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Bad fit: Watching The Jacket requires restraints
When people talk about the subsequent work of Academy Award-winning actors, two words usually come up: Louise Fletcher. After winning the Best Actress Oscar for her supporting role in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Fletcher returned to obscurity, never playing another major role in an "A" movie.
Speaking of cuckoo's nests, The Jacket finds Adrien Brody going the Halle Berry route with a post-Oscar thriller (hers was Gothika) set in an asylum for the criminally insane.
In the '70s movies like The Jacket could be blamed on drugs. They were made by people on drugs to be seen by people on drugs.
Today, the time-travel aspects of the plot can be explained by quantum physics and the What the (Bleep) fans who appreciate films that take more vitamins than drugs.
I don't know what director John Maybury (Love Is the Devil: Sketches for a Portrait of Francis Bacon), who spends more time in the contemporary art world than the film world, was on when he made The Jacket.
Brody plays Jack Starks, who is wounded– killed, actually, but revived– in the Gulf War. A year later, suffering from retrograde amnesia, he's hitchhiking in Vermont and blacks out when a cop is killed. Jack is sent to the Alpine Grove Psychiatric Institute, where Dr. Becker (Kris Kristofferson) experiments on him.
Jack is pumped full of drugs, put in restraints and shut in a drawer in the morgue for hours at a time. "It's like being in the womb," Dr. Becker explains. He also excuses what he does with, "You can't break something that's already broken." The restraints supposedly include the (strait)jacket of the title, but we never see it. It looks like Jack is strapped into a body bag with the head end left open.
The sensory deprivation starts Jack tripping. He has glimpses of traumatic events in his past, but these flashbacks give way to flash-forwards, 15 years in the future, when he's befriended by beautiful but troubled Jackie Price (Keira Knightley). Through her he learns that he died on New Year's Day, 1993, which gives him about a week to change the past to change the future.
Other hospital inhabitants include dedicated Dr. Lorenson (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and Rudy Mackenzie (Daniel Craig), an example of the kind of person who really belongs there.
The story is reasonably engrossing to this point, despite the feeling that there's an IV hooked up to the film and Maybury is feeding it a steady drip of pretentious artiness. That feeling continues as the plot loses momentum during the investigation and resolution phases. The silliness quotient rises steadily, culminating in a scene where two doctors are apparently going to let a patient bleed to death.
There's one possibility the script doesn't confront. Jack meets Jackie as a little girl before he gets into trouble. Her wasted mother (Kelly Lynch) screams at him not to touch the child. The fact that his mind seeks her out in the future and they become romantically involved could indicate he had some unhealthy feelings for the girl.
Had the movie held my interest, my mind wouldn't have had time for such detours. Most viewers will require restraints as strong as Jack's to make them sit through the final hour of The Jacket.


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His second line in the sand makes it that much more unlikely.
"Our position is that in 2011 the mission is over," Dion told reporters Monday.
"And we need to make that clear otherwise NATO and the government of Afghanistan will assume . . . that Canada is setting for a never-ending mission.
The National said that several Liberals responded positively to the news, an encouraging sign there could yet be a deal.
At the very least, this concession does suggest the Conservatives are willing to try and find a compromise, how far that goes is anybody's guess. The government may be calculating it is better to get an agreement, than leave the question open-ended heading into a campaign.
As for the other line in the sand, I found these comments from a Liberal MP telling:
"If you're out there with some people that are building a road and suddenly you're attacked with mortars or whatever but people are hiding somewhere away from the road, what do you do?" asked Liberal MP Roy Cullen. "Do you just sort of stand guard and put on your helmets or do you call for the 'search and destroy' people?"
I think Harper may have blinked here, which means there is room for the Liberals to ask for firm commitments, hard numbers for allocations, percentages devoted to what priorities. If Harper is throwing the Liberals a sizeable bone, chances are he is willing to go further, because this move reveals a genuine want. If the Liberals accept a combat component, without strings and protocols, they might just find they get the "re-focus" they have argued for, for the better part of a year.

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But I see that there is a read(buf,offset,len) method that read "len" byte from stream and write them in a buf.
