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All The World's A Stage
Feeling that prurient interest has overtaken you lately as you watch yet another report on the death of Anna Nicole Smith? We did too until we heard the inane report on a local LA week-end show. They were criticizing the deceased for being famous and not having a body of work to have engendered all that fame.
We were in disbelief. Au contraire, we thought. Anna Nicole Smith was the media equivalent, and thus, the poor relation, of Princess Diana, and therefore the older stepsister of Jon Benet Ramsey. Simply put, the camera's love affair with her face fascinated us all.
She played characters when she posed for Playboy and when she was the Guess face. She seemed to be playing the role of gold digger when she married her billionaire. Yet another persona was assumed, and a fitting demeanor shown, when she testified in court about her matrimonial claims to his fortune.
The cameras followed her into court on and off for years. We all watched each time and wondered how could she have married him? "For that alone, she was entitled to his fortune," was heard in homes across America.
Then suddenly Anna Nicole Smith emerged on E as a sloppy drunk, or drugged, reality star. Somehow we all believed that this presentation was the real woman, despite our experience with all of those reality players who had come before her.
Then she surprised us as the ultra-slim bombshell spokesperson for Trim Spa. She began embarrassing us at that point, but still we looked, fascinated once again with her charms.
Her birth movies were somewhat over the top, but we continued to watch, shaking our heads. Too, too much, we said. Then in an instant, we shared her grief, sadly riveted to the shock of her son's death. She had us witnessing her most moving role of all--the truth is stranger than fiction role of a grieving mother beset by the paternity claims of an ex-boyfriend over her newborn baby girl.
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'Super Best Friends Forever': Your Exclusive First Look at the DC Nation Show [Video]
You've already seen concept art from Super Best Friends Forever, the new animated series of shorts from Cartoon Network's Saturday morning DC Nation block by Lauren Faust, creator of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, but would you like to see a clip from this weekend's first episode? Of course you would! Click through for an exclusive sneak peek, as well as three more images from this Saturday's debut of Super Best Friends Forever.Faust has described Super Best Friends Forever as "taking a teenage experience but putting a super-hero spin on it," and this clip demonstrates exactly what she means as Supergirl begs Wonder Girl to use Wonder Woman's Invisible Jet for a very particular purpose…
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|King finishes ninth at U.S. Outdoor Track and Field Championships
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June 26, 2006 - INDIANAPOLIS - Former Wildcat Kyle King ran an impressive race on the national stage Saturday, finishing in the top 10 in the 5,000-meter run at the U.S. Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
King, now runnnig for ZAP Fitness, came in ninth in the 3.1-mile race in a time of 13 minutes, 41.83 seconds. There were 24 runners who qualified for the race.
King joined ZAP Fitness in 2004 after an All-American cross country and track career at Baylor. The holder of the SSHS 3,200-meter record, he is training to qualify for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials and a possible berth in the Bejing Olympics.
ZAP Fitness is an elite training center in the mountains of Blowing Rock, N.C., which helps train world class runners, and provides them with room and board and a small stipend in return for the athletes' help with camps and other duties.
King, the son of Chuck and Lynette King, matched his personal best with his time on Saturday. Just a few weeks earlier, he had ran his personal best in the 3,000-meter run, clocking a 7:55.5.
At the U.S. Championships, Bernard Lagat won the 5,000-meter race in a time of 13:14.32.
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8 | Echochrome
If you've ever been confused by an M. C. Escher painting, Echochrome is a game that will really screw with your head. Echochrome presents very basic-looking puzzles with one goal: manipulate the angles of various three-dimensional platforms so that the in-game avatars can safely walk to a predetermined finish line. Seems simple enough, but then the rules start to get a little weird. If there's a gap on a particular walkway, you have to tilt the level so that gap "appears" to vanish. If two paths aren't connected, you can simulate the connection by simply angling the camera so that one path overlaps another. Really, it sounds complicated, but once you get into it the game becomes immensely addicting.
Over 56 levels are packed into Echochrome, each with an increasingly difficult tree of paths to navigate. But if you're some kind of genius, the game also gives you a canvas for creating your own levels. Want to try out the "disappearing gap" trick for yourself? Build a level, test it out on a friend and see if your take on perspectives can produce a brilliant puzzle.
7 | Everyday Shooter
Even if you're not a huge fan of shoot 'em up games, Everyday Shooter is probably one of the best PSN games around based on music alone. What differentiates it from shooters like Geometry Wars and Super Stardust HD are the levels, which look very much like the rainbow colored equalizers you can find in most MP3 player programs. As you progress though each "track," the music changes to introduce a new swarm of enemies and a new style of gameplay.
For example, in one track, you'll be listening to an angry metallic beat as enemies explode in bright reds and oranges, setting off large chains of points. In the next minute, the game's music can just as quickly shift gears, offering a slower paced level accompanied by a subtle, yet catchy guitar solo. Each track has a unique feel to it, but the fundamental gameplay is the same throughout. Come for the shooting, but stay for the music and graphics.
6 | Flower
As one of the most unique titles a gamer can find, Flower is something that defies classification. It's more of an experience than a clear-cut video game, and you "feel" it more than actually "play" it. In Flower, you control nature itself, while your motions with the Sixaxis conduct the ebb and flow of the wind. Through this action, you guide a single flower petal around a lifeless, grayscale world, bringing color and light to everything you touch. As you take that single petal and send it throughout a level, a path of bright, colorful greenery will sprout wherever you go, adding more petals to your strong, but small, wisp of wind.
More than anything else, Flower feels surprisingly natural. There isn't any tutorial or explanation needed, and you can pretty much just pick up the controller and explore levels at your leisure.
Flower should be recognized for breaking a lot of video games boundaries; in fact, it might seem odd that there isn't any way to "lose" or "die" in this game. Even if you happen to get stuck trying to find a path between sterile buildings and lonely stretches of abandoned scenery, a few shakes and turns of the controller is all it takes to renew motion and find new directions to grow. Everything from the graphics to the musical score is extremely well crafted, and despite being more artwork than a traditional video game, Flower more than warrants the distinction as one of the best PSN games available on the PlayStation 3.


