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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, Assistant Democratic Leader James E. Clyburn, and Democratic Caucus Chief Deputy Whip Peter Welch held a press conference today calling on the House Republican leadership to vote for a clean debt ceiling increase – ensuring the full faith and credit of the United States of America. Below are Leader Pelosi's opening remarks, followed by a question and answer session:
Leader Pelosi. Good afternoon. Today, it is a pleasure to join my colleagues, our distinguished Democratic Whip, Mr. Hoyer, our distinguished Assistant Leader, Mr. Clyburn, and our champion on this issue of a clean debt ceiling, Congressman Peter Welch, who for years has demonstrated great leadership in lifting the debt ceiling with a clean bill.
Indeed, to get nearly every Democrat to sign this letter in a matter of days is quite a remarkable accomplishment. Mr. Hoyer has led the charge to address our economic and fiscal challenges in a balanced way for his whole time in Congress. And Assistant Leader, Mr. Clyburn has been a champion for consumers who are very definitely affected, consumers in our great middle class, who are greatly affected by a default on the lifting of the debt ceiling, honoring the full faith and credit of the United States of America.
The Republican agenda keeps going from bad to worse. The Republicans keep threatening a government shutdown in order to put insurance companies back in charge of America's health care. Now, Republicans continue to hold the full faith and credit of the United State hostage to their radical agenda.
This morning, Treasury Secretary Lew, as you know, made it clear that the debt ceiling will be reached on October 17th. As he wrote in his letter: "If we have insufficient cash on hand, it would be impossible for the United States of America to meet all of its obligations for the first time in our history," for the first time in our history. Refusing to raise the debt limit possesses a cataclysmic danger, some say worse than cataclysmic danger to the stability of our markets and the economic security of our middle class. Again, we've talked about this before. But for the American people, the results would be disastrous in this respect.
Every day, Americans would be paying higher interest rates on credit cards, mortgage payments, car payments, [and] student loans. And for small businesses, higher interest rates on their business loans.
I asked you to raise your hand, I was very pleased last week that some of you did [when I asked]: "Who has a 401(k)?" 'K' as in the markets would jeopardize America's 401(k) accounts, pensions, and other retirement plans – your 401(k) in jeopardy because of the radical, right-winged agenda that the Republicans are putting forth. Even talk of a default in August of 2011 led to a downgrade, just even a discussion of it slowed economic growth, impacted the markets, and caused consumer confidence to plummet. [Federal Reserve] Chairman Bernanke said: "A government shutdown, and perhaps even more, so a failure to raise the debt limit," he talked about both, "could have very serious consequences for the financial markets and for the economy."
Democrats know that Americans cannot afford another Republican manufactured crisis. That's why we are standing together to support a clean increase in our debt limit so America can pay its bills and avoid another debilitating crisis to our economy. It's time for Republicans to abandon their reckless agenda and for Democrats and Republicans to come together, to work together to pursue the responsible course – to raise the debt ceiling, to end the sequester, to create jobs, to grow the economy, and strengthen the middle class.
My colleagues here have all been champions in that regard. And I'm pleased to yield to our champion on getting this letter. I mean, you have no idea how difficult it is, over a weekend, to get so many signatures, even when we're in session. And so, I salute Mr. Welch for his leadership, for his commitment to fiscal soundness in our country, and for the respect he commands in our Caucus because they support him in this letter. Mr. Welch?
[Mr. Welch and Members of the House Democratic Caucus speak]
Q: Madam Pelosi, how much of an increase are you actually looking for? One or two trillion, or are you trying to get this issue settled for the rest of the Obama Administration or maybe like a $5 trillion increase? How much of an increase in the debt limit do you ask for a clean increase? Is there a dollar amount associated to that?
Mr. Hoyer. I don't have a dollar amount. But I think that the Republicans – and I agree with them on this – are looking to get this through the next election. So, whatever dollar amount gets you to, maybe, January of 2015. And the reason for that is, frankly, Mr. Boehner recognizes the irresponsibility of this action and doesn't want to take his party through it a second time in an election year as he did not the last time as you recall in 2011, which he proposed to doing the same thing. I think that's a – that would an agreed upon objection.
Q: Leader Pelosi, several of you cited what happened in 2011…
Leader Pelosi. Yes.
Q: And going with the brink of the debt ceiling fight then. Does this feel similar, worse, [or] better? Are you more optimistic this time? I mean, I know all these are struggles, but how does this feel compared to that fight we went through two years ago?
Leader Pelosi. Mr. Welch, would you like to speak to that?
Mr. Welch. It's worse. You know that was the first time Congress went from grand standing on the debt ceiling to actual confrontation. In this Congress, we've had leadership lead Congress into dysfunction and we're about to take a step into disintegration. In this year, what you're seeing, is people who actually believe that it's a legitimate tactic to blow up the country in order to achieve a goal, which is to get rid of ObamaCare. And it's reminiscent of another statement somebody made in a different context: "We'll blow up the country in order to save it."
