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SOURCE: Turan, Kenneth. "Russell Crowe's Muscular Performance, Stylish Battle Scenes and Rich Atmosphere Help Cut through the Shortcomings of Ridley Scott's Gladiator." Los Angeles Times (5 May 2000): F1.
In the following review, Turan offers a generally positive assessment of Gladiator, noting that the film spends "too much time on predictable plot twists."
Gladiator delivers when it counts—but then and only then. Like an aging athlete who knows how to husband strength and camouflage weaknesses, it makes the most of what it does well and hopes you won't notice its limitations. With someone like Russell Crowe in the starring role, it doesn't have much to worry about.
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No one has to tell you that there's no substitute for face-to-face poetry, Mark, so savor the occasion. I thank you for the invitation and would want to be there, but 2,547 miles daunt me. All the best,
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I love taking long hot showers with others;specifically my husband. At times, my daughter and I will shower together. I really enjoy getting a shower massage from my family. We both get the soap all over us then we wash one another until clean then we step out of the shower to towel down each other.
femalebrunetteintown 31-35, F 9 Responses 17 Dec 12, 2014
Sharing a shower with a 'friend' really can besteamy in more ways than one. To feel the hot jets of water pounding on your body and aching muscles is such a sensuous experience. I love to fantasise about that. Showering, then being joined by a friend.I imagine the hot hot water running over my body. As I pour the fragrant...
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It feels AMAZING!!! Even in the summer.I mean, I have A/C in my house so...
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It is probably one of my favorite things to do.I never turn the light on. Something about hot water pounding down on you in the dark is so freeing. During the day Ill draw the blinds so only a little light shows through. At night..I'll light a few candles. Music. Have to have music. Rich instrumental music is my choice...
LadyJunebug 31-35, F 13 Responses 23 Jun 22, 2014
I take the longest showers.....I do my thing then I just stand there and let the water hold me there......sometimes I just sit down and have it rain on me like a waterfall
I probably spend too much time in the shower!i don't know how some people can be finished in 10 minutes
lostCake 22-25, F 51 Responses 26 Feb 12, 2014
just the feeling of tha hot showers of waterover my body after a long hard day is the best.... relieving :)
Showers are amazing, especiallyafter a long day. I love taking super hot, long showers and thinking about everything. I sing a lot in the shower. And of course showers are always better with someone in there with you :)
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Ahhhhmazing after a long day.It's so relaxing. Sometimes I just don't wanna get out hah
angeleyes20x 22-25, F 5 Responses 17 Sep 9, 2014
I absolutely love taking long hot showers aloneor with others. I enjoy the hot water beating down my tired body from head to toes. When I have a visitor, I love and enjoy hugging, kissing, washing, and making love to them in my adjacent bedroom shower.
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*official edit* Long hot showers in a showerthat is bigger than a phone booth... though I'll take what I can haha
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I love the feeling of water against my skin,leaning against the shower wall and arching my back and letting the hot water coat my skin, like warm hands stroking me. Watching it cascade like a water fall on my body, so soothing. And when you finish the steam rises from your skin and a coolness of the air touches your...
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I love them! It's my alone time every othernight. I love to take like 45 minute showers. Wash my body and hair, brush my teeth and then just enjoy the warm water and solitude. Long hot showers is where I get my peace :)
I have been thinking about getting an "OnDemand' hot water heater. Problem is, if I get one, I may get fired from work because I know I'm going to be late all the time because I won't run out of hot water and will be in there WAYY too long...
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after a long day at work there is nothing betterthan taking a hot shower. my favorite part is feeling how the water cascades down my body. it is warm and peaceful
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I take multiple hot bathsand showers a day no matter what...it gives me the same feel as some one holding me
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I love taking baths and showers expecallywhen they are hot
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I love taking long hot showers with others.I feel so relaxed when doing so after we have had sex in my shower.
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worse part is getting out of the showerand the cold feeling with nothing to even wear
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There's nothing betterthan a long hot shower for taking away the days stresses, in more ways than one with a nice power shower head ;)
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I never plan to take long showers... but I almost always end up staying in there thinking about life, singing/dancing a little, relaxing, and losing track of time.
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I loveeee long shows the way the water runs onmy skin i can stay in there for hours.
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I'm always the first to get upand first to take shower. I stay in the shower 30 min or more. I think better when I'm under hot water getting on me. Then I take another 30 minutes to brush my teeth, brushy hair, and put on little make up. When I get out my older brother and sister are mad because the hot...
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They're just so relaxingand I can have a mini concert there regardless if I can sing properly or not. and no joke, I was stressing about a physics test and there was this one annoying question that was driving me insane and i went and took a shower and thought about it there and figured it out. Then i...
