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VIDEO: A Decade of Oprah Moments
The fact that Oprah has decided to end her legendary daytime talk show, 'Oprah Winfrey,' in 2012 after decades of ratings and cultural dominance just gives more weight to her accomplishments over the past ten years. While her ratings have recently fluctuated more than her weight, she's always responded with a new highlight that has had people buzzing online and around the water cooler. And while not every one of her best moments has been memorable for the right reasons, it's clear that perhaps no star has been as influential and central to mainstream American culture over the past ten years as Oprah Winfrey.
Without further ado, then, here's our look back at A Decade of Oprah Moments.
2004: With the nation in the midst of two ongoing wars, Oprah took a page out of the 'Price Is Right' playbook to brighten up the mood, giving every member of her audience a brand new car. The scream-inducing feel-good moment ("You Get a Car! You Get a Car! You Get a Car!) apparently didn't help sponsor GM much, but it did bring a smile to America for one day at least. Watch the 'You Get a Car!' Remix:
2005: Tom Cruise was arguably the biggest box office draw in the world when he decided to go on 'Oprah' to explain his relationship to the much younger Katie Holmes. By the time he was done bouncing on the couch life an over-caffeinated toddler, his career was in recovery mode and the tabloids were circling the blood in the water.
2005: For well over a decade, Oprah and fellow talk-show magnate David Letterman had indulged in an ongoing feud, sparked in part by Dave's infamously unfunny "Uma? Oprah." gag during the 1995 Academy Awards ceremony. But in 2005 they finally buried the hatchet, agreeing to appear on each other's shows and ending one of the rare -- if minor -- controversies in Oprah's distinguished careers.
2006: One of Oprah's biggest legacies is her book club, which introduced millions of viewers to modern classics of literature and almost single-handedly helped keep the publishing industry afloat. That, however, was all build-up to the moment when she confronted author James Frey for spinning yarns in his not-actually-a-memoir 'A Million Little Pieces.' The live beatdown she administered sparked a national debate over the ideas of truth and fiction in writing.
2008: Usually apolitical, in 2008 Oprah took the unusual step of publicly endorsing Democrat Barack Obama for president. When he won, she appeared in the front row at his Chicago victory speech and got into the spirit of fellowship by using a random stranger as her crying pillow.
2008: Probably the biggest tabloid story of the decade was the ongoing relationship drama that swirled around Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston. And right in the center of the whirlwind was Oprah, who, along with most of America, took Jen's side, allowing her to clear the air on national television.
2009: With ratings dipping for the first time in memory, Oprah stepped up her game with a series of headline-grabbing -- and controversial -- episodes to kick off the new season this year. Among those was this tell-all with actress Mackenzie Phillips, who discussed an unthinkable taboo when she talked about her relationship with her own father.
2009: Oprah's heir-in-waiting for the title of talk-show queen is likely Ellen DeGeneres. But far from being rivals, the two have become friends, which helps explain why Ellen and her wife Portia de Rossi allowed invited Winfrey to document their highly publicized wedding.
2009: Not all of Oprah's moments this decade have been feel good events. Some critics and fans believed her attempts to solidify her ratings went too far when she asked Charla Nash, who was savagely disfigured by a rogue chimp, to reveal her scarred features to the camera. Shocked viewers may not have appreciated the sensationalism, but there's not doubt people will remember it for years to come.
- Sunday 27 DecemberBy Welcome MSGT
90% of the people that got cars from fat Oprah gave them back. They could pay the taxes. And Oprah would not pay them.. Wow what a great person that Oprah. She is the biggest racist besides Obama, Jackson, Sharpton.
- Sunday 27 DecemberBy Welcome MSGT
I said they could not not not pay the taxes. And oprah would not pay them.
- Monday 28 December
Yes Oprah has done much good for this world.She does not just talk about it she usually sees that it does happen.I said usually because my children have emailed her a few times over the years and they got no responce.They were let down and I told them she does help people.That is when they told me they are trying to get help for me.I am a single Dad with twin Daughters who are the greatest.I have some serious health issues and they were trying to get help for that and also someone to somehow help run the house as when I do this,a simple cleaning of a couple of rooms knocks me out for days.If anyone knows how I can get this type of help please contact me.Thank you and God Bless
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Hey if Oprah have any left over cars give this senior citizen one. I do not need a new one something to get me back and forth to the doctor, grocery store and drug store. I know I will never hear anything from this even if its NO.
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An electrostatically controlled cantilever apparatus for continuous tuning of the resonance wavelength of a Fabry-Perot cavity is disclosed. A resonant cavity is formed between two distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) mirrors each composed of multiple DBR layers. One such layer is replaced with a layer which has been fully oxidized except for a small aperture. This layer provides both optical and current confinement which allows for low threshold currents and high output power.
1. A cantilever apparatus for tuning the resonance wavelength of a Fabry-Perot cavity, said Fabry-Perot cavity comprising a bottom reflecting means and a top reflecting means, said cantilever apparatus comprising:
a) an electrically responsive substrate;
b) a support block positioned on said electrically responsive substrate;
c) a cantilever structure comprising a base section resting on said support block, a deformable section extending above said electrically responsive substrate and creating an air gap between said deformable section and said electrically responsive substrate, and an active head positioned at a predetermined location on said deformable section and comprising at least a portion of said top reflecting means;
d) an electrical tuning contact disposed on said cantilever structure for applying a tuning voltage Vt to produce a downward electrostatic force Fd between said electrical tuning contact and said electrically responsive substrate, thereby altering the size of said air gap and tuning said resonant wavelength;
e) an oxidation layer disposed within one of said reflecting means, said oxidation layer having been partially oxidized so that a small aperture of unoxidized area remains thereby providing optical and current confinement.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said oxidation layer occupies the bottom layer of said top reflecting means.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said reflecting means comprise multiple layers of distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) pairs, and said oxidation layer replaces one of said DBR layers.
4. The apparatus of claim 3 wherein said oxidation layer replaces the bottom DBR pair of said top reflecting means.
5. The apparatus of claim 3 or 4 wherein said oxidation layer is composed of AlAs.
6. A method for tuning a resonance wavelength of a Fabry-Perot cavity using a cantilever structure comprising a base section, a deformable section, and an active head, said Fabry-Perot cavity comprising a bottom reflecting means and a top reflecting means, said method comprising the steps of:
a) disposing an oxidation layer within one of said reflecting means;
b) partially oxidizing said layer such that a small aperture is left unoxidized thereby providing optical and current confinement;
c) positioning a support block on an electrically responsive substrate containing said Fabry-Perot cavity;
d) producing said cantilever structure on said support block such that said active head contains at least a portion of said top reflecting means and is positioned above said Fabry-Perot cavity, and said deformable section extends above said electrically responsive substrate and creates an air gap between said deformable section and said electrically responsive substrate;
e) disposing an electrical tuning contact on said cantilever structure;
f) applying a tuning voltage Vt to produce a vertical electrostatic force Fd between said electrical tuning contact and said electrically responsive substrate, thereby altering the size of said air gap and tuning said resonant wavelength.
7. The method of claim 6 wherein said oxidation layer is disposed at the bottom of the top reflective means.
This invention was made with Government support under contract no. NSF-2MWF248, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Government has certain rights in the invention.
This Application is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 08/542,057, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,629,951, filed Oct. 13, 1995 entitled "Widely Tunable Surface Emitting Laser".
The present invention relates to the field of semiconductor laser cavities, and in particular to Fabry-Perot cavities where an oxidation layer is used for optical and current confinement and a cantilever structure is used to vary the resonance wavelength by varying the cavity size.
Optical communications systems promise to revolutionize the field of telecommunications. However, numerous technological obstacles loom in the way. The main one is the lack of widely tunable semiconductor filters/detectors and lasers yielding stable single-mode emission. In other words, there are no suitable structures and/or methods for adjusting the resonant wavelength of a single-mode laser cavity.
