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'Doctor shopping' is a 'daily problem'By PAUL FEELY
New Hampshire Union Leader
July 13. 2013 11:08PM
Some people go from one doctor to another in an effort to obtain prescription drugs for illegitimate use.
The arrests of several people last month on charges related to "doctor shopping" in Rockingham and Hillsborough counties have put a spotlight on the crime.
"Cases like that are just the tip of what's going on," said Trooper Marc Beaudoin, the Drug Diversion Investigator with the Narcotics and Investigations Unit of the New Hampshire State Police. "We are busy every week with cases like those, but they are only the most egregious cases. The amount of fraud every year in this state is easily into the millions of dollars."
"Doctor shopping'' is a term applied to people who go from one doctor to another in an effort to obtain prescription drugs for illegitimate use.
The Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, an alliance of consumer groups, insurance companies and government agencies, put the cost of prescription painkiller abuse for insurers at up to $72.5 billion in a 2007 study, the last report it compiled on the topic.
The study claims the average "doctor shopper" costs insurers $10,000 to $15,000 a year because fraudulent use of the medication can drive up the costs for legitimate patients.
"Everyone knows that doctor shopping is a problem," said Dr. Gilbert Fanciullo, director of the Pain Management Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon. "Doctors want to be able to help, they want to prescribe appropriate pain medications to treat conditions. But they also have to worry about who is addicted to the drug, who is diverting the drug, and who is abusing the drug."
According to Dr. James Martin, director of the emergency and EMS departments at St. Joseph Hospital in Nashua, the driving force behind the phenomenon is addiction.
"It's a daily problem," said Martin. "It impacts our ability to provide care to other patients."
Fanciullo said the time a physician spends trying to determine whether someone is looking to get their fix or legitimately in pain translates into longer wait times for others. He said doctors at his center ask a series of questions of anyone they treat in an attempt to determine whether they are lying about their condition.
He concedes the process is far from foolproof.
"You ask the questions, but they aren't going to stop everyone," said Fanciullo. "With so many addicts looking for prescription pills, it makes doctors hesitant to prescribe certain drugs. That lowers a person's chances of getting the pain relievers they legitimately should be getting."
Numbers on rise
Statistics on prescription drug abuse show the extent of the problem in the state.In the latest Youth Risk Behavior Survey, conducted in 2011, one in five high school students said they had taken prescription drugs - such as Oxycodone, Xanax or Adderall - without a prescription.
According to data provided by the New Hampshire Department of Justice, prescription drug overdoses rose from 40 in 1999 to 163 in 2007. The number climbed to 164 in 2009 (in 83 of those cases, the drug was lawfully prescribed, compared with 63 where it was illicitly obtained).
By comparison, there were 14 homicide deaths and 115 traffic deaths that year.
In the State Police Narcotics Unit, Beaudoin and civilian investigator Christopher Shambarger, a licensed pharmacist, investigate cases of doctor shopping and prescription fraud.
"It's really us against New Hampshire," said Beaudoin.
Beaudoin said many culprits photocopy their prescriptions, then visit multiple pharmacies. Others make their own prescriptions - some using computer programs, others going so far as to purchase special security paper over the Internet, mimicking what doctors use.
If Beaudoin and Shambarger feel an investigation has yielded enough evidence of prescription fraud, they charge the person under RSA 318-B:2, Section XII-a, which targets a person who "knowingly acquired or attempted to acquire possession of a controlled drug by misrepresentation, in that the person consulted with two or more physicians for the same ailment solely for the purpose of obtaining additional quantities of the controlled drug, which he/she would not otherwise have legally obtained from one physician."
Doctor shopping is a Class B felony in New Hampshire and carries a sentence of 3½ to seven years in prison and up to a $4,000 fine.
Beaudoin described a scam his unit helped stop in the Londonderry area. He said a woman, identified as Jodie Holmes, 40, of Londonderry had created prescriptions on her computer and, with the help of others, had them filled at pharmacies. One pharmacist got suspicious and contacted the Board of Pharmacy, Beaudoin said.
"Several other very similar fraudulent prescriptions were being found all over southern New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts," said Beaudoin.
He said the scheme took place in September 2010, with arrests made in December 2010 and January 2011.
"We identified approximately 20 other individuals that were assisting her in obtaining controlled drugs. The prescriptions were usually paid for in cash, but in some cases insurances were used."
Beaudoin said the prescriptions were always for 180 30-milligram tablets of Roxicodone, a form of oxycodone. Tablets were sold for $20 to $30 apiece, according to Beaudoin.
Sometimes health care professionals themselves are charged.
On July 3, the state Board of Nursing suspended the nursing licenses of Alexandra Hunt, RN, of Center Sandwich, following allegations that she falsified approximately 65 prescriptions between October 2011 and June 2013. Investigators with the Attorney General's office allege she would write the prescriptions for Oxycodone, Zolpidem and Alprazolam for a person who was not currently a patient of hers, then pick up the prescriptions for her own use.
The board suspended her nursing license in New Hampshire, and a hearing regarding the allegations has been scheduled for July 18 to determine if it will remain suspended while authorities continue their investigation.
New program delayed
In 2012, New Hampshire passed a law to allow a program to be set up to monitor opiate prescription drugs through a state database, which Beaudoin and Fanciullo say will allow doctors and pharmacists to see whether a patient has been prescription shopping.
The state's Board of Pharmacy was charged with launching the program, but that has proved more difficult than anticipated, according to board Executive Director Jay Queenan. The program won't be ready until June 2014 at the earliest.
"I think that's a realistic timetable," said Queenan. "We should receive the grant money for the program in October, and once we have it we can begin the RFP (Request for Proposals) process."
Under the legislation, collected information - including a patient's name and address, the type of drug and quantity dispensed, whether the prescription was a new request or a refill, and the prescribing physician - must be deleted after six months, but can be maintained for up to three years if officials feel the data suggest an individual has been doctor shopping. No state funds will be used to establish or administer the program; it will be funded by gifts, grants or user contributions.
"It will put a huge dent in the practice of doctor shopping and prescription fraud," said Beaudoin.
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U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson sided with the players in their fight with the owners.
MINNEAPOLIS — In this epic NFL game, the players have an early lead on the owners.
U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson ordered an immediate end to the lockout Monday, siding with the players in their fight with the owners over how to divide the $9 billion business.
Nelson granted a request for a preliminary injunction to lift the two-month lockout, saying she was swayed by the players' argument that the NFL's first work stoppage since 1987 is hurting their careers.
The plaintiffs "have made a strong showing that allowing the League to continue their 'lockout' is presently inflicting, and will continue to inflict, irreparable harm upon them, particularly when weighed against the lack of any real injury that would be imposed on the NFL by issuing the preliminary injunction," Nelson wrote.
The NFL said it would ask Nelson to put her order on hold with a stay so it can pursue an expedited appeal to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis.
"We believe that federal law bars injunctions in labor disputes," the league said. "We are confident that the Eighth Circuit will agree. But we also believe that this dispute will inevitably end with a collective bargaining agreement, which would be in the best interests of players, clubs and fans. We can reach a fair agreement only if we continue negotiations toward that goal."
Said Jim Quinn, an attorney for the players: "They better act quickly, because as of right now there's no stay and, presumably, players could sign with teams. There are no guidelines as of right now, so they have to put something in place quickly.
"It is their league: They can put it whatever they decide. If they put in something not restrictive to the players and fair to the players, that is fine. If not, we will litigate."
If the injunction is upheld, the NFL must resume business, although under what guidelines is uncertain.
