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April 2, 2007
A University of Michigan Health Minute update on important health issues.
An ULTrA idea:
Connect adults with cerebral palsy to virtual trainers at home
New online movement-based exercise program at U-M targets adults with CP to maintain mobility, function from the comfort of their home
ANN ARBOR, MI – Forty-one-year-old Laura Gable has lived her entire life with cerebral palsy, a neurological disorder that appears in infancy or early childhood, and permanently affects body movement and posture. As she's grown older, Gable has noticed the pain and stiffness, and other motor affects associated with her cerebral palsy have worsened.
"When I get stiff, I have a hard time reaching in the cupboard for dishes, putting on my clothes and even tying my shoes," says Gable. "Very simple things that a lot of people don't think are hard, becoming really difficult for me."
While physical and occupation therapy bring relief, many adults with cerebral palsy like Gable find juggling busy work and family schedules leaves little time to attend regular therapy sessions outside the home. Adding to that, some insurance companies do not cover physical and occupational therapy for adults with cerebral palsy.
But what if patients could complete regular therapy exercises from the comfort of their home? Using an Internet connection and an at-home computer interface, that's exactly what a new program developed by experts at the University of Michigan Health System and the U-M Division of Kinesiology aims to do: Make movement-based training more convenient and assessable to adults with cerebral palsy.
This joint research and movement therapy project – called the Upper Limb Training and Assessment Program, or ULTrA – is specially designed to aid adults with cerebral palsy who have upper limb and hand impairment.
"Physical and occupational therapy are the most important treatments for cerebral palsy," says Edward Hurvitz, M.D., chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the U-M Health System. "The ULTrA program works with the idea of bringing therapy into the home to allow adults to do their therapy at a time that's convenient for them."
Using the Internet and streaming video, the ULTrA program allows adult patients to connect to "virtual trainers" and real-life experts at the U-M motor control lab via their home computer to complete movement-based therapy programs. The project also collects data to determine how well the in-home therapy is working.
"We're targeting a growing, yet neglected segment of the population using the Internet and streaming video to essentially bring our lab and experts into the patients' homes to engage them in a movement-based training program," says Susan Brown, Ph.D., director of the Motor Control Lab at the U-M Division of Kinesiology.
ULTrA, a three-year study funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research through the U.S. Department of Education, consists of 40-minute training sessions done five days a week for eight weeks. Each patient's home is equipped with a computer-based upper limb training unit, a high-speed Internet connection, and a training CD.
"The computer interface in the individual's home includes computer-generated images of people stretching, and we also have people in our lab who are able to coach and provide encouragement to participants via web cameras," says Brown. "Being connected to the patients allows us to modify their program as needed, without them coming into the research lab or clinic. The streaming video basically allows us to be there with them in a virtual sense."
The Internet connectivity also lets Brown and her colleagues gather data and analyze each patient's progress. Preliminary research shows ULTrA is making a difference in patients' lives.
"Apart from rehabilitation, I think there's real potential to use this technology to open up the world for people who have mobility issues," notes Brown.
For Gable, ULTrA has helped to improve her fine motor and sensory skills. Beyond her own physical improvement, she hopes ULTrA will encourage others in the medical field to find more innovative ways to support adults with cerebral palsy.
"The ULTrA project is a step toward moving cerebral palsy treatment into the 21st century," she says. "There's the potential to figure out how to improve range of motion and daily quality of life for people with CP. Now, there's a way for me to keep physically moving and mobile for the rest of my life."
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Should Policy Attempt to Avoid Financial Crises?
In this essay in the CATO Journal, Jeffrey Miron asks what our policy should be in fiscal "crisis."
The 2008 financial crisis and the 2007–09 recession have predictably spurred interest in how policy can avoid financial crises. A prior question, however, is whether policy should avoid financial crises. The answer might seem obvious. But I argue here that if policymakers focus on avoiding crises, they will generate undesired side effects and typically fail to avoid crises in any case.
His argument has four steps:
- First, avoiding crises is not, in and of itself, the right goal for policy.
- Second, as a matter of theory, the costs of crises are not necessarily large.
- Third, as a matter of evidence, the costs of crises do not seem to be enormous.
- Fourth, whatever the costs of crises, anti-crisis policies might be worse than the disease.

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"It's one of those things where you're looking at your schedule and you're happy to see it," comedian Greg Hahn says of Cincinnati and Go Bananas Comedy Club. "It's a really intimate club. It's like a party in someone's basement with best friends that you've never met. And I like to go bananas on stage so it has a nice effect." Many of those friends know Hahn from The Bob & Tom radio show, where he is a frequent guest.
Knocking about the Midwest is nothing new for the now Los Angeles-based comic. "When you start out in stand-up, you're not genius funny," he says. "So I came up with these weird jobs like stuntman in the Wild, Wild, West Show at Universal Studios, and MC of a lumberjack show at an amusement park." In between, Hahn would hit the road and tell jokes. "When you start out in comedy you basically ruin two cars driving all over the East Coast and Midwest," he says. Hahn eventually headed to New York where he appeared on Comedy Central, as well as Late Night With Conan O'Brien. "Then I moved out to Los Angeles to make it huge," he says. "Now I'm flying back to Cincinnati to make a living, but that's OK." Hahn performs Thursday-Sunday at Go Bananas in Montgomery.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Sanjeev Khanna, professor of computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania, has been honored with a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Khanna works in theoretical computer science at the interface of algorithms and computational complexity. The fellowship will fund his continued research to identify the polynomial-time approximability of fundamental problems in combinatorial optimization.
"It is extremely gratifying to see Dr. Khanna's work recognized alongside the work of other distinguished scholars," said Eduardo Glandt, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. "This is an extremely prestigious award and is well deserved by this inspiring Penn professor, whose fundamental research is advancing our understanding of important problems in theoretical computer science.''
Each year the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation recognizes distinguished scholarly achievement and exceptional promise for future accomplishment by granting aid to scholars, artists and writers pursuing research in one of 78 fields, from the natural sciences to the creative arts.
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Seahawks fans not in the mood to show patience, but team needs to stay patient
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll, who has never met a superlative he couldn't overuse, unplugged the hype machine. He didn't talk about being "pumped" or "jacked" for Sunday's game against Pittsburgh. He knew better. He was mellow, for a change.
"We need to keep taking these different situations on and see what we can make of it," Carroll said.
See what we can make of it? Who stole Carroll's master copy of "Win Forever"? It has been a long time since he has tiptoed into a big game with a "Gee whiz, I hope they don't see us coming, so we can surprise them" tone.
How concerning is the Seahawks' slow start? It's so worrisome that Carroll isn't living off adrenaline anymore. Humility is pumping in his veins now.
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The Seahawks are only 0-1 this season. So, why does it feel like 0-10?
If you listened to too much of the reaction following last week's 33-17 loss to San Francisco, you were left wondering what you had missed. The anger and distrust exceeded normal early-season temper tantrums. Only one thing could've made the fans more venomous: An announcement that Tim Ruskell is back as team president.
