PREAMBLE: This is our second annual review, offered at the beginning of New Year 2009 because we reserved our December 2008 issue to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Pacific Health Development Sciences (PacificSci).

THREE LEADING ISSUES FROM 2008:
Flowers or Fertilizer?
1. GLOBAL STEWARDSHIP: There can be little debate that the leading issue in this category is the global economic crisis. In the latter half of 2008, the world faced an unprecedented near-collapse of its banking systems, ushering in a global recession.

Fertilizer: We assign the prime responsibility for this catastrophe jointly to political leadership in the United States in concert with the greed, negligence and corruption of its financial industry. This does not take the inaction and practices of other countries off the hook, as consequential national and global failures are documented extensively elsewhere, especially in Europe. Clearly, no country (rich or poor) has been spared, and it will take many years for individuals, families, communities and societies as a whole to recover from this crisis of greed, neglect and incompetence. Perhaps needless to say, the necessities of life and the social fabric of all countries e.g, health and educational systems, secure food supply, clothing and shelter depend on integrity in our financial systems. Trust must be restored in those systems.

Flowers: Out of this morass some good is emerging, and in this regard we note the leadership of UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who put forward a 5 point plan to galvanize the world financial community around new principles. Implicit in the Brown Doctrine is an analysis of what is so seriously wrong with the world financial order. It forms a clear case for supra-national supervision of international finance, which clearly cannot any longer be left to the caprices of any one country. The key features of the Doctrine are presented below (2008 as we observed it) from our October 2008 issue.

2. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
In this category we draw attention to the work of a World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, released in August 2008, chaired by Sir Michael Marmot. In releasing the report in August, WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan stated: "Health inequity really is a matter of life and death,but health systems will not naturally gravitate towards equity. Unprecedented leadership is needed that compels all actors, including those beyond the health sector, to examine their impact on health. Primary health care, which integrates health in all of government's policies, is the best framework for doing so." It does not seem appropriate to allocate to the Commission itself, as this would be like applauding the messenger. Instead, we now draw attention to their mention of a few countries for addressing inequities:

Flowers: Some low-income countries such as Cuba, Costa Rica, China, state of Kerala in India and Sri Lanka have achieved levels of good health despite relatively low national incomes. Wealth alone therefore does not determine the health of a nation's population. But, the Commission points out, wealth can be wisely used: Nordic countries, have followed policies that encouraged equality of benefits and services, full employment, gender equity and low levels of social exclusion. Also the feasibility of action is indicated in the change already occurring. Egypt has shown a remarkable drop in child mortality from 235 to 33 per 1000 in 30 years. Greece and Portugal reduced their child mortality from 50 per 1000 births to levels nearly as low as Japan, Sweden, and Iceland. Cuba achieved more than 99% coverage of its child development services in 2000.

Fertilizer: This can be applied to a large number of nations for whom "health gradients" within countries are persistent or even deteriorating. Examples: Life expectancy for Indigenous Australian males is shorter by 17 years than all other Australian males. In Indonesia, maternal mortality is 34 times higher among the poor than the rich. The adult mortality differential between least and most deprived UK neighbourhoods is more than 2.5 times. Child mortality in Nairobi slums is 2.5 times higher than in other parts of the city. A baby born to a Bolivian mother with no education has 10% chance of dying, while one born to a woman with at least secondary education has a 0.4% chance. In the US, 886 202 deaths would have been averted between 1991 and 2000 if mortality rates between white and African Americans were equalized. In Uganda the death rate of children under 5 years in the richest fifth of households is 106 per 1000 live births versus 192 deaths per 1000 live births in the poorest fifth (almost one in five) set this against an average death rate for under fives in high income countries of 7 deaths per 1000.

Comment: All too often our political, more interested in short term gains (looking good) than in real change, respond to such information with fatuous, even pontifical comments, without intending to deal with the underlying causes. This is worse in some countries than in others, and there is even greater cause for concern wherever relevant social indicators are slipping: deteriorating infrastructure, lack of measurable gains in access to health care and quality education, return of previously controlled preventable diseases (e.g, gastroenteritis, dengue fever), crime of various sorts (often related to mismanaged economies and related poverty), corruption and related trends towards authoritarian politics ignoring the fundamentals of human rights.

3. HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
At time of writing, over a thousand people, mostly innocent civilians, have been killed in Gaza by hi-tech Israeli military attacks since mid December 2008, virtually 100 times the number of Israeli casualties (mostly military, including friendly fire). In alleged retaliation for Hamas rocket attacks, in themselves a crime under international humanitarian law, this disproportionate and collective punishment of the Palestinian people can only be viewed as an atrocity of far greater magnitude.

In the meantime, long standing legitimate Palestinian grievances continue to be ignored by Israel and by the so-called international community.

Apologists for Israel are quick to note the horrific atrocities elsewhere in the world over the past year, such as in the Sudan and the Congo, and complain that their conflict attracts disproportionate condemnation. Israel thereby claims to occupy higher moral ground in its conflict with the Palestinians; yet the facts remain that people driven out of their ancestral land, penned up in refugee camps, impoverished and colonized by settlements on land that many recognize as theirs, also have the right to self-determination.

Flowers: Six international humanitarian NGOs: Amnesty International, Christian Aid, CAFOD, CARE, OXFAM, Save the Children, Trocaire; for documenting the situation in the Gaza as the worst since the 1967 war between Israel and its neighbours (March 2008).

Fertilizer: Israel, and through their support for its actions, the US and Canada. The US has funded and armed Israel to become the most powerful military force in the Middle East, on land, sea and air (Gaza has no military capacity, hence the asymmetry of home-made rockets). Canada, once a fair minded country, meanwhile has adopted an almost totally one-sided posture in support of Israel (under the minority government of Stephen Harper). It remains to be seen whether the incoming Obama administration will be more even-handed than its predecessor, given the power of the Israeli lobby on this continent.

