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I've been on the roof until now.
'Monsieur Dunning est monte sur let toit est il refuse categoriquement de descendre!'
This from my favourite short story in Hemingway's 'A Moveable feast'.
It's about a jar of opium and the poet Monsieur Dunning. Hemingway is told to deliver the opium only in the case of any true emergency. And the day comes when Monsieur Dunning's concierge arrives beneath Hem's window:
'Mister Dunning is on the roof and categorically refuses to come down'
I love this phrase. I don't know why it gives me so much delight.
So I've been on the roof and I'm ready to come down. And I've not been lured by the opium as much as Shamim's missive:
'you can also see from the ground. Don't be afraid to come down for a bit'
I have spent my time on the roof watching. Inviting my neurotic mind to dance the Tarantella.
Any sort of extraction, I expect, is not without shock. You mine into a mountainside, or the marrow, and you bring material from somewhere deep into consciousness. One of the unexpected side effects of Cancer for me, is the release of some toxic thoughts. I call it flapping out the fears. Hang them up on poles and watch them flap. Violently. Like flags in a windstorm.
Snap, snap, snap.
So what's flapping?
Is it the material of fear or the wind?
It's my mind.
So with mind flapping, in this last cycle of treatment for MM, I'm without strategy.
Except I have a reverance for what came before. And for what will come.
Cause just now, I don't have enough energy for the present. Except to do what's essential. Like, tell them you love them. Burn off excess interactions. Eat what you want, when you want. Use your best conditioner.
Book that trip to Argentina.
No more deferrals.
Like Gilda Radner said:
'If it wasn't for the downside, having cancer would be the best thing and everyone would want it.
If it weren't for the downside.
Chemo is cumulative. It has a pleasing sound to it. Like, 'suicide is painless'
I joke of course.
So the toxicity accumulates in your system. I'm limp all the time, like a heavy camel coat in the summer. Being a covert type A I don't think I have ever spent longer than three days in bed before this. Not that I haven't been ill with fevers and flus. Most often I had a ritual of getting sick near the end of a heavy filming schedule. Dr Coetzee in Capetown, or Dr. Sharma in Delhi or Dr. Verboeten in Rotterdam would show up on set, I'd get a shot, or some pills and doze between takes. Health never stopped me from working.
So my strength is going but the side effects of my beloved, my obsession, the steroid otherwise known as Dex, have increased. For instance, a marked decline in concentration.
Which has never been robust anyhow. Self admittedly a bit breezy before, now you can both distract and occupy me with a shiny bit of foil.
For hours.
Which is why there has been no blog. I can't seem to participate in my life just now. And my complaints are corroding my only child's sense of propriety. That's the part that makes me wince. At myself.
Wait, here, sit down, you're not deaf are you? Have some kielbasa and cabbage rolls and hear my litany:
My eye infection is back. My immunity is low.
My belly is huge. Night sweats.
Yadda yadda yadda
And I want to BITE everyone.
Like that kid in the wolf suit from 'Where the Wild things are'
I'm, like, six again.
And I miss my mom.
The past is a tabula rasa, said Henri Cartier Bresson, but it usually comes back, like a burp.
He would know.
More battered than Reliable Halibut and chips, I have just enough zeal to butter my morning toast. I whimper a lot to test my father's innate principle of ultimate protection. He never wavers. But I'm worrying him, my ranting and carrying on. In a coronation worthy fit of petulance I announced I was not going to go through with the stem cell transplant.
Or at least defer it.
Until after my trip to Argentina.
I'm feeling more conflicted than an ovulating stripper.
On a downspout.
Cancer this week, has me bleeding yellow. What I can do now is be still. And watch. And in the past week, out of the back pocket of my mind, all my phantom fears are making an appearance.
My friend Vishal left a message when I returned from Vermont.
'Lots of clear thinking in this period cause everything is amplified. Navratri is still on. Om shanty om.'
Damn Vishal. Its irritating to have an enlightened person call when you're trying to feel sorry for yourself. Besides, I'm all sediment.
Or maybe it's the Dex. Just after I've surrendered to the wetsuit and moonface, I find out it makes you crazy.
Ok- its mood-altering. Which doesn't sound menacing unless you're Bobcat on a trip to the west coast about to return to Toronto on the redeye.
"I can't take it anymore Bobcat. I love you but I'm heartbroken'
'What happened? What did I do?'
'Never mind. You'll never know. Just know I loved you and you ripped open my chest like a pair of overactive Russian greyhounds. I'm raw and hurt and broken. Ciao my love. In the next life.'
'Wha…snow leopard?!!'
Bobcat calls me snow leopard. And not after the mac operating system.
We are a cat clan of two and I hope he will forbear.
Wars are created when both sides believe their stories. The healing process begins when both sides see that the other side believes their own stories. In this ongoing struggle with the Cancer, I can't fathom the motive. I'm mustering all my yellow but I do not know why. What have I done to provoke the confrontation in my marrow, what's the grievance?
