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A Giant Hospital Chain Is Blazing a Profit Trail
A WHISTLE-BLOWER Dr. Abraham Awwad's complaints over the safety of the dialysis programs at two HCA-owned hospitals prompted state investigations.Credit...Edward Linsmier for The New York Times
By Julie Creswell and Reed Abelson
During the Great Recession, when many hospitals across the country were nearly brought to their knees by growing numbers of uninsured patients, one hospital system not only survived — it thrived.
In fact, profits at the health care industry giant HCA, which controls 163 hospitals from New Hampshire to California, have soared, far outpacing those of most of its competitors.
The big winners have been three private equity firms — including Bain Capital, co-founded by Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate — that bought HCA in late 2006.
HCA's robust profit growth has raised the value of the firms' holdings to nearly three and a half times their initial investment in the $33 billion deal.
The financial performance has been so impressive that HCA has become a model for the industry. Its success inspired 35 buyouts of hospitals or chains of facilities in the last two and a half years by private equity firms eager to repeat that windfall.
HCA's emergence as a powerful leader in the hospital industry is all the more remarkable because only a decade ago the company was badly shaken by a wide-ranging Medicare fraud investigation that it eventually settled for more than $1.7 billion.
Among the secrets to HCA's success: It figured out how to get more revenue from private insurance companies, patients and Medicare by billing much more aggressively for its services than ever before; it found ways to reduce emergency room overcrowding and expenses; and it experimented with new ways to reduce the cost of its medical staff, a move that sometimes led to conflicts with doctors and nurses over concerns about patient care.
In late 2008, for instance, HCA changed the billing codes it assigned to sick and injured patients who came into the emergency rooms. Almost overnight, the numbers of patients who HCA said needed more care, which would be paid for at significantly higher levels by Medicare, surged.
HCA, which had lagged the industry for those high-paying categories, jumped ahead of its competitors and was reimbursed accordingly. The change, which HCA's executives said better reflected the service being provided, increased operating earnings by nearly $100 million in the first quarter of 2009.
To some, HCA successfully pushed the envelope in its interpretation of existing Medicare rules. "If HCA can do it, why can't we?" asked a hospital consulting firm, the Advisory Board Company, in a presentation to its clients.
In one instance, HCA executives said a private insurer, which it declined to name, questioned the new billing system, forcing it to return some of the money it had collected.
The hospital giant also adopted a policy meant to address an issue that bedevils hospitals nationwide — reducing costs and overcrowding in its emergency rooms. For years, the hospital emergency room has been used by the uninsured as a de facto doctor's office — a place for even the most minor of ailments. But emergency care is expensive and has become increasingly burdensome to hospitals in the last decade because of the rising number of uninsured patients.
HCA decided not to treat patients who came in with nonurgent conditions, like a cold or the flu or even a sprained wrist, unless those patients paid in advance. In a recent statement, HCA said that of the six million patients treated in its emergency rooms last year, 80,000, or about 1.3 percent, " chose to seek alternative care options."
"Many E.R.'s in America, particularly in densely populated urban areas where most HCA-affiliated facilities are located, have adopted a variety of systems to determine whether a patient in fact needs emergency care," the statement said. "About half our hospitals have done so. Typically, our affiliated hospitals have two caregivers — usually a triage nurse and a physician — make that determination. It should be noted that other non-HCA affiliated hospitals are using similar processes to address E.R. issues."
As HCA's profits and influence grew, strains arose with doctors and nurses over whether the chain's pursuit of profit may have, at times, come at the expense of patient care.
HCA had put in place a flexible staffing system that allowed it to estimate the number of patients it would have each day in its hospitals and alter the number of nurses it needed accordingly.
Several nurses interviewed said they were concerned that the system sometimes had led to inadequate staffing in important areas like critical care. In one measure of adequate staffing — the prevalence of bedsores in patients bedridden for long periods of time — HCA clearly struggled. Some of its hospitals fended off lawsuits over the problem in recent years, and were admonished by regulators over staffing issues more than once.
'Through the Roof'
Many doctors interviewed at various HCA facilities said they had felt increased pressure to focus on profits under the private equity ownership. "Their profits are going through the roof, but, unfortunately, it's occurring at the expense of patients," said Dr. Abraham Awwad, a kidney specialist in St. Petersburg, Fla., whose complaints over the safety of the dialysis programs at two HCA-owned hospitals prompted state investigations.
One facility was fined $8,000 in 2008 and $14,000 last year for delaying the start of dialysis in patients, not administering physician-prescribed drugs and not documenting whether ordered tests had been performed.
Claiming he provided poor care, the other hospital did not renew Dr. Awwad's privileges. Dr. Awwad is suing to have them reinstated. HCA declined to comment. HCA says it stands by its procedures, billing practices and level of care.
HCA says that more than 80 percent of its hospitals ranked among the top 10 percent in the country for federal quality measures, compared with 13 percent in 2006 when it went private. Last year, the company provided a $2.68 billion provision for charity care. And under the control of its private equity owners, HCA has invested around $8 billion in its hospitals in the last five years, according to Securities and Exchange Commission findings.
"You must know that we firmly believe that there is no sustainable business model as a health care delivery system that does not have at its core the provision of high-quality patient care and services," HCA's chief executive, Richard M. Bracken, wrote in an e-mail to The New York Times last year. Achieving a balance between profit and care is harder for investor-owned hospitals like HCA than for others, some experts say. "If you were a for-profit hospital with investors and shareholders," said Paul Levy, a former nonprofit hospital executive in Boston unaffiliated with HCA, "there would be a natural tendency to be more aggressive and to seek more revenues." Executives at profit-making hospitals are "judged in greater measure by profitability" than the administrators of nonprofit hospitals, he said.
Profit-making systems like HCA are often in a better position to invest in improving their hospitals and taking advantage of the latest in new technology. Their sheer size often allows them to negotiate lower prices for everything from X-ray machines to pharmaceuticals, which can, in theory at least, be passed onto consumers.