It could invoke the 2010 rules for free agency, meaning players would need six seasons of service before becoming unrestricted free agents when their contracts expire; previously, it was four years. The requirement for unrestricted free agents would be four years rather than the three years before 2010. There also was no salary cap in 2010, meaning teams could spend as much — or as little — as they wanted.
Also, the NFL would need to determine what or if offseason workouts can be held while the appeal is being heard.
Clearly, it's complicated.
The NFL has even argued to Nelson that stopping the lockout would open all 32 teams up to additional antitrust claims simply for working together to solve the labor dispute. Antitrust claims carry triple damages for any harm proven, meaning hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake.
At the hearing before Nelson on April 6, the crux of the argument from NFL lawyer David Boies was that the court shouldn't have control of a conflict that grew out of a labor dispute. Boies even tried to lighten the mood by telling her, "No lawyer ever wants to stand in front of a judge and say, 'You don't have jurisdiction." '
The owners, in support of their argument, pointed to their pending unfair labor charge filed with the National Labor Relations Board that the players didn't negotiate in good faith.
Nelson disagreed — and threw cold water on that hope, too.
"Although the NFL has filed a charge here, the NLRB has yet to issue any complaint and, in this court's considered judgment, it is likely that the Board will dismiss the charge," she wrote in her ruling.
Owners imposed the lockout after talks broke down March 11 and the players disbanded their union. A group of players filed the injunction request along with a class-action antitrust lawsuit against the league.
Nelson rejected the league's prediction that the NLRB would see the union's breakup as temporary, thus supporting the assertion that the dissolution was purely a tactical move.
"There is no legal support for any requirement that a disclaimer be permanent," Nelson wrote. "Employees have the right not only to organize as a union but also to refrain from such representation and, as relevant here, to 'de-unionize." '
Nelson also stated that the so-called decertification was legitimate because of "serious consequences" for the players.
"This court need not resolve the debate about whether their motive was influenced by the expectation of this litigation," she wrote, calling that question irrelevant as long as the union followed through on the breakup.
Nelson heard arguments on the injunction at a hearing on April 6 and ordered the two sides to resume mediation while she was considering her decision. The owners and players, who failed to reach consensus after 16 days of mediated talks earlier this year, met over four days with a federal magistrate but did not announce any progress on solving the impasse.
They are not scheduled to meet again until May 16, four days after another judge holds a hearing on whether players should get damages in their related fight with owners over some $4 billion in broadcast revenue.
And now comes Nelson's decision to lift the injunction.
"(T)he public ramifications of this dispute exceed the abstract principles of the antitrust laws, as professional football involves many layers of tangible economic impact, ranging from broadcast revenues down to concessions sales," she wrote. "And, of course, the public interest represented by the fans of professional football — who have a strong investment in the 2011 season — is an intangible interest that weighs against the lockout. In short, this particular employment dispute is far from a purely private argument over compensation."
With appeals expected, the fight seems likely to drag on through the spring and, possibly, into the summer. The closer it gets to August, when training camps and the preseason get into full swing, the more likely it becomes that regular season games will be lost.
The NFL is going forward with the draft, which begins Thursday night.
Dolphins alternate player representative John Denney said he didn't think the ruling was the end of the dispute.
"Right now we got what we wanted, but it may be temporary," he said. "We'll have to let the judicial process play out."
And the antitrust lawsuit is pending, too, with lead plaintiffs that include MVP quarterbacks Tom Brady and Peyton Manning. The suit has been combined with two other similar claims from retirees, former players and rookies-to-be, with Hall of Fame defensive end Carl Eller the lead plaintiff in that group.
Osi Umenyiora, the New York Giants defensive end and one of the plaintiffs, called the ruling a "win for the players and for the fans" in a statement.
"The lockout is bad for everyone, and players will continue to fight it," Umenyiora said. "We hope that this will bring us one step closer to playing the game we love."

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There is plenty of info to come on the five-year, $125 million contract extension Ryan Howard agreed to earlier today. For all the nuts and bolts of the deal, see our previous post. In the meantime, we'll look at some FAQs concerning the deal.
This started as three questions, and will likely grow throughout the day.
1. What does this mean?
It means that the Phillies are planning on building around Howard, Roy Halladay and Chase Utley for the next four seasons. Those three players are the only ones on the roster signed through the 2013 season. Utley's contract expires after 2013. The Phillies have a club option on Halladay for 2014. Howard, obviously, is signed through 2016.
Here is the money the Phillies have allocated through the end of Howard's deal, according to Daily News records:
2012: $82.75 million to Halladay, Howard, Utley, Victorino, Blanton, Polanco, Ruiz (Lidge option; Hamels, Happ, Francisco arb eligible)
2013: $55.0 million to Halladay, Howard, Utley (Polanco, Ruiz club options; Happ, Francisco arb eligible)
2014: $45 million to Howard and Halladay (assuming option vests)
2015: $25 million to Howard
2016: $25 million to Howard
Jimmy Rollins is signed through 2011.
2. How does Howard's contract compare?
The market was set last year by the Yankees when they signed Mark Teixeira to an eight year, $180 million contract that runs from 2009-16. Like Teixeira's, Howard's contract runs through 2016. Like Teixeira, he will be 36 years old in the final guaranteed year of his deal. Howard's contract guarantees him $12.5 million more than Teixeira will earn over the last five years of his deal, from his 32nd birthday through his 36th.
One key difference is that Teixeira has a full no-trade clause. Howard has a limited no-trade clause (at this point, I'm not sure how limited), which for the Phillies could wind up being more valuable than $12.5 million.
On the other hand, Teixeira's deal was signed when he was on the open market. The Phillies weren't negotiating against anybody else with Howard's deal.
Teixeira deal
2009 (29): $20.0
2010 (30): $20.0
2011 (31): $22.5
2012 (32): $22.5
2013 (33): $22.5
2014 (34): $22.5
2015 (35): $22.5
2016 (36): $22.5
Howard deal
2012 (32): $20.0
2013 (33): $20.0
2014 (34): $25.0
2015 (35): $25.0
2016 (36): $25.0
2017 (37): $10.0 (guaranteed)/$23.0 (if option exercised)
3. How does the contract affect the Phillies ability to re-sign Jayson Werth?
Not as much as you might think. It might affect their willingness to give Werth a long-term deal at his market rate, but Howard's contract does not eliminate the possibility. The extension takes effect in 2012, when the Phillies now have $84.25 million guaranteed to Roy Halladay, Joe Blanton, Chase Utley, Placido Polanco, Shane Victorino and Carlos Ruiz, along with a $1.5 million buyout to Brad Lidge if they don't pick up his $12.5 million option. This number does not include Cole Hamels, who will be eligible for arbitration after making $9.5 million in 2011. Hamels is eligible for free agency after 2012. It also doesn't include salaries for J.A. Happ and Ben Francisco, both of whom will be arbitration eligible.
So the Phillies still have plenty of payroll flexibility in 2012. The Howard deal does not affect their flexibility for next season, when they have $130.85 million guaranteed to 15 players.
The doubt about the Phillies' ability to sign Werth centers around next year, since they have just $9.15 million of available cash before they hit this year's Opening Day roster total of about $140 million, and 10 active roster vacancies to fill.
4. What was that anguished scream echoing across the Mississippi River I just heard?
That would be John Mozeliak, general manager of the Cardinals. Perhaps part of the Phillies' strategy was to either get Albert Pujols traded out of the National League or bankrupt St. Louis in the years to come. Regardless of what you think of the extension, the Phillies set an early market for future free agents like Pujols and Prince Fielder a year-and-a-half before they had to.
