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From the Palm Beach Post-
WASHINGTON — Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties accounted for half of the drug costs billed nationwide for Medicare beneficiaries with HIV/AIDS in the last half of 2006, according to a government report released this week.I'm certain there is fraud going on in regards to billing for HIV and AIDS patients. Just look what Tenet Healthcare had to do last year. The second biggest hospital chain in this country had to pay an almost billion dollar fine for overbilling Medicare. If you think that is an anomaly, check out the story of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey the biggest medical school in the country, that could have been closed down because of similar acts of fraud.
That's even though only 10 percent of the roughly 100,000 Medicare beneficiaries with HIV/AIDS nationwide live in the three South Florida counties.
The area also accounted for 79 percent of the drugs themselves and 37 percent of the HIV/AIDS services provided from July through December 2006, according to the report by Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson.
The numbers were released as federal officials already are keeping a close eye on potentially fraudulent medical billings in South Florida.
The report said the "aberrant claims patterns differentiated South Florida providers and beneficiaries from those in the rest of the country."
"We recommend that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services treat South Florida as a high-risk area and mandate site visits for certain types of providers before issuing provider numbers," Levinson said in a statement.
"Medicare continues to be highly vulnerable to fraud and abuse, and immediate steps must be taken to protect the program and its beneficiaries," he said.
Then we have my own personal experience with a diagnostic imaging center here in Palm Beach County. They overcharged me $95 for my wife's ultrasound and were refusing to refund my credit card till I threatened to cause a stink. Then four years later, a sister office run by the same company tried to fleece me again.
Bottom line- I believe a good many if not majority of major players in the healthcare field, commit medicare and medicaid fraud on a daily basis. Do a Yahoo news search with the words medicare fraud, you'll find articles every week about someone pleading guilty or being arrested for that. The ones who get caught are just the tip of the iceberg.
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I have rarely been so bored bored with the food, wine and ambiance.
The highlight of the night was when Al Gore and Tipper showed up. I love Al, but hes not exactly Mr. Excitement. Hes looking good these days though.
Gary Danko is all style and little more. Gary Danko is a tourist trap a high class, upscale expensive fishermans wharf tourist trap, but TT, none the less. I suppose if the hottest restaurant in town is Olive Garden, Id be impressed. The other half of the crowd seemed to be San Franciscans with more money than taste. The Tommy Toy crowd.
The five course tasting menu ($79) really wasnt. It was just a selection off the regular menu. Wine pairing, the awful, uninspired wine pairing, was $45. Pours were skimpy. I doubt you could say I had a full glass over all five courses.
There was the option of: 3 Courses $59:: 4 Courses $69 :: 5 Courses $79. As mentioned, the only difference between the tasting menu and the 5 course meal was that you had the option of picking what to eat. It was nice that you could mix and match. If you wanted three appetizers, an entrée and dessert that was fine. Any combo would do. Have it your way.
The few things I liked were:
- The staff
- The Mozzarella Company of Texas goat cheese wrapped in Hoya Santa leaves
A nice cheese, but the exciting thing about this to me was there was a recent discussion of this herb which supposedly has a sassafras / root beer taste. I was planning to go to Cowgirl creamery to pick some up. Saved me the trip.
If this was the 1980s, I was 18 and my date took me here, Id be impressed. It just reminded me too much of an old style continental restaurant where you were served snails and fillet mignon.
So, I had the snails and beef.
I didnt take notes and the snail dish was new as of last week so it is not on the website.
Amuse bouché: lobster cream with lavender cream, two rock shrimp bitter, not in a good way.
Bread: Bay Bread rustic sour dough thinly sliced. Butter was hard. At the Ritz, the butter was the proper temperature for spreading. It was replaced during the evening with fresh correct temperature butter. That is one of the many touches that makes the Ritz great. The butter and bread I could buy around the corner summed up GDs lack of detail. I like Bay Bread. However, if a restaurant of that supposed caliber wont bake its own bread, then use Acme.
Snails on mashed potatoes topped with greens and some sort of cilantro based salsa strewn with mushrooms.
Nothing came together. Ok, it was some sort of potato pancake thingy, but it boiled down to mashed potatoes. Snails were fine, if not memorable which can be a good thing in an escargot they were not too chewy and having no flavor, were unoffensive.
Fish and Seafood
Roast Maine Lobster with Morels Mushrooms, Asparagus and Tarragon
Does it SAY there are more mashed potatoes involved? no but the baby lobster tail sat on a bed of mashed potatoes. Lobster was ok. The tail was cut in half, lobster removed and then put back in the shell for easier eating. Totally forgettable tastes in everything.
Meat and Game Birds
Pan Seared Beef Filet with Wild Nettle Risotto, Asparagus, and Morel Mushrooms
As good a dish as any Ive had in the 80s.
The do get credit for the cheese course, but it was ungenerous. Four micro pieces with thinly sliced walnut bread and out of season red grapes. Yes, I know grapes go with cheese. Can we be a little more creative?
I had a nice herb crusted fleur de Marquis and discovered that herby cheese like this go well with marsala. There was a nice unpasturized Amish Blue and another creamy blue from Massachusetts, but Im blanking on the name.
There were about a dozen carefully selected cheeses. Talking to one of the staff, he said that the majority change ever day. Nice, but you were getting pieces only slightly bigger than the free samples at the Cheeseboard.
Strawberries with White Chocolate Mousse, Balsamic Ice Cream and Buttermilk Panna Cotta
This was one of those three ways to present strawberries desserts tasteless strawberries at the height of strawberry season. The memorable dish for me at GD will be the memorably bad balsamic ice cream. It was like eating pure frozen balsamic vinegar, awful. It was a waste of good (?) balsamic and sliver of tasteless strawberry.
The mousse had some sort of overly sweet ladyfinger type cookie on top. The panna cotta in a teeny glass, was ok. Ive had better recently at Nizza la Bella.
Plate of candies and cookies
About a dozen from Costco? The raspberry jelly had the taste of a Whitman sampler jelly. The two sugared nuts were nice. Slightly better quality slightly than McDonalds new sugared nuts.
There was a nicely wrapped parting pineapple sponge cake. Too cloyingly sweet.
The pacing of the meal was the worst. I waited and waited between courses. Good thing I had a book. I got A LOT of reading done. ALmost finished the book ... War and Peace.
Despite their men in black outfits and funeral demeanor, the staff was really very pleasant.
The room is dimly lit and very Manhattan in the 1980s chic. A gazillion page wine list (a few wines from India the next hot wine region?). Chatting with the bartender, it seems they have some interesting and very old wines. I will say that the prices for the bottles and glasses was reasonable. Half glasses were also available. But its too dark to see your wine properly.
The room is noisy as well. I was getting a headache after a while from the din.
There are questions often on the board about Gary Danko or French Laundry. Gary Danko doesnt belong in the same league. While the flavors did not inspire me at FL, there was an attention to quality and creativity. GD cost a third less than FL and The Dining Room at the Ritz. You get what you pay for.
Not really. Go to Boulevard. I may not be a fan of Boulevard, but at least the ingredients are top quality. You will get a more delicious meal and better bang for your buck. I mean, go to Piperade even Slanted Door. I have a new low in upscale dining.
My tasting menu crawl preferences to date:
The Dining Room at the Ritz
The French Laundry (can you believe that)
Gary Danko
A restaurant like this is packed while a restaurant like Bizou closes. Maybe SF isnt such a serious food city after all.
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Collecting themselves in the smoke-filled alleyway, YJ, Akane and Worth could hear the sound of approaching sirens dopplering in from all directions.
The sniper who had put paid to Bristow was either gone with the wind or holding his fire for the time being, so the three of them ran to the mouth of the alley and surveyed the situation. Roiling clouds of smoke were obscuring the wide avenue that ran between the warehouses that crowded one another, but by the sound of it the rescue vehicles would be screeching to a halt in seconds, blocking their escape.
