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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Brunch Week: Tofu Omelets with Mushrooms and Spinach
The Menu: The most brunch-like meal we've had all week! Charlotte combined the savory, spinach- and mushroom-stuffed omelets with sweet chunks of fresh pineapple for a lovely two-taste meal.
The Goods: First, congratulations to our brand-new chef, Charlotte! Ok, by this point in the week you probably know the drill. A huge congratulations to Allychristine, who scored herself a signed copy of Vegan Brunch! Allychristine, go ahead and send us an email with your full name and mailing address. Today is Thursday, and that means two things. One: a bunch of us are going to karaoke, and of course are heading to Ike's first! Two: we only have one more copy of Vegan Brunch left! We'll all be sorry to see Brunch Week come to an end. Le sigh. To (possibly) win one of them, answer this in the comments: What's your favorite restaurant to go to for brunch?
43 comments:
- Humboldt Honey said...
1. Outback Steakhouse
2. Black Angus
3. Red Lobster
- June 18, 2009 at 3:17 PM
- herbstsonne said...
Morning Glory Cafe in Eugene, OR. It's a vegetarian place but their vegan dishes are divine. Think: omeletes made with a hashbrown shell instead of egg (!!!), biscuits and gravy, baked filled apples...the best meal I ever had was a special, a tofu scramble with red peppers, leeks, and chantarelle mushrooms! MMM!
- June 18, 2009 at 3:22 PM
- Marni said...
My fav restaurant for brunch is WaterCourse Foods. Everything on their menu is available vegan. They offer up mouth-watering tofu scrambles, a blue plate special, pancakes, french toast ... but not "normal" french toast, whoa no. *Banana Bread french toast.* Yes. Let's just take a moment to savor that thought.
Also for the having, an Amsterdam Hash that's just as good as the name implies, and ... the nummers to end all nummers ... biscuits and gravy. Uh! So good, makes you want to smack yer mama. Metaphorically speaking, of-course.
And I'm not even mentioning the giant cinnamon rolls. Nope. This is me. Not mentioning them.
Did I say they're in Denver, CO yet? Thank goodness I live in San Diego, CA or I'd be working off a never-ending tab washing dishes or something. But every time I'm in Denver, I can be seen fogging up the glass in the wee hours of the morning, waiting for them to open and creeping out the wait staff.
- June 18, 2009 at 3:23 PM
Well, Madeleine Bistro, of course.
Unless your car breaks down on the Bay Bridge, then you catch the 108 (if it stops for you) to the 14L then get on Bart at Embarcadero, take it through the Transbay Tube, get off at North Berkeley Bart and walk to Fellini's. Order a Florentine if you're feeling European from all the public transport. Otherwise, I'd order the pepper and pesto scramble. Got it?!
- June 18, 2009 at 3:27 PM
- hannah said...
shine cafe in morro bay, ca.
- June 18, 2009 at 3:36 PM
- Danielle said...
my favorite brunch spot is Fiore in Brooklyn
- June 18, 2009 at 3:40 PM
- Puppy said...
i've only gone to megantarian's house for brunch potluck fun. it is the best place to eat because there is a lot of food and you know it is made with LOTS OF LOVE!!
i hope she sees this comment. it is time to rock another brunchluck
- June 18, 2009 at 4:01 PM
- Puppy said...
i should add, i don't know of anywhere in my area that serves vegan brunch foods, unless i want a bean burrito. which would make my gf happy...
- June 18, 2009 at 4:03 PM
- WholeFoodVegan said...
Caravan of Dreams, NY, you have your choice of raw or cooked delicious organic vegan food, killer tofu scramble and spinach "omelette", oodles of fresh juiced fruits and veggies, french press coffee and amazing lattes, spelt berry pancakes anyone? OMG the live almond hummus--best hummus in the entire world--and you definitely can't go wrong with the cuban brunch with the grilled banana! Wheee!!
- June 18, 2009 at 4:04 PM
- megatarian said...
Haha. What Puppy said. Though the co-op makes some yummy muffins, there really is no place I've been except my very own kitchen that dishes out a yummy vegan brunch.
We need to get planning again...
- June 18, 2009 at 4:28 PM
Cafe Flora in Seattle, WA
- June 18, 2009 at 4:36 PM
New Health Cafe in Rochester, NY. It's one of the few places to get a tofu scramble in the city. So, really, my favorite place would be my living room with delicious vegan food, my puppy, and a DVR full of guilty pleasure reality shows.
- June 18, 2009 at 4:53 PM
- Holly Bledsoe said...
In St. Joseph, MO, my hometown, there is a place called "The Garden of Eatin'" that serves garden fresh vegetarian food. You can actually SEE the garden out the back windows.
- June 18, 2009 at 4:55 PM
- stephanie said...
definitely It's Only Natural in Middletown, CT. Their pancake specials on Sundays are amazing!
- June 18, 2009 at 5:28 PM
My favorite place to have a vegan brunch is only once a year and it only happens at Millenium's Mothers Day Brunch. The food is exquisite and keeps me full all day long not to mention its all about me just for that one day. After having 5 beautiful children a day to sit down, unwind and relax is priceless.
- June 18, 2009 at 5:31 PM
- Kristine said...
In Grand Rapids, MI there is a lovely little Veg and Vegan friendly restaurant called Marie Catrib. Brunch for me: fresh-baked bread ends dipped in vegan french toast batter, topped with sauteed peaches, and fresh ginger-maple sauce. Along side this a small dish of fresh fruit. Yum!!
- June 18, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Flore in Los Angeles. 10 bucks for all-you-can-eat vegan buffet!!
- June 18, 2009 at 6:10 PM
- Stephanie said...
I live in the East Bay so... Fellini!
- June 18, 2009 at 6:35 PM
- Amara said...
I love going to Veggie Planet in Cambridge, MA. It's always so hard to decide between the tofu scramble, the waffles, or the pizza. hey, nothing wrong with pizza for brunch!
- June 18, 2009 at 6:35 PM
- eliser1028 said...
I'm going to be kinda lame and say my own kitchen, haha. But when in NY, Candle Cafe!!
- June 18, 2009 at 7:03 PM
- kelly g. said...
Eden Alley Cafe in Kansas City: http://www.edenalley.com
Their vegan buttercream cake is amaz!ng.
- June 18, 2009 at 7:25 PM
- Amy said...
Benevelence Cafe in Columbus, Ohio. My 5 year old son and I enjoy eating there. Everything is delicious.
- June 18, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Native Foods in California.
- June 18, 2009 at 8:32 PM
- Meghan said...
I love brunch at Lazy Jane's Cafe and Bakery in Madison, Wis.
- June 18, 2009 at 8:35 PM
- fieldsofgarlic said...
Udupi Palace in Langley Park, Maryland. They have the best vegetarian South Indian buffet in the world!
- June 18, 2009 at 8:42 PM
- Photo Jenny said...
hmm, living in portland, or makes this a very tough choice, but i have to say i've never been let down at vita cafe or paradox cafe...both so yummy! i could go there every week.
- June 18, 2009 at 9:01 PM
The deli at the Green Bean is awesome! I like to get my food to go and have brunch at the beach!
- June 18, 2009 at 11:38 PM
The only place around here to get a decent vegan brunch is Gateway Market (tofu scramble minus cheese). But I'm usu. too lazy to get out in time for brunch so I like making it at home in the afternoon
- June 19, 2009 at 1:01 AM
That Omelet looks amazing. The places that I like going to bruch would be...
2.Red Dogg's
All in Norfolk,Va
- June 19, 2009 at 1:28 AM
- sKh said...
The Other Side in Boston, MA, on... the other side of Newbury St. and Mass Ave. They have all sorts of dishes, from chicken salad to vegan chicken salad and vegan tofu scramble. They can make many of the dishes vegan, as well. Plus the atmosphere is youthful and kitschy and cool! And not far from shopping, of course. :)
Thanks for this awesome week-long giveaway!
