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Follow the Money ACCME PROPOSES FIREWALL TO PROTECT CME The Accreditation Council for CME has proposed a policy to clarify the boundaries between accredited CME providers and commercial supporters, and to help ensure that CME activities are unbiased. It is specifically aimed at CME providers that are owned by, or do business with, "interested companies"--defined as corporate entities with proprietary or pecuniary interests in health care products or services. Addressing two areas of potential influence--staffing and funds--the guidelines stipulate, among other provisions, that:
* Staff, consultants, and board members of the "interested company" do not exercise control over CME activities.
* All in-kind support or funds supplied by the "interested company" are considered commercial support as defined in ACCME policy and the Standards for Commercial Support.
While the ACCME's Essentials and Standards for Commercial Support already regulate the relationship between industry and providers, the new policy was developed because the CME world has changed since the ACCME first issued those guidelines, says executive director Murray Kopelow, MD. "[In the past] most CME providers--medical schools and specialty societies--were on one side. On the other side were the funders of CME, producers of devices or pharmaceuticals," says Kopelow. "Now there are more dimensions. There are providers that have products."
The ACCME's policy has always been to accredit any provider that meets its criteria, even if the provider is a for-profit organization such as a pharmaceutical or communications company. The accreditation of for-profits has sparked contentious debate in the CME community recently, with some members of the academic CME community calling on the ACCME to restrict accreditation to licensed medical institutions, specialty societies, and state medical societies. The issue has also generated coverage in the mainstream press; for example a March 9 USA Today article questioned whether CME offered by communications companies was really promotion in disguise. The ACCME, however, is not changing its open-door policy.
"This [proposal] reestablishes what the boundaries are so we can continue to include all of our providers, rather than exclude anybody," says Kopelow. The goal of the policy is not to stop the flow of funds, Kopelow stresses, but rather to make explicit how that flow is managed and disclosed. "When an accredited provider is nested inside a larger company, and funds flow from one to the other, we need to look at how much was spent and for what purpose."
The firewall also proposes that after each activity, providers ask faculty and learners if they believed the activity was commercially biased. That feedback will be "incredibly important," says Kopelow, because, if, for example, data shows that 99 percent of activities are free from bias, it will help support the position that compliance with the ACCME Essentials and Standards is "enough to meet the needs of the nation."
The Alliance for CME called for input on the firewall from its members, and as of this writing, had received more than 200 responses, says Bruce Bellande, PhD, executive director. While there is overwhelming support for the policy's intent, Bellande says, there are divergent opinions about how to execute it. Surprisingly, he adds, there is not a significant difference in the responses of for-profit versus not-for- profit providers.
As for his view, Bellande thinks the policy is unnecessary. The ACCME's new Essentials (System 98) require that providers define their missions and organizational structure, including staffing and budgeting, he points out. It would be more effective to integrate the firewall stipulations into the Essentials rather than have a new policy 'isolated somewhere, not linked to anything."
The ACCME is gathering feedback on the proposal through early summer. By the end of this year or early in 2001, the ACCME will decide whether or not to adopt the policy. For more information, visit www.accme.org. --Tamar Hosansky
e-Health, e-Ethics INTERNET SPAWNS NEW MEETINGS What do doctors, lawyers, policymakers, and dot-com company executives have in common? The Internet, health care, and and ethics--and from that confluence of forces springs a new type of medical meeting.
Case-in-point: The Symposium on Healthcare Internet and E-Commerce: Legal, Regulatory and Ethical Issues, held in March in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the fledgling Health Care Compliance Association, the American Health Lawyers Association, and several other groups. The symposium drew 550 attendees, according to event organizer Peter Grant, a law partner in the San Francisco and Seattle offices of Davis Wright Tremaine, and co-chairman of the firm's Health Law Group.
The sweeping array of program participants included staff members from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Health Care Financing Administration.
Grant says the most important developments to emerge were reports from two groups, the Internet Health Coalition and Hi-Ethics, that are working on ethics codes for Internet health care. The codes include guidelines for information for professionals and consumers, disclosure, and professional business practices. Industry leaders say that such codes may stave off government regulations.
At one session, Grant reports, "[Government] regulators were saying that we don't need new laws to govern ethics, but their hope is that ethics codes are broad, practical, and have some teeth." (Visit www.healthwise.org/Hi-Ethics Home.htm; and www.ihealthcoalition.org/.)
Such developments are causing a boom in the new Internet health care meeting industry. IHC meeting planner Chris Pentz, CMP, president, Pentz Communications Group, Levittown, Pa., says, "In my first meeting for IHC two years ago, we expected 80 and we got 150 attendees. The second year we closed registration at 400." So far, 800 people have registered for the third annual meeting in October in Las Vegas. "I've never seen anything like it." Pentz says.
Doctors Unite! A CME FIRST: CREDIT FOR UNIONIZATION TUTORIAL When the American Medical Asso- ciation created a physicians' labor bargaining unit last December, the Massachusetts Medical Society said it was time to take up the issue and, along with the Massachusetts Bar Association, offered a four-credit CME course, "Physician Unionization: A Risk Man- agement Program," earlier this spring. It was a first for MMS and appears to be a first in medical education. Dennis K. Wentz, MD, director, division of continuing physician professional development, AMA, says he knows of no other unionization tutorial, anywhere.
