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...quest to achieve meaningful social change in American cities, failures are inevitable—and even necessary—said Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Mitchell J. Landrieu and several other panelists at a discussion of social innovation at the Institute of Politics yesterday...
...protagonists barreling along forsaken southern roads in a faded blue convertible. These scenes provide the viewer with brief respites from the occasionally awkward tension of the film’s plot, which focuses on three loners who end up in the same car on a trip through Louisiana. Despite this awkwardness, the tension usually feels genuine, highlighting the honesty of the film’s love story...
...There are not enough doctors to go around," says Dr. Martin Drell, head of child psychiatry for Louisiana State University's health-science center in New Orleans and AACAP's president-elect. For example, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the local hospital doesn't have a child psychiatrist, so doctors some six hours away, at Michigan State University in East Lansing, treat patients via videoconferencing. In South Carolina, a statewide telepsychiatry program established last summer has cut the average waiting period for a child to get a psychiatric consultation from several days (in part because many families in rural areas...
...Orleans, Dr. Kristopher Kaliebe, an assistant professor at Louisiana State University who works with Drell, has telemed equipment set up in his home. Some of his time is spent videoconferencing with patients in a juvenile-detention center who have been diagnosed with such conditions as bipolar disorder, severe depression and posttraumatic stress disorder. "Once the conversation starts," he says, "the kids forget there's a screen between...
...CPAC were secret ones - invite-only passes palmed to a select few. The first one was hosted by the Poker Players Alliance and included CPAC's It kids: James O'Keefe (of ACORN pimp fame) and his three cohorts who recently tangled with the law by messing with Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu's phone lines, antitax champion Grover Norquist, conservative media personality Andrew Breitbart and 2004 World Poker champion Greg Raymer. The open bar at Medaterra got quite a workout, with young conservatives ordering everything from beer to shots of redheaded sluts, a crimson concoction involving Jägermeister. (After...