A number of schemes have been proposed and studied to obtain frequency tuning of semiconductor lasers. These methods have typically relied on tuning the index of refraction of the optical cavity. Such index adjustment can be induced by heating, the electro-optic effect, and carrier injection. However, the index variance is relatively small. The resulting tunable range is restricted to approximately 1 percent.
In addition, the bulk of these tuning schemes have been attempted with edge emitting laser structures. Unlike vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSEL), these structures are not inherently single-mode and consequently the use of distributed Bragg reflectors or distributed feedback, both of which are difficult to fabricate, are required to select a single mode.
Interferometric techniques which rely on variable selection of different Fabry-Perot modes from a comb of modes have been proposed. Among these are asymmetric y-branch couplers and vertical cavity filters. These methods produce tuning ranges of up to 100 nm, however, they are restricted to discrete tuning only.
The idea of electrostatically deflecting the top reflector in a VCSEL has previously been proposed by Pezeshki et al. However, their proposal focuses on suspended membranes which are intrinsically sensitive to stress gradients since no expansion or contraction of the suspended layer can be accommodated. Further, their proposal focuses on the idea of a suspended aluminum layer which may in itself form the mirror or the last layer of a multi-layer mirror. This structure is neither easy to fabricate or capable of a wide tuning range.
Moreover, most of the above mentioned techniques are polarization-sensitive. This means that they cannot be easily adapted to optical communications systems which need to be reliable and insensitive to minor parameter changes.
VCSELs possess desirable qualities for telecommunications--circular mode profile, single mode operation, surface normal operation and compact size. However, micromechanical tunable VCSELs have to date suffered from higher threshold currents and lower output powers. Typical temperature tuned VCSELs yield output powers of around 1 mW with threshold currents around 200 μA. These devices can only be tuned about 8-10nm.
In view of the above, it is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus for tuning the resonance wavelength of a Fabry-Perot cavity in a continuous manner over a wide range of wavelengths. A further object of the invention is to ensure that such apparatus is polarization-insensitive. Another object of the invention is to provide that such an apparatus operate at low threshold currents and yield high output power. Yet another object of the invention is to provide that such apparatus can operate as a laser or a filter/detector. Finally, it is another object of the invention that this apparatus be simple in construction, easy to control, and straightforward to manufacture.
These and other objects and advantages will become more apparent after consideration of the ensuing description and the accompanying drawings.
The objects and advantages of the invention are achieved with an electrostatically controlled cantilever apparatus. A vertical Fabry-Perot cavity is formed between two distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) mirrors. Both top and bottom mirrors are composed of multiple DBR layers. The top mirror is composed of two sets of DBR layers separated by an air space of variable thickness. The top-most layers are supported in a freely suspended cantilever. The air space can be controlled by electrostatically deflecting the cantilever. Changing the thickness of the air space effectively changes the resonant wavelength of the Fabry-Perot Cavity. One of the DBR layers is replaced with a slightly different material that can be oxidized. Oxidation of this layer is complete except for an area of controlled aperture. The oxidation acts as an insulating layer leaving only the unoxidized area through which current can pass. Moreover, the oxidized area has a lower refractive index than the unoxidized aperture keeping the light focused in the unoxidized area. Current and optical confinement is thus achieved. The device can be oxidized to apertures of various diameters.
The invention will now be explained in detail in the description with reference to the attached drawing figures.
FIG. 1A is a perspective view of a single-arm cantilever apparatus according to the invention.
FIG. 1B is a side view of the cantilever apparatus of FIG. 1A.
FIG. 2 is a side view of the apparatus modified such that the middle DBR layers are not lodged within the substrate.
FIG. 3 is a side view of the apparatus of FIG. 2 with the oxidation layer replacing the bottom DBR pair of the middle DBR layers.
FIG. 4 is a side view of the apparatus of FIG. 2 with the oxidation layer found within the middle DBR layers
FIG. 5 is a bottom view of the oxidation layer.
A cantilever apparatus according to the invention is based on the principle of an electrostatic force pulling on a simple cantilever arm. FIG. 1A shows a simple embodiment of such an apparatus in perspective.
In particular, a cantilever apparatus 20 has a cantilever structure 22 consisting of a base 24, an arm 26, and an active head 28. In the embodiment shown, the bulk of cantilever structure 22 consists of layers of distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) pairs 30. It is easiest to make layers 30 of AlGaAs. The DBR pairs are made of AlGaAs with different compositional ratios, e.g., Al0.09 Ga0.9 As/Al0.58 Ga0.42 As. The topmost layer of 30 is heavily doped to ensure good contact with an electrical tuning contact 32 deposited on top of cantilever structure 22.
The actual number of layers 30 may vary depending on the desired reflectivity of DBR 30. It is common to use many layers to ensure sufficient reflectivity. In this particular embodiment there are 221/2 DBR pairs. Furthermore, any suitable reflecting material other than AlGaAs may be used to produce DBR layers 30. A person skilled in the art will be able to chose the right materials and dimensional parameters for layers 30. Finally, it is not even necessary that arm 26 or base 24 be made up of layers 34, as long as active head 28 includes them.
In the embodiment shown, base 24 is rectangular and suitably large to ensure dimensional stability of cantilever structure 22. In particular arm 26 is 200 μm long, 3.3 μm thick and 1.5 μm wide. Shorter lengths require thinner arms to maintain sufficient flexibility. Excessive lengths, on the other hand, make arm 26 difficult to handle during fabrication. The preferred diameter of active head 28 falls between 10 and 20 μm.
Electrical tuning contact 32 resides on top of cantilever structure 22. In this embodiment tuning contact 32 is made of 1500 Å of gold and covers the entire top surface of cantilever structure 22. However, any other electrically conducting material can be used and it is not necessary that the entire top surface of cantilever structure 32 be covered. The only limitation is that tuning contact 32 be sufficiently large to allow application of sufficient force Fd to deflect arm 26.
Base 24 rests on a support block 34 across which a voltage can be sustained. In this case block 34 is composed of GaAs. Block 34, in turn, sits on an electrically responsive substrate 36, preferably made of suitably doped GaAs. A voltage difference between layers 30 and substrate 36 causes deflection of arm 26 towards substrate 36. With layers 30 and substrate 36 oppositely doped, a reverse bias voltage can be established between them. Substrate 36 is sufficiently thick to provide mechanical stability to entire cantilever apparatus 20.
As shown in FIG. 1B, inside substrate 36 are lodged additional reflective layers 46, a triple quantum well active region 52 and a bottom reflector 50 composed of DBR layers 44. The active region is usually separated from the reflectors by spacer layer 42.
Fabry-Perot cavity 38 is formed by top reflector 40, active region 52 and bottom reflector 44. The top reflector 40 is comprised of three distinct parts--the top-most and middle sets of DBR semiconductor layers separated by a tunable air gap 48. The middle DBR layers and the top DBR layers have opposite doping.
As discussed above, the top-most DBR layers 30 are contained in the active head 28. In FIG. 1B the middle set of DBR layers 46, is lodged inside substrate 36. However, the middle reflective layers 46 need not be lodged within the substrate. FIG. 2 shows an embodiment in which the middle DBR layers 46 are on top of the substrate.
The bottom reflector 44 is composed of DBR pairs 55. As with the number of layers 30 and 46 in the top reflector 40, the actual number of layers 50 in bottom reflector 44 may vary. It is common to have multiple layers 50 to provide sufficient reflectivity. In this embodiment the middle set of DBR layers is comprised of 41/2 pairs 46 and bottom reflector 44 is composed of 24 DBR pairs 50.