Akane looked about and spotted a nearby sewer grating in the road. A thin trickle of Bristow's blood ran towards it like a ribbon pointing the way to freedom. "There!" she shouted.
Worth quickly hauled the grating up to allow Akane and YJ entry into the murky depths. Then he hopped in just ahead of a wave of heat from the collapsing warehouse, replacing the grate and hanging from it for a few seconds before dropping down with an unpleasant splash.
Unpleasant did not begin to describe their surroundings. They were standing knee deep in what was ostensibly a storm drain, but from the rank odors choking the air, the sewer was definitely pulling double duty.
Akane stood in the shallowest part of the drain, having felt the pang of the loss of her boots' warranty the instant she splashed down.
"Good call, Wild Sky! There's virtually no feces down here," YJ snarked. "Now which way are we headed?"
"Oh, so now you're willing to take directions from a woman?" Akane snarked right back. Collecting herself, she mentally pictured the general layout of the city as she remembered it from the air.
"This way," she said confidently, sloshing through the effluent. YJ and Worth traded a glance, and then began to follow.
Jonah stepped outside the Neon Tiger to see an orange glow in the warehouse district. Two heavy-duty spaceport crash tenders whizzed by on the main traffic artery connecting the starport to the rest of the city, emergency lights flickering rhythmically.
He started to hail a taxi, but then thought better of it and turned on his multiband, keying a channel open to Worth's handset. "Say, friend."
Worth's gruff voice answered. "Don't call me friend, pal."
Jonah could play this game as well as anyone. "I'm not your pal, buddy."
Listening to the exchange, Akane let out an exasperated sigh and grabbed for the multiband, dragging Worth's arm along with it. "Get to the point, Jonah."
"So, have you been lighting warehouses on fire?" Jonah asked innocently.
"Oh, you noticed our handiwork, did you?" Akane replied.
Jonah smiled. "Did you at least pick up the cargo first?"
"Oh, the cargo got out, safe and sound," Akane responded. "Once we find it, we'll be able to deliver it."
"Wait, what?" Jonah shook his head. "Where are you?"
"Presently, we're in a sewer," Akane winced as she admitted the truth. "Of course, you're probably in a harem den about now, aren't you?"
"They're called treatment centres, thanks." Jonah said.
"Look," Akane continued. "The cargo got out, just not with us."
"Okay," Jonah immediately retrofitted his worldview. "So we tell Badger we never made it to the warehouse."
Akane's voice sounded strained. "What I would suggest to you is, find our bus, go on a walkabout if you have to."
Jonah sighed. "The bus is gone too? Who took it?"
Worth cut in. "Some paramilitary looking dudes, at least three of them."
Akane would have stamped her foot in impatience, but she was afraid of splashing any more of the muck on her boots. "You do recall what our bus looks like, don't you?"
Jonah disengaged the multiband and strolled back to Shenmue.
"Doc," Jonah called out. "Looks like the rest of the crew has taken a hike through some mi tian gong."
"I'll prep the hoses," The Doc called back.
After a few wrong turns through the river of foul-smelling effluent, Akane led Worth and YJ to a culvert near the starport where the sewer system drained into a brackish creek bed.
A chain gang picking up litter along the starport's outer edge watched in amusement as the three emerged, brown from the knees down, and climbed the embankment to the approach apron, trying to look nonchalant.
Jonah and the Doc were waiting at the landing pad. Doc Tulsa had his arms full of antibacterial soaps and disinfectant. To add insult to injury Jonah put on a big grin, reached his arm around the bedraggled Akane's neck and with his free hand snapped an image capture of the two of them.
After Akane, Worth and YJ cleaned themselves up, the crew held a conference in Shenmue's common area. They filled Jonah and Tulsa in on the robbery and its aftermath.
"So what should we do?" Tulsa said.
"Check the hospitals for patients with nasty bullet wounds to the head," Akane snarled. "Or the warehouse registries."
"What would that do?"
"It would help us suss out whether or not anybody knew that Badger used Outrider Shipping. Was this a hit against Badger, or a hit against Outrider?" YJ asked.
"From the way they shot everyone and jumped on our bus, I'd say they were after the cargo." Akane replied.
"We don't even know what it was that we were picking up," YJ said.
Worth grunted. "Well one of us should probably call Badger."
"I'll send him a wave," Jonah said.
It would take more than six hours for a message to wind its way through the cortex from Athens to Persephone, so Jonah took his time crafting the text.
Badger old pal,
Got some bad news. Outrider Shipping has caught fire. It was attacked by mercenaries. If you want us to recover your cargo, we have to know what we're looking for. If you want to hire us to reclaim the goods, it will cost another 10% to get your gear back."
He left the bridge and rejoined the conversation.
"We need to find out who the big players are in town." YJ was saying.
"These guys didn't look like local boys," Worth argued.
"These were top drawer operatives," Akane said. "If this was a hit, the locals outsourced the work."
YJ shook his head. "So now you're a merc expert?"
"I guess you could say that," Akane replied. "But you saw those fancy faceplates, those tactics."
Jonah smirked, but saw both Worth and YJ nodding begrudgingly. "So what do we do next?"
"Maybe they abandoned the mule," Akane replied. "If they're smart they won't hold onto it."
"So we go looking for clues," Jonah said. "I guess we'll have to secure new transport until we find the mule."
YJ agreed. "Let's start at ground zero and drive around, street by street. Something will turn up."
Exiting Shenmue, Jonah and YJ soon found a likely vehicle – one step up from a basic mule, it had an enclosed cabin and an oblong cargo box. Jonah nonchalantly picked the lock and held the door open while YJ slid under the dash and hotwired it. Then they were in business, and drove back to the scene of the crime.
The Alliance had the entrances to the lane blocked off. Armed feds were milling about as the crash tenders, their articulated extinguishing arms fully extended, blanketed the blaze in flame-retardant foam from above. They saw local media and crowds of onlookers behind the barriers.
The sky was filled suddenly by the sound of screaming jet engines, and a pair of ASREVs banked overhead, flying at full speed.
Driving around in ever-expanding circles through the warehouse district, they fought with the creeping dark in their search for clues. Finally, as they pulled back out onto the main parkway, Jonah noticed a section of hurricane fence that had been squashed flat.
Pulling the car over, he noticed fresh tire marks over the crushed fence, which dampened his spirits, but then noticed a yellow scrape of paint on one of the adjacent fenceposts, matching the shade of paint that coated their bus. "This way," he said.
They drove through a collection of low-rising container hotels and condominiums. The road gave way to a concrete parking lot, with a few benches and children's playground equipment dotting the moonscape. They parked the car and got out, searching for their next clue.
They found it first by smell, then by sound. They heard what sounded like someone having a fitful argument with himself in the shadows, and the clanking of metal on concrete. Looking closer, they found a disheveled hobo mumbling angrily as he tried to collect what looked like a thousand empty Blue Sun cola cans.
"Excuse me sir, can we help?" Jonah inquired.
"Go'way! These're my cans!" The derelict snarled, waving his arms drunkenly.
"I'm sure they are. What happened?" Jonah asked gently.
"They tried to take my cans!" the homeless man protested, gesticulating wildly. Akane followed his waving arms and saw the remains of a shopping cart, crushed almost beyond recognition.
"Did someone hit your cart?"
"Yes! Drove right through my park, gorramit!"
Jonah smiled and nodded. "Which way did they go? We'll track them down for you."
The hobo sobered up. "They went that way," pointing to the south. Then he stumbled off into the darkness after a loose can.
The crew piled back into the car and drove south. Akane cracked open her briefcase and retrieved a powerful Newtech scope, which she used to sweep back and forth.