Well, that didn't happen, and if you've already consumed the few positives the Seahawks have shown so far, perhaps you can celebrate the fact that not all of your worst nightmares are coming true. No, the all-too-realistic bad dreams are relegated to the new offensive line, the questionable quarterback replacement and the rampant youth, for now.
Still, the Seahawks are only one game down. Yes, you saw their warts throughout the preseason, but this team barely has begun disappointing you. So, why so much anger?
First of all, folks are tired of rebuilding. Even though the Seahawks made the playoffs with a 7-9 record last season, they're amid a bad stretch of three consecutive losing seasons, and a fourth almost seems inevitable. It's as simple as that for many in the barking masses, but don't underestimate a more subtle and complicated issue.
This rage is also the fans' reaction to dramatic change that has yet to produce thrilling results. Under Carroll and general manager John Schneider, the Seahawks have altered the direction of their franchise in a major way, breaking up with popular stars such as Matt Hasselbeck and Lofa Tatupu along the way. While most fans admit this is necessary, they still had to pay a high price. The roster overhaul has cost them players they loved. It has cost them some of their joy in watching the Seahawks.
There's an easy cure, of course: Winning. A lot of winning. But the Seahawks aren't ready for that. They've been far more entertaining in the offseason than to watch when the games really matter. They're not a football team right now. They're an idea, part of a master plan Carroll and Schneider are determined to implement, sentimentality be damned.
So you watch, intrigued at first. Then, horrified. Now, enraged. The Seahawks have sold you on the notion that cold, hard, ruthless business is the proper way to build a winner. As a result, you're becoming hardened, too. You want a return on the patience you've given this franchise. And though you understand this is a rebuilding process, it's hard to struggle through the poor initial results and not wonder if you'll ever collect all that you've lost, with interest.
What's missing this season? The joy. It's mid-September, and there are 15 games remaining, but it already feels like a lost season. What's the point, right?
Such thinking goes against the virtue of sports. You watch for the unexpected thrills. You watch because, even when you know that's going to happen, you never know what's going to happen. You watch to be entertained by the improbable and the illogical.
And what happens when your favorite team just makes you ill?
This is the Season of Second Guessing. It could wind up being the worst year Carroll and Schneider ever have in Seattle. They must allow their young players to mature and gain experience. They must do so at the expense of victories at times. You will question most every decision Carroll and Schneider will make. You will wonder if they changed too soon and too arrogantly. On the other side, they must stay committed to their plan and manage expectations as much as possible.
Carroll seems to be attempting that. But even the joy is now hidden on his face. It has been replaced by a stern yet ponderous disposition, that of a man intent on solving a problem.
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Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] [OMPI users] OpenMPI Internals & Static-Analysis.
From: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-09 07:59:44
On May 8, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Mukesh K Srivastava wrote:
> The OMPI community should think to come with OpenMPI Internals
> document. Probably having an Internal document will certainly help
> developers of OpenMPI.
Yes, it will. It's something we've talked about many times, but it
has unfortunately always come down to a time/resources issue -- no one
has the time or people to do it (and keep the document up-to-date with
the ever-changing code base).
> What one has to do - if one is thinking to come with OMPI Internals
> document to start with? Is there any link or project repository
> within OMPI to start working on OMPI Internals document.
You might want to talk to the docs sub-project -- their first goal was
to make user-level documentation, but theyv'e gone kinda quiet over
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Analysts poised to digest Burger King's results
Tasty prospect: there should be plenty of interesting titbits for analysts in Burger King's results released on Friday
Science Gallery: hosting conference on opportunities in mobile health
THIS WEEK:Horse meat in burgers? What are the odds on that? The burger scandal (and the jokes) are still continuing, closely watched by fast-food chains including Burger King which reports its financial results this week.
The company, which became embroiled in the horse DNA scandal earlier this month, will present financial results for the fiscal quarter ending December 31st, on Friday.
Contaminated burgers
Last month, the fast food chain revealed that some of its burgers were contaminated in the horse meat scare.
"Four samples recently taken from the Silvercrest plant have shown the presence of very small trace levels of equine DNA. This product was never sold to our restaurants," the company said in a press release.
As a result, it decided to replace all Silvercrest products in its UK and Ireland restaurants with products from other suppliers.
According to Zacks Investment Research, based on five analysts' forecasts, the consensus earnings per share forecast for the quarter is $0.15.
Mobile health: one to watch
Apparently the mobile health sector, where the consumer uses the mobile device in healthcare, is where it's at.
A report from Transparency Market Research estimates that the global mobile health (mHealth) market will be worth $10.2 billion by 2018. That compares with $1.3 billion last year, indicating a significant growth trajectory over the next few years.
And Ireland is being urged to move quickly to develop its mobile healthcare industry. A conference on opportunities in mobile health is taking place this afternoon at the Science Gallery in Dublin. Speakers at the event will discuss the latest technological developments in mobile health, the new Connected Health technology centre initiative, mHealth deployment and applications.
United Drug AGM for Conrad Hotel
On the subject of health, the United Drug AGM is taking place in the Conrad Hotel in Dublin tomorrow.
The pharmaceutical supplies company, which recently quit the Dublin stock market for a London listing, posted a strong performance last year.
In fact, the Irish group's annual trading report for 2012 shows that its operating profit climbed up to reach €84.4 million.


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text: Recently I bought my first ever tube amp-a 90's Mesa/Boogie Maverick. I saved for many months for this baby. It was the perfect amp. I was looking for something like a Fender amp with higher gain and I found it and more with this. Unfortunately things went awry with the gain channel after a few weeks of playing the heck out of it. First I noticed that the distortion was playing very inconsistently where it would be light and crisp or extra thick and saturated with the same settings. Then all I got was uncontrollable noise. I tried remedying it by buying all new tubes. Over $200 later the clean channel sounds even better than the day I got it but nothing has changed with the gain. The problem has something to do with the treble knob on the gain channel where it is either too quiet to hear below the 12 o'clock position or uncontrollably loud at any point beyond that. My guitar playing friends have thrown around a few suggestions that all suggest that I have a bad connection affecting the electrical current but should not require a lot of skill to fix. I am brand new to tube amps and I am not an engineer at all. Is this an ultra complex task that should be left to a professional, or could I use my soldering gun and fix it myself because it is really not that big of a problem? I cannot spend $75 to fix this amp right now, and I do not have any gigs right now so I can wait to get it fixed professionally. But only playing it acoustically sucks right now. I want that fat tone I paid for!


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Valve Software claims that more than $2 million has been generated from Team Fortress 2 micro-transactions. The popular free-to-play team online shooter allows players to create, buy and sell virtual items to wear during matches. Apparently fans are fond of the system and are willing to spend real-world cash on luxury in-game items. Valve also said that it plans to update the system with a new interface to make it even easier for customers to create and sell virtual goods.
