbright Research Award to India, Bunting Fellowship, and is currently on the Fulbright Senior Specialist roster.
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Minnesota fails to offer full disclosure on malpractice cases
The brain aneurysm was small, but George "Wes" Bidwell Jr. wanted it repaired before it got any bigger.By: Richard Meryhew and Glenn Howatt, Minneapolis Star Tribune
The brain aneurysm was small, but George "Wes" Bidwell Jr. wanted it repaired before it got any bigger.
So with the 33-year-old warehouse supervisor from St. Paul prepped and ready for surgery that morning in August 2001, Dr. Arturo Camacho grabbed a surgical saw and made his first cut — to the wrong side of Bidwell's head.
Two hours into the surgery, someone caught the mistake. Camacho switched to the correct side of Bidwell's head and the repair was done. A year later, Bidwell sued Camacho for malpractice, claiming the wrong-side surgery led to memory problems, seizures and changes to his personality. In 2004, a jury awarded Bidwell $850,000.
Such malpractice findings can be found on websites maintained by medical boards in 19 states, but not in Minnesota, where regulators have resisted efforts to make more information available to people who want to check into the backgrounds of their doctors.
The Minnesota Board of Medical Practice also doesn't disclose whether doctors have been disciplined by regulators in other states or lost their privileges to work in hospitals and other facilities for surgical mistakes and other problems — information provided in 13 other states.
"This is information that consumers need to know," said former Minnesota board member Kris Sanda, who led an unsuccessful effort to add more adverse actions to the state's website. "The more knowledge we have about all of these doctors, the better off we are."
The Minnesota board does provide complete disciplinary reports on doctors going back to the 1970s. It also provides information on criminal convictions provided by the doctors themselves, but it does not verify that information.
Robert Leach, the board's executive director, agrees that people have a right to know about their doctors. But he said the board would need legislative approval to offer more information than it currently provides. Under state law, any information obtained by the board as part of a complaint investigation is confidential.
In 1997, Massachusetts became the first state to use its website to publicly post board and hospital disciplinary actions, malpractice settlements and criminal convictions. The action was mandated by state lawmakers.
Each year, about 600,000 individual users visit the website to gather information on physicians, said Russell Aims, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine.
"We wanted to make sure the profiles were clear," Aims said. "That was the whole idea — you can go to one place and you can pretty much find out anything on given physicians."
In 2009, the Federation of State Medical Boards, a national nonprofit organization that helps state medical boards in their role of protecting the public, recommended that all state websites include information on previous criminal convictions, malpractice histories and disciplinary actions against doctors by state boards and hospitals.
That year, regulators in North Carolina upgraded the state's website after seeking approval from state lawmakers.
"People want this information, they expect this information and the board said we better do something about it," said Jean Brinkley, public affairs director for the North Carolina board.
Today, in addition to posting information on a physician's education and training, North Carolina's website also displays information on whether a physician has been disciplined by a hospital or medical board, been convicted of a misdemeanor or felony or paid out on a malpractice claim.
Brinkley said the information is not "a guide to good and bad doctors."
"It makes people aware of issues, so they can go into care with their eyes open," Brinkley said.
Minnesotans can sometimes learn more about their doctor by visiting websites maintained by regulators in other states. Many physicians are licensed in multiple states because they work in more than one place.
For example, Minnesotans can go to the Florida website and see that the insurer for Dr. Mark H. Montgomery, a physician and surgeon who once practiced in Minnesota, paid more than $1 million in a malpractice case. A jury found Montgomery acted negligently during a tonsillectomy in a Minnesota hospital that resulted in the death of a 3-year-old boy. Minnesota's website makes no reference to the malpractice case or jury award.
Consumers can visit the New York website and find out that Dr. Tracy E. Napp, a radiologist from Clear Lake, Minn., was fined twice and reprimanded once in the past decade by the New York board for "professional misconduct" after drunken driving arrests in Minnesota. There is no record of board action against her in Minnesota, nor is there a mention of New York's reprimand on the Minnesota website.
By checking out-of-state websites, Minnesotans can discover that Dr. Naiyer Imam, who received his Minnesota license in 2005, was denied a license in Alabama because he submitted false or misleading information in his application. The moves prompted five other states to take action, and in 2009, North Carolina issued a "letter of concern" to Imam after he misread a CT scan. None of those adverse actions are included in Imam's profile on Minnesota's website.
"I can go on the Internet and find out more information about a siding company than I can about a doctor who is going to perform surgery on my 10-year-old daughter," said Chris Messerly, a medical malpractice attorney in Minneapolis.
Ten years ago, Sanda led a board task force that recommended adding biographical information, criminal convictions and copies of board discipline and corrective actions to the Minnesota website.
Putting malpractice awards on the website was strongly opposed by the medical community, though it did not object to the other additions, Sanda said. As a compromise, the task force recommended the board collect malpractice data for three years and then study the issue again.
The board was supposed to revisit the malpractice issue, but Leach said it lacked sufficient data to make a decision.
To the Minnesota Medical Association, which represents 10,000 physicians in the state, providing the public with details of every adverse action carries the risk of unfairly harming a doctor's reputation. "I hope that it doesn't happen here," said Dr. David Thorson, chairman of the Minnesota Medical Association's board of trustees.
The group favors public disclosure only of disciplinary actions by Minnesota regulators.
"The board's obligation is to evaluate physicians for licensure in a manner that protects the safety of the public," Thorson said. "We have to assume that the board is doing that."
Leach said consumers would be confused if the board posted malpractice cases without providing additional data that would help people understand whether a doctor's malpractice history was above or below state norms.
"If we are going to put this information out to the public, we want to do it in the best way possible and we don't think that just sheer numbers is the best way possible," he said.
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