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Lauridsen's musical career has sprouted proportionately over that half century. Now the dean of American choral composers, his works are performed by choirs all over the world. He received the 2007 National Medal of Arts at the White House, and his works have appeared on more than 100 CDs. This weekend, he returns to his hometown for two concerts of his music with Portland State University's choirs and symphony.
Although he's lived in Southern California since the '60s, in a sense Lauridsen has never left the Northwest. One set of ancestors helped settle Bainbridge Island, while another pioneered eastern Washington, where he was born in 1943. Lauridsen graduated in the first class at Sunset High ('61), played in the band and sang in choirs, and considers himself a native Portlander. Each summer, he escapes L.A. sprawl to return to a primitive cabin he built in 1975 on Waldron Island, Wash. There, by light from kerosene lanterns, he completed some of the most beautiful choral music of the last century on a battered $50 piano.
"The Northwest has drawn out of me some of my finest music," Lauridsen says. "You can hear that its serenity, calmness and beauty have crept into my music."
He's returned often to lecture at local universities, hear and participate in performances of his music. The first of 11 all-Lauridsen CDs was recorded by Portland's Choral Cross-Ties, who premiered his major cycle Les Chansons des Roses, inspired by the City of Roses. Another recent CD is titled Northwest Journey.
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Both weekend concerts, with Lauridsen and other pianists accompanying the PSU orchestra and choirs, feature his enduring O Magnum Mysterium and Sure on This Shining Night. Friday's program includes selections from several of Lauridsen's classic choral cycles, plus his abstract Lorca settings, Cuatro Canciones. Sunday's show, which adds three church choirs and soloists including Paul Sperry and the Oregon Guitar Quartet, features his luminous Lux Aeterna, A Winter Come for voice and piano, and both the solo and quartet versions of "Dirait-On," the enchanting lullaby from the Rose songs. It's a wide-ranging tribute to and homecoming for one of the Northwest's finest composers.
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I would really like to go on a mountain escape at the moment. A small cabin somewhere remote, where I can relax for a while (as much as any mum can relax).
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1. The Introvert's Bill of Rights
Seven links later, I came across the Introvert's Bill of Rights on the Shrinking Violet Promotions blog. If you're an introvert like me, then you'll get this (and I hope find some amusement from it). I came across the Bill of Rights from the Sister Wisdom blog (don't ask me how I landed there) in a post regarding stealing solitude when you're a parent. Here's a great definition of an introvert:
"I am an introvert. By that, I don't mean that I find conversations painful, I hate parties, or I dislike people – all common myths about introverts. For the most part I like conversations, I adore parties, and I find people, if not always likeable, at least amusing. So there. However, people drain the energy right out o' me." Sister Wisdom
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"An Athenian statesman once attended a dinner party put on by Plato. When he met his host again, he is reported to have said 'Plato, your dinners are enjoyable not only when one is eating them, but on the morning after as well.'"
In other words, a good meal doesn't leave you feeling full (and full of regret) the next day.
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BEIJING: Lenovo, the Chinese electronics group, is emphasising innovation, brand building and bucking the trend towards outsourcing as it seeks to achieve differentiation in the marketplace.
The firm rolled out the K91 Smart TV in China this year, and will launch a smartphone and the IdeaPad Yoga, a thinline laptop with a keyboard that folds away so it acts like a tablet, later in 2012.
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Enhancing its credentials in this area will form part of a much broader effort to boost Lenovo's status among consumers. "To have higher market share, you need to have a brand," said Yang.
In demonstrating the perceived scale of this challenge, David Roman, Lenovo's chief marketing officer, revealed that the firm considered not featuring its name prominently on its ThinkPad laptops in case it would "actually be damaging".
"We had very emotional discussions in the beginning ... [about] actually having 'Lenovo' on the front of the ThinkPad," he said. "When I came in I said, 'Over my dead body do you put our best product out without our company logo on the front.'"
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Lenovo also became the fourth-largest player in the tablet sector last year, on 2.8% of shipments, having been in eighth position some 12 months earlier. Apple was dominant on 63%.
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Hi! I have been working on some XML schemas to represent projections of object extents, and been looking into using identity constraints to model foreign keys/object references. Having a good programmer model for these seems to be a pretty basic construct in the binding model: I was encouraged to see that identity constraint support is a goal for JAXB2 and hence JAXRPC2. I was wondering if there has been any thought devoted to definining accessors/mutators for these references.
So for example if I have an XML schema for the following XML:
and I said in the XML schema that the @identity attributes were the keys and the @assignedto attribute was constrained to the set of project identity values through a keyref constraint called "resourceProject", it would be very very nice to my mind if the object generated for a resource had a mutable property "resourceProject" typed to the binding for projects.
