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Chapter 6 - Two Eye Openings
I CONTINUED working hard at the pickles business. In August, 1934, when my second daughter, Kyoko, was just nine months old, Mrs. Iizuka, a midwife who lived near us, called to ask if I would not join a religious organization known as Reiyu-kai. I said something to get rid of her. But she replied, "I have come to you as an emissary of the Buddha. If you do not listen to what I say, something may happen to you within the next week or ten days." Going on preparing vegetables for pickles, I thought, "What's she gabbing about?"
Mrs. Iizuka added, "Well, I hope nothing happens. But if it does, go to see Mr. Sukenobu Arai, an outstanding teacher, who lives at number twenty-four Niiyama Street." She drew a map showing me how to get there. Paying little attention, I quickly forgot what she said.
Exactly one week later, my second daughter fell ill with a very high fever and lost consciousness. Nearby lived a pediatrician from Keio University Hospital. When I consulted him, he diagnosed the infant's case as Japanese sleeping sickness and said she could be in grave trouble unless she was hospitalized at once.
But we could not afford to hospitalize her. After exhausting all other possibilities, I decided to call on Mr. Arai. I joined Reiyu-kai at once and began to offer reverence to the spirits of my ancestors. In practically no time my daughter's condition improved. To me, this was proof of the merit of Reiyu-kai. My second daughter was less bright than her older sister in primary school. But she made great strides forward in middle and high schools and graduated with good grades. She has been healthy ever since her infantile fever and shows no traces of having been seriously ill.
But the thing that impressed me about Reiyu-kai even more than this startling proof was the Lotus Sutra. Mr. Sukenobu Arai, one of the most outstanding teachers in the organization, was very learned in Chinese and Buddhist classics. He had conducted his own course of research on the Lotus Sutra. His merits were so great that he was honored even by Mrs. Kimi Kotani, then president of Reiyu-kai. Although his chapter was but a small part of Reiyu-kai, people from the entire organization came to hear Mr. Arai's lectures on the Lotus Sutra.
In my part of the country, Buddhist sects revering the Lotus Sutra were not as popular as Jodo Shu, Jodo Shinshu, and Zen. In fact, the Lotus Sutra was not held in high esteem. Naturally, because of my unfamiliarity with the great text, Mr. Arai's lectures on it overjoyed and elated me.
The rokuyo system and name interpretation were interesting but not entirely effective in relieving suffering. At best they were effective - though not always completely - in eighty-five percent of all instances. In other words, fifteen percent of the suffering people remained unaided by them. Nor had the Shugen-do system proved perfectly effective. Some people were not cured by it. Some were cured physically while their deep suffering and spiritual wounds went unattended. Furthermore, I was never convinced about spiritual powers that could not be understood by the person exerting them. In my own vague way, I constantly sought a rule that would save everyone, a rule that was not mysterious, but was convincingly based on reason and was clearly regulated and systematic.
Listening to lectures on the Lotus Sutra, I realized that I had found what I had been looking for. The Lotus Sutra was the perfect net in which to save everyone in the world. Physically and spiritually it could help both the individual and all of society. I was profoundly shaken by what I had learned. The impression made on me was of astonishing, vibrant freshness. It has remained fresh for over forty years. During that time, I have not missed reading the Lotus Sutra a single day. And the text has lost none of its subtlety, none of its ability to reverberate in my heart and sink deeply into my spirit. On the contrary, the more I read the sutra, the more impressive and profound it seems. Is there another teaching with this power? Is there another book that can be read with amazement and growing emotional impact every day for forty years?
Since I feel more indebted to Sukenobu Arai than to any other person, I must devote some attention to the way I met him and the way I studied with him. On the day of our first meeting, it was pouring rain. In the morning, I made my rounds with the pickles wagon for about two hours. Then, returning home and asking my wife to take very good care of our ill daughter, I went to Mr. Arai's house. I was drenched from the waist down when I arrived.
Passing through the gate, I saw a small, elderly man washing his hands at a stone garden-basin by the veranda. After an exchange of greetings, I explained why I had come; and he invited me into the house. He led me to the bedside of his wife, who was ill with a cold. I was shy about going in as wet as I was. But he told me not to worry. Five or six sheets of newspaper were spread on the tatami for me to sit on, while Mrs. Arai raised herself in bed and helped me fill in the application forms for membership in Reiyu-kai and kindly explained the rules to me. I later learned that Mr. Arai spent almost the entire day every day reading the sutra and writing posthumous Buddhist names. He engaged in very little guidance work, and his wife handled most of the administrative tasks.
On that day, because she was ill, Mr. Arai himself conducted introductory prayers for me. I was accompanied by Mrs. Waki Ogawa, who later remarried and, as Mrs. Abe, was later an important member of the Nagasaki Church of Rissho Kosei-kai. Mr. Arai enthusiastically read the Lotus Sutra and recited the sacred protective mantra for us. From that time, my daughter Kyoko began to get better. In one week, the sickness that the doctor had pronounced dangerous was completely cured, leaving not the slightest trace. Obviously, I became a devout believer and attended meetings of the Arai Chapter regularly.
Training at those meetings consisted of readings of the Lotus Sutra and chantings of the sacred mantra by a person capable of these duties. Then Mr. Arai sat at a low table in front of the Buddhist altar and delivered lectures on the Lotus Sutra. Often his speech became so impassioned that he stood and walked about. His remarks were filled with the Truth and with a power to touch the heart. Nor is this surprising; Mr. Arai himself had been saved from a grave illness by the sutra.
At the age of fifty-one, he had been suddenly paralyzed. He lost the abilities to walk and to speak. In addition, he suffered from a bad liver and impaired eyesight. As he lay in bed one day, with trembling hand, he took a pencil and wrote to his wife, "Bring me my copy of the Lotus Sutra."
At a nearby temple he had been given a copy in Chinese, which was easier for a person with his eyesight to read than was a Japanese version with its mixture of Sino-Japanese ideograms and Japanese syllabary characters. It seems likely that, for a long time, he had realized that the Lotus Sutra is the paramount sutra, the one whose virtues are immense. Mr. Arai's wife was weak but, like the obedient old-fashioned wife she was, held the sutra in front of him and turned page after page when he signaled to her that he had finished one and wanted to go on to the next. He persevered diligently this way until he had read the entire ten fascicles of the Threefold Lotus Sutra.
When he had finished, a miracle occurred. His illness literally vanished. He rose and was able to move about freely. He told us that at that time he realized the greatness of Shakyamuni Buddha and the boundless virtues of the Lotus Sutra.
Although Reiyu-kai almost totally ignored the Lotus Sutra, some of its top leaders attended Mr. Arai's lectures. But not all of the people who came to the meetings were interested. Many of them went home after the incantation of the sacred mantra and the devotional services. Only about fourteen or fifteen regularly remained for the lecture. At about the time that our course had gotten as far as the chapter entitled "Tactfulness," the president of Reiyu-kai remarked that any one engaged in such study was a fool; the high-ranking leaders stopped coming, and attendance dropped to four or five people.
I was the only person paying ardent attention to the lectures. I had the impression that Mr. Arai was talking directly to me all the time. Once he told me privately that he would think the lectures worthwhile if no one came but me. From that time on, I visited him every day, taking no time off for the summer Bon festival, the busy season at the end of the year, or even the first day of the New Year holiday. He was burningly eager to teach the sutra; I was burningly eager to be taught. We agreed with each other like lovers; we attracted each other like the north and south poles of two magnets. Famous for his taciturnity, he was willing to talk all day when I came. If I had questions, I did not hesitate to bring them up. He always seemed to have been waiting for them and launched sparkling arguments around them. Bringing us tea, his wife often looked at us with an expression that said, "I give up on both of you." Under these circumstances, I continued attending Mr. Arai's lectures for a full three years.
