text: Understanding the Methods Used by the US Preventive Services Task Force in Developing Recommendations Instructor GuidePresentation describes the methods used by the US Preventive Services Task Force to develop recommendations. Background. Clinicians are frequently confronted with conflicting screening and prevention recommendations from a variety of sources. One source, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), is thought to set the standard for evidence-based recommendations, though the methods used by the USPSTF to arrive at recommendations are not well known. An understanding of their methodological approach is useful for clinicians and clinician educators faced with making choices about whose guidelines to follow.Target setting and audience: The materials presented herein are devised for an instructor-led small-group setting. The materials are applicable for use at all levels of training: undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education, and continuing medical education. These materials are linked to a teaching module (PowerPoint® presentation) appropriate for a large-group lecture setting.By the end of this session, students will have met the following educational objectives:Understand the major challenges in measuring and balancing benefits and harms of screeningUnderstand why clinical recommendations for cancer screening may conflictUnderstand the methodology used by the US Preventive Services Task Force in developing recommendations related to breast cancer screeningUnderstand the interpretation and application of the US Preventive Services Task Force breast cancer screening recommendationsClinical scenario: You are the director of the Women's Clinic at the General Hospital and are revising your guidelines for breast cancer screening. You note that revised recommendations by the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) seem to conflict in important ways with your current guidelines (based on the American Cancer Society guidelines). You are unsure what to do. You decide to read the new recommendation and some supporting documents before making any revisions. Here they are:Screening for breast cancer: an update for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Nelson HD et al; U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Ann Intern Med. 2009 Nov 17;151(10):727-37, W237-42. Available at: http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf09/breastcancer/brcanup.htm and http://www.annals.org/content/151/10/727.full.pdf+htmlScreening for breast cancer: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement. US Preventive Services Task Force. Ann Intern Med. 2009 Nov 17;151(10):716-26, W-236. Available at: http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf09/breastcancer/brcanrs.htm and http://www.annals.org/content/151/10/716.full.pdf+htmlThe estimated prep time for this small group is 90 minutes. The small group is scheduled for 120 minutes.Instructors: text in bold italics does not appear in the student version of this module.1. Clinical guidelines strive to balance benefits and harms. What are potential benefits and harms specific to breast cancer screening (as outlined in the USPSTF recommendation)? How might you rank these in terms of importance to population health? (10 minutes)Some of these were discussed in the large group session. Potential benefits include: reduced cancer morbidity and mortality. Some students might mention "peace of mind" when testing is normal.Potential harms include: discomfort, cost, inconvenience and harms due to the test itself (e.g., radiation) and follow-up imaging; pain, cost, inconvenience, and morbidity due to invasive follow-up testing (e.g., biopsies) and ineffective treatments; inconvenience, cost, and anxiety due to prolonged surveillance among women with diagnoses of uncertain malignant potential (e.g., atypical hyperplasia); false-positive testing; and 'overdiagnosis'.The ranking of benefits and harms is challenging and likely varies by individuals' perspective and values. You may want to take a poll of students to see how they might rank certain benefits and harms. Pointing out disagreements among your students illustrates the basis from which controversies arise.2. One cited harm of screening in the USPSTF recommendation is "overdiagnosis". What does that mean specifically in the context of breast cancer screening? (10 minutes)Some of these were discussed in the large group session. Potential benefits include: reduced cancer morbidity and mortality. Some students might mention "peace of mind" when testing is normal.Potential harms include: discomfort, cost, inconvenience and harms due to the test itself (e.g., radiation) and follow-up imaging; pain, cost, inconvenience, and morbidity due to invasive follow-up testing (e.g., biopsies) and ineffective treatments; inconvenience, cost, and anxiety due to prolonged surveillance among women with diagnoses of uncertain malignant potential (e.g., atypical hyperplasia); false-positive testing; and 'overdiagnosis'.The ranking of benefits and harms is challenging and likely varies by individuals' perspective and values. You may want to take a poll of students to see how they might rank certain benefits and harms. Pointing out disagreements among your students illustrates the basis from which controversies arise.3. To assist the USPSTF in making its recommendation, a systematic review and meta-analysis were commissioned. You have read an abbreviated version of a much longer (95-page) review (Nelson et al). To determine the validity of a systematic review and meta-analysis for mammography screening, the following elements should be evaluated:ElementAddressed?Funding source disclosedYes (AHRQ)Study protocol describedYesSearch strategy describedYes (in the full report)Included and excluded papers listedYes (in the full report)Publication bias addressedYesStudy quality assessedYesTests of heterogeneity performedYesSensitivity analyses performedYes (3 in full report)Results reported such that analyses may be replicatedYes (for women 39-49)Look at the studies of mammography screening included in the meta-analysis (Appendix Table 1). What was the quality of the included studies? In what ways do the studies differ from each other? What are the challenges of combining studies in general and these studies in particular? How did the authors address limitations in combining results from studies that may have differed from each other in important ways? (10 minutes)All studies included in the meta-analysis were judged as being of only "fair" quality. The studies were performed over a wide number of years (1963-1991) during which time screening technologies and standards for interpretations have changed and treatments have changed. Some studies randomized women to both mammography and clinical breast examination, so the independent effect of mammography is difficult to ascertain. Some studies did 1-view mammography and others did 2-view tests. One way the authors address the limitations in combining study results was by excluded some trials in a sensitivity analyses (e.g., the HIP study was excluded).4. In the Nelson report, the following summary information from mammography screening trials is given for women aged 39-49 years: Are any of the individual studies statistically significant? Does each study show a trend to benefit (based on the relative risk)? Which study do you think is weighted the least in the meta-analysis? The most? Do you think there is substantial heterogeneity? If so, which study do you think might contribute most to heterogeneity? (10 minutes)All studies included in the meta-analysis were judged as being of only "fair" quality. The studies were performed over a wide number of years (1963-1991) during which time screening technologies and standards for interpretations have changed and treatments have changed. Some studies randomized women to both mammography and clinical breast examination, so the independent effect of mammography is difficult to ascertain. Some studies did 1-view mammography and others did 2-view tests. One way the authors address the limitations in combining study results was by excluded some trials in a sensitivity analyses (e.g., the HIP study was excluded).5. The Age/Moss trial is the largest (over 150,000 women