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2nd May 1997
Jack Thorne's play 2nd May 1997 is a drama set over the course of the 1997 UK General Election in which the Labour Party under the leadership of Tony Blair won a landslide victory over the Conservatives. The play presents three separate personal stories from different points on the political spectrum as the scale of Labour's victory becomes clear. It was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, on 8 September 2009 in a co-production with nabokov theatre company, in association with Watford Palace Theatre and Mercury Theatre Colchester.
The action takes place in three bedrooms over the course of the night following the election, and the morning after. In Part One, set just before midnight, Tory MP Robert prepares to attend the electoral count. With defeat looming large, he fears becoming a forgotten man, while his wife Marie counts the cost of her sacrifice to politics. In Part Two, set in the early hours of the morning, Lib Dem footsoldier Ian has brought home party-crasher Sarah from an election get-together, but they're about to connect in a way neither of them expected. Lastly, in Part Three, teenage best friends Jake and Will wake up to a new political reality, with a new set of Cabinet ministers to memorise before their A-level Politics class. Jake dreams of Number 10 and a life in politics, while Will dreams of Jake.
In his introduction to Jack Thorne Plays: One (Nick Hern Books, 2014), Thorne writes: '2nd May 1997 was and is my attempt to write a political play without the politics. ... I wanted to tell the story of that election from all sides. I was also frustrated by my inability to write a play about anyone else but me, so doing a triptych – inspired by David Eldridge's Under the Blue Sky – felt like an opportunity to force myself outside of my comfort zone. Three political parties, three love stories, one night.'
The Bush Theatre premiere was directed by George Perrin and designed by Hannah Clark. It was performed by James Barrett, Geoffrey Beevers, Linda Broughton, Jamie Samuel, Hugh Skinner and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. The production then embarked on a regional UK tour.


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FRIDAY, May 9 (HealthDay News) — Clinical practice may be trumping science when it comes to treatments for prostate cancer.
According to a new study, many patients are getting a newer, minimally invasive surgery, because they think it is better than conventional surgery, even though there is little data on actual differences in outcomes between the two.
"Patients are choosing and/or being directed towards treatments without fully understanding how much experience there is with the treatment in general, how much experience their particular physician might have doing a particular treatment, and how that compares to other options out there," said Dr. Ronald D. Ennis, director of radiation oncology at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, Continuum Cancer Centers of New York.
The study, appearing in the May 10 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, found that minimally invasive radical prostatectomy (MIRP) tended to involve fewer complications and shorter hospital stays but a higher risk of needing additional treatment and of experiencing incontinence.
The risks, however, tended to decrease the more experience a surgeon had under his or her belt.
"This reaffirms what many other manuscripts have shown, if you go to an individual who has experience, who does this on a consistent basis, your outcomes will be better," said Dr. Ihor S. Sawczuk, chief of urologic oncology for the Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center, in New Jersey. "If you go to someone who does 20 to 50 procedures a year, that's better than somebody who only does two to three a year."
Men diagnosed with prostate cancer, the second leading cancer killer in males, are presented with a maze of treatment options.
Radical prostatectomy, which is surgery to remove the prostate and some surrounding tissue, is currently the most common treatment in the United States. Men can choose between a minimally invasive procedure (introduced in 2000, which includes both robotic surgery and conventional laparoscopic surgery) or traditional surgery, which, these days, still involves only a small incision.
Surprisingly, use of MIRP, still a new procedure, nearly tripled during the time this study was conducted, from 12.2 percent of procedures in 2003 to 31.4 percent in 2005. This happened despite scant evidence on how MIRP compared with more traditional surgery, the investigators stated.
The reason for this quick adoption, said study author Dr. Jim Hu, director of minimally invasive urologic oncology at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, is heavy direct-to-consumer advertising. "A lot of people are jumping the gun before any studies are out," he said. "And the studies that are out are from high-volume, single-center hospitals or academic institutions rather than what's going on nationwide."
This study involved 2,702 men undergoing one or the other procedure between 2003 and 2005, all of them Medicare beneficiaries.
MIRP was associated with fewer perioperative complications than open radical prostatectomy (29.8 percent versus 36.4 percent, respectively) and shorter hospital stays (1.4 versus 4.4 days).
This was noteworthy, the authors stated, because a greater proportion of older men and those with other health problems chose minimally invasive surgery over open radical prostatectomy. These men would automatically be at higher risk for complications.
But, 27.8 percent of men undergoing MIRP needed salvage therapy (hormone therapy or external-beam radiotherapy) within six months of the surgery, compared with only 9.1 percent of those undergoing the more traditional surgery.
And this procedure was associated with a higher risk of scar tissue, which can lead to incontinence and the need for further surgery.
The study did not look at staging and scoring of the tumor, meaning that some of the differences seen might be due to differences in disease rather than in surgical quality, Sawczuk said.
On the other hand, outcomes between the two procedures were more equal when MIRP was performed by surgeons with greater experience. But studies have shown that surgeons may need to perform as many as 150 procedures to duplicate the results of open surgery and as many as 300 to feel comfortable, Hu said.
"This is relatively new, and patients are all excited about it and, as a result of increased demand, the suppliers or surgeons want to rush and give patients what they want, but this is definitely something where a lot of practice is needed," Hu said.
SOURCES: Jim Hu, M.D., director, minimally invasive urologic oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston; Ronald D. Ennis, M.D., director, radiation oncology, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, Continuum Cancer Centers of New York, New York City; Ihor S. Sawczuk, M.D., chief, urologic oncology, Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center, N.J.; May 10, 2008, Journal of Clinical Oncology
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The Last Wave
In Peter Weir's atmospheric film The Last Wave, we are brought into a world of Aboriginal witchcraft, dream reality, and disorientation; similar to his film Picnic at Hanging Rock, Peter Weir offers few clear cut clues and loads of mystery, creating a wholly mesmerizing viewing experience.
The film opens up with a scene from a school house in a rural area of the Australian desert. A sudden violent storm begins outside and, as a young boy is looking out the window, a heavy hail begins and a large chunk of ice crashes through the window, slashing the boy in the neck. During this scene we are treated to a montage of images from the city, showing gridlocked traffic and people running from the heavy rain of the freak storm.Continue Reading


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Please meet Emma and Eva
They are 15" Full Moon Babies and they will be available,
along with 3 other dolls and a bunch of other goodies, in my
Etsy shop Sunday evening at 6pm (pst).
Oh Berrie they are so cute!! :0)
Darn it, Berrie, they are so cute I can't help but feeling like I need that cute Emma! LOL! I've obsessed about her since I first saw her picture...LOVE her :)
i am completly in love with your dollmaking style. you are fantastic. love it.xxxxxx
best of luck toyou in your crafting business..
I think she looks like an Isabelle.


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Some time ago I was looking for and couldnt find a way to have scripted telnet sessions for someone I know who works in air conditioning that said he could really use one. Now that I have a solution id like to share it someone might need it someday who knows.
An easy way to do this is in notepad.
Write all the commands down as if it were a batch file and be sure to add a new line at the end to execute the last command. Select all, copy and paste it right into the telnet session. If you running 2k you can do this by simply right clicking on the DOS window after coping from notepad. The buffer will enter and execute each command in turn. The XP command window opens an options menu when right clicked so just select paste. (this is the feature I hate most about XP)
Save it with a descriptive name if you think your might need it in the future.
If youve flipped out and want to use telnet as your mail client for some reason or check for open relays this can save allot of time
I know everyones going to say telnet this and telnet that, but the reason that im passing this on to those who arent aware of it is . This can be done with any command line program that doesnt have a gui.
If I have to make a change to all the computers on the network. I use a for loop, psexec and a list of computers (FOR /f tokens=1 %X in (allcomps.txt) do psexec %X s cmd). Copy the commands once (last command being exit followed by a new line) and just right-click on the dos window every time a shell opens. Great for changing .ini files or copying a new shortcut to everyones desktop.