The DBR layers are doped to provide the appropriate biasing. The middle set of DBR layers 46 and the bottom DBR layers 50 have opposite doping. This allows active region 52 to be pumped by passing current between layers 46 and layers 50. In FIG. 1B the top DBR layers and the substrate have opposite bias to allow electrostatic deflection of cantilever arm 26 as discussed below. In FIG. 2 the top-most DBR layers 30 and middle layers 46 have opposite bias to allow electrostatic deflection of the cantilever. In this embodiment to top-most layers 30 and bottom-most layers 50 are n-doped. The middle set of DBR layers 46 are p-doped.
The height of block 30 is 1.5 μm; thus cantilever structure 22 hovers a distance D=1.5 μm above substrate 36. Of course, block 30 could be significantly higher or lower, depending on the length of arm 26 and the desired tuning range.
To tune Fabry-Perot cavity 38 a tuning voltage Vt is applied to tuning contact 32. This results in charge accumulation in contact 32. The charge on contact 32 causes an equal and opposite charge to amass at the surface of electrically responsive substrate 36. These attracting charges produce a vertical force Fd acting on arm 26 and active head 28 causing arm 26 to deform thereby reducing distance D.
As distance D decreases so does the effective length of the Fabry-Perot cavity 38. Changing the cavity length alters the resonance wavelength of the cavity. Thus decreasing the distance D results in a decrease in the resonance wavelength of the cavity. Furthermore, since the deflection of arm 26 is continuous in applied voltage Vt, and since Vt can be adjusted continuously, the tuning of the wavelength is continuous.
The above embodiment is based on simple DBR layering. A modification of the DBR layers is more advantageous. The preferred embodiment of apparatus 50, according to the invention is shown in FIG. 3. In this embodiment, one of the DBR layers 46 of the middle set of DBR pairs is substituted with an oxidation layer 60. In this embodiment layer 60 is comprised of 3/4 λ AlAs which has been laterally oxidized. As shown in FIG. 3, it is convenient to place oxidation layer 60 at the bottom of the middle set of DBR pairs immediately adjacent to the spacer layer 42 and active region 52. However, the oxidation layer need not be located there. As shown in FIG. 4, oxidation layer 60 may replace any DBR pair. The distance of the oxidation layer from the active region determines the amount of current confinement.
Oxidation layer 60 provides both optical and current confinement. As shown in FIG. 5, the layer is oxidized to a specified aperture 62. The oxidation acts as an insulator allowing current to pass only through aperture 62. In addition, the refractive index of the oxidized area is lower than that of the unoxidized aperture. Thus, the unoxidized aperture acts as a focusing element, confining the beam to a region under the active head of the cantilever. The optical field strength at the oxidation layer determines the amount of optical confinement. The resulting wave guiding and confinement reduces threshold currents and increases output power.
For a specific structure, with layer 60 oxidized to an aperture of 10 μm, the device tuned over 19.1 nm with an applied voltage Vt of 14.4V. The tuning current was less than 0.5 μA at all times and the threshold current was less than 5.4 mA over 18 nm and less than 8.5 mA over the entire 19.1 nm. When oxidized to an aperture of 5 μm the threshold current was 460 μA and the peak output was 0.9 mW over a tuning range of 7 nm with Vt =22V. This represents the widest tuning range, the lower threshold current, and the highest power ever achieved with a micromechanical tunable VCSEL. It also represents the widest continuous tuning range for any monolithic semiconductor laser. In addition, this threshold current and output power is on par with that of the best VCSELs.
There are many ways to build an apparatus similar to the one described above without departing from the spirit of the invention. Therefore, the scope of the invention should be determined, not by examples given, but by the appended claims and their legal equivalents.
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Elvis Presley - A Fantastic Wardrobe Continuity Script from "King Creole." Paramount, 1958. Housed in a black leather binder, screenplay by Herbert Baker and Michael V. Gazzo, dated "January 3, 1958," marked "Revised Final White Script," 130 pages, with numerous colored script change pages throughout, with further 'Wardrobe' pages throughout, each one with detailed, handwritten notes mostly in pencil outlining every article of clothing worn by the male characters including star Elvis Presley as "Danny Fisher," Walter Matthau as "Maxie Fields," and Vic Morrow as "Shark," among many other actors; also included are about 20 never-before-seen, small, black and white photographs glued or taped to the individual pages showing Elvis in costume as "Danny" next to great, fun notes such as "blue coat, sweater, blue Levis, white tee shirt, black loafers, gray socks" and the like for each of Elvis' costume changes -- overall, a wonderful, comprehensive piece showing us all sorts of specifics about this great film that we never knew before!
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|Why not Garin Cecchini?
|04.06.14 at 3:21 pm ET
With Will Middlebrooks on the disabled list, the Red Sox elected to call up Brock Holt — who likely will serve as a utility backup man, with Jonathan Herrera assuming primary duties at third base — from Triple-A Pawtucket. In a vacuum, the decision makes sense. The Sox need a versatile infielder, preferably one on the 40-man roster, in a world where Herrera is at third. But of course, the Sox did have another option: third baseman Garin Cecchini.
In a perfect world, calling up Cecchini is less than ideal. After all, the 22-year-old has played just three games above Double-A, having opened this season in Pawtucket by collecting five hits and walking twice in 11 plate appearances, good for a robust .556/.636/.667 line. That said, there have been other instances where inexperience in Triple-A has not prevented the Sox from promoting a position player, such as in 2009 when the team summoned Josh Reddick to the big leagues from Double-A, at the start of 2013 when Jackie Bradley Jr. opened the season in the big leagues without ever playing in Pawtucket, and when both Jacoby Ellsbury and Ryan Kalish were promoted with less than two months in Triple-A.
And in the case of Cecchini, there is an offensive maturity and polish to his approach as a hitter that suggest a player capable of being fast-tracked to the big leagues. Read the rest of this entry »
|Sunday notes: Will Middlebrooks (right calf) heads to DL, Brock Holt recalled, Garin Cecchini on hold for now
|at 11:40 am ET
After feeling a twinge in his lower right leg during pre-game sprints Saturday night, Will Middlebrooks was diagnosed Sunday with a Grade 1 strain of his right calf and immediately placed on the 15-day disabled list.
The third baseman underwent an MRI Sunday morning that revealed the nature of the injury. Taking Middlebrooks place on the roster is utility infielder Brock Holt, who was recalled from Triple-A Pawtucket.
In playing the first four games of the season, Middlebrooks was 4-for-13 (.231) with one homer, one double and four strikeouts.
"He was disappointed when he first felt the calf grab him," Farrell said. "The exam probably confirmed some of the thoughts based on the way he was reacting and responding to the sprints he went through and what he felt afterward. Unfortunately, we're missing a power right-handed bat that was getting off to what looked to be a pretty darned good start."
"It's going to be case. He'll be back on the field when he's first available but it's not going to be for another two weeks." Longer? "Could be but we don't know that yet."
Farrell said the organization decided against promoting top infield prospect Garin Cecchini due to the desire to see Cecchini get more defensive reps with Triple-A Pawtucket.
"While he's had some good at-bats there there's still some development defensively that's taking place," Farrell said. "His time is coming but we didn't feel like it was right now."
Cecchini is hitting 5-for-9 (.556) in his first four games with Pawtucket this week.
Holt comes to Boston after being one of the last cuts in camp, when the team decided to keep infielder Jonathan Herrera.
"We'll see what the best matchup might provide with those two guys," Farrell said of Herrera and Holt. "Right now, Brock is the one that is on the roster. To get someone here currently to fill that spot and then in response to put Will on the DL. Whether we look find a better fit, that's something we're always looking for, not just this case but every other case so we'll see what transpires over the two-week period that Will is going to be missed."
Herrera was thrown into the fire Saturday night as the emergency fill-in at third base when Middlebrooks was initially scratched.