The original game was released way back in 2007 but has evolved over the years. This year Valve moved the popular game to the free-to-play model. With micro-transactions in place, it seems that the model is working well for Valve and for players.
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Writer-director Lynn Shelton evinces a better grasp of texture than substance in "We Go Way Back." Tale of a 23-year-old aspiring actress experiencing an all-too-vague internal crisis is ultimately too underdeveloped and slight to have much impact, though the helmer's impressionistic uses of image and sound are appealing.
Moving from experimental and doc shorts to feature narrative, writer-director Lynn Shelton evinces a better grasp of texture than substance in "We Go Way Back." Tale of a 23-year-old aspiring actress experiencing an all-too-vague internal crisis is ultimately too underdeveloped and slight to have much impact, though the helmer's impressionistic uses of image and sound are appealing. Women's fests and Amerindie showcases rep the most apt outlets for this narrative feature jury award winner Slamdance.Having just broken up with a steady b.f., Kate (Amber Hubert) is adrift — though there's no indication she's ever been very focused or assertive. As her reward for paying dues at a local theater company, she's given the plum role of Hedda Gabler in their next production. Her director (Robert Hamilton Wright) spends less time worrying over the fact she's far too young for the role and lacks the required gravitas than he does concerning himself with his increasingly daft interpretive concepts (littering stage with potatoes, making Hedda, alone, speak Norwegian). Meanwhile, Kate drinks too much, maintains a deadening day job, and carelessly sleeps with a variety of male acquaintances. As a 13-year-old she'd written letters to her future self, to be opened on each successive birthday. Dwelling on these long-ago hopes amid a less-than-satisfying adult present, Kate edges toward nervous breakdown. At one point the adolescent Kate (Maggie Brown) simply materializes in the here-and-now, shadowing the bewildered grownup and proving to be more than a delusional figment. But this supernatural occurrence leads nowhere in particular, and the presumed catharsis Kate has undergone by end means little, since she's remained a psychological cipher throughout. Ben Kasulke's photography and soundtracked songs by Northwestern indie bands brighten this diverting but ultimately weightless effort. Produced by Seattle-based collective the Film Co., the nation's first non-profit film studio, tech contributions are very polished on what were no doubt slim means.
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A Film Co. production. Produced by Peggy Case, Gregg Lachow. Executive producer, Lachow. Directed, written by Lynn Shelton.
Camera (color), Ben Kasulke; editors, Shelton, Michelle Witten; music, Laura Veirs; production designer, Tania Kupczak; sound, Vince Smith. Reviewed at Slamdance Film Festival (competing), Jan. 26, 2006. Running time: 80 MIN.
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So I just got done this morning re-watching all of the Harry Potter movies (except for Deathly Hallows pt 2). I checked earlier this week and Wynnsong had two showings a day HP 7pt2. I pull up the movie times today and to my dismay...it's no longer showing.
Needless to say I'm a little disappointed. If anyone knows of any other options to watch it streamed somewhere... I'd appreciate a PM.
Was really looking forward to watching that in the theater :(
don't bother. they all die in the end.
I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
I'd give to site that I use, but if you were looking forward to watching it in the theater, and had 2 months to do it, and failed at this, you deserve to wait longer.
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I'd give to site that I use, but if you were looking forward to watching it in the theater, and had 2 months to do it, and failed at this, you deserve to wait longer.
Really? I rented all the discs on netflix to watch them with a girl... things with that went south and she had my netflix disc for 1 month. That was #4. Finally decided just ot watch them myself and not wait.... so watched the rest in the last 2 weeks.
I did find a place to watch them but its a cam and the movies are so dark it was hard to see so stopped.
Don't make me beg ;)
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In the Introduction to Pink Snow: Homotextual Possibilities in Canadian Fiction, Terry Goldie provides useful descriptions of homosexual subjectivity across the domains of Canadian literary discourse, Canadian society and culture and his personal experience as a queer Canadian academic. He argues that identity, volition and agency for the Canadian homosexual, like the modern "self," exist in a critical relation to the broader social, cultural and discursive communities he examines that is tenuous at best, agonizing at worst and always in gradients of subjective awareness. With respect to gay males and lesbians in "homosexual studies," Goldie notes that one need only look at the "myriad aspects of culture to see the extreme division" between people whose individual subjectivities are reduced and amalgamated under banners like "homosexual studies" and are constantly confounded by their differences as a result. Like a festering wound, the homosexual and the self's existence is pathologically affected by the crisis of modernity.
Like the voice of the Canadian homosexual, Goldie's study, the voice of the modern self (knowingly or not) has been mediated, obfuscated and appropriated by the dominant systems of modernity (by 'popular' culture, heteronormative discourse, etc..), and as a result receded, hidden in and among a cacophony of other meandering perceptions, inscribed subjectivities and virtual ontologies. Goldie's description of the assumptions present in contemporary Canadian "homosexual studies" which variously interpret Bishop Berkeley's observation that "to exist is to be perceived," is not used to articulate a common (if not unspoken) tendency in contemporary critique that eschews new or useful analysis, but instead to shame and condemn the "strange nominalization" or "game of orientation exposure," that was common practice in the gay and tabloid presses at the time.
Despite Goldie's scathing moralization of the press and culture of his time, (which obviously represented homosexuality in a disparaging, negative and violent valence), insight from the various astute descriptions of the complicated nature of homosexual subjectivity, gleaned through Berkley's thought, once creatively conjoined by ellipses and stripped of any dutiful, authorial (authoritative) citations, can be used to reveal a hidden voice articulating in a single breath, the schizophrenic nature common to both the homosexual and the anonymous modern self:
…I exist as a subject because I perceive and you exist as a subject because I perceive you perceiving… You are you because I perceive you perceiving as you… You are one with me because I perceive you perceiving in my way (4).
By remixing and stripping Goldie's text of obfuscating authorial interference, a clear proclamation of the plural, diffuse existence of the modern homosexual- which subsumes the apparently conflicting majority view of the minority culture with position of the minority individual's own immanent outlook- can be heard. It is an identity and perspective, like the modern self, that perpetually defers coherence and resists identification, and it's person is simultaneously "I", "you," "we" and "they"- though not any of these in particular.
In an attempt to clarify and isolate between the diametric, disparate interpretations of Berkley's thought, Goldie articulates a cogent conception of the homosexual identity, but in the end concedes that the situation is indeed outside the scope of his analytic framework: "It is more about the active subjectivity of the individual, whether that subjectivity is viewed from without or from within. It is more akin to the position of minority religion, defined by the individual's own claim to belong, an assertion of faith" (4). By remaining within the contemporary critical tradition of his time and dismissing the real relation between the schizophrenic homosexual perspective and the individual's assertion of faith in "minority religion," Goldie misses an opportunity to uncover new meaning because it lay outside the bounds of traditional academic critique (4).