The result, according to program co-chairman and MMS General Counsel Dean P. Nicastro, was a well-attended and lively one-day seminar designed to help doctors understand who has the right to organize and to explore alternative practice procedures that may allow collective bargaining without violating fed- eral antitrust laws.
MMS programs typically draw about 40 attendees, according to Nicastro, who also moderated the event. The unionization seminar attracted more than double that number--about 90--and, although Nicastro says he hasn't yet seen the post-seminar evaluations, a number of attendees approached him right after the event to express appreciation for the course. "Unionization is extremely topical for doctors," he says.
A Striking Difference At its annual meeting last summer in Chicago, AMA delegates voted to reverse its anti-union stance and established a recognized labor organization called Physicians for Responsible Negotiations.
At its Interim Meeting last De- cember, AMA Board of Trustees gave an update on PRN, which is its own legal entity and funded by a loan of $1.2 million from the AMA to support its operation through 2000. PRM is divided into three divisions: physicians employed in national, state, and county governmental organizations; physicians employed by private institutions; and residents.
PRN is banned from striking in contract negotiations and that, Nicastro says, is where the medical community splits in two. "There are doctors who believe (striking) is a perfectly appropriate way to go; others think it's just not good for the medical profession," Nicastro says. He said he got a good sense of this polarization during a session called "What Role Does Medical Ethics Have in Physician Unionization?" Doctors who have served in academic medicine, Nicastro says, by and large oppose unions especially for residents, because their position is that residents are students, not employees.
prescription "NO TEMPS, NO BOXES, NO PAPER INVOLVED." The call for papers for annual meetings can be a monstrous endeavor, especially when submissions number in the thousands. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Rockville, Md., has tamed the beast this year with its "virtual call for papers," a totally electronic submission process. According to Cheryl Russell, ASHA director of meetings and conventions, the new method has made everyone's life simpler--and saves money, too.
"The initial investment to develop the online tools was big," Russell says, "but the savings in the long run are astronomical." By receiving and distributing papers online, Russell estimates she saved about $50,000 this year.
In the past, Russell had to hire about 10 temporary workers to do data entry and make copies of about 2,000 papers, which were then snail-mailed to 200 committee members. But now, the click of a mouse has changed timelines for ASHA's meetings department, and the staff can refocus their objectives and goals to provide better service to members, she says. Although ASHA's Web development is done in-house, including the electronic call for papers, the organization does outsource special projects to outside vendors.
Last year, authors had the option of submitting their papers electronically--it was a sort of beta test. Participants were positive in their reactions, so this year, electronic submission was a requirement, says Russell. Papers were then e-mailed to committee members, who reviewed the submissions online, and electronically sent their recommendations to the topic coordinator who accepted or rejected the submission. With a March deadline for papers, Russell says that by May she and her staff "had a good handle on the program" for ASHA's November 2000 annual meeting.
CORRECTION NOTED *In the opening photograph for the story "Rediscovering Medicine's Mission," March/April issue, pages 36 and 37, Marty Hotvedt, PhD, was incorrectly identified as Joseph S. Green, PhD.
Promise Kept BIO2000 A SUCCESS WITH PEACEFUL PROTESTS It could have been another World Trade Organization/Seattle, but protesters at Bio2000, held in Boston in March, kept their promise with peaceful--and theatrically colorful--demonstrations.
The annual biotechnology meeting drew more than 10,000 attendees--and 3,000 protesters--from around the world to the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center and was considered a success by Jean Mills, director of meetings for Bio- technology Industry Organization (BIO), Washington, D.C., sponsor of the event. Protestors, who called their counter- gathering BioDevastation 2000, aim to make biotechology the subject of social debate, claiming that decisions are made behind closed doors in board rooms with the only motivation being profits. They also say biotechnology is a threat to human health and the environment.
While the Boston Police Depart- ment and the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority took strong security measures, such as shutting down streets around the Hynes and removing newspaper boxes to prevent bombs being stashed in them, Mills says BIO had its own security plans and procedures in place.
"We never thought it would get to be a WTO situation," she says, "because we had intelligence from all over the world and we worked with about 12 committees in the local area that frequently reported to us. We were well prepared and in a responsive mode."
This local committee structure is a regular part of BIO's meeting planning process and starts 18 months out. Mills credits the committee structure for the organization's 14 years of successful--and relatively trouble-free--annual meetings. About 200 people meet regularly; one of their functions is to gather information about possible protests and funnel the information back to meeting organizers and security personnel.
The success of Bio2000 mirrors the industry explosion. Registration for the show almost doubled from 5,700 in 1999 to 10,280 this year. International participants increased from 1,650 in 1999 to 2,000. This year, there were 770 exhibit booths, up from 450 last year.
Planners in Paradise Several medical meeting planners were among the guests of the Guam Visitors Bureau on a recent tour of the island's offerings for group events and meetings. "It was paradise," says Arnold Schrader, A.C. Schrader Medical Conference Int., who is planning two events in Guam. "They are fantastically good hosts and Americans haven't discovered it yet. I think it's going to surpass Hawaii as a destination." Making the trip were, front row, left to right, Donna Leon, L&A Meeting Management; Kristin Hesse and Janice Caine, Guam Visitors Bureau; Dorothy Schrader, A.C. Schrader Medical Conferences Int.; Candice Burroughs, Kustom Incentive Concepts; Gale Cossey, Gale Cossey & Assoc.; back row, left to right, Toni Ramirez, Guam tour guide; Bernard Heller, Mara Assets Management; Wesley Lui, Nationwide Real Estate and Commercial Lenders; Denis Jensen, travel writer; Schrader; Jack Eilrick, Life Research Corp.; and Pierre Haber, The Psychology Association.