Three months after I began studying the Lotus Sutra, my eyes were open. Courage welled up from the bottom of my heart. Until then, I had tried to help as many people as possible, but my efforts had been half a kind of amusement. Now the time had come to be completely sincere.
Two of the teachings with which I came into contact during this period suited my personal feelings exactly: the way of compassion of the bodhisattva - helping others and serving everyone in the world - is the true meaning of Buddhism; and the ability of the lay believer both to save and to be saved. The spirit of valor that I felt welling up in me would no longer permit me to accept the halfway measure of devoting myself to business and giving only spare time to religious activities. On many days, I neglected my shop and ran about doing religious work. Soon what small savings I had were gone, and I had to resort to pawnshops. I caused my wife a great deal of worry. A very hard-working, ordinary housewife, she lacked my kind of religious faith. It is not surprising that she complained about the way I did things. In spite of the fact that the number of our children was growing and work was very pressing, I often dashed out on what I called missions of aid. Even when at home, I spent most of my time reading the sutra. In addition, other members of our religious group called frequently; and my wife had to talk to them and treat them kindly, even though I lacked time to sit down and have a quiet discussion with her. It is only to be expected that circumstances of this kind should have caused her to complain. In my heart, I understood. That is why I never fought or complained. Nonetheless, I did not give in, but adhered firmly to my mission as a man of faith. "You're perfectly right," I would tell her. "But I'm an emissary of the Buddha." And with a remark of this kind, I would immediately go out on religious work.
I was part of a small team of religious workers, including Waki Abe (whom I mentioned earlier), Mr. Arai's wife, and her daughter Masako. We often did guidance work and other tasks for the organization. Since they were happy to have a man who was well-versed in the Lotus Sutra and who could talk persuasively, they often asked me to accompany them in visiting the ill or in doing other work. This contributed to my wife's discontent.
Not long ago, I heard that Mrs. Abe had laughingly told people, '"In those days, when I came to Tokyo and called at the Niwano house, Mrs. Niwano would say to me, 'If you want my husband all that badly, take him. I'll tie a ribbon on him for you."' My wife is supposed to have admitted saying this, and Mrs. Abe is said to have replied, "I should have taken you up on the offer."
Of course, it is easy to laugh about it now. But in those days, I was a source of great irritation to my wife. And the same kind of thing continued steadily for twenty years. Even though it was in the name of service for others, I realize that I brought her unhappiness and am sorry.
My ability to analyze accurately the troubles of the ill and the poor by means of the rokuyo system, oriental astrology, and name interpretation heightened the effects of our guidance work. Since Mr. Arai was more a scholar than a specialist in guidance, he frequently told me to handle such duties. After about seven months of this kind of activity, I was selected as an assistant director of the Arai Chapter of Reiyu-kai. Serving with me as an assistant director was Mr. Koda, who was my senior in the group by many years and was editor of the organization bulletin. Since Mr. Arai was old, he generally sent me on missions of liaison with the headquarters. Frequent contacts during the course of this kind of work enabled me to acquire a wide and deep knowledge of Reiyu-kai and its teachings in a relatively short time. But in my eagerness to become more familiar with the teachings and to devote myself to guidance work, I neglected business. Though such negligence runs counter to what is expected of a Buddhist layman, I was unable to restrain my burning passion to seek the Truth and to serve others in the compassionate spirit of the bodhisattva. Then I came up with the idea of changing my business to one that would leave me plenty of free time, while giving me an opportunity to meet a great many people. After considering a number of proposals, I decided on a milk shop. Without further hesitation, I made the change and opened a milk shop in Fujimicho, Nakano Ward.
In the milk business, early-morning and evening deliveries took care of the pressing duties, and the rest of the day was free for religious work. By cutting down on meal time, I was able to hurry about on these tasks until as late as midnight. From the standpoint of a person who calculates nothing but his own personal profit, my course of action must seem very foolish. But I think that importance is frequently found in apparent folly. In ultimate terms my belief is that serving others is the fundamental qualification for true humanity and that allowing the maximum number of people to know the desire to serve is the way to produce a truly happy and peaceful human society.
If everyone pursued nothing but his own selfish ends, society would become a machine without lubricating oil. It would soon cease to function and would ultimately explode from overheating. The spirit of service is the lubricant needed to bring happiness and fulfillment to the individual and lasting peace to the whole world. This seems a remote ideal to some people. A dream for the future. But I do not agree. On the contrary, I think it is the image of a world that can be realized in the relatively near future.
The person who makes up his mind to devote himself to the service of others suddenly feels relieved and happy. He is no longer burdened with selfish desires. The daily things that cause grief cease to bother him. Bonds dissolve; he is free. This feeling alone is wonderful. I suspect this is the way a man who becomes a priest feels. But to experience it, one need not renounce the world. Resolving to serve others and to devote oneself to the interests of mankind produces the same effect and is infinitely more valuable.
The desire to serve--the meaning of the Buddhist spirit of the bodhisattva - is the kind of lubricant that can, even in small droplets, make the running of the great machine of society smooth and sure.
One of the good customers of my milk shop was the Saitamaya, a small store in Hatagaya Honcho, Shibuya Ward, that sold ice in the summer and baked sweet potatoes in the winter. The shop prospered, but the woman who ran it was always pale and sickly. She spent much of the time in bed in a room behind the shop and seemed to be getting worse. One day, as the time she spent in bed began increasing, I said to her, "You look very ill. What's the matter with you?"
"Oh, you're the milkman aren't you? Well, I've got a weak heart and a bad stomach. I'm in generally bad shape."
"I'm sorry to hear that. Have you been sick a long time?" "Pretty long. Ever since I was a young girl." "Is that so? Tell me, do you have any religious belief?" "I'm a member of Tenri-kyo." "That's fine. But tell me something else. Do you pay reverence to your ancestors?" "Actually, what with one thing and another, no. I don't." "I thought you didn't. You ought to."
Then I started trying to convince her to become a member of Reiyu-kai. But she was stubborn and, stopping just short of telling me to shut up, refused to pay attention to what I had to say. Still, I did not give up. Each time I delivered milk, I brought the subject to her attention. Finally she said that, if I was all that serious about it, she might think of joining.
But that was as far as she went. Naturally, I took care of applications for her; but when I asked her to submit a list of her ancestors' posthumous names as is prescribed by Reiyu-kai, she hesitated, even though the names were recorded in a place where she could have obtained them all in a single day. After three days of waiting, I lost patience and wrote to her family for the names. In another three days, the list arrived; and I personally entered them in Reiyu-kai's register of the names of all the members and the names and death dates of their ancestors. On that day, the proprietor of the ice and sweet-potato shop felt much better than she could remember feeling and got out of bed. I was as happy as if her good fortune were my own. I remarked to her, "There, see how much better you feel. Now you must pay a call of gratitude." Then I took her to the Arai Chapter of Reiyu-kai.
In Reiyu-kai's system, the person introducing a new member acts as a spiritual godparent. After entering the group, the new member is obliged to pay a call of gratitude to the chapter and the godparent. In this case, I was the godparent; but thinking the whole thing silly, she would not visit me to express thanks. I did not take the matter too seriously and laughingly said, "All right. There's nothing to be done about it. I'll pay respects to the guardian deity for you."