With supporters like this, should Israel really be compared with Sudan or the Congo? Or should it be given the same scrutiny as the Balkans, and be referred urgently to a war crimes tribunal?

Comment: It is difficult to see where this is going and who is intended to benefit from the continued stand-off between these two peoples. What are the motivations behind the attacks? There is surely more to this than home-made rockets, especially in the context of unresolved injustices. There is potential here for an even wider regional conflagration. For a world only now starting to emerge from the Bush-Blair distortions of information to prosecute the disaster in Iraq, we must remain alert to the advice of Edmund Burke:

All that is needed for the forces of evil to succeed is for enough good men to remain silent.

2008 AS WE RECORDED IT
January: WORLD DEVELOPMENT CALLS FOR INVESTMENT IN AGRICULTURE 2008 The World Development Report 2008 (linked) calls for greater investment in agriculture in developing countries. This annual World Bank report warns that the sector must be placed at the center of the development agenda if goals of halving extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 are to be realized: While 75% of the worlds poor live in rural areas in developing countries, a mere 4% of official development assistance goes to agriculture; In Sub-Saharan Africa, a region heavily reliant on agriculture for overall growth, public spending for farming is also only 4% of total government spending and the sector is still taxed at relatively high levels; GDP growth originating in agriculture is about four times more effective in raising incomes of extremely poor people than GDP growth originating outside the sector.

Said World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick: At the global level, countries must deliver on vital reforms such as cutting distorting subsidies and opening markets, while civil society groups, especially farmer organizations, need more say in setting the agricultural agenda.

In this issue we focused on Malawi as a Case Study of the role of new subsidies to enhance agricultural production, despite decades of donor proscription not to subsidize, and take note of a World Trade Organization investigation into the use by the United States of truly massive trade-distorting farm subsidies in violation of international commerce rules.

February: CANADIAN POLITICS TRUMPS NUCLEAR SCIENCE, HEALTH AND SAFETY This issue draws attention to the apparent disregard for nuclear safeguards recently revealed by Canadas minority Conservative government. This failure to respect the independent role of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission puts into question whether Canada takes nuclear safety seriously. For a synopsis of this episode, we paraphrased and updated the core content of a January 2008 article in The (Toronto) Star by Walkom (acknowledged). Further down, we summarized a report from the Canadian Medical Association Journal that revealed the manipulative attitude of the Canadian medical isotope industry, paraphrased from a CTV News report. The main story is how Canadas government put politics ahead of public health and safety. Clearly there are questionable commercial and political practices in Canada at present.

March: HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN GAZA WORST IN FOUR DECADES This issue features a report recently released by six international humanitarian NGOs (Amnesty International, Christian Aid, CAFOD, CARE, OXFAM, Save the Children, Trocaire), documenting the situation in Gaza as the worst since the 1967 war between Israel and its neighbours. The deterioration can be attributed mostly to the period since mid-2007 when Israel imposed a blockade. For "balance", we cite two reports from Israeli media; we also recognize that like Canadians and their government the views of all Israelis are not necessarily reflected in the policies of their government.

Canadian Complicity: This report should be of particular concern for Canadians, especially because Canada (under the minority Conservative government of Stephen Harper) is the only member country to vote against a recent United Nations Human Rights Council motion calling for immediate international action to force Israel to allow fuel, food, medicine and other essential items to be sent to the Gaza Strip, to reopen border crossings and to end its grave violations in the occupied Palestinian territory.

April: SEX RATIOS DESTABILIZING IN ASIA Sex ratio (SR) refers to the ratio of males to females (M:F) in a population. We focused on this topic because dramatic shifts in sex ratio are taking place in some parts of the world that reveal cultural preferences and social practices favoring the birth/survival of one sex over the other (more often favoring males over females). Other factors influencing the sex ratio of societies include: changing composition by ethnicity and race; civil unrest or warfare; large-scale immigration e.g., male labourers unable to travel with their families; ecological factors eg contaminants in environment; variables affecting mothers health eg social status, smoking, nutrition, access to support networks.

May: THE GLOBAL ARMS TRADE An Atrocity? To find out who shares responsibility for global militarization, follow the money trail. Regardless of attempts to legitimize the trade, the historical reality is that bribery, corruption and mercenary as well as national self-interest lie at the heart of the trade. The arms industry is unlike any other. It operates without regulation. It suffers from widespread corruption and bribes. And it makes its profits on the back of machines designed to kill and maim human beings.

So who profits most from this murderous trade? The five permanent members of the UN Security Councilthe USA, UK, France, Russia, and China. Together, they are responsible for 80% of reported conventional arms exports. We cant have it both ways. We cant be both the worlds leading champion of peace and the worlds leading supplier of arms. Former US President Jimmy Carter, presidential campaign, 1976.

June: HEALTH CARE IN CANADA An Essay: A public consultation on health care, called the Conversation on Health, took place during 2007 in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Our firm made a written submission, and in this issue we took the opportunity to transform the core of this into an overview of Canadas health care, on the premise that this may be of global interest.

NOTE: The essay is written for the Canadian context, so we caution that Canadas model is NOT readily translatable to most other countries. However, it may be a viable option for economically developed ones that still lack universal coverage. We reserve the right to change our views on any aspect of this essay; in this sense it is as a work in progress.

July: CHILD SOLDIER INCARCERATED IN GUANTANAMO BAY This month we depicted the situation of a Canadian youth held at the offshore US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a site selected by the US military for detention of enemy combatants so as to circumvent the normal jurisdiction of US laws and to exert military control over due process.

The background on Guantanamo Bay itself is instructive. The US assumed territorial control over this Cuban region under the 1903 Cuban-American Treaty, which granted the US a perpetual lease. The Cuban government today considers the US presence to be illegal, arguing that the Treaty violates Article 52 of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which declares a treaty void if its conclusion has been procured by the threat or use of force in violation of international law. Article 4 of the document, however, states that the Convention shall not be retroactively applied.