"Hold up," she said. "I've got something." The concrete parkland ended in a crumbling expanse of gravel, which gave way to rocky terrain. Off in the distance, the scope was picking up an image, some sort of vehicle parked in the darkness.
She zoomed in, and with a start realized that it was an XpressCargo truck, its running lights still on. The sight triggered a memory – of her looking across the street outside the Outrider Shipping warehouse while YJ was hitting the buzzer on the front door. A similar green-painted truck had been idling not half a block away from the warehouse.
"That's the truck they used," Akane said confidently. She began snapping together her sniper rifle.
Jonah parked the car and the crew disembarked, pulling out their weapons. Akane found a nearby outcropping and extended her rifle's bipod. "Stay out of my line of fire. I'll cover your approach."
Worth, Jonah and YJ didn't contest the point. Moving in half-crouches, they slowly approached the truck, their imaginations conjuring danger behind every pile of rocks or growth of vegetation.
Akane peered through the scope of her rifle, training it on the stationary vehicle as her companions inched forward. The rear doors of the cargo van were half open, as was the driver's. Jonah and Worth came up on either side of the truck, their weapons trained on the cab.
"Empty." Jonah said. "It's clear."
"Same with the cargo bay," YJ said from the rear of the truck. "No sign of the mule, either."
Worth inspected the cab. The keys were still in the ignition, and there was a bright splash of blood on the passenger seat. "Well, they bleed sure enough, anyways," he grumbled.
"That's not the half of it," YJ agreed as he threw open the rear doors. The cargo bed was fairly painted with red bloodstains. "Doesn't look good for whoever's fluids are splashed back here."
Akane and the Doc jogged up.
"Maybe we can take a sample of that blood, run some tests on it." The Doc said.
"Why," Jonah asked sarcastically. "Are we crime scene investigators, now?"
Undeterred, Akane and the Doc swabbed up some of the blood, using insulation from one of the seats.
Taking a walk around the parked truck, YJ took note of a nearby patch of ground. There were two very noticeable scorch marks marring the terrain, with most of the sand around them blown away to reveal the bedrock underneath.
"They've skipped offworld already," he said, shaking his head. "Probably rendezvoused with their partners out here and took off nice as you please."
The rest of the crew joined him and took in the blast marks.
"Okay," Akane broke the silence. "I'm going to visit the Port Authority."
"Why?" Jonah asked. "Since when do they care about warehouse robberies?"
"In a one-starship town like this, the port authorities will be tracking all registered transports, and trying to track all unregistered ones too." Akane replied. "You saw those scrambled ASREVs earlier – they might have been after the ship that dusted off here. Someone will have filed a report."
"I'm not walking into Alliance Central, thanks." Jonah said, and both Worth and YJ nodded agreement.
"Fine," Akane replied. "You guys go talk to some of the locals, see who runs things in town and check the gossip as to who pulled off the robbery. We'll meet back at the ship."
As YJ, Worth, Jonah and the Doc headed for the Neon Tiger, Akane returned to her quarters on Shenmue, booting up her sourcebox and sending a cortex message to one of her contacts, who she referred to as "AK."
AK soon responded to her message; she was always on call. A voicechat window opened on the sourcebox's screen. "Always a pleasure to hear from you, boss," AK smiled at Akane, her voice piping out from the sourcebox's built-in speaker.
"I'm going to need access to the local Port Authority on Athens, a place called Stanton Gap," Akane said as she rummaged beneath her bunk. "I'll need some kind of ID number, as a database systems analyst."
"You got it, boss," AK never balked at any request and wasn't about to start now.
Akane found what she was looking for – a nondescript garment bag. She unzipped it to reveal the neatly pressed greys of an Alliance officer's uniform.
"I thought you said you weren't going to wear that ever again," AK said.
"I say a lot of things," Akane said, and began to undress.
Half an hour later, Lieutenant Akane Arai strode purposefully into the port authority building at Stanton Gap's spaceport, armed with a datapad and a no-nonsense disposition. The port office was in a state of controlled chaos. Understaffed and overdriven, a motley collection of Alliance officials and civilian contractors was all that stood between a well-run spaceport and anarchy. To Akane's trained eye, the battle was not going well.
She marched smartly towards the first poor soul she felt she could get her claws into – a harried-looking desk sergeant who was trying to sort out a misfiled stack of purchase orders. He looked up at her with glazed eyes. "Uh, can I help you?"
Akane felt herself lapsing into full-officer mode and hoped she wasn't too out of practice. "Sergeant, set that paperwork aside, you've got a much bigger problem on your hands now. I'm here to conduct a full database analysis."
The sergeant swallowed his gum. "I thought that wasn't scheduled until next week!"
Akane sighed. "I can see that your mastery of scheduling as on par with your mastery of the chain of command, sergeant,. When a lieutenant asks for access to your database, you don't check the schedule, you tell her where the mainframe is, understand?"
"Of course, Lieutenant. Right this way," The sergeant dropped his sheaf of papers and led Akane into a small room nearby. Akane slid into the proffered chair as if she knew what she was doing. The sergeant hesitated, then punched in the access code to the port authority's database system, and stood back, unsure of himself.
"And can you at least get me a coffee?" She said, looking over her shoulder at the bumbling sergeant.
The non-com blanched. "I was just going to order one up."
Akane's eyes narrowed. "I was just going to order one up, sir."
The sergeant gulped. "Yes ma'am, I mean, sir!" and disappeared as quickly as humanly possible, in search of fresh coffee.
Akane plugged her datapad into the mainframe and slid an earpiece into position. AK was waiting as the connection was established.
"I want to focus specifically on traffic control data," Akane said. "All comings and goings for the last 12 hours to start with."
"Sure thing," AK said.
The listings filled the screen. Akane scanned them, looking for anything out of the ordinary. Most of the traffic at Stanton Gap was commercial – heavy bulk loaders with cargoes from Corone or Unified Reclamation. She took note of Shenmue's" arrival, then kept scrolling.
"There's too much to go through. Let's narrow the search to just illegal traffic." Akane said as AK worked her magic.
The data set was replaced by a shorter list of reports, albeit with a longer time frame than the last half day-cycle.
Here we go, she thought as information regarding an illegal landing and takeoff on the outskirts of town, bearing a very fresh timestamp, rolled in. A flight of ASREVs had been scrambled in pursuit of the craft, which touched down outside of town and was identified as belonging to the Mantis class of evac and resupply vessels. According to the report filed by the ASREV commander, the ship evaded pursuit and went for hard burn at the first opportunity. Distressingly, the ship had not been broadcasting a transponder signal; identification had to be made visually and no data about the ship's registration had been collected.
"So they identified a ship, but didn't catch it. Too bad," Akane said, almost to herself as she downloaded the contents of the report to her datapad. Then another entry caught her eye.
It was dated nearly a month ago, dealing with an illegal landing near a bombed-out city ruin a few kilometers to the southwest, involving the Alliance War Graves Commission. The War Graves Commission? Akane thought to herself. Don't they just tend to gravestones and re-inter dead bodies? She tried to get more information, but the file had been heavily redacted.
She called for the hapless desk sergeant, who showed up with the coffeepot in case she wanted a refill.
"Please tell me there's someone who outranks you on duty here tonight," Akane said.
The sergeant looked almost relieved. "Yes sir, that would be Lieutenant Mitchell."
Akane paused for a beat and arched a perfectly trimmed eyebrow.
The sergeant's eyes widened. "I'll go get him for you," then he disappeared, sloshing coffee on the floor in his haste to escape.
The rest of the crew hit up the Neon Tiger as promised in their attempt to gather information about the robbery and firebombing. They quickly learned that the 14K Triad controlled everything in town that wasn't already under the thumb of Corone, UR, or the Alliance, and quite a few things that were.