We're committed to the yellow dance, the MM and me.
The Tarantella.
Thanks to the Cancer I have an entire tea party of neuroses. We sat around drinking Mariage freres and playing with pipe cleaners all last week.
'You're gonna lose your hair during the stem cell transplant then, huh? Good thing you don't have a face expressing the syndrome resembling hyperactive adrenal cortex with increase in adiposity otherwise known as moonface…'
'You're not gonna get work again as an actress. Good thing you've got a back up plan…check?!'
'Stem cell will eat up another six months of your life? Now that you've got your porta-cath, you're mainlined for the lifestyle. You may as well get used to being a patient. It's the steadiest job you've ever had.'
'Good thing you never wanted kids before cause you're gonna be infertile'
Damn this little thinking party of one. I finally figured out what they find funny is calculated to wound
Since my diagnosis I've been in the yellow construction business. As soon as I got diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma I got busy. Gradually I've had to drop my preoccupations one by one. No yoga classes. No meetings, auditions, classes or huddling with Jerry over renovations at the Hiawatha house. Dad and Jerry are holding down the fort. In short, I have nothing to distract me. From myself.
So this last month of treatment I'm stripped. Down to being with myself.
I can seize this opportunity to learn to make breaded food. Or to spell backwards. Alas, I have no energy.
I have to bring down the shutters on Lisa Corp for a while. For instance, I am aggrieved to cancel my TEDX talk. I can't at this moment get through an 18 minute talk. I hope Raji will forbear and give me another shot next year. And when I did an introduction for Bollywood/Hollywood at the Jackman theatre on Saturday night, I deferred even a fruit juice with Steve Gravestock to return home to bed. So sleeping has overtaken eating as my sport of choice. I wonder how others live through this time. Time is a valuable commodity. Free time even more so. I've got loads now.
So people keep reminding me, they also want more siesta and play time- just like me.
'if I had that time, I'd catch up on my sleep and watch Che Guevara- parts one and two'
Are you fantasizing about a Cancer Vacation?
Cause if I didn't feel so completely depleted, I'd be having the time of my life.
Cancer club med? Cancer time shares?
I'm in the mood to knock back my roids with some wine. Red and white blood counts remind me of full bodied merlots and gerwurtztremeinners.
Or I can surrender and peel open my bone.
And I miss my mother.
She is the mystic in my marrow. She always understood more than my self-reverant mind would allow. She gave unconditionally. She transcended barriers of bone and flesh I won't understand in this life. She was too powerful to capture in a picture. She was completely irreverent and she would change the barometer in a room just being there.
A lioness.
She left her body almost one year ago.
It's a bandaged story I haven't yet touched.
Secrets melt from my marrow. If I catch their stir, I will extract them from my body. Clean shift. It's alchemy. Cancer is alchemy. In our body is hidden a metaphysical substance which is the incorruptible medicine. Release it and you heal.
Not without burns.
Barn Burn Down
Now I see the Moon
Our allegiance is to making sense of stuff. We have immense preoccupation with figuring things out.
But you'll hurt yourself more with a helmet.
That's why I went to Vermont.
At Karme Choling, I began to drop all my preoccupations. Laura somehow managed to crack me open and air me out, as well as safe guard me from the fiesta of my own mind. We missed several exits on the way to buying snow leopard printed socks from Sunshine and another day chose amulets and necklaces from Eva Wong. Turquoise for rejuvenation.
Laura reminded me how stories colour and run our lives. Some are right in front and some beneath the surface.
And on the last night, a banquet in the main shrine room. Laura now in the role of the alchemist, put on the traditional Italian melody which inspires convulsions
'If you are bitten, you must give into the frenzy, and then return to the table'
And we all did. We danced to the Tarantella, the dance inspired by a spider bite.
Poison transformed through dance. Perhaps its a time to sweat and convulse before healing.
The curative dance.
Remission. Transformation.
My last chemo is on the 16th of October.
Maybe Shane and I can bust out the Tarantella on the day of the MM walk for the cure.
One more week until the walk: http://pmhf3.akaraisin.com/Pledge/Participant/Home.aspx?seid=2489&pid=172578&mid=9
The generosity you have shown for the walk boosts my spirit. Thank you again. It's thanksgiving here in Canada. Gratitude move my pulse.
Thanks for the turkey and scrabble, Super-Noni!
Thank you Sheetal Sheth my beautiful and compassionate co-star for helping to promote the Walk on her website.
Nairong for the aloe vera and other spells
To Sindi Hawkins, Doc Raina, Dr Galal and my Dad for keeping me going. For transfusing me with their yellow if that's what it takes. Thank you Sindi for sharing Michelle's mom's haiku.
Hanan and Shamim. My heart's family. And for carrying Tord Boontje chandeliers across the ocean. And for carrying me.