August: SELECTED WEB RESOURCES ON GLOBAL HEALTH with an acknowledgement to ProCOR This issue highlights some of the work of an organization we respect for its efforts to bring together a virtual community of health professionals from around the world. ProCOR is devoted to examining health and related social issues of relevance to developing countries, with particular reference to cardiovascular diseases. ProCor's monthly "Resource Update" (edited by Juan Ramos) highlights relevant materials. A recent Resource Update on ProCOR listed a number of websites that offer valuable information about health and/or health resources around the world. Selections are made from this list in order to further disseminate ProCORs efforts in this regard, as well as to draw attention to the health communications work of ProCOR.

September: THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH In this month we drew attention to the work of a World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, released in August 2008, chaired by Sir Michael Marmot.

In releasing the report in August, WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan stated: "Health inequity really is a matter of life and death,but health systems will not naturally gravitate towards equity. Unprecedented leadership is needed that compels all actors, including those beyond the health sector, to examine their impact on health. Primary health care, which integrates health in all of government's policies, is the best framework for doing so."

October: GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS, FINANCIAL REFORMS THE
OWN DOCTRINE British Prime Minister Gordon Brown outlined a five-point program on October 14, 2008 to reform the worlds financial system, and serve as a basis for a new set of global institutions to replace those that have governed international finance since 1944. The 5 principles (for elaboration see the October issue) are: Transparency, Integrity, Responsibility, Tighter Regulation, and New Institutions.

The new system of banking cooperation will need a new international financial architecture for the Global Age. New institutions will provide an effective global early warning system for the world economy, to alert us to the risks at hand, and globally accepted standards of regulation and the cross-border supervision of global corporations.

November: CAN OBAMA RESTORE THE WORLDS TRUST IN AMERICAS IDEALS? We dedicate this issue of PacificSci Global Perspectives to Senator Obamas political victory, and wish him whatever success is achievable in his efforts to turn around the abysmal situation faced by the US following the Bush 2 administrations widespread failures in global and domestic vision, leadership and management. There are challenges on every front: economy, health, education, security, restoration of democratic and human rights principles in the US itself (including closing Guantanamo Bay, and rejecting torture), and not least rebuilding the nations reputation.

December: PacificSci FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF A BUSINESS VENTURE WITH A SOCIAL PURPOSE In this issue we examine the emergence of fourth sector organizations as virtually inevitable: breaking with earlier relationships between the state, the private sector and the voluntary sector, operating outside the world of grants, and inside the economic requirement of surviving as a business, the bottom line is one of social purpose: a modern renaissance of motivation to improve the human condition.

AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
We extend to readers our best wishes for 2009, with hopes that the serious challenges facing the world in 2008 and other recent years will be better understood and managed going forward. For this to happen we all need better political leadership. PacificSci will continue to offer an independent view of trends and events.

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CHEMICAL Tag: Anastrozole
STREET Prenomen: Arimidex, Liquidex (designer), Equa-x
CLINICAL USE: Used to treat estrogen-receptor positive breast cancer in post-menopausal women, by slowing the rate of tumor progression just as effectively as Tamoxifen. It is the first hormonal treatment of its kind used for the initial treatment of locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer because its action is different from Nolvadex.
BODYBUILDING USE: Im truly very split down the middle in terms of using this drug to halt aromatization and prevent estrogen from attaching itself to estrogen-sensitive receptors. Why? Well, mainly because its action is completely different than Nolvadex within the body. It isnt an anti-estrogen in the truest sense of the word. Instead of preventing estrogen from attaching itself to receptor sites, commensurate most anti-estrogens, it very works on a completely individual level. Ive even read in some steroid books that that is a better version of Nolvadex, but its not better, its lawful different. Its coextensive comparing apples and oranges. While it may sound as though it could work unvaried better than Nolvadex and has oldfangled on the bodybuilding scene for over 10+ years, the truth is, there still just isnt sufficient real life or scientific evidence out there to insist that. Arimidex is still considered a new drug by all bodybuilding standards. We will learn for sure after several cycles and more real life reports. Some people Ive talked to say it works very well some say it doesnt.
RECOMMENDED DOSE: Arimidex comes in a 1mg. Tab. Reliable activate at one tab daily and go from there based on your results. You imaginable wont need more than that if it works for you.
SIDE EFFECTS: Includes hot flushes, nausea, decreased energy and weakness, pain, back pain, bone pain, and increased cough. Joint pain/stiffness has also bent reported with use of this drug. Drug interactions are insignificant with this drug.
PRICE AND AVAILABILITY: Arimidex is becoming more readily available overall through stylish black venue dealers, all-embracing pharmacies or a physician, whereas Nolvadex is readily achievable on the street and the most common drug associated with halting aromatization of free-floating testosterone into free-floating estrogen. Nowadays Arimidex seems preferred. Either drug will work, but youll have a harder time finding that one. The price is over $5.00-$10.00 per tab. Liquid Arimidex (Liquidex) comes in a 20ml bottle and contains 4mg/ml and is available for approximately $250 per bottle. Thats half the price of the tablet conformation.
THE FINAL JUDGEMENT
Bottom line is, if youre on a budget and/or not well connected, just stick with Nolvadex. I say that because Arimidex is very expensive, its not readily available, plus there isnt a lot known about this drug yet, and its action is dissimilar to Tamoxifen.