5. So why now?
It's going to be a big question posed to Ruben Amaro Jr. later on this evening. I'm not surprised that they decided to sign Howard now, but I would've thought that any deal would come only as a result of some obvious concessions on Howard's part. I thought there might be a chance that the two sides re-worked these next two seasons as well, giving the Phillies a better opportunity to sign a guy like Jayson Werth. Perhaps cutting Howard's salary a tad next season and then adding it on in the form of deferred money or some back-loaded years.


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KINGSTON, N.Y., Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Ninety healthcare practitioners provided medical, dental, chiropractic and other health therapies to nearly 200 people in New York's Hudson Valley for a song.
Or to witness a dance, a painting, a comedy routine, a sculpture, a film screening or any of more than 125 performing and visual arts presentations at the fourth annual O+ Festival.
Named for the O-positive blood type, the Columbus Day weekend event in Kingston, 90 miles north of New York City, let artists exchange works and performances for checkups, back adjustments, dental fillings, eye exams, physical therapy, mental-health evaluations, nutritional counseling and other types of health and wellness services.
"It's basically a barter," said O+ co-founder Joe Concra, an oil painter. "We're exchanging the art of medicine for the value of art."
"We're telling artists and musicians, 'We value you so much that in exchange for your talent, we're giving you access to care.' We're valuing everyone together -- the doctors, musicians and the artists -- for their contributions to the community, and by doing that, you're breaking down these walls," he said.
The volunteer-run festival "creates a system where everyone is valued for their unique contribution, rather than through monetary exchange," Denise Orzo, an encaustic painter and doula who coordinated the O+ art committee, told United Press International.
Festival participants also learned about the Affordable Care Act's new health insurance exchanges through the non-profit Actors Fund and the Recording Academy's MusiCares Foundation, both of which participated in the O+ public health expo.
"People should know about the Affordable Care Act," Concra told UPI. "If they can afford to sign up for the exchange, they should do that. But as a festival we want to show people we're here for each other. We want people to have access to wellness."
"Keeping myself well is the only insurance I have," Orzo said.
A second O+ Festival is to debut in San Francisco's Lower Haight and Mission Creek neighborhoods Nov. 15-17.
At least six other cities have expressed "solid interest," Concra told UPI, including Nashville; Portland, Ore.; Boulder, Colo., and Easton, Pa.
"A basic tenet of O+ is that music and arts are undervalued," said Dr. Art Chandler, a physician at Columbia Memorial Hospital in nearby Hudson, N.Y.
"Without arts and music, your culture just dies," he said.
Chandler is one of the original five artist and doctor friends who started the festival in 2010. He now annually assembles the team that staffs and dispenses care at the festival's "pop-up clinic" in the ballroom of the century-old Tudor-style Kirkland Hotel.
Chandler and other doctors and complementary care providers are exploring the viability of opening a year-round O+ clinic in the city's same historic Stockade District where the festival takes place.
"It would almost be a community center, with an art gallery in the front, a performance space -- a place where people could come together and really try to contribute to each other's lives, using whatever we have in our arsenal, whether it's arts or medicine," he told UPI.
The clinic would function on a barter system like the festival, with artists paying for health and wellness services by fulfilling a "community wish list" that's envisioned to include such things as offering and hanging artwork in a hospital emergency room, providing art and music therapy classes, "doing a gig" or working in a community garden, Chandler said.
"This represents the collusion of arts and medicine, with payments benefiting the community first and the clinic," he said.
This year's festival started with a costume parade with dancers, artists, live bands and other musical and performing acts.
Kingston Mayor Shayne Gallo was the grand marshal in the back of a reclaimed off-white antique pickup truck made of mostly GMC and International Harvester parts salvaged from 1937 and 1940. Giant dancing skeleton puppets on loan from New York City's Village Halloween Parade led the march.
The festival continued in bars, restaurants, storefronts, offices, a microbrewery, a theater, a school and a church, as well as on the city's streets, which were transformed into a living gallery, with paste-ups, sculptures, light installations and performance art.
Among the participating painters and sculptors was Baltimore street artist Gaia, who created a six-story mural of Greek goddess Artemis on the brick wall backside of a 19th century vaudeville theater.
The mural shows the Corinthian crown-wearing goddess emerging from a limestone quarry and the New York City skyline on the horizon.
Limestone from quarries near Kingston was used in the construction of many 19th and early 20th century New York City buildings, as well as the foundation of the Brooklyn Bridge and the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
In exchange for his artwork, Gaia saw a doctor and got a dental treatment, Concra told UPI.
"And his mural was left for the community," Concra said.
Musical acts included British space-rock band Spiritualized; New York duo Buke and Gase, known for their homemade instruments; local lyrical songwriter-poet Simone Felice, a founder of the folk rock/country rock group the Felice Brothers, and "Mountain Motown" singer-songwriter-violinist-guitarist Simi Stone and her all-star band.
Public admission to all indoor events was $25.
"It was extraordinary," Stone told UPI of the event. "I found it to be so beautiful, all these artists and musicians and visionary people coming together."
Stone saw "an incredible dentist" who gave her "one of the greatest dental experiences I've ever had," she said.
English bassist and singer-songwriter Sara Lee, who performed with Stone, got a massage and Reiki treatment while on a break from coordinating the free green room cafeteria for the weekend's artists and volunteers.
The treatments "completely rejuvenated me," said Lee, notable for having performed with the post-punk band Gang of Four as well as the B-52s, Ani DiFranco and Indigo Girls.
"I'm in awe of all the work that the O+ people do," she told UPI.
Entry to the festival was competitive, particularly for musicians. This year, 235 bands vied for 40 music slots and 96 artists applied for 40 visual-arts spaces, Concra said.
Artists were chosen for their work quality rather than their medical needs, he said.
Once accepted, artists submitted a list of treatments they would like to receive.
Chandler said the volunteer medical staff put in cumulatively more than 750 hours during the weekend, providing health, dental and wellness services valued at more than $95,000.


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|View Poll Results: Who is your most favourite Rosa?
|Rosa Chinensis (Youko)
|Rosa Foetida (Eriko)
|Rosa Gigantea (Sei)
|Rosa Chinensis en bouton (Sachiko)
|Rosa Foetida en bouton (Rei)
|Rosa Gigantea en bouton (Shimako)
|Rosa Chinensis en bouton petit soeur(Yumi)
|Rosa Foetida en bouton petit soeur(Yoshino)
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|2004-05-02, 22:38
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|2004-05-03, 00:26
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Gomen asobase desuwa!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Age: 37
I sure hope they at least go through the "Rainy Blue" & "Parasol o Sashite" arc.
|2004-05-03, 00:44
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|2004-05-03, 10:57
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|2004-05-06, 02:19
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Rei little soeur
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Rei! I love that she can bake and knit, but also play kendo (that's the sport right?)
Rei seems very gentle to me. I liked her at first when I saw her. She always seems like she's gazing off thinking of other things. And also she's the prettiest anime girl I've ever seen.
|2004-05-06, 06:29
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I voted for Yoshino.
She is temperamental and courageous. So she is quite different from me.
Shimako is my second favourite character. I really wonder how she will develop in a sequel.
Her character is much closer to mine.
Of course I like all other roses too .
|2004-05-23, 21:30
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Annoying Fangirl
Well I also voted for Sei but not just because she's the "fun" character...
I think Sei is the most well developed and realistic character of the series. She is outwardly confident and definitely a lot of fun on screen, and really added a great humor value to the series, but she also has an extremely painful past. She is essentially transformed from her time with Shiori, where she is quiet, withdrawn, and depressed, to the carefree Sei we see at the beginning of the series. This is a change that has happened in my own life so I can relate to her a lot.