Lovely Bernadette Jones for spreading the word on the walk. For all the celebration and bean salad she and Alan bring to my life.
Andi Sandowski for dedicating two karma yoga classes to the cause.
David and Molly Bloom
My Mom for remaining. And for refusing to remove the difficulty of facing all that am seeing.
Thank you all for continuing to relate to the Yellow. Your attention and tender bring alchemy into my present.
It's the JOLT of living.
Next up Harvest Season: Stem Cell Collections
I'll post again soon very soon this time.


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Stroudsburg Borough officials will decide on Jan. 2 whether to change the side streets between Park Avenue and Broad Street back to two-way.
That meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the municipal building at 700 Sarah Street.
In June 2011, the council decided to make Bryant, Lenox and Robeson streets and Clermont Avenue one-way heading west during the Seventh Street Bridge project.
The reason for the change was to prevent people who were exiting Interstate 80 east at the Park Avenue exit from cutting through those side streets to access Broad Street, rather than follow the detour route the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation put in place.
The plan has been to change them back when the project is completed. The bridge was officially opened on Monday.
Barry Street, which also runs between Park Avenue and Broad Street, has always been one-way and will remain that way, said Borough Manager Barbara Quarantello.
One change the Borough Council has proposed is enacting alternate street parking on Robeson Street.
"It's only because a lot of people park on either side of the street and it makes snow plowing and leaf pick up harder to do," Quarantello said.
Residents would park on the south side of the street for most of the week, and be required to park on the north side one day out of the week, she said.
Officials chose the south side of the street for regular parking because it provides 18, 22-foot parking spaces as opposed to only 14, 22-foot spaces on the north side.
If the council approves going back to two-way streets, the change would be immediate.
"We can go out there the next day, provided we aren't in the middle of a snow storm or anything, and change the signs," Quarantello said.
Also briefly discussed during Wednesday's council meeting was Quarantello's impending retirement.
The council continues to look for a replacement, she said.
Quarantello announced her retirement in July.
Her last day was originally planned to be Dec. 31, but Quarantello formally announced to the council on Wednesday that she will stay on through March 31 to give them more time to find a replacement.
During the first round of advertisements, the council received 15 applications for the borough manager position.
During a second round of advertising, which included posting the ad in trade journals, borough officials received 40 responses, Quarantello said.
At the Jan. 2 meeting, they will most likely narrow the field to between five to eight candidates, she said.
Quarantello has been with the borough since 1989 when she started working at the front desk.
In 2007 she became the permanent borough manager.

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Merrill's baby Clara is finally old enough to eat solid foods. Armed with her greenmarket bag, a wooden spoon and a minimal amount of fuss, Merrill steps into the fray.
Today: Shepherd's pie, a freezer-friendly meal for the whole family, plus some useful freezing tips.
Now that Clara is eating nearly as much as we do at every meal, I've found that my freezer has become indispensable. Before Clara was born last year, my husband and I became the proud owners of a small chest freezer, and in the weeks leading up to her birth I cooked up a storm. I was determined to pack that freezer full of good homemade food so we wouldn't have to resort to pizza and Chinese every night during those first few months.
Since that first round of meals is pretty much gone, I've begun filling the freezer again -- this time with baby-friendly food, which isn't all that different from what I made before. I cook big vats of soups and stews and braises over the weekend and freeze some of them in order to make future weeknight dinners easier.
There's very little you can't freeze -- with two main exceptions being seafood (I know some people swear by freezing fish, but I can't get past the texture problems) and uncooked vegetables (also a texture thing). Most winter fare -- soups, stews, braises, casseroles -- freezes beautifully.
Recently I've been re-exploring shepherd's pie, which we had a lot growing up. My husband has an almost visceral love for it (closely related to his passionate emotional affairs with meatloaf and brisket), and Clara likes it too. I made it one week using sweet potatoes instead of my usual Yukon Golds, beating them with olive oil instead of butter and milk to make a supple, sweet mash. That was a hit with both husband and baby.
You'll find the recipe below, but first a few general freezing tips:
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Shepherd's Pie with Sweet Potatoes
Serves 4
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided2 large sweet potatoes, scrubbed well4 tablespoons olive oil, divided2 teaspoons vegetable oil1 pound ground lamb (or beef, which turns this into cottage pie), not too leanSalt1/2 large onion, chopped1/2 cup finely chopped carrot1 teaspoon tomato paste1 tablespoon flour1 cup beef stock or water
See the full recipe (and save and print it) here.
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By the 18th century, just decades after diseases and slave raids vanquished the Timucua, Seminole cattlemen drove their herds across the river at this narrow spot along the St. Johns River. Called Waca-Palatka (wack-a-pill-at-ka [IPA:Wak-ʌ-pæl-ɑt-kɑ]) by the Seminoles, and Cow ford by English speaking settlers, the area served as a natural point to wade and ferry cattle to eager buyers. The Americans renamed the area Jacksonville in the 1820s after Andrew Jackson, hero of the First Seminole War and the territory's first governor.