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I just took a much need oneand it was awesome, very relaxing
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Just had a gorgeously hotand soothing shower, time to get into bed :P
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i think a long hot shower complete with candlesand soft music is just what i need tonight. end of year stress is surely building up
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clsgirl 18-21, F 11 Responses 19 Jan 2, 2014
i always play with my shower headwhile taking a shower ;)
lucylovessexx 18-21, F 8 Responses 30 May 20
Showering is my solace.I make sure that water is skin stingingly hot. And I play soft music in the background. The sound of rushing water is the most peaceful and comforting sound.
ShesSimplyKenny 18-21, F 4 Responses 13 Apr 12
Hot shower first, followed by hot bath!!! ^_^ Perfect combination!
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The shower in my home has 5 shower heads,tankless water heater (which means I never run out of hot water) and a black light . Enough Said?????
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Wanna have sex in the shower i need to betouched & kissed, feel wanted!
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I love when I scrub my shampoo inand the fluffy clean white bubbly foam is all that's left, it's entertaining :P
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came home at nearly at 3am,I smell like sweat and booze ... and just now got out of bed...looking forward to washing my night away
jbm1984 31-35, F 4 Responses 7 Apr 11
Ohh... That hot steaming water running overyour body. Shivers...
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I really hope my family doesn't think I'm doinganything "else" in there. I just like to relax in a non dirty way!
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Koonce said he was fishing a double sardine rig off a kite when the big tuna hit. He said the huge fish then took him on a dance that sent Koonce circling the boat's rail three times before it settled in for a battle at the bow.
Koonce had the fish at deep color when a fur seal came up to take a look at the action. That sent Koonce's tuna scampering, and it tangled around the anchor line, and the hook in the fish's mouth broke off. The fish was one tail kick from escaping when deckhand Mark Clark managed to get a gaff in its tail. That allowed four other crewmen to gaff it and haul it aboard the storied Polaris Supreme.
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Koonce's catch came nearly 18 years to the day that Mark Gasich landed a 399.6-pound yellowfin tuna aboard Rothery's Polaris Supreme. That catch also was disallowed as an all-tackle record because Gasich's original reel was spooled, and a backup reel was spliced to his line and used to land it. IGFA rules prohibit the changing of the rod or reel while the fish is being played. The Florida-based clearinghouse for all fishing records also doesn't allow splicing, removing or adding to the line while the fish is being fought.
Also, in February of 1993, attorney Dave Manella caught a 394-pound tuna aboard the Royal Polaris. But that catch also was not approved as an all-tackle world record because it was determined that a deckhand touched the rod and reel. And Dick Minor, who also was fishing on Rothery's Polaris Supreme, caught a 363.9-pound yellowfin tuna.
That 1992-93 season produced four yellowfin over 350 pounds. This season already has turned up three over 345 pounds, and it's only December.
"The fleet has a chance to get an ever bigger one," Lackey said.
But it's doubtful because so much has to go into the catching of such a giant yellowfin tuna. Everything has to work just right, from the simple knot tied to the hook to the long fight and the final gaffing of the fish.
"I use the KISS method on the boat, and it seems to work out well," Lackey said of the acronym for Keep It Simple Stupid. "
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Make sure your leather is the type that can be repaired at home. Ninety percent of furniture is made from top coated or protected leather, which luckily, is easy to repair with do-it-yourself kits. This leather is uniform in color and appearance, has an identifiable grain pattern, does not scratch easily and if water is applied the leather does not change color.
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What: Bean-to-bar chocolate bars and pastries
Where: Mission District, San Francisco, California
What happens when a few friends, former engineers and tech industry pros come together over their love of chocolate? They create Dandelion Chocolate Company, a bean-to-bar chocolate factory in San Francisco. Headed up by Cameron Ring, Todd Masonis and Greg D'Alesandre, this totally transparent chocolate workshop was born a little over a year ago in the heart of The Mission, San Fran's hippest hood. It now has a cult following, and for good reason. Here's how those delicious bars get made:
The Look of White & Silver in the Kitchen
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Jesse's gorgeous 1,100-square-foot apartment in San Francisco will make you envious. Light, spacious, the mostly neutral home has great style and texture, inspired no doubt by Jesse's love for "the beach, mountains, desert, and the 50s." The blue and white kitchen floor looks to be made of Moroccan-style tiles at first glance, but it's actually just a vintage tiled floor that really pops against all the white and silver.
Wendy's Muskoka Cottage Kitchen
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Who cooks and eats here: Wendy Cracknell and friends
Where: Lake of Bays, Ontario, Canada
Rent or Own? Own
I've known Wendy my whole life. My earliest memories of her include her curly red hair, glasses, truly gigantic pet cat Dudley, and her pink and orange tie-dye Prince t-shirt. She's my next-door neighbor in my favorite place in the world, the Lake of Bays in Ontario, Canada.