Dot-Coms Deliver E-MEETING MANAGEMENT MORPHS "Another day, another dot-com press conference." So Tom Flanagan quipped in April at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York. Flanagan, vice president of marketing for Philadelphia-based StarCite (www.starcite.com), a fast-evolving meeting Web site, then announced StarCite's latest offering: customized sites for suppliers. But wait, there's more. StarCite is handling the biggest practical problem with online RFP use--that many hotels are not equipped to receive and respond to RFPs electronically--by giving free computers and free ISP service to hotels that sign up for marketing agreements.The computer giveaway is part of a partnership with com- puter-maker Dell, which will ship notebooks pre-loaded with a StarCite icon.
"We're focused on both sides of the equation, as a market-maker should be," explained John Lavin, StarCite president and COO. The supplier Web sites will allow hotel salespeople to better manage RFPs coming from StarCite's planner users. Benefits for planners: faster turnaround and no need to retype RFP responses to compare offers. Bene- fits for hotels: happier customers, and a way to track RFPs--by salesperson, customer segment, brand, whatever--and identify patterns.
StarCite also had news for planner users. A site redesign allows planners to track negotiated savings or "cost avoidance." That means you can point to a number as your organization's ROI in you. Also new are three specialized RFPs: forms for airlines, cruise ships, and CVBs.
EventSource: Site Selection Plus Another meeting management Web site on the move is Event Source, which at press time announced an equity with Sabre, a major travel company, that will, among other things, enable meeting attendees to book their air travel online.
EventSource (www.eventsource.com)has taken the third-party site-selection model and put it online. The company's revenue comes primarily from the 10 percent commission it gets from hotels on meetings booked through its site. Unlike StarCite, which has made partners of third parties such as HelmsBriscoe, EventSource is in direct competition with site selection companies.
Among EventSource's unique features is a forum for planner reviews of meeting properties. Some 500 reviews already have been posted, says President & CEO Ed Sarraille, who notes that hotels are allowed to post responses to those reviews.
The company has several other partnerships: with CommerceOne, for an auction-enabling product, Commerce Bid; with Extensity, for a "business-to-employee" platform, enabling conference planners to track meeting spending; and with Event411, for an online meeting registration interface. (Event Source and Event411 will share the per-attendee fee that will be charged for the registration service.)
Sarraille says that EventSource intends to partner with a housing provider as well. --Alison Hall
Passkey Partners with PlanSoft Passkey.com Inc., an online group housing service, and PlanSoft Corp., an online site selection database, have announced a cross-marketing agreement. PlanSoft (www.plansoft.com) will license Passkey.com's Internet-based housing software and offer it to its users, while Passkey.com (www.passkey.com) will provide its clients with the ability to launch PlanSoft's Internet-based site selection and online RFP from its planner desktop housing management tool. An icon will be incorporated in PlanSoft's database of more than 45,000 facilities and suppliers to identify those that are Passkey-enabled.
Philadelphia, Here We Come In Alison Owings' opinion, Philadelphia is the hot new East Coast destination, which is one reason why her group, the 80,000-member American Dental Association, will be taking its annual meeting there in 2005, a first for the 141-year-old organization--and the largest convention ever for Philadelphia, even bigger than the Republican National Convention scheduled there this summer.
Owings, who about 18 months ago joined ADA as assistant executive director of the division of conference and meeting services, says Philadelphia has been very much on the upswing in the last decade--more than a dozen new properties are scheduled to open in the next few years. "They have a new state-of-the-art convention center and they are rapidly building hotels," Owings says. Philadelphia's accessibility is another plus. "A huge percentage of the nation's population can get to it by air, car, and train." Owings hopes these factors will draw a better-than-average attendance--the annual meeting usually has 40,000 to 50,000 attendees. ADA will use 52,000 room nights in Philadelphia and the group is expected to spend $24 million on lodging, food, entertainment, and travel.
BEYOND BORDERS NUTS 'N' BOLTS Tackling the nuts and bolts of planning events in other countries, the fourth annual Beyond Borders Conference drew about 85 registrants to the New York Hilton Hotel and Towers in New York City in March for an information-packed two-day conference. Luminaries at the March Beyond Borders in New York City included (from left) Sarah Graham Mann, a New England travel consultant, who was a panelist on destination marketing; Martin Kinna, CMM, managing director, Martin Kinna Associates, London, who moderated a panel discussion on international site selection via the Web; and Virginia M. Lofft, vice president of Adams Business Media, who initiated the conference four years ago. Beyond Borders was produced by Adams Business Media, publishers of this magazine as well as the annual Beyond Borders magazine supplement.


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When we asked graduating high school seniors to send us their college admissions essays, we didn't know what to expect.
But we received dozens of them, and we were impressed by the quality of the writing and the diversity of topics. (One thing that stood out: Nearly all of the submissions came from women.)
Narrowing down the selections to a few proved difficult, but we managed to choose our favorites, which we're publishing here today.
AUTHOR MOLLY MACK of Portland graduated from Catherine McAuley High School. She will attend Saint Joseph's College of Maine.