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Long-term forecast: The committee discussed the city's long-term financial projections for the years 2010 to 2020, and heard an update on the $6.3 million deficit in the fiscal year 2010 and projections on future budget gaps. The full council is scheduled to discuss the long-term financial outlook on March 29. Action: None
City Council High-Speed Rail Committee (Feb. 17)
Alternative analysis: The committee voted to request that the California High-Speed Rail Authority increase the comment period for its alternative analysis for the San Francisco-to-San Jose segment of the rail line from 45 days to 90 days. Yes: Unanimous
Community meetings: The committee voted to hold public meetings for the high-speed-rail project in both north and south Palo Alto. Yes: Unanimous
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Mitchell Park: The board voted to recommend approval of the proposed revisions to the design of the new Mitchell Park Library and Community Center, 3700 Middlefield Road. These include landscaping changes and a proposed below-grade water tank at Middlefield Road. Yes: Lee, Lew, Malone Pritchard, Wasserman Absent: Young


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As the only "core gamer" in the ITworld blogging bullpen (to the best of my knowledge, anyway), I felt it was my duty to recap the gaming hardware news from CES. Honestly there hasn't been a lot (though today is only day 2 of the show). Plenty of talk of mobile gaming on smartphones, but not much in the way of console or PC gaming. But let's recap what we've seen and heard so far.
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Intel is making a lot of noise about its new Sandy Bridge processors which put CPU and GPU on a single chip. What does that mean for gamers? It means that the phrase "integrated Intel graphics" won't be the cause for disappointment that it used to be. Sandy Bridge machines won't have the graphics horsepower of a gaming rig with a state-of-the-art Nvidia or ATI graphics card, but they'll do a decent job of running modern games. For proof check out this post at VentureBeat; Valve's Gabe Newell hit the stage with Intel's Mooly Eden to show off Portal 2 (as well as World of Warcraft) running on a Sandy Bridge machine. Truth is, WoW runs on just about anything but seeing Portal 2 performing well is encouraging. I talked just the other day about streaming gaming service OnLive partnering with Vizio to build the OnLive client into Vizio Via Plus televisions. Joystiq got some hands-on time with one such TV and they sound pleased. Among the benefits? A bit less input latency and a TV that knows to switch to Game Mode when you start to play. Sticking with Joystiq and Vizio, another post described Vizio's Versus system. Versus lets two people play a game at the same time on a single TV (without resorting to split-screen). Essentially they're taking a 3D television and instead of creating two similar images and sending one to the left eye and one to the right eye, they're creating two completely distinct images and sending one to the left player and one to the right player. So Player 1 wears glasses with two Left lenses and sees his view of the game and Player 2 wears glasses with two Right lenses and sees his view. Get it? Downsides? There are a few. First the resolution is only 540P. Second, the games have to be built or modified to support the system. Third, you have to wear those silly glasses. Four, how do they handle audio? An interesting idea but I'm not sure it'll catch on in this first iteration. Razer has a couple of products to show off. The first is the Onza Xbox 360 controller. This is an adjustable controller for serious gamers (you can adjust how tight or loose the analog sticks are). PC Mag has the details. The best news? The more expensive "Tournament" edition is only $40 (though they aren't wireless; I suppose when you're this obsessive about your controller you don't want to risk any kind of wireless lag). But I've saved the best for last. Razer was also showing off the Switchblade, a Windows 7 based tiny laptop built for PC gaming. Razer is calling it a concept for now. It has a 7" capacitive touchscreen running at 1024x600. The keys on the keyboard are label via LCDs. When you're not gaming you'll get standard letters and numbers, but when you fire up a game the keys automagically change to support that particular game (see video below). You can plug a mouse into the USB port, or use the touchscreen. Those lucky Engadget bloggers got a chance to go hands-on with the Razer and I urge my fellow gamers to head over and read their lengthy impressions. This isn't something we'll be seeing on store shelves soon (if ever, though the Engadget guys got the feeling that Razer intends this as a real product) but it's an awful nifty gadget for gamers to drool over. That about sums up all the 'core gamer' news and products I've seem coming out of CES so far. Did I miss something? I'm sure I did, and I'd really appreciate comments pointing the rest of us out to other big gaming news from the show.
Peter Smith writes about personal technology for ITworld. Follow him on Twitter @pasmith.


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Pop, pop, pop, Ali—then Cassius Clay—surrounded the lumbering Scandinavian with zinging leather.
Another Maximus factor is the august Roman -us ending, with other names like Atticus, Cassius, Augustus and Magnus heating up.
We first met Muhammad Ali as Cassius Clay -- the slender, charismatic 18-year-old light-heavyweight gold medalist in 1960 in Rome.
By such arguments as these Cassius attempted to calm Brutus.
From love of Cæsar to hate for Brutus and Cassius is but a step.
Above all, contact with Cassius throws into relief the greatness of Brutus.
His affection for Cassius is not a virtue to one in especial.
The lowest place among the lost souls is occupied by the traitors, Brutus, Cassius, and Judas.
Cassius tells me that you are thinking of returning to Maine.
The home of Cassius Trent, the truest man, the noblest heart, the whitest gentleman the good Lord ever made.
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text: The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.1531 Friday, 18 August 2000. From: Peter Holland <P.D.HOLLAND+AEA-bham.ac.uk> Date: Thursday, 17 Aug 2000 13:54:43 +010- Subject: 11.1516 Shylock's Daughter Comment: Re: SHK 11.1516 Shylock's Daughter The novel is a translation from German. It's been very successful there and highly praised. My daughter (aged 9) loved it. Perhaps I should ask her to write a review for SHAKSPER.


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Hemochromatosis is an inherited disorder of excessive body accumulation of
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A Saudi scholar [2] has played down an Islamic fatwa (ruling) that forbids women from logging in online without an escort.