I have this problem:
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2° file: len 5
3° file: len 8
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so I have a Stream of len :23
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in Buf I have only the first 10 byte (the stream of 1° file)
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but I don't like this code.
is it possible read all byte of the stream white only 1 read?
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The New Face of Home Exercise
21st century solutions to improve patient care and your practice.
By Brian Graham, DC and Michael Richards
Prescribing patients home exercises can be critical for their recovery, but getting patients to exercise – not so easy.The good news is that new online systems can save time, improve feedback, measure outcome, and motivate compliance while building patient satisfaction.
Stick figures and line drawings have served the profession well for decades. Typically, the patient dutifully nods when asked if they understand what to do. Back at home, however, exercise positions are easily forgotten, inanimate drawings are misunderstood, and patients have no way to ask questions or seek feedback until they return to the clinic.
Patients can become de-motivated and give up trying, a fact born out of research indicating that at best, 33 percent of patients actually do their home exercises.1 And we all suspect the percentage is probably half or less that number! In frustration, many patients are starting to ask their DCs to videotape and instruct them on proper form — using the patient's smartphone, but there is no way to include required sets and reps, notes or feedback.
In either case, DCs are not able to monitor patient progress and must rely on self reporting they know is false. They have little data to help patients improve, which is becoming a more critical consideration.
At the same time, there are more than 10,000 medical and fitness apps in the iTunes Store, and patients expect, and can get, an app for just about everything.2 Technology has spurred the "quantified self" movement: the social phenomena of measuring vital statistics of every breath, step, and beat of everyday living.3
All this leads to the observation that the question is not if, but when, most clinics will go online with exercise instruction.
Online Solutions Explained
Online exercise prescription systems allow practitioners to select exercise videos, animations or pictures, customize instructions to each patient, and create programs. Templates can be used to standardize treatment protocols and minimize prescription creation time. Patients can see the precise exercise positions to use, follow prescribed exercise frequencies, and schedule and run workouts on a computer or mobile device.
At one end of the technology spectrum, online home exercise programs (HEPs) permit clinics to select and e-mail line drawings. At the other end, programs are available today that provide thousands of animated or video-based exercises, full customization of every exercise, private labeling, and video creation capabilities. The more sophisticated programs even have various patient-engagement techniques and marketing components. And starting this summer, at least one motion-sensing PT "game" using the Microsoft Kinect system goes live, tracking and correcting patients as they follow online rehab instruction in front of their TV.
The Advantages of Going Online
The prospect of adopting another software solution can appear daunting, but the good news is that online exercise prescription systems are now simple to learn and use. None of them requires a lot of up-front investment of time or resources, and they are typically served from the "cloud," which means there is no software to manage or update. Users only need Internet access to create or access their program.
To be successful, each clinic should put someone in charge of managing program adoption, create a few templates and test prescriptions, and the benefits of the new service will become evident in a couple of months. Let's review the advantages of going online from different perspectives.
Clinic Benefits: Patients know, at least intellectually, that they'll get better if they exercise. Receiving a customized program, personalized with their name on it, creates a personal connection between their care and your clinic. The efficacy of the exercise prescription is enhanced when patients understand what to do and can watch their progress. In short, they become more involved in the healing process and their sense of satisfaction with the services you provide is reinforced.
Some of the new online programs can be branded to each clinic, reinforcing a cutting-edge image. With both web and mobile versions now available, online exercise systems can also allow patients to "like" their clinic and share their progress among friends and family through social media.
In this sense, online exercise systems give each clinic its own tech program and/or "app," private labeling proprietary systems to their own brand. Most clinics barely have time to serve their patients and manage paperwork, let alone get smart about marketing. The branding potential of these online programs can do that job for them by harnessing the power of social media.
As measuring outcomes becomes increasingly important to payers, standardization of care becomes more important. With online exercise prescriptions, a clinic can now start to standardize protocols, leading to greater efficiencies of care.
Chiropractor Benefits: Practitioners want to improve the quality of care they provide every patient, and they want to deepen the one-on-one connection that is at the heart of chiropractic. Online programs help patients avoid making common mistakes, and customization features can modify instructions for each exercise to address patient needs.