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This week I had a profound experience. I witnessed a Healing Circle. The Healing Circle is a group session during which the power of energy is magnified by combining the participants' energy with universal unconditional love of several practitioners in the circle. The circle is focused on healing a client by offering several different pathways on how the client can overcome physiological, psychological and spiritual challenges in their life. (more…)
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I wrote about the death of Gabriel Poirier the other day, but this article was emailed to me, and I wanted to post it here. I wanted to write more about Gabriel, for one because many (like myself) had not heard about his death until this week (he died in April). Also, and most importantly, because I don't want any of us to forget him--a nine year old boy, innocent, simply attending school. We have to remember Gabriel, and his parents. Please visit this article by Graeme Hamilton at the National Post.
MONTREAL - After nine-year-old Gabriel Poirier was discovered lifeless in his classroom last April 17, his parents were told their autistic son had stopped breathing after hiding under a heavy therapeutic blanket.
Now a coroner has revealed that Gabriel's teachers had tightly wrapped him in the buckwheat-stuffed blanket, leaving only the tips of his ears sticking out, as punishment when he became disruptive. They left him unsupervised in a corner for 20 minutes, returning when a timer sounded.
Gabriel was unconscious and blue in the face. He was rushed to hospital, where he died the following night surrounded by his family.
It's pointed out in the article that weighted blankets can have therapeutic benefits. Our eldest happens to use one, it helps her sleep issues. Our youngest has used weighted lap pads, backpacks, and utensils. She also enjoys being "squished" by two pillows, bean bag chairs, etc. It is very calming. But, as Gabriel's father points out, what this school did to his son was not therapy, it was abuse.
"He was only 53 pounds, he was so small," Gilles Poirier, the boy's father said at a news conference yesterday. "How can they wrap him up like that in a 40-pound blanket? How can this treatment be tolerated?"Not only was he wrapped four times by such heavy weight, but his entire face was covered, and obviously, he was trapped. Even more disheartening were the lies the school told the media and to Gabriel's parents. More from the family's lawyer, Jean-Pierre Menard:
Mr. Menard said the parents were surprised to learn Gabriel had been placed in the blanket as a punishment. The school board had initially said it was a natural death and that Gabriel had gone under the blanket on his own.
"The principal said they found Gabriel under the blanket and he wasn't breathing. The parents thought that something had happened while he was sleeping and that was how he died," Mr. Menard said. He said the school board later told the media that Gabriel had hidden under the blanket.
How a school could lie about Gabriel's death is beyond me. I hope they will be held accountable, and that real change is made regarding restraints. The article ends with this:
Mr. Poirier said he cannot understand why his child was placed in a restraint. "He was a very gentle boy," he said. "Sometimes he was loud, but he was never aggressive or violent. I just don't understand how this happened," he said, tears streaming down his face.We can't sit idly by while such tragedies occur. My heart goes out to the Poirier family. I have not seen a picture of Gabriel, but there is a picture of his parents here--I feel images are so crucial to making an impact. We have to vow to never forget Gabriel.


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Stop me if you've heard this one before: Rory McIlroy convincingly beats an elite field to win on the PGA Tour. Actually, you've probably heard it three of the last four weeks. Hey, this kid is really good.
McIlroy does everything well, he has no weak part of the game. But the one thing I think he does so well - that most amateur golfers can adopt - is his ability to get out of his own way when he is playing really well.
And that brings us to this week's "A Lesson Learned."
Rory McIlroy didn't have to play this week - his placement as a "top 5" player at The Tour Championship was already solidified, as is probable "Player of the Year" status. But in his own words, "I felt like I was playing really well and didn't want to stop that run." And no, he didn't.
How many times have you been playing well, started to think about it, and have your run or round, just collapse? It happens to many amateurs whereas the pros do the exact opposite, they recognize when they are playing well - and they just start playing better.
What do they know that you don't? Here's my three tips to help you keep a good run going.
1.) Stay on point: When most players are playing well, on a run of pars or birdies or just making good swings, there is often a key swing thought or trigger that is getting you going. And then, when you start thinking about a score - you start thinking about what you need to do to make a score, rather than a good swing. "Avoid the water", "Keep it left", "Stay under the hole", etc. Stick with what's working, the process of the swing rather than what the result should be.
2.) Understand and use your adrenaline: When you are on a roll, your expectations and nerves will rise. That's fine and normal. But understand that it's going to affect your body. You can do many things to help you relax, but it's a natural reaction for the body to have a surge of adrenaline when you are doing a physical activity like swinging a golf club when you are under pressure. Pay attention to things that you may often take for granted - like how far you hit your clubs. Sometimes, when you are swinging well, really well, you're going to hit the ball a little further. So in this instance, don't let what is working - actually work against you because you hit one too flush.