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I have received a lot of heat lately about my preference for Nolvadex over Clomid, which I hold for all aims of use (in the bodybuilding world anyway); as an anti-estrogen, an HDL (good) cholesterol-supporting drug, and as a testosterone-stimulating compound. Most people use Nolvadex to combat gynecomastia over Clomid anyway, so that is an easy stock. And for cholesterol, well, greater bodybuilders unfortunately pay little consideration to this extensive issue, so by way of disinterest, another painless opinion to discuss. But when it be accessibles to using Nolvadex for increasing endogenous testosterone release, bodybuilders just do not want to take in it. They only seem to want Clomid. I can only guess that that is based on a stretching rooted misunderstanding of the actions of the two drugs. In this article I would therefore like to discuss the specifics for these two agents, and explain clearly the usefulness of Nolvadex for the specific purpose of increasing testosterone production.
Clomid and Nolvadex
I am not sure how Clomid and Nolvadex became so separated in the minds of bodybuilders. They certainly should not be. Clomid and Nolvadex are both anti-estrogens belonging to the same group of triphenylethylene compounds. They are structurally related and specifically classified as selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) with mixed agonistic and antagonistic properties. This means that in convinced tissues they can block the effects of estrogen, by altering the binding capacity of the receptor, while in others they can act as actual estrogens, activating the receptor. In men, both of these drugs act as anti-estrogens in their capacity to oppose the negative feedback of estrogens on the hypothalamus and stimulate the heightened release of GnRH (Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone). LH output by the pituitary will be increased as a arrangement, which in turn can increase the level of testosterone by the testes. Both drugs do this, but for some reason bodybuilders persist in thinking that Clomid is the only drug good at stimulating testosterone. What you will treasure trove with a little investigation however is that not only is Nolvadex useful for the same purpose, it should veritably be the preferred agent of the two.
Studies conducted in the late 1970's at the University of Ghent in Belgium make clear the advantages of using Nolvadex instead of Clomid for increasing testosterone levels (1). Here, researchers looked the effects of Nolvadex and Clomid on the endocrine profiles of normal men, as well as those suffering from low sperm counts (oligospermia). For our wills, the results of these drugs on hormonally normal men are obviously the most relevant. What was establish, just in the early parts of the study, was largely enlightening. Nolvadex, used for 10 days at a dosage of 20mg daily, increased serum testosterone levels to 142% of baseline, which was on par with the effect of 150mg of Clomid daily for the same duration (the testosterone increase was slightly, but not significantly, better for Clomid). We must remember though that this is the effect of one 50mg tablets of Clomid. With the return of both a 50mg Clomid and 20mg Nolvadex typically very similar, we are already seeing a cost vs. results discrepancy forming that strongly favors the Nolvadex side.
Pituitary Sensitivity to GnRH
But something more interesting is happening. Researchers were also conducting GnRH stimulation tests before and after various points of treatment with Nolvadex and Clomid, and the two drugs had markedly different results. These tests involved infusing patients with 100mcg of GnRH and measuring the output of pituitary LH in response. The focus of this substantiation is to see how sensitive the pituitary is to Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone. The more sensitive the pituitary, the more LH will be released. The tests showed that after ten days of treatment with Nolvadex, pituitary sensitivity to GnRH increased slightly compared to pre-treated values. This is contradiction to 10 days of treatment with 150mg Clomid, which was shown to consistently DECREASE pituitary sensitivity to GnRH (more LH was released before treatment). As the study with Nolvadex progresses to 6 weeks, pituitary sensitivity to GnRH was significantly higher than pre-treated or 10-day levels. At this stop the same 20mg dosage was also raising testosterone and LH levels to an average of 183% and 172% of base values, respectively, which again is measurably higher than what was noted 10 days into therapy. Within 10 days of treatment Clomid is already exerting an effect that is causing the pituitary to become slightly desensitized to GnRH, while prolonged use of Nolvadex serves only to increase pituitary sensitivity to this hormone. That is not to say Clomid won't increase testosterone if taken for the twin 6 week time period. Quite the opposite is true. But we are, however, noticing an wealth in Nolvadex.
The Estrogen Clomid
The above discrepancies are achievable explained by differences in the estrogenic nature of the two compounds. The researchers' clearly support this theory when commenting in their paper, The difference in response might be attributable to the weak intrinsic estrogenic effect of Clomid, which in that study manifested itself by an swelling in transcortin and testosterone/estradiol-binding globulin levels; that elaboration was not observed after tamoxifen treatment. In reviewing other theories later in the paper, such as interference by increased androgen or estrogen levels, they persist in noting that increases in these hormones were similar with both drug treatments, and state that, a role of the intrinsic estrogenic activity of Clomid which is practically absent in Tamoxifen seems the most probable explanation.
Although these two are related anti-estrogens, they appear to act very differently at unequal sites of action. Nolvadex seems to be strongly anti-estrogenic at both the hypothalamus and pituitary, which is in variance to Clomid, which although a strong anti-estrogen at the hypothalamus, seems to exhibit weak estrogenic activity at the pituitary. To find further support for that we can look at an in-vitro animal study published in the American Journal of Physiology in February 1981 (2). That paper looks at the effects of Clomid and Nolvadex on the GnRH stimulated release of LH from cultured rat pituitary cells. In that paper, it was noted that incubating cells with Clomid had a open estrogenic effect on cultured pituitary cell sensitivity, exerting a weaker but still significant effect compared to estradiol. Nolvadex on the other hand did not have any significant effect on LH response. Furthermore it mildly blocked the effects of estrogen when both were incubated in the same urbanity.
Conclusion
To summarize the above research succinctly, Nolvadex is the more purely anti-estrogenic of the two drugs, at least where the HPTA (Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Testicular Axis) is concerned. This fact enables Nolvadex to pitch the male bodybuilder certain advantages over Clomid. This is markedly true at times when we are appearing to restore a balanced HPTA, and would not hankering to desensitize the pituitary to GnRH. This could perhaps slow recovery to some extent, as the pituitary would desire higher heaps of hypothalamic GnRH in the presence of Clomid in order to get the same flush of LH stimulation.
Nolvadex also seems preferred from tall-term use, for those who find anti-estrogens effective enough at raising testosterone levels to warrant using as anabolics. Here Nolvadex would seem to provide a better and more stable increase in testosterone levels, and workable will offer a similar or greater effect than Clomid for considerably less money. The potential rise in SHBG levels with Clomid, supported by other research (3), is also cause for concern, as this might functioning to allow for comparably less free active testosterone compared to Nolvadex as well. Ultimately both drugs are effective anti-estrogens for the prevention of gyno and elevation of endogenous testosterone, however the above research provides enough evidence for me to choose Nolvadex every stint.
In next month's follow-up spread I will be discussing the role anti-estrogens play in post-cycle testosterone recovery. Most specifically, I will be detailing what a proper post-cycle ancillary drug program looks like, and explain why anti-estrogens alone are not effective while this window of point.