There I was slouched at my desk eagerly awaiting the sound that would mark the end of the day. Preoccupied, with my head resting in my hands, I was half listening to my teacher's lecture on the Hinduism belief of reincarnation. When I heard my teacher presume, "I'm sure none of you have ever witnessed the death of a human being," I suddenly perked up and listened intently. An engaged student in the class quickly retorted, "that would be awful; I can't even imagine!" It was at that exact moment that I realized I had experienced something special in my life. Though I did not say anything to my peer at the time, I wanted to assure her that it is not awful; in fact to witness another's end of life is eye-opening and illuminating.
Witnessing the death of my grandfather, but more so assisting and comforting him at his bedside, I learned many things about myself I may have never acquired without this experience. I recall gently swabbing the interior of my grampa's parched mouth and carefully dampening his dry lips with a wet sponge. It amazed me that seemingly simple gestures could comfort him for a while and secure a look of contentment upon his face. As a mere thirteen-year-old, I glued myself by my grampa's side, held his feeble hand, whispered in his ear and stroked his white hair. I needed to feel assured that Grampa felt as comfortable as possible and experienced as little pain as possible; but most importantly, I wanted him to feel the love of his family surrounding him.
It was not until later when I realized these goals are the same goals all dedicated hospice nurses desire for their patients. Looking back, I further realized caregiving came naturally to me. I was calm, compassionate, and selfless while assisting my ailing grandfather. At the time, my only focus consisted of what I could do next to provide him more support. My friends, my basketball game, my homework suddenly became unimportant. This heartbreaking yet significant occurrence provided me with new knowledge about myself and the woman I will one day become. I decided against confronting my classmate because I did not want to put a spotlight on her or my experience in front of an audience. I feared this would make my memories less special to others and my story might be misinterpreted as a means to gain myself attention. Instead, I lovingly reflected on the memorable times with my grandfather. To know that we all mature at different rates and in different ways, the experience of witnessing a death too early happens to be mine.
When the bell finally rang announcing the end of class, I refrained from getting up because I felt the next phase of my life was just beginning. This experience had stamped a new meaning onto my life.
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text: Curt Arens Democracy is Messy Business Husker Home Place The farmers who battled the British in April 1775 fought for our freedom to disagree and to compromise. Published on: April 13, 2011 The farmers who battled the British in the spring of 1775 fought for our freedom to disagree and to compromise. It wasn't all that well planned out, but the farmers and laborers in the countryside knew one thing. They wanted to be free. They had no idea, when they stood together on Lexington Green to face a well-trained British column on the morning of April 15, 1775, what the country they were about to risk life and limb for would turn out to become. Yet, when the "shot heard 'round the world" rang out, and as the British fired on the assembled minutemen, blood was shed and the American Revolution had begun. The British advanced to Concord, and faced another group of farmers on the Concord North Bridge. The Americans fired back this time, and the British abandoned the bridge and retreated to Concord. As they started a hasty retreat back toward Lexington, they were exposed to the mobile farmers who lined the escape route, firing from behind trees and thickets. The British weren't used to these backwoods tactics and they suffered heavy casualties, under hard fighting. Farmers on the front lines started the War of Independence. Freedom and liberty were only ideas back then, and in modern times, many of us have come to worry about the shape of those ideals in our country today. Are the goals of those farming forefathers still intact? After a bitter budget battle in Congress in recent days and more partisan fighting over budgets, wars, domestic, foreign and even farm policy ahead, we have come to complain about the bickering. Public forums and letters to the editor berate Congress and the President for playing politics with our future. People are mad and they just want the fighting in Congress to stop. "Why can't they get along," one letter writer lamented recently. Well, the answer is simple. They aren't supposed to. If we think the budget battles were bad, we should have been around before the Civil War broke out, when members of Congress were all packing revolvers and Senator Charles Sumner was severely beaten with a cane by Congressman Preston Brooks on the floor of the Senate chamber, over the issue of slavery. That makes our current political battles look like a Sunday picnic. Civility hasn't always been a part of our political history. Yet, through it all, our legislative and executive branches have continued to survive and evolve, and ultimately, compromise. Civil War historian and author, Shelby Foote, once said that we Americans like to think that we're independent and self-reliant, yet the greatest achievement of our system of government has been in the ability to compromise and come up with solutions together, in spite of and often times because of the politics involved. So, the farmers on the bridge at Concord didn't fight for us to always get along and agree with each other. They fought for our freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, freedom of the press and all of those freedoms that we take for granted, but that make our democracy function, but seem kind of messy and disorganized. I thank those farmers for standing up for what they believed America could become, and I thank those partisans in Congress for fighting for their constituents and for what they believe, and ultimately, being able to give and take and come up with answers that neither is entirely happy with, but that we can all live with as we move forward. Most Americans don't really understand this, but that is the American way, and so far in our history, it has served us pretty well. After writing all of this, I wonder if I'll feel the same way once the battle for the new 2012 Farm Bill begins?


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Dzeko: I will fight for my place at City
Manchester City forward Edin Dzeko wants to stay on and fight for his place at the club but admits he needs a run of games in order to play at his best.
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Dzeko's future at the Eithad Stadium was once again thrown into doubt after the Citizens were recently linked with a move for Atletico Madrid striker Radamel Falcao. Rumours of an impending City bid for the Colombian intensified after City manager Roberto Mancini was seen in the crowd at Atletico's 2-1 win over Malaga on Sunday.