"This is a veteran guy who's been accustomed to that role," Farrell said of Herrera. "He finds a way to contribute based on his skills and he was able to do that [Saturday] night. Short notice, given the level of experience he has, he's been in that position before and did everything we could've asked."
|Red Sox-Brewers series preview
|04.04.14 at 11:20 am ET
It'll be a special day at Fenway on Friday afternoon as the reigning World Series champions return home for the first time since beating the Cardinals in Game 6 of the 2013 Fall Classic.
The rings will be distributed, the banner will be displayed and the Red Sox will kick off the first home series of the season, taking on the Brewers.
The ceremonies are set to begin at 1 p.m. and include a helicopter flyover from the U.S. Coast Guard, a performance by the Dropkick Murphys and Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, and of course, the ring ceremony, as well as a tribute to the fallen firefighters who died in the nine-alarm blaze in the Back Bay on March 26.
"I'm pretty sure it's going to be emotional," first baseman Mike Napoli told MLB.com. "Boston knows how to put on a good ceremony. I've seen it before. I imagine the atmosphere is going to be amazing and the fans are going to be going nuts. It's going to be a fun day. I'm looking forward to it."
First pitch is set for 2:05 p.m., with the Brewers coming to Fenway for the first time since 2011.
The Red Sox opened the season on a positive note, taking the final two games of the series against the Orioles after dropping the opener. The Brewers, on the other hand, dropped two of three to the Braves despite solid performances from their starting pitchers. This is the earliest in the season the Brewers have ever faced an American League opponent in interleague play. The Red Sox have won seven of the nine interleague contests between the two clubs.
Here are the pitching matchups for the first home series of 2014.
Friday: Jake Peavy (0-0, 0.00) vs. Marco Estrada (0-0, 0.00)
Saturday: Clay Buchholz (0-0, 0.00) vs. Wily Peralta (0-0,0.00)
Sunday: Jon Lester (0-1, 2.57) vs. Yovani Gallardo (1-0, 0.00)
— Xander Bogaerts isn't having much trouble adjusting to his role as the team's everyday shortstop. The 21-year-old has reached base in eight of his 11 plate appearances, going 5-for-9 with a double and drawing three walks in the opening series. Batting out of the 5-hole in the rubber match with the Orioles on Thursday, Bogaerts went 3-for-4 and scored twice. While he's batted either fifth or seventh in the lineup so far, he's making a case for a shot at an audition in the leadoff spot, since there seems to be some uncertainty at the top of the order.
|Morning notes: John Farrell talks progress of Christian Vazquez, Allen Webster, Deven Marrero; Will Middlebrooks still nursing injured finger
|03.17.14 at 10:55 am ET
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Prior to the Red Sox' spring training game with the Cardinals Monday morning, manager John Farrell discussed the progress made by each of the players sent out in the latest round of roster cuts.
Allen Webster: "Obviously with Allen Webster, I thought his spring training this year was more impressive than a year ago when he was the talk of our camp on a pitcher that comes in late in the game because of how powerful his stuff was. We're seeing a guy that's maturing on the mound. The use of his two-seamer particularly. And the number of strikes in the bottom of the strike zone has been very encouraging."
Christian Vazquez: "The progression with the bat. His willingness to go the other way with some base hits. He's starting to impact the baseball a little bit more in some advantage counts. He has the ability to shut down a running game with the way he defends and the way he throws. This is a guy, there would be no hesitation if the need were to arise to call upon."
Deven Marrero: "A well-above-average defender. Last year, he had a little bit of exposure to us while he was in big league camp. But this year, a very good defender right now. And I think he's settling in to an approach at the plate that's not only consistent, but one that works best for him. He does have a tendency to tinker with some things and he's always searching for what the right feel is. But we've seen him the last five, six days really impact the baseball to the pull side."
— Will Middlebrooks was out of the Red Sox' lineup with a hyperextended finger on his right hand, having attempted to play with the injury Sunday.
Farrell noted that Middlebrooks — who did take batting practice Monday — feels the ailment more when throwing the baseball. The third baseman suffered the injury Thursday when bracing himself during a feet-first slide.
— Shane Victorino was back in the No. 2 spot, with Grady Sizemore leading off. With the earlier notion that Dustin Pedroia might be moved up to that slot, Farrell explained the dynamic.
"He's got an ability in the two-hole to play the game a little more," said the manager of Victorino. "If there's a guy on base, he's got the ability to bunt. He's already seen some pitches by the guy ahead of him. Can't deny the track record of what spots in the lineup show and the performance, getting on base particularly. And, you know, it gives us another guy with some speed at the top or an on base and speed guy at the top in addition to who might be leading off with him in the two-hole. And the fact that we had Pedey and David [Ortiz] in the 3-4 hole for pretty much the majority of last year, that's not a new thing for them either.'
— Sizemore is expected to play in back-to-back games again, Wednesday against the Pirates and Thursday vs. the Yankees (both at JetBlue Park).
— Ortiz is just 2-for-25 heading into Monday's game, but his manager isn't worried.
"I think more than anything if we can get to roughly 50 at-bats here, that's the goal, enough at-bats where he's seeing pitches, he's getting his timing down, and that's a round number, not to say we're holding steadfast to that number, last spring he didn't have any at-bats and I think he was pretty good last year. David's getting in shape to start the year."
|Red Sox split squad beats Orioles and pitcher Alfredo Aceves
|03.11.14 at 4:25 pm ET
A split squad of Red Sox players in Sarasota showed no dearth of firepower against the Orioles, as Boston's used three homers and a rally against former Sox pitcher Alfredo Aceves to claim a 6-5 victory over the Orioles. Will Middlebrooks homered for the second time in as many games against Orioles right-hander Tommy Hunter, while Brock Holt and Ryan Lavarnway both went deep for the first time of the spring. Lavarnway's homer came against former teammate Aceves, who allowed three runs on five hits (including an RBI double by Daniel Nava and RBI triple by Jackie Bradley Jr. in the seventh inning and Lavarnway's eighth-inning solo homer) in two innings of work. Nava went 2-for-4 with a pair of doubles, while catcher A.J. Pierzynski went 3-for-3 and drove in a run.
Sox starter Allen Webster was dominant early, allowing two hits (both singles, one of the infield variety) and striking out three through the first three frames while getting one groundball after another. But he issued three straight walks with one out in the fourth to end his day on a down note; he was ultimately charged with two runs when reliever Alex Wilson permitted two of his inherited runners to score.
Still, the Sox managed to keep the game in check until breaking a 3-3 tie with their trio of runs in the seventh and eighth innings against Aceves.
|Will Middlebrooks, Bryce Brentz go deep but Henry Owens struggles as Red Sox fall to Orioles
|03.08.14 at 4:12 pm ET
Will Middlebrooks is at his best when he's driving the ball to the opposite field, capitalizing on his considerable all-fields strength to deny opposing pitchers a go-to area against him. Thus it came as one of his more promising signs of the early spring that the third baseman got ahead in the count against Orioles reliever Tommy Hunter — a notoriously tough opponent for right-handed hitters — and drove a 2-1 pitch out to right-center for his first homer of the spring.
Outfielder Bryce Brentz, meanwhile, continued to offer a glimpse into his considerable power, going deep to left against left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez. The homer was Brentz's third of the spring in 19 plate appearances; he's 6-for-18 with a walk and seven strikeouts.
"He's had a very productive camp so far," manager John Farrell told reporters of Brentz prior to Saturday's split-squad game against the Orioles in Sarasota. "You see the raw skills. You see the raw power. He's got all-field power. With that comes along with some aggressive and maybe some swing and miss in there." Read the rest of this entry »
|Jerry Remy on D&C: 'We're going to do a game the way we always do it and that's it'
|03.03.14 at 9:19 am ET
Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy joined Dennis & Callahan on Monday to discuss his return to the NESN broadcast and what he's seen from the Red Sox in spring training. To hear the interview, go to the Dennis & Callahan audio on demand page.