Joy Cho's Grown-Up Candyland Kitchenette
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Who cooks and eats here: Joy Cho of Oh Joy! and her studio team
Where: Los Angeles, CA
Rent or Own? Rent
Joy Cho is a blogger, designer, food enthusiast, mom and all-around trendsetter, which you'll know if you read her immensely popular blog. A few months ago Joy moved her daily work into a studio space in Los Angeles, and it radiates happiness, creativity and fun — especially in the kitchenette, which has lots of great ideas for both home and work cooking spaces. (Plus, check out that super cute Smeg fridge and multicolor striped toe kick!)
Cecilia's Sleek High-Design Kitchen
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Who cooks and eats here: Cecilia, her husband and her two children
Where: Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York City
Rent or Own? Own
Cecilia has tremendous enthusiasm for life, art, design and food, and her home is a testament to this. Her kitchen is incredibly sleek and blends in so much with the design of her home, that you might not even know it's a kitchen when you first see it.
An Irish Christmas
Christmas Around the World
I grew up in Dublin, Ireland and come from a big family, and although it was only myself and my brother, there are five siblings on my dad's side and six on my mom's, which meant the house was always filled with aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents around Christmas time.
For an Irish family Christmas, the traditional dinner is key and getting it right is a real art. Roast turkey and stuffing, clove-studded baked ham, crispy goose fat potatoes, steamed Brussels sprouts, buttery sweet carrots, crispy parsnips, cranberry sauce, bread sauce, gravy, phew, there's a lot to think of!
Our Montréal Christmas Traditions
Christmas Around the World
Family, friends and food make up much of our Christmas fête in Montreal. There's a slow stream of guests who duck under the twinkling porch lights, stamp the snow from off their boots and step in from the cold. From the hot-spiced apple cider and shortbread at my annual cookie swap in early December to the tartines and bubbly in the wee hours of the morning on New Year's Day, we celebrate a month of bringing people together over food and drink.


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Margaret Mary Clementz Dickman, 88, of Cridersville and formerly of Lima; St. Louis, Mich.; and Ottawa, died at 2:42 a.m. Feb. 12, 2012, at St. Rita�s Medical Center.
She was born July 2, 1923, in Kalida, to Frank and Mary Miller Wehri, who preceded her in death. On July 31, 1946, she married Eugene Clementz, who died Jan. 23, 1985. On Dec. 6, 1986, she married Ferd Dickman, who died May 18, 1992. On Dec. 5, 2004, she married Roman Eickholt Sr., who survives in Cridersville.
Mrs. Dickman was a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was a member of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Lima for more than 40 years. She belonged to the church�s Altar Rosary Society and volunteered at St. Vincent DePaul. She was a former member of SS. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Ottawa and St. Mary Catholic Church in Alma, Mich. She was an avid Perry High School football fan from 1967 to 1974. She was an amazing gardener of flowers and produce, baker of angel food cakes, breads and pies. She loved traveling to sunny Florida, Texas and Mexico. She enjoyed camping and fishing at the local state parks and visits from her grandchildren.
Survivors include seven sons, James (Karen) Clementz and George (Melinda) Clementz, both of Cridersville, Frank (Cathy) Clementz, of Spencerville, Ronald (Elizabeth) Clementz, of Lima, Robert Clementz, of Rochester, Mich., Vernon Clementz, of Monroe, Mich., and Alan (Terri) Clementz, of New Boston, Mich.; four daughters, Margene (Ronald) Craft, of St. Marys, Mary (Robert) McBeth, of Cridersville, Julie Clementz, of Wapakoneta, and Carol (Clyde) Verhoff, of Fort Loramie; a daughter-in-law, Patricia Clementz, of Columbus; seven stepsons, William (Mary) Dickman, Richard (Lorna) Dickman and Al (Becky) Dickman, all of St. Louis, Mich., Roman (Pat) Eickholt, of Continental, Robert (Donna) Eickholt and Terry (Stacy) Eickholt, both of Ottoville, and Alan Eickholt, of Ayersville; eight stepdaughters, Mary Jo (Ivan) Pankhurst, Joyce White, Marilyn (Lee) Trevino and Janice Dickman, all of St. Louis, Mich., Mary (Ken) Doseck, of Upper Sandusky, Bonnie (Bill) Beining and Leah (Dan) Ditto, both of Ottoville, and Lisa (Albert) Bilimek, of Cloverdale; 33 grandchildren; 35 stepgrandchildren; 55 great-grandchildren; 26 stepgreat-grandchildren; a brother, Hubert (Joyce) Wehri, of Kalida; five sisters, Rose Mary Clementz, of Kalida, Lucille Schroeder, of Glandorf, Agnes Ulm, of Delphos, Rita Jean (Norbert) Boecker, of Ottoville, and Joan (Dick) Siemet, of Ottawa; a brother-in-law, Robert Kaple, of Ottoville; two sisters-in-law, Velma Wehri, of Delphos, and Delores Wehri, of Kalida.