According to the story, as I heard it later, on her return to her home, she found her nephew, whom she had invited to come from the country to work in her shop, writhing in agony on the floor with a pain in his stomach. She quickly brought him a doctor, who immediately diagnosed appendicitis and said that an operation was required at once or it would be too late. But operations, even for appendicitis, were serious in those days, since there was no penicillin. The proprietor of the shop said that she could not consent to surgery without the approval of the boy's parents. The doctor ordered her to get approval by the evening and, in the meantime, to apply ice packs to the boy's abdomen. If she did not abide by his instructions, her nephew's life would be in danger.
Then she suddenly remembered the brusque way she had reacted to her responsibilities as a new member of Reiyu-kai and hastened to send a boy for me. I heard the messenger out and decided to go. But there was one problem. Our third daughter had just been born, and there was no one to look after our second daughter, Kyoko, who was still very small. I resolved the difficulty by strapping Kyoko to my back and then hurried to the ice shop. When I learned the entire story, I spoke to the proprietor in a severe voice for the first time in our association. "You are getting only what you deserve. You were cured of your sickness. Still you refused to make a call of thanks to your spiritual godparent and to pay your respects to the guardian deity. Your ingratitude is being shown to you in the form of your suffering nephew."
She lowered her eyes. I continued, "Now make up for what you have done by joining me in reading the Sutra of Meditation on the Bodhisattva Universal Virtue." She knelt behind me as I read the long sutra and recited the sacred mantra. As we did this, the pain in her nephew's stomach steadily decreased until it was gone and no operation was needed.
On the following day, the doctor was unable to locate the swelling that had been caused by the inflamed appendix. His pressing on the boy's stomach produced no pain. Shaking his head, the doctor said, "This is the strangest thing I've ever seen. How can it have happened? The appendicitis seems to be gone now, but it can recur. Take good care of the boy." But the sickness never returned, and that boy, Hiroshi Naganuma, was later one of the directors of Rissho Kosei-kai. She thanked me. That was good, but what she said afterward was bad: "How much do I owe you?"
For the second time, I spoke sharply to her. "Do you think money is the only important thing? Believe me, that is no way to think. Money is beside the point. It's good to give, because acts of charity are part of our Buddhist practice. But giving must not be an exchange. I mean you must not offer money because a sickness has been cured or because you want a sickness to be cured. That is not charity. It is not giving. The best thing for you to do, the greatest donation you can make, is to give your selfish and stubborn person completely to the Buddha."
At last my words had effect. Her eyes were open, and she was a different person thereafter. She went to the Arai Chapter of Reiyu-kai daily. She heard lectures on the Lotus Sutra and enthusiastically took part in the services. Even more surprising than her attendance at these meetings was the vigorous way she went about carrying the teachings to others. With a force and strength that seemed impossible in a woman who, until recently, had lain in bed, pale and wan, day in and day out, she devoted herself to guidance activities. On a single day, working together, she and I converted nearly fifty new members. Her industriousness and dedication astonished even Mr. Arai. The woman of whom I am speaking was, of course, Masa Naganuma, who was later to be known in Rissho Kosei-kai as Myoko Sensei.
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paul_vincent_zecchino writes:
Thank you, Florida Legislature and Governor Scott for yet another decision which respects common sense, decency, and the American people.
Snitch-Kamz were one of many rotten contrivances left over, like putrefacted unrefrigerated chicken, from the Clinton-Gore Era. The Left is hate and the Left in particular hates the car, that symbol of freedom.
During the 90s, Gore in zealously pushed 'Traffic Calming', that snappy sounding euphemism which means passive-aggressive harassment designed to coerce people from using cars. A side benefit was that the money-loving Left could skin citizens out of their money by means of robotic cameras skewed with false data to unjustly convict them of imaginary crimes.
Wouldn't Cheffy, "We Make Housecalls!", Passidomo love that idea, given their reputation for 'doing people out of what rightfully belongs to them'?
Weren't traffic officials clever in shortening yellow 'caution' light times from five to less than two seconds, the better to entrap drivers in red-light violations?
Unfortunately, rear-end collisions increased, something insurance companies didn't miss for one second.
And safety not only did not improve, it declined. By, them Leftist hackademics, political hacks, and commie rats sure know how to take what works and turn it into horse manure at our expense, don't they?
Good riddance to yet another shakedown gimmick from the 90s, one of America's most sordid experiments in Leftist 'activism' excepting our present era of course.
The American citizens will not be plundered.
Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
03 May, 2011
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The Community Development Block Grant, which gave the city $566,000 in fiscal 2012, and its counterpart, the $250,000 Home Program, are stabilizing neighborhoods, he said.
"We built 28 new homes since 2003," Coleman said. "We've invested a lot of CDGB money in the community not only to build new housing but also stabilize existing neighborhoods where senior citizen homeowners actually own their homes but just don't have the extra income to get those necessary repairs — new roof, wiring, electrical, removing lead-based paint and asbestos."
However, both programs are funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and they are feeling the pinch of the economy.
"A lot of cuts have been made not only in CDGB. We were getting $500,000 in Home funds. They cut it 50 percent. What we get now is $250,000," City Housing and Community Development Manager Mitch Bland said.
Coleman said he will lobby Congress to keep the funding, while Bland said the program's administrators will try to do the best they can.
"We're trying to do more with less," Bland said. "If we can hold our own, that's what we'll do. We're not in control of what's going to be decided at a federal level."
He said the federal funds provide a good return, even if the return is not always apparent.
"What people don't understand is the money we invest in our communities comes back to us tenfold," he said. "If you think about it, when we improve a house, or build a new house, even at local property tax rates, that means that money comes back."
The money is not a handout, Bland said.
"It's an opportunity program. It's not an income subsidy program," he said. "The people who buy these houses use their own money to buy them."
There are also other ways of financing, as in the case of Dorothy Daniel at 241 McIntosh Ave.
The 74-year-old, a Cobb County school crossing guard, lived in another house on the same lot for nearly 40 years.
"I enjoyed it until the tree fell on it," she said. "They condemned it, so I had to get out. I rented an apartment until they built this."
Bland's associate, Community Development Specialist Tamra Dollar, and Coleman connected Daniel with the Home Program.
Daniel received a $100,000, three-bedroom, two-bath house that is a neighborhood showplace.
However, she has a unique financial arrangement.
"If she sells it, she pays the city back," Bland said. "If she doesn't move, she doesn't owe anything."
While the situation seems ideal for the resident, he said it also benefits the city and county.
"It keeps the property on the tax rolls," he said.
Taxes on the property total about $150 per year.
Bland said houses like the one occupied by Dorothy Daniels on McIntosh Street may be at risk.
"That was under our replacement house program (that) we may not have more funds for," he said. "A lot of cuts have been made not only in CDGB. We were getting $500,000 in Home funds. They cut it 50 percent. What we get now is $250,000."


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SOURCE: Grand Rounds Presentation, UTMB
DATE: July 15, 1998
FACULTY PHYSICIAN: Francis B. Quinn, Jr., M.D.
SERIES EDITOR: Francis B. Quinn, Jr., M.D.