This would help me make a fairly generic data access web service that could provide a reasonably idiomatic programmer model for accessing the result sets. Since I build prepackaged applications rather than a custom web service for a single set of use cases its hard for me to design services for all the possible programmer needs for our system, which is what is driving me to think in these general terms.
I didn't see any specific verbage in the JAXB2.0 early draft release that gave me any insight into how this might be handled.
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You are right that the current draft of JAXB 2.0 spec doesn't have any concrete description of how an identity constraint affects the data structure of the generated code.
The problem (for us) is that the identity constraints are so out-of-place with other schema definitions, and therefore it is somewhat difficult to make a meaningful/reliable inference about them.
Another goal of the JAXB 2.0 spec is to support the application-defined behaviors on top of the generated classes. Another way to achieve what you want is to use this and add those "look-up" as a behavior. Again the details aren't really decided yet, but in theory that should be also fairly simple.
Hmm. I'm not sure in what sense these are "out-of-place" with respect to other parts of XML schema. To my mind they close a critical lacuna in the coverage of the specification. Not having identity constraints is like UML with composite but not shared aggregation, or SQL without referential integrity. Our data model has literally hundreds of these relationships. As a packaged software vendor we can't design a custom service for each use case, so we have to approach the problem of providing an API from a more generic point of view. Having a general way to flatten data and modelling relations between items in different extents seems vital to us.
At the risk of drawing an invidious comparison, I observe that .NET generates a property on the source of such a relationship that traverses this identity constraint in their proxies (a "DataSet"). Cf.
REM projections is the outer scope that holds all the projections
Dim ps As projections
ps = New projections()
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REM traverse the timesheet table
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This was derived from a model where a keyref was defined from timesheet to project, each of which have a key column. This seems very handy.
Identity constraints are out of place from the rest of the constraints, because for example the XPath isn't guaranteed to point to any particular element/attribute declaration. This means that without a heuristics, a compiler like XJC cannot generally determine what elements/attributes keys are pointing to, and so on. Also, keys can consist from multiple fields, which further complicates the binding. James Clark explains this more eloquently in http://www.idealliance.org/papers/xml2001papers/tm/web/05-01-03/relaxng.htm
This is very different from SQL, where it has a very solid and well-established mathmatics behind its model.
The point about .NET and DataSet is well taken, but I'm sure it also cannot handle identity constraints in more general cases.
I'd imagine that this kind of heuristics is difficult to specify. Perhaps we could consider a support as an RI extension to some simplistic cases like this.
Thanks for the info, that clarifies things. Indeed, I had observed that the MS support relies on the schema being laid out just so, as well as I see some additional element tagging in an MS specific namespace to annotate the set of extents as a "DataSet". As it happens this format is the one I had already been angling towards as being fairly natural for mapping a set of relational extents into XML as a set of SQL3ish tables (owned object graphs are inlined rather than broken into side tables). Another example of "embrace and extend" I guess, but perhaps illuminating from the point of view that MS has always had a good handle on the idea of tooling for applications over "rectangular" data, whether its from a relational DB or not. One might imagine building a JDBC XML rowset or J2EE Connector over this kind of XML file so consumers of the web service can use their data bound control experience to visually develop their applications. This is generally the kind of programmer I have in mind with my service...something like what I had chatted to some of the Rave group when I was at Sun :-)


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Surrounded by former slums, Piyalepaşa, Bomonti and Dolapdere could become one of the most attractive centers in Istanbul, drawing the attention of domestic and foreign investment groups.
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The new face of Hacıhüsrev
Hacıhüsrev, a famous Roman settlement, is going to change its face. Hacıhüsrev, a district in Beyoğlu, derives its name from Hacıhüsrev Street. The area is between Hacı Ahmet Bostane Street and Piyalepaşa Avenue. The district of Hacıhüsrev's name was changed to Istiklal with the demand of citizens in 1991.
According to a rumor, the Hacıhüsrev name originates from the figure, Hacıhüsrev, who is said to be the architect of the historic story of transferring ships on top of greased logs to Haliç via land during the conquest of Istanbul. If such a rumor is true, than this district traces back to the Ottoman times.
The mansions of captains and civil servants who offered services at Kasımpaşa shipyard were also located in Hacıhüsrev since it is more spacious than other areas. Most of the mansions and waterside residences did not survive after the 1940s. The gardens and grasslands, covering up the foothills of Hacıhüsrev, were favorable recreation spots.