What if to better understand the messy and untenable distinctions between majority and minority subjective and communal positions that stymies Goldie's analysis are instead assumed to be simultaneously possible and impossible? For modern anonymous users interacting online today, not only is this speculation a distinct possibility, it is becoming an essential and actual mode of relation. The "active subjectivity" which Goldie dismisses and attributes to mere faith of religious minorities, is becoming affectively embodied online in and between material (between objects and things like smartphones and laptops) semiotic (between concepts and structures like ideology and culture) relations. Anonymous users relating constantly in cybertext are becoming less limited to the traditional opposing binary views of either/or which have plagued thought and action since the Enlightenment and before. Instead, for the first time in history modern anonymous users are beginning to experience shared aspects of wildly disaparate, mutually exclusive and simultaneously common and shared subjective positions in online virtual experiences that are affecting their social lives and political actions in the world. Anonymous, alone, together in isolation with legions of other anonymous users, unlikely alliances and assemblages are forming, stabilizing and relating in the user mode and making new modes of possible agency, volition and existence.
The negative assumptions, that Goldie's describes as the "aura of the secret," in the context of North American culture and gay studies and criticism are not limited to the local experiences, discourses and cultures examined in Pink Snow, but thrive (and always have) wherever human beings relate in the world . Online, as more and more people engage through material semiotic means, the schizophrenic anonymous nature of a given user is given local community is becoming the default assumption and remaining active and circulated by anomalous users who act as living proof. These users, whatever community they inhabit, are known as 'trolls'. Although Goldie is unable to determine precisely what the 'aura of the secret' is in the limited context of his analysis, he (and many other contemporary critics) describe and analyze it repeatedly (and have for some time) with vicious precision and intimidating rigour.
In order to better understand this hidden relation that is shared tacitly online everyday, a new critical stance is required. It is this practical and theoretical awareness that Goldie (intentionally or not) schizophrenically articulates by smushing toghether (and of course citing) the ideas of Eve Sedgwick, Paul de Man, Lee Edelman and Jaques Derrida in a single, powerful sentence fragment: "all similarities are ultimately different, in which meaning is never grasped but always deferred:" (7). A mode of anonymous inquiry that is theoretically free from the illusions of history and tradition (a theory made practical by frequent recourse to the vast information databases and tools like Google and Wikipedia, copy/paste, and control-F techniques) and not limited by academic codes or authorial attribution may be used to embrace this theoretical awareness to create new meaning and interesting new debate.
In the vital, continuous, ephemeral relations between cybertext, users and media the isolated and entrenched subjective positions of text-author-reader-critic collapse into a singularity of the user. Free from the constraints of materiality, discursivity and spatio-temporality the user mode stabilizes in a unique and radical new stance through the mediation and dialogic communication within a given assemblage that affectively sticks in and between material semiotic relations and social life in the world. Online, the users subjectivity becomes concrete and viral in the form of cyberculture . Each heterogenous subjective user (knowingly or not) affects each other, like so many sparks dancing on a Great gasoline lake. Sometimes, the sparks reach a density and intensity capable of penetrating their liquid foundation and ignite in an explosive eruption of network activity and communicative exchange. In these combustive moments of emergence, the paradoxical anonymous disunity of subjective becomings, becoming something different all together.
Presently this new, unexpected form of subjectivity is emerging from the fray of shimmering relations of users, increasingly operating in an anonymous mode. Anonymity diffuses users perceptions of their individual intractability, vulnerability and isolation and overcomes (affectively short-circuts) this fear by sharing instances of it in and between the posts, comments, image memes, emails and profiles of a given local community of others who tend to relate in kind and perpetuate the sharing and circulation of support and assurance. The effect of this new, highly affective process of material semiotic exchange is the tendency for assemblages of seemingly isolated users to discover the kindred nature of their subjective experiences and the recognition of this relation then strengthens and stabilizes assemblages which tend to become more aware of their common situations, desires and volitions which in turn yield more confidence and coherence locally which then spread to adjunct communities, strengthening the possibility of unified articulation, agency and becoming in turn.


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When Dieter Kosslick, the head of the Berlin International Film Festival, first announced that fully five of the nineteen films in competition at this year's Berlinale would be German films, the cinema world looked askance. Had Kosslick been overtaken by a sudden access of Teutonic nationalism? Or was he on to something?
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Turns out it was the latter, and my two favorite films at the festival were German. (Both of which, by the way, I found far more cinematically developed than the film that ultimately won the Golden Bear, the heartwarming but thinly dramatized and predictable Bosnian film "Grbavica", which I discussed in my mid-fest diary.) The first was "Der Freie Wille" (Free Will), a powerful drama of a serial rapist who struggles to have a normal life, also discussed in my earlier report. The second was "Sehnsucht" (Longing), an exceptionally well-observed portrait of contemporary small-town German life that manages to feel like something out of the heyday of neo-realism, or even like a documentary, yet is also formally brilliant and sports a spiffy, and funny, Brechtian ending that makes light of everything we've just seen and been through.
In the film, directed by 38-year-old first-time filmmaker Valeska Grisebach, a metalworker and volunteer fireman named Markus is happily married to his childhood sweetheart Ella. He goes away for a weekend for some training with his fireman buddies and wakes up one morning in bed with a waitress named Rose. He has no idea what if anything happened, but he begins to fall in love with Rose even though his feelings for his wife haven't changed a bit. Basically, that's it. But on this slender plot, Grisebach has erected a supremely subtle portrait of the hidden complexities of everyday life. I was also struck by the brilliant acting by the three principals and, when I met one of the film's screenwriters by chance, I discovered to my astonishment that they, like all the secondary characters, were non-professionals as well.
A film I couldn't warm up to at all, or maybe just didn't get, was Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang's "Invisible Waves", also in the competition. Ratanaruang has been hot on the festival circuit since Mon-rak Transistor (2001) and, especially, "Last Life in the Universe" (2003), which clearly enjoyed flaunting its stylish "meaninglessness," but which I kind of liked. The new film contains the usual Ratanaruang mixture of B-film gangster plot, existential guilt, ill-suited lovers who never get it together, and repetitive jokes with props that don't work. To me, it's little more than warmed-over Wong Kar-wai, with about one-quarter of the brilliance. (This film was even shot by Wong's DP, the legendary bon vivant Chris Doyle.)
Another bit of ersatz Wong Kar-wai was provided by Wong's fellow Hong Konger Pang Ho-Cheung in a film called "Isabella." A lifeless story about a corrupt cop from Macao and the girl he sleeps with, who may or may not be his daughter, the level of invention in this film is indicated by its title, which is the name of the girl's dog, whom the girl spends an inordinate amount of time looking for.