There is already fierce competition for a starting berth upfront under Mancini; Sergio Aguero, Carlos Tevez, Mario Balotelli and Dzeko are all vying for the same position, and the club's apparent interest in Falcao surely spells the end of one of the strikers' City career.
With Aguero and Tevez considered integral components of the City set-up, it appears the most likely player to leave if Falcao does sign would be either Balotelli or Dzeko.
However, Dzeko insists he will not leave the Citizens without a fight and wants to show that he is still of worth to the club.
"Every time I see a paper, for what seems like a year or more there is a story saying that I am leaving City, or that I want to go," Dzeko was quoted as saying by the Sun.
"But I've never said that so the stories don't come from me.
"I've always wanted to stay at City and fight for my place.
"My motto has always been 'Never give up'.
"I hope the City fans who have always been fantastic towards me have seen I can score important goals for the team and that's what I want to carry on doing."
The Bosnian international did admit that he has struggled on the pitch recently but attributed it to a lack of regular playing time, although he did acknowledge the quality of the rest of his striking teammates.
"There is myself and three fantastic strikers so obviously we can't all play at the same time," the former Wolfsburg hitman added.
"So sometimes it can be difficult to find your rhythm.
"You could play one game and then be on the bench for the next three.
"I think confidence is the key to playing at your best, of course. Plus the more games you play, the more goals you are likely to score.
"But, as I say, with many good strikers at the club that's how it's going to be.
"As a player you accept that and just try your best each time you play. That's what I do and will continue to do."
The 26-year-old has been in good form this season, scoring three goals and assisting one in the six Premier League games he has featured for City so far.


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Iran played their first Davis Cup tie in 1962 and have reached the final round of Asia/Oceania Zone Group II on two occasions, in 1994 and 1997.
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Windham edged the Cat boys 27-29, but Catskill defeated Cairo-Durham 19-37 and Hunter 16-50.
Catskill's girls improved their record to 8-1 with a 15-46 win over Windham plus 15-50 victories over Hunter and Cairo.
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Caleb Davies won the boys race for Catskill with a 19:46. Matt Davis was second in 20:05, followed by Pat Fenaughty (seventh, 20:57), Ja'sean Edmonds (eighth, 22:02), Mike Petrocelli (11th, 25:23) and Alex Griffen (12th, 26:14).
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The CARe 500 is an electric version of the Fiat 500, and is now available in Europe
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Fiat recently announced that it will be manufacturing an electric version of its cute li'l 500 automobile for the North American market, starting in 2012. If you can't wait that long, however, you can get one in Europe right now – you just won't be buying it from Fiat. The Italian automaker gave Swedish company EV Adapt permission to buy the stock 500, swap out the combustion motor for an electric one, and then resell the car as an EV. Sold as the CARe 500, the vehicle is now available throughout Europe. In an interesting move, buyers have the option of purchasing a battery-less car for a reduced price, and then renting its battery pack.
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We're not sure why-it probably has something to do with the juice-cleanse craze-but green juice is the reliever of all gluttonous and debaucherous sins. Ate at restaurants for dinner three nights in a row? Green juice for lunch. Drank a little too much at the office holiday party? Green juice for breakfast. Your wedding's in a week and you drunkenly had a bacon-cheeseburger at 3 a.m. last night? Green juice for every meal today. It's the color of health, all whirled up into a sip-able elixir. And these delicious smoothies and juices come in every combo: parsley, spinach, and berry; apple, kale, lemon, ginger; avocado and basil. So before you beat yourself up about eating an extra slice of cake at your kid's birthday (or, you know, just because), just make sure you have plans to go green.
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In the next landmark case challenging campaign finance restrictions after the historic Citizens United decision, the Institute for Justice and the Center for Competitive Politics today filed a petition (.pdf) with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to review a case challenging federal laws that impose enormous burdens on grassroots groups that simply want to speak out in elections. The case is SpeechNow.org v. FEC.
SpeechNow.org is a group of citizens who want to defend free speech at the ballot box by running ads that oppose candidates who do not support First Amendment rights. But under federal law, if the group decides to spend most of its funds on ads that call for the election or defeat of political candidates, it must register with the government as a political committee or "PAC" and be subjected to a host of burdensome regulations before speaking.
Earlier this year the Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United v. FEC (.pdf) that the same regulations that apply to SpeechNow.org are too burdensome for corporations to comply with. As Justice Anthony Kennedy put it, "PACs are burdensome alternatives; they are expensive to administer and subject to extensive regulations." The Court went on to hold that requiring a group to speak through a PAC amounts to an unconstitutional "ban on speech."
Unfortunately, despite the Supreme Court's ruling, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals held (.pdf) that the government could force SpeechNow.org, an unincorporated nonprofit association, to comply with these burdensome regulations just to speak. IJ and CCP are asking the Supreme Court to reverse that portion of the D.C. Circuit's ruling.
The Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United was crystal clear: "If the First Amendment has any force, it prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech." Large corporations and unions can now spend as much as they want on political speech. The First Amendment requires nothing less. But it also requires that groups of ordinary citizens like SpeechNow.org have that same freedom.


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To World Race Parents
The World Race is an amazing adventure. Sure you may not see the romanticism of sleeping on the ground, eating unusual fruits, animals and other undistinguishable items, or carrying all your worldly possessions on your back but your sons and daughters do.