Remy called his first Red Sox game Sunday after he took leave from NESN because his son Jared was accused of murder. Remy did not discuss his family situation on the air.
"I made my press conference back before I left, and I did that for a reason so that when I got down here I could just answer questions about baseball and talk about baseball and not talk about my personal life," Remy said. "That's what I wanted to do when I had that little conference back at NESN prior to coming to spring training. I didn't want it to be a distraction when I got down here. I did not want it mentioned on air. I said all I had to say about everything and it wouldn't be fair to anybody else listening to a game to have to listen to that. That was my feeling.
"Don [Orsillo] asked me, 'How are we going to go about this?' and I said, 'We're going to do a game. … We're going to do a game the way we always do it and that's it.''
The veteran broadcaster admitted that he was nervous covering the spring training game.
"I made my decision and my decision was to go on and be myself during a game, and that's what I plan on doing," Remy said. "If that plays well, great. If it doesn't, I'm sure the people with NESN, the people with the Red Sox will make the proper adjustments. This is the way I'm going to go about doing things, and I was nervous. I've never been nervous about a spring training other than my first one.
"Once I got to the ballpark, and once I got in my comfort zone and back on with Don, who made it very easy for me, it felt right."
|Will Middlebrooks is looking forward to 'just going out to kick a guy's ass every day'
|02.27.14 at 2:06 pm ET
FORT MYERS, Fla. — As the games finally begin, there's no one with a bigger point to prove or bigger chip on his shoulder than Will Middlebrooks.
He made that perfectly clear Thursday, before taking the field as the starting third baseman against Northeastern, batting seventh.
"Night and day," Middlebrooks told WEEI.com of his feeling this spring compared to 12 months ago. "It's night and day. It's just a matter of competing and believing in my own ability and knowing what I'm capable of and just going out and not thinking about the details and just going out to kick a guy's ass every day."
It's not just the extra 15 to 20 pounds of muscle he's put on during a vigorous offseason workout program. Middlebrooks has shown his manager that he's mentally ready to put 2013 behind him.
"To date, his spring has been productive," Farrell said. "His work has been outstanding. He's come in with a noticeable determination and yet, at the same time, he's doing everything we could've expected, in terms of everybody."
"It's evident by the work he did in the offseason to add some strength and I'm looking forward to seeing him playing on the field."
As Alex Speier documented, 2013 was a nightmare for Middlebrooks, hitting just .227 in 94 games and suffering through a lower back strain that landed him on the disabled list. It got so bad early on that he was demoted to Triple-A Pawtucket for 45 games where he worked to get his swing – and head – right before returning to help the Red Sox down the stretch. All of this after a rookie season in 2012, when he hit 15 homers and drove in 54 runs in 75 games.
"You could point to a number of examples where the second year has been a little bit more challenging and that's just a matter of the league getting to know the strengths and limitations for a given player, and pitching to it accordingly," Farrell said. "Will's very well aware of how pitchers and opponents have attacked him, and that's just a process of establishing yourself year after year in the big leagues."
|Brian Butterfield on M&M: 'I'm really disappointed' with MLB's new home-plate rules
|02.26.14 at 2:03 pm ET
Red Sox third base coach Brian Butterfield checked in with Mut & Merloni on Wednesday afternoon from spring training. To hear the interview, go to the Mut & Merloni audio on demand page.
Butterfield said the new rules regarding home-plate collisions are unfair to baserunners.
"I'm really disappointed in the decision," Butterfield said. "I think it puts the health of our baserunners in some jeopardy. I understand what they were trying to do to protect the catchers, with all the head injuries. But I was hoping before they finalized things that it would be equal treatment.
"Most of the catchers in the league are big and they have all that equipment on. And they're not allowed to block the plate until they receive the ball. But now it becomes a matter of those big bodies with that gear on dropping down on ankles and feet and hands and wrists. I just don't like the scenario right now. I guess I've got to wait to see how it plays out, but right now I'm not real happy with the decision."
The Red Sox are an aggressive team on the basepaths, but Butterfield said he'll have to reconsider his approach.
"How are we going to attack it? Is it going to change our approach with a contact play? Is it going to change our approach — certainly with my job, is it going to make my job a little bit more difficult? Or am I going to be a little bit more cautious in sending in runners? We'll see," he said. "Maybe I'm jumping the gun a little bit. I should probably just sit back and wait 'til there's just a little bit more clarity."
Butterfield said he has little sympathy for catchers, especially considering, in his mind, they create much of the contact.
"It's real interesting, just because I think it just opens up a lot of things that might make it difficult physically for runners. Before, the catchers had it in the back of their mind they had a chance to get ear-holed. The catchers are the ones that started this whole thing. And I don't care if catchers are listening — they started the whole thing, because they started blocking the plate a long time ago. And a lot of it was without the ball, with all that gear. So the runners had to say, 'Well, I don't want to get stoned here at the plate, so I'm going to have to go in there with some physicality.' That's what happened.
"Now that the catchers don't have that fear of a guy coming in and banging them, then I think that the way that they've always been taught and their mindset is to be aggressive. It's just not a great situation for our baserunners."
|Red Sox notes: Third base a possibility for Mike Carp?
|02.23.14 at 2:19 pm ET
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Mike Carp offered the Red Sox tremendous production in limited playing time in 2013. Acquired in the middle of spring training from the Mariners for cash, he saw action in 86 games (243 plate appearances) as a first base and left field reserve as well as a pinch-hitter, slamming the ball for a .296 average, .362 OBP and .523 slugging mark.
"We always evaluated the swing as a low-maintenance compact swing, which we felt like, in the role, had a better chance to be productive. We didn't know to what level," said manager John Farrell. "He probably exceeded our expectations when you look at the line that he put up last year, but to his credit, we talked about this the first day here with the group, he didn't get an at-bat for the first nine games of the season. We tend to forget how young Mike Carp is. He's still a young player. To be in a bench role, as he was — because he can probably start for other teams, we would think; he's a good player — he accepted the role, he formed a routine that allowed him to be prepared and he was in the game. … He performed well in a difficult situation."
His production merited more playing time. But it wasn't available. Mike Napoli was a fixture at first until he required rest in September. Left field was manned capably by Jonny Gomes and Daniel Nava, a tremendously productive platoon.
All of those players are back with the Sox this year. Yet the team wants to see Carp have more avenues to playing time, and so, manager John Farrell suggested, the 27-year-old could get some work at another position this spring. Which one?
"Stay tuned," said Farrell. Read the rest of this entry »
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Pressure's on, Buccos....
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"Man, the pitch looks fast, even in slow motion." Thom Brennaman on Chapman's fastball.
this late in the year we cannot count on other teams to beat the cards and pirates, we need to at the very least win each series we play against them.....and hope we can eeek out a sweep of one or both at least once....
The cards have had their hot streak this year....the Pirates have had their hot streak this year.....heck even the Brewers have had a hot streak.....we have not. if we can find a way to put together one good hot streak then I think we can win the central......but we are not going to win it by playing like we have for the year.....we need to start winning 7 out of 10 the rest of the way.
we can almost say for a fact that the cards and pirates will play 500 baseball from here on out....as long as we get on that hot streak then we can make up a game every 10 days then we will be fine.....we just cant lose any games over those 10 day stretches...I like looking at the chase for the central in 10 game stretches.....it helps with not getting to high or low on a single game or 2.....its kind of like the old golf thread that kingspoint would do every year.....I wish he still did that..he was always one of my favorite posters here....I dont see him much around here anymore.
BP puts the odds of a REDS division crown at 25%.
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And the Buccos have clinched a .500 record.
