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Sports|Sports Medicine Pioneer Subject of Doping Inquiry
Sports Medicine Pioneer Subject of Doping Inquiry
By DON VAN NATTA Jr., MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and IAN AUSTEN DEC. 14, 2009
"If the body is healthy, then your mind and intellect are free to study, to feed your spirit," Dr. Anthony Galea said about his use of human growth hormone. Credit Sami Siva for The New York Times
This article was reported by Don Van Natta Jr., Michael S. Schmidt and Ian Austen and written by Mr. Van Natta Jr.
A Canadian doctor who has treated many N.F.L. players as well as Olympic medalists like Donovan Bailey and the world's top golfer, Tiger Woods, is under criminal investigation in the United States. He is suspected of providing athletes with performance-enhancing drugs, according to several people who have been briefed on the investigation.
The F.B.I. investigation of Dr. Anthony Galea, a sports medicine specialist who has treated hundreds of professional athletes across many sports, follows his arrest on Oct. 15 in Toronto by the Canadian police. Human growth hormone and Actovegin, a drug extracted from calf's blood, were found in his medical bag at the United States-Canada border in late September. Using, selling or importing Actovegin is illegal in the United States.
Dr. Galea is also being investigated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for smuggling, advertising and selling unapproved drugs as well as criminal conspiracy. He is tentatively scheduled to appear in a Canadian courtroom on Friday.
Dr. Galea and his lawyer say his innovative treatments do not break any laws or violate antidoping rules in sport. "We're confident that an investigation of Dr. Galea will lead to his total vindication," said Brian H. Greenspan, Dr. Galea's criminal-defense lawyer. "Dr. Galea was never engaged in any wrongdoing or any impropriety. Not only does he have a reputation that is impeccable, he is a person at the very top of his profession."
Dr. Galea has developed a reputation among elite athletes for accelerating recovery after surgery or for helping them avoid surgery altogether by using a blood-spinning technique known as platelet-rich plasma therapy, as well as other pioneering procedures, on knees, elbows and Achilles' tendons.
Although he said he prescribed human growth hormone to some patients in his general practice and had used it himself for 10 years, Dr. Galea, 50, said in an interview that he had never treated professional athletes with H.G.H.
Dr. Galea said Mr. Woods was referred to him by the golfer's agents at Cleveland-based International Management Group, who were alarmed at the slow pace of Mr. Woods's rehabilitation after knee surgery in June 2008. The doctor said he flew to Orlando, Fla., at least four times to give Mr. Woods the platelet therapy at his home in Windermere, Fla., in February and March of this year. When asked for comment about Mr. Woods's involvement with Dr. Galea, Mark Steinberg, of I.M.G., responded in an e-mail message: "I would really ask that you guys don't write this? If Tiger is NOT implicated, and won't be, let's please give the kid a break."
Dr. Galea's legal problems began in late September when his assistant was stopped entering the United States from Canada. Her car was searched by border-crossing guards and authorities found Dr. Galea's medical bag, which contained four drugs, including human growth hormone, Dr. Galea said. "It was for my own use," he said.
The authorities also seized his laptop computer and a sonogram machine, he said. His assistant, he said, often drove him around and that was why his belongings were in her car. The assistant, whom Dr. Galea declined to identify, has stopped working at his clinic and, he said, is now cooperating with the authorities.
Federal investigators in the United States are basing their investigation, in part, on medical information found on Dr. Galea's computer relating to several professional athletes he treated, according to the people who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they did not want to be identified discussing a continuing investigation.
They did not identify any of the athletes whose names appeared on the computer.
Dr. Galea said "it would be impossible" for the authorities to have found information linking any of his athletes to performance-enhancing drugs.
On Oct. 15, the Canadian police raided Dr. Galea's clinic, the ISM Health & Wellness Centre in Toronto. Sgt. Marc LaPorte, a spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said Dr. Galea was arrested and released the same day after questioning. Mr. Greenspan said court documents, which are not public under Canadian law, show that his client faces three charges, one under Canada's food and drugs act, one under its customs act and a conspiracy charge under the criminal code. The customs and the drug charges relate to the misrepresentation of goods and drugs.
As part of his practice, Dr. Galea said he prescribed human growth hormone to patients 40 and over to improve their stamina when working out and to combat fatigue, among other health benefits.
Dara Torres said Dr. Galea drained fluid from her knee and helped diagnose a tear in her quad tendon. Credit Jason Reed/Reuters
"The authorities here and elsewhere have it wrong," Mr. Greenspan said. "They don't understand the medical aspects."
Prescribing human growth hormone is legal in Canada but approved in the United States only for a few specific uses that do not include hastening recovery from surgery or injury. In the world of sports, under World Anti-Doping Association guidelines, H.G.H. is banned though not widely tested for because it requires a blood test. The N.F.L., the N.H.L., the N.B.A. and Major League Baseball do not test for H.G.H.
Ten years ago, when he turned 40, Dr. Galea said he began injecting himself with human growth hormone five days a week. Using H.G.H., he said, may allow him a longer lifespan with his wife, who he said is 22 years younger. "If the body is healthy, then your mind and intellect are free to study, to feed your spirit," he said during one of several lengthy phone interviews over the past several days.
Dr. Galea said he used Actovegin to treat the injuries of some of his patients, including players on the Toronto Argonauts football team, for which he has been the team doctor since 2004. Dr. Galea said he did not use Actovegin to treat Mr. Woods or other United States athletes.
Actovegin is a controversial drug that is not approved for sale in Canada and is being closely monitored, though not banned, by the World Anti-Doping Agency. It is essentially strained and purified calf's blood, and is produced in Austria by Nycomed, a Swiss-based company. Actovegin first came to the attention of antidoping authorities in the late 1990s when elite cyclists were found to be using it. Actovegin "was tested by antidoping laboratories and no growth hormone or prohibited hormones were found," said Frédéric Donzé, a spokesman for the World Anti-Doping Agency, which is based in Montreal. "WADA, however, closely monitors Actovegin since we are aware of its use in some sports, possibly in conjunction with other substances that may be prohibited."