But some of HCA's tactics are now under scrutiny by the Justice Department. Last week, HCA disclosed that the United States attorney's office in Miami has requested information about cardiac procedures at 10 of its hospitals in Florida and elsewhere.
HCA's cardiac business is extremely lucrative, and the Justice Department has requested reviews that HCA conducted that indicate some of the heart procedures at some of its hospitals might not have been necessary and resulted in unjustified reimbursements from Medicare and other insurers.
To analyze HCA's business model, The Times examined federal and state hospital records, lawsuits and regulatory investigations, and interviewed dozens of current and former doctors, nurses and administrators. It also carried out an extensive data analysis based on statistics from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration and the American Hospital Directory, a private company that processes and resells federal health care data.
The story of HCA's growth offers a window on the changing world of health care. Small and nonprofit hospitals are closing or being gobbled up by medical conglomerates, many of which operate for a profit and therefore try to increase revenue and reduce costs even as they improve patient care. The trend toward consolidation is likely to accelerate under the Obama administration's health care law as hospitals grapple with what are expected to be lower reimbursements from the federal and state governments and private insurers.
HCA has a dynamic history and powerful political ties. It was co-founded in 1968 by members of the Tennessee family of Dr. Thomas Frist Sr., the father of the former Republican senator, William Frist, also a doctor.
Its boom years were in the mid-1990s when the hospital system, then called HCA-Hospital Corporation of America, merged with the Columbia Healthcare Corporation, a hospital group led by Rick Scott, now governor of Florida.
Columbia/HCA became the target of a widespread fraud investigation in the late 1990s, which led to one of the largest Medicare settlements ever. Mr. Scott was removed as chief executive by the board, but was never accused by regulators of wrongdoing.
After years of rebuilding, HCA's earnings began to weaken in early 2006 as admissions for operations at its hospitals tumbled, according to documents filed with the S.E.C. The weaker earnings in turn drove down the stock of the publicly traded company.
That spring, a group of investment bankers from Merrill Lynch approached top HCA executives to discuss a buyout by private equity firms.
The Merrill bankers found a receptive audience. Thomas F. Frist Jr., a board member, co-founder and brother of Senator Frist, had been a longtime investor in Bain Capital's buyout funds and contacted the firm to gauge its interest in acquiring HCA through a leveraged buyout and taking it private again, according to S.E.C. documents. A leveraged buyout is an acquisition of a company that is done with large amounts of borrowed money.
Other executives contacted Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company, and the Merrill bankers brought the firm's own private equity team to invest in the deal, according to S.E.C. documents.
That July, HCA said it was being acquired in a deal valued at $33 billion.
The buyout came with risks. The new owners, who now occupied the majority of seats on HCA's board, contributed only about $1.2 billion apiece in equity outlay from funds they oversaw, borrowing around $16 billion and assuming $11.7 billion of HCA's outstanding debt. The deal essentially doubled the amount of debt held by HCA hospitals to $26 billion by borrowing from banks and selling bonds.
The Frist family also invested, as did other Wall Street banks. Among the new owners were top managers, including Jack O. Bovender Jr., then HCA's chief, and its president, Mr. Bracken, who became chief executive in January 2009.
In 2010, buoyed by robust growth in profit, HCA was able to issue billions of dollars in debt that was used to pay funds overseen by the three buyout firms nearly $1 billion in dividends — each. In the spring of 2011, in one of the most closely watched public offerings since the financial crisis, HCA became a public company once again. Its three buyout owners each sold another $500 million worth of stock, allowing them to recoup all their initial investment.
Last fall, HCA agreed to buy back the stake held by Bank of America, which had purchased Merrill Lynch in 2009, for $1.5 billion, giving the bank a return of two and a half times its initial investment. And earlier this year, HCA paid out $900 million in dividends, of which $360 million went to K.K.R. and Bain.
The 40 percent stake in HCA still held by K.K.R. and Bain is worth about $4.8 billion at current levels, giving them a potential profit, with the dividends they have received, of three and a half times their initial investment of $1.2 billion each.
Those returns caught the attention of other buyout firms. In 2010, Steward Health Care System, controlled by Cerberus Capital Management and based in Boston, bought the second-largest hospital group in Massachusetts, converting it to a profit-making system. That same year, Vanguard Health Systems, which is run for profit and still has Blackstone Group as its largest shareholder after going public in 2011, bought eight hospitals in Detroit.
HCA itself continues to grow, buying up hospitals and doctor groups across the country. Large hospitals "will be best positioned to deal with forthcoming changes. Size and scale definitely provides an advantage in terms of lowering our cost structure and sharing best practices," said HCA's chief executive, Mr. Bracken. All of which, he added, were "essential ingredients for success."
Redefining Emergency Care
Several years ago, digital billboards began popping up along highways throughout Florida, featuring the image of a painter falling from a ladder and the message, "Accidents happen fast. Emergency care should too." Like highway signs that list the travel times to various destinations, the billboards flashed in real time the emergency room wait times — 17 minutes, for example, or 45 minutes — at nearby HCA hospitals.
HCA wanted to attract more patients to its emergency rooms, and it did. Annual visits climbed 20 percent from 2007 to 2011.
But while emergency departments are often a critical source of patient admissions, they are frequently money-losers because many patients do not have insurance. HCA found a solution: it figured out how to be paid more for the patients it was seeing.
All hospitals use a system of codes to bill services to Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers. The codes, which require some subjective evaluation, are supposed to reflect how much care is being delivered. Hospitals can differ over which treatments require which codes. A patient who walks into the emergency room with a simple case of indigestion would be classified by the hospital as using very little of its resources. The hospital would be reimbursed just $50 by Medicare for its evaluation.
A patient who might be suffering a heart attack might require oxygen, be placed on a cardiac monitor and transported for a CT scan. The hospital would classify those services at the highest level, earning it a $323 reimbursement from Medicare.