She is also a very perceptive character who I think understands relationships more than many of the others, and she is the most supportive of the younger sisters (ex. When Yumi gets in a fight with Sachiko she asks Sei for advice, Shimako heavily depends on Sei to give her confidence, etc.) Even though she is always suffering on the inside, she shrugs it off and acts happy so the others around her will be more at ease.
Of course the fact that she is the only one who is definitely a canon yuri girl helps XD (I am lesbian, so...) .
Well everyone can have their own opinion, but to me Sei is like the ideal of who I would like to be, and I relate to her a lot. Anyone have more reasons they like some of the other characters? ^_^
Edit: Forgot to add that I have read somewhere (possible on this forum) that Sei will NOT be disappearing in the second season. She chooses to go to college at the Lillian University so she can stay close to Yumi and Shimako. Also I know she has to be in some future story line because her room mate becomes a character. So I look forward to more fun with Sei ^_^
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I just got my copy yesterday of the first season and watched it non-stop... I can't get enough of it.. Hmmm.. I wish I have the 2nd season already...
Anyways, I voted for Sei... I like her... She sort of reminds me of someone I really liked... (minus all that gropping ofcourse).. She's cool..
|2004-08-16, 02:57
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I prefer a character that stands up for themselves, but is also very cute. It's kind of a double standard, I know, but Yoshino pulls it off very well.
Sei would be my second-place vote, so I'm glad to see she's so far ahead. Long before I'd memorized the color schemes, I'd decided that Rosa Gigantea was the one with the gigantic personality.
|2004-08-22, 19:10
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hrm... well, I too would've voted for Sei, but it doesn't look like she needs anymore help establishing her popularity. ^^;;
Therefore, my vote goes to Yumi (who's probably tied for favorite with Sei for me..). I'm surprised that Sachiko's actually beating her, to be honest.. But oh well, to each their own, I guess. To me, Yumi is just far too cute, plus I can oftentimes relate to her, considering how often she doubts herself (poor thing..).
However, when it comes to the characters that make me smile when their on screen (including Sei), Yumi wins, hands down.
|2004-08-23, 15:55
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Hmmm for me it's Sachiko without a doubt. She quite a lady, not to mention a silent type, and very mysterious, I kinda admire the way she seems to handle life. Must be because I recognise something of myself in her
Sei would be second choice, she is always so happy and energetic, I like that
|2004-09-07, 00:20
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Join Date: Jul 2004
The fact that two characters are receiving more votes than the protagonist says something about how good this series is. Every character is interesting.
I voted for Yumi. I love her for the same reasons Sachiko and Sei do: she is so cute, so kind, so natural, and brings so much life. And because I see the story through her eyes, as I guess I am supposed to.
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The polis of Taras looms high and proud over the western Greek states. Like the other Greek colonies it was founded during a period of great land hunger in Mainland Greece, Taras is the most powerful of the city states that migrated westwards to Southern Italy. Whilst leaving their homeland behind the men of Taras retained their Greek culture and there are strong ties between the colonies and their mother states.
They, like their homeland brethren, have a strong hoplite tradition steeped in experience and training. The Western hoplites are every bit as powerful as their mainland counterparts. However the men of Taras are still most capable horsemen incorporating Italian influences, as such the cavalry of Taras is a formidable force more powerful than the average commander expects of Greek cavalry.
Taras is situated in a perfect position to reap the benefits of the many trade routes passing through the Mediterranean. In this way they can supply vast fleets and armies to subdue the northern barbarians and also be ready to mount an invasion towards the east. Being that they are isolated from most nations the men of Taras will have much time to build up their forces and rampage through whichever territory they choose!


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George Clooney plays an assassin who has a change of heart in this 2010 crime thriller. After a job in Sweden ends more harshly than expected, Jack (Clooney) vows to his contact that his next assignment will be his last. He reports to the Italian countryside, where he holes up in a small town and relishes being away from death for a spell. The assignment, as specified by a Belgian woman, Mathilde, is in the offing as a weapon is constructed. Surprising himself, Jack seeks out the friendship of local priest and pursues romance with a prostitute named Clara. Ultimately he realizes that he wants to change his life, but his situation is perilous.
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The Eagles revealed last week that offensive lineman Max Jean-Gilles underwent lap-band surgery in April to get his weight down.
The announcement caught reporters and fans by surprise. The Eagles told the Daily News' Les Bowen that they were unaware of any athlete having undergone the surgery before.
One guy who can offer perspective on what this might mean for Jean-Gilles, and what the recovery process might be, is Jets coach Rex Ryan.
Ryan underwent the same procedure six weeks ago and has reportedly lost 40 pounds.
"There are times you feel sluggish after you have the surgery," he told NFL.com's Steve Wyche. I was at work three days after (the surgery), but I wasn't having to run around and block somebody. There is a foreign object in your body, so he better be careful he's doing everything exactly right.
"I wish him the best. I know I feel great, and really, it's been nothing. Not a problem at all. I just never thought that it would be considered for anybody while they're playing."
Jean-Gilles told Wyche he has lost 15 pounds in the first week after the surgery. Click here for my thoughts on Jean-Gilles' potential role with the Birds in 2010, assuming he's healthy.
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* FoxSports.com's Peter Schrager lists the top 10 players who have come close, but never won a Super Bowl. Not surprisingly, three ex-Eagles made the list: Terrell Owens (10th), Brian Dawkins (third) and Donovan McNabb (first).
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ST. LOUIS – We weren't all made to be athletes.
I, along with anyone who has ever had the misfortune of watching me attempt to play sports competitively, can vouch for that.
Fortunately, we were all made to do something, and one of the most wonderful life experiences is helping guide someone in finding their life song.
I'm only a week into that particular process, but I love every second of it.
Miranda Jane Harner was born to my wife Elizabeth and me at exactly 2:40 p.m. last Thursday at St. John's Mercy Hospital in St. Louis. She weighed 5 pounds, 12 ounces, and was 19 inches long – her image a perfect combination of our features.
It marked the end of a long – and sometimes disheartening – journey that saw our precious angel being named a candidate for numerous conditions after a 20-week ultrasound revealed a potential neurological problem.
At that time, the circumference of the lateral ventricles in her brain were measuring 2 millimeters too large, a potential sign of Down syndrome or several other serious issues.
It was scary diagnosis, but one Elizabeth and I were plenty willing to accept in exchange for the privilege of becoming parents and starting our own family.
Bombarded with information and finding ourselves lost at times in the maze that is St. John's Mercy Hospital, we waited out the unknown, beginning some preparations for the worst, but always hoping for the best.
A blood test came back with a negative result for Down syndrome, but the ventricles had grown to 17 millimeters by the beginning of June – 7 millimeters larger than the upper threshold of the normal range – so there was still a battle to be won.
Our radiologist suggested the problem was a rare condition that would potentially give our baby girl future seizures and stunted growth. Another doctor thought she could need surgery shortly after birth to install a shunt to drain the excess fluid.
Both very hard diagnoses for first-time parents.
Even worse, all we could do was wait.
After three weeks in limbo, it was time for another ultrasound, and on that late June day, we had no expectation of learning what we did.
We learned that Miranda is a fighter – just like her mother, and her mother's mother – when we saw that the enlarged portion of her brain was beginning to shrink – dropping in size to 14 millimeters. Three weeks after that, the measurements remained stable.
A post-birth ultrasound last Friday showed that the ventricles had healed themselves, reducing in size to within the normal range, and doctors don't believe there will any long-term medical effects.
Simply amazing. Our own miracle baby.