She was preceded in death by a son, Lawrence Clementz; a daughter and son-in-law, Sharon (Phillip) Fry; two brothers, Gilbert Wehri and Cletes Wehri; and three sisters, Louella Wehri, Leona Youngpeter and Mary Ann Kaple.
A Mass of Christian Burial will begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Lima. The Rev. David M. Ross will officiate. Burial will follow in Gethsemani Cemetery, Lima.
Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. today and 2 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Bayliff & Son Funeral Home, Cridersville, where a recitation of the rosary will begin at 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Memorial contributions may be made to St. John the Evengelist Catholic Church, Lima, or the Alzheimer�s Foundation.
Condolences may be expressed at bayliffandson.com.
Margaret Mary Clementz Dickman


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Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3
u awaken the sharigan in real life whats your next move?
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you wake up 1 morning and realize you can see chakra.
you look in the mirror to see, that your eyes have the sharingan in them.
Whats your reaction?
Whats do you do next?
How will you use this new ability?
Press Left to brofist.
Good ass question.
I'd probably just _____.
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With great power... comes great responsibility
I like what I like, and I don't need a reason. So don't ask me why I like something.
When people complain about OPTIONAL features in games, I die inside...
heyitsthatguy11 posted...
Uncle BenWith great power... comes great responsibility
I don't ******* care because the recipient of that phrase from that person
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DovKonahrik posted...
you wake up 1 morning and realize you can see chakra.
I wake up at 1 in the morning and realize I have the sharingan...sadly, there is no chakra in the real world so I cannot maintain the activated eye. It drains my real life energy reserves and I die.
There is no other correct answer.
You are trying to understand madness with logic. This is not unlike searching for darkness with a torch.
rather have the byakugan or rinnegan...
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The official Aerodactyl of the Pokemon X and Pokemon Y boards
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There 3 different eyes,
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seriouspancake posted...
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The Guess Who's American Woman, famously covered by Lenny Kravitz, was an unflattering portrayal of U.S. females (or the nation's political climate, depending on whom you ask) by a band from Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada. Today, forty-plus years after its release, Diamond brings a little balance to the conversation with a new single also titled American Woman, and loosely inspired by the '70s hard-rock hit. Over Non-Stop's radio-ready synth boardwork, the Crime Mob alumnus (a performer in The DJBooth's recent A3C showcase) reps for the U, S of A—showing a little extra love, of course, to her hometown of ATL. US Virgin Islands-repping crooner and longtime DJBooth regular Verse Simmonds sings the headliner's praises on the chorus, and director Dr. Teeth handles the official visuals. Like what you're hearing? More fresh material awaits on Diamond's The Young Life tape, released to the 'net at the end of August.
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for Everyoneby A verified traveler
Nice hotel very close to the lifts.Posted Mar 30, 2015
Everything was fine, except kitchenette. No stove. Refrigerator to small.
for Familiesby A verified travelerfrom Cleveland, Oh
Posted Mar 24, 2015
Nice stay, right next to the slopes. Room was clean and staff was nice.
for Everyoneby A verified travelerfrom milwaukee
Great location, great hotelPosted Jan 25, 2015
Very convenient and comfortable. Ski valet was great. Had dinner at Rocks grill one night - very good food and service. Make sure to try the crepe and cookie store... We found out this is the place that bakes all the chocolate chip cookies that they hand out at 3 pm at the base of the lifts!
for Everyoneby A verified travelerfrom Brenham TX
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Fabulous. Stayed there multiple times. We will be back
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Great location and concierge is very helpful to assist in organizing activities and making dinner reservations. Shuttle between beaver creek and vail is not well organized and expensive
for Familiesby A verified traveler
Everything great but the sofa bedPosted Dec 16, 2014 on Hotels.com
This is a nice hotel with excellent location and amenities. We loved the extra sink in the bedroom. The little kitchenette was good too. It was nice to have a fireplace. The small pool was warm enough for the kids and the spa was nice and hot. The fitness facilities were better than expected. The staff were nice and helpful. However, the pull-out sofa bed was horrific. Don't plan to sleep on it - not the one in room 302 anyway. The springs poke you in the back all night. There are huge dips in it, and every time you move it is so loud it wakes everyone. Plus the extra blanket in our closet had stains all over it - yuck. We ended up putting all four of us in the one king bed. No one slept well.
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The staff was wonderful and the views amazing. Cons very expensive parking and the sliding door in our bedroom didn't close completely, as such it was noisy.
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Rooms were spacious for our family of four. Close to all the shops, trails, and restaurants in Beaver Creek Village - we never had to take our car out of valet. The staff was friendly. We would stay here again.


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Dave Wagner anchors the 5, 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts at NBC Charlotte and is host and producer of the weekly political affairs program, "Flashpoint."
Dave's field anchoring and in-depth reporting have garnered 33 Emmys and four regional Edward R. Murrow Awards. His stories have taken him from the 2012 Democratic and Republican National Conventions to the earthquake in Haiti and hurricanes Katrina, Andrew and Hugo.