Over the years, we've seen incredible transformations coming from the hardships our participants face. You remember when they started to walk, they fell a few times and had to strengthen their leg muscles by crawling and eventually pulling themselves to a standing position. The pilgrimage of the World Race is very much the same. The dirt, sweat, blood, cuts and bruises along the way serve a deep emotional, maturing purpose in their lives. As the process happens, I believe you will begin to see beyond the scrapes and scars and begin to see the person you always envisioned, emerge.
This is as much an adventure for you as it is for them. You may not be carrying the weight of a backpack, but you may be carrying the weight of responsibility, of fear, or even separation. You should know that they didn't do this to you, but may be doing this because of you. They may be doing this because of your willingness to let them go off and discover themselves. They may be doing this because they are learning to implement the trust in Christ you've taught them about. They may be doing this because the pilgrimage has a scent about it that smells of destiny - and they want more than anything for you to support it.
I've put together some thoughts and observations I've gathered as generations of World Racers have circumnavigated the globe. I write to you as a teacher, a leader, a director, but mostly a father. Let me share the journey I've observed and the outcome I expect to see. It'll be messy, I promise you that. But, ultimately, it will be good.
In Him,
Seth Barnes
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He's honestly, openly seeking God's will. How can I believe that my plans are better for him? What right do I have to think that "a good job" is the highest and best use of his life?
Craig Hanson, 2007 World Race father
Thousands and thousands of young people are going to eventually embark on this pilgrimage around the world, because it provides a context in which they can discover themselves and who they are in Christ... and how they fit in the world. Many people in their twenties are looking for answers. They've got more questions than they've got answers. And what better place to find them than as you go on a pilgrimage around the world?
Seth Barnes, father of 2 World Racers and founder of the World Race
Thanking God for faithful servants and good news! I've been following these racers since January and they really have become the biggest part of my daily devotions. I often wonder if they have a clue how much they are ministering to people they do not even know. I've been blessed.
Pat Burrows, mother of WR participant
As a father of a World Racer who is about a month away from coming home, I would encourage anyone who thinks that God may be leading them to the World Race to apply. My daughter asked me recently if knowing what I know now, would I allow my other children to go on the Race. My response was "absolutely." The Race is not easy but it is a tremendous opportunity to grow exponentially in your dependence on Jesus.
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Chuck Williams chose this mold on his first buying trip to France in 1959 – and it has been a favorite ever since for making charlottes luscious baked apple dessert that originated in 18th-century Britain. It is thought that the charlotte was named for Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III. The pan is equally suited to making a charlotte Russe, a 19th-century chilled variation made with Bavarian cream nestled in a ladyfinger shell.
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Sixers at the Break: The Five Pleasant Surprises and Ten Crushing Disappointments of the '12-'13 Season So Far
Feb 14, 2013, 10:28 AM EDT
Suffice to say, this season hasn't gone to plan for the Philadelphia
76ers. After a blockbuster trade in the off-season, the team was
supposed to retool around their new franchise center, with our other
young players stepping up to fill the shoes of our recently departed
core pieces and our newly acquired veterans filling in nicely around
them as complementary role players. At first, everything went as
anticipated—with one very large exception, as the centerpiece of the
team's future showed up late to the party, and then showed up really
late, and then maybe decided he wasn't gonna come at all. Things
unraveled from there.
This season hasn't been without its nice moments, its unanticipated
gains, so as we recap the Sixers' season at the impending All-Star Break
we'll give those their fair due first. But obviously, this season has
primarily characterized by its many, many letdowns, so we'll be sure to
run those down in excruciating, voluminous detail as well shortly after.
As they say over at Liberty Ballers, Sixers Gonna Sixer.
1. Jrue Holiday.
Obviously any discussion about what's gone right for the Sixers this
year has to be keyed around our fourth-year point guard Jrue Holiday,
who despite some recent struggles—shooting around 36% for his last five
games—has still obviously taken The Leap this season. 19 points and nine
assists a game, shooting a career-high 45% from the field, basically
serving as the Sixers' entire offense on some nights, providing solid
on-ball defense—Jrue's just about done it all this season, cementing
himself as one of the best point guards (and best young players at any
position) in the East, and a rightful first-time All-Star this coming
weekend, the youngest . All-Star in Sixers history. We all knew (or at
least hoped) he would be capable of this someday, but I don't think many
of us expected him to get there quite so quickly.
2. Thaddeus Young. It's funny now to think about how at the
beginning of the season, the question about Thad was "Is he a starter in
this league?" Not only has he proven himself as a starting power
forward, excelling as one of the Sixers' most productive players on both
sides of the ball, he's proven to be the very heart and soul of this
team, and Philly's 1-3 record since he went down a few weeks ago (with
the one win against the pathetic Bobcats) just a small indication of
just how important he's been to any degree of success the Sixers have
had this season. Not long ago viewed as a potential stumbling block
towards the team building towards success, the five-year, $42 million
contract he signed two off-seasons ago now seems like a fairly sizable
3. Nick Young. I have enjoyed the Nick Young experience more
than I thought I would, but for totally different reasons than I'd have
thought. As much as I prepared myself to expect the unexpected with
Swaggy, there's one thing I couldn't have anticipated—he's actually a
good basketball player. Yeah, you think of him and you think him
chucking up that falling-out-of-bounds three against the Knicks, or
wearing ridiculous shoes or whatever. But he's been a really solid
player for the Sixers this season. His FG% is never gonna be great, but
he's shooting a respectable 36% from deep, and he's getting to the line
at a better clip per 36 minutes than any of the team's other regulars,
hitting 83% from the stripe. He's taking care of the ball—a career low
in turnover rate—and he's even passing it decently, with a career high
in assist rate. (Still just 1.5 a game—hey, Swaggy's not a distributor
by nature.) And perhaps most surprisingly, he's actually playing pretty
good individual and team defense.