randomized) and was designed specifically to answer the question about mammography efficacy among women aged 39-41 years. Enrollees were randomized to being screened at ages 39-41 and annually thereafter until age 48 (i.e., for about 10 years) versus no screening. What can you conclude about the efficacy of mammography in women aged 39-49 on the basis of the reported results of the Age/Moss trial? What can you conclude about the efficacy of mammography in women aged 39-49 on the basis of the overall results of the meta-analysis? (10 minutes)The Age/Moss trial (from the UK) showed on average a 17% decrease in risk of breast cancer mortality with mammography screening, but this decrease was not statistically significant (95% CI includes 1.0). One might draw several conclusions from this trial alone: that mammography is ineffective for women aged 39-49; that mammography is ineffective for women beginning screening at ages 39-41; that screening starting at 39-41 is ineffective in a ten-year time frame; or, that it is indeed effective but that the study was underpowered to detect an important difference (although over 150,000 women were enrolled). The results of the meta-analysis, on the other hand, supports a clearer 15% decrease in breast cancer mortality for women who are first screened in the age range 40-49. Which results should one believe: a single large trial designed to answer a specific question or a meta-analysis of several trials? The answer to this question is debated, and there appears to be no 'right" answer. Meta-analysis enthusiasts might say that having several smaller trials (with no substantial heterogeneity) that all show the same general effect is more robust since the results are drawn from various populations, etc. Some may use the Moss/Age trial as an argument against screening women aged 40-49. Of note, the USPSTF considered the 15% decrease in risk to be "real".6. The USPSTF commissioned a decision analytic model to assist in weighing benefits and harms. In the report accompanying the guideline, the following table was provided (http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf09/breastcancer/brcanart.htm):Table 4. Benefits and Harms Comparison of Different Starting and Stopping Ages Using the Exemplar ModelaStrategyAverage Screenings per 1000 WomenPotential Benefits (vs. No Screening)Potential Harms (vs. No Screening)bPercentage of Mortality ReductionCancer Deaths Averted per 1000 WomenLife-Years Gained per 1000 WomenFalse-Positive Results per 1000 WomenUnnecessary Biopsies per 1000 WomenComparison of different starting agesBiennial screening40-69 y13,86516c6.1120c1,2508845-69 y11,77117c6.2116c1,0507450-69 y8,944155.4997805555-69 y6,941134.9805904160-69 y4,24693.45234024Annual screening40-69 y27,58322c8.3164c2,25015845-69 y22,62322c8.0152c1,80012650-69 y17,75920c7.3132c1,3509555-69 y13,00316c6.1102c9506760-69 y8,40612c4.669c60042Comparison of different stopping agesBiennial50-69 y8,944155.4997805550-74 y11,109207.51219406650-79 y12,347259.41301,0207150-84 y13,836269.61381,13079Annual50-69 y17,75920c7.3132c1,3509550-74 y21,35726c9.5156c1,570110650-79 y24,4393011.11701,74012250-84 y26,9133312.21781,880132a Results are from model S (Stanford University). Model S was chosen as an exemplar model to summarize the balance of benefits and harms associated with screening 1000 women under a particular screening strategy. b Overdiagnosis is another significant harm associated with screening. However, given the uncertainty in the knowledge base about ductal carcinoma in situ and small invasive tumors, we felt that the absolute estimates are not reliable. In general, overdiagnosis increases with age across all age groups but increases more sharply for women who are screened in their 70s and 80s. c Strategy is dominated by other strategies; the strategy that dominates may not be in this table.How do various starting and stopping ages affect the balance of benefits and harms? How does biennial compared with annual screening affect the balance of benefits and harms? Compare biennial screening among women ages 40-69 years to biennial screening among women ages 50-69 years. What are the specific differences in benefits and harms? (20 minutes)Try this in smaller groups of 3-4 students. Obviously, the more frequently one screens and the longer, the more benefit (in terms of life-years gained and lives saved), but the harms (in terms of false-positive testing) also increase. Look at the 3rd line. The estimated percentage mortality reduction is 15% for biennial screening of women aged 50-69; biennial screening from ages 40-69 (first line) is associated with a 16% reduction in mortality (1% extra reduction) (and 21 extra life-years saved), but the false-positive rates rise from 780 to 1250 per 1000 women (i.e., note that 1250/1000 women means at least one false-positive test will occur per woman screened). There is no 'best' measure of benefit; 3 different measures are given: percentage of mortality reduction, cancer deaths averted per 1000 woman, life years gained per 1000 women. Two measures of harm are given, but there is no real 'best' measure of harm.The students should be aware that there is generally no way to balance benefits and harms that is satisfactory to everyone, especially if it is a "close call". There is no one right answer. Students may be frustrated by this, but these are real challenges faced by those making recommendations. Remind students that this challenge is analogous to clinical decision making on an individual patient level. We often operate under conditions of uncertainty and reasoned judgment is required.7. Review the USPSTF recommendation. What does the USPSTF conclude about mammography screening? What is their justification? (10 minutes)For women 40-49: "The decision to start regular, biennial screening mammography before the age of 50 years should be an individual one and take into account patient context, including the patient's values regarding specific benefits and harms. (Grade C recommendation)" Further, the recommendation states: "the USPSTF reasoned that the additional benefit gained by starting screening at age 40 years rather than at age 50 years is small, and that moderate harms from screening remain at any age. This leads to the C recommendation. The USPSTF notes that a "C" grade is a recommendation against routine screening of women aged 40 to 49 years. The Task Force encourages individualized, informed decision making about when to start mammography screening." The key word here is "routine"; the USPSTF felt as if women should not be automatically given a requisition form and sent to get a mammogram when the balance of benefits and harms was so tenuous and potentially value-laden.For women 50-73: "The USPSTF recommends biennial screening mammography for women aged 50 to 74 years. (Grade B recommendation)."and " For biennial screening mammography in women aged 50 to 74 years, there is moderate certainty that the net benefit is moderate."The justification is as follows: "The current USPSTF statement is also informed by… modeling studies…. The Task Force considered both "mortality" and "life-years gained" outcomes. In this case, given that the age groups (40 to 49 years and 50 to 59 years) are adjacent, the Task Force elected to emphasize the mortality outcomes from the modeling studies. Of the 8 screening strategies found most efficient, 6 start at age 50 years rather than age 40 years. The frontier curves for the mortality outcome show only small gains but larger numbers of mammograms required when screening is started at age 40 years versus age 50 years."Critics of the method used by the USPSTF to balance benefits and harms might say that there is no value placed on the specific benefits and harms to be able to make a reasonable judgment about their balance. Cost-effectiveness analyses (and cost-utility analyses) may be more useful but these can generally be opaque and complex and are not used by the USPSTF in part for these reasons.8. A 40-year-old woman presents to your clinic for a periodic health examination. She is healthy and has no risk factors for any particular diseases. She does not smoke, is sexually active, and is not pregnant. Using the electronic Preventive Services Selector, you note that screening for the following diseases gets an A or