It's a reason to take pause and remember that we don't have that long to shape our children's futures, and that we should never take these gifts for granted – even if they choose you as the target of their first spit up or wiggle their arms out of that swaddler blanket no matter how tightly you wrap it.
Seven of my 6,574 days to sculpt my daughter are gone, and I know that if I'm not careful, the other 6,567 will have passed before I know it.
She'll live a life surrounded by sports – which, fortunately, are a good tool to shape the next generation – but I'll never force her into a life that revolves around my passions.
Perhaps she'll love T-ball when she turns 5.
But if she doesn't, I'll trade the bat, ball and glove for nights of sipping tea with stuffed animals before spinning her through the ballroom of the queen's castle.
Perhaps she'll giggle when I lift her up to dunk a basketball.
But if she doesn't, I'll gladly trade those games for hula hooping contests in the backyard. P.S.: Miranda, you will certainly have no problem beating me.
Maybe volleyball will be her sport.
But if it's not, what's to stop us from instead taking fall safaris through the park with our butterfly nets?
Maybe she'll want to be in a gymnastics class.
But if not, what's to keep Daddy from doing his own tumbling – down a snow-covered hill in the winter just to see if his "clumsiness" can bring out his favorite smile?
Maybe she'll want to be an artist, or a doctor, or a paleontologist, or a partner in a law firm, or be in some other career that doesn't even exist yet.
But no matter what path she chooses, she'll always by my little M.J., and helping her find her life song will always be worth all the uncertainty we endured to get her here.
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Southampton's £15m Titanic museum was officially declared open today in front of a crowd of hundreds including many descendants of victims of the tragedy.
Amid a sea of confetti, the SeaCity museum was declared open by eight year old Henry Ward whose great grandfather was a fireman onboard Titanic and survived the disaster.
Civic dignitaries including the mayor, council leader and Olympic rower James Cracknell led the ceremony which paid tribute to the hundreds of people from Southampton that perished on liner.
Holding placards with the faces of the crew who were on the ill fated liner, more than 600 youngsters from schools across the city paraded from the Titanic Engineers Memorial to the Civic Centre to mark the official opening of the SeaCity museum this lunchtime.
One of those taking part was four-year-old Jack Avery, from Eastleigh, Hampshire.
His mother, Kaye, discovered that her first cousin three times removed was a trimmer on board called James Avery.
She found out the link while researching her family tree and also discovered two of her own cousins who all met up today for the first time.
She said: ''We are all very proud of James and it's lovely for the children to be involved and to find out about their heritage.''


text: Thursday, May 19, 2011 Move Forward Ads Hit the Airwaves Move Forward ads began running on select channels on XM satellite radio last week and will continue to run throughout this week. The 30-second spots highlight the fact that a physical therapist can help to alleviate pain and restore and improve mobility, and encourage consumers to visit www.moveforwardpt.com to find a PT. The ads, which are running in various time slots on the Sirius XNM Stars, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Oprah Radio, and Martha Stewart Living Radio channels, also will run the weeks beginning October 3 and October 10. Channels were chosen for ability to reach baby boomers, the key target market for APTA's branding campaign. Click on the following links to listen to ad 1 and ad 2. Comments I've now heard these ads twice on Sirius Stars (Note - it's Sirius XM, not Sirius XNM). They should also put them on Howard Stern, Faction, or even OutQ channels as those have the highest listener base of all the Satellite channels. I'm sure some people are afraid to run ads on these channels because they can be risque but they also reach the highest number of listeners. I'm so glad APTA is finally able to begin advertising nationally with something meaningful and getting some true brand recognition. "Move Forward" might be a nice motto, but the majority of people still don't know much about PT and frequently confuse us with Personal Trainers, Chiros or ATC's since many of their services overlap. They need to know that we're the experts in musculoskeletal issues (and what qualifies as such!) so we can really begin to be thought of as front-line, primary practitioners. If this continues, we may even become practitioners that people will consider paying for privately! Until the public has a clearly defined idea of how we can help them, we'll never reach that level. Posted by Robert Kelley -> >IUaCL on 5/20/2011 3:04 PM I couldn't agree more regarding the need for heightened brand recognition. I just read an article in our regional newspaper in which a massage therapist advertises that she provides services including: pain manganese and therapy for everything from sports injuries and total joint replacements, to chronic headaches, arthritis and work related injuries. Many people have no idea that this person may likely not have a fraction of the education of a physical therapist. Yet, they may go to her and, on top of that, happily pay for her services out of pocket. Why is this happening? In the state of Connecticut a person is only required 500 hours of training in order to obtain license eligibility as a massage therapist. Our profession needs to focus on educating the public about our knowledge and skill level as well as about our updated 7 year DPT education base. PT's in private practice are on our way to becoming highly educated professionals with high practice overheads and fixed to lowering incomes based on third party reimbursements, while cash based services such as massage therapy appear to be growing and thriving with a fraction of the headaches. Posted by Benee Dahl-Busby, PT, DPT on 5/21/2011 5:23 PM We are working on a radio ad campaign in our local area. As an APTA member may I have (and use) the text of the XM ads? Posted by Bruce Hitchens on 5/31/2011 1:58 PM APTA will shortly be making the text of our radio commercials available to members. The scripts will be slightly modified to allow you to customize them with your practice name and either your telephone number or Web site address. Information will be posted here when available: http://www.apta.org/PRMarketing/Consumers/ Posted by News Now Staff on 6/1/2011 9:32 AM Hi,i was wondering if you offer certified review course for pta.. NEED HELP ASAP... Please Posted by Pearl collins on 10/31/2013 8:21 PM It would be a great idea, even though it takes up a bit more time, to always say "Physical Therapist" or "Physical Therapy" instead of shortening it to PT. There is too much confusion in light of the fact that the personal trainers have taken on those acronyms, to their benefit, of course. I listened to a Move Forward radio show today on chronic pain and I heard "PT" this and "PT" that......It seems like a small thing, but it really is huge; and so simple to do. Posted by bdonovan on 9/5/2015 1:14 PM


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Yeah, but at the same time is one of the hardest to fill WELL.
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#32 wrote:Murphy goes down for 30 games, we can cover his ass with other players. If KG went down, it'd be as if we lost Fisher, Murphy, and Dunleavy for 30 games ALL AT ONCE this year...
TMC wrote:No, really. KG's been really durable his whole career. I don't see a reason for him to slow down in the near future. Although you never know... But, if Murph goes down, we'd have Diogu. If KG goes down, we'd also have Diogu. Where's the problem?
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"Bella is a sweet and sensitive 1 year old female American Bulldog mix—she is looking for a family with kids that are over the age of 10 years and willing to take the time to patiently and gently train and socialize her. She loves people and loves attention and petting. Bella has not had much experience around other dogs, but was sweet and a bit shy with our tester dog. She is not adjusting to shelter life, and had to be pulled off the adoption floor as the noisy kennels were too over stimulating for her, causing her to fence fight and become very mouthy when handled. Because our shelter houses all stray dogs for all of Multnomah County, space is always an issue—Poor Bella must find a foster or rescue placement within one week before the shelter environment ruins her gentle nature and before we run out of room! If we know there is placement available, we can work with holding her a bit longer. She will be spayed before leaving the shelter and is current on vaccines."
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ASPEN, Colo. (AP) -- Shaun White already soars higher in the superpipe than everyone else and lands complicated tricks with an ease that draws admiration from even his opponents.
Yet, he's not satisfied. Never is, really. Keep progressing - that's his maxim.
White turned in a nearly flawless winning performance in the superpipe at the Winter X Games on Sunday night and then quickly vowed to step up his game.