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While at NBC Charlotte, Dave has traveled to the Olympics in Sochi, London and Vancouver to bring home the stories of Carolina athletes. He has also worked as a correspondent for NBC News Channel, bringing live reports to NBC television stations nationwide.
Dave enjoys the hunt for a great story. His investigation of military recruiters lying to high school students resulted in nationwide changes at military recruiting stations. While working for WTSP-TV in Tampa, Dave followed Nazi war criminals who fled the U.S. to Eastern Europe, but continued collecting Social Security checks. His investigation resulted in Congress introducing the Nazi Benefits Termination Act. Dave's investigation of a headline-grabbing murder and rape prompted the prison release of a wrongly accused father of four and praise from the Innocence Project.
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Comparative Effectiveness: An Idea Whose Time Has Finally Come
Comparative Effectiveness: An Idea Whose Time Has Finally Come
MANAGED CARE April 2009. ©MediMedia USA
It is exactly what managed care has been promoting for years, but some people worry that the information it creates could be misused
Martin Sipkoff
Contributing Editor
Federally mandated comparative effectiveness research — a $1.1 billion allocation in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, known to most people as the "stimulus bill" — is either a godsend to payers and to doctors and their patients or a first step toward federally mandated euthanasia. Depends on whom you listen to.
"Some people are afraid of government," says Brent James, MD, executive director of the Intermountain Healthcare's Institute for Healthcare Delivery Research in Salt Lake City. "They should be more afraid of their doctors' lack of information."
The purpose of comparative effectiveness research (CER) is to get data into the hands of doctors — information that reflects which treatment, device, and drug is best suited to the patient. "This is information they now lack," says Mark Fendrick, MD, a professor in the department of internal medicine at the University of Michigan medical school and a strong advocate of CER. "What people tend not to talk about is how bad the status quo is."
Both James and Fendrick are firm in their faith in physicians' desire to do the right thing. But in spite of recent efforts by health plans and federal organizations such as the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to get evidence-based medicine protocols into doctors' hands, too little information exists about which drug, device, treatment, or diagnostic tool is better than another for the same medical condition.
The purpose of CER is to correct that deficit, according to the legislation. The stimulus bill authorized a council of 15 federal employees to coordinate research and advise President Obama and Congress on how to make the best use of the $1.1 billion. It was created March 19 by the Department and Health and Human Services.
The $1.1 billion is divided between AHRQ ($300 million), the National Institutes of Health ($400 million), and the Department of Health and Human Services ($400 million). AHRQ is giving $1.5 million to the Institute of Medicine to make a recommendation report by June 30.
"The majority of its members are clinicians," says Carolyn Clancy, MD, director of AHRQ and a member of the council, which is named the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research. "It is designed to include subpopulations of interested parties, including mental health experts, people with disabilities, and minorities."
The composition reflects the concerns expressed by several advocacy organizations that CER must be designed to consider the needs of a diverse national population. But notwithstanding those concerns — and an energetic vocal opposition that worries about government-mandated treatment restrictions — CER appears to be an idea powered by necessity, with enough support to eventually make it a standard for quality of care.
For example, HealthPartners, a not-for-profit integrated health care organization in Bloomington, Minn., has long used CER data available from a variety of sources, says associate medical director Patrick Courneya, MD.
"Unfortunately, the amount of evidence is pretty limited," says Courneya, a practicing family physician. "The private sector hasn't come up with a solution that works very well. We need all the help we can possibly get."
Health plan support
Health care officials, including health plan medical directors, appear to universally favor CER. So do health care trade organizations, such as the Pharmacy Care Management Association (PCMA, the PBM lobby), America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP, the HMO lobby), and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) — a group whose drug company members could be expected to have reservations about competitive research. Most consumer groups, such as AARP, are unstinting in their support.
AARP, in a statement of support, in fact accused opponents of the CER provision of using scare tactics and false reports to perpetuate lack of adherence to quality standards.
"AARP strongly opposes any attempts that would limit doctors and hospitals from providing the best possible care to their patients," said CEO Bill Novelli in a prepared statement.
"This is really a no-brainer," says Mark Merritt, president and CEO of PCMA. "It makes no sense to oppose these tools. Actually, people are demanding this kind of information. The idea that it will lead to government mandates is a red herring. People are demanding to know the value of what they are paying for."
"We strongly support providers and patients knowing which treatments are the most effective," says AHIP spokesman Robert Zirkelbach. "The more evidence we have, the better off the entire health system will be. Incorporating CER with formulary tiers, step therapy, and other tools will enhance the ability of our members to make decisions. That is the point of this, to provide information, not to set coverage decisions."