B recommendation: cervical cancer, hypertension, alcohol misuse, and obesity. Routine mammography is not recommended. She has read about the mammography controversy and wants to know more about the benefits and harms. Look at the following table from the Nelson report. These data were derived from the Breast Cancer Screening Consortium and include results from a single screening round. Table showing results of breast cancer screening by age group.What might you tell this patient about the likelihood of screen-detected breast cancer? false-positive testing? Additional imaging? Does every case of screen-detected breast cancer translate into a breast cancer death avoided? (10 minutes)The table suggests the following likelihoods per 1000 women screened, per screening round: screen-detected breast cancer, 1.8 per 1000 women screened (or 0.18%); false-positive testing, 97.8 per 1000 women screened (or 9.8%), additional imaging, 84.3 per 1000 women screened (or 8.4%). Not every detected case of breast cancer will translate into a breast cancer death avoided. Students should know that some indolent breast cancers that are detected by screening may never become clinically relevant. These cases constitute "overdiagnosis" due to screening. Conversely, some breast cancers detected by screening will be unresponsive to therapy and lead to death regardless of early detection and treatment.9. The USPSTF recommendations also state that a clinician taking the time to teach breast self-examination (BSE) should be discouraged since the harms outweigh the benefits (a "D" recommendation). The Nelson report summarizes the results of trials evaluating the benefit of teaching BSE on breast cancer mortality. Consider the results of the "good-quality" Shanghai trial. From the data presented, how certain are you that teaching BSE has no effect on breast cancer mortality? (5 minutes)In the Shanghai trial of over 268,000 women, the RR for breast cancer mortality was 1.03 (95% CI 0.81-1.31). You may want to point out that unlike the Age/Moss trial that suggests a 17% decreased risk (RR 0.83, 95% CI 0.66-1.04), there is no suggestion of a benefit in the Shanghai trial (the RR is practically 1.0). The Russian trial supports this finding, but note that the outcome was total mortality.10. The USPSTF recommendations also state that there is insufficient evidence to recommend clinical breast examination (CBE) and an "I" statement was assigned. What does an "I" statement mean? What does the USPSTF suggest clinicians do when an "I" statement is assigned? (5 minutes)The "I" statement indicates that the USPSTF concluded that "the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of the service. Evidence is lacking, of poor quality, or conflicting, and the balance of benefits and harms cannot be determined." and "If the service is offered, patients should understand the uncertainty about the balance of benefits and harms." They also suggest reading the "clinical considerations" which address issues in 4 domains: potential preventable burden, potential harms, costs and current practice. For CBE, these are the following:Potential Preventable Burden. The evidence for CBE, although indirect, suggests that CBE may detect a substantial proportion of cases of cancer if it is the only screening test available. In parts of the world where mammography is infeasible or unavailable (such as India), CBE is being investigated in this way.Potential Harms. The potential harms of CBE are thought to be small but include false-positive test results, which lead to anxiety and breast cancer worry, as well as repeated visits and unwarranted imaging and biopsies.Costs. The principal cost of CBE is the opportunity cost incurred by clinicians in the patient encounter.Current Practice. Surveys suggest that the CBE technique used in the United States currently lacks a standard approach and reporting standards. Clinicians who are committed to spending the time on CBE would benefit their patients by considering the evidence in favor of a structured, standardized examination.11. One important component of health care leadership is arriving at consensus opinions. Within your group, determine a strategy to arrive at a consensus opinion about an optimal breast cancer screening strategy for the Women's Clinic at the General Hospital. Consider the following questions: (20 minutes)Should constrained resources (such as those in a public hospital) affect your decision?Would you make a different decision if mammograms were entirely free?Would you use formal cost analyses to assist in your decision?What are potential barriers to incorporating the USPSTF recommendation for patients aged 40-49 years at the General Hospital?There are no 'right' answers. Students should be aware that decision analyses, outcomes tables, cost-effectiveness analyses and cost-utility analyses lend unique perspectives, and policymakers may look at all of these to make decisions. Even if mammograms were free, students should still want to make sure that benefits and harms are well balanced (i.e., it is not all about costs). The USPSTF, of note, does not consider cost analyses in their deliberations.Potential barriers to incorporating the USPSTF recommendation for shared decision-making for patients aged 40-49 years are many including low health literacy, low numeracy, language and/or cultural barriers. There also may be a lack of time for a thorough discussion, and clinicians may lack skills and may not have access to resources such as decision support tools (e.g., decision aids).AcknowledgementThese materials were developed under an agreement between the Health Research & Education Trust and George F. Sawaya, MD as part of the "Knowledge Transfer/Implementation- Outreach to Health Professionals" project, no. HHSA 290200900014C sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research.Dr. Sawaya is Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. He was a member of the US Preventive Services Task Force from 2004-2008.The information herein was current as of June 2011 as per the USPSTF website http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/about.htm. Page last reviewed August 2010 Internet Citation: Understanding the Methods Used by the US Preventive Services Task Force in Developing Recommendations: Instructor Guide. August 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/cpi/centers/ockt/kt/webinars/tfmethods/tfmethinstr.html


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Numerous classrooms have been outfitted with a screen, whiteboard and projector. However, this ubiquitous setup has two problems:
- If you stand in front of the screen while teaching you get a punishing shot of projector light in the eyes and you promise yourself not to do that again.
- If you want to use both the projector and the whiteboard you are constantly running the screen up and down.
We recently remodeled one of our classrooms and solved both problems as well as gaining some new capability.
Short-Throw Projectors
The first technology is the short-throw projector. One of the parameters for selecting a projector is its throw ratio. The throw ratio is the distance from the projector lens to the screen divided by the width of the projected image. For most classroom installations the throw ratio is somewhere between 1.8 and 3. This would mean that the projector is 2-3 times as far away from the screen as the screen is wide. On many projectors this throw ratio can be modified by means of a zoom lens.
Short-throw projectors generally have throw ratios of less than 1. Some even have throw ratios of 0.5 which means the image is twice as wide as the distance to the projector. Images 9 feet wide can be produced by a projector just a few feet from the screen. The key advantage of a short throw projector is shown in figure 1. Note that where the standard long-throw projector shines in the teacher's eyes and casts a shadow, the short-throw optics project behind the teacher. The teacher is now free to move about in front of the image.
There are a variety of vendors that sell short-throw projectors. Our first one was from NEC. We have recently installed several models from Epson and I have also seen a nice model from Mitsubishi. A web search for "short throw projector" will generate several hits at many price ranges.