I mean, this is just wild and reckless. There's no legitimate rationale for any Member of Congress to destroy or jeopardize, as [Congressman] Jim Clyburn said, "the full faith and credit of this country," that has such consequences to students, to home-owners, to businesses in order to "get their way," especially when the way they want to get has been decided by the American people in the last presidential election. It was decided by the Supreme Court. And it was decided by Congress.
So, this is really wild behavior on the part of the Republican conference.
Q: Madam Leader?
Leader Pelosi. Yes?
Q: How problematic would it be for, in general, to enshrine a precedent where the party out of power can demand reform and concessions in exchange for the debt ceiling? And in your part, would you commit to not to doing any such thing if you're Speaker again under a Republican President?
Leader Pelosi. Let me just speak to that issue in a broader sense because five years ago last week, all of us here, were faced with a vote that was a very, very serious one. And that was about passing the TARP bill. A Republican within the White House, his policies over eight years produced a meltdown of our financial markets, increased the deficit enormously and they came to us at the 11th, 12th hour really, 12th hour and said: "help!" And we, as Democrats, went out there and said: "Time is of the essence. We must work in a bipartisan way in order to save our country from what was coming." We were already in a deep recession. We were going over a serious financial institutions meltdown and all of that would come really close to a depression. In fact, that night, when we were all gathered there, Chairman Bernanke said: "If we do not act immediately, we will not have an economy by Monday."
So, we stepped up to the plate for this Republican President. It wasn't a vote our Members wanted to take. Viewed to them as bailing out the banks, we thought it was saving our economy. It's one that has still left a bitter taste in the mouths of the American people because they thought: "We bailed out Wall Street and nobody bailed out Main Street." Would you think that that's an accurate impression that the public may have of this? Well, it's what we hear. It's what we hear. But nonetheless, at that moment of truth, the Democrats were there to support the initiative – we improved it – of the Republican President to bail out his problem, created by his economic policies because it was important for our country. And we all were there.
Was it was 170 Democrats?
Mr. Hoyer. It was 140 the first time, 170 Democrats...
Leader Pelosi. The next time. And the Republicans still never reached…
Mr. Hoyer. Sixty-five and 95.
Leader Pelosi. …Never reached 100 that they promised on day one. Now this is a different thing. That was an emergency at the moment, predictable in my view of the policies that were in place. The Republicans at the time who did not believe – they were "laissez faire, laissez faire, laissez faire." They made Adam Smith look like a piker.
A piker. They did not believe in any discipline, in any supervision, any regulation – and that's how we got to where we were. And when the walls came tumbling down, they didn't believe in intervention. You have to give them credit. They were true to who they are. And they do not believe in a public role. So, we were there to save the day, save the country. What we're talking about here in my view, to get to your point, we shouldn't be doing this. The full faith and credit of America is an established fact. I think the 14th Amendment covers it. The President and I have a disagreement in that regard, I guess.
I guess. I would never have taken it off the table, but yes, I would be willing to say: "Don't mess with the debt limit, don't mess with the debt limit." Whatever luxury you want to be afforded to make your point and get attention because it's center stage, that's a luxury we can't afford. So yes, I would say yes to that.
And by the way, to go back to that five years ago when the Chairman said what he said, it was interesting to me because I always think of it and how close we were to the brink and how secretive they kept it from the rest of us. But I couldn't help and think of it last year in the presidential election when the Republicans were saying: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" They had the nerve to say: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" When four years ago, almost to the day that they were speaking, we weren't going to have an economy by Monday.
So, let's understand what balance we really need in terms of the public-private partnership to make our country grow.
Mr. Hoyer. Can I?
Leader Pelosi. Please, Mr. Hoyer.
Mr. Hoyer. I just want to add one thing to that because I think this is important. At that meeting, there were probably 15 or 16 of 17 of us around Speaker Pelosi's table. Speaker Pelosi was the Speaker. And Republican President, Republican Secretary, and Ben Bernanke, a Republican Appointee, I don't think he's a partisan. I said that the country was in deep trouble and needed immediate action. Every leader, the Republican leadership of the House was at that table, the Republican leadership of the Senate was at that table. The Democratic leadership of both the House and the Senate, every leader said: "If that's what we need to do to stabilize our country and to save our people from a depression, we will do it."
There's an analogy: we delivered on our side of the aisle. We had 142 votes. I went over to Mr. Blunt and said: "[Congressman] Roy [Blunt] you only got 65 on the board. That's 207, we cannot pass it. I said we would give them 120 [votes]. We put 142 Democrats on the board to support [President] Bush's policy because we thought it was right for the country. And we went to our Members and got the votes. The difference was those leaders, who said they were for the President's proposal, could not deliver. To that extent, there is an analogy to today.