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This isn't a comic. It's a science classroom poster. Seriously, what's here besides a log scale and a bunch of internet jokes, including, I'll note, a healthy dose of his own (sorry Randall, but xkcd really should not, by any reasonable standard, have at least as many references as futurama and HHGG combined).
I mean, why not just print out the front page of digg and paste the pictures on this:
Anyway, in conclusion, there is nothing in this "comic" that is both new and funny.
update: Well that didn't take long - there is now a poster of this "comic" that you can buy to put on the wall of your freshman college dorm room and hope people of the opposite gender like it! Wow, thanks again randall for helping us out there.
It really bothers me that the poster was clearly all ready to go before the comic came out - making the comic little more than an ad for the newest product in the xkcd store. LAME.


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Swiss Army knives are famous for opening envelopes and wine bottles when you don't have the proper tools to hand. Now manufacturer Victorinox has updated the pocket toolkit with a range of hi-tech features.
First up is the Victorinox Remote, a traditional Swiss Army knife that's combined with "dual-channel transmitter" capable of controlling your home's automatic garage door or other devices triggered by a signal sent to their high-frequency receiver.
Victorinox's Remote now opens garage doors and envelopes
Swiss Army knives are roughly the size of modern USB Flash drives, so Victorinox's decision to create two further models - the Presentation Master and Secure – with integrated storage is a wise step.
Presentation Master features a removable slimline USB flash drive with secure data encryption, fingerprint authentication and up to 32GB of storage.
The mini toolkit also incorporates a laser pointer like its predecessor, the Flash Laser, but now has Bluetooth so you can switch slides during a presentation.
Presentation Master supports Bluetooth for slide-switching
Presentation Master will also be released in a "flight friendly" model - though you will have to made do with no blades, of course.
Victorinox's Secure essentially equips its older Flash knife with the new, secure, fingerprint-protected removable USB key.
All three Swiss Army models will still include the usual physical tools, such as mini scissors, corkscrew and nail file.
Expect the range to hit UK stores in mid-2010. Prices haven't been released. ®
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What is Art ? It is the mirror to life.
Primitive art thus has certain characteristics that mirror the culture of the artist. In May or June 1907, Picasso experienced a "revelation" while viewing African art at the ethnographic museum at Palais du Trocadéro. Picasso's discovery of African art influenced the style of his painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (begun in May 1907 and reworked in July of that year.) In the early 20th century African artifacts were being brought back to Paris museums in consequence of the expansion of the French empire into Africa. The press was abuzz with exaggerated stories of cannibalism and exotic tales about the African kingdom of Dahomey. It was in this climate of African interest that Picasso would look towards African artifacts as inspiration for some of his work and it makes no difference that he was an outsider reinventing artistic impulses of his life and the times into art. It is recognizable and and the life of a nameless primitive artist is interpreted according to canons of art. Whereas in the hands of Joseph Conrad the African interest would focus altogether on the mistreatment of Africans in the Belgian Congo. Heart of Darkness is a literary work of exceptional quality that can transcend the narrow boundaries of time and place to be equally at home in another time and place. Francis Coppola set it in Vietnam with equal success and called it Apocalypse now.
Art as the mirror of life. This is what Art can achieve. It gives life thousand faces and the mirror is telling the truth each time. Only that the beholder need to remember the emphasis is laid in each case differently. Truth is absolute and only God can define what it is. So let us not assume to know what it is.
When Patriarch Jacob wrestled with angel or saw a ladder reaching heavewards we need to accept Truth is set in a certain form that does not vitiate the narrative or the underlying veracity. Does it touch some familiar chord in you? If you have in your life wrestled with good impulses with all the might and sought a blessing from the Highest the story of Jacob cannot remain alien to you. It does not mean if you succeeded or not. The Scriptures holds up the mirror to your life so as to elicit certain feelings in you. When you respond to it in a positive manner the Word has achieved its purpose.
According to Moslem tradition Prophet Mohammad was carried at night by a fabled beast Al-Buraq to the presence of Angel Gabriel. We need to remember that truth is sometimes stranger than fiction simply because we have no way of knowing Truth in its perfection. Art as I said earlier gives Truth a human tongue. It is thus we get the best out of the Word. For that matter how is that we have the Hand of Fatima in many versions ranging from Egyptian, Hebrew and Christian traditions? It is life given a certain symbol naming it as good omen or charm and so on. It is to be treated as such and not make undue fuss over it. Instead some silly fellows want to impose their own nonsense as truth. They pose as the Watch and Ward staff for God. Among Jews and Moslems alike there are those who want to make worshippers think in the way they think. What makes them think they know the truth? Wahhabism would try hard to make Islam 'pure' but would require plenty of money to stuff down the throats to make it digestable! In sacred and secular art also you find such misguided fellows. Shakespeare had been bowdlerized by some and yet Shakespeare lives on preeminent above such ignoble souls.
For me art must serve life. When we see Truth in its perfection words of human artifice shall fail since we ourselves shall be part of that Absolute quality.
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KeyLimeTie brauchte ein neues Kodierte Website Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 20 Designs von 7 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
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Top Notch Realty Team
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Providing top-notch professional service in all of your real estate needs.
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Briefly describe your products or services. We are licensed Realtors providing quality professional services in residential real estate including but not limited to working with buyers looking to buy a property; sellers who want to sell their properties for top value ; tenants looking to lease rental properties; property owners interested in leasing their properties through our company by providing a wide array of property management services; assisting buyers who are interested in new construction or custom-build homes; helping investors find distressed properties, foreclosure properties, short-sale properties and/or properties under fair market value to increase their net worth; Providing customers with up-to-date information regarding Special Communities: Active Adults, Assisted Living, Accessibility ready; and recruiting Realtors and Brokers to join Keller Williams franchises under our sponsorship.
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Based on KW studies Internet buyers, those that make real estate business via internet are in average 35 years of age, and constitute at least 85% of the website traffic; while sellers in average are older age range and constitute only 15% of the internet business. Therefore, we want our website to be as visual as possible, including a wealth of resources and tools targeting buyers. Nonetheless, we want our website to include a wealth of information and resources so that we may capture all real estate-relates leads whether they be buyers, sellers, investors, recruits, new construction, custom build homes, etc. We would also like to expand our resources for sellers more than the typical competition.
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http://www.amazon.com/ – home page layout – wide screen
http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/sitemap - clear easy to read site map
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Please list the top level navigation links for your website.
Property Search engine, Buyers Resources, Sellers Resources, Free Home Valuation, Site Map
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High Tech, urban look, clean and easy to read and to navigate
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No, tables are preferred for us.
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Edition 10
Greetings Yankee fans!
Hope you had a wonderful Labor Day. Welcome to the 10th installment of Yankee Yapping!
Away we go!
My thoughts on…
The AL East Road Trip
Sunday's loss to the Toronto Blue Jays was somewhat shocking to me. Sergio Mitre was not in good shape, and the defense was shoddy and careless. Friday night didn't shock me as much when Roy Halladay shut the Yankees down big time.
The only hit Halladay allowed on Friday was a double by fill-in shortstop Ramiro Pena. A little depressing.
But Friday and Sunday were the only two "blips on the screen," so to speak. The Yanks went 5-2 on their past road trip, sweeping the Orioles and winning two of four against the Blue Jays.
On Monday night I thought the Yankees were going to add some history. Andy Pettitte looked (and really in fact was) lights out. He shut down the Orioles nicely until Jerry Hairston, Jr. bobbled a ball to end the perfect bid. It was charged an error to Hairston, but the no-hitter was still intact.
That is, until the next hitter.
Nick Markakis broke up the no-no with a line drive past Hairston at third for a base knock. I still think Pettitte was amazing and it was one of his best games of the year. Johnny Damon said after the game that it was the best game of his career.
Well I guess that's impossible to say because Pettitte has tossed some huge games for the Yanks, including some big games (and series clinching games) in the World Series.