In most systems, the clinician controls the program activation and deactivation, its elements and instructions, so patients can only view current prescriptions. Of course, any system that adds time to the day won't be used, and the good ones take but a minute or two to create and update each prescription. Following the practice of some clinics, an individual CA or admin person can create prescriptions for the busy DC, freeing up time previously spent explaining how to do home exercises.
Most DCs don't have time to create their own videos; online programs address this through pre-populated exercise libraries with hundreds or even thousands of videos and animations. Ultimately, the more the better, but there can be a challenge in finding specific exercises when they can go by different names. It also seems that most rehab professionals tend to settle on about 20 to 40 exercises they like to use with all their patients.
The best solutions to these dilemmas are free text-search functions and the ability to create "favorites" so each clinic or practitioner can find and tag preferred exercises, just like their stack of drawings kept in a file folder. Evidence-based protocols and the ability to create personal or shared templates are other nice touches that save effort in quickly creating individual prescriptions.
At the same time, everyone has their own special exercises, and the different theories and methodologies on what is effective have filled many books. New exercises are coined and marketed every year, and even if just getting the patient to move is what matters most, online systems need to be flexible. Just like stick-figure instruction, most online systems allow each clinician to add their own exercise pictures and videos.
Patient Benefits: In contrast to flat drawings, the high-definition videos, animations and/or pictures featured in online exercise systems allow patients to better understand what they are supposed to do. They also allow patients to schedule their own workouts and receive automated reminders. Software technology allows every exercise or workout to be tracked – and herein lies one of the biggest benefits of going online. Both the patient and DC can view patient progress in doing their exercises, motivating compliance and helping engage the patient in their health improvement.
While the focus of online exercise systems is typically simple instruction, there also is an interesting opportunity to improve on a more fundamental question — the goal of the rehab in the first place. While most electronic health records (EHR) systems can set patient goals, they offer no way to communicate the goals to the patient! Psychology 101 tells us that engaging the patient in goal-setting instills motivation. As a result, there is an effort to better integrate these goals within exercise systems, tying the patient condition to a goal, a method to heal and data that demonstrates progress.
As a side benefit, systems that communicate rehab goals also serve to manage expectations when a patient expects to heal in an unreasonably short time. Talking through a rehab goal that is front and center makes it easier to confirm what is expected and what is required to recover.
We also know that every patient has a different learning style, whether visual, auditory and/or tactile. Engaging every patient in a multimedia experience strengthens the connection between the patient and practitioner. Several online programs are structured to allow clinicians to instruct and videotape the patient in one step, auto-populating their program with exercise instruction that addresses proper form from the get-go. Although this takes an investment of time to create patient videos, for some, there's nothing more educational than watching oneself; plus, creating baseline and follow-up patient videos ensure understanding and motivate compliance.
Patient videos can take just a minute to create and sync, with frequencies and quantities set in a second step. The theory is that if you take the time to demo proper exercise form anyway, why not just videotape your patient doing each exercise and correct them in one fell swoop?
Regardless of what type of exercise is prescribed — standard, custom or patient — DCs don't have to show patients a second time what to do when they come back, saving precious time at the next visit when the patient asks: "Now what exactly did you want me to do?"
Giving the Modern Patient the Options They Expect
As our understanding of personal motivation evolves, we know that feedback systems are crucial. Patients increasingly expect to be able send and receive feedback from their health care providers, to ask questions in order to course correct, and to receive real-time feedback so important to patient satisfaction. Clinics and online programs that meet this expectation will benefit in the long run.
For those who want to keep up with social media and the "quantified self" movement, some programs also allow patients to share their progress on social media, while others offer airline-type "points" or other ways to aid increased compliance. There is no doubt that patients simply need to be motivated in new ways, and now there are options to serve patients what they expect.
The end result of these intriguing programs is a movement away from traditional paper HEPs to online patient-engagement systems that set goals, demonstrate proper form, improve compliance and measure what each can do. This helps patients heal faster and feel better about their home exercise experience, ultimately, increasing the value each clinic offers its patients.