The biggest flurry at the festival was caused by Michael Winterbottom's documentary/docudrama "The Road to Guantanamo" (co-directed by Mat Whitecross), which concerns the brutal imprisonment of three young Pakistani men at the infamous U.S. base in Cuba. The excitement lasted long enough to generate a Silver Bear for Direction for Winterbottom and Whitecross, but this uneasy mixture of real talking heads and scenes played with actors doesn't really work as a film. Nevertheless European critics all-too-ready to condemn, in black-and-white terms, America's misbegotten invasion of Iraq loved it. Cooler heads, however, pointed to its obvious one-sidedness and seemingly completely uncritical acceptance of the young men's shaky claims regarding what they were doing in Afghanistan when it was clear a U.S. invasion was imminent. (That said, of course, the Guantanamo prison is nevertheless an outrage that should immediately be shut down.) It's one of those "documentaries" that win prizes because critics agree with the film's point-of-view rather than because it's a good film. (Think Fahrenheit 911.)
Another film in the competition was Iranian director Rafi Pitt's "It's Winter," a poetic, ultra-slight tale about poverty and unemployment in contemporary Iran that unfortunately never comes to life. The wintry landscapes are lovely, but in the absence of an identifiable plot and well-developed characters, viewers' attention is very likely to wander. "Romanzo Criminale" is an over-the-top Italian gangster movie full of the impossibly beautiful people that seem to populate recent Italian films and that always make them feel so artificial. It's also filled with the usual cliches about tough guys and their whores, and some female critics I talked to found it offensive, but amid a competition filled with difficult (and sometimes pretentious) art films, its energy provided this critic, at least, a delicious guilty pleasure. Another film about gangsters was "Find Me Guilty", the latest effort by the amazingly productive Sidney Lumet, whose first film was "12 Angry Men", made in 1957, for God's sake. The new film improbably stars Vin Diesel as a gangster who acts as his own lawyer in a RICO trial. Based on a true story and actual, recorded dialogue, it's often quite funny, but since it is also largely confined to the courtroom, it's terribly static and never quite comes to life.
My favorite of the films stuck at the end of the competition was "The Comedy of Power", directed by another octogenarian, Frenchman Claude Chabrol. One of the most uneven filmmakers in cinema history, this film ends up somewhere in the middle of his oeuvre. Focused on a judge, deliciously played by Isabelle Huppert, who is investigating criminal links between rich businessmen and high government officials, the film is crisply shot in sparkling interiors, as always in a Chabrol film, and sports the machine-gun dialogue and the fey thoughts about the bourgeoisie that the director is famous for. Alas, things in the film don't quite hang together, but it's also quite possible that they really weren't meant to.
In other sections, I saw three interesting if uneven films. The best of the lot was a strange film (shown in the always weird and wacky Forum section, naturally) made by Swiss filmmaker Thomas Imbach called "Lenz." It purports to be an autobiographical portrait of a filmmaker, obsessed by the seventeenth century German writer of the same name and the famous Buechner novella about him, who is trying desperately to reclaim his family while steadily going insane. There's much here that's reminiscent of Werner Herzog's excellent Grizzly Man, one of my favorite films of 2005. The kink in the works, however, is that the central character, Lenz, who talks to the camera from beginning to end, and the in the process chillingly renders interior states exterior, is actually played by an actor and isn't the director at all. Self-indulgent at times, yes, but also quite mesmerizing.
At the opposite end of the universe was "Milarepa," a glossy movie from Bhutan, made by the producer of The Cup and starring several monk-actors from that film, that details the life of Tibetan Buddhism's most revered saint, the eleventh century monk Milarepa. If a bit slow-moving at times, its stateliness, deep spirituality, gorgeous mountain scenery, and transcendent music should make it a big hit on the festival circuit. The last film I saw, a real diamond in the rough, was Rampage. Though it needs to be cut drastically, this power-packed, sometimes even shocking documentary of life in a ghetto in Miami, shot and directed by Australian filmmaker George Gittoes, has lots of potential and shows an over-exposed side of American life in a dramatically new way.
ABOUT THE WRITER: Before moving to North Carolina in 2004, Peter Brunette was chief critic at indieWIRE. He now reviews festival films for the British trade journal Screen International and is Reynolds Professor of Film Studies at Wake Forest University.
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Science in the City will take over downtown Tucson on Saturday, February 16, 2013! The Children's Museum Tucson will participate in Science in the City, with Family SCIFest. While the Museum will offer FREE ADMISSION all day (10:00 am to 5:00 pm), the Family SCIFest activities will take place between 10 am and 2 pm both inside the Museum as well in the courtyard and on the lawn along 6th Avenue.
Family SCIFest is geared for families and children of all ages to discover the fun behind science. Children will have the opportunity to participate in hands-on demonstrations and experiments in the areas of aero space sciences, astronomy, biology, ecology, engineering, environmental sciences and physics.
Participating guest organizations for Family SCIFest include Arts Integration Solutions, U of A Department of Astronomy, BI05 Institute, Flandrau Science Center, Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona, Pima JTED & Engineering Programs, Physics Factory, Pima Air & Space Museum, Pima for Kids, Planetary Science Institute, Reid Park Zoo, Science Approach, Society of Women Engineers, Space Imagery Center, Southern Arizona Rocketry Association, Tucson Audubon Society, TUSD Science Programs and U of A Computer Science Ambassadors.
The Children's Museum Tucson staff will also be showcasing new Nano activities. These are courtesy of the NISE Network, a national community of researchers and informal science educators dedicated to fostering public awareness, engagement and understanding of nanoscale science, engineering and technology.
Free admission for the Family SCIFest is made possible through the financial support of the following sponsors: 2nd Saturdays, Arizona Technology Council, Pima County JTED, NISE Network, Thomas R. Brown Foundations and Texas Instruments.
Also during Family SCIFest, the Children's Museum Tucson will be accepting donations to assist the community of Newtown, CT as they raise funds to create their own children's museum, Everwonder. While the plans for a children's museum were in place before the recent tragedy, there is a greater sense of urgency in bringing the museum to fruition to help the community heal. The Children's Museum Tucson is pleased to participate alongside other Association of Children's Museum member institutions that are helping the Newtown, CT community build their own children's museum.
In addition to this Science in the City event at the Children's Museum Tucson, Tucson Electric Power will be hosting Tech in Tucson Showcase and Innovation Forum between 1 pm and 4pm. Forum guest speakers to include, Tucson City Mayor Jonathan Rothschild and Congressman Ron Barber.
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Beauty, harbour, area, shops, lots of places to visit. Castle.
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Walk from apartment to town - 20 mins!
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In 1965, a state and federal entitlement partnership known as Medicaid was created to provide basic health insurance at no cost for very low-income families, the aged and individuals with disabilities. Over the decades, however, the program has expanded to provide coverage and services to an increasing number of people at higher income levels. As a result, its costs have sky-rocketed, placing a considerable financial burden on states' budgets. In the proposed Fiscal Year 2012 budget, Medicaid will cost New Jersey's taxpayers $5 billion.
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I was really really excited to see this film and my hopes were very high and I guess they shouldn't have been because I left the theater quite disappointed. The film did look beautiful visually and I loved that but the makers of this film were not able to capture Kerouac's prose and his state of mind whatsoever. The characters are not developed at all and nothing really happens in this film, therefore I see no point in recommending to see it. I found the film to be extremely bobring and pretentious in many ways and that is a big minus in my book. I did enjoy the performances of Mitchell, Fischler and especially Lucas, however, Barr was pretty horrible and never really captured the character of Kerouac.