I just pray he can pitch like that in the playoffs and if history has showed us anything, Pettitte certainly can. Looking at the month of August, he was so strong; Pettitte went 4-0 in six starts, tossing 39 2/3 innings and striking out 38 hitters. That is some solid work from our veteran lefty.
The Yankees outscored the Orioles 24-9 in the series sweep earlier this week, and scored an average of nearly seven runs per game on the road trip. They also hit 13 home runs and averaged .296 at the plate.
Right now the Yankees own a record of 89-50. They only claimed 89 victories all of last season and there are still 23 games left on the regular season schedule this year. So obviously the number of wins will be greater this season. They are without question a totally different team in 2009.
Doubleheader vs. Tampa Bay
Making up the June 5 rainout, the Yankees played and swept the Tampa Rays in a day-night doubleheader.
CC Sabathia started game one of the twin bill against Tampa Bay and attempted to nail down his 17th win of the year. Although Sabathia didn't win the Yankees did, 4-1. Good games from Alex Rodriguez, Robinson Cano, Eric Hinske and Jorge Posada who all helped the team win with RBIs.
When Sabathia takes the mound the Yankees' chances are just so good and that was no different today. The ace went seven innings, gave up only one earned run on three hits, walked four and struck out 10. If he pitches like this next month, the Yankees will go a long way in the playoffs.
The 10 strikeouts by the way matched a season-high for Sabathia and he now has a total of 177 for the season.
Since the All Star break Sabathia is 8-1 in 78 innings pitched. Not only is he showing that he can win games but he's showing that he can eat up innings and give the bullpen some breathing room.
I said at the All Star break that Sabathia is a "second half player." I believe I was right.
In the night portion of the doubleheader the Yankees received another good game from their starter and the offense just broke it out and scored runs, beating the Rays, 11-1.
I'm sure most of A.J. Burnett's critics were ready to do some more "Burnett bashing" after the first inning when he gave up a run on a double from Evan Longoria that scored Gabe Gross.
But after that double we saw the "July version" of Burnett, as he completed six innings of work and allowed no more runs after the first inning. He walked three and looked good with eight strikeouts. With his solid performance, Burnett picked up his 11th win of the year and his first victory since July 27.
I had been defending Burnett the whole month of August when he was struggling and he finally proved my point: he can be dominant when he's on. Plus, Jose Molina caught him and the two seemed to be in a good rhythm all night. I think Joe Girardi should have Molina catch Burnett the rest of the year and in the post-season.
I'm glad Burnett silenced his critics with his good outing. At least for now.
On the offensive side of the field, the Yankees scored eight runs in the fourth inning and three in the sixth. Mark Teixeira led the team and put on a hitting show with two homers in the game–both of them just absolute bombs.
He first hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the third, a shot I thought would hit the Mohegan Sun Sports Bar behind the centerfield wall. It landed just beneath the restaurant in Monument Park, however.
His second homer landed in the Yankee bullpen. Teixeira now has 35 home runs on the season, and has a good chance at winning the Most Valuable Player Award, along with his teammate Derek Jeter.
I'm predicting that Teixeira will finish with 41 homers this year.
Also credit Melky Cabrera with a good game, as he had two RBIs, three hits, and two runs scored.
Overall Labor Day was productive for the Yankees as they swept the doubleheader against the Rays. The last time the Yankees swept a doubleheader at home was in 1971 when they beat the Boston Red Sox.
And speaking of the Red Sox, the magic number for them is 17. Any number of combined Yankee wins and Red Sox losses that add up to 17 mean the Yankees will have a one-way ticket to October.
It will be a glorious moment when the Yankees eliminate Boston and celebrate with the 2009 AL East crown.
Derek Jeter to Pass Lou Gehrig, Set the Team Home Run Record
The biggest story recently has been that of the Yankee captain Derek Jeter.
He has 2,718 career hits and needs three to tie the Yankees' all-time hits leader Lou Gehrig. If he reaches base safely through a base hit four more times (which is pretty much a given) Jeter will be the Yankees' all-time hits leader. Talk about an accomplishment.
Last year Jeter became the all-time hits leader in the old Stadium when he hit safely for the 1,270th time on Sept. 9. Before long he will be the man who has the most hits among any other Yankee player who has donned the pinstripes.
I thought for sure Jeter would have a chance to break the record today in the doubleheader vs. Tampa, but he suddenly went into a little slump.
He had eight plate appearances on Monday and failed to hit safely, although he did draw a walk and drove in a run on a fielder's choice in the night cap. Jeter made the Yankee fans wait for another day when most of us thought today was the day. But it's alright; he'll still do it.
I simply can't say it enough good about him; he's accomplished so much in his career that by now he's probably used to breaking and setting records.
I can say Jeter is great and maybe the greatest to ever live, but the words just seem too small. He might very well go down in the annals of history as being the greatest Yankee to ever live.
You can speak of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, Reggie Jackson and Don Mattingly, but (for me) Jeter is the absolute best, ever.
I heard that Jeter had a talk with his parents Dorothy and Dr. Charles Jeter. They told him to enjoy it. He's so humble, whenever he puts a line in his history he just quietly takes it in. But I have to agree with his parents here; he should be very proud of what he is about to accomplish and I'm sure deep down he will be.
The Yankee team can also accomplish something big this year, and it will most likely also be done by Jeter.
At press time the team has seven players with 20 or more home runs on the year. There have only been three other teams in baseball history with seven players that have had 20 or more homers: the 2005 Texas Rangers, the 2000 Toronto Blue Jays, and the 1996 Baltimore Orioles.
There has never been a team in baseball history that has had eight players with 20 or more home runs.
Jeter has 17 for the year and if he leaves the yard three more times, the Yankees will break another record, becoming the only team with eight players that have hit 20 or more homers.
Jeter's hit record will most certainly be broken on this home stand and the home run record could also be broken within the next week. I guess it just depends on whether or not Jeter gets some good pitches to hit.
But the Yankees will play their next eight games at home where the ball sails, plus another six-game home stand toward the end of the month. So there's a good chance that home run record gets broken this year.
Either way, Jeter will set new highs for himself when he breaks the hits record and the home run record. What an excellent ballplayer Jeter is (and what an understatement that is!)
Phil Hughes
When this kid came up I had a feeling he was going to be something good.
I knew he was one of the Yankees' top prospects just from talking with my friends about the "Baby Bombers" (AKA the Yankees' minor leaguers who are producing down on the farm) and when Sports Illustrated did their 2007 MLB preview they compared Phil Hughes to a young Roger Clemens, even calling him the "pocket rocket."
There are two games that Hughes pitched that really stand out in my mind when he was called to the big leagues in 2007. The first came on May 1 when he nearly tossed a no-hitter against the Texas Rangers. Hughes no-hit the Rangers for 6 2/3 innings in Texas before suffering a hamstring injury, forcing him to leave the game.
Former Yankee announcer Bobby Murcer (rest his soul) called the game and stated that if Hughes did not have to leave the game, he would have pitched a no-no. I watched that game, too, and I have to agree–if he had stayed in (and not injured himself) he would've done it.
His stuff was great on that night; his fastball was live and moving brilliantly through the strike zone. And Hughes made those Texas hitters look silly with his knee-buckling, 12-6 breaking ball.
The second game Hughes shined in (that I'll always remember) was game three of the 2007 American League Division Series against the Cleveland Indians.
Facing elimination, Clemens started game three. He had to leave with a groin injury and Hughes relieved him. With the weight of the Yankee season on his shoulders, Hughes shut down the tribe with 3 2/3 scoreless innings as the Yankees went on to win the game 8-4 and stay alive.
I really think the "almost no-hitter" and the lights-out game in the ALDS convinced me that he'd be around for awhile.
Hughes started this year in the rotation, but has found a niche for himself as a middle reliever/setup man in the bullpen. I think it's been the best thing for him.
In his last 11 innings pitched he has gone 2-0 allowing only four hits, striking out 15 batters, and only issuing four walks. Hughes has been virtually un-hittable.