The Rally Onion wants 150 fans before Opening Day.
I'd say no...but, I may enjoy an adult beverage.
The Rally Onion wants 150 fans before Opening Day.
Negative...personally, I can't stand the taste of beer. I know...I'm weird. I don't remember the last time I drank a beer, honestly. I'm thinking maybe Jack and Coke.
Indeed. No fan of any team should have to endure so much losing, and believe me when we say that the city of Cincinnati knows all about that. Enjoy this next month before we beat you to a pulp in the playoffs!
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Well not even engaged yet so it will be a couple years actually.
Good luck to you. I spend half my time in CA and half my time in NY. So if your wedding is near there...
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SALT LAKE CITY -- This bench thing seems to be working out for Gordon Hayward. Hayward hit a game-winning jumper with 4.5 seconds remaining as the Utah Jazz rallied to beat the Sacramento Kings 104-102 Friday night at EnergySolutions Arena. In improving to 7-6 overall, the Jazz used a late 17-2 run to overcome a Sacramento team that led by as many as 13 points in the fourth quarter. "I thought we won with a lot of grit, gut, staying together," Jazz coach Tyrone Corbin said. Hayward led all scorers with 23 points off the bench on 7-for-16 shooting, including that go-ahead jumper from the top of the key in the final moments. The third-year swingman scored 15 points in each of his two previous games after being reassigned to a reserve role. "The Kings have a lot of talent on their team and they can really score the basketball. They were able to knock down some shots and we let them hang around too long," said Hayward, who started the first 10 games this season. "We were fortu...
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The division will officially launch its Equity Action Plan at annual reception
Kent State University's Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion invites Kent State faculty and staff to its fall reception on Monday, Sept. 9, from 3:30-5 p.m. at the Kent Student Center Ballroom Balcony.
The reception will mark the official launch of the division's five-year strategic Equity Action Plan, "Charting Our Future." Copies of the plan will be available for senior leadership in attendance. The reception also gives members of the university community the opportunity to learn about the division's initiatives for the academic year, and also get introduced to staff of the division, including newly hired staff members.
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quake3 brightness
Not a frequent quake3 player, but anyway:
I have some major problem with quake3 brightness, and my monitor is one which is rather dark.
Quake3 gives me a way too dark screen such that playing is impossible! Of course, I can increase "r_gamma", but it looks like any value higher than 3 is ignored.
Moreover, xgamma is no real help.
I tried a script (comparable to my successful scripts for quakeworld and quake2) which sets xgamma -gamma 5 before the game is started and which resets gamma via "xgamma -gamma 1" after the game has been closed.
xgamma -gamma 5
doesn't help, because any change of a game level or even entering the first level (when starting a game) resets gamma to the value of "r_gamma" which is (see above) at a maximum of "3".
The only way I can play quake3 is by using one of these two methods:
launching quake3
and then switching to a text console and entering "xgamma -gamma 5"
this does help, but still the gamma value is reset as soon as a new level starts!
integrating a while loop in the game script which changes xgamma every 20 seconds or so to a higher value than 3, like:
while true ; do xgamma -gamma 5 ; done &
The second method allows for having fast enough a sufficiently bright game.
But is there no better method, command, trick?
And do others also experience a gamma before each new match?
I can live with that while loop above, but it is not an ideal solution and it increases CPU load.
Under windows, there is absolutely no problem with game brightness, since there is a tool called "powerstrip" which permits changing gamma via keyboard shortcuts while INSIDE THE GAME! Great!
Any good ideas?
nvidia driver 1.0-4191
latest quake3 version
You can decrease CPU usage with something like:
while true ; do xgamma -gamma 5 ; sleep 5 ; done &
This will only run the xgamma once every five seconds, instead of constantly, which should help the CPU load.
But no, I don't know of any good way to make it work properly. I'm sure there's a Q3 config file somewhere -- is there a way to disable the GAMMA extension (or whatever it's called...) in there? That way, Q3 might use software gamma or whatever, and your xgamma value may not be overwritten...
Since I was in a hurry when writing my article, I made some mistake, the while loop line I use actually already includes a "sleep" command!
This is what it looks like:
while true ; do sleep 20 && xgamma -gamma 5 ; done &
Of course, you couldn't know that. :)
Well, so far I tried all I could, disabling hwgamma, enabling it, dis-/enabling external gamma control etc.
But please, if someone else has an idea, tell me/us about it.
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No, Obamacare is not making your premiums go through the roof: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/22/1189149/-No-Obamacare-is-not-making-your-premiums-go-through-the-roof?showAll=yes
ASPE RESEARCH BRIEF HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUM INCREASES IN THE INDIVIDUAL MARKET SINCE THE PASSAGE OF THE THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT February 22, 2013 By: Rose Chu and Richard Kronick, ASPE Summary: The Affordable Care Act brings an unprecedented level of scrutiny and transparency to health insurance rate increases. Evidence suggests that the Affordable Care Act contributed to a reduction in the rate of increase in premiums in the individual market since 2010. The proportion of rate filings in which the requested increase was 10 percent or more declined from 75 percent in 2010 to 34 percent in 2012, consistent with the increased scrutiny that such requests now receive. Available data for 2013 suggest that this pattern of slower premium growth has been maintained so far in 2013, with only 14 percent of requested rates at 10 percent or more. In addition, the average premium increase in 2012 was 30 percent below that in 2010. The Affordable Care Act brings an unprecedented level of scrutiny and transparency to health insurance rate increases. Thanks to the law, for the first time ever, insurance companies in all states cannot raise rates without accountability or transparency. 1 By requiring insurance companies to document, submit for review, and publicly justify rate increases of 10 percent or more, requests for rate increases above that level receive greater scrutiny than they had prior to the Affordable Care Act. While a number of the broader insurance reforms included in the Affordable Care Act are set to start in 2014, the Rate Review Program created under the law is already in effect and benefiting consumers by increasing standards for review of premium increases and overall insurance company transparency. The Affordable Care Act requires all non-grandfathered policies renewing on or after September 23, 2010 to cover preventive services with zero cost-sharing, to guarantee availability to children without regard to pre-existing conditions, to phase out annual dollar limits on essential health benefits, and to provide a set of basic patient protections. In addition, the Affordable Care Act directs insurers offering products in the individual market to spend at least 80 percent of premiums on medical care, and starting September 1, 2011, requires that requests for rate increases of 10 percent or more for non-grandfathered policies be reviewed for reasonableness. 1 Rate review applies to all non-grandfathered plans. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation http://aspe.hhs.gov ASPE Research Brief Page 2 A Kaiser Family Foundation study of the effects of health insurance rate review concluded, "Our analysis of publicly available information about state rate review programs suggests that these programs have a material influence on premiums that ultimately get charged to individuals and small businesses." 2 Similarly, an HHS study analyzed requested rate increases of 10 percent or more, and found that the rates implemented were 2.8 percentage points lower than requested, and that among all rate increases in 2011 (including those above and below 10 percent), the average rate increase implemented was 1.4 percentage points below the rate requested. 3 The study also found that, among the rate requests for 10 percent or more that had been finalized as of the date of the study, more than 50 percent resulted in consumers receiving either a lower rate increase than requested or no increase at all. Methods There is no comprehensive source of data on premiums in the individual market, although data being gathered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will fill this gap in the future. By contrast, there is a consistent source of longitudinal, nationally representative data on premiums for employer-sponsored group insurance, the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey- Insurance Component (MEPS-IC) conducted by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). 