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Although prepaid group practice arrangements have existed since the 1930's, only recently have these plans, now called managed care, begun to attract a large number of enrollees. Today, there is an alphabet soup of managed care arrangements, including traditional staff model HMOs, contractual arrangements in which health-care providers (e.g., physicians share the financial risk of providing health care to the health plan's members (e.g., Preferred Provider Organizations (PPO), Individual Practice Associations (IPA),) and new forms of integrated service networks.
No matter what the payment or organizational arrangement, all forms of managed care now work under a cloud of distrust caused by media reports of denied services, conflict of interest, and fraud. A number of States now mandate certain forms of care delivery (e.g., length of hospital stays for delivery,) and the federal government is now contemplating a broad set of standards, called the "health care bill of rights", designed to protect patients from their managed care insurers.
Capitated or salaried managed care systems (systems which pay the provider a flat fee per enrollee ("covered life") per time period, often termed per member per month) offer an important opportunity to provide high quality, cost-effective care. Capitated health-care delivery systems, however, have strong incentives to avoid patient populations in need of care. This is especially true in the case of patients who are disabled, aged or dying. These systems face great difficulty in arriving at an equitable payment scheme when variability within the population and across the natural history of different diseases offer little guidance in respect to anticipating service and resource needs of the population. This introduces an element of financial risk, risk familiar to insurance organizations, but novel and worrisome to hospitals and physicians, and it is the hospital and the physician to whom these risks are transferred under capitation payment schemes.
Nationally, nearly 80% of primary care physicians have at least one managed care contract, approximately 45% are employees of managed care organizations, and about half receive at least part of their reimbursement through capitation. Nowhere is the trend toward capitation more pervasive than in California, where approximately 60% of primary care services are capitated at the physician level, compared with 45% nationally.
Capitation provides incentives that are diametrically opposed to those of fee-for-service. Under a full capitation, i.e. full-risk, system, physicians receive a fixed amount of money for providing services to a patient for a particular period of time, including the cost associated with referrals to hospitals or specialists, as well as the ordering of tests. Although it is sometimes claimed that this results in an economic incentive to provide as little care as possible per patient, and to maximize the number of patients under the physician's care, it turns out again that the incentives are somewhat more complicated. Although it is true that under-providing services will lead to more money for the physician in the short run, it may be a counterproductive strategy over time. This is because patients are likely to gravitate away from physicians whom they believe are not giving them the attention that they deserve.
Relatively few physicians are paid on a fully capitated basis. It is important to understand, however, that the HMOs themselves ARE paid on such a manner (although many do purchase re-insurance to protect themselves against higher-than-anticipated expenses.) Because of this, there is often tension between HMOs themselves and their physician panel. The successful operation of an HMO depends, then, to a large degree on whether the HMO can transfer some of its financial incentive to conserve resources to its physician panel, while at the same time not generating enmity from members of the panel.
The tension between the HMO's incentive to reduce its costs, on the one hand, and the physician's incentive both to derive sufficient revenues from the practice of medicine and to provide good quality care to patients, on the other, has resulted in the development of numerous "mixed model" or "partial capitation" payments within HMOs. Some examples include:
For primary care physicians, almost all group and staff model HMOs (97%) and the vast majority of network/IPA model HMOs (88%) AVOID paying physicians on a fee-for-service basis coupled with no withhold or bonus; in other words, they DO provide financial incentives to physicians to conserve resources. Group/staff models are much more likely to pay a salary than are network/IPAs (28% vs. 2%). The remainder are paid on a mixed model basis- either capitation or fee-for-service with incentives to control resource utilization and/or referrals. Interestingly, an increasing majority of HMOs indicate that financial rewards are based in part on the quality of services provided and/or satisfaction ratings from patient surveys.
The amount of risk-sharing with specialists, although lower, is still substantial. Seventy-six percent of group/staff models, and 58% of network/IPAs, avoid fee-for-service without withholds or bonuses. Not surprisingly, salary is much more common in group/staff models, but so is capitation.
It should be clear that there is yet no one established method of paying physicians who are HMO panel members. Because the market is still evolving, it is especially important for researchers to determine the impact of alternative physician payment methods on utilization, costs, quality, and satisfaction.
A managed care company contracts with an employer to provide all medical care to the his employees and their dependants ("covered lives") for a set fee. The managed care company then enters into contracts with hospitals and physicians in which the hospitals agree to provide hospital care and the physicians to provide medical/surgical care, to the employees and dependants as a group, for an agreed-upon sum of money. Exceptions are negotiated for rare disorders ("carve-outs") for which the hospital/medical/surgical care can be expected to be very expensive, for example, acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
In many areas the development of managed care plans is the leading response to cost-containment pressure. A critical feature of these plans is the shift of financial risk from payers to providers. It is imperative that physicians be familiar with service arrangements commonly used to transfer risk to physicians. Fee schedules can incorporate a "hold back" or "withhold" in which a portion of fees is withheld and is not paid to the physicians unless utilization is within a budgeted target. Total health plan expenditures, however, can continue to increase with such arrangements. Holdback arrangements have been common for many years in California as well as elsewhere. Plans using this approach have virtually always operated over budgeted expenses because of excess utilization, and physicians have never seen a return of the withheld fee. Thus, they regard the holdback as nothing more than a discount. The failure to effectively control service volume has led health plans to use other methods to control costs. One alternative is to bundle physician services that cover either a period of time or an episode of illness. For example, a surgeon's pre- and postoperative care can be covered by a global fee for the surgery. Nonetheless, such arrangements may still lack incentives to reduce utilization, because the surgeon still benefits from doing more surgery.
The greatest risk transfer occurs with capitation, in which the maximum bundling is achieved by paying the physician a fixed amount per patient per month. Because it offers the health plan the maximum risk reduction and is administratively simple, capitation has recently become one of the most common prospective methods of contracting for primary care services in some areas of the country. Although it can be more difficult to assign patients to some types of specialists for capitation-based payment, capitation pools and specialty-specific budget limits are used at times to accomplish the same thing. Capitation pools and budget limits for specialists are a means of distributing a capitation payment. Fees are distributed on a fee-for-service basis up to the capitation fee or the specialty budget target. As the allowable expenditure limit is approached or reached, further specialist payments are reduced or eliminated. Since the health plan's total physician expenditures will be limited, and physicians are still obligated to provide services even if additional payments are eliminated, the capitation risk is distributed to multiple specialists or groups even when patients are not assigned by the plan to a particular physician.
The managed care company sees itself as a broker of services with responsibility to insure that these services are accessible and of reasonable quality. It enjoys a much lower overhead arising from the absence of claims-processing (except for fee-for service carve-outs) and a greater degree of reliability on its expense forecasting, since its purveyors have agreed each to a single fee for the entire services package. It benefits from the risk of unforeseen excessive demand for services now having been shifted to the purveyors (hospitals and physicians.) Its principal concerns are that it may be under-bid by another managed care company or that its negotiations with purveyors may not be such as to allow it to show substantial profit, adversely affecting the price of its stock.
The employer feels unjustly burdened by the cost of the health benefits package which the union has forced upon it ($500 per manufactured automobile at General Motors) and readily agrees to a contract which offers to provide health insurance at considerably less cost, and with less administrative overhead with regard to claims processing.
The physician, (or more likely, the group administrator with the concurrence of the physician executive committee) sees an opportunity to negotiate and collect a substantial single fee for providing care to the "covered lives" population, and looks forward to reduced payroll expense in the area of pre-certification and claims-processing. It is unsure what the contract will do to physician remuneration, but is confident that physician supply will grow to exceed demand, thus minimizing recruiting expense and enhancing retention of physician- employees/associates. It is less confident of its ability to fulfill its obligations in the case of a natural disaster or a pandemic, but finds the risk acceptable and hopes for the best.