So much work to do. So little time left before the Sochi Olympics next winter.
The two-time Olympic gold medalist is always looking to stay ahead of the competition, especially when the field includes up-and-comers such as Ayumu Hirano, a 14-year-old from Japan who just may be the next Shaun White.
Shortly after locking up his sixth straight title at Winter X, White gushed about the teenager who finished runner-up, saying he thinks Hirano has an "amazing future" in front of him.
Only one problem: White isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
Well, besides back to the drawing board to make his already innovative routine even more creative.
"A lot of things I'm doing this season I hope are just outdated by the next season," said White, who was decked out in a snazzy all-black ensemble for his night in the superpipe. "I'm hoping to progress a lot."
That's why he's taking a hiatus from skateboarding, his other passion.
He's got to perfect some new maneuvers in the pipe and iron out his glitches in slopestyle, which will make its Olympic debut next winter.
In that event, White is in catch-up mode after finishing fifth on Saturday as Mark McMorris captured his second straight title. McMorris is the one dominating a discipline that features snowboarders moving through rails, big jumps and bumps on their way down the hill.
"I've got some work to do in the slopestyle department," White conceded.
So aggravated was White over his lackluster slopestyle performance that he redirected his frustration into the superpipe competition. There was a time when he wouldn't have been able to do that.
"I used to get super stressed out, about something that would happen like in slopestyle," said the 26-year-old White, who lives in Carlsbad, Calif. "I'm old enough to just turn that into such a positive thing for myself - to really take that step back as a giant leap forward."
Still, it was an eye-opener. After all, McMorris isn't going anywhere in slopestyle.
Neither is Hirano in the superpipe. Or Iouri Podladtchikov, who was expected to challenge White but pulled out of Sunday's final at the last moment because of an illness.
Those athletes might be the biggest obstacles standing in the way of White's quest for double Olympic gold in Sochi.
"(Hirano) was going as big as I was," White said. "I was impressed."
With good reason. In his first Winter X Games, Hirano became the youngest athlete ever to medal at the competition. He was all grins afterward, saying through an interpreter that he just "wanted to have fun."
That he did.
And so did White, who seemed more relaxed than usual, stopping to pose for pictures with fans in between runs.
Then again, White really had nothing to worry about. No one was catching him on this night.
White's second run was impeccable. He flew 24 feet into the air to start his performance and finished it off with a difficult maneuver that drew tremendous roars from the capacity crowd. He pumped his fists, too, because he knew he had nailed it.
This was the same series of tricks as his winning run last season, when he scored a perfect 100.
Only this time - and despite it being even cleaner - he received a 98.
He's simply set the bar that high for himself.
"It's cool, though," White said with a casual shrug. "It makes me bring my best performance."
His competitors certainly appreciated the show he put on. Greg Bretz even told White as much.
"He was proud of my run," White said. "I feel humbled my peers are also into the stuff I'm doing."
Almost as big of a topic as his electrifying performance was his shorter hair - a businessman's trim to take care of business in the pipe.
White cut his long, flowing locks basically on a whim. People said he wouldn't, so he did. He then donated his curls to "Locks of Love," a charity that provides hairpieces to children suffering from long-term medical issues.
Long hair, short hair, doesn't really matter - White seems to win no matter what.
"I just kind of needed a change," White said as he ran his fingers through his hair. "I'm glad I did it. I feel like a whole new person."


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Niagara University will be well represented in a new resource intended to illustrate best practices for incorporating learning technologies into higher education instruction.
The first chapter of "Research Perspectives and Best Practices in Educational Technology Integration," set to be released in February, features six case studies of professors who have effectively integrated the use of technology into their classrooms to promote student learning and encourage collaboration. Four of the case studies spotlight the innovative teaching methods of Niagara University faculty:
"This is more evidence that Niagara University professors are using new and innovative methods to integrate technology into their teaching," stated Dr. Tim Downs, vice president for academic affairs. "It really speaks to how the university, as a whole, is embracing the many ways that today's students prefer to learn. Higher education is changing and it is imperative that we recognize and cultivate pedagogical approaches that are most effective in this educational environment."
The book, which lists Dr. Jared Keengwe of the University of North Dakota as its editor, can be pre-ordered for $175.
Institutional and individual names are not used in the book. However, two Niagara University staff members will be recognized as contributors.
The book's first chapter is coauthored by Niagara's Jennifer Herman, Ph.D., and Danyelle Moore, along with Dr. Karen Skibba of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Beginning in January 2011, the trio spent approximately four months obtaining approval from the institutional review board, identifying and researching candidates, visiting classrooms, conducting interviews and drafting the case studies.
It was a significantly abbreviated timeframe, but Herman and Moore saw an opportunity to promote the excellence of the faculty they work with.
"I learned a lot more about our faculty and their dedication to really good teaching," Herman said. "They want to be better teachers and make sure that our students are learning. I don't feel like our professors are coming to work just because it's a job. A lot of them are doing really amazing things."
Accordingly, the pair said the feedback from the students was positive across the board.
"It almost didn't matter what the technology was," Moore noted, "it was just that it was something different than coming to class and sitting at their desks."
During their interview, Herman and Moore recalled that they were so intent on doing justice to the professors' quality of work that the final draft they and Skibba submitted to the publisher exceeded the page limit by 10.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Syria's government used the nerve agent sarin on two occasions in the embattled city of Aleppo in March and April, according to a letter from a top U.S. diplomat that The Associated Press obtained Friday.
The letter from U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also cited two other incidents of possible chemical weapons use by the regime of President Bashar Assad.
President Barack Obama authorized military aid to Syria's rebels for the first time Thursday after the White House announced it had firm evidence of chemical weapons use by Assad's regime. Rice said Syria's use of these weapons "crosses clear red lines that have existed within the international community for decades."
But Ban said Friday he opposes the U.S. decision to send weapons and that there can be no certainty of chemical weapons use in Syria without an on-the-ground investigation.
The U.N. chief reiterated his longstanding position that there is no military solution to Syria's two-year-old conflict, which has killed more than 93,000 people. He said increasing the flow of weapons to either side "would not be helpful."
"The validity of any information on the alleged use of chemical weapons cannot be ensured without convincing evidence of the chain-of-custody," he said. This requires tracking chemical agents from the place they were used — through soil, air, blood and tissue samples — to the laboratories where they are tested to ensure against tampering.
Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin echoed Ban.
Moscow's contacts with American experts "did not convince our experts that, in fact, the information that was presented was convincing enough to come to the definitive conclusion that government forces used chemical weapons," Churkin said.
Rice, who will become Obama's national security adviser in July, told reporters Friday that the U.S. government is "very confident" in its assessment.
"We've taken two months to reach this through a very careful and deliberative process," Rice said.
The United Nations, the United States and Russia are all trying to get the Syrian government and opposition to a new international conference in Geneva to try to agree on a transitional government based on a plan adopted in that city nearly a year ago.
Rice said the United States views military aid to the rebels and efforts to promote a diplomatic solution "as two tracks of importance that we are pursuing in parallel."
The U.S., Russia and U.N. are scheduled to meet June 25 to continue discussions on a new Geneva conference. The opposition said recently it won't attend until it gets better arms.
In the letter to Ban, Rice said the U.S. wanted to inform the U.N. of its "updated intelligence assessment, based on multiple, independent streams of information, that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons on a small scale against the opposition multiple times in the past year."
The U.S. has determined that sarin was used in a March 19 attack on the Aleppo suburb of Khan al-Assal and in an April 13 attack on the neighborhood of Shaykh Maqsud, she said.