Shack building started in the 1950s and continues today. The density of shanty houses in Hacıhüsrev is lower than other shantytowns, but it is known for its high crime rate. It was said that the security problems will be solved with the modernization of Hacıhüsrev. Now new, luxurious residences in Piyalepaşa are drawing attention to Hacıhüsrev.
Increase in land values
In Bomonti and Kurtuluş, construction firms are building new residences. Anthill Residences is one of the lowest-priced residence projects in Istanbul. In virtue of this project, the land values on Piyalepaşa Avenue will also rise. A skyscraper group is going to build on Piyalepaşa Avenue, just like in Gayrettepe and Esentepe. Even now, residence projects' construction can be seen. Memorial MiddleIst, Cevahir Otel and Perpa plan to construct giant, attention-drawing towers. The construction firms are hunting for slum houses whose land value will sky-rocket as a result of the residence projects. The Elysium Residence, Ofton İnşaat's project, takes the lead in change. Ofton İnşaat's investments attracted the attention of investors and construction firms to Piyalepaşa, Bomonti and Kurtuluş.


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Play It Safe: It's the Game of Life
Caitlin Lundberg & Ivan Marte - Peer Educators
New Jersey City University
Columbine. Virginia Tech. Two horrific school shootings that left 45 innocent people dead. These nightmares will soon be revisited by the release of the upcoming "School Shooter: North American Tour 2012", a modification that will be available to download for the popular game "Half Life 2." This "mod" has many people in an uproar.
The objective of the game is to kill as many students, teachers and faculty as possible within a certain time frame, emulating past "martyrs" such as Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold and Seung-Hui Cho. Weapons used include sawed-off shotguns and pistols. When the time elapses, the killer (which is you) has to commit suicide. The creator is known only as Pawnstick, his online alias and takes great lengths to be anonymous. When asked about how he would feel if his game inspired a real life school shooting, he responded:
"Individuals who go through with any sort of killing spree generally do so because they are inclined to resort to violence, or because they have been bottling up their frustrations for extended periods of time. The idea that our mod would be solely responsible for an otherwise sane individual becoming suddenly insane is ... Well, insane in its own right!"
There have been many studies on both sides of the argument. While there has not been conclusive evidence that provides a link between violent games and violent behavior, killers like Cho have listed video games as their inspiration. While the video games themselves are not to blame, the content promotes violent behavior.
Violent video games cannot be banned since they are covered by the First Amendment. However, there are steps we can take to prevent unsafe behaviors that are exemplified in these games. Our main weapon is education. As peer educators, we can conduct workshops and presentations on the causes and effects of unsafe behavior. We can distribute information on healthy ways to relieve stress and aggression. If necessary, we can refer individuals to counseling services located on school campuses.
Video games such as this one will unfortunately always be readily available to the masses, and while we can petition to stop these games from being released, the best preventative measure we can take is through knowledge and awareness. As peer educators, we need to be equipped with the information to make our campuses as safe as possible.
Ways You Can Make A Difference
J Mintzmyer, one of our Student Trustees, has researched ways for us to take a stand against this game and its potentially harmful effects. He advises that we:
"Send a formal letter to Valve Corporation (the owner of Half Life) and demand that they refuse to support this mod. This will keep it off of their Stream distribution system (similar to Android or iPhone marketplace, but for PC games), and restrict downloads to those who search for it on the internet."
Let's take a stand together!
Insight into Peer Education from 2011 Outstanding Student
Hellen Konyango - Outstanding Student 2011
College of New Rochelle
Wellness Coaches at the College of New Rochelle (CNR) are highly motivated students who are interested in learning how to educate and empower others to make positive lifestyle choices. All Wellness Coaches receive training on evidence-based approaches and participate in the BACCHUS training program for national certification as a peer health educator.
It was a challenge to start the Wellness Coach program and it taught me about program planning. I helped launch our "Healthy Monday on Campus" program that has been successful in raising awareness on campus. The Wellness Coaches also started an annual "Fitness for Life Day" held each fall as part of the American College of Sports Medicine national "Exercise is Medicine (EIM) on Campus" program. Last spring we also held a bike rally so that students who had never learned to ride a bike got a chance to try. We also have learned to advocate for wellness and health policy issues that impact our community. We attended a conference on "NYS Tobacco-Free Colleges" to learn about initiatives for healthier campus environments, and we conducted a survey on this topic at our campus.
It is by working with my fellow Wellness Coaches and our advisor that I have had the opportunity to serve as a role model and to lead by mentoring some of the new student Wellness Coaches. This experience has taught me the importance of taking responsibility, developed my communication skills and taught me how to work collaboratively. I have made presentations to students; I have prepared and given a presentation with my team at the national BACCHUS conference, and I have spoken to high school students in our community. These experiences taught me to be informed and organized, and gave me much more confidence. One of the best parts of being a Wellness Coach is the relationships I have made with my fellow Coaches.