Not to mention he has recorded three saves on the year filling in for Mariano Rivera, converting all three save opportunities. Perhaps one day Hughes could even be the Yankee closer, who knows. His role in the bullpen is defined now, that's probably why he's had success and I think it's what separates him from Joba Chamberlain.
Chamberlain at this point probably doesn't even know what he is. He's going by the "Joba Rules" and I think that's what's thrown him off and he hasn't been pitching well. Hughes isn't like that because he has a role, knows what the coaches expect from him, and that is giving him the ability to go out and pitch effectively.
Unlike Chamberlain, Hughes knows what he has to do and he's been doing it and doing it extremely well. I'm looking forward to some post-season dominance from this 23 year-old right-hander.
Well, that does it for this week's edition of Yankee Yapping. See you next week with more topics, highlights, and analysis.
Until then, Go Yankees!!!


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Fed Cup drops fourth singles if team has 3-0 lead
LONDON (AP) — The fourth singles in a Fed Cup tie will be scrapped if a team has an unassailable 3-0 lead.
The International Tennis Federation revised its policy to allow the doubles played instead of the fourth singles.
Juan Margets, executive vice president of the ITF, says in a statement Thursday that the rule change "came in response to requests from players, captains and national associations" after its introduction in the Davis Cup.
If the outcome is decided after the fourth singles, the doubles will still be played and a first-to-10 match tiebreaker will replace the third set. This will apply in group play but not in the final, when the doubles won't be played.


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IBM CREATED Lotus Symphony 1.1 as a free alternative to otherpopular office suites, and for the most part, the company succeededin making a good program. Symphony can go toe-to-toe with its morecostly competition most of the time, but there are times when itdoesn't quite have the power to do what is needed.
Symphony starts you off with a Home screen, in which you canstart a new Symphony Document, Symphony Spreadsheet, or SymphonyPresentation file or open an existing one. Each file you openbecomes a tab in the suite's program window. There is no wayto access one of the component programs except through thisintroductory screen. This makes it easy to open new files withouthaving to access the programs menu of the operating system, but italso takes away some of the flexibility that some users might beused to.
We found each of the components to be easy to use and fullycompatible with the OpenDocument Format and corresponding MicrosoftOffice 2003 format. We were able to open them, make changes, andsave as the appropriate Microsoft Office file type with no loss offormatting.
Unfortunately, when we tried to open an exceptionally large' 11.5M ' Excel file, Symphony balked and closed everytab except the Home tab. Yes, the file was large, but not outsideof the realm of possibility for users dealing with financial orscheduling information. Symphony was never able to open the largefile.
Although Symphony does not have any programs beyond the threebasic components, it does contain its own Web browser, which letsyou open a Web page as a tab within the Symphony program. Also,when there gets to be too many tabs across the top, Symphony offersthe option to look at them as thumbnails. This can be usefel whenyou have many files open with similar names or the tabs havecompressed to the point you can't read them.
We were also pleased to note that Lotus Symphony has support formany versions of Linux in addition to Windows. As moreorganizations adopt Linux, finding an office productivity suitethat can support it is becoming important.
IBM offers downloads of the full version of Lotus Symphony 1.1for free. There might not be any such thing as a free lunch, but wehave found there certainly is such a thing as a free full-featuredoffice suite.
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WebbConnect access requires a username and password for all users. To find out your username and password, click on WebbConnect at the top of the page and then the "Click Here" link on the left side of the page. If you need assistance, call Tech Services at (704) 406-4647.
WebbConnect gives one-stop personalized access to online and web-enhanced courses, Library resources, and all academic services (i.e. transcripts, grades, registration, graduation applications, etc.
Logging on to WebbConnect1. After reading these instructions, click on WebbConnect at the top of this page
2. If you don't know your User Name or Password, click on the "Click Here" link on the left side of the page under "How do I get a user name and password?" Answer the questions and get your user name and password.
3. In the User Name box, type in your User Name.
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A. To Drop a class choose "Drop via the Web" from the drop down box next to the class you wish to drop.
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William Hutchinson served as secretary of the Kansas Central Committee and assisted with efforts to send emigrant parties and relief to Kansas Territory. He settled in Lawrence, Kansas Territory. He served as a delegate to the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention.
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Hello and Welcome Back!
Last Thursday, the arrival of the Stanley Cup caused a great deal of excitement in the Pastoral Center.
We have many hockey fans here and, of course, I was anxious to have my picture taken with it so I could send it Archbishop Miller in Vancouver.
You may recall that at the time of the Stanley Cup Finals the Archbishop of Vancouver and I made a friendly wager of a $100 donation to the winner's local Catholic Charities agency.
The archbishop was a very good sport about his team losing and sent me the donation for Catholic Charities of Boston.
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That evening I attended Cathedral High School's Partnership for Success dinner at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel.
This was the 10th anniversary of this dinner to raise money for scholarships to the high school. Mr. John Remondi was honored for the extraordinary work he has done to support Cathedral High.
Dinner co-chair Barry Hynes, WCVB's Rhondella Richardson, John Remondi, and dinner co-chair John Drew
They had a wonderful video and one of the students spoke and gave a very inspiring talk. Rhondella Richardson from WCVB-TV Channel 5 was there to emcee the event. The keynote speaker of the evening was Villanova president Father Peter Donohue.
Father Donohue and dinner co-chair Barry Hynes
It is because of John's efforts and the help of other alumni of Cathedral High that the school has not only survived, but is flourishing. They have raised many millions of dollars, built a new gymnasium and new science labs and put a new roof on the building.
Everyone is so grateful to his dedication and it was wonderful to see him there with his wife Dotty and their beautiful family.
John and Dotty Remondi
He told his story of his mother being an immigrant from Italy and how they had to struggle when they came to America and what an important factor Catholic education was in his own life. He is truly a man who is giving back in a big way.
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On Friday, I attended the funeral of Father Paul Francis, the oldest priest in the archdiocese, a man who was ordained a priest long before I was born.
He was originally from Belize, though at the time he was born it was British Honduras. He was sent to Rome to study, but when the Second World War broke out he ended up being stranded there. He was a very brilliant man and so he kept studying — and obtained a number of degrees and doctorates and so forth. Then eventually, he found his way to Boston where he worked in our parishes and was pastor for several years at Sacred Heart in Weymouth .
I was very moved to see that the church was filled. At his age, 96, usually one has buried all of one's friends and acquaintances, but he made such an impact on the life of those people that they all came to pay their final respects.
His sister-in-law and nieces and nephews were also there. Some of them are still living in Belize, and they were very surprised that I had been in Belize. When I was part of the Antilles Bishops' Conference, Belize was one of the member countries. I have many fond memories of Bishop Martin and the wonderful people of Belize.
With Father Francis's relatives
So it was a wonderful send-off for a priest who was very, very beloved. Father Frank McGann gave a beautiful homily and of course Sacred Heart Church, which has been rebuilt, is just a stunning place for it.
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That evening, I attended an alumni dinner at St. John's Seminary. Over a 100 priests came; including many priests from neighboring dioceses who had studied at St. John's.
We had a Holy Hour before the meal. One of the deacons gave a talk on the seminary and priesthood, and two of the seminarians provided musical entertainment. One played the flute and the other the violin, they were very good. I was particularly happy that the last tune that they played was the "Irish Washer Woman!"
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On Saturday, we were very pleased that so many people came to participate in the Adopt-a-Priest Mass organized by the Serra Club of Boston by which everyone could volunteer to pray for a priest for a year. Loretta Gallagher, the club president, explained this adoption to the people at the end of Mass.
Loretta Gallagher
This day was also the first feast day for Blessed John Paul II and so we celebrated the Mass of the feast. Cardinal Dziwisz, who was the Holy Father's personal secretary and very close friend, sent me a beautiful relic of John Paul II that we venerated after the Mass. The relic was a piece of cloth soaked in his blood.
Talk about providence! The relic arrived just the day before the Mass with a very nice letter from Cardinal Dziwisz, who was also my classmate in the same consistory — we were made cardinals together.