Q: I have a question – Mr. Hoyer can handle this, or Mrs. Pelosi.
Mr. Hoyer. Mrs. Pelosi can handle any question you ask.
Leader Pelosi. We'll just toss it to Mr. Clyburn.
Q: Two years ago, you might remember that the Republicans staged to vote on a clean debt limit increase to demonstrate that it was impossible to pass. You may noticed that they have yet to schedule a comfortable vote now. Why do you imagine that is, Mr. Hoyer?
Mr. Hoyer. Because I think they're at least thirty responsible Republicans, and I think that's the sadness of it. I think there are a majority responsible people in the House of Representatives. Unfortunately, on the other side of the aisle, not only have they taken the government hostage in their C.R. role, not only have they have taken the credit of the United States hostage, but unfortunately, a minority of the Republican conference has held hostage the responsible and reasonable Members of their conference. That is why I think we are in this position.
Leader Pelosi. Mr. Clyburn, do you want to say something?
Mr. Clyburn. Well, I think – I'm not too sure it's as clear on the way [Congressman] Steny [Hoyer] has expressed those numbers. If you recall, the 142 was mirrored up with 65, which did not get us to 218 [votes]. And we had to come back later. Now, this was after we all agreed that we would put up 120 [votes] and they would put up 100 [votes]. And their 100 [votes] turned out to be 65 [votes]. Then, we had to go back to our Members and ask our Members to step up even further.
We got 30 more Members, Democrats, to come on board in order to pass that bill.
Mr. Hoyer. On the following Friday.
Mr. Clyburn. Yes. Now, I think down in South Carolina we always say: "You can best tell what a person will do by looking at what he or she has done." And I think you can best tell what Democrats will do when we have to do what's necessary for the country by just looking at the record. And the record is very clear: that every time we have been asked by any President, whether it's our party or the other party, we have stepped up to do what was necessary to keep this country moving forward. And that is the best example that I know. And we stand ready to do the same today.
Unfortunately, if your theory is 'you've got to have a majority of the majority in order to move an agenda,' that is a problem that we are facing today.
Leader Pelosi. And I remind that they did not have the majority for the [Hurricane] Sandy Aid 90 days after it was supposed to be passed. They only had, what, fewer than 40 votes for [Hurricane] Sandy Aid. Overwhelming majority of Republicans voted against the Violence Against Women Act. So, there's an easy way for this come to the floor that is not breaking any practice that has been in place.
Mr. Hoyer. Can I just add?
Leader Pelosi. Please. Get to the microphone, though.
Mr. Hoyer. You asked me for my speculation. If I'm the majority leader and I think to myself: "We're going to put something on the floor, almost all the Democrats will vote for responsibility and almost all of my guys will vote against responsibility," I am very he reluctant to put a responsible piece of legislation on the floor because it will focus the American people on the lack of responsibility in the majority party.
Leader Pelosi. Let me just say what full faith and credit means. When people bring their money to the bank, the bank uses the money for whatever purposes. But it is insured by the full faith and credit of the United States of America. And that's part of what makes our system run. On the other hand, when people buy our bonds, they are guaranteed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America.
So, think in your own experience, not the full faith and credit of the FDIC deposits is in question, they're not. But you have confidence to put your money in the bank because of the full faith and credit of the United States of America. If that isn't there for bonds, people are not going to buy our bonds. This is going to be cataclysmic. And under one of the scenarios that the Republicans have, it's Pay China First, Pay China First is what is in the [continuing resolution]. Pay China first. Pay the debt, whatever the debt we owe china first.
All these things come together in a way that really is not responsible. It's beneath the dignity of the responsibility that we have as Members of Congress and the obligation that we have to find common ground to get the job done and not afford – to the gentleman's question – not afford ourselves the luxury of perhaps defaulting. People can make whatever scrambles they want to make to showcase their issues but not with the seriousness of taking down the full faith and credit of the United States of America. This is very serious.
Q: I was out in the field a few days ago, reporting on this issue, the debt limit, talking to Americans. I encountered one gentleman who said he thought the debt limit should be raised but he was put off by the President refusing to negotiate. Do you think the Democrats risk looking bullheaded by that stance from the White House saying we are not going to negotiate on this, that the prevalence of Americans want to see Congress come together – the White House come together with Congress?
Leader Pelosi. I think the President has negotiated, and negotiated, and negotiated. So when he says that, he is really saying: "We've taken it to a point, there's no use to talk anymore; we just have to act." That's how I see that. I can understand why that gentleman might get that impression but if there's ever a President, whether we're talking about the continuing resolution, and my colleagues know this, or you're talking about the C.R., he has, in every way, tried to build bipartisan consensus.
I don't think he advertises that enough. But I'm happy to do that for him.