At HCA in 2006, slightly more than a quarter of the payments it received from Medicare were for patients classified in the two highest-paying categories, far behind the 58 percent reported at other hospitals, according to an analysis of Medicare payments by The Times, using data provided by the American Hospital Directory.
During that time, HCA was still operating under a corporate integrity agreement resulting from its Medicare fraud settlement, and an independent reviewer was scrutinizing its billing.
By late 2008, however, just as the agreement with federal regulators was ending, HCA introduced a new coding system for its emergency rooms. HCA said the system, based on a method developed by the American College of Emergency Physicians, was less complicated and better captured the time and resources used by the hospital.
Nearly overnight, HCA's patients appeared to be much, much sicker. By 2010, HCA had surpassed other hospitals, with 76 percent of its payments coming from the two most expensive classifications, versus 74 percent for other hospitals.
For individual HCA hospitals, the change made a big difference. At Riverside Community Hospital in California, Medicare reimbursements for the highest classifications surged to $949,000 in 2010, from $48,000 in 2006. Likewise, at Kendall Regional Medical Center in Miami, Medicare payments jumped to $1.5 million from $69,000. In a conference call in early 2009 with Wall Street analysts, HCA's executives said that the change in the billing system had increased the company's adjusted earnings by about 7 percent, or $75 million to $100 million, in a single quarter.
Behind the scenes, however, HCA executives said they realized the new system was causing too many of its patients to land in the highest-paying categories. HCA's head of ethics and compliance, Alan R. Yuspeh, said in a telephone interview last year that the company had identified the problem shortly after introducing the system and changed it to bring the company in line with the national average.
Still, HCA reported similar results in the next quarter.
Medicare has not provided hospitals with clear guidance about what kind of coding system they should use, and Mr. Yuspeh said HCA had alerted the agency to its use of the new system. No one has accused HCA of up-coding, or billing for more expensive services that were not needed — one of the complaints made against it a decade ago.
Vicki Bryan at the research firm GimmeCredit began warning HCA's bondholders who subscribe to her reports in the spring of 2009 that HCA's model was bolstering short-term returns, but that the system could have potentially negative long-term consequences if Medicare balked and demanded reimbursements.
So far there is no indication Medicare has done so, and a spokeswoman declined to comment. The acting head of Medicare is Marilyn B. Tavenner, a former HCA executive who left there in 2005 to become the secretary of Health and Human Resources in Virginia.
Turning Away Patients
Changing billing codes wasn't the only avenue HCA pursued in search of higher profits.
Like many hospitals, HCA said its emergency rooms were overcrowded with patients who had minor illnesses like the flu rather than emergencies that it was obligated under federal law to treat. The company was among the first hospital systems to impose a protocol to reduce the number of patients it treated who did not seem to have a true medical emergency and were either unwilling or unable to pay.
Patients whose ailments were not deemed urgent were told to go somewhere else, like a free clinic, or that they could be treated if they paid the co-payment for their insurance or around $150 in cash.
Several former emergency department doctors at Lawnwood Regional Medical Center in Fort Pierce, Fla., said they frequently had felt compelled to override the screening system in order to treat patients.
One doctor, who asked not to be identified because he still works as an emergency physician, recalled one episode in which he was told to turn away a young boy with a deep cut in his arm because it was not bleeding profusely and he therefore did not meet the criteria.
"Physicians had a really, really hard time with it," said Dr. J. Patrick Pearsall, who worked for an emergency physician group based in Houston that worked in HCA hospitals. When the doctors failed to meet the hospital's goals for how many patients should be considered emergencies, "they really started putting pressure on."
One emergency room doctor who worked at an HCA Florida hospital said doctors had been told they had targets to hit. The doctors' concerns about the screening policy were acknowledged in an e-mail reviewed by The Times that was sent to the doctors at the hospital in early 2008 by an outside company that worked in the emergency room.
The doctors were told HCA's regional executives were "quite intent on pursuing this program at least for the time being and fully expects us to comply. Their expectations are that approximately 15 percent of all patients are to be screened and of those screened no more than 35 percent overridden."
Regulators in several states have taken HCA hospitals to task over screening out patients too aggressively, including situations where the screening missed serious conditions.
SURGICAL STAY GONE AWRY AT AN HCA HOSPITAL George Clay Chandler before and after complications from a weight-loss operation. A jury awarded him $178 million, but he agreed to a settlement.Credit...Family photo; Sarah Beth Glicksteen for The New York Times
In early 2010, an uninsured patient who entered HCA's TriStar Skyline Medical Center in Nashville, complaining of "pain when breathing," was sent away. An hour and a half later, at another hospital, the same patient was found to have pneumonia, according to the results of a Medicare investigation. Regulators cited Skyline for having "failed to ensure that an appropriate medical screening examination was conducted."
This year, the Office of Inspector General fined HCA's Northside Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., $38,000 for sending home a feverish patient with an artificial heart valve. Two days later, the patient reappeared with the flu and severe respiratory problems. The following day, he died.
HCA officials say they instituted the screening system to reduce overcrowding in emergency rooms. The company said its hospitals were providing quality care to patients and attended to any patients with medical emergencies, fulfilling their obligations under federal law. "Our E.R.'s are designed to offer access to everyone who needs emergency care," the company said in a statement this year. And HCA says it never instituted quotas.
Still, some executives at other hospitals say HCA's screening process is troubling. "From a business perspective, if you're in Nashville, you're high-fiving each other," said John Couris, chief executive of Jupiter Medical, a rival Florida hospital. "But from a public policy perspective, it's the wrong thing to do."
Bedsores are ugly, painful wounds that can easily become infected and lead to dangerous complications for patients in hospitals.
Bedsores are also fairly easy to prevent. If nurses check patients regularly and turn them or, in certain cases, put patients on air mattresses that redistribute pressure, many bedsores can be prevented or treated early.
A Matter of Staff Levels
Experts say there is often a direct correlation between bedsores and the quality of hospital staff levels. "Staffing is critical," said Courtney H. Lyder, the dean at the UCLA School of Nursing and an expert on wound care. "When you see high levels of wounds, you usually see a high level of dysfunctional staff," he said.