In cycling, for example. some athletes apparently believe that it can accelerate the healing of injuries, especially tendon and muscle tears. Many leading antidoping experts, however, believe there is no benefit and all the athletes get is a placebo effect.
The United States Anti-Doping Agency has developed "intelligence" that athletes are using Actovegin to attempt to improve performance, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Usada asked the World Anti-Doping Agency to ban Actovegin this year but it declined.
Although he prescribes H.G.H. and Actovegin in some cases, Dr. Galea said he never combined those drugs with his platelet-rich plasma injections.
His practice has become a regular destination for injured professional athletes, including N.F.L. players who take red-eye flights on Monday nights for treatment on Tuesdays, their day off, because of the platelet-rich plasma methodology that he began using eight years ago. News of his arrest shocked many in the sports world, especially those who refer to him as "Miracle Man."
"We're all surprised by this — we believe it's going to go away and it's a misunderstanding," said David Cynamon, co-owner of the Argonauts. "He might be one of the elite sports medicine doctors anywhere, and that's why the likes of Tiger locate him."
Dr. Galea said he had used Actovegin to treat several Argonauts players' injuries, but Mr. Cynamon said he was not aware of that.
The use of platelet therapy, which has become more prevalent in sports medicine in recent years, is believed by some doctors to dramatically speed up recovery times. Platelet-rich plasma is created by putting a small amount of the patient's blood in a centrifuge, which separates the red blood cells from the platelets that release proteins and other particles involved in the body's healing process. No more than a teaspoon of the substance is injected into the damaged area. In some cases, the high concentration of platelets — from 3 to 10 times that of normal blood — catalyzes the growth of new soft-tissue or bone cells.
The treatment catalyzes the body's instincts to repair muscle and other tissue, said Dr. Allan Mishra, an assistant professor of orthopedics at Stanford University and one of the primary researchers in the field. Dr. Mishra and other doctors say that the technique appears to help regenerate ligament and tendon fibers.
But other doctors say that more research is needed before the therapy can be embraced as scientifically proven.
Javon Walker said that Dr. Galea arranged for him to have a surgery that cut his recovery time in half. Credit Greg Trott/Associated Press
Doug Richards, a professor at the University of Toronto and a physician for the N.B.A.'s Toronto Raptors, hosted a presentation on the platelet therapy by Dr. Galea at the university shortly after his arrest. "It's a technique that shows promise," Dr. Richards said, "but research is required to show its effectiveness."
Dr. Mark Lindsay, a chiropractor from White Lake, Ontario, who works with Dr. Galea, said his colleague is at the cutting edge of sports medicine, and has extended the careers of countless elite athletes.
"Ten years from now, they are going to say, wow, this guy was a pioneer," Dr. Lindsay said in a recent phone interview. "That's the unfortunate thing."
Dr. Galea blames his current legal problems on his success rate.
"All these athletes come see me in Canada cause I fix them, and I think people just assume that I'm giving them stuff," he said. "They don't have to come to me to get H.G.H. and steroids. You can walk into your local gym in New York and get H.G.H."
The N.F.L. quarterback Chris Simms and wide receiver Javon Walker swear by him. In March, Dr. Galea arranged for Mr. Walker to have cartilage-replacement surgery on his knee in Jerusalem because the procedure is not approved in the United States or Canada. Mr. Walker said the recovery time was half what it would have been if he had had the procedure doctors recommended in the United States.
"He's a person who just wants to help and heal," Walker said. "And the world is going to soon know about him."
The Olympic swimmer Dara Torres said she sought out Dr. Galea to help diagnose the cause of continuing pain in her knee earlier this year. "He found a tear in my quad tendon that was undiagnosed," Torres said in an e-mail message. "Excluding draining my knee, he has never treated me, but I did see his chiropractor who did soft-tissue work on my leg. That was the extent of my visit with him."
Mr. Bailey, a retired Canadian sprinter, said Dr. Galea helped him in 1999, when he received treatment from him for a ruptured Achilles' tendon, but did not receive any kind of injections.
Dr. Lindsay said he led Mr. Woods's rehabilitation team after the golfer's June 2008 surgery to repair his anterior cruciate ligament. In addition to Dr. Lindsay, who is best known for overseeing Alex Rodriguez's rehabilitation from hip surgery last spring, the Woods team included Dr. Galea and a Vermont-based strength coach named Bill Knowles.
Dr. Lindsay said he worked with Mr. Woods at his home throughout his eight-month rehabilitation. The work included strength training, conditioning and exercises in a swimming pool, Dr. Lindsay said.
In February, discouraged by the lack of progress, Dr. Lindsay asked Dr. Galea to look at Mr. Woods, who was suffering from patellar tendinitis and had scarring in the muscle. "It's common after the A.C.L. to have tendinitis," Dr. Lindsay said. "And the P.R.P. helped."
Dr. Galea said he treated Mr. Woods in his home four or five times with a borrowed centrifuge from an Orlando doctor. Each time, he said he drew blood from Woods, spun it to increase the platelets' count and then injected a small amount directly into Mr. Woods's left knee.
Two days after the first treatment, Woods texted him, Dr. Galea said: "He said he couldn't believe how good he feels. He'd joke and say, 'I can jump up on the kitchen table,' and I said, 'Please don't.' "
Dr. Galea said that Mr. Woods stayed in touch, texting him after the British Open in July that his left knee had begun bothering him again. Dr. Galea said he flew to Orlando in early August and gave Mr. Woods P.R.P. therapy for a final time.