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February 25, 2004
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Tulane engineering know- how and high school ingenuity will be put to the test at the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) regional robotics competition on March 18 in Atlanta.
Ho-Hoon Lee, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and Liang Yi, one of his graduate students, have been mentoring a team of 30 11th-grade students at the New Orleans Center for Science and Math who are designing and building a robot for the upcoming contest.
The FIRST robotics competition pits teams of robots, their human controllers and human players against each other in frenzied contests to win points.
The teams try to beat both the clock and each other to complete a set of tasks, including sorting a series of colored balls and putting the robots through some sophisticated maneuvers.
Approximately 930 teams involving more than 23,000 students from nearly every state, in addition to Brazil, Canada, Great Britain and Mexico, will compete this year in regional contests, with the winners meeting in a final championship event. Preparing for the competition brings high school students together with university teachers and other advisers in a fascinating, complex project, providing students with rewarding experiences that may well guide their life and career choices.
This is the first year Tulane has helped with this competition, which will have the participation of only three Louisiana teams. The New Orleans Center for Science and Math team is receiving valuable assistance from NASA and from Intralox, a New Orleans area company that manufactures industrial conveyor belts, as well as technical coaching from Tulane. Lee, whose area of research is mechatronics, is a good choice to mentor a robotics team.
"Mechatronics is an interdisciplinary field of mechanical engineering and electrical engineering," explains Lee, "and my research interest is in control of moving objects."
In the course of Lee's research at Tulane he has produced a prototype of an improved industrial overhead crane design and has built a flexible robot. He is currently working on a mobile robot that can be controlled through Internet and wireless communication. The high school team members first met with their Tulane advisers for a planning session in November 2003.
But the actual design and construction of their robot could not begin until Jan. 10, when teams received boxes containing the basic assortment of parts. "The box had some bars, some actuators, and other things," says Lee. "These are just the raw materials. Actually, our students have designed their own robot. There are some robot tasks, and to do the tasks, we have to build a good design."
Construction of the robot has been taking place at the New Orleans Center for Science and Math classrooms on the Delgado Community College campus. Operating on a short time frame, the team has nearly completed its robot, according to Lee. The team is working to complete the robot before the Feb. 20 deadline. Lee and Yi are providing valuable electrical-mechanical expertise to the team.
"We are helping them with the sensors, actuators, computers, interfaces between the sensors and the actuators-to-computer systems," says Lee. "And we have to deal with the wireless communication."
Working with the team has been labor-intensive but rewarding for Lee and his graduate student, who work with the high schoolers in two-hour sessions, three times a week. Lee also has given the student team a tour of his mechatronics laboratory in the engineering school complex. In addition to encouraging talented local high school students to seriously consider the idea of attending Tulane, Lee says he's learning a lot from them.
"I came to this university directly from my country about two and a half years ago, and I didn't understand the background and way of thinking of the students," he says. "So if I understand what they are doing and what they learn in class, I can improve my teaching."
One of Lee's projects at Tulane dovetails with his work on the FIRST competition. He is planning to build 10 identical small robots as teaching and research tools, and he has already built a prototype of the robot. It is equipped with a video camera, wireless and Internet controls, and a very powerful small computer.
"Graduate students will write the control programs," says Lee. One possible teaching application of the robots would be to use them in robotic soccer competitions. "When they are ready, I will send them to international robot soccer contests, and possibly to compete with other university robot soccer teams," he says. "By doing that I can teach my graduate students, and also I can teach the undergraduate students. And a couple of the students in the FIRST robotics team are interested in working with us to build the robots during the summer vacation."
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You know what would work well for Democrats in 2014? Comparing impeachment talk to Trayvon Martin.
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I'm African American & have really thick skin. I'm 9 months post-op, but nose is still swollen. I'm not happy, it still doesn't look like it did when my splint came off.I've had one 10 mg/cc,one 20 mg/cc,and TWO 40 mg/cc kenalog shots injected in my nose. It does seem like the shots help SLIGHTLY but not that much of a difference. Sometime, it seems my nose looks better 1 or 2 days after the shot, but then it swells back up again.Should i get more or should i stop. I get them done every 6weeks.
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It sounds like you already know the answer. Repeated kenalog injections especially 40mg/cc solutions can cause problems with skin color, surface contour etc that are not fixable. There are other ways to handle swelling such as keeping the head elevated, sleeping on 2 pillows, application of warm compresses, compression (although that is difficult on the nose). Not knowing exactly what was done at surgery (cartilage grafting, placement of an implant etc) no one here can really advise you what to do. If you had an implant placed and these are signs of infection that implant may need to come out.
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You just heard you have a math test on Friday — the same day as your big history test and weekly quiz on Spanish verbs. Are they crazy? How will you get all your studying done?
Don't panic. There are some secrets to good studying. If you follow them, you'll be able to take all three tests with confidence.
Studying for tests and quizzes actually starts way before you even know you'll have a test. Good study techniques begin in the classroom as you take notes. Note-taking is a way of remembering what you were taught or what you've read about.
Some keys to note-taking are to write down facts that a teacher mentions or writes on the board during class. If you miss something, ask your teacher to go over facts with you after class. Other keys to good note-taking are keeping notes organized by subject and making sure they're easy to read and review. (This may mean that you need to recopy some notes at home or during a free period while the class is still fresh in your mind.)
Unfortunately, most schools don't have classes that teach you how to take note. When it comes to taking good notes, it can take some experimenting to figure out what works, so don't give up.
When you sit down to study, think about how much time you want to devote to each topic. This will keep you from getting overwhelmed.
If it's Monday, and you've got those three tests on Friday, figure out how much time you need for studying between now and then. Then figure out how long each subject will take. For example, a weekly Spanish verb test probably won't be as intense as a big history test. So you won't need to set aside as much study time for the Spanish test — and if you break it up into a short amount every night, that's even better.
Another study technique is called "chunking" — breaking large topics down into chunks. Let's say you have a history test on World War II. Instead of thinking about studying all of World War II (which could overwhelm even a historian), try breaking your study sessions into 2-year chunks or studying the material by specific battles.
When you've decided on a manageable amount of work, consider how long you need to study it. Most people can really concentrate for about 45 minutes — after that you'll probably want to take a short break. If you find yourself getting distracted and thinking about other things as you study, pull your attention back as soon as possible. Remind yourself that when your 45 minutes of studying are up, you can take a 15-minute break.
As you study, review your notes and any special information from your textbook. In the case of math or science problems or equations, do some practice problems. Pay special attention to anything the teacher seemed to stress in class. (This is where good note-taking comes in handy!)
Many teachers tell students ahead of time what the format of an exam will be. This can help you tailor how you study. For example, if you know you're going to have multiple-choice questions on World War II, you'll know to focus on studying facts and details. On the other hand, if the exam will contain essay questions, you'll want to think about which topics are most likely to be covered. Then come up with several possible essay topics and use your notes, books, and other reference sources to figure out how you might answer questions on those topics.