HCA owned eight of the 15 worst hospitals for bedsores among 545 profit-making hospitals nationwide, each with more than 1,000 patient discharges, tracked by the Sunlight Foundation using Medicare data from October 2008 to June 2010. HCA's West Houston Medical Center and CJW Medical Center in Richmond, Va., landed near the top of the list.
HCA says it has increased its nursing staff at its hospitals each year over the last five years. But an examination of lawsuits shows bedsore problems have been persistent at several HCA facilities. In Portsmouth Regional Hospital in New Hampshire, a 60-year-old woman died in 2009 after her bedsores went untreated for three days and became infected, according to a wrongful-death lawsuit filed in the spring of 2011 in federal court against the hospital. HCA denied the claims in court documents.
And bedsores were partly responsible for forever altering the life of George Clay Chandler, a lieutenant in the Clay County sheriff's office in north Florida. Five years ago, Mr. Chandler decided to undergo weight-loss surgery. A mountain of a man at 6-foot-1 and 375 pounds, Mr. Chandler entered Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville for what seemed like a relatively simple operation.
But when Mr. Chandler emerged two months later, he was a changed man. He was unable to speak. His eyes were badly damaged, his limbs contorted, and he suffered from a large, painful bedsore on his buttock.
While some of Mr. Chandler's injuries occurred at the hands of an inexperienced surgeon, according to a lawsuit in a county court, many more developed while he lay, virtually unattended, in the hospital's critical care unit. One nurse, who quit Memorial after repeatedly warning executives about what she saw as a shortage of qualified nurses on staff, testified that Mr. Chandler's bedsores could have been easily prevented.
Memorial was the focus of six civil lawsuits by former patients who claimed, among other things, that they had received poor care and suffered bedsores. Five of those lawsuits were settled for undisclosed sums.
The hospital was cited twice by Florida regulators, in 2008 and 2010, for having inadequate numbers of nurses on its staff to oversee wound care for patients. During the 2010 examination, regulators noted that Memorial had less than the equivalent of two full-time nurses who specialized in wound care to treat the 132 patients who required aid.
"The system of treatment for wound care places patients at risk for additional medical complications," the examiners said.
The hospital said it had taken corrective measures in response to the shortfalls cited by Florida regulators.
HCA says its hospitals have improved and, citing its own internal analysis, says its rate of bedsores is now below the national average. "We recognize some hospitals within our company are achieving better results than others, and this provides opportunities to learn from our top performers and apply those lessons broadly," the company said in a statement last year.
Earlier this year, a jury awarded Mr. Chandler and his family $178 million in damages. This month, Memorial and HCA, which had appealed the jury's verdict, reached a confidential settlement with Mr. Chandler's family.


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We Know You Don't Really Read Privacy Policies. This AI Can Do It For You.
The browser extension visualizes "the interesting stuff" in privacy policies in just 30 seconds.
Dom Galeon February 10th 2018
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/Machine Learning
Visualized Summaries
"I have read and understood…" has got to be one of the biggest lies people commit on a regular basis. It's the typical ending for the long-winded customer agreements or privacy policies attached to every online service, which few ever read. Or at least, not in their entirety.
When humankind finds something difficult, we typically build a gizmo to do it for us — and this case is no different. It turns out, reading lengthy fine-print is the expertise of a machine-learning artificial intelligence (AI) designed by researchers from the Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL), the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Michigan. Their research began with a question, said lead researcher Hamza Harkous from EPFL.
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"What if we visualize what's in the policy for the user?" Harkous said in an interview with WIRED. "Not to give every piece of the policy, but just the interesting stuff."
The question led to Polisis, which is short for "privacy policy analysis." It works as a website and browser extension that can read and make sense of terribly long privacy policies in web services that cost users both time and, ultimately, money. Polisis can pull a website's privacy policy and read it in around 30 seconds. It then comes up with a summary and a graphic flowchart that highlights how the online service handles a user's data.
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The researchers trained Polisis using data sets from 115 privacy policies, analyzed and annotated by Fordham Law students, and 130,000 others taken from Google Play Store apps. What makes this AI appealing is how it's able to transform a boring, wordy privacy policy into something that's digestible. And if users are still having trouble with aspects of the agreement, the researchers have another service on their website — an AI-powered chatbot called PriBot that users can discuss privacy policies with.
Google's privacy policy, summarized by Polisis. Image credit: Polisis, screenshot
Despite internet users claiming to have read a privacy policy, only about 20 percent actually do. Even then, they don't necessarily understand the legal language embroidered with verbosity in every policy. That's why Polisis could be so useful — helping internet users protect their privacy similarly to how a lawyer chatbot helped resolve driver's parking ticket issues.
A bit of a fine print here, though. Even with a powerful tool like Polisis, the barest minimum effort is still required from the human user. In other words, a policy summary is not helpful if you don't actually bother to read it. The AI can help, but human users have to help themselves first.
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Soliloquies in solitude
John William Moses
Virginia Woolf and the romantic imagination
by John William Moses
Woolf, Virginia, -- 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation,
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Statement by John William Moses
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In Soliloquies, Book II. 14 Augustine is trapped by his faulty reasoning, admits his embarrassment at the rash conclusions he proposed in the course of dis cussion, and is comforted by Reason, who argues that there is no shame in making a mistake, as long as he conducts his meditations in solitude. It is then. POND By Claire-Louise Bennett pp. Riverhead Books. $ "Pond," a sharp, funny and eccentric debut from Claire-Louise Bennett, is one of those books .