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Tanya Morgan - Outstanding Advisor 2011
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Key Choices is Keystone College's one-year-old certified peer education group of have 19 certified peer educators. My executive board (6 group members) really inspires and motivates me as much as I motivate them. This group of students is the reason why Key Choices is doing as well as it is doing. The board has a lot of spirit which they use to educate other students. I won the Area 11 Outstanding Advisor Award because they make me look good every day!
As one of the College Counselors on campus, my job can be extremely hectic and stressful. My role as advisor is a wonderful way for the students and I to work together to creatively empower others. It gives me the opportunity to meet with students that I might not otherwise meet.
The Area 11 Conference was a great way for my students to meet and mingle with other Area 11 students. They all came home from the conference with a wonderful sense of accomplishment, great ideas and many new friends to help share ideas and projects.
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Darkness Within is a series of adventure games inspired by famous horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. In "The Dark Lineage", the second installment of the Darkness Within series, players again take the role of police detective Howard Loreid, who suffered from the paranormal happenings around him in the first volume "In Pursuit of Loath Nolder". Now, Howard discovers that his own horrible past is connected with the madness that is about to swallow him. This second volume will see the Darkness Within saga come to its unsettling conclusion.
The Dark Lineage will take you to places where the "things" of the past still live, and all the memories that should be long-forgotten are still remembered; including a drowsy, depressing town called Arkhamend, a Victorian mansion that conceals some horrible secrets, a dilapidated building inside forbidding, snow-clad woods and dim underground buildings and tunnels. The Dark Lineage is even more frightening and stronger than the previous installment so prepare yourself for the descending darkness, this time will be your last...
A new and more advanced game engine: With the new and more advanced version of the original game engine of Darkness Within, you can move anywhere you want, light up your way with light sources that cast real-time soft shadows and realistically lift up, push, pull or throw objects with the power of NVIDIA® PhysX™ engine.
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A good Lovecraftian horrorXibalba | Dec. 21, 2012 | See all Xibalba's reviews »
Impressive engine upgrade over the original first; moody soundtrack and good use of ambient sound,rarely utilises its new physical freedom being inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft storyline is intriguing and the puzzles are logical as well as challenging
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the first game was much way better.The developers want to give an ending (a true one) to the first game,but the story of this one is not so good.There are multiple endings,by the way,but you can chhose them in the final segment of the game.The gameplay is similar to Amnesia one,you will move around 3D rooms,collecting stuff etc (in the first game there where static screens).Nice game,but nothing more.
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Helper's Jacob Flemett (#35) breaks away from a tackle attempt during the 50-14 win over Mont Harmon at the Carbon High Football Field on Oct. 10.
Teamwork can lead to good things. That's what Helper Junior High's head football coach Phil Howa tells his players each and every year.
For the 2013 season, Howa has proven to be quite prophetic with his philosophy.
Helper completed a perfect 6-0 season with a 50-14 win over rival Mont Harmon Junior High on Thursday, Oct. 10 to secure the Castle Valley Activities Association football championship.
"It was a total team effort all season long to get to this point," said Howa. "Our kids just continued to get better and better as the season went along."
Helper took a 30-0 lead into halftime against their rivals on cold and rainy afternoon at Carbon High. With a lot of the younger players getting a chance to play in the rivalry game, Howa said they stepped up and played well in the game.
"It was really exciting to see a lot of our younger players get a lot of playing time and they showed a strong effort in their time on the field," said Howa.
Before the season began, Helper dealt with a unique situation. Due to the construction on the roads near the school, playing home games was not an option. That left the Rams having to play every game away from home, which was a bit of a hurdle to overcome.
"The kids whined and complained about not being able to play at home," Howa said with a laugh. "We worked on putting that aside and focused on playing well." Howa said Mont Harmon stepped in and allowed Helper to use the field as their "home" for the season.
"That (playing away from home) will probably never happen again but we just worked on trying to not make it a big deal," said Howa.
With 19 ninth graders on the team, Helper was not lacking leadership and experience on both sides of the ball. Howa credits that leadership with helping the team overcoming a possible turning point during a game against San Rafael on Sept. 18. Down at halftime, Helper orchestrated a second half comeback to win the game 36-16.
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Hang the Rapist? ~ Psalm Isadora
When anger over the brutal Delhi mass rape erupted in India, protesters marched in the streets, demanding the rapists be hung.
Is this the answer?
This is in the country where Mahatma Gandhi tried to advocate non-violent resistance. "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind," he once said.