"For a robbery like this to take place out in the open, someone must have been paid off," observed Jonah as he, Tulsa, Worth and YJ held a quick conference over a game of holo-pool.
"So what, we just gonna knock on the 14K's door and ask them if they allowed this robbery to happen?" Worth asked.
"Something like that," YJ said. "I hear they're headquartered at a place called the Szechuan Noodle Supper Club across town."
"I ain't dressed for dinner," complained Worth.
"Wait," Jonah said distractedly. His eyes had been drawn to the Technicolor blur of the Corvue screen that dominated the bar. The warehouse fire was still the lead news item, and video footage of the fire was still cycling repeatedly. "Turn up the volume!" Jonah shouted to the bartender.
The local newsreader looked polished and prim as he read the copy. "Authorities confirm that seven people are dead after gang violence swept the warehouse district this evening. Witnesses said that a gun battle erupted at a go-down owned by Outrider Shipping, a local import/export business that police suspect has been a front for underworld operations."
"Naturally," YJ said.
Oblivious to the commentary, the news anchor continued. "An unverified number of assailants opened fire on the occupants of the warehouse, stealing an unspecified amount of cargo before setting fire to the building to cover their escape. A starship of unknown class was spotted in the area."
"Vague enough for you?" Worth cracked.
"A single survivor was rescued by volunteer firefighters and has been placed under guard at the Zhang Zhongjing Medical Centre pending an investigation by local police. His condition is unknown."
"Ahso," Jonah smiled triumphantly. "A survivor. What say we deliver some flowers to the afflicted and see if he knows something? Then we can go get some noodles."
"Sounds good," YJ agreed.
Lieutenant Mitchell walked into the port authority's database room, the polar opposite of the harried desk sergeant – calm, cool, and collected. He gave Akane a once-over and frowned. "To whom do I have the pleasure of addressing?"
"Lieutenant Arai," Akane said. It was obvious that unlike the desk sergeant, this Mitchell wasn't going to be a pushover. "Headquarters sent me to perform a surprise audit."
"Indeed," Mitchell said, his frown deepening. "I see they also dispensed with the courtesy of an introduction to the officer on watch."
Akane tried another tack. "I've been looking over your database entries, Lieutenant. I must say you run a tight ship here at the Port Authority."
Mitchell replied, "Well, for the shifts I'm on as supervisor perhaps, but I'll take your compliment under advisement."
Akane indicated the list on her screen. "I'm curious about this spate of illegal landings near the city limits. Are they connected?"
"Well, illegal salvage and transfer of illegal goods are two of the most common crimes here in Stanton Gap, but no, there's no link between them," Mitchell said.
"I'm particularly curious about this case four weeks ago where the War Graves Commission got involved. Why was it redacted?"
Lieutenant Mitchell's frown reached new depths. "Well, you'd have to ask your predecessor, Lieutenant Arai. It was your department that did the redacting."
Akane smiled. "Indeed," she said smoothly.
"If everything else is in order, I have a crisis that's in danger of boiling over to attend to," Mitchell said, turning back to his station.
"Certainly," Akane said to the lieutenant's retreating back. She unhooked her datapad from the mainframe, but not before leaving a pre-set backdoor code for AK on the chance she'd ever have to return to the port's computer system. Finishing the rest of her coffee, she got to her feet and cleared out as quickly as she could.
The desk sergeant watched Akane leave the database room, a curious expression on his face.
"Okay, here's how it's going to go," Jonah said as he, Worth and Tulsa stood outside the medical centre. YJ was keeping an eye on the medical centre from the driver's seat of their stolen utility vehicle.
"Worth, you're going to go off your meds in the waiting room, and during the confusion Tulsa and I are going to visit our patient." Jonah fiddled with a fake moustache that he had grabbed from his disguise kit and smoothed out the collar from his borrowed white coat. The Doc's disguise was a little more realistic, seeing as he actually held a medical degree.
"Will do," Worth said, who was twitchy enough on a good day. He swaggered his way through the set of double doors into the medical centre's lobby.
"This ought to be good," Jonah said as he and Tulsa followed from behind at a discreet distance.
It didn't take long for Worth to cause a ruckus. He assaulted a Blue Sun cola vending machine in a particularly disturbing manner, and threw folding chairs like a professional wrestler. Two tired-looking security guards moved in for the kill, when Tulsa said in his most authoritative voice, "Find this man's doctor at once!"
One of the guards obediently spun on his heel and headed for the emergency room. Tulsa and Jonah followed closely behind him as he ran a passkey through a slider that allowed him access to the emergency room floor. Jonah saw a likely mark standing next to a bed reading a chart, and ran over, grabbing the lapels of his lab coat.
"One of your patients is out of control in the waiting room!" he said theatrically. As the doctor bolted out of the emergency room towards the sound of Worth's cursing and smashing of things, Jonah opened his hand to reveal the ID badge that he had expertly snatched from the man's white coat. He tossed it to Tulsa, who put it on, and the two of them started upstairs.
As expected, a pair of armed guards, Federal marshals by the look of them, were posted at the door of the med centre's burn unit. Jonah adjusted his white coat and let Tulsa do the talking.
"We're here to check on the patient's status," Tulsa told the feds as he flashed the doctor's ID badge. "Can't have him passing away before the investigation's over, can we?"
"Get in line. We just let the nurse through about five minutes ago," one of the marshals said.
"Yeah boy, I almost wish I needed some medical attention myself," the other one smirked. His partner laughed and nodded in agreement.
Then the door opened, and the aforementioned nurse stepped out into the hallway. Tulsa and Jonah both caught their breath as the reason for the marshal's salacious comments became clear.
Her auburn hair framed a milky white complexion and her piercing green eyes evaluated the two of them with clinical precision as she quietly closed the door behind her. As she passed Jonah, the barest hint of a wink and a smile crossed her face, and then she was past him, striding down the hall towards the nurse's station, her white uniform pulled tight in exactly the right places.
The two feds watched after her longingly, not bothering to hide their leers.
Jonah shook his head and pushed Tulsa towards the door of the burn unit. They entered to the sound of a number of Newtech devices designed to keep someone alive against Nature's will. The patient was in a bed against the far wall, swaddled in bandages and coated with salve. Instinctively, Tulsa checked the man's chart.
Jonah took a quick image capture of the patient's face and sent it to YJ's multiband. In the car, YJ took a look at the image and recognized the man, barely, as one of Bristow's crate-busters, the man who decided to hide rather than flee.
"He was one of the guys loading scrap in Bristow's warehouse," YJ said.
"What's the prognosis, doc?" Jonah quipped.
"Not so good. We should have brought flowers," Tulsa said. "He's suffered severe burns."
"Well he did have a flaming warehouse fall on him," Jonah said wryly.
"They've put him in a comatose state while the regenerative salve does its work," Tulsa said. "He might make it, if he's very lucky."
"Look at him, Doc," Jonah said as he started rummaging through the cabinets, pocketing medical supplies. "Luck isn't exactly what brought him here." He found some amphetamines and tossed them towards Tulsa. "You'd better wake him up,"
"That's not advisable," Tulsa said. "This guy's hanging by a thread."
"Look, the whole reason we're here is for information. He'll be okay," Jonah argued. "There are plenty of trained professionals around here."
"Fine," Tulsa hissed, fiddling with the man's IV. "First do no harm, eh?" he muttered to himself. He injected the uppers into the man's bloodstream. They didn't take long to do their work. The man started twitching and groaning in a few seconds.
"Easy, son," Tulsa said, using his best bedside manner. "You're in the medical centre now, safe and sound."
The man started babbling, mixing Chinese and English in scattered phrases. "Sh-shenguai… he mumbled over and over.
Jonah frowned. "What was that? 'Demons?' Ask him who hit the warehouse!"
Tulsa leaned over the man's bed, peering intently at his face. "Listen carefully, son. Who was it that attacked your warehouse?"