Solitude offers another way of seeing. When we are open to discover and to receive, the mystery of solitude purifies the sight, the seeing, the beholding of each person. When solitude brings us to God, God brings us into new vision. This book is directed to all who seek God and who long to 'see' God and to know God s ways more s: 4. Genre/Form: Essays: Additional Physical Format: Online version: Unamuno, Miguel de, Essays and soliloquies. New York, Knopf, (OCoLC)
Down in my solitude under the snow, Where nothing cheering can reach me; Here, without light to see how to grow, I'll trust to nature to teach me. I will not despair, nor be idle, nor frown, Lock'd in so gloomy a dwelling; My leaves shall run up, and my roots shall run down, While the bud in my bosom is swelling. Soon as the frost will get out. An illustration of an open book. Books. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video. An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio. An illustration of a " floppy disk. Software. An illustration of two photographs. Full text of "The Soliloquies of St. Augustine".
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The Soliloquies alone are written down by Augustine himself as "they cannot be dictated, since they demand absolute solitude (Book I, 1)." In these various books, written at Casciago and in the Confessions, Augustine gives us many glimpses of his life there. The Solitude Soliloquies lore books of the Elder Scrolls Online character Hudsonhawker in the ESO-Database.
This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Accept. This is not a book about solitude. It is a book about writing a book about solitude. Harris, by his own admission is not qualified to write about solitude in any deep sense.
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Trapped in solitude, she finds herself lapsing into soliloquies that reflect a divided, confused, and desperate self. The Child-Swain Alice is the most responsible "character" in the story; in fact, she is the only real person and the only "true" character.
This passage comes from Chapter 3, when Mustapha Mond is explaining the history of the World State to the group of boys touring the Hatchery."Mother, monogamy, romance" can be seen as a concise summary of exactly the issues with which John will be most concerned.Soliloquies in Solitude Published by User, 10 years ago There is no getting around it, this is a novel about old age and loneliness.In Soliloquies, Book II Augustine is trapped by his faulty reasoning, admits his embarrassment at the rash conclusions he proposed in the course of discussion, and is comforted by Reason, who argues that there is no shame in making a mistake, as long as he conducts his meditations in solitude.
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Classic Rock Radio (Dot CO Dot UK)
Original Date
ClassicRockRadio.co.uk Concert Time Machine
Target: Asia in Houston TX 2001
Makeup Date
Finally declassified by the usual suspects, a report has emerged written by yours truly, that this July 9th, would be the 14th anniversary of it's first presentation. Why not wait until this coming July 8th to spring forth again you ask? You know, I really don't have an answer for that. Guess I'm impatient. Cut & pasted for your enjoyment, a much younger Uncle G's special report on seeing the supergroup Asia in concert in Houston Texas, the year being 2001.
Note: Due to this being more than a decade later, technological advances make it possible for me to accompany images. Just text the first time around. All would be from my own personal collection. Please don't use without my permission. Used in kind with theirs (hopefully). And so it was written...and so it's now done.
Hey Asia / YesRelated Fans,
Here's my report from PointFest. HeatFest is more like it. The
first time scheduled to play, we had the flooding here in Houston. Talking to
a guy the day before who was in the Congo during that, he told me he was
watching in horror the reports on television. A day Houston will never
forget. And with yesterdays heat attack, a day all in attendance and I'm sure
the guys in Asia will never forget either.
I got their early so I could get up front. And I did. Front row center. Hours
later I'll find myself right in front of John. Until then, I had to survive
through the heat, and occupy my boredom through the four bands that was gonna play before Asia. I wasn't sure if I would make it. In all respects, the
bands were all good. It was the sun. Simply overwhelming. I spent a small
fortune just in water and ices. A couple next to me left after the first
band. The lady was getting sick. She just about passed out. I should have
invested a few bucks in sunscreen. My back is solid red. Sunburn you would
not believe. To make it a little more interesting, during Berlin, a fight
broke out. Right next to me. After the couple left I just mentioned, I became
friends with the small group that unfortunately ended up being involved. And
they were real nice to me too. They took it upon themselves to make sure I
was okay with the heat. And the fight happened so fast. Before I knew it, the
cops were there. Handcuffs and maze. Not a pretty sight. All because a few
people cut in front of them and blocked their view of the stage. My main
thought was that I could not get arrested because I didn't see Asia yet. I
was now on a mission that I was determined to complete. I just moved over.
The group that befriended me were arrested and taken away never to be seen
again. The members in Berlin watched what was going on while playing, and
didn't miss a beat during the whole commotion. I'm sure this will be a gig
they won't forget about soon.
Finally, the reason why I was there. It was Asia's turn. I didn't write a set
list. I did take some pictures. The guys were fabulous! With just the Roger
Dean drawing of their new album cover behind them, they gave an impression
that was 100% professional. Even before they took the stage, once everything
was set up, the keyboards, the drums with the cool Asia logo, gave an
appearance that the crowd was about to see a top-notch band.
Asia in Concert:Photo by Gary Brown
Turn out according to the radio station who sponsored the show was good. Kids
to old people were in attendance. And I could see the Asia fans in their
either new or older tee-shirts. Another couple I ran into, drove three hours
just to see them. People were spread throughout the park. In the pit where
the stage was, and on top of the hill. Their were even people on the next
property over enjoying what was for them a free show.
Asia in Concert: Photo by Gary Brown
Needless to say, when the band played the classics, the place went nuts. I
was so impressed with the way John, Guthrie, and Chris played those songs.
The diehard "classic" fans can say all they want, but these guys played these
songs with style and flare, making it obvious the respect they had for the
original music. And they looked like they were having so much fun playing
them too. Smiles were plentiful from the band. Funny thing, because the crowd
was so diverse, several in attendance didn't know the difference as to the
fact that all these four played on the originals or not. The kids, the
teenagers, the older people, the fans of the other bands who played before,
no one really cared. By looking at their actions, they enjoyed it, and that's
all that matters.
The new material went over well. It was a pleasant surprise for this "Day 1"
Asia fan to look around and see how much the crowd really seemed to be liking the new stuff.
One of my favorite moments of the show was watching the band perform the
title track from their last CD entitled, Arena. Again, a pleasant surprise as to how much the crowd got into that. A favorite song of mine from the Payne era, I
watched teenagers dance and really getting into that, with the odds being
good that this was the first time they were hearing the song. A first time
for everyone involves an "unreleased song", an instrumental, that was played
whose credit went to Guthrie. Hopefully this crowd pleaser will appear on the
next Asia CD.