Violence breeds violence; we need to heal the underlying issues that lead to rape and incest with education. We need to break the silence about how widespread sexual abuse is so that society is forced to open its eyes to the truth and begin to heal and make changes. This issue is not just in India, though the whole world is now watching this case under a magnifying glass.
Most societies turn a blind eye to the shadow of sexuality. When an incident of rape or incest is forced into the public eye, society responds explosively by demanding "justice" for the victim and violent punishment for the perpetrator. This cycle is not new and has not brought lasting change because it denies the underlying root issue of a lack of education.
I read a statistic that one in three women experience sexual violence or abuse. That is a staggering number, but I think it is still less than the actual number. From years of teaching yoga and spiritual programs where people come to heal, I would say two out of three women have experienced sexual violence or abuse. I think the same is true of men, but they have an even greater taboo against speaking out about it since it damages the macho masculine ideal we have created. It is difficult enough for a woman to be vulnerable and break the silence—to speak about her sexual abuse, but it is much more difficult for men.
Religious Sexual Hypocrisy
It is ironic in a country like India, where female goddesses are worshipped in the temples and in people's homes that women are treated as second class citizens. This gender double-standard affects women of all socio-economic classes.
One of my Indian girl friends, who now drives a Porsche, told me she had gotten urinary tract infections growing up because the women in her house were taught they could only use the bathroom early in the morning and late at night after the men had gone to sleep, so the men would not be "offended" by her bodily functions.
Holy men walk naked through the streets or with small cloths covering their genitalia while women are wrapped in the long fabric of the sari.
Why is the man's body holy when it is naked, but the woman's body is not?
The shaming of female sexuality and genitalia is pervasive among all classes. Men are allowed to be sexually promiscuous, while a woman may ruin her reputation for a lifetime if she dates, has sex or lives with a man out of wedlock.
Sex is one of the biggest taboos in India. It is still one of the biggest religious taboos everywhere in the world. Wherever religions create sexual taboo, there is the hypocrisy of abuse.
Why have religions created so much taboo against sexuality when it has been shown again and again throughout history to be a breeding ground for rape, incest and molestation? Isn't it time to open our eyes and acknowledge that we need to change the root of the problem and improve education?
For Our Own Protection
I grew up religious and was taught that if I dressed in a way that showed my body or was sexually provocative and then a man attacked or abused me, it was because I "asked for it."
I cannot think of one country or religion where men are forced to cover their bodies so that they will not cause women to sin or sexually attack them.
Denial of Sexual Abuse
Things are starting to change in India.
I was at a friend's house watching TV and they had a woman on the news who was telling a terrible story. She said her daughter had been molested by her own father and when the mother brought him to court the judge said, "It is not possible for a father to do such a thing." He then asked the husband what punishment he would want for his lying wife.
Aside from how horrible this kind of suppression is, it was astounding to me that they still talked openly about it on television. Sex has been a taboo in India for a very long time. Now, because of the Delhi rape case, stories like this are exploding and coming to public light.
"There is no stopping the truth now," my friend Vinay said. "Students in Delhi are finally protesting and they are not stopping. The politicians are being forced to have answers. The students are bringing new life to the country."
Sexual Education and Healthy Attitudes
What if we actually educated children about sex instead of hiding it from them?
I would like this to be more than just how to put a condom on, but an understanding that sexuality is natural and can be approached in healthy ways.
My parents were Christian conservatives who pulled me out of public school the week they had sex ed. At the same time, I lived with a background of sexual abuse. I was too ashamed to speak openly and seek help.
Denying our sexuality does not yield the results we want; it creates a cycle of sexual abuse.
We are the generation who can break the chain of repression and abuse for our children.
The long term answer to this problem is not going to be hanging the rapist.
It begins by breaking the silence around abuse so we can heal the root causes. The more people who stand up and speak, the more we can bring light where there has been shadow.
In the past, people have been afraid to speak up because they have been labeled and stigmatized for the rest of their lives. The only way to change this is to shift the perception that only a few have experienced this sexual violence and abuse. It takes a lot of courage, but we can support each other; we are not alone.
On March 16th, Courage to Rise is having a National Day of Action:
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I promise you can be more powerful! Stop Sexual Violence and Abuse 2013!
Psalm Isadora is an internationally known instructor in tantra and yoga, lecturing and teaching workshops across the United States and India. She grew up on a born-again hippie commune in Northern California. She was initiated and asked to teach Tantra by her guru, Sri Amritananda. Her classes and talks blend yogic philosophy, tantric goddess worship, and Sufi and Christian mysticism with a good sense of humor. Committed to service as a path to spiritual awakening, she has started a non-profit for women's empowerment, Courage to Rise.