The patient rolled his eyes in terror. "Chi'ang Shih_…they were _Chi'ang Shih…"
Just then Jonah noticed something out of the ordinary. Though the windows of the room were sealed tight, the curtains were flapping slightly. He took a closer look. The hatch to the room's oxygen supply line had been left ajar slightly. He moved over and opened the hatch all the way.
The valve on the supply line, which connected to the medical centre's repository of bottled O-2, had been opened all the way, sending a pressurized stream of oxygen into the air of the burn unit. Jonah moved to seal the valve but stopped suddenly as he saw a tiny black cube attached to the open valve.
"What the hell?" He asked nobody in particular. Then he heard a soft clicking coming from the little cube and his flight reflexes kicked in.
He knocked over a cart full of bandages in his haste to grab Tulsa by the collar and head for the exit, and the door to the burn unit opened, the two feds looking in inquisitively.
"What are you-" the first fed had time to say before the room exploded. The oxygen supply valve suddenly became a ten-foot jet of flame, fueling a raging fireball that rolled through the burn unit, consuming everything in its path. Jonah and Tulsa hit the floor and rolled, bowling over the surprised feds, whose shouts suddenly turned to screams as the conflagration spread inexorably. Then the sprinkler system kicked in, showering the hallway with water but doing little to stop the giant Roman candle that spewed into the burn unit.
Slipping and sliding two steps ahead of the flames, Jonah and Tulsa scrambled to safety, down the stairs, even as panic began to spread through the medical centre. Alarms began banging loudly as the pair reached the waiting room.
Worth was under a pile of security guards but still putting up a fight when they let him go, as the sudden fire was a much bigger problem than one raging bull in a china shop.
"Worth, let's go!" Jonah shouted, not bothering to slow down as he hit the first set of doors. Worth got up and lumbered through the wreckage of the waiting room.
YJ was staring in shock at the flames curling out of the second storey of the medical centre. "What the hell is going on?" He said as Tulsa, Jonah and Worth climbed aboard.
"Guess Tulsa and I evened the score on the fireball front," Jonah said. "One for you, and now one for us."
Worth stomped on the gas and they peeled out as the now familiar sounds of sirens drew closer.
Akane had stowed her Alliance uniform back in her quarters, grateful for a deserted ship, and was on the bridge checking to see if Badger's response had reached them yet, when she noticed a second orange glow on the city's skyline, much brighter than the fading remains of the fire in the warehouse district.
Minutes later, the stolen utility vehicle careened into view, discharging the wet Jonah and Tulsa, YJ and Worth. YJ and Jonah were locked in the throes of an argument.
Akane met them in the cargo bay. "What happened?"
"We just came from the city's medical centre," Tulsa said. "It turns out there was a survivor from the warehouse fire,"
"Was?" Akane replied. "As in, past tense?"
"There was this nurse," Jonah said. "Red hair, green eyes, a stunner. She must have gimmicked the oxygen line in the burn unit, rigged it to blow. We barely got out of there ahead of the fireball."
Akane looked at Jonah's disguise. "So you impersonated a doctor, walked in to visit a patient who was no doubt under Alliance surveillance, and walked out after a fire started in the patient's room?"
"That's about right," Jonah said.
"How do we know the Feds won't link it back to you?" Akane said.
"I wore a moustache!" Jonah protested. "They're going to be looking for a man with a moustache, and as you can see," he said, theatrically pulling off the phony lip ferret, "I am not that man."
"I'm going to sleep peacefully tonight," Akane said bleakly.


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Metalhead on His NBK Series: I'm Done.
No no no, guys, this does not mean what you think it does. I'm not done writing for SparkLife, and I'm definitely not done with my quest to lose my NBK status. But I am done with my NBK series, and I want to explain why I'm ready to leave it behind forever. But before we get to that, here's a quick recap of the last few months:
-I sadly did NOT make it into the school play (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead) but I did get to see it twice. It was pretty amazing, and I figure I would have only made it worse if I'd been in it. :P
-Drama III has been going extremely well. Our sketch comedy show was met with wild applause from the 30 or so people who attended, and I have a sweet video of the sketch I was in. I'm gonna put it on my YouTube soon. (Just look up metalhead865.)
-I was one of eight people in our annual male beauty pageant. I won the Mr. Superstar superlative for the song I played, and was described after the show multiple times as "most heterosexual."
-Improv started up again, and it went really, really well.
- I released a brand new album called Kick!
And that's about it. No progress with Natasha yet. Wait, that sounds really dehumanizing. Let me try again: Natasha has not expressed any romantic interest in me. (That's better.)
This last bit of news is one of the main reasons I'm done blogging about my NBK experiences: I lost one of my best friends.
No, she's not dead. She's just not my friend anymore. It turns out, when you blog about someone for a while, and they figure out that you did, they get just a LITTLE bit creeped out. And sometimes that can cost you a friendship.
In light of these recent events (and in order to help avoid potential embarrassment and extreme creepitude), I'm going to end my NBK posts in the most graceful way I can, and stick to music reviews and the occasional VS post with Crazywritergirl. But if you want to keep up with me, you can always read my personal blog here, and my music blog here!
This is not goodbye, this is just me ending the great run we've had. Thanks so much for following along and giving me so much support and advice, and I'll see you guys around (maybe on the OT)!
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Norwich gets bogged down in the political context of Europe at times, clearly displays his liberal bias in regards to what actions some popes should have taken, and doesn't define words that a general audience wouldn't know (such as "nuncio"), but this is nevertheless a good, solid history of the papacy. It reveals the popes as human figures working to gain or keep power in a perpetually shifting political landscape, struggling with spiritual, personal, and health-related difficulties.
a galloping read
i particularly enjoyed the references to historical figures that i had read about in other books... ie The Lady Queen, The Swerve
An exhaustive and exhausting study of the entire history of the popes. Be warned that it is primarily a political rather than doctrinal history. You will learn about the competing secular dynasties as well and the muddled history of the Italian peninsula. He is circumspe on the most recent popes. It was a tough slog through the middle ages but hang in.
Oh, what a depressing lineage. Well written, scholarly with an occasional wry comment to make you smile. Thank goodness for separation of church and state!
Very helpful! I was doing a project on the Investiture Contest between Pope Gregory and the Holy Roman Emperor Henry and I definetely found this book helpful when writing my paper! :)
I agree, this book can only skim the surface when tracing the linneage of St. Peter's throne. In any event it is a good introduction to what proves to be a thoroughly engrossing parcel of rogues and the ever evolving role of the papacy on the world stage. Norwich concludes this book with the words if St. Peter were alive today he would be proud of what he sees. I'm not so sure of that.
Norwich is one of my favourite historical authors. Whether it is a history of the Byzantine Emprire, or Venice in the age of the Doges, Norwich creates a accesible narrative full of colourful personages. This time he tackles the long and complex history of the Papacy, and indeed the Catholic Church as well. Not a bad overview or introduction for the casual reader. The actual history is far too complex to be thoroughly covered in 500 pages, but it is a good start.
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What does Paul mean when he speaks of "fruitfulness" on the part of the church at Colosse? Here is Col. 1:5-6: "Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and growing–so among yourselves, from the day you heard and understood the grace of God in truth." The theme is picked up again in 1:9-10. What does he mean?
First, Walsh-Keesmaat (Colossians Remixed) urge us to consider the abundance of images in the Roman Empire that illustrate that "Rome was the source of fruitful abundance" (72).
Second, they explore the image of fruitfulness in the Old Testament and here is some evidence:
Lev 26:3-6: "If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. And your threshing shall last to the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last to the time for sowing; and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land securely. And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; and I will remove evil beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land."
Isaiah 58:6, 11: "Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?" … "And the LORD will guide you continually, and satisfy your desire with good things, and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters fail not."