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blood seeped through my toe box. Zachs foot had been bleeding since early on and was looking pretty nasty as well. Stay tuned for pictures of that.

Back at about mile 14 I noticed my pace slipping, and that worried me. Around mile 16 I started to feel kind of bad, and I said I was going through a rough patch. I took another Gu at mile 18, hoping it would pep me up. Turns out that was actually just the beginning of a big ol fat bonk. But for now, I soldiered on.

16. 8:29
17. 8:34
18. 8:47
19. 8:40
20. 8:57

At the 20 mile mark, Zach said he might fall back a bit. We had talked about this, and really I was just so glad we had run that much together, so that was fine. I knew he was going to finish. He did finally walk just before mile 21, and I kept running. I was quite tired myself, though, and I was slowing significantly. I checked my pace band at mile 20, after avoiding it for the last 5 miles, and saw that we were now almost 2 minutes behind our goal pace. That meant PR was out of the question too. And when I did the math, the BQ was not looking too good either. I figured out that Id have to run about 8:40s for that.

21. 8:54
22. 9:08

Sure enough, the 3:40 group passed me somewhere in mile 22. I wanted to join them, I really did, but they were just running so darn fast. I didnt see Aron in the pack, so I let go of any idea of trying to jump in with that group. I was beat. Just plain out of energy. I hadnt ever walked a step of this marathon course in the two times Ive run it, but I said F- it and slowed to a walk.

I looked behind me, hoping to see Zach but I didnt. I ran for a while and then walked again, and checked for him again. This time I saw him, about 100 feet back, and a huge smile came across my face. I started running again, slow so he could catch up which was really just a great excuse to rest. I had given up on the BQ and I had a wonderful new goal of finishing together. I could tell immediately that he was suffering, and I was so glad. I wanted to slow down and he wasnt moving too fast at all. We took a nice little stroll together and I told him Im so glad we met back up and now we can finish together. We ran about the next mile, then took another walking break, maybe two. One involved an aid station where I drank about 4 cups of water.

23. 9:54
24. 10:02

I still hadnt seen Aron pass and was worried, I kept looking back for her. Finally, on one of our walk breaks, here she comes! We started running again with her. I was so grateful for the inspiration and just to see her. She looked strong, and seemed to have accepted missing the BQ but still trying her best, not giving up. We all ran for a bit and then I just had to stop again, I was so drained. I didnt expect them to stop but they did, and I was so grateful for their company. Anything that happens after mile 24 is a damn emotional experience and this was an amazing one. We were all running together and I realized we were going to pass Maritza again soon, all together!! Sure enough, there they were screaming and ringing their bells, it was awesome.

In the last mile, I just had to walk again. Aron was running strong and I waved her to go! Zach, being the kindest and most wonderful husband and friend in the world, walked with me. He told me We can do this! and we started running again. The course splits into separate mens and womens finish lines so we high-fived/shook hands and separated. I tried to speed up and run the last little bit faster but my legs locked up. I had fully and completely bonked and my legs felt like they were concrete. If I had hit the wall, now people were throwing the bricks at my head. I moved toward the finish line and saw Aron there. I hit my watch and my finish time said 3:45:01.

25. 9:26
26.2 11:40 (9:43 pace)

Official finish time: 3:45:00 (8:35 average pace)

Second half split: 1:58:30 (9:03 average pace)

12 minute positive split, ouch!

I felt real woozy after I stopped running and had to sit down. I was probably grimacing and looking like I was going to pass out. I saw this woman across the way watching me, a spectator, and the look of awe and wonderment and confusion on her face was memorable. It said What the hell are these people thinking? An excellent question.

Aron helped me up and we went and got our chips removed and collect our finishers medals. I was so happy to have finished and congratulated Aron on her awesome race. We found Zach and got our pictures taken, then went and found our bags and her family.

We stopped by our hotel and then met everyone, including Tara and Maritza, at a restaurant and had a fun meal together. Arons family is so nice and friendly! It was nice to meet Tara and of course I loved seeing my dear friend Maritza. All of us marathoners talked marathons and had a great time.

Post-Race thoughts

Man, I blew this one. Again. Maybe someday Ill be able to execute a smart race strategy. I do have a lot of excuses, but when it comes down to it I started off too fast and paid for it in the end. So predictable and so frustrating.

That said, I had a blast. It was awesome to run with Zach and finish an epic race together. I had been dreaming of sharing the experience with him since my first marathon three years ago, so it really was a dream come true. Im so proud of him. I cant believe this worked out after he was so sick just hours ago. It was a Christmas miracle.

Im glad we went balls-out for the first half marathon. We did have fun. And on a good day, this would have worked out. I went for it. Pace-wise, it was a failure but whatever. We had an incredible experience together and will never forget it.

Im incredibly sore today, and my feet are messed up. I have a couple nasty blood-blisters and some regular blisters too. I also incurred the most horrific chafing of my marathon career to date. It was my thighs- between my legs. So no pictures. Otherwise Im just feeling general soreness, nothing specific. Zachs hobbling around pretty good too which is fun to watch.