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Great article Psalm! Your perspective as a compassionate Yogini who knows the Indian culture is so critical for this issue. Please keep the Elephant articles coming!
Thank you so much for this article Psalm! I feel like you took the words out of my mouth. I just got back from a long trip in India and as a woman I wish there was more yoga teachers talking about what it is like to be a woman, to be a woman in India, to be a woman doing yoga. And, please, come on humanity, stop being so ignorante about sex and grow up!
Piercing. Poignant. Compassionate wisdom. This broke my heart open. Thank you.


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No, The VA Isn't A Preview Of Obamacare -- It's Much Worse
May 23, 2014
Avik Roy
There's been a lot of talk in the conservative commentariat about how the emerging scandal at the Veterans Health Administration is a preview of what is to come under Obamacare. If the government can't even make such a system work for our vets, what makes anyone think it will work for the rest of us? asks the New York Post. But the VAour own, homegrown experiment in 200-proof socialized medicineis even worse than Obamacare. The scandal is that the VA's fundamental flaws have been perpetuated not only by politicians, but also by leaders of veterans' groups. There is a way to fix the VA and do right by our vets. But to understand the solution, we have to first understand the problem.
Manipulating VA wait lists for financial gain
The growing outrage over accounts of veterans dying due to neglect and dishonesty is wholly justified. Dozens of peopleand possibly hundredsdied waiting for treatment they never received. Just in the last few weeks, here's what we've learned:
(1) Administrators at the Phoenix VA kept a secret, separate waiting list for treating veterans, in order to pretend that they were meeting the VA's timeliness targets, one that they later tried to cover up;
(2) VA employees in Fort Collins, Colorado cooked the books to hide long wait times;
(3) A scheduling clerk alleged that at VA hospitals in Austin and San Antonio, workers were verbally directed by lead clerks, supervisors, and during training to list official wait times as close to zero days as possible;
(4) CBS unearthed an email at the Cheyenne, Wyoming VA with instructions on gaming the system in order to keep the front office [from getting] very upset;
(5) The Durham, North Carolina VA put two employees on administrative leave due to inappropriate scheduling practices;
(6) The chief of psychiatry at the St. Louis VA alleged he was demoted and harassed for trying to increase the number of mental-health patients treated by the department; and
(7) A Chicago VA social worker alleged that employee bonuses were tied to manipulating wait time data.
All in all, the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Veterans Affairs plans to investigate 26 VA facilities for massaging wait-list records and delaying needed care.
The usual people in Washington are calling for heads to roll and the like. And, certainly, many heads should roll. But with a problem this widespread and this systemic, it would amount to criminal neglect to fire a few people and then walk away to deal with something else.
We have to understand how we got to this point in the first place. To do that, we need to review the history and structure of the VA health system.
The VA system predates modern American health care
The United States has been providing veterans' health care services for a long time. In 1827, architect William Strickland was tasked by the U.S. Navy with making the necessary contacts for materials and superintend the building of a permanent asylum for disabled seamen, &c, at Philadephia. What became known as old soldiers' homes proliferated after the Civil War, to care for disabled and elderly veterans, and the widows and orphans of those who died in war.
In 1921, Congress consolidated three federal agenciesthe Bureau of War Risk Insurance, the Public Health Service, and the Federal Board of Vocational Educationinto a new entity called the Veterans' Bureau. Another consolidation took place in 1930, under Herbert Hoover, creating the Veterans Administration.
The modern VA arose in the wake of World War II. The combination of 4 million elderly veterans from World War I, and 15 million returning soldiers from World War II, required a vast expansion of veterans' health care.
In those days, very few people had health insurance, and the big health-care entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid were 20 years away. There weren't that many hospitals around the country. So the federal government needed not only to finance the costs of health insurance for veterans, but also to build a large network of hospitals to deal with the surge in demand. In 1930, there were 54 VA hospitals; by 1947, there were 120. Today, there are 153, serving 5.7 million patients.
In 2013, the VA spent $56 billion on medical care, up from $40 billion in 2009 and $19 billion in 1998. That's small potatoes compared to the $1.3 trillion that U.S. governments spent on health care in 2013, but it's about 40 percent of the VA's budget. With over 300,000 employees, the VA is the second-largest department of the federal government.
The VA is even more government-driven than Obamacare
The most important thing to understand about the Veterans Health Adminstration is that it truly is socialized medicine. We often throw the term socialized medicine around to describe any government health care program, but the distinction is really important to understand.