4 This policy brief analyzes data on rate increases in the individual market from 2009 to 2013, using data available on state insurance websites and data obtained directly from states. We analyze data from 9 states in 2009, 11 states in 2010, and 15 states in 2011 and 2012. Preliminary data from 10 states are available for 2013. The analytic sample includes approximately 300 rate filings in 2011 and 2012, covering 2.6 to 2.7 million policyholders, or over 35 percent of all non-group policyholders in the country. The analytic sample is not a random sample of all non-group policies – results in states without public websites might be different than those results in the states with available data. All results in this brief are weighted by the number of policyholders. Details on methods are in the Appendix. We use two methods to assess the effects of the Affordable Care Act on rate increases in the individual market. First, we analyze trends over time in the proportion of filings that requested an increase of 10 percent or more. It is plausible that insurers seeking to avoid scrutiny of their rate increase requests would have been more circumspect in proposing increases of 10 percent or more after implementation of the rate review requirement in September 2011 than prior to implementation. Second, we compare the rate of increase in 2011, 2012, and 2013 to increases in 2009 and 2010. If the Affordable Care Act is causing the rate of premium growth to decrease (or increase), then the rate of premium growth post-Affordable Care Act should be lower (or 2 "Quantifying the Effects of Health Insurance Rate Review". Kaiser Family Foundation 2012. (Accessed at http://www.kff.org/healthreform/8376.cfm.) 3 "2012 Annual rate Review Report: Rate Review Saves Estimated $1 Billion for Consumers", Department of Health and Human Services, 2012. (Accessed at http://www.healthcare.gov/news/reports/rate- review09112012a.html.) 4 "Medical Expenditure Panel Survey – Insurance Component (MEPS-IC). Department of Health and Human Services. (Accessed at http://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/survey_comp/Insurance.jsp.) ASPE Office of Health Policy February 22, 2013 ASPE Research Brief Page 3 higher) than prior to implementation of the Affordable Care Act. However, decreases (or increases) in premium growth might be due to factors other than the Affordable Care Act. To control for general trends in health care costs, which have moderated substantially over the past few years, we compare the rate of increase in premiums in the individual market to the rate of increase in the market for employer sponsored insurance (ESI), using data from the MEPS-IC. Results Since 2010, there has been a decline in the proportion of rate filings in which the requested increase is at or above the Affordable Care Act threshold of 10 percent. In 2010, 75 percent of rate filings requested increases of 10 percent or more, a proportion that dropped to 34 percent in 2012 (See Figure 1). 5 The sharp drop in requests for increases of 10 percent or more is most likely the result of the increased scrutiny that rate increases of 10 percent or more now receive. Figure 1 Percentage of Individual Market Rate Filings with Rate Change Requests of 10 Percent or More For Selected States, 2009-2013 80.0% 70.0% 60.0% 50.0% 40.0% 30.0% 20.0% 10.0% 0.0% 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Source: Data from 9 states with 213 filings in 2009, 11 states with 238 filings in 2010, 15 states with 307 filings in 2011, 15 states with 283 filings in 2012, and 10 states with 77 filings in 2013. The 2013 results are incomplete for the 10 states that are included. Although results for 2013 are still preliminary, the available data suggest that the slowdown in rate increases seen from 2010 to 2012 has continued into 2013. The proportion of policies with rate increases of 10 percent or more is much lower, 14 percent in 2013, than in any previous year 5 Similarly, the proportion of policyholders enrolled in policies in which the requested rate increase was 10 percent or more decreased from 69 percent in 2010 to 37 percent in 2012. ASPE Office of Health Policy February 22, 2013 ASPE Research Brief Page 4 (see Figure 1). 6 Further, the average increase for policies in 2013 in the data available to date was slightly below the level in 2012 (7.9 percent for 2013 compared to 8.1 percent in 2012), providing no indication of an acceleration in the rate of growth of 2013 premiums, although these results are based on incomplete data. In the individual market in 2012 the average rate increase implemented in the analytic sample was 8.1 percent, 30 percent (or 3.5 percentage points) lower than the 11.6 percent average in 2010. By contrast, rate increases in the group market have been relatively stable from 2009 to 2011 (data from the 2012 MEPS-IC is not yet available). 7 These results are consistent with the hypothesis that, on net, the Affordable Care Act contributed to a decrease in the rate of premium growth in the individual market. Discussion In addition to slowing the rate of premium growth in the individual market, the Affordable Care Act has increased the availability and accessibility of information about health insurance rate changes. The Affordable Care Act established the Rate Review Grants Program, awarding states $250 million over five years to strengthen and improve their rate review processes, monitor rate increases, and make health insurance rates understandable for consumers. 8 Of the 44 states receiving rate grants for 2010-2012, 40 states reported enhancements to their rate review websites, including searchable rate filings, new public comment options, live streaming of rate hearings, and plain language explanations of rate review and rate filings. 9 6 As described in the Appendix, 2013 results are available for 10 states and include policies with approximately 35 percent of the policyholders in the 2012 analysis. 7 Data from the MEPS-IC surveys show that the average increase in individual premiums per enrollee was 6.5 percent in 2009, 5.8 percent in 2010, and 5.7 percent in 2011. (Accessed at http://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/survey_comp/Insurance.jsp.) 8 2012 Annual rate Review Report: Rate Review Saves Estimated $1 Billion for Consumers", Department of Health and Human Services, 2012. (Accessed at http://www.healthcare.gov/news/reports/rate-review09112012a.html.) 9 "Rate Review Grants". Department of Health and Human Services. (Accessed at http://cciio.cms.gov/archive/grants/rate-review-grants-map.html.) ASPE Office of Health Policy February 22, 2013 ASPE Research Brief Page 5 Appendix This issue brief analyzes health insurance premium rate increases for comprehensive major medical policies and HMOs in the individual market. States were included in the analysis if data were available on rate change requests, rate changes implemented, and the number of policyholders or members affected by the rate change for at least 2 full years. Requests that were submitted for new state or federal coverage mandates were not included. Most of the data were collected from state insurance websites. Data from Minnesota, New Jersey, and Washington State were obtained directly from state officials for 2009 to 2011. The analysis includes data from 9 states in 2009, 11 states in 2010, 15 states in 2011 and 2012, and 10 states in 2013 (see Table A-1). A number of states have data available from 2012 on but not complete data for earlier years so trends over time could not be analyzed. Most of these states are prior approval states for the individual market except California, New Jersey, and Wisconsin, which are file and use states. Most states now use the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' (NAIC) System of Electronic Rate and Form Filing (SERFF). The disposition page on SERFF has the implementation date, insurance company name, overall percentage rate impact (requested), the number of policyholders affected, and the overall percentage rate change approved. The overall percentage rate approved is the statewide average percentage change approved to the current rates for the benefit plans included in the rate filing. The rate filing may include different rate changes by age category, geographic area, and/or benefit coverage (deductibles, cost-sharing, and specific benefits such as prescription drugs). Results regarding average premium increases are a weighted average, where the weights are proportional to the number of policyholders covered by each rate filing. Although insurers were instructed to provide information on the number of policyholders, some insurers submitted information on the number of members, which includes dependents. We used a number of methods to identify instances where members were substituted for policyholders, and to correct the data to get a consistent count of policyholders. The insurers may not have labeled the number of members correctly on the disposition page, but we were able to ascertain from other parts of the rate filing whether the number was for members or policyholders. Some state insurance websites did not post actual rate filings but summarized the data