- June 19, 2009 at 5:53 AM
Mary's of Course Cafe in Winston-Salem, NC. It's vegan friendly but not entirely veg, although she uses free range lanimal products. Her Tofu Scramble, barbecue tempeh, various soups and salads, veggie sausage, hashbrowns, toast with apple butter, homemade granola, and her vast selections of teas and coffees are delicious! Even better is this family run cafe has a lot of personality. It's full of art and ecclectic knick knacks - from a tofu zombie to Hello Kitty, to unmatching dishes.
- June 19, 2009 at 5:59 AM
- vvvegan said...
sweetpea bakery - portland oregon rocks! ~chik*n fried seitan~
- June 19, 2009 at 6:58 AM
I've never been to brunch (I know!) but I've been dying to go to Julian's in Providence, RI!
- June 19, 2009 at 7:16 AM
- Trista Hill said...
Northstar in central Ohio... or Whole Foods!
- June 19, 2009 at 7:27 AM
- Lauren said...
I have nowhere by me for vegan brunch....so, I normally just make my own tofu scrambles at home. Or I get oatmeal & fruit at any breakfasty type place.
- June 19, 2009 at 7:35 AM
- kelsi said...
Zenith in Pittsburgh definitely. Not only do they have an all you can eat vegan brunch buffet with a dessert table, an entree with thee best french toast and freshly made iced tea, but they also have a thrift store and its family owned. No wonder it's usually an hour wait for a table! It's definitely worth it.
- June 19, 2009 at 8:46 AM
- Amara said...
oh kelsi, you just reminded me of the Indigo Cafe in NH. That place is awesome because you order your main brunch off the menu and then while you wait you can go to the salad and baked goods buffet! They have all these yummy salads and dips and muffins and it's hard not to get full before your main dish comes. But the combo plate is awesome because you get french toast, tofu scramble, sausage patty, and the best potatoes ever. and then there's a dessert buffet too, with their awesome pies and cakes! I can't wait to go back to the Indigo Cafe.
- June 19, 2009 at 9:06 AM
- Art You Dream About said...
Fellini in Berkeley, CA!
- June 19, 2009 at 10:50 AM
- Andrea said...
We just went to Hillside Quickie's Café in Capitol Hill in Seattle and it was great. (but not "quick")
- June 19, 2009 at 12:36 PM
- Ssssonya said...
Soul Veg in Washington DC... or Keren, for authentic fuls medama. Both of these places are super no-frills, so it's DEF not about customer service or atmosphere, but the food is killer.
- June 19, 2009 at 12:52 PM
- Paulina said...
I don't have a favorite restaurant to go to for brunch but I suppose that if I had to choose one it would be Mr. Natural in Austin.
- June 19, 2009 at 1:23 PM
- kelsi said...
Amara, yes! It's exactly like that cafe! mmmm.
- June 19, 2009 at 2:09 PM
- Sylwia said...
The Pick Me Up Cafe in Chicago.
- June 23, 2009 at 7:46 AM


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TUSCALOOSA | The Stillman College men's basketball team was in control from the start against Miles College on Saturday and cruised to a 92-67 victory.
The Tigers (13-7) jumped out to a quick five-point lead and never looked back. In the first half, the Tigers held Miles to a mere 33 percent shooting, and the Golden Bears were 0-for-8 on 3-pointers.
Conversely, the Tigers continued having great success from beyond the arc, getting six 3-pointers in the first half. Heading into the half, Stillman held a commanding 40-21 lead over the Golden Bears (6-14).
The second half was much of the same. The Tigers even performed better in key areas, adding another six 3-pointers and shooting 46 percent in the half.
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One of the bottlenecks of the Internet is the address lookup operations performed by the routers. Expensive tailor-made hardware solutions have typically been used to achieve necessary speed. In this article, we'll show that it is possible to perform the lookups efficiently with a simple data structure -- a level compressed trie or LC-trie. A software implementation can sustain several million lookups per second, enough to match a Gbit/sec link. The data structure is simple and it scales well. No modifications are needed when switching from the 32-bit addresses of IP version 4 (IPv4) to the 128-bit addresses of IP version 6 (IPv6), and we expect the lookup operation to be almost as fast for the longer addresses.
Address Lookup for IP
The Internet protocol (IP) sends all data in packets. Each packet has a header that contains, among other things, a destination address. Currently, this address is a 32-bit number. In the next version of the Internet protocol, IPv6, these addresses will be 128 bits in length.
When a packet is sent over the Internet, it typically encounters several routers that are responsible for forwarding the packet in the correct direction toward its final destination. The router has a table that indicates a suitable forwarding direction for each possible address. This routing table does not contain complete addresses but only prefixes. All addresses starting with the same bits are forwarded in the same direction. Figure 1 is a small routing table with 15 entries.
Figure 1: A small routing table.
The destination address of a packet is compared to the prefixes in the routing table. If there is more than one match, the longest matching prefix is chosen. If no match is found a default route is used. The core routers in the Internet backbone are required to recognize all addresses and therefore tend to be larger.
The trie is a general-purpose data structure for storing strings. The idea behind it is simple: Each string is represented by a leaf in a tree structure, and the value of the string corresponds to the path from the root of the tree to the leaf. The binary strings in the routing table in Figure 1 correspond to the trie in Figure 2(a). For example, the string 010 corresponds to the path starting at the root and ending in leaf number 3: first a left-turn (0), then a right-turn (1), and finally a turn to the left (0).
Figure 2: (a) Binary trie; (b) path-compressed trie; (c) LC-trie.
This simple structure is not very efficient. The number of nodes may be large and the average depth may be long. The traditional technique to overcome this problem is to use path compression: Each internal node with only one child is removed. We store a number, the skip value, in each node that indicates how many bits have been skipped on the path. The path-compressed version of the trie in Figure 2(a) is shown in Figure 2(b). The total number of nodes in a path-compressed binary trie is exactly 2
n-1, where
n is the number of leaves in the trie. For a large class of distributions the average depth of a path-compressed trie is proportional to
Path compression is a way to compress parts of the trie that are sparsely populated. Level compression, described by A. Andersson and S. Nilsson in "Improved Behavior of Tries by Adaptive Branching" (Information Processing Letters, 46(6):295-300, 1993), is a new technique for compressing parts of the trie that are densely populated. The idea is to replace the
i highest complete levels of the binary trie with a single node with 2
i descendants. This replacement is performed recursively on each subtrie. The level-compressed version, the LC-trie, of the trie in Figure 2(b) is shown in Figure 2(c). For a large class of distributions the average depth of an LC-trie is proportional to
n. That is, the LC-trie grows very slowly as function of the number of entries.
If we want to achieve the efficiency promised by these theoretical bounds, it is of course important to represent the trie efficiently. The standard implementation of a trie, where a set of children pointers are stored at each internal node, is not a good solution, since it has a large space overhead. A space-efficient alternative is to store the children of a node in consecutive memory locations. In this way, only a pointer to the left-most child is needed. In fact, the nodes may be stored in an array and each node can be represented by a single word containing three numbers:
- The branching factor.
- The skip value.
- A pointer to the left-most child.
The array representation of the LC-trie in Figure 2(c) is shown in Figure 3. Using this implementation, there is no apparent way to perform efficient dynamic updates, inserting and removing single entries. However, for the routing tables, you can get away with rebuilding the complete structure with large time intervals (seconds).
Figure 3: Array representation of the LC-trie in Figure 2(c).
The search algorithm can be implemented very efficiently as demonstrated by the pseudocode in Example 1. Let
s be the string searched for and let
EXTRACT(p,b,s) be a function that returns the number given by the
b bits starting at position
p in the string
s. We denote the array representing the trie by
T. The root of the trie is stored in
T[0]. Note that the address returned only indicates a possible hit; the bits that have been skipped during the search may not match. Therefore, we need to store the values of the strings separately and perform one additional comparison to check whether the search actually was successful.
node = T[0]; pos = node.skip; branch = node.branch; adr = node.adr; while (branch != 0) { node = T[adr + EXTRACT(pos, branch, s)]; pos = pos + branch + node.skip; branch = node.branch; adr = node.adr; } return adr;
Example 1: Pseudocode for finding the string s in the LC-trie T.