Okay, you might say, there is lots of evidence in the OT for fruitfulness and fertility and fecundity as signs of God's blessing and signs of Israel's faithfulness. The question W-K force upon us is this: How would a community that was living out Israel's story in its own world have understood language like this? Would they have drawn upon these great OT themes? Here is their question:
"Can a claim that the 'gospel' is bearing fruit 'in the whole world' be heard as anything less than a challenge to this imperial fruitfulness?" (74-5).
Is not the fruitfulness of Paul not empire but the virtues of a new community? Is it possible to de-politicize this image so much we no longer see the empire-denying reality?
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M's claim Guillermo Quiroz to backup
Confirmation links to follow.
Guillermo Quiroz got pushed out in the Blue Jays catcher battle, and the M's picked him up, presumably to back up while Rivera seasons in the minors. Quiroz is 24, right-handed, and hasn't hit well since 2003, when he put up a stellar season in AA. Since then he's bounced between levels and hasn't gotten consistent playing time.
Quiroz, despite having a couple poor seasons, is a much better bet to hit a little than Rivera, and has a lot more potential to turn into something really interesting — though with Johjima and Clement, the M's don't have a lot of playing time to offer.
Nice little move.
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David J. Corcoran on
March 31st, 2006 6:23 pm
I'm a Midre Cummings fan. He never got a chance.
BelaXadux on
March 31st, 2006 7:23 pm
What D & D said in aggregated in #s 10 and 11 on Rivera. The org loses nothing by him polishing his D further in Tacoma. Assuming Quiroz hits at all, he's the better bet. Furthermore, as shown on a slightly larger scale in the Torrealba deal, catchers are a fungible commodity. The Ms now have real depth at the position on the organizational roster—unlike last year's Oh-no-Olivothon. The bodies will sort themselves out over the next year and a half, and the Ms may be able to flip the least best options for something at the end of that time.
. . . Who's making these spare parts deals, Bavasi, Fontaine, both in a mind-meld, or someone else? They're nice little moves as said, and go some little ways to make up for the loss of draft picks to free agent signings a few years back in the development cycle which has worked a lacune in organizational depth up to the AAA-25 man level.
BelaXadux on
March 31st, 2006 7:52 pm
Sorry to see Luis el Dodger go, but yeah, he wasn't ready. Not a bad gamble, but this is how most such small tater drafts end so no surprise. Jake Woods; wow, it's going to be an _interesting_ experience to see him on the mound at Safeco. After all the years of 'Saturnine Lou' glaring at any and every non-veteran pitcher as a presumed failure until proven otherwise, and the general depth and quality of Gillick's bullpens, for the Ms to break camp with _any_ role given to a no-name, spring tryout guy all but takes me back to the nightmare that was 80s baseball in Sea-town, an adventure in competitive sports of a kind now all but forgotten hereabouts.
G-Man on
March 31st, 2006 8:30 pm
OK, it sounds like a nice little move in and of itself, but now there's a 40-man roster issue. And how much time did the FO spend to come up with this guy? It looks like he's not significantly better than Rivera, and we already had a #3 guy in Miller, not to mention Clement in the wings. So maybe he shows up with something better to offer than Rene, but I'd prefer that they were watching every potential bullpen arm that might get waived, or figuring out what they'd do if, say, Heep Seop Choi came along.
Gomez on
March 31st, 2006 8:43 pm
On the topic of catchers, I just purchased my first tickets of the year today, for Dan Wilson Night. Anybody ever sit in section 135? It looks like a good spot on the seating chart..
Awesome seats. You're right there with the action; you're a noodle-arm's stone's throw from home plate looking down the RF line. I had a nice boss who got me box seats for a game last year, and I could nearly read Jamie Moyer's lips while he bitched at the umpire about a pitch call (I think he said, 'Gialuca Pagliuca'). If you're every wondering about seats and the vantage point, here's a reference.
I'll be at Dan Wilson Night as well, as well as Felix's season debut next Friday and Sunday's game… albeit in the CF bleachers, but I love those seats so huzzah. I went and got my tickets today after work. Can't wait!
Typical Idiot Fan on
March 31st, 2006 9:14 pm
Quiroz in 2002 minor league at bats has 471 hits (.235 avg). That's not particularly impressive. What is impressive is that of those 471 hits, 187 of them are XBH (39.7%). So he has power. He also has a comfortable 2.28 strikeout to walk ratio. His tendencies seem to indicate he's a power hitter with a decent eye, so something else is missing that the stats don't tell.
westfried on
March 31st, 2006 10:27 pm
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dw on
April 1st, 2006 8:06 am
I noticed that the D-Backs are desperately trying to flip Koyie Hill because he's out of options. I would think that Hill would be a better choice as a backup catcher than Quiroz, though I'm guessing they signed Quiroz for his experience more than his bat.
Matthew Carruth on
April 1st, 2006 9:41 am
And because he was free rather than costing a player in return. Oh and that Koyie Hill blows serious nuts. I'd rather have Miguel Olivo circa 2004.
Dr. Johan on
April 1st, 2006 2:16 pm
speaking of Blue-Jay cast-offs, they just DFA'd Vince Perkins, their number 10 prospect on baseball americas list. Perkins, 24, "has a heavy 92-96 MPH fastball and a decent mid 80's slider" and pitched in AA last year. He was DFA'd to make room on the 40-man for Brian Tallet, a journeyman left-handed reliever.
Might be a pretty good pickup.
A link to his stats.
John D. on
April 1st, 2006 2:52 pm
"Majority" of games (See # 26)- Anyone, How often is Johjima expected to catch? Two out of three games? Three out of four? What?
BTW (See # 25), another good MLB/mlb stat site is the "Player Index" of the Toronto Star's WAYMORE SPORTS: http://tinyurl.com/ppl85
In addition to giving the MLB/mlb stats of every player who played MLB this year or last, it also gives the stats of any minor leaguer that was involved in a trade of a major-leaguer.
And it gives lots of miscellaneous information about the player–and it's as up-to-date as one could wish. ("The ink on the transaction is hardly dry…")
[NOTE: This site was laid on the Mariner Newsgroup by Dave Cameron.]
Jim Thomsen on
April 1st, 2006 7:21 pm
The Mariners keep Jeff Harris and Jake Woods.
From the Associated Press:
"The Seattle Mariners trimmed their active roster to the 25-man limit Saturday night, optioning Rene Rivera to Triple-A Tacoma and keeping newly acquired Guillermo Quiroz to be their backup catcher behind Kenji Johjima.
The Mariners claimed the 24-year-old Quiroz off waivers from Toronto on Friday.
Seattle optioned right-hander Emiliano Fruto to Tacoma, purchased the contract of infielder Roberto Petagine from Tacoma, placed outfielder Chris Snelling on the 15-day disabled list and designated Marcos Carvajal for assignment.
Outfielder Matt Lawton, who tested positive for steroids while with the New York Yankees last September, starts his 10-day suspension Sunday.
Der Komminsk_sar on
April 1st, 2006 8:09 pm
WAYMORE (or, at least, one of the many other sites that uses that database) is where the Snelling on the 60-day DL listing came from; he is not, he's on the 15 day. They're good, but do lag a little on delivery of info and have the occasional error (see the above).
On another note, Carvajal has been DFA'd, per Rotoworld.
Der Komminsk_sar on
April 1st, 2006 8:10 pm
Ah, hello post 62, sorry.
IcebreakerX on
April 1st, 2006 8:16 pm
Press release with Carvajal's DFA…
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Doesn't make a lot of sense.
Jim Thomsen on
April 1st, 2006 8:16 pm
I wonder how big a risk there is of Carvajal being claimed?