He has a bigger bully pulpit than I do. But I do think – getting back to the gentleman's question – that none of us should be negotiating on the debt ceiling. It should just be listed. When it comes to the [continuing resolution], the President has negotiated. In fact, we met with him six months ago to give him our view in March – remember that March meeting with the president? And he said: "I hear what you're saying. I think you know what my – how I approach all of this, but I want some months to try to get a bipartisan agreement." And obviously that has not come.
But this President, this is a president who has been so bipartisan and that is a quality that the American people like. But even he has reached the end of the line when it comes to, Mr. Clyburn's words, "the shenanigans" that the other side is putting up. Again, what they're proposing is unworthy of the task before us and the responsibility of that we have.
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The Velma-Alma basketball teams played with the Comanche basketball teams in two out of four halfs. The reason why the visitors walked away with two wins at Velma was the other two.
The girls 45-39 victory started out lopsided. Coach Sean Hushbeck was most impressed with how the Indians (3-2) grabbed momentum in a dominant first period and didn't let it go.
"We probably played our best half of basketball in a couple of years," Hushbeck said. "The girls knocked down good shots that we had been taking, but not making. It seemed like the more they made those, the easier it got to make those shots."
Riding that wave of momentum, Hushbeck would have preferred if the team didn't even have to go into halftime, but it still was able to hold onto the win. It was a victory that Hushbeck agreed the team could hang its hat on.
"(Wednesday) in practice, the girls were a lot more smiles and playing hard," Hushbeck said. "For a group that went 2-20 last year, this was a trophy win."
The team's leading returning scorer from last year, senior Payge Graham, had 13 points for the Indians, but her defensive presence was an even bigger help. Hushbeck put her on Velma-Alma's leading scorer, Ariah Johnson, and he thought Graham did a good job of slowing down the forward, who already has three 20-plus games.
"She really had a tough task, and she did a really good job of making (Johnson) earn every point she got," Hushbeck said. "Even though she's struggled a little bit offensively, she has played unbelievably defensively."
The second half of Comanche's dominant night was the second half of the boys game. The 58-37 victory on Tuesday started out similar to the 57-35 win in the Comet Classic on Friday, when the teams last met. A 26-22 halftime lead for the Indians (4-1) deepened the feeling of deja vu as the team entered the locker room at 22-22 only a few days ago. The same second half conclusion followed.
Though a small lead at the half has been a trend so far this season, Comanche coach Nick Price thinks it has little to do with his players not performing well.
"We're doing some things well in the first half, but in the second half, we're doing a good job of coming out and having even more intensity in the second half," Price said. "We're doing a good job of playing all four quarters, not having that letdown any time in the second half... We've got kids who are not going to give up."
Price added that he can feel the players are starting to build up an understanding for what their roles should be on the team. With the few games that have been played this season, it has taken a while for that to develop and Price thinks there is still a lot of improvement yet to be made.
"I felt like our kids are really close to each other, have a good bond, but we still have to get used to offensively understanding each other," Price said.
Comanche will play at Central High on Friday, a game that was postponed from Dec. 10. Velma-Alma won't play until Jan. 3, when it will host Ringling.
Comanche girls get surprise win at Velma-Alma
Boys dominate
The Velma-Alma basketball teams played with the Comanche basketball teams in two out of four halfs. The reason why the visitors walked away with two wins at Velma was the other two.
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Demon baseball to face best in Class 5A
The Duncan baseball team will see the best Class 5A has to offer at the McAlester Shootout Thursday through Saturday.
Demon coach Tim Hightower described the event as a "pre-state tournament" because many of the teams attending are state tournament contenders.
Soccer teams finish season at home
The Duncan soccer teams won't go to the postseason, but they have plenty to play for Friday night against Western Heights.
It's the last home games for the Demons and it's Senior Night. The girls will look to finish near .500 for the season, while the boys want a good showing against a tough opponent.
Chamber Golf Classic proves to be popular event
When word got out that entries would be accepted for the Duncan Chamber Golf Classic, set for Friday at the Duncan Golf and Tennis Club, it didn't take long for people to respond.
As club general manager Mike Hansen put it: "They sent out an e-mail and filled it up in a day."
Thunder look to bounce back
During the hey day of L.A. Lakers guard Kobe Bryant, a new term was added to the lexicon. Anyone who seemingly was able to slow down the prolific scorer was automatically dubbed the Kobe Stopper.
Players such as Ruben Patterson, Raja Bell, Shane Battier, Ron Artest and Bruce Bowen all had the tag attached to their name, despite Bryant putting up big numbers against them.
Demons hoping for top-four finish
The Duncan baseball team will need to take care of business next week in its final District 2-5A games.
The Demons are 7-5 in district (16-9 overall) after dropping both games of a doubleheader at Carl Albert Monday, 8-1 and 4-1. The Titans (13-1, 26-4) won the district title.
Girls soccer gets it done at Altus
The Duncan girls soccer team battled in a tough environment at Altus to win 1-0 Tuesday.