Zirkelbach, James, Fendrick, and many others say the situation must improve, and quickly. Quality of care is suffering because of lack of CER. They point to a seminal Rand study titled "The Quality of Health Care Delivered to Adults in the United States," published in the New England Journal of Medicine in June 2003, that found that only 54.9 percent of patients receive care recommended by evidence-based guidelines. CER takes evidence-based medicine one step further by making direct comparisons between medical options, not simply prescribing approved therapies.
In 2004, Paul Keckley, PhD, then executive director of the Vanderbilt Center for Evidence-Based Medicine in Nashville and now director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions in Washington, D.C., concluded in an article titled "Evidence-Based Medicine in Managed Care: A Survey of Current and Emerging Strategies," that "there remain significant challenges in the implementation of evidence-based care management by plans, including . . . substantial distrust among providers."
"We don't believe that situation has improved much, and more concrete data, disseminated by health plans, will make the situation better," says Zirkelbach.
The PhRMA statement mentions the AARP stance: "Simply put, we agree with AARP in advocating on behalf of research that 'could save your life by giving your doctors better information so they can prescribe the best treatments available to you.' Such research must focus on medical outcomes, rather than cost-effectiveness analysis that has a long track record of being used to deny patients needed care."
BIO, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, supports CER, but is concerned that the information may end up being used only to contain costs. BIO also expresses concern that research methodologies be consistent.
Effectiveness and efficiency
PhRMA's statement that CER should focus on "medical outcomes rather than cost-effectiveness" points to a major point of contention related to CER. In fact, that issue ended up dictating how the Recovery Act money can be spent. Congressional skeptics about the allocation were successful in removing cost-effectiveness as a consideration in any CER studies conducted using stimulus bill money. The law states that value, i.e., the cost of care, may not be considered in comparative effectiveness research paid for with this federal money.
It states that only comparative effectiveness, not efficiency, may be studied. Its wording specifically separates the federal coordinating council's research findings from coverage decisions: "Nothing in this section [on coverage rules] shall be construed to permit the council to mandate coverage, reimbursement, or other policies for any public or private payer."
That provision does not concern HealthPartners' Courneya, who says his plan can decide for itself what it wants to do with the data. "According to the legislation, it will be the federal role to produce comparative effectiveness information with no mandate about what is done with it when it is available," he says. "If anything — any process — improves the information available to help patients make good choices, it is constructive."
"We shouldn't have to figure out what is best all by ourselves," says Brent James. "That information is expensive. Good doctors are doing their level best. It's not their fault; it's a failure of the current system."
Although Mark Fendrick believes payers will use the collected data to make cost-effectiveness decisions, he strongly disagrees that CER should not reflect value. He points to the fact that spending on health care totaled $2.2 trillion, or 16 percent of the nation's gross domestic product, in 2007, and that the Congressional Budget Office estimates that without any changes in federal law, it will rise to 25 percent of GDP in 2025. This is significantly greater than any other country.
"I believe that we do not spend enough money on health care," says Fendrick. "But we spend unwisely, without sufficient evidence of effectiveness. The overutilization of unnecessary or unproven medical services is rampant, but the current discussion has nothing to do with value, the cost component. The losers in this scenario are the patients. The winners are the people making money but not producing health."
Current plan efforts
Notwithstanding the current debate, CER is not a new concept to health plans. Although plans are calling for significant expansion of CER through their trade organization and individually, several plans point to the CER-related work they are doing right now. Cigna Healthcare's program is a good example.
"We have made extensive use of CER for some time," says Douglas Hadley, MD, a Cigna medical director. He is a member of the company's coverage policy unit, and his responsibilities include an assessment of the comparative effectiveness of new health technologies.
Hadley says that the company uses published evidence from several available sources to determine whether an emerging drug, device, protocol, biologic tool, or diagnostic tool is "either superior, inferior, or neutral." And, he says, cost plays a role in that decision. "It is when the determination is 'neutral' that cost becomes important," he says.
Cigna uses several different sources for its CER data (see "Current Research Efforts," page 20). According to Hadley, when evidence exists, the company decides which technology has superior outcomes. "In some benefit plans administered by Cigna, only the lowest-cost alternative, where such alternatives are clinically equivalent, is covered; in other benefit plans, the consumer may choose either technology but may have higher copayments or coinsurance for the more expensive of the two competing, but clinically equivalent, health care technologies."
In determining the cost of a particular technology, Hadley says, Cigna considers the total associated cost, including the direct and indirect costs, such as laboratory monitoring, average length of stay during hospitalizations, and so forth.
"We wholly support this CER legislation," says Hadley, "and we will participate with other health insurance industry representatives, AHIP, consumer agencies, private employers, and governmental agencies in advising the administration on which projects will probably provide the most effective use of the funds for CER studies."
He adds that value should be part of the equation. "Cigna believes that CER should include a comparison of total cost associated with that technology. It is an important component of health care reform, improving the quality of care given to consumers and controlling costs."
And, say Hadley and others, it is not new to the health systems of other nations. Britain, France, and several other countries have government-sponsored CER programs.