There is one caveat. Short-throw projectors at the economical end of the price spectrum tend to have a maximum image size of 100″. This is great for a class of about 30 but gets a little small for larger classes. For our purposes we needed more expensive models to get images of 200″. This is less of a problem for large auditoriums because the speaker is so small relative to the screen size the the projection for a long-throw installation is almost always over their head.In a really big classroom, the short-throw projectors do not offer much of an advantage.
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Our second problem was running the screen up and down when moving between the projector and the whiteboard. This is very frustrating. The solution is from Walltalkers. They sell whiteboard material that is applied like wallpaper. You install this from chalk-tray level up to the ceiling, creating a full-wall whiteboard. We then project directly onto that whiteboard surface rather than a screen.
This has the delightful property of being able to write directly on the projected image with a whiteboard pen. This has added a lot of interactivity to my lectures and lets me clarify points much better than trying to draw on PowerPoint slides with a touch pad. To convert the whole setup from a projector screen to a whiteboard, you simply add a black slide. The whiteboard now behaves like a normal whiteboard. When this material is used in combination with the short-throw projector you are able to move freely in front of your material while drawing on top of it, all without projector eye pain.
A traditional problem with projecting onto whiteboards rather than the normal screen is the hot glare spot that appears right in the middle of your projected image. This is solved in two ways. First, the Walltalkers material is not as shiny as traditional whiteboards. It is more diffuse and thus has less glare. The second solution comes from the short-throw projector, as shown in figure 2. With the long-throw projector, the angle of reflection goes right back into the student's eyes. With the short-throw that same reflection falls harmlessly on the floor.
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Using these ideas we remodeled a 60 student classroom as shown in figure 3. Note that the entire front wall is covered with the Walltalkers material, (plus a nice oak boarder added by our carpenter shop). We have installed two Epson short-throw projectors. Together these projectors cover the entire front wall with pixels.This full coverage would not be feasible with standard projectors because the instructor would have no place to hide from projector blindness. With the short-throw projectors the issue never comes up.
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| You are truly a silver-tongued devil if you approach an older woman, tell her that her husband is sleeping with your wife, and convince her to sleep with you to get revenge
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| Tr0mBoNe
Revenge sex is awesome.
| jaylectricity
It didn't work so he tried to rape her.
| ChipNASA
| Tommy Moo
I wonder if they'll even be able to charge him with a crime. If lying to a woman to trick her into bed were a crime, the jails would be full of more than just weed smokers.
| T-Servo
I tried that in college but got it all wrong- tried sleeping with the guy who was sleeping with my girlfriend.
/the upside was knowing how disappointing he was
| Abe Vigoda's Ghost
That's her story and she's sticking with with
| ChipNASA
One more and TONGUE TRIFECTA!
| Abe Vigoda's Ghost
With it, dammit. With it.
| Professor Pickles
This is like some sort of sleazy version of "in the mood for love"
| strapp3r
| prjindigo
walk up to any cougar+ and tell them you want to spend a gentle five hours spoiling their body with sex
you don't have to beat around the bush
| Abe Vigoda's Ghost
prjindigo: dude
Hopefully you don't. Some of those older women's grooming habits are not that great.
| skylabdown
| Shakespeare's Monkey
FTFA: "While talking, he suddenly got up and tried to have sex with her," the source said.
Well, that must have been awkward.
| Resident Muslim
And that is when he tells her that he lied....
And where she says, "it's ok, I'm not married anyway"
| I May Be Crazy But...
You know you're good when she realizes afterwards that she isn't married.
| Benjimin_Dover
Abe Vigoda's Ghost: prjindigo: dude
Yeah. You got to watch the upper limit too. There's an age where they are chicks who were raised in the time of the "saturday night bath" for lack of a better term. Mostly baby boomers and the first batches of the hippy kids they spit out. Taking a shower daily just isn't ingrained into them. My gf Eileen comes from that crowd and fortunately she does shower everyday, but there was some trepidation the first time I peeled off her pants on her couch. Was I going to be able to have a snack or was it going to be a "ride it, blow it, then nice knowing ye" kind of night.
| silverjets
I'm guessing the author thinks that "dupe" is a synonym for "rape".
| skylabdown
Was I going to be able to have a snack or was it going to be a "ride it, blow it, then nice knowing ye" kind of night.
I nominate this sentance as the most fabulous sentance written in a Fark thread this year.
| Pollexter
| Snooki Punch
The aristocrats?
| Gyrfalcon
silverjets: I'm guessing the author thinks that "dupe" is a synonym for "rape".
Yeah, lying for sex is sleazy, but it's not illegal.
| Mindlock
Old story is old...
Decameron day eight story eight
| kyleaugustus
| martid4
Taking notes...
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Ampang Jaya police chief Asst Comm Amiruddin Jamaluddin
/that's a ruddin'
//or a luddin'
| dopekitty74
So, suspect is approximately 30 and asian?
Have fun coppers!
| baronvonzipper
Gyrfalcon: silverjets: I'm guessing the author thinks that "dupe" is a synonym for "rape".
Leaving this thread sleazy, yet satisfied
| genner
dopekitty74: So, suspect is approximately 30 and asian?
| Death Eats a Cracker
This thread is incomplete without pictures of what hot Asian milfs may look like.
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One of the business meetings I have attended was held in a resort in Sipalay, Negros Occidental. The virgin (well, almost) beaches, dive sites, coral reefs and the sights in general make up a good alternative vacation spot. Unfortunately, when I got there, I don't have any decent, tourist-standard camera with me so I forced myself to be satisfied with my good old camera phone. Here are some photos I personally took and some information regarding the place I got from the official website of the local government of Sipalay.
Sipalay has various natural fascinations that one can see & experience. The 3-hour land trip to the city is truly rewarding as you start exploring the bounties that abound the place.
15-minute boat ride from the city proper is the Sugar Beach - German, Swiss and Filipino-owned resorts line this sugary beach, which offers an excellent place for swimming, and various water sports activities.
Not far from the Sugar Beach is the Tinagong Dagat - a hidden sea sprinkled with a dozen islets covered with lush vegetation. The sea bottom is covered with patches of sea grass beds, with the shoreline lined by old-growth mangroves.
Punta Ballo Beach is located in close proximity to Tinagong Dagat- This fine white sandy beach is more than a kilometer stretch. It's the nearest jump off point towards the sea ideal for snorkeling & diving due to the rich marine life.
Going more or less 10 minutes from the Punta Ballo Beach is Campomanes Bay – The bay is excellent not only for diving but for jet skiing, kayaking, and all sorts of water sports. It has an existing port that caters to medium-sized sea craft. The enclosed shape of the bay and islets in its opening provide calm waters even in harsh weather conditions. Entrance to the bay is a wide expanse of coral garden with various species of corals and fish.