There were over a 1,000 people who came to the Mass, including many priests.
Then afterwards George Weigel gave a stunning talk: "Pope John Paul II— a Saint for Our Day." He also answered questions about the Holy Father; it was standing room-only downstairs for his conference. I think The Daughters of St. Paul sold out all of the books that they had brought of George Weigel's second book on John Paul II "The End and the Beginning." Of course, there were coffee and cookies after the Mass, too.
George Weigel
It was a great success and we were all so pleased. It was a beautiful way to mark the first feast day of Blessed John Paul II.
O God, who are rich in mercy
and who willed that the Blessed John Paul the Second
should preside as Pope over your universal Church,
grant, we pray, that instructed by his teaching,
we may open our hearts to the saving grace of Christ,
the sole Redeemer of mankind.
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
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Later that day, I went to a Mass for candidates for the permanent diaconate in Peabody.
Now we are ordaining deacons every year, and this particular class has six Hispanics, one Brazilian and one Vietnamese, so the different ethnic groups of the diocese were very well represented.
Of course, Deacons Dan Burns and Pat Guerrini from our Diaconal Life Office were with me for the Mass.
Deacon Burns with the new candidates
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On Sunday, we had the Mass at the Cathedral for World Mission Sunday. Many different choirs came, once again representing some of our different ethnic groups we have here in the archdiocese. There was the Archdiocesan Black Catholic Choir, the Cape Verdean Choir, the Ugandan Martyr's Choir and the Vietnamese Catholic Community Choir of Boston. Intercessory prayers were also said in Ugandan, Spanish, Chinese, Swahili, Portuguese and English.
We also distributed mission rosaries, the practice being initiated by Archbishop Fulton Sheen where each decade of the rosary is offered up for a different continent and the missionaries there. Of course, Father Rodney Copp was there, as he is our director of the Pontifical Mission Societies here in Boston.
We also had Bishop William McNaughton with us and several other Maryknoll priests. We wanted to mark especially the 100th anniversary of the founding of Maryknoll. The co-founder was Bishop James Walsh who was formerly the director of the Propagation of the Faith here in the Archdiocese of Boston. We also acknowledged the fact the founder of the Xaverian Missionaries was being canonized that morning, so we congratulated them on the new St. Guido Conforti.
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That evening I went to another event related to the missions: the St. James Society's Cushing Award Banquet held at BC High.
The Cushing Award medals
There were three honorees: Bill Burke of St. Sebastian's School, Sister Janet Eisner of Emmanuel College, and Father John Unni of St. Cecilia Parish.
with Sister Janet, Father Unni and Bill Burke
The director of the Society, Father Hays
During the evening they showed an excellent film about the St. James Society! None of us had seen it before and they had lots of old photos with Cardinal Cushing and the first missionaries — it was wonderful!
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On Monday, I went to the wake of Sister Mary Hart who had received the Robert Leo Ruffin Award at the Healy Awards Dinner only a couple of years ago.
She was so dedicated to the people of St. Katherine Drexel Parish. Her twin brother and many of her relatives were there, along with large numbers of parishioners that gathered to honor her life of service, which made an incredible impact in our community.
We're all very grateful to God for her vocation and we wanted to express our condolences to her religious community— the Sisters of the Good Shepherd— to her family and to the many people that she served.
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Also that day, I stopped in at a new restaurant in the neighborhood of the Cathedral, El Paraiso. It was recently opened by a family of our Cathedral parishioners and Father O'Leary, Father Jonathan and I went to a lunch there to bless the restaurant.
We wish them great success and we were delighted by the wonderful cuisine and hospitality. If you're in the South End area, it's wonderful place to eat and they also have a great take-out selection!
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On Tuesday, I was invited to spend a day at Boston College. My visit was coordinated through the Church in the 21st Century Center with Father William Leahy, the president of B.C.
I had Mass at St. Mary's Church at noon and in the afternoon I met with professors and staff members from such areas as the vice president of mission and the chaplaincy office.
Then in the afternoon, I gave a talk that was open to the student body. I was delighted by the wonderful attendance. The subject of my talk was the Eucharist and the need to evangelize and to look for ways to invite young people to be a part of our worshipping community.
There was also a dinner hosted by Father Leahy with representatives from different components of the university as well as some students. Even at the dinner, we had a discussion about the pastoral concerns and formational concerns of our young people.
We're very grateful in Father Leahy's interest in promoting the Catholic identity of Boston College and also all of the help that he's given to us in the revitalization of our parochial schools, as well as a very generous policy they've had in giving scholarships to priests of the archdiocese studying there.
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That same day, I went to the annual dinner of the Massachusetts Council of Churches. It was held at Holy Trinity Armenian Church in Cambridge and they were honoring a member of the Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities.
Our own Father David Michael was one of the honorees along with Dr. Larry Lowenthal, former Executive Director of the Greater Boston Chapter of the American Jewish Committee; and Dr. A. Karim Khudairi, a founder of the Islamic Council of New England.
With Father David Michael and Rev. Johnson
The banquet also was a farewell gathering for the Rev. Jack Johnson, who is departing and will be replaced by Rev. Laura Everett.
We wish Rev. Johnson well in the future and we certainly look forward to collaborating with Rev. Everett.
Until next week,
Cardinal Seán


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Here is today's lineup and the entire ALDS roster…
TODAY'S LINEUP (vsLHP)
Jason Bartlett, SS
BJ Upton, CF
Carl Crawford, LF
Evan Longoria, 3B
Carlos Pena, 1B
Rocco Baldelli, DH
Ben Zobrist, RF
Kelly Shoppach, C
Sean Rodriguez, 2B
John Jaso
Reid Brignac
Dan Johnson
Desmond Jennings
Matt Joyce
David Price
James Shields
Matt Garza
Wade Davis
Rafael Soriano
Joaquin Benoit
Grant Balfour
Dan Wheeler
Jeff Niemann
Randy Choate
Chad Qualls
PLAYERS NOT ON ROSTER (Still with team)
Willy Aybar
Jeremy Hellickson
Jake McGee
Andy Sonnanstine
PLAYERS NOT ON ROSTER (sent home)
Dioner Navarro
Brad Hawpe
Lance Cormier
Mike Ekstrom
Gotta say we are surprised to see Jennings and Rocco instead of Aybar and Navarro. Almost everything else jives with what we thought would happen including Niemann over Sonnanstine.
The players not on the roster, but still with the team could potentially be added to the roster should somebody get injured or if needed for a potential ALCS matchup.


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Tasty tradition
Sadly, Naples bakes its zeppole di San Giuseppe just once a year, on March 19, Saint Joseph's Day (hence their name), when you can sample these tasty treats on informative food tours of the old town's local specialty shops. At least stockfish, pizza napolitana and limoncello, the local lemon liqueur, are available all year round. Buon appetito!


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Defending Jacoby Ellsbury
Here's what I don't get about the controversy over talk show hosts calling Jacoby Ellsbury "soft" because he's only played in 18 games this season.
How exactly do they know?
I guess I would better understand their pot shots if a pattern had been established over several seasons, but last year Jacoby played in 153 games – one fewer than Dustin Pedroia – and attempted 82 stolen bases (which is incredibly taxing on the body). As a rookie In 2008, Ellsbury played in 145 games – equaling Kevin Youkilis – and attempted 61 steals.
(photos courtesy of Kelly O'Connor)
Jacoby has five broken ribs. Among other things, his critics say it shouldn't take this long for broken ribs to heal. Huh? I don't claim to be an expert on the subject and that's the point – I don't know of any sports broadcasters who got into the business after breezing through med school.
Over the past few months, I've had several people who had suffered broken ribs in the past bring up Ellsbury's injury. Every single one said that they're not surprised that Jacoby has had a hard time returning this season.
Broken ribs are apparently very painful – who knew?
When Jacoby rehabbed with Pawtucket at the beginning of August, I asked him if he was bothered by media members calling him "soft."