3.) When you are in position to do something special, finish off a career round for example, don't get in the way of that! In fact, go after it! What I mean by that is, if your swing is "on' and you have a goal in mind - I like my students to be aggressive. Think of how many great rounds in golf - 59s for example - happen because the players made a birdie on the last hole. They weren't trying to protect a 60. They weren't aiming for the fat of the green. They knew their swing was dialed in, so they went flag hunting. This is obviously just for the end of your round, when you have a full day's understanding of what is working and what isn't, but I promise you, you'll remember that end of round birdie for your record round a lot longer than if you made a bogey and ended up a couple shots off your goal.
The bottom line is: remember that adage, "Dance with the girl that brung you." If your swing is on and you're playing well, stick to that swing. Don't overthink what you're doing, trust what you're doing is working.
Brian Manzella is the Director of Instruction at Brian Manzella Golf Academy in New Orleans, Louis. Manzella is a nationally-renowned instructor, former PGA Section Teacher of the Year (Kentucky) and has a popular golf instruction forum at his website, Brianmanzella.com.


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The cost of Chinese labor has risen dramatically since 2000, and that may be part of the reason Google is choosing to build its media player Nexus Q in Silicon Valley.
But Google said that it wasn't about the money, instead it was about how quickly they could get the product to market.
"We wanted to innovate fast. This is the first end-to-end hardware product that Google has ever put out," John Lagerling, Google's senior director of Android global partnerships, told Reuters.
Instead cost wasn't the priority, he said, it was not having to fly engineers to China to make changes. "This is not this big initiative that things had to be made in the USA," he said.
While Apple has created a huge supply chain in China, Google's decision to manufacture in the United State may seem novel, even quaint to some. However, the trend of "reshoring" manufacturing is rising -- based on the rising labor costs in China, shorter lead times and "better protection of intellectual property."
In 2000, wages in China averaged 52 cents an hour, and it's estimated that by 2015 wages will have gone up to $4.51 an hour, an eightfold jump, according to Reuters. Furthermore, several U.S. companies have been kicking around the idea of moving production back to the United States, likely because Chinese operations only save 10 to 15 percent in labor costs.
At this point we don't know what contractor is making the Nexus Q because Google's keeping that information under wraps, but we know that secrets don't stay that way long in Silicon Valley. We're just happy that a few more people in the area will have jobs.
Perhaps Google's move to U.S. manufacturing will prove a progressive and compelling one for other other tech firms.


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That seems to be all the Orioles have left to rid themselves of in order to completely enter the 'out with the old, in with the Derosa' stage of their future. And we're ready. I am anyway.
From what I've read on-line from the Seattle-area media, Bedard is now not only a Mariner but also officially Ichiro's Scottie Pippen…and if that's the way they feel, good for them. Why not? But as far as the Cubs are concerned, seriously, let's do this thing. Pull the trigger already. Send us Roberts.
Why not? Sure, he was mentioned on that steroid/HGH list of 'players unfortunate enough to be included on this list of potential users according to MLB's eenie-meenie-minee-moe accusation policy'. Ok, sure, there's that. But then again, he's also an All-Star second basemen who I wouldn't mind watching tighten up the middle of our defense next year.
I also wouldn't mind watching him man the batter's box to the right of home plate and I wouldn't mind watching him help create a new element on the Cubs that pushes them to a World Series title. I believe with Roberts as our second baseman and with the right choice of closer, we're there. That's it. The bullpen/closer coming through and one more left handed bat and we're where we want to be: browsing Chicago Cubs 2008 World Series Championship merchandise on MLB.com. I don't get a commission from the sales, I'm just pretty sure we'd be able to find it there. (Man these blogs get loopy when I post around midnight).
Regardless, I'm excited about the Bedard deal because it leads me to believe 'Roberts to the Cubs' headlines are right around the corner. Just in time for Spring Training.
Fukudome for Christmas. Roberts for Easter. My birthday's in October…and I know just the thing the Cubs could give me then too. : )


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EXETER — A former radiologist from Advanced Diagnostic Imaging in Exeter has been ruled at fault for the misdiagnosis of an Epping woman who suffered a stroke in 2007.
EXETER — A former radiologist from Advanced Diagnostic Imaging in Exeter has been ruled at fault for the misdiagnosis of an Epping woman who suffered a stroke in 2007.
On Thursday, Nov. 15, a Rockingham Superior Court jury returned a $5 million verdict in favor of Noel and Adam Jodoin in a medical negligence case against Dr. Ellen Johnson.
The verdict came after a two-week trial and three hours of jury deliberation.
According to the original suit filed by the Jodoins in 2010, Johnson was a radiologist in 2007 at Advanced Diagnostic Imaging, which had a contract with Exeter Hospital to operate the radiology department at the hospital.