In October, he said he heard again from Mr. Woods that his knee was still bothering him, "but all this stuff started with the investigation, and I couldn't go see him."
Correction: December 17, 2009
An article on Tuesday about a criminal investigation of Dr. Anthony Galea, who treats many prominent athletes, misspelled the name of the town in Florida where Tiger Woods lives. Woods, who was treated by Dr. Galea while rehabilitating after knee surgery, has a home in Windermere, not Windemere. (On Wednesday, Canadian authorities brought several drug-related charges against Dr. Galea.)
Karen Crouse and Larry Dorman contributed reporting.
A version of this article appears in print on December 15, 2009, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Doctor Who Treated Top Athletes Is Subject of a Doping Inquiry. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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This is probably very obvious (and it should be - it's a clickable link in the Orchard UI!), but I had to go off and ask Google if there was a way to preview a blog post I'm writing. It turns out there is (and it's been in Orchard for quite a while).
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The Fremonts – Alligator | Album Review
The Fremonts – Alligator
Truax Records – 2016
15 tracks; 50 minutes
www.thefremonts.com
The Fremonts hail from San Diego and this is their fourth album release. The band adopts a mono recording approach which gives a real vintage feel that recalls Chess, Vee-Jay and particularly Excello records of yesteryear. The material here is mainly covers though there are three originals included. The band is Mighty Joe Milsap on vocals, Patrick Skog and Tony Tomlinson on guitars, Troy Sandow on bass and Alan West on drums though most members of the band also play additional instruments. A number of guests are featured including Bob Corritore and Ben Hernandez on harp, Matthew Thomas on piano, Sharifah Muhammad on backing vocals and Johnny Viau on sax.
The three originals include the instrumental "Blues Hungover" on which bassist Troy plays some tough harp, the catchy "Swinging Ten Pounds" which lyrically recalls other songs about laying railroad tracks such as "John Henry" and a lovely ballad "Have Some Faith" which benefits from Sharifah's B/V's and some gentle picking from the guitarists. Mighty Joe has an unusual voice, deep and resonant, that takes a little getting used to but repays patience as it does grow on you. "Have Some Faith" is particularly well done and a standout track.
There are two songs each from the repertoires of Fats Domino and Frank Frost: "I'm Ready" and "My Girl Josephine" are familiar songs and are well done by The Fremonts, both fairly lo-fi with a 'muddy' rhythm track aided by handclaps; "Jelly Roll King" has some excellent harmonica from Ben Hernandez and booming vocals from Joe while "My Back Scratcher" sounds like a close relative of "Scratch My Back" and has the sort of Excello/swamp feel associated with Lazy Lester and Slim Harpo. More Excello style music appears with Silas Hogan's "Everybody Needs Somebody" on which Bob Corritore plays some great harp, at times sounding like a wheezing accordion, and on Charles Sheffield's "It's Your Voodoo Working" which has appropriately ringing guitars and Johnny Viau's sax to the fore.
The band also does a fine version of Brook Benton's "I'll Take Care Of You" which has some excellent guitar work and heads up to Memphis for re-workings of Rufus Thomas' "Can't Ever Let You Go" and the soulful "It's Easy When You Know How" which again features Johnny's sax, as does the very different cover of Bill Withers' "Who Is He And What Is He To You" which opens with bird noise before moving into a threatening mood with the sax and Joe's vocal sitting on top of some interesting percussion. RL Burnside's "Going Down South" closes the album in minimalist style.
This was an album that grew on me as I listened to it a few times. It may well do the same with other Blues Blast readers.
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Do you ever have "God moments"? Well, technically every moment is a God moment, because He is present all around us, and we could dedicate a whole other post to that. I'm talking about moments or experiences that fill your heart with the undeniable and overwhelming presence and love of God. They don't have to be grand burning bush or Jesus-walking-on-water kind of experiences, but I think you know what I'm talking about.
In a combination of God moments, between prayer, action, the beauty of social media and a great lady you might know named Ashley Hemingway, this past March I found myself applying for some kind of summer program called the Catholic Worldview Fellowship.
(Sidenote: the FIRE retreat will make you do crazy but great things, AKA me in an eno hammock during free time that weekend, recording my application video with my cell phone and selfie stick).
But before we dive into the time of my life that was July 2017, let's take a step back.
Freshman year, Sunday Mass was always in the picture, and my friends all knew me as "the Catholic one," but I wasn't plugged in with the community here in Gainesville. When sophomore year came, and I felt driven to get involved around St. Augustine's for some reason. Looking back I know it was just God inviting me on a new adventure with Him.
One thing led to another and I joined a Bible study, started going to Newman dinners, attended daily Mass more, went on a few retreats, and basically just tried to see Christ in all the opportunities that came my way.
Even more importantly, I not only tried to see those opportunities, but take advantage of them and use everything as an invitation to grow in my relationship with Christ and those around me.
Then came this summer, and all the opportunities along with it.
In April, I received my acceptance and was basically on my way to Europe for part of the summer. Keep in mind, I didn't really know what this program was about, whom I would meet, and all those other unknowns that can be scary at first. All I knew was that it was Catholic and I would be traveling to Germany for about three weeks, and then Rome on a pilgrimage for the final week. Not a bad combination if you ask me — so I decided to go for it.
And let me tell you: I'm smiling as I sit at my laptop writing this, because from the moment I stepped all alone onto that plane headed to Germany, I didn't look back.
God was so present in everything that came my way, I felt silly for worrying in the first place. Without "talking" here about every single day and detail of the trip itself, I'll try to give a general gist of what it was all about.
There were 16 of us "fellows" from all over the country and a staff of about eight that ranged from priests to brothers to leadership coaches, and everything in between. We lived in a 500-year-old German castle (yes, there was a moat).
Our day-to-day lecture and discussion-based conferences/classes all related to how we as young Catholic leaders can connect the dots between our faith and the culture we live in.