"You can't let that get to you," Ellsbury said. "Anybody that knows me – my teammates and my coaches – they know how hard that I play. They know my track record. I don't miss games, I play hard, and I play all-out, so the naysayers just motivate me more. It doesn't really bother me at all. Deep down, if you're comfortable with yourself that's all that matters."
After Terry Francona defended Ellsbury this week by saying that "talking tough on the radio is a lot different than running into a wall or getting hit with a pitch," the response over the airwaves was predictable:
"So now we're not supposed to have an opinion?" was a typical defense.
No, good talk show hosts need to have strong opinions and my favorite hosts often tick me off with positions that I disagree with. As long as they're not "pulling a Bayless" and saying something absurd just to be provocative, I have no problem with expressing strong opinions.
I just happen to think that in this case that they're wrong.
And that's my opinion.
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It took 2 � months, for Josh Reddick to lift his batting average above the Uecker Line.
Bob Uecker batted exactly .200 in his major league career . . . Mario Mendoza hit .215. It's a one-man campaign to have the reference changed.
If he glanced at his stats on the scoreboard, Reddick saw a batting average below .200 in 44 of his first 48 games.
"I try my best not to look up at the scoreboard even when things are going well," Reddick said with a laugh. "That's one of those things that baseball players look at as a bad omen because if you are going to worry about your stats, then you are not going to worry about the at-bat. But looking up when my average was .180 it was like 'Oh, why are you even here.' So .250 looks fantastic to me right now."
Since June 4th, the 23-year-old outfielder has batted .313 (57-for-182) to lift his average from .183 to .247. It's not what he was hoping for after batting .390 for the Red Sox in spring training, but there has been considerable improvement.
"I'm not letting things get to me anymore," Reddick said. "And hits that seem to be falling in for me now so I guess it is true what they say about everything evening out. To be honest, I've stopped caring about my stats and that has worked out for me."
"He's finally gotten himself into a rhythm, which is good to see," Red Sox farm director Mike Hazen told Brendan McGair of The Pawtucket Times. "He's putting a stamp on the end of the season, which is good considering where he was. Hopefully he can take that confidence into the off-season and be ready for next year. Nobody has ever lost any faith or confidence in what this guy will be able to do."
With September call-ups less than two weeks away, Reddick says he's trying not to think about it.
"I'm not really there yet," Reddick said. "I'm still trying to work on my numbers here. If it happens, it happens. But if not, I'll go home early. I always want to be up there so I hope that it does happen, but if it doesn't happen it would be understandable because I haven't really done much for those guys except for one or two at-bats. We'll just see what happens. I am working for it so hopefully they can see that I have been having a good month since the all-star break and I'll get rewarded for it."
Reddick is a strong candidate to return to Pawtucket next year and the PawSox have started investigating the possibility of a "Josh Reddick Magic Hair" promotion (if you don't know what I'm talking about read this). The team has contacted the manufacturer of the Wooly Willy toy to see if it's feasible to make a version with Reddick's face.
"That would be a hilarious thing to take part in and I think that the fans and the kids would get a huge kick out of it," Reddick said. "As everybody has seen, for the last four years that I've been in this organization I've given everyone a what-the-heck-is-he-doing kind of feeling because I've has a Mohawk three or four times, and the mustache is always an option. It comes at a time whenever I'm not swinging the bat well. If I go about a two week stretch where I can't seem to do anything, I mix up my look and see what happens. Then I hope that the baseball gods will start making things work out."
For the last two months he's been looking good where it counts – at the plate.
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The PawSox conclude their 8-game homestand on Friday as they face Lehigh Valley at 7:05. I hope you'll join us for radio coverage beginning with the pre-game show at 6:50 on the PawSox radio network and pawsox.com.
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LONDON, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Justin Timberlake announced on his website he and Jay-Z will headline separate days at London's Wireless Festival 2013 this summer.
The wildly popular music artists are collaborators on the current hit song "Suit & Tie."
Timberlake is to lead the lineup of musicians playing at London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park July 12. Also on the bill that day will be Snoop Dogg, Trey Songz, John Legend, Miguel and Frank Ocean.
This will be Timberlake's only U.K. festival performance of the year.
"So this is your one chance to see him in a festival setting in 2013, performing songs from his new album, 'The 20/20 Experience,'" a message on his website said.
Jay-Z will be the headlining act at the London festival July 13. Set to take the stage that day as well are Emeli Sande, Rita Ora, Calvin Harris and Kendrick Lamar.
Jay-Z and Timberlake announced Friday they are planning a North American stadium concert tour together this summer.
Their "Legends of the Summer" show will stop in 12 cities, including New York, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Toronto.


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MANCOS – A strong organizing committee and robust sponsorship to guarantee a $10,000 top purse could bring high-caliber sled dog racers back to Southwest Colorado in force, says a veteran musher.
"We have everything else – spectacular scenery, expansive trail systems, challenging high-elevation terrain second to none and cooperative snowmobilers to groom trails," said Rick St. Onge, who lives in Mancos. "It would take three to five years to get into the circuit, but I'd love to see the best teams here again."
St. Onge, a retired orthopedic surgeon and sports-medicine specialist, and his wife, Kate, arrived here for the first Mancos Mush in the winter of 2005-06 with 35 years of sled-dog racing under their belts in New England and Utah.
The Mancos Mush attracted competitors from Alaska, the Yukon and Canada. But declining prize money and organizational disputes doomed plans to turn the event into a multiday stage race that would take teams to Vallecito, Silverton, Ouray, Ridgway and Montrose.
So for the moment, the region hosts only local recreational events such as the 3-year-old Pagosa Paw. That event, scheduled Feb. 22-23 at the Kuhn Ranch near Pagosa Springs, offers skijoring as well as sled racing.
Participants come from Colorado, Arizona and Utah to vie for medals and trophies but no cash prizes, said Jaclyn Bramwell who, with husband, Forest, is coordinating the event this year.
Gregg Dubit, executive director of the Four Corners Office of Resource Efficiency, breeds sled dogs at his Hesperus Dog Ranch as part of a dog-sled tour business.
Dubit and his wife, Gretchen, were committed leaders when sled-dog racing took hold in La Plata County in the early 1990s. In 2005, they helped organize the Mancos Mush.
Gregg Dubit cited several reasons for the decline of sled-dog racing in La Plata County: lack of prize money, a lengthy process to get a permit to hold races in the San Juan National Forest and the still-recovering economy that crimps the budgets of mushers.
Expensive sport
It's not cheap to own sled dogs. In a 2007 survey, the International Sled Dog Racing Association found that 36 percent of participants had at least $25,000 invested in the sport.
Dave Steele, executive director of the association, credited abundant snow this winter for bringing mushers back after several years of sporadic snowfall.
"Poor snow – it's been up and down in recent years – reduced participation," Steele said in a telephone interview. "For the five years prior to this winter, up to 40 percent of races in the U.S., Canada and Alaska were canceled. But all of a sudden we have snow around the Midwest, the Great Lakes and New England, and the number of races are up."
Despite weather setbacks and the economy, sled-dog racing has held its own, Steele said. One segment, dry-land racing in which dogs pull wheeled carts or mountain bikes, is growing, he said.
"The advantages are that you don't need snow and you need only one or two dogs," Steele said. "Urban mushers – as we call them – can live in an apartment but still race dogs."
Ryne Olson, a 2007 Durango High School graduate who got hooked during a sled-dog outing as a birthday gift, today owns a kennel in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Olson finished fourth among rookies and 31st out of 66 mushers in the 2012 Iditarod. She's run several shorter races since, including Alaska's Quest 300 last year.
"I'm a senior at the University of Alaska/Fairbanks, so I can't take more time off," Olson said by telephone from her Ryno Sled Dog Kennel. "But I plan to do the Yukon Quest, another 1,000-mile race, with my own dogs for the first time, in 2015."
In hard-nosed competition, Siberian and Alaskan huskies and malamutes paired in 2- to 16-dog teams run sprints as short as 2 miles, mid-distance races and multiday events such as the renowned Iditarod – 1,100 miles between Anchorage and Nome, Alaska.