Personally, I like the place since I appreciate nature more when it's untouched or when it just experienced First Base of human intervention. The Party Boy in me (a minuscule personality of mine, I promise), however is not satisfied. If you want a real romantic getaway and nature tripping in its truest sense, then Sipalay can make you fall in love and experience nature in its virtuous form respectively.
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As faithful readers of our monthly Security Breach Roundup feature know, any company can be the subject of a security breach. And at the recent RSA Conference, more than one speaker essentially said all companies will eventually get hacked. One of them was Art Coviello, Jr., Executive Chairman of RSA. As we covered previously:
Coviello was also the first to make the point that becoming a victim of a security breach is now inevitable. Companies need to "acknowledge once and for all that our networks will be penetrated," he said. "We should no longer be surprised by this."
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Walter Energy, Inc. mines coal. The Company produces metallurgical and steam and industrial coal,, manufactures blast furnace, foundry, industrial and buckwheat coke, and produces light oil, coal tar, and ammonium sulfate. Walter Energy also degasifies coalbeds and sells the gas to a utility.
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As the government begins the painful process of paring down the bloated defense establishment, Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and its best known component, Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), is likely to continue its rise in prominence – and in deployments. As with many of the transitions in U.S. defense policies, this has not come without controversy.
The rise of JSOC in the War on Terror has been due in large part to the military difficulties and political costs stemming from the use of large conventional formations. However, the rapid expansion of covert operations as conventional ground forces reduce their presence in budgets and battlefields alike, its activities in areas not officially declared war zones, and its seeming lack of Congressional accountability, have all raised significant consternation from foreign policy and defense commentators.
Marc Ambinder recently highlighted many of these concerns in his excellent recent work with D.B. Grady, The Command, and reiterated them in an interview with Spencer Ackerman at Danger Room. JSOC's processes of review are internal to the organization, and Congress has little bearing on JSOC's actions. Already commentators suspicious of American military power or foreign policy have decried the rise of JSOC for eroding Congressional checks on war-making power or for enabling America to embark on a path of perpetual conflict.
Inexplicably, some American commentators worry over the decline of Congressional authority over war-making power. However, this fear is both somewhat ahistorical and very optimistic in its assessment of Congress today. Congressional authority for war does not require a formal declaration of war, nor is the approval of Congress necessary for a state of war to exist. Congressional authority is merely required to initiate a state of war that was not already brought about by hostile action. So long as Congress continues to fund and approve the war, the war is essentially retroactively legalized by Congressional action.
Regardless of how legal JSOC's activities are abroad though, relying on Congress to hold JSOC accountable assumes that Congress actually cares to do so. There is an unexamined belief about the pacific inclinations of legislative bodies that absolutely does not reflect modern realities. As should be obvious, the current Congress is not interested in restraining the war powers of the executive, nor is it interested in undermining JSOC.
And really, since when has Congress been a reliable dovish influence on American military power? Since never – Congress has been supported wide-ranging, undeclared wars since the beginning of American history. In the Quasi-War with France , Congress approved and funded an undeclared war across the world's oceans against France – a geopolitically risky activity considering the relative power of France to the young United States. This war was not merely limited to commerce – it also involved naval landings against France's ally Spain (specifically its colony in what is now the Dominican Republic), despite the United States not being at war with Spain .
Congress has displayed no qualms about declaring offensive wars either – the Mexican-American War and the Spanish-American War, both officially declared wars, were also two of the most nakedly territorially aggrandizing wars in U.S. history. Members of Congress have even tried to push the executive into wars it did not desire, or forced it to take hawkish positions that it might have preferred to avoid. In American relations with China, for example, Congress has generally been the more belligerent of the branches, while the presidency has generally sought to preserve the diplomatic entente Nixon forged. Even before the existence of the People's Republic of China, a strong China lobby enabled funding of the Republic of China's war-making effort against Japan. During the Cold War that lobby continued to militate for action to defend the Republican Chinese government in Taiwan. Eisenhower and the military did not want to become engaged in a war to defend Taiwan during the Quemoy and Matsu crisis, which they thought would require using nuclear weapons against the Chinese mainland and compromise America's other diplomatic prerogatives. Yet many of the so-called isolationists in Congress vigorously pushed the President towards a more confrontational stance. Even today, it is still Congress where the most ardent defenders of Taiwan push for legislation that may antagonize China – not the executive.
Regardless, the ugly truth about JSOC is that Congress will not hold it accountable not because it cannot, but because Congress has absolutely no incentive to do so. There is no reward to Congress in trying to hold JSOC accountable or reduce the role of special operations forces in U.S. policy. Congress has demonstrated its support for a wide-ranging war on terror through the Authorization for Use of Military Force and the subsequent National Defense Authorization Acts. Congress, not the executive, will not initiate massive cuts SOCOM even as other branches receive potentially deep reductions in funding.
JSOC, or at least the elements that the American public identifies with JSOC, are extremely popular. Are Americans worried about secret assassination campaigns? No – a significant majority of Americans support the use of drones in targeted killings, and most even support the use of drones against American members of terrorist organizations abroad. And really, Americans identify JSOC with elite operators, not killer robots. Nobody doesn't love a Navy SEAL, right? Congress, on the other hand, is less popular than the Internal Revenue Service. Act of Valor, starring active U.S. special operations forces, is set to be a blockbuster. Nobody would watch a movie billing active Congressmen as its main characters unless it was a remake of Home Alone with the legislators as the thieves. JSOC has produced some of the most public and stunning successes in the War on Terror – even if a few Members want to increase Congressional oversight, there is no political incentive for the majority to rein in JSOC. Voters won't reward Congress for meddling in JSOC's business.
The desire to fight terrorism, combined with a dissatisfaction with the expensive and bloody military campaigns that began as a consequence, have enabled JSOC and the drone program to continue with so little accountability. JSOC has been tasked with leading the way in the new iteration of the Global War on Terror, and every request it sends for increased operating capabilities is a reflection of its attempt to enact popular policies that ideally lead to smaller footprints and more contained violence. Indeed, the wide-ranging Operational Preparation of the Environment actions JSOC undertakes are to avoid becoming embroiled in the larger, more serious conflicts that non-JSOC military-led counterterrorism campaigns might require. The desire not to be sent in blind or become embroiled in another Iraq or Afghanistan is one of the crucial factors behind JSOC's global strategic moves.