"The law for internet usage for men and women should be the same, even if the internet has useful and harmful websites," said Sheikh Mohamed El-Aly, professor of Islamic law at Imam Mohamed Ben Saud University to Al-Youm Online, a Saudi [3] news website, Sunday.
According to Islamic law [4], women are not allowed to travel without a male escort who is either her husband or a close relative she couldn't marry, including uncles, father-in-law and adult nieces.
In 2010, Sheikh Saad El-Ghamdi issued a fatwa banning women from logging in online without a chaperon sitting at her side.
"Women are similar to other beings, yet they are weak and emotional, which drags them towards what is against God's rule ... The internet is full with tempting things that will be very hard for the weak woman to avoid ... Thus an escort who is aware of her weak psyche, which is prone to sex and emotion, is to accompany her while being online," said Sheikh Saad El-Ghamdi in 2010.
However, Sheikh El-Aly has different views on women. "God blesses the Muslim woman with righteous thinking by which she distinguishes between what is good and bad for her," he told the Saudi press Sunday.
The 2010 fatwa spread widely on social media sites. Sheikh Saad Ghamadi is a Saudi who graduated from the College of Sharia of the Islamic Imam Mohamed Ben Saud University.
What do you think - should Saudi women be allowed to surf the web without a male guardian? Leave us you comments below!
[1] http://www.syndigate.info
[2] http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/saudi-women-divorce-sheikh-441905
[3] http://www.albawaba.com/business/saudi-arabia-economy-442504
[4] http://www.al-islam.org/laws/
[5] http://english.ahram.org.eg


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Subject: [m0n0wall] Modified pb20 image
In order to solve that pesky is-it-ad0-or-ad1-or-ad2-now problem once
and for all, I've modified the m0n0wall booting process to probe all
devices from ad0 to ad3 until the right one (mountable and with a
configuration file on it) is found (this of course doesn't apply to the
CD-ROM version). The fstab is then generated on-the-fly.
I don't want to make this an official release yet, because I think it
needs some testing. Those who are willing to try it can find it on
...look for the pb20r555 images. Make sure to test the firmware upgrade
facility, too.
These images also have a new kernel that includes a patch for the PPTP
VPN problems (lots of errors, packet loss). It's probably not a 100%
solution, but it seems to greatly lower the impact of the problem. In
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A rebound in the value of coal and iron ore shipments in February helped narrow Australia's trade deficit to the smallest shortfall in 14 months.
The shortfall between imports and exports narrowed to $178 million from a revised deficit of $1.22 billion in January, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday. Economists had forecast a deficit of $1 billion.
Strong gains in key commodity prices in February helped boost overall exports by 3 per cent to $25.6 billion, led by a 12 per cent gain in coal.
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PS Vita Price Drop Announced In Japan
Sony Japan recently held a special PS Vita presentation, detailing a handful of games for the system as well as confirming a price drop for the PS Vita in Japan.
The PS Vita will now cost 19,980 Yen, which is down from the original price of 24,980 Yen.
That equates to roughly or £139. No price drop was announced for US or EU territories, but at least it acknowledges that Sony is looking to lower the cost of the PS Vita.
It's worth pointing out that the original Japanese PS Vita price of 24,980 is converted to roughly £175 but actually sells for £200-230 for the Wi-Fi version here in the UK.
That would still put the UK price of the reduced PS Vita – if we even got a price drop – at about £160-190 if the same price range was taken into account.
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Lewis Hamilton's storming start to the Formula One world championship has boosted ticket sales for the British Grand Prix on 6 July.
There has been much criticism of F1 following the first two races in Australia and Malaysia. The Australian GP race chairman Ron Walker threatened to sue because of the quieter engines and the lack of entertainment. Other promoters and F1's chief executive, Bernie Ecclestone, have also been critical of the engines.
"Ticket sales are on a par with what we saw last year, which is good news," said Silverstone's managing director, Richard Phillips, who is attending the Bahrain Grand Prix. "We actually saw a spike after Lewis Hamilton's victory in Malaysia, which is a real positive. From what we have discovered, the fans are really intrigued as to the sights and sounds of this new Formula One.
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Isn't this title specifically for ArchAngel Michael as he is the commander of all the angels and protector of Orthodox Christians? I thought it translated to The Brigadier General?
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The term planet earth is an innovation which has arisen in recent centuries with the error of heliocentrism.If one wants to confess a pure doctrine of Orthodoxy, they should be careful not to refer to the earth as a planet, unlike the current Pope as well as Patriarch Kirill and Patriarch Bartholomew, who regularly speak in error when they refer to our planet earth.
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Denouncing domestic spying reports, Kondracke equated NSA program with World War II code-breaking, radar
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On Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, Roll Call executive editor Morton M. Kondracke asserted that the disclosure of the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program to The New York Times "is the equivalent of telling the newspapers that ... we've broken the Japanese codes or, hey, we've discovered radar, we can see enemy planes."
During the "All Star Panel" segment of the April 19 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, Roll Call executive editor Morton M. Kondracke asserted that the disclosure of the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program to The New York Times "is the equivalent of telling the newspapers that ... we've broken the Japanese codes or, hey, we've discovered radar, we can see enemy planes." But Kondracke's equivalence rested on two assumptions for which Kondracke provided no support: that those engaged in terrorist activities did not already have reason to believe that their communications were being monitored, and that the warrantless domestic surveillance program was effective before the New York Times report. Both assumptions are dubious at best.
In December 2005, New York Times reporters James Risen and Eric Lichtblau first revealed that shortly after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, President Bush authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to monitor the communications of United States persons without obtaining a warrant. The program is an apparent violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which normally requires a warrant for such surveillance.
Referring to Risen, Lichtblau, and Washington Post reporter Dana Priest -- who revealed the CIA's use of secret interrogation sites overseas -- CNN political analyst William Bennett said on April 18: "I think what they did is worthy of jail." All three won Pulitzer Prizes for their reporting. Discussing Bennett's comments, Kondracke said on Special Report that while he did not think the reporters should be imprisoned, "the people who leaked the story should go to jail, especially in the case of the NSA spying case." Kondracke added: "If I were the editor of The New York Times, I would be ashamed of myself for publishing the story about the NSA spying."