Start with malamutes
The St. Onges started racing sled dogs in Massachusetts with fewer than a half-dozen malamutes. But as they gained experience, picked up race victories and delved deeper into canine physiology and mentality they began to breed their own bloodline of Alaskan huskies, the descendants of the work dogs of ancient Athabascan villagers.
They now have 32 Alaskan huskies at their Galloping Husky Ranch a half-dozen miles from Mancos. Each dog has its house in a common area where they hang out when not training. An adjoining play yard allows them to run free.
The dogs, which weigh about 55 pounds, are fed kibble and meat morning and evening, with a snack of broth-laced water at noon. They consume 8,000 to 12,000 calories a day.
"Each dog has a name and a distinctive personality," St. Onge said. "They're just as individual as people, half as intelligent and more reliable than humans."
The dogs are harnessed as leaders who run at the head of the pack. They are followed by swing dogs, team dogs and lastly, next to the sled, the wheel dogs. Some can pull in more than one position.
Sled dogs are fast, mentally tough, have tremendous stamina and are extraordinary processors of oxygen, St. Onge said. Their VO² max – milliliters of oxygen per kilo of body weight per minute – dwarfs human output.
Bicyclist Lance Armstrong of Tour de France fame had a V0² max of 82, St. Onge said, while a sled dog's number will be around 220.
The endurance of the dogs is crucial, St. Onge said. In 2006, at a multiday race in Bend, Ore., the Galloping Husky team finished in second place, 17 seconds behind the winner, he said.
Let it be known, St. Onge said, that Kate St. Onge is the No. 1 musher.
"She runs the A team, I run the B team," St. Onge said. "She is always listed as the winner of record."
The St. Onges are going to the Rocky Mountain Dog Championships in Soda Springs, Idaho, on Saturday and Sunday and to the American Dog Derby on Feb. 13-15 in Ashton, Idaho. The latter race has taken place annually since 1917 except during World War II.
They enter races with confidence, Rick St. Onge said.
"We've always finished in the money for the past 15 years," he said.


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Thursday, December 10, 2009
Controlled Drug E-Prescriptions: Policy Versus Practice
"Yes, this is Dr. Fisher"
"This is Sam Smart, pharmacist at Walgreens over in East Elsewhere."
"Yes, sir, how can I help you?"
"Well it's about that prescription you gave to Mr. Pacertoday for Norco."
"What about it?"
"Well, it's not printed on the right controlled drug presciption paper."
"But that's how we've been issuing prescriptions. I haven't seen any of that special printer paper with that squiggly-lined paper for months. I know we're 'sposed to use in that kind of paper, but it's never in the printer and there's no special printer for controlled drugs, so we just use regular paper. It has my signature, right?"
"Well, there's a signature, but I really can't tell if this is an authorized signature without the proper paper..."
"But you're talking to me, right?"
"Uh, yeah."
"And you called my office phone number, right?"
"Uh, yeah."
"So can you fill the prescription now that you've verified that I'm the one who wrote the prescription?"
"Well, I'm really not supposed... Well, I will this time. But in the future, make sure you use the right paper, okay?"
No, not okay.
Doctors, nurses, and secretaries do not have time to fill special paper in printers to write prescriptions for controlled drugs, yet this is what our fabulous regulators require in order to prevent Medicare fraud. Practically speaking, this isn't happening for the simple fact that it's impractical.
How about just allowing us to send our controlled drug script electronically, like all of the other prescriptions we send? Or maybe add an encoded PIN number?
Using fully implemented e-prescribing would likely have much less potential for fraud and abuse...
..unless, of course, our electronic medical record systems aren't as secure as the bureaucrats say they are.
Reference: "Frequenty Asked Questions Concerning the Tamper-Resistant Prescription Law (Section 7002(b) of the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act OF 2007), Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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Medicare has rules - you break those rules, you don't get paid. We break those rules, we don't get paid. On top of not getting paid, we can all get fined.
With Medicare, you can call in rxs or print them. If you print them, they must be on secure paper. If you don't have another printer, buy one - they're cheap. Or - here's an idea - use secure paper for ALL your rxs - what's the downside? Your excuses are irrational.
Depending on the state, you can't send an e-rx for a controlled substance at all. I could tell you all the reasons why, but the complete arrogance of your post indicates you have no respect for the requirements of other professions (this particular one came from fradulent rxs written by prescribers who feel just as you do, btw). It may not be complicated heart issues, but it is a daily issue for those of us who are pharmacists.
Following rx requirements is something you should have learned before you finished residency. It reflects poorly on you that you would ask a fellow health professional to bend/break the rules just because you don't like them or can't think of a way to comply.
Everyone likes to point fingers about Medicare fraud, but no one likes to follow the rules to prevent it. You, sir, are one of those who think they are above the rules!
- Thu Dec 10, 12:29:00 PM CST
- DrWes said...
Anony 12:29-
Everyone likes to point fingers about Medicare fraud, but no one likes to follow the rules to prevent it. You, sir, are one of those who think they are above the rules!
While the intent is understandable, the expense and practicality of implementing special paper in real life is not as simple as our regulators would have us believe.
Please come to our hospital system's four hospitals with its hundreds of patient care areas, both inpatient and outpatient, and request that two printers be installed at each nurses station, clinic space, and patient care area so that one printer will be dedicated to printing patient instructions, medication lists, and orders on plain paper and the other printer used only for prescriptions, as required and referenced in this "arrogant" post.
When those printers are installed and functional, we'll talk.
- Thu Dec 10, 12:56:00 PM CST
I work in the SF Bay area - loaded with hospitals large and small. They all seem to get it - everything is printed on the same paper - secure pape purchased from approved vendors.
Why is it that CA hospitals & large cliics (think Kaiser & all its attending facilities) can do it & you can't? Seriously, CA is in a huge fiscal crisis, but UCSF, Stanford, Packard Childrens, Oakland Childrens, SF General can all get this done.
I'm thinking you're throwing up excuses rather than finding simple answers.
Buy the right paper & printers & your needs are solved. The rules have been out there for years with a long advance start date. The capital budgets should have been in place for the printer updates & the operating budgets should have been in place for the correct paper.
Tell me - how many heart related gadgets have you & your colleagues come up with to buy in the 5 years these rules have been in place?
Yeah - lots I'll bet. I have no sympathy when you get bothered by pharmacists who insist you comply with Medicare rules. You chose & still choose to make excuses when just changing & adapting is all that is needed. Get creative & in compliance! None of us is willing to get fined because its just too much work for you - get over yourself!
- Thu Dec 10, 07:46:00 PM CST
C'mon, Doc, the guy's right. You gotta play by the rules. If doctors, nurses and secretaries decided they simply had to MAKE the time, they'd find a practical way to comply.
For my money, maybe people should just be able to buy whatever drugs they want over the counter. Who needs a doctor's prescription?
Oh, but that would kind of cut you right out of the loop, wouldn't it? What part of your income would you lose if you didn't get paid for writing prescriptions? Maybe what it all points to is, THE BUSINESS OF MEDICINE IS IMPRACTICAL.
- Thu Dec 10, 10:23:00 PM CST
- DrWes said...
Anony 07:46PM-
My beef here is not with the pharmacist - he was, after all, following the rules. The beef is the fact that in this electronic era, we're still requiring the use of paper, (worse, special paper) for controlled drugs, while other potentially equally dangerous drugs do not have this requirement.
While written prescriptions will remain required in certain circumstances and a few special locations to print them are easily established, it remains wasteful to think we cannot, in this day and age, reach a reasonable consensus on how to send a controlled drug prescription electronically to a pharmacy.
- Fri Dec 11, 05:44:00 AM CST
I know the act you are referencing is from 2007, but isn't there SOME way we can blame this on Obama?
Fedup Patient
- Fri Dec 11, 08:28:00 AM CST
Dr Wes,
I'm trying to stay patient with your misunderstanding of this whole electronic prescribing thing.