For example, we'll search for the string 10110111. We start at the root, node number 0, and find that the branching value is 3 and the skip value is 0. Therefore, we extract the first three bits from the search string. These three bits have the value 5, which is added to the pointer, leading to position 6 in the array. At this node, the branching value is 2 and the skip value is 0. Therefore we extract the next two bits. They have the value 2. Adding 2 to the pointer, we arrive at position 15. At this node the branching value is 0, which implies that it is a leaf. The pointer value 5 gives the position of the string in the base vector. Note that we always check whether this constitutes a true hit. We need to compare the first five bits of the search string with the first five bits of a value stored in the base vector in the position indicated by the pointer (10) in the leaf. In fact, Figure 1 contains a prefix 10110, matching the string; the search was successful.
Further Improvements
The idea of level compression turns out to be quite efficient in reducing the depth of the trie. However, it is rather sensitive: You might lose some good compression opportunities if a subtrie is almost complete, with just a few strings missing. Therefore, we use a less restrictive criterion for compression. We compress a subtrie if a certain fraction, called the "fill factor," of the strings are present. This relaxed level compression reduces the depth of the trie, but increases the size since we introduce some superfluous empty leaves in the trie.
Another simple optimization is to use a large branching factor at the root of the trie. This should be a good idea, since every bit that we gain at the top of the trie will affect each and every entry. You may recognize this as a standard technique known as bucketing: The complete address space of the problem is divided into buckets of equal size and the entries belonging to each bucket are treated separately.
The trie structure, as we have described it, can not handle routing tables containing entries that are prefixes of other entries. There are several ways to address this problem. One technique is to store entries not only at the leaves of the trie but also in internal nodes. However, this makes the structure more complicated (we need to implement nodes of different sizes), and the search operation will be slower since we need to check for a match also at the internal nodes of the trie. Therefore, we have chosen to use a special prefix table that is accessed if no match is found at the leaf of the trie. This table is simple, and, in practice, it is also small and shallow. Conceptually, an entry that is a prefix corresponds to an exception in the address space. Each entry in the routing table defines a set of addresses that share the same routing table entry. In such an address set, a longer match corresponds to a subset of addresses that should be routed differently. This special case will probably be even less frequent with IPv6. With a much larger address space, it is possible to allocate the addresses in a strictly hierarchical fashion.
We performed measurements on a Sun Ultra Sparc II running in multiuser mode equipped with two 296-MHz processors and 512 MB of RAM. The code is available for download.
We have performed simulations for the U.S. core routers as provided by the Internet Performance Measurement and Analysis (IPMA) project. For details see http://www.merit.edu/ipma/. Traffic traces for these routers are not freely available, since they contain potentially sensitive data. However, we have been able to attain both routing tables and partial traffic traces from the Finnish University and Research Network (FUNET). We had access only to the first 24 bits of each address. However, this should have little effect on the measurements since the last eight bits are local addresses that are rarely inspected by this router. The routing table contained more than 40,000 entries, which is comparable to the largest U.S. core routers. Finland is densely populated, not with people, but with IP addresses.
Table 1 shows some measurements. A standard path-compressed trie with no level compression doesn't behave well. The average depth, which is the average number of memory accesses required by the search algorithm, is almost 20. Level compression gives a big improvement. Not only does it reduce the depth, but it even makes the structure smaller. Relaxed level compression gives further improvements. A lookup in an LC-trie with fill factor 0.30 needs less than three memory accesses on the average and only five memory accesses in the worst case. Yet the size of the structure is only slightly larger than for a standard LC-trie. The number of lookups per second are sufficient to match a Gbit/sec link, since the average size of a packet is about 250 bytes.
Table 1: Experimental data for Finnish University Network (FUNET).
It is interesting to compare the simulated traffic with the real traffic traces. The simulated traffic simply consists of the entries in the routing table randomly permuted. This means that the lookups for simulated traffic has very bad memory access patterns, while the real traffic has a lot of locality -- packets typically come in groups headed for the same destination. Therefore, the number of cache misses will be much smaller for real traffic. Even so, the difference in speed is only a factor of 2. This may surprise you, since a cache miss can be 100 times slower than a direct access to the cache. However, the number of cache misses is small, even for bad memory access patterns. It seems like caching is better than its reputation suggests!
Another interesting observation is that the bucketing scheme alone, with no relaxed level-compression, behaves well. This is not so surprising. In IPv4 only the first 24 bits of the addresses are typically inspected by the core routers. Hence, using bucketing on the first 16 bits, each bucket will contain only a few elements and all that remains is a small (at most 256 elements) search problem that could be solved by any standard technique. Hence, IP address lookup is easy. This simple bucketing scheme will, however, not be sufficient for IP version 6 with its 128bit addresses.
Fortunately, our structure scales well with the length of the addresses. In fact, no changes to the trie are needed. We just need to make more room in the array where the strings are stored. This array is only accessed once for each search and accessing four consecutive words instead of one is only marginally slower. Also, note that even without bucketing, using only relaxed level compression, the measurements are good. Furthermore, theory tells us that the depth of the trie does not depend on the lengths of the strings but only on their number and distribution. And for a large class of distributions, the average depth is proportional to
log log
n -- very close to constant. For a more detailed discussion, including a comparison with other proposed software solutions, see our paper "Fast Address Look-up for Internet Routers" (Fourth IFIP Conference on Broadband Communications, Stuttgart, Germany, April 1-3, 1998).
Address lookup in IPv4 is easy. Since only the first 24 bits are used by the core routers, a simple bucketing scheme solves the problem. In IPv6, the addresses will be longer and we will need more sophisticated methods. We believe that the LC-trie is a suitable data structure. It's simple and compact and an address lookup requires only a few memory accesses. The depth of the structure does not depend on the length of the strings and grows slowly as a function of the number of entries in the table.
Stefan, a computer scientist at the Helsinki University of Technology, can be contacted at [email protected] Gunnar, a professor at KTH, can be reached at [email protected]


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LEXINGTON, Ky. – Silver-medal-winning runner-up finishes by senior Jasmin Stowers, junior Vernon Norwood and the Tigers' 4x100-meter relay sparked the LSU Track & Field teams to a strong finish with five All-SEC performances in Sunday's finale at the 2014 SEC Outdoor Track & Field Championships at the Kentucky Outdoor Track & Field Complex.
While lining up as the defending SEC Champions in the men's 4x100-meter relay, the Tigers raced to a seasonal-best time of 38.68 seconds on Sunday afternoon to finish as this year's SEC silver medalists in the opening event on the track. Their performance kicked off the scoring the Tigers and Lady Tigers in an exciting conclusion to this year's championship.
Stowers followed with a runner-up finish in the women's 100-meter hurdles after clocking 13.03 in the final, while Norwood ran a personal best of 45.17 for a second-place finish in the men's 400-meter dash.
Also turning in All-SEC performances on the final day of the competition were senior Lynnika Pitts with a third-place finish in the women's triple jump and the Tigers in the men's 4x400-meter relay as the team's ended the meet with five individuals and two relay teams earning All-SEC honors with their performance.
The Lady Tigers scored 65.5 points in four days of competition to take home a sixth-place finish in the final women's team standings, while the Tigers scored 43 points of their own to earn an eighth-place finish with the final men's team standings on Sunday. The Texas A&M men (155) and Arkansas women (123) took home the team titles at the 2014 SEC Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
Rounding out the top five teams in the final men's team race were Arkansas in second place with 116.5 points, Florida in third place with 93 points, Georgia in fourth place with 92 points and Ole Miss in fifth place with a total of 78 points. The women's team race saw Florida in second place with 116.5 points, Texas A&M in third place with 113 points, Kentucky in fourth place with 104 points and Georgia in fifth place with 70.5 points.