Whats next?

So turns out Im free this spring! I was really planning on going to Boston, and I technically could go again based on last years CIM time, but I dont feel right about that. I want to earn my way every time. Im really ok with it though. I have run it twice and am ready for something different.

For now, I think I am only going to run one marathon next year. I actually registered already, a couple of weeks ago. Im doing Ironman Arizona in November.

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Heart Will Go On, Celine Dion. This was very easy to get sick of as well; cloying and over-the-top and insisting on its own epic greatness. Blurg. The music's pretty; I have a string quartet version that didn't make it onto the soundtrack (from a promo CD) that's lovely. It doesn't need Celine Dion or lyrics to work. It sounds better without them.
My Favorite Nominee: Ray of Light, Madonna. I don't have much to say about it, but it works.
My Favorite Single That Year: Flagpole Sitta, Harvey Danger. That song just makes me feel awesome. I love it.

1998
Winner: Sunny Came Home, Shawn Colvin. Music from the nineties has an overwhelming percentage of suck, more than any decade. It's like America went through menopause and could only listen to this kind of sappy pap. I hate this thing, and thanks to the Crap and Crap Lite stations being played where I worked constantly, I heard it way too many fucking times.
My Favorite Nominee: MMMBop, Hanson. It's a default choice; it's the one I think is okay whereas I despise all the others (especially "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone" by Paul Cole, which should be classified a form of abuse).
My Favorite Single That Year: The End Is the Beginning Is the End, Smashing Pumpkins. I love that they used it in the Watchmen trailer.

1997
Winner: Change the World, Eric Clapton. I'm not much of a Clapton fan, really. I did like this song, although it's association with the awful Scientology-promoting John Travolta film Phenomenon counts against it a tad. It's not earth-shaking, but it's a solid, not-unpleasant song.
My Favorite Nominee: 1979, Smashing Pumpkins. Haunting, beautiful, and bittersweet.
My Favorite Single That Year: 1979, Smashing Pumpkins.

1996
Winner: Kiss from a Rose, Seal. I think it's a beautiful song. I used to hear it a lot on the radio as I was driving to work in the winter at a very dark 5 in the morning. That's the perfect time to hear it. It'll take you on a trip.
My Favorite Nominee: Kiss from a Rose, Seal.
My Favorite Single That Year: Kiss from a Rose, Seal.

1995
Winner: All I Wanna Do, Sheryl Crow. Blurg. Not a song I like.
My Favorite Nominee: Streets of Philadelphia, Bruce Springsteen. Beautiful, sad, and seething with quiet ange, disappointment, and acceptance of fear.
My Favorite Single That Year: Streets of Philadelphia, Bruce Springsteen.

1994
Winner: I Will Always Love You, Whitney Houston. Piece of overplayed shit. Especially in comparison to the original Dolly Parton song, which is perfect.
My Favorite Nominee: The River of Dreams, Billy Joel.
My Favorite Single That Year: Fields of Gold, Sting. Kind of a cheesy choice, perhaps, but I can always hear it and always love it. It's simple and pretty.

1993
Winner: Tears in Heaven, Eric Clapton. It doesn't quite hold up for me, honestly, but it's miles better than fellow nominee "Achy Breaky Heart." It's a very pretty song, but not my favorite of Clapton's.
My Favorite Nominee: Constant Craving, k.d. lang. I like the passion.
My Favorite Single That Year: One, U2. One of the most achingly beautiful songs I've ever heard.

1992
Winner: Unforgettable, Natalie Cole. The fact that the Grammys honored that hacky, schlocky, sympathy-begging, cloying bit of grave-robbing Natalie Cole did to cash in on honor her father is as sad as it is unsurprising.
My Favorite Nominee: Losing My Religion, R.E.M. It was overplayed, but if you listen to it now, it sounds almost fresh again. It really is just a good song.
My Favorite Single That Year: Crazy, Seal.

1991
Winner: Another Day in Paradise, Phil Collins. Preachy, annoying, and not even the best song from that Phil Collins album. (Actually, I just checked and sadly, it is. I despise "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven," and "I Wish It Would Rain" just sounds like a rip-off of "Wish You Were Here" with Clapton on guitar.)
My Favorite Nominee: Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinead O'Connor. Of the sappy, preachy, sad sack songs that were nominated this year, this is the one that's actually a good song. (Also, "U Can't Touch This" was nominated this year, but come on, man.)
My Favorite Single This Year: Enjoy the Silence, Depeche Mode. Now there's a love song.

1990
Winner: Wind Beneath My Wings, Bette Midler. I hate this song, and my dad pissed me off by playing it at his wedding reception for his mother, which I specifically told him not to do because it was such a fucking cliche. He said he wouldn't; he did. Wow, my grandma must have been one of 10 million special woman so uniquely honored that year. It's the equivalent of buying your dad a tie on Father's Day.
My Favorite Nominee: The End of the Innocence, Don Henley. Chance is right on when he calls it deceptively angry. It adds some world-weariness on top of that, too. Beautiful song.
My Favorite Single That Year: A Little Respect, Erasure. I usually come out on the side of pop, I guess. Although besides the catchiness, I think the lyrics are beautiful. One of my all time favorite lyrics comes from this song: "What religion or reason could drive a man to forsake his lover?"

1989
Winner: Don't Worry, Be Happy, Bobby McFerrin. I always liked this song, but it sure wasn't the best of the year. I think part of it was the novelty of McFerrin doing the whole thing a cappella. Which is admittedly neat.
My Favorite Nominee: Don't Worry, Be Happy, Bobby McFerrin.
My Favorite Single That Year: Sweet Child O' Mine, Guns 'n' Roses. The most perfect song they ever recorded.