Indeed, rather than militating for more war, a serious concern might be that JSOC would frustrate or resist the executive's desires for another "big war." General McChrystal, for example, has made critical remarks about the Iraq war's effect on the overall war on terror and also negatively assessed American preparation and assessment of the environment in Afghanistan. If anything, JSOC could become an obstacle to wider military action. A powerful and more influential JSOC would be better able to resist executive desires for expanding U.S. military presence in some theaters beyond their preferred levels. This would be a civil-military problem in its own right, but it is not automatically safe to assume that JSOC wants to use its status to militate for high-tempo combat campaigns everywhere. Because JSOC is not a massed force, it indeed cannot take on the burden of conducting all-out wars.
Some commentators are concerned that an increased reliance on an elite force for waging covert or small wars necessarily means the US will lose its ability to conduct large, nation-building type wars. If that ability is lost, however, it's not because of SOCOM – it's because the military and policy establishment has largely rejected this approach to warfare. It is certainly true that SOCOM cannot do everything, but general purpose forces do not exist to make the costs of bad policies more politically bearable. Massive investments in nation-building capabilities and a large land-based force have led to the exhaustion of those forces – and have challenged the government's ability to finance their operations. If SOCOM is expanding in operations, it is because the policies advocated by Boot and many others were tried on the battlefield and were found wanting.
The truth is that the biggest problems with SOCOM generally, JSOC in particular, and American foreign policy lie in exactly that – American foreign policy. Take, for example, Jeremy Scahill's excellent new piece on Yemen, which describes a litany of failed counterterrorism efforts resulting in massive blowback in the country. Scahill essentially describes an incoherent strategy that used, but was not driven by, the tools at hand. American policymakers sought to kill terrorists until those aiding and abetting them decided instead to throw their lot in with an admittedly noxious government that we nevertheless chose to support because we depended on Saleh's people for a permissive environment and targeting intelligence. Yet much of that intelligence was faulty or deliberately manipulated by the regime itself to support its own political needs. As a result, the capabilities the U.S. built up have been expended to defend the regime's existence – not to fulfill U.S. counterterrorism priorities.
What might policymakers have done to prevent this? As in Pakistan, one uncomfortable answer is that building up a large human intelligence network independent of a potentially uncooperative host government, perhaps even using stay-behind networks of assets posing as civilian contractors, businessmen, or other ostensible non-combatants or maybe arming militias answering primarily to the U.S. rather than the Yemeni government, could have provided more accurate intelligence and avoided the consequences inherent in supporting Saleh's regime. Incidentally, such a task would have been the responsibility of JSOC and the CIA. The failures of Yemen are failures of policy, not of JSOC or drones.
One might even further note that a counterterrorism campaign in Yemen that relied on apprehending rather than killing terrorists would have required JSOC's capabilities to be used more aggressively in Yemen, or else let captured suspects rot in Saleh's brutal prisons. A campaign of capturing terrorists and rendering them to the U.S. would have required far more direct action assets, forward operating locations, and airbases for local air support. Capturing Awlaki, for example, probably would have involved hundreds of soldiers, pilots, and support personnel deploy to Yemen, and likely would have resulted in either his death or those of American operators. Even less lethal counterterrorism campaigns could well entail the continuing expansion of JSOC or CIA covert forces.
No kind of capability is a magic bullet, and no combination of capabilities is a magic bullet either. SOCOM is an instrument of policy, and policy is, even in JSOC, still made by politicians and policymakers, not military officers. If they become proconsuls, it will be because of willful abdication by their civilian superiors, not praetorian machinations by those in uniform. Disentangling instruments from policies is a vital task if the United States is to correct course on the War on Terror. While not all tools are appropriate for all policies, pursuing a bad policy is going to result in undesirable outcomes. Accountability is worthless if those supposed to be designing policy cannot develop realistic standards or are not interested in developing any standards at all for anyone to be held accountable to.


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by Liz Fox
Posted 3/11/2013 12:00 am
A new baby and toddler boutique has opened its doors inside a local photography studio in Mountain Home.
Wee Giggles is the new addition to the studio of Tamara Smith, a local photographer specializing in family portraiture. Smith, who opened her business in 2005, established the boutique after the idea was given to her by her mother-in-law, a woman with more than 25 years in retail.
"My inspiration for creating a baby boutique was that it just seemed to fit well with my photography business," Smith said. "Children are such a joy. … The clothing selections that I have in Wee Giggles look great in portraits — [they] enhance, not take away."
The building, which Smith has rented since March 2011, is a 2,000-SF space in Mountain Home's Town East Shopping Center. Building improvements, lighting fixtures and constant updating of photography equipment have cost more than $20,000 since Smith's lease was signed, and merchandise for Wee Giggles will continue to add expenses.
Smith currently is the sole operator of her business, conducting day-to-day sessions as well as operating around big-picture ideas. But she sometimes consults her colleagues in the photography business and calls on her husband, who helps her on big, sometimes overwhelming projects.
"Although my husband has a full-time career of his own, he helps me run my business," Smith said. He is "sometimes my assistant during photo sessions and especially when shooting weddings."
Before opening her studio, Smith was an elementary school and junior high teacher. Teaching family and consumer science, a class geared toward home economics and professional skills, inspired her to consider photography as a career. This was in addition to an already existing interest, one that formed at an early age.
"I bought my first camera when I was a young girl, at around age 10," Smith said. "I [later] began teaching scrapbooking classes at a scrapbooking store. Many people who took my photography classes complimented my work, which also encouraged me to further pursue photography."
She wants to continue to expand her business in terms of space, skill and reputation, Smith said.
"My goals for the next five to 10 years are to continue to grow my business," she said. She added that she wanted to improve "in my photography skills and to replace or exceed my teaching salary that I gave up when I quit teaching."