Lady Demon coach Delydia Gay said it was frustrating at times for the girls because of some questionable calls the officials made. But she was happy the girls pulled together to win.
Meshell shines as Outlaws beat Warriors
The Marlow baseball team got help from Beau Meshell on the mound and at the plate in a 7-4 home victory against Anadarko Tuesday.
Meshell held Anadarko to one earned run off three hits and did not walk a batter. He reached base three times, had one run batted in and scored one run.
Girls golfers take fourth at Deer Creek
The Duncan girls golfers took fourth at a tournament hosted by Deer Creek High School at Coffee Creek Golf Course in Edmond Tuesday.
Lady Demon coach Steve Etheridge said that the girls played as well as they have all year. Although the golfers struggled putting on some fast greens, Etheridge was happy with their overall performance.
Empire softball tries to spark offense
The Lady Bulldogs are trying to find a way to spice up their offense in preparation for the Class 3A slowpitch softball playoffs.
Empire has played a tough schedule, with four of the first seven games coming against ranked opponents. However, coach Tony Roberts thinks the team just needs to have some more timely hitting to get on the winning track.
Outlaws shut out Indians
Marlow baseball snapped a three-game losing streak with a 10-0 win at home against Comanche Monday.
"We needed to get this win and we got it," said Marlow coach Jeff Brewer.
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UK: Flat Europe fails to halt Diageo FY rise
By just-drinks.com editorial team | 30 August 2007
Diageo has posted a lift in operating profit, despite only a minor rise in sales for its latest fiscal year.
The global drinks giant said today (30 August) that operating profit for the 12 months to the end of June increased by 6% year-on-year, reaching GBP2.16bn (US$4.33bn). Net sales in the period were up by 3% GBP7.5bn.
Net profit, however, slipped to GBP1.55bn from GBP1.96bn in 2005-2006, as the tax rate between the two periods increased from 8% to 32%.
In volume terms, sales were up by 6% to 141.3m of equivalent units.
In regional terms, North America saw sales rise by 7% and operating profit up 12%, thanks to price increases and mix improvements. Double digit growth in net sales of Smirnoff and Baileys helped Diageo up its share of the distilled spirits market in the US by 0.6% in the year. In Europe, however, both sales and operating profit were flat, as growth in Continental Europe and Russia partially offset sales declines in the UK, Ireland and Spain.
The group's international division delivered a sales increase of 18%, with operating profit climbing by 19%. Scotch performed well across the region, while Guinness sales accelerated in Africa in the second half. Asia Pacific, meanwhile, saw sales rise by 13% and operating profit increase by 7%, driven by a 22% climb in sales for Johnnie Walker in the region.
Turning to Diageo's main brands, all the key names delivered growth on the previous year, with the exception of J&B - down 3% - and Jose Cuervo - down 4%. The much maligned Guinness, saw sales come in flat for the year, as African sales buoyed lower performances in the UK and Ireland.
"Diageo's focus on proven brand and market building strategies has again delivered strong growth in top and bottom line and strong cash flow," said company CEO Paul Walsh.
"Our world leading brands, Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys and Guinness along with Captain Morgan and Buchanan's were the strongest performing brands this year. Johnnie Walker enhanced its position as the world's leading Scotch whisky and now sells over 15 million cases. Smirnoff reinforced its position as the world's number one premium spirits brand and Baileys grew strongly, supported by the successful launch of the new Baileys flavours.
"Whilst we watch for any impact the current volatility in financial markets may have on broader trading conditions, the investments we have made in brands and markets this year have created an even stronger platform for the future. Therefore, we currently expect increased organic operating profit growth in 2008 of 9%."
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Pri-Med, a medical education company that focuses on serving a community of more than 300,000 primary care physicians and other healthcare providers, recently published a white paper that explores how the rapid pace of change in technology, higher education, and the business and clinical sides of today's healthcare environment will affect how clinicians keep up to date on the latest information in the near future and longer term.
Medical Meetings recently spoke about the white paper and the trends it analyzes with Marissa Seligman, PharmD, CCMEP, Chief, Clinical & Regulatory Affairs and Compliance Officer, Senior Vice President, pmiCME, the accreditation division of DBC Pri-Med, LLC.
MM: What are the main forces driving the need for change in post-graduate medical education?
Seligman: First, there is the lack of structure in the post-graduate medical education environment. Clinicians go through a structured education experience from undergraduate through residency and fellowship. Then they go into practice and all that structure goes away. In addition, most clinicians participate in CME offered across a wide variety of providers, educational formats and topics, which can be very unorganized. We need to reassess and evolve if we want to organize and align the CME enterprise. This will involve collaborating more than we currently do—the hope is that technology will enable us to collaborate more.