The individual physician may feel relieved that he no longer must compete primarily on the basis of amenities and personal attentiveness. He is happy to have his administrator/executive committee or his IPA negotiate the commercial aspects of his medical practice.
The patient relies on his union to negotiate the best benefits it can get, and is pleased by the prospect of having what appears to be adequate health coverage, perhaps without even the obligation of copayment for services.
The managed care company enjoys a predictable cash flow derived from the employer's capitation contract covering a defined population and capitation contracts negotiated with hospitals and physician IPAs or groups. Until passage of the "Patient Bill of Rights" legislation, it was not liable for professional malpractice, and its duty to its "covered lives" extended only to the exercise of reasonable diligence in securing services of properly credentialed hospitals and physicians. Its success is judged almost entirely by its profitability.
As long as the union expresses no significant dissatisfaction with the health care benefits package, and if the absentee/sickness rate is nominal, the employer has no reason to be unhappy with the managed care capitation contract, especially since it reduces processing of individual claims and offers incentives to maximize employee health rather than simply to provide treatment for sickness and injury. The employer may have reason to expect that the managed care company as well as the care providers will have a more than passing interest in maintaining a safe workplace and that they would support efforts to enroll employees and management in health maintenance and safety programs, addressed, for example, to the problem of Monday sickness.
It may find itself at a disadvantage in negotiating for capitated health coverage, however, if its "defined population" includes large numbers of retirees, whose utilization of health care services is predictably greater than the average. This has been cited as one reason that the General Motors subsidiary, Saturn, elected to set up its manufacturing facility in a State where younger employees could be recruited, and where its health benefits expenses would not be burdened immediately by a population of retirees.
The individual physician in solo or single specialty practice may find himself at a disadvantage when competing against multispecialty physician groups, at least in urban areas. In rural settings, however managed care organizations may be reluctant to enter the health care market because annual changes in adjusted average per capita cost rates for health care vary dramatically in undeveloped counties. As health maintenance organizations shift towards capitation payment for physicians' services, physicians will experience progressive reduction of professional income as managed care companies learn to drive harder and harder bargains.
There is no longer any financial incentive for "unnecessary" surgery. He feels he has reason to believe that his union has selected a reputable managed care company, and that the company has contracted with reputable physicians and hospitals. He no longer must cope with pre-certification although he may still need a formal referral to consult with a specialist. He believes (probably correctly) that the managed care company as well as the hospitals and physicians now have an incentive to keep him as healthy as possible, if only to reduce their own costs, but he worries that they may be inclined to "stint" on medical care which is not absolutely critical to his well-being.
He recognizes that he no longer enjoys any special consideration based upon his social or financial status, and he may have to share a bus station-style waiting room with other patients whom he regards as undesirable.
If he suffers from a chronic disorder which requires regular and frequent treatment he may feel himself viewed more as a problem patient rather than as an opportunity for service, for he realizes that the cost of his care is now born by the physician or the physician group instead of the managed care organization. In this same fashion, he may from time to time experience delay in obtaining access to care which he considers necessary for his health and well-being.
A recent study of physicians practicing in California indicated that the degree of professional satisfaction depended to a significant extent on the style of practice. Physicians working in Independent Practice Associations (IPAs) were less satisfied than physicians working in medical group practices. In medical group practices, physicians share business and clinical facilities, records, and personnel, and they care for both managed and non-managed care patients. They generally practice together in one site but may have more than one site of practice. Physicians in IPAs, on the other hand, join together to offer professional services to patients covered under capitated contracts, but care for all their patients in their own individual practice offices. Both medical groups and IPAs have established capitated contracts with health plans through which they are paid a set fee for all patients in the plans who enroll in their group or association. The group or associations use this set fee to pay for all services covered by the contract. In addition, the groups and associations retain control over how they reimburse their own physicians (e.g., through salary, capitation, or fee for service) and assume the primary responsibility for utilization management and quality monitoring.
Despite the growing importance of capitation payments, there is still very little evidence on how different HMO payment schemes affect physicians- either the quantity or quality of services provided. Although there is a rather substantial literature in the impact of HMO versus fee-for-service, it is not terribly relevant to a world in which capitated health plans are becoming the norm. Within HMOs it is vital to learn the effect of the different types of physician risk sharing (salary or fee-for-service, withholding or bonus, discounted physician productivity, utilization or cost measures, capitation across pooled specialties, competitive bidding...)
One study from 1987 examined the impact of various physician compensation methods in HMOs on service utilization. Compared to fee-for-service, salaried physicians had 13% lower hospitalization rates; capitation further lowered these rates by 8%. Two incentives- putting individual physicians at risk for deficits in referral funds, and having the level of risk exceed the amount of the withhold- reduced visits per enrollee by about 10%.
Another study examined Wisconsin State employees enrolled in an HMO. In 1983 this IPA paid its primary care physicians on a fee-for-service basis. The following year, it altered its payment of primary care physicians to a capitated payment, with risk-sharing for hospital and specialist services. The authors report that primary care visits increased 18% in the second year while referrals to specialists outside the group declined by 45%. Hospital admissions declined by 16%, and length of stay by 12%. The authors did not examine the effect of the change in payment on quality of care.
A final US study reports results from a natural experiment where physicians from the Rockford, Illinois, area (who formed an organization that contracted with an IPA) changed the method of payment for member physicians. In 1987, physicians were paid on a fee-for-service basis, with a 15% withhold. In 1988, payment was on a capitation basis for primary care doctors, with shared risk for specialists services, and a bonus if hospitalization rates were held below a threshold level. The authors found that specialist costs increased 2% in 1988, after increasing 12% in previous years. The cost of hospital outpatient services declined 7%, after increasing 12% in previous years. Hospital utilization was largely unaffected by the change in payment for primary care physician services. The authors did not assess the impact of payment change on the quality of care, such as medical outcomes and patient satisfaction.
A study from Denmark provides an interesting view on the power of incentive reimbursement. In October 1987, general practitioners (GPs) in Copenhagen changed from a fully capitated payment basis to one that was based partly on capitation and partly on fee-for-service, so as to conform with physicians in the rest of the country. This new system resulted in the ability of GPs to make extra money for consultations, prescriptions, certain procedures, and tests. There was a substantial increase in provision of services that generated extra fees and a large decrease in referrals to specialists and hospitals. From this, one of the authors concludes that "there clearly is considerable discretion on the part of GPs in how they act and remuneration systems can push them to go one way or another in how they treat their patients and whether they treat them themselves or refer them on in the system."
Managed care organizations and the emerging integrated delivery systems select from several basic financial arrangements when contracting with physicians, but two are most important: salary and capitation. Salary was the traditional payment method used by staff-model health maintenance organizations. Salaries have long been supplemented by bonus arrangements intended to encourage greater productivity among physicians.
Capitation-based payment to physicians in managed care organizations is the alternative and increasingly prevalent method for structuring the financial arrangements between physicians and the managed care organization. Within capitation, various sub-arrangements can exist. In the simplest arrangement, an individual physician receives a certain mount of money per month for each member of the managed care organization who designates the physician as his or her primary care physician. In a variation on this arrangement, a group of physicians might contract with the managed care organization and receive a certain amount of money per month for each member of the managed care organization who designates the group as his or her site for receiving medical care.