When trying to memorize dates, names, or other factual information, keep in mind that it usually takes a number of tries to remember something correctly (that's one reason why it's a good idea to start studying well in advance of a test). Use special memory triggers that the teacher may have suggested or ones that you invent yourself. Read things over several times if you need to, and write down any phrases or thoughts that will help you remember main ideas or concepts.
Some people find it helps to teach what they're studying aloud to an imaginary student. Or work with a study partner and take turns teaching aloud. Another study technique is making flashcards that summarize some of the important facts or concepts. You can then use these to review for a test.
It's tempting to put off studying until the last minute (also known as procrastination). Unfortunately, by the time students get to high school there's so much going on that there's usually no room for procrastination.
If you're a procrastinator (and who isn't sometimes?), one of the best ways to overcome it is by staying organized. After you've written test dates and project due dates on a calendar, it's hard to ignore them. And sitting down to organize and plan your work really highlights how much time things take. Organization makes it harder to procrastinate.
Sometimes people put off studying because they feel overwhelmed by the fact that they're behind on things or they just feel really disorganized. Don't let this happen to you. Keep your notes organized, stay on top of required readings, and follow the other study tips mentioned above to stay focused and in control. Your teachers will give you plenty of notice on important tests so you have enough time to study for the type of exam you'll be taking.
But what if you're feeling overwhelmed by all the stuff you have to do? Are classes or extracurricular activities limiting your time to study properly? Ask your teachers for help prioritizing. You may need to involve the people in charge of your activities — such as your coach or music or drama teacher — in working out a solution.
Don't wait until the last minute to talk to your teachers, though, or you'll just look like a procrastinator! And don't be afraid to ask for help. Teachers respect students who are thoughtful and interested in learning and doing well.
Sometimes it can be useful to go over things with people who are studying for the same test: You can make sure that your notes are correct and that you understand the subject. Study groups are also helpful because you can work together to come up with ways to remember concepts and then test one another.
For some people who are easily distracted, though, study groups spell disaster because they get off the topic. When you're with a bunch of friends or classmates, you may spend more time hanging out than actually studying. One way to ensure quiet and focus when studying with a group is to do it in the library. You'll be forced to keep things more low-key than if you're at someone's kitchen table.
In the end, it comes down to what works best for you. If you like to study alone and feel most confident doing it that way, that's great. If you think you'd like to work in a group, try it out — just be aware of the drawbacks.
When you've finished studying, you should feel like you can approach the test or quiz with confidence — not necessarily that you will get 100% of the answers correct, but that you have a good understanding of the information.
Most of all, don't panic if you can't remember some facts the night before the test. Even if you've spent all evening studying, the brain needs time to digest all that information. You'll be surprised by what comes back to you after sleeping.
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Date reviewed: November 2008
Reviewed by: Chris Cortellessa, M.Ed, NCC
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Stuck with a huge fiscal deficit, the government has defaulted on the equity infusion plan for Air India spread over a period of nine years in the first year itself.
Of the infusion of Rs 10,600 crore for the current fiscal, Air India is likely to get Rs 6,000 crore in the first year and the rest will be cleared in the next fiscal.
Air India will get Rs 6,000 crore as equity infusion from the government. Of the money, Rs 4,000 crore was announced in this years budget and the government will give Rs 2,000 crore more for the current fiscal. However, we have been assured that the rest of the money will be released in the first month of the next fiscal, said a senior civil aviation ministry official.
As part of the turnaround plan cleared by the Cabinet, Air India is to get an equity infusion of over Rs 30,000 crore over a period of 9 years starting from 2012-13. In the first year, the airline was to get Rs 10,600 crore as equity infusion. The short-term debt of Rs 18,000 crore has been restructured.
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There are a number of reasons why the West Virginia Medical
Association has teamed up with an insurance company, Medical
Assurance, to allege that meritless malpractice claims are driving up
insurance rates for doctors.
More than 690,000 reasons, actually. And they're supposed to be
Medical Assurance has paid the state Medical Association
at least $115,000 a year since 1995, or an estimated $690,000 to date, as
part of a confidential agreement.
This secret deal requires association members to lobby
legislators on the company's behalf - as they did during last week's White
Coat Day at the Legislature, and the catered legislative reception the
evening before.
As part of this agreement, Medical Assurance offers individual
doctors reasons to lobby. Association members can reap a share of the $208
million company's annual profits, as well as a series of breaks on their
premiums - provided they buy their policies from Medical Assurance.
In exchange for such perks, association members "shall assist
Medical Assurance, as requested," with fact-finding projects, while
the two groups "shall cooperate and assist each other in monitoring
proposed legislation and administrative regulations in West Virginia," the
agreement says.
There's more to the price tag. No other insurance company can
advertise or otherwise promote itself at association meetings or in its
journal, brochures and other publications, according to the agreement. The
articles or advertisements from Medical Assurance in its
publications when requested.
Medical Assurance has provided the information for the "talking
points" that association members have wielded when talking to reporters
and lawmakers. The points blame the insurer's rising rates on "the
frequency and severity" of mostly "meritless" lawsuits.
Few if any of the "talking points" are supported, however, by a Gazette
analysis of malpractice claims resolved in the last eight years, as
reported to the state Board of Medicine.
Medical Assurance has barred association members from disclosing
the agreement or its terms. The agreement, which is stamped "confidential"
across each page, can be shared with association members only on a
"need-to-know" basis, it says.
The Gazette obtained a copy after it was listed as an exhibit in a
December filing from Medical Assurance to the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission.
As a business that sells stock to the public, Medical Assurance
is required to file such documents with the SEC. The insurance
giant's annual report to stockholders may shed more light on the current
"crisis" campaign.
Medical Assurance's report called low insurance premiums
"a disservice in the long run to insureds, investors and employees."
"We are also continually reviewing the adequacy of our rates in every
the rampant cost-cutting by shortsighted insurers seeking to gain market
reviews reveal the necessity of higher premiums."
Association members have also cited the talking points to allege that
West Virginia has among the highest costs racked up by an insurer to
defend a doctor against a malpractice claim. These tort costs force
insurers like Medical Assurance to raise the rates they charge
doctors, association members contend.
But Medical Assurance actually wants the highest tort costs of
any insurance company, according to the annual SEC report.
"In 1999 we continued to lead our industry in spending on the cost of
claims," Crowe boasts. "At first glance this may seem extravagant, but
take the time to understand the long-term benefits and you understand why
we are committed to the aggressive defense of claims."
As for those benefits, Crowe wrote, "We win more cases, discourage
frivolous lawsuits and build policyholder loyalty."
"Aggressive defense of claims"
Dr. Evangeline C. Pizarro does not understand any benefit, long-term or
otherwise, from Medical Assurance's "aggressive defense of claims."