Also, for several years, CER-oriented programs — both privately and publicly funded — have existed in this country. In fact, AHRQ has had a program in place since the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003.
It is really very simple, says PCMA's Merritt. "What is needed is knowing what works and what doesn't," he says.
"More information is always better than less information," says Fendrick. "To do less than that is unconscionable."
Defining comparative effectiveness research
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 states that the $1.1 billion CER allocation "shall be used to accelerate the development and dissemination of research assessing the comparative effectiveness of health care treatments and strategies, through efforts that: (1) conduct, support, or synthesize research that compares the clinical outcomes, effectiveness, and appropriateness of items, services, and procedures that are used to prevent, diagnose, or treat diseases, disorders, and other health conditions; and (2) encourage the development and use of clinical registries, clinical data networks, and other forms of electronic health data that can be used to generate or obtain outcomes data."
The legislation is at http://thomas.loc.gov. Look for H.R. 1, version 8.
Support For Stimulus Bill Meets Detractors
Opposition to the $1.1 billion stimulus bill allocation for comparative effectiveness research is, in some quarters, virulent, but not across the board. Some are more resistant than opposed.
Although most trade organizations, such as PhRMA, publicly support CER, somewhat muted resistance is taking place behind the scenes. In November 2008, lobbying organizations representing the drug, device, and biotechnology industries, as well as some patient-advocacy groups and professional medical societies, formed a coalition named the Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC). According to its spokesman, PIPC wants to make sure that CER is not used "in an inappropriate manner that may limit treatment options for patients."
PIPC members include Easter Seals, Friends of Cancer Research, and the Alliance for Aging Research. All have expressed concern that people with disabilities or particularly costly medical needs could find themselves being denied care if CER takes cost into consideration.
According to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal, "a major goal [of PIPC] is to give industry a seat at the table when federal officials decide what to research with the $1.1 billion." PIPC's new chairman is Tony Coelho, a California Democrat and former congressional powerhouse. He suffers from epilepsy and was a key author of the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act.
In a prepared statement, he said, "I will work to make sure CER achieves [its] potential, and does not become a basis for denying patients access to the care they need."
Some manufacturers whose products could be affected by CER have shown a mixed response and express relief that value is not a consideration in the new federal program. Quoted in the New York Times, Andrew Witty, chief executive of the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, pointed to European efforts at CER and called the results mixed.
"Comparative effectiveness is a useful tool in the tool kit, but it is not the answer to anything," said Witty. "Other countries have fallen in love with the concept, then spent years figuring out how on earth to make it work."
Mark Merrill, a resident scholar at the Institute for Policy Innovation, said in a March 12 commentary in the Detroit News that there is nothing wrong with the effort "to establish which drugs or devices work best for given medical problems, on certain patients, and under specific conditions. But there is a dirty little secret to CER when it comes to prescription drugs. When the government sets up a process to do the research, there may be an ulterior motive: to save money, even at the expense of patient health and satisfaction."
Some commentators are more reactionary, becoming apoplectic at the idea of the federal government spending money on CER.
The conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh and the Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer both referred to the CER allocation as a possible first step toward federally mandated denial of care, especially for the very sick.
The Washington Times published an editorial titled "Health 'efficiency' can be deadly" next to a photo of Adolf Hitler:
There is no telling what metrics will be used to define the efficiencies, but it is clear who will bear the brunt of these decisions. Those suffering the infirmities of age, surely, and the physically and mentally disabled, whose health costs are great and whose ability to work productively in the future are low. . . . This notion is fully in the spirit of the partisans of efficiency but came from a program instituted in Hitler's Germany. . . . Under this program, elderly people with incurable diseases, young children who were critically disabled, and others who were deemed non-productive, were euthanized. This was the Nazi version of efficiency.&helip;
A more reasoned argument is posed by the economist Gail Wilensky, PhD, who formerly headed Medicare. She has long been a public and vocal supporter of the development of a national center for comparative research information. But in a June 2008 editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine titled "Cost-Effectiveness Information: Yes, It's Important, But Keep It Separate, Please!" she said. "I think it is vitally important to keep comparative clinical effectiveness analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis separate from each other. Payers, not a national clinical comparativeness program, should do cost-effectiveness analyses — and act on them."
Current Research Efforts
Comparative effectiveness research is being conducted now by several public and private organizations.