Rice said unspecified chemicals, possibly including chemical warfare agents, were used May 14 in an attack on Qasr Abu Samrah and in a May 23 attack on Adra.
"The United States requests that the U.N. fact-finding mission include these incidents in its ongoing investigation and report, as appropriate, on its findings," Rice said.
The Syrian government initially asked for an investigation of the alleged chemical weapons attack on March 19 in Khan al-Assal which it blamed on the rebels. But it has refused to allow a U.N. investigation team led by Swedish chemical weapons expert Ake Sellstrom into the country to conduct a broader investigation of other allegations raised by Britain and France.
Rice told reporters that the U.S. has "no reliable, corroborated reporting to indicate that the opposition has acquired or used chemical weapons."
Ban and Rice both urged Syria to give the U.N. team immediate and unfettered access to investigate the allegations. In the meantime, Ban said, Sellstrom and his investigators are continuing to collect and analyze information and material provided by various U.N. member states.
Rice would not give any details of the U.S. military support to the rebels, saying only that "we'll try to be responsive to the needs of the Supreme Military Council," the umbrella opposition military group.
"We will leave other options on the table, in terms of additional U.S. response should we deem that in our interest and necessary," she said. "But the Assad regime should know that the decision announced yesterday is a direct consequence of our conclusion that they have utilized chemical weapons against the opposition and their own people."
Rice said the U.S. is not excluding other options, including a imposing a no-fly zone, "but at this stage no decision has been taken and ... that option has some downsides and limitations that we are very well aware of."


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Thanks principally to the reports of Barton Gellman in the Washington Post since last October, we know that US intelligence services fatally misused the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) for disarming Iraq of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The spy agencies did this as a cover to intercept not only communications between different branches of Iraq's security services–suspected of concealing proscribed weapons and documents–but also routine military communications unrelated to UNSCOM's mission.
At least one other account of the Central Intelligence Agency's perfidious ways, going as far back as spring 1992, is available in Scott Ritter's just-published Endgame. Ritter, a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, became chief inspector with UNSCOM, which relied solely on personnel supplied by UN member states. But a broader account of Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War is offered by brothers Patrick Cockburn, the Middle East correspondent for the London Independent, and Andrew Cockburn, a Washington-based defense and international affairs specialist. Each writer brings to the book a respective strength. Patrick Cockburn has visited Iraq several times since the early nineties and is well connected with Iraqi exiles. Andrew has contacts with the intelligence and defense bureaucracies in and around Washington. The result is a clear, lively, well-researched narrative, which moves along at a brisk pace.
Since the end of the Gulf War, Iraq has altered little politically. But its economy is in tatters, its middle class in terminal decline and its economic infrastructure has deteriorated to the point where it is becoming irreparable. The cost of returning Iraq to pre-1991 standards in infrastructure is put conservatively at $50 billion. And, as a direct result of the UN sanctions, an estimated 1 million Iraqis have died, more than half of them children.
As the book title indicates, the authors focus on the survivability of Saddam Hussein. He is still in power despite repeated and varied endeavors by the United States, ranging from debilitating airstrikes to attempted military coups; a string of high-level defections from Baghdad; bloody rifts within Iraq's first family; the blatant pauperization of Iraqis; and the near-collapse of the country's economy, caused by the crippling UN sanctions. Washington finds this intolerable, and its top officials are seething with frustration and bewilderment.
Yet it is not the first time the United States has failed to impose its will on a Third World country. Socialist Cuba is a glaring example of US failure. Despite forty years of unremitting hostility, a string of attempts to kill President Fidel Castro and/or to overthrow his regime through a coup, Cuba is still firmly in "resist" mode.
Compared with Cuba, though, Iraq is a big fish. It has the world's second-largest proven petroleum reserves. It sits at the center of a region possessing two-thirds of the world's oil deposits. So the stakes are astronomically high, especially when the region has already spawned another oil-rich, strategic state–Islamic Iran–in the habit of branding America "the Great Satan."


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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — From the moment manager Buck Showalter took over the club in August 2010, there was talk about how he needed to change the culture of losing that permeated everything Orioles.
Not just get this team out of last place in the American League East, but push the Orioles above .500 for the first time since 1997 or, somehow, some way, propel them into the playoffs.
More was needed; an attitude adjustment of sorts.
Whether it's Showalter's commanding presence, an influx of new players or the natural enchantment that comes with finally tasting success, the Orioles return to Camden Yards for Friday's 2013 home opener as a club no longer content on being good enough.
The Orioles won 93 games in 2012, made the postseason for the first time in 15 years and pushed the New York Yankees to a deciding fifth game in the American League Division Series. Now their encore, they believe, must be better.
"We are holding ourselves to a higher standard," shortstop J.J. Hardy said. "We all understand that we can be good, but we need to be better than good to get where we want to be."
Case in point: On Tuesday, Jason Hammel, a 30-year-old right-hander who has been traded away by two organizations, got the call to make his first Opening Day start. He pitched six innings, allowed four baserunners and three runs — good enough to secure the win for the Orioles and his first at Tropicana Field in 32 appearances.
Afterward, Hammel described the outing — which qualifies as a quality start under baseball's definition (six or more innings pitched; three or fewer runs allowed) — as "pretty bad" and said "I honestly don't feel like I did anything" to get the win.
"I strive for perfection. Everybody does, I guess, but I wear it on my sleeve," Hammel said a day after his Opening Day victory. "Accountability, that's just the way my parents brought me up. Be responsible for what you do, and if it is not something good enough in your eyes, then do something to improve on it."
Oftentimes in the past, if an Orioles starter got into the fifth or sixth inning giving up four runs or so, he seemed content. And that wasn't appreciated by some of the more polished veterans.
So what did Hammel's Orioles' teammates think about their pitcher's comments this week?
"That is awesome," left fielder Nate McLouth said. "It is awesome he is holding himself to that high of a standard. I can only talk about it since I've been here, but personal accountability is no problem here."
Said right fielder Nick Markakis of Hammel's comments: "It just shows you what kind of person and player and competitor he is."
Markakis has spent his entire career with the Orioles. He was drafted in 2003 and debuted in 2006. He never played on a winning big league team until last year. The vibe in the clubhouse has changed dramatically in the past few years, Markakis said.
"The difference between now and then, we were young and we just had a bunch of guys that were just happy to be here instead of being here and making an impression," Markakis said. "Not necessarily an 'I-don't-care' mentality, but just a lot of guys happy to be here. And, honestly, that's not what you want. I understand they were young and stuff, but as a player you want to be good and stay here. It's not just about being here."
Orioles pitching coach Rick Adair said he saw the team's attitude changing last year; Guys like Hammel and Chris Tillman keep pushing themselves, even when they turn in a solid outing. That, he said, is a by-product of learning to be successful.
"When you win like we did last year and everybody knows what it takes to win, you become real good self-evaluators," Adair said. "Tillman's real good with that and Hammel's got to that point. He's evaluating himself well. All these guys are; their standards are high. Mediocrity, they know, is not acceptable in their minds, which is good."
There's a chicken-and-the-egg equation in the Orioles' newfound accountability.
Did Showalter infuse it when he took over? Or did the club bring in a bunch of players who intrinsically had that capability, players such as Hammel and Hardy and Manny Machado.
"I think it's a little bit of both," Markakis said. "Hammel has been around [the majors] a while and he understands what it takes to stay and be successful. But Buck also brought a lot in. His mentality is contagious around the clubhouse, and that's what we lacked here for a long time."
For his part, Showalter likes to say it's the maturity and focus of his players that makes the difference. Maybe he sets the tone, but they police themselves, he says.