Kondracke's assertion that the disclosure of the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program is the "equivalent" of telling reporters about the breaking of codes or the use of radar relies on the claim -- advanced by members of the Bush administration -- that potential terrorists would not have otherwise suspected that their communications were under surveillance. The new information revealed by the Times was not that the United States spies on terrorist suspects but, rather, that the Bush administration has undertaken such surveillance without obtaining warrants.
As Media Matters for America has noted, on the February 12 broadcast of ABC's This Week, Washington Post columnist George F. Will dismissed as "peculiar" the claim that the program's disclosure "tip[ped] off" enemies of the United States to the possibility that they were under surveillance:
WILL: I want to go back to the NSA thing. The administration says talking about this tips off the enemy. Now, the idea that our enemies think that the most technologically sophisticated nation in the world isn't using all its advantages to eavesdrop on them is peculiar. In 1978, we passed FISA. That alerted them, if any alerting was needed, that we were indeed listening in, passing the Patriot Act alerted them to what we were going to do and were going to not do. What I do not understand in this whole bizarre week we just had, George, our arguing about the NSA surveillance, the administration saying desperately important to pass the Patriot Act.
A February 6 exchange between Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-DE) and Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the surveillance program also cast doubt on the claim that the program was damaged by media reports:
BIDEN: General, how has this revelation damaged the program? I'm almost confused by it but, I mean, it seems to presuppose that these very sophisticated Al Qaeda folks didn't think we were intercepting their phone calls. I mean, I'm a little confused. How did it damage this?
GONZALES: Well, Senator, I would first refer to the experts in the Intel Committee who are making that statement, first of all. I'm just the lawyer. And so, when the director of the CIA says this should really damage our intel capabilities, I would defer to that statement. I think, based on my experience, it is true -- you would assume that the enemy is presuming that we are engaged in some kind of surveillance. But if they're not reminded about it all the time in the newspapers and in stories, they sometimes forget. And you're amazed at some of the communications that exist. And so when you keep sticking it in their face that we're involved in some kind of surveillance, even if it's unclear in these stories, it can't help but make a difference, I think.
BIDEN: Well, I hope you and my distinguished friend from Alabama are right, that they're that stupid and naive because we're much better off if that's the case. I got the impression from the work I've done in this area that they're pretty darn sophisticated; they pretty well know. It's a little like when we talk about -- when I say you all haven't -- not you, personally -- the administration has done very little for rail security. They've done virtually nothing and people say, oh, my Lord, don't tell them; don't tell them there's vulnerabilities in the rail system. They'll know to use terror. Don't tell them that that tunnel was built in 1860 and there's no lighting, no ventilation. I mean, I hope they're that stupid.
In addition, Kondracke's equivalence relied on the disputed claim that the domestic surveillance program has been effective in identifying terrorism suspects and, therefore, that the program's disclosure could have damaged national security. But as Media Matters has noted, news reports suggest otherwise. The Washington Post reported on February 5 that according to "current and former government officials and private-sector sources with knowledge of the technologies in use," intelligence officers used the program to eavesdrop "on thousands of Americans in overseas calls" but "dismissed nearly all of them as potential suspects after hearing nothing pertinent to a terrorist threat."
In addition, a January 17 New York Times article reported that, according to "current and former [FBI] officials," "virtually all" of the tips provided by the NSA to the FBI under the surveillance program "led to dead ends or innocent Americans."
Despite Kondracke's claim of "equivalen[ce]," the reported ineffectiveness of the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance contrasts sharply with the use of code-breaking and radar during World War II.
According to the NSA's own website, the breaking of Japan's "JN-25" codes led to the American victory at the crucial battle of Midway, "the turning point in the Pacific":
[Cpt. Joseph] Rochefort believed AF referred to Midway. With the approval of RADM [Chester] Nimitz, instructions were given to the Marines on Midway to send a plaintext message complaining about the lack of fresh water. Two days later, 12 May 1942, a JN-25 message was decoded stating: "AF is short of water."
Knowing Midway would be attacked, the U.S. Navy and Marines were able to adjust their forces and combat the attack head on. Although the battle raged for portions of three days, and significant numbers of U.S. and Japanese lives were lost, the Americans defeated the Japanese fleet.
Similarly, the World War II Multimedia Database notes that the introduction of widespread radar use during the Battle of Britain gave the British a significant advantage:
The Battle of Britain marked the first use of radar on a widespread scale in warfare. It allowed RAF [Britain's Royal Air Force] fighter Command's three main southern air groups to wait on the ground for incoming attacks, and then leap into the fray when the bombers were sighted on radar.
The Germans, who had not developed radar to the same level as the British, could not understand why their losses were mounting over the Channel until their intelligence identified the radar network installations.
From the April 19 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume:
HUME: Those are the two stories that won the Pulitzer -- two of the main Pulitzer Prizes this year. Mr. Bennett has a strong opinion. Mr. Kondracke, your thoughts.
KONDRACKE: Well, I don't think they're going to -- ought to go to jail for what they did. But the people who leaked the story should go to jail, especially in the case of the NSA spying case. This is the equivalent of telling the newspapers that we've discovered that -- we've broken the Japanese codes or, hey, we've discovered radar, we can see enemy planes, you know. That's the kind of secret in wartime that ought not to be let out, it seems to me.
HUME: So you don't approve of the stories being published?
KONDRACKE: If I were the editor of The New York Times, I would be ashamed of myself for publishing the story about the NSA spying. And in fact, they didn't for a year. It was only when one of the -- James Risen was going to come out with his book that The New York Times actually published it.
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Jones has been with UnitedHealthcare for more than a decade and currently oversees employer and individual markets for Arizona, Utah and Idaho. Prior to taking this role, Jones was chief of staff for the West Region of UnitedHealthcare, responsible for strategy and execution of the regional vision and business plan. Jones holds a B.S. degree in accounting from Northern Arizona University and is a C.P.A.