In addition to this disparate enterprise, clinicians have increasing patient demands. Our primary care learners [Pri-Med produces CME mainly for the primary care market] see an average of 2,300 patients per year. These patients span the spectrum of diseases, ages and co-morbidities—the primary care physician (PCP) has to be skilled in so many areas, as well as be able to determine when it would be best to treat that patient themselves and when to refer [to a specialist]. In addition, while primary care practitioners are on the front line of healthcare, they have the least amount of time to engage in education.
We also need to look at more active ways we can meet the needs of the PCP. It is too easy for physicians to sign up, and then sit there, receiving the education—passively. All clinicians need to learn by thinking, doing, and assessing. We need to reflect on ways the learners can contribute to the education–traditionally, education has been directed one way. We need to find ways to bring the learners into the process so they're learner and teacher, and engager and doer.
Intersecting with all of this is physicians' increased comfort and savviness with technology. For example, 60 percent of physicians report using a smartphone to search for clinical information, and 45 percent use a smartphone to download clinical information. Knowing that the technology is literally in the hands of the learners, we need to think about how we can capitalize on that to get education that can be applied to patient care into their hands as well.
Changes in CME will come from the convergence of technology, patient and physician needs, and the growing importance of engagement through active learning.
MM: You talk a bit about the "open education" movement in the white paper. What is it, and what implications does it hold for CME?
Seligman: Open education, or Education 3.0, is a movement away from the traditional approach to education, characterized by an authority passing down information in a closed system toward a more collaborative and self-directed educational experience, due in large part to the rise of digital learning environments. The movement is based in part on the fact that there's content that can and should be repurposed digitally for those who cannot experience it first-hand. Traditionally, a lecture happens, then it goes away. Sometimes it's captured digitally, sometimes it's not. There's no consistency. We need to break down the silos around faculty to allow greater access to information by more people. And building on that, we need to find ways to have learners contribute to that information. While the open concept has been in use since the early 2000s, it hasn't reached its potential yet.
MM: How are today's technological advances changing what docs expect in CME? How are they changing what CME providers want to/are able to do to improve learning, retention, and application of knowledge?
Seligman: While technology can be incredibly enabling, it also can be isolating. Sometimes we wonder if anyone is on the recipient end of a blog post or a tweet. It's not so much about how the technology will make an impact on CME as it is about how we can bring people together around the technology. Technology is just a tool to get the information out there. For example, the number of tweets in the CME world is still very small. Twitter is a great tool, but we need to find out how we can use these types of social media features to better support the learner.
For many physicians, CME is a requirement—they don't necessarily look at it as more than a course they need to take for Board certification or licensure. But we know that CME really is a tool to help drive better patient care. We want to embrace current as well as new technologies to make CME a two-way exchange. Even now at our live events, we use audience response polling to encourage interaction, and we use different formats such as gaming where the answers come from the audience. And, we are bringing that level of engagement into the online and enduring environment as well, so we can extend the learning beyond just a one-time event. We want to continue integrating these learnings into a physicians' practice and not just an isolated course they took.
MM: But do healthcare professionals really want to have highly engaged, ongoing learning? That requires a lot more energy, time, and commitment from them than sitting in a conference session and collecting credits.
Seligman: We're hoping that the dialogue around technology can include finding ways to show physicians that CME is not just something you do for licensure once a year, but truly a continuum that they both receive and contribute to. Of course, there may be some resistance to this idea because it is inherently more work, but we believe that aligning technology with physician requirements, such as CME documentation, will benefit physicians and ultimately save them time and effort.
MM: What effect will today's changing environment have on the value of clinical content? Will it become a commodity that just can be accessed in many different formats (formally and informally, accredited or not)?
Seligman: There will always be the need for content. But I don't think it will be sustainable to have a "one and done" curriculum for everyone. There has to be a focus on the individual needs of the learner. As we move forward, it will be about how technology and programs can align more closely with physicians' challenges in practice. This may mean working with individual physicians based on, say, the number of patients they see in a particular week in a particular disease state. We would help them profile their own gaps, then direct them to sources of information they can select to customize their education to their specific needs.
We're hoping technology will help us to more effectively shift from pedagogy—I'm the expert, I know best, I'm going to push it out to you—to andragogy, where learners pick and choose multiple sources of content to direct their own learning.
MM: How does the whole crowd-sourcing movement play into the development of clinical content?
Seligman: Crowd-sourcing can be an important part of learning. This ability to work together is something we need to foster in CME. For example, you could present a case, and then have the learners crowd-source where to take the care of that patient in different scenarios. For example, a physician could ask, if I don't have access to an MRI, what do I do? Physicians who see those patients are experts in their care. They do learn from each other, and we need to enable that.
MM: Will the need to obtain CME credits continue to be one of the main drivers for CME participation, or is the ease of some of the technology-driven ways of learning making learning for its own sake more popular?
Seligman: PCPs are active learners—they wouldn't be PCPs otherwise. There's certified CME and non-certified CME learning, each of which needs systems and processes. It would be awful if someone gave bad advice in an open education setting, but as you see in wikis, the crowd tends to correct the mistakes. That's what we'd like to talk about, how technology can help CME help the medical community collectively advance patient care.