In this electronic age, your electronic prescription to me does indeed print out an actual hard copy rx on my side. Each and every rx is still put on a PAPER copy, no matter you send it electronically, call it in or hand write it - its all put down on PAPER.
Those paper copies are stored for 10 years - yes, we must store them 10 years in a secure location.
The purpose behind the security paper for Medicare & controlled drugs is that the systems are easy to hack. After all, who does the rx inputing in all those patient care areas? Not physicians I can tell you that! Otherwise, I wouldn't get such nonsenical prescriptions or rxs for drugs that haven't been on the market for 8 years, but are still on your drop down menu.
Now - as to the fraud part......it is very, very easy to duplicate any medical systems letterhead & find any prescribers NPI & DEA numbers. These electronic rxs can be sent from anyone's home - and they have been. Don't for one minute think these systems are as secure as touted!
However, only certain people (prescribers) and systems (hospitals & clinics) are able to purchase security paper from vendors and there are only about 10 vendors nationwide.
Now, it becomes more difficult to forge or hack & send an electronic rx.
Are your patients trying to do this to get more HCTZ or Diovan? No - those are not the patients we're talking about. We're talking about Dr mills who "see" a hundred bussed in patients in a day (NOT) and write rxs for gabapentin, trazodone, lortab and .... yes Diovan. All of these have street value and have been paid for by the Medicare system. But, when a prescriber has been shut out of Medicare for abuse, he/she/they can no longer purchase the secure paper & it becomes easier for us on my end to stop the rxs from being filled and the contents being sold at flea markets or online. Where do you think these people get Diovan or Lipitor online in the US for low, low prices? Not at valid pharmacies I can assure you.
It may not sound like lots of money but it adds up to several millions of dollars. The bussing of Medicare patients has become common in areas of California to the extent these mills just move from place to place within weeks.
So - your argument of waste is irrelevant - on my end that rx still is on a piece of paper (sadly, erxs are on full 8 1/2 x 11 & your old rxs were 1/4 that size). The rx was on paper 100 years ago & it is still on paper now - just not on your end.
Now....can you perhaps see its not all about you? It is a part of healthcare which is expensivem but the implementation of secure rxs means it keeps the costly excess of Medicare fraud down. This is part of what we talk about when we want to cut down costs.
Now - just get on that committee, buy the printers or get your IT department to route all rxs to one printer on each floor (come on - there are about 4 on each floor - at least here in CA), order the correct paper & voila - you're now in compliance!
Now wasn't that easy?
- Fri Dec 11, 09:17:00 AM CST
- Lockup Doc said...
I want to point out how I believe one of the replies above supports what I believe Dr. Wes was trying to say:
"Why is it that CA hospitals & large cliics (think Kaiser & all its attending facilities) can do it & you can't? Seriously, CA is in a huge fiscal crisis, but UCSF, Stanford, Packard Childrens, Oakland Childrens, SF General can all get this done."
That's the whole problem. If you're not a mega-health system such as Kaiser or a University, you're basically getting screwed out of being in business with more and more layers of government regulation. Only the largest players will survive. What about the small primary care clinics, the rural docs, or God forbid--someone in solo practice. It's nearly impossible to stay in compliance with everything.
Government regulation of health care has become like the intrusive computer security software suites of today: well-intended but aggressive and misguided in their tactics to the point that the very systems they were designed to protect become unusable.
- Fri Dec 11, 01:54:00 PM CST
- Jay said...
Interesting exchange.
It seems our pharmacist friend has
a fair amount of frustration in his line
of work.
I suspect, though, that we're
all trying to accomplish the same goal:
cost efficient, high quality, private and
secure health care.
I don't think, however, that it is an
unreasonable goal that we could achieve
a secure 100% electronic prescribing
Heck, last month I completed
an entirely electronic and phone
transaction in which I rolled over 10
years of 401k retirement savings.
Everything I'd saved was liquidated and
sent by check via UPS to be reinvested
a bunch of new mutual funds. No special
paper. No signatures.
Certainly, if I can do this, I should be
able to prescribe some Diovan without
special paper.
Thanks, Wes, for fighting the good fight.
Without rabble rousers like you, there
would be no progress.
- Fri Dec 11, 03:34:00 PM CST
So, let me see if I've got this right. A pharmacist has to take time out of his/her busy day to clean up the mess made by the prescribing doc who can't/won't follow the rules. The doc knows what the rules are, he just doesn't waaaahhhhhna follow 'em because he doesn't like 'em, for whatever reasons.
Meanwhile, off in the corner is the patient (oh, you remember that bit player in this scenario, don't you?), who has to wait while an unnecessary additional step is added to getting her prescription. The pharmacist apologizes saying "I have to reach the doc before I can fill this." Perhaps someone at the pharmacy counter relays the message to the patient--the patient gets frustrated with yet another example of useless administrivia, and goes home to wait for all the players to do their thing.
Perhaps that patient does not have a way to come back any time soon to pick up the rx. Perhaps the patient does not have the time to wait while this phone call is made, or feels too lousy to wait in the busy store full of holiday shoppers. Perhaps, if that patient is me, I go home and say "screw it, it couldn't have been too important a medication if my doc couldn't even write the prescription correctly. Maybe I'll pick it up next week, maybe I won't."
So doc, what have you done today for your patients with your "I shouldn't have to use the correct rx paper" hissy fit?
- Sun Dec 13, 05:37:00 AM CST
P.S. If your business office needs wavy paper to process getting reimbursements, will that be too much work to get in place? Yes, getting paid is important, I am not belittling that; but getting patients their meds without extra hassles that could be prevented is important too, no?
Also, as the patient, if I know the rules and reqs ("take this medicine, stick to this diet, follow this exercise program," etc.) but decide I don't want to, even if I know the consequences, I am labeled "noncompliant." Most docs I know are not happy with their noncompliant pts. Some of them even grouse about them (anonymously)on their blogs. See any connections?
- Sun Dec 13, 08:13:00 AM CST
- Jay said...
It sure sounds like we all want a better system.
Merry Christmas,
- Sun Dec 13, 08:25:00 AM CST
what do you guys do when e-prescribing goes down? is there a mechanism that notifies the sending docs that the prescriptions have not been received at the pharmacy?
on a semi-related note, i am at my hospital now which has an expensive emr. it has been down for 4 hours. i ask dr wes to post some thoughts on how to handle hospital emr going down and still function safely. 'emr plan b' i'm not a blogger or i would do it myself, but it might be along the lines of:
what do you guys do when hospital emr goes down? we've been down for over 4 hours now. we are totally paperless. i can't review what's happened to patients vital signs, i can't review previous notes or consults from other docs. i can't review meds given in hospital or other orders, or see clinic notes--and yes some of my consults are on intubated/sedated patients or confused patients who can't provide their own history-before you mock me mercilessly.
the jc(aho) has recently cracked down on us and now we have to do pre-procedure notes and postprocedure notes in addition to procedure notes. the rationale for the postprocedure note was in case someone else needed to know urgently what was going on with the patient before the procedure note was dictated. ha! that assumes 100% time working emr.
will the jc now require completely 100% up time with redundant computer systems, backup systems as part of the emr conversion? or else mandate 100% paper backup for the emr 100% of the time?
- Sun Dec 13, 08:48:00 AM CST
Stop being robots, the point of the post is the logrythmic expansion of regs is driving the little guy out of business and rendering the providers in the larger organizations bereft of any joy or motivation. Those who responded to this post with "just shut up and do it" don't or can't understand that if I slavishly complied with every regulation that comes my way, I couldn't even cover half my overhead. The solution for me was cash only low volume low overhead practice, of course the downside is that I can only accept a sixth of the folks I used to in my practice. But who cares it's easy to find a doctor, isn't it.
For those of you considering med school, make sure it is a true calling, then plan your training so you can practice outside the US,
for those of you burned out regulation lovers.....get a job at the DMV
- Sun Dec 13, 07:59:00 PM CST


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