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[Identification of item], Counseling Center Records, Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
Since the 1920s, various counseling services had been offered by the University in cooperation with organizations such as the "Y" and the Southern Women's Educational Alliance. The Bureau of Testing and Guidance was created in 1944 to provide educational and vocational testing services to the University and on occasion to the Durham community. The first staff members were James M. Slay, an Assistant Dean of Trinity College, assistant director Jay Ostwalt, and administrative assistant Mrs. R.E. Lee. The office offered pre-college testing of applicants, placement testing, career counseling, and aptitude testing. It underwent major reorganization in the fall of 1950.
In the 1950s, Henry Weitz became director of the Bureau, the staff was enlarged, and the program's focus was changed to emphasize counseling, with testing placed in a supporting role. In 1964, the name of the organization was changed from the Bureau of Testing and Guidance to the University Counseling Center, further accentuating the role that counseling had come to play in operations.
As its primary mission, the Counseling Center offered general psychological counseling to students, faculty, staff, and the Durham community, particularly in the areas of career planning and education, as well as personal and social development. It also provided students with information concerning jobs, graduate school, financial aid, foreign study, and employment. In 1977, the Counseling Center merged with Student Mental Health Services to form Counseling and Psychological Services, or CAPS.
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This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
This study identified existing issues related to quantitative pharmaceutical risk assessment (QPhRA, hereafter) for pharmaceuticals in water and proposed possible solutions by analyzing methodologies and findings of different published QPhRA studies. Retrospective site-specific QPhRA studies from different parts of the world (U.S.A., United Kingdom, Europe, India,
In recent years, pharmaceuticals in water have received growing attention from environmental and health agencies all over the world and have become one of the emerging pollutants due to their frequent detection in the water environment [
In addition because of increasing public concern regarding potential health effects due to presence of pharmaceuticals in environment [
The objective of this study is to identify existing issues within the quantitative pharmaceutical risk assessment (QPhRA, hereafter) framework by analyzing published risk assessment methodologies and frameworks and propose possible suggestions and research needs. Findings of this study are expected to highlight existing issues within the QPhRA framework and help in shaping future research directions towards filling the data and methodology gaps.
This study (1) reviewed retrospective site-specific quantitative pharmaceuticals risk assessment (QPhRA) studies from different parts of the world (U.S.A., United Kingdom, Europe, India,
Generally, both detected and modeled pharmaceutical concentrations are used in estimating risk for humans due to pharmaceuticals in water. The different pharmaceuticals studied can be seen in
Modeled pharmaceuticals concentrations in water have also been used in different QPhRA studies. For example, two commonly used models are: (1) Pharmaceutical Assessment and Transport Evaluation (PhATE) [
In general, modeled pharmaceutical concentrations are used in the case of no availability of appropriate concentration data and are useful for those substances which might be present at very low levels in environment. However, very few studies have validated these models before using for risk assessment purposes, suggesting the need for extensive model validation with field observed pharmaceutical concentration data. Further, proper considerations are also important for pharmaceuticals with low environmental concentrations due to problems with analytical detection methods.
The review of pharmaceuticals studied during different QPhRA studies, summarized in
The integration of pharmaceutical prioritization frameworks with the QPhRA frameworks has the potential of providing a holistic tool to different stakeholders for conducting pharmaceuticals risk assessment on a priority-basis. With regards to types of pharmaceuticals, a constant update of the pharmaceuticals list is required to include all newly detected pharmaceuticals, such as different metabolites and transformed products from parent organic compounds [
It is worth noting here that the list of emerging organic compounds detected in environmental waters is increasing everyday due to improved detection of metabolites and transformed products from parent compounds [
Most of the previous QPhRA studies have used scenario evaluation-based approach for estimating risk using different assumptions for developing exposure [
Exposure-related parameters (such as human ingestion rate and exposure duration) have been generally obtained using scenario-specific information during the hazard identification step and also using information given in the U.S. EPA Exposure Factors Handbook [
This step involves estimation of (1) response values (
Generally, uncertainty factors have been classified into five categories: (1) Intraspecies variability (
Recently, some researchers have advocated the derivation and use of non-default values for UFs [
In addition, the uncertainty of long-term/chronic effects associated with exposure to pharmaceuticals in water has also been mentioned in most of the previous QPhRA studies (
A chemical may elicit more than one toxic effect (
A direct consequence of identification of different endpoints is the generation of different ADIs for chemicals, which can be a source of considerable confusion when the ADIs are used exclusively in risk management decision making [
At present, since most of the previous QPhRA studies have reported no appreciable human health risks associated with pharmaceuticals in water, the diversified choices of health endpoints do not essentially make a significant difference in risk characterization. However, if new circumstances emerge, different choices of endpoint might lead to different results of risk characterization, and even different decisions by risk management groups. From this point of view, it might be necessary to invest efforts to standardize or give authoritative reference on the general choice of endpoints of pharmaceuticals in water regarding QPhRA studies, or even provide reference values of ADIs.
During determination of endpoints, proper consideration of receptor's susceptibility to the particular pharmaceutical is also required. For pharmaceuticals, while the therapeutic effect is considered beneficial for patient population, no benefit is presumed to be received by the individuals incidentally exposed to pharmaceuticals via ingesting drinking water or consuming fish, and hence it is often treated as an adverse effect in many QPhRA studies. For some pharmaceuticals that are developed for just one gender or age class, the therapeutic dose for the target population may not be the appropriate point-of-departure (POD) for calculating values of ADI for the non-targeted population, and consequently they may need individual evaluation [
In addition, special considerations are also required for some classes of pharmaceuticals, such as antibiotics (
Proper considerations of gender or age class are also required during estimation of representative ADI for QPhRA for different sensitive subpopulations (
As occurrence of multiple pharmaceuticals in water at low concentrations have been reported [
To circumvent the issue of QPhRA of mixture of pharmaceuticals in water, studies have generally discussed different assumptions following the U.S.EPA [
Due to the potential additive, antagonistic, or synergistic nature of pharmaceuticals, any comprehensive risk assessment method addressing the issue of mixture effects is expected to be complicated [
In general, more toxicological work is required to study interactive effects of different pharmaceuticals present in water on different end points. To use the observed mixture effects data (
Currently, due to lack of detailed knowledge about different
This study reviewed different QPhRA studies to identify existing issues and proposed possible suggestions to address these issues, as summarized in
The authors would like to acknowledge the Water Research Foundation for providing financial support for this study (Grant # 4169).