Once the band walked off the stage, according to the couple who drove three
hours to see the band play, it was well worth it. From hearing Geoff play
Video Star to the newest material, the unreleased Guthrie rocker, the band
covered themselves well.
Afterwards, the whole band came out for a meet and greet. Gracious, funny,
humble, accommodating, these words come to mind. Obviously I was already a fan before I got there, but after being around the band in a more personal setting, I walked away with a new found admiration / respect for these guys. There was a nice size crowd there, so not wanting to take advantage, I got a couple things signed. I had Geoff sign The Buggles, Age Of Plastic CD, as well as
his solo release The Light Program. Chris signed the Firm's first release,
and an AC/DC Live that I had on cassette. And of course the pullout ripped.
But who better to damage it, but Chris. "Ripped in half by Chris Slade", too
cool. Guthrie signed my Aura CD, putting "Houston 2001" under his name. And
John was last. What a great sense of humor this guy has. Anyway, I walked up
to him after he had walked aside talking to a couple people. I mentioned the
AOL chat he just did, and he proceeded to talk about that, sounding happy
about the experience. He signed Aura for me, and Arena. What ended up the
icing on the cake, I got my picture taken with the group before I left.
Left to Right: Guthrie Govan, Chris Slade, ClassicRockRadio.co.uk - Gary Brown, John Payne, and Geoff Downes.
I intended for this to be a short report. I guess I had a few things to say,
and I'm glad I sat here and typed it out. Of course I want Asia to come back
to Houston. Hopefully with this lineup. And perhaps on a double bill, and
please guys, think seriously about being booked in an indoor venue.
Houston, TX.
NOWADAYS on Twitter @GBrown0816
BONUS IMAGES / SCANS
In Person Autographs: From the Gary & Alexandra Brown Autograph Collection
01. Inside CD Asia - Aura (2000): Guthrie Govan, and John Payne
02. Inside CD The Firm - The Firm (1984): Chris Slade
03. Backside of The Buggles - Age Of Plastic (1980): Geoff Downes
04. Front cover of Asia - Arena (1996): John Payne
Asia - Aura (2000)
The Firm - The Firm (1984)
Asia - Arena (1996)
The Buggles - Age Of Plastic 1980
Geoff Downes The Light Program (1987)
BONUS VIDEO
Asia - Same line-up performing a Guthrie Govan composition entitled; Bad Asteroid.
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A: Use a Timeline to update the imageProperty of an ImageView:
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        StackPane root = new StackPane();
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        primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(root, 800, 600));
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I have been happily burning discs all week, and then last night as I removed a freshly burnt disc, I entered another to burn the same files, and suddenly I cannot burn.
I use ImgBurn, but I think this isn't necessarily limited just to this program.
Any ideas what has suddenly happened? Urgently need to get some discs posted for family for Xmas!
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Section 2: Chapman Privacy Practices
Chapman University Use of Personal Information
Chapman University recognizes the importance of protecting the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of personal information. Consequently, we have instituted the set of information practices and rights described below. Please note that this page offers some links to external sites, to which these privacy practices and rights do not apply.
What Personal Information Does Chapman University Hold? How Is It Obtained?
We collect basic personal information (such as Name, Organization name, Organization state, Contact information, Job title, Postal address, E-mail address, Phone, Personal URL, Academic major/minor) ONLY if you provide it to us voluntarily through e-mail, electronic forms, surveys, inquiries, or otherwise.
Other information that may be held includes but is not limited to:
Special Needs Information; as in a speaker or faculty member at a Chapman University event or that of one of its affiliates (we maintain biographical information used in the event)
Online programs as well as evaluation results submitted by attendees after your session(s). If you participate in a secured SharePoint Team Web site, we collect site access and contribution information.
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses persistent cookies to analyze how users use this site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators, and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. Learn more about Google's Privacy Policy and the Google Analytics Terms of Service.
We use cookies to help manage secure web site sessions such as online forms or surveys. A cookie is a piece of data that is either maintained only for the duration of a particular session visit or is stored on the user's computer to support future visits. By continuing to browse on Chapman websites or by clicking "accept all cookies," the user agrees to the storing of first- and third-party cookies on user device to enhance site navigation, analyze site usage, and assist in Chapman marketing efforts.
Session cookie – This type of cookie is used to enhance and make more efficient the user's experience during a site visit. Once the user closes the browser, the cookie terminates.
Persistent cookie – This type of cookie stores a small text file on the user's hard drive for an extended period of time to remember visit activity that will help make subsequent visits more efficient. Persistent cookies can be removed by following the user's Internet browser help directions.
How Does Chapman University Secure Your Personal Information?
The personal information we collect is stored in databases and files that are protected by passwords and firewalls. In addition, online forms used for financial transactions are secured with SSL encryption technology to ensure the safety of sensitive information transmitted through them.
How Does Chapman University Use Your Personal Information?
We use anonymous, aggregated data about Web site visitors' site usage and technical capabilities as well as about HTML message opening and click-through rates to improve online services and communications.
How Does Chapman University Handle Legally Issued Subpoenas and Law Enforcement Agency Requests?
Chapman University may disclose personal information if we are required to do so to comply with the law or with legal process.
Is credit card / transaction information secure on this Web site?
We care about the safety and security of your transaction. We use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) to communicate with your browser software when you register with us online. SSL is the industry standard security protocol, which makes it extremely difficult for anyone else to intercept your credit card or other information that you send us.
We have partnered with the commercial Internet financial service, TouchNet to handle credit card transactions, and we do not store credit card information after the transaction is processed. See TouchNet's privacy policy.
What Other Exceptions Are There?
Chapman University reserves the right to use personal information in its database to identify the source of any inappropriate use of information resources managed by the association, including but not limited to: offensive or illegal postings to online discussion lists, collaboration sites, and other communication vehicles; denial of service actions; unauthorized use of online services and network infrastructure; misuse or unauthorized use of the Chapman University name, logo, or other representations of the association; and to protect the personal safety and privacy of our members, online users, and the public under the policies and practices described above.