- ICER, launched in 2006, is an academic technology assessment initiative based at the Massachusetts General Hospital's Institute for Technology Assessment (ITA). www.icer-review.org
- Hayes Inc. is an independent health technology research and consulting company. It performs evidence-based health care technology assessments of the safety and efficacy of new, emerging, and controversial health technologies, and evaluates the effect of these technologies on health care quality, utilization, and cost. Hayes' clients include hospitals, health care systems, government agencies, employers, and managed care organizations. www.hayesinc.com
- The Cochrane Library contains independent evidence to inform health care decision-making. It includes reliable evidence from the Cochrane Collaboration and other systematic reviews and clinical trials. Cochrane reviews combine results of worldwide medical research studies and are recognized as a standard in evidence-based health care. www.cochrane.org
- ECRI Institute, a not-for-profit organization, uses applied scientific research to study and report which medical procedures, devices, drugs, and processes are the most effective. www.ecri.org
- Drug Effectiveness Review Project (DERP) is a collaboration of organizations that have joined to obtain the best available evidence on effectiveness and safety comparisons between drugs in the same class, and to apply the information to public policy and decision making in local settings. www.ohsu.edu/drugeffectiveness
- Blue Cross Blue & Shield Association's Technology Evaluation Center, founded in 1985, provides health care decision makers with objective and scientifically rigorous assessments synthesizing available evidence on the diagnosis, treatment, management, and prevention of disease. www.bcbs.com/blueresources/tec
- AHRQ Effective Health Care, funded by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003, maintains a web site that offers comparative effectiveness guidelines on several subjects, such as oral medications for diabetes and the treatment of GERD and prostate cancer. www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov
- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), in the United Kingdom, is an independent organization responsible for providing national guidance on promoting good health and preventing and treating ill health. Its data are used by many U.S. health plans. www.nice.org.uk
IOM Focuses On Comparative Effectiveness
In recent years, the Institute of Medicine conducted a series of roundtables to discuss comparative effectiveness research. It published a report in September 2007 titled "Learning What Works Best: The Nation's Need for Evidence on Comparative Effectiveness in Health Care."
The IOM concluded that "current practices are not meeting what might be expected for a high value health system."
To create that value, IOM identified the best standards for determining clinical effectiveness and communicating those results to health plans, doctors, and patients. These include:
Quantity of evidence — The need to develop a robust system for capturing evidence from everyday care
Observational data — The need for quality standards, the right analytics and tools, and an understanding of the circumstances under which observational data should be considered the standard
Planning for evidence development — The need for more coordinated setting of priorities and planning for the most appropriate life cycle of the research enterprise
Quality of evidence — The need to tailor trials to answer specific questions with implications for policy and practice, and the need for quality standards for observational data
Common taxonomy — The need to develop a more common understanding of the evolving concepts and terminology
Interpretation of evidence — The need to develop a common understanding of how to evaluate a body of evidence with consistency
Monitoring results — The need for a better mechanism to understand effectiveness across populations and time
Application of evidence — The need to develop translational rules to improve the consistency with which different forms of evidence are used
Communicating evidence — The need to better understand how to communicate the nature of evidence to the public as well as health care professionals
Incorporating patient preferences — The need to include patient preferences in evidence-based systems
Data as a common resource — The need for collaborative sharing of data as a common resource for the improvement of health and health care
The full report is available at http://www.iom.edu/Object.File/Master/57/395/Comparative%20Effectiveness%20White%20Paper%20-%20ES%20(F).pdf.
"What people tend not to talk about is how bad the status quo is," says Mark Fendrick, MD, professor at the University of Michigan Medical School.
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im using the key to unlock and lock the car until i get remote fixed.
first the driver side rear door stopped working with the central locking but locked & unlocked manualy, now it is locked and wont unlock atall.
i cant get to the lock as i cant get to the screws to take the panel off because the door wont open.????
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The Maharashtra government has given a serious ear to celebrated playback singer Asha Bhosle's criticism of the behaviour of the traffic police. In the light of her remarks, State Home Minister R.R. Patil on Tuesday announced training workshops on polite manners for the traffic personnel.
Mr. Patil "issued directions to the traffic branch, asking them to behave politely with the common people and not just with important personalities," a press statement said. He also called for an inquiry into "the bad experience" the singer had had.
At a function organised to confer her with the Honorary D.Litt. (Doctor of Letters) degree from the Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU) in Nashik on Monday, Ms. Bhosle struck a strident note in her acceptance speech by criticising the police's lack of civility.
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Mr. Krishnakumar said the university had tied up with the Maharashtra police a year ago to impart Bachelor of Arts courses to the police personnel and MBA courses to police officers.
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Close to South Street
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Could be a bit cleaner, would suggest to renovate bed covers, would love it to be more stylish.
Rooms are cleaned, staff are hospitable, and there happened to be someone playing really great piano pieces!
Charming facility in a great location. Staff was very friendly.
Nice kitchen, but otherwise few amenities. TV did not work well.
The price was rediculous for what you get. I regret paying. The internet didnt work. The lightin was horrible in the room. The room was not that clean.
It was clean and quiet, with excellent internet. That's all I ask.
It was a charming experience for us. Seemed more like we were renting someone's condo for the weekend rather than a 'hotel'. Complete kitchen, wonderful shower and bath, cozy little living room, nice bedroom, and antiques everywhere. A lovely place!
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