Young was brought in to replace the team's departed sixth man Lou
Williams, and while Lou was a more prolific and (if you believe the
advanced stats, though I'm still not sure I do) efficient scorer, I much
prefer having Swaggy. And that's because as much of a reputation as
Young might have as a gunner or a ballhog, he never really steps out of
line. He doesn't demand the ball and jack up contested threes in crunch
time. He might take some less-than-great shots, but you never really go "What the hell was he thinking?"
(Well, except that time against the Knicks.) He just plays his part,
serves as a good last-ditch option for the half-court offense, takes his
shots where he gets them, and stays out of the way when he doesn't.
Really, I couldn't have asked for more from the Swagness then he's given
us this year, and PER be damned, I'd take him over Lou Williams any
4. Arnett Moultrie. Up until last week, Arnett would be yet
another tally for our Crushing Disappointments counter. But the more I
see of this guy—and with Thad out, we're all seeing much more of him
than previously expected—the more I feel like he can really be a small
part, if not necessarily an integral one, of the Sixers' future. The key
word with Arnett is activity—with Thad out, all our other bigs (Kwame,
Lavoy, Spencer) are all kinda lumbering and flat-footed, and when they
get to their spots, they tend to stay there. But Arnett, with his young
legs and sleek build, can actually get from point A to point B when
called on to do so, and has earned himself countless offensive boards
and easy buckets in his week-plus of heavy action just by figuring out
what spots to get to, and then getting there.
Of course, a lot with Arnett remains to be seen. I'd like to see him
be more of a force on defense, where he too often seems out of sorts
and a step slow—only three blocked shots in 144 minutes doesn't seem
nearly enough for a big as long and athletic as Moultrie—and his range
and touch on offense appears to still be largely a work in progress. But
in year one, after being acquired for a future first-rounder at the
draft, all we really needed to see from the rookie out of Mississippi
State was the occasional flash of potential. We've gotten that from him
now, and even if he turns out to be Marreese Speights 2.0, at least he
probably won't be the next Craig Brackins.
5. Royal Ivey. You could question what he was doing in the
game for the final possession last night in Milwaukee—which he blew up
with a bad pass that cost the Sixers a game they probably wouldn't have
won anyway—but generally speaking, Royal's been nice for the Sixers as a
minutes-sopper off the bench. He doesn't do much, but the things he
does—give opposing guards trouble with his length and lateral quickness,
hit threes when left open—he's done well, and done consistently. On a
better team he probably wouldn't get more than emergency minutes, but at
one year for the veteran's minimum, I have no complaints with the
season Royal Ivey has had.
1. Andrew Bynum.
It seems naive, almost quaint to think that as recently as mid-October,
we actually thought we'd get a full season out of the Funny-Looking Kid
With the Big Hair—or at the least, a full season minus the 15 games he
always seemed to miss on the Lakers with mid-year injuries. In all the
emotional bargaining I did with myself and/or my lord, I never
anticipated a worst-case scenario that included Bynum still being out at
the All-Star Break, without even so much as a return date in sight. And
that's the thing that really kills us as Sixer fans, because if we
don't know for sure when he's coming back, then there's always the
possibility that he just doesn't come back, and that possibility is looking like a heartbreakingly real one at the moment.
Maybe we should have seen this coming. Maybe the fact that Orlando
asked for a couple non-lottery picks rather than Bynum in exchange for
their own All-NBA center was, in retrospect, a sign that all with this
guy was not on the up-and-up. Maybe Philly's own tragic history with
high-profile big-man acquisitions since Moses Malone was traded for Jeff
Ruland should've been a portent. But man…even by Sixers standards,
this one hurts, and continues to hurt. All we can do is wait, and pray
that somehow, someway, it doesn't turn out to all be for naught. What
choice do we have, really?
2. Evan Turner. This isn't totally fair to the
extraterrestrial, since he did spend a lot of the season in "pleasant
surprise" territory. But the worse things get for this team, the worst
they get for Turner—or maybe it's the other way around, it's always hard
to tell with ET—and now that his name is even being mentioned in trade
rumors probably means that the bloom is off the rose with Evan's
'12-'13. (The fact that no other team has actually been confirmed as
being interested in him doesn't help his case a ton either.) It's not
too late for Evan to turn things back around—his second half in
Milwaukee last night was a good start, playing and scoring with an
aggression (if not quite a finesse) that the team badly needed (and has
badly lacked)—but going to the All-Star Break with his sagging further
and further to where they ended last year, it's hard not to view Evan's
season as a bummer at the moment.
3. Free throws. To get away from individual players for a
minute, the team-wide malaise at the charity stripe has also been one of
the season's biggest head-shakers. To an extent, this is what happens
when you have a team who a) builds their offense around pick-and-pop
bigs and b) doesn't have a star scorer whose reputation earns them
borderline calls, but even still, the Sixers' extreme lack of foul
shooting—second-worst in the NBA in attempts, first-worst in makes—has
made them something of a league laughing stock, and resulted in their
offense going ice-cold for quarters at a time. A lot of the blame has to
go to Doug Collins for this for not making foul-drawing a team
priority, but if the Milwaukee game was any indication, in which Turner
made his most concerted effort of the season to drive to the basket, the
team might finally be trying to force the issue a little.