Search results using keywords shown in legends from the "ScienceDirect" database on December 31, 2009. Note: For "Pharmaceuticals + risk + water" keyword, total of 39,039 articles were found. For "Personal care products+risk+water" keyword, total of 20,438 articles were found. For "Endocrine disrupting chemicals + risk + water", total of 3,601 articles were found.
Summary of previous quantitative pharmaceutical risk assessment studies for ingestion of pharmaceuticals in water.
|Reference (Country)
|Hazard Identification
|Exposure Assessment
|Dose-response Relationship
|Risk Characterization and Conclusions
|Christensen [
|17α-ethinylestradiol (EE2), phenoxymethylpenicillin (Pen V), Cyclophosphamide (CP)
|Intake of drinking water, leaf crops, root crops, fishes, dairy products, and inhalation of air;
|For EE2: Higher intake from fish than other medium; For PenV and CP: Higher intakes from drinking water than other medium
|Negligible human risks;
|Acetylsalicylic acid, clofibrate, cyclophosphamide, indomethacin
|Ingestion of water and consumption of fish
|No health risks
|Acetyl salicylic acid, clofibric acid, ibuprofen, gemfibrozil, fenoprofen, ketoprofen, diclofenac, fenofibric acid, bezafibrate, indometacine, salicylic acid, atenolol, sotalol, salbutamol, terbutalin, fenoterol, nadolol, metropolol, celiprolol, carazolol, clenbuterol, phenazone, ifosfamide, cyclophosphamide, carbamazepine, pentoxifylline, clofibrate, phenazone, dimethlaminophenazon, ifosfamide, cyclophosphamide, carbamazepine, pentoxifylline, diazepam, fenofibrate, etofibrate, clarithromycin, dehydrato-erythromycin, roxithromycin, sulfamethazine, sulfamethoxazole, trimethoprim, chloramphenicol, chloroteracycline, doxycycline, tetracycline, cloxacillin, dicloxacillin, methicillin, nafcillin, oxacillin, benzylpenicillin, phenoxymethylpenicillin, iopamidol, iopromide, ioxithalamic acid, iothalamic acid, diatrizoate, 17α-Ethinylestradiol
|Ingestion of water
|Comparisons of daily intake values (or dose equivalent for exposures for 70 years) with minimum daily therapeutic dose;
|Low possibility of health risks
|Acetaminophen, ablution, cimetidine, ciprofloxacin, codeine, dehydronifedipine, digoxigenin, digoxin, diltiazem, doxycycline, enalaprilat, erithromycin-H2O, fluoxetine, gemfibrozil, ibuprofen, lincomycin, metformin, norfloxacin, oxytetracycline, paroxetine metabolite, ranitidine, sulfamethoxazole, sulfathiazole, tetracycline, trimethoprim, warfarin
|Ingestion of surface water and consumption of fish
|Use of both measured and predicted environmental concentrations and comparison of these values with calculated predicted-no-effect concentration (PNEC) values (separately for consumption of drinking water, fish, and for simultaneous consumption of both drinking water and fish)
|No appreciable risks to humans
|396 pharmaceuticals and 11 illicit drugs
|Ingestion of surface water
|Comparison of minimum therapeutic dose (MTD) with estimated exposure dose
|No human health risks (margin-of-safety observed >1,000 for most of the drugs except for some drugs where ratios were observed to be below 100, when combination of 19 NSADI were used with MTD value.
|Atomoxetine, duloxetine, olanzapine (neuropharmaceutical compounds)
|Ingestion of surface water and consumption of fish
|Determination of lowest relevant effect dose using preclinical and clinical studies and its use for calculation of ADI; Use of human study for estimation of point-of-departure (POD) if effect is same from both animal and human studies and use of animal study with uncertainty factors for estimation of POD.
|No appreciable health risks
|Snyder [
|Atenolol, atorvastatin, carbamazepine, diazepam, diclofenac, enalapril, fluoxetin, gemfibrozil, meprobamate, naproxen, phenytoin, risperidone, simvastatin, sulfamethoxazole, triclosan, trimethoprim
|No health risks
|Cytotoxic chemotherapy drugs (5-fluorouracil, cyclophosphamide, epirubicin/doxorubicin)
|Ingestion of water
|Prediction of concentration for 5-fluorouracil and comparison with 10 ng/L trigger cytotoxic concentration value for humans; and comparison with PNEC value for aquatic fauna
|No appreciable health risks
|Three cytotoxic drug groups: alkylating agents (oxaliplatin, temozolomide, cisplatin, carboplatin, cyclophosphamide), antimetabolites (gemcitabine, fludarabine, fluorouracil-a metabolite to the prodrug capecitabine), and anthracycline antibiotics (epirubicin, doxorubicin).
|Calculation of predicted environmental concentration using information, such as drug use, excretion rate and removal in sewage treatment plant and dissipation (assumed to be negligible) and dilution considerations in stream water
|Comparison of PEC estimates with threshold-of-toxicological- concern (TTC) and no-significant-risk-levels (NSRLs).
|No health risks
|44 active pharmaceutical ingredients marketed by GlaxoSmithKline
|Ingestion of water and consumption of fish
|Use of both measured and predicted environmental concentrations and their comparisons with PNEC levels; Use of threshold of toxicological concern
|No appreciable health risks
|Penicillins, erythromycins, cephalosporins, sulfonamides, quinolones, tetracyclines, aminoglycosides, and nitrofurantoins
|Exposure : Reported maternal use of these antibiotics (1 month before the pregnancy through the end of the first trimester);
|Calculated Odds ratio and measured association of antibiotic use and selected birth defects
|Penicillins erythromycins, cephalosporins: No association with birth defects. Sulfonamides, nitrofurantoins: Association with several birth defects
|50 chemicals in surface, groundwater, and drinking water
|Water ingestion rate: 2 L/d (adults)
|Compared environmental concentration with threshold of toxicological concern For chemicals in surface water and groundwater, a benchmark quotient of 0.2 is used as chemicals are removed in drinking water treatment plants also.