On the morning of Aug. 9, 2007, Noel Jodoin went to the hospital's emergency room after experiencing a prolonged and severe headache, according to the suit.
Jodoin then started experiencing some neurological effects and slurred speech and was given a CT scan, which was later interpreted by Johnson, according to the suit. Johnson's findings were as follows: "There is no evidence of acute hemorrhage, mass lesion, mass effect, acute ischemia, or extraaxial fluid collections." The suit then states that Johnson noted some abnormalities but ruled them as "of doubtful clinical significance."
Jodoin's condition worsened after several more hours at the hospital and was Med-Flighted to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where another CT scan showed "bilateral intracranial hemorrhages with extension into subarachnoids from the superior sagittal sinus caused by thrombosis or stroke," according to the suit.
Jodoin eventually underwent brain surgery. According to the suit, a second neurologist reviewed the CT scan that Johnson had previously read as normal and ruled that it did in fact show significant abnormalities.
"(Johnson) breached the standard of care by failing to accurately read Ms. Jodoin's head CT and by failing to communicate with Ms. Jodoin's care providers. To the extent that Dr. (Johnson) noted abnormalities in the CT, she negligently dismissed them as not being clinically significant," the suit said.
The suit goes on to say had Johnson interpreted the results and saw the stroke, Jodoin would've been treated in a timely manner and "would likely not have experienced the severity of symptoms from which she suffered and continues to suffer."
Jodoin was represented at trial by attorneys Gary Richardson and Heather Burns of Upton and Hatfield in Concord.
Richardson said Jodoin must still undergo intensive therapies and rehabilitative services in order to re-learn how to perform her activities of daily living and would likely have a high-risk pregnancy if she and her husband wanted to have children.
Richardson said Johnson argued during the trial that she had expressed some concerns about the CT scan to emergency personnel at Exeter Hospital and they failed to act.
"We're extremely happy the jury ruled in our favor, and we did not feel that the Emergency Department at Exeter Hospital had done anything wrong and we were pleased the jury placed 100 percent of the responsibility on Dr. Johnson."
Johnson currently works in Andover, Mass., according to Richardson. Attempts to reach Johnson's attorney, Peter Kelley of Burlington, Mass., for comment were not successful.


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HARRISBURG — State lawmakers start "budget season" today, the busiest time on the legislative calendar with the push on to approve the next state budget, pass major legislation and raise some cash for this fall's election campaigns.
The month leading up to the June 30 budget deadline features a merry-go-round of daily activities starting with breakfast fundraisers for individual lawmakers, floor votes interspersed with committee meetings and closed-door party caucuses during the day and caucus campaign committee fundraisers in the evening.
These fundraisers offer preferred access to those who pay the hefty ticket price, said Barry Kauffman, executive director for Common Cause Pennsylvania.
"Legislative sessions are scheduled around fundraisers," he added. "Everyone knows when they (chambers) have to adjourn at 6 p.m. it's because of a whole bunch of fundraisers going on."
This year features added drama because Pennsylvania faces at least a $1 billion budget problem during an election year when GOP Gov. Tom Corbett and lawmakers of both parties are on the ballot.
The tax revenue report for May being released today should show more decline in state income and sales tax collections.
"We expect May revenues to come in at least $100 million below estimate," said Erik Arneson, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, R-Chester.
This is not the type of news elected officials want — especially when they face voters in a few months. The $29 billion budget must be balanced under state law and the choices are few: find new revenue, cut spending or transfer money around.
It will require some deft maneuvering and luck for Corbett to meet his goals of having an on-time budget, no broad-based tax hikes and more state spending on public education.
The governor is consistent about not wanting to raise state taxes, creating a new block grant program for school districts and getting the budget done by June 30, said Corbett spokesman Jay Pagni. That said, the budget negotiations are about reconciling different spending priorities, he added.
The need for revenue can be a catalyst or drag when it comes to action on a host of supporting issues: cutting public pension costs, privatizing or modernizing the state liquor system, enacting a state severance tax on natural gas production, earmarking revenue from new gas drilling in state parks and forests to support the state budget, expanding legalized gambling and expanding Medicaid coverage under terms of the federal Affordable Care Act.
Speculation persists that a severance tax will emerge as an eleventh-hour solution.
If that's the case, House Democratic lawmakers will have to put up a lot of votes to get a severance tax bill through that chamber because of GOP opposition, said Rep. Mike Carroll, D-Avoca, a member of the House Appropriations Committee. For that, the caucus would deserve a seat at the table in shaping the entire budget, he added.
Rep. Sid Michaels Kavulich, D-Taylor, said a final budget would have to include Medicaid expansion, a major restoration of state education aid and a reasonable severance tax before he would start to consider voting for it.
"We are talking about (federal) money we are losing every day we don't expand Medicaid," he added. "We have to get funding for schools back to where it was before Gov. Corbett took office."
Another Northeast region lawmaker is a major player on the pension issue.