Pizarro has quit her Wheeling practice and lives in fear of losing her
house because of that defensive stance, a lawsuit she filed against the
insurance company
Pizarro alleges that Medical Assurance ignored her when she
repeatedly asked the insurer to settle a malpractice claim filed against
The family suing Pizarro offered to settle the case for $300,000 - well
within the $1 million policy she had with Medical Assurance. But
the insurer refused; its "aggressive defense of claims" includes an
avoidance of settlement.
Pizarro's lawyer, provided by Medical Assurance, told her not to
worry about the rejected settlement offer. The lawyer, William A. Davis,
or anything," the suit alleges.
Pizarro's case went to trial in August. The Belmont County, Ohio, jury
returned a $7.5 million verdict against her. The judge in the case may
award the family even more: Their lawyers allege that because
Medical Assurance refused to try and settle the case in "good
faith," the family deserves interest dating back to when they first filed
Pizarro agrees in her suit that Medical Assurance "failed to act
in good faith." She sued after Medical Assurance balked at honoring
her insurance policy and pledging to pay the jury award.
Medical Assurance has asked a judge to dismiss Pizarro's
lawsuit. Their defense: Pizarro may not have known it, but she promised
That policy includes a clause requiring doctors to submit disputes to
binding arbitration. Pizarro says she knew nothing of the clause when she
Cassidy of Wheeling, questions how many other doctors realize they signed
this right away when they decided to do business with Medical
"They have not had any direct influence"
West Virginia Medical Association Director Evan Jenkins said he
knew little of Pizarro's allegations when he met with Gazette editors and
a reporter last month. Jenkins also said he did not know whether his
members knew they had signed binding arbitration clauses when they bought
insurance from Medical Assurance.
In addition to their secret deal, the association
publicly lists Medical Assurance as its preferred carrier. Jenkins
Medical Assurance.
"I think that the medical community embraces this aggressive
defense policy," he
Jenkins did not return a half-dozen phone messages left last week
requesting comment on the secret agreement. Dr. John Holloway, the
group's president, said Friday that he did not know how much money
Medical Assurance has provided.
Holloway also said the association's legislative committee, and not
Medical Assurance, has crafted its lobbying agenda.
"Obviously, we've had lots of conversations with them about the
liability climate, but they have not had any direct influence." Holloway
Frank O'Neil, a vice president of Medical Assurance at its
Alabama headquarters, would not say how much money has been paid to the
association. "Our agreement on that is confidential," he
O'Neil did say that Medical Assurance expected to share no
profits with West Virginia doctors this year, citing premium-loss ratio
figures. He agreed with Holloway on the insurer's sway over the
"We help supply information to the association when requested," he
"As far as I know, the association develops those talking points and
their literature on their own."
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One of the most fabulous, transgressive people to ever almost cross into mainstream American culture is at the heart of Jeffrey Schwarz's new documentary, "I Am Divine." Framed around the 1988 death of then 42-year-old Harris Glenn Milstead -- the man behind Divine -- it is mostly a loving, hilarious (nobody provides better on-camera energy than John Waters) and complex tribute to a man and his female alter-ego, both of whom lived their lives to the fullest. It takes us from Milstead's challenged Baltimore upbringing as an overweight kid (where he grew up just blocks from Waters, though the two didn't cross paths until they were both 17) to the night he died in his sleep ("of happiness," friend and manager Bernard Jay says in the film). The film must be watched by anyone who thinks, say, Lady Gaga is transgressive. Because Mother Monster has nothing on who the film rightfully proclaims "the Queen Mother of us all."
"In The Name Of" (directed by Malgorzata Szumowksa)
Winner of the Teddy Award for best LGBT narrative film at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, Malgorzata Szumowksa's Polish drama "In the Name Of" sensitively approaches the central character of a gay priest. Father Adam (Andrzej Chyra, in a rather mesmerizing performance) is the pastor of a tiny parish in the middle of the Polish countryside. As drama begins to surround Father Adam, "In The Name Of…" -- which is the opening night film of Inside Out – develops into a thoughtful, distinctive portrait of a truly devout man struggling to come to terms with himself (notably after developing a relationship with a Jesus lookalike youth at the center for difficult boys he devotes time to). And though the film is largely a serious affair, look out for the film's doozy of a sole comic scene, in which Adam gets ridiculously drunk and dances with a portrait of Pope Benedict XVI.
"Interior. Leather Bar." (directed by Travis Mathews and James Franco)
Actor-director-playwright-academic-etc. James Franco has collaborated with up-and-coming queer filmmaker Travis Mathews for this film that explores the idea of the two of them remaking the 40 minutes of explicit S&M material allegedly cut from William Friedkin's controversial 1980 film "Cruising" to avoid an X-rating. While that in itself is a worthwhile concept for a film (and a part of "Interior. Leather Bar." is indeed a hardcore recreation of just that), the film extends well beyond it to offer footage -- perhaps real, perhaps not -- of Franco, Mathews and their cast and crew as they attempt to pull off the feat. The result is a discussion of representations of queer sex in both Hollywood and society in general that won raves when it debuted at Sundance in January. Say what you want about Mr. Franco, but try not to admire his attempt at utilize his celebrity to push certain boundaries in this film.
Yen Tan's quiet, moving "Pit Stop" made its world premiere at Sundance back in January, where it was largely overshadowed by more name-heavy (though also very good) queer flicks like the aforementioned James Franco co-directed "Interior. Leather Bar." and David Sedaris adaptation "C.O.G." The film depicts a series of characters living in small-town Texas, among them two lost gay men in their mid-30s (Bill Heck and Marcus DeAnda). Similar in tone to 2011's queer cinema breakout "Weekend" (a staple on this circuit two years ago), "Pit Stop" has a sincerity that creeps up on you and will linger in your mind long after the credits roll.


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Raleigh, NC (Sports Network) - Led by 31 points and 13 rebounds by T.J. Warren, the NC State Wolfpack took down the Florida State Seminoles, 84-66, in an ACC matchup at PNC Arena.
For the Wolfpack (19-7, 8-5 ACC), C.J. Leslie added a double-double of his own with 19 points and 10 rebounds, while Scott Wood finished with 13 points and Lorenzo Brown dished out nine assists to go along with nine points.
Michael Snaer led the Seminoles (14-12, 6-7) with 20 points, while Okaro White scored 13 and Ian Miller chipped in with 11 points.
NC State took a 40-30 lead into halftime, shooting 46.9 percent from the field and outrebounding FSU 21-10. The Seminoles shot 42.9 percent from the field in the opening stanza.
After the break the Wolfpack again dominated the boards, grabbing a 24-11 rebounding edge. They shot 44.4 percent from the field and outscored the Seminoles 16-7 at the free-throw line in the frame. The Seminoles made 43.3 percent of their field goal tries, but just 3-of-11 from beyond the 3-point arc. NC State pushed their lead as high as 21 points as they delivered their third straight victory.
The Wolfpack dominated the Seminoles on the boards, 45-21, and also outscored FSU in the paint, 42-30.
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