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In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.Unknown
As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish livesAlbert Einstein
There is no nation on the continent of Europe that is less able to do harm to England, and there isno nation on the continent of Europe to whom we are less able to do harm, than Russia.We are so separate that it seems impossible that the two nations, by the use of reason or common sense at all, could possibly be brought into conflict with each other.John Bright
Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history -- the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of "heathens," and other no less repulsive manifestations of Christian civilization in Europe and elsewhere -- modern man is filled with pride in the "progress" accomplished, in one line at least, since the end of the dark ages of religious fanaticism.Savitri Devi
Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.Daniel Berrigan
In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessaryErnest Hemingway
We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.Thomas Jefferson
There is more money wasted in advertising by underspending than by overspending. Years ago someone said that underspending in advertising is like buying a ticket halfway to Europe. You've spent your money but you never get there.Morris Hite
The poor are the blacks of EuropeNicolas Chamfort
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.Don DeLillo
You're thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.Donald Rumsfeld
Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.George Washington
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.Friedrich Nietzsche
Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.Will Rogers
Europe did not derive its identity from itself but from the formation of a set of global contrasts.Gerard Delanty
The idea of Europe became closely tied to this sense of nostalgia for Roman Catholic autocracy.Gerard Delanty
If the notion of Europe existed at all, it was composed of its very differences, as a delicate unity of differences.Gerard Delanty
The great thing about the U.S. economy right now is that we are the smart kids in the stupid-kid class. America has fiscal problems and gridlock issues and polarity and partisanship in Congress -- and yet, compared to Japan and Europe, the U.S. looks great.Ian Bremmer
Europe is a molehill. It has never had any great empires, like those of the Orient, numbering six hundred million souls.Napoleon Bonaparte
We all know that the first bankers of the world — Rothschilds — are Jews; we know they control not only the money market, but also the political destiny of the European world... The Press of Europe is mostly controlled by Jews; the leading editors are Jews.Simon Wolf
The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and the rest of creation. This mythology of human superiority justifies their doing whatever they please with the world, just the way Hitlers mythology of Aryan superiority justified his doing whatever he pleased with Europe. But in the end this mythology is not deeply satisfying. The Takers are a profoundly lonely people. The world for them is enemy territory, and they live in it like an army of occupation, alienated and isolated by their extraordinary specialness.Daniel Quinn
Men found that his absorbing egotism was deadly to all other men. It resembled the torpedo, which inflicts a succession of shocks on any one who takes hold of it, producing spasms which contract the muscles of the hand, so that the man can not open his fingers; and the animal inflicts new and more violent shocks, until he paralyzes and kills his victim. So, this exorbitant egotist narrowed, impoverished, and absorbed the power and existence of those who served him; and the universal cry of France, and of Europe, in 1814, was, "enough of him;" "assez de Bonaparte.Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Two tense dramas are unfolding in the Horn these days. One is in Somalia, where insurgents may be on the verge of ousting the Transitional Federal Government (TFG). The other, moving more slowly but with bigger consequences, involves Ethiopia's recent election experience. With sweeping and probably reckless oversimplification, I will talk about elections in Ethiopia, using Iran 'as a foil', as our president might say.
A few days ago, Iran's supreme leader reaffirmed his claim of a landslide victory for the government's candidate, warning protesters against further demonstrations. Even a narrow victory was unacceptable. An outright loss was unthinkable. After some chaotic days, a few score — no one knows how many — are dead. For now, the violence seems to have abated.
Iran's election and Ethiopia's in 2005 have enough parallels to be worth examining.
The actual balloting seems to have been fair in both countries. Polling places remained open late to accommodate big turnouts. Public enthusiasm was high. Both sides in both elections were confident of victory (a third candidate in Iran had little chance to win but may have been strong enough to affect a close race).
Both governments claimed victory before they could have counted the millions of paper ballots in these big countries with widely dispersed populations (70+ million in Iran, 80+ million in Ethiopia. Both oppositions also claimed victory, also without evidence. In Iran, last minute polls favored the opposition, though it seems unlikely that rural and small town voters — a big group — could have been fairly polled. In Ethiopia, opposition confidence turned into certainty when the first returns showed them sweeping Addis Ababa and other urban areas.
An overconfident Ethiopian government had agreed to let the counting be observed, but those early defeats unnerved them. They shouldn't have been surprised because they knew how unpopular they were in the cities and towns. Since Ethiopia is eighty percent rural and the opposition had not been able to campaign effectively in the countryside, the government overreacted when it locked out the observers and announced a suspiciously big government victory. The results were challenged but upheld, as expected. Opposition seats in Parliament increased but still fell conveniently short of the minimum needed to exert any influence. Protests were forcefully suppressed by police and militia.
Iran, too, blundered by claiming an improbable margin of victory. Huge crowds defied the Ayatollah's ban on demonstrations, and clashes with the militia and police erupted.
A cynical truism comes to mind in both elections: it doesn't matter who gets the votes, it matters who counts the votes.
Events followed a different path in each country but the outcomes will probably be the same: the regimes will get a black eye but will remain in full control. Long term consequences are another matter. Both populations have been politicized and mistrust is stronger than before. In Ethiopia, this may find an outlet in 2010, when the next election is scheduled. In Iran, relative quiet may last longer but also be temporary. Ahmadinejad could be removed in a few months to appease the protesters. This is a guess, of course. No concessions were made in Ethiopia in 2005.
About 200 died in Addis Ababa in 2005, and tens of thousands were sent to detention camps. Most were soon released but the memory lingers. The government still defends and justifies its every act.
Ethiopian opposition leaders were jailed for 18 months in late 2005. In Iran there have been a handful of political arrests, but a decisive historical difference discourages the Ethiopian approach. All the candidates were established supporters of the Islamic Republic. An Islamic religious establishment has existed for centuries. Arrests of senior figures would further inflame existing rivalries that have little to do with the election. The media say that this is happening anyway.
The Ethiopian opposition in 2005, on the other hand, was a newly-formed coalition of parties with short histories. Most, as well as the coalition itself, were formed specifically for this election. What they had in common was their opposition to the government. There was no time to debate a platform, which would probably have exposed serious differences. The inevitable result was a litany of good intentions and an unclear proposed sharing of authority. Most of its members had little political experience — not surprising, since Ethiopia's modern political culture is still in its infancy. There were few experienced candidates to choose from.


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After a rough ending to the homestand against the Atlanta Braves, the Washington Nationals traveled to Miami on Jackie Robinson Day to face the Marlins. It was a dominant performance as the Nats put up a 10-3 victory to improve to 8-5 on the season.
The Nationals decided to put the stink on their series with the Braves in the past with a massive first inning against Marlins starter Wade LeBlanc. They started the game single, single, walk, RBI single, double, RBI single to take a 4-0 lead. Bryce Harper walked in that third at bat of the game, but then he got thrown out at third base on Ryan Zimmerman's single, which he's done a few too many times this year. Zimmerman looked to have some sort of lower body issue going on around the bases, clearly visibly wincing as he rounded the bases, but he stayed in the game.
The offense came back alive in the third inning as Ian Desmond, Tyler Moore, and Steve Lombardozzi hit back-to-back-to-back doubles in a two-run inning giving the Nats a 6-0 lead. LeBlanc got two outs in the fourth inning before getting pulled to avoid facing Zimmerman, who then hit a two-run first-pitch home run, his first of the year, against John Maine. Zimmerman's lower body looked just fine, here.
In the fifth, Lombardozzi and Kurt Suzuki got on base, and Denard Span drove them both home with a two-RBI single to give the team a 10-0 lead. The lead was good enough to pull Jayson Werth out of the game to get some rest in favor of Roger Bernadina.