Rep. Mike Tobash's proposal to create a hybrid pension plan for future state government and school district employees got a boost last week when independent actuaries said it could save $11 billion during the next three decades.
Tobash, R-Pottsville, proposes to calculate the first $50,000 of annual income for retirement purposes based on the traditional defined-benefit method and income above that threshold calculated under the defined-contribution method.
Lobbying is year-round, but the rush to wrap up legislative business before a long summer recess raises the stakes for success or failure.
Several recent lobbyist disclosure reports filed with the Department of State for 2014's first quarter from January through March show how much is being spent to influence the executive branch and lawmakers.
■ The Marcellus Shale Coalition, an gas industry trade group, spent $913,000 lobbying on issues relating to energy, the environment, taxes, state budget, consumer affairs, municipalities and safety. This amount includes nearly $8,400 for gifts, hospitality, transportation and lodging for state officials, or employees or their families.
■ Las Vegas Sands Corp. which opposes legalizing Internet gambling for casinos but lobbies on other issues as well spent $60,840.
■ Mount Airy No. 1 LLC, corporate name for Mount Airy Casino Resort, spent nearly $40,000.
■ The Pennsylvania Food Merchants Association, part of a business coalition seeking state store divestiture, spent $3,828.
■ United Food and Commercial Workers which opposes divestiture spent nearly $102,000.
■ The Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association which lobbies on many issues including state store divestiture, spent $61,411.
The reports for second quarter lobbying from April through June are due July 30.
The uninterrupted session weeks of June mean more bills move through the legislative pipeline than any other time of the year. Two bills of regional interest seek to overhaul Act 47 which governs fiscally distressed municipalities and to limit what Marcellus drillers can deduct from royalty payments to landowners.
While lawmakers will tally up the scorecards of bills enacted at month's end, not everyone is enamored with the process.
"June is the month when lawmakers go on a per diem splurge," said activist Eric Epstein, cofounder of Rock The Capital. "Most legislators start their day with breakfast fundraisers, honker down for a slush fund lunch and spend the rest of the day waiting for leadership to make sausage."


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Supreme Court's pending decision isn't slowing industry transformation, HHS official reports.
Despite uncertainty about the coming U.S. Supreme Court decision on its constitutionality, the 2010 health care reform law already has triggered a long-term transformation in the way U.S. health care is delivered and paid for, a panel of specialists said Tuesday.
"There's a spirit out there in the country, and it starts with the great people who work hard every day to deliver health system reform, not in Washington," said Dr. Richard Gilfillan, director of the Innovation Center at the Health and Human Services Department's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. "The Affordable Care Act put the seeds out and they're blossoming."
Speaking on a panel titled Obamacare at Work: Innovations to Deliver Better Care at Lower Cost and put on by the liberal Center for American Progress, Gilfillan cited as an example "the incredible response" his office received -- some 3,000 applications from private health care providers nationwide -- to a CMS grant offer soliciting models for interpreting data on the cost savings from bundling medical care payments.
He also mentioned as "emblematic" a productive conference CMS held two weeks earlier attended by 100 representatives of 51 health insurance companies, from seven markets representing 500,000 customers. Instead of sticking with "fragmented, siloed, inefficient care," he said, the industry is "poised, ready and starting" to create a new form of interaction between providers and payers that will create a "rapidly learning, accountable" health care system. "The world is shifting, and the marketplace brimming with new ideas and opportunities under the Affordable Care Act," he said.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., whose state has pioneered health care reforms, said, "You either see health care as a problem of benefits or as a system problem. If you see it as a benefits problem and are wrong, you've made a terrific mistake and harmed a lot of people," he said, referring to current Republican proposals to repeal the health care law and refashion Medicare. "It is a system problem, and we will continue on the path to system reform."
Citing potential cost-savings estimates from $700 billion to $1 trillion dollars, Whitehouse said a sizable 45 sections of the health care law give CMS responsibilities for pilot programs. He noted progress in Rhode Island on lowering hospital readmission rates, which requires better coordination between doctors and hospitals.
The programs that are not performing well are the ones Congress didn't properly fund, Whitehouse said. Greater use of nursing homes, which are less expensive than hospitals, he said, could be achieved under "meaningful use" provisions of the law, and he urged CMS to pursue it.
Asked about the impact of a court ruling striking down all or part of the health care law, Whitehouse said, "The only part of the massive bill being challenged is the individual mandate. That's the only aspect that, some say, the federal government can't do, only the states, which is a very narrow question," he said. "So if the mandate falls, there is some logic -- not great logic, but if you stretch, some logic -- to that. But there is no logic" to going after the pilot programs that CMS is pursuing, he added, or repealing benefits from the law such as families being allowed to keep children on their parents insurance plans until age 26.
"That would be a sign that the court has really gone off the rails," Whitehouse said. "We shouldn't be stalling and dawdling while waiting for the Supreme Court to act. We don't have that luxury."