We sought to develop our God-given talents and be the world changers Christ calls us to be.
We had morning prayer, night prayer, lectures, free time, daily Mass, retreat days, spiritual talks, day trips, dance parties, very late nights, and many blessed encounters that, at least for me, taught me more than ever before about who I am, who God is, and how I can grow in that relationship with Him in order to become my most authentic and Christ-modeling self.
Sounds pretty cool, right? I think so. It was like nothing I'd ever done, and will probably never do again.
I still don't know what I did to deserve an experience like this, but all these things are just a testament to how good our God is to us.
I had never had my own private neo-Gothic chapel in the German countryside before. I never thought I'd have spiritual direction, confession, Mass, and just great conversation with one of the priests behind the movie The Passion of the Christ.
I never had such quick and authentic friendships with so many beautiful and like-minded people whom I now consider some of my greatest blessings.
I never thought I would cry during the surreal experiences of Mass and adoration at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and touching Pope Francis (yeah, all that happened).
And I never thought Jesus would take my life, especially in this past year, turn it upside down in so many ways and then give me the grace to realize that with Him it's truly right side up.
As a whole this program is one of the best things I've ever done and a summer I will never forget; but that's not to say everything was sunshine and rainbows and the best thing ever 100 percent of the time.
There were some days where I just wasn't feeling it, or wasn't feeling good with myself, or just questioned what I was doing halfway across the world talking about how you can evangelize culture when I'm usually just trying to keep my life together as an average college student in Gainesville, FL!
But no matter what, I felt God's presence and guiding hand, which is really all that matters. And as I wrap up, so I don't keep talking about myself for too much longer, I've come up with some takeaways that can hopefully apply to all of us, whether you have been to northwest Germany and Rome or not.
First: Place your worries at the foot of the cross, because Jesus already has, and with all of His being wants to take your burdens away from you. This is such a gift of our faith, and I will be the first to tell you that through prayer it can change your life.
Second: Allow yourself to have the environment and opportunity to hear God's voice in your life, because in order for relationships to grow and be genuine, both people need to do some talking. In that same regard, open your heart to be poured into by God and see yourself as He sees you, because that person is infinitely valued and loved.
Third: Quite possibly my corniest takeaway is to be a light in the world. We are all just souls destined for communion with God and each other, and something as simple as a smile stemming from the joy of the Lord in our hearts can help to proclaim that message.
So yeah, I had a cool Catholic summer experience. I'm still "unpacking the graces" from it. With each new day I miss my friends, the memories we shared, and the opportunities we had to invest in each other. I miss having everything I did for a month be Catholic-related. I miss the contentment I felt knowing I was exactly where God wanted me to be.
But what a joy it is to realize that I have really only gained from this whole journey! God moments are all around us; we don't necessarily have to cross an ocean to have them (it's a great opportunity if you can!), all we really have to do is take the step of saying yes to Him and allow ourselves to see them right in front of our eyes.
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Truck Festival 2017 Preview
November 18, 2018 July 14, 2017 by Kimberley-Anne Simmons
With less than one week to go, Oxfordshire brings us one of the biggest events of the Summer festival calendar. Truck Festival! In the festival's 20th Anniversary its going to be the most anticipated year to date. Past years have seen acts including Ash, Mystery Jets, Biffy Clyro, Manic Street Preachers and many more.
2017's event will welcome headline acts Franz Ferdinand, The Libertines and The Vaccines on the main stage. On offer will also be seven other stages showcasing performances from a diverse range of bands and artists which will include Truck Festival veterans Slaves-who packed out the Barn stage in 2015. Also Scottish band Twin Atlantic, The Wombats, Maximo Park, Cabbage, Yonaka, Pulled Apart By Horses and many more.
There will also be DJ sets from BBC Radio 1's Mistajam and Hollywood actor Idris Elba. Saturday morning will see the return of the energetic Mr Motivator, to encourage crowds to get up on their feet and get moving. This is just a quick preview of all the excitement to come with acts that are not to be missed. New and upcoming artists Tom Grennan, Vant, Honeyblood, The Big Moon, Get Inuit and Crows are definately worth a listen and ones to look out for.
On site will be a huge selection of food vendors, a cinema, fairground rides including a helter skelter and small business stalls. There will be plenty on offer for all ages. For those of you who have successfully purchased tickets to the event, here at Summer Festival Guide we hope you have an amazing weekend, and we look forward to seeing you there!
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Synopsis plantarum succulentarum (abreviado Syn. Pl. Succ.) es un libro con descripciones botánicas que fue escrito por Adrian Hardy Haworth y publicado en Londres en el año 1812 con el nombre de Supplementum Plantarum Succulentarum: Sistens Plantas Novas Vel Nuper Introductas Sive Omissas. En: Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum Cum Observationibus Variis Anglicanis.

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Whether you call it autumn or fall, the start of the autumn equinox last week triggers a new cycle of growth and renovation. As the leaves fall from the trees, they decompose to nourish the growth of new leaves and new life throughout winter and spring.
It's the perfect opportunity for us to shed bad habits to make room for new positive behaviour. The change in seasons is a great milestone to stop and take stock. More often than not we wait until the New Year to evaluate and set goals. Checking in more regularly is only going to help you on your journey to success.
Have you continued the behaviour that created successes? Or have you stopped a part of your winning formula? Have you picked up any bad habits?
Let's be honest, everyone has at least one bad habit. It's inevitable that we pick them up somewhere along the way! From taking the occasional shortcut to working longer hours than you should, now's the time to evaluate whether your current habits are helping you to succeed.
One of the worst habits that this working generation is picking up is over-working. It is a competition point to see who can work the most hours in a week or who is the first or last in the office. It's not healthy! Instead, why not look at how you can be more efficient with your time?