Socialized medicine, properly understood, is a system in which the state owns and controls everything. The government owns the hospitals; it employs the physicians; it pays for the health insurance and the health care. That, in a nutshell, is the VA. It's also, for the most part, the system in place under the British National Health Service.
Single-payer health care, on the other hand, is only partly socialized. In a single-payer system, the government is the sole insurer, but hospitals can be widely privately owned and operated, and doctors can work for private hospitals or for themselves. Medicare and Medicaid, at the outset, were designed as single payer programs.
Subsidized private health care is the next step downward, in terms of government intervention. In countries like Switzerland, for example, there are no government insurers or public options. Instead, the Swiss government offers premium support subsidies for low-income individuals to shop for private insurance. Under this model, the government often regulates the types of insurance products that are eligible for subsidies.
Why do these distinctions matter? Because they have a huge impact on the quality of health care.
The Swiss system isn't perfect, but it is renowned for its high patient satisfaction, low wait times, and access to the latest technology.
Medicaid, on the other hand, provides poor-quality coverage, and many doctors refuse to accept it. Medicare is better off on this metric, but it's heading down the same path. On the other hand, while private hospital care in the U.S. is wildly expensive, no one disputes that its quality is generally good, and in many instances world-class.
Obamacare expands coverage in two ways: first, by creating Swiss-style exchanges where people can buy subsidized, regulated private insurance plans; and second, by expanding Medicaid. For all of the exchanges' flawsespecially their high premiumsthe quality of coverage they will offer is decent, and we should expect that uninsured people will do reasonably well on them, so long as they can afford the premiums. Medicaid is a different story; the literature shows that Medicaid does not improve health outcomes relative to being uninsured.
But the VA is an altogether different beast. The VA is not merely single-payer health care; its vast network of hospitals is also government-financed and government-operated. And that is why the VA is the worst health-care system in America.
The left's love affair with the VA
The VA hospital system has long been known for its substandard performance. Anyone who has ever worked at a VA hospital can tell you what a terrible experience it can be, I wrote in 2010:
Yale-New Haven Hospital, where I did many of my clinical rotations, is far from perfectbut heading out to the West Haven VA was like traversing the Iron Curtain. The problems facing the VA system will be familiar to anyone who has dealt with the British NHS: unsanitary conditions, leading to higher rates of hospital-borne infections; rationing of drugs and procedures, leading to poorer health outcomes; and on and on."
Under President Clinton, the VA managed to temporarily improve in some of these categories. In 1994, Clinton put Kenneth Kizer in charge of the VA health system, as Undersecretary of Veterans Affairs. Kizer modernized the VA's computer systems, fired poor-performing doctors, and established private-sector-style metrics to measure the VA's performance on things like patient wait times. Academic journals started publishing data indicating that the VA was outperforming famous hospitals like Mass General and the Mayo Clinic.
Kizer became famous in health-wonk circles, after the Washington Monthly's Philip Longman wrote an articleand later a bookextolling Kizer's success. Lefty intellectuals started regularly citing the VA as proof that socialized medicine was the way to go. The VA's success story, wrote Paul Krugman in 2011, is one of the best-kept secrets in the American policy debate
[conservative] pundits and policy makers
can't handle the cognitive dissonance.
Bacteria-infested tap water; digging out one's own feces
But Kizer left the VA in 1999. His reforms of the VA, such as they were, began to unravel. VA officials have not been as closely focused on data, results and metricsperformance measurementas they once were, said Kizer to Robert Pear of the New York Times. The culture of the VA has become rather toxic, intolerant of dissenting views and contradictory opinions. They have lost their commitment to transparency. That is to say, exactly like it was before Kizer arrived.
Between February 2011 and November 2012, as many as 21 patients at the Pittsburgh VA contracted Legionnaire's disease, a dangerous form of pneumonia, from bacteria-infested tap water. Six veterans died. The CEO of the Pittsburgh VA got a bonus. Michael Moreland, the regional director who oversaw her, received from the White House the Presidential Distinguished Rank Award, the civil service's highest honor, and an additional $62,895 bonus.
A 2013 investigation by CNBC revealed widespread problems with unsanitary conditions and poor care. In addition, CNBC found evidence that VA officials were distorting autopsies and medical records in order to make the VA's clinical performance look better than it actually was.
The sewer water comes all the way up to the door of [the] radiation therapy [room], one whistleblower told the network. We'd find bone in the instruments from the previous patient, said a VA surgeon. (Surgical instruments are supposed to be sterilized before use, to prevent risk of infectious complications.)