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Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins on Thursday admitted he has no sympathy for Lance Armstrong and slammed the disgraced rider's claims that he was clean when he returned to the sport in 2009.
American Armstrong last week admitted in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that he used performance-enhancing drugs during his record run of seven Tour de France wins.
The 41-year-old has been stripped of all results from Aug. 1, 1998, which resulted in British rider Wiggins' finish in the 2009 Tour de France being upgraded from fourth to third.
Armstrong claims he did not dope in that event, which marked his return to competitive cycling, despite evidence to the contrary in the US Anti-Doping Agency report which resulted in his downfall.
After watching the Oprah interview, Sky Procycling star Wiggins still does not believe Armstrong is telling the truth about his return.
"What upset me the most was about 2009-2010 — I thought: 'You lying bastard,'" Wiggins said. "I can still remember going toe-to-toe with him and watching the man I saw on the top of Verbiers in 2009 to the man I saw on the top of Ventoux a week later when we were in doping control together. It wasn't the same bike rider. You only have to watch the videos of how the guy was riding. I don't believe anything that comes out of his mouth anymore."
Wiggins admits he did not want to watch Armstrong's confession because he had spent so long idolizing the American as a youngster and when he eventually did sit down with his seven-year-old son to see what Armstrong had to say, Wiggins found it hard to contain his anger.
"Part of me didn't want to watch it, the fan in me didn't want that perception of him to be broken as this amazing athlete," Wiggins said. "Then I had to watch it — I watched it with my seven-year-old son — so those initial questions, the yes, no answers, just watching him suddenly cave in after all those years of lying so convincingly — it was a lot of anger, a lot of sadness and slightly emotional."
"It was difficult to watch. My wife couldn't watch it, she walked out of the room," he said. "It was heartbreaking in some respects for the sport, but then the anger kicks in ... the natural things that most people were thinking when they watched it. It's very difficult and then I have to explain to my son what it's all about. He's won the same race your dad's won, but by the end of the hour and a half I had the best feeling in the world about the whole thing."
"There was this element of being quite smug about the whole thing to be honest. Then I got quite: 'You deserve everything you get' about it," Wiggins said. "In that hour and a half of watching the whole thing, the up and down of the emotions, and by the end it was: 'You deserve everything you get now,' and feeling no sympathy whatsoever behind all the welling up and the tears."


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James H. Dietz
James H. Dietz, 90, of 106 Linwood Ave., St. Marys, died on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012 at Dubois Nursing Home following a brief illness.He was born Dec. 11, 1922 in Ridgway, a son of the late Joseph and Mary Pfingstler Dietz.On June 14, 1947 in St. Mark's Church in Emporium, he married the late Elizabeth J. "Betty" Dietz, who preceded him in death on Feb. 7, 2012.Mr. Dietz was a graduate of Ridgway High School. He served in the U.S. Air Force during WWII. He retired from Powdered Metal Products and had also worked at Stackpole Carbon Company for many years. He enjoyed go-karts and working on stock cars. He was known for his mechanical abilities and he could fix anything. He also enjoyed flying and was an avid airplane enthusiast, having many model airplanes and enjoying building and servicing airplanes. Most of all, he enjoyed spending time with his family, especially his grandsons and his granddaughter-in-law.He is survived by a daughter, Lorraine, Mrs. Joseph Asti of St. Marys; two sons, James E. Dietz of St. Marys and Kenneth Dietz and his wife Gloria of St. Marys; two grandchildren, Jeffrey Dietz and his wife Jena, and Nate Dietz; and a sister, Frances Eckert of St. Marys. In addition to his parents and his wife of more than 64 years, Elizabeth J. "Betty" Dietz, he was preceded in death by three brothers, Joseph, Carl and Paul Dietz; and three sisters, Cecelia Gapinski, Bertha Dietz and Margaret Maiers. Graveside services for James H. Dietz are private.Burial will be in Mt. Zion Cemetery in Weedville.There will be no visitation. Memorial contributions may be made to a charity of choice.Lynch-Green Funeral Home, 151 N. Michael St., St. Marys, is handling the arrangements and online condolences may be placed at www.LynchGreen.com.
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