which may include the number of policyholders or the number of members. We used information on the ratio of policyholders to members to convert estimates of the number of members to the number of policyholders. Information on the number of policyholders and members is provided for most rate filings in four states. The number of members per policyholder was 1.44 for California major medical policies, 1.51 for California HMOs, 1.66 for Minnesota, 1.55 for Rhode Island, and 1.61 for Washington State, for an average of 1.48 overall (or 0.67 policyholders for each member) across these states. Where it was necessary to estimate the number of policyholders, the state-specific factor was used (for some California major medical policies, some California HMOs, some Minnesota policies, and some Washington State rate filings) . The overall factor of 0.67 was used to estimate the number of policyholders for Delaware, New Jersey, and Oregon. The state insurance websites are shown in Table A-2. ASPE Office of Health Policy February 22, 2013 ASPE Research Brief Page 6 Table A-1 Number of Policyholders and Rate Filings Included in the Analysis State 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Policyholders Policyholders Policyholders Policyholders Policyholders AR 61,594 52,894 46,654 38,357 41,162 1 CA no data no data 879,031 1,056,924 166,485 CT no data no data 76,600 60,371 34,783 DE no data no data 7,935 1,481 no data FL 402,708 366,011 379,540 397,064 no data IN no data no data 162,967 130,214 172,275 ME 11,028 17,259 17,387 9,615 no data MN no data 150,097 147,679 154,543 102,244 NC 145,465 225,038 246,685 264,120 238,635 1 NJ 74,624 78,973 83,871 72,668 no data OR 130,995 119,808 139,568 112,140 21,341 PA no data 118,288 125,175 183,664 93,411 RI 9,100 9,425 9,425 9,808 no data WA 178,711 184,371 176,863 172,477 71,403 1 WI 105,843 124,541 88,683 51,486 5,020 Total 1,120,068 1,446,704 2,588,062 2,714,932 946,759 State 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Filings Filings Filings Filings Filings AR 19 19 10 8 5 1 CA no data no data 23 25 4 CT no data no data 12 15 7 DE no data no data 6 5 no data FL 68 52 58 48 no data IN no data no data 42 23 10 ME 5 8 4 5 no data MN no data 11 9 15 5 NC 21 20 9 18 4 1 NJ 17 21 17 11 no data OR 33 25 30 26 6 PA no data 21 27 40 25 RI 1 1 1 1 no data ASPE Office of Health Policy February 22, 2013 ASPE Research Brief Page 7 WA 14 14 13 9 3 WI1 35 46 46 34 8 Total 213 238 307 283 77 1 States without prior approval authority Source: State insurance websites except directly from MN, NJ, and Washington State for 2009-2011 Table A-2 State Insurance Websites with Rate Change Information State Summary of Rate Changes or Rate Filings AR http://www.insurance.arkansas.gov/LH/FlgShpage/Filings.htm CA http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0250-insurers/HlthRateFilings/index.cfm http://wpso.dmhc.ca.gov/RateReview/ CT www.catalog.state.ct.us/cid/portalApps/RateFilingDefault.aspx DE http://www.delawareinsurance.gov/departments/rates/MedWebRate2011_2012.pdf http://delawareinsurance.gov/departments/rates/ratefilings.shtml FL http://www.floir.com/Office/DataReports.aspx http://www.floir.com/edms/ IN http://www.in.gov/idoi/files/SerffReportIDOI113010_(4).pdf http://www.in.gov/idoi/ratewatch/ ME http://www.maine.gov/pfr/insurance/PPACA/HFAI.htm# http://mn.gov/commerce/insurance/topics/medical/Access-Filing/access-filings- MN overview.jsp# NC http://infoportal.ncdoi.net/filelookup.jsp?divtype=3 NJ http://www.state.nj.us/dobi/lifehealthactuarial/rateinfo/ratefilings_ihc.html http://www.oregoninsurance.org/insurer/rates_forms/health_rate_filings/health-rate- OR filing-search.html PA http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/industry_activity/9276 ASPE Office of Health Policy February 22, 2013 ASPE Research Brief Page 8 RI http://www.ohic.ri.gov/Insurers_RegulatoryActions.php WA https://fortress.wa.gov/oic/onlinefilingsearch/ WI https://ociaccess.oci.wi.gov/Companyfilings/jsp/rfsearch.oci ASPE Office of Health Policy February 22, 2013
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The majority of you must already know. I knew yesterday. Kodak stopped making paper. I don't understand why they maintain chemicals and film in production (without paper). Perhaps they stopped making them too and I don't know.
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The majority of you must already know. I knew yesterday. Kodak stopped making paper. I don't understand why they maintain chemicals and film in production (without paper). Perhaps they stopped making them too and I don't know.
Kodak announced that they were discontinuing paper and stated at that time that they were not discontinuing film and chemistry. They also didn't state that they were committed to making film and chemistry, so who knows how long that will last. Their market position in both film and chemistru seems to be stronger than paper, so hopefully they will continue to manufacture them.
For Kodak, making film is the cash source to develop digital.
Digital is not profitable for anybody, yet its considered the future. Everybody is fighting to be the last guy standing. Canon ? Kodak ? There will be only one winner.
SO film ( and chems ) will contiune. The film plant is new, efficient, and profitable.
It's likely the paper situation was not.
We all face the same problems. I KNOW I could have a big income from doing some types of photography. But the overhead would be so great, the profit would be tenuous. SO, I opt out of that market. For Kodak, why not abandon the b&w paper market, and put their eggs someplace else ? They had long ago focussed their attention of commercial products rather than 'fine art'.
Making D-76 is easy, so it's VERY profitable.
It's difficult to fathom quite where Kodak are heading. In the UK & probably elsewhere they are dropping their professional digital SLR's. They have just announced the introduction of 2 "bridge" digital cameras but already the Technical Editor of "Amateur Photographer" magazine has criticised them for the very restricted ISO range (50 to 200). Unfortunately for Kodak they may be throwing everything they've got into the digital arena but they have very much slipped into the second rank of players.
Perhaps the handbasket they're riding in is a clue...Quote:
Originally Posted by Brac
'Bout time. It was the Ektra all over again--build a camera that is in many ways a world beater, but with a couple of horrible flaws, refuse to fix it, wonder briefly why it loses money, and go back to what they're good at, spewing consumer crap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brac
They've acknowledged their incompetence in the high-end digital world. They're king of the hill in a market segment--low-end consumer digital--that Sony has admitted they believe will go extinct due to better cell cams. And they're throwing the shrinking--but profitable--traditional photography business away, one line at a time. Ten years out, Kodak's about as screwed as a diabetic hummingbird.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brac
And they're trashing stuff that actually has a future in a digital world--things like Tech Pan that'll clobber digital as soundly ten years from now as it does today, B&W Lightjet paper they could make a killing on if they spent a little time promoting the superiority of real silver prints. Instead they keep junk like Portra 800, something with zero future in a digital world.
They don't even have the decency to sell off the facilities and formula to a niche player who could make a good business off the sales still possible in tomorrow's limited but not lost analog market. All that wonderful Rochester R&D lost forever to leave us relying on what, 50's Efke technology? Yuck.
Very well put, Roger!
Does anyone know if Kodak just discontinued B&W paper or did they include color as well?Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul Sorensen
I haven't seen anything on this, but suspect that they still sell a lot of color paper to labs, including a lot of minilabs. I'd be surprized if color paper were discontinued.Quote:
Originally Posted by esanford
I was told that in the digital age, B&W film sales have remain strong (probably for the same reason B&W fans didn't buy Colour film and desaturate it) Even thought some B&W photographers have gone digital mainly because its convieniant.
Trouble is that Poeple will shoot B&W and then scan it. Infact acording to AP the sale of B&W developer is increasing?
Ah, this would be the same AP that said that both Ilford and Kodak had sold more B&W film the previous year in the UK than any time before. Six months or so later Ilford went bust quoting a 25% downturn in the previous year... IIRC, Kodak have since reported similar film sales drops (not sure if they included colour).
I was surprised because I had assumed B&W sales would not be hit anything like as much as colour (wrong again; remind me never to take up betting on the horses)...
Silverprint have quotes from the new Ilford management in their news section (http://www.silverprint.co.uk/News05.htm). They say decline is now around 15-20% and they hope it will stabilize to 5-7% (one would have hoped that they would have hoped that it would stop declining completely at some point!)
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