One VA hospital conducted a liver transplant operation in unsterile conditions after a contractor had cut power. One of the surgeons came out and said, nobody says a word about this.' But a whistleblower told the patient's family that VA staff temporarily installed dirty unsterile lights, extension cords, and portable air units into operating rooms
patient was exposed to an unexcusable amount of unsterile equipment and workers, along with temperature and humidity conditions outside the acceptable range for surgery. The patient died two months later, in part from a bacterial infection in his blood.
Another veteran was left partially paralyzed, after surgeons accidentally clamped one of his carotid arteries. (The carotid arteries supply the head and neck with blood; the patient suffered a massive stroke after his carotid was cut off.) But that wasn't the worst part. My dad spent the last six months of his life in a skilled nursing facility at the [Dallas] VA, said her daughter at a Congressional hearing. Every day his dignity was stripped away, as he defecated in a diaper then dug his own feces out because he was being neglected. After he died, an autopsy report showed that his heart and lungs were infected with E. coli.
Let vets choose where they want to go
Congress has long known about these problems. Just ask Rep. Jeff Miller (R., Fla.), Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, who has held plenty of hearings on the topic, including the one above. But nothing ever changes. Why? Because Washington gets obsessed with firing people, instead of striving for real reform.
There is only one way to truly reform the VA, to truly ensure that veterans get the care they need. And that is to give vets the ability to take the money that the government spends on them and use it to buy high-quality, private insurance.
There are two straightforward ways to go about it. One would be to give veterans subsidies with which to buy insurance from the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, the popular private health insurance program for government workers. Another would be to allow those same subsidies to be used on the Obamacare insurance exchanges. Either approach would allow veterans to seek care from private hospitals and private physicians.
While we're liberating veterans from VA hospitals, let's also let VA hospitals compete for civilian patients. All over the country, hospital monopolies are gobbling up their neighbors and driving up the price of health care. VA hospitals could help bring down costs by competing with the private monopolies, and with for-profit hospital chains like Tenet and HCA.
If VA hospitals are forced to compete with private hospitals for patient volume, they will have to become more accountable for their quality issues. If Paul Krugman is rightthat the VA model of health care is betterVA hospitals should be able to prove that by attracting civilian patients.
The VFW has blocked attempts at reform
On Veteran's Day in 2011, Mitt Romney met with a group of veterans in South Carolina. The vets shared with him their difficulty in getting treatment from VA hospitals. Observed Romney, If you're the government, they know there's nowhere else you guys can go. You're stuck. Sometimes you wonder if there would be some way to introduce some private-sector competition, somebody else that could come in and say, you know, that each soldier gets X thousand dollars attributed to them, and then they can choose whether they want to go in the government system or in a private system with the money that follows them.
For this innocuous and appropriate suggestion, Romney was pilloried by the usual suspects on the leftbut also, inexcusably, by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, whose spokesperson said, The VFW doesn't support privatization of veterans' health care. Romney, stung by the VFW's rebuke, walked back his suggestion, and Republicans have stayed silent on it ever since.
Until now. On Wednesday, Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) told Roll Call that he was working with Sens. Tom Coburn (R., Okla.) and Richard Burr (R., N.C.) on a new reform plan. Let's let our veterans choose the health care that they need and want the most and not have to be bound to just going to the VA
Why wouldn't a veteran who has served his country honorably
not be able to go to the health care provider of his or her choice?
This is a promising development. Put simply, veterans will continue to suffer until they have the option to buy private coverage and seek private care. The premium support approach will allow the government to provide maximum subsidies to those who have suffered serious injuries in combat, and provide conventional subsidies to non-combat veterans who deserve traditional health coverage.
Republicans talk nonstop about how the Affordable Care Act is socialized medicine. But the real instance of medical socialism has been right in front of them all along, at the Veterans Health Administration. If the GOP can't find the courage to enact fundamental reforms of the VA, it has no right to complain about Obamacare.
Original Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/05/23/no-the-va-isnt-a-preview-of-obamacare-its-much-worse/
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On Monday, he learned that he was out of a job, as his NASACR Craftsman Truck Series team was folding because of a lack of sponsorship. Which is pretty unusual, since he was the defending series champion. So Benson decided to do some short track racing, including a supermodified race at Berlin Speedway on Saturday near his hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Which turned not to work so well either, as THE GRAND RAPIDS PRESS says he remains hospitalized after a fiery crash during the race.
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Yikes. Benson was able to get out of the car under his own power, and is listed as being in "serious but stable condition." Benson's sister posted on his Web page earlier this morning that he was awake and alert in the hospital, but had "at least one broken rib."
Depending on your point of view, Benson is either: the racing equivalent of Schleprock from "The Pebbles and Bam-Bam Show" after losing his ride and getting into a horrific crash in the same week; or he's the luckiest racer in the world because he's alive after suffering such a frightening incident.
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