"I thought we had some outstanding individual performances from both our teams here this weekend, and we really saw which athletes are ready to take that next step and really help our team as we now go forward from here to the NCAA Championships," said LSU head coach Dennis Shaver. "To be honest, we need to see more of that type of commitment across the board to achieve at the level we expect and come away with a team finish that we know we can achieve on both sides at the national meet.
"We've got two big weeks of training coming up before we go again. We look forward to this time of year more than any other, and I know our athletes will prepare themselves well these next couple of weeks."
The men's 4x100-meter relay was billed as one of the marquee events of this year's SEC Outdoor Championships as it featured the NCAA's top three teams in a race for SEC glory to kick off the championship season.
With sophomore Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, junior Aaron Ernest, freshman Tremayne Acy and senior Shermund Allsop lining up for the Tigers, they found themselves in a dead heat with Florida and Texas A&M running down the homestretch. The Aggies were the first team to cross the finish line in 38.50 to take the title, while the Tigers nipped the Gators for the silver medal with both teams running 38.68 in the heat.
The Tigers set a new 2014 seasonal best with their performance as they came up just a split second shy of defending the SEC relay title they won a season ago in Columbia, Missouri. They slashed nearly two tenths of a second off of their seasonal best of 38.83 coming into the meet while running the No. 10-ranked 4x100-meter relay time in the history of the LSU program.
After running the second leg for the Tigers in the 4x100-meter relay, Ernest returned to the track to take home a pair of sixth-place finishes in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes while adding six more points to LSU's team total. Racing into a headwind, Ernest clocked 10.48 (-0.8) for a sixth-place finish in the 100 meters before running 20.83 (-0.5) for a sixth-place finish in the 200 meters to cap his afternoon.
Mitchell-Blake joined Ernest in the 200-meter final as he sprinted to a seasonal best for the second-straight day with at time of 21.00 (-0.5) for eighth place in his second finals appearance at the SEC Outdoor meet.
Junior All-American and NCAA title hopeful Vernon Norwood turned in the performance of the day for the Tigers and Lady Tigers as he smashed his lifetime personal best with a silver-medal-winning run of 45.17 in the men's 400-meter final as he emerged as the NCAA's No. 2-ranked quartermiler this season and the No. 6-ranked performer in school history while taking home All-SEC honors.
Norwood finished runner-up to the 44.36 turned in by Texas A&M's SEC Outdoor champion Deon Lendore as the Aggie junior nearly set a meet record in the win, while finishing well ahead of such All-America favorites as Florida's Najee Glass (45.40), Texas A&M's Bralon Taplin (45.66), Florida's Hugh Graham, Jr. (45.77) and Texas A&M's Carlyle Roudette (45.80).
"I'm not satisfied by my time because I know I have a lot of improvement to make from here. I can't wait to get back to practice, work on what I need to and hopefully shoot for the stars in June," Norwood said. "I'm in great shape. I feel like I'm getting better every week. Coming to the SEC meet, I knew it was going to be tough with the athletes we have in this conference. I just tried to come out today with a great mindset to go out and compete and do my part for my team, because I know they need that from me.
"I got out pretty well in my race. I came off the 300-meter mark pretty well, and I just tried to finish strong. He (Deon Lendore) just had the best of me for right now. I look forward to racing again at nationals."
Two other Tigers joined Norwood in the 400-meter final as junior Quincy Downing nipped sophomore Cyril Grayson at the finish line as both ran 46.45 in the race to finish in seventh and eighth place, respectively. LSU's Grayson set a personal best for the second-straight day as he followed his 46.49 in Saturday's qualifying with an eighth-place time of 46.45 in Sunday's championship final.
Downing added another point to the Tigers' team score when he returned to the track to run in the final of the men's 400-meter hurdles, clocking 52.97 for an eighth-place finish in the championship final.
Each of LSU's 400-meter finalists later wrapped up the meet with a bronze-medal-winning All-SEC performance in the 4x400-meter relay as they joined sophomore Fitzroy Dunkley in taking third place in the event.
Running with the order of Downing, Grayson, Dunkley and Norwood, the Tigers crossed the finish line in 3 minutes, 4.33 seconds to finish as this year's SEC Outdoor bronze medalists in the mile relay behind SEC champ Texas A&M (3:01.19) and silver medalist Florida (3:03.04) in what proved to be an exciting finish to this year's championship.
Stowers had already cemented her legacy as one of the most decorated hurdlers in the history of the Lady Tiger program before Sunday's SEC finale, but she added yet another honor to her resume as this year's silver medalist in the women's 100-meter hurdles as she clocked 13.03 (-0.4) into a slight headwind to finish behind only Kentucky's hometown favorite Kendra Harrison (12.86) in her bid to win a third career SEC title.
Stowers earned a seventh career All-SEC honor in the sprint hurdles between the indoor and outdoor seasons as one of the most decorated Lady Tigers in the history of the SEC Championships. She will end her tenure as a five-time SEC hurdles champion, which includes three-straight SEC Indoor titles in the 60 hurdles from 2011-13 and back-to-back SEC Outdoor titles in the 100 hurdles in 2011 and 2012.
Stowers was one of three Lady Tigers to run in the final of the 100-meter hurdles as junior Chanice Chase took eighth place in 13.77 and junior Mariah Georgetown finished in ninth place in 14.24.
It was the 400-meter hurdles where Chase left her mark on this year's SEC Outdoor Championships as she slashed nearly one full second off of her personal best in the event while running in Sunday's final. She posted a time of 56.27 for a fifth-place finish while moving into the No. 6 spot in the NCAA rankings this season and the No. 6 spot on LSU's all-time performance list. Chase lined up in her first career SEC final in the 400 hurdles with a previous best of 57.23 that was set in her last appearance at the LSU Invitational on May 3.
The Lady Tigers piled up nine points in the final of the 400 hurdles as senior Nikita Tracey also smashed her seasonal best in the event with a run of 56.23 to take fourth place with the fifth-fastest time nationally for this season. Claiming the medal positions in the event ahead of Tracey and Chase were Harrison (54.76) and Texas A&M's Janeil Bellille (55.67) and Shamier Little (56.01).
The Lady Tigers opened the day by also scoring nine points in the women's triple jump as senior Lynnika Pitts led the way by setting a personal best to complete her sweep of SEC bronze medals in the event in 2014.
After posting back-to-back marks of 42 feet, 2 inches and 42-4 on her first two jumps of the competition, Pitts soared to a wind-legal personal best of 43-4 ½ (+1.0) on her third attempt to qualify for the final. That mark held up for a third-place finish as Pitts completed her sweep of SEC Indoor and SEC Outdoor bronze medals in the triple jump in her final collegiate season.
Fellow senior Keri Emanuel set a seasonal best of her own with a series-best mark of 42-6 ¾ (+1.3) also in the third round that earned her a sixth-place finish while scoring three points. Freshman Nataliyah Friar jumped a wind-legal PR of 40-11 ½ (+1.7) on her third attempt en route to a 12th-place finish in her debut at the SEC Outdoor Championships.
Also setting a personal best while adding to the Lady Tigers' team total on Sunday afternoon was freshman Morgan Schuetz, who set a PR by exactly one second in the women's 800-meter final with a run of 2:07.02 for a sixth-place finish in her first career SEC final in the event. Schuetz lined up with a previous best of 2:08.02 that she set at the LSU Alumni Gold meet back on April 19 during the regular season.
Other scorers for the Lady Tigers included junior Tori Bliss with a mark of 164-10 for fifth place in the discus and their 4x400-meter relay team with a run of 3:37.59 for seventh place in the final event of the meet.
Two other Tigers also added two points toward the team's total score with their pair of seventh-place finishes as senior Jaora Johnson cleared the bar at 16-10 ¾ in the pole vault and sophomore Joshua Lamers clocked 14.00 (+0.4) in the 110-meter hurdles. Also setting personal bests during Sunday's finale at the SEC Championships were Philip Moody (204-2) and Garret LeBouef (197-11) in javelin qualifying.