"Very few things have to get to my plate. It makes it a lot easier on me to worry about the things that I should be. These guys, we sat down the last day of spring training and they made the guidelines of what they want to be about. So if something gets pulled sideways, they refer back to that," Showalter said. "I learned a long time ago never put a rule in you aren't going to enforce. I ain't chasing them all over Baltimore. I'm too old."
Showalter said he'd like to think that he has a clubhouse filled with players who hold themselves and each other accountable, who own up to mistakes when they make them and who aren't satisfied when they've done a decent job.
"We'll see. I hope so. I think we have that potential. But we have a lot of bridges to cross," he said. "We have the potential to have those guys. It very quietly has turned into the job description here. You want it to be the norm, not the exception."


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In Hopkinsville, late yesterday afternoon, the sun pierced the clouds and spotlighted the elevators. After a dark, wet day, the sudden light was dazzling. Half an hour later, the sun slipped below a dark bank of clouds. Darkness came quickly.
The blizzard is passing north of us. Here, we are supposed to get rain, high winds, and colder temperatures. We have a wind advisory until 3 PM today. Wind gusts may reach 40 mph.
I am worried about friends and family who live in areas that are feeling the storm's full force. Despite the weather, some people have to work outside -- the farmers and ranchers have to feed their livestock, for example. I hope the travelers all got off the roads and found refuge.
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Cycling fans packed into Boulder's Valmont Bike Park on Sunday to cheer on the competitors in the Cyclocross National Championships, ringing cowbells, blowing air horns and shouting encouragement as racers ran up stairs, sped over bumps and navigated turns.
"The best riders in the nation are here, it's a gorgeous day and Valmont Bike Park is amazing," said spectator Tim Stanley. "We're ringing cow bells and screaming our lungs out."
Sunday was the last day of the five-day series of down and dirty cyclocross races, with some 1,600 racers from ages 8 to 80 competing. The races were accompanied by a cycling expo, beer garden and food vendors.
Sunday offered several high-profile contests, including the afternoon elite races. Katie Compton won the elite women's race, sailing across the finish about 50 seconds ahead of second-place's Elle Anderson, for her 10th U.S. championship win in a row. In the elite men's race, Jeremy Powers took first and Ryan Trebon took second.
"We just got to see the No. 1 in the world," said Boulder's Aaron Brown, a former racer himself, after watching Compton win. "Any time you get to see someone who's first in the world is pretty cool."
With a track that was largely dry, several spectators said they wished for more snow and mud to make for a dirtier race. But racers did have to battle a frigid wind along with each other -- and fans said they liked that they could get so close to the action.
"It's all right in front of you, and you can see it all play out," said Boulder's David Bobka. "It's fun to yell at people."
Longmont's Rachel Couch, who described herself as an avid cyclocross fan, said she loves that there's so much going on in the races.
"There are a lot of local girls out there," she said. "It's great fun to watch them race in the big ones. It's very entertaining."
Longmont's Stacey Gilbert, her husband and her two daughters -- 11-year-old Petra and 14-year-old Edie -- all came to watch the races. Her husband races cyclocross, she said, while her younger daughter was hoping to meet Powers, the men's national champion.
"I love it," Gilbert said. "It's a great event, and we're really fortunate to have it here. Watching the women is so inspiring. They're so strong."
Added Petra, "I like watching them go by really fast."
This was the city's first experience in staging the national cyclocross race. Boulder landed the race as one of three finalist cities that bid on the 2014 championships. Boulder's candidacy was aided by construction of the Valmont Bike Park, located northeast of Valmont and Airport roads, which will be three years old in June.
"There's a lot of work that's gone into the course," said Boulder's David Chapman. "It's great to showcase it. It's a great day and a good event for Boulder."


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French President Sarkozy was in Washington today. He and President Obama held a joint appearance before the press — the kind of appearance Obama declined to stage with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu when he was in town last week.
Obama's performance during the joint appearance is worthy of note, not because of what Obama said (though he did say, in response to a question, that he expects some sort of U.N. sanctions against Iran within weeks) but because of the way he said it. The president read his bland statement in a monotone making little effort at eye contact. In short, Obama failed to pay Sarkozy even the honor of using a teleprompter.
Sarkozy, by contrast, provided an energetic performance which was enhanced by an energetic translator. He was animated and did not read, at least not from papers or notes.
You can see what I'm talking about in the clips below. The first clip of Obama is from his prepared remarks. In the second cllip, he's responding to a question, and thus not reading. However, even on the subject of Iran, he continues to display a lethargy that suggests he'd rather be somewhere else.
Sarkozy, by contrast, is clearly where he wants to be. Having suffered a rebuke in French regional elections, he would like to demonstrate his credentials as a statesman and a player on the world stage. What better way to accomplish this than by standing on the same stage as the U.S. president talking about Iran, Afghanistan, Israel, the world economy?
No wonder Obama played it so detached — a man for whom the whole world is a prop does not appreciate being used as a prop himself.
Tellingly, Obama's most animated moment (which is not in the clip above) came in response to a question about whether the American president is listening to European leaders. Although the question was directed to Sarkozy, Obama answered it by insisting that he listens to Sarkozy "all the time" and, indeed, "cannot stop listening to Nicolas."
It seemed clear today that Obama resents that aspect of his job.
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MADISON, Miss. – Daniel Summerhays rebounded from a disappointing finish last week in Illinois to take the lead Thursday in the rain-delayed first round of the Sanderson Farms Championship.
Four days after squandering the final-round lead in the John Deere Classic, Summerhays shot a 9-under 63 to open a three-stroke lead. He had an eagle and seven birdies in a bogey-free round in steamy conditions at Annandale Golf Club.
'You have to enjoy these moments,' Summerhays said. 'Sometimes we take good golf for granted and you forget how hard this game is. It can be a really hard game, so I'm just soaking it in. I'm really excited about where my game is at and I'm looking forward to getting back into the swing of things on the weekend and testing myself again.'
Will Claxton, Michael Bradley and Jonathan Randolph shot 66. Chad Campbell and D.J. Trahan, both former winners in the event, topped the group at 67.
The entire afternoon group was unable to finish because of storms that hit the course in suburban Jackson. Play was stopped at 2 p.m. and never resumed. Players returned to the practice areas at 6 p.m. with a plan to restart an hour later, but PGA Tour officials determined the course was too wet.
The 29-year-old Summerhays was in position to win his first PGA Tour title last week, but followed a third-round 62 with a 72 to finish a stroke out of a three-way playoff that Jordan Spieth won to earn a spot in the British Open. Tied for the lead with a hole to play, Summerhays closed with a bogey after his second shot buried in a greenside bunker.
'You take all the positives,' Summerhays said. 'I shot 18 under par for 72 holes and was standing on the 18th fairway with a chance to win the golf tournament. That can only breed confidence. ... When you're driving the ball well and hitting your wedges well and feel like you can make almost any putt, it's a really fun game. I was really excited to come play this morning.'
Summerhays eagled the par-5 18th – his ninth hole – with a 17-footer from the fringe. He birdied four of the next five holes, including the long par-4 fourth.
'I definitely got things going with that eagle on 18,' Summerhays said. 'That was nice.'
Major winners Davis Love III, David Toms and Mike Weir, grouped together in the first two rounds, finished four holes before play was stopped. Kevin Kisner was the top player in the afternoon session, playing the first six holes in 4 under.
The tournament has a history of rain delays, whether as a summertime event opposite the British Open - as it has been the last three years - or a fall tournament. In 2009, the tournament was canceled after torrential rain drenched the course for five straight days.


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