How can you make the most of every single moment? For a start, I would bet that the majority of you reading this spend more time in front of screens than you should, usually scrolling through social media. How better could you spend those minutes or hours to help you to achieve your goals?
On the topic of time, perhaps your bad habit is not investing enough of it into yourself. Check in with your exercise routine, your hobbies and leisure activities. If these are being sacrificed so that you can spend more time working, that's a clear sign that you need to make a change. Without these opportunities to switch off, you will invariably burn out.
So, what changes are you making as we enter a new season?


Escape (alternatively, Pornstars Die Too) is the ninth chapter of The Beginner's Guide.
This level begins in a room with pieces of modern furniture and decoration: a glass table, a floor lamp, two sofas, three glass shelves, a white table with drawers and a picture of urban landscape. Beyond iron bars, there is an outside path leading to a well, which is apparently located on the top of a hill. After a door, there are staircases and corridors with side walls decorated with modern art. The player walks down and gets to the deep end of the well as the passage instantly closes, leaving the player with no exits.
The level then restarts in the same room, with no exits and black-circumvented rectangular spaces instead of furniture. The chat system then asks the player four questions about which piece of furniture they want to put in each part (three options of answers are given), but the player's opinion is not taken in consideration. Instead, the same pieces of before will appear in the same places of the room. A glitch then occurs as the room begins expanding and the same pieces of furniture reappear on different positions.
Then comes the third part: in the middle of a whiteness, there is a different room with the same furniture and several messages intended to be a tutorial on "how to escape any prison environment". The tutorial instructs the player four steps: click on the table, slightly turn the picture, turn the floor lamp on and off, slightly push one of the sofas and click on the shelves. A "return" button, leading to the "real prison", then appears.
Back in the first room, there is no way to follow the steps since the table and other parts are missing. Several other versions of this level are briefly shown before the screen automatically shuts down.
The last screen is a dark neighborhood where a lamppost and a telephone cabin are highlighted. Inside this cabin, the player talks to an alternative themselves before they "escaped the prison".
Okay this one is tough, it's going to kind of just spin its own wheels for a few minutes, hang with it.
See like this is it, the whole game, and there's nothing that's particularly interesting about it, you just walk to the end of a hallway. Except for some reason, Coda gets really fixated on this prison that has all this modern furniture. And I don't know why, but he decides he needs to revisit this prison, he's going to start over, use the same assets, turn it into something else. Okay, cool, here's version 2.
Eh, there's a bit more to this one, but still it's not really communicating anything, it's kinda just weird for weirdness sake.
So okay, he throws it out and starts over, this time he comes at the prison idea from a different direction.
(Player completes tasks and returns to the "prison") And of course, now the table is gone and you can't begin the chain of events to escape.
Here's a version where there are no bars but you can't actually get to the well. And then a version where the inside of the prison is the outside and the outside is the inside. Let me just blink you real quick through a few more of these, I mean he really unloaded on this prison idea, there's nearly a dozen of them. Personally I think it's awful to watch this, to see a person basically unraveling through their work, and for what! At what point do you just go "Eh, maybe there are game ideas other than this prison that I could be working on"? But Coda doesn't have that voice telling you to stop, that particular mechanism of defense against yourself. Without it you just spiral. And so he keeps going and going and going...and then he hits on something. And he likes it, and that's it, he's done, he stops making prisons. This is the very last version of the prison game that he created and the reason I think it works is that the prison is not actually in it.
It's a conversation. And so this is what Coda wants, is to be able to talk to someone, to share what's on his mind and to get some good advice from someone who knows. But the irony is that even in this scenario you're still talking to yourself, you know ALL of these games so far are Coda talking to himself.
I can see why he considers this a fitting conclusion to the prison games, after all the obsession and frustration, to just be told by someone you can trust that things are going to be okay, wouldn't that be nice?
What furniture ought to go in the center of the room?
How about a TV with surround sound.
Put a giant hole in the ground.
Okay, now what about along the wall of the room?
Let's put a huge picture of a horse.
10 stoves lined up along the wall.
I think we should-light up this room a bit.
A skylight. Full-ceiling window. Let's open this baby up.
We'll put live tesla coils in each corner. Yeah.
And a table! You need a table!
Who are you? Where exactly are you doing this from?
I'm pretty sure none of my choices are making any difference.
Tables were invented in 1935.
past2: You're me? ...So you were trapped in this prison too?
past3: That's where I am right now! Oh I'm so glad to know that I get out eventually! What's it like to escape?
past4a: Really? How long has it been since you got out?
past5a: Years?? I haven't been here for years, I don't think..
past5b: But this is the worse, [sic] most desperate thing I've ever been through! How could you possibly forget it?
past4b: Why? Was there anything about it that you felt good about? Being here [stinks]!
past7a: I do that too I guess... But is that just how I'm going to be forever? I'd really like to change that.
past7c: Excited? It's the only thing that matters to me! It's the only thing keeping me going! "Excited" doesn't really do it justice.
past4c: Do you feel any different? Some times I'm scared I'll get out and then things will be exactly the same as before.
past11a: Oh no, that's awful! That's the worst thing I can imagine!
past11b: Oh good! That's so nice to hear. That makes me feel...really happy.
transition: Wait, if you're me, then did you get a call from another version of you when you were trapped?
past101: Then can you tell me how to get out? Maybe I can come find you! What do I have to do?
sincere1: ...what? That will free me? How does that work?
feel1: ...what? That will free me? How does that work?
talk1: ...what? That will free me? How does that work?
past102: What did they tell you? What did you have to do to get out?
sincere2: ...what? That freed you? How does that work?
feel2: ...what? That freed you? How does that work?
feel4: Okay...I feel afraid that nothing will ever change.
talk2: ...what? That freed you? How does that work?
talk4: Okay...I can talk Let's just talk for a bit. Will you be here?