This is the privacy policy for the Common App which we use for undergraduate students to apply to Chapman:
https://www.commonapp.org/privacy-policy
This is the privacy policy on PCTAS which we use for students to apply to Chapman's Physical Therapy doctorate program:
http://www.ptcas.org/PrivacyPolicy/
This is the legal notice LSAC which we use for students applying to Chapman's Law School:
http://www.lsac.org/aboutlsac/policies/privacy-policy
This is the privacy policy for Star Rez which we use for Residence Life's Housing Request system:
http://www.starrez.com/privacy.aspx
This is the privacy policy for OrgSync which we use for Student & Campus Life's clubs and organizations:
http://www.orgsync.com/legal/privacy
This is the privacy policy for Hobson's which we use for new student inquiries, campus visits and VIP pages for prospective students:
https://www.hobsons.com/privacy-policy
Office 365 and Gmail are the official student email accounts for all University email communications with its students. For student email services, the University has contracted with Microsoft as the provider of Office 365 and Google as the provider of Gmail (collectively "the Providers").
Under the Providers' terms of service, the University may respond to a third party's request for student email records. A "Third Party Request" means a request from a third party for records related to a student's Gmail or Office 365 account or other student related Provider service records. Third Party Requests include, but may not be limited to, a search warrant, court order, subpoena, litigation discovery or legal preservation hold request, other valid legal order, or a written consent from the student permitting disclosure. If the University receives a Third Party Request, it may interface with Microsoft or Google to obtain or preserve the requested records or direct the requestor to contact the Provider or the student directly.
Similarly, the University may also preserve a student's Office 365 or Gmail records and other student related Provider service records by way of the Provider's interface when the University receives notice of a disciplinary or other matter involving the student, a claim, potential litigation or other legal duty to preserve the records.
While students may use University provided Office 365 and Gmail accounts for personal communications, students are reminded that the primary purpose of the accounts are for University related communications.
Is my Student email account secure and private?
As stated above, Office 365 and Gmail are the official student email accounts for all University email communications with its students.
The University provides Office 365 and Gmail to students to support the educational, research, and public service missions of the University. The Chapman University Computer and Network Acceptable Use Policy applies to these Microsoft and Google online education services. In addition, all Microsoft and Google apps usage are governed by their own terms of service that all Chapman users are required to abide by.
Student email and account data may include personally identifiable information from the student's education records that are subject to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act ("FERPA"). To the extent that student data includes FERPA records, Microsoft and Google acting as the Providers will each be considered a "School Official" (as that term is used in FERPA and its implementing regulations) and will comply with FERPA.
Both Microsoft and Google provide additional settings and tools within the account that let you protect your data and privacy.
Read more about the security and privacy for Microsoft and Google at:
Google Policies: https://www.google.com/policies/
Microsoft Policies: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/trustcenter/Security/Office365Security
What should I do if I have questions?
If you have questions about our privacy policy, please contact servicedesk@chapman.edu.
By using this site, you signify your consent to Chapman University's on-line privacy policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use this site. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to update, change, modify, add, or remove portions of this policy from time to time.
This Privacy Policy has been developed with the recognition that Internet technologies are rapidly evolving and that underlying standard business models are still not well established. Accordingly, this Privacy & Security Statement is subject to change. Any such changes will be posted on this page.
Reporting Copyright Infringements
In accordance with Title II of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Chapman University has designated an agent DMCA-agent@chapman.edu to receive notification of a claim of copyright infringement for the Chapman University network domain. To report a claim of possible copyright infringement, please refer to our DMCA Notification Agent page.
OFFICE RESPONSIBLE FOR POLICY
Name of Office: Information Services & Technology
Contact information for questions about this policy: privacy@chapman.edu
WEBSITE ADDRESS FOR THIS POLICY
https://www.chapman.edu/campus-services/information-systems/policies-and-procedures/privacy-policy.aspx
WHO APPROVED THIS POLICY
Senior Staff member submitting the policy: Helen Norris
Date approved: August 13th, 2019
Effective: August 19th, 2019
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Titans honor six officers from Nashville Christmas Day explosion at playoff game
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department
By JON HAWORTH, ABC News
(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — The Tennessee Titans honored the six first responders responsible for safely evacuating residents in downtown Nashville, Tennessee prior to the Christmas Day bombing.
Officers Brenna Hosey, Tyler Luellen, Michael Sipos, Amanda Topping, James Wells and Sergeant Timothy Miller were in attendance at Sunday's NFL playoff game against the Baltimore Ravens and plunged the Titans Sword of Honor to mark the countdown to kickoff and were recognized as the game's honorary 12th Titans, according to the Tennessee Titans.
"While we can never thank these officers enough for their heroic acts, it is an absolute privilege to have the opportunity to honor them at the game on Sunday," said Titans president and CEO Burke Nihill. "We are grateful for their service to our community and appreciate that we'll have them on site to support the team."
Nashville police officers were called to downtown Nashville early on Christmas morning when they discovered an RV playing a recording saying a potential bomb would detonate within 15 minutes.
The officers immediately began working to evacuate nearby buildings when the RV exploded at approximately 6:30 a.m, blowing out windows of nearby buildings and causing extensive and structural damage to dozens of buildings in the surrounding area.
Authorities found human remains among the debris of the explosion and investigators eventually determined that they belonged to the RV owner who was later identified as 63-year-old Anthony Quinn Warner of Antioch, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville.
Eight people were injured in the blast. Warner was the only person to die in the blast.
The Nashville police officers were hailed as heroes at a press conference a couple of days later.
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Recollections of life in the Army as a driver mechanic and a cook.
Going overseas
Walter served overseas as a driver mechanic in the Army. Before departing he decided to visit his family, but missed his train. He eventually arrived home after 'an eventful journey, police cell, mail train, mail van then a flour lorry.'