Capitation payments for specialists and in-patient hospital care are managed in various ways. In some contracts, the managed care organization retains percentages of the premium that are used to pay for specialists, prescription drugs, and in-patient hospital use. Alternatively, the managed care organization may pay a higher percentage of the premium as the base capitation payment to the primary care physician, forcing the primary care physician, in turn, to pay for specialists, prescription drugs, and hospital care. Specialists may be paid on reduced fee schedules or may receive flat consultancy retainers (equivalent to a salary for being on call for a certain number of hours per month.) They may even be paid capitated amounts for being available for a panel of insured lives.
Regulation of managed care organizations by State governments is generally intended to protect patients by providing them with information and by ensuring the fiscal integrity of the organizations. Most States have required traditional managed care organizations to obtain specific licenses. The licensing authority, often the insurance commissioner, can regulate in all areas not preempted by federal law. States vary considerably in their regulatory approach, however. The Maryland provisions are an example of an approach that encourages managed care organizations to provide high-quality care. Maryland requires managed care organizations to have regular hours; to provide for 24-hour access to a physician; to ensure that each member seen for a medical problem is evaluated under the direction of a physician; and to give each member an opportunity to select a primary care physician. Maryland also insists that managed care organizations provide appropriate preventive services and periodic health education.
Maryland law also mandates that each managed care organization 1) have a written plan about its implementation of these standards of quality of care and 2) review statistics on the health care needs of its patients. Each organization must have an internal, professional peer review system that in many ways is modeled on peer review in hospitals. The systematic collection of data on performance and patient results is also required, and managed care organizations must provide all members with information on available services and on potential responsibility for payment of services by members.
California, which may have the most advanced managed care industry, also has the most advanced regulation. In addition to having rules similar to those in Maryland, the California State health authorities may do on-site surveys of plans to evaluate peer review and referral mechanisms, internal procedures for oversight of quality of care, and overall performance. Recently, California fined a managed care organization $500,000 for failing to follow its own procedures in a patient's referral for expensive oncologic care.
Some States are antagonistic toward managed care organizations. Their regulations generally reflect this antagonism, often in part because of the interests of local medical societies. For example, in Texas, protections against insolvency are much more thorough than those in other States.
Texas also has a strong "any-willing-provider" law. The prototypical any-willing-provider statute requires that managed care organizations allow any individual or institutional providers who are willing to meet a plan's financial and educational criteria into their provider networks. Such laws make it more difficult for managed care organizations to maintain the cohesive panel of practitioners that is central to reducing utilization, and they reduce the organization's bargaining power in negotiations with providers.
At least 27 States have now passed some species of the any-willing-provider statute. Some statutes require notice to all providers of the opportunity to become network participants, creating large expenses for managed care organizations. Other statutes create due process-based appeals structures. Some States insist that patients be able to see out-of-network providers.
The American Medical Association has endorsed the federal Patient Protection Act. This proposed legislation incorporates much of what is found in any-willing-provider laws at the State level; it would require contracting between managed care organizations and any licensed provider who meets reasonable predetermined standards. Further, under this legislation, managed care organizations would be required to provide members with all terms and conditions of the health plan in easily understood, truthful, and objective terms. Physician credentialing within the health plans, particularly credentialing issues based on economic factors, such as the physician's past expenditure per patient, would also be subject to oversight. Case mix, severity of patient illness, and patient age adjustments, must be incorporated into such credentialing. Finally, the proposed Patient Protection Act States that all enrollees of health benefit plans are to be offered a selection of plans, including at least one traditional fee-for-service plan. The Patient Protection Act and the any-willing-provider laws of various States can be characterized as important efforts to ensure that cost-quality tradeoffs under managed care programs are not detrimental to patient care.
To encourage the movement of seniors to Medicare capitation contracts, the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 created new choices for Medicare beneficiaries under its Medicare+Choice program. One of these provisions allows Provider-Sponsored Organizations (PSOs) to contract directly with Medicare for risk-based contracts, thereby encouraging providers to form PSOs. The intent of the legislation is to broaden the provider networks available to Medicare beneficiaries and to eliminate the commercial HMO as the necessary middlman, placing the medical management responsibility in the hands of the providers, potentially doing away with the HMO's profit, and reducing the cost to the Medicare program.
A PSO is defined by the ACT as a public or private entity:
A PSO is, in reality, a provider-sponsored HMO that meets the criteria of the Act; however, PSOs that contract directly with Medicare must meet criteria that re less stringent than the federal qualifications for commercial HMOs. For example, a PSO is not required to limit its Medicare enrollment to 50% of its total enrollment. Additional federal standards, including those on financial solvency, are now being developed and are scheduled for publication during the summer of 1998.
Perhaps the most important provision of the Act for PSOs is the ability of a PSO to obtain a waiver from State licensure if the State: (1) does not respond to an application by the PSO within 90 days; or (2) denies appropriate licensure because the PSO does not meet criteria that are more stringent than federal standards. The federal waiver will be granted for a three-year period after which the PSO must have the apppropriate State licensure to continue to contract for Medicare enrollees. The intent of the waiver is to allow PSOs time to develop to meet State licensure requirements and give the States time to conform their requirements to federal standards.
The Medicare population represents the most important group of covered lives to most providers. Medicare is now pushing seniors to join risk-based plans, and is encouraging providers to form Provider Service Organizations (PSO) to contract directly with Medicare for risk-based contracts. By eliminating the commercial HMOs as the middlemen, PSOs can not only control their own destiny as providers, they can retain the "risk profit" in the community for enhancing services or higher payments to providers. To be successful, however, PSOs must have in place the key elements to manage the organization in a managed care environment. While the task of creating a PSO can appear daunting and the risk can be real and substantial, every provider organization should examine the potential of starting or joining a PSO. The greatest risk could be the risk of doing nothing, which could lead to loss of control the the Medicare population, decreased utilization, declining payment for services, the loss of patients being directed to other providers, and the loss of the "risk premium" from Medicare capitation.
Capitation payment arrangements are changing and expanding. The private sector is paying increasing attention to capitating not only primary care physicians, but also specialty services and dental care. The federal government has plans to experiment with global purchasing and competitive bidding to establish capitation rates for Medicare beneficiaries.The greatest risk could be the risk of doing nothing, which could lead to loss of control the the Medicare population, decreased utilization, declining payment for services, the loss of patients being directed to other providers, and the loss of the "risk premium" from Medicare capitation.
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Fishery managers from Washington and Oregon have set 2013 fishing seasons for the lower Columbia River, anticipating a smaller return of spring chinook salmon and reflecting ongoing concerns about the river's white sturgeon population.
Most of the new fishing rules adopted Jan. 30 take effect March 1, when fishing for spring chinook and sturgeon starts to heat up on the lower Columbia. Until then, both fisheries are open on various sections of the river under rules approved last year.
After three years of strong returns, managers set harvest guidelines for this year's spring chinook season on a projected run of 141,400 upriver fish, about 25 percent below the 10-year average. Approximately 203,000 fish destined for areas above Bonneville Dam returned to the Columbia last year.
The initial catch guideline for the recreational spring chinook fishery will allow anglers fishing below the dam to catch up to 5,000 hatchery-reared upriver chinook before the run forecast is updated in May.
The spring chinook fishery is scheduled to run through April 5, but could be extended if enough fish are still available under the harvest guideline, said Ron Roler, Columbia River policy manager for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
"Salmon returns are highly variable, and we'll have a better idea what the season holds once the bulk of the run starts moving upriver," Roler said in a news release.