1988
Winner: Graceland, Paul Simon. I'm not a big fan of this song for whatever reason. It's nice, but it's okay. I wouldn't turn it off if it came on the radio station. Really, I just don't dig Paul Simon's solo work that much.
My Favorite Nominee: Back in the High Life Again, Steve Winwood. Admittedly, mostly because it reminds me of better times. But it's pretty.
My Favorite Single That Year: With or Without You, U2. Grammy nominated the more ubiquitous and much less beautiful "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," a song I don't like. "With or Without You" is real passion.

1987
Winner: Higher Love, Steve Winwood. Meh. It's okay.
My Favorite Nominee: Sledgehammer, Peter Gabriel. It's a lot of sucky nominees this year, but this is a great song.
My Favorite Single That Year: True Colors, Cyndi Lauper. A beautiful love song, especially for people who don't feel so great about themselves. I guess I like genuine songs about understanding, I would say.

1986
Winner: We Are the World, USA for Africa. Of course. Nothing else was going to win this year. As a song, it's okay. The real fun is trying to pick out all the singers. I mean, you know, it's Really Important, but it's just okay.
My Favorite Nominee: Money for Nothing, Dire Straits. One of their couple of songs I like. One of my favorite guitar solos.
My Favorite Single That Year: Take on Me, a-Ha. Pop perfection in all of its catchy, bubblegum glory.

1985
Winner: What's Love Got to Do with It, Tina Turner. There's genuine force behind it (although I think "Private Dancer" is her best song), real heartbreak.
My Favorite Nominee: Dancing in the Dark, Bruce Springsteen. At his most pop. I love this song.
My Favorite Song That Year: Time After Time, Cyndi Lauper. Gorgeous and simple.

1984
Winner: Beat It, Michael Jackson. Not much of a surprise, I guess. And it's a good song. Eddie Van Halen's guitar solo alone...
My Favorite Nominee: Flashdance... What a Feeling, Irene Cara. All of the nominees this year are pretty good but nothing I feel especially attached to. This is one of those cheesy pop songs I like.
My Favorite Single That Year: Our House, Madness. One of the most perfect songs I've ever loved.

1983
Winner: Rosanna, Toto. It's okay.
My Favorite Nominee: Steppin' Out, Joe Jackson. That one always got me and carried me off.
My Favorite Single That Year: Under Pressure, Queen David Bowie. Everything that's shitty about society in four and a half minutes. "And love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night."

1982
Winner: Bette Davis Eyes, Kim Carnes. Meh. I don't feel strongly either way.
My Favorite Nominee: (Just Like) Starting Over, John Lennon. What a great song. I can't believe it lost to Kim Carnes... greatness versus... well, nothing worth commenting on. As usual, John Lennon just nails life and relationships with this song.
My Favorite Single This Year: In the Air Tonight, Phil Collins. Collins used to be a man who just knew darkness and how it felt to be depressed and angry.

1981
Winner: Sailing, Christopher Cross. Put me to sleep, why don't ya?
My Favorite Nominee: Theme from New York, New York, Frank Sinatra.
My Favorite Single That Year: Let My Love Open the Door, Pete Townshend. As great a song as he ever wrote for the Who, his best solo work, and one of his most genuinely passionate songs.

1980
Winner: What a Fool Believes, the Doobie Brothers. I'm not a fan of theirs. This is probably the one song of theirs I'd say I liked. Still, Record of the Year? Feh.
My Favorite Nominee: I Will Survive, Gloria Gaynor. I like the sweep of it.
My Favorite Single That Year: Video Killed the Radio Star, the Buggles. Another perfect pop record.

1979
Winner: Just the Way You Are, Billy Joel. It is a pretty song, however much Joel claims now that he wrote it accidentally. Is he ever going to stop apologizing for having good commercial instincts? One of his less angry songs, too. I've always liked it.
My Favorite Nominee: Baker Street, Gerry Rafferty. Or as I always used to call it, "That One with the Great Saxophone Part."
My Favorite Single That Year: Who Are You, the Who. My favorite song of theirs, for reasons I can't quite define. But it's a great damn song.

1978
Winner: Hotel California, the Eagles. I hate the Eagles, but I'll give them this one song. This is a damn good song.
My Favorite Nominee: Hotel California, the Eagles.
My Favorite Single That Year: Hotel California, the Eagles.

1977
Winner: This Masquerade, George Benson. I couldn't tell you how this goes.
My Favorite Nominee: Afternoon Delight, Starland Vocal Band. It's delightful.
My Favorite Single That Year: Somebody to Love, Queen. A beautiful epic of emotion. One of my favorite songs ever.

1976
Winner: Love Will Keep Us Together, the Captain Tennille. It's okay.
My Favorite Nominee: At Seventeen, Janis Ian.
My Favorite Single That Year: Young Americans, David Bowie. That one packs a wallop and makes "Love Will Keep Us Together" sound pretty frivolous.

1975
Winner: I Honestly Love You, Olivia Newton-John. I honestly detest this cloying, overwrought song.
My Favorite Nominee: Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me, Elton John. You want passion? There you go. Skip the other song entirely.
My Favorite Single That Year: Cat's in the Cradle, Harry Chapin. Hey, hey, it's a cliched choice for a reason.

1974
Winner: Killing Me Softly with His Song, Roberta Flack. It's pretty. It's also soporific.
My Favorite Nominee: You're So Vain, Carly Simon. A nice kiss-off song.
My Favorite Single That Year: Mind Games, John Lennon. Gorgeous.

1973
Winner: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Roberta Flack. I've always found this song kind of overwrought.
My Favorite Nominee: American Pie, Don McLean. Come on, how could you pick a different one? (Although I've always loved Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Again (Naturally)," a deceptively bleak and saddening song.)
My Favorite Single That Year: Let's Stay Together, Al Green. You want to get laid? You need some Al Green music.