After kicking off the championship season at the SEC Outdoor Track & Field Championships this weekend, the Tigers and Lady Tigers will now turn their attention to the NCAA Championships and the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds that will be held at North Florida's Hodges Stadium in Jacksonville from May 29-31. The semifinal and final round of the 2014 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships will then follow for June 11-14 at the University of Oregon's Hayward Field in Eugene.


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Megan Davidson's '09CC team, the Mambas, claimed first place at the inaugural post-graduate event. The Titans, featuring Maggie O'Connor '12CC finished in second place.
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I dropped a minor bombshell yesterday when I announced that I'd be moving to Portland, Oregon on Saturday. While I was completely pumped up that my readers were so supportive of this relocation, it is worth noting how strange it will feel to be flying into PDX the day the Ducks come to town, my town, Los Angeles. It couldn't be avoided as I am needed at my new job and the local pubs (there's a bourbon problem, I'll fix it), but the strangeness of it cannot be denied.
Looking at it through Rose City tinted glasses, the cosmos is literally firing a bearfighting missile into the heart of darkness (or grayness, rather) to start the battle. I am excited to make PDX my new home, but I am coming with a welcome gift. The Shocker in the Southland.
That actually made me laugh. Shocker with USC involved? Never. Anytime we're on the field, we can win, just as we did last year. We've played down on many occasions this year, Oregon has not been tested. I'll be the first to say this is a tall order for us, Oregon has not been even so much as tested this year. Vegas says they will be at the Coliseum. We'll certainly see.
First off, Oregon. I'm coming to town. Outside of Saturday, the last scheduled time we play you for two years (though I do expect to see you in a few Pac 12 Championships), I want to make it clear that we're cool. I'll drink with you at Rum Club. I'll eat a plate of funky charcuterie at Nostrana. I'll drink something barrel aged at Kask. We can Pok Pok. Hell, I'll dip a Voodoo Donut in NyQuil and do a rain dance with you. We're going to be buds. I'll be working for Nike's agency, hell you never know, you might see me dressed running around like a neon banana in Forest Park. USC is a Nike school. I just think you guys dig fingerpainting too much. But I accept that. We're good. We're going to be hanging out all the time, you will see my wife who has roots in the PNW at the Farmer's Market on Saturdays and if you see me eating a Reggie, we can share a high five. Maybe a SoCal one arm bro hug to exchange cultures. I am ready to embrace your locally crafted everything and I may even not run over bikes on the streets. I won't use an umbrella. I'll do my best to appreciate all that you are and you will come to find, I am awesome to drink bourbon with. I'll even talk reasonably about your teams. Hell, I may even become a Timbers fan. It seems awesome.
The thing is, on game day, I'm not backing down. Not even a little.
Let's set the scene. Oregon won their first Rose Bowl (although with sanctions, take it from us, you may not be keeping it). They have won the Pac 12 I think like three times in a row. They have redefined the concept of letting children dress themselves when they go to school and in fairness, a lot of the country gets a huge kick out of their millions of uniform combinations (including my favorite, Las Vegas Casino Security Camera):
We're in an interesting place. The historical rivalry is not much of one. USC, on the national level, is the only relevant west coast team, but Oregon is working incredibly hard to change that. They have made a nice start. After losing a ton of opportunities in big national games to make a point, they won a Rose Bowl and finally put some hardware at Autzen to prove they were good in their own right, regardless of USC being sanctioned or in "down years". Unfortunately, in that same season, they lost to USC and those sanctions prevented a rematch that they wanted, needed and were deprived of.
Facing down a school with a uniform recognized anywhere on earth, 11 National Championships, 6 Heismans (that we count) and like a third of all Rose Bowl wins ever (seriously, take that in) is no small task. So Oregon has to focus on the present. Outside of losing to USC last year at home and costing themselves a chance at a title shot, they finished strong with a Rose Bowl. They need to do that A LOT in the next decade to have the Duke effect.
That's what Oregon wants, I don't know if they realize that yet. Most current Ducks will be long buried before Oregon could be considered a historical power like an Alabama, USC, Ohio State or Michigan. These are schools that have gone on monster runs in so many decades (including recent ones) that they just never are a surprise and even when they lose it's assumed that they will win again, as they have proven over the last century.
Oregon needs the Duke effect because the Ducks have no football history to speak of. The last five years have been their greatest and in fairness, they have been some great years. The thing is, they need to win a lot of Rose Bowls. They need to win some National Championships. They need to get the Duke effect. This Duke effect is that after not being a powerhouse, they got a great coach who stayed and became a perennial powerhouse. It started in modern times and has been consistent.
Oregon is close to starting this. They have a coach who somehow makes it work with non-NFL talent (for the most part). I think we all dig DAT running all over the place, but he's undersized and probably a Teddy Ginn punt returner for 5 seasons in the NFL. Chip Kelly has this team in position to keep making waves. They need to win the Pac 12 every year for a long time. They need to rip down like 5 Rose Bowls and 2 National Championships in a 10 year span and then it's started. Then there is the argument to the historical powers that "yeah you guys are great, but we're the new hotness and you're more likely to guess what color uniform we're wearing than beat us this week".
Oregon isn't there. Not yet. They took a big step last year. What will happen this year? The pressure is entirely on them because I think most of us feel their window is closing. Chip Kelly will not stay forever and it's not a pro style he's running. To his credit, he makes a lot with a little. He puts a freshman QB in, they still score at will. It's a system designed to win college football games. I wonder what it will be if he tries the NFL or if the Seastrunk/James/Lyles hammer ever falls and makes it uncomfortable, as if it wasn't uncomfortable enough to look like E from Entourage locked himself in a cellar and just ate meat lover's pizzas around the clock for a year.
The truth is though, Oregon has achieved one major stepping stone towards being an alpha dog, towards the Duke effect. They are the date we circle on OUR calendar now. It's who we get up for. The key is, they have to make it last.
Vegas sees this game as a lot closer than the pundits and for me, I have a simple prediction. If we do not turn the ball over, we'll win the damn game. That's not an easy task, especially when it's hard to evaluate an Oregon defense that's been relatively untested. I say relatively because it's D1 football and they have been shutting teams out.
There is so much on the line for them in this game and their style requires perfect execution. A chance at a National Title (although they probably don't get in even if they win out if KSU decides to do the same). Their undefeated season, alpha dog position in the Pac.
For us? Well, we're still USC and we will be next year. I don't have to think too far back to remember the fistful of recent Rose Bowls and a couple National Titles that the AP still recognizes. A win and we're popping champagne. A loss and in the end, we'll have to be lucky AND good to get into the Pac 12 Title game. In the end, though. If Kiffin left, or whoever left, I am confident I'll see another run in my lifetime.
Oregon cannot feel that way. THIS is their run. Like I said, they need their hardware or it's if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears… How long will Chip stay?
I think this might be a game for the ages. USC has so much talent, Oregon has so much offense. USC built it's D for this game. No one has stopped Oregon's O. It's just such a pivotal game in the Pac 12's history.
Oregon has their traveling faithful prepared with this ridiculous website that tells their fans what color to wear. Look, I know we are attempting to "red out" the Coliseum, but I'm sorry, who fucking cares. We only have two colors on our uniforms. We look organized all the time. You only need a website when your team mysterious abandoned their colors for carbon fiber, mirrors, neon yellow and chain metal wings. There are certain outfits they wear (yes, I said outfits) that literally look like something worn in the Red Light District. I am waiting for Mariota to have whips and leather instead of a towel and wristband.
Like a bunch of girls going out on Friday night, they made a last minute addendum to wear white. The only time that was cool was in New Orleans where we suddenly realized we were in an impromptu white linen party and I paid a street woman $20 to serve cupcakes to the entire bar because she had cupcakes and I had been drinking Abita and hand grenades. Sometimes you just do shit.
By the way, how "Geocities 1997" does that screenshot look?