As in years past, anglers may retain hatchery-reared spring chinook marked with a clipped adipose fin. Any unmarked wild spring chinook – some of which are listed for protection under the federal Endangered Species Act – must be released unharmed.
To facilitate the release of wild fish, anglers fishing for salmon, steelhead and cutthroat trout are now required to use barbless hooks on the mainstem Columbia River downstream of the Washington-Oregon state line.
Fishery managers also established new rules for the white sturgeon fishery that will reduce harvest rates for the fourth straight year. With ongoing concerns about sturgeon abundance in the lower river, the states agreed to reduce the harvest rate an additional 15 percent.
But that reduction will largely be offset by a slight increase in the legal-size sturgeon population – the first indication of improvement in five years. As a result, the harvest guideline for the recreational sturgeon fishery below Bonneville Dam will remain virtually unchanged at 7,790 fish.
Brad James, a Washington fish biologist, recommends anglers look at the new fishing rules, because fishing periods in some areas will change this year. The new regulations for white sturgeon and spring chinook salmon are posted online at wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/regulations. They also will be in the 2013-14 Fishing in Washington rules pamphlet, available in May.
Spring chinook fishing is currently open to boat and bank anglers on a daily basis from Buoy 10 near the mouth of the Columbia River upstream to the Interstate 5 bridge. Under the new rules, the sport fishery will expand upriver to Beacon Rock from March 1-April 5. During that period, the sport fishery will close on two Tuesdays – March 26 and April 2 – to accommodate possible commercial fisheries.
Starting March 1, the bank anglers' fishing area will be extended from Beacon Rock up to the fishing boundary below Bonneville Dam.
Above Bonneville Dam, the fishery will be open to boat and bank anglers on a daily basis from March 16-May 5 between the Tower Island powerlines six miles below The Dalles Dam and the Washington-Oregon state line, 17 miles upriver from McNary Dam. Bank anglers can also fish from Bonneville Dam upriver to the Tower Island powerlines during that time.
Starting March 1, anglers fishing downriver from Bonneville Dam may retain one adipose-clipped hatchery adult spring chinook as part of their daily catch limit. Above the dam, anglers can keep two marked adult spring chinook per day effective March 16.
As in years past, 80 percent of the allowable catch will be allocated to the sport fishery and 20 percent to the commercial fishery. Under the new harvest rate, the portion of the catch available to recreational fisheries will be allocated as follows: 4,040 fish in the estuary, 2,020 above the Wauna powerlines and 1,730 in the Willamette River.
To keep this year's catch within the new harvest guideline, the sturgeon fishery will end five days earlier than last year in the estuary fishery below the Wauna power lines.
The retention fishery in the area from the Wauna power lines upriver to Bonneville Dam is typically split into a winter-through-mid-summer period and a fall period. Last year, the fall fishery was canceled, because high catch rates from May-July took most of the fish available for harvest in that area. This year, managers agreed to shorten the winter-summer fishery by 18 days to reserve about half the catch for the fall fishery.
Fishing seasons approved for 2013 in the lower Columbia River are as follows:
Buoy 10 to the Wauna powerlines: Retention of white sturgeon is allowed daily from Jan. 1-April 30 and from May 11-June 30. From Jan. 1-April 30, sturgeon must measure between 38-54 inches (fork length) to be retained. From May 11 through the end of the season they must measure 41-54 inches (fork length) to be retained. Catch-and-release fishing is allowed on days when retention is prohibited.
Wauna powerlines to Bonneville Dam: Retention of white sturgeon is allowed Thursdays-Saturdays from Jan. 1-June 15 and from Oct. 19-Dec. 31. Sturgeon must measure between 38-54 inches (fork length) to be retained. Catch-and-release fishing is allowed on days when retention is prohibited. Sturgeon fishing will be closed May 1-Aug. 31 in the sanctuary area from Bonneville Dam downstream nine miles to a line crossing the Columbia River from navigation marker 82 on the Oregon shore, westerly to the boundary marker on the Washington shore upstream of Fir Point.
Pools above Bonneville Dam: The harvest guideline for the Bonneville Pool has gone from 2,000 fish to 1,100 because monitoring data indicate that the sturgeon population did not increase over the past three years as expected. Sturgeon retention is allowed through today, with additional days possible in June. Retention fisheries in the two reservoirs between The Dalles and McNary dams are scheduled to proceed until their respective 300 fish and 500 fish guidelines are met.


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The Fresno State football team leaves for Hawai'i and its Christmas Eve bowl game one week from Wednesday. There are 35 bowl games this year. Each player participating in a bowl game gets bowl "swag," which stands for "stuff we all get."
Here is what the Bulldogs (and SMU Mustangs) get, according to the Sports Business Journal:
Fossil watch
Oakley backpack
Tori Richard aloha shirts
custom beach towel
Pro Athletics shorts
performance T-shirt
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The energy at Asolo Rep's annual town hall announcement Tuesday, Nov. 10, was a mix of wonder, romance and anticipation, as producing Artistic Director Michael Donald Edwards introduced this season's repertory artists.
Among those were third-year conservatory student Kirstin Franklin, who will appear in "The Perfume Shop," (Dec. 4 to April 1) an adaptation of "La Perfumerie," a play that inspired Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan's romantic comedy "You've Got Mail."
Guest artist and British actor Paul Whitworth, who, in 2008, played Dysart in "Equus," will return to the Asolo next month to play Galilei Galileo in "The Life of Galileo" (Dec. 11 to Feb. 17).
Directed by Edwards and translated by Tony Award-winning playwright David Edgar, "The Life of Galileo" is German dramatist Bertolt Brecht's most famous work. Despite its enormous cast, expensive cosmic set and historical costumes, the Asolo Rep board unanimously approved the big-budget play, which will mark the 400th anniversary of the year the Italian astronomer first demonstrated his famous wooden telescope.
"I'm immensely proud of our city and our company for deciding to do 'Galileo,'" said Edwards, addressing a crowd of conservatory students, theater patrons and board members.
Opening in time for Valentine's Day is "Searching for Eden: The Diaries of Adam and Eve," (Dec. 18 to Feb. 25) by James Still. The play's lush, utopian set is already generating buzz among Asolo staff; in addition, its gorgeous stars, real-life married couple Sam Osheroff and Kris Danford, are adding a delightful back story to the production. Danford, who appeared as Cinderella in the 2006's Asolo Rep hit, "The Plexiglass Slipper" met Osheroff, a second-season guest artist, when the two were students in the Asolo's conservatory program.
Danford and Osheroff will also star as Cathy and Jamie, a husband and wife falling out of love in "The Last Five Years" (Jan. 21 to Feb. 28), an intimate musical by Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown. Both actors should be familiar with the roles because they performed them in 2007 with the Peterborough Players, a professional theater company in Peterborough, N.H.
"Hearts" (Jan. 22 to April 11), the story of a Jewish-American soldier in World War II, opens in January and runs through April. Longtime Asolo Rep artist Douglas Jones, now in his 24th season with the theater, stars as Donald Waldman, based on playwright Willy Holtzman's own father.
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While President Barack Obama has not ruled out the option of supplying weapons, officials say there first must be more clarity on the ground.
"For us, providing arms has to be done in a way that helps promote a political solution," the senior administration official said. "Until we understand how these arms promote a political solution, we do not see how provision of arms is a good idea."