While the offense was doing this, Jordan Zimmermann was completing an all around masterful pitching performance. Through five innings in this game, he had thrown just 48 pitches. It was a model performance for pitch efficiency in the early innings. He started to struggle a bit in the sixth, giving up two runs, and then he gave up a run on four base runners in the seventh, making it a 10-3 game.
Zimmermann made quick work of the Marlins in the eighth on 14 pitches, allowing him to make the first ninth inning appearance of his career. He finished the ninth inning on just five pitches, earning him the first career nine-inning complete game on just six hits and 103 pitches. He threw an eight-inning complete game in 2011 in his first year back from Tommy John surgery.
There are two major things to draw from Monday night's game. First, the Marlins may be worse than I expected. Any team can get trounced in a game or two (see Nats losses to Reds and Braves already this season.) However, they're 2-11 on the season and may compete with the Astros for the worst record in baseball by the end of September. Second, Zimmermann dominated a team he should have, and the offense owned a pitching staff they're supposed to own. That's actually a big deal. Good teams have to put a hurt on bad teams in order to pad their wins and become great. The Nats have been able to do that this year.


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Recently by Justin Raimondo: Next Up: Pakistan
The "ticking time bomb" gambit is a sure way to establish when someone is trying to pull the wool over your eyes. You'll recall this was how the advocates of torture argued: what if the terrorists had a nuclear device designed to go off in the heart of, say, New York City's Times Square, and only torture could pry its location out of a captured detainee? Surely then we'd ditch our squeamishness about methods employed by the Gestapo and the KGB. American exceptionalism has its limits, after all.
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice took this tack in the debate over Iraq's alleged "weapons of mass destruction." "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud," Condi infamously intoned. The same argument is being used today to justify a "preemptive" attack on Iran, which is supposedly building nuclear weapons at breakneck speed — a story we've been hearing for the past few decades or so….
Although the ticking time bomb scenario is most conducive to the realm of foreign affairs — where bombs, and other ticking devices, are largely to be found, along with a host of enemies ready to set them off — we hear variations of it on the home front as well. The current debate over the debt ceiling is a perfect example, with the Obama administration and its media shills claiming that if Congress doesn't raise it, an economic apocalypse is imminent. This is a very clever way of shifting blame for the ongoing financial crisis, one which may very well come to a head as Congress votes. Never mind that the more immediate cause of another lurch into the vale of depression is likely to be economic chaos imported from the Eurozone — American narcissism, a national malady, deludes us into thinking it's all about us. The fate of the world must always rest on our shoulders.
In any event, on the debt limit issue, the stance of those who want a more peaceful, less interventionist foreign policy is — or ought to be — clear. If we raise the debt ceiling, we are, in effect, giving the War Party a blank check. The pressure to cut military spending will end, and the spigot will be turned back on. Calls to cut back on military operations overseas — coming, these days, from fiscal conservatives as well as the usual liberal-left suspects — will have much less resonance in Washington.
There is another point, however, that needs making: the debt ceiling, aside from its legislative impact, is a powerful symbolic construct. It puts a ceiling on the ambitions of our officials, and, while not precisely teaching them humility, tethers them to reality. It is the American government saying: There are limits to our hubris.
Justin Raimondo [send him mail] is editorial director of Antiwar.com and is the author of An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard and Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement.


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The rural New England of Live Free or Die, the fifth and final novel in Ernest Hebert's masterful series about the fictional town of Darby, N.H., bears no resemblance to the quaint, prosperous locale portrayed in mail order catalogs and sentimental Christmas cards. Even the tidy town common of nearby Center Darby Village is itself an illusion, a product of the cosmetic efforts of commuters who ''believed in the idea of New England, even if the idea wasn't exactly true to the place.''
In the grittier, more complicated world Hebert evokes, Darby is the kind of town young people leave. The wealthy few go off to colleges and careers elsewhere; the rest flee to find work and to escape a class system as rigid as fate. ''Starting over is what it's about in America,'' young Frederick Elman tells Lilith Salmon. ''Going is normal. Staying is strange...You stay in your hometown, you end up more of a stranger than if you'd started new someplace else.''
What's strange about Frederick and Lilith, in the eyes of Darby, is their love affair. Live Free or Die is the story of two homecomings. Frederick, a wandering laborer who lives in his camper, is summoned home to run his father's trash-collecting business while the old man recuperates from a broken leg. Lilith, of the Upper Darby Salmons, is home from college to attend the exhumation and reburial of her father, who was known locally as ''the Squire.'' A year after his death, Reggie Salmon's grave is being moved to make way for a new school. Still mourning, Lilith must also oversee the Trust, a woodland conservancy established by her father.
What Reggie Salmon envisioned as a sanctuary too precious for trespass, Frederick's father sees as a handy spot for a dump. More ambitious souls think the place looks ripe for development into condos. Frederick and Lilith are united by their mutual feeling for the Trust, but they are also pushed apart by Frederick's crippling pride and Lilith's inability to say what she feels.
Offended by the lovers' insult to the social order, the townspeople are only too glad to conspire against them. ''There'll come a day,'' Frederick's father warns him, ''when she'll double-cross you. You'll think you're putting it to her, but all along she'll be putting it to you. It's in her blood.''
So schematic a rendering of the plot, however, cannot begin to suggest the idiosyncratic richness of Hebert's style. Live Free or Die is fleshed out with several subplots and rambling asides, at least one of which, an essay on the natural ecology and human sociology of New England freshwater fishing, is worth the price of admission all by itself.
Self-contained despite a number of tantalizing references to earlier books, Live Free or Die is sure to send many readers all the way back to the first novel in Hebert's series, The Dogs of March. A-


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Sunrisers Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians are currently at the bottom of the points table. But Hyderabad look good to get their second victory. Pt. Anil Chaubey makes the predictions from the KKR vs KXIP match.
The Mumbai Indians (MI) look like a team that just cannot do anything right in IPL 7. They are yet to pull off a win, and it seems that will stay the case as they take on the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the final match of the UAE leg of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Key Players: Rohit Sharma, CM Gautam. Sharma and Gautam are expected to do well, after neither have been very impressive with the bat. Birthday boy Sharma should do well even as captain. Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Venugopal Rao. Dhawan is due for a big score, and it is likely that he will provide one today. Youngsters Rahul and Venugopal are also expected to well.
Who will win: Mumbai Indians will continue their bad run of form, as the Sunrisers are likely to pull off their second victory of IPL 7. With the young players likely to do well, Hyderabad are the favourites to win this match.
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