Another thing is, when you are going for intimidation and tradition, aim bigger. Don't go with "Win The Day" when Pete Carroll already did Win Forever (and he almost did). How about "Win A Title" or "Win More Rose Bowls". This isn't me picking on Oregon, I am giving advice to my new neighbors who have every chance of getting the Duke effect and turning this into a killer rivalry, not just the big game of the season. I am rooting for that. I've found certainly Portlanders to be great people, so much so that I was down to move there. This is advice from a perennial winner. You've already surpassed UCLA in strategy by being "the new hotness" instead of "pretending we have a football tradition".
Now please stop doing shit like this because it sets you back:
I completely endorse the use of Oregon cheerleaders, which I've found to be, outside of the Song Girls, pretty high up there on the "you make me forget I hate your football team" list. What I can't endorse is taking your coked-up, rolling on E captive duck mascot and doing a PSY parody like you are a bunch of teenage girls. It's not fun. It's torturing a duck and me, who watched this. In the video, there is:
- unsanctioned use of the Muppets that would probably get this video taken down if anyone at the Muppets knew what Oregon football was
- Puddles coming out of a port-o-potty and spraying something in the air (clear duck urine, I think)
- being sprayed with fire extinguishers
- dancing on a boat with a half naked guy who is also drugged
- dancing on a dock with about two dozen half naked guys on drugs
- Puddles being raped in an elevator (watch the video, it actually is more convincing than this already convincing photo)
- A cute girl about to hook up with Puddles (good for Puddles, but that's bestiality)
- Unauthorized use of Yoda, created by a Trojan, sold to Disney this week for 4 billion dollars
- Puddles mugging a version of the Stanford tree (I actually totally endorse this and possibly the bestiality)
- Puddles humping the back of a man's head
So look, I really dig all the hot cheerleaders (even if they aren't Song Girls, who invented being hot), but when LSU gets their mascot in an EA commercial and the Duck is tripping on acid and having sex raves to a flash in the pan K-Pop song, we're not screaming "relevant".
Again, none of this is going to matter on the field and I expect a war and take it from the Bearfighter, I will be ready to shake hands with my new Oregon neighbors in either outcome. Ultimately, I was just giving advice.
My advice to Matty Trojan and the team? Don't turn the ball over. Wrap up your tackles. Don't take cheap shots and WIN THE DAY. See what I did there.
I predict I will be watching this game in a hotel room in Oregon.
Oregon 55.5 (3OT)
I think it's a game for the ages. The excitement may be too much for Puddles. EMTs are on the scene if he ODs on cocaine.
I think I am going to be wrong, but I know the athletic department reads this. Kiffin must come out in all black. A black visor even. We need evil Kiffin this game. He should make out with Layla in the tunnel, sprint on the field and pinch Chip Kelly's man boobs. That's what it will take to beat a VERY GOOD Duck squad.
We've totally shit the bed on these. None. Who cares.
Look, he better not have to punt much or this will be a tough one to win. That said, if he has a mustache going for Movember, it will strike fear into the hearts of the Ducks, the only down side being that it will probably make Puddles try and hump the back of his head like that guy on the dock.


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When the blood pressure drug Bystolic hit the market in 2008, it faced a crowded field of cheap generics.
So its maker, Forest Laboratories, launched a promotional assault on the group in the best position to determine Bystolic's success: those in control of prescription pads. It flooded the offices of health professionals with drug reps, and it hired doctors to persuade their peers to choose Bystolic — even though the drug hadn't proved more effective than competitors.
The strategy worked. In the 2012 fiscal year, sales of Bystolic reached $348 million, almost double its total from two years earlier, the company reported.
Now, data obtained and analyzed by ProPublica suggest another factor in Bystolic's rapid success: Many of the drug's top prescribers have financial ties to Forest.
At least 17 of the top 20 Bystolic prescribers in Medicare's prescription drug program in 2010 have been paid by Forest to deliver promotional talks. In 2012, they together received $284,700 for speeches and more than $20,000 in meals.
Nearly all those doctors were again among the highest prescribers in 2011, the most recent year for which Medicare data are available. Forest began disclosing its payments only last year; the company didn't specify which drugs doctors spoke about.
Dr. Bernard Lo, who was chairman of a national panel examining conflicts of interest in medicine, said he doesn't believe the findings are coincidental.
When there's no evidence a drug is better, "You have to question: Why are doctors prescribing this?" said Lo, president of the Greenwall Foundation, a New York City nonprofit that funds bioethics research. "What your evidence suggests is that there is a financial incentive for doctors who receive payments from drug companies" for pitching their products.
Until now, doctors' prescribing habits have been secret from all but pharmaceutical companies, which pay millions of dollars for such information from other firms that collect it.
ProPublica's analysis marks the first time anyone has matched payment data made public by drug companies with physician prescribing records from the Medicare drug program, which covers about 1 out of every 4 prescriptions in the U.S.
(Readers can search for Medicare prescribers in our Prescriber Checkup news app and for drug company payments to doctors and other health professionals in Dollars for Docs.)
Reporters identified the drugs that were most actively promoted to doctors in 2010 and 2011 using rankings from Cegedim Strategic Data, a company that tracks marketing expenses.
The top prescribers of some of these drugs, in addition to Bystolic, also received speaking payments from the companies that made them. As a group, these heavily marketed drugs were new or had new uses, were expensive and often showed little benefit over existing medications or generics.
For example, nine of the top 10 prescribers of the Alzheimer's drug Exelon received money from Novartis, the drug's maker. Eight of the top 10 for Johnson & Johnson painkiller Nucynta were paid speakers, as were six of the top 10 for Pfizer's antidepressant Pristiq.
The same was true for seven of the 10 top prescribers of the asthma drug Advair Diskus, made by GlaxoSmithKline. One doctor made more than $100,000 from 2009 to 2012.
Many of the physicians spoke for several drug companies.
If financial relationships influence physicians to choose pricier brand-name drugs that have little benefit over generics, everyone pays the cost — particularly taxpayers, who spent $62 billion last year subsidizing Medicare Part D.
"I've never heard a doctor that said they were influenced, but obviously the companies are interested in doing it because the evidence overwhelmingly suggests that doctors are influenced," said Rita Redberg, a cardiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, and editor of the journal JAMA-Internal Medicine.
Companies are "not doing it for any reason except it improves their bottom line," she said.
A survey published in the Archives of Internal Medicine in 2010 found that physicians with industry relationships said they were more likely to prescribe a brand-name drug when a generic was available. And federal whistle-blower lawsuits against several pharmaceutical companies have alleged that payments are little more than thinly veiled kickbacks, which are illegal. Companies have paid billions of dollars to settle the cases.
Each of the top 20 prescribers of Bystolic wrote at least 530 prescriptions in Part D in 2010. ProPublica attempted to contact all those who also received money from Forest. Only a handful responded to phone calls, emails and faxed letters requesting comment.
The No. 1 prescriber of Bystolic, Los Angeles cardiologist Gary Reznik, said that if patients have blood pressure under control with another beta blocker, he doesn't switch them. But he believes Bystolic is more effective at lowering blood pressure and doesn't cause the slower heart rate and erectile dysfunction of other drugs in the class.
"If you don't have to be on a beta blocker, I would not start you on a beta blocker," said Reznik, who was paid $3,750 to give talks by Forest in 2012. "If you have to have a beta blocker, Bystolic would be my choice." Reznik prescribed the drug more than 2,500 times in 2010 and more than 2,900 in 2011, including refills dispensed, Medicare records show.
"I have never felt that there were any expectations or pressure on the part of the company that I would prescribe it more or at all," he said.
Another top prescriber, internist Mark Barats, of West Hollywood, Calif., said he uses smaller doses of Bystolic to achieve the same effects as higher doses of generic medications. "It has much less side effects, particularly much less side effects on the respiratory system," he said.
"I've never seen anything that contradicts what Forest said about Bystolic," said Barats, who was paid $3,750 to speak for Forest in 2012.