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A team of researchers at Cincinnati Children's is creating new ways to share and manage health data for foster care youth. From left are Sarah Beal, PhD, Judith Dexheimer, PhD, and Mary Greiner, MD, MS (with Idina, a facility dog).
Researchers at Cincinnati Children's are aggregating medical data to provide youth in foster care and their caregivers with better access to health records—and the chance to take control of their own well-being.
For foster care youth, successful health outcomes depend on the ability of caseworkers, caregivers, clinicians and in some cases the children themselves to access their information.
Two separate projects are underway: The IDENTITY (Integrated Data Environment to eNhance ouTcomes in cusTody Youth) project seeks to help this vulnerable population in Hamilton County by coordinating data sharing between caseworkers and healthcare providers. The newer MyIDENTITY project is building on that initial effort to offer personal health records directly to foster care youth who have reached age 18 and have not yet emancipated.
The average child remains in foster care for 17 months. During this time, caseworkers manage access to their medical records. With 2,300 children in the custody of Hamilton County child protective services, a lot of data can get lost in the shuffle.
Things can get even more complicated for adolescents in foster care. They experience an average of seven placement changes while in custody. When teens age out of the system or emancipate themselves—20,000 do just that every year in the United States—they are often unable to access their health records.
Cincinnati Children's researchers Judith Dexheimer, PhD of Emergency Medicine, Mary Greiner, MD, MS of General and Community Pediatrics, Sarah Beal, PhD of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, and Eric Hall, PhD of Neonatology and Pulmonary Biology partnered with Kris Flinchum, Crystal Anderson, and Kristin Bullock of Hamilton County Job and Family Services (HCJFS) to begin working on this project in February 2017. A grant from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Academic Research Committee (ARC) fund supported the work.
In 2014, Beal met with HCJFS's Kris Flinchum to discuss linking child welfare and EHR data for research purposes. Kris Flinchum now serves as lead collaborator on the project for HCJFS.
In October 2017, a second award from the National Library of Medicine allowed the team to extend the project to provide foster youth with their own medical information. This branch of the project is called MyIDENTITY.
The team is now pilot testing the IDENTITY system, which will be launched in June with all HCJFS caseworkers and Cincinnati Children's clinicians and staff. MyIDENTITY is currently under development.
One reason foster children fail to receive appropriate healthcare is the lack of access to health information by their caseworkers and clinicians. Between entering foster care without adequate health records and changing placements without data coordination, information is lost and care is disrupted.
The interdisciplinary project team integrates experts from Hamilton County child protective services with bioinformaticians, data analysts and medical specialists from Cincinnati Children's.
The IDENTITY project provides children's services workers and clinicians with the resources they need to support children in foster care. Currently, child welfare data is stored in the state welfare database. Caseworkers enter custody data, social history, and abuse history into the database. However, healthcare data is stored in electronic health records (EHRs) maintained by providers. The two databases are separate, with no users having access to both.
The lack of integration between the state welfare data system and EHR complicates the communication of critical health history details to caregivers. Records in the two systems are difficult to obtain, resulting in repeat services and poor healthcare quality. Even when data are shared, the process can take several days to weeks.
Researchers saw the need to merge these records, allowing users of one system limited access to the other. Dexheimer and team responded by building IDENTITY, a web portal that establishes an information exchange data hub between the state welfare database and Cincinnati Children's EHR. Caseworkers from HCJFS and healthcare providers from Cincinnati Children's are now able to share key elements from their respective records.
Most patients at Cincinnati Children's manage and receive information about their health through MyChart, an existing online medical record database. But, because hospital administration couldn't control MyChart in the way they needed to for legal compliance for this project, the research team built IDENTITY as a separate platform.
The Data & Technology Services team in Cincinnati Children's Division of Biomedical Informatics worked to accurately link data between the two systems.
Now, HCJFS sends state welfare data of all children in their custody to the stand-alone IDENTITY system each day. Cincinnati Children's does the same with medical records data, and the two data streams are merged. Authorized personnel from both institutions can access the merged data via a secure web portal.
Accurately linking patient data between the two systems was a key technical challenge in the project. To solve it, the researchers looked to staff in the Data & Technology Services group within the Cincinnati Children's Division of Biomedical Informatics.
Under guidance from Drs. Dexheimer, Beal, and Greiner, Parth Divekar developed patient linkage algorithms and Jay Gholap implemented them.
The algorithms Divekar developed are broadly classified as deterministic and non-deterministic. Accounting for about 90 percent of the matches and validated with sample data, the deterministic algorithms use registered names/aliases (eliminating punctuation), dates of births and gender.
For the remaining matches, non-deterministic algorithms use methods such as "edit distance" (a way of quantifying how dissimilar two text strings are to one another by counting the minimum number of operations required to transform one string into the other) to reduce "noise" in the data such as differences in spelling, dates of birth and gender while also helping to identify potential duplicates.
Elsa Cavanaugh and Jeremy Nix, also Data & Technology Services team members, developed an interactive online interface to facilitate administrator review and approval of non-deterministic matches.
This system allows clinicians at Cincinnati Children's to accurately and efficiently identify which children are in HCJFS custody when they come in for care. It improves the processes of receiving medical consent, scheduling, billing, and identifying associated health risks in the clinical setting.
After a child receives care, their clinical information—including allergies, medication lists, and upcoming appointments—are shared back to HCJFS caseworkers.
With the new system, the transition for a child experiencing a change in placement in foster care will be made easier because their caseworker will have ongoing access to their health information.
Researchers can also identify children with the highest healthcare costs, allowing clinicians and caseworkers to develop shared care management strategies and interventions.
When youth leave the care of HCJFS, the responsibility of medical treatment falls from their caseworkers to their own shoulders. An uphill battle begins. Missing health information often results in limited knowledge of how to access primary care, poor management of chronic conditions, and increased preventable diseases.