1972
Winner: It's Too Late, Carole King. I can't place it off the top of my head, but I've never liked Carole King's as a singer.
My Favorite Nominee: My Sweet Lord, George Harrison. It's not much of a song, really, but I didn't like any of the other nominees much.
My Favorite Single That Year: Imagine, John Lennon. I can't believe this was never nominated for Record of the Year. What the hell?

1971
Winner: Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon and Garfunkel. An undeniably beautiful song.
My Favorite Nominee: Let It Be, the Beatles. Still Paul McCartney's most beautiful effort.
My Favorite Single That Year: Let It Be, the Beatles. Seriously, they didn't pick this?

1970
Winner: Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In, the Fifth Dimension. Definitely a good song.
My Favorite Nominee: A Boy Named Sue, Johnny Cash. It's funny and Cash delivers it well. I'll always pull for Shel Silverstein.
My Favorite Single That Year: Suspicious Minds, Elvis Presley. His final masterpiece, one of his best songs (in my top five).

1969
Winner: Mrs. Robinson, Simon and Garfunkel. Good but not really special.
My Favorite Nominee: Hey Jude, the Beatles. A masterpiece.
My Favorite Single That Year: (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay, Otis Redding. One of the most quietly perfect songs I've ever heard.

1968
Winner: Up, Up and Away, the Fifth Dimension. What a lame choice. I mean, it's a cute song, but what a lame choice at this point in music history.
My Favorite Nominee: My Cup Runneth Over, Ed Ames.
My Favorite Single That Year: Can't Take My Eyes Off You, Frankie Valli. But that's the tip of the iceberg; this year produced, off the top of my head, "Heroes and Villains," "All You Need Is Love," "I Was Made to Love Her," "Light My Fire," "A Whiter Shade of Pale," and "(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman," and Grammy nominates "Ode to Billie Joe"? Lame, lame, lame.

1967
Winner: Strangers in the Night, Frank Sinatra. A good song, one I always liked.
My Favorite Nominee: Strangers in the Night, Frank Sinatra.
My Favorite Single That Year: Good Vibrations, the Beach Boys. Another incredible year for rock, and the Grammys can only acknowledge "Monday, Monday." What a foolish institution to pass over the greatness they did.

1966
Winner: A Taste of Honey, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. The best of the several thousand versions that seem to be out there.
My Favorite Nominee: Yesterday, the Beatles. As beautiful a song as was ever written.
My Favorite Single That Year: Like a Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan. Transcendent.

1965
Winner: The Girl from Ipanema, Stan Getz João Gilberto. A lovely little song that I've always liked as background music.
My Favorite Nominee: Downtown, Petula Clark. I forget just how beautiful this one is.
My Favorite Single That Year: Don't Worry, Baby, the Beach Boys. Perfect.

1964
Winner: Days of Wine and Roses, Henry Mancini. Nothing song from a rather turgid movie.
My Favorite Nominee: Dominique, the Singing Nun. That's painful to say, but the nominees this year are just that bad. Again, zero acknowledgement of rock and roll or even the great folk music from this time.
My Favorite Single That Year: Surfer Girl, the Beach Boys. Hey, Brian Wilson just knows how to hit me where it counts. Teenage love deified.

1963
Winner: I Left My Heart in San Francisco, Tony Bennett. A beautiful song.
My Favorite Nominee: I Left My Heart in San Francisco, Tony Bennett.
My Favorite Single That Year: Telstar, the Tornados. That one always takes me right off and makes me love being alive.

1962
Winner: Moon River, Henry Mancini. I'm never sorry to have heard this song. It's always beautiful, and always necessary.
My Favorite Nominee: Moon River, Henry Mancini. Infinitesimal second: "Take Five" by Dave Brubeck.
My Favorite Single That Year: Stand by Me, Ben E. King. The best time to hear this song is in the still of the deep night.

1961
Winner: Theme from A Summer Place, Percy Faith. The music is pretty.
My Favorite Nominee: Georgia on My Mind, Ray Charles. It's insane that this didn't win. This is the very definition of a beautiful song.
My Favorite Single That Year: Georgia on My Mind, Ray Charles.

1960
Winner: Mack the Knife, Bobby Darin. I like this song; it's fun as hell to sing along to.
My Favorite Nominee: Mack the Knife, Bobby Darin.
My Favorite Single That Year: Sleepwalk, Santo Johnny. Another great late night song.

1959
Winner: Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare), Domenico Modugno. Okay. I can't believe anyone does this song better than Dean Martin, personally. I don't believe I've heard this version.
My Favorite Nominee: The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late), David Seville. I know, I know, but I love this song. It's a Christmas staple to me. It reminds me of being a kid and spending the lead-up to Christmas at my grandmother's house. It's a cozy song for me.
My Favorite Single That Year: Summertime Blues, Eddie Cochran. As vital a song as there is, considering how much rock continues to borrow from it. And more than that, just a catchy tune.

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World Cup 2006 Reaction To Group Stage Draw




Red hot favourites Brazil received a favourable draw as the group stage of the 2006 World Cup was announced on 9 December. The 16/5 favourites were drawn into Group F with Croatia, Australia and Japan. Hosts Germany also has a relatively easy group with opposition provided in the form of Costa Rica, Poland and Ecuador.
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GROUP A
Germany 7/1
Costa Rica 500/1
Poland 125/1
Ecuador 200/1
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England 13/2
Paraguay 200/1
Trinidad Tobago 1500/1
Sweden 40/1
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Mexico 50/1
Iran 500/1
Angola 500/1
Portugal 20/1
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Italy 11/1
Ghana 250/1
USA 100/1
Czech Republic 33/1
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Brazil 16/5
Croatia 80/1
Australia 125/1
Japan 250/1
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Spain 14/1
Ukraine 50/1
Tunisia 300/1
Saudi Arabia 500/1
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