Walter felt that going overseas would be an adventure. He collected his kit-bags and sailed from Liverpool on The Duchess of York. On board were Army, Air Force, ATS and civilian crew. The liner docked at Freetown, Sierra Leone, for two days ('it was fascinating...at night to see the fireflies like a myriad of moving twinkling stars'). Whilst sailing through the Atlantic the convoy was joined by Merchant ships from the USA. Walter then spent three days in Cape Town and enjoyed visiting Table Mountain. Although the people were friendly, he recalls seeing the negative effects of apartheid.
Fighting in North Africa
Walter's convoy travelled to Egypt. The pyramids were visible from the camp where they were initially stationed. After collecting their kit-bags, they moved to a larger camp before travelling to El Alamein for 'the big push.' At 10pm they received a message from Montgomery. Their Officer wished them luck. Lorries were loaded with ammunition which they transferred to American lorries. Walter remembers that errors of judgement were often made. On one occasion orders were given by the Officer to take a shortcut which led to a German minefield. Following the tracks of the vehicles ahead, with the wind and sand affecting visibility, was very difficult. Walter also has humorous recollections of Italian prisoners guarded by British troops singing, like 'something out of Keystone Cops.'
Walter was unwell whilst abroad. After a long journey to the nearest Air Force hospital he did not receive effective treatment for an infected carbuncle. He was given a waterproof mask. Upon his return to the dock he was alienated due to fear of contagion. At Alexandria he was sent to see the Medical Officer and underwent an operation. He was sent to Syria to convalesce, and was able to visit the mountains where he saw 'wild cyclamen and anemones...the original lilies of the field as mentioned in the Bible.'
After recovering Walter returned to Egypt via Palestine before being sent to Tripoli, transporting tyres and soldiers from the 51st Highland Division. He recalls the sights of the beautiful beaches, scenery, flora and fauna but also recalls the disrespectful behaviour of some of his fellow troops.
Cooking for the Army
Walter also became a cook whilst in service. As the North African campaign came to an end Walter's convoy was transferred to Italy, where he was based during Christmas 1943. He made the troops Christmas dinner and was able to make a cake, using beetroot to write 'Merry Christmas A Platoon' on the icing. On seeing Walter's work a visiting Company Commander remarked 'Bloody good show. More than we've got at HQ!'
As a cook, conditions were hard and hours were long. Walter eventually returned to Britain via a Dutch ship from Naples. On board he continued to cook before finally docking in Ayres. After taking leave Walter travelled to Wales for further training and was made a member of the Army Catering Corps.
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To read more about Walter's wartime experiences in his own words please press the above link.
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Rachel Buxton, a postdoctoral research fellow at Colorado State University, writes about the impact expanding transportation networks are having on remote places. Buxton notes that "noise from sources such as vehicle engines is spreading into remote places," and cautions that "[h]uman-caused noise has consequences for wildlife, entire ecosystems and people." Buxton and her team conducted a study using "millions of hours of acoustic recordings and sophisticated models to measure human-caused noise in protected areas," focusing on "human sources of noise in natural environments, such as sounds from aircraft, highways or industrial sources." The study found that "noise pollution doubled sound energy in many U.S. protected areas, and that noise was encroaching into the furthest reaches of remote areas."
What are the consequences of these findings? Buxton writes that "[h]uman-caused noise in protected areas interferes with visitors' experience and alters ecological communities," adding that "noise may scare away carnivores, resulting in inflated numbers of prey species such as deer." In addition, although plants can't hear, they too are affected by noise because "noise changes the distribution of birds, which are important pollinators and seed dispersers."
The news isn't all bad, however, as Buxton was "encouraged to find that wilderness areas – places that are preserved in their natural state, without roads or other development – were the quietest protected areas, with near-natural sound levels." Unfortunately, the team also found that 12% of "wilderness areas experienced noise that doubled sound energy."
But all is not lost, as thoughtful management of our protected areas can help to reduce the impact of human-caused noise. Buxton concludes her piece by identifying the strategies that can be implemented to do this, including "establishing quiet zones where visitors are encouraged to quietly enjoy protected area surroundings, and confining noise corridors by aligning airplane flight patterns over roads."


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Pedro Martinez says racist fan who taunted Adam Jones is 'not a true Bostonian'
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Since Orioles outfielder Adam Jones said a fan at Fenway Park hurled racial slurs and tossed a bag of peanuts at him last week, Red Sox brass, the Boston mayor and the commissioner of baseball have spoken out against the racist fan's actions.
Hall of Fame pitcher Pedro Martinez, who spent seven of his 18 MLB seasons with the Red Sox, said Monday the so-called fan is not representative of Boston.
"There are people who are reckless about some of the things that they do everywhere in the world, but it surprises me a whole deal to see it here in Boston," Martinez, who won two of his three Cy Young awards while with the Red Sox, told Sports Illustrated while in Boston for a charity event. "Ever since I got here, I've never seen a community more supportive of people like me, and Adam Jones, and other communities than the people I saw at the field. I'm not taking anything from Adam Jones, but it really shocked me.
"Fenway [is] a place where I feel more comfortable than any other place, more than my own house. Honestly, I could take a nap in centerfield and feel that I am right at home, so it shocks me a great deal that Adam Jones was called something like that at my field.
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"I don't think that is someone who belongs at Fenway, at my field. He is not a true Bostonian," the eight-time All-Star and Dominican native added. "The true Bostonians support their people, regardless of who they are, and they are great people and I'm proud of my Bostonians. I'm extremely shocked that someone used Fenway Park to offend the feelings of all of us, including Adam Jones."
The man who taunted Jones has not been identified, but the Red Sox did issue a lifetime ban at Fenway Park to a fan who used a racial slur the next night after a woman of Kenyan descent sang the national anthem.
Boston mayor Marty Walsh said the racial slurs are not reflective of Boston as a city. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said in his statement last week that, "the behavior of these few ignorant individuals does not reflect the millions of great baseball fans who attend our games."
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