Dexheimer, Greiner, and Beal saw the need for youth to be able to access their own comprehensive health information available from the IDENTITY databases and began the MyIDENTITY project to help alleviate these challenges for foster teens.
Funded by the National Library of Medicine, MyIDENTITY will merge data from the EHR and HCJFS databases to provide a personal health record (PHR), or summary of the foster youth's medical history, conditions, and health resources. Researchers will use algorithms to identify foster youth from the HCJFS database who are eligible to receive their own PHR, whether they have reached age 18 or have emancipated.
The research team plans to gather feedback from foster youth on the PHR to address their specific needs: How will you use it? What elements does it need to contain? How can it be most beneficial to you?
In spring 2018, researchers will map out concepts and ideas with foster youth and their communities, who will also help design the PHR in the fall. The Cincinnati Children's biomedical informatics team will then build the system, test it, and roll it out to foster youth.
Future designs may be expanded to include additional data elements, such as school information, that will help improve the transition of foster youth.
The researchers working on the IDENTITY and MyIDENTITY projects are open to more collaborations, such as with local schools, to add more data sources. For more information, please contact Judith Dexheimer.


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From now on, since I'm all caught up with this manga, I'll be doing these chapter reviews on a regular basis whenever the latest chapter is out.
Synopsis: Ruka's Manager, Atsumari, puts her on the line by having her make the final decision during her concert with these instructions: If Ruka raises her mic after the 9th song, the announcement video for her Las Vegas concert will play automatically, signifying that she wishes to continue being an idol, if she lowers the mic and announces her retirement, the video will not play at all and this will be the end of her idol career.
Ruka is understandably conflicted about having to make such a rough decision and she reflects upon her life and how her parents basically shoehorned her into the world of show business in order to fulfill their own dreams. She was quite happy to take their dreams upon herself until her parents left her with a debt of 150 million yen on a Christmas eve just like Hayate. She then thinks about her happy times with Hayate and company, especially having gained a dream, a person to love in Hayate, as well as a rival in Nagi and apparently makes her final decision to retire as an idol.
However during the actual concert, she is overcome with emotion before the 9th song is over and breaks down in tears on stage, which almost disrupts the entire concert. Seeing their beloved idol in tears, the crowd cheers her to continue on and thus, amidst her tears and through the deafening roar of the crowd, Ruka Suirenji raises her mic into the air.
Review: A very emotional chapter whether you are a Ruka fan or not. At this point, most manga readers would be at least slightly aware (even if they were in denial) that Ruka's final decision was already decided with the future timeline shown in Can't Take My Eyes Off You, yet the journey to getting to this point was a very long, funny, sometimes dragging, but ultimately meaningful one.
Even if she was seemingly pressured into making a hasty decision, Ruka stands strong and decides to continue her idol career with a single gesture. It's funny how some people see her manager as being antagonistic to Ruka by having her make this decision so abruptly when the truth is that she is actually being quite fair and lenient with her. Keep in mind that Ruka still owes the company the money that they used to pay off her parents' debt, thus, it's actually quite humane of Atsumari to even allow Ruka the privilege of choosing to quit her idol career and pursue her other passion to become a top-selling mangaka. In my opinion, she is simply acting in the best interests of the company in order to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. She is not really terrorizing Ruka in any way whatsoever.
Lots of things have happened at this place.
One observation I can make from this chapter is just how significant that place with the vending machines is to this manga. It's the place where Hayate first meets both Nagi and Isumi and it's also the place that triggered the chain of events leading to Athena's arc. In this chapter, we find out that it's the very same place where Ruka was standing when her parents left her with a 150 million debt on a Christmas night.
Also, you might have noticed that Dr. Kurosu is backstage with Hayate during the concert, which shows that she probably is connected to Ruka somehow.
It's safe to say that Ruka has all but conceded defeat to Nagi as far as their long-term goal of becoming pro mangakas is concerned and perhaps raising the mic was also a constructive admission of defeat regarding her dream of getting married with Hayate. Still, this doesn't translate into an automatic victory for Nagi – especially as far as Hayate's feelings (which have been largely ignored by both girls) are concerned.
While there is not a whole lot happening in this chapter, for now, it is pretty significant for being one of the first true indications that this manga is indeed connected with Can't Take My Eyes Off You's future timeline. I'm eagerly anticipating what other developments follow in the next chapter, especially regarding the cliffhanger in chapter 413.
Again, what do you think you're doing here, Hayate!?
Over-all, this chapter had an excellent dramatic build-up leading to Ruka's choice. The flashbacks and transitions were tastefully handled with good use of narrative text over subtle visuals. Kenjiro Hata is certainly as capable at drama as he is at comedy, and it really shows in this chapter.
In my opinion, this current arc is shaping up to be one of the best story arcs yet because of its character-centric nature. It might even have the potential to topple the Mykonos arc if it's resolved satisfactorily once the manga and anime timelines finally tie in with each other.


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COLUMBIA CITY — Columbia City High School's Spell Bowl team's performance Saturday spelled victory when it defended its state championship title at Purdue University.
It's the first time in CCHS history that the school won back-to-back titles. Last year was the first time CCHS won since 1988.
The team is led by Dennis Beckner, who began as an Indian Springs Middle School coach 12 years ago. When the position at CCHS became available three years ago, Beckner stepped in to take it. The team made an appearance at the state final each of those three years, placing seventh three years ago and winning the last two.
The CCHS Spell Bowl team celebrates winning the Northeast 8 Conference trophy for the third year in a row at Leo Jr./Sr. High School.
Three of the seniors on the CCHS team started as sixth graders with Beckner at ISMS.
Beckner called Saturday's state finals a "nail-biter" as Northwood and Columbia City were tied. The winner was determined by which team spelled the most tie-breaker words correctly.