Mike Snow on
April 1st, 2006 8:32 pm
I'm not sure if I understand roster maneuvers correctly, but can they pull him back and put him on the roster again if he gets claimed? They might have reopened a spot by then with Lawton suspended, Snelling on the 60-day, or maybe a trade. So it might be a low-risk way of seeing if they can open up a 40-man slot, because they know already that he's not going to see the majors this year.
If this isn't the case and they lose him, then I'm not too thrilled about giving Torrealba away for nothing.
Jim Thomsen on
April 1st, 2006 9:15 pm
My Last-Day-of-Roster-Cuts All Stars:
C: Rob Bowen
1B: Bobby Kielty
2B; Frank Menechino
SS: Brandon Phillips
3B: Kevin Orie
RF: Brian Buchanan
CF: Todd Linden
LF: Jason Dubois/Kevin Frandsen
DH: Russell Branyan
SPs: Tyler Yates, Kevin Correia, Edwin Jackson, Vince Perkins, John Halama
Matthew Carruth on
April 1st, 2006 9:19 pm
67, based on my limited understanding of the inane waiver rules, yes, Carvajal's waiver is revocable since he still has options left. Not sure why they picked him since it seems plausible they'd want him back on the team at some point this year, but this does appear to be an attempt to clear 40 man space w/o risking the loss of a player.
Dr. Johan on
April 1st, 2006 9:20 pm
[deleted, wrong]
Jim Thomsen on
April 1st, 2006 9:26 pm
Oh, wait … I'll sub in Justin Leone at third and Eric Valent in left.
Jim Thomsen on
April 1st, 2006 9:27 pm
And Jason Davis instead of John Halama.
Jim Thomsen on
April 1st, 2006 9:43 pm
Michael Restovich would be my utility guy. Runelvys Hernandez would be the swingman.
Gomez on
April 1st, 2006 11:24 pm
It appears they're playing Doyle on the 15 day DL instead of the 60 day. Before you say WTF, it's likely the M's think he'll be ready before June and that's why he's on the 15 rather than the 60. If he's on the 60, they have to wait two months to activate him even if he's ready before then.
As for Carvajal, they may be planning on swinging a trade with him and are still working out the particulars, hence the DFA.
IcebreakerX on
April 1st, 2006 11:26 pm
But Snelling hasn't played a game… Isn't it possible to put him on the 60-day retro to March?
Steve Nelson on
April 2nd, 2006 12:16 am
#75: Isn't it possible to put him on the 60-day retro to March?
There is no DL until the end of ST. So if he goes on the 60-day DL, the 60 days has to start now.
IcebreakerX on
April 2nd, 2006 1:05 am
That's not true. The Brewers put Sheets on the 15-Day retroactive to the 24th.
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Get ready for a defensive bloodbath this weekend when Michigan and Northwestern collide in Ann Arbor. Which college football picks stand out most?
Odds Overview
The Wolverines are at home this weekend and they've enjoyed a dominant bounce-back stretch after losing their opener. They're laying as many as 7.5 points at most of the top sportsbooks we've looked over.
As far as the total goes, we see the number at an extremely low 35 points, which just goes to show you how good both of these defensive units can be. If you can believe, these two teams are ranked #1 and #2 respectively in terms of fewest points allowed a game.
Michigan Wolverines
Jim Harbaugh's tenure as Michigan's coach couldn't have gotten off to a worse start, as the Wolverines fell 24-17 on the road to Utah. Since that defeat, however, they've been on a roll, crushing Oregon State, UNLV, BYU and Maryland while only allowing a grand total of 14 points in the process.
The offense hasn't been doing anything special, as QB Jake Rudock has thrown more interceptions than touchdowns, though De'Veon Smith has been running well out of the backfield. It's the defense that has stood tall above the rest for the team though, with the Wolverines allowing a miniscule 7.6 points per game through five games. Only their upcoming opponent, Northwestern, has done better in that area.
That's what makes this Saturday's meeting all the more intriguing from an outsider's perspective. The Wildcats have been one of the pleasant surprises this season, but oddsmakers have them classified as pretty significant underdogs on the college football odds board. Michigan is favored by a sturdy margin to extend their winning streak to five games.
Northwestern Wildcats
Just like the Wolverines, Northwestern has used their outstanding defense to get off to a hot start in the 2015 season. The only difference is the Wildcats have still yet to lose a single game. They've already faced some stiff competition, namely in their opener when they topped Stanford 16-6 at home. Not a bad way to kick off the year.
Now up to #13 in the AP poll, Northwestern isn't surprising anyone anymore, as they've clearly asserted themselves as a legitimate contender in not only the Big Ten but the entire country. Justin Jackson has been the heart and soul of the offense, running for a team-high 636 yards, and the defense has locked in, surrendering a miniscule 7.0 points a game. No team has been better defensively.
Will anything change this week? It's never as easy on the road, and we know the Wildcats are going to have avoid making any mistakes if they want to move to 6-0 on the season. They've defied the odds already before in 2015, but the road gets even tougher now, and oddsmakers aren't all that confident in their chances. It'd be foolish to count them out, though.
Betting Outlook
Sure, this is one of the lowest totals you're ever going to see in college football, but we still think the UNDER has a good chance of hitting.
These two defenses are just that dominant, and neither of these offenses have really shown enough to warrant much love either. We should be witnessing another hard-fought defensive battle from start to finish here, with points likely being extremely hard to come by.
When you see the two top-rated defenses going at it, it's going to be hard to think of anything other than the UNDER coming through. With our college football picks, we're backing the defensives units and expecting a very tight, low-scoring affair.
College Football Picks: UNDER 35 at 5Dimes
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POV: Trump and the NFL
President's playbook: to "gain by creating divisiveness in every corner of the world"
I teach a course titled Sport Theory and Social Systems (i.e., sport sociology). We examine controversial issues such as doping, gender inequity, racism, violence, religion, and politics with the aim to reimagine how we might better utilize sport for good in our society. Last week we addressed President Trump's remarks in Huntsville, Ala., on September 22, criticizing former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick for kneeling during the playing of the national anthem before football games last season. Trump charged that Kaepernick was disrespecting the flag, when, in fact, he was actually protesting police brutality and demonstrating solidarity for the Black Lives Matter movement. In this oddly timed quarrel with Kaepernick, Trump directed NFL owners to fire anyone who does not stand during the national anthem.
To see Trump's attack on Kaepernick as anything other than race-related is increasingly difficult. Go to any NFL stadium in the country and observe the scores and scores of mostly white patrons of these venues talking, buying hot dogs and beer, and going to the restroom during the playing of the national anthem. No one ever takes them to task for dishonoring veterans or the flag. But if one black player makes a silent but solemn protest, it is national news.
In class, we talked further about the debate that has circled around Kaepernick. Trump called on NFL owners to "fire that son of a bitch" for his protest, although ironically Kaepernick is not currently employed by an NFL team and is a free agent. One student noted that Trump was just creating a distraction from the recent failures and controversies of his administration. Another said that Trump's comment had pushed NFL owners and players into a corner and goaded them into taking action in favor of the protest. Many Americans, including several NFL owners, originally supported Trump during his election campaign in part for his willingness to say what was on his mind. But every day, more and more Americans realize that what is on Donald Trump's mind is not pretty. It seems to me his playbook is to gain by creating divisiveness in every corner of the world.
To fire someone for exercising their first amendment rights is unlawful and antidemocratic. But Trump has already shown his cards when it comes to the struggle people of color face with police brutality. On July 28 he casually and openly endorsed police brutality in a speech to law enforcement officers. His rhetoric when discussing the violence in Charlottesville in August, when he told reporters, "I think there is blame on both sides. You had a group on one side that was bad. You had a group on the other side that was also very violent," has encouraged racist attitudes and emboldened white supremacist groups.