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, vice president for global initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania, said the coming movement toward bundling of payments is "the most promising way to cut costs because it's easy for doctors to adapt to it. They can figure out how to reengineer their care process." Ten years from now, Emanuel added, "all will be better in the field of health care, unless the Supreme Court does something silly."
Gilfillan reiterated HHS' position on the court's looming decision. "We're confident that law will be upheld, and we're moving forward," he said.
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How markets perform during tightening cycles
The Schroders Economics team has studied the way markets behave during periods in which the Federal Reserve (Fed) tightens monetary policy, and how they perform following periods of "panic". Will this time be any different?
Market reaction to rate rises
Developments in China and in the oil price have dominated the headlines so far this year, but some attribute the increase in market volatility to the decision by the US Federal Reserve (Fed) to raise interest rates back in December (which is also known as tightening monetary policy).
History shows us that in fact, equity markets generally perform very well when the Fed is raising interest rates.
Looking at the last 13 tightening cycles, the chart below shows that the S&P 500 has risen in value over the 24 months leading up to, and the 24 months following, the first rate hike in the tightening cycle.
Figure 1: S&P 500 performance in hiking cycles
NB: Previous starts to hiking cycles include: Jun '55, Aug '58, Aug '63, Dec '68, Mar '72, Aug '77, Oct '80, May '83, Dec '86, Mar '88, Feb '94, Jun '99, Jun '04
However, this time may be different. The S&P's rise in these periods was driven entirely by higher corporate earnings (see the second chart in Figure 1).
Usually the Fed's tightening of monetary policy is an indication of a growing economy, which translates into greater demand for companies' goods and services, and thus better revenue and earnings growth.
However, equities tend to de-rate (i.e. experience a fall in valuation) when the Fed raises interest rates, largely in response to the bond market selloff that usually accompanies such a move.
That is why the third chart above shows that the price-earnings ratio usually declines in tightening cycles.
However, stronger earnings growth has tended to outweigh the negative effect of the de-rating in past cycles and result in share price gains overall.
How similar are things this time around?
The question is whether we can expect the present tightening cycle to have a similar effect on markets today.
The difference is that the Fed is raising rates at a later point in the economic cycle than it has in the past and corporate profits appear to have already peaked.
The case for a further improvement in earnings may therefore not be as strong as in previous hiking cycles, especially with an increase in wages still expected to come through.
The concern therefore is that if the Fed's rate rise results in a de-rating of the market, and earnings growth isn't strong enough to offset the de-rating, the market will come under pressure.
So should we be more bearish about equities overall if the US market is going to struggle somewhat?
Although the US earnings outlook is challenging, there are still some supportive trends for the market.
For example, US companies are generally cash-rich which should provide them with plenty of options for future growth, including through mergers and acquisitions (M&A), as well as the potential for share buybacks.
Outside of the US, other equity markets offer more appealing earnings prospects though, in our view.
At this point, Europe and Japan are better placed to deliver higher earnings as the economic cycle in both economies is at an earlier stage and their central banks are still focused on keeping monetary policy loose to support growth.
Markets have hit the panic button
While seeking areas with the best earnings prospects seems like a sensible strategy, many investors would still rather sit out the current volatility in the equity market.
For example, the Credit Suisse risk appetite index, which was devised to measure changes in investor sentiment using a combination of asset returns and volatility, is now well into "panic" mode (see Figure 2 below).
Safe assets have outpaced risky by a significant margin. However, past evidence suggests this can be a good time to buy equities.
As you can see in figure 3 below, markets generally rise after entering panic mode.
Figure 3 shows the total return of the S&P 500 12 months after the Credit Suisse risk appetite index began to indicate panic.
The one exception to this was during the last financial crisis period when the index went into panic territory for around a month from March 2008.
The indicator then rotated back into panic later in the year when there was a big spike in volatility in the aftermath of the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers.
Figure 2: Credit Suisse risk appetite index hits panic
Figure 3: Performance of S&P after entering panic
Overall, this Credit Suisse Risk Appetite index tends to be a useful contrarian indicator of when investors' sentiment hits extremes and the market is looking oversold.
Looking for a catalyst
While this could be a sign that now is a good time to buy equities, we hold a neutral view on the asset class overall.
The slowdown in the earnings cycle in the US means we are no longer as positive on this area of the market as we were in early 2015.
Although we are constructive on Europe, this is outweighed by a negative outlook for emerging markets, given the continued weak cyclical environment and detrimental effect of the Fed's interest rate hike on these economies.
In the near term, we need to see some stability in the Chinese yuan and in the oil price for the outlook for equities to improve.
Signs that the Fed is backing away from another rate hike in March would also help and Janet Yellen's Testimony to Congress next week will be critical in this respect.
Further ahead though, the focus will be on earnings growth, which our analysis shows drives markets during these periods.


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