"We were tied going in — we knew it would be tight," Beckner said.
Columbia City has gone head-to-head with teams from larger schools, such as Homestead, and won. The spellers were Northeast 8 Conference champions and area champions.
By winning the area meet and scoring in the top percentage of area meet winners, CCHS was selected to compete at state. Of the more than15 area meet champions, only six teams were selected to advance to state.
Columbia City's talent for spelling has as much to do with attitude as it does practice, Beckner said.
"They are determined," said Beckner.
The spellers practice two nights a week after school, beginning the week after school starts in the fall and continuing through the state meet. Spell Bowl is sponsored by an association of Indiana school principals, which provides a list of 2,640 words that will be used in competition that season. Then, the spellers get to work.
Beckner said the students work hard in practice, but put in a lot of time outside of practice as well.
"Some of them write the list of words several times throughout the season," Beckner said. "We work on pronunciation. I quiz them every week."
Quizzes are used to determine which 10 spellers will be selected to compete in the next competition. Last year, the team had 13 spellers; this year there were 11.
Unlike a spelling bee, spell bowl is a team competition, which gives spellers some of the same life lessons learned through athletics — teamwork and perseverance.
"Several people ask why a student should be on a spell bowl team — with spell check, there's a lot we feel like we don't need to know," Beckner said. "It's more than spelling ability — its expanding vocabulary, it helps them in reading, they use these words in their academic papers. It really expands their knowledge of words."
Beckner starts recruiting new members at the end of their fifth-grade school year, reaching out to elementary school teachers for suggestions on their top spellers.
Some schools in the area, such as Coesse Elementary School, have elementary school-level spell bowl teams.
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Overcome with emotions upon learning of his major league callup, San Diego Padres' pitcher Eric Yardley knows precisely what it means to play at the highest level of professional baseball.
It was late August when Eric Yardley and his wife of three years, Tia, returned to their apartment in El Paso after a Chihuahuas' game. The phone rang just after they arrived. The couple came home that evening to let their dog out and eat a post-game meal. Eric picked up the phone and noticed immediately that the call was from Puerto Rico. It seemed strange, but Yardley answered the phone.
On the other end was his manager with El Paso, Edwin Rodriguez. The longtime baseball coach asked the pitcher what his plans were for the next day. Yardley seemed confused as Rodriguez then told him to cancel the plans- "the San Diego Padres need you in Cincinnati tomorrow." As the reality of what he was said hit him- tears began rolling down his face. His loving wife sat next to him with a great understanding of what was happening. She could not be more proud.
Yardley blanked out on what the manager was telling him about travel plans and such. He immediately began to think of his wife, his family, and all the work he went through to get to this point. More tears came. He did it. Eric Yardley would be a major league pitcher. "When I got the call, it was an emotional time. I immediately started tearing up," Yardley remembers. "You work so hard for something that probably wasn't going to come, or at least that was the vibe," Yardley explains about his journey.
It wasn't just the 12-hour minor league bus rides and long, arduous days training that fueled his emotions. The right-handed pitcher went undrafted out of college despite generating some buzz at Seattle University, where he saved 11 games his senior year. Despite the disappointment of the draft, he drove from Washington all the way to New Mexico after going unsigned. He made one last attempt to keep his baseball career going, and his family fully supported him in his quest. That trip to play Independent Ball in Taos is what ultimately led to the Padres signing the pitcher in late 2013.
The side-armed pitcher has had to ignore criticism his whole life. His unorthodox pitching mechanics are certainly not something you would teach your son, but it works for him. He gets results with the motion (2.90 career ERA in over 415 minor league innings), and in this day and age of high-velocity pitcher, Yardley is the change of pace hitters hate to face.
After allowing three earned runs in his first three innings pitched, Yardley made eight straight appearances without allowing a runner to score. His ERA is finished at 2.31 in his first 11 2/3 innings pitched as a major leaguer — a very successful rookie season.
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"Family is a huge piece for my wife and me," Yardley first explained about his 2019 season. The 29-year-old has been through much in his baseball journey. It was challenging to remain positive and keep going, but he had fuel. "My family was a huge piece of it and the love of the game I have. Knowing that every day could be the last one, kept me focused and wanting to be in this clubhouse," Yardley said as he stood next to his major league locker. "I love the game so much. Striving to be the best I can be is what kept me going."
There is no lack of confidence when it comes to Yardley. He knows he belongs, and if you ask him, he will tell you that he has plenty of innings left in his right arm. "I love to compete. I feel I am one of the most versatile relievers in our system," the pitcher said while calmly sipping a hot tea. "I get to play a game for a living. The bus rides are miserable, and the flights are early, but the whole goal is to get here and play against the best in the world. There are other guys with my story. One standing right behind you," Yardley said, motioning towards Seth Mejias-Brean, whose locker was right next to the pitchers in the Padres clubhouse. He has a great understanding of where he is as a pitcher. Yardley will never take anything for granted, as nothing in the game was handed to him. He had to earn it. The players certainly respect that.
The butterflies were there in his major league debut with the Padres. He calmed himself after a few times on the mound as he rationalized his whole experience. "I build it up in my head so much. What you have done and created as a career works here. Once you sit back and realize that- you are freed up inside and it allows you to play baseball the same way you have always done," Yardley explains about how he was able to slow the game down and succeed in his last eight appearances in the major leagues.
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The more you talk to Eric Yardley, the more impressed you become. His pitching style could be very useful in a bullpen full of hard throwers like the Padres presently have. Only time will tell what the future holds for Eric Yardley, but one thing is for sure- his baseball career has been a success. The pitcher knows what it means to be a major league player. Hopefully, his ideology will be embraced by all.
"Being the best you can is what it means to be a big leaguer."
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With all the cuts and trades that will need to be made, I hope he survives them all and stays in SD
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