|No appreciable health concern
|Carbamazepine and its metabolites (carbamazepine diol and carbamazepine N-glucuronide)
|Ingestion of water and consumption of fish
|Use of both measured and predicted environmental concentrations and their comparisons with PNEC levels; Use of threshold of toxicological concern
|No appreciable health risks
|Kumar and Xagoraraki [
|Carbamazepine, phenytoin, meprobamate in U.S. surface water and finished drinking water
|Ingestion of water and consumption of fish during recreational activity and direct consumption of finished drinking water
|Use of sub-population specific toxic endpoints; Use of calculated therapeutic- and toxicity- based acceptable daily intake values
|No appreciable health concern
Removals of emerging organic chemicals in drinking water treatment plans: (a) Conventional treatment: Combination of filtration (sand), clarification, GAC adsorption, and chlorination unit processes and (b) Advanced treatment: Combination of conventional treatment unit processes with ozonation, ultra-violet irradiation, membrane filtration unit processes) [
|Less than 90% removal
|More than 90% removal
|4-nonylphenol; 7-Acetyl-1,1,3,4,4,6-Hexamethyl-1,2,3,4- tetrahydronaphthalene (AHTN); bisphenol A; codeine; dehydronifedipine; Diethoxyoctylphenol (OP2EO); methylbenzyldene camphor; sulfathiazole; tri(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate; triclosan; triethylcitrate; Tris (2-chloroethyl)phosphate (TCEP)
|17β-estradiol; acetaminophen; atorvastatin; benzophenone-3; carbamazepine; carbaryl; clofibric acid; diazepam; diazinon; diclofenac; erythromycin; estrone; fluoxetine; gemfibrozil; HHCB; lincomycin; metolachlor; naproxen; progesterone; sulfamethoxazole; trimethoprim
|4-nonylphenol; triclosan; TCEP
|Atenolol; atrazine; bezafibrate; carbamazepine; clofibric acid; cotinine; diclofenac; estrone; gemfibrozil; ibuprofen; linuron; meprobamate; metolachlor; N,N-diethyltoluamide (DEET); naproxen; phenytoin; progesterone; sulfamethoxazole
Summary of previous studies using different acceptable daily intake (ADI) values for the same pharmaceutical compound (Information about endpoints considered during estimation of ADI values are presented in parentheses).
|Pharmaceutical name
|Christensen [
|Acetylsalicylic acid
|8.3 μg/kg/d (30 mg/day therapeutic dose as anticoagulation therapy)
|Not applicable
|16.67 μg/kg/d
|Not applicable
|16.67 μg/kg/d (1 mg/d based on immunobullous skin disorders)
|Not applicable
|0.017 μg/kg/d (1 μg/d based on no-significant-risk-level)
|0.01 μg/d (for rat)
|3 μg/kg/d (100 mg/day therapeutic dose based on bacterial infection)
|30 μg/kg/d (value established from WHO representing antimicrobial sensitivity of human intestinal microflora)
|Not applicable
|Not applicable
|3 μg/kg/d (1,000 mg/day therapeutic dose based on bacterial infection)
|30 μg/kg/d (value established from WHO representing antimicrobial sensitivity of human intestinal microflora)
|Not applicable
|Not applicable
|3 μg/kg/d (1,000 mg/day therapeutic dose based on bacterial infection)
|30 μg/kg/d (value established from WHO representing antimicrobial sensitivity of human intestinal microflora)
|Not applicable
|Not applicable
|0.167 μg/kg/d (0.010 mg/d therapeutic dose based on menopausal symptoms)
|Not applicable
|Not applicable
|6 μg/d (prepubescent boys)
|16666 μg/kg/d (1,000 mg/day therapeutic dose based on bacterial infection)
|Not applicable
|Not applicable
|5.9 μg/d
|8333 μg/kg/d (500 mg/d therapeutic dose based on hyperlipoproteinaemia)
|Not applicable
|278 μg/kg/d
|Not applicable
Literature-reported mixture effects of pharmaceuticals.
|Component chemicals of mixture
|Testing approach
|Observed mixture effects
|Eight chemicals of environmental relevance: 2′,3′,4′,5′-tetrachloro-4-biphenylol, 2′,5′-dichloro-4biphenylol, 4′-chloro-4-biphenylol, genistein, 2,4-dihydroxybenzophenone, benzyl-4-hydroxyparabene, bisphenol A, resorcinol monobenzoate
|Recombinant yeast estrogen screen (YES)
|There were substantial mixture effects even though each chemical was present at levels well below its NOEC and EC01.
|Cleuvers [
|Diclofenac, ibuprofen, naproxen, acetylsalicylic acid
|Toxicity of the mixture was considerable, even at concentrations at which the single substances showed no or only very slight effects.
|A mixture of 13 different drugs at environmentally relevant concentrations: atenolol, bezafibrate, carbamazepine, ciprofloxacin, cyclophosphamide, furosemide, hydrochlorothiazide, furosemide, hydrochlorothiazide, ibuprofen, lincomycin, ofloxacin, ranitidine, salbutamol, sulfamethoxazole
|(1) Drugs could interact and behave as chemosensitizers, with joint effects representing a statistically significant element of mixture toxicity.