Dr. Henry Yee, who was paid $5,000 by Forest, said he chooses the drug for many of the same reasons as Reznik and Barats. The cardiologist, whose office is in the Los Angeles suburb of Alhambra, said he learned about the drug from company sales reps and from reading studies. He started prescribing it "even before I started speaking for the company," he added.
Yee said he believes drug companies ask him to speak for their products because he is an influential specialist in his community. "I think it is most likely because a lot of doctors listen to me," he said.
Among the 17 top prescribers with Forest ties, speaking payments ranged from $1,250 to $85,750. Seven doctors also received at least $1,000 in Forest-paid meals.
But several prominent cardiologists say no studies have proved that the benefits cited by Bystolic's top prescribers are real. Dr. Steve Nissen, chairman of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, said he understands why doctors would like to believe that the beta blocker has additional benefits. "Wishing it to happen isn't the same as proving it," he said.
In 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rebuked Forest for an ad claiming the drug was "novel" and superior to other products. The FDA said the claim wasn't factual.
"I don't see any purpose for Bystolic whatsoever," said Eric Topol, a cardiologist and chief academic officer of Scripps Health, a San Diego-based health system. Topol said he doesn't use the drug because it is expensive with no added benefit. "I have no idea how you could come up with a storyline for use of that drug."
Bystolic costs about $80 per month, compared with less than $10 for a generic cousin, according to Costco's pharmacy website. (Patient copays vary by drug plan.)
In an email, a Forest representative called Bystolic "an important treatment option" because it is effective and well-tolerated but didn't assert that the drug was superior.
Forest also defended its spending on physician speakers. The company "believes that patients benefit" from paid talks and other initiatives that "enable health care professionals to stay abreast of the latest treatment options available," a representative wrote.
Three years ago, Forest paid the government $313 million to settle civil and criminal allegations about its marketing of drugs, among other things. In its lawsuit, the government alleged that Forest made "cash payments disguised as grants or consulting fees, expensive meals and lavish entertainment, and other valuable goods and services" to doctors.
Forest denied those allegations despite settling the case.
More recently, in a lawsuit unsealed in April against the drug company Novartis, the U.S. government alleged the company's "own internal analyses showed that speaker programs had a high return on investment in terms of the additional prescriptions for its drugs written by the doctors who participated in the programs, both as speakers and attendees, with the highest return arising from payments to doctors as 'honoraria' for speaking."
Novartis disputed the allegations. In 2010, the firm pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and paid $422.5 million to settle allegations that it illegally promoted Trileptal, an antiseizure drug, and paid kickbacks for prescribing it and other drugs. Trileptal isn't frequently used in the Medicare population.
Forest, Novartis and other drugmakers said they choose speakers based on their expertise and credentials.
Pfizer "explicitly prohibits the selection of speakers based on their prescribing behavior ... any inference to the contrary is misleading," a spokesman wrote in an email. Glaxo and Johnson & Johnson also said they don't choose speakers based on prescribing.
The spending by pharmaceutical companies on speaking and consulting fluctuates based on whether they have new drugs or are marketing older ones for new uses.
To date, only 16 companies have publicly reported their payments to physicians. All companies will be required to report such payments next year under the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, a part of the broader 2010 health overhaul law.
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, the maker of the blood thinner Pradaxa, began reporting its payments just last month. Pradaxa, introduced in 2010, accounted for more spending on local promotional events than any other drug in 2011, according to Cegedim Strategic Data. Of the top 20 prescribers in 2011, six received speaking fees in the first quarter of this year.
Boehringer said it doesn't pay speakers based on prescribing.
The physician prescription tallies in this story are from Medicare Part D records in 2010. Recently obtained data for 2011 show similar patterns, however. The prescription counts don't include drugs paid for by other parts of Medicare or for patients with private insurance, on Medicaid or in the Veterans Health Administration system.
Some doctors say the drug company money can undermine patients' trust.
Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic said: "I don't want the patient sitting opposite to me in the exam room to have to worry about whether I am prescribing a drug because I am being paid by the company that makes the drug."
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And I'm David Greene. Good morning. We're digging deeper into the relationship between drugmakers and the doctors who prescribe their drugs. Bystolic is a popular high blood pressure medication. It's made by Forest Laboratories. ProPublica, the nonprofit investigative news organization, examined new data and found that frequent prescribers of this drug often have financial ties to the drug's maker. We sat down with ProPublica reporter Charles Ornstein. He explained why this is significant.
CHARLES ORNSTEIN: What's new here is that we obtained information from Medicare. Medicare pays for about one out of every four prescriptions in the country. And so we took this data and linked it up with the payment data that we received to look for any connections that may exist there.
GREENE: OK. What connections did you find?
ORNSTEIN: We found that with a number of really highly marketed drugs, drugs like Bystolic, that many of the top prescribers of those drugs within the Medicare program also receive money for speaking from the companies that made those drugs.
GREENE: And this is something, though, that we believe might have been going on for a long time. I mean, pharmaceutical companies have always been accused of...
ORNSTEIN: That's right. Pharmaceutical companies have had access to this data. They've paid millions of dollars for it every year. So they know what they spend on doctors for speaking and consulting. And then they track very, very closely their return on investment. We've seen these pop up in dribs and drabs in these whistleblower lawsuits where they make mention to the analyses that these companies do, the return on investment analyses, and where they track it super closely. But as a public we have not known the drugs that doctors prescribe, nor have we known sort of the contours of how these relationships affect prescribing.
GREENE: OK. So you looked closely at this one drug, Bystolic, for high blood pressure, and you found that doctors who are getting money from the company that makes it are some of the biggest prescribers of the drug over generic alternatives. What has been the response from the people involved - the company and these physicians?
ORNSTEIN: So it's 17 of the 20 top prescribing doctors are speakers for the maker, Forest. These doctors say they think of this drug as better. This drug has fewer side effects than other, these are called beta blockers. So it has fewer side effects than other beta blockers and they think that it just works well for their patients. But as we talked to experts across the country, what they said to us was that they did not think that there was any evidence to show that this drug was any better than the existing beta blockers, but it certainly was a lot more expensive.
GREENE: What about the company, Forest Labs? What do they - how have they responded to this?
ORNSTEIN: They responded to us that this is an important treatment option, that it had undergone studies and had performed well. But they didn't reiterate the point that it was superior; they just called it an important treatment option. I think what you find with a lot of pharmaceutical companies is they're sort of boxed in by what the FDA allows them to say so the phrase "important treatment option" is one that you hear a lot by companies to promote their drugs.
GREENE: So you're getting some corporate-speak here, but corporate-speak that they have to do.
ORNSTEIN: Absolutely.
GREENE: You mentioned money. These doctors are prescribing this drug Bystolic over the generic alternatives. That's probably costing the government a lot more money since, you know, generics are usually cheaper.
ORNSTEIN: Right. So one prescription for Bystolic is about $80 a month. By comparison, a prescription for a generic is less than $10 a month. So that's a difference of about $70 per prescription. If you multiply that by a million prescriptions you're at $70 million. And the federal government is paying a big chunk of that in terms of the subsidies it's providing in Medicare Part D, which is the name of the drug plan. So that's just one drug. If you add in a whole bunch of drugs, you can see how this starts adding up to real money.
GREENE: Could there be cases are prescribing something more often than they should that might not be as effective in terms of treating? I mean, where you can actually dealing with someone's health here.
ORNSTEIN: When you look at the diabetes drug Avandia, which is a drug that a couple of years ago was restricted because of risks that came to light, GlaxoSmithKline, which is the maker of Avandia, was spending a lot of money on physicians to speak on its behalf. And so the question that we weren't able to answer because our data is more recent is, you know, was there a connection back then?
But I think that as new risks of drugs come out we'll now have the information to look back and see are the top prescribers of those drugs also people who have financial relationships with the company. And then we'll be able to put the pieces together and do the analysis.