Another student observed that the purpose of Kaepernick's protest had been co-opted by Trump and others for their own purposes. The Seattle Seahawks linked arms in solidarity with Kaepernick's protest last year. Trump recently tweeted that he approves of players linking arms, but not kneeling. This shows he either did not understand the Seahawks' show of solidarity or is repurposing it. On September 25, Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett, owner Jerry Jones and his family, the police chief of Dallas, families of slain police officers, and the entire team kneeled before the anthem and stood during it. One student noted that Cowboys owner Jones was just protecting his investment. But this highly choreographed yet still thoughtful act aimed to show solidarity with an identified struggle against police brutality and then to honor the American flag by standing. These gestures attempted to decouple these two narratives, but somehow many in our country will not allow that to happen. Critics are now dismissing any of these team-organized protests as hollow, gentrified whitewash, and without meaning. But how NFL coaches, players, and owners are considering the issues is surely better than how the NFL brass and ownership have completely missed the boat on other vital issues, like domestic violence and player safety.
If Trump is so hell bent on belittling others and talking tough that he can even threaten the annihilation of North Korea, then NFL owners and coaches must decide how they are going to respond. Can they meaningfully act in solidarity with their predominantly black players while they continue to shun Kaepernick? In my course, we look at athlete activism, and it is clear that athletes such as Paul Robeson, Jackie Robinson, Muhammed Ali, and Billy Jean King were viciously denounced and abused during their playing careers, but eventually were lauded for their courage to stand, or in Kaepernick's case kneel, for what they believe.
I recently heard one radio talk show regular characterize athletes kneeling during the anthem as a "desecration of the flag." It made me think back to the summer of 1968, when I was seven years old. I remember watching two of the American Olympic medalists in the 200 meters, Juan Carlos and Tommy Smith, raise their fists during the playing of the national anthem. Not understanding their gesture, I looked to my father. I do not remember what he said, but he looked at them with disdain. He was an FBI agent and the Black Power salute used by Carlos and Smith was at the time a gesture associated with the Black Panther Party. The director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, saw the Black Panther Party as a violent threat to society. My father was a World War II Army veteran and a US Marine prior to joining the FBI. He spent his career involved in counterintelligence against spies of the former Soviet Union. One of his proudest moments was when the Berlin Wall was demolished in 1989. He continually risked his life and always felt it was a privilege to serve his country.
It is not hard to understand where my father was coming from. He was a patriot and served democratic ideals. But for black Americans it is different: if they speak out to make a more just and equitable society, they are vilified. After the Smith and Carlos protest, they were booed. Smith later that evening in 1968 said, "If I win, I am American, not a black American. But if I did something bad, then they would say I am a Negro. We are black and we are proud of being black. Black America will understand what we did tonight." My father's feeling that it was a privilege to serve his country and defend its democratic ideals was a different sort of struggle than Kaepernick felt compelled to wage. Tommy Smith voiced the ambivalence blacks and other peoples that have suffered a long history of oppression feel.
Fans will soon tire of being confronted daily with the thorny issues of privilege, freedom, and our racist history at sporting events. Sport teams at all levels are more successful when players learn to become more selfless and act in the interest of the team. It is a life lesson that can be drawn from participation in team sports. And teams like the New England Patriots have prospered under the highly conformist culture created by Coach Bill Belichick (Hon.'04). Trump's decrees on Twitter about what forms of protest are acceptable, however, will surely present challenges and opportunities for coaches and teams as they wrestle with societal problems while trying to stay together in the arena.
John McCarthy (SED'04), a School of Education clinical associate professor and director of SED's Institute for Athletic Coach Education, which offers training and education for coaches in the community, particularly those involved in youth sports, can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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About RBC > Media Newsroom > News Releases > RBC Investor & Treasury Services Quarterly Survey: Canadian Pension Assets move higher in Q2
TORONTO, July 28, 2014 - Pension assets increased for a fourth successive quarter as global markets maintained their winning streak during the three months ending June 30, according to the latest survey from RBC Investor & Treasury Services.
Within the $520 billion RBC Investor & Treasury Services All Plans universe – the industry's most comprehensive universe of Canadian pension plans – defined benefit (DB) pension plans returned 3.0 per cent during the second quarter 2014, bringing year-to-date results to 7.8 per cent.
"While assets continue to gain momentum, we can also infer that liabilities have also increased as longer-term bond yields have come down," said Scott MacDonald, managing director, Pensions for RBC Investor & Treasury Services.
Canadian equity remained the top performing asset class as the S&P/TSX Composite Index gained 6.4 per cent in the quarter and 12.9 per cent year-to-date. "The two largest sectors (Financials and Energy) accounted for the bulk of the increase with Energy leading the way as concerns over Iraq helped boost oil stocks," said MacDonald. "Pensions kept pace with the index for the quarter but still lag by 0.2 per cent year-to-date."
"Bonds fared better than most expected as a result of declining interest rates, gaining 2.1 per cent in the quarter and 5.5 per cent over six months. Strength continued to come from the longer end of the curve, pushing year-to-date totals to 9.1 per cent for FTSE/TMX Long Term bonds and 10.7 per cent for FTSE/TMX Real Return Bonds," said MacDonald.
Foreign stock markets also moved higher for the eighth consecutive quarter as the MSCI World Index gained 4.4 per cent in local currency terms, but FX losses resulted in advances of only 1.0 per cent for Canadian pension plans. "Currency volatility has been a key factor affecting performance this year as the Canadian dollar rebounded back to year-end levels against the US dollar and the Euro," added MacDonald. Year-to-date results show foreign assets up 6.4 per cent, which is in line with the World benchmark.
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Articles on alternative fuels for cement and lime
- Written by Peter Edwards, Global Cement Magazine
Entsorga Italia SpA is based in Tortona, Italy. It was founded in 1997 on the basis of leveraging technology to improve environmental protection and standards. Today, Entsorga is a leading provider of technologies such as composting, mechanical biological treatment (MBT) and anaerobic digestion for both organic and municipal solid wastes. Here, the company's Managing Director and President of the Board Pier Cella speaks to Global Cement's Peter Edwards about a new and exciting project with the Essroc Martinsburg cement plant in West Virginia, USA.
- Written by Matt Drew, Saxlund International
Cement production is one of the world's most fuel-intensive industries. Fossil fuels, mostly coal, have tended to be the industry's main power source, although increasingly, cement manufacturers are replacing up to 80% of their fossil fuels with more sustainable waste-derived fuels (WDF). Using WDF reduces production costs and improves energy efficiency. Here Matt Drew, Managing Director of Saxlund International, discusses the challenges faced by Hope Construction Materials in the UK and how these were overcome.
- Written by Neslihan Akgün and Özlem Başaran, Aslan Çimento
Aslan Çimento has been part of OYAK Group since 2009. OYAK Group, one of Turkey's major cement producers, has over 17.5Mt/yr of cement production capacity across six geographically well-positioned cement plants. The Aslan Çimento plant in Kocaeli has 1.25Mt/yr of clinker and 2Mt/yr of cement production capacity. Here, Neslihan Akgün and Özlem Başaran, Environment, Health and Safety Manager and Production Engineer, respectively, from Aslan Çimento describe the results of recent environmental upgrades, including the new solid-recovered fuel (SRF) unit and the waste heat recovery (WHR) system.
The United Nations Climate Change Conference and its influence on HeidelbergCement's alternative fuel strategy
- Written by Sussan Pasuki, Senior Alternative Fuels Manager, Leimen, Germany
Fuel consumption is a key topic in the cement industry given the numerous issues involved, including costs, availability and environmental concerns. Every cement plant must have a well-planned fuel programme to ensure reliable cement production or else risk revenue loss. Here, Sussan Pasuki, Senior Alternative Fuels Manager for HeidelbergCement, outlines HeidelbergCement's alternative fuels strategy in view of the results of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris and its upcoming acquisition of Italcementi.
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