Summary of identified issues related to QPhRA and possible suggestions.
|Issue description
|Research needs/Suggestions
|Very few predictive models for pharmaceutical concentrations have been validated [
|Validate models using measured concentrations ; Conduct uncertainty analysis of risk estimates to address issue of low detection.
|The list of both parent compounds and metabolites is consistently increasing [
|Update pharmaceuticals list and integrate prioritization approach with the QPhRA framework [
|Pharmaceuticals needing special attention
|Therapeutic dose-based POD estimates might not represent effects of anti-neoplastics, antibiotics, bioaccumulative, allergens, and metabolites on different subpopulations [
|Consider final effects of these pharmaceuticals on different receptors during estimation of POD and conduct group-specific QPhRA for these pharmaceuticals.
|Source water versus finished drinking water
|Use of source water pharmaceutical concentration for risk estimation as a conservative approach for exposures to pharmaceutical from finished drinking water [
|Conduct water source-specific QPhRA;
|Exposure route
|Assumed dominance of oral ingestion route compared to other indirect ingestion- or inhalation-related exposure routes [
|Conduct pharmaceutical class-specific comprehensive QPhRA studies using all exposure routes for a given receptor.
|Values uncertainty factors (UFs)
|Uncertainty exists due to different choices of values of UFs [
|Use chemical-specific adjustment factors (CSAFs) [
|Sensitive subpopulation
|For some pharmaceuticals that are developed for just one gender or age class, the therapeutic dose for the target population may not be the appropriate point-of-departure (POD) for calculating estimates of ADI for non-targeted population (
|Use subpopulation-specific POD values [
|Mixture effects
|Co-occurrence of different pharmaceuticals in water may affect risk estimates.
|Discuss all assumptions involved during QPhRA for mixture of pharmaceuticals [


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NAAFS: Midwest Combat Challenge 7
NAAFS: Midwest Combat Challenge 7 - Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) Event on April 25, 2009 in Akron, Ohio USA
The North American Allied Fight Series returns to Chapparell's Community Center in Akron, OH on Saturday April 25th, 2009 for Midwest Combat Challenge 7. The road to Fight Nite in the Flats V will be in full swing as the top stars in the National Amateur Series are set to do battle, in one of the most anticipated fight cards of the entire year. This event will feature a blend of new blood, along with long familiar names making their return to competition. The main event will pit Cody Butzer (5-1) of East Coast Martial Arts and Instigator Fight Team against Jason Wolfe (5-3-1) of Team Jorge Gurgel in a National Amateur Welterweight division showdown. Butzer, once consider by many to be a top prospect in the sport, steps back inside an MMA cage for the first time in over two years looking to regain the spot he once held and for a chance at redemption. Although he does sport a 5-1 record, it's the one loss that Butzer suffered in his only previous NAAFS outing; now he is looking to rewrite history. Wolfe made successful debut in the NAAFS at Rumble on the Runway, where he defeated Dan Clause by Split Decision in what many called the Fight of the Night. However, Wolfe's most recent fight resulted in a third round loss to Russ Halsey and now he too is looking to make the wrong things right. Both of these stellar competitors have experienced the joys of victory and the agony of defeat and are now looking to climb back to the top of the National Amateur Welterweight Division. Another highly anticipated fight on the card will feature 2008 National Amateur Middleweight finalist Chris Lozano (4-1) of Strong Style Fight Team in his last amateur fight, when he takes on Rashad "The Nightmare" Pearson (3-0) of Pain Headquarters. Lozano is looking to rebound after being defeated by AJ Aeschlimann at Night of Champions and will have the opportunity to issue the same fate to Pearson: his first loss. Rashad Pearson is considered by many to be one of the names to keep an eye on the Middleweight Division, having recently scored a victory over another tough warrior in Neil Delos Reyes. Although it has already been announced that Lozano is scheduled to face Chuck Ellison at Fight Nite in the Flats V, Pearson is out to show his opponent that you never put the proverbial cart before the horse. Akron's own Jeremy Matheny (2-2) of Pain Headquarters will be back in action against Team GriffonRawl's Brian McKrosky (4-2) in what promises to be a war. Matheny has been sidelined for sometime with an injury, but upon his return asked for the toughest competitor available and his request has been granted. Brian McKrosky's most recent outing was a war against eventual National Finalist Sean Paul Veilleux in a Fight of the Year nominee for 2008. These two young warriors are set to do battle at Midwest Combat Challenge 7. In National Amateur Featherweight action, two of the division's early pioneers both make their long awaited returns when John Strmac (5-2) of Team GriffonRawl takes on East Liverpool's Jason Eckles (2-1). Strmac, former co-host of NAAFS Radio, developed a cult following with his witty and intellectual insight on the sport and is now looking to return to roots of active competition. Eckles has been out of action since NAAFS War on the Shore, where he lost a tough fight to the always outspoken "Small" Paul Martin. With the National Amateur Featherweight Division still wide open, the winner of this fight will immediately put himself into the mix when the long awaited rankings are released. A cross town rivalry will continue as the next generation of fighters are set to do battle when Ryan Lose (3-0) of Team GriffonRawl takes on Kenny "The Black Spartan" Jackson (2-1) of Strong Style Fight Team. Although several fight teams now encompass the NAAFS, the rivalry between GriffonRawl and Strong Style is as old as the NAAFS itself. Over the years, these two camps have stepped it up a notch when competing against one another and this fight promises to be no different. The complete fight card for NAAFS Midwest Combat Challenge 7 will be available soon on NAAFS.tv, featuring many more top names in the National Amateur Series. Tickets are on sale now by calling 330-280-8442 or by logging onto NAAFS.tv. Don't miss a minute of the action when the most star-studded NAAFS event in Akron's history takes place on Saturday April 25th from the Chapparell's Community center. The official after party of Midwest Combat Challenge 7 will be held at Gatsby's Pub on Romig Road in Akron, OH. Don't miss your opportunity to meet the fighters, on-air personalities, Cage Girls, and more!
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Monday, October 31, 2005
Spinning WheelsFrom Britain's Daily Telegraph:
A mother spent two hours waiting with her sick baby on a hospital children's ward while the doctor they were due to see was passing in front of them on a unicycle. After Paula Dadswell complained, she received a letter from hospital managers assuring her that in future all unicycling on the ward would be restricted to 'special occasions.'I'm glad they got that straightened out.
Hat tip: Kevin, M.D.
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