Not much is known about al-Nusra's structure or leadership, but its emir, who goes by the nom de guerre of of Abu Muhammad al-Golani, said in an audio message at the beginning of the year that its goal was to make Syria an Islamic state. The group's propaganda frequently tells Syrians that they have been "abandoned" by the West.
The lesson of history is that revolutions tend to be won by the best organized and most ruthless, rather than the best intentioned and most reasonable. For Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks, organization was as important as ideology. The Taliban swept across Afghanistan as the only coherent force in a country craving order and stability. Egypt's revolution ended up favoring the Muslim Brotherhood as the only political organization tried and tested by decades of repression. Similarly, al-Nusra stands out among Syrian rebel groups as the most effective and disciplined.
Al-Nusra has also learned from history, according to other Islamists among Syrian rebel ranks. Many of its more experienced fighters saw al Qaeda in Iraq alienate the Sunni tribes there with its vicious sectarian bloodletting. As Aaron Zelin of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy wrote in Foreign Policy last week, "Jabhat al-Nusra seems to have learned from the mistakes of al Qaeda in Iraq: It has not attacked civilians randomly, nor has it shown wanton disregard for human life by publicizing videos showing the beheading of its enemies."
Instead, Islamist leaders in Aleppo say, it is looking to broaden its appeal and spread its fundamentalist message.
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The United States would rather see that role in the hands of the Local Coordination Committees, present in many Syrian cities since early in the uprising.
Such is the undercurrent of resentment toward the United States among Syrians pummeled by nearly two years of regime attacks that designating al-Nusra may have the unintended consequence of making it more popular. Designation may also make it more attractive to foreign jihadists. According to the SITE Intelligence Group, another jihadist group, the al-Sahaba Army, has already congratulated al-Nusra for its designation, describing it as a "great honor" and calling on other groups to rally to al-Nusra.
For now, the group has no formal affiliation with al Qaeda, and according to other Islamist fighters it is probably wary of being pigeonholed as part of the group, for fear of causing a backlash among a population that historically is among the less conservative in the Arab world.
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The Pac 7 League released its honor roll for fall sports on Tuesday. Arroyo Grande High senior outside hitter Millisa Morrow was named the league's MVP for girls volleyball. The senior led the league in kills and helped guide the Eagles to a perfect 12-0 mark in league play and to their second league crown in the last four years.
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SLR Magic releases 26mm F1.4 Toy Lens for Micro Four Thirds
SLR Magic has launched a 26mm F1.4 manual focus 'toy' lens for Micro Four Thirds. The 52mm equivalent lens comes with replaceable aperture and focus rings, seven colors of which are supplied. Panasonic owners looking longingly at Olympus' Art Filters (or PEN owners wanting to avoid the associated frame lag) might enjoy the toy-lens shooting experience. The lens is available from Japanese website Gizmoshop, which has placed a series of sample images on photo sharing site Flickr. (From DCWatch)
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If you read the original Japanese, it prices it at 9800 yen, which is more like 120 USD. That is a LOT of money, though I'll admit to liking the look of the results.
Like I said below, it's a relabelled version of a CCTV lens that can be bought for about $20 on eBay. Search for CCTV 25mm f/1.4 and you'll find plenty of them. Grab that and a cheap c-mount adapter and you're set.
This is just a rebadged version of the Feihua 25mm f/1.4 CCTV lens for C-mount that sells for $20 on eBay. The $60-100 markup is pretty shameless...
It's a lovely lens and I like the original version a lot, but obviously not worth the absurd price gouging.
It should say, "SLR Magic launched a 26mm F1.4 manual focus 'toy' lens for Micro Four Thirds about six months ago, if not more."
I love the swirls.
Would this "Toy" lens be presented here in DPR's news section, if it were for any other system but for Four Thirds?
"Panasonic owners looking longingly at Olympus' Art Filters"
"(or PEN owners wanting to avoid the associated frame lag) might enjoy the toy-lens shooting experience."
Whats up with that?
This lens is not news worthy, for any system!
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"It's a paid advertising maybe! :D"
Yea... But for what camera maker!!!! ;)
Ow my the sample shoots are terrible! I have their SLR Magic 35/1.7 for E-mount which I enjoy shooting, more than I enjoy the Sony NEX stock lenses. I believe that they have released this lens already and been on the ebay months now. I also believe that SLR Magic decision to buy Noktor f0.95 lens made me very exciting but upon hearing that they're gonna sell it at the same price it's a big joke. $1000 to be exact.
If you're interested in this lens, do yourself a favour and get either a Computar 25mm f/1.3 or a Pentax/Cosmicar 25mm f/1.4 and a $7 C-mount adapter from eBay. Both of those produce better quality images than this lens. I have no problem with 'bad' looking images but the price of the lens has to match the quality and I feel as though the SLR Magic lenses are way overpriced for what they are.
Bad pictures !!!!
Some people are bored with the too good pictures (for them) and the new trend is to make bad ones.
I agree, and some camera maker make even an entire toy system named Q ;)
Good lord. Very bad images.
I have no problem with heavy vignetting, light leaks, crappy brokeh, etc, etc, stuff found on cheap camera / lenses. I even like them sometimes. But that swirling distortion around the edges, on a normal field of view, is just ... yuk.
Yes, unfortunately this is slightly old news now. You can get it on ebay. Its been selling for a while now. Its all over in Japan when I was there a few months ago.
I'm pretty sure that SLR Magic has been selling this lens on ebay for at least six months.
I have to say the samples look wonderful - although it seems to be a bit of a one-trick pony, with a small subject close-up in the middle. Does that say $79? Looks like a steal.
Haha, I think it's a cctv Fujian 25mm/1.4 for 5x price ...
Golden plastic rings ... with diamonds?
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Yup, this. If I want fuzzy pictures there is photoshop.
Isn't one of the big selling points of Four Thirds "nice lenses"? (At least, it was to me...)
This lens is amazing. It takes the boredom out of photography when perfect lenses grow too familiar! Plus this makes my images look ghostly. :)
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Frances "Gidget" Lawrence lives with her widowed college professor father in California. Anne is her older sister who is married to John Cooper, a psychology student. Gidget spends most of her free time at the beach, hanging out with friends and surfing. She also has a knack for getting in and out of trouble. Gidget speaks to the audience during her journey to adulthood, letting them know exactly what's on her mind and what she's discovered about life.
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Gidget is unable to find a date for the upcoming luau and convinces her brother-in-law John to accompany her. John tries to fit in with the teenagers, but his behavior puts them off.
Gidget was based on the 1959 movie of the same name and starred Sandra Dee in the role as Gidget. The sitcom was first seen in September of 1965 and centered around Francine Lawrence. Francine was her real first name but everyone called her Gidget. She lived with her father, Professor Russ Lawrence, who was a widower in Southern California. Stories revolved around Gidget and her life as a teenager growing up on the Pacific coast.
Recurring characters included, Anne Cooper, Gidget's sister, who tended to take the role of mother and was often overprotective of Gidget. John was Anne's psychology student of a husband who often read much to much into situations. Larue was Gidget's best friend while Jeff was Gidget's boyfriend who was talked about more than he was seen since he was away at college.
ABC pulled the plug on the series in the spring of 1966 due to the fact that the series hadn't found an audience. This was an unfortunate event, because that summer, ABC aired reruns, and finally an audience was found. However, it was too late, the series had already been canceled. Reruns boosted the series' popularity in the 80′s which resulted in a new series, The New Gidget.
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