GREENE: So what you're saying is that as we get more of these numbers, I mean, a lot more investigation to do. There could be times where someone might be prescribed a drug from a doctor who's getting money from a company and actually a different drug might be better for them.
ORNSTEIN: Well, we can't turn the page backward. Beginning next year, every drug company and every medical device company is going to have to begin reporting the payments that they make to doctors across the country. That's going to be a totally new universe. Right now we're talking only about 15 drug companies that we know about.
You also can't take back this information that we're getting from Medicare. So when you put this together, you're going to learn a lot more about how these relationships affect physicians and their prescribing.
GREENE: Charles, thanks so much. Thanks for bringing this report to us.
ORNSTEIN: Thanks for having me.
GREENE: He's a reporter for ProPublica, the nonprofit investigative news organization. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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None are particularly nice. May just be the photography. but I think the Mickey Mouse one would have been great if the ears were larger (over-sized).
Not much originality, especially for gay people. I did manage to find one I liked more than all of the others, but it still wasn't all that special.
There never should've been a dislike button in my opinion. Just shows how vain and prude the gays on this site are.
Aww crap I missed the deadline for the pic submit.. I thought the last day was today…. guess I should read better :-/
Thanks to all the guys who took the time to send in pictures
I haven't dressed up in years (I guess after a career in theater where I dressed up every night, it got old). There are some really interesting costumes, but I only saw one or two that really sold their costumes in the photograph. But with that said, kudos to everyone who sent in a picture.
I loved number 11's Robin. Very well done!
Well I agree with John none of them are that special.
At least we had the courage to post our pictures! Luckily mine got chosen (SCARECROW). There are some nice ones though 🙂 Tough competition!
I applaud the efforts of each individual, just like Paula!
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I've seen better on Saturday night at the bars!
yeah, there's like one or two costumes that seemed like they were worth the persons effort. guys in drag, especially on this site isn't much of a costume. but nice to see people participated.
I don't see why you had to include a dislike option, same shit like with the A4A profiles, I 've always said it's enough to mention what you like instead of labeling peple like no fats no fems no asians, but anyway your site I guess. Another thing I've noticed people here are just voting by the looks as shallow as gays can always be, I see gete not a selection of the best costumes out there, but I can aprecciate the ones who put more of an effort with the make up, thd one with the human body more than 200 hundred votes really mmmm you buy the suit at party city and just put it on, The old cenrcentury guy, no make up at all but very good looking and the farmer looks like he's going to work on a regular day. There's people that you can tell put more time into their costumes but as I said above wanna look for the meaning of shallow in the dictionary no need to do so, just spend a few hours with the gays. Hope you had a Happy Halloween Mr. A4A and have a nice weekend.
My apoligy for all the mistype errors in my comment, I'm on a trip and haven't got used to my new phone when typing in thank you.
I did not consider my comment as negative. I am sorry if yoiu took it as such. My comment focused on the photograph and expressed my opinion. why put a "comment" section in, if we are going to be chastised for commenting.
Thank you.
I understand and agree. i could have worded it differently. None of the costumes caught my eye. but it was probably the photography. I like photographs that show more than just a picture. I want to photograph to tell me a story, kinda. Maybe I was looking for too much.:)
I commend those that entered for sharing of themselves.
Is it negativism? Or is it evolution? Using a voting tool which had LIKE or DISLIKE might not have been the best idea, but the results of voting was revealing. Is that perhaps gay men have moved away from the typical models? Many gay guys now seem to not care for typical diva's. The "community" which pushes for acceptance of all types of gays should embrace this growth and diversity. We may still be in days, however, it is labeled as negativism and hate. (cue Rodney King)


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by Mark H. Anbinder
Every year, I swear to myself, "I'm never going to fly on a holiday again." But who am I kidding? Whether we're visiting relatives or friends, or just taking advantage of a long weekend for a quick get-away, sometimes circumstances conspire to put us on the road, or in the air, on one of the busiest travel days of the year.
After the first several such experiences, I've come up with some survival strategies. Many of these tips apply any time of year, but saving time during the upcoming holiday travel season, or on a holiday weekend year-round, is especially important, as delays are inevitable, connections are tight, tempers are hot, and spare seats are few and far between.
Pack light
No, even lighter. This most basic of travel advice is easy to set aside when preparing for a big holiday jaunt. Just remember that the lighter you pack, the less there is to cart through the mobs at the airport.
The best approach is to pack a small carry-on — and stop there. This lets you skip the luggage check-in process at the beginning of your travel day and baggage claim at the end, and virtually eliminates the chances that the airline will manage to lose your luggage en route.
Resist the temptation to fill up one of those big, black rolling contraptions that's "guaranteed" to fit in the overhead bin. These bags, once overstuffed, either don't fit at all, or take a couple of minutes of shoving — while your fellow passengers stack up in the aisle, waiting with rapidly diminishing patience. Cloth bags that can squash a bit are a better bet.
Bringing presents? Bring small ones, or have them shipped to your destination. Full flights mean full overhead bins.
If you'll be checking a bag or two, again, try not to overstuff. Someone besides you may have to open your suitcase for an inspection, and if you just barely got it closed, they'll have trouble, too.
Plan ahead
If you've got seat preferences — aisle, window, bulkhead, front of the plane, or back by the lavatories — your best bet is to try to pick your seats when you book your flights. If that's not an option, many airlines are now offering online check-in at their web sites, the day of or day before your flight.
Note that bulkhead seats, while offering extra knee room and a guarantee that no one will recline a seatback into your nose, have no room "under the seat in front of you" for your laptop or purse or backpack. Carrying as little as possible onto the plane with you thus becomes even more important.
Bring a snack and a bottle of water, in case your flight has no beverage service, or in case delays keep you from getting to supper when you planned. If your airline sells snacks or meals, keep in mind they have to guess how many they'll sell, and sometimes they run out, so don't count on buying food on the plane. Individually wrapped granola bars or oatmeal squares, single-serving cereal boxes or raisins, or carefully packed sandwiches work well. Leave the messy food, and extra-perishable items like tuna or mayo, at home.
Getting ready for travel
This may seem obvious to you, but, just because you'll be traveling all day, don't skip the shower! Your fellow travelers will thank you. Additionally, think about your seat mates before you spray on anything heavily scented, like perfume or cologne.
Comfort and convenience are the watchwords when it comes to travelwear. Skip the fashionable-but-uncomfortable, such as tight jeans or high heels, in favor of loose and comfy garb. A light jacket or fleece will protect you from over-air-conditioned airports or planes, even if you don't think you'll need a coat.
Slip-on shoes come in handy if you have to remove them for a security scan; avoid heavy shoes with metal shanks or strips in the sole that will set off metal detectors and slow you down. Speaking of that security check, take a few moments before you head to the security line (perhaps even at home) to get excess stuff out of your pockets and into a carry-on. Gum wrappers, coins, pens, cell phones, and so forth will all slow you down — and delay the passengers behind you.
Arrive early
Especially if you're checking luggage, allow just a little bit of extra time to get to the airport through what may be heavier than usual traffic, park in what may be an unusually full lot, and wait in what you can be certain will be extra-long lines.
Add at least an extra half hour to the amount of time your airline asks you to allow. Irritating as airport waiting lounges may be, it's much better to sit around for an extra half hour than to have to rush — or miss your flight on a day when spare seats are hard to come by.
Stay mellow
If you're a frequent traveler, you're already familiar with the "stuff happens" maxim. (You may use a different word. It's OK; we understand.) Sometimes, whether it's weather, a mechanical problem, or just a screw-up, something will go wrong. You'll be delayed, or re-routed, or stuck overnight.
No matter the situation, the one thing you can count on is that blowing your stack won't help — and there's no sense in ruining someone else's day. A smile and a calm word is vastly more likely to get some sympathetic assistance from an airline representative who can get you where you're going. Don't underestimate the value of a ticket agent who's on your side when you ask for help!
You'll get there! The better prepared you are for your travels, the more likely you'll arrive on time (more or less), and not too frazzled. We wish you safe travels and happy landings!
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