My Place To Stand

A place to stand.

234 January 2014 OOur job was to render her unconscious and insensate to the scraping within her body. Barely nineteen, Lisa had come to us to terminate a pregnancy. Now, she lay stiffly on the table, grasping her fingers so tightly that her nails left an imprint. I had placed a 16-gauge IV, our single point of access, and within minutes her fears, hopes and pains were entangled in tubes and wi...

Welcome to MY Virtual Place

This paper briefly describes our proposal for storytelling in virtual environments from a virtual guide perspective. In our model the guide begins at a particular location and starts to navigate the world telling the user stories related to the places she visits. Our guide tries to emulate a real guide’s behaviour in such a situation. In particular, she behaves as a spontaneous real guide who k...

Finding my place.

On the first day of my internship, at about 8:00 in the morning, I was paged to the CCU. There a patient who was assigned to my service was undergoing resuscitation after cardiac arrest. Running after my resident, we arrived at the bedside of an 89-year-old man with end-stage congestive heart failure. The bed was surrounded by cardiology fellows, nurses, residents, a ventilator, crash cart, and...

Studying and Teaching “Law as Rhetoric”: A Place to Stand

A Place to Stand For Environmental Law and Economic Analysis ?

In doing normative environmental economics economists usually use WTP figures for losses when WTA figures are correct. We puzzle over moral issues involved in using discount rates and worry about equity effect not normally considered in benefit cost analysis. We wonder if individuals who will never use an amenity should have their existence values counted and if so if then we should also count ...