MM: What role, if any, is social media having on CME today? How do you see it fitting into the CME structure in the future?
Seligman: All CME has to be about disclosure, transparency, and objectivity. Social media has a negative connotation for learners, we have found. Clinical learners don't like it. What are you really going to learn in a 140-character tweet? But we can use it to help advance and augment education. If you're a text-based learner, a tweet can drive you to more text, or to a visual if you're a visual learner. Social media isn't going to carry the burden, but it can help augment the learning.
We see social media as enabling the interaction and engagement among learners—both with each other as peers, as well as with faculty and experts in relevant disease areas-- that's going to be the value of these tools.
MM: How does all this affect the traditional funding model of CME?
Seligman: As the education models change, funding for education has to shift as well. We're fooling ourselves if we think it won't change, or hasn't been changing all along.
According to the 2010 ACCME Data Report, more clinicians than ever before are participating in CME—both non-physicians and physicians. And there is a decline in the number of activities and hours that are being offered. So the demand for CME is high, and technology is making it even more available.
As much as we have to discover how the technology can enable learners to enhance the activity's effectiveness, we also have to look at how technology can enable us to use the educational funds that are provided from industry more effectively. As others are doing, we're also making strides with new funding sources—we're working with new payers, like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a weight-loss company, on CME projects. Instead of having it siloed in a few industries, we're seeing the funding pool flatten and expand to a greater variety of funders.
I don't have the answer, but it's not that change is bad. I think we should embrace change as a good thing in this case, because it helps us evolve our thinking.
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I have never attended an NFL practice session so I can't say firsthand what takes place during the preparation for a regular season game. I can assume however that whatever that preparation consists of, the San Francisco Forty-Niners didn't do it. With two weeks to prepare for a team coming off a Monday Night road game, the Niners were nothing less than pathetic Sunday in the Meadowlands.
Trent Dilfer did John Brodie's number twelve a disservice and should issue a public apology. I can't single out Dilfer without mentioning the porous offensive line. Dilfer and the o-line worked together to ensure that the Giants had at least one defensive touchdown. Did Dilfer not see Osi Umenyiora overloading the left side of the line? Do the Niners have an audible in their game plan? Who am I fooling? What game plan?!? I also cannot allow Dilfer's fumble when attempting to hand off to Frank Gore on that stretch play to go unmentioned. I may be optimistic (hey, I'm a Forty-Niner fan) but I think that fumble destroyed any momentum the team had. Dilfer overthrowing Vernon Davis early in the second half on that go route was also very painful to see. In a preseason blog, I predicted that with Dilfer at the helm this ship would be blown out of the water. I hate it when I'm right about that kind of thing.
The guys on the other side of the ball aren't without blame. The line of scrimmage was like an impassable boundary for the Niners' d-line. I had to check to see if Bryant Young had retired during the bye week. Brandon Jacobs looked like he was doing a pretty good Jim Brown impersonation against the Niners. I liked seeing Patrick Willis led the team in tackles. I just wish more of them took place near the line of scrimmage. The Giants have several offensive weapons for which a defense must scheme. I know that Plexico Burress was tied for the lead in touchdown receptions coming into the game. That is no reason to leave Amani Toomer alone in the back corner of the endzone though.
I would relish in the fact that the Niners could get some good, young talent early in the draft if they continue this streak but, they traded their 2008 first round pick to the Patriots so they could acquire Central Michigan's Joe Staley whom Michael Strahan repeatedly beat like a rented mule. I hate these seasons when before October is out all I have to root for is a Cowboys loss.


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Splash-petaled cattleyas owe their unique color patterns toCattleya intermedia 'Aquini', the abnormal three-lipped form of the species. Dendrobium nobile var. cooksonianum with three lips is another famous oddity. Phragmipedium lindenii with three normal petals and an extra stamen occurs as entire populations, but this is unusual among wild plants. Peloric flowers (called teratologies by older authors) have been documented for a very long time (e.g., Masters in Veitch,1894). Occasionally a collection plant produces a peloric flower under stress, and the peloria may exhibit any of many forms—doubled flowers with many tepals; an extra petal instead of a lip; three lips instead of petals; union of a petal with a sepal, etc.
Recently Joe Dixler from the Illinois Orchid Society requested identification of a plant with peloric flowers as a possibly undescribed form of Paphiopedilum philippinense. Recall that a form in botanese represents a particular genetically based oddity, and doesn't refer to a plant population as the term variety does. Nor is the term useful to denote plants that revert to normal.