4. No stolen games. Recently, Coach Collins lamented how his team had not stolen any wins this year—i.e.,
won a game unexpectedly that they probably wouldn't have won without
some hot shooting and lucky breaks. That's not really true—they
definitely stole one game in Memphis, and arguably stole another at home
against the Knicks—but the idea is on point. The Sixers have done a
very good job this year of losing the games that they should lose—and
they mostly win the games they should win, too, there just aren't as
many of those. This was mostly true last year, as well, but the bar was
at least a little higher last year, making the team's W-L predictability
a little more palatable.
5. Kwame Brown. We paid six million dollars for THIS? It's
tough, because in the limited minutes that Kwame does play, it's easy to
see the benefits of having him on your roster—he's easily the best
defensive center the Sixers have, capable of changing games on D by
clogging up the middle and out-muscling other bigs for rebounds. But
it's also easy to see why he's unplayable so much of the time, and
that's because he's even worse than advertised on offense. His hands are
awful, his touch is non-existent, he can't make free throws and he's
too slow and stone-y to even find himself open for easy buckets or
putbacks more than once a game. On a team with enough perimeter scoring
to play 4 on 5, you could probably get away with it, but in an offense
that requires its big men to be such a big part of the offense, it's
hard to argue that he deserves more minutes than he's getting (which is
basically none). Sigh.
6. Jason Richardson. Like Evan, J-Rich is a pleasant surprise
gone awry, though unlike Evan, he'll not be getting any more
opportunities to turn things around. Jason started off the season like
he was the answer to our long-term two-guard problems, hitting 45% of
his threes through the team's first dozen games, and 40% through the
first 20, and even providing a little veteran leadership the team lacked
without Elton Brand in the locker room. But that percentage kept
dropping and dropping, as Richardson seemed unable to recapture his
early-season groove, and then a couple games out with a knee injury
became a couple weeks and then shortly, the whole season. We'll likely
try again with J-Rich at the 2 next season—he's under contract until
2015—but he's no longer the known quantity he appeared to be at season's
7. Damien Wilkins. Here, I'm not saying that Wilkins is the
disappointment—he's played about exactly as well as I'd expected, which
is to say, "not"—but the fact that we've had to play him at all. Of
course, the really perplexing thing is that for the most part, we
haven't had to play the 31% shooter—we've had Dorell Wright, a
superior player in just about every conceivable way—but for reasons
unspecified, Doug has opted for Wilkins over Wright for long season
stretches, dooming the Sixers' second unit to offensive incompetence.
Not that Dorell Wright is Carmelo Anthony either—he's an arguable
disappointment in his own right—but even Wright at his mediocrest is
preferable to Wilkins at his best, and the idea that Wilkins has spent
large parts of the season as a key rotation cog for this team tells you
all you need to know about the '12-'13 76ers.
8. Maalik Wayns. It's hard to be too disappointed in a player
that came to the Sixers, as an undrafted player, with no expectations
at all, and the fact that Maalik Wayns ended up washing out as the
Sixers' backup point guard can hardly be called surprising, let alone
disappointing. Still, I really liked Maalik in the pre-season—he seemed
like a really solid change-of-pace option off the bench, a more physical
Lou Williams with better passing instincts. But once he had to face
big-league defenses, it turned out he was still a little too
helter-skelter as a point guard for the NBA, and it was back to the
D-League for Maalik. Hope we see him again somewhere down the line, but
perhaps he never should've been expected to help the team this year.
9. Nikola Vucevic. I don't really want to go too hard on this
one, since I'm not trying to say the Sixers in any way made a mistake
by trading away their second-string center for the second-best center in
the whole league. Sure, it didn't turn out as we'd hoped, and sure it's
easy to second-guess the administration that brought us to this point,
but just because Nik is putting up daily double-doubles in Orlando now
while the Sixers continue to struggle to get production from the pivot
position doesn't mean that there was anything to regret about pulling
the trigger on the Bynum trade. Still…it's not exactly helping
matters, is it?
10. We're right back where we started. And at the end of the
day–the end of the season's first half—this is really the problem, isn't
it? The Bynum deal seemed to at leat guarantee that things would be
different for the Sixers—maybe better, maybe worse, but different,
blessedly different. Yet here we are again, fighting for one of the
last two playoff seeds, just like we have been four of the last five
springs, begging to be crushed by the Heat or Knicks in the first round.
For better or for worse, last night's loss in Milwaukee might've sealed
the Sixers' fate as a lottery team, so perhaps they go in that
direction for the rest of the season. Perhaps they won't even have much
of a choice in the matter. Maybe it's not too late to scrap a mid-level
lottery pick out of this mess.
If they can secure that decent lottery pick, and they get Thad back
healthy, and the Funny-Looking Kid with the Big Hair at least plays for
like a month at season's end to prove that he still has two legs that
work most of the time, and we re-sign him in the off-season, then this
year doesn't have to be a total waste. With the emergence of Jrue and
Thad (and occasionally Evan), there's still a good core to be had with
this team, and if the missing piece ever feels like showing up, next
year could be the exciting year we hoped this year would be. But
man…another season of Wait Till Next Year. That's some sobering shit
right there.
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