Joe sent the inflorescence, a leaf, and a flower in alcohol. The inflorescence displayed five flower seats. The bottom three open flowers had partially non-fused lateral sepals, two petals, no lip and normal stamens and staminode. However, the fourth barely opening bud was normal with the lateral sepals fused to near the apex, and it included a normal lip (the fifth bud was undeveloped). Is this a new and undescribed form? The question rests on whether the odd flowers are constant. The fourth flower demonstrates that it is probably not, and the best prediction is that the next flowering will be normal. Therefore, at this time there is no justification to give it a form name. End of story.
So, what is the cause of these odd flowerings? A few years ago contaminated Benlate was linked with peloric flowerings. Several years ago I purchased a Laelia purpurata from the Gardens plant shop that displayed no less than 13 flowers and buds including a lateral branch; unheard of in laelias and cattleyas. We attributed this to Benlate, although without proof. Subsequent years yielded no more than seven flowers per renewal shoot (growths). There were other reports of leaf variegation and malformation allegedly related to Benlate in other orchids. There are no doubt many causes. I have seen Cypripedium reginae and a hybrid (read "bulldog") paph produce a petal with adjacent fertile stamen in lieu of lip as in the case of Phragmipedium lindenii, but the plants reverted to normal on subsequent flowers.
Joe explained that his plant had but a single healthy shoot which may lead to our answer. The anotopetalum paphs in general require at least portions of three renewal shoots: one, sometimes two mature shoots, plus a third developing shoot. His plant may have been subjected to trauma (drought? temperature extreme? excessive pesticide or fertilizer application?). In any case, the normal fourth bud is an indication that future flowerings should be normal.
From my extensive collection of 12 orchid clones, Paph. ´ St. Swithin featured in a previous Selby Vignette is now commencing flowering with one flower and five more buds. The first flower opened with three separate sepals and distorted staminode and passed before any remaining buds had opened. The sheath with promise of flowers appeared over a year ago, but development required a year, suggesting the possibility of distortion through interruption of development. Growing this plant as a house plant for eight months of the year is probably related to the delay. Whatever the cause, only plants that exhibit them regularly justify recognition as botanical forms.
Literature Cited
Masters, Dr. Maxwell. 1894. Teratology of Orchids in Veitch, James & Sons, A Manual of Orchidaceous Plants 10:37-49.
Figure. 1. Paphiopedilum philippinense plant. Photo: Joe Dixler
Figure 2. Paphiopedilum philippinense flower. Photo: Joe Dixler


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Heather Benson is starting her second year as general manager of the North Dakota Horse Park in Fargo. Behind her is the new Cover-All Pavilion that houses the betting area, food service and track store.
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The EDA would lease the land to Bon Secours Health Systems. Bon Secours would build a hospital expansion at the site.
Under the deal, Bon Secours also would build a $6.4 million sports medicine facility on state property behind the Science Museum of Virginia that the Redskins would use during the three-week camp.
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The Weather Channel's Eric Fisher says the dry conditions affecting half of the country will have enormous financial implications.
About 200 million Americans once again saw furnace-like temperatures as the latest heat wave slammed the Midwest and Northeast.
Heat advisories were issued Tuesday throughout those areas. Detroit, for example, matched its record of 101 degrees for a July 17 (set in 1887) -- and it felt like 105, the National Weather Service reported.
Chicago reached 99 degrees and it felt like 102, while New York City topped out at 94 degrees.
"The jet stream has been way up to the north in the midsection of the country," TODAY meteorologist Al Roker said Tuesday. It's being kept there by what's called an upper-level ridge, and that's keeping that section of the U.S. very warm, he added.
The jet stream will drop a bit farther south next week but overall the ridge trapping heat will continue into next week, dire news for drought-hit farmers and ranchers. "There's no relief in sight for at least the next week from drought," Roker said.
As the U.S. experiences another heat wave, farmers are being hit hard by the worst drought conditions recorded since 1956 and consumers can expect to see corn prices rising. The Weather Channel's Eric Fisher reports.
The heat-trapping ridge will also "stretch out" to the west over the next week, Roker added.
Storms will bring some relief to the upper Midwest, but not enough to put a dent in the drought.
In Chicago, the cool front should move in Tuesday night after two days around 100. Last week, the city saw three straight days of triple-digit temperatures -- and a Lake Michigan with 80-degree water along the beaches.
In New York City, the heat wave will break by Wednesday evening with the arrival of strong thunderstorms.
New York is in its fourth heat wave of the summer, NBCNewYork.com reported Tuesday, and Central Park has already hit 90 degrees or higher 13 times this summer -- nearly the 15 days it averages for an entire summer.
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On the upside, there's still a long way to go to break Central Park's record of 39 days, set in 1993 and 1991.
Newark, N.J., has seen 18 days at 90 degrees or higher; LaGuardia Airport 17, NBCNewYork.com added.
Chicago has had it even worse: 28 days above 90 -- on track to top its record for a summer, 47 days in the 90s in 1988, WBBM-TV reported.
Washington, D.C., has had 26 days above 90 -- way ahead of its 16-17 days for this time of year, NBCWashington.com reported.
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